John C. Lilly dies.
October 3, 2001 2:33 PM   Subscribe

John C. Lilly dies. Inventor of the isolation tank and pioneer of dolphin/human communications and all around cool counterculture guy. He will be missed. [Lilly homepage]
posted by skallas (6 comments total)

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Ah finally someone posted this (didn't want to post too much, the site is so slow). Programming and MetaProgramming the Human Biocomputer was an important book for me when I was a teenager. He may be appreciated more in this century than the last.
posted by aflakete at 3:30 PM on October 3, 2001


Very sad. I once met John when I was about 14 or 15. A brilliant but nutty scientist, just like you'd expect. Got to meet his dolphins and seals. He really was ahead of his time. Probably still is.

sigh
posted by billder at 4:21 PM on October 3, 2001


Programming and MetaProgramming the Human Biocomputer was an important book for me when I was a teenager.

Me too, aflakete. Great book. John Lilly's vision scanned horizons that most of us have only begun to imagine.

billder, did you get the chance to have a conversation with one of the dolphins?
posted by bragadocchio at 5:19 PM on October 3, 2001


"The Scientist" was the diary of a Ketamine-crazed crackpot; yet, I think it may turn out to be the truth about us.

We may be evolving into a silicon-based lifeform. Lilly thought he was in touch with distant civilizations that had made the transition from messy carbon/water-based lifeforms to clean clear silicon-based lifeforms.

The signs are all over. He may have been right. May he rest in death.
posted by kozad at 8:09 PM on October 3, 2001


"The Scientist" was the diary of a Ketamine-crazed crackpot; yet, I think it may turn out to be the truth about us.

We may be evolving into a silicon-based lifeform. Lilly thought he was in touch with distant civilizations that had made the transition from messy carbon/water-based lifeforms to clean clear silicon-based lifeforms.

The signs are all over. He may have been right. May he rest in death.
posted by kozad at 8:10 PM on October 3, 2001


did you get the chance to have a conversation with one of the dolphins?

they said "so long and thanks for all the fish"
posted by billder at 9:08 PM on October 3, 2001


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