Scott MacLeod's Anthropology of Information Technology & Counterculture
To a global, virtual, free, open, {future degree- & credit-granting}, multilingual University & School for the developing world and everyone, as well as loving bliss ~ scottmacleod.com
"David Chalmers Discusses the Hard Problem of Consciousness" on Startalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly * Where is the #SeatOfConsciousness per https://youtu.be/Pr-Hf7MNQV0 ? Sitting in #HarbinHotSprings' #WarmPoolWUaS @ #RealisticVirtualHarbin in #RealisticVirtualEarth to study these #PhilosophicalQs w #BrainWaveHeadsets streaming via #WifiHeadbands >#AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords . . . { ... at Heart Consciousness Church ~ Harbin Hot Springs, for one?}
Where is the #SeatOfConsciousness per https://youtu.be/Pr-Hf7MNQV0 ? Sitting in #HarbinHotSprings' #WarmPoolWUaS @ #RealisticVirtualHarbin in #RealisticVirtualEarth to study these #PhilosophicalQs w #BrainWaveHeadsets streaming via #WifiHeadbands >#AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords ~
Sitting in the #HarbinHotSprings warm pool in a #RealisticVirtualHarbin in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth for studying these PhilosophicalQuestions further with #BrainWaveHeadsets streaming via wifi Headbands into our #AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords
consciousness talk on startalk with @neiltyson @chucknicecomic @mythreeleftfeet
"What exactly is consciousness, and why is it such a hard problem to solve? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly take you deep into the mysteries of consciousness and objective reality, David Chalmers, a philosopher and cognitive scientist.
How do we understand the core of subjective experience? We explore the philosophical and neuroscientific angles of consciousness. Why do some experts believe consciousness arises from the sensory cortex, while others point to the prefrontal cortex? And what does this mean for how we understand animals, AI, or even the very nature of our own minds? We question how consciousness evolved to discussions about the levels of consciousness in animals, babies, and humans under anesthesia.
As the conversation turns to AI, the group contemplates the future of artificial consciousness. Could large language models, like today's AI, eventually develop consciousness? If not now, will they in the near future? And if we can simulate human consciousness in machines, are we creating philosophical zombies—entities that behave like us but lack awareness? These questions spiral into debates about reality, VR, and whether we're already living in a simulation.
Could there be laws of consciousness waiting to be discovered, like the laws of physics? Or is consciousness simply an illusion, as some scientists propose? What are the core features of consciousness that scientists agree on? Buckle up for a fascinating journey that will leave you questioning not just what consciousness is, but whether any of this is even real.
America Votes 2024: Part 4 Tue, Nov 12, 2024 1 PM - 2:30 PM (Eastern) Online via Zoom: Open to the public featuring Stanford Profs David Brady, Doug Rivers, & Lynn Vavreck & Daron Shaw https://t.co/siV2PZBzjO POLLING: WHAT IS ON THE MINDS OF AMERICANS? https://t.co/4evPwIXaxk ~
— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) November 5, 2024
Harris campaign moves rally to Rankin after original spot deemed 'unsafe' by Secret Service Secret Service gave campaign hours' notice to change location
Die Flutkatastrophe von Spanien zeigt erneut: Die Klimakrise gefährdet die Sicherheit auch in Europa. Warum eine Trump-Präsidentschaft die Welt gerade jetzt empfindlich treffen würde – mit potenziell irreversiblen Folgen.
