Sunday, March 10, 2019

French creek: 'Embarcadero SF: Was wanting yesterday to be able to slip my smartphone in digital mask (Google Cardboard?) & see great interactive history in Augmented Reality, like at Mkt St In 1967, ''69, '72, 1912, talk & ask Questions of 'real' avatar bots (like a variety of UC Berkeley Profs in 1912) https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Museums (ALL in ALL languages) & add to too via ~ ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy ~ and anywhere around the world, including Harbin and Scotland' * * * [NTF-talk] Nontheist Friendly 'NtF Conversation about Meditation' * * * More related 'single cryptocurrency backed by ~200 countries' central banks with blockchain ledger' posts here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/economics +, MIT DCI Director Neha Narula closing the #MITBitcoinExpo, talking about disclosure and trying to prevent cryptocurrency attacks.



Hi M,

How was your Saturday, and how are you?

'Embarcadero SF: Was wanting yesterday to be able to slip my smartphone in digital mask (Google Cardboard?) & see great interactive history in Augmented Reality, like at Mkt St In 1967, '69, '72, 1912, talk & ask Questions of 'real' avatar bots (like a variety of UC Berkeley Profs in 1912) https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Museums  & add to too via ~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy ~ and anywhere around the world, including Harbin and Scotland' ... 
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https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1104775140670238721 - Mit is the typo here in the WUaS sub-tweet (https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1104773700056842242) ... could stand for 'MacLeod's information technology'?

Interesting Scratch Ed workshop yesterday ... blogged about it here ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/victoria-amazonica-ninja-geeks-bogota.html ...

May begin wrangling the CA BPPE licensing application ... while waiting a bit longer to claim NSF award ...

Appreciating a code of goodness ... and with regard to finding a partner and friend ... 

How was the Berlioz symphony? 

L,
Scott

Leod ... your son ... where mac = son of :) I read years'ago



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Dear no mo' theism Friends, no-more-divinity-Quakers, Victor, and NtFs,

Thanks Victor for our NtF conversation on Thursday  - 

Good to have addressed these Queries: 

- What is Non-theistically Friendly/Quakerly meditation for you (speaking from one's own experience)?

- And what is NtF Quaker meeting, as one might envision this, and with regard to meditation, for you (speaking from one's own experience)?

- Barclay and other early Friends described meeting for worship as silent waiting on God, and being ready to be led by God's Spirit.  How does this translate in the absence of a belief in God?

Re our talk of Richard Dawkins' thinking and meditation, here he is in a Q&A with Buddhists I think & talking about science re religion - 
https://youtu.be/gDKzq2nZtVA  ... I could induce from this conversation that the non-theism of Buddhism re meditation would not be something he'd criticize re his thinking ... (per out conversation about Zen).

And re Questions of your word from the Japanese 'makeo' (possibly translated as illusions, or negative feelings? - but I couldn't find anything about this word) rising up in meditation, - or while centering down in Friends' Silent Meeting (in lieu of MfW ... worship word as we've talked about seems to include a predicate or object of the divine, re your essay, although others on this list in years' past have expressed interest in the "w" word) ... 

Re bad feelings rising up in NtF or Quaker Meeting ... one approach in teaching meditation / Yoga that comes to mind is to engage the words of 8 limb Yoga (Patanjali) as kinds of touchstones or meditations as a whole (as a kind of ethical system with movement of Yoga asana even) ... and with time, perhaps the illusions / fantasies in meditation with dissipate. I "riff" with these in my 'Hippy Anjali Yoga Notations' ... http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html ... Angela Farmer's thinking here is very germane re questions of meditation as well.

I wonder too: if bad feelings/fantasies are arising while sitting in NtF Quaker Meeting, whether in a related vein, one might meditate on Quakerly "S.P.I.C.E.S" as ethical system too - https://www.friendsjournal.org/s-p-i-c-e-s-quaker-testimonies/ - and whether the bad feelings might dissipate with time.

But I also see great value in conversation with, for example, a Lacanian MD psychoanalyst (an old friend whom I knew thru Quakers was one) ... if bad feelings / fantasies are emerging in meditation / Silent Meeting ... because there may be a reason for these which conversation might help to understand and re-frame and which the religion aspects of meditation / silent Meeting in the manner of Friends / Quaker would somehow sublimate or even aggravate. And I hope World University and School can even help to train friendly Lacanian MD psychoanalysts in many languages in these regards. I've observed, in the 10 or so Quaker Monthly Meetings I've participated in, the need for psychiatry for a variety of reasons, and the lack of resources for this. Perhaps the internet can help .... and even emerging out of a Friends' Hospital in Philadelphia / Stanford Medicine collaboration. 
Rest, in general, can be of help if bad feelings are arising while mediating or when one's centering down in Friends' Meeting - re your meditation and the Japanese word for bad feelings/fantasies' question, Victor (I haven't found the minute marker for this part of our conversation yet).

