Welcome Sue to minds eye.. i believe things have guiet because of the happenings in Paris. Neil is protected by a large moat without a drawbridge.
Actually yesterday's response is a fantastic notice to terrorist. Not in my name -- I am Charlie. تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين Évitez; assassiner, le viol et l'esclavage des autres Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others -----Original Message----- From: archytas <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 3:49 PM Subject: Mind's Eye Welcome Sue Linda - and time 4 billion years on Hi Sue Linda. Feel free to join in. We are a bit quiet at the moment, though sometimes manage to get ourselves going. So what would the implications of time be 4 billion years on? 1. Would some archaeological historian be writing the relatively short history of an ape species with a deformed 24th chromosome pair, with evidence from the remains of a planet 'crisped' by its red giant star? 2. Could we 'travel' to the future if a species with 4 billion years more civilisation (now) happened along to colonise Mars and had a good neighbour intervention policy concerning 'primitives libidinising themselves to over-population and planet burning'? 3. Would even what we now think of as particles have developed 4 billion years on in the evolving universe? 4. How would anyone returning to the present explain her years with the advanced civilisation to we 'plebs'? 5. What of techniques of future profiling we have now and their role in imagining and bringing change - a classic is called 'science fiction prototyping' - imagine the social structure of the future to work out which products we should be working on now. I'm particularly interested on how science fiction makes the future full of our present and traditions - an example to me of non-imagination writ large and entertainment as diversion from creative practical solutions. Sci-fi mags are full of guidelines not to write this dross, but publish nothing else - chronic stuff like looking down at pot-holes with steel-toothed rats lurking at the bottom - standard fare on the walk home after a few beers. Some might remember Wittgenstein used to imagine up tribes and how they would have to invent language - so we might understand the nature of language without the preconceptions of the stuff we use out of habit. Imagine coming back here after years with a 4 billion year old civilisation where honesty is the best policy because there is a technological telepathy and trying to talk to others about it. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
