t “human
programming”, to use his own words, would require fewer bytes than
a simple operating system for computers. But if people were only to
become the sum of their data - i.e. a collection of their biodata plus
information on all the places they’ve ever been, everything they’ve ever
read, heard or said - then we’d be able to save this information-person
in his entirety, as a file. According to this logic, our digital twin might
even attain immortality.
To quote Lanier: “But if you want to make the transition from the old
religion, where you hope God will give you an afterlife, to the new
religion, where you hope to become immortal by getting uploaded into
a computer, then you have to believe information is real and alive.”
He then concludes: “Man does not occupy a particularly special
position (within such a world.)” Many who adhere to this belief
ascribe to the global network a sort of higher consciousness - one that
is superior to the consciousness of man. They believe that the digital
consciousness is more reasonable than we are and knows much better
what’s good for us. On the most basic level this just means that word
processors—whether we want to or not—end up correcting our writing;
but soon, our fridges will fill up themselves or we will be sent goods
that we didn’t even know we wanted to buy. And not long after that,
some algorithm will determine that we need to pay higher health
insurance premiums or deserve to be cast out socially because we’ve
refused to have our bodies hooked up to cables, because we don’t
exercise daily and travel to the wrong countries on vacation.
According to this logic, it’s a good thing that the internet should take
so many decisions off our backs, since it looks out for us around the
clock, taking care even of our social relations.
The internet turns into a doting mother, an alert and strict father. Welcome to this brave new world.
Martin Schulz
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can I act as a conscious and sensitive man without losing my masculine edge?
How can I find the inner strength and fortitude I need to face the great challenges of my life?
How can I overcome aggression and use my anger in a constructive, rather than destructive, way?
How much of my identity as a man is being conditioned and limited by my culture, and how can I become free of those limitations?
How can I be more present and find more happiness in my intimate relationships?
How can I establish a more healthy relationship with sex, intimacy, and pornography?
How can I find and express my masculine power without being a complete asshole about it?
Many men struggle to ride the line between power and compassion, between strength and vulnerability, between purpose and passion. It can be difficult for men to venture very far beyond the conventional norms of masculinity, and we have few roadmaps or role models to help men cultivate qualities like sensitivity, presence, and openness without feeling like they are surrendering their masculinity in the process.
Our world places some unforgiving restrictions upon men when it comes to the avenues of self-discovery and self-expression available to them. The more we can begin opening these avenues to men, the better the world will be.
This is what makes this discussion so important. Robert and Ken disclose a newly emerging path for men in the 21st century, one that allows these “softer” qualities to actually enhance and deepen a man’s sense of masculinity, rather than diminish it. It is a discussion that brings some much-needed relief to the pain so many men feel in their hearts, minds, and guts.
Whether you are a man who is looking for new ways to develop and express your masculinity, or a woman who wishes to better understand and support the men in your life, you will definitely want to check out this provocative discussion.
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made to the grandeur and magnificence of the lighthouse of Portus, which shone out to sea
right to the horizon. In the Vatican Gallery of Maps there is a fresco of the hexagonal shaped Portus
area, painted in 1582 by Antonio Danti after cartoons of Ignazio Danti; but the more recent
utilisation of more sophisticated satellite imagery techniques as well as Lidar has led to the
discovery of evidence of a much larger hexagonal shaped central harbour, catering for approximately
50 ships, at the core of a larger complex of port facilities, including an amphitheatre capable of
seating and entertaining a mob of 50,000 people,
a mob packed in as a giant communal celebration of conquest utilising slaves brought in from
defeated armies and occupied provinces and then slaughtered for the entertainment, again and again and again, of the citizens of Rome.
for the coming together of perfect order on one hand and terrible violence on the other; a powerful
combination which helped in the process of bringing the empire together. Portus was constructed as THE Port of Rome, connected directly by a grand canal rather than the
meandering river Tiber, and provided an icon of mind-melding control over access to the entirety
of its million square mile Empire of 60 million people; as well as inspiring an awe of Empirical
Existence, in the hearts and souls of those approaching Rome for the first time from the
extremities of the empire by way of the Mediterranean Sea. It is now known that the port was
constructed of a specially developed Roman Concrete, which strengthened with age, regardless
of whether submerged in water or not. The concrete domed roof of the Parthenon in Rome is
assumed to have been constructed of a similar material, and remains to this day the oldest
concrete roof structure on earth. All of this, in conjunction with a road network of 25,000 miles,
connected the entirety of EVERYTHING and EVERYONE in 'The Empire' together.
I have slept on this thought overnight and am preparing a piece which will focus [y]our
project on the juxtaposition of the NATURAL democracy of Athens and the MIND GAMES CONTROL
of Rome and its Empire. Any thoughts on this would be welcome.
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holographic mind-shift to consciously interpret the subconscious
manifestations of the world and re-act to Buddha’s call to ACTION
which was so succinctly confirmed by Moses and subsequently by
Jesus, Mohammed, Albert Einstein, Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin,
Alan Watts, Richard Feynman et al.
