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• Metafilter MeFi: Some People Can't See Mental Images - The Consequences Are Profound Aphantasia - an interesting variant in human experience (New Yorker archive link) Nick knew that whenever Zeman talked about aphantasia he was at pains to emphasize that it was not a disorder, or even a bad thing... Some people he interviewed were unbothered—there…

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• Bookmark Why making if-then connections might be the key to consciousness | Aeon…

  As recently as just a few decades ago, the interconnected web of experiences, thoughts and emotions known as a ‘stream of consciousness’ was widely believed to belong to humans alone. A…

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• Bookmark Why making if-then connections might be the key to consciousness | Aeon…

  As recently as just a few decades ago, the interconnected web of experiences, thoughts and emotions known as a ‘stream of consciousness’ was widely believed to belong to humans alone. A…

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• Reddit Can anyone suggest me a book wherein a character undergoes a SLOW/ GRADUAL permanent transformation into a creature/animal/monster/ hybrid I've seen my fair share of novels wherein characters transform into werewolves or animals but the transformations I've encountered almost always seems to happen rather instantaneously and in the case of shapeshifters, well they could always revert back to their human forms so…

  January 1 2021, 11:03pm | Comments

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• Podcast Cache AI Is A Growing Part Of The Criminal Justice System. Should We…

  From facial recognition to emotion detection to risk assessments, AI is guiding the decisions of police departments and courtrooms across the country. https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/artificial-intelligence-is-a-growing-part-of-the-criminal-justice-system-should-we-be-worried/

  September 15 2019, 3:49pm | Comments

• Bookmark Press can compare parrots to psychopaths, regulator rules | Media | The…

  British newspapers can legitimately mock parrots and compare them to psychopaths, the press regulator has ruled, after an unsuccessful complaint that the Daily Star misrepresented the emotions of a pet bird.

  August 21 2019, 4:08am | Comments

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  October 19 2017, 8:22am | Comments

• Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

  July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

  February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: "Where's My Cut?": On Unpaid Emotional Labor Housework is not work. Sex work is not work. Emotional work is not work. Why? Because they don't take effort? No, because women are supposed to provide them uncompensated, out of the goodness of our hearts.

  July 15 2015, 3:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark Four Notes Towards Post-Digital Propaganda | post-digital-research

  “Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments and to integrate the individual into a technological world” (Ellul xvii). How might future research into digital…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Metaphors: Editor’s Introduction | Alluvium

  Metaphor wants to be… ‘[...] metaphors work to change people’s minds. Orators have known this since Demosthenes. [...] But there’s precious little evidence that they tell you what people think. [...]…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Big Things & Little Things | ‘Digital’ in the arts

  So, returning to an old subject, about which I’ve got very annoyed in the past. Last week Arts Council England (ACE) published the second version of their 10-year strategic framework for…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 8:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

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• Vimeo

  August 1 2013, 6:17am | Comments

• Projects Nicolas Cage is one of the most versatile actors of all time

  April 28 2013, 7:53am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Lovely Lustig Latency

  April 11 2013, 6:26am | Comments

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  March 1 2013, 7:34am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Our usage of the word ‘objectivity’ (French objectivite; German Objektivitdt) is hopelessly but..."

  “Our usage of the word ‘objectivity’ (French objectivite; German Objektivitdt) is hopelessly but revealingly confused. It refers at once to metaphysics, to methods, and to morals. We slide effortlessly from statements about the ‘objective truth’ of a scientific claim, to those about the ‘objective…

  October 24 2012, 5:33am | Comments

• Bookmark The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation

  In proposing the imitation game as a stand-in for another definition of thought or intelligence, Turing does more than deliver a clever logical flourish that helps him creatively answer a very…

  July 19 2012, 8:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Face-reading software to judge the mood of the masses

  Systems that can identify emotions in images of faces might soon collate millions of peoples' reactions to events and could even replace opinion polls IF THE computers we stare at all…

  May 30 2012, 1:55am | Comments

• Bookmark What Makes Sushi Great?

  Sushi, of course, is the ultimate in simple food: mostly just rice and a piece of raw fish, it would seem that anyone with a knife and one functioning hand can…

  March 15 2012, 5:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  In the very near future the act of remembering will become a choice.

  February 18 2012, 6:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The God gap

  January 28 2012, 10:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Is mental time travel what makes us human?

  A stonishing animals show up everywhere these days. Cooperative apes, grief-stricken elephants, empathetic cats and dogs crowd our bookshop shelves. It’s all the rage to plumb the cognitive and emotional depths…

  October 28 2011, 10:32am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke The Creators Project interview: Sing Glitchy Karaoke Over The Web

  October 19 2011, 3:14am | Comments

• Bookmark Music moved on after modernism, but whatever happened to fiction?

