SpaceCollective: Reckon

SpaceCollective: Reckon http://spacecollective.org/Reckon Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:48:34 +0000 http://spacecollective.org/Reckon en The Cosmic Serpent http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/6320/The-Cosmic-Serpent http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/6320/The-Cosmic-Serpent Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:48:34 +0000 Reckon 6320 <embed src="http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/player/player-viral.swf" height="272" width="320" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="&file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.redicecreations.com%2Fradio%2F2010%2F09sep%2FRIR-100919-jnarby.mp3ℑ=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.redicecreations.com%2Fradio%2F2010%2F09sep%2FRIR-100919_player.jpg&plugins=viral-2d&skin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.redicecreations.com%2Fradio%2Fplayer%2Faudioskin%2Fstylish_slim.swf" /> <a href="http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2010/09sep/RIR-100919.php" target="_blank">Red Ice Creations</a> We have anthropologist and author Jeremy Narby with us today from Switzerland who back in 1999 released the book "The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge", in 2006 "Intelligence in Nature" was released and he talks with us about his research and anthropological work in the Peruvian Amazon, living next to the Quirishari and studying the source of their knowledge about plants. We talk about DNA, the roots of knowledge, intelligence in nature, communication with the entities beyond this world from deep within, experiences on Ayahuascha, difference in cultures and more. Topics Discussed: Ayaschanica People, Ayahuasca, Quirishari, Carlos Perez Shuman, Visionary Journeys, Anthopology, Visions, Art of Scientific Investigation, Computer, Origins of Knowledge, Francis Crick, LSD, Double Helix Structure, The Realm of Visions, Molecular intelligence, Serpent Symbolism, Coding System of Genes, Biospheric DNA Television, Ayahuasca DMT, di methyl-tryptamine, Datura, Dreamworld, Modification of Consciousness, Studying the Cosmos, Avatar, Shamanism. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cosmic_Serpent" target="_blank">The Cosmic Serpent</a> http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/6320/The-Cosmic-Serpent Tokyo Sky Drive http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/5562/Tokyo-Sky-Drive http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/5562/Tokyo-Sky-Drive Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:32:39 +0000 Reckon 5562 <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tpTI3W9dPtc&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tpTI3W9dPtc&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/5562/Tokyo-Sky-Drive Waking Life http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/5053/Waking-Life http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/5053/Waking-Life Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:09:42 +0000 Reckon 5053 <embed src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=7583894250854515095&hl=en&fs=true" style="width:400px;height:326px" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> </embed> "Native Americans, Aboriginal Australians, Taoists, Zen Buddhists, Tantric meditators, and mystics everywhere do not think of the Dreaming world as an 'un'-conscious. For these peoples, the sentient Dreaming world is the basic reality. Though marginalized and invisible to mainstream cultures today, Dreamtime has been the essential reality for people from the beginning of time." -Arnold Mindell http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/5053/Waking-Life The Future of the Future is the Present http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/4664/The-Future-of-the-Future-is-the-Present http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/4664/The-Future-of-the-Future-is-the-Present Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:31:45 +0000 Reckon 4664 <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/M-1O5ubFL_c&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/M-1O5ubFL_c&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/BuzzCoastin" target="_blank">BuzzCoastin</a> http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/4664/The-Future-of-the-Future-is-the-Present This Astronaut Photograph http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/4634/This-Astronaut-Photograph http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/4634/This-Astronaut-Photograph Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:06:01 +0000 Reckon 4634 <img src="http://spacecollective.org/userdata/1z8SikHY/1232859878/e23_ISS017-E-13856.jpg" border="0" width="" height="" class="padTopBot"> The setting sun glints off the Amazon River and numerous lakes in its floodplain in this astronaut photograph from August 19, 2008. About 150 kilometers of the Amazon is shown here, about 1,000 kilometers inland from the Atlantic Ocean. This image was acquired on August 19, 2008 by the by the Expedition 17 crew of the International Space Station. via <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/01/earth_observed.html" target="_blank">earth observed the big picture, a yellow brick rope</a> http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/4634/This-Astronaut-Photograph South of Khartoum http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/4633/South-of-Khartoum http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/4633/South-of-Khartoum Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:51:13 +0000 Reckon 4633 <img src="http://spacecollective.org/userdata/1z8SikHY/1232858938/e03_aljazirah_ast.jpg" border="0" width="" height="" class="padTopBot"> South of Khartoum, Sudan, where the White and Blue Nile Rivers join, a dizzying arrangement of irrigated fields stretches out across the state of El Gezira. The several bare-looking patches are small villages. This image was captured by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA's Terra satellite