A typical human brain has about 100 billion neurons, and each on average has about seven thousand synapses connecting to other neurons. The neurons receive impulses, and upon reaching a threshold level of synaptic activity, will pass on an impulse to other neurons along it's path. Our consciousness stems from the collective organization of the...

December 2006 brought with it Cancer for me and this year has been a struggle. I battled through...

This is the beginning of the Now and the Next. With the official birth of SpaceCollective today, a new opportunity emerges to circumvent the past and the hackneyed. I welcome this new space in the blogoverse as a place to boldly crack open the future with other like minded individuals and to see the raw potential of what is to come. Viva...

By Emma Thomasson Reuters Published: December 10, 2007 AMSTERDAM: The Netherlands wants to...

Biomimicry is a relatively new science that studies models, systems and processes from nature and...

"A Dyson sphere (or shell as it appeared in the original paper) is a hypothetical...

The posts at emplaced (in What happen to nature?) and the internation initiative (in terrestrials)...

All the little mouses are on druggggssss, oh my! Lmao The most sane lookin mouse there is the one smokin the j. Check it out: (made at the University of Utah)

A new book on the influence on art of our ability to perceive depending on the different cultural...

"Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with...

This is a post continuing a little exchange between me and megan regarding a relation between...

This post was originally composed for my blog and published many moons ago. Since its conception my...

Sam Harris, Neuroscience researcher and author of "The End of Faith" and "Letter to a Christian Nation," recently co-authored a study entitled "Functional Neuroimaging of Belief, Disbelief and Uncertainty." And Time.com has an interesting article about it: Harris tested how the brain responded to assertions in...

we have decided not to die. by daniel askill a beautiful short film with a modern...

The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting...

When I was very young and my grandfather was very old we played a game that he taught me. He called...

"Is it not at the moment when the human being disintegrates into cruelty that his...

I make a movie of "la Bête-Monde" who presented this entity. It will be a...

lots of beautiful Fractals winners here

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A Boltzmann brain is a hypothesized self-aware entity which arises due to random fluctuations out of some future state of chaos. The idea is named for physicist Ludwig Boltzmann, who had advanced an idea that the known universe arose as a random fluctuation, similar to process through which Boltzmann brains might arise. Boltzmann brains are...

"Life should be a construction of doubts."Antónia de Sousa, Dialogues with Agostinho da Silva In Homer's Iliad, Aquiles tells that the Gods are jealous of humans' mortality, that immortality is a incommensurable burden for them. On second thought, maybe we're jealous of the Gods for it's irresponsible puppeteering. ...

A couple of days ago I laid out a handful of perspectives in Part I of a Manifesto for the...

In human world, we are often bounded by various identities. There are not just names, but also tons of other terms in relation to multiple fields and occasions. We do not just identify ourselves but also our dwelling nature by giving names to anything we see, smell, touch, and hear. However, our identification and classification are so messy that...

To initiate the research of the project, we researched what Machinic Phylym essentially "is", and how it pertains to the recreation of the voyager golden disk. The difficulty in this research is that, in itself, Machinic Phylum cannot be defined as clearly as one would hope. Nonetheless, we were able to define, on a somewhat vague and...

because of my belief in analog. tape. physical. reality. carving something as abstract as sound into a soft material by use of sheer force. soundscapes. love. everything all of the time, a portable way to conserve memories, some song that sucks because i can't write songs when i'm drunk after some horrible party where i've failed in all things...

Looking at an old Arabic script in The British Museum Islamic World gallery, I found myself...

Due 9 January 2008 1. Find an image at the Space Collective that you find fascinating. 2....

This is an idea I've been toying with for a while. Have you ever noticed how some people's lives are centered around holidays? Think about it, we spend our lives skipping from one holiday to the next. After one is over, we look ahead and begin to make plans for the next one. In the dull bits in between all the birthdays and such, we just go...

Here you are. There you go. Here you go. There you are.

The Mind/Body Problem and its Solution

Do schools Kill creativity? And the Hazardous views towards education. I came across this...

Got it this weekend. It wasn't my first, but it felt much more sensitive than the one on my...

The Arup/PTW design, known as the 'Water Cube', plays on the geometry of water bubbles in a...

*Taken from Pamphlet Architecture 27 "Tooling" (Princeton Architectural Press)

Asemic Scapes -Rehabilitation Center Rainberg Calligraphy is adding an idea of creating...

4. february: i watched another movie tonight. it was the kind of movie where, at some point, someone near death cries out "goodbye, cruel world!" i disagree. the world is not cruel. society might be cruel, your surroundings may be harsh, but these are only parts of the world, and thus not representative of everything. the world can...

I am curious, how many contributors at SpaceCollective are associated with research into...

A total eclipse of the Moon occurs tonight, February 20th, 2008. Here is the link to NASA's site,...

I will compile a series of "What If?" images regarding basic and creative solutions to...

I've been out of rhythm for awhile w/ serious photography, usually only taking snaps, flickr, etc. ...

it's crossed my mind several times, the height of human beings seems to be growing. is that my...

Those who run things are already preparing the ground for the "South-American Chapter".