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(via Socially Networked. Art Print by Matt Leyen | Society6)
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want to do this (break apart and map) to the objects that the mind perceives and the frames through which they are perceived…
via weandthecolor:
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Artwork by Steve Simmonds at We Are Seventeen.
(via weandthecolor)
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Although we have the illusion of receiving high-resolution images from our eyes, what the optic nerve actually sends to the brain is just outlines and clues about points of interest in our visual field. We then essentially hallucinate the world from cortical memories that interpret a series of extremely low-resolution movies that arrive in parallel channels.
– Ray Kurzweil in The Singularity is Near, referencing Roska and Werblin’s article in Nature ‘Vertical Interactions Across Ten Parallel, Stacked Representations in the Mammalian Retina’ (March 29, 2001) -
the brain as a temporary coherence of forces
Actelion Imagery Wizard by onformative on Flickr.
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Sketch of Dynamic Predictive Feedback Loops on Flickr.
Adam and Jamie discussing how the mind works and how analyzing the “misreading” of environments can lead back inherent cognitive variables, thus leading to better ways to tune those variables.
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Neurons lose information at one bit per second →
“It appears that information is lost in the brain as quickly as it can be “delivered” from the senses. This has fundamental consequences for our understanding of the neural code of the cerebral cortex. Due to the high deletion rate, information about sensory input signals can only be maintained for a few spikes. These new findings therefore indicate that the dynamics of the cerebral cortex are specifically tailored to the processing of brief snapshots of the outside world
via braincubix:
Information stored in the activity patterns of cerebral cortex neurons is discarded at the surprisingly high rate of one bit per active neuron per second, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization at the University of Gottingen and the Bernstein Center for… -
programs spinning in infinity…
annual report illustration / Barry Tucker / 1970s
(via codeowl)
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the proto-object of thought, attracting energies, emitting signal, spinning realities into being
via cosmo-logic:
What Is A Pulsar?
Pulsars are the products of colossal star explosions. When a star about ten times the size of our Sun dies, it undergoes an ejection of its “mantle” in a great supernova explosion, leaving the highly magnetized and compressed nucleus of the star behind. The nucleus left behind may become what you see above—a pulsar; a rotating neutron star.
Although pulsars are only about the size of a city, pulsars are incredibly dense, possibly having as much material as our Sun. Pulsars don’t actually “pulsate”, rather, they appear to pulsate due to what is known as the “lighthouse effect”. Huge beams of radiation are ejected from the magnetic axis of the pulsar. These glaring emissions are only visible to us when they are pointed straight at the earth, giving the pulsar an appearance of pulsation.
One of the most impressive facts about pulsars is that, because of their incredible density, their rotational periods are extremely swift and extremely precise. Most pulsar rotational periods are anywhere from a few seconds to a few milliseconds!
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more waves:
Matter from waves
Light as wave
Wave of mutilation
Brain waves
via scipsy:
Matter is made of waves (gif made from this)
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emergence of pattern out of independent agents.
waves, beats, rhythms, flows…
via scienceisbeauty:
Truly amazing, well done:
Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and (seemingly) random motion.
Credit&Source: Simple Harmonic (and non-harmonic) Motion, Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations
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activity.
signal.
noise.
pattern.
rhythm.
