Recommended Links
Below are some Web sites that I find of interest. I find Arts and Letters Daily to be particularly useful. It links to selected articles in dozens of magazine and updates daily. I print out a bunch to take any time I travel.
Arts and Letters Daily
News and reviews: philosophy, aesthetics, literature, language, ideas, trends, criticism, culture, history, music, art, trends, breakthroughs, disputes.
http://aldaily.com/
Quantum Consciousness
The nature of consciousness reflects on our very existence and relation to reality. Dr. Stuart Hameroff's site.
http://quantum-mind.org/
Edge
Seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves. John Brockman's site.
http://www.edge.org/
KurzweilAI.net
Biotechnology, nanotechnology, molecular electronics, computation, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, virtual reality, human brain reverse engineering, brain augmentation, robotics, etc. You can sign up for their daily email newsletter. Ray Kurzweil's site.
http://www.kurzweilai.net
David Deutsch's Home Page
"Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense." - David Deutsch. Deutsch is a pioneer in quantum computing. He weaves together the four main strands of scientific explanation: quantum theory, evolution, computation, and the theory of knowledge.
http://www.qubit.org/people/david/David.html
Foresight Institute
Preparing for nanotechnology, the coming ability to build materials and products with atomic precision, and improving public and private policy decisions in nanotech and related technologies.
http://foresight.org/index.html
World Transhumanist Association
Overcoming biological limitations through technological progress enabling people to live longer and healthier and enhance their intellectual, physical, and emotional capacities.
http://www.transhumanism.org/
American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Advancing the scientific understanding of thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines.
http://aaai.org/
Joseph Campbell Foundation
"Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation." - Joseph Campbell
"No one in our century--not Freud, not Jung, not Thomas Mann, not Levi-Strauss--has sop brought a mythic sense of the world back into daily consciousness." - James Hillman speaking of Joseph Campbell
http://www.jcf.org/
Robert Thurman
An excellent source on Tibetan Buddhism, Robert Thurman holds the first endowed chair in this field of study in the United States at Columbia University. He is a prolific translator and writer of both scholarly and popular works.
http://literati.net/Thurman/index.htm
Center for Quantum Computation
Conducts theoretical and experimental research into all aspects of quantum information processing, and into the implications of the quantum theory of computation for physics itself.
http://www.qubit.org/
