March 2012
59 posts
February 2012
48 posts
“About three years ago, I started an exercise in openness and inclusiveness to...”
– Marco Tempest: Augmented reality, techno-magic | Video on TED.com
“For some,I say, mirrors were a hieroglyph of truth, because they can reveal...”
– Scientia Catoptrica
"El movimiento se demuestra andando," we say in Spanish: You demonstrate movement by moving.
Carlos Fuentes
In 1562, King Philip II needed a miracle. So he...
“Taking technology developed at Yale, its three dimensional superconducting qubit...”
– IBM: We’re on the cusp of the Quantum Computing revolution (video) — Engadget
Speculative Realism Breaks Out, Breaks Philosophy?... →
‘Speaking crudely, the goal is to fashion a “transcendental materialism” that puts the continental tradition in a better position to engage with the evolving insights of experimental science (particularly cognitive science, biology, and physics), while revising the analytical tradition’s tendency to a “scientistic” and “naive” materialism. On the...
WatchCommissioned by The Popular Workshop this short documentary examines the work of Hunter Longe. Inspired by the visual by-products of magnetic data erasure – or degaussing, Longe investigates the idea of destruction as a medium for creation. Obscuration, negation, distortion and dematerialization become the formal and conceptual residue of this meta-magnetic, process-revealing installation that...
“To predict the future we need logic, but we also need faith and imagination,...”
– Sir Arthur Clarke, Profiles of the Future (1962)
“WHAT DAVID LYNCH IS REALLY LIKE
I HAVE NO IDEA.”
– IN WHICH NOVELIST David Foster Wallace VISITS THE SET OF DAVID LYNCH’S NEW MOVIE AND FINDS THE DIRECTOR BOTH grandly admirable AND sort of nuts
Lost Highway Article - Premiere Sept. 96
“A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however,...”
– Albert Camus (as quoted in Albert Camus : The Invincible Summer (1958) by Albert Maquet, p. 86)
Absurdism - Wikiquote
“The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
“The ultimate absurdity is now staring us in the face: a universal library of two...”
– Willard van Orman Quine, on the Universal Library
The Theory of Nothing was a book I published in 2006, in which I explored the consequences of assuming: Everything exists, and
The reality we observe must be compatible with our existence within that reality.
The title "Theory of Nothing'' came from the observation that the more inclusive a scientific theory, the less specific its predictions can be without additional ad hoc assumptions. The ultimate theory of everything is just a theory of nothing. Yet surprisingly, the theory in Theory of Nothing does have some explanatory and predictive properties, which follow from the second assumption, which links the laws of physics to the laws of psychology.
“When human consciousness becomes coherent and synchronized, the behavior of...”
– Global Consciousness Project — consciousness, group consciousness, mind
“Located within our Brooklyn office, the BFI Study Center serves as a public...”
– Study Center | The Buckminster Fuller Institute
“You may very appropriately want to ask me how we are going to resolve the...”
– Buckminster Fuller - Wikiquote
“This application swaps or hijacks the mouse control of two users when their...”
– Spooky!
“Some elementary logical facts are recalled, such as, that growing in space...”
– http://redshift.vif.com/JournalFiles/Pre2001/V00NO19PDF/NR19ANT.PDF
“The apeiron, from which the elements [are formed], is something that is...”
– Apeiron
The Scale of the Universe →
ontheunspeakable:
by Cary Huang
Alan Watts (1915-1973)
l0g:
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans f
