the stream of consciousness is like bitcoin's block-chain. When several alternative phrasings / formulations are being considered by consciousness, there is a system-wide (brain-wide) "lottery" or computational competition to determine which "block", which phrasing, will actually make it onto the stream. The more processing power (attention) that a section of the brain applies to the problem, the more likely its phrasing will become used. Imagination can be seen as rotation around sections of the brain -- using a wide variety of mental / psychic structures in your everyday thinking, and not "overfunding" one area of the brain and relying on it for all of your realizations. Bitcoin's genius is that it provides a model for how the mind works. There has to be a competition or "lottery", because there ~is chance and randomness in the decision of which alternatives to your inner stream will be chosen. Right at the front of the stream, the frontal edge, the foaming froth, there is an intense interplay as different areas of the brain seek to get their "statements" into play. This is obviously happening very fast. Many people never notice the frontal edge, and only focus on the completed stream (block-chain)... They in a sense don't know there is an alternative to what they're thinking.
Google gives us stuff for free. It is a public good. These telecoms who claim to be doing so much "work" for Google are really doing work for their clients/customers -- the real beneficiaries of the internet in general, and the people who are presumably paying fees to use the net.
When philosophers of mind say "Nothing worth reading has ever been written on consciousness", they mean it. To say human consciousness is "finite" is simplistic. Really, you don't know how "infinite" it is. After all, we as mathematicians can _conceive _of infinity. Our minds may be the closest things to infinity that anyone ever knows. To pretend to explain them with simplistic strings of DNA is laughable.
I developed a concept that deals with this.
It's called "genome base one"
it basically means all organisms on Earth, with DNA/RNA, run the same "OS" -- Genome Base One.
We simply have different genomes, and so we are different creatures.
but it's all the same.
I also own the site genomebaseone.com..!
More like, "it's not understandable by human limited brains, so to think you can explain it in mortal terms, to mortals, from a mortal, is the ultimate height of human arrogance and false certainty."
We fortunately or not will never understand how the human genome works.
Did you know there are about seventy trillion cells in a human body -- and each cell seemingly knows which cell it is? And the body and brain _build_ _themselves_? And when you are wounded, the body _heals itself_?
All this from a data set of only a few billion base pairs? Unlikely. But nature does it.
It is implausible, but apparently not impossible, that DNA/RNA is all there is to ontogeny (growth of the organism).
Each neuron, and there are 100 billion, has on average 1000 interconnections with other neurons -- each one perhaps highly designed, unique and specific.
The idea of no-god is only slightly more absurd than the god-idea.
You have to have faith in something, in this life. May as well be open source software..!
I think there's a "third ideal form" in the Apple vs. Samsung case -- the Platonic Idea of a generic smartphone.. In other words, what any object/ device needs to exemplify in order to _be_ a phone or tablet in the modern world. In my scheme, the iPhone would be an approximation of this Ideal, even if the Samsung phones resemble them both. It should not be a crime to imitate a generic idea. No one should have a monopoly on an idea.
Google+ gets fun to look at. Google seeds your timeline with nifty examples of posts from all different people. Like for example blogger posts stuff about making blogs.. Then Google will put random posts from different people. It's not boring like Facebook, where only your friends show up on your timeline.
if you wanna read about security, read Security Warrior.
Hacking Exposed is good.
Unix and Linux System Administration covers a lot.
Masterminds of Programming has language guys talking about security.
with a computer science background, you can make a secure node. The real challenge is making this secure node the cornerstone of your strategic planning -- defense _and _offense
SE Linux: NSA's security enhanced Linux
Understanding the Linux Kernal
Understanding Linux Networking Internals
The Linux Programming Interface
Linux Kernel Development
The Unix/Linux System Administration Handbook
this will get you thinking!
most vectors are inside
any tech assortment can give ou a secure rig
but one faulty insider with thte root account
or any account, really
or within reach of certain racks, certain cables
unless you go full co-lo
at expedient for example
where nothing short of a nuke attack will take out your system
that is the type of cloud to roll
we all get good grades
but who will take out your network?
client-server applications are a joy to write.
As for choice of OS, I would recommended Greater Security Linux or Security Enhanced Linux.
firewall technology is the gaurdian of all your knowledge.
Learn to roll your own kernal and write IPtables scripts to create a custom network interface
learn to lock down every process _bit_ of your system
your drive should have every bit _process_ accounted for
I would write nothing bad about Linux
Most server-side solutions are Linux Apache webservers
most people do _not go with MS Windows.
Most peple do _not go with Mac OS.
Ubuntu's "hardened Ubuntu" is SE Linux.
Go with the best you know...
I like to see the fire and the energy swirling around Linux and Java in this discussion.
My brother uses Mac's exclusively, because he works in the movies using Pro Tools -- and even if Pro Tools worked on Linux, he is committed and says "Apple operates by capitalizing on a lifestyle... How could the open source community match Apple, who has untold engineers, paid, working to make Mac's easy to use, and powerful?"
Mac's seem a bit pricey to me. I've heard the OS is based on a *nix (FreeBSD). Also, their hardware supposedly works well because being the proprietary corporation for the hardware and software, Apple can dominate its suppliers and configurations, and say, "We want a battery that will last seven hours" or whatnot.
All praise to Apple for making a good product that is derived from *nix..! However, their anti-competitive legal behavior with regard to Android disturbs me... Don't be evil..! A tablet is a generic category of nature..! You think _YOU_ invented a flat computer, or that only you have the right to make them?? Insane..!
Linux, however, is the wave of the Future Earth... Google runs on it, as do the FBI and the National Security Agency (Security Enhanced Linux)..
This guy Salus wrote a history of open source --
http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20051013231901859
I think it is fascinating. My parents bought a Win7 laptop, which got fried by a virus within weeks of powering up. I convinced them to let me install Ubuntu. My Dad liked it fairly well, but he's a big iTunes user, so eventually my brother was convinced to give them one of his old Mac laptops. Now Dad can run iTunes, look at the super-slick Mac interface, and be reasonably certain that he might not get killed by another virus. Any suggestions on what I should do with the extra Linux box? Maybe bring it to my apartment, and experiment with using it as a firewall...(Oh, doesn't a firewall require two network interfaces? I don't think the little Toshiba lappy thought of that yet..)
IPTables, packet mangling, Network Address Translation anyone?
My XP box (Windows XP Media Center Edition) has an odd habit of complaining loudly that no firewall is turned on, but ironically it doesn't let me turn it on for long.
I live in fear that my big box will get fried. I run Avast AV and do boot-time scans kind of frequently, and I am really reluctant to visit URL's I don't know.
My Ubuntu lappy is my pride and joy. I always install all the updates as soon as possible. How could _I_ second-guess Canonical? This is what they do for a living, this is their profession. I am simply a user. Although I know how to program, and Java is my favorite language. I figure Oracle or whoever will work out a way to make Java work cross platform. That was Java's promise, wasn't it? A Virtual Machine running on a bunch of different OS's -- which your Java code would ride barebacked on and always work..!
It disturbs me to hear shit talked on Java. I have a lot of study invested in it. What is the alternative? Well, Linux for instance is written in C.. Maybe if I ever decide to develop software, I could bite the bullet and do the menial labor of compiling it differently for each OS.. Or -- I don't give a shit about Windows or Mac OS -- why not simply go full force, full Linux -- and stop developing anything for any other OS?
Hollywood can do anything it wants. When you have millions of dollars, you are powerful in a way an indie can never be. Just the cameras alone are beyond the reach of normal people, and the film, and lights, and casts, and effects... But like you say, this is good..! We wouldn't _want our film-makers to be economically crippled... We are _glad they're multi-millionaires..! In "capitalism", who tends to succeed? -- > The best and the brightest. It's "social darwinism".. Yes, it's exclusive... A lot of wealth is inherited. But you have to be damn smart to hold on to your riches... Avatar had the best battle scene ever seen by mankind, and there have been a lot of battle scenes..!
They actually refer to self-publishing, when books are concerned, as "vanity publishing"... But I think the net has opened this up a bit. In the past, writers had to _beg for their readerships. They had to pander to the reading public. No more. You can get your crap out there, and truly let it spread. Call this "vanity" -- or call it freedom? Publishers, like Harvard, have an interest in business-as-usual. A revolutionary author shouldn't get swept up in that.
I'm talking open source. What I mean by that, is that additional dialogue recording, music (and rights), alt cuts of scenes, raw footage, would all be available. It's a matter of link speed. If we could all have megabit links, downloading this stuff would be no problem. We could then mix and mash to our hearts' content... Down to the granularity of Pro Tools sessions all tracked out... Total control, total freedom. What if you had all the alt takes to The Matrix? Don't tell me it would add up to a Muppets effort. IF it did, it would be your directorial skills to blame...
