Thursday, August 20, 2026

Sparganium americanum: Dad - GKM MD in both videos Sandy and my parents' 50th wedding anniversary on Cuttyhunk Janie and Gordon MacLeod's 50th Wedding Anniversary ... from http://scottmacleod.com/family.htm with our Dad's GKM MD's Cuttyhunk memorial service, Gordon MacLeod MDs Memorial Service Cuttyhunk Island, MA, 2 Aug 2008 - * * * Trent Biggs! I'm writing to wish you a very happy birthday ... with this Ode to Joy by Beethoven - https://youtu.be/fb-TIZq3TVE ! Might you have sung in it recently ? Do you make it back to the University of California, Santa Barbara, very often? As a Professor of Geography, Joint Doctoral Program Director, at SDSU would you consider, brainstorming, heading the developing Geography Department - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Geography - at World University and School building on MIT OCW in 7 languages, and like Wikipedia on 348 languages and with an emerging realistic virtual earth especially? * * * would like to propose that all ~87 million species in the world are robots coded for by evolutionary biology & which DNA are their 'software', their AI & their machine learning, and which unlike human-made machines or robots, species as robots reproduce * * * Cuttyhunk philosophy besides CYC song & scott-macleod.blogspot.com blog, what is this? * * * groceries for the MacLeod Cuttyhunk house 2026 (also as cultural insight and record of life on Cuttyhunk in summer)


Dad - GKM MD in both videos


Sandy and my parents' 50th wedding anniversary on Cuttyhunk

Janie and Gordon MacLeod's 50th Wedding Anniversary

from http://scottmacleod.com/family.htm with our Dad's GKM MD's Cuttyhunk memorial service, 

Gordon MacLeod MDs Memorial Service Cuttyhunk Island, MA, 2 Aug 2008 - https://youtu.be/jRF9ytbh1ac 
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Janie and Gordon MacLeod's 50th Wedding Anniversary

from http://scottmacleod.com/family.htm with our Dad's GKM MD's Cuttyhunk memorial service, 

Gordon MacLeod MDs Memorial Service Cuttyhunk Island, MA, 2 Aug 2008 -
- too)




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Trent Biggs! 

Greetings from Cuttyhunk island MA soon to return to the SF Bay Area and Canyon 94516. How are you? 

I'm writing to wish you a very happy birthday ... with this Ode to Joy by Beethoven - https://youtu.be/fb-TIZq3TVE ! Might you have sung in it recently ? I saw a birthday cake in this Beethoven video at about 12:30. And how might you be celebrating your birthday? 

Do you make it back to the University of California, Santa Barbara, very often? As a 
Professor of Geography, Joint Doctoral Program Director, at SDSU would you consider, brainstorming, heading the developing Geography Department - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Geography - at World University and School building on MIT OCW in 7 languages, and like Wikipedia on 348 languages and with an emerging realistic virtual earth especially? 

Warm regards,
Scott 




- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki,
World University & School (WUaS)  
- USPS US Post Office, PO Box 132, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516

1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity
building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages - 


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


https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planning ~200 countries' WUaS world class universities in their main languages, per the Olympics, for free-to-students' WUaS degrees from home)

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning to be in all 7159 living languages, each as or with wiki schools for open people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning, e.g. from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)







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I'd like to propose that all ~87 million species in the world are robots coded for by evolutionary biology & which DNA are their 'software', their AI & their machine learning, and which unlike human-made machines or robots, species as robots reproduce - https://share.google/aimode/EnY4WgH4CAxfCLOD2



robot definition re many species' robots such as humanoid & canine, fish, bird and feline etc robotic builds





and initially - 

I'd like to propose that all ~87 million species in the world are robots coded for by evolutionary biology and which genes are their 'software', their AI & their machine learning,  https://share.google/aimode/I60Xvg7JFc4YA0mVS 






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I'd like to propose that all ~87 million species in the world are robots coded for by evolutionary biology & which DNA are their 'software', their AI & their machine learning, and which unlike human -made machines or robots, species as robots reproduce - n'est-ce pas Gemini ? 


That is a fascinating conceptual lens, and viewing biological organisms as organic, self-replicating biological machines running genetic software is a long-standing and useful metaphor in science.

