Real History with Melissa - Ep. 113 "Snow Crash, convicts, and consciousness" - May 15, 2025

Upcoming, Nick of Heys Reviews and Melissa will be discussing Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Why has Silicon Valley embraced this novelist? What are some of Neal Stephenson's thoughts about language versus code? Who was Julian Jaynes? What is the Bicameral Mind? - Next week's Real History will be a conversation with Aman Jabbi and the Five Pillars to Enslave Humanity.

Cutting Through the Matrix
https://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/

Neal Stephenson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Stephenson

Snow Crash
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_Consciousness_in_the_Breakdown_of_the_Bicameral_Mind

Project Mars: A Technical Tale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mars%3A_A_Technical_Tale

Neal Stephenson - What might be a climate equivalent of Pearl Harbor?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/01/10/magazine/neal-stephenson-interview.html

Britain must move to the equivalent of a ‘war-footing' if we are to overcome the threat of climate change
https://www.carolinelucas.com/latest/the-new-home-front-uk-needs-a-war-footing-on-energy-and-climate-crisis

The Fixation of Belief - Charles Sanders Peirce (1877)
https://archive.org/details/1877-peirce-fixation-of-belief

Digital ID or Digital Prison (and Five Pillars to Enslave Humanity) - by Aman Jabbi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQwr7FbRnPw

Jonathan Couey - Gigaohm Biological
https://gigaohmbiological.com/