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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...