Scarmoge

    • Thanks. I’ve copied the picture. Here it is:
      https://mrsschuby.blogspot.com/2018/07/blog-post.html

      • Thanks BlueWren! I think it quite an interesting picture. It would be interesting to follow up on this. The info about the picture on page 299 doesn’t offer many leads as to who, what, when, where, or why. Well, we can guess the “why.”
        Cheers.

        • do you mean the disturbing picture on page 290? horrid idea!

        • As well … Unfortunately there are, more than likely, a number of extremely disturbing lines of research being conducted in a variety of areas. I occasionally shudder to think, given that these few examples are from 1985, what inquiry may be going on today. I am afraid that we as human beings, more often than not, forget to adequately consider…[Read more]

  • Scarmoge posted an update 7 years, 9 months ago

    Unfortunately I am unable to to figure out how to place the photo to which this text refers onto this wall. The photo appears in an issue of BYTE on Artificial Intelligence. It is a quite interesting photo in that it shows (in 1985) a scanning electron micrograph of brain cells grown in tissue culture on a Motorola 68000 (board) The center clump…[Read more]

  • Scarmoge posted an update 7 years, 9 months ago

    Big Science (& Politics) by Stefan Theil from Scientific American, October 2015 (pp. 36-42)

    STATE OF THE WORLD’S SCIENCE 2015
    BIG SCIENCE BIG CHALLENGES

    TROUBLE IN MIND:Two years in, a $1-billion-plus effort to simulate the human brain is in disarray. Was it poor management, or is something fundamentally wrong with Big Science?

    FOR DECADES…[Read more]

  • Scarmoge posted an update 7 years, 10 months ago

    Another small glimmer of hope? ….

    Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirement. Will Others Follow?
    Move, part of ambitious plan to attract broader range of applicants, is first by one of the nation’s top research universities.
    By Scott Jaschik
    June 19, 2018

    The University of Chicago on Thursday morning announced that it was dropping the requirement…[Read more]

  • Scarmoge posted a new activity comment 7 years, 10 months ago

    Hello Kahlypso,
    Just posted to the Forum this article and another from Inside Higher Ed. on The University of Chicago dropping the SAT/ACT requirement.

    Enjoy,
    Scarmoge

  • Scarmoge posted a new activity comment 7 years, 10 months ago

    Will DO Kahlypso.

  • Scarmoge posted a new activity comment 7 years, 10 months ago

    Hello Kahlypso,
    Pardon the delayed response. I was on holiday. Am I reading your comment correctly as you seem to say to NOT begin a topic based on this article in the forum? I too wish that many of the threads begun in the forum would not, as you say, disappear down the memory hole. Do you have any thoughts on why most discussions are not…[Read more]

    • Hello – oops.. 2 mistakes in 1 phrase.. effectively, it’s please DO and not please Don’t.. 🙂 The state of education is an ongoing topic here, as one of Dr F’s pet peeves.. I just see it as the continuance of the Tavistock plan..
      A lot of people come and read, but few post.. I dont know why they dont..
      Discussions probably arent sustained…[Read more]

  • Scarmoge posted an update 7 years, 10 months ago

    Possibly a small glimmer of hope …
    Enjoy!
    ______________________________________________________________________
    So Long, SAT Essay. Don’t Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out
    A pointless, bad assessment is on its last legs.
    By John Warner found in …. Inside Higher Ed.
    June 4, 2018

    Last week, Yale announced it was dropping the requirement…[Read more]

    • Great insight Scaremonge – please don copy this and start a topic in the forum – https://legacy.gizadeathstar.com/forum as most of the posts in community end up falling down the memory hole

      • Hello Kahlypso,
        Pardon the delayed response. I was on holiday. Am I reading your comment correctly as you seem to say to NOT begin a topic based on this article in the forum? I too wish that many of the threads begun in the forum would not, as you say, disappear down the memory hole. Do you have any thoughts on why most discussions are not…[Read more]

        • Hello – oops.. 2 mistakes in 1 phrase.. effectively, it’s please DO and not please Don’t.. 🙂 The state of education is an ongoing topic here, as one of Dr F’s pet peeves.. I just see it as the continuance of the Tavistock plan..
          A lot of people come and read, but few post.. I dont know why they dont..
          Discussions probably arent sustained…[Read more]