Wikidata's 4th birthday party from WUaS with cake picture in SF - W 10/26/2016 in Nov 2024
Happy #Wikidata12Birthday & #Wikidata4Birthday #DennyVrandecic #MarkusKroetzsch #LydiaPintscher fr #MITOCW-centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress @scottmacleod @sgkmacleod : Wikidata's 4th birthday party from WUaS w cake in SF https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday/Events >
Wikidata turns 12 today! Huge thanks to our amazing community for 12 years of knowledge, collaboration, and growth. Celebrate with us & share your wishes here: w.wiki/Bjs6 Join us online at 10:00 & 18:00 UTC to unwrap the presents! #Wikidata12Birthday
🎈 Wikidata turns 12 today! 🎈 Huge thanks to our amazing community for 12 years of knowledge, collaboration, and growth. Celebrate with us & share your wishes here: https://t.co/WtZ8lFaXG6 🎁 Join us online at 10:00 & 18:00 UTC to unwrap the presents! 🥳💙 #Wikidata12Birthdaypic.twitter.com/I7FznLvoKF
Wikidata turns 12 today! Huge thanks to our amazing community for 12 years of knowledge, collaboration, and growth. Celebrate with us & share your wishes here: w.wiki/Bjs6 Join us online at 10:00 & 18:00 UTC to unwrap the presents! #Wikidata12Birthday
12 years ago, Wikidata began as an idea -- and look where we are now! It all started with Denny and Markus, who dreamed of creating a free, structured knowledge base that anyone could edit.
Wikidata turns 12 today! Huge thanks to our amazing community for 12 years of knowledge, collaboration, and growth. Celebrate with us & share your wishes here: w.wiki/Bjs6 Join us online at 10:00 & 18:00 UTC to unwrap the presents! #Wikidata12Birthday
Chase Executive Office -- Please Call Us ~ What is the name and email address for and phone number of a senior legal counsel / attorney in the Chase executive office please?
How best to get initial Chase bank loans to begin the WUaS Educational Services' Stores, and potentially with a flagship physical-digital WUaS bookstore, computer store, robotics' store, grocery store, retail store on Walnut Street in Pgh PA ?
Dear JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, Chase Executive Office's Tiana & Clarice in the Chase Executive Office, Chase bank Curated Coaching TAP 1st consultant for WUaS Jenny Ling, attorney Shawn Flaherty in Pgh PA, Lt. John Tadler (in the Allegheny County Police Pgh PA, having taken a FBI workshop in 2013) Peter Norvig (Google AI Director), US Senator and former Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren, All,
Greetings. What is the name and email address for and phone number of a senior legal counsel / attorney in the Chase executive office please?
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In seeking to stay alive, and regarding the 'murder' word mentioned the last time I was in the Chase bank Shadyside Pgh PA 15232 in around March 2024 by Chase bank VP Shauna McNally, and after I learned 3 of my Chase accounts had been closed due to egregious misconduct I posit by Chase bank Wilkinsburg Pgh PA 15221 employees' jenifer weber and george nicolai and international organized crime co.??? I posit, am glad to have sought a developing US federal investigation into Chase bank Wilkinsburg Pgh PA 15221 as well as Chase bank Moraga CA 94556 (near to where I and MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS lived for about 13 years in Canyon CA 94516, and where the WUaS official addresses are too at PO Box 442 Canyon CA 94516) AND Chase bank Columbus OH 43219 (and per attached Chase letter), and again, what is the name and email address for and phone number of a senior legal counsel / attorney in the Chase executive office please? Contrary to the Chase bank letter attached, I called the Chase Executive Office last week, and with MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch's REQUESTS Chase bank asked for - per the message that Tiana in the Chase Executive Office last left on my voicemail.
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Just this morning, I received the 2nd Chase credit card statement for my new Chase Flex credit card, after my previous Chase credit (which I had for about 27 years, with an excellent credit rating) was closed I learned first from a grocery store (trader j's) on 2/28/24 along Penn Avenue too in Pgh PA, like Chase bank Wilkinsburg Pgh PA 15221 ... (but have heard many times in the past 8 months that Chase bank has no relationship with me very curiously ... and hence WUaS developing a MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch abolition movement worldwide further) ...
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And as mentioned above, I just now received a Chase bank and credit card secure email which, for example doesn't seem to address the issue of potentially abolishing international organized crime within JP Morgan Chase bank affiliated with both Chase bank and credit card, and as MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS grows a worldwide abolition movement for many of 7.9 billion people on the planet from - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - in each of all ~200 countries' major WUaS universities (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States), and in their main languages, and to protect people and abolish the wrongful buying and selling of people in the illegal sex, drugs and violence etc industries internationally, so to abolish modern slavery I posit, and regarding JP Morgan Chase bank having operations in about 100 of 200 countries (and see attached email for reference numbers+), AND WUaS seeking Chase bank loans in an ongoing way to begin the WUaS Educational Services' Stores ... and via communication with WUaS Chase bank Curated Coaching TAP communications and consultants and sessions.
