... Invitation to nonhuman primates to add links or teach at worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Interspecies_Communications
Kanzi? Koko?
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh? :)
Sharing tools, technologies and language with Bonobo species. Funny & edifying: ted.com/talks/susan_savage_rumbaugh_on_apes_that_write.html
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is glad we live in a society of books - for centuries now - and now information technologies: (scientifically gen.) replicating messages ...
idea celebration!
Public libraries are so cool.
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Edit this World University & School worlduniversity.wikia.com and steal that other ' Steal this Film' film - Google it {http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=steal%20this%20film&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wv#}
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Total online privacy now. Total privacy now. There are laws about safeguarding this in the U.S.
How to turn these into cultural practices?
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Bagpiping, the trees and distant views which I see (inputs) become new gracenotes and musical notation to the output of my chanter :)
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/trees-and-views-invitation-to-nonhuman.html - November 11, 2009)
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Burrowing Owl: Information, Technology, Wikipedia's Definition of Information
Here's a definition of 'Information' germane to the course I teach on the "Information Technology Revolution:" Information is a message about something, and is the state of a system of interest. Message is the information materialized.
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Technology is the use of scientific knowledge to specify ways of doing things in a reproducible manner. (Thanks to Manuel Castells, Harvey Brooks and Daniel Bell).
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So information technology is about {'scientifically' generating} replicating messages, in short
{where 'information' is a message about something, and is the state of a system of interest; message is the information materialized. And where technology is the use of scientific knowledge to specify ways of doing things in a reproducible manner}
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And information 'As a message,' from Wikipedia:
As a message
Information is a term with many meanings depending on context, but is as a rule closely related to such concepts as meaning, knowledge, instruction, communication, representation, and mental stimulus. Simply stated, information is a message received and understood. In terms of data, it can be defined as a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn. There are many other aspects of information since it is the knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction. But overall, information is the result of processing, manipulating and organizing data in a way that adds to the knowledge of the person receiving it.
Information is the state of a system of interest. Message is the information materialized.
Information is a quality of a message from a sender to one or more receivers. Information is always about something (size of a parameter, occurrence of an event, value, ethics, etc). Viewed in this manner, information does not have to be accurate; it may be a truth or a lie, or just the sound of a falling tree. Even a disruptive noise used to inhibit the flow of communication and create misunderstanding would in this view be a form of information. However, generally speaking, if the amount of information in the received message increases, the message is more accurate.
This model assumes there is a definite sender and at least one receiver. Many refinements of the model assume the existence of a common language understood by the sender and at least one of the receivers. An important variation identifies information as that which would be communicated by a message if it were sent from a sender to a receiver capable of understanding the message. In another variation, it is not required that the sender be capable of understanding the message, or even cognizant that there is a message, making information something that can be extracted from an environment, e.g., through observation, reading or measurement.
Communication theory provides a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome. For example, we can say that "the signal contained thousands of bits of information". Communication theory tends to use the concept of information entropy, generally attributed to Claude Shannon, see below.
Another form of information is Fisher information, a concept of R.A. Fisher. This is used in application of statistics to estimation theory and to science in general. Fisher information is thought of as the amount of information that a message carries about an unobservable parameter. It can be computed from knowledge of the likelihood function defining the system. For example, with a normal likelihood function, the Fisher information is the reciprocal of the variance of the law. In the absence of knowledge of the likelihood law, the Fisher information may be computed from normally distributed score data as the reciprocal of their second moment.
Even though information and data are often used interchangeably, they are actually very different. Data is a set of unrelated information, and as such is of no use until it is properly evaluated. Upon evaluation, once there is some significant relation between data, and they show some relevance, then they are converted into information. Now this same data can be used for different purposes. Thus, till the data convey some information, they are not useful and therefore not information.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information#As_a_message
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How might we generate loving bliss information technology, which 'rock'?
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/burrowing-owl-information-technology.html - November 10, 2009)
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Technology is the use of scientific knowledge to specify ways of doing things in a reproducible manner. (Thanks to Manuel Castells, Harvey Brooks and Daniel Bell).
**
So information technology is about {'scientifically' generating} replicating messages, in short
{where 'information' is a message about something, and is the state of a system of interest; message is the information materialized. And where technology is the use of scientific knowledge to specify ways of doing things in a reproducible manner}
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And information 'As a message,' from Wikipedia:
As a message
Information is a term with many meanings depending on context, but is as a rule closely related to such concepts as meaning, knowledge, instruction, communication, representation, and mental stimulus. Simply stated, information is a message received and understood. In terms of data, it can be defined as a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn. There are many other aspects of information since it is the knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction. But overall, information is the result of processing, manipulating and organizing data in a way that adds to the knowledge of the person receiving it.
