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The older version of this program is works really well, looking forward to using the new version.
Sunday, December 18, 2011
The Incredible New Soluto Painlessly Fixes Your Friends' Computers from Afar (and We've Got Invites) [Soluto]
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The older version of this program is works really well, looking forward to using the new version.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Stanley Rosen's book Nihilism
Stanley Rosen's Nihilism is a key book for understanding the nature of the Western Worldview. Both Heidegger and Nietzsche make Nihilism a center piece of their philosophies. Rosen pursues the nature of nihilism by contrasting the philosophies of Heidegger and Wittgenstein as Nihilistic opposites. Nihilism was originally coined as a term by Turgenev in Fathers and Sons, where it basically meant how youth who embraced science did not appreciate traditional norms any longer. From there the meaning of Nihilism morphed into a position that everything was meaningless and basically took the place of skepticism as the strawman to be discredited by philosophers. Nietzsche was the first one to attempt to show it was a central feature of the western worldview, and Heidegger took this up and specified that it was the essence of technology.
Once we begin to understand nihlism we can see that it is one of the core phenomena generated by the Western worldivew, and that it is itself the nihilistic opposite of Emergence. In order to understand this nihilistic and emergent duality of emergence and nihilism within the western worldview we must appropriate the meaning of nihilism, and it seems to me that Rosen has the best definition. Basically Nihilism when two antagonistic forces in society that produce a dynamic of conflict are recognized to be exactly the same thing. If you were caught up in the conflict and suddenly looked at the enemy and said "we confronted the enemy and we were them" then that would be a loss of meaning in your world. This is precisely what happens to Achilles in the Iliad when he realizes that the Greeks are no better than the Trojans when Agamemnon takes his war prize Briseis. He withdraws from the conflict, but then when his friend Patroclus is killed he goes into a berzerker state. Both of his reactions are themselves nihilistic. Thus the Iliad functions as a users manual for living in a Nihilistic worldview. It also tells us about the nature of emergence. And so this fundamental duality is at the core of our epic tradition and needs to be understood by those encompassed by the Western worldview. Stanley Rosen's book on Nihilism clarified the philosophical meaning of this term so it can be a basic tool in our attempts to understand the Western worldview.
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Rosen
http://books.google.com/books/about/Nihilism.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Turgenev
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Question_Concerning_Technology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_Friedrich_Nietzsche
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldview
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briseis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles_and_Patroclus
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Answer to the Question: What is Quora?
The Wonderful World Of Quora Infographic http://blog.kissmetrics.com/quora/?wide=1
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Sunday, June 26, 2011
Quora answer: What are the best existentialist films?
For me it is Andre Rublev http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Rublev_(film)
Why do I like Andre Rublev better than all other films?
I like it best because it comes closest to portraying a whole world.
Most films are slices of the world which they portray. Few films strive to portray the whole world not just a slice, or several slices of it.
Why is it existentialist?
See http://wp.me/pPsy-as
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
LightField Camera: AMAZING: holographic focus
http://bitly.com/ieG1Vs Revolution in Photography: so much more information in a picture . . .
Friday, June 17, 2011
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Scribd Statistics on eBooks from Apeiron Press by Kent Palmer
Scribd Statistics on eBooks from Apeiron Press by Kent Palmer at http://ping.fm/3sADVhttp://ping.fm/8VKuJ #philosophy #ontology #systems #theory
Open Letter to Garrett Lisi on E8 and Special Systems Theory
Kinds of Being (Palmer) and Bugs in Software (Regehr) -- a proposal
http://blog.regehr.org/archives/498 Embedded in Academia Blog by John Regehr
"Software Bugs and Scientific Progress
2011 03 29
When a bug is found in a piece of software, the root cause is often a bug in someone’s thoughts. One way to better understand a bug is to look at how deep the underlying thought error was. In other words: How many assumptions must be revisited as a result of the bug?
[Facet schema -- indeterminacies -- Level -2 -- Quantum Computing superposition of binary states.]
[Monad schema -- eventities -- Level -1 -- bit does not work within memory, memory error due to faulty bit in RAM or on Disk.]
[Pattern schema -- beings Level 0 -- Cosmic ray produces a bit flip changing the pattern of bits in mid computation, non-deterministically.]
[Form schema -- PURE BEING] Level 1 — Syntax error, such as using the wrong operator or putting a function’s arguments in the wrong order. These are totally unsurprising. Error is seen by code checker or syntax checker, or by random notice of something odd about the way the code looks. (BS CS)
[System schema - PROCESS BEING] Level 2 — Implementation error, such as wrongly assuming a pointer is non-null. These require developers to revisit whatever implementation-level assumption was made that lead to an invariant violation. Implementation errors can also occur at the level of algorithm design; textbooks can contain level 2 errors. Incorrect or sloppy theorems may have to be revised in response to level 2 errors. [Error is seen in the process of execution.] (MS)
[Meta-system schema / HYPER BEING] Level 3 — Design error: the system is structured in such a way that it cannot meet its specification. A web server that runs untrusted code in its address space contains a level 3 bug. [See my dissertation EMERGENT DESIGN how design in the third meta-level of the sign. Hyper Being is the level of Design. Software is the only cultural artificat to embody Hyper Being directly. it is what Derrida calls DifferAnce, Heidegger calls it Being Crossed Out, Merleau-Ponty calls it Hyper-dialectic between Being and Nothingness, Plato called it the third kind of Being in the Timaeus.( Cf J.Sallias)] (PHD)
[Domain schema / WILD BEING] Level 4 — Specification error: the software is solving the wrong problem. Assumptions about the purpose of the system must be revisited. [Wild Being is a divergent path caused by chaos.]
