This is a project initiative I’ve anticipated for some long while now. I’ve been aware of the Global Consciousness Project (which emerged out of the PEAR lab at Princeton University) for some while now also. In fact, I was in the room with a small handful of other geeky big-brained men (Steven Foster, Jim Fournier,…
Here are photos of the CogSpace exhibition and presentation at the PolyTech University “Toward a Science of Consciousness” conference in Hong Kong (June 11 – 14, 2009). More photos here by David Chalmers: http://consc.net/pics/hongkong.html
With new technology comes new possibilities to execute technique. If we look to the trend of advents in internet protocols, we see how particular innovations in the information technology domain resulted in tremendous transformative effects in social, economic, and political arenas. The TCP/IP protocol allowed for the identification of independent computers, and for the transfer…
In 2004, in collaboration with a CIIS associate, Scott Fossil, we began creating this 3-dimensional conceptual model that combines the theories of Ken Wilbur’s Quadrant model (AQAL), Stanislov Grof’s Basic Parinatal Matrixes (BPMs), and Tielhard de Chardin’s evolutionary model into an integrated, interactive conceptual framework, and manifold of archetypal morphologies in space and time. 3…