Showing posts with label think. Show all posts
Showing posts with label think. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Deny yourself
"To deny our own impulses, is to deny that very same thing that makes us human" - Mouse, the Matrix
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Numb nest
There is numbness in your head, fried neurons twitch in vain and you still smile. You're blind. The world around you is more real than your mind dictates it. You are the many, and I live amongst you.
Alan, November 2008
Alan, November 2008
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
What to ask a complete stranger
- does your civilization you put a high price on life?
- is a live being respected as an individual?
- do you clone individuals?
- are your people treated equally?
- do you have a moral code?
- would you harm the innocent in order to achieve a higher purpose?
- would you harm the innocent in order to survive?
- is survival of the current population the most important priority?
- do some individuals ignore the rules of the community?
- what happens when rules are broken?
- is there punishment? If so, does it work, and what form of punishment takes place?
- are there community goals?
- is there personal gratification in the population?
- is a live being respected as an individual?
- do you clone individuals?
- are your people treated equally?
- do you have a moral code?
- would you harm the innocent in order to achieve a higher purpose?
- would you harm the innocent in order to survive?
- is survival of the current population the most important priority?
- do some individuals ignore the rules of the community?
- what happens when rules are broken?
- is there punishment? If so, does it work, and what form of punishment takes place?
- are there community goals?
- is there personal gratification in the population?
Monday, May 19, 2008
High level minds, low level world, and the missing middle layer
The problem seems to arise from the fact that we don't live in the present. Our thoughts slide backwards and forwards in time, while we are actually in all of those times and in all of those locations at the same time.
The greatest disconnect between perception and reality occurs because of a missing middle layer between the high level human perception layer and the low level reality layer of the actual world. This middle layer is essential for realizing truth.
There are the few who manage to create thin and temporary connections between the perception layer and the reality layer (meditation?). However, like golden strands of gold connecting some circuitry between two extremes, these people can not fully interpret the stimuli of the physical world, and their brains become misguided by the received sensations.
If our duty is to understand the truth of the world, then we must create the middle layer between the mind and the world.
The greatest disconnect between perception and reality occurs because of a missing middle layer between the high level human perception layer and the low level reality layer of the actual world. This middle layer is essential for realizing truth.
There are the few who manage to create thin and temporary connections between the perception layer and the reality layer (meditation?). However, like golden strands of gold connecting some circuitry between two extremes, these people can not fully interpret the stimuli of the physical world, and their brains become misguided by the received sensations.
If our duty is to understand the truth of the world, then we must create the middle layer between the mind and the world.
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Artificial Intelligence can save.
20060622: AI will save mankind. Built in man's image, with superhuman intelligence, strength, adaptation, coordination, AI will provide the necessary care for humans that will ensure their survival, the necessary work force for building interstellar homes, habitats and for providing resources. AI is only the beginning, the sky is the limit.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Techno Sapiens
20060620
We are a new species, techno homo sapiens sapiens (or techno sapiens, for short). Our understanding of the world is still in its infancy. The majority of the population has a minimal education, while the "educated" ones have spent at least one fifth of their lives in various schools, only to become specialized in only a couple of subjects. With a great lack of schooling, the rate of advancement is slow and the grasp on reality is weak. It is a time when the concept of non-earthly life is still mostly ridiculed and laughed at. It is a time when the world's governments are corrupt and thrive only for the enrichment of the few in charge. It is a time when the big picture of the universe is only studied by the few, unrewarded ones. It is a time we call "right now".
The techno sapiens of now is a species that relies heavily on technology. "Necessities" include imported foods, manufactured products, inefficient locomotion and inefficient and ecologically unfriendly sources of energy. The trend is for change to take place, for greener alternatives of energy generation to be implemented, and for more education to be distributed to the population, with hopes to lengthen the lifespan of various habitats on Earth. Many animal species are becoming extinct, the greatest forests are being cut down, pollution is causing the ice caps to melt, and most of the population is clueless. The media controls the people, the people believe what they're told, and a vast amount of time is being spent on inefficient labor, working for companies that only care for profit. The bulk of the population is easily entertained with sedentary activities such as watching television (sports, irrelevant shows), or eating beyond one's needs. Science programs are not very popular, while educators and research are paid very little.
Few understand the risks of nuclear war, space debris, dangerous viruses and other dangers that could annihilate the human species from the face of the Earth. If more people would become educated, more would invest their thinking to yield solutions to threats. Yet the system does not require such education for the population. The poor, uneducated are kept in the dark; their workforce is being exploited by their employers, they are fed unhealthy foods and information by the media and they are used as unknowing slaves as a force that propels the system that controls them. They are the bulk of society, the defense of the country, the suffering techno sapiens of today.
The Internet opened channels of communications. Ideas arise, are propagated and are built upon. The techno sapiens species may one day integrate machinery into itself, speeding the thought process, minimizing the years spent in school, and specializing itself on a variety of topics, thus saving itself from slavery to the system and from the dangers of extinction. Alternatively, non-earthly interventions may provide solutions to the problems, solving humans all the necessary work.
Chances that everything will change for the better, that the masses will become educated and that corporate greed will give in to preserving the species, are slim. It is more likely that the few will remain the few, searching to understand the world, searching for solutions to grave problems, forever hindered by the simplicity of the masses, which are forever kept in the dark about the risks at stake. Be part of the few, and you will help.
