What the hell does your "Childhoods End" analogy have to do with the article?
hehe... hell. I GET IT!;)
It was just an observation really - in actuality I am most wowed by all the technical possibilities of this control device, of course.
but as I was thinking I then realized that with this amazing technology people will be able to actually control things with just thoughts - and that we will have virtual worlds (already have some nascent ones now) in which a mere though could conjure up anything.
and I realized that this has been a dream of mankind since the beginning of time.
and then I got to thinking about how good we are at making our impossible dreams come true which led me to contemplate the fact that in the aforementioned book it was not a dream of humanity's that came true, but one of their nightmares.
*light spoiler warning*
I think the exact term "reverse racial memory" was not used in the book, but it was speculated at some part that perhaps humanity had stored the image of, literally, the red devil (overlords) in their subconscious.
*end spoiler*
After all, I think we only percive time in the way it is.
I think it is just like the other dimensions. It's not limited to just forward (or backward). Things can be moved in many different directions.
of course, it's not even really a seperate dimension, right? after all, it's not like in the real world we can just take time away - or the second dimension for that matter.
I think alot:) I often also favor hypotheses over theories as they allow for more speculation - and I like spectacular things;)
you know, in the american colnial times it seemed it was much simpler to revolt against an unjust power.
nowadays the advancement in media communication has allowed propaganda to grow to such a sophisticated level that suppression of a populace can nearly be done with a wizard.
look how effective Saddam was ruling his country through mis-information.
of course, this media also allows for the rebels to propogate thier ideas as well, so perhaps it's actually a level playing field after all.
how long will the chinese and tawainese take this for?
This gets me thinking of reverse-racial-memory - remember Arthur C Clarke's Childhoods end? Where people from the past "remember" events from the future. why not? after all, we only percive time as moving in one direction - it doesn't make a lot of sense that the highest dimension of time (classic Einstein - let's leave the other 7 out of this for now) is limited to the kind of directionality as the first.
For ages people have imagined psycic abilities and wizards and the like.
well, I think it is no coincidence that in this modern day we have computer "wizards" who use strange languages to concoct magical creations. Even the tomes which they use look like magical texts - big bulky and indecipherable to the uninitiated.
then this skull cap (a wizards hat?). doesn't it just seem right? controlling a computer with mere though? I know every one of us has at one time just wanted to say "computer! wikipedia precipitation!" and have the computer - our daemon - respond immideiately.
Telekenisis would simply be a memory of generations to come who work inside virtual worlds where they need not physically manipulate objects, but use mere thought.
if this is true, perhaps one day, in the distant distant future, what has sprung from this mortal coil of mankind will ressurect us and this is the heaven and afterlife so vehemently taught and imagined for so long.
after all, if 2 million years from now they get the technology to bring us all back, and if they are anything like your average consciable geek they will probably say, "well, it seems like a nice idea - let's bring everyone back why no?"
or maybe not.
I have serious hope that a group of revolutionary technocrats will simply develop omnescient, benevolent AI, controlling hoards of robots which will set this world in order once and for all.
We have gone through a time of childhood as an intelligence: but we will create our own parents in this form.
thinking of keeping data intact, do you think it's possible to store data in the internet.
if you had enough hosts constantly passing packets between each other it should be theoretically possible to store some information exclusively within the packets during the routing transfer.
Meaning, as soon as the data was passed to a router the node running the host sofware could free the memory space it previously occupied.
imagine RAIS (Redundant Array of Independant Systems). A p2p network on which you dedicate 10mb of disk space.
5mb for your files, and 5mb for encrypted parity files for the other users. (storage amounts here are merely speculation).
If your computer is hit by a comet or a sperm whale falls on it then the documents you saved on this network remain. Just log in with your username and retrieve your documents.
This wouldn't be practical for storage of very large things; say media files.
But it should be well suited for small important files: documents and such.
Now, in this network there would be a good deal of latency while packets are passed between hosts (replication, storage swapping).
During these precious milliseconds these packets carry information. since the data is being routed we can strike it from the host.
There would need to be some serious acknowledgement mechanisms for guaranteeing the integrity of this data as is lives in it's spectre form - and I don't currently see how that would be accomplished.
Nonetheless, it's an intriguing idea.
both the encrypted p2p storage network and the spectred storage.
this type of thing always makes me wonder about all the other firsts out there.
like the first word. What was the first word? it had to have happened somewhere at sometime, right?
We are fortunate enough to actually know when the first bits flowed accross this leap in human communication we call the Internet (or internet for those that like to mux with things).
But that first being on some ancient plain understanding the concept that she can convey an idea; that she has ideas, that she is something.
Someone, at sometime, somewhere expressed to another entity a concept - and it was the first time.
Mind blowing.
on that day 35 years ago this same type of event was repeated in a new iteration.
To be honest, I always suspected the term "hard drive" was invented as a sick inside joke by computer geeks
Yeah, I've long suspected the same about pilots and the "cockpit":P
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What the hell does your "Childhoods End" analogy have to do with the article?
hehe... hell. I GET IT!