Open-source is where it's at... Who's to say a _film couldn't be open-sourced? The initial developer would post digital of her cut, maybe even zip archives of scenes, sound effects, and alt versions -- then secondary directors could "have at it"..! But it would be like the GNU license -- if you screw with this free, raw film, you have to make _your version free also..! Basically, I'm thinking that the whole "copyright/piracy" system is dead in the water. With the Earth on the brink of being destroyed by humanity, we rebellious elements of this humanity need _lots of freedom -- both like beer, and like speech -- if anyone will have a chance to change anything!
Aren't JavaScript and HTML5 kind of open-source philosophy?
While.NET is apparently very proprietary...
I think if you truly appreciate the world community of intelligent developers, we as a group will "naturally" move to more open practices...
With a large group experimenting with code, how can any one corporation hope to match the bug-catching, the innovation?
On my website, I often look at the Webalyzer site stats -- and the "referrers" section is kind of interesting... Right now there are about 300 sites that (apparently) link to my own site. Now, the stats are password protected, but what if I were to copy/paste them into my index/landing-page? What if I by doing this, am publishing a list with some potentially nefarious/evil URL's, and in a sense, poisoning my site? If I reference a site, am I guilty of what they're guilty of? Google's site admin guidelines recommend only a "reasonable" number of links on your index page... Is 400 reasonable?
More specifically, I think this proposed legislation is nugatory, and I agree with those of you who think someone must indeed be _convicted_ of a crime before it is just/fair to de-allow their site's existence.
Additionally, we are at a strange cusp of world history, with the internet. Artists no longer have to pander to audiences/publishers. If you want to write something, the world will have a chance to see. In a way, this is the first time anything significant has become possible in terms of the aesthetics/politics nexus. You can actually write the truth!
Now, I agree -- going after "pirates" really probably means going after "thought crime" and "questionable strangeness"/"odd philosophies"... You've seen what the gov is capable of. Just read Zinn's "People's History of the US"... Too much to contemplate, too much to bear...
We have to take a step back. The world is degenerate, with permanent revolution... The survival of the biosphere is at stake... This world could last _thousands_, _millions of more years! And we're tarring and feathering it! I mention this, because web publishers / information architects deserve / need to have a fairly _large amount of personal power, if anything _radical is going to change about the world... Reproducing copyrighted material will be a modality of this power. It is necessary....
http://251frankjazz.com/political_philosophy_nozick.htm is a poly phil paper I wrote at University of Pittsburgh... I got a D+ on it... That about says it all!
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the stream of consciousness is like bitcoin's block-chain. When several alternative phrasings / formulations are being considered by consciousness, there is a system-wide (brain-wide) "lottery" or computational competition to determine which "block", which phrasing, will actually make it onto the stream. The more processing power (attention) that a section of the brain applies to the problem, the more likely its phrasing will become used. Imagination can be seen as rotation around sections of the brain -- using a wide variety of mental / psychic structures in your everyday thinking, and not "overfunding" one area of the brain and relying on it for all of your realizations. Bitcoin's genius is that it provides a model for how the mind works. There has to be a competition or "lottery", because there ~is chance and randomness in the decision of which alternatives to your inner stream will be chosen. Right at the front of the stream, the frontal edge, the foaming froth, there is an intense interplay as different areas of the brain seek to get their "statements" into play. This is obviously happening very fast. Many people never notice the frontal edge, and only focus on the completed stream (block-chain)... They in a sense don't know there is an alternative to what they're thinking.
Google gives us stuff for free. It is a public good. These telecoms who claim to be doing so much "work" for Google are really doing work for their clients/customers -- the real beneficiaries of the internet in general, and the people who are presumably paying fees to use the net.
When philosophers of mind say "Nothing worth reading has ever been written on consciousness", they mean it. To say human consciousness is "finite" is simplistic. Really, you don't know how "infinite" it is. After all, we as mathematicians can _conceive _of infinity. Our minds may be the closest things to infinity that anyone ever knows. To pretend to explain them with simplistic strings of DNA is laughable.
I developed a concept that deals with this.
It's called "genome base one"
it basically means all organisms on Earth, with DNA/RNA, run the same "OS" -- Genome Base One.
We simply have different genomes, and so we are different creatures.
but it's all the same.
I also own the site genomebaseone.com..!
More like, "it's not understandable by human limited brains, so to think you can explain it in mortal terms, to mortals, from a mortal, is the ultimate height of human arrogance and false certainty."
We fortunately or not will never understand how the human genome works.
Did you know there are about seventy trillion cells in a human body -- and each cell seemingly knows which cell it is? And the body and brain _build_ _themselves_? And when you are wounded, the body _heals itself_?
All this from a data set of only a few billion base pairs? Unlikely. But nature does it.