Where the Metaphor Fits

  • DNA as Software: DNA functions remarkably like binary or assembly code. It uses a four-letter chemical alphabet (A, T, C, G) as a storage medium to encode instructions, which the cell translates to build proteins and manage cellular functions.
  • Evolution as Machine Learning: Natural selection operates like an evolutionary algorithm. Random mutations introduce variation (training data), and environmental pressures act as the loss function, selecting for traits that maximize survival and reproduction.
  • Biomolecular Machines: Cellular machinery like ATP synthase—a tiny molecular rotary motor—and ribosomes literally function like nanoscale mechanical engines.
  • Self-Replication: Unlike synthetic robotics, biological units can manufacture, repair, and reproduce themselves from ambient raw materials.

Where the Metaphor Breaks Down

  • Top-Down vs. Emergent Design: Robots are designed top-down by an engineer with a specific end goal. Biology has no designer and no forward-looking objective; it is purely emergent, messy, and guided by passive fitness landscapes.
  • Analog vs. Digital Reality: While DNA sequencing is discrete, the biological cell is an analog, stochastic environment heavily driven by chemical kinetics, thermodynamic noise, and epigenetic factors, rather than deterministic clock-cycles.
  • Hardware/Software Blur: In a computer, code (software) is distinct from the silicon chips (hardware). In a biological cell, the DNA molecules are the physical hardware participating in the chemical reactions.

It is worth noting that while there are roughly 8.7 million estimated eukaryotic species on Earth (rather than 87 million), the philosophical point holds. Biologist Richard Dawkins famously popularized a similar idea in The Selfish Gene, describing living organisms as "survival machines"—robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.

Do you view this biological framework as purely a philosophical analogy, or do you think the line between synthetic robotics and organic life will eventually disappear entirely?






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Society, Information Technology, and the Global University, (forthcoming, Academic Press at World University and School, 2026) 

Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd (2022)
- Poetry! Order Book #5 Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually (2021, Academic Press at WUaS)

Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune (2020)


Order Book #3 Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss (2018,  Academic Press at WUaS)

Order Book #2 Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry (2017,  Academic Press at WUaS) 

Order Actual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography (2016, Academic Press at World University and School)



- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki,
World University & School (WUaS)  
- USPS US Post Office, PO Box 132, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516

1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity
building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages - 


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


https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planning ~200 countries' WUaS world class universities in their main languages, per the Olympics, for free-to-students' WUaS degrees from home)

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning to be in all 7159 living languages, each as or with wiki schools for open people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning, e.g. from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)











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Cuttyhunk Yoga philosophy Scott GK MacLeod 

Scott GK MacLeod approaches yoga philosophy through a unique framework he calls Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations, blending traditional practice, psychoanalysis, and nature-centric relaxation. While MacLeod is an academic and founder of the World University and School (WUaS), his personal connection to Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts—where he spent summers as a teenager teaching sailing—deeply influences his worldview regarding community, openness, and countercultural freedom. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
1. Core Yoga Philosophy & Frameworks
MacLeod's yoga philosophy is a synthesis of distinct Western and Eastern intellectual traditions:
  • Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations: A playful portmanteau of the "hippy" counterculture movement and Patanjali (the author of the Yoga Sutras). Yoga philosophy includes the idea of self-study... and Lacanian psychoanalysis is also about self study - with a focus on language... and I bring these together here in my Hippy Anjali Yoga Notations. [1]
  • A Taoist, Non-Harming Approach: He teaches an evolutionary, biological approach centered on the "relaxation response". It is characterized as a “f/Friendly & nonharming-oriented, {a kind of Taoist approach to Yoga}, let's come home, naturally, to a free, well & healthy bodymind...”. [1]
  • Lineage & Training: He holds a teaching certificate from the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco (awarded in 1992) and has over a decade of teaching experience. [1, 2]
2. The Cuttyhunk Connection
Though he currently teaches and writes about yoga primarily online or from his home in California, Cuttyhunk Island serves as a foundational backdrop for his philosophy of freedom and open community: [1, 2]
  • Summer History: MacLeod rode the Greyhound bus to Cuttyhunk as a teenager between 1974 and 1979, where he worked and taught sailing.
  • Social Change Influence: He frequently writes on his blog about Bayberry: Cuttyhunk Island and Social Change in the 1970s, noting how the open, friendly vibe of the island during that decade shaped his theories on information technology, counterculture, and community bonding. [1, 2]
3. Broader Academic & Philosophical Focus
Beyond yoga, MacLeod is a sociocultural anthropologist who looks at wellness through a digital lens: [1, 2]
  • Epistemology & Language: According to his academic profile at PhilPeople, his interests span the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science. []
  • Virtual Wellness Spaces: He has heavily researched virtual environments (like Second Life and Google Street View), imagining a future where people can experience community and travel through digital world-building—even planning virtual historical map reconstructions of places like Cuttyhunk Island. [1, 2]
If you are exploring a specific aspect of his work, let me know if you would like me to unpack his Hippy-anjali notations system, find his online restorative yoga classes, or look closer into his sociocultural anthropology research.



