On and on does the lattice grow, information flows, and our minds converge, into a single, fiercely independent, decidedly autonomous, highly intelligent, and self-propelling emergent metaverse, the infoverse.
The infoverse is where we will live. And we need a home. A mutually supportive habitat of sorts; A mind habitat, an infotat for our...
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
Henri-Louis Bergson
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-Start biosemiotics simulscript-
KsTotar: How do you like my new body? Made just for you..
KsSandar: I don’t like it.
KsTotar: why is that? Am I not beautiful enough?
KsSandar: it’s not that,...
“If one doesn’t put one’s reason at stake in an experiment, the experiment is not worth attempting.”
(Bachelard in “Le Surrationalisme” (1936)
Presentation to the Titan board of AGI, Biorobotics, and Other sentient life forms.
Dear members of the board,
As it is the duty of every future officer of the board to present its...
7 minutes of Mckenna improv. Required listening!
...it's not outer space, it's not some kind of managed Orwellian collectivist paradise, it's something more profound than that. We are perhaps going to download ourselves into a gold ytterbium cube that we will super-cool and bury a thousand feet beneath Copernicus and there all walk on the...
As the Secretary General of the United Nations, an organization of 147 member states who represent almost all the human inhabitants of the planet earth, I send greetings on behalf of the people of our planet. We step out of our solar system, into the universe, seeking only peace and friendship, to teach if we are called upon, to be taught if...
I've been watching a lot of speeches from TED.com lately, and I've been tremendously inspired by their positive energy in a time that the media would paint as rather daunting. I hope to do something with my life as good as those noble people at TED are doing.
As good as they are, it is difficult to criticize the people of TED, aka...
Nary a post goes by when I don't feel compelled to share a relevant book.
I'd like to propose a collective recommended reading list,
and in beginning this list I'll paraphrase the first page
of my first recommendation.
It's from a book called "The Black Swan" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb:
Many people, when they see an immense...
space is cold and dark
and this orbit's getting boring
nobody near to talk to
hello
is there anyone out there?
save our souls
cure this cosmic loneliness
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A poem I wrote a while back. Inspired by a handout from a Physics class entitled "Physics & Astronomy For Pedestrians" ... yeah my uni has the funniest classes!...
With all the hype flying around Augmented Reality lately, it's easy to assume the nascent tech is just another flash-in-the-pan destined to burn out in a fury of marketing gimmickry & sensational posturing. Yet, it's informative to consider the drivers pushing this trend and to tease out the truly adaptive value percolating beneath the...
NotMarie: “I have a question for you 3V”
3V:” I am, as always at your service.. please ask”
NotMarie: "Since I am struggling to understand you, it came to me that one of the main riddles I carry with me in your regard, concerns the manner you treat history and for that matter, memory as well.. I have this nagging feeling that...