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The Sea of Thought
0. ab initio
about me
The Existence of Evil
1. Fundamentals
1.1. I'm dumb as an individual, but my culture makes me look smart.
1.2. Distinguishing knowledge from speculations - an individual task.
1.3. Science and aesthetics - two ways of knowing
1.4. Being at odds with society - a consequence of taking aesthetics seriously.
1.5. Aesthetics and objectivity
1.6. Conclusion
1.7. Why so boring?
2. Mystery
3. Consciousness and computers
Two ways of knowing
1. Illusions
0.001 1st Draft of "illusions"
0.002 2nd draft of "Illusions"
1.0 - 1st Truth - Clarity
2. The importance of being clear
0. Relation between clarity and truth
1.1. A wide notion of "clarity"...
1.2. Why should we care? Transparency as a requisite for conscious experience.
1.3. Clear enough to see the mysteries
1.3.1. (incomplete) The mystery of complexity
1.4. Clarity in free beings: the fruit of desire.
1.5. The importance of seeing the whole
2.1. Two kinds of desire - the role of beauty.
2.1.1. Desiring - the fruit of beauty and/or obedience
2.2. Breaking the bonds of society
2.3. A new vision of the present - importance and limits of the scientific approach
3. Being free
9. Things to do
3.1. Evolution - man and its place in nature
3.2. What can we know about the future of life?
3.2.1. Raymond Kurzweil and the idea of exponential evolutionary growth
3.2.2. the next few billion years
3.2.3. The John Lennon hypothesis
3.2.3. the next few million years
3.2.4. the next few hundred thousand years
3.2.5. Evolution in the short-run (less than a hundred thousand years)
3.2.6. The John Lennon hypothesis
3.2.7. Other topics
3.3. Being clear about the mystery of consciousness
3.3.1. The insolvable mystery
3.3.2. The current conundrum
3.3.4. Limits of contemporary language
3.3.4.1. Language limitations - things to do
3.3.4.2 - words and experiences
3.4. Love
3.5. Freedom / Spirituality
A word on religion
3.7
Speculating - The Creator and Receiver
zz bits and pieces (to be worked)
3. The future of life
0. Prologue
a note on randomness
social and technical development go hand in hand
5. Fermi Paradox and the singularity
A note about evolution
about the book " If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens - Where Is Everybody?"
books & articles
How travelling ETs would see us
A better man
A new language - brain to brain, direct communication
Communicating the world
Conquerors, lovers and idealists
Expanding the inner senses
hearts and brains
Mankind - 21st century - decay into war?
rift between man and nature
technology and beauty - the role of education in cultural beings
Tolerance and globalization
New bodies and minds
Threshold for "intelligence"
wyz Drafts Darwinian continuity and AI
Chalmers' article on the singularity
Different assumptions
z Speculations
Existence of the Soul
Immortality is trivially present in a materialist world
my Religion
Panpsychism
My conjecture on the immortality of the soul
The big picture of the Universe
zzz Other stuff
Cars
- how to buy a used car
batteries
Corsa B
Honda Civic
K&N filters
Interesting sites
Chalmers & The Singularity
current news
Google Talks!
Yale Open Courses
Robert Wyman on population growth
Shelly Kagan on Death
Other machines
reflections on movies and music
movies
5 dollars a day
500 days of Summer
A note on Star Wars
Adam Curtis : The Century of the Self
Bandidas
Corpse Bride
Creation (2009 film)
Gamer
Hereafter (2010)
In the Cut
Inception
Julie and Julia
Kubrick
Leaves of grass
Let me in (2010 movie)
Meet Moniva Velour
Nude Nuns with Big Guns
Rango (2011)
Robin Hood 2010
Sabrina 1995
Season of the Witch
Star Trek 2009
Taking lives
The Fall (2006 movie)
The Fountain
The human centipede
The lovely bones
The Rite
Thoughts on Peter Jackson's King Kong
Zeitgeist - a paradoxical movie
Zeitgeist - the real Zeitgeist
music
Guilherme da Luz - Transcendent Beauty
Piana (Naoko Sasaki) - Ephemeral
Regina Spektor - a cooler version of the World
Regina Spektor - Ode to divorce
Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd - 1975)
software & hardware
browsers
hdd
my new cpu
Ubuntu
Windows 7
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Cars
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