Category: Psyber

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Psyber-L: Exploring Psyche in Cyberspace Mailing List

Psyber-L: A Psybernet Mailing List
Psyber-L: Exploring Psyche in Cyberspace
Mailing List

“An online group for experiential learning about online depth interaction for people doing psychological work on the Internet. The group has been active (and inactive!) since 1993 and now has a life based on our history and sense of affiliation as well as the shared purposes.

“The Psyber-L mailing list grew out of the need to learn more about and experience first hand the potential of the net, especially how online group interaction effects the psyche.

“If you have an interest in the psyche online – please join!”

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I have been completing the transition of this group from L-Soft to Yahoo. Bit sad about that as L-soft had a good feel to it and a better product, no ads etc. However Yahooo is easier and cheaper! I will be able to start writng there soon… life is getting back to normal after the huge upheval of stating the Mt. Lyford Horse Treks (see link coming up).

How is it then that i have time for being here – but not there in the cty? Solitude, strange but true. But then why here at all? Here being in this blog?

I am having a great time reviewing psybernet… tidying… shifting, it is helping me find myself. That sounds too grand. Helping a tiny bit in the big process.

The list of links is really a nice mirror for me and goes well beyond this weblog: Old Links

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Ray Kurzweil

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“A comprehensive archive of works written by Editor-in-Chief Raymond C. Kurzweil. Also, a directory of selected articles about Kurzweil or the Kurzweil companies.”

“After the Singularity: A Talk with Ray Kurzweil By Raymond Kurzweil

John Brockman, editor of Edge.org, recently interviewed Ray Kurzweil on the Singularity and its ramifications. According to Ray, “We are entering a new era. I call it ‘the Singularity.’ It’s a merger between human intelligence and machine intelligence that is going to create something bigger than itself. It’s the cutting edge of evolution on our planet. One can make a strong case that it’s actually the cutting edge of the evolution of intelligence in general, because there’s no indication that it’s occurred anywhere else. To me that is what human civilization is all about. It is part of our destiny and part of the destiny of evolution to continue to progress ever faster, and to grow the power of intelligence exponentially. To contemplate stopping that–to think human beings are fine the way they are–is a misplaced fond remembrance of what human beings used to be. What human beings are is a species that has undergone a cultural and technological evolution, and it’s the nature of evolution that it accelerates, and that its powers grow exponentially, and that’s what we’re talking about. The next stage of this will be to amplify our own intellectual powers with the results of our technology.” (Added March 27th 2002)”

Plenty more there along those lines…

The Singularity – interesting – originates with Vinge and links cyber c with the romantics?

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CyberPsychology

CyberPsychology

“This page has links to a number of papers by Hugh Miller and Jill Arnold, of the Department of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University, about identity and Web pages.
We’ve also included links to a number of other sites that we’ve found useful and interesting.
We’re keen to make contact with other people who are interested in this area, so feel free to email Hugh or Jill, especially if you’re thinking of linking to this page or to any of our papers: we’d probably like to see your site.
Jill has a questionnaire (and an opportunity to contact her for an interview) about identity and personal home pages.”

This is a site worth having as it identifies something very vital – web pages and identity. Virtual life does not require the paraphernalia of The Matrix, just the Net as we know it.

Later: Friday, 6 June, 2008

The link is now behind a password, but here are some related ones:

Jill Arnold

Article

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Ontology of Cyberspace

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.

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Books of the Month: August 2001

Books of the Month — Index August 2001

Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media. MIT Press, 2001. Reviewed by Katie Mondloch.

Scott McCloud, Zot!: Hearts and Minds. Published Online. Reviewed by Matt Wolf-Meyer.

Review Essay: William J. Mitchell, City of Bits: Space, Place and the Infobahn (MIT Press, 1996) and William J. Mitchell, e-topia: “Urban Life, Jim — But Not As We Know It” (MIT Press, 1999). Reviewed by Michael Gurstein.

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The Rise and Fall of Wired.

The Rise and Fall of Wired. 6. The Sell-Out. By Stephen Downes [2010 That link is dead but here is a new one.]

” What we were dreaming about was profound global transformation. We wanted to tell the story of the companies, the ideas, and especially the people making the Digital Revolution. Our heroes weren’t politicians and generals or priests and pundits, but those creating and using technology and networks in their professional and private lives – you.”

Also has a list of links to what he calls the GOOD articles in WiReD

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Mark Stefik, The Internet Edge: Social, Legal, and Technological Challenges for a Networked World.

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Mark Stefik, The Internet Edge: Social, Legal, and Technological Challenges for a Networked World. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: MIT Press, 1999.

Reviewed by Arthur L. Morin [1]

“Mark Stefik works at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. He is a “technologist” who creates “new kinds of things” (xvii). He recognizes that “[c]reative times brings many changes” (p. xi). He also recognizes that change in what he calls “Internet time” (ibid.) occurs more rapidly than during earlier times of change. His book, The Internet Edge: Social, Legal, and Technological Challenges for a Networked World, is “about some of the changes taking place in Internet time” (ibid.).”

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