Alan
We are a new species, techno homo sapiens sapiens (or techno sapiens, for short). Our understanding of the world is still in its infancy. The majority of the population has a minimal education, while the "educated" ones have spent at least one fifth of their lives in various schools, only to become specialized in only a couple of subjects. With a great lack of schooling, the rate of advancement is slow and the grasp on reality is weak. It is a time when the concept of non-earthly life is still mostly ridiculed and laughed at. It is a time when the world's governments are corrupt and thrive only for the enrichment of the few in charge. It is a time when the big picture of the universe is only studied by the few, unrewarded ones. It is a time we call "right now".
The techno sapiens of now is a species that relies heavily on technology. "Necessities" include imported foods, manufactured products, inefficient locomotion and inefficient and ecologically unfriendly sources of energy. The trend is for change to take place, for greener alternatives of energy generation to be implemented, and for more education to be distributed to the population, with hopes to lengthen the lifespan of various habitats on Earth. Many animal species are becoming extinct, the greatest forests are being cut down, pollution is causing the ice caps to melt, and most of the population is clueless. The media controls the people, the people believe what they're told, and a vast amount of time is being spent on inefficient labor, working for companies that only care for profit. The bulk of the population is easily entertained with sedentary activities such as watching television (sports, irrelevant shows), or eating beyond one's needs. Science programs are not very popular, while educators and research are paid very little.
Few understand the risks of nuclear war, space debris, dangerous viruses and other dangers that could annihilate the human species from the face of the Earth. If more people would become educated, more would invest their thinking to yield solutions to threats. Yet the system does not require such education for the population. The poor, uneducated are kept in the dark; their workforce is being exploited by their employers, they are fed unhealthy foods and information by the media and they are used as unknowing slaves as a force that propels the system that controls them. They are the bulk of society, the defense of the country, the suffering techno sapiens of today.
The Internet opened channels of communications. Ideas arise, are propagated and are built upon. The techno sapiens species may one day integrate machinery into itself, speeding the thought process, minimizing the years spent in school, and specializing itself on a variety of topics, thus saving itself from slavery to the system and from the dangers of extinction. Alternatively, non-earthly interventions may provide solutions to the problems, solving humans all the necessary work.
Chances that everything will change for the better, that the masses will become educated and that corporate greed will give in to preserving the species, are slim. It is more likely that the few will remain the few, searching to understand the world, searching for solutions to grave problems, forever hindered by the simplicity of the masses, which are forever kept in the dark about the risks at stake. Be part of the few, and you will help.
Alan
Monday, March 27, 2006
Conventional logic may lead to chaotic order
20060327:
Discrepancy of conventional logic is the critical ingredient of the chaos machine.
Discrepancy of conventional logic is the critical ingredient of the chaos machine.
Saturday, January 26, 2002
What is dreaming?
20020126 If a thought is an instance of a configuration of certain neural path ways, then when the being sleeps, a dream is the visual representation that the house-keeping function that administers the freshly produced thought (in the day previous to the dream) creates. Here we create a being that dreams.
Monday, January 1, 2001
We are making ourselves extinct - transhumanism
2001
One could accept the idea of human kind becoming extinct. The whole race could evolve into a collective consciousness of minds, interacting with one another and finding optimal solutions to all problems. The new race would engineer bodies and use them as tools that are needed to accomplish mobility tasks. The speeding thought process in this collection of minds would be an iterative process, a source of energy for new ideas. The conventional biological homo sapiens sapiens body would become a natural gateway between the dawn of intelligence and artificial new species, which would work towards the goal to be fit for eternal existence.
Alan Lupsha
One could accept the idea of human kind becoming extinct. The whole race could evolve into a collective consciousness of minds, interacting with one another and finding optimal solutions to all problems. The new race would engineer bodies and use them as tools that are needed to accomplish mobility tasks. The speeding thought process in this collection of minds would be an iterative process, a source of energy for new ideas. The conventional biological homo sapiens sapiens body would become a natural gateway between the dawn of intelligence and artificial new species, which would work towards the goal to be fit for eternal existence.
Alan Lupsha
A Christian fantasy becomes true
Hans Moravec, once said:
"All we have to do is get rid of these bodies and these brains. "I have faith in these computers," Hans Moravec said. "This is not some way of tricking you into being less than you are; you're going to be more than you are. You're going to be more intelligent, you'll be able to do much more, understand much more, go more places, not die - all those things. "It really is a sort of a Christian fantasy: this is how to become pure spirit." (source: http://slate.msn.com/id/111178/ )
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2001
One could accept the idea of human kind becoming extinct. The whole race could evolve into a collective consciousness of minds, interacting with one another and finding optimal solutions to all problems. The new race would engineer bodies and use them as tools that are needed to accomplish mobility tasks. The speeding thought process in this collection of minds would be an iterative process, a source of energy for new ideas. The conventional biological homo sapiens sapiens body would become a natural gateway between the dawn of intelligence and artificial new species, which would work towards the goal to be fit for eternal existence.
Alan Lupsha
"All we have to do is get rid of these bodies and these brains. "I have faith in these computers," Hans Moravec said. "This is not some way of tricking you into being less than you are; you're going to be more than you are. You're going to be more intelligent, you'll be able to do much more, understand much more, go more places, not die - all those things. "It really is a sort of a Christian fantasy: this is how to become pure spirit." (source: http://slate.msn.com/id/111178/ )
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2001
One could accept the idea of human kind becoming extinct. The whole race could evolve into a collective consciousness of minds, interacting with one another and finding optimal solutions to all problems. The new race would engineer bodies and use them as tools that are needed to accomplish mobility tasks. The speeding thought process in this collection of minds would be an iterative process, a source of energy for new ideas. The conventional biological homo sapiens sapiens body would become a natural gateway between the dawn of intelligence and artificial new species, which would work towards the goal to be fit for eternal existence.
Alan Lupsha
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