Finished Dupuy – review to follow.
Entries from June 2002
Dupuy Update
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June 28, 2002 at 8:47pm
by Psybertron
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Brain Dump – 2 v 3 layer / dualism / heuristics / less-is-more
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June 26, 2002 at 9:55am
by Psybertron
E-Mail Working Again Since yesteday evening UK time. Some holding thoughts … Binary vs three-layer world. Mind & Matter debates. Mind – Conscious & sub-conscious thinking and behaviours, as well as non-thinking reflex stimulus / response behaviour. Every time I see a binary argument, I suspect a three layer problem – net result is that [...]
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E-Mail Migration Drama
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June 24, 2002 at 3:12pm
by Psybertron
E-Mail Still Down – glenco@ukgateway.netThe Tiscali server migration is incomplete.Planned to finish overnight 24th / 25th June UK GMTAll mails since Thursday 20th have bounced and will need re-send.Many apologies.
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Less Is More – Netherlands Traffic Signs
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June 24, 2002 at 8:45am
by Psybertron
Less is MoreCounter intuitive recommendations from Netherlands experience is that fewer traffic priority rules / lane markings/ signals etc make roads and junctions safer. Kids are involved in less road accidents if they are encouraged to play in traffic. Essentially human psychology compensates by adjusting speeds and habits to enable tacit negotiatiation by eye-contact and [...]
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Cybernetics & Cognitive Science
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June 22, 2002 at 2:49pm
by Psybertron
Threads of Cybernetics and Cognitive ScienceA bit like the problem I had finding links from Kosko to the Fuzzy Logic “mainstream”, I’m finding difficulty cross linking several threads which claim to be the embracing the whole of cybernetics. The Heylighen / Joslyn / Turchin axis under Principia Cybernetica (see links) does not seem to connect [...]
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Paine’s Age of Reason
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June 22, 2002 at 12:12pm
by Psybertron
Paine’s Age of Reason in 1794[The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is Reason .... My own mind is my own church ..... it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself .... infidelity consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.]
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Hobbe’s Leviathan
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June 22, 2002 at 11:50am
by Psybertron
Hobbes’ LeviathanOn organisational behaviour, natural language, and motivation in 1651.There is absolutely nothing new under the sun. Leviathan is Hobbes’ term for “commonwealth”, a self-organised “society” of humans acting as one “body” – ie an Organisation or almost literally a “Corporation” [ .... in which the sovereignty is an artificial soul, as giving life and [...]
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Ahab’s Wife – Naslund / Spenser’s Una
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June 22, 2002 at 11:21am
by Psybertron
Ahab’s Wife or The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter NaslundPub Oct. 1999. 688p. illus. Morrow, $28 (0-688-17187-7). Ahab’s wife, Una (nee Spencer), named by her mother after the personification of Truth in Spenser’s Faerie Queene, is so vividly portrayed that she seems more real than fictional in Naslund’s fanciful opus. (ref Booklist) “Captain Ahab was neither [...]
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Pepperone Postcards – Fractal DOM
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June 22, 2002 at 9:55am
by Psybertron
Semantic WebLog / Pepperone Postcards – Danny Ayers blogs.RDF techie (must learn what RSS is / does)but anyway some key tidbits, not least links to … Orchard – “Data Manipulation Framework . Sounds familiar. Appears to be DOM grove based”.See my Manifesto – Orchard, Grove, and Jorn’s Fractal Thicket.Daniel Rivers-Moore had it right already with [...]
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More E-Mail Dramas
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June 22, 2002 at 9:42am
by Psybertron
My e-Mail is down due to a server migration.Please resend anything from Fri 21st or today Sat 22nd again on Mon 24th. Coolest Media Company of 2002Fortune, no less, names Pyra (Blogger)However it also says “Nothing destroys productivity like blogs”. Ooops.
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Tables, Taxonomies and Trends
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June 21, 2002 at 2:48pm
by Psybertron
Tables, Taxonomies and Trends and causality too, but it doesn’t alliterate.Why do these appear to be “human nature” aspects of analysis and rationalisation ? “Emergent Properties” – hold that thought.
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Dupuy’s History of Cognitive Sciences
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June 21, 2002 at 10:09am
by Psybertron
Started – Mechanisation of the Mind – the History of Cognitive Sciences by Dupuy (See below)Actually only read the 6-page preface so far and looking very promising. Not only do we encounter Poincare’s “dazzling intuitions” and self-organising systems in the first page – (the latter concept apparently pre-dating the intended scope of CogSci / Cybernetics [...]
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Melville’s Moby Dick
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June 21, 2002 at 10:04am
by Psybertron
Finished Moby Dick.If it wasn’t obvious, from the helpful map provided on the route of the Pequod, that the voyage ended in disaster, the final chapters could be quite suspense filled. A bit of a spoiler that. Apart from the late chapters when Ahab, soliloquises (to Starbuck mainly) about his career widow (yes the “Ahab’s [...]
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Irrational Knowledge Value Models
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June 20, 2002 at 8:01pm
by Psybertron
Irrational Knowledge Value Models in PracticeAt a knowledge interest group meeting today I experienced a microcosm of so many of the issues here. (1) The “General Motors / DeLorean effect” A failure of formal project teams to achieve scope execution and objectives desired and understood by the individual members, despite admissions that each member individually [...]
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SWAP – Semantic Web And Peer-to-Peer
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June 20, 2002 at 7:25pm
by Psybertron
SWAP – Semantic Web & Peer to PeerI knew it. The power of peer to peer thinking fits so well with exploiting relationships between ontologies embedded in “knowledge” at each user in a peer to peer network. (Reference from Graham Moore of Empolis. Of course Empolis is part of Bertelsmann group who acquired Napster technologies [...]
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Think Lean Learning
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June 18, 2002 at 1:33pm
by Psybertron
Think Lean Learning – link from Leon
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Embedded Links Housekeeping
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June 14, 2002 at 5:16pm
by Psybertron
Message to self.So many important resource links now embedded in the body of the blog, I’m going to have to go through and re-build a fixed links section – I keep re-discovering links I already have.
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Klogging – Knowledge Web Logging
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June 14, 2002 at 1:10pm
by Psybertron
I’m a Klogger apparently. Link from Leon.I’ve been running this KM-Blog for almost a year now, and now I find someone has just coined the phrase Knowledge Logging, keeping a “K-Log” of knowledge fragments. Link is to an article that exploits Microsoft Sharepoint to capture (say) employee blogs of knowledge with Sharepoint meta-data to capture [...]
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Moby Dick – Fact From Fiction
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June 14, 2002 at 11:53am
by Psybertron
Fact or Fiction ? www.melville.org Well through Moby Dick now (96/136′ths) and still finding so much on so many levels. The blood-soaked anatomical detail and unctious stench and sensation in the butchery is numbing, and you can see how early reviews met with issues of poor taste ! As I mentioned earlier – one striking [...]
Rationally Institutionalised Conspiracy Thinking
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June 13, 2002 at 10:14am
by Psybertron
More Rationally Institutionalised Conspiratorial MotivationAnother link via Jorn from Common DreamsQuoteMr. Cheney also specialized in getting government contracts for the firm. During his five years as CEO, Halliburton got $2.3 billion in contracts, compared with $1.2 billion in the five years before he took over. Most of the work was done by Halliburton subsidiary Brown [...]
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Everybody Lies, Nobody Minds
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June 13, 2002 at 10:05am
by Psybertron
Everybody lies, nobody minds.Eureka link via Jorn