  • Scarmoge posted a new activity comment 7 years, 10 months ago

    What could be more dangerous than “Symbolic Warfare”? Isn’t it the case that “Symbols” have already been weaponized and that instead of being used for truthful communication they are instead being turned on and against humanity or as Walker Percy calls us “symbol mongerers”. If anyone has the time and inclination a nice read on this is Linda…[Read more]

  • Scarmoge posted a new activity comment 7 years, 10 months ago

    I know you are not one Dana … but when a story like this breaks, as they seem to be with increasing frequency, it is interesting to see how many “Captain Renaults” there are in the world. I never tire of the interesting questions Casablanca is capable of raising when watched (and thought of) in relation to events such as this data mining…[Read more]

  • Scarmoge posted a new activity comment 7 years, 10 months ago

    Hello Dana,
    I agree. As one looks back at Daedalus one can see what you say to be quite true. I posted this particular piece because as a general rule I find Roszak an interesting read. And this piece, as do many in Daedalus, elicited a critical response due to his mentions of Koestler and Casteneda. I also thought in light of Dr. DeHart’s…[Read more]

  • Scarmoge posted an update 7 years, 11 months ago

    More Grist for the Mill of Thought …

    The Monster and the Titan: Science, Knowledge, and Gnosis
    Author(s): Theodore Roszak
    Source: Daedalus, Vol. 103, No. 3, Science and Its Public: The Changing Relationship (Summer, 1974), pp. 17-32
    Published by: The MIT Press on behalf of American Academy of Arts & Sciences

    The Monster and the Titan:…[Read more]

    • My Father used to subscribe to Daedalus, and with hindsight one can see that there was considerable freedom of intellectual speculation on science with respect to more recent years…

      • Hello Dana,
        I agree. As one looks back at Daedalus one can see what you say to be quite true. I posted this particular piece because as a general rule I find Roszak an interesting read. And this piece, as do many in Daedalus, elicited a critical response due to his mentions of Koestler and Casteneda. I also thought in light of Dr. DeHart’s…[Read more]

  • Scarmoge posted a new activity comment 7 years, 11 months ago

    Hello Dana,
    I think that he only wished to provide a quick and dirty example of symbiosis. I think your question though
    quite a good one. Licklider’s example is not a comforting one. Neither the tree nor the insect is aware (as best we know) that factors external to their relationship could cause the loss or degradation of the other. The loss…[Read more]

  • Scarmoge posted an update 7 years, 11 months ago

    Some Possible Fodder for Thought …
    ______________________________________________________________________________
    REPRINT OF HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT DOCUMENT
    Man-Computer Symbiosis

    Licklider, J.C.R.

    From IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics, March…[Read more]

    • Is man the insect or the fig tree??

      • Hello Dana,
        I think that he only wished to provide a quick and dirty example of symbiosis. I think your question though
        quite a good one. Licklider’s example is not a comforting one. Neither the tree nor the insect is aware (as best we know) that factors external to their relationship could cause the loss or degradation of the other. The loss…[Read more]

  • Scarmoge posted an update 7 years, 11 months ago

    DANIEL ESTULIN

    A FONDNESS OF MEMORY

    SOURCE: Mississippi Review, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Fall, 2004), pp. 135-139

    History is not to be absent but to become absent; to be someone and then go away, leaving traces. A relic, any relic, is a will; we are present at its coronation. The will is where the dead are most alive; a functional autobiography,…[Read more]

  • Scarmoge posted an update 7 years, 11 months ago

    Location online for the IBL in case anyone would like to look in on things.
    http://www.internationalbrainlab.com

    https://www.internationalbrainlab.com/#home

  • Scarmoge posted an update 7 years, 11 months ago

    Neuroscience Looking To CERN? Possibly conCERNing.
    _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
    Researchers unite in quest for ‘standard model’ of the brain
    Modelled on big physics projects, the International Brain Lab will bring together some of the world’s pre-e…[Read more]

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