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Earlier this year Jack Gallant and colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, showed that they could tell which of a set of images someone was looking at from a brain scan.To do this, they created software that compared the subject’s brain activity while looking at an image with that captured while they were looking at “training” photographs.

The program then picked the most likely match from a set of previously unseen pictures.Now Yukiyasu Kamitani at ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan has gone a step further: his team has used an image of brain activity taken in a functional MRI scanner to recreate a black-and-white image from scratch.”By analysing the brain signals when someone is seeing an image, we can reconstruct that image,” says Kamitani.This means that the mind reading isn’t limited to a selection of existing images, but could potentially be used to “read off” anything that someone was thinking of, without prior knowledge of what that might be.

‘Mind-reading’ software could record your dreams - tech - 12 December 2008 - New Scientist

Tags: mind-reading, wuxia le renard, noosphere, cybionte

This site spends a couple of words (”Ein paar Worte”) on real-time perceptible effects of the globe-spanning noosphere. For example, “a couple of words” is what some peculiar half-automated installations generate and transmit via unconventional ways to cause one to audibly but non-acoustically perceive remote- induced thoughtpackets overlaying any acoustic type of speech.

These occur synchronized to it, with a certain delay, and seem to depend only on neurophysical speech processing activity. It’s a ‘decent’ experience, and when the receiving brain severely tunes in, that is upon lengthy subliminal showers of the non-acoustic audile overlay effect, the pleasure becomes second to none.

While those thoughtgram operators virtually don’t provide any adequate possibility to establish a full-duplex conversation in realtime, generously refraining from apologizing for any inconvenience, the reader can absolutely feel free to contact the maker of geisterbahn. But for now, enjoy a couple of words on geisterbahn.

geisterbahn: Real-Time Phenomena of Unconventional Mind-Connectivity and Noosphere

Tags: noosphere

Today I went at Usine C to watch and live HOSPITALITÉ 3 : L’INDIVIDUALISME EST UNE ERREUR the latest performance from Claudia Fancello (my dear Dancer-Performer Cousina) Jacob Wren and Caroline Dubois.

Ce fut une expérience d’arts relationel extrêmement réussie qui m’a rappelé une expérience d’art relationel basée sur les degrés de séparation que j’avais créé avec la Designer Stratège Luce Beaulieu en 2004.

Créer des rencontres humaines dans le cadre d’un spectacle ou d’un Happening provoque souvent des contradictions et des paradoxes si intenses que l’attention devient très focusée et intense.

Claudia me disait après le spectacle: - It’s a lot of responsability and playfulness to act consciously and to seize the moments as they form.  Its a lot of Consciousness and Human Presence ! -

Bref ce spectacle m’a donné l’idée d’intervenir en milieu de travail chez VDL2 - et d’y explorer mes plus récents concepts de performances d’arts relationels.  J’avais amorcé ce travail particulier chez Sid Lee avec le UX Designer Jordi Ventura mais il est retourné vivre à Barcelone avec sa jolie femme et ses 2 enfants.

Je vous donnes une petite idée de ce que ca risque de donner

1. Dormir au bureau et laisser les gens me découvrir dans mon lit douillet.
2. Écrire un roman sur les heures de bureau
3. Faire des performances collectives sur les heures de Lunch
4. Faire des Jam Musical sans arrêter de travailler
5. Faire des Installations avec ce qui traîne et qui n’est pas considéré important
6. Faire des installations avec du matériel de bureau et des documents de travail
7. Demander des moments de pur silence
8. Exiger des journées sans courriels

Je ferai des enregistrements Audio et Vidéo, des Illustrations, des Photos de tous ces types d’interventions et je publierai un rapport imprimé en 2009.
Joyeux Noel et Bonne Année !

The kinds of books we write

One of Hello, Architekt’s missions is to publish short, practical books on user experience design and planning. Our books are practical in the sense that they help solve concrete problems that many user experience professionals are confronting. And they solve problems concisely; ideally, our books can be read on a short plane flight.

Our books are not about the whats and whys of user experience; we want readers to learn how to design complex systems more effectively. We’re especially interested in books that help readers master the methods that can inform their design decisions, including:

• User research methods, such as search analytics, task analysis, and contextual inquiry.
• Methods that help you get a grip on your content, such as card sorting and running content inventories.
• Methods that help you work more creatively and effectively, such as group brainstorming, communicating designs, and managing interdisciplinary design teams.
• Methods for understanding organizations and how they impact design, such as interviewing stakeholders, performing competitive analyses, and negotiating for a design’s acceptance.

