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    The great enhancement debate
    What will happen when for the first time in ages different human species will inhabit the earth at the same time? The day may be upon us when people...
    Now playing SpaceCollective
    Where forward thinking terrestrials share ideas and information about the state of the species, their planet and the universe, living the lives of science fiction. Introduction
    Featuring Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames, based on an idea by Kees Boeke.
    Professor: "Don't do anything that affects anything. Unless it turns out you were supposed to do it, in which case for the love of God. Don't not do it!"
    Fry: "Got it."
     http://www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/EpisodeSounds/3ACV19/12.mp3 

    During time travel it is possibly best not to disturb anything. But is the prime directive a great loss to human experience? I couldn't think of introduction really.

    Soulstar is a fascinating deed of alternative or just plain wrong culture in which we explore the idea that during normal life sorting out senses and experiences, intelligence and other processes tend to mark bits of senses or whole areas of body, mind, memory as "not to be touched". The patterns of behavior that act as remedies show that we are all perfection. Various conclusions emerge, one among is that acceptance can be a good tool in further progress and another that learning is the pillar of enhancing.
    http://www.audiotree.com/Soulstar/soulstarastrology.html
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    Time is an unsettled issue in PHYSICS. Existence of pretty much everything visible in cosmos is far off from anything "present" in absolute terms. Waves of interaction between radiation and matter appear to happen only here and now, but what is that change happening in a collision? What energy or property is it fundamentally dedicated to be expressed as time in reality?

    Here we have a lot of fun with that middle view of the absolute emerging from the focus of SELF, while reading about the tale of temporal perception.



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    The three methods your mind uses to reverse, speed, and even slow the minutes.
    by Carl Zimmer
    http://discovermagazine.com/2008/aug/11-how-your-brain-can-control-time

    How to stop time using a clock:
    http://www.grasshopper.com/mind-games/how-to-stop-time

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    "Sync"
    by Steven H. Strogatz

    Topic: coupled oscillators, applied math

    Tonight the Beijing Olympic games (um... 2008) have opened with a huge bass of square drums made of bronze and wood that covered the central stadium. Each drum would glow when hit by a dedicated person, a drummer, or artist standing next. The performance was inspired by Confucius the wizard and had a poetic text from his mind chanted out into the night. At this time I am still compelled to pronounce with whisper "oh the Sync" now that I had encountered it.


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    I went on a sea-side holiday with that math textbook, which I call a risk (for ruining vacation) unless its a damn good book. Reviews were hot so I trusted the technical minded who praised it (oh, advertisement). In general it is made to be perfect. The only quality that I share is the inclination to write something that is still good even if you tear off a piece. Its called scientific publishing.

    At one point Strogatz says that math is a great science that allows you to work in any other field of science - because you know math. Therefore his book might be self-explanatory if his life path didn't really lead to the research and heroes he touched or worked with. The universal tool that he brought along are puzzles of coupled oscillators that tend to get into some form of sync.

    The topic of the book is rightfully about EMERGING SCIENCE of spontaneous order. Many have written so far about the spontaneous spatial complexity, but time-dimension somehow allowed the author to sound by far better and more rational when it comes to nature, chaos, and all that. "We may be missing an equivalent of calculus" when we try to process complexity and chaos, he says.

    When technical-minded people start to learn something about themselves, or something living as it happened in this book without preparation, they set sail into such a cheerful predisposition, full of surprises reading about bugs and sleep cycle. Some part of the books deals with non-living sync, a little bit of physics, and various mixed topics to surprise you. Fortunately only the words "quantum" and "laser" belong to popular science writing, otherwise its rather new and fun! How odd! - Absolute perfection in writing style for every sentence, fast readability and every few pages I just would say: "damn interesting". - Popular science I figure, rarely goes out.

    "Brain can listen to only one song at a time because it is a non-linear system which is not the sum of its parts", so you can't add more and more in parallel. "Sync" rests a lot on the nature of differential equations which are quietly and completely explained. Sometimes the problems mentioned are about networks.

    "Sync" is providing us with enlightenment and a landscape of new science. I wish that textbooks and everything else were that gay, or great. M. N. Shyamalan said once that he wished we would break rules so often as to establish new ones, and in a way that is what is "applied" here maybe just by chance through visits to fascinating areas of life and science which resonate well with the edge of mind upon I dwell when the Olympics become boring.
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