Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
In Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Salim Ahmed Hamden, a Yemeni national being held in custody at a U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; filed for the right of habeas corpus based on the charge that the Executive order being used to hold him under the indictment of “conspiracy to commit… offenses triable by a military...
I’ve always been sort of troubled by the notion of ‘social networking’ websites, and as a result have never bothered to be involved in them – other than once, and that was business related.
I don’t consider space collective to be one, as it’s intention does not seem to be to be a place to ‘hook up’ and show off all of the...
Do I see straight lines the same way you do?
Is my green as green as yours?
The full moon imagined in your head is the same imagined in my head?
Absolutely not. Feelings are felt differently in different people.
image by Q8 Camera Shy
The state of our species...
I wonder, in the end, what statement is being made, or difference forged, or truth realized through the collective intelligence, insight, creativity and hypothesizing happening here. Are we preaching to the choir? Are we simply sharing in sympathetic circles? Is our commentary inherently exclusive?
Recent...
The problem with consciousness is that we don't know how or why the some of the elements in periodic table come together to create electrical synapses that cause inner visualization, creativity, emotions, and the like. From what I've gathered it can be a result of two things. either the human while evolving eventually found psychotropic drugs like...
To begin, the data:
" As I breathe the sky anew
Lungs contract faintly white
(Body, scatter in the dust of the sky)
The top of a gingko tree glitters again
The zypressen darker
Sparks of the clouds pour down."
-Kenji Miyazawa "Spring and Asura"
" So the biosphere, it seems, in its persistent evolution, is doing...
The following are clips of my research for Branding the Species. You can see the first trains of thought here:
DMA Brand Lab II Blog
How am I going to do this? I have no idea.
For those unfamiliar, I study both Design and Linguistics. I love languages, and the idea of languages, and the idea that languages are...
Human connections through senses: MEDITATION
After thinking about what really makes us HUMAN in first place, I thought it is extremely important to fully realize ourselves and learn who we are. As a human being, we do have unique ability to use 5 senses;taste, touch, see, hear, and smell. All five senses play important roles in connecting...
Hungarian psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi has done research into something he calls flow. Flow is a state of mind in which a person is totally concentrated in an activity and is and is at an optimum level of performance. This phenomenon was initially proposed by Dr. Csíkszentmihályi to be applicable in extrinsic applications such as...
Eroticism, as explained by French writer/philosopher Georges Bataille, is a very specific concept. Overall we can define eroticism as one of two (related) things: 1) a state where one is either sexually aroused or in anticipation of sexual arousal, and 2) the aestheticartistic spirit & depiction of sexual desire. Bataille, however, thought to...