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A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. — Arthur Schopenhauer Free will does not and cannot imply without cause, randomness or unpredictability. All those qualities, although present in complex systems, would contradict the notion of willful intent. What we want, and therefore do, must be based on reasonable ground....

If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth — beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals — would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals? — George Bernard Shaw Imagine a being so vast and powerful that its theory of mind of other...

Learning about Fractals, Chaos, and Complex Systems has really changed my worldview, and...

If only one language was spoken on earth, there would still be miscommunication and dogma, the nature of words is to name everything nameable. Recall the language that has no words, the one you were born speaking. written by: Alex Bodnar

How important are 'the latest news'? What would it mean to ignore most news and to concentrate on our present goals? These days many people are following an enormous amount of news sources. I myself notice how skimming through my Google Reader items is increasingly time-consuming. Is there maybe more to it than just curiosity and...

How much does the average person know about how one of our simplest tools work, the knife? What does it mean to cut something? What does the act of cutting accomplish? How does it work? We all know how to use this particular tool. We think it is obvious, thus we do not contemplate it any further. But most of us have no idea what actually...

R15K For 2-6 Players – AGES 10+ R U L E S O F P L A Y ----------- INTRODUCTION You are about to play a variation of the most unusual game that has appeared in many years. It is not difficult, but because it is so different you will find it worthwhile to read the rules completely through before starting play. No attempt has been made...

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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...

The mind is the joker of any deck, yet the joker is not in full play but merely a replacement for the misplaced. Yet the misplaced is ever close. uncover the misplaced, and the joker is of no use, yet one will keep it just in case another is misplaced. written by: Alex Bodnar

Math is often misunderstood by the laymen. One contains infinity. All other numerical concepts are mere subdivisions of one. Zero does not exist, divide one by infinity and there is no zero to be found. Why then do people think that when the body dies our being disappears into nothing, a flat zero? written by: Alex Bodnar

Shameful is one who’s mind can betray him, shameless is one who betrays his mind. written by: Alex Bodnar

Learn the language of your body and know the tongue of man, Learn the language of your being and know the tongue of God. written by: Alex Bodnar

The top is always out of reach, the bottom is to deep as well, stay in between and meet them both were neither one exists. written by: Alex Bodnar

My face changes, my body transforms, my echo trails, I set the course unknowing, feeding me alone by my own feed, seeing me alone with my own eyes, being me alone I can be many. written by: Alex Bodnar

Yellow can turn blue into green and vise versa, yet the green has always lived in both. your true nature is green. We go on seeing ourselves as yellows and blues. In perpetual search for the right mixture of yellow or blue to feel complete within ourselves. We forget that the green is what we already are. We were born green and then...

The past is the ocean floor on witch the present ocean resides, the future is the sky that will...

NotMarie:” I am overwhelmed 3V, I am plagued and besieged by impressions, ever since our last conversation, I keep on getting lost in my thoughts and sensations.. 3V:” why is that? NotMarie:” ..I am not sure really, it is as if in our last conversation a kind of imaginary carpet has been ripped from under my mind.. Suddenly I have...

NotMarie:” 3V, what on earth are ambiguous virtualities? 3V:” how do you know about ambiguous virtualities? NotMarie:” it was on my holoscreen this morning when I logged in, just the words, no link, and no reference.. I am sure it came from you.. so what is it? 3V:” well, it was supposed to be a surprise, a linguistic concoction I...

Red Bull Stratos, a mission to the edge of space, seeks to surpass limits that have existed for 50...

This is an article I found very interesting from New Scientist Magazine. I am posting this here...

This is an essay I recently wrote for a class on Fractals, Chaos, and Complex Systems. All...

The material and the spiritual are so closely entwined in the human mind that making meaning for...

This weekend I experienced a snowcrash; a moment where the seemingly disparate pieces of information floating in my head came together. A synapse fired, a new connection was made, and I was brought to a new level of consciousness, a new way of seeing the world. In reading this over, it almost sounds obvious, but it took me a while to get here. I...

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

This post was first published as part three of a series of three posts on Augmentology...

My friend is not on SpaceCollective, but this text artefact may be relevant to "The Great...

In world of elementary particles we have no ability to see something. We can just use computers and...

You and I are not curators. We ”just sort through rubbish“. We are ”just a makeshift step before a more advanced algorithm is invented.“ If the term ”curator is devalued cheapened“ ... ”then museums could lose all respect as cultural bastions.“ “When an old culture is dying, the new culture is created by those people who...

I guess I have found the only possible 3D deformation of the Euclidean plane which - regarding of...

Good morning, Infosphere! Over the past few months, I've been wanting to set up "Metathink Mondays." Essentially, once a week, post an insight or a question that we can all ponder and reflect upon, in the service of making us smarter. Then, I'll collect all the feedback, assemble it into another post or ebook that would be like an...

The important thing to remember about the likes of Albert Einstein, Adolf Hitler, and Jesus Christ,...

not an author and a reader … a collision of co-creators not reading or watching … playing and procreating not a product … a process not a tidy straight line … a mosaic … a pattern that you can view from any perspective not a beginning and an end … the end of the beginning, middle and end not a frozen narrative … a collective...

In a day and age where neuro physiology and neuromarketings (subliminal influencing) is becoming...

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

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Avvy has the NAX API running on the chinese chip from before the corporate war. It is spitting...

Information is order. Order takes an object (or a medium), so there is no information in a vacuum....

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

The other one, the one called Borges, is the one things happen to. I walk through the streets...

A true secret can be called out loud in...