020110628 sirius reality trigger

is the thought of a unicorn a real thought? in a sense, that is the basic question of philosophy--

020110625 [ #ofRoads / (1 / 0 / ∞) ]

Möbius strip is a surface with only one side and only one boundary component. The Möbius strip has the mathematical property of being non-orientable. It can be realized as a ruled surface. It was discovered independently by the German mathematicians August Ferdinand Möbius and Johann Benedict Listing in 1858.

020110616 the ayn randroids are coming! [machines & axioms]

The term 'Randroid' (a portmanteau of 'Rand' and 'android') has been used to evoke the image of "the Galt-imitating robots produced by the cult.

020110601 logos enframes 0.1

In ordinary, non-technical Greek, logos had a semantic field extending beyond "word" to notions such as, on the one hand, language, talk, statement, speech, conversation, tale, story, prose, proposition, and principle; and on the other hand, thought, reason, account, consideration, esteem, due relation, proportion, and analogy.

020110426 confRE:p consciousness of

The paradox today is that the ground of the latest Western technologies is electronic and simultaneous, and thus is structurally right-hemisphere and 'Oriental' and oral in its nature and effects. This situation began with the telegraph more than a century ago. Still, the overwhelming pattern of procedures in the Western world remains lineal, sequential, and connected in political and legal institutions, and also in education and commerce, but not in entertainment or art. A formula for complete chaos!

'The Pianographer' by Eduardo Brenes

020110312 fore pwca

"Herbert Krugman performed brain-wave studies, comparing the response of subjects to print and television. One subject was reading a book as the TV came on. As soon as she looked up, her brain waves slowed significantly. In less than two minutes, she was in a predominantly alpha state --relaxed, passive, unfocused. Her brain-wave response to three different types of TV content was basically the same, even though she told Krugman she 'liked' one, 'disliked' another, and 'was bored by' the third. As a result of a series of such experiments, Krugman argues that this predominantly alpha state is characteristic of how people respond to TV --any TV. He recently remarked, 'the ability of respondents to show high right brain response to even familiar logos, their right brain response to stories even before the idea content has been added to them, the predominantly right brain response to TV, and perhaps even to what we call print advertising --all suggests that in contrast to teaching, the unique power of the electronic media is to shape the content of people's imagery, and in that particular way determine their behavior and their views.'