(this is my final paper for cybernetics class and for graduate school. it is a theoretical metalogue between myself and gregory bateson. many of his phrases and passages are pulled directly from the book Steps To An Ecology of Mind) vm: i want to understand the ecology of mind, how it works. I want to understand how technology is...

[Cross-posted from Humanity + Magazine.] Emergent technologies often inspire great excitement...

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mapping emotional tendencies and fluctuations, from and of, content produced online is an...

Preface The creative process emerged with the writing of Montevideo, here on Space...

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Intelligence-community is describing the interconnection of artifical intelligence, natural...

My full-length article "FutureSelf: Emerging digitized life patterns and a personal future...

2 players each have 1 coin. Each round of the game, each player secretly lays their coin down heads...

(Part 5 in the series: Mind, the need for a new model) Does consciousness have a shape? It...

As I listen to Ruben Blades haunting rendition of Patria, I hear the gratitude he feels to those who have gone before, whose efforts have made the comforts and pleasures we enjoy, and whose labours, inspiration and invention we use in our efforts to improve this world and to contribute our gifts in the most effective way we can. Even in this...

“In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of...

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"We are as gods, and we might as well get good at it." Stewart Brand There is much...

“The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. “ Paul...

How do we make sense of our futures? How do we experience the presence of multiple possible...

Possible New Careers Emerging from Advances in Science and Technology (2010 – 2030) Final...

Monica Anderson explains. Reductionism is an amazingly powerful strategy for leveraging...

This is one of 50 posts about cyborgs - a project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coining of the term. CC image from mondi. “He would see faces in movies, on T.V., in magazines, and in books. He thought that some of these faces might be right for him...” The word “cybernetic” derives from a Latin word, kybernetes,...

The meaning of ku, which is a part of the Buddhist concept of Three Truths (Ke, Ku and...

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The source of the term Journal for the Traction TeamPage database is Douglas Engelbart's NLS...

by George Por : As the CI meme is spreading fast online and off-line, so is the range of significance associated with it. For some, it is the ‘wisdom of crowds,’ for others it is the inter-subjective field of energy that comes into being when people interact from a position beyond ego—to name two of the popular branches of CI. Each of...

The first people to live on the sixth moon of Jupiter were the painters of Europa. They followed a...

Between 30 June - 2 July, a group of researchers, scientists, scholars and an artist met at the Korea Institute of Technology in Saarbruchen, Germany for the Human Document Project. The three day event, organized by Dr. Andreas Manz, was an intensive programme of presentations, brain-storming sessions and more presentations (followed by good food...

This is an explosive seed regarding the evolution of your superhuman powers. Very soon we will...

by Leon Tan and Tomas Skovgaard Mixed Reality Publics Networked publics are mixed reality...

Medium Size PS symbol. The power of positive thinking.... "Hope"...

Models vs. Patterns by Monica Anderson Grasping how things are. Why understanding comes first,...

Hans Rosling, genius of data visualization at Gapminder leads us to grasp surprising big data and...

"If anybody wants to access your time or knowledge or influence, they would have to pay for it...

Illustration by Charles Glaubitz The object as product. The time of the product as merely the...

DARPA is USA's military's advanced technology department. There's a lot of geniuses working...

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The first decade of the 21st century is about to end in just a few weeks. Among many things, I find most impacting the explosion of knowledge in the field of brain sciences and human behavior in this decade. Though the great riddles of consciousness and the emergence of minds from brains are still open and far from any solution, many connections...

Kevin Kelly, author, Out of Control Chapter 2: HIVE MIND - The collective intelligence of a...

"Collective Intelligence (CI) is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate, and invent." - Pierre Levy + James Surowiecki + Mark Tovey I wrote a post a few days ago, Is Twitter a Complex Adaptive System?, that proposed the idea that Twitter may be evolving into an entity of...

"Toward a Civilization of Collective Intelligence" identifies the most important changes...

I'm sure many of you know about the great mathematician, Paul Erdos, and may have heard this story about him (from Wikipedia): His colleague Alfréd Rényi said, "a mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems", and Erdős drank copious quantities. (This quotation is often attributed incorrectly to Erdős himself.)[6] ...

Plug n' play. Content —> Form (structure) —> Aesthetics —> Meaning —>...

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The following lines originate from a discussion that sparked with Kurt, following an article...

Most people do not understand PLUS and MULTIPLY when they see them in things they use almost...