"The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds." (Ronald D. Laing)
terça-feira, julho 26, 2011
fugas
(sim. deve ser um engano. a tecnologia não encurta distâncias. torna-nos apenas
mais sós.)
Science teacher Gary Wilson explains the physiology of erections, how overstimulation via today's Internet porn can create erectile dysfunction--even in young men, and how others have recovered. For more information visit our non-commercial, non-religious website - www.yourbrainonporn.com :
YOUR BRAIN ON PORN (interpretação do funcionamento cerebral)
A science teacher explains the evolutionary forces behind porn's appeal, how the brain changes in response to super-normal stimulation, and what makes today's porn different from static porn of the past. For more, visit "Your Brain On Porn" http://yourbrainonporn.com :
"[...] Consider the following thought experiment that used to be a favorite of philosophers (it was also the basis for the recent Hollywood blockbuster The Matrix): Let's advance to a point of time where we know everything there is to know about the intricate circuitry and functioning of the human brain. With this knowledge, it would be possible for a neuroscientist to isolate your brain in a vat of nutrients and keep it alive and healthy indefinitely.
Utilizing thousands of electrodes and appropriate patterns of electrical stimulation, the scientist makes your brain think and feel that it's experiencing actual life events. The simulation is perfect and includes a sense of time and planning for the future. The brain doesn't know that its experiences, its entire life, are not real.
Further assume that the scientist can make your brain "think" and experience being a combination of Einstein, Mark Spitz, Bill Gates, Hugh Heffner, and Gandhi, while at the same time preserving your own deeply personal memories and identity (there's nothing in contemporary brain science that forbids such a scenario). The mad neuroscientist then gives you a choice. You can either be this incredible, deliriously happy being floating forever in the vat or be your real self, more or less like you are now (for the sake of argument we will further assume that you are basically a happy and contended person, not a starving pheasant). Which of the two would you pick?
I have posed this question to dozens of scientists and lay people. A majority argue "I'd rather be the real me." This is an irrational choice because you already are a brain in a vat (the cranial cavity) nurtured by cerebrospinal fluid and blood and bombarded by photons. When asked to select between two vats most pick the crummy one even though it is no more real than the neuroscientist's experimental vat. How can you justify this choice unless you believe in something supernatural?
I have heard three counter-arguments on the premise of this experiment. First, the brain, as Antonio Damasio argues so eloquently, is a natural extension of the body, not an isolated computer sitting on your neck. True, but this "embodiment" plus visceral and proprioceptive inputs can also be simulated. Second, what if the vat isn't well maintained? What if it falls down and crashes? This could happen, but such an accident can also happen to the real you. Third, the simulation of Einstein and Gates (and everyone else) can never be exact. This might be true, but it's not relevant. So what if the simulation is only 98% correct? Your own brain fluctuations from year to year are probably as great, if not greater.
If you think this scenario is farfetched just look at what's going on around you in the world; Cell phones, iPods, Palm Pilots, the worldwide web, email, blogs, e-publishing, and virtual reality. We are all slowly and imperceptibly approaching the brain in the vat scenario where all functions will be literally at your fingertips as you become dissolved in cyberspace. [...]" in http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/ramachandran06/ramachandran06_index.html
http://www.publico.pt/Tecnologia/o-efeito-google-esta-a-mudar-a-forma-como-memorizamos-informacao_1503402 <- O "efeito Google" está a mudar a forma como memorizamos informação
Mas... http://www.publico.pt/Ci%C3%AAncias/cientistas-ensinaram-animais-a-pedir-acucar-usando-so-a-forca-da-mente-1536423?all=1 <- "[...] acreditam ter encontrado outro caminho no cérebro para conseguir mover uma prótese com 95% de acuidade. Como? "Mudámos as regras do jogo e, em vez de tentarmos imitar o que se passa normalmente, ensinámos o cérebro a fazer algo como se fosse uma coisa nova, arbitrária". [...] Há, no entanto, uma nota importante a lembrar dos resultados desta experiência: parece ser essencial dar feedback da actividade neuronal. "Quando nós cortávamos o feedback, os sons, eles não conseguiam aprender". [...]"