  The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy – rather like a long-term marriage. At the securely…

  October 12 2011, 9:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Explain yourself: George-Lakoff, cognitive linguist

  As part of our research on explanatory journalism, we’re interviewing experts in fields outside journalism about their approaches to explaining complex systems to non-specialtists. Our first expert is cognitive linguist George Lakoff,…

  February 4 2011, 2:26am | Comments

• Bookmark What the science of human nature can teach us

  We are living in the middle of a revolution in consciousness. Over the past few decades, geneticists, neuroscientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists, and others have made great strides in understanding the inner…

  January 13 2011, 2:17am | Comments

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• Metafilter MeFi: Some People Can't See Mental Images - The Consequences Are Profound Aphantasia - an interesting variant in human experience (New Yorker archive link) Nick knew that whenever Zeman talked about aphantasia he was at pains to emphasize that it was not a disorder, or even a bad thing... Some people he interviewed were unbothered—there…

  November 8 2025, 2:59pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why making if-then connections might be the key to consciousness | Aeon…

  As recently as just a few decades ago, the interconnected web of experiences, thoughts and emotions known as a ‘stream of consciousness’ was widely believed to belong to humans alone. A…

  December 12 2022, 6:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Why making if-then connections might be the key to consciousness | Aeon…

  As recently as just a few decades ago, the interconnected web of experiences, thoughts and emotions known as a ‘stream of consciousness’ was widely believed to belong to humans alone. A…

  December 12 2022, 1:53am | Comments

• YouTube

  December 6 2021, 10:00am | Comments

• Reddit Can anyone suggest me a book wherein a character undergoes a SLOW/ GRADUAL permanent transformation into a creature/animal/monster/ hybrid I've seen my fair share of novels wherein characters transform into werewolves or animals but the transformations I've encountered almost always seems to happen rather instantaneously and in the case of shapeshifters, well they could always revert back to their human forms so…

  January 1 2021, 11:03pm | Comments

• YouTube

  November 6 2019, 4:00am | Comments

• Podcast Cache AI Is A Growing Part Of The Criminal Justice System. Should We…

  From facial recognition to emotion detection to risk assessments, AI is guiding the decisions of police departments and courtrooms across the country. https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/artificial-intelligence-is-a-growing-part-of-the-criminal-justice-system-should-we-be-worried/

  September 15 2019, 3:49pm | Comments

• Bookmark Press can compare parrots to psychopaths, regulator rules | Media | The…

  British newspapers can legitimately mock parrots and compare them to psychopaths, the press regulator has ruled, after an unsuccessful complaint that the Daily Star misrepresented the emotions of a pet bird.

  August 21 2019, 4:08am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 19 2017, 8:22am | Comments

• Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

  July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

  February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: "Where's My Cut?": On Unpaid Emotional Labor Housework is not work. Sex work is not work. Emotional work is not work. Why? Because they don't take effort? No, because women are supposed to provide them uncompensated, out of the goodness of our hearts.

  July 15 2015, 3:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark Four Notes Towards Post-Digital Propaganda | post-digital-research

  “Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments and to integrate the individual into a technological world” (Ellul xvii). How might future research into digital…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Metaphors: Editor’s Introduction | Alluvium

  Metaphor wants to be… ‘[...] metaphors work to change people’s minds. Orators have known this since Demosthenes. [...] But there’s precious little evidence that they tell you what people think. [...]…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Big Things & Little Things | ‘Digital’ in the arts

  So, returning to an old subject, about which I’ve got very annoyed in the past. Last week Arts Council England (ACE) published the second version of their 10-year strategic framework for…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 8:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Vimeo

  August 1 2013, 6:17am | Comments

• Projects Nicolas Cage is one of the most versatile actors of all time

  April 28 2013, 7:53am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Lovely Lustig Latency

  April 11 2013, 6:26am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 1 2013, 7:34am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Our usage of the word ‘objectivity’ (French objectivite; German Objektivitdt) is hopelessly but..."

  “Our usage of the word ‘objectivity’ (French objectivite; German Objektivitdt) is hopelessly but revealingly confused. It refers at once to metaphysics, to methods, and to morals. We slide effortlessly from statements about the ‘objective truth’ of a scientific claim, to those about the ‘objective…

  October 24 2012, 5:33am | Comments

• Bookmark The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation

  In proposing the imitation game as a stand-in for another definition of thought or intelligence, Turing does more than deliver a clever logical flourish that helps him creatively answer a very…

  July 19 2012, 8:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Face-reading software to judge the mood of the masses

  Systems that can identify emotions in images of faces might soon collate millions of peoples' reactions to events and could even replace opinion polls IF THE computers we stare at all…

  May 30 2012, 1:55am | Comments

• Bookmark What Makes Sushi Great?

  Sushi, of course, is the ultimate in simple food: mostly just rice and a piece of raw fish, it would seem that anyone with a knife and one functioning hand can…

  March 15 2012, 5:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  In the very near future the act of remembering will become a choice.

  February 18 2012, 6:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The God gap

  January 28 2012, 10:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Is mental time travel what makes us human?

  A stonishing animals show up everywhere these days. Cooperative apes, grief-stricken elephants, empathetic cats and dogs crowd our bookshop shelves. It’s all the rage to plumb the cognitive and emotional depths…

  October 28 2011, 10:32am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke The Creators Project interview: Sing Glitchy Karaoke Over The Web

  October 19 2011, 3:14am | Comments

• Bookmark Music moved on after modernism, but whatever happened to fiction?

  The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy – rather like a long-term marriage. At the securely…

  October 12 2011, 9:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Explain yourself: George-Lakoff, cognitive linguist

  As part of our research on explanatory journalism, we’re interviewing experts in fields outside journalism about their approaches to explaining complex systems to non-specialtists. Our first expert is cognitive linguist George Lakoff,…

  February 4 2011, 2:26am | Comments

• Bookmark What the science of human nature can teach us

  We are living in the middle of a revolution in consciousness. Over the past few decades, geneticists, neuroscientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists, and others have made great strides in understanding the inner…

  January 13 2011, 2:17am | Comments

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