Another attention issue.... https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-library-of-heaven
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 4:30 AM, Carl Tollander <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, initially I was reminded of Bruce Sterling's novel "Distraction", in > which chemical manipulation of low levels of attention in neurons (The App) > reestablished a kind of involuntary multi-camerality. OTOH, just about > everything these days initially reminds me of "Distraction". > > Howsoever, reading the article leads me to a notion that native speakers > of less information-dense languages (for example, Japanese) have a greater > substantive self than native speakers of other languages due to the greater > attention to context required to make sense of any utterance. Clearly > this notion is fraught, and while the Japanese language is one of my > current fields of study, I cannot quite bring myself to go there. > Nevertheless I think it introduces the problem of discounting language in > terms of discussing substance and vis-a-vis emergent selves. > > As a sometime Buddhist, one (who?!) may discover a bit of bias re > substantive selves. Though so must the Abrahamics. > > carl > > On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 1:00 AM, Vladimyr <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Glen and the congregation. >> >> I caught that news as well. A bit spooky, Leibnitz's Monads, then this >> came in >> https://aeon.co/essays/what-is-the-self-if-not-that-which-pa >> ys-attention?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=6898ff >> d7fb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term= >> 0_411a82e59d-6898ffd7fb-69341065 >> >> A nicely presented piece... >> >> All while trying to coax my own AEE (Artificial Emergent Entity to behave >> congenially. >> It's too warm to think clearly lately. >> >> That is currently my focus , namely managing folder and subfolder >> creation with compact names using ahk Script... >> >> There seems to be a lot of fire within the Complexity Smoke lately from >> odd locations. >> vladimyr >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of glen ep >> ropella >> Sent: July-10-17 3:58 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [FRIAM] Janus colloids >> >> >> Spontaneous system follows rules of equilibrium >> https://phys.org/news/2017-07-spontaneous-equilibrium.html >> >> > The research was spurred when Granick and Yan noticed something strange >> in the laboratory. As they watched a random mixture of soft-matter >> particles called Janus colloids, which Granick previously developed, they >> observed that the particles sometimes sorted themselves by type. Named >> after the Roman god with two faces, the micron-sized spheres have one >> hemisphere coated with a thin metal layer. They self-propel in the presence >> of an electric field, and when a rotating magnetic field is applied, they >> move in circles. In the presence of these fields, about 50 percent of the >> colloids orient their metal-coated hemisphere in the same direction. The >> remaining 50 percent face in the opposite direction. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> glen ep ropella ⊥ 971-280-5699 >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe >> http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >> > >
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