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Core Integral Design

Michael Gaio — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:04:11 +0000

In 2009, I was enrolled to be involved with Core Integral in a collaborative team production of the “The Integral Approach” interactive courses in Integral Theory, created by Ken Wilber and Clint Fuhs. This initial 8 DVD interactive instructional media, “Course 1: Essential Integral”, is the first of a potentially longer series. My involvement with the media project included conceptual design, visual design, audio design, interaction design, animation, and programming of the Flash user interface–including an interactive representation of The Wilber-Combs Lattice.

THE INTEGRAL APPROACH Course 1: Essential Integral

A self-paced, interactive walkthrough of the most widely acclaimed map of human potential. This course contains over 20 hours of instruction and activities. Finally, a way to discover the Integral Approach that is both actionable and comprehensive.

See a trailer video and demo of the final DVD package product.

blog page link back: http://blog.michaelgaio.com/2010/08/18/core-integral-design/

The Internet of Living Things

Michael Gaio — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 03:33:14 +0000

As an active participant in the Information / Communications Technology domain (ICT), this is perhaps one of the most influential videos I have seen in the last several years. We are now, again (as with the emergence of the Internet), on the verge of a new great frontier in human ingenuity.

I’ve been tracking the progression of advents in bio-synthetic technology for a while now. Aside from this recent breakthrough in producing a bio-synthetic cell, there are also some significant developments happening in the overall scope of collective access and participation to the knowledge, technologies, and applications involved in this budding frontier. Essentially, the bio-tech and neuro-tech domains are beginning to go open-source and non-centralized by a trend very similar to the way the software and internet industry has in the last 10 – 15 years. The means of bio-engineering are now reaching a level of accessibility and automation that will allow for research, innovation, and applications to go well beyond the traditional scientific and corporate institutions–and into private laboratories, and even into the kitchens of people’s homes.

Can you imagine the potentials of 100,000s of independent, networked, and open-source scientists and technologists focusing on issues such as Cancer and HIV in their own homes in the same way that, say, Linux, Wikipedia, and FireFox have been developed? This same kind of collective intelligence can also go towards innovations in bio-fuels and other green technologies. And that’s just the very tip of the synthetic iceberg …

The implications are profound and staggering!

“Andrew Hessel reasons that Synthetic Biology will be the next big IT industry. In his remarkable talk Andrew talks about the parallels between IT and biology.”

video link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S23owdOuLjc

blog page link: http://blog.michaelgaio.com/2010/06/18/the-internet-of-living-things/

New City : the Future of On-Line Social Networking

Michael Gaio — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:41:53 +0000

Greg Lynn explains the concept behind New City, a new virtual world. The architectural topology of such a world “map” is based on transmorphic manifolds, and context relative perceptive “lenses”:

CogSpace : Hong Kong Exhibition

Michael Gaio — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:21:15 +0000

Here are photos of the CogSpace exhibition and presentation at the PolyTech University “Toward a Science of Consciousness” conference in Hong Kong (June 11 – 14, 2009).

The Art, Design, and Technology Exhibition

The PolyTech University Design School Gallery

The CogSpace navigation console

People Navigating CogSpace

CogSpace screen

Visualizing Collective Intelligence

Digital Synchronicity

More photos here by David Chalmers: http://consc.net/pics/hongkong.html

CogSpace : Collective Mind Map

Michael Gaio — Fri, 01 May 2009 09:19:14 +0000

Interested in participating in a collectively formulated multimedia vision-logic model representing the multidisciplinary knowledge domains of Cognitive Science and Consciousness Studies? If so, read on …

I’ve been developing this interactive, 3-dimensional model, and it was just recently accepted to be exhibited and presented at the Asian Consciousness Festival in Hong Kong this June. You can see, interact, and read all about the model here:

www.cogspace.net

You can also download the entire abstract and descriptive paper here:

www.cogspace.net/docs/CogSpace.pdf

An excerpt from the abstract:

This model is an examination of consciousness through an interactive visual representation of the interdisciplinary knowledge domains of Cognitive Science and Consciousness Studies. As a visualization of the various scientific and academic approaches toward understanding mind and consciousness, a unified and comprehensive overview is achieved that orients our collective approach in the field of consciousness research as a whole.

The model is based on a 3-dimensional conceptual framework that assigns six (6) formally established primary knowledge domains of interdisciplinary Cognitive Science (namely: Psychology, Anthropology, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Philosophy, and Linguistics) to the geometric Cartesian coordinate system (x, y, z), and to a correlative color system (based on gradient scales of red, green, and blue), resulting in a semantic-color-space matrix for ontologically representational coordination of the topic contents. More specific knowledge areas are plotted within this axiomatic framework as sub-domains (such as Analytical Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Semantics, etc). The precise positions of subdomains are determined by metric averages derived by consensus survey of a diverse group of people, and is therefore also a representation of a collective perspective of consciousness research (not just the perspective of a single individual or isolated disciplinary field).

