Did your dark night of the soul ever make you doubt the reality of your existence? Do you wonder whether you are living in a dream or computer simulation? Are you haunted by the perspective that you're

Quest is the extraordinary autobiographical account of the life of Wai H.Tsang. A modern day odyssey with a fair share of the hardships of life; an account of the spiritual and scientific explorations

Imagine I were to show you, that completely unrelated physical quantities show the same value over and over again in our universe. You will probably consider that I have discovered some kind of new universal

It is hard, if not impossible to determine how deep the roots of belief in the tree of virtuality reach back in the history of the human race. Certainly we did not need our Oculus Rift VR headset to come

In his article "The Self-Referential Aspect of Consciousness" Cosmin Visan [1] explains in great detail how Self-Reference (SR) brings Consciousness into existence. He also describes how consciousness

If I were to tell you that reality is a kind of book that is writing itself, you'd probably declare me bonkers. If I were to tell you that there are even scientists, who seriously contemplate this surreal

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes. A review. Julian Jaynes presents us an extremely intriguing hypothesis about how our consciousness arose as a consequence

Een recensie van het boek "Wat is Waarheid?" door Chunglin Kwa.  Het boek "Wat is Waarheid?" is een uitstekende introductie in de wereld van de wetenschapsfilosofie. Daarnaast is het een waardevol

Seven years ago I had a burn-out. I couldn't sleep anymore; my mind was constantly preoccupied with emotional distress, which resulted in a frenzy of thought fever which I did not manage to stop. I could

Whenever we feel unhappy or uncomfortable, whenever we are suffering, this is usually due to the fact that we have a divided Mind. In the book "The Praxis" Dirk Bruere lucidly describes how the Mind can

The Praxis (subtitle: A Transcendent Theology of the Spiritual and Temporal) is a brilliant gem. In just 112 pages Dirk Bruere does not only inform you about everything you need to know about the technological

The book "What Always Comes to Mind" with the subtitle "The visualist's guide to a metaspheric perspective on reality" is a highly original and unorthodox treaty on the workings of consciousness and the

In the Q & A below I answer some general questions that people interested in my upcoming book have asked me. What is the target audience of your book?  Students/ scientists / computer engineers

The book "Is Intelligence an Algorithm?" shows that in attaining complexity, nature, humans and machines follow a series of predictable steps. In this book I boldly named this the "Intelligence Algorithm",

"Technological Resurrection, A Thought Experiment" by Jonathan A Jones was a welcome surprise to me. As a Singularitarian and futurist versed in concepts like "quantum archeology", mind-uploading etc.

I just launched my Kickstarter campaign for my book "Is Intelligence an Algorithm?" a great part of which I wrote here on Steemit. Could you please back my project? If many people back my project, it is

The Invisible landscape by Terence and Dennis McKenna is a very original and unusual book. From a daring shamanistic experiment with hallucinogenic compounds they arrived at insights about a holographic

In my book "Is Intelligence an Algorithm?" I claim that nature and the intellect part of the human mind follow a similar algorithm, when they are trying to achieve complexity. In this article I'd like

This chapter will discuss how integration of sentience might occur in the Omega point or Omega Hypercomputer a.k.a the Eschaton. In this series I have discussed how our reality might be generated by a

The Phenomenon of Man By Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. My Review. "The Phenomenon of Man" by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin is an extraordinary visionary book. Written in 1938, it predicted the advent