mechatronic mayhem

“Rebellion is not a single act, or a pose, a phase that you go through where you listen to slightly louder music and dress in colors that clash slightly more than normal.  Rebellion is a path.  It demands that you question everything–how you’ve been educated, the social structures around you, the government, the media, gender relations, what’s been expected of you by others, what you’ve expected of yourself, how you spend your time, what you consume, where you’ve been and, most of all, where you’re going.  For me, rebellion that is content only with political radicalism is missing a large part of the picture.  Any true radicalism has to extend itself to the way that reality itself is constructed.  Rebellion has to take itself all the way to to the scheme of manifestation itself, to the writing on the walls of eternity.  Anything else is missing the forest for the trees.

A true rebel has to be an artist, somebody who can not only point out the weak points and contradictions in the system, but can also propose something better, and then guard its passage into manifestation.  That, to me, means magic.  There is no I.  Slough off the skin of the self and become something greater:  I knew I could do it.”

Christian Sedman

Generation Hex p 38

Freaking awesome…

He has a post about buying the sketchbook for $12 here.

http://andrewtrabbold.blogspot.com/

via comics alliance

Start at 1:30 and end at 44:00:

transcript

• http://www.plusultratech.com/2011/11/stephen-wolfram-computation-future-of.html
• http://www.plusultratech.com/2011/11/stephen-wolfram-computation-future-of_05.html
• http://www.plusultratech.com/2011/11/stephen-wolfram-computation-future-of_06.html
• http://www.plusultratech.com/2011/11/stephen-wolfram-computation-future-of_07.html
• http://www.plusultratech.com/2011/11/stephen-wolfram-computation-future-of_10.html
• http://www.plusultratech.com/2011/11/stephen-wolfram-computation-future-of_13.html

terse notes

• mining the computational universe
• rule 30
• seething universe of computational creativity
• universal computation
• rule 110 is universal
• • turing
• computational irreducibility
• • 18:30 – free will vs determinism
• computational equivalence
  • 19:30 – the weather has a mind of its own – animism – pattern of neurons firing in our brains
• 28:00 – delivering alien artifacts
• 29:00 – new interface – deliver knowledge to us preemptively based on personal data – personal analytics
• 31:37 – universal mechanical object – turn robotics into a software problem – bizarre collection of tiny little identical objects as cellular automan

“‘self-actualisation [the full realization of one's potential]…rarely happens…certainly in less than 1% of the adult population.’^[8] The fact that ‘most of us function most of the time on a level lower than that of self-actualization’ he called thepsychopathology of normality.^[9]

Maslow considered self-actualizing people to possess ‘an unusual ability to detect the spurious, the fake, and the dishonest in personality, and in general to judge the people correctly and efficiently.”^[10]

Common traits amongst people who have reached self-actualization are:^[11]

• They embrace reality and facts rather than denying truth.
• They are spontaneous.
• They are ‘focused on problems outside themselves.’^[12]
• They ‘can accept their own human nature in the stoic style, with all its shortcomings,’^[13] are similarly acceptant of others, and generally lack prejudice.

For Goldstein, self-actualization was a motive and, for Maslow, a level of development; for both, however, roughly the same kinds of qualities were expressed: independence, autonomy, a tendency to form few but deep friendships, a ‘philosophical’ sense of humor, a tendency to resist outside pressures and a general transcendence of the environment rather than ‘coping’ with it.^[14]”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-actualization