Emotions – Happiness, anger, jealousy… is the mind experiencing “presence” in our holographic existence.

A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.

Recent brain scans have shed light on how the brain simulates the future. These simulation are done mainly in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the CEO of the brain, using memories of the past. On one...

Whence the possibility of an ideological analysis of Disneyland (L. Marin did it very well in Utopiques, jeux d’espace [Utopias, play of space]): digest of the American way of life, panegyric of American values, idealized...

All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance Italy or Ancient Egypt, is re-assimilated and homogenized into its...

You are deluded if you think that the world around you is a physical construct separate from your own mind.

We’re presently in the midst of a third intellectual revolution. The first came with Newton: the planets obey physical laws. The second came with Darwin: biology obeys genetic laws. In today’s third revolution, were coming...

Something as superfluous as “play” is also an essential feature of our consciousness. If you ask children why they like to play, they will say, “Because it’s fun.” But that invites the next question: What...

These comments recall Turkle’s distinction between two kinds of “transparency” in technological cultures. Modernist transparency is the notion that users can and should have access to the inner workings of a technology. It evokes the...