Are music and sci-ence different types of intel-ligence (as posited in the context of Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences), or are they two manifestations of common ways of think-ing? By focusing on scien-tists who have been musi-cians and on the ways they have used their musical knowledge to inform their scientific work, the author argues in this article that music and science are two ways of using a common set of “tools for thinking” that unify all disciplines. He explores the notion that cre-ative individuals are usually polymaths who think in trans-disciplinary ways.

The author describes World Wide Simultaneous Dance, a project combining live perfor-mances and digital connectivity, designed to give visual hints of an image that cannot yet be visual-ized: people dancing at the same time around the world, in varying conditions of light and at varying local times, the planet seeming for a moment to stand still as the per-formers locked on to each others' signals. Technical considerations and performances are described. The author also discusses the ge-nealogy of this work and future work suggested by World Wide Si-multaneous Dance.

The author provides an ac-count of his everyday experience as a physicist, which allows him to witness research on chaos as a science of convergence: the elite with the masses, the scientific dis-ciplines with each other, modern physics with Giordano Bruno's phi-losophy, and science with mysti-cism and art. He also outlines how chaos theory displays postmodern features and dissolves the bound-aries between the “two cultures.”.

This paper reviews the first “Consciousness Reframed” conference. A number of artists' works in media such as virtual reality and interactive installations are discussed, and various issues relating to “technoetic” artworks are raised. These issues include questions such as the potentially dehumanizing nature of technology, the transcendent states claimed for cyberspace, the nature of immersion, and aspects of the problem of consciousness. The author offers some suggestions regarding how technoetic art might tackle such issues.