January 2012
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“What are they for…
pictures of stars,
of people bursting into stars,...”
– I’ll take the Universe, and nothing less.
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Matter Compiler →
matter compiler molecular assembler alchemy nanotechnology
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The matter compiler is a wonderful idea… but, and this is no flaw, it’s entirely unsurprising… I was happy to find it in The Diamond Age because I’d been thinking about re-assembling and assembling since the first inklings of understanding I had about physics — of course you’d get there. Knowing...
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The Operating System →
now with better code & new text — instructions & info. new visualizations coming soon.
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A Momentary Flow: Sci-Fi-Infused Videos Show Off... →
wildcat2030:
Via Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the future We are living in the future — Keiichi Matsuda knows that. Working from London and Tokyo, the 27-year-old designer and filmmaker creates innovative videos that blend architecture, virtual reality, social networking and sci-fi, offering a…
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““The way we experience space is no longer only about our physical surroundings;...”
– Sci-Fi-Infused Videos Show Off Keiichi Matsuda’s Vision of the Future | Underwire | Wired.com (via wildcat2030)
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OS: We need visions for much more than just augmented reality…
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“My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish...”
– Isidor Isaac Rabi
(via scienceisbeauty)
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“If you were standing at arm’s length from someone and each of you had one...”
– Richard Feynman (via physicsphysics)
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“In 5-billion yrs the Sun will expand & engulf our orbit as the charred ember...”
– astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on Twitter five minutes ago.* (via washingtonpoststyle)
*23 hours ago, as of now.
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PIPA & SOPA: dropped.
email from Tiffiniy Cheng of FightForTheFuture.org:
Hi everyone! A big hurrah to you!!!!! We’ve won for now — SOPA and PIPA were dropped by Congress today — the votes we’ve been scrambling to mobilize against have been cancelled. The largest online protest in history has fundamentally changed the game. You were heard. On January 18th, 13 million of us took the time to tell Congress...
sinribbon asked: As for the vegetative state, the brain cannot support the body, and the individual is put on life support. I don't think it can be deduced whether the mind remains or doesn't. Perhaps the vessel, i.e. the brain and body, the mind uses is simply too damaged to communicate. Perhaps the mind has left. Perhaps the mind has died. Is brain damage synonymous with death of the mind?
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How To: Display Art in a Gallery?
Does anyone have ideas about displaying works on paper (prints, drawings) inexpensively but professionally (no foam, etc.), for a gallery show?
(especially for “odd” sizes that aren’t easily framed w/o a custom job)
Ideas so far: • matte-less & frame-less hanging w/ binder/bulldog clips • plexiglas “floating” (sandwiched btwn 2 sheets of plexi, which are bolted...
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“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into...”
– Arthur C. Clarke
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…a conflict between (all of) our (historical, space-) time and our (American, mostly) culture: the latter seems to want and reward democracy, equality to the point of flatness, to be down-to-earth and to savor “the little things”. But our time is like the magnified landscape of space-time, of quantum foam! It’s turbulent, in flux, out — past the clouds even — in the cosmos!...
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abstractcolor asked: I know that your statements weren't meant as fact. Just trying to lend help to the pursuit of understanding :). We call dead bodies "bodies," is what I meant. So the function of being alive and having a mind isn't intrinsic to the property of being a body, or even a brain, but rather is one state that the body can be in. And maybe to separate being alive from having a mind,...
abstractcolor asked: I just meant to propose some counter-examples for your ideas, to test/refine them. There are cases where the body(/machine) exists but the mind(/self) doesn't, and therefore the mind and body are not synonymous, is what I meant to suggest. I could be wrong, if you meant within the definition of body that the parts are all functioning together in the way that we call being alive, in the way to...
abstractcolor asked: I'm not sure it is whole-earth-cultural. Historically there was a time before science held such sway. And a lot of philosophers shun inductive reasoning and think that deduction is the only path to real knowledge. Descartes, for one, brought legitimately skeptical views to the idea that we could trust our senses. And by perfect I mean all the parts in all the right places-- like dead...
abstractcolor answered your question: Notes: A Question (for the Operating System)
Is a focus on inductive pursuit of knowledge a cultural norm? And a perfect human body can exist without a functioning mind/person.
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Earth-cultural, yes. It’s how we creatures navigate on this planet.
What is a perfect human body? How do you mean, without a mind/person — if we agree that a mind is...
Anonymous asked: Hello Olena :) Firstly, I'd like to thank you for being a constant source of inspiration. To this day, when the subject of Art arises, I refer to you as one of my favorite artists, not only for aesthetic reasons, but for the depth, meaning and thought associated.. Secondly, I am also interested in physics but I have never really known where to begin to grasp the basic foundations. What would...
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““It is unlikely to do anything interesting just now,” Hackworth said. “It won’t...”
– Niel Stephenson from The Diamond Age, or a Young Girl’s Illustrated Primer (via notthisbody)
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“We are neural beings,” states Berkeley cognitive scientist George Lakoff. “Our...”
– Brainy Trees, Metaphorical Forests: On Neuroscience, Embodiment, and Architecture | Neuroanthropology (via wildcat2030)
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Notes: A Question (for the Operating System)
How do we improve scientific literacy, prompt curiosity?
Then, once we accept our particle-based selves (the fact that we are made of star stuff), what does it mean for humans/Earth-beings/conscious partakers? How do we (scientifically-literate humans) proceed? Answers? (t.b.c) —› We become more aware of the changeability, the rearrange-ability, of our bodies, and thus, our cultures, beliefs,...
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The Bionic City →
Nature’s architects build ecosystems with acute sensitivity to their surroundings. Without fail they build potential disaster scenarios into their plans, taking a pro-active, as opposed to a reactive approach and carefully tailoring the scale of their efforts to the probability of the event to hand. Nature doesn’t work in silos, it thinks big, indeed so big that there is even a species of...
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Design Science →
Design Science is a problem solving approach which entails a rigorous, systematic study of the deliberate ordering of the components in our Universe. Fuller believed that this study needs to be comprehensive to gain a global perspective when pursuing solutions to problems humanity is facing. “The function of what I call design science is to solve problems by introducing into the...
mindsurge asked: As an artist, have you ever used any forms of substances (hallucinogenic) to induce further creativity?
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“…it’s almost useless for non-creative types to try to provide exegesis for...”
– Dan Schneider, 6.6.03 “Breaking Down Julian Jaynes: A Review of The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind” { cosmoetica }
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I’d replace “complexity of” with something like “impractical-explorative”, or remove it.
A...
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