The me that exists at this moment is not the me that will exist the next moment or the me that existed a moment ago. Sentient existence only lasts for one moment in time. Therefore, each sentient being only lasts for one moment. The sentient being the next moment is a different being. Have you ever had the feeling of "Gee, out of all the time in existence, isn't it great that it happens to be now? Well, it happens to be now because all nows have their own existence. In the string of my life, each now has it's own "me". Each me is glad that it happens to live in the current now.
My brain has information about the past that is active in the current now for my brain. Concurrently it has information about now. Concurrently it projects into the future. There is the experience of flow. The real question is, how is the binding problem solved? How are different parts of the brain experienced subjectively as a single consciousness in a particular now?
So if this therapy become common for the public, and athletes are the only ones who can't use it, does that mean that athletes will be the whimpiest people around? Does this mean that computer geeks will be able to push around pro football players?
I'll admit it, I watched the original series back in the 80s, and I liked it. It's no excuse that I was a kid at the time, I should have known better. It was crap and I liked it. I also liked Buck Rogers, which was an even bigger load of crap. I was so starved for science fiction entertainment I religiously watched what the tv execs threw out at us.
So I watched this latest version of Battlestar Galactica, and you know what? I liked it. I really should know better...
Just to clarify, this is not a homophobic statement. The problem that would be solved is the need for women. I am not implying that we send all homosexual men to Mars.
If people are unhappy they will work to try to make themselves happy. A content society ceases to strive for something better. Advertising and media are constantly telling us we need to buy things to make our lives better.
An unhappy society has a competitive advantage over a happy one.
Before becoming a software engineer I got a bachelors in psychology. While in college I went to a conference on phenomenology. I had taken a couple courses on the subject and thought I had a handle on it. However, the first speaker I went to was completely incomprehensible to me. Try as I might I could not put more than three sequential words of his together into anything that made any sense. At first I questioned my intelligence, but eventually I came to the conclussion that it was all a bunch of blather.
Standing next to me (it was standing room only) was a hot chick I had spoken to prior to the talk. She was looking up at him like he was the most brilliant man alive, making little nods and short buzzing noises of agreement. I wanted to have sex with her, and this led to my moral transgression.
After he was done speaking she gushed about how brilliant he was. Deep down I wanted to ask her if she could explain what gave her that impression, but instead I agreed with her. My little head was doing the thinking. I even spouted back some of the junk he had said in order to try to impress her.
No...I did not end up having sex with her. She went off to join the groupies surrounding the speaker, and I was left alone in my shame. I had helped to perpetuate the BS.
...until we complete the space elevator. Shots to the moon and mars will do little to provide a foundation toward building a permanent interplanetary civilization of scale. A space elevator, though, is a gateway to the future.
The answer is a hydrogen fuel cell generator in every home. Each private home will have it's own power source and we shall be independant of the power grid. And no diesel fog! Check it out here.
While Bloom County was my favorite all-time comic, I wasn't all that impressed by Outland. Bloom County was great for running gags that developed over days. You just can't have that in a Sunday only comic strip.
After the advertising blitz before Spiderman helped send it to super blockbuster status, the movie execs thought they had a formula to make any movie into a super mega hit, at least for 1 weekend. After all, movie execs are investing a chunk of change into these movies, they want to be able to predict and control the behavior of the masses accurately, at least in the short term. What they didn't figure into their calculation was the Spiderman was, thanks to Sam Rami, a pretty good movie.
New communications technology is giving people greater power, and that is scaring the pants off those who use to be able to spoon feed us information and entertainment. I say, let's watch them squirm and laugh.
I think calling this cognitive computing is a bit of an overstatement. It seems more like a heuristic tool that learns the behavioral patterns of a human and alerts the human when something deviates from the norm. We have a long way to go before we have real computer cognition.
I haven't seen the trailer, but I imagine they are going to turn this into another action thriller with lots of chase scenes. I've read a few P.K. Dick books and they are not, first and foremost, action flicks. Dick's books tend to be situational dramas with occasional, short, intense bursts of action. Blade Runner is the only P.K. Dick based movie that came close to the spirit of alienation and disjointed reality that is P. K. Dick (although many liberties were taken with the details).
I'm waiting for someone to make a real P. K. Dick movie based on A Scanner Darkly or Ubik or .
So what happens when I buy the Godly Vorpal Sword of Slaying for $1000 bucks and the creators of the game decide to nerf it to half its strength? Oh well, too bad for me. Wait, this could spawn the industry of nerf insurance!
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The me that exists at this moment is not the me that will exist the next moment or the me that existed a moment ago. Sentient existence only lasts for one moment in time. Therefore, each sentient being only lasts for one moment. The sentient being the next moment is a different being. Have you ever had the feeling of "Gee, out of all the time in existence, isn't it great that it happens to be now? Well, it happens to be now because all nows have their own existence. In the string of my life, each now has it's own "me". Each me is glad that it happens to live in the current now.
