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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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  October 12 2025, 7:01am | Comments

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  Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia, who don’t experience mental imagery, is revealing how imagination works and demonstrating the sweeping variety in our subjective experiences. Introduction Two years ago, Sarah Shomstein…

  August 2 2024, 8:28am | Comments

• Bookmark The Case for Speculative Fiction, According to Author N.K. Jemisin

  To my own shame, I have become a jaded reader in recent years. By this I mean that my enthusiasm and curiosity, my drive to experience new worlds, have all been…

  July 25 2024, 6:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Bernard Stiegler’s philosophy on how technology shapes our world | Aeon Essays

  It has become almost impossible to separate the effects of digital technologies from our everyday experiences.

  April 3 2024, 6:57pm | Comments

• Twitter

  'At a certain point, Rourke discovers (spoiler alert in this paragraph) that some of his experiences are “hypnotic constructs”'

  

  March 20 2023, 11:45am | 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…

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  Octavia Estelle Butler was inspired to write science fiction after watching a schlocky B-movie, Devil Girl from Mars. She was twelve years old and thought: “Geez, I can write a better…

  September 14 2021, 3:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Do Psychedelics Just Provide Comforting Delusions?

  The elephant, in this case, is the issue of mystical experiences and their role, often presumed to be causal, in how psychedelics act as a valuable treatment option for those with…

  June 13 2021, 1:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Is Consciousness Everywhere? | The MIT Press Reader

  Experience is in unexpected places, including in all animals, large and small, and perhaps even in brute matter itself.

  March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Viruses are not just threats, but actors in evolution’s long story |…

  Wisdom is the ability to discern inner qualities and subtle relationships, then translate them into what others recognise as good judgment. If it comes to us at all, wisdom is the…

  December 23 2020, 1:19am | Comments

• Bookmark Breath of the Wild Offers True Catharsis for My ADHD Brain -…

  If you’ve spent a significant amount of time in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, you’ve probably experienced your fair share of “squirrel” moments in the game: Like a…

  June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Worlds || Fall 2019 - Ahmed Ansari - Medium

  This 7 week studio mini will deal with designing at the intersection of three things: developing rich worlds, i.e. experiences and narratives, understanding how different mediums work and what they do, and understanding how genres work in terms…

  August 22 2019, 7:47am | Comments

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  My libertarian friend Conor Friedersdorf has stared into the abyss, and has been jolted by what stared back. He writes about it in a must-read essay with the deceptively anodyne title…

  August 10 2019, 1:20pm | Comments

• YouTube

  March 20 2019, 10:15am | Comments

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  Dreamt I attended a cryptofascist Burning Man, where individual guest experiences were encoded on the Blockchain. This then manifest in...

  

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  April 16 2018, 11:01am | Comments

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  For David Reich, research can be a harrowing experience. The 44-year-old Harvard University geneticist says he now goes to bed terrified he will wake up to find his team’s recent, stunning…

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• Bookmark Why We Need to Challenge the Culture of Monogamy - VICE

  As someone who identifies as poly, I've often experienced negativity from those who don't think outside of how their relationships function. At times, this judgment has come from those close to…

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• Bookmark Why We Need to Challenge the Culture of Monogamy - VICE

  As someone who identifies as poly, I've often experienced negativity from those who don't think outside of how their relationships function. At times, this judgment has come from those close to…

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

  July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions The New Observatory at FACT

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• Bookmark Fake news is a red herring | World | DW.COM | 25.01.2017

  Watching the 2016 US presidential election was already a surreal experience, as dozens of qualified candidates lost out to a failed businessman and reality television star.

  February 20 2017, 11:01pm | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

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• Additivism On the Far Side of the Marchlands (exhibition)

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• Bookmark The Abolition Of Man (No, Really) | The American Conservative

  My libertarian friend Conor Friedersdorf has stared into the abyss, and has been jolted by what stared back. He writes about it in a must-read essay with the deceptively anodyne title…

  January 13 2017, 5:50am | Comments

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  Our focus will be on key thinkers across the fields of media, design and technology. The course starts our everyday experience of designed and  mediated environments, whether as creators or regular users (1-3).

  December 30 2016, 9:09am | Comments

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