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still today, no other thinker inspire and amaze me like Carl Sagan does... his enthusiasm with...

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society" ~...

Whatever intelligence is, it can't be intelligent all the way down. It's just dumb stuff at the bottom. — Andy Clark I believe we act based on a fundamental reliance on gut feelings. What we do is merely following 'the line of least resistance'. Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. — William...

The first decade of the 21st century is about to end in just a few weeks. Among many things, I find most impacting the explosion of knowledge in the field of brain sciences and human behavior in this decade. Though the great riddles of consciousness and the emergence of minds from brains are still open and far from any solution, many connections...

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This is my first appearance here in this nether world and I'm just writing to say "Hi" so that you know I exist. Consider yourself lucky. It's better to know me than to not. More importantly, you must realize that you (and I) could pass from this earthly plane in but a moment, and that we do not is surely a lucky thing indeed. However,...

Announcing 5 trillion digits of Pi. New World Record for both Desktop and Supercomputer:

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“If one doesn’t put one’s reason at stake in an experiment, the experiment is not worth attempting.” (Bachelard in “Le Surrationalisme” (1936) Presentation to the Titan board of AGI, Biorobotics, and Other sentient life forms. Dear members of the board, As it is the duty of every future officer of the board to present its...

Kevin Kelly, author, Out of Control Chapter 2: HIVE MIND - The collective intelligence of a...

"Collective Intelligence (CI) is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate, and invent." - Pierre Levy + James Surowiecki + Mark Tovey I wrote a post a few days ago, Is Twitter a Complex Adaptive System?, that proposed the idea that Twitter may be evolving into an entity of...

"Toward a Civilization of Collective Intelligence" identifies the most important changes...

Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins...

The need for reform and advances in education has been a recurring topic here on SC. In order to...

"We may be on the edge... ...of nothing particularly important."   - Bruce...

Found at todayandtomorrow. “Back In” from Laser is probably the first laser cut plexi...

The following photos are of Socotra Island, a geographically isolated archipelago off the coast of...

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With no warning one weekday morning, investigators entered an organic grocery with a search warrant and ordered the hemp-clad workers to put down their buckets of mashed coconut cream and to step away from the nuts. Then, guns drawn, four officers fanned out across Rawesome Foods in Venice. Skirting past the arugula and peering under crates of...

I was reading 'Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia' and couldn't resist sharing this particular chapter 'The Smooth and the Striated'. There's a lot more under this chapter in the book but shared the best of it. It's about smooth vs striated in a manner like local vs global or becoming vs progress or like minor...

DESCRIPTION—“Maths Dreamed Universe” is a quantitative visualisation of the manner within...

A poster Ι made for J.G. Ballard's caustic glossary.

So, Were in the age of computers and technology. We are having to expand out language and adapt. It will be harder for non local and alien residents when they move or try to work and interact with others VIA the internet with all sorta of slang being made up to understand technology and the computer. I feel like we need to create ...

The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not...

Y'all are going to have to help out with this one. I certainly don't have all the answers. So I see this tree, and I think I can climb it. I don't know this absolutely, but at a glance it seems more likely than not. Nor do I know exactly how I will do it; I can't yet see how I will surmount it's limbs using my own. But I do know how I intend to...

The Singularity is the technological creation of smarter-than-human intelligence. There are several technologies that are often mentioned as heading in this direction. The most commonly mentioned is probably Artificial Intelligence, but there are others: direct brain-computer interfaces, biological augmentation of the brain, genetic...

So different?.... Mabye in some ways but it isnt that far from each other, What science does is look for answers, grow and understand, same with art, art is something that we can express ourselves through understanding why we are here, art isnt something that is just done, we grow and understand why we are here, we think through geometric thoughts...

This article, co-authored by Rene and Megan May, will be published in the Counter Culture issue of...

I'm sure many of you know about the great mathematician, Paul Erdos, and may have heard this story about him (from Wikipedia): His colleague Alfréd Rényi said, "a mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems", and Erdős drank copious quantities. (This quotation is often attributed incorrectly to Erdős himself.)[6] ...

I am a newbie on Space Collective and this is my first post. I'd like to share one of my works of...

Okay, here it is SpaceCollective.... The new era. WE are living in an INCREDIBLE TIME-how lucky are we?? We get to witness change unlike anything humanity has seen before. (myb & Hopefully survive it) [I like to try to write sorta sloppy-it shows the internet fad at the time in terms of communication VIA technology. ] What is (do you...

It is incredible how something like this exists. you know-we are a bright generation. trying to make use of and hold onto technology and the internet. Sometimes i ask myself why, is this good? (whats good and bad..etc) we all want to change the world. be better. be remembered. but how do we create REAL conscious and social change??? this...

Pop music is an elevated art form. Its mode of expression is often shifting, and it has a high turn over rate, yet within this context there are plenty of forms of musical sustenance. There are certainly some credible pop musicians, who can exist as nothing but "pop" (e.g. Seal, Maroon 5, Savage Garden, et al. -- and these even have...

Now I am a frog, far away from the shadow of an idea… Hijikata...

The way we describe our world shows how we think of our world. How we think of our world...

Plug n' play. Content —> Form (structure) —> Aesthetics —> Meaning —>...

Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human...

The combination of state of the art electronics and software with one of the worlds most...

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger...