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WANT: A system for Active Listening. The opportunity & challenges are significant.
WANT: A system for active noise cancellation in open spaces. Been researching this for some time and its a wicked challenging problem, but in theory tractable.
#ML #Technology #Design #Augmentation #Music #Science #Culture
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"The Path to Best Effort" - Paper by @livcomp - which is half scientific white paper/literature review and half science fiction, but with the goal (I believe) of making a serious point.
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Excerpt from the Book "Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality"
"We take 4 granted that only certain kind of things exist - electrons but not angels, passports but not nymphs. This is what we understand as 'reality'. But in fact, 'reality' varies with each era of the world, in turn shaping the field of what is possible to do,think & imagine."
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“Hang the Flesh off the Bones”: Cultivating an “Ideal Body” in Taijiquan and Neigong
Abstract: In a globalized, media-driven society, people are being exposed to different cultural and philosophical ideas. In Europe, the School of Internal Arts (pseudonym) follows key principles of the ancient Chinese text The Yijinjing (The Muscle-Tendon Change Classic) “Skeleton up, flesh down”, in its online and offline pedagogy. This article draws on an ongoing ethnographic, netnographic and cross-cultural investigation of the transmission of knowledge in this atypical association that combines Taijiquan with a range of practices such as Qigong, body loosening exercises and meditation. Exploring the ideal body cultivated by the students, we describe and illustrate key (and often overlooked) body areas—namely the spine, scapula, Kua and feet, which are continually worked on in the School of Internal Arts’ exercise-based pedagogy. We argue that Neigong and Taijiquan, rather than being forms of physical education, are vehicles for adult physical re-education. This re-education offers space in which mind-body tension built over the life course are systematically released through specific forms of attentive, meditative exercise to lay the foundations for a strong, powerful body for martial artistry and health.
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"Logic is about thought, not about concrete objects. Foundations are impossible ex nihilo since they would involve a thought located outside the thought." - Jean-Yves Girard
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Western intellectual culture in a nutshell: White Male Thinkers
"Over 600 pages, Not a single non-white or non-European political thinkers in over 2000 years! Also, not a single woman thinker (neither in the 1st edition of 2003 nor the 2nd edition of 2009). And ready for this, in 2017 edition the editors decided to add ONE woman (of 33 thinkers). and guess what? the one they added is another WHITE, EUROPEAN WOMAN (Hannah Arendt)." - Ahmed Abozaid
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Things science communities (machine learning, neuroscience, ecology, etc) might focus on next:
- The nature of memory as a massively decentralized phenomenon throughout nature. With a particular focus on memory formation and dynamics in mediums like water, electromagnetic fields, ecosystems and (human) bodies.
- The nature of unconventional computing (none silicon based, wetlands-, planetary-, universe-scale, etc.) and the capacity for awareness and agency in emergent complex networks.
- The nature of "randomness" and serendipity in decision-making across diverse (life) forms, with a special focus on awareness, attention and intention of the (animal) observer.
- The nature of relaxation in relation to tension - or put differently, trust/faith/flow VS control/optimization/compression.
- The nature of love and life in relation to theories of evolution and entropy (syntropy etc.).
- The nature of what does any of this even mean, if we embody infinity & non-linear time?
#ML #Evolution #Science #Nature #Complexity #Generative #Ideas
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"Study the science of art. Study the art of Science. Develop your senses - especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else." - Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
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Diagram showing how Jesuit missionaries imported & diffused Mahayana Indian philosophy in Europe from 1551-1750. Virtually all major 17th-19th century western thinkers were exposed to high Indian philosophy. Similar map for diffusion of Indian calculus should be made.
What 'novel ideas' did these Indian texts(in Chinese & Japanese) contain?
- -Realism vs Idealism debate
- -"Transcendental Idealism"=Vijñānavāda
- -Advanced treatises of logic
- -Separation of Ethics & religion
- -Utilitarianism
- -Rejection of 'soul' & afterlife
- etc
Source of Diagram: "Cult of Emptiness" - by Urs App
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"In a glass of drinking water there is a network of micro bubbles that is about 1000 bigger than neurons in the human brain." - From the Documentary "The Mystery of Water - What we know is a drop"
#Nature #Regenerative #Complexity #Science #FFHCI #ML #Complexity #Documentary
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How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything - "The key to understanding the origin and fate of the universe may be a more complete understanding of the vacuum."
Just to add the appropriate a pinch of humor to this very serious and very scientific topic:
Shi Yong Xin - Abbot of the famous Shaolin Temple - in an interview he gave to the Xinhua News Agency in China: "Monks Can Enter Outer Space through Practice and Aliens Exist":
"It is a Buddhist belief that there exists (throughout the universe) many different worlds, each containing a number of different forms of alien life – all of which are essentially empty and existing within space. As a monk directly realises this empty state at all times, in theory there is nowhere he could not go." - "Empty space can be penetrated and understood through the cultivation of the mind – here and now – and physically experienced as the body transmigrates throughout the universe and the six realms of rebirth."
Image from "Museum of Alien Studies" that does "Alien Divination".
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Decentralized Science is Poised to Disrupt… Well, Everything - TL;DR: Well funded people proclaiming that Crypto and its derivatives (NFT/DAO) is magically ushering in a revolution in how science is done 🤡
