First time I ever took acid and got really high, as I was walking around I thought "Gee. The world looked like this when I was a little kid." I remember seeing the sparkling reality and three-dimensionality of things. Sort of like a renewal, every time you do it is a renewal, it is a renewal. It keeps your head young. It lets you keep that being able to accept the new thing just as easily as a kid would. Most people get all this stuff in their head like an old library, no room for the new volume to go on the shelves.

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Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are different.

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criminals different law

I think that there are a few people that are power manipulators that have gotten control of things.

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manipulator people thinking

The Japanese don't write in alphabetic writing; they write in pictographs. So they never became visual, they stayed in the oral world, which is, everything is part of reality. Which means that they can accept any new technology - it's not threatening to them, and they can still continue to maintain their traditional culture, even in the face of high technology.

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Fuzzy logic will produce a computer that will even seem to have a personality. It will seem to have a character. It will be able to talk to you. It will be able to translate from one language to another instantaneously. You will be able to give it instructions. You will be able to tell it stories. If it doesn't understand something, it will ask you.

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personality giving character

I don't like sitting at a keyboard.

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keyboards sitting

Your body gets old but your mind can always accept that.

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accepting body mind

You can't see a pistol bullet and you can't see a M14 bullet. One is traveling at 800 feet per second, the other is traveling at 4000, where you get to the point that you can't see it, that much faster than something you can't see is not physiologically interesting to you.

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pistols feet interesting

The faster you can sample sound when you are digitizing it, the higher the frequency, the less phase ambiguity at the higher frequencies.

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phases faster sound

Who knows for sure how complex or how uncomplex the ancient people's lives were.

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complexes ancient people

The things that were happening 30 years ago are now very interesting to people, now very much in style again. There is some kind of 30 year resonance that goes through human culture and expresses itself in different ways.

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people years interesting

The dolphins and whales have a brain that is actually bigger in proportion to their size than we do. They are very complex. They are thinkers.

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dolphins whales brain

How did the dolphins and whales get such big brains? They obviously don't need such big brains to catch fish.

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dolphins whales brain

Nobody is delineated, nobody is concentrated. There is a lot of extraneous stuff. Like for instance, the satellites that measure in the atmosphere, there is billions and billions and billions of bytes of data, only maybe 2% of which are actually useful. They don't know what the rest are for, they don't know what good they are.

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atmosphere data stuff

Virtual reality might be able to give you a way of doing hands-on to construct ideas in a computer.

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hands reality ideas

I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture.

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sculpture clay pieces

... the bears on the album cover are not really 'dancing'. I don't know why people think they are, their positions are quite obviously those of a high-stepping march.

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