"What do we see today?"My last entry was about to extremism. I've asked If we are even able to change anything, and now I answer; Yes, we are. But we have to look closer where to find the most important things to change. Is that industry, car industry, ecology, medicine, philosophy, arts...?
No, these segments of society will change...
Hi, I'm Joseph, friends call me "jesus".
I've came here, because i believe. I believe we can change something.
Not all of us will do it. I'm sad about "normal" people. They are kinda blind.
But some of us, chosen people if you wish, are able to do it.
Some of us are able to change the way we look at things. Some of us...
Designers are energised and fed by place. Where they choose to work, live and visit feeds the designer's mind, and their creative processes.
My advice to designers seeking new places is to forget about the authentic. It's a sideshow, and a diversion. It's important, no doubt - but it is not everything. Consider, instead, what is actually going...
“A philosopher’s ontology is the set of entities he or she assumes to exist in reality, the types of entities he or she is committed to assert actually exist. Although in the history of philosophy there are a great variety of ontological commitments, we can very roughly classify these into three main groups. For some philosophers reality...
by Manuel DeLanda
One constant in the history of Western philosophy seems to be a certain conception of matter as an inert receptacle for forms that come from the outside. In other words, the genesis of form and structure seems to always involve resources that go beyond the capabilities of the material substratum of these forms and structures....
via things:
By committing our memory to Google or the 'cloud' we have inadvertently created a great hunger for the intangible and ephemeral, the scraps and minutae of everyday life that get sucked into the circuitry and instantly forgotten. Already we are lamenting the loss of the unknown landscape as a result of global satellite imagery, gps...
an 11 page wired article of one computer scientist's attempt at coming to terms with the looming dangers of advanced technology
The Drives of Artificial Intelligence
I am hopeful of the future. It seems to be the sanest way to continue living into the next day. But I still have my worries.
Our leaders are pulling us into this insane...
With this almost infinite informational web, regarding human proportions, we are controversially feeling more and more caged in this tiny round world, choked mainly by social rules and all sorts of socially induced wars and prohibitions that stops us from trying to rehearse and live different ways of living with much more wisdom and pleasure....
What if the revolution doesn't need a name? Or leaders? Or a formal agenda?
The most wonderful thought could be this: shit happens. Perhaps this is a uniquely Australian idiom, perhaps not - and I don't wish to offend with profanity, we Australians swear a lot, and this phrase has even been used by a Parliamentarian in a memorable impromptu...
The Mesmerized Mind - Study of Hypnosis
“The motor cortex is connected to the idea that it cannot move the left hand, So even if you try to move, it will neglect to send signals to the motor execution areas.”
Recently I had the thought: Perhaps there are just too many people on the planet to sustain a good life for individuals?
Now, this was an interesting moment for me. The 'overpopulation' thesis is neither original nor novel, and arriving at this as a personal insight made me question the assumed lack of value in having unoriginal thoughts. I...
As many have documented, the foundations of our current state of the Internet (namely the TCP/IP protocols) were developed by Leonard Kleinrock at UCLA in late 1969, with the first Internet connection formed between the UCLA and Stanford campuses. It's good to keep in mind this initial connection, as it summarizes the essence of the Internet: a...
Here I sit at 11.31 AEST 27 September 2009, on a cold spring Sunday morning beneath the great dome of the La Trobe Reading Room at the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne Australia.
I am here to soak up the atmosphere.
Yes, I know that sounds flippant, but to a large extent it is true. My underlying motivation in being here is to find a...
Now, what I want to do in--certainly this first part of the seminar--is to call in question, very fundamentally, all of our basic ideas about what is sickness, what is health, what is sanity, what is insanity. Because I think we have to begin from this position of humility; that we really don't know. It's reported that shortly before he died,...
A list of quotes from many nobel prize winners who hated school, and one quote from one who liked the educational establishment (But he diddled kids).
My family line goes back on one branch of teachers. My dad recently became one without knowing that our family in Chile has teachers, teachers, teachers going way back - Teaching is in our blood....
Hello reader of the future.
I was born in 1971 in Cairns, Australia, and somehow over the last 38 years (it's 25 September 2009 right now, just after 21.46pm AEST) I have developed a strong sense of history. For this reason I am aware that the written word can cross the ages, enduring long after the writer has perished and turned to dust.
Of...