Information is the state of a system of interest. Message is the information materialized.
Information is a quality of a message from a sender to one or more receivers. Information is always about something (size of a parameter, occurrence of an event, value, ethics, etc). Viewed in this manner, information does not have to be accurate; it may be a truth or a lie, or just the sound of a falling tree. Even a disruptive noise used to inhibit the flow of communication and create misunderstanding would in this view be a form of information. However, generally speaking, if the amount of information in the received message increases, the message is more accurate.
This model assumes there is a definite sender and at least one receiver. Many refinements of the model assume the existence of a common language understood by the sender and at least one of the receivers. An important variation identifies information as that which would be communicated by a message if it were sent from a sender to a receiver capable of understanding the message. In another variation, it is not required that the sender be capable of understanding the message, or even cognizant that there is a message, making information something that can be extracted from an environment, e.g., through observation, reading or measurement.
Communication theory provides a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome. For example, we can say that "the signal contained thousands of bits of information". Communication theory tends to use the concept of information entropy, generally attributed to Claude Shannon, see below.
Another form of information is Fisher information, a concept of R.A. Fisher. This is used in application of statistics to estimation theory and to science in general. Fisher information is thought of as the amount of information that a message carries about an unobservable parameter. It can be computed from knowledge of the likelihood function defining the system. For example, with a normal likelihood function, the Fisher information is the reciprocal of the variance of the law. In the absence of knowledge of the likelihood law, the Fisher information may be computed from normally distributed score data as the reciprocal of their second moment.
Even though information and data are often used interchangeably, they are actually very different. Data is a set of unrelated information, and as such is of no use until it is properly evaluated. Upon evaluation, once there is some significant relation between data, and they show some relevance, then they are converted into information. Now this same data can be used for different purposes. Thus, till the data convey some information, they are not useful and therefore not information.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information#As_a_message
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How might we generate loving bliss information technology, which 'rock'?
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/burrowing-owl-information-technology.html - November 10, 2009)
Monday, November 9, 2009
Orangutans 'Live': World University & School, Orangutan~Harbin~Contact Improv~Love, Interspecies Communication
World University & School ... below ...
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Orangutan and Hound Dog video ...
(Some Twitter and Facebook posts)
Scott ... watches orangutan videos with great enjoyment. They're so smart - much to learn - and with limited language abilities - they're trippily fascinating.
There's Harbin, contact improv and love here in "The orangutan and the hound" ...
Check out this video above, and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh's TED Talk here at World University & School's 'Interspecies' Communication' subject:
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Interspecies_Communications
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Added "Steal this Film" & new 'Freedom of Speech' section to webnographers.org/index.php?title=Videos#Freedom_of_Speech_and_Hacker_Movement
webnographers.org/index.php?title=Videos#Freedom_of_Speech_and_Hacker_Movement
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Fall of the Berlin Wall commemoration: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/09/video-the-world-commemorates-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/
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Scott: You can, too. I think I'll add a new 'Subject' at WorldUniversity.wikia.com -'Interspecies Communication' w Orangutan/Hound Dog National Geographic video :)
Friend: How about some Terence McKenna? ;)
Scott: Add away ... WUaS is open ... and Teaching and Learning are the foci ... Would you like to teach to your web camera about his work? How might these become part of university lectures at some point? His work is fascinating ... He traveled far ... :)
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Scott .... would like WorldUniversity.wikia.com to be principally in 3000-8000 languages, not just 1 or 2 - all made possible by the web (7700 langs?)
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Any J.S. Bach~Mushroom Music schools around the world? Let's start a Juilliard-level one at the open, free worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Music
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Scott received in the mail "The Complete Works of Emily Dickinson" :)) and is reading it. Who will teach this at WORLDUNIVERSITY.WIKIA.COM?
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Have you changed your passwords and made BACKUPS recently? Makes sense ... TCP/IP - the internet's river banks - are quite open protocols in ... the beginning, and theft and hard drive problems still occur all the time. There are 3 free, automatic, online storage (2 gig.) services here: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software
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Stream live what you'd like to teach via Justin.tv or Ustream.com or in Second
Life. All of this is FREE at "Educational Software" at World University
and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software. There's a wiki scheduling calendar when you join the google group. :)
groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School
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World University & School like the Grateful Dead? ~ Loving and sharing great idea-music? worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/orangutan-videos-world-university.html - November 9, 2009)
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Orangutan and Hound Dog video ...
