December 2011
1 post
Sentience Engineering
The brain is the seat of human intelligence. How are memories stored? How are decisions made? How do we decipher the wiring schemes of the brain as compared to a computer? How do we make brains more like computers, and computers more like brains? These questions stand defiant and notorious, yet simple, belying their audacity to seize the Earth’s helm from God and tack upwind into...
January 2011
1 post
I lift my lungs in song.
My sweat transfers heat from my smooth skin as the war symphonies thunder around me. My tribe’s armies wield music to enlighten, and weapons to advance. The All-Being Muse shall advance, always advance, and may the blood of the resistance stain our boots and strings. I lift my lungs in song.
November 2010
1 post
Nested Chaos
Not {in} the fire but {of} it; Order contains Chaos that forges new Order that allows new Chaos; negative entropy is this grudging teamwork; order and chaos refine their opposites, and thereby, themselves.
April 2010
1 post
Metaverse Dial
I had a dream once where I was given an overview of the Metaverse. There was an old-fashioned radio with two dials. One dial, when turned, zoomed my perspective in and out, from human scale eyesight to muscular landscapes to cellular processes to atomic ka-jiggery and back. The other dial, when turned, put me in new universes. Think, I don’t know, Lovecraft but faster? After spending hours...
February 2010
2 posts
“Thoughts are like salmon,
jumping up the great river of solar...”
– Plurinshael
On The University: Universe-City
Imagine a knowledge plantation. Not the kind of plantation with slaves, however. In fact, with no paid laborers of any kind. Where all work is divided equally between students, faculty, and administration. That is free of monetary charge, and is not-for-profit. That grows all its own food and produces all its own energy. Where raising and slaughtering livestock, tending and harvesting fields,...