This mini-paper was given at the Escapologies symposium, at Goldsmiths University, on the 5th of...

Socrates said, "The misuse of language induces evil in the soul." He wasn’t talking about grammar. To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking responsibility for what the words mean. Language used as a means to get power or make money goes wrong: it lies. Language used as an end in...

“I have not here been considering the literary use of language, but merely language as an instrument for expressing and not for concealing or preventing thought. Others have come near to claiming that all abstract words are meaningless, and have used this as a pretext for advocating a kind of political quietism. Since you don’t know what...

Humans can build spaceships and fly to the moon because they have a more advanced communication...

from neurons to self by Rodolfo R. Llinas This essay arose out of a set of talks given at The University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where Professor Glen Cottrell had graciously invited me to give the American Alumni Lectures in 1989. Little did I know then that St. Andrews would be back in my life, when, in 1998, my son...

Something from the Past-Future-Present. "Imagine, if you can, a small room, hexagonal in shape, like the cell of a bee. It is lighted neither by window nor by lamp, yet it is filled with a soft radiance. There are no apertures for ventilation, yet the air is fresh. There are no musical instruments, and yet, at the moment that my...

Jack A. Tuszynski (Ed.) "THE EMERGING PHYSICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS" Contents 1 The Path Ahead Jack A. Tuszynski, Nancy Woolf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 Definition and Fundamentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1.1 Definition of...

Smarter animals recognize themself in a mirror. Others see their reflection and act like its another animal. They hide their food, get ready for a fight, or run away for example. Monkeys are smart enough to act based on where others are looking. They value 1 of 2 boxes higher if a person appears to value it, and more often choose to open that...

t]he earth — the deterritorialized, the glacial, the giant molecule — is abody without...

This essay was originally published on my site: MachineMachine.net In two short essays –...

I am currently reading one of (probably) the best books in the hard sci-fi genre, it appears that...

(Below are some brief thoughts on the effects on creativity in the Information Age, taken from...

Zeesy Powers Zeesy Powers gave us some impressions on the following questions for the Future...

(The following is an excerpt from 'Contact' by Carl Sagan) “Do Buddhists believe in God,...

“Whether the cloud of alternatives that is yet hidden in our eyes; Whether the soft snow that...

Tonight, I see the Internet as a sort of controlled state of dreaming: directed, curated......

“Dear Mother Nature: Sorry to disturb you, but we humans—your offspring—come to you with...

September through December 2010 was my first semester of education since I left high school in 2007. In one of my courses, Contemporary Issues, I wrote a paper (a very short one) entitled "Why Computers Do Not," which was meant as a counter to the hopelessly superior article by Marvin Minsky of MIT "Why People Think Computers...

In this book, I discovered one of the most inspiring (fore)words in the area of BRAIN SCIENCE that swiftly explain consciousness as if it never represented much of a problem. I am sure you will enjoy. "Modeling Phase Transitions in the Brain" Editors: D. Alistair Steyn-Ross · Moira Steyn-Ross Early in the 19th century debates on...

The Gutenberg Bible, printed in 1455, was thought to be the world's first printed book, until a...

This article was originally published at 3quarksdaily and io9 Mid-way through H.G.Wells’ The...

Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler. --Albert Einstein E usually does not equal M C^2. Thats only when its not moving. The USA government learned that terrorists keep more secrets and try to have more privacy than people who are not terrorists. Therefore secrets and privacy are bad, so the USA government proceeded to build...

Sensation and Forces "Not to reproduce what we can already see, but to make visible what we cannot" (Paul Klee) The task of art, in all its forms, is to capture forces. Deleuze and Guattari say that this, ultimately, is what makes art abstract - the "summoning" and making visible of otherwise imperceptible forces (Deleuze...

The Elements and Movements in Bacon's Paintings "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportions" (Sir Francis Bacon) Deleuze distinguishes 3 pictorial elements in Bacon's paintings, which together constitute a highly precise system - the field that is the spatializing material structure, the...

Painting, Its Ways and Faces "The adventure of painting is that it is the eye alone that can attend to material existence or material presence [...]" (39). Deleuze relates to two definitions of painting - one by line and color, which is visual, and the other by trait and color-patch, which is manual. He then proceeds to...

A Short Introduction "If you don’t admire something, if you don’t love it, you have no reason to write a word about it". (Deleuze and Parnet, Dialogues, 144; in O'Sullivan, 5) Though it may not have been recognized as such at the time of its publication, today, The Logic of Sensation has come to be recognized as one of...

In this short (8 minutes) video, some people give out their short response to the question: What we...

Why do we place so much value on reading, writing and arithmetic? We have polarized our...

The material and the spiritual are so closely entwined in the human mind that making meaning for...

People are fascinated by language. An enormous amount has been discovered about language in...

What is the meaning of meaning? We can view meaning at two levels. First, it is a cognitive...

Information overload It is great to have access to huge amounts of information, but since we are...

Philosophers have long wondered about the connection between metaphor and thought:: "We...

i am desperate to find participants from the arts, design, architecture etc. communities....

Every moment of awareness is a pile of interpretations all in superposition. A single state of...

Spaceship Earth is a world view term usually expressing concern over the use of limited resources...

I rarely share CNN stuff; they suck in journalism. But this little window into Shishmaref, Alaska...

My Friend Pietro wrote me an e-mail this morning, just got the chance to read now: "Do...

I wrote this post last December but didn't publicly post it here. I don't why, other than I immensely hate facebook, I was ranting and thought I'll keep it to myself. But, appearing in this past year, there are already solutions to what I perceive to be internet problems (ie CargoCollective, Behance Network and Google Wave are three...

http://www.home-2009.com/us/index.html IN A FEW SHORT DECADES, HUMANITY HAS UPSET THE BALANCE...

A collection of essays by great thinkers and doers of the "third culture" in response to an annual question posed by Edge.

"There are certain writers whose thought is so important that it doesn't matter whether you...

Grapholectic Thought and the Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness --- published in full at...

"There's more time between Gobekli Tepe and the Sumerian clay tablets [etched in 3300...

The text below is an image of a Discursive (Hyper)text... Please click it to read the full,...

Documenting Graphic Language No.2 - Armin Hofmann "Critical thinking comes as a result of...