(Some Twitter and Facebook posts)
Scott ... watches orangutan videos with great enjoyment. They're so smart - much to learn - and with limited language abilities - they're trippily fascinating.
There's Harbin, contact improv and love here in "The orangutan and the hound" ...
Check out this video above, and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh's TED Talk here at World University & School's 'Interspecies' Communication' subject:
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Interspecies_Communications
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Added "Steal this Film" & new 'Freedom of Speech' section to webnographers.org/index.php?title=Videos#Freedom_of_Speech_and_Hacker_Movement
webnographers.org/index.php?title=Videos#Freedom_of_Speech_and_Hacker_Movement
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Fall of the Berlin Wall commemoration: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/09/video-the-world-commemorates-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/
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Scott: You can, too. I think I'll add a new 'Subject' at WorldUniversity.wikia.com -'Interspecies Communication' w Orangutan/Hound Dog National Geographic video :)
Friend: How about some Terence McKenna? ;)
Scott: Add away ... WUaS is open ... and Teaching and Learning are the foci ... Would you like to teach to your web camera about his work? How might these become part of university lectures at some point? His work is fascinating ... He traveled far ... :)
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Scott .... would like WorldUniversity.wikia.com to be principally in 3000-8000 languages, not just 1 or 2 - all made possible by the web (7700 langs?)
******
Any J.S. Bach~Mushroom Music schools around the world? Let's start a Juilliard-level one at the open, free worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Music
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Scott received in the mail "The Complete Works of Emily Dickinson" :)) and is reading it. Who will teach this at WORLDUNIVERSITY.WIKIA.COM?
********
Have you changed your passwords and made BACKUPS recently? Makes sense ... TCP/IP - the internet's river banks - are quite open protocols in ... the beginning, and theft and hard drive problems still occur all the time. There are 3 free, automatic, online storage (2 gig.) services here: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software
**********
Stream live what you'd like to teach via Justin.tv or Ustream.com or in Second
Life. All of this is FREE at "Educational Software" at World University
and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software. There's a wiki scheduling calendar when you join the google group. :)
groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School
***********
World University & School like the Grateful Dead? ~ Loving and sharing great idea-music? worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/orangutan-videos-world-university.html - November 9, 2009)
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Bonobo Friends: How to Ease into a Living-in-the-Forest Chimpanzee Lifestyle, Cultures of Peace, and with Loving Bliss?
I'm curious how just to ease into a kind of living-in-the-forest chimpanzee or orangutan lifestyle, which has developed over millions of years, but with many of the comforts of modernity. I prefer Bonobo chimpanzees over common chimps, but both have lived quite similarly to one another over all these millions of years, compared with to humans.
I see this simply as a kind of thought experiment. Did hippies do this, in a sense?
Chimpanzee lifestyles seem simpler, freer, easier, and much more natural than humans. There's a beauty and freedom in living simply.
Here's a video that highlights an orangutan's intelligence, generosity, playfulness ...
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I'm also curious about the role of culture vis-a-vis questions of peace. Quakers - the Society of Friends - have had no violence that I know of in Quaker history (from texts) within the Society of Friends (Friends have experienced violence toward them for the their beliefs), which suggests to me that, concerning violence, culture plays a role vis-a-vis human history/biology, with its significant history of war, aggression and violence.
The south of India similarly seems to have a culture that plays down violence. As just one example, it's hard to find a nonveg restaurant in the south of India. I speculate that this culture reflects Hinduism's understandings, and the valuing here of nonharming {ahimsa}.
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In wondering how to ease into a kind of living-in-the-forest chimpanzee lifestyle, I wonder how we might explore this vis-a-vis the neurophysiology of loving bliss, naturally.
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How to bring Friends (nontheist Friends' centered peace, simplicity, integrity, community, equality, love, happiness and social justice) and Bonobo together? And in what ways could we continue to develop interspecies friendships?
Interspecies-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, I think ... For example, both Sue Savage Rumbaugh and Jane Goodall befriend their chimp friends, other species, who are also their subjects.
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/bonobo-friends-how-to-ease-into-living.html - November 8, 2009)
I see this simply as a kind of thought experiment. Did hippies do this, in a sense?
Chimpanzee lifestyles seem simpler, freer, easier, and much more natural than humans. There's a beauty and freedom in living simply.
Here's a video that highlights an orangutan's intelligence, generosity, playfulness ...
