Sunday, November 7, 2021

rose cactus, and lemonvine: Wisdom literature ... & philosophy? * * Is there philosophy in this blog - from Lao Tzu to The Desiderata to Manuel Castells to Richard Rorty (from Plato's Socrate's self-knowledge to Nietzsche's self-creation) ... to a further kind of American pragmatist philosophical inquiry ... Yoga philosophy, ~ riffing with Patanjali, with A&V Yoga as well? http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html Is this philosophy? ... heading online into the creation of a single realistic virtual earth for actual-virtual philosophical and brain science questions of consciousness, and realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs for philosophical conversation, and regarding meditation, and agency too? * * * Abolition ~ It was very much Quaker 'leadings' too that lead to the abolition of slavery in 1862 in the USA, and the anti-slavery act in 1833 in Britain before that ... in part, in my reading of history. Appreciating the role that law can potentially play in abolishing the illegal sex industry, and I think that World Univ & Sch may be able to help with this in all ~200 countries and in their official and main languages and legal languages, and not only with IT and via the law - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School.


Wisdom literature ... & philosophy?

What's wisdom? 
Is 
The Desiderata
 wise?
Is it philosophical?

And how does it differ from, say, the Tao Te Ching, for example?

From Tao Te Ching
Book 64

Is this wise, or is this philosophical? 


Richard Rorty
shook the tree of philosophy

Rorty 
" ... discussible as well as criticizable philosopher, and one of the reasons for this seems to lie in the fact that since the eighties he has been regarded as a philosopher who, emerging from the heartland of the fast-professionalizing world of American analytic philosophy -- the philosophy department at Princeton -- started to write about and engage with what he calls the "line of thought that leads from Hegel through Kierkegaard and Nietzsche to Heidegger and Derrida" (13) -- a line of thought clearly outside the bounds of philosophy to many within the analytic tradition ... "


Regarding what philosophy is, check out 

American Philosopher - 2011 film (full version)

Opens with Richard Rorty ... 
and it's an interesting characterization of philosophical inquiry ... 

See too this 'review' of Richard Rorty 
The provocateur’s philosopher
BY  CRISPIN SARTWELL
2007


... in his Anti-Authoritarianism ?



Yoga philosophy, ~ riffing with Patanjali, with A&V Yoga as well?


Is this philosophy? :)


Is there philosophy in this blog - 

from Lao Tzu to The Desiderata to Manuel Castells to Richard Rorty (from Plato's Socrate's self-knowledge to Nietzsche's self-creation) ... and regarding per Rorty's reading of the 'social gospel' ... to a further kind of American pragmatist philosophical inquiry ... heading online into the creation of a single realistic virtual earth for actual-virtual philosophical and brain science questions of consciousness, and realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs for philosophical conversation, and regarding meditation, and agency too? (Some of this includes a trajectory regarding George L Alexander's thinking as a philosophical MD psychiatrist, and friend, married Friend Quaker). 


Further philosophical questions I engage involve the following - 

In what way could #Google thanks to #PeterNorvig's #vision #ethics & #realism - https://youtu.be/QCw_D7dr7Rw HIRE #UCBerkeley #MIT #Stanford & #WorldUnivAndSch STUDENTS anew to grow #GoogleAIsystems
per 7k https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages w #WUaSavatars?
... and regarding a Realistic Virtual Earth For Languages - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages?src=hashtag_click -
 for facilitating philosophical conversations (wiki-wise) between speakers of all 7,139 known living languages for example, and ethically as well.

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- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 

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Abolition ~ It was very much Quaker 'leadings' too that lead to the abolition of slavery in 1862 in the USA, and the anti-slavery act in 1833 in Britain before that ... in part, in my reading of history. Appreciating the role that law can potentially play in abolishing the illegal sex industry, and I think that World Univ & Sch may be able to help with this in all ~200 countries and in their official and main languages and legal languages, and not only with IT and via the law - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School.



Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>

Oct 31, 2021, 11:55 AM (7 days ago)

to Alden, Jim, Annie, Taylor, Low, Alex, Barbara, David, Bob, Joan, Susan, Henry, Grant, Greg, George, Nancy, George, Hugh, Heather, Iulian, Matt, Peter, Larry, Jane, John, Pin, Sandy, Claudia, Larry, Ed, Mainak, Richard, Jim


Dear Jim, Ma, Dick, Pin, Sandy, Ed, Alden, All, 

Thanks again for your helpful and insightful emails recently so much, Jim, and regarding what you're reading too - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/10/dalmor-and-dalbeag-beaches-isle-of.html (part way down).

