Scott MacLeod's Anthropology of Information Technology & Counterculture: Honeysuckle: how to develop a #RealisticVirtualHarbin Hot Springs as an ethnographic field site and for sociocultural anthropology theories too, and possibly with Magnus Magnussen in Sweden?

Is this a question here: how to develop a #RealisticVirtualHarbin Hot Springs as an ethnographic field site and for sociocultural anthropology theories too?

Dear Magnus (& friends),

Thanks for your great Linkedin messages below on Tuesday April 28, 2026, and for connecting there too.

In free-to-students' wiki World University and School, building on MIT OCW in 7 languages - https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/ & https://ocw.mit.edu/ - and planned in each of all ~200 countries for free WUaS degrees online degrees (Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, IB high school / similar, AA/AS, and Master's degrees) from home, and in these countries' main languages, and in all 7159 known living languages for people-to-people for wiki-teaching and wiki-learning in open wiki schools with AI and ML, and in WUaS developing a #RealisticVirtualEarth emerging with a #RealisticVirtualHarbin #HotSprings (re 5 Harbin Hot Springs' inspired books, the first one a socio-cultural anthropology of Harbin since the 1960s and '70s, the other 4 poetry), and for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy (a new social science and scientific, humanities and arts' theory and method, I'm developing - and see Peter Norvig's INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 mentioning a virtual Harbin Hot Springs, and for 'The Study of Bliss and Enjoyment in Learning'), did you visit actual Harbin Hot Springs when You were at UC Berkeley in 1987-1988?

WUaS is in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program too in some of these regards. And I'm curious how to develop a realistic virtual Harbin further and regarding:

http://www.scottmacleod.com/research-group.html (from http://scottmacleod.com/ & search on Scott MacLeod's Research Group) -

Scott MacLeod's Research Group
World University and School,
Actual / Virtual Harbin Ethnography

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Research Topics

Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy

Virtual Harbin generation (realistic)
Realistic virtual earth / cosmos generation, group build-able at atomic/molecular, neuronal/cellular, and streetview/behavioral levels
Avatar robotics' design and printing of 3D place / avatar bots
Brain chemistry - a) loving bliss and b) consciousness as awareness - research and modeling (re e.g. modeling mouse and fly brains with AI)
Wiki ethnography generation
Field work to actual Harbin Hot Springs

http://www.scottmacleod.com/research-group.html

... and possibly with your co-founded organization Kohesis out of NYC (or not).

Here's the Harbin Hot Springs' gatehouse -

~ https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~

Scott MacLeod's
Naked Harbin Ethnography:
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin
by Scott MacLeod

http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html

(WUaS is also seeking to develop this for a #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics, #ForAgingReversal #ForExtremeLongevity ... and re the dates of 2007, 2012 and 2024 above).

How best also to grow and develop Sweden World University and School too - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sweden (from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States) planned in Swedish from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages - for free online WUaS degrees from home in Sweden in Swedish building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW translated into Swedish + and in a realistic virtual Sweden for STEM field sites and classrooms etc too, and possibly with UNESCO / the United Nations too? WUaS also has 2 wings with AMAZING potential synergies between them in all 200 countries and for speakers of all 7159 living languages, and in WUaS seeking to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - (and see below), but more about this later.

Will add you to the open World Univ & Sch News and Q&As / Weekly Business Meeting (loosely conducted in the manner of unprogrammed Friends NtF Quakers) which meets on Mondays at 10 am Pacific Time if you might like to join this some time. Might you like to meet on Monday May 4, 2026 or Monday May 11, at 10 am Pacific Time, or on a Tuesday etc at a similar time?

In the past, "as UNESCO’s Director for Human Sciences," where you "positioned anthropology as central to its mandate. I’m now exploring how anthropological knowledge can be made interpretable by AI, as current systems struggle with context and meaning," it would be great to talk further with you about how to develop a #RealisticVirtualHarbin Hot Springs as an ethnographic field site and for sociocultural anthropology theories as well.

All the best, abolition, Friendly NtF greetings, Yogically (re 8 limbs of Yoga), kindly,

Scott

This GREAT tutorial
Creating Comics With Gemini AI
https://youtu.be/Krme8S1ghWQ
may open way to 1) #InventingTheBookAnew @WUaSPress in 7159 #WUaSlanguages publishing fr #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider #TextInTheSidebar & 2) 2nd #HarbinEthnography @HarbinBook in #RealisticVirtualHarbin ~

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2048430184081260907

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2048431149840818203

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2048430709489185232

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2048430578220126375

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2048431217247388098

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2048430363807244453

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2048439481330712652

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scott-macleod-4691a011a_googleeducatorgroups-gegahmedabad-bandungindonesia-activity-7454999795007533057-y7Um

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scottgkmacleod_googleeducatorgroups-gegahmedabad-bandungindonesia-activity-7454999920756936705-Dd-W

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/world-university-and-school_googleeducatorgroups-gegahmedabad-bandungindonesia-activity-7454999219280564224-xFfV

PPS

Hi Scott Gk, I came across your work and would value connecting. As UNESCO’s Director for Human Sciences, I positioned anthropology as central to its mandate. I’m now exploring how anthropological knowledge can be made interpretable by AI, as current systems struggle with context and meaning.

Thank you for connecting.

In my previous role as Director for Social & Human Sciences at UNESCO, I worked to position anthropology, including digital anthropology, as central to its mandate of creating the conditions for peace in the minds of men and women. I’m now working with a small group of AI experts and anthropologists (Kohesis) to address a core limitation in current AI systems: while they can identify patterns in language, they lack access to the structured conceptual relationships through which disciplines such as anthropology organise knowledge — their theories, distinctions, and analytical frameworks.

As a result, AI systems risk misinterpreting social reality, with consequences for how policies are designed, markets are understood, and societies are represented.

We are developing an approach to represent this conceptual architecture through semantically enriched knowledge graphs, allowing AI systems to engage with anthropological knowledge while preserving depth, context, and scholarly integrity, and positioning anthropology more centrally in an age where AI systems increasingly shape how reality is understood and acted upon.

We are currently forming a founding academic partnership with a small number of leading universities, co-creating a semantically enriched knowledge graph that reflects the conceptual architecture of the discipline — which AI can meaningfully understand and represent.

I’ve shared a brief note here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IHbgTICGU45sv2_-ASRzfWowwB65W6ubVnVvApjTl7o/edit?usp=sharing

I would greatly value your reflections if of interest.

Magnus Magnusson
Co-Founder, Kohesis
Email: magnus@kohesis.com

www.linkedin.com/in/bmmagnusson

Phone: +33 6 77 30 51 27
WhatsApp: +46 76 320 21 19