Erik Davis has had a lot of very interesting podcasts recently on his show, Expanding Mind. I recently enjoyed listening to the Mark Pesce and RU Sirius interviews as well as the one with Richard Doyle, professor of (science &) Rhetoric at Penn State and Berkely and author of On Beyond Living, Wetwares and soon to be published The Ecodelic Hypothesis: Plants, Rhetoric and the Evolution of The Noösphere.
Erik Davis’ Expanding Mind
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The map of the future
14 11 2009
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2009 Singularity Summit videos
3 11 2009Past few days I have been enjoying these really fascinating presentations from the 2009 Singularity summit. Some of this material is sheer brilliance and the subject matters discussed are immensely mind-expanding and thought-provoking:
life extension, Artificial General Intelligence, quantum computing, libertarian cyber-economics, mind-enhancement, human-computer interface, synthetic neurophotonics and the quantum correlates of consciousness!
24 talks and panels uploaded so far and more to come:
http://www.vimeo.com/siai/videos
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Huzzah!
30 10 2009Some cool science journalism this past week:
Smallest Electronic Component: Researchers Create Molecular Diode
Multiplying universes: How many is the multiverse?
Roger Penrose Says Physics Is Wrong, From String Theory to Quantum Mechanics
‘Magnetricity’ observed for first time
Rethinking relativity: Is time out of joint?
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Nanotech and the Yuga Cycles
11 08 2009Aerospace engineer and researcher of ancient religions, Boris Fritz, discusses the Yuga Cycles in this interesting 1/2 hour interview with Conscious Media Network:
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The AlloSphere: Stunning data visualization
18 04 2009JoAnn Kuchera-Morin demos the AlloSphere, an entirely new way to see and interpret scientific data, in full color and surround sound inside a massive metal sphere. Dive into the brain, feel electron spin, hear the music of the elements …
[7 min.]
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The Future of Energy: ‘Spintronics’
13 03 2009Yariv, a friend in San Francisco, clued me in on a breakthrough in magnetic materials that is sure to get quite a bit of attention in coming months. Apparently, physicists have developed a type of battery that generates electricity and potentially stores information without heat expenditure. Size-relative to conventional chemical batteries, these nano-based magnetic batteries produce hundreds of times more power and can be fully recharged in seconds. The implications for items such as cell-phones, hard-drives and cars are staggering.
Read the press release here.
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Beyond the crisis, mindboggling science and the arrival of Homo evolutis
22 02 2009MUST-SEE!
This is a comprehensive and thought-provoking 20 minute presentation by Juan Enriquez from the recent TED conference. He tells it like it is concerning the economic crisis and then takes us beyond to the volcano of technology that is about to erupt. With wit and levity Enriquez shows us what is happening in the fields of microbe, tissue and robotics engineering and how they are a part of the birth of a new animal: Homo evolutis.
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Quantum Biology and Non-local Linguistics
21 02 2009A meal for your mind: One article about the quantum correlates of consciousness and biosystems and another about the cognitive correlates of quantum theory.
Discover Magazine reports on sub-atomic behaviors such as the tunnel effect, entanglement and wave-function collapse being studied in the context of photosynthesis, smell, the life-extending properties of red wine, and consciousness.
With the advent of powerful new tools like femtosecond (10^-15 second) lasers and nanoscale-precision positioning, life’s quantum dance is finally coming into view.
And Physorg.com posted an intriguing article about modeling verbal communication with quantum theory.
Researchers from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia and the University of South Florida in the US have investigated the quantum nature of word associations and presented a simplified quantum model of a mental lexicon.
Later this year, the highly regarded Journal of Mathematical Psychology will publish a special issue of quantum models of cognition. In addition, quantum cognition is a prominent theme within the Quantum Interaction Symposia, which provide a forum for a growing body of researchers applying quantum theory to non-quantum domains.
Read full article here.
More links concerning quantum consciousness:
NeuroQuantology. An Interdiscipinary Journal of Neuroscience and Quantum Physics. (Archives available online)
Wiki: Quantum Mind
Previous post: Videos of Stuart Hameroff describing his work on quantum neurophysics with Roger Penrose.
Online books:
Mind, Matter, and Quantum Mechanics & Mindful Universe by Henry Stapp
and
The Emperor’s New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics & The Large, the Small and the Human Mind by Roger Penrose.
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Link Welding 1/5/09
5 01 2009A lot of science-focused media and journalism is biased for funding reasons. Those with advertisers (such as oil companies) don’t wish to disturb a sustaining market. Those without advertising are forced to accommodate easily to any prospective sponsors.
The online science news-wire, Physorg, however, has maintained a very unbiased stance towards the issues of pure and applied science.
Found on Physorg today:
A link in the chain of physical laws unhinged by modern physicists.
Flowers have an extra dimension of beauty for bees.
Nano sized workspace allows cells to fuse under researchers scrutiny. (Video included.)
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Alien Scientist
23 11 2008I just discovered this new Youtube series by Alien Scientist and I can fairly say my mind is officially blown! I haven’t seen anything this novel online since Jake Kotze and Steve Willner began making synchromysticism videos last year.
Alien Scientist shares with us the physical and scientific foundations for speculation and experimentation in antigravity, so-called ‘free-energy’, the Hutchinson Effect, space-time relativity, dimensionality, alien visitation, superferrofluids, quasi-crystal nanophotonics and everything in between. He seems to be educated in physics and does welcome critique, debate and discussion and presents the material in a straight-forward and accessible manner supported by an nice array of images and animations.
I have posted below the first of 14 (so far) videos he has uploaded in the past couple months. The link to all the videos, which are best seen sequentially, is HERE. Unfortunately the sound level in the second and third videos are barely audible, but the rest are fine.
Lots of info-jammed psychetainment here. Enjoy.
Link to all videos: AlienScientist
Alien technology 101:
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Buckypaper Planes
20 10 2008Remember the future? Well, its back. Physorg reports that FSU reseachers used high magnetism to cause carbon nanotubes to line up in the same direction, increasing their collective strength.
Buckypaper is 10 times lighter but potentially 500 times stronger than steel when sheets of it are stacked and pressed together to form a composite. Unlike conventional composite materials, though, it conducts electricity like copper or silicon and disperses heat like steel or brass.
The uses of such a material nearly boundless; from batteries and TV screens to low-weight EM interference shielding, computer heat sinks, automobiles and aerospacecrafts.
On the origin of bukminsterfullerene & carbon nanotubes:
The scientific discovery that led to buckypaper virtually came from outer space.
In 1985, British scientist Harry Kroto joined researchers at Rice for an experiment to create the same conditions that exist in a star. They wanted to find out how stars, the source of all carbon in the universe, make the element that is a main building block of life.
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The surprise guest was a molecule with 60 carbon atoms shaped like a soccer ball. To Kroto, it also looked like the geodesic domes promoted by Buckminster Fuller, an architect, inventor and futurist. That inspired Kroto to name the new molecule buckminsterfullerene, or “buckyballs” for short.
Read full article HERE.
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