I’m not a particular regular updater with this particular blog (too many things have been demanding my attention lately), but I thought I’d drop a note to say I’ll be off the radar for a week or so…
I’ll be attending Burning man. I’m immensely looking forward to this as this is the first year in […]

Prompted by reading a chapter on Zen in “Gödel, Escher, Bach”:
Zen seems to be a sort of holism to the extreme… dissolving the self to become one with the universe and achieve enlightenment.
In some ways I see the use for this viewpoint while meditating and as a relaxation technique. In particular the concept that all […]

What ever Tyler Durden from Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club may say, I am a beautiful and unique snowflake.
You see, your reality is your delusion. Whatever your outlook on life, yourself, or others, it’ll always be subjective. You may align your outlook with thousands or millions of other human beings, but their observation of the universe […]

This is my hypothesis. The mind is not a object but a process, it takes information from the outside world and transforms it into pattern. That pattern is not the mind, it’s just the way the mind sustains itself from moment to moment. That pattern still exists when you die, albeit temporarily until decay sets […]

SIAI and OpenCog are recruiting people for Google Summer of Code. GSoC is a program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects.
Want to work on AI/language-processing over the Northern Hemisphere summer? Here are some of the ideas for projects proposed. Applications to Google open on the 24th of March.

Reading an interesting article by Kurmo Konsa, “Artificialisation Of Culture: Challenges to and from Posthumanism”. I particularly like the following quote, because it summarises a bit about me. I’ve always identified with being a transhumanist (even if the methods of improvement available right now are somewhat crude) but at the same time I’ve had flirtations […]