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Way Beyond Human: Is Freedom So Important? Part 1

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Consciousness, evolution, singularity. Thursday, 21 January 2010. Is Freedom So Important? Natural selecton is an explosion of evitability". So said Daniel Dennett. To duck, to avoid being hit by a flying spear. Evitability in this case, Dennett explains, is synonymous with avoidability. If something is 'inevitable' then it is 'unavoidable'. Thus further problems arise when you talk about the future as being inevitable. rather it should be individual events that should be assessed as avoidabl...Causality...

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Way Beyond Human: The Window To The Soul

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Consciousness, evolution, singularity. Wednesday, 24 February 2010. The Window To The Soul. The face in particular is a crucial focal point, especially given that we tend to be drawn to facial reactions when we converse. The eyes are apparently the windows to the soul; and a simple bite of one's lip can give the impression that you are totally blown away by what you are hearing, in a way that words alone never could. This site, on Vedic face reading. This works fine if there is indeed an immovable, indub...

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Way Beyond Human: Generative Aesthetics

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Consciousness, evolution, singularity. Sunday, 24 January 2010. I've recently become a little bit obsessed with Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers' iPhone app Trope. This beautiful little piece of generative software. In the case of Trope. And other generative programmes, we are watching evolution take place before our eyes and ears in the digital realm and we feel instantly attuned to its progress, if unaware of the intricacies of the processes running in the background; and thus unable to predict what will h...

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Way Beyond Human: The Problem Of Thought

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Consciousness, evolution, singularity. Friday, 29 January 2010. The Problem Of Thought. But who could possibly say where one ends and the next begins? Thinkers from Plato onwards have grappled with the implications of qualia. But have never managed to fully tie this expression down. About other things. Not being able to imagine or visualise thoughts as distinct units of the mental process means that we can not visualise how they might link and merge to form part of the spectrum of consciousness; at l...

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Thinking about Technology in Education: Judge says Facebook’s Like button is not free speech | Marketplace from American Public Media

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Thinking about Technology in Education. Using technology in the classroom comes with some drawbacks. These are my thoughts of those drawbacks and what we can do about them. Monday, May 7, 2012. Judge says Facebook’s Like button is not free speech Marketplace from American Public Media. Is the person expressing an opinion by doing so? This is another great example of how what was thought to be a seemingly simple, private act carried out on a social network has come back to hurt someone. Check it out.

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The Cosmist: January 2011

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Contemplations from the shore of the cosmic ocean. Saturday, January 29, 2011. Surviving the Cosmic Terminators. SN 1572: this famous "cosmic terminator" appeared in the skies in 1572. Fortunately it originated 7500 light years away, so its radiation was safely out of lethal range of Earth! In addition to my usual Cosmist philosophical ramblings, I want to start discussing more hard scientific research on this blog. An Astrophysical Explanation for the Great Silence. Ie the Fermi Paradox. 450 million yea...

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The Cosmist: November 2012

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Contemplations from the shore of the cosmic ocean. Monday, November 26, 2012. A Dark Cosmist Observation. For today's Observation I'd like to take a walk on the dark side and share a few videos with a Dark Cosmist. Feel I find these videos stunning; for me they evoke the spirit of cosmicism beautifully: Awe and terror at the vast, alien Cosmos. Play these on full screen with headphones and enjoy! Friday, November 23, 2012. The Two Schools of Cosmism. 8220;We live on a placid island of ignorance in the mi...

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The Cosmist: A Dark Cosmist Observation

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Contemplations from the shore of the cosmic ocean. Monday, November 26, 2012. A Dark Cosmist Observation. For today's Observation I'd like to take a walk on the dark side and share a few videos with a Dark Cosmist. Feel I find these videos stunning; for me they evoke the spirit of cosmicism beautifully: Awe and terror at the vast, alien Cosmos. Play these on full screen with headphones and enjoy! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A Dark Cosmist Observation. The Two Schools of Cosmism. View my complete ...

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The Cosmist: The Two Schools of Cosmism

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Contemplations from the shore of the cosmic ocean. Friday, November 23, 2012. The Two Schools of Cosmism. As I see it, there are two main schools of Cosmist thought, which I like to call “Light Cosmism” and “Dark Cosmism” (aka "Cosmicism"). To better understand these schools, I offer the stirring words of four great cosmic thinkers who capture the spirit of each side: Carl Sagan and Marshall Savage vs. H.P. Lovecraft and Friedrich Nietzsche:. 8211;H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu. 8220;The human race w...