*
I'm also curious about the role of culture vis-a-vis questions of peace. Quakers - the Society of Friends - have had no violence that I know of in Quaker history (from texts) within the Society of Friends (Friends have experienced violence toward them for the their beliefs), which suggests to me that, concerning violence, culture plays a role vis-a-vis human history/biology, with its significant history of war, aggression and violence.
The south of India similarly seems to have a culture that plays down violence. As just one example, it's hard to find a nonveg restaurant in the south of India. I speculate that this culture reflects Hinduism's understandings, and the valuing here of nonharming {ahimsa}.
**
In wondering how to ease into a kind of living-in-the-forest chimpanzee lifestyle, I wonder how we might explore this vis-a-vis the neurophysiology of loving bliss, naturally.
***
How to bring Friends (nontheist Friends' centered peace, simplicity, integrity, community, equality, love, happiness and social justice) and Bonobo together? And in what ways could we continue to develop interspecies friendships?
Interspecies-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, I think ... For example, both Sue Savage Rumbaugh and Jane Goodall befriend their chimp friends, other species, who are also their subjects.
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/bonobo-friends-how-to-ease-into-living.html - November 8, 2009)
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Harbin Hot Spring's Source: Invitation to Harbin Friends to Create Harbin-wiki-virtual-world-graphy ...
Invitation to friends at Harbin to create Harbin-wiki-virtual-world-graphy ...
{http://www.webnographers.org/index.php?title=Ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy}
Please post recollections, ideas, photos, etc. of Harbin.
For example,
What is Harbin?
What is the Harbin experience?
What is Watsu?
What happened at Harbin in the 1960s?
What happened at Harbin in the 1970s?
What happened at Harbin in the 1980s?
What happened at Harbin in the 1990s?
What happened at Harbin in the 2000s?
What's the Harbin community today ...
What's your vision for Harbin in the future?
Who are the wildest folks who have been here?
Here's the wiki with some initial questions ... I'm interested in. But it's open, so we create it in any way we might want to ...
Start your own parts of it, add content and ideas of your own invention, get psychedelic, watery ...
... from the Harbin pools ...
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com - November 7, 2009)
{http://www.webnographers.org/index.php?title=Ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy}
Please post recollections, ideas, photos, etc. of Harbin.
For example,
What is Harbin?
What is the Harbin experience?
What is Watsu?
What happened at Harbin in the 1960s?
What happened at Harbin in the 1970s?
What happened at Harbin in the 1980s?
What happened at Harbin in the 1990s?
What happened at Harbin in the 2000s?
What's the Harbin community today ...
What's your vision for Harbin in the future?
Who are the wildest folks who have been here?
Here's the wiki with some initial questions ... I'm interested in. But it's open, so we create it in any way we might want to ...
Start your own parts of it, add content and ideas of your own invention, get psychedelic, watery ...
... from the Harbin pools ...
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com - November 7, 2009)
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Niagra Falls Rainbow: Apart so Long, Loving Bliss, Bonobo Poetry
Bonobo Loving Bliss
Apart so long,
returning to Harbin,
and the soft,
autumn rains
fall again
Where are you?
Into the pools,
free again, in the warmth,
but with little cuddling
in the pools,
this eve.
Loving bliss,
Bonobo poetry
is about intimacy
and sexuality,
and remarkable
bodymind neurochemistry,
all lyrical and luminous.
Harbin is as close
as we come
in human understanding,
in my experience,
to Bonobo life,
where the milieu
is great,
and with
the potential for
so much wondrous,
open intimacy.
Yet Harbin's humans
seem somehow restrained today -
despite people being freer here,
emerging from the 1960s and '70s.
Perhaps its the times
and the age?
So why not Bonobo life?
Four to five hours ~
possibly -
of intimacy a day -
with loving bliss?
All is possible :)
What do
primatologists say?
