Video Feedback

EDIT: Due to popular demand, a DVD with ten of our favorite video feedback vlogs can be ordered from www.tenthdimension.com/store

A direct link to the above video is at http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=-tt1-w-wIpg


In his great book "I Am a Strange Loop", Douglas Hofstadter used video feedback as one of the visualization tools for picturing how something as deceptively simple as a self-referential "loop" can create something as subtle and complex as consciousness. The fact that this is very similar to the "self-excited loop" that esteemed physicist John Wheeler used to describe the quantum observer creating and refining a universe through the act of observation - not just in the future but in previously indeterminate elements of the past as well! - is most certainly more than a coincidence: both are easily related concepts.

Over the last few months I have been using various video feedback tricks as visualization tools for a number of concepts related to this project: the flipbook universe, time as a direction, flatlanders and linelanders, quantum tunneling, higher dimensional patterns and waves that create our 4D reality... we've played with all those concepts in the video blogs created for this project.

So here this time, just for fun, is a compendium of some of the video feedback and video kaleidoscope blogs that have been created for this project. I hope you enjoy them!

The Big Bang and the Big Pie

A direct link to the above video is at http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=kiP12-u2GYY

Predicting the Future (Here Come the Aliens)

A direct link to the above video is at http://www.blip.tv/file/1396117

You are Me and We are All Together

A direct link for the above video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbGAPR70tTY

I Know You, You Know Me

A direct link to this video is at http://www.blip.tv/file/1345477

The Past is an Illusion

A direct link to the above video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCCp2UZTvak

Time in 3 Dimensions

A direct link to the above video can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4FpPp8MPIQ

We're Already Dead (But That's Okay)

A direct link to the above video can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQMO1eyMRuM

Randomness and the Missing 96 Percent

A direct link to this video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBDaZiMF8jg

Time is a Direction

A direct link to this video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDajcGcKiAM

Unlikely Events and Timelessness

A direct link to this video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpf3y_EdHco

Time in Either Direction

A direct link to this video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0j8oYNFFbw

Magnets and Souls

A direct link to this video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p21KA8JL9qU

Wormholes

A direct link to this video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi2Nh_C8Pzk

What Would a Linelander Really See?

A direct link to this video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9_-ZOIES0U

The Spacetime Tree

A direct link to this video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L-BfvDYYWg

Changing Your Genes part 2

A direct link to this video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrYUlbYQuKA

Google, Memes, and Randomness

A direct link to this video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EXNWfX8sz8

Information Equals Reality

A direct link to this video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-bAAZRp82M


John Wheeler and Digital Physics

A direct link to this video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgQavdF4OzI

I hope you got something out of these explorations of the world of video feedback, and the ideas we looked at in these blogs. Enjoy the journey!

Rob Bryanton

Next: Changing Your Genes - Part 2