"The Multispecies Salon" (short book):
http://www.multispecies-salon.org/working/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Kirksey-et-al-The-Multispecies-Salon.pdf #ALife #Biology #FFHCI
"The Multispecies Salon" (short book):
http://www.multispecies-salon.org/working/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Kirksey-et-al-The-Multispecies-Salon.pdf #ALife #Biology #FFHCI
What Was Life? Answers from Three - Limit Biologies - by Stefan Helmreich: #ALife
https://anthropology.mit.edu/sites/default/files/documents/helmreich_what_was_life.pdf
Richard Doyle: Darwin's Pharmacy
Substrate Independent Minds: A Brief Tutorial - interview with Randal Koene
Virtual Body Language - a book by Jeffrey Ventrella:
https://archive.org/details/VirtualBodyLanguage/ #ALife #Games
Artificial Life Meets Augmented Reality:
Jeffrey Ventrella on Virtual Worlds, Augmented Reality and Simulated Ecosystems
Multiple Neighborhood Cellular Automata. #ALife
MelodyBall - by Jeffrey Ventrella (2008):
David Orr Interview: Ecological design and the redesign of the human presence on Earth
"Earth’s magnetic field is acting up & geologists don’t know why": https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00007-1 "Erratic motion of north magnetic pole forces experts to update model that aids global navigation"
4 companies now control over 60% of worlds proprietary seed sales. #Biology
Emergent Morphology - by Jeffrey Ventrella: #ALife
"It's somehow in the nature of man, to provide simplifying explanations of the bewildering complexity of phenomena around us" - Valentino Braitenberg
"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures." - Lao Tzu
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated" - Confucius
Diagram by Jeffrery Goldstein - Remix by @samim. #ALife #Complexity
Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves. - Herbert A. Simon
New Hobby: Asking Google Employees about their experience meeting Ray Kurzweil. The #Comedy Singularity is Near!
Short Movie Of The Day: ‘Island’ by @maxmoertl & @robertloebel: #ALife
‘Girin Monitor Stand’ is an auto-adjusting monitor stand to ensure users have proper posture while on their computers at work. #ML #Augmentation #HCI
A great tragedy of the downfall of religion in the west has been that generations of men with highly religious tendencies were forced to filter their magical world-views through the lens of Scientism & Techno-Mysticism. The result has been a disaster of biblical proportions.