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"That is the secret of happiness and virtue-liking what you've got to do. All conditioning...

Nature has made a determined comeback In the 20 years since Chernobyl's reactor No. 4 turned a...

The Future of Art an immediated autodocumentary What are the defining aesthetics of art in...

C o m p e t i t i o n Which technology do you think will have the biggest impact on human life...

Matter Evolution Since the first particles were set in motion, every action has been part of...

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Like everyone I have watched all three Zeitgeist films (the last has been released very recently, you can watch it here if you have not done so yet). I cannot say that I agree with all, but I certainly agree with much. In particular, as it is often repeated, we must protect the Internet at all times. Protect the Internet against what? We...

In "ordinary" quantum entanglement, two particles possess properties that are inherently...

"How compact your bodies are! And what a variety of senses you have! This thing you call...

I dont know if technology should be embraced by architecture. As a student-everything we are learning is on the computer. most of the buildings we create would not have been comprehended or very hard to figure out without computers. Not to mention it is a completely different creative process as well. I am not sure if the evolution towards...

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last...

A gorgeous statement from Quentin Meillassoux in After Finitude (p.48) - which I mostly agree with: "…we must understand that what distinguishes the philosopher from the non-philosopher in this matter is that only the former is capable of being astonished (in the strong sense) by the straightforwardly literal meaning of the ancestral...

I haven't been doing much else in my spare time besides watching and reading as much as I can about the situation in Cairo, but I do want to share a few quotes about a notion that resonates with me more deeply than most any: "horizon of immanence". This 'horizon' is the very worldspace, or clearing which affords us the opportunity to...

Recollections of the impact of the psychedelic revolution on the history of mathematics by Ralph...

WASHINGTON -- NASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. Five of the potential planets are near Earth-size and orbit in the habitable zone of smaller, cooler stars than our sun. Candidates require...

You use a metaphor to describe some concept. The metaphor isn’t the thing you describe - it’s just a tool that you use. But someone takes the metaphor, and runs with it, making arguments that are built entirely on metaphor, but which bear no relation to the real underlying concept. And they believe that whatever conclusions they draw from...

I LOVE REVISITING THOUGHTS, how do we get people to -even before-the precendent-why is drinking so much more pondered than philosophy, the past, the future, ourselves and our role in that. immediacy is more comfortable than longevity.

During the last year, I've been discussing many times about the role of reading and writing in a...

I figured this was a good idea. So, does anyone who has seen it actually want to discuss it? Official Website You can also torrent the DVD (legally, as the movie is free for distribution), but I'm not going to provide that link unless you ask. I don't really feel like looking it up right now. You can also buy the DVD from the site above for...

Link What: Polytopes: The Architecture of Soundscapes When: February 23, 7pm Where:...

If anyone's ever seen how awful burns can scar people for life... Looks like that's about to change with this amazing new stem cell procedure! Check the video out: Due to the insanity of people with $$$ infecting their minds (Another one of those maladies I wish to see cured in the near future) I can't see this in my country on...

Using Special Crystals, Researchers Make a Paper Clip Invisible Metamaterials have long been...

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober,...

Monette & Mady are identical twins. They have lived their whole life closely together and...

An idea is something you have; An ideology is something that has you. --Morris Berman Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize until you have tried to make it precise. --Bertrand Russel There are no facts, only interpretations. --Friedrich Nietzsche Every man prefers belief to the exercise of...

Zeesy Powers Zeesy Powers gave us some impressions on the following questions for the Future...

Sizing up the Electron Measuring the inner shape of the famous particle could help solve a cosmic mystery By Alexandra Witze February 12th, 2011; Vol.179 #4 (p. 22) Detecting an electric dipole moment would mean electrons, which buzz about atomic nuclei, have internal structure.© galinka86/dreamstime.com Long thought to be a...

“I believe that consciousness is, essentially, the way information feels when being...

En Passant Edgar was wandering through the museum. He could not understand what Aggie saw in...

It's been a long time since I posted here but I always watch your debates with interest. I feel...

I LOVE REVISITING THOUGHTS, how do we get people to -even before-the precendent-why is drinking so much more pondered than philosophy, the past, the future, ourselves and our role in that.

Is technology really the future? How do we evolve? Do we accept or embrace it? Human sculls being crushed by machines: if i see someone dying in a movie-the act of dying. skulls being crushed is post death - used to part of a living being that used ot be respected a dystopia of a after life. its a dystopia. no hatred, no respect, no love. the...

From 'itsfullofstars' Cosmicomics is a book of short stories by Italian writer Italo Calvino...

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. ...

Aaron Koblin Aaron Koblin gave us some impressions on the following questions for the Future...

Transmission Glimpse from ian brill on Vimeo.see also here edit : help, spacecollective keeps stripping out the embedded video ) :

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. ...

A myriad of details in an evolving fractal landscape.

An ant colony is the last place you'd expect to find a maths whiz, but University of Sydney...

People people people, we are more than 6 billion humans and the images representing us so many...

the universe of origami… enjoy!

I hope you will know who is the canadian author Naomi Klein, and her books. The last of its is The...

Wonderful work of my new colleague, Torolf Sauerman Interesting symmetry property of the...

This is my response to a debate between Ben Goertzel and Hugo De Garis who both build artificial intelligence and speculate about what it leads to and the possibility aliens may have already done it. Normal religions help us understand the universe as much as a 1000 year old physics book. That leaves a lot of questions... If you're not more...

In line with my interest in alternative and utopian living styles, I came across this domed house...