"That's no life, that's fucking breathing."

Bastian, 25, Psychologist: Heart, Mind, Music
Right Away, Great Captain!

—Blame



The accelerating advances in genetics, brain research, artificial intelligence, bionics and nanotechnology seem to converge to one goal: to overcome human limits and create higher forms of intelligent life and to create transhuman life.


My brothers in arms, I forge this creed!My blasphemy, our eulogy! We are the sons of fire! We are the daughters of light!

My brothers in arms, I forge this creed!
My blasphemy, our eulogy! 
We are the sons of fire! 
We are the daughters of light!


All I’ve seen walking through the fireThe figures in my dreamsRun back on me in a psychic scarAs I ride to the dawn

All I’ve seen walking through the fire
The figures in my dreams
Run back on me in a psychic scar
As I ride to the dawn


If you look at the anatomy, the structure, the function, there’s nothing in the universe that’s more beautiful, that’s more complex, than the human brain.

Keith Black (quoted in Discover magazine, April, 2004)

If you look at the anatomy, the structure, the function, there’s nothing in the universe that’s more beautiful, that’s more complex, than the human brain.

Keith Black (quoted in Discover magazine, April, 2004)