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

...news to report on behalf of the Libyan people, ... The people are fighting for a change,...

“Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and nights; But your ears thirst for the...

IBM’s “Watson” Computing System to Challenge All Time Greatest Jeopardy! Champions Starts...

A compression of 50 world leaders.

What is the future of A.I., and where could it potentially lead us? trailer 1 | trailer 2 Plug & Pray doesn't only explore the world in which computer science, robotics, neuroscience, and psychology merge, but the philosophical questions that we must explore along the way. Via Ray Kurzweil

The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than...

Made with Apophysis 3D hack and the Apophymator script (http://wn.com/Apophymator_3D)Soundtrack:...

The Future of Art an immediated autodocumentary What are the defining aesthetics of art in...

infosynaesthesia & memetabiosis :: biological. neurological and physical :: science and art...

C o m p e t i t i o n Which technology do you think will have the biggest impact on human life...

Matter Evolution Since the first particles were set in motion, every action has been part of...

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First, early philosophers created "good" and "human value" based on nature - as...

Winters are pretty dark here, some days I'm not sure the sun even rises. So, I built this lamp....

I dont know if technology should be embraced by architecture. As a student-everything we are learning is on the computer. most of the buildings we create would not have been comprehended or very hard to figure out without computers. Not to mention it is a completely different creative process as well. I am not sure if the evolution towards...

Going by the standard of supply and demand, a Human life is worth as much as it costs to save the cheapest Human life, unless some people are worth more than others. I asked how much it costs to save the cheapest million Human lives on average in and indirectly explained how peoples' actions and what they think it costs contradict. Here is...

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last...

A gorgeous statement from Quentin Meillassoux in After Finitude (p.48) - which I mostly agree with: "…we must understand that what distinguishes the philosopher from the non-philosopher in this matter is that only the former is capable of being astonished (in the strong sense) by the straightforwardly literal meaning of the ancestral...

I haven't been doing much else in my spare time besides watching and reading as much as I can about the situation in Cairo, but I do want to share a few quotes about a notion that resonates with me more deeply than most any: "horizon of immanence". This 'horizon' is the very worldspace, or clearing which affords us the opportunity to...

Why is Nature predisposed to indulging in vices? We hold on to that which gives us pleasure, even though it subtracts from our physical life. A system seeking life most pertinently would not engage in activities that negate it, so life doesn't seem to be the top priority for our system. In looking to Physics for an answer, it's deductible that the...

WASHINGTON -- NASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. Five of the potential planets are near Earth-size and orbit in the habitable zone of smaller, cooler stars than our sun. Candidates require...

Link What: Polytopes: The Architecture of Soundscapes When: February 23, 7pm Where:...

If anyone's ever seen how awful burns can scar people for life... Looks like that's about to change with this amazing new stem cell procedure! Check the video out: Due to the insanity of people with $$$ infecting their minds (Another one of those maladies I wish to see cured in the near future) I can't see this in my country on...

Using Special Crystals, Researchers Make a Paper Clip Invisible Metamaterials have long been...

Like everyone I have watched all three Zeitgeist films (the last has been released very recently, you can watch it here if you have not done so yet). I cannot say that I agree with all, but I certainly agree with much. In particular, as it is often repeated, we must protect the Internet at all times. Protect the Internet against what? We...

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Zeesy Powers Zeesy Powers gave us some impressions on the following questions for the Future...

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober,...

Sizing up the Electron Measuring the inner shape of the famous particle could help solve a cosmic mystery By Alexandra Witze February 12th, 2011; Vol.179 #4 (p. 22) Detecting an electric dipole moment would mean electrons, which buzz about atomic nuclei, have internal structure.© galinka86/dreamstime.com Long thought to be a...

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

En Passant Edgar was wandering through the museum. He could not understand what Aggie saw in...

It's been a long time since I posted here but I always watch your debates with interest. I feel...

I LOVE REVISITING THOUGHTS, how do we get people to -even before-the precendent-why is drinking so much more pondered than philosophy, the past, the future, ourselves and our role in that. immediacy is more comfortable than longevity.

I LOVE REVISITING THOUGHTS, how do we get people to -even before-the precendent-why is drinking so much more pondered than philosophy, the past, the future, ourselves and our role in that.

Is technology really the future? How do we evolve? Do we accept or embrace it? Human sculls being crushed by machines: if i see someone dying in a movie-the act of dying. skulls being crushed is post death - used to part of a living being that used ot be respected a dystopia of a after life. its a dystopia. no hatred, no respect, no love. the...

From 'itsfullofstars' Cosmicomics is a book of short stories by Italian writer Italo Calvino...

Aaron Koblin Aaron Koblin gave us some impressions on the following questions for the Future...

Transmission Glimpse from ian brill on Vimeo.see also here edit : help, spacecollective keeps stripping out the embedded video ) :

During the last year, I've been discussing many times about the role of reading and writing in a...

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

A myriad of details in an evolving fractal landscape.

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. ...

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. ...

An ant colony is the last place you'd expect to find a maths whiz, but University of Sydney...

"How compact your bodies are! And what a variety of senses you have! This thing you call...