How to create a brain (Artificial Intelligence)
We need a few ingredients, a purpose, randomness, trial and error, and genetic progression. We seem to solve problems by imagining scenarios and then possible solutions, trying each solution on the imagined stage and then discarding those that don’t work. Each time we imagine a new scenario and a new stage (situation) we [...]
There is one idea that can pull together developments so seemingly incompatible as permaculture and digital currencies like Bitcoin into one new universal social and economic system. That idea is Fluidity. Many new developments are popping up all over the globe and our CEO’s and policy makers are lagging so far behind they have [...]
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A fluid society relies upon a few changes to the way societies and economies now function. It requires people to use money as a form of value-vote rather than just means to garner resources for survival and as a tool to create more wealth. This is called monetary democracy, whereby you support people and their [...]
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The belief or faith in a God or Gods, a higher power or a guiding strength is not the cause of religious violence, it is instead the belief in the righteousness of one’s doctrine over another that forces people to attack those of differing beliefs. I differ from Sam Harris in his book ‘The End [...]
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We must rethink our love of work and replace it with a love of leisure. In our current world work, leisure and idleness are generally equated with; work is productive, decent, and good; idleness is lazy, stupefying, wasteful and bad, and leisure is a small break from work to refresh oneself, is fun, is a [...]
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Why do we go to war? I can think of only 4 reasons. We want to change peoples minds. We want to make them believe what we do. And we believe they will be happier for it. We want to change welded-on beliefs. We want the land they occupy. And the resources within. The coal, [...]
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We used to think lightning was created by the friction within clouds and this static electricity would only want to zap to a solid Earth. We know different know and I have Earthly images of the phenomenon Water rises fed by the heat of the sun, the delicate vapours coalesce into little communities dancing in [...]
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This is an important question for anyone that wishes to live in an egalitarian society. If we naturally form hierarchies equality can only exist for a short time or by suppressing our natural instincts. And to suppress our natural instincts goes against one of the fundamentals of equality. Freedom! While reading up on this [...]
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Are there values we all hold dear? From Botswana to Vancouver are all humans bound intrinsically together by one goal? If we are to have a cohesive peaceful and sustainable planet we must have! But many have given up on this “Utopian” idea they would prefer to “crises manage” and “minimise harm” from our conflicts [...]
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Free will is the expression of values created by imagining possible outcomes way before we are presented with choices. And much of this creation may occur while we sleep. While reading an essay written back in the 1960′s by philosopher and author Iris Murdoch I came to a bit of an epiphany about imagination. I [...]
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