And Bonobo life
with empathy, delight,
sympathy, centered caring,
tenderness, sensitivity,
ineffable ecstasy,
incredibly positive -
potentially lifelong -
feelings of connectedness,
sublimity, kindness,
love in the air,
gentleness,
an understanding of developing,
mutual otherness,
friendship,
mirthful, playful freedom in mind, words and gestures,
thoughtfulness, dating,
cuddling/physical intimacy/sensuality (1-2 hours per day),
making love (intimate and warm)~coitus,
a delightful, “glowing” party,
ongoing smile ~
sincere and charming affection ~
“flow” experiences (see Csikszentmihalyi)
with a community / network across generations,
openness, generosity,
coming closely in tune with good friends,
fulsome trust,
anticipatory, beneficial surprises,
sweetness, nurture,
receptivity {to love}, sharing,
hail gladdening love,
non-harming, altruistic engagement,
acts of kindness ~ voluntarism,
considerateness, cordiality,
congeniality, collegiality,
flourishing (viz. eudaimonia),
warm, radiant fun,
sociable, flirtatious,
and gleeful inner and outer movement,
which some people experience while dancing,
having a ball with you,
euphoric merriment,
cherishing as well as feeling / being cherished,
(love-related) passion,
the numinous,
old friends,
an unburdened feeling of lightness of being,
falling in love,
the fun of raising / being with kids,
cheeriness, positive psychology,
following your bliss,
well-received, intense, salutary interest,
the deep, inward release
which comes in remarkable /
easing moments
and which is cultivatable,
deeply exuberant, beneficent pleasure with another ~ a partner ~ a love,
best friends, understanding,
reverie, friendliness,
what gives you joy?,
imagination to love profoundly
and then to love,
wholesomeness, well-being,
peace, peace of mind,
and at peace-ness,
being in love, ahimsa {non-harming},
a good connection,
virtue, esp. of transcendent,
jubilant love, helpfulness,
doing good, loving touch
(e.g. a gentle hand, hugs, massage, Watsu*Waterdance {Wassertanz} & more),
singing "I love you,"
the inspiration for the creation of great,
loving art,
rich, bountiful inventiveness / imagination in amity,
Harbin Hot Springs,
heart consciousness,
harmony,
the neurochemistry of romantic
love~heightened levels of four neurotrophins, -
i.e. NGF, BDNF, NT-3, and NT-4,
loving bliss ~
*MMmmm ~ loving bliss and practices for this*~
(naturally, and with many qualities,
but ecstasy is a reference experience ~>
oxytocins~dopamine~seratonin, endorphins),
practicing loving bliss vis-à-vis a musical instrument,
balance,
wonderful, oceanic wholeness,
free love, happiness, contentment,
the joy / rapport / 'reading' of minds that goes on between two (or more) skillful musicians / listeners, who are improvising,
love letters, harmony love fests,
love is the answer,
loving bliss as friends,
the thought, experience, and generation of love,
quiet wisdom ~ love of wisdom,
and sophisticated, intuitive caritas.
To elicit loving bliss
neurochemistry is indeed
a process yet
unexplored fully.
Possible but how?
Music as metaphor
offers a rich beginning.
And iwth openness and trust?
Like Bonobo
musical instruments?
Yes. :)
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/niagra-bliss-apart-so-long-loving-bliss.html- November 5, 2009)
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Bonobo Sitting: Society of Friends & Harbin Hot Spring's Synthesis, World Univ Principally in 7700 Languages?, Writing Bonobo, Loving Bliss Poetry
Here are some of my posts today in social networking sites (Twitter and Facebook):
Society of Friends / Quaker and Harbin Hot Spring's synthesis? - beautiful, clothing-optional, natural-area, hot spring retreat centers 1-3 hours from every city in the world for relaxation ... for relaxation response elicitation ...
... as a way to financially support World University & School, and to create a site for teaching both Watsu, but also much else?
Yes ...
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If http://WorldUniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University were principally wiki in 3000-8000 languages (7700 languages, creoles, pidgins, and dialects total?), and not just 1 or 2 principle languages, university & knowledge would become distributed ...
Shall we call WUaS "Linguists' World University and School"? Or "Hippie World University and School"?
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... would like to richly explore writing Bonobo chimpanzee, loving bliss poetry, drawing on primatological data and research ...
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would like the 'state' in anthropological and social science senses, as well as 'identities' to orient toward nonharming (ahimsa)
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sees WorldUniversity.wikia.com as a next, "Next, Whole Earth Catalog" - clean oceans of Teaching & Learning, and creative idea exchange, like MIT Open Course Ware with wiki {editable web pages} information technologies.
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Heading for Harbin :) ...
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/bonobo-sitting-society-of-friends.html - November 4, 2009)
Society of Friends / Quaker and Harbin Hot Spring's synthesis? - beautiful, clothing-optional, natural-area, hot spring retreat centers 1-3 hours from every city in the world for relaxation ... for relaxation response elicitation ...
... as a way to financially support World University & School, and to create a site for teaching both Watsu, but also much else?
Yes ...
*
If http://WorldUniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University were principally wiki in 3000-8000 languages (7700 languages, creoles, pidgins, and dialects total?), and not just 1 or 2 principle languages, university & knowledge would become distributed ...
Shall we call WUaS "Linguists' World University and School"? Or "Hippie World University and School"?
