Thursday, March 26, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
thought of the day: octopus
too many fingers in too many pies. a vulgar manager of data.
the planet is evolving as a system because humans serve as a log of non-physical past events. until further genetic change can occur (because selection has slowed dramatically right now), human evolution is occurring in the areas of "what has happened" and "what is now known". does this mean that it's not nearly as random anymore? maybe not "random" so much as "unknowable" -- wouldn't that depend on how well we can predict future discoveries? knowing what we know should give us very good guesses about the next most rapidly expanding field of knowledge. technology, ethics and government, economy, social and cultural systems... how many ways are we evolving?
all of the systems outside ourselves -- are they also part of what "human" is?
the planet is evolving as a system because humans serve as a log of non-physical past events. until further genetic change can occur (because selection has slowed dramatically right now), human evolution is occurring in the areas of "what has happened" and "what is now known". does this mean that it's not nearly as random anymore? maybe not "random" so much as "unknowable" -- wouldn't that depend on how well we can predict future discoveries? knowing what we know should give us very good guesses about the next most rapidly expanding field of knowledge. technology, ethics and government, economy, social and cultural systems... how many ways are we evolving?
all of the systems outside ourselves -- are they also part of what "human" is?
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
i used to think that humans would really benefit from eidetic memories.
i think history is a bad idea now
or at the very least, we should have been designed with a delete button to make the experience of time more pleasant
a harddrive is good enough: it records what you want, and you can always change it later, but best of all it's a step of removal away from consciousness. maybe a cpu is the exalted existence. only knowing what's immediate.
i think history is a bad idea now
or at the very least, we should have been designed with a delete button to make the experience of time more pleasant
a harddrive is good enough: it records what you want, and you can always change it later, but best of all it's a step of removal away from consciousness. maybe a cpu is the exalted existence. only knowing what's immediate.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Saturday, January 10, 2009
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