Comentário in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7BuQFUhsRM :
Imagine a whole new kind of electric signals based diet! That'd be awesome, all the savor of the richest meal for a little fee on your electric bill, without the calories! JonathanArsenault12
"[...] De livres e senhores do seu destino... a extremamente pobres e subjugados a uma nova organização social... [...]" in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7kqYOsZGJk&t=36m47s
http://www.publico.pt/Ci%C3%AAncias/cientistas-ensinaram-animais-a-pedir-acucar-usando-so-a-forca-da-mente-1536423?all=1 <- "[...] Há, no entanto, uma nota importante a lembrar dos resultados desta experiência: parece ser essencial dar feedback da actividade neuronal. "Quando nós cortávamos o feedback, os sons, eles não conseguiam aprender". [...]"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHM_uyuiBXs&t=0m38s <- "[...] delegar as escolhas autónomas dos agricultores para direcções de corporações em cidades a milhares de quilómetros de distância, onde as pessoas que tomam as decisões não vivem com as consequências dessas decisões. [...]"
Relexão acerca dos efeitos da existência de feedback:
«[...] Rhythm 0, 1974 - Marina Abramović:
To test the limits of the relationship between performer and audience, Abramović developed one of her most challenging (and best-known) performances. She assigned a passive role to herself, with the public being the force which would act on her.
Abramović had placed upon a table 72 objects that people were allowed to use (a sign informed them) in any way that they chose. Some of these were objects that could give pleasure, while others could be wielded to inflict pain, or to harm her. Among them were a rose, a feather, honey, a whip, scissors, a scalpel, a gun and a single bullet. For six hours the artist allowed the audience members to manipulate her body and actions.
Initially, members of the audience reacted with caution and modesty, but as time passed (and the artist remained impassive) people began to act more aggressively. As Abramović described it later:
“What I learned was that... if you leave it up to the audience, they can kill you.” ... “I felt really violated: they cut up my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the audience. Everyone ran away, to escape an actual confrontation.” [...]»
in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Abramovi%C4%87#Rhythm_0.2C_1974
http://andysinger.com/images/samples/smart_phone_family_trip.gif in http://andysinger.com/index.html
Lembrou-me isto:
"[...] In the late 1950s, Ray Bradbury observed that the novel touches on the alienation of people by media:
In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades. But only a few weeks ago, in Beverly Hills one night, a husband and wife passed me, walking their dog. I stood staring after them, absolutely stunned. The woman held in one hand a small cigarette-package-sized radio, its antenna quivering. From this sprang tiny copper wires which ended in a dainty cone plugged into her right ear. There she was, oblivious to man and dog, listening to far winds and whispers and soap-opera cries, sleep-walking, helped up and down curbs by a husband who might just as well not have been there. This was not fiction. [...]" ^ Quoted by Kingsley Amis in New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction (1960). Bradbury directly foretells this incident early in the work: "And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talking coming in." p.12 in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451#Predictions_for_the_future
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLd5DlMIy_w&list=UUDoSbHZl9zrOb7RzlJR8hHA <- The Astounding World of the Future (A funny mid-20th century newsreel featuring amazingly accurate predictions of the year 2000.) Alternative video source: http://youtu.be/GJjUVIIYptE
BEST SHORT FILM - New York Comedy Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION Montrael Just For Laughs Comedy Festival Chicago Short Film Festival
Written and Directed by Scott Dikkers
Starring Tim Harrod, Maria Schneider DP: Natalie Richter
"[...] The secret of a full life is to live and relate to others as if they might not be there tomorrow, as if you might not be there tomorrow. It eliminates the vice of procrastination, the sin of postponement, failed communications, failed communions. This thought has made me more and more attentive to all encounters. meetings, introductions, which might contain the seed of depth that might be carelessly overlooked. This feeling has become a rarity, and rarer every day now that we have reached a hastier and more superficial rhythm, now that we believe we are in touch with a greater amount of people, more people, more countries. This is the illusion which might cheat us of being in touch deeply with the one breathing next to us. The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision. [...]"
Citado em http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/24/anais-nin-global-village/
"[...] Foi a vida dos dias de hoje, muito ligada à vida nas cidades que orientou Raquel Castro na interpretação desta mulher: “estamos tão sozinhos, tantas vezes, numa cidade tão grande”. A par disto, a permanente sensação de se estar com outras pessoas: há no texto a fantasia de que se está sempre ligado a qualquer coisa e a televisão [em palco] é isso. Se o texto fosse escrito agora ela teria um computador com internet “, diz. [...]"
19 comentários:
Hey...
O J. mandou-mo.