**
... would like to richly explore writing Bonobo chimpanzee, loving bliss poetry, drawing on primatological data and research ...
***
would like the 'state' in anthropological and social science senses, as well as 'identities' to orient toward nonharming (ahimsa)
****
sees WorldUniversity.wikia.com as a next, "Next, Whole Earth Catalog" - clean oceans of Teaching & Learning, and creative idea exchange, like MIT Open Course Ware with wiki {editable web pages} information technologies.
*****
Heading for Harbin :) ...
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/bonobo-sitting-society-of-friends.html - November 4, 2009)
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Frozen Niagra Falls: When and If Things Seem Tumultuous? Love in its Best Senses ..., And Poetry
When and if things seem tumultuous ...
what to do?
Relaxation response in the middle of busy-ness? And then explore love in its best senses
scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm#BestLove
And then explore this neurophysiology independent of what's happening around you which may be leading to frustrations?
And get enough sleep :)
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And explore poetry, as well ... Basho, for example?
**
When will the Niagra Falls of World University & School begin?
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/when-and-if-things-seem-tumultuous-love.html - Tuesday, November 3, 2009)
what to do?
Relaxation response in the middle of busy-ness? And then explore love in its best senses
scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm#BestLove
And then explore this neurophysiology independent of what's happening around you which may be leading to frustrations?
And get enough sleep :)
*
And explore poetry, as well ... Basho, for example?
**
When will the Niagra Falls of World University & School begin?
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/when-and-if-things-seem-tumultuous-love.html - Tuesday, November 3, 2009)
Monday, November 2, 2009
Roots Web: Worlduniversity.wikia.com Will Age Like Good Wine, Composing World University and School
Worlduniversity.wikia.com will age like good wine. To see some of http://Worlduniversity.wikia.com's abundance, check out the FREE 'Educational Software' and also 'Courses' > youtube.com/edu. There's a lot at WUaS already.
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Here are some recent World University and School letters as examples of this composition:
October 17, 2009
Universitians,
In case you missed today's World Univ & Sch's (free education) presentation at Nonprofit Commons' mtg in Second Life, here's the chat transcript: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/10/introducing-world-university-school.html
Please send people with different languages (looking for 3000-8000), and internet experience, to World Univ & Sch - like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware. I'll make public the Google Spreadsheet with moderators, languages and nation states soon. I think you'll need a gmail address for these, for the times you might visit this growing resource.
I added a HOSPITAL in Second Life (for teaching) from Imperial College London: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#Medical_School_and_Hospital
Please invite friends to join both the Facebook and Google Groups: groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School. (You may have to click two "join this group" buttons).
This list of great FREE educational software at World University & School continues to grow: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software :)
I'd also like to invite you to add, teach and learn at WUaS. It's the group knowledge production aspect of World University which will make it soar. (Wikipedia has 175 languages with 13 millions articles and it started in 2002)
There's a lot! of material already here. For rich sources for teaching and learning, check out youtube.com/edu and (MIT-originating) instructables.
Best,
Scott
scottmacleod.com
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University
October 16, 2009
Hi, All,
Here's the chat transcript about World Univ & Sch (free education) from my presentation this morning:
scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/10/introducing-world-university-school.html
(bit.ly/L2uEK)
And here's worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses - like
Wikipedia with MIT Open Course ...
Here's great FREE educational software at WORLD UNIVERSITY & SCHOOL:
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software :)
And please join the Facebook and Google Groups:
facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141
groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School (have to
click two "join this group" buttons)
Please send people with different languages (3000-8000) and internet
experience to World Univ & Sch. I'll make public the Google
Spreadsheet with moderators, languages and nation states soon. I think
you'll need a gmail address for these, for the occasional times you
might visit is resource.
All the best,
Scott
http://scottmacleod.com
From Nonprofit Commons/NetSquared, after presenting in the morning in Second Life:
You were excellent and VERY well-received!
I have tweeted your blog entry to our networks. Feel free to ReTweet
this:
In case u missed today's Nonprofit Commons mtg, here's chat transcript
abt World Universty &School (free education): http://bit.ly/L2uEK #fb
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 11:40 AM
To: M
Cc: S
Subject: Introducing World University & School in Second Life to Netsquared (SF Technology Group) in SL
Hi M and S,
Thanks for inviting me to talk today.
