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The idea of redefining radicalism holds; however employed. But ethos - being the ingrained habitual beliefs of a culture - are more telling, IMO. Look at the comments and look for hate language if you need proof? The thing we should keep in mind. Rather than hate language would likely be admonishment of guilt. This is certainly a thing lacking proper context. So excluding rhetoric is sharp. But looking at Islam as a venerable place to start is going to be difficult. The ethos and the ethics are intertwined in such a way that there is little change until most people see race as a tool of oppression and religion its counterpart rebuttal. This scenario, of course, implies that the most recent of Abrahamic traditions is the least susceptible to technological progress. Doesn’t this mean defining "progress" to mean a thing done with respect to race; and not without religion or gender, or even platitudes, for fucks sake?!?  If progress is learning from mistakes and moving toward a c...

The Gordian Knot – Sweet Talk

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One of the key disputes in the continental vs analytic divide in modern philosophy is one of style. German and French philosophers largely follow Hegel’s impenetrable style—or worse, Heidegger’s—while English-speaking philosophers largely follow Bertrand Russell’s approachable prose. https://sweettalkconversation.com/2016/03/13/the-gordian-knot/

A Spanish Don Quixote

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Okay. There is a push for ‪#‎NativePeoplesDay‬ taking over Columbus day. So, there are certain fictions that need to be addresses. Which ones are the sociopolitical ones: gender issues, the historical demagoguery, the anthropomorphised phylogeny? The link below is of the latter group. The former group is for the link previous to phillymag.com. In the middle we have a problem. What a national unicorn day would do is help us remember how misconstrued we all are by our consensus!

Hilary Putnam (1926-2016)

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Hilary Putnam, Cogan University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, died earlier today. http://dailynous.com/2016/03/13/hilary-putnam-1929-2016/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martha-c-nussbaum/hilary-putnam-1926-2016_b_9457774.html

Opioid Drugs for Mental Anguish: Basic Research and Clinical Trials

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The prescription opioid crisis of overdosing and overprescribing has reached epic proportions, according to the North American media. http://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2016/01/opioid-drugs-for-mental-anguish-basic.html NB  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaak_Panksepp

The AI Analogy is Absurd.

Specifically,the analogy is absurd. The problem is not as much how absurd a situation can arise in ethical technology. There is an expectation on the part of the food to be less sentient in some way that makes their adamance or vehemence a capability exclusive to the diner and not so much to the dinner. Analogously, in the future can we expect people with cleft chins to report to soylent centers? Yet, that is expected by some ghetto youth if this is the soylent center is a prison and the skin is a minority? We may have little recourse but to become radically anti-radical. Thought Experiment. A quantum gel is eventually developed to serve as a nerve impulse router with a coordinating processor. The film is completely transparent and its members, its organs, and its qualia, are caches accessing memory devices and are facilitated by spooky actions enabled by quantum entanglements. This supercomputer would need to have superconductors as a backbone and a CPU which can predict human behavio...

Social Media and Grieving

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This is a good story about conversion and conversation. It says a bit about the human character to really watch these people and reflect about secular ethics How vast the reaction of consciousnesses such that it extends into human virtues? This is not a case of mythological Trolls [in defense of the soul]. In response i think a kind of social accountability is the ethical matter of the Anonymous group [maybe the Facebook demagoue] and this is somehow designed to identify and improve the grief and suffering of others
Delaware Proponents for a e-Democracy and Knowledge-Based economy/Jelly Beans up and Ingenuity Below [my tablet goes 'plop'] Technocratic audit of Artificial Intellect or of a Intellectual Augment in society implies a interdependent function. The emergent system of dual vote (as to I-borg or Wall-e, the difference is neither in function or goal), and its due comission we have a very fair way to approach the adjudication of cognitive status with welfare and politics. This is a gelatinous bologna. Push a button or go on Reddit and push their button, and see what happens. If you have a connection, something happens. We blame all that machine crap if it's doesn't. So what's it to prove - all this button pushing? If does how human this blog of ever changing content is purveyed. So, who or whom ping? The jelly blogosphere of whom we are an observant kind - which is to say, much akin to our surroundings. http://www.reddit.com/r/thebutton http://www.redditblog.com/2015/04/t...

Trite Advice

This is a pleasant naivete to ponder or acclaim: So reassuringly says Homer to Bart, in the event of failure: 'Thats right, son. Dont try.' - without a hint of dissonance or cynicism. Good Advise comes like John Lennon: 'Black bird singing in the dead of night... take these broken wings and learn to fly... All your life... you were only waiting for this moment to arise!!!'

I've considerably changed my focus on this page.

I want to focus on politics in the information age contemporary to a progressive view of reality itself, the government and the economy are interdependent. To this end, the e-Democratic ethos informs itself via a knowledge-based economics, and vice-versa. The governmental system is categorically flawed if knowledge does not serve as the economic basis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-democracy The designation is called a "knowledge economy" by Marc Zuckerberg. https://youtu.be/BUWmyGBEfVc - Mark Zuckerberg: 'I'm Pro-Knowledge Economy' The use of positivism was explored in the early part of the last century with the original technocratic view. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy This includes the reasons for reservations coming from system compliments, including cognitive dissonance and biases. It is naive to approach informational constraints in confirming and not informing the economy. Also, Big Data is capable of affirming the possibility of this dual sys...

I'm trying to move my blog, may be easier on Facebook for now.

https://www.facebook.com/thegelatinousblog

Up to "pet" ed

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21591549-and-nature-and-cell-nobel-prize-winner-attacks-elite-journals-whats-wrong?fsrc=rss|sct I recommend watching him lecture on youtube. Genius is an understatement for the kind of insight provided. He gets it - "the dude abides" - that's what my prof once told me. But, what would T. Kuhn tell the 'tycoon'? Science and the Times will trek outside the humane...

Memeconomins

I'd like to share this video.  MEMEnomics by Said Dawlabani (summary) http://youtu.be/XuXho2qAsP8 This is something... ordinal, hierarchical, but noteworthy in that macroeconomics and humanism stands a reasonable chance. Almost like the norse economic models.