Comments on: Disciples of Paradox http://www.briancharlesclark.com/disciples-of-paradox/ A Journal of the Irrepressible Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:05:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: jude calvert-toulmin http://www.briancharlesclark.com/disciples-of-paradox/comment-page-1/#comment-1085 jude calvert-toulmin Sat, 17 May 2008 11:16:08 +0000 http://www.briancharlesclark.com/disciples-of-paradox/#comment-1085 thanks from me too, brian, for posting this. i woke up this morning with a poem writing itself in my head and after transcribing it, i decided to dedicate it to stephen hawking. then i wondered whether any other poets had dedicated their work to stephen hawking, and through your blog found david memmott's quite brilliant poem! (waves hello to david) - really a fantastic poem. i'll be posting my own poem on my blog once i've performed it live on the 27th may at sheffield's premiere open mic night, wordsaloud.org. thanks from me too, brian, for posting this. i woke up this morning with a poem writing itself in my head and after transcribing it, i decided to dedicate it to stephen hawking. then i wondered whether any other poets had dedicated their work to stephen hawking, and through your blog found david memmott’s quite brilliant poem!

(waves hello to david) – really a fantastic poem. i’ll be posting my own poem on my blog once i’ve performed it live on the 27th may at sheffield’s premiere open mic night, wordsaloud.org.

]]> By: David Memmott http://www.briancharlesclark.com/disciples-of-paradox/comment-page-1/#comment-1039 David Memmott Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:27:33 +0000 http://www.briancharlesclark.com/disciples-of-paradox/#comment-1039 Thanks for posting this, Brian. One of the things that most struck me about Stephen J. Hawking is how such genius has defied all expectation for longevity and has done so while maintaining a brilliant mind trapped in a practically useless body. He seems in some ways to be a precursor of some of the more extreme extropian ideas for space exploration -- how we might one day incorporate consciousness into a machine such as a spaceship. Hawking's wheelchair and the technology/training involved in communication, etc., seem to be not only models for the severely handicapped, but possibly for some kind of technical immortality in space. An example maybe of the most bizarre future possibilities taking shape in the present. Thanks for posting this, Brian. One of the things that most struck me about Stephen J. Hawking is how such genius has defied all expectation for longevity and has done so while maintaining a brilliant mind trapped in a practically useless body. He seems in some ways to be a precursor of some of the more extreme extropian ideas for space exploration — how we might one day incorporate consciousness into a machine such as a spaceship. Hawking’s wheelchair and the technology/training involved in communication, etc., seem to be not only models for the severely handicapped, but possibly for some kind of technical immortality in space. An example maybe of the most bizarre future possibilities taking shape in the present.

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