By James Kent,
posted on November 14, 2012
As someone who writes regularly on aspects of the brain and consciousness, I have recently received a large amount of correspondence from people wondering what I think about a news article linking consciousness to quantum gravity in cellular microtubules, and how this model could offer “proof” of the soul’s ability to survive outside the body [...]
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By Valkyrie Ice,
posted on November 11, 2012
As I was doing my daily random browsing of interesting links, I came across a very interesting article by Mark Bruce, one of my regular readers and commenters, which had a huge list of links related to quadcopters and other “drones” that covered a very broad range of advances over the last couple of years. [...]
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By R.U. Sirius,
posted on November 9, 2012
The following is a rough draft excerpt from Chapter Six — titled “Funky Punky Acid Rag” of the book in progress, Use Your Hallucinations: MONDO 2000 In Late 20th Century Cyberculture along with a link to the first glimpse of the MONDO 2000 History Project archives, being organized by the Internet Archive. We did a [...]
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By Valkyrie Ice,
posted on November 7, 2012
“Why am I here?” I asked myself for the twentieth time in the last hour. I felt like a fool. Why had I allowed Shasta to talk me into this? An idle fantasy? A chance to escape the humdrum daily grind and allow myself the freedom of just being myself? This was crazy. It was [...]
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By R.U. Sirius,
posted on November 4, 2012
Humanity Plus is sponsoring a conference on “Writing The Future” in San Francisco on December 1 – 2. Among those presenting are Aubrey de Grey, Natasha Vita-More, Jamais Casio, Ben Goertzel, Max More, Sonia Arrison and David Brin. Oh, and me. I’m looking forward to it. I interviewed Natasha Vita-More, Chairman of Humanity Plus, about [...]
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By R.U. Sirius,
posted on November 2, 2012
Pull quotes from Reality Hackers #5 (the follow up to High Frontiers #4) …a vast molten core of the phantastical and absurd, an Agartha or never-neverland of the imagination where oxymorons walk hand in glove with palpable metaphors. R.U. Sirius & Queen Mu …cut the shit. Listen, if there’s a breakthrough in the grey room, [...]
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