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It was a bright, winter day. The icy, crystal air scraped at my cheeks. With every breath, the frost cut deeper into my throat. Right through the extra thick wool sweater, the cold clawed at my bones. It felt as I was naked past my skin. This time there was no hope of returning unscathed. Somehow the inert brightness and cold amplified my sight;...

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Alas. My computer is probably killing me. Isn't technology slowly killing us? It makes sense in evolution-that technology would slowly kill us all and not need a user. I sit with my laptop. Its warmth and humming noise sooth me. The warmth is like the warm touch of a humans....

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You know that innocence they always talk about that slowly gets sucked out of your soul as you get older and older? Where they judge you if you talk about the magnificent chain of events that just happened in your mind all at once that have nothing to do with the current conversation? Where they shut down your every suggestion because it's not...

Artificial Intelligence learns what music is and creates instruments you play with the mouse. I...

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Thea idea for this post begun as a response message at but it includes some extra ideas in here. I don't want to be understood wrong so maybe is better to read that one first, but is not compulsory. In 1+1=3i, I think the third one is the imagination. Is in us. Is the same situation like in ireal numbers. Is something in, deep in us that...

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Ah, such a beautiful word. We've all felt it, some of us are feeling it right now but after all what's it to it? Me, I have a tendency of questioning everything, I demand reasons for all my actions, I try to explain events, feelings, relationships, and of course love. And you know what I've discovered? Statistics is the way to go when you're...

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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,...

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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...

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"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...

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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...

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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 ...