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

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

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...

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There's a general widespread anger about education lately, and not only that but the...

It's easy to consume, not necessarily passively, but extraneously... I notice it most when I visit one of those image blogs with the never-ending scroll bar, or when reading — it's even more difficult to put the thing down when it's actually informative, useful. To gain knowledge is a wonderful thing; to think is even better....

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

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

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

22-04-2009 - Extra disclaimer time! This piece was written in order to provoke discussion at a time when SC was kind of stagnating. While I maintain a healthy cynicism for hippie shit, I don't necessarily actually hold the viewpoints expressed. So while I appreciate your concern, I don't need any more emails trying to enlighten me with new...

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

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

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...

Why do creative and/or intelligent people often suffer from some kind of mental illness, or at...

“The deterritorialization of the self is the essential feature that marks human entry into...

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

The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure while always arriving. Saves on...

or The rise of the Cyber Unified Civilization “The radical of one century is the...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

I've seen a bunch of posts bubble up over the past few days that are really sparking my curiousity about what is really going on with Twitter, so I need to do a little brain dump. Bear with me. Insight #1 An article by Rosabeth Moss Kanter was just published today on the Harvard Business Review website, titled On Twitter and in the...

The first decade of the 21st century is about to end in just a few weeks. Among many things, I find most impacting the explosion of knowledge in the field of brain sciences and human behavior in this decade. Though the great riddles of consciousness and the emergence of minds from brains are still open and far from any solution, many connections...

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...

So we're powerful. We can manipulate our environments - ever more so with each passing day. Soon very little will be out of our control. But where do we stand emotionally? morally? Are we ready for this power? Are you? Am I? The world as we see it; just sort of happened. Nature took it's course, and we ended up with trees, continents,...

"The end of the world"?

Creating both environmental and technological awareness in our postmodern world is absolutely...

A collective experiment in re-imagining the Human. A Question to interact: What would you...

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,...