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I received another Chase bank Curated Coaching TAP session invitation to MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch / WUaS Corporation on Saturday, and am waiting to sign up for about the ~15th session until probably tomorrow and after the national US elections today (Tuesday, November 5, 2024).
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You'll find the WUaS requests both on the Chase bank phone machine, and in this email thread (again in the PS)
In also seeking US federal protection for my mother, my brother in Maine, and myself, I just shared further the text message below with Sid Mazumdar in the US federal government in HHS, and with Ed Smyth MD at Kaiser Permanente NorCal in Berkeley.
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How best to get initial Chase bank loans to begin the WUaS Educational Services' Stores, and potentially with a flagship physical-digital WUaS bookstore, computer store, robotics' store, grocery store, retail store on Walnut Street in Pgh PA ?
and regarding the WUaS Corp partnering letter with the Pi Network and Pi Cryptocurrency, how best with Chase bank to code for Pi Cryptocurrency eg with https://minepi.com/sgkmac at https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University for all 7.9 billion people on the planet, potentially with a Chase bank account, brainstorming, for all 7.9 billion people, and beginning in all 100 out 200 countries ... and to end poverty worldwide with Universal Basic Income Experiments UBI or similar?
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Again - what is the name and email address for and phone number of a senior legal counsel / attorney in the JP Morgan Chase Executive Office please as a WUaS contact ?
WUaS is continuing to seek for US federal law with states' law to work effectively together in new ways.
Abolitionally, in asylum in PA from CA and seeking to more WUaS forward into a newly safe Canyon 94516 from Sat 11/30/24, staying alive, Friendly Quaker greetings, Yogically, thanks,
Dear Chase Executive Office's Tiana, (JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, Chase bank Curated Coaching TAP 1st consultant for WUaS Jenny Ling), All,
Greetings and I hope this email finds you well. How are you?
Thank you for your call from Chase Executive Office on Tue, October 29, 2024, Tiana. And thank you for asking me to call you back (at 1-877-805-8049 extension 1050051493) with WUaS's requests.
In writing first, WUaS (World Univ & Sch)
1) requests an initial million dollar loan from Chase bank/credit card for MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School / WUaS (and especially our 2nd wing WUaS Corporation) to start the flagship physical-digital WUaS Educational Services Stores, a first one in Pittsburgh, & potentially another one in Bangladesh,
1a) such that ~1.72 % would go back to Chase bank from a possible WUaS bank account in a possible Chase business bank account (which Chase would provide capital for) for the WUaS Corporation - and as WUaS grows the WUaS Educational Services Stores for books, computers, robotics, groceries, retail, department stores + (and see the PS)
2) requests help from Chase bank lawyers in California and Washington DC and New York and similar to begin multi-listing the WUaS Corp on the Silicon Valley Long-term stock exchange in CA and other stock exchanges around the world, after WUaS begins to generate the revenue that would warrant this, and regarding
2a) requests Chase bank assistance with WUaS's partnering letter w Pi Cryptocurrency & Pi Network too (https://minepi.com/sgkmac), as WUaS seeks to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet each a Wikidata PIN # from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - and to distribute this further to people in most of all 200 countries (per the Olympics), so to speakers of all 7164 known living languages, and even to many of all 7.9 billion people on the planet, and
2b) requests further request Chase bank assistance in seeking reimbursement to the WUaS Corporation from many of the ~200 national banks in the world, such that Pi Cryptocurrency could become most of ~200 countries' main cryptocurrency (as it joins the Pi Network open Mainnet blockchain)
2c) and requests help in growing a MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch abolition movement (to abolish the wrongful buying and selling of people in the illegal sex, drugs, violence etc industries internationally and their latent networks of violence - so to abolish modern slavery in a sense) perhaps since, for example, many legal definitions of prostitution involve the concept of money, by substituting the new Pi cryptocurrency regarding law and law enforcement, AI and ML and avatar agent electronic health records too.