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Cuttyhunk philosophy besides CYC song & scott-macleod.blogspot.com blog, what is this?

AI Overview
On his blog, Scott MacLeod defines "Cuttyhunk philosophy" as a blend of 1970s countercultural nostalgia, personal freedom, and childhood memories of sailing on Cuttyhunk Island

Scott MacLeod defines "Cuttyhunk philosophy" as a blend of 1970s countercultural nostalgia, personal freedom, and childhood memories of sailing on Cuttyhunk Island. This concept connects intimate island experiences with broader anthropological musings, including the development of a virtual Earth through World University and School. Explore his reflections further on the Scott MacLeod blog.






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groceries for the MacLeod Cuttyhunk house 2026 (also as cultural insight and record of life on Cuttyhunk in summer) 


Hi Ma, (and Sandy?), friends, 

Greetings ... from Cuttyhunk ..

Please share with Sandy if warranted (eg re his attempts to steal the MacLeod Cuttyhunk house re possibly making him manager, or re taxation questions per Maine and Pennsylvania etc  ... and re awful communication & re his potential  involvement or entanglement in international organized crime ... and after numerous death threats over the past few years including a gunshot to vehicle ) ... 

Things for the house ? -

A new microwave (old one shows display on, but nothing else, for me, no heating, no timer, no time etc)

Brown sugar 

Tamari preferably but soy sauce as a back up 

More hair conditioner and possibly shampoo for front bathroom

bars of soap  

bag liners for wicket trash receptacle and metal ones roo 

a light weight luggage carrier rolly that could take 2 banana boxes 

eg

Protege Metal Folding Luggage Cart, Black, 39" x 13" (15" Platform), 3lbs Empty, 75lb Capacity

24.98 from Walmart & 3 lbs

or


25$


A large hand cart with airless tires like


An air pump for the wheel barrow tire (rather than the power house's)


A new cart battery charger ? 


And to overwinter (for me)

38" beige shorts

38" swim suit 

1 pair flip flops size 13 


Things for baby Isla which she might need eg from WM

diapers

wipes




CD player these days for old CDs which are still there ?



I think there are enough 

toilet paper rolls

Paper towels 

And paper napkins

 in the small bedroom drawers


Questions you might have about such items?



Are you in Portland now, Ma + or arriving tomorrow?

More items to come possibly later or not ...

Window washing in morning before putting screens in ... 

May go skinny dipping at Church's beach after dark 

Love, abolition, Yoga-greetings, Friendly NtF Quaker and Unitarian U church greetings, Scott 


PS

Just shared this with Sandy -

Hi Sandy ... won't order it ... I've let Ma know the golf cart isn't working as you may have read (and maybe she'll ask the Archer s - I don't think I'll ask Lexi Lynch - and don't know if there's someone doing freight either this year) ... And the MacLeod Cuttyhunk house is a total mess ... Time to get some rolly luggage carriers to roll things like food boxes up from the dock ... when the golf cart doesn't work or wheel barrow is flat ... Or a new hand cart with non inflatable wheels 
... and a Toyota humanoid robot to clean and do repairs in some years too, and pull it too ... Still alive, seeking to de-extinct Dad (GKM MD - and Oetzi the Iceman in Switzerland from some 5300 years ago too) in some Decades, - if Harvard Med Sch Prof with a stroke (brain injury - due to eating cholesterol esp in meats ? ) Dick Robb MD is still around especially,  Yogically (time to eat further a non-harming vegetarian diet of 10-25 servings of fruits grains vegetables legumes + a day???, your brother,  Scott (glad to hear Dick Robb's voice, and your's here - Sandy and my parents' 50th wedding anniversary on Cuttyhunk