I posted the WUaS part of the transcript here:
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/10/introducing-world-university-s
chool.html
All best, :)
Scott
http://scottmacleod.com
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/roots-web-worlduniversitywikiacom-will.html - November 2, 2009)
*
Here are some recent World University and School letters as examples of this composition:
October 17, 2009
Universitians,
In case you missed today's World Univ & Sch's (free education) presentation at Nonprofit Commons' mtg in Second Life, here's the chat transcript: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/10/introducing-world-university-school.html
Please send people with different languages (looking for 3000-8000), and internet experience, to World Univ & Sch - like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware. I'll make public the Google Spreadsheet with moderators, languages and nation states soon. I think you'll need a gmail address for these, for the times you might visit this growing resource.
I added a HOSPITAL in Second Life (for teaching) from Imperial College London: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#Medical_School_and_Hospital
Please invite friends to join both the Facebook and Google Groups: groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School. (You may have to click two "join this group" buttons).
This list of great FREE educational software at World University & School continues to grow: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software :)
I'd also like to invite you to add, teach and learn at WUaS. It's the group knowledge production aspect of World University which will make it soar. (Wikipedia has 175 languages with 13 millions articles and it started in 2002)
There's a lot! of material already here. For rich sources for teaching and learning, check out youtube.com/edu and (MIT-originating) instructables.
Best,
Scott
scottmacleod.com
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University
October 16, 2009
Hi, All,
Here's the chat transcript about World Univ & Sch (free education) from my presentation this morning:
scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/10/introducing-world-university-school.html
(bit.ly/L2uEK)
And here's worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses - like
Wikipedia with MIT Open Course ...
Here's great FREE educational software at WORLD UNIVERSITY & SCHOOL:
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software :)
And please join the Facebook and Google Groups:
facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141
groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School (have to
click two "join this group" buttons)
Please send people with different languages (3000-8000) and internet
experience to World Univ & Sch. I'll make public the Google
Spreadsheet with moderators, languages and nation states soon. I think
you'll need a gmail address for these, for the occasional times you
might visit is resource.
All the best,
Scott
http://scottmacleod.com
From Nonprofit Commons/NetSquared, after presenting in the morning in Second Life:
You were excellent and VERY well-received!
I have tweeted your blog entry to our networks. Feel free to ReTweet
this:
In case u missed today's Nonprofit Commons mtg, here's chat transcript
abt World Universty &School (free education): http://bit.ly/L2uEK #fb
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 11:40 AM
To: M
Cc: S
Subject: Introducing World University & School in Second Life to Netsquared (SF Technology Group) in SL
Hi M and S,
Thanks for inviting me to talk today.
I posted the WUaS part of the transcript here:
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/10/introducing-world-university-s
chool.html
All best, :)
Scott
http://scottmacleod.com
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/roots-web-worlduniversitywikiacom-will.html - November 2, 2009)
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Mandarin Dragonet: Loving Bliss or Love and Bliss? Ragas as Color, New Forms of Quaker 'Silent Meeting'?
Loving bliss or
love and bliss ...
as neurophysiologies?
In focusing on eliciting loving bliss, naturally, I have ecstasy (MDMA) as a reference experience in mind, as well as my own experiences growing up; I would say I'm a little orchestrated for loving bliss in my bodymind. Genes and upbringing? MDMA is important here because its similarities to loving bliss suggest that both are neurophysiological experiences, one from a synthetic substance, in the brain or bodymind. And I've found it's possible to elicit loving bliss, naturally, but perhaps with less intensity compared with MDMA.
I'm also interested in love and bliss independently of each other. For me loving bliss involves "experiences that are deeply, gratefully harmonizing, and reciprocally appreciative and affectionate, both with a friend or friends, and alone, as well as profoundly and naturally high at the same time, and which are ongoing, biological, 'flow' experiences," which I write about here: scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissPractices.htm.
In this same letter, I also suggest the following, as practices
practices for bliss
listening to music
dancing
singing
making music
playing
eating extraordinary food
making love
conversing
engaging great music
enjoying incredible nature
traveling
opening to bliss while moving back and forth between Harbin Hot Springs' hot & cold pools
shaping a virtual world to explore practices of loving bliss?
smiling ~ beaming :))
~ What helps you elicit bliss naturally?
For love:
reciprocated, ongoing affection
exploring love in art, music, and ideas with a dear friend
nameless, loving understandings
receiving and giving warmth
as well as these further ideas about love, also as
practices for love:
scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm#BestLove
I'm particularly fascinated to explore the intensity, the variety of qualities, and how to 'access' these qualities ~ like bow strokes on a cello, when and as we want them ~ of eliciting loving bliss.
