Reality Jockey TimeCruising

YouTube interview about the production of the RjDj TimeCruising scene
in coop with techno legend Carl Craig: http://bit.ly/VfUiL

http://twitter.com/rjdj/status/3403247508

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How Happy Is the Internet?

How Happy Is the Internet?: "Researchers analyze blogs and song lyrics to gauge society's mood"

Shape of Broad Minds

The graphical representation of minds is difficult, thus do many designers of cognitive science and philosophy of mind book covers resort to the beaten-to-death motif of bald-dude's-head. Excessively difficult, then, is the graphical representation of alternate minds. The difficulty is sometimes overcome, however. Witness the following super cool album cover art for Shape of Broad Minds: Craft of The Lost Art.

Additional images from and info on the album are can be found at the following post at sleevage.com: Shape of Broad Minds: Craft of The Lost Art

What if a group-mind made a music video?

I like Kevin Kelly's comment about the following, "More proof that the hive can make art, when directed." (link)

Palindromy and Time-Reversals

Anyone who watched a film run backwards is well aware of the phenomenal differences that temporal orderings make. However, as Egan explored magnificently in Permutation City, the time-reversal of one's own mind need not give rise to any introspectible differences.

Here's a palindromic film: playing it backwards would yield the same film experience.



Though not palindromic, I can't help but be reminded of the "Patience" episode of Wonder Showzen. (Warning, if you've never seen Wonder Showzen before, "Patience" may not be the best introduction.)

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Accelerando

I just finished reading Accelerando by Charles Stross today. My two word mini review is: Wow, damn. Slightly longer: I'd have to rank this up there with Sterling's Schismatrix, Stephenson's Snow Crash, Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep, and Egan's Diaspora as far mind-bending idea-saturation goes. This is a depiction of a post-singularity/post-human future thoroughly informed by contemporary experience with internet and related technologies. Stross also demonstrates quite a bit of familiarity with philosophy of mind, especially Dennett's (the Dennettian notions of zimboes and Cartesian theaters get put to work). (There's quite a bit of Clark/Chalmers extended mind stuff, too.)

It will take me a while to fully digest all of Stross's ideas relevant to the Alternate Minds project, (e.g. his treatment of group minds and virtual minds) but I'm especially impressed right now with his depiction of transcendent intelligences and the threat they pose to the enhanced-but-still-human post-humans (and the development of what Stross calls "cognitive anti-bodies" and what I call "anti-minds").

Links: Accelerando @ wikipedia; Accelerando Technical Companion @ wikibooks

Philosophers have ceded qualia to engineers

"Philosophers have ceded qualia to engineers, and the current difficult problem in AI is getting software to experience embarrassment."

--Charles Stross, Accelerando

[link to Accelerando on feedbooks.com]