NotMarie:” I confess, I am not able to create a strong value judgment anymore, at least not as I used to.. 3V:” don’t confess assess.. NotMarie:” what do you mean? 3V:” I mean that instead of expelling out of your system a supposedly reflective reality of your mind, you should re-spect it and analyze the very meaning from which...

An extract from a recent article I wrote for 3quarksdaily.com - Go here for piece in full A face...

Eat when you are hungry. Sleep when you are tired. - old Zen saying These streams of hyperlinks are turning us into possibility addicts. To stay sober is to stay fully present with a single idea. But I doubt even a zen master could resist the temptation of the endless electronic more. A net is just a bunch of holes tied together...

Why do we place so much value on reading, writing and arithmetic? We have polarized our...

Transcript: “Rules of - change. It is a pleasure to join with you all today, in a sense...

I took a quick look around and didn't see any discussion on this, however, I do think it pertains...

NotMarie:” I remember yesterday you were about to unfold your latest major breakthrough as you called it.. and if memory serves you said that you understand now the emotion of love.. 3V: “ ahh! NotMarie, I don’t think you should treat your memory with such certainty or indeed as such indication of occurrences.. memory is not...

AR Aura Recognition Gabriel Shalom, KS12 Presented in the production track of the 1st...

I just searched Space Collective for this name, and found nothing. So here it is: the first...

Not only is the spirit of our age changing, growing more optimistic. Our ideologies and...

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This PowerPoint file (link below) contains 36 of the more important graphs published in The...

Yesterday night at a dinner party, I was challenged by two friends, both recounting stories...

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As the aging populations of Europe and Japan come to represent the local majority, it would seem...

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In this day and age, our use of numbers tend to reach certain quantitative values that the human mind can no longer make any sense of. I'd say it's because most of us can't conceive of a model to put exceptionally large numbers into context with. We simply cannot fathom the profound meanings of astronomically large numbers. For example, numbers...

There is a wonderful synchronicity beginning to emerge between the intentions of Space...

3V: “ there is something I do not understand about you humans NotMArie.. NotMarie: “what now? 3V: “its about your problem solving capability.. NotMarie:” o! We are very good at solving problems.. Well sometimes we are, sometimes we simply have to wait until the solution presents itself.. 3V:” no, no, it is not about that,...

Over the past few months, we've been discussing the various skills needed for effectively operating in a world characterized by information and accelerating change, and I've been assembling these ideas into a framework for a new thought architecture. This post will be the first in a 12 part series, and draws its influences from the fields of...

...or that's what they call me. i remember an early example of AUREC - aura recognition...

As the months have gone by, I've become more and more committed to the work I'm doing on this blog, and developing these ideas and relationships. It started as just a blog for ideas in October, and now has been my portal to the world for sharing my passion with others. Ideally, I would like to continue to do this as my career or life work. As...

The mental life of your common or garden human, however, is a lot more complicated. That's because we are "aware of being aware". This allows us to reflect upon ourselves and our feelings and, in an ideal world, make insightful decisions and judgements. This state, dubbed secondary consciousness, is thought to be unique to humans.

The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and...

LEVELS OF CONVERGENCE by Renata Lemos, Lucia Santaella Part 3 - Information and Meaning;...

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On Social Learning, Sensemaking Capacity, and Collective Intelligence

Plug n' play. Content —> Form (structure) —> Aesthetics —> Meaning —>...

Crossposted from Emergence Collective The Social API Lately there has been quite a bit of dialogue about writing a Social API (application programming interface) so that individuals and organizations can participate in "cross-platform" emergent innovation and action in a modular and plug-and-play manner. In our attempts to define...

by Leon Tan and Tomas Skovgaard Mixed Reality Publics Networked publics are mixed reality...

Life within living cells. Breath taking. Must...

I understand that there are several connotations and misconceptions associated with the...

http://www.hulu.com/watch/164327/the-age-of-stupid Amazing. PEOPLE WAKE UP it is up to us to evolve. NOW.

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Special seminar in auditorium today: new CDF result The CDF collaboration will present a new...

Hans Rosling, genius of data visualization at Gapminder leads us to grasp surprising big data and...

Is quantum theory weird enough for the real world? Our most successful theory of nature is bewilderingly remote from reality. But fixing that may require a weirder theory still PHYSICS, its practitioners will proudly tell you, is the most fundamental of sciences. Its theories and laws distil the workings of the real world - of particles...

You know that innocence they always talk about that slowly gets sucked out of your soul as you get older and older? Where they judge you if you talk about the magnificent chain of events that just happened in your mind all at once that have nothing to do with the current conversation? Where they shut down your every suggestion because it's not...

Phenomenal short story. The Last Question by Isaac Asimov — © 1956 The last question...

The strange case of solar flares and radioactive elements When researchers found an unusual linkage between solar flares and the inner life of radioactive elements on Earth, it touched off a scientific detective investigation that could end up protecting the lives of space-walking astronauts and maybe rewriting some of the assumptions of...