Patent Pending
The concept of Emergent Aesthetics is now patent pending!
Huzzah!
May 29, 2006
January 05, 2006
*Ding* ... "I suddenly feel the urge for a Coca Cola soft drink beverage."
This is very interesting...
“The key message of our study is that we are able to make use of neural signals deep in our brain to guide our decisions about what items to choose, say when choosing between particular soups in a supermarket, without actually sampling the foods themselves,” says Doherty, who did the research while at University College London, UK.
It reminds me of the Eddie Izzard sketch where he does Pavlov...
“Pavlov’s Cat Results – Day One – rang bell… cat fucked off. Damn… Day Two – rang bell, cat went and answered dog. Day Three – rang bell, cat said he’d eaten earlier. Day Four – went to ring bell on day four, but cat had stolen batteries. Final day – Day Five – went to ring bell with new batteries, but cat put his paw on bell, so it only made a ‘thunk!’ noise. Then cat rang his own bell! I ate food…”
November 15, 2005
A Little Surprised
I kind of surprised myself a little...
I usually frequent Grant McCracken's blog. "Why?" you ask. "Well, because it is awesome," I reply. He is usually right on the money about culture and creativity, and I find myself often agreeing with him. The point is, in general, I am not great at conversation...I go into a cold sweat when the lady at Chipotle asks, "black or pinto?" However, today I read a post on the aforementioned blog and I actually was able to send off a response to it in under 10 minutes! And it's mostly lucid and coherent to boot!
October 30, 2005
Woah!
I'm finding more intersections every day! Emergent Aesthetics + operat!ve disaster response. This one rocks my socks...
"Agent-based conception of disaster events: modelling human actors as rule-driven, simultaneous interactions within networks, as both affecting environments and expressing rules differently as environments change."Emergence Notes (via Easily Distracted)
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* I will update this post with my reactions and thoughts in a bit...I'm still on a conceptual convergence high.
