For the past few days on an internet forum, I've been discussing how government would be structured if I could erase all the boundaries and current government structures and start from scratch. I started with the idea that more power should be given to local governments and we should be moving towards the opposite direction of a globalized...

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Dream are cool. have you heard of lucid dreaming? It's when you become aware that you are dreaming and are able to control it. I have only experienced this twice in my life when I was much younger, around age 10 or so. I don't remember much of the dream now but I do remember the feeling of amazement and excitement for the next time I got...

Everything is real but the narrative makes the difference. “We belong to a history that runs in the present. This is a fantastic thing! We belong to a history that runs in a continuous changing present. Yesterday is not now, tomorrow is not now, but we exist in a continuous NOW... we human beings, all living beings, the whole biosphere....

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...

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

The Compatibility of Religious and Transhumanist Views of Metaphysics, Suffering, Virtue and...

by Kim Joon

Depleting a lert logic my hypnogogic mind chatter Sits flatter than the ancients pondered The worlds shape. I'm really ready To sleepytimeape, &escape into the inconclusive reality, of unmateriality and void of consequence. My brainsquirrel frequents regurgitated Moments juxtaposed intense, in a creative auto-pilot...

Oh Bunny, how I love you!!! My sweetest little bunny … since having him I’ve realized how...

I've been thinking a lot about this polytopia without offering any of the thoughts, so here, for whatever they're worth, are some of them. Mind work in the old world: Scenario One: Each mind walks into a room on two legs, they chose a seat and take out a pad and a pencil. Everytime someone offers an idea it's written down on a white...

Don't bend [but be open flowing!] don't water it down; don't try to make it...

"The psychology of the mature human being is an unfolding, emergent, oscillating, spiraling process marked by progressive subordination of older, lower-order behavior systems to newer, higher-order systems as man's existential problems change.
" Clare W. Graves (the futurist-1974) Abstract Quality I shall define here not...

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

Prologue When I first set out to write this essay to my peers I was not particularly sure of the best possible way to discuss topics of such a polarizing nature. Moreover, even more daunting a task has been trying to conceive the correct vehicle with which to relay that information. The advent of the internet as a means of communication allows...

Leo Villareal via coolhunting

CityWall is a large multi-touch display installed in a central location in Helsinki which acts as a...

Moebius display is a hardware art piece. This video is the first presentation of this moebius...

Source: WIRED The Robotic Musicianship Group at Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology just...

click to play A project I did for an electronics class at UCLA using a stepper motor and...

http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/mediaimages/zooms/ssc2008-11a/index.html cheers, sebastian

Metabolically and Morphologically intelligent built environment for the self-sufficient, adaptable,...

This is a comment that grew too long - a continuation of the polylogue following Xárene's post, Social Networking Tools and Our Future Society It got me thinking about two experiences I've had recently. Love The first one involved someone that I met who had just moved to Europe 20 days before from New York. He moved here to be with his...

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

A stunning light display over Saturn has stumped scientists who say it behaves unlike any other...

Good afternoon. This is my first post here at the space collective and I wish you all a warm...

Our Conscious experience usually includes a level of self-awareness. As in The observer and the...

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Today, you have new themes for Gmail, and 2.000 images about this century, from LIFE archive....

This is an extreme kind of Spidrons. From side view Erdély - Ballegooijen

A modular system From decagonal, hexagonal spidronnests with special outer angles and rhombs you...

Once conscious systems are virtualized, we will have the ability to do some unusual things, for...

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Watch these 4 fascinating short videos about the fundamental riddles of existence. Some food for...

"Onto what surface shall a theory of aesthetics and consciousness be mapped?" Gregory...

In a recent post by Connor, who is one of several recent SpaceCollective members whose...

A short part of a larger talk, what is interesting however is the distinct difference...

Il y a des choses que l'intelligence seule est capable de chercher, mais que, par elle-même, elle...

Sometimes, to evolve as human, we have to look deeper trying to empower the simply and natural born human basics.

"I gave a talk yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit. It's a short talk, only 10 minutes long, so...

I've been finding a lot of news articles about space and exploration lately, which really gives me hope. Maybe I've just been in the dark, but the last decade or two hasn't exactly been teeming with discoveries in space. chris_mackintosh's post about the glowing aurora over Saturn is just one of many examples on this site and all over the web....

Recently, watching a few video's on Henry Harkram and Andrew Schwartz reminded me of this...