[World schema / ULTRA BEING] Level 5 — Framework error: the intellectual scaffolding upon which the software was based contains an error or omission. My favorite example comes from the early days of the development of optimizing compilers when people first confronted difficult questions about whether a particular optimization was legal or not. An entire sub-area of computer science had to be created to answer these questions. Something analogous is happening right now where we lack a framework for creating reliable and secure large-scale, software-intensive systems. [Ultra Being is a singularity beyond what is thinkable, in the current paradigm or episteme.]
[Kosmos schema / Beyond Being, i.e. Existence ] Level 6 — Universe error: a previously-unknown physical law prevents the software from working. If good computers had existed in the 19th century, the first person who tried to implement Maxwell’s demon and the first person who tried to implement a universal discriminator for halting vs. non-halting programs would have encountered errors at level 6. Future level 6 errors may result from efforts to build artificial intelligences. [I have this theory that artificial intelligence techniques are opaque while our own intelligence we find transparent, even if we don't know how the brain produces that intelligence. But I place AI at the WIld Being level.] (Einstein and Turing)
Something interesting about levels 5 and 6 is that they look more like progress than like errors. This is no coincidence: scientific progress occurs when bugs in our collective thinking are fixed. Thus, we could easily construct a scale for scientific advances that mirrors the scale for software bugs. Einstein and Turing operated at level 6 at least a few times in their lives; many other great scientists work at level 5. A typical MS thesis is at level 2 and a dissertation should be no lower than level 3.
Posted by regehr on Tuesday, March 29, 2011, at 11:33 am. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed."
Comments in orange by Kent Palmer; Good examples of someone thinking at the various meta-levels of Being are fairly rare. Here we reference both Schematic Levels and Kinds of Being. However, in the Design Field these two form a Cartesian cross. See http://emergentdesign.net
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Steven Pyke: "For me, photography is an investigation into the nature of being."
Steven Pyke: "For me, photography is an investigation into the nature of being."
Photos of Philosophers http://bit.ly/lqLmKl
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Namesake.com conversation: Stephen Hawking tells Google ‘philosophy is dead’
Analytical Philosophy dying, Continental Philosophy rising,
Article: http://bit.ly/kRpkCf by Matt Warman in The Telegraph
Namesake conversation: http://bit.ly/mz1Z57
My comment on Namesake:
Hawking Said: “Most of us don’t worry about these [fundamental ] questions most of the time. But almost all of us must sometimes wonder: Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead,” he said. “Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.” Think it is true?
Hawking says that Philosophy is Dead, but we can see that it has a pulse, or at least Continental Philosophy still does, but perhaps he is right about Analytical Philosophy. I wonder if Continental Philosophy will catch the same life threatening disease that Analytical Philosophy has?
See http://think.net at http://wp.me/p1tBQU-2T
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Monday, May 16, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
TextUML
TextUML Toolkit 1.7 now available! http://abstratt.com/blog/?p=228 #DSL #LOP #UML textual representation domain specific language #CSER2011
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Quora answer: Does Topicmarks help to read Quora answers?
Here is an experiment:
I have taken all those long answers of mine you have seen scattered about and entered them by subject into Topicmarks. Lets see if that makes them any more comprehensible to you the reader.
See http://topicmarks.com links below:
Text knode: Philosophy Quora Answers as of 20110211 http://topicmarks.com/exe
Text knode: Physics Quora Answers as of 20110211 http://topicmarks.com/exe
Text knode: Buddhism Quora Answers as of 20110211 http://topicmarks.com/exe
Text knode: Miscellaneous Quora Answers as of 20110211http://topicmarks.com/exe
Please provide your input as comments to this answer or make your own experiment separately.
roomrag's comment at the Quora discussion group at convore.com put me on to this. "I recommend you a combination of Quora and Topicmarks. Let me show you the sample.
