'Nightly Walk of the Monks to the Mount Athos' (1905) - Considered the last painting by Hermann David Salomon Corrodi (1844-1905)
'Shrine at Venice, Sundown' by Hermann David Salomon Corrodi
'Nightly Walk of the Monks to the Mount Athos' (1905) - Considered the last painting by Hermann David Salomon Corrodi (1844-1905)
'Shrine at Venice, Sundown' by Hermann David Salomon Corrodi
Scientists propose putting nanobots in our bodies to create ‘global superbrain’
An international team of scientists led by members of UC Berkeley and the US Institute for Molecular Manufacturing predicts that exponential progress in nanotechnology, nanomedicine, artificial intelligence (AI) and computation will lead this century to the development of a human ‘brain-cloud interface’ (B-CI). Writing in Frontiers in Neuroscience, the team said that a B-CI would connect neurons and synapses in the brain to vast cloud computing networks in real time.
"Fishing the moon from the bottom of the sea" (海底撈月) is an expression that means illusion or mirage
This Is No Way to Be Human - We now occupy a nearly natureless world - By Alan Lightman
For more than 99 percent of our history as humans, we lived close to nature. We lived in the open. The first house with a roof appeared only 5,000 years ago. Television less than a century ago. Internet-connected phones only about 30 years ago. Over the large majority of our 2-million-year evolutionary history, Darwinian forces molded our brains to find kinship with nature, what the biologist E. O. Wilson called “biophilia.” That kinship had survival benefit. Habitat selection, foraging for food, reading the signs of upcoming storms all would have favored a deep affinity with nature. Social psychologists have documented that such sensitivities are still present in our psyches today. Further psychological and physiological studies have shown that more time spent in nature increases happiness and well-being; less time increases stress and anxiety. Thus, there is a profound disconnect between the natureless environment we have created and the “natural” affections of our minds. In effect, we live in two worlds: a world in close contact with nature, buried deep in our ancestral brains, and a natureless world of the digital screen and constructed environment, fashioned from our technology and intellectual achievements. We are at war with our ancestral selves. The cost of this war is only now becoming apparent.
Groupthink
The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, also known as the linguistic relativity hypothesis, refers to the proposal that the particular language one speaks influences the way one thinks about reality. Linguistic relativity stands in close relation to semiotic-level concerns with the general relation of language and thought, and to discourse-level concerns with how patterns of language use in cultural context can affect thought.
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“Patience attracts happiness; it brings near that which is far.” — Swahili Proverb
If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?
Knowledge / Conviction
OFO - Holy communication device with wireless capability - In Igbo Culture
An Ofo is a votive object which is pointed at the sky when prayers are offered, particularly to Chuku. After the fiasco of bringing death to the world he really did need a more reliable method of communicating with his creation. Presumably the Ofo boosts the signal of weak invocations. Think of it as a sort of remote control communication device for O.F.O.s — Omnipotent Flying Objects.