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Sharing Personal Information
How well does society understand purpose? I think society has a narrow view of purpose. I agree. It sets its societal purpose according to economic need and security. Does their model allow these things, in fact? The international milieu, rather than selected cultures. There may be exceptions. Some are more effective and successful. On the…
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Information Energy
What is the difference between music coming from your i-Pod and the code we use to record a computer program? None, until it hits the speaker and is translated. There is no difference in environmental energies until they stimulate one or more of our sense organs and are translated. With innovations in brain-computer interface (BCI)…
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Information Theory of Death
The basic metaphysical concept behind cryonics is the information theory of death. According to the information theory of death, you aren’t dead until the structures responsible for generating or expressing your consciousness are damaged beyond hope of recovery. It is scientifically true that a great many parts of the neuron survive intact well after what…
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Two Way Flow of Information
Shall we go into neuroplasticity? Your brain takes on the configuration your experiences induce in it. What you experience, actively imagine and habitually think, is the shape your brain takes. So add this mutable brain to the rather wide range of chemical shifts a person can experience, and is it easy to say exactly who…
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Information Rich Natural World
Any questions before I dive off the deep end? Not yet. So off I go. They have discovered they can engineer DNA in just about whatever way they want. They have even built a nanotech engine that has a single molecule for the turbine. Nature has been combining atoms for a very long time. Science…
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Our Information has Shaped Evolution
To date, information has had a primary direction of flow, more outside in than inside out. Some say that this is still the only direction of signal. That everything else is environmental, incidental, but things have changed. Evolution has always been about computation, processing information, finding ways to adapt. It isn’t primarily chemical. The behavioural…
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Information as the Basis of Life
Hmm, may I show you a quick video? I have been talking about this is classes, though the technological emphasis of the video is fuzzy. Cool concept. I liked when the computer chip turned in to a lotus. Slingshot … over there, but black holes? Singularities. I ponder information black holes… Cute metaphor .. for…
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Information Streams at Work
First, perhaps a little about the mind. How many streams of information would you say are at work in the mind? Oh my, too many to count. Think primary flows. Just one? Emotion, logic, sensation? Emotion and logic are processes, not necessarily information streams. Buddhists name 6 senses, so at least those. Self-reflection. Would that…