Useful Tips. Here is my summary
- Purpose
- Often
- Tight
- Friends
- Enemies
- Story
- Speakout
- Sexy
- Archive
- Relax!
Good little article by:
Freeman Dyson
Edge: IS LIFE ANALOG OR DIGITAL?
One of my favorite books is Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition” by Ed Regis. The book is a collection of stories about weird ideas and weird people. The transhuman condition is an idea suggested by Hans Moravec. It is the way you live when your memories and mental processes are down-loaded from your brain into a computer. The wiring system of the computer is a substitute for the axons and synapses of the brain. You can then use the computer as a back-up, to keep your personality going in case your brain gets smashed in a car accident, or in case your brain develops Alzheimer’s. After your old brain is gone, you might decide to upload yourself into a new brain, or you might decide to cut your losses and live happily as a transhuman in the computer. The transhumans won’t have to worry about keeping warm. They can adjust their temperature to fit their surroundings. If the computer is made of silicon, the transhuman condition is silicon-based life. Silicon-based life is a possible form for life in a cold universe to adopt, whether or not it happens to begin with water-based creatures like us made of flesh and blood.
A New Kind of Science – Amazon
Posting to the Blog by email
Test.
Later: Well that worked fine! I might do that more often.
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Forté Home Page I have used Agent for a long time as my email client. I like it. New version out, and a road-map for development that looks great.
Wolfram Science
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An excellent review: American Scientist – Computing Science Ray Kurzweil has made a gtitique: Reflections on Stephen Wolfram’s “A New Kind of Science”. See this too: Forbes.com – Magazine Article God, Stephen Wolfram, and Everything Else Also: Simulating the Replication of Life Wired 10.06: The Man Who Cracked The Code to Everything …
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Jung and the New Age
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Editorial from Amazon:
An article by David Tacey with the same title as the book: Jung and the New Age ~ A Study in Contrasts And a post he made on the same theme in response to a comment of mine! (which just popped up in my search) Conversation with David Tacey sorted : Re: mystery versus intellect in Jung studies. |
10 Tips for Mouse Use
Go to CU ergo to see a list – I learnt a few things!
Chiasmus
Dr. Mardy Grothe, Chiastic Quotes of the Week — August 11-17, 2002
“Have you ever noticed that it rains when you’re sad?”
“Lots of people get sad when it rains.”
“No baby, you don’t get sad because it rains, it rains because you get sad.”
— From Tommy Lee Jones. “Men in Black II.
This sums up my last three complex items.
Yet more Metaxy
Especiallythis Neoplatonic tradition is thoroughly Western even if it is not empirical in method, rationalist in conception, or otherworldly spiritual in appeal. This tradition holds to the notion of soul as a first principle, placing this soul as a tertium between the perspectives of body (matter, nature, empirics) and of mind (spirit, logic, idea). Soul as the tertium, the perspective between others and from which others may be viewed, has been described as Hermetic consciousness (LopezPedraza 1977), as esse in anima (Jung [1921] CW 6, §66, 77), as the position of the mundus imaginalis by Corbin, and by Neoplatonic writers on the intermediaries or figures of the metaxy. Body, soul, spirit: this tripartite anthropology further separates archetypal psychology from the usual Western dualistic division, whose history goes back before Descartes to at least the ninth century (869: Eighth General Council at Constantinople), occurring also in the medieval ascension of Averroes Aristotelianism over Avicennas Platonism. Consequences of this dualistic division are still being felt in that the psyche has become indistinguishable from bodily life, on the one hand, or from the life of the spirit on the other. In the dualistic tradition, psyche never had its own logos. There could be no true psychology. A first methodologically consistent attempt to articulate one in a philosophical style belongs also within the perimeters of archetypal psychology (Evangelos Christou 1963).