In a related vein, was wondering too per our conversation whether NtFs non-theism among Friends/Quakers could have arisen in part out of thinking about the problems / fantasies of the 3 monotheistic religions (CMJ) per Huston Smith's "The Religions of Man". One could make an argument that so many problems in history have emerged over fights about theism or conceptions of a divine - and re Friends' Peace Testimony as well. NtFriendlliness may help to facilitate deeper meditations, because of the non-theism (re fantasies of theism, about which I have some concerns too).

Friendly cheers, Scott

The NtF Friendly Conversation about Meditation' is here too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/queen-angelfish-before-stanford.html - 



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Am appreciative of the relaxation response with these steps (and re bad feelings too) - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2008/09/arc-steps-to-elicit-relaxation-response.html?m=0 - re meditation and letting thoughts go, and esp. re parallels with what happens in Quaker Meeting, but here understood re the biology of Friends' Meeting and centering down ....
Appreciative too of the relaxed big cat in this blog post ... can big wild cats meditate?

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Victor, and NtFs, (and No more monotheism Friends, or No more theism Quakers),

Thanks for your sharing your paper. In response to your question about what you wrote, and speaking from personal experience:
As a Friend and when in Quaker Meeting (Silent Meeting in the Manner of Friends), I often seek to Center Down, Minding the Light, here construed as a NtF non-theistically (and per our video conversation on meditation, - where Quakers have been very innovative with language and terminology over 350 years, creating their own discourse, which I see NtFs continuing). Like Anita, I'm an atheist as well, although logically, agnosticism could make more sense, because I don't think, philosophically, one can know if gods, goddesses, the divine, etc,. exist or not ... so I'm ok with the word non-theism (where theism is "belief in the existence of a god or gods, especially belief in one god as creator of the universe, intervening in it and sustaining a personal relation to his creatures" per Apple dictionary) and re your writing "How do Quakers Worship?" or my view about what I do as a Quaker when I sit in Friends' Meeting, or what I think Friends do when they sit in Quaker Meeting, or about Anita's or my atheism, for example).

Friendly regards, Scott




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Dear Neha, 

Thanks for your excellent concluding talk here at the MIT BitCoin Expo - http://web.mit.edu/webcast/mitbitcoinexpo/10-250.html 

I'm closing the in 35 minutes, talking about disclosure and trying to prevent cryptocurrency attacks. Check out the livestream here:
https://twitter.com/neha/status/1104833135332806662 - which I just viewed. As the Director of the MIT DCI - Digital Currency Initiative - thanks too in this for your invitation to contact you in the future. 

World University and School is seeking to develop online law schools in each of all ~200 countries' official / main languages, and I'm writing to ask about exploring possible collaborations with the MIT DCI, per many of the items you mentioned. 

WUaS is seeking with our law schools (e.g. faculty teaching this, and students helping to develop this) to facilitate developing a single cryptocurrency with block chain ledger backed by all ~200 countries' central banks - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/01/bird-vocalization-strategy-and-vision.html - and potentially to explore distributing this with experimenting with an UBI in planning for all 7.5 billion people (and potentially with online medical schools with online teaching hospitals for online clinical care with blockchain ledger).

As you may know, World Univ & Sch is like CC-4 MIT OCW in its 5 languages with Wikipedia in ~300 languages, and seeks to offer online free-to-students' Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. high school degrees in each of all ~200 countries' official languages, and to create wiki schools in all 7097 living languages (re UBI). Since MIT has neither a law nor a medical school, WUaS is seeking to emerge out of Stanford Law and Stanford Medicine for OpenCourseWare or similar. WUaS also forked successfully fairly recently into A) 501 c 3 non-profit World University and School, and B) the for profit general stock company the WUaS Corp / Press. Both are planned in each of all ~200 countries' main languages, and in all 7,097 known living languages. So our law schools would develop potentially with a Stanford network, including possible coders and computer scientists in each of all 200 countries, and WUaS's CS grad students and faculty themselves would eventually be able to help with this.   

(There are two upcoming Stanford public talks on W 3/13 and 3/14 about an UBI which might be relevant here as well - https://basicincome.stanford.edu/events/alan-krueger-why-universal-basic-income-so-controversial-lecture ).

How best to explore communicating about this further? Thank you. 

Best regards, Scott

More related 'single cryptocurrency backed by ~200 countries' central banks with blockchain ledger' posts here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/economics +




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