Hey, Krimel --
[Ham]: > A body of information is not intelligence > until it becomes part of an individual's knowledge. [Krimel]: > The issue at present is access. Already I can look things up > faster than I can remember them. Accessing and processing > information is at the core of our being. Speed and efficacy are intellectually perceived values of process. Since becoming aware is the process of a human life, does "living faster" make life more valuable? The core of our being is value sensibility, not processed information. [Krimel]: > Just to survive in a modern city requires a significantly higher > level of consciousness than living in the woods. The woods > demand acute senses and a calm mind as SA reminds us. > The streets require constant scanning and instant response to > small events that have the potential to kill you instantly. Does instant reaction have more value than calm cogitation? Our survival may depend on the former, but our understanding requires the latter. [Krimel]: > What good is intelligence without data? It is less important that > none of us knows all of it as that all of us know some of it. > And the more they know the more aware they are. How can > faster access to more information not produce higher levels of > knowledge and awareness? Your point is arguable, inasmuch as there are many kinds of knowledge to be aware of. A plenitude of factual knowledge staves off ignorance, but I've seen no evidence that it has made man wiser. [Krimel]: > The dissemination of patterns may be an external process > but integration of patterns is internal. The fact that more ha > been disseminated means there is more to integrate. In other words, the acquisition of knowledge is a vicious circle. [Krimel]: > Look at how much the printing press changed the world. It > expanded consciousness world wide. It helped us create a > world held together by imagination. We are already beyond > the Giant; we are constructing virtual worlds based on real > world data. We are transferring the real world into virtual space. > This is both an expansion and a preservation of human > consciousness. Experiential reality is in essence a virtual world. I see no additional value, other than entertainment, in creating an "artificial" virtual world. [Krimel]: > If you understand why children cry > When Bambi's mother dies, > You know a truth about the human heart. > > If you understand why they watch it > Again and again, > You know another. Nice prose. But if our compassion for life comes from watching a motion picture, is it "virtual" compassion"? Someday we may build a machine with a compassionate soul. Until then, I'll settle for the real over the virtual. Best regards, Ham, moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
