My SFI: Cormac McCarthy describes the Santa Fe Institute

It is absolutely delightful to hear McCarthy speak. He spruced it up indeed.

Mr. McCarthy, I admire your work vastly.

What a guy, what a great mind. Thank you for the books sire. Cheers.

I wish all the best for you and the kid. Ponies and beautiful sunrises.

You really can hear the intelligence and good-naturedness in the way he speaks. Rest in Peace Sir

My Fav author.

Mr. McCarthy = national treasure! #GottaLoveHim

Perfect Mission Statement!

Wonderful, thank you.

Thank you for the video! Is Cormac doing research for his new novel(s) at the Institute? Would love to visit someday.

Came here desperately looking for info on his next novel ;The Passenger.....

This business of discovering extra-terrestrial life has me. Unlike the Yeti, or the Loch Ness fellow, who function really as representations of the unconscious, hidden away, always alone, discovering extraterrestrial life appears to signify awakening and consciousness expansion. It also implies the waiting mind. Directed by thought, it produces the future as a projected event that will transform awareness and consciousness, by the realization of us not being....alone. This postponement of psychic events by these processes indicates that the idea of a projected discovery of intelligent life in other worlds is terribly flawed. The question is really what will be the state of the mind that experiences this discovery? Will it be a mind that uses the present as a means to further it's sense of itself, or will it's relationship with the reality of other life be through ideation? I keep getting thinking that this notion of a quantum leap of the human mind that will be experienced due to the other, is incorrect thinking. Only the unknown can experience the unknown. Not a mind that is constantly absorbing the present as a form of accumulation. Perhaps the essence of loneliness in it's pure state sustains the illusions of the self, as a simple form of company. Well, who else? The state of mind that encounters a brand new reality can only comprehend, or grok, or realize the new experience if that mind is not in the process of accumulation. I would never think discovering alien life would fundamentally change the way people think. Finding a rattlesnake in your path would do just as well, or even better. Sometimes you have to go back to go forward.

Wow

Cormac McCarthy is the greatest living writer. I am the second greatest living writer. No, I'm not kidding.