December 2010
“hyperobjects are viscous—they adhere to you no matter how hard to try to pull...”
– Class and Hyperobjects « Larval Subjects .
“obsoledge” .. refers to knowledge’s increasingly extremely limited...”
– The Future Is Not What It Used to Be: Predictions for 2011 to 2050, Already Obsolete | Blog | design mind
“In my opinion, in fact, the key element in answering the question “What is...”
– Tron:Legacy And Isomorphisms
“Think about how much of our bodies and minds have archaeological traces within...”
– Ecology without Nature: Neolithic
Wildcat: Plugging into the epic A rational poetry... →
Plugging into the epic , A rational poetry of the future- An essay and interview with Max More
“We’re in the abstract-expressionist era of management.”
– Dev Patnaik, cited by David Segal, In Pursuit of the Perfect Brainstorm (via stoweboyd)
“What are the characteristics of the Net? First of all, the Net is a place where...”
– Franco Berardi (Bifo), Technology and Knowledge in a Universe of Indetermination, 1998 (via stoweboyd)
“Biosemiosis and the Cellular Basis of Mind
How the Oxidation of Glucose by...”
– SpringerLink - Biosemiotics, Online First™
“Will an uploaded system be conscious? Uploading is going to suck if, once you...”
– Can You Live Forever? Maybe Not—But You Can Have Fun Trying: Scientific American
“Let me explain the difference between ‘participating’ and...”
– Duck Baker.
“My new language is taking shape. It is gestalt-oriented, rendering it...”
– must read and re-read
Understand - a novelette by Ted Chiang
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WatchPanel discussion on artificial general intelligence. Tooby, Goertzel,Yudkowsky & Legg: Narrow and General intelligence.
h\t to singularityhub
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-19) →
“What is Distinctive About Human Thought? (Audio)
Professor Tim Crane gives...”
– SMS: What is Distinctive About Human Thought? - Metadata
“Essentially what’s happening as our society becomes more advanced and more...”
– Group IQ - The Boston Globe
“We take our minds to be a dazzling torrent of occurrences, always in flux and...”
– Wildcat: UnSphering the Indefinite The Polytopia Vision Dec2010
“The Nothing does Nothing procedure (a 3V. vs. 3Vx Sci-Fi Ultrashort)
A...”
– Wildcat: The Nothing does Nothing procedure a 3V vs 3Vx SciFi Ultrashort
“What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and...”
– Erwin Schrodinger
“It is always misleading to use anthropomorphical concepts in dealing with things...”
– Einstein’s God | Big Questions Online
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WatchRobotics 2010 video review by IDG News Service (h\t futureseek)
“Syntax is the plot of the sentence, a systematic ordering of person and event,...”
– Aaron Shurin, Narrativity Issue 2
“ The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions. ”
– Susan Sontag
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“ I am really speaking a dead language. This language, I believe, is the language...”
– Georges Bataille
“Human trials will begin in Australia next year of a new device containing tiny...”
– New miniature smart chip implant to combat chronic pain
listening to "Unitopia - The Great Reward" →
This then is one of my ten best post progressive bands of 2010
“As a theoretical physicist, my main concern is space, time and cosmology. The...”
– Edge: LEE SMOLIN
“To survive—never mind, to prosper—is to perpetuate a grim tragedy, one that goes...”
– Two Cheers for Nature - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
“The brain is necessary for our life, but it is hardly sufficient. A human being,...”
– Does Thinking Happen In The Brain? : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR
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“The most pronounced feature of organic evolution is not the creation of a...”
– (Hoffmeyer 1996: 61).
“The Milky Way Galaxy is one of billions, perhaps hundreds of billions of...”
– Carl Sagan (via nathanielstuart)
“Instead of fast-changing prefixes—“post,” “anti,” “neo,” “trans,” and “sub”—that...”
– Svetlana Boym, The Off-Modern Mirror / Journal / e-flux
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“To see how Ideas are transcendental and immanent, we have to appreciate that an...”
– The Question of Difference, on Gilles Deleuze. (via ajnabee)
“God is dead in a very particular sense. He no longer plays his traditional...”
– Navigating Past Nihilism - NYTimes.com
WatchAriel’s illuminating presentation on thought-controlled computing.
Ariel Garten Speaks at LeWeb 2010
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“After winning the Nobel Prize, Planck toured around giving a speech. The...”
– Charlie Munger’s Address: Deserved Trust
“Some believe human ingenuity can solve all ills. Some believe technology will...”
– Small Gods and the Art of Technology Innovation