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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...

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

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....

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...

I have just seen this picture on Facebook. Today on the memorydealers.com website: "We are...

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

The ultimate Platonist these days is Max Tegmark, a cosmologist at the Massachusetts Institute of...

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

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

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...

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

Simulated patterns for 5,6,7, &11 plane waves : This is a diffraction pattern of a real 3D...

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

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

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

b. I am proud and honored to have used the Perceptron - fractal generator through video feedback...

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

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...

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...

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...

With the discovery of the three Super Earths found recently, I started thinking. Maybe 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...

...But then I think, I've seen this before, too, in some or other form. This thing I'm looking at, whatever it is. And the realization is that it was never mine or theirs to begin with, but Ours. All of this is Ours.

The sticker network is a network made with wirelless stickers. Control over the internet leads to a new form of independent network: the sticker network. This is in fact an open internet wich may interconnect wirelless routers or work as standalone. All you have to do is stick arround. Glue stickers everywhere. Large quantities of stickers are...

"You can’t convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence,...

The topic of "life after death" raises disreputable connotations of past-life regression...

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...

I had the pleasure to meet several other polytopians in the flesh recently at the TransVision 2010...

Whenever I visit this site, more than anything else, I get the sensation that people are thinking....

I have a question... Recently I came across this article (which mentions Rene,...

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...