AWESOME concert!!!

I went to a lanka rock concert and it was awesome. My praise goes to these bands

Stigmata
Paranoid Earthling (some info about them)

If you want to listen to those stigmata originals, you better get their songs soon. They won't let you down.

Rise of a New Mysticism

mys·ti·cism ( p : mst-szm) n.

1. Immediate consciousness of the transcendent or ultimate reality or God.


2. The experience of such communion as described by mystics.


3. A belief in the existence of realities beyond perceptual or intellectual apprehension that are central to being and directly accessible by subjective experience.


4. Vague, groundless speculation.

I'm starting to speculate and wonder, if butterflies in Africa can start storms in
South America, why can't sun spots create wars? why can't comets create revolutions? If everything in the world is connected, these patterns known today
as superstition could really turn out to be true. However, for now I would like to
keep that box closed. Until, we more fully understand the realities, the relationships
and the patterns that govern life on Earth.

The Emotional Dilemma

Back in October of 2000 I wrote a few usenet articles on missing factors which affect intelligence of a machine. I went on to say that emotion could play a part as well. Today 3 years later, it is fascinating to find that Capra has also stated that the same facts, though with some negativity (IMHO), affect intelligence. Ofcourse it has been known for some years, yet it's all new to me.

" Moreover neuroscientists have discovered strong evidence that human intelligence, human memory, and human descisions are never completely rational but are always coloured by emotion, as we all know from experience" - Fritjof Capra "The Web of Life"

He goes on to state that computers, not having emotions and a body to express them, will never be able to make intelligent decisions. I would agree to that. It is a problem that has to be solved in machines. Back to the drawing board I guess.

I present the articles, which are quite naive, I wrote back in October 2000.

Link to Google Groups for the thread

From: farax (farax@farax.f2s.com)
Subject: Re: AI or just A?
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Date: 2000-10-14 03:20:05 PST

Perhaps all it comes down to is curiosity. Curiosity, experimentation,
conclusions, and amount of exposure. Everything is a necessity. Without
curiosity we wouldn't be doing experimentation. Without experimentation(trial & error) we
wouldn't be able to come up with some conclusions(deductions). And we do need to
conclude everything at some point even if the conclusion was partial, and
incomplete.
A conclusion to everything we do is necessary for the learning process,
as we do need to register that event somewhere in our brain map.
Exposure or the number of events is factor that determines our knowledge
of the subject.

What about preparation and revising ( or thinking of the things that had
happened. or lets say worrying about things) . This is also a necessity
in mature "intelligence"/"intelligent" systems. This would lead to new
insights, into things that happened already. This would also make the "brain map"
more "prepared" to handle new events and be able to relate them.

if i haven't been called a troll by now, i would also state that
emotions played a part too.

If we were to have a "intelligence"/"intelligent" system we would need
to have all of the above.


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^ farax ^
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- end of the road -

Humans && self-reinforcing runaway feedback

Fritjof Capra in the book "The Web of Life" describes that truly runaway self-reinforcing phenomena is rare in nature. Mostly true except for the 'human factor' where humans as part of nature are getting carried away with what they do to nature. The big question is how do we introduce negative feedback into this cycle to balance nature?

Perhaps if we can identify the self re-inforcing factors and introduce self-balancing factors we might be able to contain the situation.

Does anybody know of a better solution that Ebola? Please tell me about it.

Entropy and Evolution

My faith in evolution has led me to believe that life would concieve whenever, given the right opportunities. Yet we have not , 'yet' encountered life beyond this simple planet. If we observe that the Earth itself is alive (Gaia), we might, however the remote the possiblity is, be able to extend this phenomenon beyond this planet. Perhaps to the Solar System, to the Galaxy, maybe to the Universe itself. Perhaps we are not able to experience the relationship between each and every planet and solar system because the universe itself maybe dying. Just like our beloved earth. Could it be possible that we maybe the last living creatures. the last living planet in this entire universe. Or it might be that Gaia is experienced only at the planetary level. Hence it's 'emerging property'.

The Universe as the 'Super Mom'.



It should be noted that if the universe was 'alive', entropy should be reducing in the universe. Meaning universe is evolving. Towards better order. Forces working against entropy. Could this then be the "dark matter" physicists have obsessed with for so long ?

Explain.

"Could you explain to me, the beginning of life ?"

What was the settings, the conditions, the imbalances set such that a few hydrogen, carbon and oxygen molecules could create this phenomenon that is life? If that was the truth, what if life on a different planet look for if those conditions were different. Should it be the exact conditions? I believe in Gaia. I believe that most "hospitable" planets ( planets that do not have great variations in temperature, ph levels overnight, or over few weeks) would probably have life.

Have been reading all day long. A book called "The Web of Life". More about that later.

May god us keep
from single vision and Newton's sleep

William Blake