Thanks to your sharing the readings, I got and have read first chapter of Richard Rorty's new book last night at Barnes and Nobles -


Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism

Richard Rorty

Edited by Eduardo Mendieta

Foreword by Robert B. Brandom

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674248915


Gives me new ideas about that American philosophy of pragmatism - re religion (my major at Reed) in the first chapter, which philosophy of pragmatism Rorty rewrote significantly, and where Rorty may have transformed philosophy itself profoundly itself. It's a pumpkin from a book (and Happy Halloween), and I will share a pic later. :)

Am planning to further develop my Harvard Smartphones, Wearables & Health Symposium's 1 slide presentation for F 11/5/21 - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/10/uluru.html - (and submit it by tomorrow's deadline).

Am wondering too if this Fitness Tracker Smart Watch (which I've mentioned to all of you re blood pressure measures) measures Oxygen levels in the blood per HMS Herb Benson MDs' 1972 book 'The Relaxation Response' ... OR COULD IT? AND IN THE HARBIN WARM POOL ... ?


Arrives by Fri, Nov 19

1 item

Fitness Tracker Smart Watch, Waterproof Heart Rate Monitor Blood Pressure Pedometer Calorie Counting Fitness Watch Band for Android&IOS System

$10.65 

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Fitness-Tracker-Smart-Watch-Waterproof-Heart-Rate-Monitor-Blood-Pressure-Pedometer-Calorie-Counting-Fitness-Watch-Band-for-Android-IOS-System/337676576



Also thanks to you, Jim, I ordered -

Arrives by Wed, Dec 1

1 item

Signal Blocking Bag Anti-Tracking Anti-Spying Anti Radiation Key Pouch Signal Blocker Jammer Signal Shielding Wallet Case Faraday Bag for Cell Phone Privacy Protection and Car Key (Black)

~$10

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Signal-Blocking-Bag-Anti-Tracking-Anti-Spying-Anti-Radiation-Key-Pouch-Blocker-Jammer-Shielding-Wallet-Case-Faraday-Cell-Phone-Privacy-Protection-Car/437344747


(I've sometimes wondered too about the radiation from Smartphones - experiencing something in these regards - such that I keep this phone and the last one in the other room when I sleep ... But I may use this bag on my person now when I get it. Thanks!)

Regarding the Fitness Tracker Smart Watch, I wonder whether such a device could eventually add aging reversal genetic drug therapies to our bodies through watch-to-skin contact ... (and I've blogged one other time about this, but haven't found this yet).

Some new thoughts I just found about how aging reversal genetic therapies might work, which I just found, from George Church (is he a genius, like Richard Rorty? ... where it's very difficult to say what 'genius' is ... :)

'Gene Therapy Targeting Diseases Of Aging | Prof George Church Interview Series Episode 2'

https://youtu.be/j0XukDEmxvg


Abolition-ally, in Friendly UU ways, too, yours, 

Scott

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1454518980807311362


video from #BayAreaStammtisch 10/30/21 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y7we6hiGa42fd--PCfVBt3EARBegakP2/view - @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress @sgkmacleod @scottmacleod @HarbinBook @TheOpenBand w/ http://OCW.mit.edu 'Society, Info Tech & Global University,' in German http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html #WUaSTechnologicalDeterminism ~



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Just found the video recordings of these 1996 Richard Rorty lectures in Italy that may inform this new Harvard Univ Press 2021 book (and Stanford Prof Rorty died in 2007) - 


Richard Rorty - Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism (Part 1)

https://youtu.be/ekRIojfqpaQ

9 hours 30 minutes


Richard Rorty - Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism (Part 2)

https://youtu.be/f4XJtemOhf4

3 hours



Questioning authority, remember the - 'Question Authority' bumper sticker - in these regards ... re his (and George Church's too) Pragmatism and Anti-Authoritarianism ... are fascinating widespread 'memes' - replicating cultural units - out of the 1960s and 1970s, both of which may have been informative for these thinkers ... (you, too, Jim? ... and others in this email?:)


Carry Prof #RichardRorty's new 'Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism' (#Harvard UP 2021 cover pic) https://youtu.be/ekRIojfqpaQ in #ActualVirtual bookstores @WUaSPress http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

#PhilosophyofPragmatism> https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Philosophy> https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects @WorldUnivAndSch?