It is implausible, but apparently not impossible, that DNA/RNA is all there is to ontogeny (growth of the organism).
Each neuron, and there are 100 billion, has on average 1000 interconnections with other neurons -- each one perhaps highly designed, unique and specific.
The idea of no-god is only slightly more absurd than the god-idea.
You have to have faith in something, in this life. May as well be open source software..!
I think there's a "third ideal form" in the Apple vs. Samsung case -- the Platonic Idea of a generic smartphone.. In other words, what any object/ device needs to exemplify in order to _be_ a phone or tablet in the modern world. In my scheme, the iPhone would be an approximation of this Ideal, even if the Samsung phones resemble them both. It should not be a crime to imitate a generic idea. No one should have a monopoly on an idea.
Google+ gets fun to look at. Google seeds your timeline with nifty examples of posts from all different people. Like for example blogger posts stuff about making blogs.. Then Google will put random posts from different people. It's not boring like Facebook, where only your friends show up on your timeline.
if you wanna read about security, read Security Warrior. Hacking Exposed is good. Unix and Linux System Administration covers a lot. Masterminds of Programming has language guys talking about security.
and Linux Firewalls
with a computer science background, you can make a secure node. The real challenge is making this secure node the cornerstone of your strategic planning -- defense _and _offense
SE Linux: NSA's security enhanced Linux Understanding the Linux Kernal Understanding Linux Networking Internals The Linux Programming Interface Linux Kernel Development The Unix/Linux System Administration Handbook this will get you thinking!
most vectors are inside any tech assortment can give ou a secure rig but one faulty insider with thte root account or any account, really or within reach of certain racks, certain cables unless you go full co-lo at expedient for example where nothing short of a nuke attack will take out your system that is the type of cloud to roll we all get good grades but who will take out your network?
client-server applications are a joy to write. As for choice of OS, I would recommended Greater Security Linux or Security Enhanced Linux. firewall technology is the gaurdian of all your knowledge. Learn to roll your own kernal and write IPtables scripts to create a custom network interface learn to lock down every process _bit_ of your system your drive should have every bit _process_ accounted for I would write nothing bad about Linux Most server-side solutions are Linux Apache webservers most people do _not go with MS Windows. Most peple do _not go with Mac OS. Ubuntu's "hardened Ubuntu" is SE Linux. Go with the best you know...
I like to see the fire and the energy swirling around Linux and Java in this discussion. My brother uses Mac's exclusively, because he works in the movies using Pro Tools -- and even if Pro Tools worked on Linux, he is committed and says "Apple operates by capitalizing on a lifestyle... How could the open source community match Apple, who has untold engineers, paid, working to make Mac's easy to use, and powerful?" Mac's seem a bit pricey to me. I've heard the OS is based on a *nix (FreeBSD). Also, their hardware supposedly works well because being the proprietary corporation for the hardware and software, Apple can dominate its suppliers and configurations, and say, "We want a battery that will last seven hours" or whatnot. All praise to Apple for making a good product that is derived from *nix..! However, their anti-competitive legal behavior with regard to Android disturbs me... Don't be evil..! A tablet is a generic category of nature..! You think _YOU_ invented a flat computer, or that only you have the right to make them?? Insane..! Linux, however, is the wave of the Future Earth... Google runs on it, as do the FBI and the National Security Agency (Security Enhanced Linux).. This guy Salus wrote a history of open source -- http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20051013231901859 I think it is fascinating. My parents bought a Win7 laptop, which got fried by a virus within weeks of powering up. I convinced them to let me install Ubuntu. My Dad liked it fairly well, but he's a big iTunes user, so eventually my brother was convinced to give them one of his old Mac laptops. Now Dad can run iTunes, look at the super-slick Mac interface, and be reasonably certain that he might not get killed by another virus. Any suggestions on what I should do with the extra Linux box? Maybe bring it to my apartment, and experiment with using it as a firewall...(Oh, doesn't a firewall require two network interfaces? I don't think the little Toshiba lappy thought of that yet..) IPTables, packet mangling, Network Address Translation anyone? My XP box (Windows XP Media Center Edition) has an odd habit of complaining loudly that no firewall is turned on, but ironically it doesn't let me turn it on for long. I live in fear that my big box will get fried. I run Avast AV and do boot-time scans kind of frequently, and I am really reluctant to visit URL's I don't know. My Ubuntu lappy is my pride and joy. I always install all the updates as soon as possible. How could _I_ second-guess Canonical? This is what they do for a living, this is their profession. I am simply a user. Although I know how to program, and Java is my favorite language. I figure Oracle or whoever will work out a way to make Java work cross platform. That was Java's promise, wasn't it? A Virtual Machine running on a bunch of different OS's -- which your Java code would ride barebacked on and always work..! It disturbs me to hear shit talked on Java. I have a lot of study invested in it. What is the alternative? Well, Linux for instance is written in C.. Maybe if I ever decide to develop software, I could bite the bullet and do the menial labor of compiling it differently for each OS.. Or -- I don't give a shit about Windows or Mac OS -- why not simply go full force, full Linux -- and stop developing anything for any other OS?
