I try to resist posting every cool video I find on the web, but this one is relevant to my...

Absolutely sick show. A few Space Collective buddies were in the crowd as well. I recorded most of...

Thanks to modern technologies I am able to ride through British Columbia in the back...

Though rudimentary, the texts quoted below pin things in a place where I like them as a...

In the near future I expect devices to enable users to control machines will be controlled by...

If: Nikola Tesla = wants to stand proudly next to his maker, then: Timothy Leary = wants to dethrone God by becoming him (become an evolutionary agent, be the programmer of his own mind and the universe, become immortal). What do you think?

Milky Way- R. Bell

I squeezed out geometric patterns that felt so natural.

NASA Centennial Challenges Via The Independent

There's been a lot of discussion on the mind/body relationship. Below are my newest thoughts and a...

Here is a trailer for a documentary about 8-bit art and culture. I have not seen this film, but the...

I have been discovering 8-bit music and "Chiptunes" (music made for the sounds on specific microchips) on the web. There is a musical style, visual aesthetic, and consistent mentality to the whole thing. Also, artists' interests appear to be generational. What I mean is, it seems like the older you are, the older the systems you use to...

These are the things that were shown at my final presentation

"I wonder whether fractal images are not touching the very structure of our brains. Is there...

Al, other people agree with your communication model. This one is from Goethe: We talk far too...

7 minutes of Mckenna improv. Required listening! ...it's not outer space, it's not some kind of managed Orwellian collectivist paradise, it's something more profound than that. We are perhaps going to download ourselves into a gold ytterbium cube that we will super-cool and bury a thousand feet beneath Copernicus and there all walk on the...

Is language is a purely cultural phenomenon or not? Obviously it's the most successful...

Is the mind simply an epiphenomenon created by the firing of a lot of neurons in our meat-brain? I do think that what we call the experience of self-awareness, consciousness, sentience or mind is a direct result of (unrelated) neuro-activity in the brain, but that doesn't mean that the phenomenon isn't actually real, or that it necessarily needs...

Can my Mind exist outside my body? Can I have a consciousness transplant? I suppose mind is...

Terence Mckenna on how reality is a novelty making machine and what happens when a bicycle meets a...

Terence McKenna: "If you were an extra-terrestrial in a starship in orbit around this planet,...

I recently commented on Xarene's post about how oblivious we are that even while we're just sitting...

"Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an...

"The cause which is blocking all progress today is the subtle scepticism which whispers in a million ears that things are not good enough to be worth improving. If the world is good we are revolutionaries, if the world is evil we must be conservatives." "Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been...

The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make it a better habitat for memes. The avenues for entry and departure are modified to suit local conditions, and strengthened by various artificial devices that enhance fidelity and...

Currently I am sitting in an apartment on a sunny day overlooking the river valley in Edmonton, Alberta. On July 19th we begin our trek through the Northern Canada, Alaska and the Arctic Circle that will last for 25 days. We will pass through wild and glacial terrain seeking out change as it is reflexively performed within culture and...

If you believe in God you basically believe all was revealed at Creation, the beginning of history....

I was looking at a map today and an other one of those odd sixth grade questions suddenly hit me:...

holy shit. i'm trying to sign up for classes. it's my senoir year at UCLA. AND THERE IS NOTHING I WANT TO TAKE. This is serious. Outside of my my department (Design|Media Arts) there is nothing i want to learn from this institution. EVERYTHING ACADEMIC SEEMS COMPLETELY IRRELEVENT TO MY LIFE. What must be understood,...

I get stuck when thinking about my future form and environment, because I am thinking in my current form. My current form has physiological limitations--including my brain's limitations. My limitations make me ask questions, irrelevant ones I think, such as "How/Why/When do I ___?" I say irrelevant, because these questions relate to the...

Worm in Rotterdam is a night club built from 80-90% recycled materials. I love the Dutch. Rico...

FINAL BOARD drawings_renderings_concept image MODEL 1:100 structural...

– Anne Michaels

Every molecule, atom, in our body... is self-interested... is self-aware, and determined as...

this new drug sounds amazing, but i hope that it will always be properly regulated. or else, things can get out of hand.

final paper for contemporary music history: Noise is my passion – it’s what I feel. Even...

For about twenty years an emergent & organic experiment in social, creative & civic society...

This is a an interesting article on changing our perception in designing for the future. Lunenfeld brings to attention an important strategy: Scenario Planning. And applies a nice, lost term to the future: Bespoke It is a no-brainer. But the problem I find with two generations (mine and the one after, I guess X and Y gens) in applying that...

with guest: Greg Lynn, Hernan Alonso Diaz, Francois Roche, Jeffrey Kipnis model...

it seems like we are discovering new things everyday. that innovations are moving everything forward, or upward. technology, medicine, science. it's all going up. but when i get into an argument, i know deep down that i am just as confused as the very first being capable of communication and thought. even though each evolutionary step has as...