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1454897250543439872?s=20



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- Scott GK MacLeod  

Founder, President, CEO & Professor

World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 

1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html


(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org 

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 


World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com



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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>

Sat, Nov 6, 7:42 PM (17 hours ago)

to Jim, Alden, Low, Alex, Barbara, David, Bob, Joan, Susan, Henry, Grant, Greg, George, Nancy, George, Hugh, Heather, Iulian, Matt, Peter, Larry, Jim, Ann, Cathy, Jane, John, Pin, Sandy, Claudia, Larry, Ed, Mainak, Richard, Stuart, Nancy, Mike, Susan, Taylor, Ken, Annelise, Ann, Peter, Bruce, Henry, Marc, David, Elliott, edsmythmd, Charles, David, Caleb, Hal, John, Jen, Katie, lillianbthomas, Nanette, Dorota, Cliona, Robin, Bill


Dear Jim, Ed, Ma, Alden, Sandy, All,

Lovely evening at the UU CHURCH OF KENSINGTON on this wee hill with a bench where I often come  ... And thanks, Jim, for the email about tracking - "If you carry a smartphone, you are being tracked, ..." 

It's an interesting question, by the way, by whom and why, Jim (besides the operators of machine learning (at Google Maps, Nozama, the federal government, CA law enforcement, fire depts., the American Automobile Assoc., taxis, in different ways etc... which also may well change through time, as individuals, identities, and organizations etc ) Electronic Shield bag you suggested getting Jim still hasn't arrived yet ... And I decided to explore walking this evening again with smartphone on ... And make inferences about possible tracking etc ... A few inferences came to mind about possibles ... (And the other evening I turned phone off and walked here ... With other inferences ... And wonder about an signal emitter in smartphone even when powered off) ...re electronic shield bag ...

What is going on with this? Why aren't the American people resistant (20 months into the Coronavirus pandemic, now worn down a bit .? And which identities ? ...) and with all kinds of potential abuses of these GPS issues possible? Could the international illegal s x industry be further facilitated, or digging its heels in ... Hell ya popped up ... Due to the profit, and with their latent networks of violence, especially in the international space)?

Just had a Topical group piping lesson at 5 am PT, noon for Stuart Liddell in Argyllshire Scotland 11pm for one student in Australia ... New networks forming ... (What identity do these 6 Piobaireachd learning folks aggregate around, besides Piping and Piobaireachd )? And what's going on in 'the murder capital of Europe' (I've recently heard it called, Glasgow with the Climate Change conference CoP26 (college of Piping CoP tutor books????) or the meeting of many many countries' armed SERVICES' even too ?) ...and where Russia and China did not join in but India was there ... And were some scores somehow being settled too among soldiers and officer types even speculatively)? I've heard Scotland politically called conservative with a small 'c' when studying at the University of Edinburgh School of Celtic and Scottish Studies in 2003-04 for a year, and I had long hair for another full year studying in Edinburgh again in 77-78 at Fettes College... And speculatively I wonder whether this Conference of Parties CoP Climate Change conference could also be a gathering time for high up military types ... Now with new IT maturing (machine learning and AI, in the interest of nation states ) ... MACHINE LEARNING law enforcement with electronic medical records of vaccination ? ... What are European Union identities doing with machine learning law enforcement and military objectives for example separate from the big companies in the US in relation to Uniformed services here in USA re identity too?

Living Vin a 'safe house,' for whistle blowing about re Canyon 94516 by calling the police twice, & ABOUT Stanford, UC Berkeley, Berkeley Law, the SF QUAKER Meeting, Reed, Harbin, and not seeking to be a victim ... May be seeking asylum in Europe in the spring of 2022 ... And continue to call for abolition of the illegal sex industry internationally at WUaS  ... with the former clerk of the SF Quaker Meeting in the mid-2010s (who them moved east with his family to Philadelphia ...   still posting as his Twitter header "End Child Detention" ... 

https://twitter.com/chrismsf/status/1455980551177900034. .. 

 But this may be too entrenched ... 

And Nancy Pelosi's weekly email still repeatedly saying "Build Back Stronger ..." -  and could this refer to the illegal sex industry internationally based in SF, and even out of a network at the SF Quaker Meeting ? Other countries operate very differently from California as Nation state etc

Abolition-ally yours, and find regards, Scott 


Glad to have participated in this 5am-2pm Harvard Smartphone's Symposium yesterday -

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/11/andersons-mountain-crown.html - but with a pretty heavy dose of identity coming through too. Thinking Harvard Profs Tim Smith MD and JP ONNELA, directors, did a good job in this 3rd Annual conference ... Although I don't think I'm much further along with planning for brain research studies from the Harbin warm pool with Wearables into Avatar Bots Electronic Medical Records ... But maybe Harvard can help with science of these studies ... :)


Nevertheless, I did make a giant step today in developing my Ethnographic book and research ... With the Tweets at bottom - 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/11/owens-peak-wilderness_02004565726.html?m=0

- but which need to be planned for re protecting people from being tracked in our new world of AI AND machine learning potentially with Google Street View with Time Slider 

Thanks again for your emails Jim and Ed I'm this thread and please all stay safe! 

