the humanity people. despite any technological advances and integration of artificiality into our beings, we will always, at our heart, be human. we must reach out on an emotional level to a forthcoming technological race.
Imagine an alien, Fox once said, who's come here to identify the
planet's dominant form of intelligence. The alien has a look, then chooses.
What do you think he picks? I probably shrugged. The zaibatsus, Fox said,
the multinationals. The blood of a zaibatsu is information, not people. The
structure is independent of the ...
Inner speech and conscious experience
by Alain Morin
Some unfortunate people suffer from brain damage that selectively interrupts inner speech. It’s as if they were under the influence of this imaginary drug. Scott Moss, a psychologist who was victim of a stroke, lost the ability to use language.
He was able to recuperate and related...
// This is general, simple code for each element to be "aware"
// of every other element. Specifically, it draws a line from each
// node to every other node.
Node[] nodes;
void setup() {
size(600, 600);
nodes = new Node[6];
for (int i = 0; i < nodes.length; i++) {
nodes[i] = new Node(random(width),...
From Telegraph.co.uk:
Sir Richard Branson unveiled the final design of the spaceship he hopes will take fare-paying passengers into space.
Sir Richard, whose Virgin Galactic is one of several commercial enterprises competing in the nascent space tourism market, said SpaceShipTwo will start test flights later this year.
Speaking at a...
Love. Jealousy. Fear. Hope. Faith. Ignorance.
Over the period of our species existence we have constantly been making technological advances which have shaped and changed the world around us in a myriad of ways in a completely unprecedented fashion. From the ability to communicate between individuals, to create and manipulate fire, all the...
This year, this semester, this quarter, this period, you ought to do something great.
Big bang bass undulates eternal void
And all at once the nothingness destroyed!
Believe as well that there was treble too,
No cosmic notes could miss music's debut.
I consider myself a mediocre poet at best, but nobody gets any better humbling themselves...