The Paradoxes of Human Life
Cite Soleil, Haiti NY TIMES, Market Self-organizing
AND the mind can hold this:
From purushamriga (Sanskrit, “man-beast”) to cyborgs and sex bots
No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted
Aesop
AND the mind can hold this:
From purushamriga (Sanskrit, “man-beast”) to cyborgs and sex bots
Thank You For The Diaries
Miep Gies Dies at 100
Anne Frank diary guardian Miep Gies dies aged 100
The effete still exist, Ms. Gies
White Man March To Glory
What Will Be: Will Be
IT has been some years now, but I asked the question to my spiritual friends: What would being human be like in 21 C. I leave some interesting apparent facts from Live Science. I will continue to post on this subject, for many other knowledge bases, like politics and economies are dependent on what will be. Many times these fields lag behind the heuristic realities, as does beliefs. The next 20 years should be quite interesting, to say the least.
Ten Things that Make Human Special
The Role of Insanity
Our Possible Future
YET we have not answered this question:
What is Consciousness
Will We Read Memory In Trial
Courtroom First: Brain Scan Used in Murder Sentencing
A defendant’s fMRI brain scan has been used in court for what is believed to be the first time.
Brain scan evidence that the defense claimed shows the defendant’s brain was psychopathic was allowed into the sentencing portion of a murder trial in Chicago, Science reported Monday. Brian Dugan, who had been convicted of the rape and murder of a 10-year old, was sentenced to death, despite the fMRI scans.
“I don’t know of any other cases where fMRI was used in that context,” Stanford professor Hank Greely told Science.
While the possibility of using fMRI data in a variety of contexts, particularly lie detection, has bounced around the margins of the legal system for years, there are almost no documented cases of its actual use. In the 2005 case Roper v. Simmons, the Supreme Court allowed brain scans to be entered as evidence to show that adolescent brains work differently than adult brains.
And the Calvinist of our Nation, want to dismiss evolution and did a good job in the last 20 years.
Darwin 200th Anniversay
Irrationals Linger on Vaccines
Tree of Life, Today
AND! They have; YET, to find a distributor for the film on Charles Darwin, born Feburary, 12, 1809, for public viewing. And we wonder why our children, lag in International School Competions. The Calvinist still rule paradoxically in hedonist America. We need to take our evoutionary freedoms, seriously. Or we will lose them.
CAN THIS BE A RETURN TO A UNITY
Intelligence and Consciousness – No Equivalent
From Rome to Britain to America
PARIS (AFP) Yahoo News
Norway takes the number one spot in the annual United Nations human development index released Monday but China has made the biggest strides in improving the well-being of its citizens…
The index compiled by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) ranks 182 countries based on such criteria as life expectancy, literacy, school enrolment and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita…
Norway, Australia and Iceland took the first three spots while Niger ranks at the very bottom, just below Afghanistan…
The UNDP said the index highlights the grave disparities between rich and poor countries.
A child born in Niger can expect to live to just over 50, which is 30 years less than a child born in Norway. For every dollar a person earns in Niger, 85 dollars are earned in Norway.
This year’s index was based on data from 2007 and does not take into account the impact of the global economic crisis. The United States ranks 13th, down one spot from last year.
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We Fell into a Stupor
yet, let us blame the black man
for, all before did no harm
yet, let us blame the first black man
for, we were all close to g_d
Get My Robot And My Gun, Molly
1947 A Computerize World Began in Earnest
As a young High School student, I read a short story in Playboy, where the man was actually having sex with an android and telling himself he was falling in love with a female machine. Re-calling it from my memory well, because of how time has passed and the movies that have depicted humans and robots. This must of been around 1968.
Some are now saying this is the end of the Human Era, meaning that our mindfulness and technology have a life of its own and the present future and future humans will live with these phenomena’s as we once lived with nature. We have become g_ds yet we have more to learn, for our rash and selfish desires have created some very serious problems for the next 50 years. Since 1947, our creation of automates and artificial intelligence has made leaps and bounds. There is now a major marker in Space/Time/Events
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Heart of a Debate
I am 35 years olds, never been involved before and used to War
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
Hannah Arendt
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell
Demagoguery grows as some want to protect failed meme.
Mother Nature Has Proven To Be The Best
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence
Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
It has been clear for some time now to science that the medical protocol of the Ancient Egyptians were correct, and that nature has a healing process that had to be returned to for many reasons, besides the cost of modern care. If you take your child for a cut now, they will not stitch the child up but allow the cut to naturally heal, given the bacteria problems that plagued hospitals and doctors. Many older folks have subtracted their Western drug regiments with many alternative medicines and modulate for a good while now. Yet, the demigods have risen to a high pitch about rationalizing and socialize medicine. It is a crock of shit and dangerous.
The insurance companies have been rationalizing care for years now. And instead of giving recognition to the advancement of medicines and self-care, the backward noise raises and attacks. A few deaths and arrest were made recently by those who stated g_d will heal and their child died, a very close cousin to the leading forces of this regression. For this is not about solving a social problem, this is trajectory in politics our Nation does not need but will have to put to bed.
The insurance companies have been rationalizing care for years now. And instead of giving recognition to the advancement of medicines and self-care, the backward noise raises and attacks. A few deaths and arrest were made recently by those who stated g_d will heal and their child died, a very close cousin to the leading forces of this regression. For this is not about solving a social problem, this is trajectory in politics our Nation does not need but will have to put to bed.
Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
Ambrose Bierce
Our Genius Child
Bossa Nova – MJ Billie Jean, He conquered the World
As Afro-Blues Folks – Micheal Jackson is our child. Eccentic or not! This bright star, like all bright stars in our Universe, die young. Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Bar-Kays, Charlie Parker, who is a Virgo also, Eric Dolphy, Clifford Brown, John Coltrane, Julian “Cannonball” Adderley (Cannonball narrated The Child’s Introduction to Jazz, released on Riverside Records) and of course the beautiful Minnie Riperton.
Can U Dance, Michael said it best: Thinking is the worst thing a Dancer can do. You have to feel it. What Our greats have done, is give the greatest music of the Modern World, and a philosophy that is our Zen. I was sadden by what happen to him, in his life, yet I love what he gave to this world. He is one of our Immortal!
Update
Ivan Ivan Gladstone Van Sertima passed 25 May 2009