During a recent Conversation with my good friend Octavian Mihai, we discussed about the next 40 years to come and satellized our hopes of a better world. Yet, without even being optimistic we know and felt that our technological advancements and Knowledge of the Physics and Quantum Physics would be so great that we could adress most of the problems our current Age is Stucked In.

I also pointed out that a major shift in Human Consciousness will be required to overcome the Old Economy Guard that will resist this sustainable Line of Development of Humanity because it will diminish its prosperity.

I’ve read a lot of avant-garde thinker like Tesla, Jung and Verdansky and they all thought that such moments would occur in history…. well in fact would occur when history has we know it would end and would not be fabricated anymore by Invisible Interest Group.

Influence Practices will become more and more radical in the years to come and this should trigger new brain functions such as Deep Intuition, Causal Awareness and other Rarely Attained State of Lucidity on a Physical Plane.

I am now working on a very important Chapter of my Latest Graphic Novel (64 Tales of Wuxia the Fox) and one of the main theme is the Noospheric Emergence.

I went straight to Wikipedia to get the story straight about this Emerging Force, this Omega Point, This Consciousness Shift that should occur during the next 40 years. Here is what I found….

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The noosphere can be seen as the “sphere of human thought” being derived from the Greek ???? (”nous“) meaning “mind” in the style of “atmosphere” and “biosphere“. In the original theory of Vernadsky, the noosphere is the third in a succession of phases of development of the Earth, after the geosphere (inanimate matter) and the biosphere (biological life).

Just as the emergence of life fundamentally transformed the geosphere, the emergence of human cognition fundamentally transforms the biosphere. In contrast to the conceptions of the Gaia theorists, or the promoters of cyberspace, Vernadsky’s noosphere emerges at the point where humankind, through the mastery of nuclear processes, begins to create resources through the transmutation of elements.

The word is also sometimes used to refer to a transhuman consciousness emerging from the interactions of human minds. This is the view proposed by the theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who added that the noosphere is evolving towards an ever greater integration, culminating in the Omega Point—which he saw as the ultimate goal of history.

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Any one interested in this Topic ?

… an indication that our braneworld is about to change from Lorentzian to Euclidean signature. Both the brane and the bulk remain fully regular everywhere. We present a model in which the weak and strong energy conditions hold on the brane, in contrast with the standard cosmologies leading to the analogous kinematical behaviour (that is, with a diverging Hubble factor).

[0710.0820v2] Is the accelerated expansion evidence of a forthcoming change of signature on the brane?

Tags: Wuxiale renard, Wuxia the Fox, Tonalli, Aleika, Oremia, Itchoo, Garuda, Tognoth

Dans les 64 contes de Wuxia le renard, les prophètes Parvo et Konya parviennent à offrir une cartographie kaleidoscopique de l’univers. Il semble que l’humanité soit déjà en contact avec ce genre de prophètes scientifiques.

George Smoot on the design of the universe | Video on TED.com

Tags: Wuxiale renard, Design of the Universe

The Google Visualization API lets you access multiple sources of structured data that you can display, choosing from a large selection of visualizations. Google Visualization API enables you to expose your own data, stored on any data-store that is connected to the web, as a Visualization compliant datasource. Thus you can create reports and dashboards as well as analyze and display your data through the wealth of available visualization applications. The Google Visualization API also provides a platform that can be used to create, share and reuse visualizations written by the developer community at large.

Google Visualization API - Google Code

Tags: Visualization, Google API

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence presented the 2008 Fall Symposium Series November 7-9.

The titles of the seven symposia were as follows:

• Adaptive Agents in Cultural Contexts
• AI in Eldercare: New Solutions to Old Problems
• Automated Scientific Discovery
• Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures
• Education Informatics: Steps Toward the International Internet Classroom
• Multimedia Information Extraction
• Naturally Inspired AI

AAAI 2008 Fall Symposium

Tags: Future, Adaptative Agents, Cultural Contexts, AI, Automated Scientific Discovery, Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures

My Good Friend Alexandre Verdier just came up with another amazing project: Verdier Van & Camper

At a time when man is confronted with environmental problems which threaten his survival, Alex Verdier believes that people must adopt a new lifestyle that is respectful of nature. He considers that while man seeks to produce everyday objects providing functionality and beauty, it is possible to do so with very little waste or harm to the environment.For Verdier, the solution resides in smart, simple design and employing technology to make better use of natural resources.

Verdier Van & Camper

Tags: Solar, Electric, Van