Researchideas, progress reports, inspirational quotes, book reviews … all things related to my current research interests
Refraction Reflection Refraction
A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon – thus, a rainbow is not an object, and cannot be physically approached.
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Tagged 2013, dispersion, Olafur Eliasson, physics, processingjs, rainbow, ray, water, wavelength
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Talking Hyper
Frequency bins
Adventures in Sleeping
Since fall 2011 I own a Zeo Sleep Manager. Every night I put on a headband that has a sensor resting against my forehead.
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Tagged 2012, brainwave, data visualization, processing, rem, sensor, sleep, zeo
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A Time of its Own
Thought Experiments / February 2012
Intuition, Subliminal Perception and the Subconscious
Our subconscious knows more, sees more and hears more than we do. About Intuitions, Experiments Below the Awareness Threshold, and Free Will.
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Tagged 2012, awareness, consciousness, free will, intuition, Malcolm Gladwell, perception, senses, subconscious, subliminal
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Why Algorithmic Visuals Ruin My Music Experience / Elektra 2011
The Conspiracy Against Absoluteness
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Tagged 2011, change, frame of reference, motion, observer, processingjs, relativity, space, speed of light, time, universe
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Hacking the Mind
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Tagged 2011, book, hearing, illusion, mind hacks, perception, vision
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An Oscillating Reality Battle!
Do Computers Hallucinate Electric Sheep?
A processing.js app that creates a processors visual Ganzfeld Effect. It starts out with an monotonous red color field and slowly amplifies any processor noise by coloring pixels and producing patterns.
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Tagged 2011, Antony Gormley, Ganzfeld effect, noise, processingjs
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Good Ideas and Notebooks
Where Good Ideas Come From On the flight back from Austria to Montreal I’ve read Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From. I really like his work – i’ve read Mind Wide Open and Emergence before – because he manages …
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Tagged 2011, book, Charles Darwin, commonplace books, ideas, notebooks, Steven Johnson
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Geheimnisse einer Seele and Thinking Dreams
Psychoanalysis is neuroplastic therapy, the inhibitory task of the prefrontal cortex and why dreams are representations of abstract ideas.
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Tagged 2010, book, brain, dreams, neuroplasticity, Norman Doidge, prefrontal cortex, psychoanalysis, rem
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Cross-Talking, Colored Grapheme and Mental Chess
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Tagged 2010, book, brain, chess, neuroplasticity, Norman Doidge, senses, super-humans, synesthesia
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Neuroplasticity, Supersenses and Reciting Poems
The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge tells the story of the shift from Localizationism – the belief that the brain’s structure is hardwired and doesn’t change after the early development stage – to Neuroplasticity – the ability of the human brain to rewire and change itself according to experiences.
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Tagged 2010, book, brain, neuroplasticity, Norman Doidge, Paul Bach-y-Rita, poems, senses, sensory substitution
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White Noise, Oh So Lovely
Listening states and Stimulus vs. Deprivation When i walk down the street while listening to a podcast or music with my headphones on, i turn the volume of my mp3 player to almost the maximum of 30 out of 30, …
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Tagged 2010, brainwave, Buddha Machine, hearing sense, noise, perception, senses, sound, white noise
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Amplify the Neural Noise
We live in constant search for patterns. Being able to recognize patterns is a survival instinct. If confronted with a lack of stimulus – lack of patterns – our brain invents a new reality – hallucinations, dreams. Ganzfeld Effect The …
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Tagged 2010, Entoptic phenomenon, Ganzfeld effect, James Turrell, noise, Pareidolia, perception, Rorschach, vision
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Experience the Senses and Floating
Hugo Kükelhaus One Station at the Experience field for the development of the senses: Summstein / Humming Stone Hugo Kükelhaus and his Experience field for the development of the senses Hugo Kükelhaus – architect, pedagogue and philosopher – researched and …
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Tagged 2010, Heinz von Foerster, Hugo Kükelhaus, isolation tank, museum, perception, senses, sensory deprivation
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Immersive Virtual Art and the Essence of Spatiality
Char Davies creates immersive worlds that use visual and aural stimuli to create transcendental experiences and tries to evoke entirely new experiences of spatiality.
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Tagged 2010, altered state, Char Davies, consciousness, Immersive Environment, Laurie McRobert, space, Virtual Reality
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Proposal: Meta (1)
We experience and interact with the world through a set of culturally and evolutionary taught ideas and beliefs. These worldviews are different from one person to the other – depending on language, religion or culture – and adapt over the …
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Tagged 2010, metaphysics, optical illusion, perception, proposal, quantum theory, relativity, time, worldview
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The Death of a Closed System
Steven Strogatz – SYNC
Steven Strogatz is a professor of applied mathematics at Cornell University. I own two of his books, Sync (2003) and Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos (1994), read some of his papers Exploring complex networks (Nature, 2001), watch him on TED and …
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Tagged 2010, book, circadian rhythm, complex system, oscillators, self-organization, Steven Strogatz, synchronization
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Dan Falk – In Search of Time
Hypercubes, 3Dprint and Zoetropes