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future and our connection with whole universe when we think about ourselves as "made of stars"; future visions of societies, architecture and urbanism

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• A comment on Conversation: Is a shadow a three-dimensional object? I am proposing that we are 3 "objects" in one being. We are the light, the body and the shadow

  Mar 9 2013: Hello,
  
  If this question would be about metaphysics of perception, we could assume that shadow becomes an object thanks to our ability of noticing it (during our analytical way of perceiving whole world);
  
  and this shadow becomes three-dimensional – just because it is an element of our three-dimensional world, it is not just about its dimensions as length and width – but also about stereoscopic seeing.
  
  According to Francis Crick (as far as perceiving of the world’s dimensions are concerned) if we’re using just one eye (without stereoscopic seeing) objects we’re seeing are flat and 2-dimensional (obviously we still have 3-dimensional picture of them in our mind);

• A comment on Conversation: Has technology accelerated human evolution?

  Jul 23 2012: Thank you Patrick! my mistake - I was trying to compare it to exponential function as you said.

• A comment on Conversation: Has technology accelerated human evolution?

  Jul 22 2012: It may sound quite strange, when it is perceiving from present time - but it seems to me, that people from the beginning of 20th century, which would be able to foresee future and experience our current reality - they would consider calling us the next generation of people (without going into details, but I was thinking about our possibilities of moving through whole earth and beyond, our access to information and global knowledge and so on) - it is merely one century, but thanks to that geometric progression of current reality and whole evolution - this sort of shock could be possible.
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  A reply on Conversation: why over 2000-pounds vehicle is used to transport 150-pounds person?

  Jul 21 2012: I'm afraid that the only effect would be a tendency for paying even more money for gasoline, without considering if I can afford it.

• A reply on Conversation: why over 2000-pounds vehicle is used to transport 150-pounds person?

  Jul 21 2012: Hello David, thank you for answer; probably we can not expect lowering our expectations towards future - if we’re able to travel across such distances in such short time - why, we shouldn’t benefit from it, but I’m assuming from you answer, that there won’t be any solutions which will come from reorganizing our way of life - but from innovating and proposing new technologies and materials

• A reply on Conversation: why over 2000-pounds vehicle is used to transport 150-pounds person?

  Jul 21 2012: Hello, thank you for sharing your opinion; I’m afraid that solution won’t come from any kind of logical analysis but rather from next sort of “shock” which will re-direct our way of life, just as industrial and information revolutions which totally defined all kind of current circumstances
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  A comment on Conversation: Fill in the Blank - What the World needs now is __________ ?

  Jul 21 2012: imagination and sensitivity just as "pragmatic" approach in >long-term< visions

• A comment on Conversation: The next Industrial Revolution: How do we prepare for it?

  Jul 21 2012: I'm afraid, that if we could prepare for any kind of revolution - it won't be revolution anymore; unpredictability in process and consequences just as dynamic impact - these are integral parts of any kind of "revolution", if we think about industrial or information revolution - we think about it with retrospective distortion of perception, it seems to us - that these had logical reasons and predictable consequences and it makes us believe that we can predict similar event in future (but it is just projection of our past, sort of delusion).
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  A comment on Talk: Lucy McRae: How can technology transform the human body?

  Jun 20 2012: great talk, we’re not the final effect of evolution, we’re just a part of continual process, in our case technology, science and design are probably the most influential factors on our anatomy (could we call them factors of “natural selection” still, using darwinian terminology?)

• A comment on Conversation: In order of importance how would you rank: Happiness, money, love, health, fame?

  Jun 18 2012: It seems to me that happiness doesn’t fit into this category (next to money, love, health or fame and so on). I would rather define money, love, health or fame (and lots more) as ways of achieving happiness - which is major need. Happiness probably requires fulfilment of basic needs in personal order of importance.