Monthly Archives: August 2019
Leaves us cold
The idea of a useless class and machines taking over leaves us cold. What is this “cold?” It is a clue to humanicity. :- Doug.
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Don’t know till end?
Is it possible we don’t know what life is about until the very end? :- Doug.
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Can we be intelligent about intelligence?
What value is there in what people 300 years ago knew? Instead, is there more value in what they felt? Is the most in what they dreamed? Can we even tap in? Can we become intelligent about intelligence, about what … Continue reading
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Hebb’s rule
Hebb’s rule some say says “neurons which fire together wire together.” Neural nets might be metaphor for people coming together so their brains wire together, helping us understand things from becoming friends to mob psychology. :- Doug.
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He was a surprise to us all
Elder Experienced, venerable Grandfathering, conversing, inviting He was a surprise to us all Me :- Doug.
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Holding on to past skills
There is that word “still” again! As if holding on to the past skills is the key to better life. :- Doug.
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What might be the biggest question
Look at all the writing about Why. Now to work on Who, What, and How. With whom do we converse, how, and especially what do we convey? I have suggested the 11th generation of elders as Who. How is a … Continue reading
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Dare we communicate?
These insights overnight seem to lean toward important if not profound: Who are people and what is our arc? Can our limits propel us? Do our desires and aspirations travel time and generations? Dare we communicate? Dare we not? How … Continue reading
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Give thought to perception dimensions
I need to give some thought to reaching people with different modes of perception: seeing, hearing, tasting, moving, touching, smelling, feeling, thinking. (These emerge for me as dimensions beyond height, width, depth, and time. Already, that totals 11 dimensions!) One … Continue reading
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Collaborators possibles
We are collaborators on possibles. We are collaborators on futures. We are collaborators on humanicity. :- Doug.
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Our limits expand us
Who we are makes the things around us that we make. We cannot make anything that is not in us. Perhaps as well we cannot see anything that is not in us. Note well: there are universes in us. As … Continue reading
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Do we have a limit?
The search through the futures is all to ask the questions: What will people do? Who are we? Who might we be? Do we have a limit? :- Doug.
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I write in the margins of books
I write in the margins of books: is this conversation with the author? With myself? With others who might pick up the book? :- Doug.
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Hard to change
Some things about humanity may prove hard to change: the desire to help another; the desire to become intimate; the desires for beauty, truth, and goodness; the desire to desire: to dream, to explore, to grow. :- Doug.
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Futures sneak upon us
The futures may sneak upon us. We will barely recognize what is happening. Then we will see what has been done to us, mainly in retrospect. :- Doug.
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Down training
One job will survive the downsizing of the labor force caused by robotics and algorithms: trainers. They will help people stay a step or two ahead of the continual loss of human work. We may need to “down train:” to … Continue reading
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