Dean Radin, PhD, on psi phenomenon

Dean Radin is a scientist investigating the reality of psi phenomenon, and has some interesting things to say. It turns out that there is quite a lot of evidence for it, and it is starting to be less taboo, as a subject of study or even discussion.

If you want more detail, check out this longer lecture Radin gave at Google. It's quite good.

A New Marriage of Brain and Computer

This is a lecture given by Stuart Hameroff at the GoogleTechTalk series, regarding his theory on the quantum basis of consciousness. I have been increasingly swayed by the quantum-consciousness argument over the last couple decades.

Oxford philosopher discovers the Matrix

Try not to bump anyone on the way in... The party's already underway, glad you could join us, Professor Bostrom. Grab a drink.

Our Lives, Controlled from Some Guy's Couch

Perceiving the truly alien

How much of what we see is actually based on "icons"?

"Chair", "person", "machine", "mammal", that sort of thing. I would argue a lot of our perception of the world is tokenized in this way. So what happens when you move into a world where literally everything is new, far outside our token-library?

Here's a fascinating account of one of the first deep-sea bathysphere dives, and how the view out its porthole affected the observer.