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The Crystalpunk Manifesto for Psycholudology
To pry from the cold dead hands of chaos the first animalcules of “the hundred-gated cathedral of the mind” (Herman Hesse)! To play with sticks, shells and stones, rolling them in the cup of your...
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Language is not the stuff of thoughts
Here is the question: can we think without language? A recent piece on Cognitive Daily (one of the many fabulous blogs at scienceblogs.com) mentions an experiment that tries to tackle this classic...
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Communication is not Language
Quote from George Steiner, the greatest evolutionist in language. Found in Extraterritorial.Bees dance exact messages to each other as to the direction, amount, and quality of honey to be found....
View ArticleTHE CRYSTALPUNK MANIFESTO
This manifesto is a few years old. In the years since Crystalpunk has organized workshops, and events as well as written a lot of texts and code that hopes to explain the vision. This is still the most...
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Crystal Constructors
As an emblem of order, the crystal symbolizes objects created by adding self to self in order to grow into inescapable perfection. This idealism is a form of fascism in the disguise of chemistry. A...
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Animals on Drugs
Fruit Flies When drunk male Fruit Flies become hypersexual and fuck with everyone, other males included. Not too different from humans.Elephant on LSD Somewhat of a celebrity case (and a crime!) In...
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How Things Become (Chemical Evolution)
The following quote from Paul M. Churchland’s Matter and Consciousness, about chemical evolution and how things become from nothing, has been a long favourite of mine. Here it is: Consider a glass box,...
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PrimatePoetics is Here
Four months ago I posted on spacecollective an essay in which I argued that the language researchers are teaching to great apes is producing a new literature. I have been going over this material many...
View ArticleSummery Books Too Far Out For Johnny Depp
Your average 'alternative' 'underground' 'cult' summer booklist will name conservative corkers like William Gibson, Hunter S. Thompson, Ken Kesey, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Pynchon, Kathy Acker, Hubert S....
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