The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Spanda Journal Issue on Creativity & Collective Enlightenment NOTE: Each article is individually accessible from the Table of Contents on page 4. Sahlan Momo, Charles Tart, Rosa Zubizarreta, Gerard J. Puccio, Monica Edwards-Schachter, Louise Sunderarjan, Stanley Panin, Paul von Ward, Steve McIntosh, Pierre Levy
Worth a second look! Consciousness as Integrated Information: a Provisional Manifesto Giulio Tononi The Biological Bulletin, 2008 The integrated information theory (IIT) starts from phenomenology and makes use of thought experiments to claim that consciousness is integrated information. Specifically: (i) the quantity of consciousness corresponds to the amount of integrated information generated by a complex …
My Talk at “The Future of Text 2014″ EXTRACT IEML is still at the stage of fundamental research but we now have an extensive dictionary – a set of paradigms – and some grammatical algorithmic rules that conform to the algebra. The result is a language where texts self-translate into natural language, manifest as semantic …
The limits of Big Data Michael Schrage CNN, 10 October 2012 Two new books argue that algorithms can’t fully replace human judgment. A review of Samuel Arbesman’s The Half-Life of Facts and Nate Silver’s The Signal and The Noise. EXTRACT: The ironic takeaway from both these fine books, however, is that the more data and …
For all, this 55 year old teacher reveals that “our misfortunes” (ecological catastrophy, destruction of civil services in public administration, work slavery, the reign of money…) have been made possible “because of our incapacity to resist”. He indicates “I will do like Hippocrates did. I try to find the root of the causes. It is …
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Researchers revolt against Elsiever Testify: The Open-Science Movement Catches Fire David Dobbs WIRED, 30 January 2012 For years, the open science movement has sought to light a fire about the “closed” journal-publication system. In the last few weeks their efforts seemed to have ignited a broader flame, driven mainly, it seems, by the revelation that …
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This is interesting! The New Media Literacies EXTRACT (12 Literacies) 01 Play: the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem-solving. Having a strong sense of play can be helpful when you pick up a new piece of technology that you’ve never used before, when you’re trying to write an essay and your …
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