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Douglas Hofstadter, in his 2007 book 'I am a strange Loop', claimed that the soul (meaning the...

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about who and what and why ..... "The first thing to be understood is what ego is. A...

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Original article at Brain training games won't make you smarter – but a dose of blue light or an electrical shock just might BREATHE in, breathe out. Breathe in, breathe out. I crack open an eye. Everyone else has theirs closed. I shut it again. Breathe in, breathe out. Around me people are sitting crossed-legged, meditating. For some it's...

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Crowdsourcing works on the premise that a reward and a challenge are posted, people respond, vote for the best ideas and the "best" idea wins. This is not a new idea. Venture capitalists have for years spoken of the need to hit a "ten-bagger" on one of their deals to pay for the 9 that did not make it. Anyone in the idea...

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This is one of 50 posts about cyborgs - a project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coining of the term. CC image from mondi. “He would see faces in movies, on T.V., in magazines, and in books. He thought that some of these faces might be right for him...” The word “cybernetic” derives from a Latin word, kybernetes,...

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What if tomorrow you woke up in Africa, 30,000 years before today? Exactly how much knowledge do you possess that would make you any better at surviving than anyone else there? Sure, you were savvy enough to build a time machine in your sleep, an awe-inspiring achievement! But; and there's always a but, when you were transported back you landed...

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by George Por : As the CI meme is spreading fast online and off-line, so is the range of significance associated with it. For some, it is the ‘wisdom of crowds,’ for others it is the inter-subjective field of energy that comes into being when people interact from a position beyond ego—to name two of the popular branches of CI. Each of...

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The following is crossposted from my blog on writing and format, though it belongs here as much as there. I consider the rant as some notes towards a transhuman language. Lojban, like the better known Esperanto, are constructed languages. Esperanto was constructed in order to help bring understanding between people who spoke different...

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