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Bookmark The Art-Work of the Future
AS Man stands to Nature, so stands Art to Man. When Nature had developed in herself those attributes which included the conditions for the existence of Man, then Man spontaneously evolved.…

July 22 2009, 4:37pm | Comments
Bookmark What do Amnesia, Immortality, and Mind Control have to do with Game…
What breaks your sense of presence in a story? The culture of video game playing has developed a tolerance for the common practices and limitations in designing and producing games. We’ve…

July 11 2009, 6:53am | Comments
Bookmark Take two video games and call me in the morning
Growing scientific evidence demonstrates that the human brain dynamically changes in response to experience and to changes in the environment, a phenomenon that is known as “plasticity.” It is also believed…

July 1 2009, 9:22am | Comments
Bookmark The Evolutionary Enigma of Dream Content
Boston University neuroscientist Patrick McNamara has an interesting evolutionary theory of dreaming. McNamara’s theory draws from the well-known “handicapping principle” in evolutionary biology, where some organisms have been observed to display…

June 27 2009, 4:32am | Comments
Bookmark The Gallery as Brain
At first glance, the central premise of the Hayward’s summer show seems to court too eagerly the tedious controversy around neuroaesthetics. "Walking in My Mind" aims to "transform the gallery’s unique…

June 17 2009, 8:30am | Comments
Bookmark 'On the Origin of Stories,' 'Finding Our Tongues,' 'Catching Fire' take path-breaking…
A few years ago Tufts philosopher Daniel Dennett opined that the idea of natural selection - proposed 150 years ago in Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" - was "the…

June 3 2009, 12:01pm | Comments
Bookmark A Society of Simulations
This essay aims to increase our understanding of simulations and their impact on our notion of reality. Following on some observations regarding the dominant role of visual representations in our culture,…

April 20 2009, 3:22pm | Comments
Bookmark Readers build vivid mental simulations of narrative situations
A new brain-imaging study is shedding light on what it means to "get lost" in a good book — suggesting that readers create vivid mental simulations of the sounds, sights, tastes…

January 29 2009, 6:04am | Comments
Writing for Spacecollective The Total Library Project
Books that redefine reality - or - How to redefine the book...

January 29 2009, 2:58am | Comments
Writing for Spacecollective How Things Become: The Infinity of Definition
The perceiver's position in an architectural, or merely physical space, determines the dimensional imperatives of that person's mental qualia. It is interesting to note that each viewer of a rainbow stands at the centre of their very own optical illusion; that light, once split…

December 29 2008, 10:47am | Comments
Spacecollective.org The Metaphor is the Message Part II: Palimpsests Palimpsests Palimpsests

April 24 2008, 8:57am | Comments
Spacecollective.org hypertext/?="The Metaphor is the Message"

April 18 2008, 4:22am | Comments

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