For this reason string theory is sometimes described as possibly being the "theory of everything" (T.O.E.) or the "ultimate" or "final" theory. These grandiose descriptive terms are meant to signify the deepest possible theory of physics—a theory that underlies all others, one that does not require or even allow for...

"Space is the place," Jazz musician Sun Ra famously proclaimed while adorning himself...

Truth is sacrosanct to the human character. The only way we can build a philosophical construct of our identity is through cornerstones of truth, upon which we build more complex structures of truth for the purposes of explaining our reality. We all share one, indivisible truth - the acceptance of our unique perception. Everyone inately...

Brainpaint Actually images and videos derived from EEG activity from a site about a new...

with guest: Greg Lynn, Hernan Alonso Diaz, Francois Roche, Jeffrey Kipnis model...

I've been studying my dreams for quite a few years now. For me the world of dreams presents...

If you believe in God you basically believe all was revealed at Creation, the beginning of history....

Anticipation of Love Neither the intimacy of your look, your brow fair as a feast day, ...

http://vimeo.com/35391060 password:lazarus a vision of long distant future occurring some...

There are 2 purposes of this writing. It will help people continue organizing on a global scale toward our common goals, and we should keep records of these events as they occur for the history books. The world is about to change in a way most people have difficulty imagining, from a hierarchy based society to decentralized ways to organize...

With File Sharing is the New Meditation I had a fast little thought. Now someone has made...

Minds might base cognition on 4d(space-time) representation. All conceivable things are located at...

“I have not here been considering the literary use of language, but merely language as an instrument for expressing and not for concealing or preventing thought. Others have come near to claiming that all abstract words are meaningless, and have used this as a pretext for advocating a kind of political quietism. Since you don’t know what...

This is part 5 in a 12 part series. :: conscious awareness :: A recent article in the New York Times, Building One Big Brain,  prompted me to write up the next skill in this 12 part series. The piece quotes Nicholas Carr’s opinions about how the Internet is reducing the “capacity for concentration and contemplation,” scattering...

Though humanoids in appearance, the Xims were not humans, definitely not. They never explained...

September | World Alzheimer's Month The theme for World Alzheimer's Day 2011 is Faces of...

I use colors that have already been experienced through the light of day and through the...

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that...

(The following is an excerpt from 'Contact' by Carl Sagan) “Do Buddhists believe in God,...

Via NewScientist.com 1. Farthest North - Steve Jones, geneticist 2. The Art of the Soluble -...

Recently I had the thought: Perhaps there are just too many people on the planet to sustain a good life for individuals? Now, this was an interesting moment for me. The 'overpopulation' thesis is neither original nor novel, and arriving at this as a personal insight made me question the assumed lack of value in having unoriginal thoughts. I...

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work" because I think that...

There is a long ongoing discussion about the financial systems which gained even more momentum following the recent financial crisis (AKA credit crunch). Many voices are being heard, almost all throwing terms and slogans arguing their perspective to be the ultimate one, fast to show the errors of other perspectives. Socialism, Capitalism...

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they...

Out beyond the farthest stars, Where the cold of space spreads thin, We endeavor to look...

Keep writing. Keep writing, and don't stop. No matter what happens to you, just keep writing. Write on paper, write on wood, write on walls, write on clothes. Write on everything. Continue to write, and don't even think of ceasing. Write until your hand hurts. Write until you don't have any idea what you are even writing about anymore. Write like...

In the vision, intelligent robots will handle our daily frustrating home routines. But in the...

Mycologist Paul Stamets studies mycelium and lists 6 ways that this astonishing fungus can help...

An excerpt from George Carlin's stand up talk "Saving the Planet": We’re so...

In this post I try to fathom an informal definition of Self, the "essential qualities that constitute a person's uniqueness". I assume that the most important requirement for a definition of self is time-consistency. A reliable definition of identity needs to allow for time-consistent self-referencing since any agent that is unable to...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3976979749889442679# Christopher Michael Langan (born c. 1952) is an American autodidact whose IQ was reported by 20/20 and other media sources to have been measured at between 195 and 210.[1] Billed by some media sources as "the smartest man in America",[2] he rose to prominence in 1999 while...

It looks as if the world was about to come to a complete standstill. Nobody knows that at this very moment, we are hurtling through space at an amazing speed. Hard to believe, since the stars don't look like they are moving. The Hunter hovers just over the horizon yonder, ready to shoot aimlessly at the vast number of bright gems studded on the...

Well, the human impulse to remember is the fact that biologically we forget. Because we...

What: Anish Kapoor's Leviathan @ MONUMENTA Who: Anish Kapoor Where: The Grand...

One Square Inch of Silence is the quietest place in the United States. Located in the Hoh Rain...

1. A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be...

Technology is evolving us, says Amber Case, as we become a screen-staring, button-clicking new...

◊● 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 // Imagining The 10th Dimension // Albert Einstein: How I See the World /...

The great (now late) Arthur C. Clarke had a longstanding relationship with Playboy magazine: they...

Oh how the collective intelligence of the members of this website blows my mind... The recent posts about the illusion of individualism and the collective nature of the universe, I think, fit well with the topics discussed in this book I recently came across. I have only skimmed through it quickly, but as soon as I saw it I knew it would of...

Today, Reallity Sandwish published a nice article on the millennial question about consciousness...

The Future of Art from KS12 on Vimeo.

++ finally I had the time to modify and evolve the model

“Social media has come to be understood as little more than a marketing opportunity. However, we see it as quite possibly the catalyst for the next stage of human evolution and, at the very least, a way to restore bottom-up participation, p2p value exchange and decentralized innovation to the realms of culture, commerce and government.” –...

To find an object that wouldn't attract me either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To...

Modern Human beings are unquestionably more intelligent than animals, not that animals are not...

In the span of 12 hours I met a young French man playing gypsy music on a saxophone in the park,...