3) requests further other Chase banking and business expertise regarding growing the flagship Educational Services' stores, and requests also help with the initial labor / work involved, as WUaS begins to hire our own employees to do some of this work.
4) requests Chase help in developing WUaS IT platforms, and for building the MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS brands
4a) requests Chase bank in, for example, developing Bangladesh WUaS (and see PPS) and for legal contracts (e.g. with Mahedi Hasan in Dhaka Bangladesh), and for hiring other employees there, and possibly with Chase bank accounts there too, and for money transfers as well eg from the USA to Bangladesh.
I'll seek to call you soon per your Chase Executive Office call to me & WUaS yesterday, 10/29/24.
MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School - WUaS Educational Services' Stores for Books, Computers, Robotics, Groceries + Business Plan for a Startup Business - 2024
Hi Ma (Jane), Pin/Sid (Mazumdar HHS), Ed (Smyth MD) (US federal govt too?)! and welcome back Ma to Pittsburgh PA from Portland ME! Glad Sandy gave you a ride to the Boston airport (since he was going to somewhere not too far from there anyway - re insight into Sandy's thinking, now as father of baby Isla at 5 months and teething!) Glad organized crime didn't take you out tragically on the way there or the way back (re MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch growing an abolition movement worldwide and seeking to abolish the wrongful buying and selling of people in the illegal sex, drugs, violence etc industries' worldwide) which international organized crime industries are sometimes profitable ... and re my seeking US federal protection for you, Sandy, Isla and myself ... and re especially US federal government law thinking about RISKS to you, Sandy and myself and similar ... Interestingly, I just got my second new Chase credit card statement balance due by 12/1/24 this morning, US election day, and after your return (~$908.02) and with my Chase credit card account having been closed I learned in a trader js first, for 6.5 months, potentially due to egregious misconduct of Chase bank Wilkinsburg Pgh 15221 employee(s) jenifer weber and george nicolai + and possibly re their involvement in international organized crime ... and after the 14 SUBPOENAED Chase bank statements for my 2 closed Chase bank accounts too (THAT WERE DELIVERED TO MY DOOR by FedEx - OUT OF THE BLUE a few months ago), I think US federal law and US federal protection with risk assessment too may be working ... I /WUaS also received yet another WUaS Chase bank Curated Coaching TAP session invitation on Saturday, but I haven't signed up yet, waiting until tomorrow and possibly knowing a little more about the outcome of the US presidential election by then (it took 4 days to know that Biden won the last US presidential election ... and a lot of 'news' ink' and emails and information technologies are going to fly today and in the next few days with regard to these elections, I would think ... I'm seeking to leave for and move into Canyon 94516 departing Pgh PA around Sat 11/30/24 - and in moving forward the WUaS Academic Medical Center with WUaS Longevity Genetics' Institute there (per Ed Smyth's encouragement for one) ... Thoughts, questions, ideas, suggestions about how best to further grow the WUaS abolition movement worldwide, and in coding for all 7.9 billion people on the planet from - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University? Scott (WUaS News and Q&A for M 11/4/24 has some very far-reaching ideas in it - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2024/10/antarctic-glass-sponge.html )
Scott's an anthropologist of physical-digital Harbin Hot Springs, as ethnographic field site - https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 - who also finds fascinating the internet, ideas, poetry, sociology, art, science, genetics of aging reversal and extreme longevity, philosophy, history, music, love and life ~ as well as the anthropology of information technology & counterculture :) -
scottmacleod.com ... Am also the president or head of, and professor at, MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch (& Academic @WUaSPress, planned in 7,164 living languages with machine translation, aka the WUaS Corp) planning free online degrees in ~200 countries & in their main languages, where you can wiki-teach, or wiki-learn, or wiki-create - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (see too: http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html in exploring questions of Yoga & wisdom). Identity-wise, a Nontheist Friendly Quaker - a NtF or NtQ - with Unitarian Universalist sympathies as well, and an academic