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Nevertheless, this very—to my mind—elegiac play does delineate my own philosophical dilemma. I come from a tradition of Western culture in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense and "cathedral-like" structure of the highly educated and articulate personality—a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West.
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But today, I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self-evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the "instantly available". A new self that needs to contain less and less of an inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance—as we all become "pancake people"—spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button.
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Will this produce a new kind of enlightenment or "super-consciousness"? Sometimes I am seduced by those proclaiming so—and sometimes I shrink back in horror at a world that seems to have lost the thick and multi-textured density of deeply evolved personality.
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Can computers achieve everything the human mind can achieve?
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Can computers be programmed to 'make mistakes' and turn those mistakes into new and heretofore unimaginable developments?
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the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self-evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the "instantly available". A new self that needs to contain less and less of an inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance—as we all become "pancake people"—spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button.
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the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self-evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the "instantly available". A new self that needs to contain less and less of an inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance—as we all become "pancake people"—spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button.
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the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self-evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the "instantly available". A new self that needs to contain less and less of an inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance—as we all become "pancake people"—spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button.
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the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self-evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the "instantly available". A new self that needs to contain less and less of an inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance—as we all become "pancake people"—spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button.
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But today, I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self-evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the "instantly available".
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But today, I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self-evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the "instantly available
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But today, I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self-evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the "instantly available
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But today, I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self-evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the "instantly available".
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a new kind of self-evolving
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spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button.
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As Richard Foreman so beautifully describes it, we've been pounded into instantly-available pancakes, becoming the unpredictable but statistically critical synapses in the whole Gödel-to-Google net. Does the resulting mind (as Richardson would have it) belong to us? Or does it belong to something else?
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becoming the unpredictable but statistically critical synapses in the whole Gödel-to-Google net
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Does the resulting mind (as Richardson would have it) belong to us? Or does it belong to something else?
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Does the resulting mind (as Richardson would have it) belong to us? Or does it belong to something else?
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Does the resulting mind (as Richardson would have it) belong to us? Or does it belong to something else?
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Does the resulting mind (as Richardson would have it) belong to us? Or does it belong to something else?
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Does the resulting mind (as Richardson would have it) belong to us? Or does it belong to something else?
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Add Sticky NoteI come from a tradition of Western culture in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense and "cathedral-like" structure of the highly educated and articulate personality—a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West.
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Add Sticky NoteCan computers achieve everything the human mind can achieve
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Pancake people, while giving up, the dense cathedral, are gaining the computer/ Internet. Thus the relavence of the question.The cathedral can be seen as a computer forefather, as another repository of knowledge.
Also: the use of the 'memory palace': but these were things human's internalized; this is the way the 'mind' made use of them. The question then becomes how do humans make use (or how should they make use) of the computer/ internet?
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the mistake itself becoming the basis of a whole new world of insights and procedures
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Add Sticky Noterandom number
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do random numbers equate to making mistakes? Is that what a mistake is, acting randomly? This surely is not the thust of Foreman's question, and would not be creative in the way Foreman suggests.
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The Internet is nothing more (and nothing less) than a set of protocols for extending the von Neumann address matrix across multiple host machines
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template-based addressing
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Add Sticky Notefar more robust
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And is 'creative' over a long period of time.
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The other limitation of which von Neumann was acutely aware was the language limitation, that a formal language based on precise logic can only go so far amidst real-world noise
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Although Google runs on a nutrient medium of von Neumann processors, with multiple layers of formal logic as a base, the higher-level meaning is essentially statistical in character. What connects where, and how frequently, is more important than the underlying code that the connections convey.
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Most of real life, however, inhabits the third sector of the computational universe: where finding an answer is easier than defining the question. Answers are, in principle, computable, but, in practice, we are unable to ask the questions in unambiguous language that a computer can understand
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A solution finds the problem, not the other way around.
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Add Sticky NoteRandom networks (of genes, of computers, of people) contain solutions, waiting to be discovered, to problems that need not be explicitly defined. Google has answers to questions no human being may ever be able to ask.
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Is this a viable analysis of Foreman's question? Does it really show that the essence of creativity is in the mistake?
And: I think there are mistakes and there are mistakes: the idea of the 'creativve accident' might be a better way of putting this.
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More importantly, it allows answers to find questions. From the point of view of the network, that's what counts.
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08 Aug 08
Adam CroweDouglas Rushkoff: "We give up the illusion of our power as deriving from some notion of individual collecting data, and find out that having access to data through our network-enabled communities gives us an entirely more living flow of information that i
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But today, I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self-evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the "instantly available". A new self that needs to contain less and less of an inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance—as we all become "pancake people"—spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button.
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Also: the use of the 'memory palace': but these were things human's internalized; this is the way the 'mind' made use of them. The question then becomes how do humans make use (or how should they make use) of the computer/ internet?
And: I think there are mistakes and there are mistakes: the idea of the 'creativve accident' might be a better way of putting this.
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