01.12.10

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."


“A culture that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion dies,”...And the most potent story tonight, the most potent story across North America, is one of financial ruin … and enslavement of a frightened and abused working class.

The emergence of the corporate state always means the emergence of the security state.

“The purpose and goals of the corporation are never questioned. To question them, to engage in criticism of the goals of the collective, is to be obstructive and negative. … If we are not happy, there is something wrong with us. Debate and criticism, especially about the goals and structure of the corporation, are condemned as negative and ‘counterproductive.’” ////PWA

Your consciousness needs to understand how to operate the inner and outer devices that enable you to control your world.//WD



OpinionFinder is a system that processes documents and automatically
identifies subjective sentences as well as various aspects of subjectivity
within sentences, including agents who are sources of opinion, direct
subjective expressions and speech events, and sentiment expressions.//OF

"Reading our brain signals and being able to distinguish 'interesting' from 'not interesting' prior to us having a conscious perception of seeing the item tells us that there is a substantial amount of processing that our brain does prior to the conscious awareness of the perception." //TR
This masterful mystery repeats itself over and over again without you ever having to think about it. ///FWA
The latest test in quantum mechanics provides even stronger support than before for the view that nature violates local realism and is thus in contradiction with a classical worldview. //physorg




WE CAN PROVIDE ALL EARTH CITIZENS WITH ADEQUATE ACCESS TO THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE AND A SHARE OF ABUNDANCE WITH CURRENTLY AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGY.//Luminist

Conformity. Allowing other's opinions to overrun your own. Things are turned upside down, but may appear right-side up. Look closely to discern how things really stand. //fbtd


On the surface, it seems like the sort of thing that restores power to the people. It arms us all with knowledge and reminds those in power that they must answer to the public. //DV

The United States struck its first blow against WikiLeaks after Amazon.com pulled the plug on hosting the whistleblowing website in an apparent reaction to heavy political pressure. //BB

11.11.10

The Eagle and the Serpent

Nun beginnt der wirklich zu herzen gehende und geradezu tragische Teil meiner Geschichte, oh meine Brüder und einzigen Freunde…//stuffnews

After Po, the so called black hole, at the core of our galaxy, the egg of the world - the first principle of the seed - Po means seed so says the Dogon. Amma is the intelligent consciousness behind all creation and the awareness within all beings.//UNN13



Now, everything was perfect, just as long as those two folks stayed dumb. They had but one rule to follow – don’t eat the magic fruit.//KIS

Dare To Take The Road to Knowledge, Power and
Information! //UGN


Can it be that male gamers, while not completely defined by vaginophobia or femiphobia, still experience feelings of insecurity around women?//escapistmagazine


The Freedom of Knowledge, The Power of Thought

And one is this precisely by seeking his competence no longer in a ware, but in his own labor, his competence for labor; and therefore by being a ragamuffin, a man of only ideal wealth.//MAX Stirner

Her poetry is impenetrable.

... so, this made Douglas think seriously about how to implement a robotic representation of a person and have it reflect that person’s personality.//TRUE Companion



One possible explanation of the origin of this term is this: Raw sauerkraut is an excellent source of vitamin C. Captain James Cook always took a store of sauerkraut on his sea voyages, since experience had taught him that it was an effective remedy against scurvy. Later, on British ships, sauerkraut was replaced by lime juice (for the same purpose). German sailors continued with the use of kraut, calling their British colleagues "limies" and being themselves called "krauts.//wiki



"Sind nicht die Deutschen, die so viel Sauerkraut essen, zum Teil dank dieser gesunden Pflanze
so gesund und stark, so immer froher Laune?" //Drosz

Clearly,
natural laws must replace human-made laws as the primary mode of modern
society. Three such laws or
principles of nature have thus far been mentioned as 1)
simplicity, 2) practicality, and 3)
efficiency. Six
additional natural laws should also be described as follows: 4)
Truth (or truthful living), 5)
prioritization, 6)
progressiveness, 7) honesty, 8) logic and 9)
spiritual intent. //SGNM

23.10.10

sunday's notes




"We will have memories of things we never did with brands we never did. Our past actions are the best predictor of our future decisions, so now all of a sudden, our future decisions are in the hands of people who want to make money off of us. That makes me very, very scared. I can see this happening and I can see it happening very soon."//Aza Raskin



"I would say the brain, but the heart is also related because the complex concept of love is formed by both bottom-up and top-down processes from the brain to the heart and vice versa. For instance, activation in some parts of the brain can generate stimulations to the heart, butterflies in the stomach. Some symptoms we sometimes feel as a manifestation of the heart may sometimes be coming from the brain."//Stephanie Ortigue



"It argues that the purpose of the universe is the evolution of ever higher forms of intelligence. At the moment we happen to be carriers. As perhaps the most highly developed intelligence in the universe, we've now succeeded in creating our truly worthy successors: computers. We have the tools of destruction in our hands, but we've sent computers into timeless, endless space, and thus, having fulfilled our destiny, we have no reason to grieve over the probable death of our species."//Joseph Weizenbaum




"The goal is to enable robots to autonomously manipulate their environment. ..Robots will have to navigate around human spaces and deal with human tools, and that’s what this program is about. ...We need robots to go do jobs that we don’t want to send humans to do because they’re too dangerous, too dirty, too dull...But I have told the teams that I strongly encourage them to collaborate with each other and the outside world. What I told them is that they should be competitive but don’t destroy each other in the beginning. Try to collaborate as everyone gets started, then you compete....The commercial applications will be all over the place. Robots will be everywhere. "//Robert Mandelbaum




"The future is the realm of the unknown. We can do much better to understand, anticipate, and prepare for the possible futures that lie ahead, but a large element of the unknown will remain. If we are to continue improving the human condition—and possible even move beyond it—we must remain open to the unknown. "//Max Moore