10 MAR 2017 by ideonexus
Argonauts: Magna Cortica
THE MAGNA CORTICA
ORIGINAL TENETS
(DATE UNKNOWN BUT BEFORE BF 80)
I. Self knowledge. Sapient beings have the right to know whether they’ve been mentally modified.
II. Self-modification. Sapient beings have the right to pursue self-modification.
III. Refusing modification. They also have the right to refuse it.
IV. Modification (or not) of progeny. Sapient beings have the right to modify—or not—their own progeny.
V. Knowledge of who has been modified or selfupgraded. Polities and ...
1 03 JUN 2016 by ideonexus
The FLOW State
How does it feel to be in "the flow"?
Completely involved, focused, concentrating - with this either due to innate curiosity or as the result of training
Sense of ecstasy - of being outside everyday reality
Great inner clarity - knowing what needs to be done and how well it is going
Knowing the activity is doable - that the skills are adequate, and neither anxious or bored
Sense of serenity - no worries about self, feeling of growing beyond the boundaries of ego - afterwards feeling of trans...
2 21 APR 2014 by ideonexus
Feigned Surprise
he best developers I’ve worked with were willing to admit when they didn’t know something. Of course they could learn quickly. If you meet an arrogant developer who pretends to know everything, be careful. To them, their ego is more important than your software. An insecure person who mixes up their self-worth with their programming ability can be very unpleasant to work with. Sadly, some workplaces and development teams reward bombastic claims made with absolute certainty, even on comple...Folksonomies: conduct professionalism
Folksonomies: conduct professionalism
Being surprised that someone doesn't know something is denigrating and demonstrates that you don't know your field.
24 DEC 2013 by ideonexus
Adaptive Regression
There are numerous vital experiences that cannot be achieved without adaptive regression: The creation and appreciation of art, music, literature, and food; the ability to sleep; sexual fulfillment; falling in love; and, yes, the ability to free-associate and tolerate psychoanalysis or psychodynamic therapy without getting worse. Perhaps the most important element in adaptive regression is the ability to fantasize, to daydream. The person who has access to his unconscious processes and mines ... 1 
notes
notesJoel Gold on the exercise of fantasy and imagination to unlock knew ideas.
27 NOV 2013 by ideonexus
The Value of the Elderly
A challenge for society is to make use of those things that older people are better at doing. Some abilities, of course, decrease with age. Those include abilities at tasks requiring physical strength and stamina, ambition, and the power of novel reasoning in a circumscribed situation, such as figuring out the structure of DNA, best left to scientists under the age of 30. Conversely, valuable attributes that increase with age include experience, understanding of people and human relationship... 1 notes
notesTheir experience makes them better-skilled for certain professions, such as managing, and teaching.
16 APR 2013 by ideonexus
The Human Cognome Project
The Human Cognome Project was an
academic research venture to reverse
engineer the human brain, paralleling
in many ways the Human Genome
Project and its success in deciphering
the human genome. The HCP was a
multidisciplinary undertaking, relevant
to biology, neuroscience, psychology,
cognitive science, artificial intelligence,
and philosophy of mind.
Funded and supported by scientific
and corporate entrepreneurs and early
transhumanist groups, the HCP developed
the fundamentals of digitizi...A science fiction idea of modeling the human mind.
26 AUG 2012 by ideonexus
Empiricism in Buddhist Spirituality
Both Buddhism and neuroscience converge on a similar point of view: The way it feels isn’t how it is. There is no permanent, constant soul in the background. Even our language about ourselves is to be distrusted (requiring the tortured negation of anatta). In the broadest strokes then, neuroscience and Buddhism agree.
How did Buddhism get so much right? I speak here as an outsider, but it seems to me that Buddhism started with a bit of empiricism. Perhaps the founders of Buddhism were pre-... 1 notes
notesBuddhists recognize the impermanence of human existence, that we are perpetually changing. They discovered this truth, shared with neuroscience, because they gave up the ego of the self.
17 MAY 2012 by ideonexus
The Third Blow to Man's Ego
In the course of centuries the naïve self-love of men has had to submit to two major blows at the hands of science. The first was when they learnt that our earth was not the centre of the universe but only a tiny fragment of a cosmic system of scarcely imaginable vastness... the second blow fell when biological research destroyed man's supposedly privileged place in creation and proved his descent from the animal kingdom and his ineradicable animal nature… But human megalomania will have s...Not the center of the Universe, not above the animals, and now not even in control of his own mind.
