Using a tactic that was also used by the military dictatorship in Burma, New York University has cut off internet access to students who are occupying the school.
This is another example of corporate powers disabling network access to prevent social justice. Hopefully, some students in the occupation have access to the network via 3G networks or other means and can continue to communicate.
Are there thoughts that are not permitted by the software of the brain?
Human rights depend on Animal rights. We can never have liberation of humankind without the same for all of animalkind. So long as we enslave, we will never be free.
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This slide was presented in an Astronomy course today.
There is so much wrong with this slide. Anyone?
In “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture,” Geertz argues that it is not “ignorance as to how cognition works” that prevents understanding of another culture but rather “lack of familiarity with the imaginative universe within which their acts are signs.”
Practicing the comprehension of alternative imaginative universes is, therefore, the ultimate preparation for cultural anthropology. Enter speculative fiction, mythology, fantasy and role play.
It’s worth noting something about Geertz’s idea of religion:
“A system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.”
(Kunin, Seth D. “Religion; the modern theories” University of Edinburgh 2003)
Via Liz, The Ayahuasca Foundation volunteer opportunities include creating myspace pages for the plants.
Does our perception create reality? Do we cause the world to become by observing it? This would seem to suggest so, and it’s not a creation myth.
A post on _Augmentology 1[L]0[L]1_ titled “_Emily is Not Real_: Uncanny Valley vs The Digital Übermensch” refers to my paper “Mapping the Temples of Cyborgism” and uses the graphic I created to illustrate an expansion of Mori’s map of the uncanny valley. The post is a RICH mine of links - so check it out.
_Augmentology 1[L]0[L]1_ is a blog seeking to “dissect post-geophysically defined notions of reality” and is sponsored by the Ars Virtua Foundation via the CADRE Laboratory for New Media.
“Ars Virtua is a New Media Center and Gallery located in the synthetic world of Second Life, World of Warcraft and the World Wide Web. It is a new type of space that leverages the tension between 3-D rendered game space and terrestrial reality, between simulated and simulation. The Ars Virtua Foundation is a locus of research around the issues of reality within simulated environments.”
Some thoughts tonight after spending the day studying Astronomy.
We kill, destroy, imprison, control, conquer. Why don’t we build, share, teach, grow, explore?
If there are gods and other forms of non-terrestrial life, conscious as we are or even more so, we must seem like violent, angry, ruthless children to them. Destroying our own home and each other and the life forms we share this planet with.