PPS
and with you, Ed and Pin -

Ma, Ed, Pin, AI, HOW ARE YOU? The Archers just brought over the baby crib for Isla ... Just texted Sandy too - "Hi Sandy ... won't order it, (a battery charger) ... I've let Ma know the golf cart isn't working as you may have read (and maybe she'll ask the Archer s - I don't think I'll ask Lexi Lynch - and don't know if there's someone doing freight either this year) ... And the MacLeod Cuttyhunk house is a total mess ... Time to get some rolly luggage carriers to roll things like food boxes up from the dock ... when the golf cart doesn't work, or the wheel barrow is flat ... Or a new hand cart with non inflatable tires on wheels 
... and a Toyota humanoid robot to clean and do repairs in some years too, and pull it too in the future ... Still alive, seeking to de-extinct Dad (GKM MD - and Oetzi the Iceman in Switzerland from some 5300 years ago too) in some Decades, - if Harvard Med Sch Prof with a stroke (brain injury - due to eating cholesterol esp in meats ? ) Dick Robb MD is still around especially,  Yogically (time to eat further a non-harming vegetarian diet of 10-25 servings of fruits grains vegetables legumes + a day???), your brother,  Scott (glad to hear Dick Robb's voice, and your's here - Sandy and my parents' 50th wedding anniversary on Cuttyhunk
Will wait to call the Archer's about the use of their truck on Friday at the ferry ... until maybe I hear back from Sandy further about why he changed the locks on me ... international  organized  crime and Portland Maine NE ME-first rogue ethics' developments, and their Tate street address neighborhood even re place & ethics, anthropologically? 
Thoughts? Yogically, Desiderata (meaning 'things desired') prose poem, sending care,
Scott



--

Society, Information Technology, and the Global University, (forthcoming, Academic Press at World University and School, 2026) 

Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd (2022)
- Poetry! Order Book #5 Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually (2021, Academic Press at WUaS)

Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune (2020)


Order Book #3 Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss (2018,  Academic Press at WUaS)

Order Book #2 Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry (2017,  Academic Press at WUaS) 

Order Actual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography (2016, Academic Press at World University and School)



- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki,
World University & School (WUaS)  
- USPS US Post Office, PO Box 132, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516

1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity
building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages - 


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


https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planning ~200 countries' WUaS world class universities in their main languages, per the Olympics, for free-to-students' WUaS degrees from home)

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning to be in all 7159 living languages, each as or with wiki schools for open people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning, e.g. from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)





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Jane MacLeod

8:05 PM (1 hour ago)
to me

Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

9:08 PM (27 minutes ago)
to Sid, Edward, John, Robin, Trish, Alden, Catherine, Ann, Kathryn, Janie
Hi Sandy, friends, . . . 







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Hi Sandy, friends, 

Greetings from Cuttyhunk ..

Just talked with Ma,  and she has now an on island liquor list, but there's no beer in the house (there are 2 bottles of white wine and one of red)

Things for the house ? -

A new microwave (old one shows display on, but nothing else, for me, no heating, no timer, no time etc)

Brown sugar 

Tamari preferably but soy sauce as a back up 

More hair conditioner and possibly shampoo for front bathroom

bars of soap  

bag liners for wicket trash receptacle and metal ones too ??

a light weight luggage carrier rolly that could take 2 banana boxes 

eg

Protege Metal Folding Luggage Cart, Black, 39" x 13" (15" Platform), 3lbs Empty, 75lb Capacity

24.98 from Walmart & 3 lbs

or


25$


A large hand cart with airless tires like



An air pump for the wheel barrow tire (rather than the power house's)


A new cart battery charger ? 


And to overwinter (for me), for which I'd reimburse someone - & in hoping to go swimming Friday afternoon and Saturday -

38" beige shorts 

38" swim suit 

(Ma just got me a pair of flip flops size 13 - so no longer needed) 


Things for baby Isla which she might need eg from WM

diapers

wipes

+


CD player these days for old CDs which are still there ?



I think there are enough 

toilet paper rolls

Paper towels 

And paper napkins

 in the small bedroom drawers



The power just went out completely - for a minute ...bring your Anker? battery packs for smartphone recharging in case its out fir 8 hours? 



Questions you might have about such items?




More items to come possibly later or not ...

Window washing in morning before putting screens in ... 

just played Piobaireachd on Scottish small pipes ... 

Love, abolition, Yogically (may be teaching an 8 am ET yoga class here on Zoom newly from somewhere -  shady back west-facing porch with sticky mat?), Friendly NtF Quaker and Unitarian U church greetings, Scott 


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