Just thought I would share an experience I had the other morning. While I was trying to sleep in, it must have been the way the light was shining in the dark room through a crack in the curtains that awoke me. My dog, now seeing that I was awake, hit the curtatin with her tail as shs made her way over to lick my face. But when she hit the...

A year has passed since I passed my own test for being a knowmad. Like many, I have acquired a...

Sometimes I sit back and think about what it means for other animal species to be alive. They hunt and they reproduce and they migrate and they just keep going and going about their business. The only species who seem to be messing anything up are humans, but, I will give us credit at least for this thought. What if there is no point to being...

As a web designer (or whatever we're called these days), I often feel lucky that when I was a young...

From the perspective of the floating head, vision is the most direct and descriptive form of...

-- It didn’t go wrong, not exactly wrong that is. I mean, c’mon, who could have predicted the consequences of a technology that seemed on face value so straightforward, so logically consistent with what we know, or as it turned out, thought we knew, of the way the world works. The point, you see, is that whilst the tech was...

Whilst it may be possible to soon grow your own clothes with synthetic bacteria, or indeed...

THE ARGUMENTATIVE THEORY A Conversation with Hugo Mercier Introduction Last July, opening the Edge Seminar, "The New Science of Morality", Jonathan Haidt digressed to talk about two recently-published papers in Behavioral and Brain Sciences which he believed were "so important that the abstracts from them should be posted in...

[Extract from Book: Observations] [Words and meta-pattern by Ayoub Qanir] “New...

Might the repeated laboratory demonstration of purportedly non-local macro-level phenomena -...

I am currently reading one of (probably) the best books in the hard sci-fi genre, it appears that...

"The Ghost In The Model" This workshop is not about what we know about the universe...

Could Einstein's Theory of Relativity be slipping into the past as a discredited misunderstanding? And could it be replaced with an intuitive and simplified scientific truth that was discovered over a century ago? A major turning point in the public’s understanding of science came about a century ago, with the introduction of Einstein’s...

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not...

THE VERY PRIMITIVE EXISTENCE OF MAN IS THE WAR BETWEEN GOD AND SATAN.- GEORGE

Scentsory DiagNOSE The oncology journey is often a very lonely time for the cancer sufferer. My...

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of...

A little change to what the porn industry invented gets you the cheapest robot body. Baloon women...

Solar System Scope is a interactive 3D model of planets and constellations moving over the night...

There are some compositions that echo in me so slowly as if I am traveling to another life that...

This is the first in a series of posts about art, the moon, and art on the moon. You would think...

Briefing Over the course of the last year I have investigated the implications of outer space...

Want better money? Jay, together with Venessa, Gabriel and Patrizia on Emergence Collective...

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 / Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, & Arthur C. Clarke // Albert Einstein:...

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...

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...

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...