Thoughts & Insights

What makes a human being human? What distinguishes humans from Artificial Intelligence? Some of the most insightful science fiction writers have been grappling with this question for many decades.

Some places possess a unique power to draw people in. Windansea Beach in La Jolla, just north of San Diego, is one of them.

“Kurosawa was a poet. His films are profound reflections on life and human nature.”

– Francis Ford Coppola

They live in complex, stable groups, communicate with one another over long distances, develop regional dialects, and call each other by name. They play together, learn from one another, form deep emotional bonds, and possess individual self-awareness and self-recognition.

Perhaps it was coincidence; perhaps unseen interactions behind the scenes played their part. However it may have come about, the year 1907 marks a turning point in our thinking and in our culture.

No other celestial body comes as close to Earth as the Moon. Especially as a full moon, bathed in the dazzling floodlight of the Sun, its appearance has always stirred emotions, thoughts, and fantasies in human beings. It has served as a projection screen for longings and fears, a timekeeper of the night, and a silent companion to life on Earth.

In 1858, two mathematicians independently discovered something astonishing: a strip twisted around its own axis with only one side and one edge.

One month after the release of his final work "The Yellow Shark", Frank Zappa died on December 4, 1993, at the age of 52. This year, he would have turned 85 on December 21.

Art comes into being first and foremost within the inner space of the artist — in their brain, their mind, their soul. That is where the sources of creative power lie.

We search for life on other planets and explore the possibilities of extraterrestrial intelligence. Perhaps one day we humans will colonize space ourselves?

OUBEY dedicated one of his early paintings to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's monadology. I saw this painting for the first time in the summer of 1983.

About 1,500 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Orion, there is a dark nebula. A dark field that cannot compete with the breathtaking beauty of the “Three Pillars of Creation” in the Eagle Nebula. Nevertheless, its silhouette is no less fascinating. It is named after it: “Horsehead Nebula”