originally posted by thelogos as discussed in class emergence seems to happen from a set of...

The games become tools. Tools become games

There is truth to the saying: "you are what you eat." If one is vegan, living a...

1. I found this picture interesting because it's a fractal, but it was still able to achieve a...

Mars sux cuz its sun is way tinier than ours.

Dark depths of mystery, Ancient and true, Nimble consciousness, In the creature...

how is it we can understand when speaking speaking speaking filling space fragile...

SOUL FLIPPER (by Coop Himmelblau*) is a.... face helmet that is sensitized to react to...

Project Proposal: There are hundreds of thousands of books published every year. Many are...

The Blue Brain Project: Visualization of activity in the neocortical column of the brain....

Biology and social order Social organization is considered to be the platform of culture....

Since 11 Sept 2001 and the creation of the DHS which followed, some people (How many? I don't know) entering the US have been subjected to a variety of humiliations. Every Internet news savvy leftist and civil libertarian is familiar with stories of unwarranted detentions, deportations, odd "security" interrogations and so...

Quote from George Steiner, the greatest evolutionist in language. Found in...

We call wildflowers weeds, and we pull them out of our tame tidy gardens. The butterflies go away...

Sometimes a simple process is enough to achieve a rich effect. Paper marbling is a technique I have...

image 1: in the context of space collective: The underlying spirit of Erwin Wurm's sculpture is described, in the online catalogue, as a "dynamic act" as opposed to a "static object." For the most part, I guess it is perhaps the evidence of a 'process' behind the car's obesity that gives this static piece its dynamism,...

Skyscraper Airport of Tomorrow - via BoingBoing .. a 200 story building capped by and...

Ahh... Space Collective here I am. The first assignment was to find two images and research and...

A magnectic particle simulation done in processing by Robert Hodgin. Particles follow simple...

An excerpt from an older, but still intriguing, article about what may happen to the human race in...

FILL / SPACE Develop a generative, emergent process to fill space (2D or 3D) using only black lines. Modify a known process or invent your own. Implement your process as object-oriented, full-screen software, in Processing. You may work individually or with a partner. There are five phases: research, concept, prototype, refine, document....

I present in this post two pictures of the Internet. Both depict data and the inherently invisible...

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3x4' Watercolor, pen, pencil, and whatever else I had in my desk.

3x4' watercolor, pen, pencil, whatever else I had in my desk.

Computer Models The first nCUBE machines to be released were the nCUBE 10 of late 1985. These were based on a set of custom chips, including a 32-bit ALU and a 64-bit IEEE 754 FPU with 128kB of RAM combined onto a board known as a module. Each module delivered 2 MIPS, 500 kiloflops (32-bit single precision), or 300 kiloflops (64-bit double...

Here is the question: can we think without language? A recent piece on Cognitive Daily (one of the...

A couple of days ago I laid out a handful of perspectives in Part I of a Manifesto for the...

Presentation given at "Physics of Consciousness" conference, Virginia, 2004, in which...

I found this article in Wired Magazine on the net that discusses two creative types: Conceptualists and Experimentalists. The idea was new to me. I hope it's not old news to most of you. “Picasso and Cézanne represent radically different approaches to creation. Picasso thought through his works carefully before he put brush to paper. Like...

Redefining human identity …. By August 3rd 2092, John B. Derrick will be 25 years old. He is...

This graph represents a genealogical distribution of Knowledge based on the French...

"And at the end, like the crack of a whip he said: "I think that one day, the part of...

Where is God in our future? As I'm sure most of humanity would agree, God is either one of two...

"Experimental Studio no.1" 2005 bonemeal, glue 157 x 270 x 17 cm The...

"The brain acknowledges and remembers shapes first. [...] Color is the second in the...

Experiment, never interpret. It is possible that writing has an intrinsic relationship with...

We are used to doubt even our shadow. we move because of appearances, we go through the threshold...

unfortunately i have not yet read “Love + Sex With Robots” by David Levy however the issue strikes a very deep cord , a thread of sensation which i still have to think about and truth to tell come to terms with. Yes I want the robots here, but love making? here are some excerpts from an interview Levy gave to andiamnotlying.com It...