http://rrg.me/emRSYZ "Tex
There is also an open Quora chat channel there at https://convore.com/tech/
Text knode: Buddhism Quora Answers as of 20110211 x
Text knode: Buddhism Quora Answers as of 20110211: "Once we understand that the idea of consciousness is bound up with the idea of Being and that Being is the basis of a prior projection, i.e. illusion and delusion then we can start wondering about the relation between consciousness and awareness of Existence which must be the ground of the projection mechanism of Being. So I hope this helps put into perspective the relations between awareness, consciousness, and memory as it is seen in phenomenology and how that phenomenology gives us access to understanding the nature of Buddhism as a way of getting back to Existence from the projections on it of Being. But this fact that enlightenment does not exist as something different from consciousness is precisely the bridge to the nondual of emptiness because it says ultimately that no goal exists, and everything in consciousness is empty like the goal of enlightenment, and thus enlightenment in the Buddhist sense is just this realization that just like enlightenment everything in consciousness is empty. But in general you cannot talk about one aspect without implying the other aspects at the same time because they are all co-related to each other intrinsically because they are part of both Being and Existence and are thus more fundamental than either of those standings. But that existence is not like the existence of things, because Dasein is an ecstatic projection of existence that brings the world into being."
Text knode: Miscellaneous Quora Answers as of 20110211
Text knode: Miscellaneous Quora Answers as of 20110211: "One thing I have done is to ask a question and then give my answer to that question, then leaving it to see if there are any other answers to that question. Also we could in the explanation of the questions try to explain the motivations for the question that stem from the problematic and also connect the question back to the tradition, as a starting context for answering the question. My answer is that System of Systems is merely a recursion of the System Schema and must be distinguished from the inverse dual of the System which I call the Meta-system (or Open-Scape) which is the environment, ecology, context, medium, etc. of the System, i.e. its inverse dual. Thus what is between the System and the System of Systems (Super-system) is the meta-system that allows the System to be part of the Super-system. I would like to introduce the idea of General Schemas Theory, which is the next level of abstraction up from General Systems Theory and covers other schemas besides systems such as form, pattern, domain and world."
Text knode: Philosophy Quora Answers as of 20110211
Text knode: Philosophy Quora Answers as of 20110211: "For Heidegger Being is 'No Thing' which means the same as ontological difference between Being and the ontic beings, because Being itself is no specific thing, but a generalization of all things that stands independently from the things. This is a long story, but to try to put it as concisely, when Husserl distinguished Ideas from Essences he basically inaugurated the search for the various kinds of Being because Heidegger took up this distinction and said that Dasein had two modalities of Being present-at-hand (Pure Being) and ready-to-hand (Process Being). Thus first you have Ontological difference between Being and beings, then at the first meta-level you have Pure Being which is the kind of being that Parmenides talks about. Thus he is in my opinion the true successor to Merleau-Ponty who identified Wild Being as a possibility, which is the dual and next level up from Hyper Being (the hyper dialectic between Process Being of Heidegger and Nothingness of Sartre) which Derrida called Differance and Heidegger called Being crossed out. So Deleuze's philosophy tends to be quite nihilistic, even more so than Derrida, and that is because Deleuze has gone on to the Wild Being meta-level of Being from the Hyper Being level and so there is an intensification of Being."
Text knode: Physics Quora Answers as of 20110211
Text knode: Physics Quora Answers as of 20110211: "We happen to be trapped in the third dimension and we experience time and so if we think of time linearly we can interpret it as the fourth dimension. In F theory which is twelve dimensional and is one dimension higher than M theory, there are two orthogonal timelines so we can think of the fifth dimension in terms of time as the place of the orthogonal timeline to the one we are on which would contain the multiverse if it is temporal rather than spatial. The most interesting dimension beyond what is schematizable is the twelfth dimension where F theory appears beyond M theory, where there are two orthogonal time lines. My General Schemas Theory proposes a relation between schemas and dimensions such that there are two schemas per dimension and two dimensions per schema. Seems in the fourteenth dimension there are three orthogonal time lines, and I have not found reference to it but I am betting that there are four orthogonal time lines in the sixteenth dimension."
Monday, February 7, 2011
recent finds
TrailMeme: http://www.trailmeme.com/ Way to blaze a trail through the Web
Blekko: http://blekko.com/ Great new search engine with slashes
Storify: http://storify.com/ need invite Looks interesting
Gravatar: http://en.gravatar.com Provides identity through the icon that one chooses.
BridgeURL http://bridgeurl.com/ Provides a way to combine URLs into a short link
Three Words: http://threewords.me/ Strange way to get feedback
Robo.to http://robo.to
Beginning on Quora
I have been using Quora for about a week now. So I thought I would record my impressions here. First I like the lay out and the usability of the site a lot. It seems to answer to the need to have well formulated questions that might appear in Google searches. And one would get a variety of answers to that question that seem to me would be pretty high quality from what I have seen.
What I don't like are the questions. I tried to explain in some of my posts that questions have to be motivated by a problematic, and they have to be seen in relation to the cutting edge of the tradition, and they have to be seen to exemplify a perspective. Thus if you get questions out of the blue then there is no way to know how to interpet them. And so this is the biggest weakness of Quora, they do not connect to problematics, and there is no place to put background information. So I tend to write much longer posts than most do because I try to supply some of this missing information to make the answer meaningful by trying to give some context in my answers.
So far my interaction with the community there has been very positive.
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