A fascinating talk about emotions and feelings by Antonio Damasio, one of the most renowned...

In prefacing this question, I thought of beginning with a kind of disclaimer, stating that...

.transhumanism is older than it seems.

http://www.core.form-ula.com/2009/08/16/ibm-uses-dna-to-make-next-gen-microchips/ Artificial DNA...

One of Buckminster Fuller's most interesting conceits was his dislike of specialization, which...

Many manifestoes have been written during the last century by architects wanting to lay claim to...

The history of multicellular organisms - we really are just a bunch of cells working together. ...

˙˙˙ɐɥ ɐɥ ɐɥ ˙ddɐ ʞooqǝɔɐɟ ǝlqɐuoıɥsɐɟ sıɥʇ ɟo ʍoɹɹoɯoʇ pǝɹnɔ ǝq oʇ ǝdoɥ ˙sɹǝƃuıɟ puɐ pɐǝɥ ʎɯ uı pɹoʍ ǝlƃuıs ʎɹǝʌǝ dılɟ oʇ doʇs ʇ,uɐɔ ı ʇxǝʇʎɯdılɟ

Check out this human synthesizer - "humanthesizer" that uses Bare Conductive to, a...

Recently I came across a very interesting article by Timothy Lenoir, bringing a fresh perspective on the concept Singularity and posthumanist future. In the introductory note Lenoir writes: Most researchers agree that there is no reason in principle why we will not eventually develop conscious machines that rival or surpass human...

Imagine if one minute from now, every single person on Earth disappeared. All 6.6 billion of us....

Kevin Kelly 'An ultimate simulation needs an ultimate computer, and the new science of digitalism says that the universe itself is the ultimate computer — actually the only computer. Further, it says, all the computation of the human world, especially our puny little PCs, merely piggybacks on cycles of the great computer. Weaving together the...

Nothing much, but we all care for our desktops... "How Do Scientists Really Use Computers? A Web-based survey offers clues" by Greg Wilson (I wonder how's Nvidia Tesla advancing?

New capability for the Indian Navy. I have not seen details on whether the missile capability is that of a SSGN, but the reports so far tend to indicate that the submarine is not a ballistic missile submarine. Given India's relationship with Pakistan, I would guess that they are working on the ability to launch nuclear payload cruise missiles.

Now summer has passed, As if it had never been. It is warm in the sun. But this isn't...

Everything is real but the narrative makes the difference. Participatory media creation...

INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Francisco, Aug. 21, 2008 – Intel Corporation's chief technology officer took a fascinating look at how technology will bring man and machine much closer together by 2050. Cutting the Last Cord, Wireless Power Programmable Matter: Computers that Change Shape Robots: From the Factory Floor to Your Kitchen

I have been out and about for awhile and am just getting back to Space Collective. It is great to see it has continued to grow. I am currently helping develop a post-grad program at SCI-Arc named Mediascapes. We are looking to critically explore the nature of media, its evolution and how we can integrate critical research and philosophy into...

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Attention - interest - sync - time passage, now there might be a measurement of the correlation by observing blinking. "Worried you'll blink and miss a crucial piece of the action? Then you can relax. While watching a film, we subconsciously control the timing of blinks to make sure we don't miss anything important. And because we tend to...

Brooklyn Banks New York City May 2009

"The end of the world"?

New Concept: The Sphaper (Sphidron-paper) the 2D plane of the New Sphidron Geometry. I found some pictures of galaxies, and these made more important to describe some of my thoughts: IT IS Quite similar to our Sphidron formations: Interplanetary medium: Explanations how the real material is moving around the center and how the...

“There is no meaning if meaning is not shared, and not because there would be an ultimate or...

Our Lady of Guadalupe Terminus, NAFTA Super Terminal 110 @ St. Lazarus, Mexas, North American...

I was barely awake while all this was running through my head so it may seem like I'm rambling or not making any sense, forgive me. I just felt out I had to get this out of my head though and figured I'd share it with the people here and maybe get some other opinions. Life is subject and seen differently through the eyes of each individual. A...

Imagine the person you love, someone you have known for decades, someone who has become the very meaning of your life, suddenly, and unexpectedly has a stroke. Their body is crippled to near uselessness, relinquishing them of their dignity. And, having lost the ability to communicate with them, you’re not even sure if their mind is as it was, if...

What is the difference in formulations for accounting forward and for accounting in the past. I...

The cosmos was created in a struggle between the good and the evil. The good said it was going...

All the ways about here belong to me! The Red Queen in ‘Through the Looking Glass’ by Lewis...

And water is the most fantastic molecule in this tiny Universe... As a parable, water do represent the true potential of human beings as well as the tiny boundaries of our huge fragility... There is absolutely nothing in ourselves that it is not present in the ocean. In fact, our chemical composition is water with a tiny proportion of...

“As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant,...

Manipulate photos to make objects look like miniature models: See more here

Expressing an alternative view of reality was necessarily a secret pursuit until recent times....

The animal world has provided mankind with locomotion over millennia. For example we have used...

"Native Americans, Aboriginal Australians, Taoists, Zen Buddhists, Tantric meditators,...

Image by Drawmeasheep. Since we can remember, nature has always influenced our living with it...

Floral: the gentle, murmuring field. Like the faint ocean swells tuned to the infant-glossed octaves that welcomed plasmodia, then notochord, then sinuses. Amidst the caustic blunted grid declared by other neighbours, what of this generosity, this hovered breath of nurture? Calm. Rising. Calming, rising, rising. Coils merging from sleep. Fine...

Yet another augmented prologue It took me a while to figure how to continue from here. There...

Don`t be Afraid Albert! But, look at this picture below. THE REGGE CALCULUS IS 0 EVERYWHERE We...

First of all, I ask for forgiveness, I can hardly manage to express myself in English with some clarity, not to speak of correctness, apropiateness or whatever "-ness" you might wish or expext. Second: (Side number two, said number two) I would like to open a question here about Emerson, Thoreau and that line of beautiful...

Wikipedia: Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature. In my most recent post I have been revisiting what I've called the Living Field, how I experience it...

Note the first: regarding Intelligence in CI As an initial view consider the idea that a...