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Shifting realities: Tron cyberspace and the âNewâ consciousness in 21st Century technoscapes
The existing direction of the (mis)use of information technologies founded on the deceptively secular rationalised heritage of scientism, arguably spells the increasing proximity to a dystopian nightmare that is far from mere fiction and imbued with the eternal religious symbolic of the battle between good and evil, as depicted in the 2010 science fiction film Tron: Legacy . The historical contextualisation of events in the film reveals the promise of the unfolding of an advanced sensibility alongside these concerns, in which fantasy and science converge to liberate humanity from an increasingly limiting worldview, and information and images serve as conduits to the sacred. The critical role information stands to play in humanityâs conscious evolution is outlined in the proposed development of a âdream systems theoryâ, where dreams capes are defined as interconnected systems of imaginal data
A Class of Periodic Continued Radicals
We compute the limits of a class of periodic continued radicals and we
establish a connection between them and the fixed points of the Chebycheff
polynomials
String Theory has no Isotropic Solution for the Modified Einstein's Equations without the Dilaton
We investigate the modification to Einstein's vacuum field equations which is
imposed by string theory when the dilaton field is ignored. Including the
cosmological constant in all calculations, we prove that such a theory of
gravity admits no static isotropic solution. We then show that any isotropic
solution of the equations in question must necessarily be static, therefore
proving that no isotropic solution exists for this stringy modification to
gravity
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