In 2004, some robotics geeks and sci-fi fans built a functional robotic likeness of Philip K....

Sometimes when we perceive the world we perceive without language. We perceive spontaneously. But...

A myriad of details in an evolving fractal landscape.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among...

Nonstarter For Driscoll, the singularity is where noone can predict what happens after...

A human being consists of 50 trillion cells. In each cell are biological and physical...

"We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances...

In response to schmuck's post about the openness of SC, I thought I'd bring up another issue the...

Bank of America, Amazon, MasterCard and PayPal are some of the companies that stopped doing business with Wikileaks. While it is quite clear that this follows ‘some’ pressure from the US government I do like to point to a more principal issue here. I believe that it is the right of every person on the planet to have access to all...

"You can’t convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence,...

Guys? Where are we on this? I think the Julian Assange (head of WikiLeaks) case is of...

Junto & beyond - further generations and explanations coming soon. also find full image...

The Gutenberg Bible, printed in 1455, was thought to be the world's first printed book, until a...

personas pictoglyphs visionary … the main component is that of the eyes: the foresight...

Believed to be the most geometrically complex and aesthetically beautiful structure in mathematics,...

Hard to simulate, but easy to amplify, my experience of consciousness, is interactions, of an infinite number of abstractions. The universe is the set of all permutation, and combination of abstract information. I am math. Derive me, and if I could derive you too, we would have a strange-loop confusing the future you. But what of the...

If we were able to take as the finest allegory of simulation the Borges tale where...

The reasonable man encounters circumstances and adapts himself to them. The unreasonable...

This is an explosive seed regarding the evolution of your superhuman powers. Very soon we will...

about who and what and why ..... "The first thing to be understood is what ego is. A...

"You have asked us, younger ones, to tell you a story," Great Oak said, "but...

Possible New Careers Emerging from Advances in Science and Technology (2010 – 2030) Final...

Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins...

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.... The painter should...

The following is crossposted from my blog on writing and format, though it belongs here as much as there. I consider the rant as some notes towards a transhuman language. Lojban, like the better known Esperanto, are constructed languages. Esperanto was constructed in order to help bring understanding between people who spoke different...

Greetings, In a recent moment of clarity an epiphany dawned upon me, one that I wish to share with you. Perhaps epiphany is the wrong term … a better word would be realization, the culmination of several already known smaller epiphanies coming together to a greater understanding, to a greater acceptance of truth as it is rather than I...

Collaborative Consumption: Reinventing not just what we consume but how we consume. A couple...

Erik Verlinde, a string theorist and professor of physics at the University of Amsterdam, is...

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is...

The need for reform and advances in education has been a recurring topic here on SC. In order to...

This pad text is synchronized as you type, so that everyone viewing this page sees the same text. This allows you to collaborate seamlessly on documents!

There is something between life and death. You dance...

... Erin asked. "Yes." I said, without hesitation. We each began fantasizing the...

As a kid, books like Wolverton's "The Golden Queen" hit me with extreme force. Therein...

Did you know that in one day a full-grown oak tree expels 7 tons of water through its...

As the aging populations of Europe and Japan come to represent the local majority, it would seem...

Images of a rectangular grid under iterated conformal maps rendered using a (digital) video buffer...

Sensation and Forces "Not to reproduce what we can already see, but to make visible what we cannot" (Paul Klee) The task of art, in all its forms, is to capture forces. Deleuze and Guattari say that this, ultimately, is what makes art abstract - the "summoning" and making visible of otherwise imperceptible forces (Deleuze...

The Elements and Movements in Bacon's Paintings "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportions" (Sir Francis Bacon) Deleuze distinguishes 3 pictorial elements in Bacon's paintings, which together constitute a highly precise system - the field that is the spatializing material structure, the...

"As president, I believe space exploration is not a luxury, not an afterthought, an...

The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and...

I really enjoy my carnal existence; eating, drinking & exercising. But strangely I quite appreciate the idea of living forever - despite all of the negative connotations associated with it - what if this "Polytopia" was to be a hyperspace - kinda like second life, but controlled in the first person by our electrical selves,...

Fibers cradle a planet-like ball in an award-winning image meant to convey that Earth's future...

^ "Question 2010" by Katinka Mason ({ 172 Responses }) Excerpt: The most...

Just a quick thought, I agree with the video series on Spacecollective that in the next ~100 years homo sapiens will be done as a species. By done I mean basically extinct. There may be small amounts of people who decided not to modify themselves, the last sapiens. But then, we don't evolve into another species - we evolve into many species. We're...

ac_Sound Transform collage by Iuri Kothe Although our repositioning of augmented reality as...

We all go to the same source when we die. There is no heaven or hell, we all come from the same...