TO KNOW MY TRUE AUTHENTIC SELF • TO KNOW THAT ME and THE UNIVERSE EXIST AS ONE • THEN NO MATTER WHAT IS or WHATEVER ISN'T • I AM PART of EVERYTHING THAT EVER WAS and EVER WILL BE • TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE THE STARS and THE UNIVERSE and THAT WE ARE ALL CONNECTED to EVERYTHING and NOTHING EVER ENDS
Michael Evans
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y chose to send me the following ...
I'm browsing through old journals, which is one of my favorite activities!
NarwhalUniquorn ...and the water came down and sort of floated them away ...which is why you never see a Unicorn to this very day.
Messenger of Time.Relish this moment here and now.the star of youth revolves in its orbit.Dance with delight in this circle of blissEternal in this moment Here and now.
Words in motionHearts devotionSay, is it true Love Or just a notion?Or is it like the Ocean?A Universal potion?
"When growth is diverted from the direct path. it almost necessarily leads to the production of that most beautiful of curves, the Spiral."
Alfred R. Wallace
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Added by Michael Grove at 16:49 on September 18, 2019
e economic instruments we have grown up with are founded on assumptions that are no longer viable in the age of networks.
Networks connect us to previously unknowable future outcomes with real time deep data now available for critical investments to preserve culture, maintain biodiversity, geotag natural capital resources as real assets, to manage just-in-time decision making. Printing more unsecured debt as (hyper) inflationary money, and then publicly misrepresenting it as “assets under management” to lend against, has too many blind spots and single points of failure we simply cannot afford to face our future with!
We need everyone to do everything now! EMPOWERING EVERYONE with the ECONOMICS of EVERYTHING
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that establishes a timeless zone for communication and commerce
in4D™ by realising the dream of a common language in4D™ and the
whole IDEA is to reclaim y[OUR] species lost relationship, as a
constituent component of NATURE, through a permanent
manifestation of the original concept of ...
THE ART of the POSSIBLE by way of THE ONE : Our Network Evolution …
ETWORK EVOLUTION with with its with its own
solution to the question "ARE DEBT and INFLATION necessary
to CREATE currency?" well Rob Hopkins and the Transition Towns
initiative have already shown how that can be done at a local level
but Ray Podder and his T.E.A.M.@ONE have now created a global
answer to that very question.
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alculations per second and is capable of taking in 215 billion weather observations from all over the world every day. But despite its impressive computational power, and ability to give advanced warning, accurate long-range forecasts on a local level remain out of reach.
"It's the regional details that are important, about where the risks will be, where the rain will fall and getting that information to first responders as fast as we can," says Andy Kirkman, head of government services at the Met Office. That regional data could be provided in the future by the Met’s new supercomputer, which was announced on Monday and will be the most powerful climate supercomputer in the world. The government said that it will invest £1.2bn into the project. The supercomputer itself is expected to cost £854m, with the remaining funds set to go towards investment in the Observations network and programme offices over a 10-year period from 2022 to 2032. The machine will increase the Met Office computing capacity six-fold allowing it to better forecast for airports so they can plan for potential disruption.
The Met's new supercomputer will look to deliver at least a further three times supercomputing capacity in the last four years of the programme. But, aside from the extra processing power, the Met Office is also hoping the machine will make it easier to deal with the data coming out. “It's valued not just in the accuracy but making that data more available to people to work on,” Kirkman says.
Being able to do this will only become more urgent as global warming starts to change the environment. The computer will use all the data available to allow it to predict everything from reasonable scenarios, to what are termed “black swan events”, ones which are unpredictable and potentially catastrophic.
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Added by Michael Grove at 14:57 on September 5, 2020
tion requires that the dead be buried facing Mecca and that Muslim butchers face Mecca when killing animals for meat. It was Al-Khwarizmi who wrote about the practical use of decimals and also clarified and popularised a method for solving certain mathematical problems. He explained the method in his work
The Book of Restoring and Balancing.
The term al-jabr in its Arabic title, Kitab al-jabr wa’l-muqabala, is the source of the English word algebra. Algebra, says science writer Ehsan Masood, is considered “the single most important mathematical tool ever devised, and one that underpins every facet of science.”Centuries later, Western mathematicians, including Galileo and Fibonacci, held al-Khwarizmi in high esteem because of his clear explanations regarding the use of equations. Al-Khwarizmi’s descriptions paved the way for further studies in algebra, arithmetic and trigonometry. The latter enabled Middle Eastern scholars to calculate values for angles and sides of triangles and to advance studies in astronomy. In time, al-Khwarizmi’s works were translated into Latin.
The Italian mathematician Fibonacci (c. 1170-1250), also known as Leonardo of Pisa, is generally credited with popularizing Hindu-Arabic numerals in the West. He learned about them during his travels in the Mediterranean world and thereafter wrote his Book of Calculation.
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