Hollywood can do anything it wants. When you have millions of dollars, you are powerful in a way an indie can never be. Just the cameras alone are beyond the reach of normal people, and the film, and lights, and casts, and effects... But like you say, this is good..! We wouldn't _want our film-makers to be economically crippled... We are _glad they're multi-millionaires..! In "capitalism", who tends to succeed? -- > The best and the brightest. It's "social darwinism".. Yes, it's exclusive... A lot of wealth is inherited. But you have to be damn smart to hold on to your riches... Avatar had the best battle scene ever seen by mankind, and there have been a lot of battle scenes..!
They actually refer to self-publishing, when books are concerned, as "vanity publishing"... But I think the net has opened this up a bit. In the past, writers had to _beg for their readerships. They had to pander to the reading public. No more. You can get your crap out there, and truly let it spread. Call this "vanity" -- or call it freedom? Publishers, like Harvard, have an interest in business-as-usual. A revolutionary author shouldn't get swept up in that.
I'm talking open source. What I mean by that, is that additional dialogue recording, music (and rights), alt cuts of scenes, raw footage, would all be available. It's a matter of link speed. If we could all have megabit links, downloading this stuff would be no problem. We could then mix and mash to our hearts' content... Down to the granularity of Pro Tools sessions all tracked out... Total control, total freedom. What if you had all the alt takes to The Matrix? Don't tell me it would add up to a Muppets effort. IF it did, it would be your directorial skills to blame...
Open-source is where it's at... Who's to say a _film couldn't be open-sourced? The initial developer would post digital of her cut, maybe even zip archives of scenes, sound effects, and alt versions -- then secondary directors could "have at it"..! But it would be like the GNU license -- if you screw with this free, raw film, you have to make _your version free also..! Basically, I'm thinking that the whole "copyright/piracy" system is dead in the water. With the Earth on the brink of being destroyed by humanity, we rebellious elements of this humanity need _lots of freedom -- both like beer, and like speech -- if anyone will have a chance to change anything!
Aren't JavaScript and HTML5 kind of open-source philosophy? While .NET is apparently very proprietary...
I think if you truly appreciate the world community of intelligent developers, we as a group will "naturally" move to more open practices...
With a large group experimenting with code, how can any one corporation hope to match the bug-catching, the innovation?
On my website, I often look at the Webalyzer site stats -- and the "referrers" section is kind of interesting... Right now there are about 300 sites that (apparently) link to my own site. Now, the stats are password protected, but what if I were to copy/paste them into my index/landing-page? What if I by doing this, am publishing a list with some potentially nefarious/evil URL's, and in a sense, poisoning my site? If I reference a site, am I guilty of what they're guilty of? Google's site admin guidelines recommend only a "reasonable" number of links on your index page... Is 400 reasonable? More specifically, I think this proposed legislation is nugatory, and I agree with those of you who think someone must indeed be _convicted_ of a crime before it is just/fair to de-allow their site's existence. Additionally, we are at a strange cusp of world history, with the internet. Artists no longer have to pander to audiences/publishers. If you want to write something, the world will have a chance to see. In a way, this is the first time anything significant has become possible in terms of the aesthetics/politics nexus. You can actually write the truth! Now, I agree -- going after "pirates" really probably means going after "thought crime" and "questionable strangeness"/"odd philosophies"... You've seen what the gov is capable of. Just read Zinn's "People's History of the US"... Too much to contemplate, too much to bear... We have to take a step back. The world is degenerate, with permanent revolution... The survival of the biosphere is at stake... This world could last _thousands_, _millions of more years! And we're tarring and feathering it! I mention this, because web publishers / information architects deserve / need to have a fairly _large amount of personal power, if anything _radical is going to change about the world... Reproducing copyrighted material will be a modality of this power. It is necessary.... http://251frankjazz.com/political_philosophy_nozick.htm is a poly phil paper I wrote at University of Pittsburgh... I got a D+ on it... That about says it all!