on December 25, 2006. via <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/01/earth_observed.html" target="_blank">Boston.com - earth observed the big picture</a> http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/4633/South-of-Khartoum This is a sample of the code we've been working on... http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/4501/This-is-a-sample-of-the-code-weve-been-working-on http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/4501/This-is-a-sample-of-the-code-weve-been-working-on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:53:10 +0000 Reckon 4501 <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HplsGiSmnJI&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HplsGiSmnJI&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> <a href="http://www.villareal.net/" target="_blank">Leo Villareal</a> via <a href="http://coolhunting.com" target="_blank">coolhunting</a> http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/4501/This-is-a-sample-of-the-code-weve-been-working-on Moebius LED Display http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/4499/Moebius-LED-Display http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/4499/Moebius-LED-Display Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:34:25 +0000 Reckon 4499 <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oWpj3F_fWgA&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oWpj3F_fWgA&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> Moebius display is a hardware art piece. This video is the first presentation of this moebius strip shaped LED screen. via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/martinbonadeo" target="_blank">Martin Bonadeo</a> http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/4499/Moebius-LED-Display The Robotic Musicianship Group http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/4498/The-Robotic-Musicianship-Group http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/4498/The-Robotic-Musicianship-Group Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:03:41 +0000 Reckon 4498 Source: <a href="http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/11/no-way-robot-ja.html" target="_blank">WIRED</a> The Robotic Musicianship Group at Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology just blew our minds with some videos depicting robots playing music with real people. Great, you say. Some fake robot machine can, like, bang around on a drum or something. Not so fast, doubters. These robots, developed with funding from the National Science Foundation, listen to humans creating music in real time and play along with them. One might say they improvise. They can't pass the actual Turing test, in which a robot must fool a human into thinking it is also a human during a conversation. But musical improvisation is another kind of a conversation and I, a human, would believe that the impromptu, non-predetermined parts these robots play were played by other humans. By that standard, the Georgia Tech team's robots have already passed the musical Turing test (assuming that I'd feel the same way if I were playing along instead of watching the robots in a video, and I'm fairly certain I would). <object width="425" height="349"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5DYOqSTmGDA&rel=0&border=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5DYOqSTmGDA&rel=0&border=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="349"></embed></object> We asked professor Gil Weinberg, head of the program, how these robots manage to parse what humans are playing, and how they manage to play along. How do they figure out which parts to play? As it turns out, the process is somewhat analogous to the way Deep Blue plays chess: by carefully examining its options and then evolving them like biological species to see which one best fits a changing musical environment. "The processing allows [the robots] to analyze and improvise," said Weinberg via telephone. "In one of the applications, we use a genetic algorithm... You have a population of something, and then you do mutations to all of these little things — in my case it's musical motifs — mutations and cross-breeding between the musical genes, in our case, and then you have a new population that better fits to the environment. He continued, "Very fast, it runs [about] 50 generations of mutations that are cross-bred between the genes and tests whether this is similar to a motif that the saxophone player played, for example. And it plays something back that is a combination of musical genes of what the saxophone player played, what the piano player played — something that is unique that only can be the product of genetic algorithm." <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MSxeN00C20g&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MSxeN00C20g&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> The results are fairly astounding. Haile, the drumming robot has been around for a couple of years, but Shimon, the marimba playing robot unveiled in early November, handles melody in addition to rhythm. One of the next steps, says Weinberg, is to give the robots to look at whichever human collaborator is playing the most interesting part. http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/4498/The-Robotic-Musicianship-Group Art from Code http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/4471/Art-from-Code http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/4471/Art-from-Code Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:36:46 +0000 Reckon 4471 <a href="http://www.artfromcode.com/" target="_blank">Keith Peters</a> codes in ActionScript 3.0 via <a href="http://www.booooooom.com/page/2/" target="_blank">booooooom!</a> <img src="http://spacecollective.org/userdata/1z8SikHY/1226453699/wordglobekeithpeters.png" border="0" width="" height="" class="padTopBot"> <div align="center"><img src="http://spacecollective.org/userdata/1z8SikHY/1226453719/booooooom_artfromcode_06.jpg" width="" height="" border="0" /></div> http://spacecollective.org/Reckon/4471/Art-from-Code