- How to Boost Your Mind Viral Immunity In a recent Joe Rogan interview, Elon Musk expressed his sympathy for the anti-globalization movement. One of the main reasons, according to Musk, was that the increasingly interconnected world created a fertile ground for all kinds of memes, concepts, and mind viruses that could “infect” a large portion of the population. We don’t know whether […]
- Changing the Picture The report below was written in response to Changing the Picture – the conference on storytelling and technology that took place in Berlin’s Babelsberg studios in November 2016. … Everyone lives in the stories they’re telling themselves. Many of those stories are imagined and told by somebody else and that’s where the one who speaks can have […]
- Re~Definition of Recognition Recognition: from Latin re- “again” and cognoscere “know”. To know again and again, because you’ve already known before. Something can be recognized because it is familiar, a problem may be recognized ~ acknowledged, somebody may be recognized because they are already known, somebody may also be recognized for what they are. One could assume that […]
- Explosive Implosion Every particle is exploding and imploding at every moment of time. 0:12 Six feet of this long molecule fits into the microscopic nucleus of every cell. 2:57 What you are about to see is DNA’s most extraordinary secret; how a simple code is turned into flesh and blood. You are watching this transcription […]
- The Dream and the Reason There is a particular moment within a dream, When one realizes that it is a dream. The first thought: “What a superb rendering of reality!” Every shape, every color, every constellation – all this is a product of imagination. After the initial appreciation has subsided, (and somehow it always does) the […]
- Branch by Abstraction (or how to quit a bad habit) Branch by abstraction is a technique for making large-scale changes to a system without disrupting its operations. (quitting a bad habit, changing a job, repairing software, etc.) There may be various parts of the system dependent on an old pattern, module, component, one wants to replace. First, an abstraction layer needs to be created. It […]
- The Bible, Genesis How to read an intention instead of reading a text? When I read, my imagination meets the necessity of the written word to unfold in a linear way. What if I want to encounter the imagination of the one who wrote the text? It is rarely that we have the complete narrative line as we […]