My brain has information about the past that is active in the current now for my brain. Concurrently it has information about now. Concurrently it projects into the future. There is the experience of flow. The real question is, how is the binding problem solved? How are different parts of the brain experienced subjectively as a single consciousness in a particular now?
It had to be said.
So if this therapy become common for the public, and athletes are the only ones who can't use it, does that mean that athletes will be the whimpiest people around? Does this mean that computer geeks will be able to push around pro football players?
I'll admit it, I watched the original series back in the 80s, and I liked it. It's no excuse that I was a kid at the time, I should have known better. It was crap and I liked it. I also liked Buck Rogers, which was an even bigger load of crap. I was so starved for science fiction entertainment I religiously watched what the tv execs threw out at us.
So I watched this latest version of Battlestar Galactica, and you know what? I liked it. I really should know better...
My first choice would be for a space elevator, but if we want to get to Mars without it we should go nuclear
The game from Parker Brothers facinated me as a child. One of the reasons I went into computer science was to find out how it could play tic-tac-toe.
you should see my Lego version!
Just to clarify, this is not a homophobic statement. The problem that would be solved is the need for women. I am not implying that we send all homosexual men to Mars.
Problem solved.
If people are unhappy they will work to try to make themselves happy. A content society ceases to strive for something better. Advertising and media are constantly telling us we need to buy things to make our lives better.
An unhappy society has a competitive advantage over a happy one.
Before becoming a software engineer I got a bachelors in psychology. While in college I went to a conference on phenomenology. I had taken a couple courses on the subject and thought I had a handle on it. However, the first speaker I went to was completely incomprehensible to me. Try as I might I could not put more than three sequential words of his together into anything that made any sense. At first I questioned my intelligence, but eventually I came to the conclussion that it was all a bunch of blather.
Standing next to me (it was standing room only) was a hot chick I had spoken to prior to the talk. She was looking up at him like he was the most brilliant man alive, making little nods and short buzzing noises of agreement. I wanted to have sex with her, and this led to my moral transgression.
After he was done speaking she gushed about how brilliant he was. Deep down I wanted to ask her if she could explain what gave her that impression, but instead I agreed with her. My little head was doing the thinking. I even spouted back some of the junk he had said in order to try to impress her.
No...I did not end up having sex with her. She went off to join the groupies surrounding the speaker, and I was left alone in my shame. I had helped to perpetuate the BS.
...until we complete the space elevator. Shots to the moon and mars will do little to provide a foundation toward building a permanent interplanetary civilization of scale. A space elevator, though, is a gateway to the future.
... a book from an alternate universe that somehow made it here.
Back in my day all the special effects were done by puppets, and we liked it!
The answer is a hydrogen fuel cell generator in every home. Each private home will have it's own power source and we shall be independant of the power grid. And no diesel fog! Check it out here.
So...in summation...
Its possessive isn't it's, it's its.The Far Side!
While Bloom County was my favorite all-time comic, I wasn't all that impressed by Outland. Bloom County was great for running gags that developed over days. You just can't have that in a Sunday only comic strip.
You can do anything except make it unfree.
After the advertising blitz before Spiderman helped send it to super blockbuster status, the movie execs thought they had a formula to make any movie into a super mega hit, at least for 1 weekend. After all, movie execs are investing a chunk of change into these movies, they want to be able to predict and control the behavior of the masses accurately, at least in the short term. What they didn't figure into their calculation was the Spiderman was, thanks to Sam Rami, a pretty good movie.
New communications technology is giving people greater power, and that is scaring the pants off those who use to be able to spoon feed us information and entertainment. I say, let's watch them squirm and laugh.
I think calling this cognitive computing is a bit of an overstatement. It seems more like a heuristic tool that learns the behavioral patterns of a human and alerts the human when something deviates from the norm. We have a long way to go before we have real computer cognition.
I haven't seen the trailer, but I imagine they are going to turn this into another action thriller with lots of chase scenes. I've read a few P.K. Dick books and they are not, first and foremost, action flicks. Dick's books tend to be situational dramas with occasional, short, intense bursts of action. Blade Runner is the only P.K. Dick based movie that came close to the spirit of alienation and disjointed reality that is P. K. Dick (although many liberties were taken with the details).
I'm waiting for someone to make a real P. K. Dick movie based on A Scanner Darkly or Ubik or .
Probably a pointy-haired boss.
lol, hey, I write this stuff quickly so my boss doesn't see me slacking off in the cubicle!
So what happens when I buy the Godly Vorpal Sword of Slaying for $1000 bucks and the creators of the game decide to nerf it to half its strength? Oh well, too bad for me. Wait, this could spawn the industry of nerf insurance!