*
I see metaphorical colors while listening to ragas, especially some played by Ravi Shankar. There's an echo in these experiences for me of traveling in India, for example, and seeing actual, colorful lights in temples, women's saris, public buses, in people's cars, and in so many varied places. This aspect of sound and light are expressions of Indian culture and the Indian mind for me, which I greatly appreciate. They border on the 'trippy.' India is colorful and very connected.
**
In the same way that nontheist Friends are creating something new vis-a-vis a kind of traditional understanding of unprogrammed Quaker Silent Meeting, I would like to contribute to creating space for complementary expressions of nontheistically Friendly 'Silent Meeting,' such as contact improvisational dance jams, soaking in the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool (not only does this facilitate the relaxation response, but I find remarkable parallels with sitting together in a Quaker Meeting house room in Silent Meeting spatially), contra dancing, singing, and many more related processes.
With friendly greetings,
Scott
http://scottmacleod.com
***
Priolepis cinctus (Regan, 1908)?
http://www.eol.org/pages/213561?category_id=13
http://z.about.com/d/saltaquarium/1/0/w/I/1/awakefieldmandarin_400.JPG
photographyblog.com/images/photo_of_the_week/16220505/Mandarin%20Dragonet.jpg
reefcorner.com/images/Mandarin1.jpg
http://www.saltwaterfish.com/site_11_03/images/246_mandarindragonetgreenshrimpi.jpg
Mandarin Dragonet
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/mandarin-dragonet-loving-bliss-or-love.html - November 1, 2009)
love and bliss ...
as neurophysiologies?
In focusing on eliciting loving bliss, naturally, I have ecstasy (MDMA) as a reference experience in mind, as well as my own experiences growing up; I would say I'm a little orchestrated for loving bliss in my bodymind. Genes and upbringing? MDMA is important here because its similarities to loving bliss suggest that both are neurophysiological experiences, one from a synthetic substance, in the brain or bodymind. And I've found it's possible to elicit loving bliss, naturally, but perhaps with less intensity compared with MDMA.
I'm also interested in love and bliss independently of each other. For me loving bliss involves "experiences that are deeply, gratefully harmonizing, and reciprocally appreciative and affectionate, both with a friend or friends, and alone, as well as profoundly and naturally high at the same time, and which are ongoing, biological, 'flow' experiences," which I write about here: scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissPractices.htm.
In this same letter, I also suggest the following, as practices
practices for bliss
listening to music
dancing
singing
making music
playing
eating extraordinary food
making love
conversing
engaging great music
enjoying incredible nature
traveling
opening to bliss while moving back and forth between Harbin Hot Springs' hot & cold pools
shaping a virtual world to explore practices of loving bliss?
smiling ~ beaming :))
~ What helps you elicit bliss naturally?
For love:
reciprocated, ongoing affection
exploring love in art, music, and ideas with a dear friend
nameless, loving understandings
receiving and giving warmth
as well as these further ideas about love, also as
practices for love:
scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm#BestLove
I'm particularly fascinated to explore the intensity, the variety of qualities, and how to 'access' these qualities ~ like bow strokes on a cello, when and as we want them ~ of eliciting loving bliss.
*
I see metaphorical colors while listening to ragas, especially some played by Ravi Shankar. There's an echo in these experiences for me of traveling in India, for example, and seeing actual, colorful lights in temples, women's saris, public buses, in people's cars, and in so many varied places. This aspect of sound and light are expressions of Indian culture and the Indian mind for me, which I greatly appreciate. They border on the 'trippy.' India is colorful and very connected.
**
In the same way that nontheist Friends are creating something new vis-a-vis a kind of traditional understanding of unprogrammed Quaker Silent Meeting, I would like to contribute to creating space for complementary expressions of nontheistically Friendly 'Silent Meeting,' such as contact improvisational dance jams, soaking in the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool (not only does this facilitate the relaxation response, but I find remarkable parallels with sitting together in a Quaker Meeting house room in Silent Meeting spatially), contra dancing, singing, and many more related processes.
With friendly greetings,
Scott
http://scottmacleod.com
***
Priolepis cinctus (Regan, 1908)?
http://www.eol.org/pages/213561?category_id=13
http://z.about.com/d/saltaquarium/1/0/w/I/1/awakefieldmandarin_400.JPG
photographyblog.com/images/photo_of_the_week/16220505/Mandarin%20Dragonet.jpg
reefcorner.com/images/Mandarin1.jpg
http://www.saltwaterfish.com/site_11_03/images/246_mandarindragonetgreenshrimpi.jpg
Mandarin Dragonet
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/mandarin-dragonet-loving-bliss-or-love.html - November 1, 2009)
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