Fond regards, Scott



-- 

- Scott GK MacLeod  

Founder, President, CEO & Professor

World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 

1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html


(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org 

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 


World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 


 



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Sunday, November 7, 2021

Dear Jim, Ed, Ma, Alden, Sandy, Larry, Sid, Unitarians, Quakers, Cuttyhunkers, All,

Thanks to Jim again for his emails this morning, and your knowledge about and interest in IT safety (with a MIT BS in physics, and a Yale PhD in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence). I also removed Charles Field from this email thread per his request; hoping we'll see each other on Cuttyhunk island next summer (if we can successfully grow the abolition of the illegal sex industry movement, and end its creation of victims with its latent networks of violence; I'm continuing to seek to not become a victim, in calling for its abolition, and having called the police last summer in Canyon 94516 twice, and having whistle-blown about the SF Quaker Meeting, Stanford, Berkeley, Berkeley Law, Reed College, & Harbin Hot Springs +; how to 'clean up' by abolition the illegal sex industry isn't so obvious, however, and culturally especially - as an anthropologist). So I was a bit surprised to read, Jim, in your most recent email this morning your - "Don't know much about the sex industry, other than it is huge" ... to which I replied: 

"Thanks again for your email. I know a bit about CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, and that the market for slaves was huge too, tragically, inhumanely, and ethically wrong too, prior to the Civil War in the US. Appreciating your focus on safety, and will explore aluminum foil and in walking up with a smartphone off to the UU Church of Kensington, for example. Glad your mother got involved with Unitarians, and sorry that she's passed away - with "the angels" now, I think you wrote. (Non-theist Quaker) Friendly-informed World Univ & Sch is in some ways a Quaker 'leading,' which may be why it's still growing with tiny steps all these 14-15 years after its beginnings. It was very much Quaker 'leadings' too that lead to the abolition of slavery in 1862 in the USA, and the anti-slavery act in 1833 in Britain before that ... in part, in my reading of history. Appreciating the role that law can potentially play in abolishing the illegal sex industry, and I think that World Univ & Sch may be able to help with this in all ~200 countries and in their official and main languages and legal languages, and not only with IT and via the law - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School. My mother is also a Unitarian, and Unitarians were also deeply involved in the abolition movement in New England in particular. I think religion may be one possible successful strategy in the abolition of the illegal sex industry today in the USA and Europe, Africa and Asia, but only one among many. And if a cryptocurrency like Stanford Mine Pi, made legal by the SEC and the Federal Reserve to come after the US dollar, for example, can help, AI-wise, machine learning-wise, and IT-wise, with American prosperity, and ending poverty around the world among all 7.8 billion people too (while in conjunction with people-to-people teaching and learning, for free universal education), WUaS is glad to be of service, and service science-wise. Hoping you're doing alright. 

Thanks, Scott"

Am not entirely clear what to do, for example, regarding Cuttyhunk, with potentially ('scofflaw'?) AirBNB rental thinking in the air, in these regards. More of a progressive federal law enforcement presence on Cuttyhunk, distributed across the island? Is there a legal and regulatory opportunity with regards to the abolition here ... that could benefit states' bottom lines significantly in all of this too? Nation states' too? All ~200 countries and regarding online law schools in them?

Could one make the argument that it was Christianity that was the most successful religion in the abolition of slavery? Could the same be true with abolishing the illegal sex industry as slavry (or slavery)?

Friendly regards, sincerely, and abolition-ally yours, Scott 


Law Schools at World University and School (planned in main languages in them)

Afghanistan Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Afghanistan_Law_School_at_WUaS

Brazil Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brazil_Law_School_at_WUaS

China Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaS

Egypt Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Egypt_Law_School_at_WUaS

India Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/India_Law_School_at_WUaS

Jamaica Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Jamaica_Law_School_at_WUaS

Mexico Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Mexico_Law_School_at_WUaS

World University Law School: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School




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- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 



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! #RoseCactus & lemonvine: Wisdom literature & philosophy? * * Is there #philosophy in this blog - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/11/rose-cactus-and-lemonvine.html?m=0 from #LaoTzu #TheDesiderata to #ManuelCastells to #RichardRorty to #YogaPhilosophy ~ http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html to #ActualVirtual riffing w #WUaSconsciousness?


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