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14 Dec 09

 Immersive Artificial Life (A-Life) Art

  • ‘The killing ritual’ is probably the most affective immersive experience for viewers faced with TC&A’s semi-living objects because of its immediacy and tactility. Audience members are invited to participate in the killing ritual by touching the tissue cultures. On exposure to human touch, the tissue cultures become contaminated by the bacteria and fungi, which live in the environment and on humans. These evocative rituals bestow a meaning and value on the semi-living tissue cultures as living entities that they would otherwise be refused. Confronted with the tactility of this experience, which effectively kills the tissue-culture entity, participants are forced to question whether these organisms are really living or semi-living.
  • Ultimately TC&A call into question some of the myths of scientific objectivity, rationality and the idea that new technologies are controllable by scientists
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29 Jan 09

Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?

a reference site to a collection of papers concerning the simulation argument

www.simulation-argument.com - Preview

philosophy simulation matrix computer science reality technology theory

25 Jan 09

The Dawn of Astronomy

  • the origin of astronomy
    (and science in general) can be traced back to the rise of agriculture
22 Mar 08

Karl Popper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Logically, no number of positive outcomes at the level of experimental testing can confirm a scientific theory, but a single counterexample is logically decisive: it shows the theory, from which the implication is derived, to be false
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