Readers: Do you think in hypertext? The era of the linear tome is dead, information is a web -...

I figured this was a good idea. So, does anyone who has seen it actually want to discuss it? Official Website You can also torrent the DVD (legally, as the movie is free for distribution), but I'm not going to provide that link unless you ask. I don't really feel like looking it up right now. You can also buy the DVD from the site above for...

Today I was reading an interesting style website and they report that analyses: Robot love...

Most vegetarians and animal rights activists would say it is important to respect animals. I have...

An eloquent perspective by Terence McKenna on the idea of a spiritual path for all and an impending...

Our Conscious experience usually includes a level of self-awareness. As in The observer and the...

A short story that beautifuly depicts a possible path in our present to future leap. credit for...

"Onto what surface shall a theory of aesthetics and consciousness be mapped?" Gregory...

In a recent post by Connor, who is one of several recent SpaceCollective members whose...

An often recurring discussion on SpaceCollective concerns the limitations of language, typically...

If we recognize that every society is a petri-dish with a particular set of parameters around which...

If there is one thing I have enjoyed about Space Collective since its inception, it is the polymath...

"We do not really know what the human being truly is today, although our awareness and...

After watching Space Collective from the sideline, I decided to make a post about something that is...

First post in the Space Collective. I hope I don't disappoint as posting some thoughts in this community next to some brilliant people makes one feel very humble. For those not aware of what the Aesthetics of Failure means, and using my own words, I'd describe it as the end result of a failed attempt to produce a desired outcome from a...

How's that "Freedom from Imperialism" thing working out for you?

The Aesthetics of Failure's 10 basic principles: 1. Failure is a shade of beauty born from imperfection - yet is a portrayal of perfection 2. Failure is an involuntary consciousness - as well as a manner of comprehending and apprehending reality 3. Failure is organic - never a deliberate mechanical process or a technical effect alone 4....

Imagine the person you love, someone you have known for decades, someone who has become the very meaning of your life, suddenly, and unexpectedly has a stroke. Their body is crippled to near uselessness, relinquishing them of their dignity. And, having lost the ability to communicate with them, you’re not even sure if their mind is as it was, if...

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is somewhat new kind of religion. I...

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Some interesting books were recently brought to my attention by Carel. In one of them, Barry...

Wubbo Ockels' speech about time and gravity TEDxAmsterdam: Wubbo Ockels from TEDxAmsterdam on...

Abstract. A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required to prevent double-spending. We...

"We may be on the edge... ...of nothing particularly important."   - Bruce...

There are two things which have deeply terrified me in recent science news. The first, as you may have heard, is that a bumper crop of some 32 "new" planets was discovered by a team of European researchers armed with a spectrograph called HARPS, or High Accuracy Radial velocity Planetary Searcher. The second is that Israeli scientists...

The Zeitgeist Movement Until last week I’ve never heard about (or didn’t registered) this...

Our reality is a program simulation. Or, more accurately, computer programs mimic our reality....

Why choose the future over the present? A reason to do so is if we perceive the present not to be worthy and thus try to change it. Always picking the future over the present could be defined as making the journey the reward. People who read and participate in lesswrong.com and overcomingbias.com seem to care most about the fate of a possible...

why & how do we still live in a society where an individual cannot do whatever he wants provided he does not harm anyone else?

Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler. --Albert Einstein E usually does not equal M C^2. Thats only when its not moving. The USA government learned that terrorists keep more secrets and try to have more privacy than people who are not terrorists. Therefore secrets and privacy are bad, so the USA government proceeded to build...

Models vs. Patterns by Monica Anderson Grasping how things are. Why understanding comes first,...

This is a first attempt at mapping in software, interfaced with a cheap homemade imitation of...

On 11-11, 2010, one million people across the globe will mentally project a unified vision of a new paradigm for our species... a new reality. The very real physics that connects human consciousness with molecular structure will be harnessed en-masse during the largest simultaneous manifestation transmission in recorded history.New Reality...

Recollections of the impact of the psychedelic revolution on the history of mathematics by Ralph...

In "ordinary" quantum entanglement, two particles possess properties that are inherently...

Having participated in the development of the Polytopia Project since its outset here on...

Logically it makes sense why they act like particles when observed and waves when not observed....

September through December 2010 was my first semester of education since I left high school in 2007. In one of my courses, Contemporary Issues, I wrote a paper (a very short one) entitled "Why Computers Do Not," which was meant as a counter to the hopelessly superior article by Marvin Minsky of MIT "Why People Think Computers...

There is a lingering humour, a taunting presence in the mundane scenery of sensory experience....

(The following is an excerpt from 'Contact' by Carl Sagan) “Do Buddhists believe in God,...

Hi, I'm Kari A. Hintikka, Finnish foresighter, fact book and *punk writer, concept and...

Non-invasive optical BCI is closer now. The more non-invasive it becomes, the more likely the...

If there was ever an indication that the current capitalist system is fundamentally flawed, it...

Extremely more power will either go toward the 7 billion people equally or toward the corporations. This is the real deal. Everyone on the planet should be watching whatever news on it you can find, like Below is something I wrote a few months ago. I saw this coming but nobody listened and now conflicts are escalating as predicted. A direct...

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Depleting a lert logic my hypnogogic mind chatter Sits flatter than the ancients pondered The worlds shape. I'm really ready To sleepytimeape, &escape into the inconclusive reality, of unmateriality and void of consequence. My brainsquirrel frequents regurgitated Moments juxtaposed intense, in a creative auto-pilot...