i miss sailing. i miss hawaii. i miss my parents. i miss being a kid. i miss my creativity. i miss happiness. will i ever be happy? will i ever be able to become a better designer? school is so overwhelming. architecture is really hard. am i cut out for this? all we do is do things on the computer. wheres the creativity without adobe suite...

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Statistically inputs and outputs to neurons subconsciously without extra hardware. A neuron...

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they...

The 'Conscious Pilot' is a new model of the neural correlate of consciousness (NCC) consistent with the Orch OR model. The basic idea is that spatiotemporal envelopes of dendritic gamma synchrony move through the brain's neuronal networks. The movement is sideways to neurocomputational flow, occurring via dendritic-dendritic gap junction...

The universe equals Chaitin's Constant. I will explain how to use it statistically to create a...

Why do creative and/or intelligent people often suffer from some kind of mental illness, or at...

A time of revolution and of change, of both the catastrophic collapse and the meteoric rise of...

◊● astrophysics, perspectives Carl Sagan: The Cosmic Calendar / Pale Blue Dot / "To all citizens of the cosmos" / Carl Sagan warns against the fear of Science / On Mars & The Excluded Middle / Ted Turner Interviews Carl Sagan / Charlie Rose - Carl Sagan // Imagining The 10th Dimension // Albert Einstein: How I See the World /...

I am looking for recommended sources on Gonzo journalism. I have some sources, some ideas on the topic: I was supposed to transcribe, the two guys I couldn’t understand were in some kind of Las Vegas fast-food joint…and after a while, I just said, ‘Well, it sounds to me like they’re saying this,’ so I would type it in. I had my own...

INT. Panel shows avatars for Watch, Castle and Chart. The first one lights up kaleidoscopically, the other two go to blank and a flatline. CUT TO: INT. Sin's office. SIN Anyone seen Chart? Comms to the ship seem to be down. ILSA I can bring Scope up. What are we looking for? SIN There are...

"This Hamnet?" Ilsa asked. "Speaking." "You had sent an inquiry...

red earth modulated, baked on stacked surrounds. the ground swell. from the dust came I. from...

“MEMORY BYTES” — MOLECULAR MATCH FOR CaMKII PHOSPHORYLATION ENCODING OF MICROTUBULE...

1. A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be...

Techno-fetishism, techno-romanticism, techno-sensuality, techno-pornography, techno-etc. We...

"If coincidences are just coincidences, why do they feel so contrived?"

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Advertising has alot to do with Chaos Theory and I will show you how. However, lets start with a...

TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS CONFERENCE 2011 Brain, Mind Reality Info: Center for...

I’ve watched last week “ Transcendent Man” - the documentary about Ray Kurzweil, his life and ideas. For anyone who read the book “The singularity is near” or watched one of his lectures in the recent years there is not much new in the film. While I’ve got a lot to say about Ray Kurzweil and his work (maybe in another post) I would...

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

When I think, study, learn, or even act (or try to), I do so under the pre-supposition that the past - the classical - is better than the modern. In the simplest of explanations, I would argue that modernity is embodied by decadence and stupidity. Of course, this doesn't apply to all, but for the most part, the world in which we move on a daily...

Made with this, a projector, a mirror, a camera, and Gimp. Also, some stills :

its the silents that get(s) me.. gets to me thats is. its not quite silence, its all those, silent minds; the voices- words that die unspoken; their only friend is Echo. who's there? that has a ready ear. a steadier hear has never found its ear- nor its rest. but the echos only bounce back câb snüøb. seeing my self....

the mirror and the stare from metaevol i am ailing! i am ailing, in distuned repose- some...

underneath the atrium she empties her box contents strewn in the corridor hiding behind a column as my ghost wanders rooms devoid the collateral damages of invisible demons long since left rotting structures unaware of their inheritance a lone rubber boot the only proof of life lines echoing stairwells labyrinthine my voice calls to...

Copyright: Samuel Monnier 2011 original work found here... Dan Wills reports (via...

I believe in the importance of using our imaginations in our daily lives and that a highly refined imagination is an incredibly valuable outcome resulting from the daily attendance of ones inner landscape.

By making choices that lay a groundwork for the betterment of ourself, our family, our community and our planet we can build an world in which we can live and thrive.

Kevin Townley, a long time practitioner and scholar of Alchemy and other esoteric disciplines,...

A remarkable paper just out in Nature has revealed images of the brain's structure and function in...

Special seminar in auditorium today: new CDF result The CDF collaboration will present a new...

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SYDNEY: It’s not dark matter, multiple universes or weird gravity: the strange deceleration of the Pioneer spacecraft is just waste heat – the trouble is nobody’s looked at it the right way, Portuguese researchers report. Known as the ‘Pioneer anomaly’, the unexplained deceleration of NASA’s two Pioneer spacecraft, Pioneer 10 and 11...

The quantum physics of materials is the worst reading experience known in the entire universe,...

I wanted to share these for my first Space Collective post. They are some styling/illustration...

Of course it was your generation that created this aesthetic, you know that right ? Maybe the future now looks as you envisioned it, but it is not because you predicted well. It is because, for lack of better direction, we copied your ideas.

In this post I try to fathom an informal definition of Self, the "essential qualities that constitute a person's uniqueness". I assume that the most important requirement for a definition of self is time-consistency. A reliable definition of identity needs to allow for time-consistent self-referencing since any agent that is unable to...

I started taking these nootropics back in February - One was citicoline, the other aniracetam. For those who are unfamiliar with nootropics, they're generally defined as drugs & supplements that you can take which are supposed to improve your memory, attention, and other cognitive functions. They are used as a current treatment and...

The other day I went to buy some EMT at Home Depot. It was just like every other day, until I...

September through December 2010 was my first semester of education since I left high school in 2007. In one of my courses, Contemporary Issues, I wrote a paper (a very short one) entitled "Why Computers Do Not," which was meant as a counter to the hopelessly superior article by Marvin Minsky of MIT "Why People Think Computers...

There is a lingering humour, a taunting presence in the mundane scenery of sensory experience....

Tonight, I see the Internet as a sort of controlled state of dreaming: directed, curated......

This is intended to be read after Identifying the Differences Between Human vs. Computer...

Previously on BWBW: "I know you know that there are no intrinsic problems as such, but only difficulties in maintaining a multilayered reality in immediacy but keep in mind that the essence of the warrior poet is a re-arrangement without thought, consciously keeping the direction of repetition but not allowing the order to emerge until an...