In Aldous Huxley’s final novel, The Island, the Ultimate Revolution and predictive programming guru presents a subtly different and more nuanced version of the original Soma culture depicted in his Brave New World. While Huxley’s earlier novel presented a culture in which a magical drug called “Soma” was used to chemically regulate people’s inner worlds…
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Philosophy, Food for the Living Soul or algorithmic matrix for bio-machines?
The Rising Tide Foundation was happy to present Dr Quan Le who delivered a two part interactive lecture on the topic of philosophy, epistemology and the use/misuse of logic. Dr Le outlined the purpose of his presentations with the following introductory remarks which are followed by his two part lecture series We just read Kepler’s…
Islamic Roots and al-Khwarizmi’s Algebra
On Sunday June 25, 2023 The Rising Tide Foundation hosted a lecture on universal history and science titled ‘Islamic Roots and al-Khwarizi’s Algebra’. In this lecture, professors Pascal Chevrier and Kevin Champagne introduced the contours of history that shaped the islamic renaissance and which was in turn shaped by this renaissance movement. Special focus was…
A Hamiltonian Solution for Africa (RTF Lecture with Lawrence Freeman)
It has become far too common for westerners to look upon the plight of Africa as a “permanent state of underdevelopment, poverty and famine” from which no genuine solution may ever arise. Citizens of the west are told repeatedly that giving $1/day is the only way they may play some positive role in alleviating Africa’s…
China’s Electricity Superhighway Inspires a Classical Musical Awakening in Brazil
By Matthew Ehret As China’s Belt and Road Initiative continues to lift millions out of poverty through long term investments into energy, water, transportation, education and science projects, a too often overlooked and yet incredibly important effect has been the explosion of cultural optimism and beautiful artistic expression found among the youth touched by the…