I was just reading about iraq in the newspaper, about the state of negotionations between the...

After the discussion regarding infinity, my views on the matter had started to change. So I let...

Is language is a purely cultural phenomenon or not? Obviously it's the most successful...

That's right, I said it. I have no problem with the investigation of self for the betterment of self, but generally all 'exploring inner space' means is you are just being useless, or producing useless artifacts. What's the real world use of your 'exploration'? How is it improving you or driving the advancement of mankind? It seems to me that...

In order for anything to be infinite, it would have to eventually exist in every incarnation of...

It is obvious that we are in dire need of a new kind of language, a language that may be able to...

For quite a while, I have the idea to invite Space Collective members to reflect, discuss and...

I just watched all 6 of the movies on the space collective homepage and while most of it was inspiring, I found some of it kind of scary. One of the clips even has a picture from an incident that happened 2 days ago, that was fast. It makes me think that the people who created those videos are leaning on the pessimistic side which inherently does...

Project Proposal: There are hundreds of thousands of books published every year. Many are...

Nature has made a determined comeback In the 20 years since Chernobyl's reactor No. 4 turned a...

In everyday experience, it is quite intuitive to expect simple systems to present simple behaviors,...

Recently I came across an interesting argument between Kevin Kelly and Ray Kurzweil wherein the two men discuss the foreseeable future when exponential change will have given rise to computers with superhuman capabilities, unleashing unimaginable levels of intelligence. Whereas Kurzweil sees this event, known as the Singularity, as a...

i had this idea for a solar generator (sorry the clumsy pic) the solar laser eats up the...

I am new to the collective and am not sure if this is the type of stuff we do, but I found this...

Yesterday; while waiting for a bus with my friend, I stopped to glance across at a middle aged man...

There's been a lot of discussion on the mind/body relationship. Below are my newest thoughts and a...

Example 01 A numerical value is assigned to every letter of the alphabet. Adding the values of all...

I recently had an email exchange about Space Collective with our well-known friend, Obviously Subtle . In the email, he said something that really stuck with me. Referring to what Space Collective is all about, he called it "post religion and post politics." Of course, I already knew what Space Collective was about before I read...

Happy Holidays? I love you? More than ever, I am overwhelmed and confused by the holiday season. First, I am astonished by the gift buying frenzy. Does anyone know an essay or study that can help me understand this phenomena? Second, I am a dissatisfied with the motives for family gathering during the holiday season. Specifically, I am...

There is no thing endowed with life - from man, who is enslaving the elements, to the nimblest...

Can my Mind exist outside my body? Can I have a consciousness transplant? I suppose mind is...

Adolf Loos' Ornament and Crime holds a favourite ammunition of mine in defense of immateriality: I have therefore evolved the following maxim, and pronounce it to the world: the evolution of culture marches with the elimination of ornament from useful objects. How would I define what ornament is today? Ornament, a constant in decoration culture,...

Truth is sacrosanct to the human character. The only way we can build a philosophical construct of our identity is through cornerstones of truth, upon which we build more complex structures of truth for the purposes of explaining our reality. We all share one, indivisible truth - the acceptance of our unique perception. Everyone inately...

I've been watching a lot of speeches from TED.com lately, and I've been tremendously inspired by their positive energy in a time that the media would paint as rather daunting. I hope to do something with my life as good as those noble people at TED are doing. As good as they are, it is difficult to criticize the people of TED, aka...

On and on does the lattice grow, information flows, and our minds converge, into a single, fiercely independent, decidedly autonomous, highly intelligent, and self-propelling emergent metaverse, the infoverse. The infoverse is where we will live. And we need a home. A mutually supportive habitat of sorts; A mind habitat, an infotat for our...

**I apologize for the audio quality as I captured it with my cell phone in the interest of time. Info below.** I am sure that we can all agree, there are some really great thought processes happening within Space Collective. Great minds are working together, traveling down paths of knowledge as one entity, working out the details of thought...

We listen to the voice, the tune of acceleration distributed in million labs, the undercurrent wave...

a friend of mine invited me to join a tribe today. it sounded slightly cultish (a new god, initiation rituals, survival workshops), but in general i'm interested in fringe societies, and this friend of mine is an artist, so i agreed to follow its development. but it occured to me: there are going to be a shitload of end of the world cults around...

this new drug sounds amazing, but i hope that it will always be properly regulated. or else, things can get out of hand.

holy shit. i'm trying to sign up for classes. it's my senoir year at UCLA. AND THERE IS NOTHING I WANT TO TAKE. This is serious. Outside of my my department (Design|Media Arts) there is nothing i want to learn from this institution. EVERYTHING ACADEMIC SEEMS COMPLETELY IRRELEVENT TO MY LIFE. What must be understood,...

Lately I've been wondering if we're really the most superior species on earth, as we have assumed...

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There is an endless debate raging from just about forever about what constitutes the nature of a human, the following is a short list of features that to my mind belong to the human nature, should belong to the human nature or will belong to the human nature if and when we as a specie will evolve into a creature that is a bit more than a verbose...

"The brain acknowledges and remembers shapes first. [...] Color is the second in the...

Oscar Pistorius, AKA "Blade Runner" -- the South African sprinter who uses carbon fiber...

"In 1969, R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), the pre-eminent 20th Century engineer for the...

"When I profess realism about possible worlds, I mean to be taken literally. Possible...

I have been working on a study about the interaction of humans and technology. I won't reveal...

I really enjoy my carnal existence; eating, drinking & exercising. But strangely I quite appreciate the idea of living forever - despite all of the negative connotations associated with it - what if this "Polytopia" was to be a hyperspace - kinda like second life, but controlled in the first person by our electrical selves,...

In the chapter titled Author as Producer of Walter Benjamin's Reflections, he introduces Sergei Tretiakov's 'operating writer', and how his/her mission, as opposed to the 'informing writer', is "not to report but to struggle; not to play the spectator but to intervene actively". This description is of the author not as activist--because...

Knowledge is power. I find every day more and more evidence pointing towards this proverbial fact,...

"I wonder whether fractal images are not touching the very structure of our brains. Is there...

It must have been twelve years ago. I was sitting in the Retro Cafe down at Salamanca Place here...

In this program, scientists discuss recent findings in parts of our universe that for some reason...

Perspective makes the single eye the center of the visible world. Everything converges on to the...

i think we need to be really careful when it comes to this whole pursuit of perfection. a lot has been said for the negatives of human nature, we are irrational, often violent and hurtful, and essentially slow paced and fragile creatures. but is this necessarily a bad thing? i am strongly inclined to believe that the positives of human...

Originally posted in the comments of sjef's post "Fuck 'exploring inner space'. " It was a bit long and in the hopes it doesn't get buried, I thought I'd repost it here. Original Post Wow. Okay. First off I haven’t been able to go through all of the comments, so please excuse me if I go on to say something redundant. I both...