I share your lament about the homogenization of culture. As I get
older, I pine for those early days of requesting files through ftpmail
and e-mail addresses with lots of ! in them. Back then, the internet
was fun and cool. Now it's a cesspool of TL;DR people like me yapping
about stuff nobody
I think we agree on most of these points. Another reason I like TVs is
because I'm mostly a wall flower at parties. Smalltalk irritates me and
I only talk to people after a given party passes through that phase
transition where it ratchets down a bit and allows more intimate
conversations
On 05/08/2013 10:31 AM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
What is a counter example of non-homogenization of culture?
I think homogenization of (or homogenized state of) culture can take
different forms. Were it normal, it could be fatter or skinnier. If
it's skewed/biased (which is most likely) it can
On 05/08/2013 11:44 AM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
It depends what you mean by `lead'. I'd distinguish between influence
and innovate. I'd claim that culture does not innovate, it can only put
down a road and encourage people to take it, and thereby set the stage
for innovators.
That's a
OK. We don't really disagree. But I'll push the point just a tiny bit
further and see if it goes anywhere.
On 04/29/2013 03:31 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
On the other hand, I'm not setting out to *prove* my concept of what is
generational, but rather to explain or illuminate it.
[...]
I'm
On 04/30/2013 12:07 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
(how many books do you/father/grandfather own? how
much personal correspondence do each of you maintain? how many journal
entries (words, lines, pages?) do you average? etc.)
I think I can gather some data. I already have a number of questions I
ask
Very interesting! Thanks, Rich.
It's amazing to me how biologically important formaldehyde is, not only
as a toxin, but as a naturally occurring metabolite. I don't remember
when I first heart the aphorism The dose is the poison. But it comes
up again and again. All the interesting chemicals
Yeah, but at least FOAR allows top-posting! Nothing on the internet is
more irrational than the bias against top-posting. And I mean it. The
bias against top-posting is the lower bound of rationality. Hm. Would
it be oxymoronic to claim the existence of an upper bound on
irrationality? Is
On 04/22/2013 06:53 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
And is it possible that this neurological structure literally co-evolved
with language itself? [...] How much does sharing some
basic language (structure?) get involved in empathic understanding?
Yes, it's entirely possible that they happened to
On 04/22/2013 11:37 PM, Russ Abbott wrote:
But if it's possible what's the difference as far as
your perspective on what science is?
My point was that you, too, can build a device that might allow you to
test E=mc^2. It was in response to your statement that:
On 04/22/2013 11:15 AM, Russ
Sorry, I did not intend that you would use a scientific theory in your
daily life.
I merely wanted to say that E=mc^2 is _not_ science. The science lies
in the test, the actions you can take. I thought I said that. But
maybe I was unclear.
On 04/23/2013 07:57 AM, Russ Abbott wrote:
But I
Whenever I go down to Portland State University, there's a
fundamentalist preacher standing on a bench asserting that all the
people walking around are morally in danger. He talks and talks, rails
and rails. Yet the students discuss their classes or their social
networks, study their books,
On 03/19/2013 07:03 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
do you have any references I could follow? The Twitch Ontology would
be new to me (excepting what you just wrote). It felt as if it
explained human behaviour as an automaton, but obviously more than that?
No references. As far as I know, I made it
On 03/14/2013 09:16 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
Er.. IMAP? You have complete control over gmail. I uploaded 20+ years
of mail to it over a day or so and have it all cached on my IMAP clients
(thunderbird and mail.app) .. yes one needs 1 and I'm positive you
have multiple clients.
I have to
On 09/14/2012 06:56 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
For me, consciousness is a point of view, and any telic system has a point
of view. Zombies are telic systems, no?
That's a great question. I would answer no. Zombies cannot be telic
(as I understand that word, of course) because they are
On 09/15/2012 06:59 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Wow! This Zombie thing is WAY more complicated than I thought it was.
Although I haven't read any Kant first hand, I hear him lurking in the
background. For me, a thermostat/furnace system is a telic system. It acts
in such a way as to
On 08/22/2012 08:24 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
We can manually add second and third addressess for people that want to
post from multiple accounts. Forward your request and additional email
addresses to me.
And be sure to change your personality just slightly depending on which
e-mail address
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