An email my brother Michael Anissimov sent to me in response to the three rant clips posted toward The Great Enhancement Debate, with short response commentary by myself:
Haha interesting. Was this from that one interview with your friend's dad? Great to get these ideas out there for people to debate, I'll post these videos on my blog. ...
holy shit.
i'm trying to sign up for classes.
it's my senoir year at UCLA.
AND THERE IS NOTHING I WANT TO TAKE.
This is serious.
Outside of my my department (Design|Media Arts) there is nothing i want to learn from this institution. EVERYTHING ACADEMIC SEEMS COMPLETELY IRRELEVENT TO MY LIFE.
What must be understood,...
"...You know,
whenever we show compassion,
we ravage ourselves.
Maybe it's true...
Suffering makes life seem
dismal and suspect.
But I won't accept that.
No, I won't accept that.
Is that which is indispensable to life
also harmful to it?
No, it's not harmful.
Of course it's not harmful.
Remember Tolstoy?
His suffering over the...
So I was browsing through the gallery on this site, trying as best I could to avoid studying for exams and whatnot, when I came across the Hydrozoa Picture Gallery. I started scrolling down the page looking at all of the stunning images when I realized, wow, there are a lot of hydrozoa out there...
If there are this many different types of,...
NASA researchers announced that a storm is coming — the most intense solar maximum in fifty years. The prediction comes from a team led by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). “The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one,” she says. If correct, the years ahead could produce a...
Given that we think in language, and that words are a poor substitute for what we really mean, we need a new way to communicate. We will still use language, of course, and the contents of what we communicate need to be different.
Some of the most useful and revolutionary work I have come across is Non-Violent Communication by Marshall...
I'm still unsure what to expect from this site. I can connected 100% with it's introduction but not sure just how much I'll get from that. I think space and religion are connected as one and that we all live in one dimensions. However the afterlife belongs to many different dimensions. Space are those dimensions. Maybe some day I'll express...
A typical human brain has about 100 billion neurons, and each on average has about seven thousand synapses connecting to other neurons. The neurons receive impulses, and upon reaching a threshold level of synaptic activity, will pass on an impulse to other neurons along it's path. Our consciousness stems from the collective organization of the...