Alice
Apparently over 260,000 of you have seen this and I didn’t even know it was there. Into the remix rabbit hole:
NYT reports on Buddha’s “arrival” in psychotherapy
The NY Times has a silly article on Mindfulness Meditation, here’s the summary: “Many researchers now worry that the enthusiasm for Buddhist practice will run so far ahead of the science that this promising psychological tool could turn into another fad.” Yes, another 5,000 year old fad. Of course, western “psychotherapy” was around long before [...]
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Spiritual Robots
Reading Spiritual robots: Religion and our scientific view of the natural world by Robert M. Geraci
Apocalyptic AI
Reading Apocalyptic AI: Religion and the Promise of Artificial Intelligence by Robert M. Geraci
TechnoSocialize
Reading Thoughts on the Status of the Cyborg: On Technological Socialization and Its Link to the Religious Function of Popular Culture by Brenda E. Brasher
Killing the art.
MOMA kills a sculpture.
MOMA exhibit web interface
This is one of the most responsive, interactive and informational web interfaces I’ve encountered: http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/
