Category: Reality
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Past, present, future...
A smart application for phones, combining photos you take with pictures from the same place from the past. A smart application for phones, teaching philosophy... Photographs of the past, photographs of the present. (1, 2, 3) We walk next to everyone. The past, present, future - ideas in your brain. Next to your car there…
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Mapping a brain. Infinite level of analysis. Monads. Decisions...
Mapping the human brain is a noble goal, but a rather ill-defined one. It’s like making a map of the United States. You could just show political boundaries and the locations of cities. Or you might depict geographical features like mountains and rivers. Or transportation routes, like interstate highways and railroad tracks. You might even…
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Soap bubbles, patterns, One, infinite...
Soap bubble storm. (1) Self-repeating patterns are everywhere. The unity of the cosmos cries out its existence in every aspect of the cosmos, in every detail we see. But we are just too reluctant to acknowledge it. The idea seems absurd. Could everything be One? Could we be seeing the same things over and over…
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I am God. I am God. I am God! [augmented reality]
I slip on the virtual reality headset, expecting the real world to vanish. Instead, something odd happens: I can still see the room I'm in, but it's slightly blurry. I look down at my body – everything's where it should be. With the click of a button the floor suddenly becomes cluttered with virtual objects…
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I hear you... I hear you... YES, I see you!
"I told my daughter her living room TV was out of sync. Then I noticed the kitchen telly was also dubbed badly. Suddenly I noticed that her voice was out of sync too. It wasn't the TV, it was me." PH is the first confirmed case of someone who hears people speak before registering the…
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