The Expanding Earth Theory is a geological theory that exists for a long time, but has always...

Started as a comment and evolved into a response to Keen's Terrance McKenna and DMT I used to...

I found this quite profound, maybe I was too inebriated. The Secret Life of Chaos - BBC...

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. — Arthur Schopenhauer Free will does not and cannot imply without cause, randomness or unpredictability. All those qualities, although present in complex systems, would contradict the notion of willful intent. What we want, and therefore do, must be based on reasonable ground....

Whatever intelligence is, it can't be intelligent all the way down. It's just dumb stuff at the bottom. — Andy Clark I believe we act based on a fundamental reliance on gut feelings. What we do is merely following 'the line of least resistance'. Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. — William...

Is Spacecollective actually [what it claims to be (it's not clear what I mean here (probably...

Artificial Intelligence learns what music is and creates instruments you play with the mouse. I...

Just wondering why the gallery is never updated any more and if it ever will be again? I love the gallery here and often direct people to it, I'd like to see it keep growing.

Increasingly, we live in a world defined by flat networks. Folks like Clay Shirky, Ben...

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“I believe that consciousness is, essentially, the way information feels when being...

Why is Nature predisposed to indulging in vices? We hold on to that which gives us pleasure, even though it subtracts from our physical life. A system seeking life most pertinently would not engage in activities that negate it, so life doesn't seem to be the top priority for our system. In looking to Physics for an answer, it's deductible that the...

Could Einstein's Theory of Relativity be slipping into the past as a discredited misunderstanding? And could it be replaced with an intuitive and simplified scientific truth that was discovered over a century ago? A major turning point in the public’s understanding of science came about a century ago, with the introduction of Einstein’s...

A 50 light-year-wide view of the Carina Nebula, released to celebrate the Hubble Space...

randomly came across this bit of news this morn: Philippe Starck and Luis...

Realistically this work makes me think about poverty, because I’m a Brazilian and is kind of...

save the environment, wear your trash.

The Law of Conservation of Energy, aka the first law of thermodynamics, is a very fundamental part of physics, and is instrumental to our understanding of the universe. But it also has profound theological implications. The second law of thermodynamics is often thrown around by God lovers as an attempt to justify their faith empirically. But...

Milky Way- R. Bell

Mauro Fuke / 2008

They are really the same thing...

I was driving through the Tenderloin the other night - one of the most socio-economically depressed areas of San Francisco. Across a long wall someone tagged "Occupy Wall Street" in big letters with a clean font and preceded by the Twitter "#" hashtag notation. It was a big, funky chorus bridging the grimy street with a...

I had an interview and some artworks published in Luminous Magazine Issue #2 recently, here is the last question and my answer to it: You have stated that you believe art will save the world. How do you see this occurring in day-to-day life? This is a complex multi-faceted question and there are so many different ways to answer it. For one...

Asch conformity experiments

"And at the end, like the crack of a whip he said: "I think that one day, the part of...

that is of course just the beginning, man machine interface is coming our way, are we...

To make a link to a clean resizable page with just the video content: Copy the URL: Ex: Erase the "WATCH?" And change the " = " for another " / " Ex: Or just: Youtube´s url + dash, v, dash + alphanumeric video id. Elegant!

Current estimated human population of Earth: 6.64 billion people Taking a rough guess that...

Content & Form

A response to Wildcat's "My cranium, my castle?" Thank you Wildcat for the...

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

There's a bit of a debate going on about wether or not the new Hadron Collider will create...

(Okay so the image is way old - but you can't underestimate stupidity) Humanity exists within...

#Polytopia-(the emergence of) - is a work/proposal in progress# We are called to be architects...

A project Proposal: Polytopia , Our Mind Habitat in the Infoverse A dream you dream alone is...

The Portal* "Future Food - Meat without Livestock" focuses on possibilities for replacing animal products with products that are not derived from animals. These products can be divided into two groups: Vegetarian Meats, Non-Dairy Milk Drinks and Egg Replacements These products simulate or copy the animal derived products. There...

What if our current view of human history which Darwin's theory of evolution propagated is...

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...

... that we are wrapping in the real time web. There’s a new sense of Now emerging from the web and it’s starting to become more present than the here and now in front of us. The events in our lives only seem to come into full existence as we post them online. A moment that can’t be digitized and shared in one form or another is...

When the Control System needs to pull in the reins on its feverish denizens, when it wants to...

Beyond politics,poverty & war. Check it out Here.

So I guess this would be it. I've had this account for over 3 months now, but I just haven't...

Exploring Posthuman Aesthetics “Thus a simple physical feeling is one feeling which feels...

Does anyone else see Michael Jackson as a transhumanist artist?

Many manifestoes have been written during the last century by architects wanting to lay claim to...