Walter Logeman: Journal
Matthew Broersma doing an Eric Raymond interview.
Centralization doesn’t scale
“If you want to go to a really fundamental analysis, what we’re perpetually rediscovering on a scale of complexity is that centralization doesn’t work. Centralization doesn’t scale, and when you push any human endeavor to a certain threshold of complexity you rediscover that.”
Use this Weblog more effectively, spy on it.
See link on the left.
Having a busy time in the Psybernet website. Been updating the pages. I am happier with all those that have the
sign on them. They validate, are up-to-date and have been spell-checked. If there are glaring errors, or even minor ones on those pages – let me know.
DreamEvents in Psyberspace
Here is the essay i wrote on DreamEvents using the HipBone game.
koepsell (link dead Tuesday, February 22, 2011 but rescued from the archives now here.). (and in Google Drive
David R. Koepsell, The Ontology of Cyberspace: Philosophy, Law, and the Future of Intellectual Property. Chicago and La Salle, Illinois: Open Court, 2000.
Reviewed by Arthur L. Morin
Law is a system of categorization. At the ideal level, one purpose of this system is to help the social system achieve justice. Though not stated so straightforwardly, this is David R. Koepsell’s position in his book The Ontology of Cyberspace: Philosophy, Law, and the Future of Intellectual Property.1 There is, of course, a dynamic interrelation between the legal system of categorization and the socio-cultural system(s) of categorization of which it is a part. Koepsell realizes this, or else he would not have been able to detect the disjunction between what software is and how it has been treated in the legal system. But what he does not seem to fully appreciate is that ontology does not necessarily beget justice. This is the First Problem — the distinction between ontology (what something is) and justice — and I will return to it later.
Cyberpsychology: Principles of Creating Virtual Presence by Leon James in Hawaii
Cyberpsychology:
Principles of Creating Virtual Presence
Dr. Leon James
Professor of Psychology
University of Hawaii
(c)1994
This is a link to the site of the teacher – not the student as in an earlier link. Full of Psyberspacy stuff.
The Internet Classics Archive | On the Soul by Aristotle
so the soul plus the body constitutes the animal.
Mythology’s “MythingLinks”: links to Jung, Campbell, Pacifica Graduate Institute & related sites
MYTHING LINKS
An Annotated & Illustrated Collection of Worldwide Links to Mythologies, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Sacred Arts & Sacred Traditions by Kathleen Jenks, Ph.D.
A wealth of stuff to explore here.
Experts worry that war on terrorism will be seen as crusade against Islam
By SALLY BUZBEE
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush calls it a “crusade,” a war against a new kind of evil. But using such a term, loaded with historical baggage about religious wars, could alienate moderate Muslims that the United States needs, some experts caution.
It is becoming clear to me that the Language of the current times – and the psychological depths it taps into is of vital importance! Words of War leads to a war of words on the net, but can unleash forces that go well beyond words. Good comments in this article by George Lakoff.
http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs/books/borsook/index.html
Although Paulina Borsook has been writing about cyberculture for over a decade, most academics first discovered her via “The Memories of a Token: An Aging Berkeley Feminist Examines Wired,” Borsook’s chapter in the 1996 anthology Wired Women: Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace. Since then, Borsook has published a number of influential pieces in Salon and Mother Jones and, in 2001, published Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech. Aimée Morrison, a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Alberta who is working on a dissertation exploring the personal computer in 1980s literary and popular culture, reviews Cyberselfish, followed by a rejoinder from the author.
Interesting discussion.