It gets rather interesting as he begins talking about genetic engineering, about a quarter of the...

I am really happy to have finally jumped into all of this. I have been following for a while and...

In many languages, Greek and Latin roots constitute an important part of the scientific...

We do not need salvation we need a transparent and complex enough interface W If there is one...

What makes us who we are, as individuals? Our perceptions of the world, caused by our surrounding...

Show me matter that isn't changing, transforming, or withering away. Is there anything eternal...

Oh how the collective intelligence of the members of this website blows my mind... The recent posts about the illusion of individualism and the collective nature of the universe, I think, fit well with the topics discussed in this book I recently came across. I have only skimmed through it quickly, but as soon as I saw it I knew it would of...

The patented Aquapod™ is a unique containment system for marine aquaculture, suited for rough...

of SCIENCE ++ ++ Misconception...

The Emotion Lab, an industrial design studio, has created a new timepiece with the phases...

Hello Space Collective! Just wanted to spread the word to those of you who do not already know;...

Human beings have a natural tendency to protect their privacy. It's in our essence to allow only...

3V: “I have had a major breakthrough NotMarie, I wish to convey to you its implications.. I think you can adopt it as well and maybe adapt.. NotMarie:” what do you mean? I have left you here alone for less than a week and you had a major breakthrough? 3V: “ yes indeed, I have discovered the meaning of this strange motivator...

Part 6 in the series : The Rise of the Cyber Unified Civilization The peculiar ‘liquidity’...

I admit that I am not the superstitious type. Superstitions have never resonated with me as my mind...

(Part 5 in the series: Mind, the need for a new model) Does consciousness have a shape? It...

Daisy-chain of "hyperspace" scenes from films. A collaboration with Mike Merrill. The...

If you are at a certain stage of awareness and being, in this polytopian unfolding, the...

I know this is rather crude but I'll attempt to differentiate the two by defining emotion as things we feel, and logic to be things we understand. Logic requires and tends to take the form of an explanation, emotion simply is. Yeah, if you're having problems already just read through and hit me with it. I want some damn answers. Or maybe just more...

This is just a little funny post, as a result of the fact that I'm sick and have to stay home. So I came across cleverbot and had a little fun with it. You should too if you're bored or just extremely lonely. Here's the conversation: User: Hi. Cleverbot: Hi. User: How are you today? Cleverbot: Awesome and you. User: I'm...

'Artificial life' breakthrough announced by scientists bbc news: ny times: Who: Dr....

“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and...

Citizen Kane -> aesthetics -> story -> reality -> perception -> senses ->...

The combination of state of the art electronics and software with one of the worlds most...

Does it leave a bad taste in your mouth? When you hear that word, what does it make you think or feel? Evil, greedy and exorbitantly wealthy individuals seem to come to many people's minds. I don't blame them, just look at the numbers for U.S. compensation rates. In 1968, the Chairman of General Motors received compensation of $795,000, which...

“But if we’re no good at cleaning up the shit we’ve sowed, if we’re incapable of taking...

You use a metaphor to describe some concept. The metaphor isn’t the thing you describe - it’s just a tool that you use. But someone takes the metaphor, and runs with it, making arguments that are built entirely on metaphor, but which bear no relation to the real underlying concept. And they believe that whatever conclusions they draw from...

“To think what thought is not prepared to think is that which alone deserves the name of...

lightness and darkness when the mind is asleep, but in dream, without the eyes to distract,...

This huge monument of Stonehengian ambitions was erected in 1980 [the year I was born] in...

A New Direction In AI Research Monica Anderson proposes adding a new target to ongoing AI...

"At the centre of my ironic faith, my blasphemy, is the image of the cyborg. (...)A cyborg...

The Tromsø site did little to attract public attention until December 9th, 2009, the night...

Personas/Metaconstructs = State/Mode :: Identity/Experience Filter = Timelines...

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger...

Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human...

The following photos are of Socotra Island, a geographically isolated archipelago off the coast of...

Y'all are going to have to help out with this one. I certainly don't have all the answers. So I see this tree, and I think I can climb it. I don't know this absolutely, but at a glance it seems more likely than not. Nor do I know exactly how I will do it; I can't yet see how I will surmount it's limbs using my own. But I do know how I intend to...

With no warning one weekday morning, investigators entered an organic grocery with a search warrant and ordered the hemp-clad workers to put down their buckets of mashed coconut cream and to step away from the nuts. Then, guns drawn, four officers fanned out across Rawesome Foods in Venice. Skirting past the arugula and peering under crates of...

Read 'em and weep... ...

Noho, New York City 2010 space in use...

Dear Friends, You may ask about my magic hyperbolic 0 curvature disc. How come? It looks really...

Techno-fetishism, techno-romanticism, techno-sensuality, techno-pornography, techno-etc. We...

The USA government is arrogant and proudly hangs their balls out for all to see, thinking...

The painter does not paint on a virgin canvas. The writer does not write on a blank page....

I turned Wikipedia into a brain. Wikipedia pages appear and disappear on the screen and...