In this post I try to fathom an informal definition of Self, the "essential qualities that constitute a person's uniqueness". I assume that the most important requirement for a definition of self is time-consistency. A reliable definition of identity needs to allow for time-consistent self-referencing since any agent that is unable to...

Of course it was your generation that created this aesthetic, you know that right ? Maybe the future now looks as you envisioned it, but it is not because you predicted well. It is because, for lack of better direction, we copied your ideas.

The other day I went to buy some EMT at Home Depot. It was just like every other day, until I...

Previously on BWBW: "I know you know that there are no intrinsic problems as such, but only difficulties in maintaining a multilayered reality in immediacy but keep in mind that the essence of the warrior poet is a re-arrangement without thought, consciously keeping the direction of repetition but not allowing the order to emerge until an...

I started taking these nootropics back in February - One was citicoline, the other aniracetam. For those who are unfamiliar with nootropics, they're generally defined as drugs & supplements that you can take which are supposed to improve your memory, attention, and other cognitive functions. They are used as a current treatment and...

Tonight, I see the Internet as a sort of controlled state of dreaming: directed, curated......

An antenna dish, large and unwavering, sits in a valley of old-growth trees whose bark foretells the legacy of layering and unlayering, whose silent constructions shape and determine the confines and apparent boundary-points of the natural world. Long live the flow of boundless energies: that focal point of nature whose gift predates the workings...

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The future tourist habitats of Low Earth Orbit and beyond are constructed in principal on closed...

Sorry if this is a newbie question, but can someone tell me the difference between past and future? I've never experienced time from past to future, as many people say they do all the time, and I'd like to try it. How will I know if it worked? Here's what I've heard from people who claim to have experienced time: * There is a lot more...

This post was based and inspired on the writings of Brian Christian Turing test The objective...

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

as makeSHIFT:now w/ Mario Alberto Zapata + Zaira Lorena Gutierrez & Satoru Sugihara (as...

This symposium was this weekend at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles. Some interesting presentations and...

Well, the human impulse to remember is the fact that biologically we forget. Because we...

There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose...

The image is the mother...

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

This is intended to be read after Identifying the Differences Between Human vs. Computer...

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...

The Peaceful Resistance Whenever I'm feeling blue about domestic politics — there is plenty about which to despair — something great happens that reminds me of the long-term case for optimism, which is all about the astonishing expansion of the division of labor globally and in ways that weren't even possible just a few years ago. The...

The stakes as seen over the entire series so far have varied for each protagonist. Heap had...

Flatland, the fictional place with less dimensions designed to show us how to think about other...

The following argument diverges from what many of my fellow futurists often believe. It does so...

Note: The development of the thesis focuses on designing spaces that challenge the traditional...

Thesis Brief: Spaceflight and exploring extra-terrestrial surfaces were dreams only realizable...

A group of physicists in Spain has shown how to make a quantum measurement that overcomes a limit related to Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. The researchers confirmed a theoretical prediction of how to beat the Heisenberg limit by using interacting photons to measure atomic spin, and they say that their approach could lead to more...

Figure IT out! PART III...This is an introduction page for my new project. by...

MONEY WILL BE EXPENSIVE BUT BUYS MORE. I KILLED COMMUNISIM.

“Social media has come to be understood as little more than a marketing opportunity. However, we see it as quite possibly the catalyst for the next stage of human evolution and, at the very least, a way to restore bottom-up participation, p2p value exchange and decentralized innovation to the realms of culture, commerce and government.” –...

Permaculture (permanent agriculture) is the concious design and maintenance of agriculturally...

Video lecture... Jack Cowan: Spontaneous pattern formation in large scale brain activity: what visual migraines and hallucinations tell us about the brain (2006)

Previously on BWBW: ” But what happens when the very task that we set to compute is an iterative branching of meaning? What happens when the arrangement itself of matter re-coheres itself continuously to fit the desire of the task at hand which is a non-given in chaotic poetry? I’ll tell you what happens, because I saw it with my very...

The Future of Art from KS12 on Vimeo.

To find an object that wouldn't attract me either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To...

The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown...

How to get your consciousness into your duplicate? "Uploading" is what its called,...

When you say "you got it all wrong" means both first that you did not understand anything...

5.6k Saturn Cassini Photographic Animation from stephen v2 on Vimeo. From NASA (Astronomy...

Every one of us slips into this mysterious state of consciousness every night, yet we are only...

Let's start this introduction of this exploration of how randomly-selected independent...

In the lack of scripted narrative - the fiction resembles reality - personal and collective. Using...

"The further life emerged and gained intelligence on earth, the further it yearned to connect;...

An article on 3d Spatial Audio in The Atlantic. I thought this was a good time to bring up some...

Worldoflemon.com LEMON IS POSITIVE. IN A SNARK-INFESTED MEDIA LANDSCAPE, LEMON APPEALS TO THE...

From: Berkeley News By Sarah Yang September 12, 2010 Engineers at UC Berkeley have...

Posted on The Huffington Post: November 4, 2010 02:54 PM Article here In today's over cluttered...

Today, Reallity Sandwish published a nice article on the millennial question about consciousness...