January 2011
“Not only have we no idea what conscious ‘is,’ we have no idea what...”
– What Is Consciousness? A Hypothesis : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR
“There are two kinds of games in the universe: finite games and infinite games. A...”
– Kevin Kelly
“Storytelling isn’t just how we construct our identities, stories are our...”
– Our stories, ourselves
“Don Tapscott: Designing your mind
Says Don Tapscott: The existence of lifelong...”
– Sentient Developments: Don Tapscott: Designing your mind
listening to "Teitur - Let →
If you’ve never heard Teitur, now’s the moment..
“Our Baudrillardian hyper-reality is one in which world-altering inventions must...”
– grinding.be » Blog Archive » The future is here, but it’s incomplete
“The moral urgency of using biotech to eradicate suffering should be carefully...”
– Superhappiness ?
“Is the future of mood and motivation in the universe destined to be an endless...”
– An information-theoretic perspective on life in Heaven
“If someone offered you a pill that would make you permanently happy, you would...”
– Professor Daniel Gilbert Department of Psychology, Harvard University
An information-theoretic perspective on life in Heaven
“As he looked round, Feinberg’s eyes came to rest on a nearby plaque...”
– University of David: Variety is the key to survival in a changeable world – and evolution may have come up with an extraordinary way of generating more variety
“Existentialism is a Cyborg
In technical rather than common usage, the term...”
– Jamreilly: Existentialism is a Cyborg.
“The crux of Agar’s argument is that humanity is intrinsically valuable from a...”
– well worth reading even if you disagree
Book review: Nicholas Agar’s Humanity’s End
“Innovation has always been a group activity. The myth of the lone genius having...”
– TED Curator Chris Anderson on Crowd Accelerated Innovation | Magazine
“Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural...”
– The Transhuman Security Dilemma
“Here are three predictions about life one thousand years from now:
1) Suffering...”
– The Reproductive Revolution: selection pressure in a Post-Darwinian World
“People are always amazed by how much “free time” I have. They’re also amazed...”
– Robert Wenzlaff (via xixidu)
“For Deleuze, “a life” is pure immanence. It is immanence that is in itself; a...”
– Toward a Post-Human Political Theory: Deleuze, Guattari, and Disability Studies – Pt. 2. Sub Specie Aeterni
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“Let’s begin by considering two facts. The first is that the famous art historian...”
– Bernard Stiegler: “Economic prosperity relies on creativity” | 2010LAB
“Substance turns round the modes when it ceases to be a being, ceases to have an...”
– Deleuze, Spinoza and Univocity. Deontologistics
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“As Prof Haggard says: “I think [when we refer to “free will”] what...”
– Neuroscience and free will: when definitions become important – Telegraph Blogs