Lately I've been wondering if we're really the most superior species on earth, as we have assumed...

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

There is an endless debate raging from just about forever about what constitutes the nature of a human, the following is a short list of features that to my mind belong to the human nature, should belong to the human nature or will belong to the human nature if and when we as a specie will evolve into a creature that is a bit more than a verbose...

"The brain acknowledges and remembers shapes first. [...] Color is the second in the...

Oscar Pistorius, AKA "Blade Runner" -- the South African sprinter who uses carbon fiber...

"In 1969, R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), the pre-eminent 20th Century engineer for the...

"When I profess realism about possible worlds, I mean to be taken literally. Possible...

I have been working on a study about the interaction of humans and technology. I won't reveal...

I point at the small cardboard structure on the train's table. The guard stands blankly and...

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

I really enjoy my carnal existence; eating, drinking & exercising. But strangely I quite appreciate the idea of living forever - despite all of the negative connotations associated with it - what if this "Polytopia" was to be a hyperspace - kinda like second life, but controlled in the first person by our electrical selves,...

"We are now in the steep part of the exponential trajectory of information technologies in a...

Ayurvedic Shilajit, ‘conqueror of mountains and destroyer of weakness’ contains humates...

I've been reading a lot lately, but unable to actually finish as much of that as I want. Sometimes I just move on to the next, or whatever is important at that time. Sometimes it's just because I get too busy. But actually the dilemma is that some of this material is very dense, and it's hard for me to get through. For example I had to put...

Knowledge is power. I find every day more and more evidence pointing towards this proverbial fact,...

"I wonder whether fractal images are not touching the very structure of our brains. Is there...

It must have been twelve years ago. I was sitting in the Retro Cafe down at Salamanca Place here...

In this program, scientists discuss recent findings in parts of our universe that for some reason...

i think we need to be really careful when it comes to this whole pursuit of perfection. a lot has been said for the negatives of human nature, we are irrational, often violent and hurtful, and essentially slow paced and fragile creatures. but is this necessarily a bad thing? i am strongly inclined to believe that the positives of human...

Originally posted in the comments of sjef's post "Fuck 'exploring inner space'. " It was a bit long and in the hopes it doesn't get buried, I thought I'd repost it here. Original Post Wow. Okay. First off I haven’t been able to go through all of the comments, so please excuse me if I go on to say something redundant. I both...

A creationist with whom I was speaking made the following point: A humanist believes that human beings have inherent value, and that life is an important, special thing to be cherished and protected in many situations. A scientific, secular worldview leads one to the conclusion that even the most sentient and sapient of life is ultimately...

What allows beings to love each other is also what makes them lovable, and ruins the utopia of autism-for-two. Has anyone here heard of the Tarnac 9? Or, "The Coming Insurrection"? (from whence the above quote was taken).

Many people have lived long enough on this planet to notice a distinct change in the nature of...

Yes, I do believe that true democracy is possible, but only now: trough internet, it's finally possible to include all opinions in a ruling process, and to gather all the votes from general public almost instantly. Today's democracy is a mockery: U vote for people based on their's election video and some rumors you hear (probably created by...

The following is a journal type entry so please excuse the poor writing. there is so much complexness in every detail about everyday it is funny to try to recall and focus on every aspect. there is enough to keep the outer layer of the mind and thought processes occupied. I have been realizing lately that it is possible to employ inner layers...

As described by Terence McKenna in Ordinary Language, Visible Language and Virtual Reality: The...

Upon reading the Internation proposal I had already working on a project & mentioned it to...

This post is an appendix to The Next Great Revolution in Reality. Also, please read the first part...

So I've been reading this amazing book titled "The Tao of Pooh", written by Benjamin Hoff. Basically, it's a systematic process of explaining how Winnie the Pooh is indeed one of the great Taoist philosophers, because of his ability to live in the Now, let life take its course and go along for the ride, free of frets and...

At my school chapel; where I am forced to visit periodically, The Reverend recently gave a fairly blunt attack on Richard Dawkins 'The God Delusion'. While I haven't read his book, I had a fair few problems with some of the things with what our minister was saying. At the end of his speech he invited anyone with their own arguments to get back to...

Are you there? Can you help me? I like hearing music from Space Collective, especially whilst...

Richard Hayes over at the Washington post has a critique of Ronald Green (Ronald M. Green is a...

As time marches on, we see the weakening of geographical forces on the lives and activities of...

From my observation, I have found that technology evolves much the same as nature evolves,...

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

I have considered myself a digital artist for quite a while now and although my work may seem...

Kennedy was brought in as somebody who was expected to be a puppet. It was thought that his pro-Nazi father Joseph P Kennedy, the bootlegger, the speculator would guarantee that John Kennedy would be obedient to the establishment; they thought that he was a sex manic who could be manipulated through all this, but turned-out that through his...

You can go here to talk to anonymous strangers from around the world. I've met many different kinds of people from around the world and had many interesting conversations. I have learned things about other cultures and even some things about myself. What will you experience?

...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 molecule DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamine) is a psychoactive chemical that causes intense visions...

They call it the "mandelbulb". It's the first true 3D representation of the famous...

Is the mind simply an epiphenomenon created by the firing of a lot of neurons in our meat-brain? I do think that what we call the experience of self-awareness, consciousness, sentience or mind is a direct result of (unrelated) neuro-activity in the brain, but that doesn't mean that the phenomenon isn't actually real, or that it necessarily needs...

Infinity defies absolute definition. Perception of the infinite, for anything other than a mind...

I have a question that I have asked many other people... Do you believe that the human race can achieve peace on the entire planet? How do you come to reach your conclusion? And why do you believe it is so?

It is undeniable that the world has grown increasingly complex, and it has become increasingly complex to live in. I mean this not only in the sense of there being more and more factors and information to know of and respond to, but in the sense that new technology and global interconnectedness creates new and increasingly bizarre situations,...