August 2010
4 posts
WatchTardigotchi, alife + microbiological organism = new kind of pet?
“Psychologists had spent decades searching for traits that exist independently of...”
– The Personality Paradox | Wired Science | Wired.com (via wildcat2030) (via olena)
July 2010
9 posts
“Technology is weaving humans into electronic webs that resemble big brains —...”
– Building One Big Brain « KurzweilAI (via smarterplanet)
Watchnonsensefilter:
TEDTalk Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different?
Martian Time-Slip, A Sonnet by Space Canon →
sciencefiction:
Canals lie void of water in the dust, This is the dream…to stand here and see this: See old men die wrapped up in tubes and rust. A home on Mars. Beyond it, space, abyss.
Reality inside the schizoid mind? Through blight and death, decrepitude and mold, A child alone to future isn’t blind. His madness lets him see himself grow old.
Beneath each man a horrible machine; At...
They're Made Out of Meat, by Terry Bisson →
sciencefiction:
“Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?”
“Stewart Brand writes that “Science is the only news. When you scan through a...”
– THE THIRD CULTURE (via myserendipities) (via wildcat2030) (via olena)
“When you ride in a boat and watch the shore, you might assume that the shore is...”
– DŌGEN (via hypnoticyogi) (via fuckyeahzenmind)
“Literature says nothing to those human beings who are satisfied with their lot,...”
– Mario Vargas Llosa, “Why Literature?” (via krishva) (via awritersruminations) (via teachingliteracy) (via booklover) (via lightintherabbithole)
I have never read a better stated manifesto of literature lovers. To truly read a narrative, is to become the narrator (or the narrative itself).
“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to...”
– Bill Hicks (via cammyyy) (via iamnothingami)
June 2010
2 posts
April 2010
2 posts
“Our mind opens
Like a lotus to a central star
We feel the water surrounding us...”
– Inside the Hive Mind: Log 0.2 by Andy Hoyt
“We feel time continuous
Always recording as it occurs
We watch from multiple...”
– Inside the Hive Mind: Log 0.1 by Andy Hoyt
February 2010
1 post
October 2009
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April 2009
2 posts
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