<i>> "Her dramatic eye movements are self-stimulating her brain hemispheres, a technique called bi-lateral stimulation. By panning her eyes back and forth she is unknowingly using this technique to synthesize her brain hemisphere's memory and logic functions connecting complex ideas and accessing enormous amount of information."</i><p>Is this satire?
When I read the title, I expected something connected to Matt Ruff's novel "Sewers, Gas & Electric" <a href="http://www.bymattruff.com/my-novels/sewer-gas-electric/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bymattruff.com/my-novels/sewer-gas-electric/</a> which features Ayn Rand trapped in a hurricane lamp as one of the characters.
Since there seems to be a lot of Ayn Rand articles lately, you might be interested in the excellent 3 part series by Adam Curtis called "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace".<p>It includes a segment on Ayn Rand, including segments from that interview, but also lots of really interesting interviews with silicon valley folks from the 90s, to high-freq stock market trading and "ecosystems".<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_of_Loving_Grace_%28TV_series%29" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_o...</a>
i have a lot of friends who are recovering meth addicts and so when i first read ayn rand's atlas shrugged and came across john galt's ridiculous 60 page monologue (and no, i did not elect to read it word for word, you are a fucking moron if you do), my first suspicion, not knowing anything about her background yet, was that this sounded like someone high on amphetamines. sure enough, with a little research, i found that she was on benzos the entire time she was writing atlas shrugged. once i saw this interview with the shifty eyes i was convinced. she's tweaked out of her mind. to be clear, i think atlas shrugged is a significant work of art, but i also think parts of it are just the ramblings of someone high on speed, and i'll be damned if i'm going to read all of it.