2006-01-30

En 1972, en una plaza de toros, el Dr. José Delgado hizo el experimento de entrar en el momento en que un toro furioso iniciaba una carga y mediante un dispositivo de control remoto activó unos electrodos implantados en el cerebro del animal logrando calmarlo y detener su carrera. [link]

Este neuropsiquiatra español que investigó, y no solamente con animales, bajo los auspicios de Franco, de la CIA (MKUltra) y de la Universidad de Yale dijo cosas como:

"We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated. The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective. Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electronically control the brain. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain."

Y escribió cosas como: "Physical Control of the Mind - Toward a Psychocivilized Society"

Otros: [link] [link] [link]

2006-01-15

Cosmología del Plasma, alternativa al Big Bang:


In 1963, Alfvén first predicted the large scale filamentary structure of the universe based on his experience of the filamentary nature of plasma. This discovery perplexed astrophysicists in 1991.

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2006-01-10

El arte de Gilles Tran:


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2006-01-09

(...) Then I instinctively commenced to make excursions beyond the limits of the small world of which I had knowledge, and I saw new scenes. These were at first very blurred and indistinct, and would flit away when I tried to concentrate my attention upon them. They gained in strength and distinctness and finally assumed the concreteness of real things. I soon discovered that my best comfort was attained if I simply went on in my vision further and further, getting new impressions all the time, and so I began to travel; of course, in my mind. Every night, (and sometimes during the day), when alone, I would start on my journeys -- see new places, cities and countries; live there, meet people and make friendships and acquaintances and, however unbelievable, it is a fact that they were just as dear to me as those in actual life, and not a bit less intense in their manifestations. This I did constantly until I was about seventeen, when my thoughts turned seriously to invention. Then I observed to my delight that i could visualize with the greatest facility. I needed no models, drawings or experiments. I could picture them all as real in my mind. Thus I have been led unconsciously to evolve what I consider a new method of materializing inventive concepts and ideas, which is radially opposite to the purely experimental and is in my opinion ever so much more expeditious and efficient.

De la autobiografía de Nikola Tesla: [link] ... otro: [link]

2006-01-04

Sueños ilustrados

Excelente, en particular: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

2005-12-31

Una muestra interesante de arte creado por esquizofrénicos, compilada por una investigadora brasilera: [Galería]

Los links están mal en el site, aquí los corrijo:

[Wain] [Anónimo] [Anónimo] [Anónimo] [Kessel] [Kurelek] [Kurelek] [Kurelek] [Kurelek] [Kurelek [Kurelek] [Kurelek] [Kurelek]

Más sobre Louis Wain: [link] [link] [link] [link] [link]

Más sobre William Kurelek (finalmente lo encontré): [link] [link] [link]
[The Maze] [Out of the Maze] [link]

Y ya que estamos,
Cynthia Pell: [link] [link] [link]
Charles Sims Ra: [link] [link]

2005-12-25

2005-12-23

Computadora hidro-keynesiana:

(...) The MONIAC was approximately two meters high, 1.2 meters wide and almost a meter deep, and consisted of a series of transparent plastic tanks and pipes which were fastened to a wooden board. Each tank represented some aspect of the UK national economy and the flow of money around the economy was illustrated by coloured water. At the top of the board was a large tank called the treasury. Water [i.e. money] flowed from the treasury to other tanks representing the various ways in which a country could spend its money. For example, there were tanks for health, and education. To increase spending on health care a tap could be opened to drain water from the treasury to the tank which represented health spending. Water then ran further down the model to other tanks, representing other interactions in the economy. Water could be pumped back to the treasury from some of the tanks to represent taxation. Changes in tax rates were modeled by increasing or decreasing pumping speeds. (...) [link]

Addendum: Ver también esto

2005-12-21

(...) That would make Helacyton gartleri an example of speciation, which is when a new species is observed developing from another. In this case, the development is from a chordate (homo sapien) to something that's more like an ameoba (a cross-phylum mutation), giving us an animal with a mostly human genotype, but which does not develop into a human-like phenotype. (...) [link] [link]