Terminal. What other journey, you might ask, begins at the end?

There is a new cosmology blowing in from the horizons of the technoscientific imagination, and it may well swallow you up. Call it the computational universe, a cosmos in which everything -- thoughts, genes, galaxies, subatomic wiggles -- is reduced to bits churning through algorithmic cascades. From artificial life to quantum physics to cognitive psychology, the computational universe has become a Major Metaphor. Everything computes; everything is code. And as N. Katherine Hayles argues in How We Became Posthuman, the...

But what if the medium is the message?

There is a new cosmology blowing in from the horizons of the technoscientific imagination, and it may well swallow you up. Call it the computational universe, a cosmos in which everything -- thoughts, genes, galaxies, subatomic wiggles -- is reduced to bits churning through algorithmic cascades. From artificial life to quantum physics to cognitive psychology, the computational universe has become a Major Metaphor. Everything computes; everything is code. And as N. Katherine Hayles argues in How We Became Posthuman, the...

“Messages from beyond” are forms of information, and information is a trickster

There is a new cosmology blowing in from the horizons of the technoscientific imagination, and it may well swallow you up. Call it the computational universe, a cosmos in which everything -- thoughts, genes, galaxies, subatomic wiggles -- is reduced to bits churning through algorithmic cascades. From artificial life to quantum physics to cognitive psychology, the computational universe has become a Major Metaphor. Everything computes; everything is code. And as N. Katherine Hayles argues in How We Became Posthuman, the...

It is too close, too far-out, its sacred transmissions too muddled with the scandalous grit of its concrete historical unfoldment

There is a new cosmology blowing in from the horizons of the technoscientific imagination, and it may well swallow you up. Call it the computational universe, a cosmos in which everything -- thoughts, genes, galaxies, subatomic wiggles -- is reduced to bits churning through algorithmic cascades. From artificial life to quantum physics to cognitive psychology, the computational universe has become a Major Metaphor. Everything computes; everything is code. And as N. Katherine Hayles argues in How We Became Posthuman, the...

There is a difference between psychedelic experiences and psychedelic people

There is a new cosmology blowing in from the horizons of the technoscientific imagination, and it may well swallow you up. Call it the computational universe, a cosmos in which everything -- thoughts, genes, galaxies, subatomic wiggles -- is reduced to bits churning through algorithmic cascades. From artificial life to quantum physics to cognitive psychology, the computational universe has become a Major Metaphor. Everything computes; everything is code. And as N. Katherine Hayles argues in How We Became Posthuman, the...