It was the silence of her thoughts that awakened him
He looked at her beautiful dolphin like shape; her legs folded within the larger transmutation she had undergone yesterday, her turquoise bluish tint reflected by the morning light.
She needed no cover, her self-regulating nanobots thermostat taking care of her comfort zone temperature....
This is just a little funny post, as a result of the fact that I'm sick and have to stay home. So I came across cleverbot and had a little fun with it. You should too if you're bored or just extremely lonely. Here's the conversation:
User: Hi.
Cleverbot: Hi.
User: How are you today?
Cleverbot: Awesome and you.
User: I'm...
Over the past few months, we've been discussing the various skills needed for effectively operating in a world characterized by information and accelerating change, and I've been assembling these ideas into a framework for a new thought architecture. This post will be the first in a 12 part series, and draws its influences from the fields of...
Follow-up to: Knowing beyond science and mathematics?
I think I have to clarify why I mentioned mathematics in my recent post -- Knowing beyond science and mathematics? -- as a way of knowing in addition to science and separated from other logical systems.
First of all, I'm only at the beginning of my long journey towards a decent...
Hard to simulate,
but easy to amplify,
my experience of consciousness,
is interactions,
of an infinite number of abstractions.
The universe is the set of all permutation,
and combination of abstract information.
I am math. Derive me,
and if I could derive you too,
we would have a strange-loop confusing the future you.
But what of the...
silverpower: Is humanity even worth saving?
starglider: As opposed to what?
silverpower: ...hmm.
-- #sl4
If you ever asked yourself if you are just a waste of space the simple truth is NO.
First of all, there is enough space for everyone. Furthermore, there isn’t always a third option, sometimes not even a second one....
3V: “ there is something I do not understand about you humans NotMArie..
NotMarie: “what now?
3V: “its about your problem solving capability..
NotMarie:” o! We are very good at solving problems.. Well sometimes we are, sometimes we simply have to wait until the solution presents itself..
3V:” no, no, it is not about that,...
Brian Robertson wrote the Rule of Individual Action:
No matter how clearly we’ve defined the rules, policies, and processes,
we will occasionally see a need for action which doesn’t fit within the defined system. In most organizations we're tempted to hide such Individual Action for fear of blame, but doing so costs the...
The mental life of your common or garden human, however, is a lot more complicated. That's because we are "aware of being aware". This allows us to reflect upon ourselves and our feelings and, in an ideal world, make insightful decisions and judgements. This state, dubbed secondary consciousness, is thought to be unique to humans.