It was just an observation really - in actuality I am most wowed by all the technical possibilities of this control device, of course.
but as I was thinking I then realized that with this amazing technology people will be able to actually control things with just thoughts - and that we will have virtual worlds (already have some nascent ones now) in which a mere though could conjure up anything.
and I realized that this has been a dream of mankind since the beginning of time.
and then I got to thinking about how good we are at making our impossible dreams come true which led me to contemplate the fact that in the aforementioned book it was not a dream of humanity's that came true, but one of their nightmares.
*light spoiler warning*
I think the exact term "reverse racial memory" was not used in the book, but it was speculated at some part that perhaps humanity had stored the image of, literally, the red devil (overlords) in their subconscious.
*end spoiler*
After all, I think we only percive time in the way it is.
I think it is just like the other dimensions. It's not limited to just forward (or backward). Things can be moved in many different directions.
of course, it's not even really a seperate dimension, right? after all, it's not like in the real world we can just take time away - or the second dimension for that matter.
I think alot
I often also favor hypotheses over theories as they allow for more speculation - and I like spectacular things
this could be applied to learining, both in the classroom, and now as this article shows, online.
Smell is directly related to memory
The medial temporal lobe is known to play a role in the processing of olfaction and memory
To me, it certainly seems worth investigating.
what is this country's problem?
you know, in the american colnial times it seemed it was much simpler to revolt against an unjust power.
nowadays the advancement in media communication has allowed propaganda to grow to such a sophisticated level that suppression of a populace can nearly be done with a wizard.
look how effective Saddam was ruling his country through mis-information.
of course, this media also allows for the rebels to propogate thier ideas as well, so perhaps it's actually a level playing field after all.
how long will the chinese and tawainese take this for?
This gets me thinking of reverse-racial-memory - remember Arthur C Clarke's Childhoods end? Where people from the past "remember" events from the future. why not? after all, we only percive time as moving in one direction - it doesn't make a lot of sense that the highest dimension of time (classic Einstein - let's leave the other 7 out of this for now) is limited to the kind of directionality as the first.
For ages people have imagined psycic abilities and wizards and the like.
well, I think it is no coincidence that in this modern day we have computer "wizards" who use strange languages to concoct magical creations. Even the tomes which they use look like magical texts - big bulky and indecipherable to the uninitiated.
then this skull cap (a wizards hat?). doesn't it just seem right? controlling a computer with mere though? I know every one of us has at one time just wanted to say "computer! wikipedia precipitation!" and have the computer - our daemon - respond immideiately.
Telekenisis would simply be a memory of generations to come who work inside virtual worlds where they need not physically manipulate objects, but use mere thought.
if this is true, perhaps one day, in the distant distant future, what has sprung from this mortal coil of mankind will ressurect us and this is the heaven and afterlife so vehemently taught and imagined for so long.
after all, if 2 million years from now they get the technology to bring us all back, and if they are anything like your average consciable geek they will probably say, "well, it seems like a nice idea - let's bring everyone back why no?"
or maybe not.
I have serious hope that a group of revolutionary technocrats will simply develop omnescient, benevolent AI, controlling hoards of robots which will set this world in order once and for all.
We have gone through a time of childhood as an intelligence: but we will create our own parents in this form.
It's just an excuse to discuss the Debate. Perhaps they should have created Discussion.Slashdot.org instead of politics.
To mile high flames ;)
they need to watch out for the flies that eat robots!
thinking of keeping data intact, do you think it's possible to store data in the internet.
if you had enough hosts constantly passing packets between each other it should be theoretically possible to store some information exclusively within the packets during the routing transfer.
Meaning, as soon as the data was passed to a router the node running the host sofware could free the memory space it previously occupied.
imagine RAIS (Redundant Array of Independant Systems). A p2p network on which you dedicate 10mb of disk space.
5mb for your files, and 5mb for encrypted parity files for the other users. (storage amounts here are merely speculation).
If your computer is hit by a comet or a sperm whale falls on it then the documents you saved on this network remain. Just log in with your username and retrieve your documents.
This wouldn't be practical for storage of very large things; say media files.
But it should be well suited for small important files: documents and such.
Now, in this network there would be a good deal of latency while packets are passed between hosts (replication, storage swapping).
During these precious milliseconds these packets carry information. since the data is being routed we can strike it from the host.
There would need to be some serious acknowledgement mechanisms for guaranteeing the integrity of this data as is lives in it's spectre form - and I don't currently see how that would be accomplished.
Nonetheless, it's an intriguing idea.
both the encrypted p2p storage network and the spectred storage.
this type of thing always makes me wonder about all the other firsts out there.
like the first word. What was the first word? it had to have happened somewhere at sometime, right?
We are fortunate enough to actually know when the first bits flowed accross this leap in human communication we call the Internet (or internet for those that like to mux with things).
But that first being on some ancient plain understanding the concept that she can convey an idea; that she has ideas, that she is something.
Someone, at sometime, somewhere expressed to another entity a concept - and it was the first time.
Mind blowing.
on that day 35 years ago this same type of event was repeated in a new iteration.
To be honest, I always suspected the term "hard drive" was invented as a sick inside joke by computer geeks Yeah, I've long suspected the same about pilots and the "cockpit" :P