With this dynamic arrangement of organizational factors, the model renders a unique integral perspective and informative cartography of the “terrain”, and provides a “navigational instrument” for our explorative traversing across the frontier of consciousness research. By plotting each sub-domain in scope of the relative positions of all other domains, areas of knowledge and research concentration and lack of concentration (“unexplored regions”) become apparent. When referencing any particular disciplinary sub-domain within the manifold model, where it is at and what color it is can suggest something about it’s qualitative proximity to either more discrete and concrete or more continuous and abstract types of knowledge and research. For example, a sub-domain that is extremely neurobiological will be far less philosophical, and is placed on an extreme exterior boundary of the model (color saturation is more additive toward extreme hues). Inversely, a sub-domain that is a hybrid, somewhat balanced in interdisciplinary collaboration between linguistics and computer science, psychology and anthropology, and philosophy and neuroscience, is placed closer to the center of the model (color saturation is subtractive toward gray). The exterior of the model therefore represents the diverse areas of the more discrete and concrete–portrayed as the bright “rainbow” spectrum of colors. The interior of the model represents hybrid areas of the more continuous and abstract–portrayed figuratively and literally as the “gray area”. The closer a sub-domain is to the exact center, the closer it is to blending and fusing with an absolute, unified, and direct knowing and application of consciousness itself.

The overall result of the model is a “mind map” of the collective processes involving the differentiation and unification of interdisciplinary oppositions–the amalgamation of Interior and Exterior, Science and Art, Matter and Spirit, East and West–toward a realization of a coalescent whole.

A key element of this developing project is that the shape of the model is determined by a consensus formulation of the ontological constituents. Among preparations and continuing development of this model, a survey will be made of a diverse group of people over the next few weeks. In order to derive some “collective intelligence” in this formulation, some principles of “crowd wisdom” will be applied. The more diverse the crowd, the better … so anyone can apply. If you or someone you know is interested in participating in this survey, please contact me with the following information:

Name
Gender
Occupation
Education
Date of birth and age
Where you live
Any comments on why you want to be involved, or something special about yourself …

Within a week or so, the group will be selected, and the survey conducted.

Please forward this to anyone.

The CogSpace model will continue to evolve in various ways …

Thanks and happy cognitions!

Superfoods Media 2

Michael Gaio — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:14:04 +0000

Another experiment in fattening the tummy and the pocketbook of the masses:

A slideshow with great information on superfoods, the Elements for Life company, and a financial opportunity:

[slideshare id=1045786&doc=elements-for-life-ppt1212-1235040841384395-1]

See the slideshow here.

You can find out more about all of these superfoods from SuperFood Life – Elements for Living (a distributor of Elements for Life products).

Superfoods Media 1

Michael Gaio — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:53:38 +0000

Superfoods are delicious and can offer extraordinary nutritional and health benefits to the body and mind! I created a list that shares essential information on an assortment of superfoods, such as: maca, blue-green algae, raw cacao, Tibetan goji berries, golden Inca berries, alkalizing greens, cordyceps, colloidal gold, phytoplankton, noni juice, and one of the very best raw sacred chocolate bars in the world! This is a listing of some of the best superfoods available, describing key elements, and links to more information and resources.

The full listing is available here, and as a compact Super Food Widget that can easily be embedded into any social network, blog, or web page.

Enjoy!

You can find out more about all of these superfoods from SuperFood Life – Elements for Living. (a distributor of Elements for Life products).

Curriculum Vitae Word Cloud

Michael Gaio — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:02:55 +0000

After I recently made some major updates to my Curriculum Vitae (latin, “course of life”), I went on over to Wordle.net and made a graphic word cloud from all thirteen pages of the document’s content. In the visualization, bigger words represent more frequency of that word in the overall document. Color and position are randomized. Here is one of the custom results:

Curriculum Vitae Word Cloud (2009)

Human-Computer Interface Revolution

Michael Gaio — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:17:59 +0000

I’ve been doing some deeper research into Tangible User Interfaces (TUI), and specifically–multitouch screen technologies. As a Flash developer, I’ve been waiting for the day to put my interactive art onto a touch-screen surface. I’m amazed to discover just how far things have come, and especially in the blooming creative community developing around open-source and easy to use components. People are making their own mini-multitouch screen hardware devices (for $5 – $50), sharing loads of code across cross-platform, artistically supportive open source frameworks, and co-creating some incredible applications.

We are on the verge of a Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) revolution … based on audio, visual, physical and kinesthetic sensations.

Here are a few videos that represent some of the aspects of interface extention:

MultiTouch Screen Physics beauty:

Tangible User Interface Objects (TUIO) and gestures:

Muilti-User Music Creation:

User 3D head tracking and gaze interaction:

Sudden motion kinesthetic sensing and reaction:

Various Projects in Audio / Visual Social Augmentation:

Some links:

DecaFolio

Michael Gaio — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:30:34 +0000

I have just completed a major upgrade of my web portfolio!It had not been updated in 7 years (since 2001)!!! I Now have a full decade of concentrated web accomplishments of nearly 100 projects to show: www.michaelgaio.com/portfolio

The Flash splash page is also updated in hypercosmic brilliance as well: www.michaelgaio.com