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

Example 01 A numerical value is assigned to every letter of the alphabet. Adding the values of all...

Recently I came across an interesting argument between Kevin Kelly and Ray Kurzweil wherein the two men discuss the foreseeable future when exponential change will have given rise to computers with superhuman capabilities, unleashing unimaginable levels of intelligence. Whereas Kurzweil sees this event, known as the Singularity, as a...

After the discussion regarding infinity, my views on the matter had started to change. So I let...

Perspective makes the single eye the center of the visible world. Everything converges on to the...

Is language is a purely cultural phenomenon or not? Obviously it's the most successful...

We listen to the voice, the tune of acceleration distributed in million labs, the undercurrent wave...

As described by Terence McKenna in Ordinary Language, Visible Language and Virtual Reality: The...

When we launched SpaceCollective towards the end of 2007 we had no idea whether the “forward...

This is my first post on Space Collective. I haven't felt in the last few months since joining that...

Western intellectual tradition looks at Body and Mind as separate things existing in different...

Patterns in nature, patterns in life, patterns in you, and patterns in us. Are you seeing a...

#Polytopia-(the emergence of) - is a work/proposal in progress# We are called to be architects...

It is undeniable that the world has grown increasingly complex, and it has become increasingly complex to live in. I mean this not only in the sense of there being more and more factors and information to know of and respond to, but in the sense that new technology and global interconnectedness creates new and increasingly bizarre situations,...

Fifty light years away is a GIANT DIAMOND, supposedly the largest in the galaxy, weighing five...

As time marches on, we see the weakening of geographical forces on the lives and activities of...

Project Proposal: There are hundreds of thousands of books published every year. Many are...

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. ...

When deciding what first to post here, there were only a few moments of mental debate before the...

I was just reading about iraq in the newspaper, about the state of negotionations between the...

I recently had an email exchange about Space Collective with our well-known friend, Obviously Subtle . In the email, he said something that really stuck with me. Referring to what Space Collective is all about, he called it "post religion and post politics." Of course, I already knew what Space Collective was about before I read...

In the 'tricity' of Gdynia-Sopot-Gdansk in Poland there is a suburb with a cathedral, Oliwa...

In 1996 former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and internet pioneer, John Perry Barlow, addressed...

Knowledge is power. I find every day more and more evidence pointing towards this proverbial fact,...

In response to Sjef et al. Commenting on Sjef’s rant about the mediocrity of some of SpaceCollective’s recent content Spaceweaver calls “most of human activity boring and pointless.” This apparent discontent with the current output on the site has started a discussion which prompted several of our core members to stir things up by...

I realized some years ago as I was typing that, much like speaking english, I articulate ideas via...

I have been reading with great interest and pleasure Rene's latest post bringing forth with...

"In 1969, R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), the pre-eminent 20th Century engineer for the...

Uncontrolled hubris – Unrestrained future* To the question 'what is the use of philosophy?'...

Adolf Loos' Ornament and Crime holds a favourite ammunition of mine in defense of immateriality: I have therefore evolved the following maxim, and pronounce it to the world: the evolution of culture marches with the elimination of ornament from useful objects. How would I define what ornament is today? Ornament, a constant in decoration culture,...

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the...

There are only interfering and noninterfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles...

"Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with...

Bear with me as I ramble through some general thoughts on the upcoming development of us humans... The topic of this project is an interesting one, as it's something we'll probably actually have to deal with within our lifetimes. Something bothers me about the project description from the first line though. What will happen when for the...

"Onto what surface shall a theory of aesthetics and consciousness be mapped?" Gregory...

"The psychology of the mature human being is an unfolding, emergent, oscillating, spiraling process marked by progressive subordination of older, lower-order behavior systems to newer, higher-order systems as man's existential problems change.
" Clare W. Graves (the futurist-1974) Abstract Quality I shall define here not...

In a recent post by Connor, who is one of several recent SpaceCollective members whose...

It is obvious that we are in dire need of a new kind of language, a language that may be able to...

Marijuana is pretty much illegal everywhere. Ever thought to wonder why? It's a pretty...

I've been greatly anticipating the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition to open for the past...

There's this man named Louis Wain, who lived back in a time before computers, before mathematical...

A response to Wildcat's "My cranium, my castle?" Thank you Wildcat for the...

There's been a lot of discussion on the mind/body relationship. Below are my newest thoughts and a...

From Henry David Thoreau

Watch these 4 fascinating short videos about the fundamental riddles of existence. Some food for...

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then...

The ultimate Platonist these days is Max Tegmark, a cosmologist at the Massachusetts Institute of...

I spend much of my time making installations like these out of paper and wire, hung from the...