April 2011
20 posts
“We are all curious collages, weird little planetoids that grow by accreting...”
– Douglas Hofstadter
Can We Develop and Test Machine Minds and Uploads Ethically?
(via wildcat2030)
“And more and more my language appears to me like a veil which one has to tear...”
– Samuel Beckett, 1937 from The Letters * (Thank you, billyjane)
“How can there be laughter, how can there be pleasure, when the whole world is...”
– The Dhammapada (via taynosaurus)
Age of Reason: How Thinking Can Change the Brain →
ageofreason:
Although science and religion are often in conflict, the Dalai Lama takes a different approach. Every year or so the head of Tibetan Buddhism invites a group of scientists to his home in Dharamsala, in Northern India, to discuss their work and how Buddhism might contribute to it.
In 2004 the…
“The thought manifests as the word;
The word manifests as the deed;
The deed...”
– The Dhammapada (via ageofreason)
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the...”
– Rilke (via aperfectcommotion)
“I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of...”
– http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19990808/REVIEWS08/908080301/1023
“Man the food-gatherer reappears incongruously as information-gatherer. In this...”
– The Technium: Proverbs of St. McLuhan (via wildcat2030)
“Life is so much luck. And people are so frightened to admit that. They want to...”
– Woody Allen (via kateoplis)
There is a two way street between chance and choice. It is true, total control is an illusion, but we do decide how to act. We must take ownership of our lives, through both bad and good. The world is seldom fair, we can only strive to create a better one through our...