:*
... reinventar a vida! :)
(parte 1)
(parte 2)
;)
Erectile Dysfunction and Porn
Science teacher Gary Wilson explains the physiology of erections, how overstimulation via today's Internet porn can create erectile dysfunction--even in young men, and how others have recovered. For more information visit our non-commercial, non-religious website - www.yourbrainonporn.com :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQHLF5BL9e8 <- (part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro2ysOhlXMs <- (part 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNqS8R5i3p0 <- (part 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a0QUFxJIis <- (part 4)
YOUR BRAIN ON PORN (interpretação do funcionamento cerebral)
A science teacher explains the evolutionary forces behind porn's appeal, how the brain changes in response to super-normal stimulation, and what makes today's porn different from static porn of the past. For more, visit "Your Brain On Porn" http://yourbrainonporn.com :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKDFsLi2oBk <- Your Brain On Porn: Porn Addiction (Part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxrG6QZ-G0M <- (Part 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOsF81sC4vo <- (Part 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGwIrmF1Z6k <- (Part 4)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQgUzACfTHI <- (Part 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQQRHdPri2s <- (Part 6)
"[...] Consider the following thought experiment that used to be a favorite of philosophers (it was also the basis for the recent Hollywood blockbuster The Matrix): Let's advance to a point of time where we know everything there is to know about the intricate circuitry and functioning of the human brain. With this knowledge, it would be possible for a neuroscientist to isolate your brain in a vat of nutrients and keep it alive and healthy indefinitely.
Utilizing thousands of electrodes and appropriate patterns of electrical stimulation, the scientist makes your brain think and feel that it's experiencing actual life events. The simulation is perfect and includes a sense of time and planning for the future. The brain doesn't know that its experiences, its entire life, are not real.
Further assume that the scientist can make your brain "think" and experience being a combination of Einstein, Mark Spitz, Bill Gates, Hugh Heffner, and Gandhi, while at the same time preserving your own deeply personal memories and identity (there's nothing in contemporary brain science that forbids such a scenario). The mad neuroscientist then gives you a choice. You can either be this incredible, deliriously happy being floating forever in the vat or be your real self, more or less like you are now (for the sake of argument we will further assume that you are basically a happy and contended person, not a starving pheasant). Which of the two would you pick?
I have posed this question to dozens of scientists and lay people. A majority argue "I'd rather be the real me." This is an irrational choice because you already are a brain in a vat (the cranial cavity) nurtured by cerebrospinal fluid and blood and bombarded by photons. When asked to select between two vats most pick the crummy one even though it is no more real than the neuroscientist's experimental vat. How can you justify this choice unless you believe in something supernatural?
I have heard three counter-arguments on the premise of this experiment. First, the brain, as Antonio Damasio argues so eloquently, is a natural extension of the body, not an isolated computer sitting on your neck. True, but this "embodiment" plus visceral and proprioceptive inputs can also be simulated. Second, what if the vat isn't well maintained? What if it falls down and crashes? This could happen, but such an accident can also happen to the real you. Third, the simulation of Einstein and Gates (and everyone else) can never be exact. This might be true, but it's not relevant. So what if the simulation is only 98% correct? Your own brain fluctuations from year to year are probably as great, if not greater.
If you think this scenario is farfetched just look at what's going on around you in the world; Cell phones, iPods, Palm Pilots, the worldwide web, email, blogs, e-publishing, and virtual reality. We are all slowly and imperceptibly approaching the brain in the vat scenario where all functions will be literally at your fingertips as you become dissolved in cyberspace. [...]"
in http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/ramachandran06/ramachandran06_index.html
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5ZIdFoW1U/St2XtJK6ALI/AAAAAAAAcsw/xk8Gri4ge7w/s400/funny-evolution-jokes-06.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kaBcdL1qOrQ/TJPmYsGFx4I/AAAAAAAASSw/qp_i4HbigSA/s1600/quino2.jpg
http://www.publico.pt/Tecnologia/o-efeito-google-esta-a-mudar-a-forma-como-memorizamos-informacao_1503402 <- O "efeito Google" está a mudar a forma como memorizamos informação
Mas...
http://www.publico.pt/Ci%C3%AAncias/cientistas-ensinaram-animais-a-pedir-acucar-usando-so-a-forca-da-mente-1536423?all=1 <- "[...] acreditam ter encontrado outro caminho no cérebro para conseguir mover uma prótese com 95% de acuidade. Como? "Mudámos as regras do jogo e, em vez de tentarmos imitar o que se passa normalmente, ensinámos o cérebro a fazer algo como se fosse uma coisa nova, arbitrária". [...] Há, no entanto, uma nota importante a lembrar dos resultados desta experiência: parece ser essencial dar feedback da actividade neuronal. "Quando nós cortávamos o feedback, os sons, eles não conseguiam aprender". [...]"
Comentário in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7BuQFUhsRM :
Imagine a whole new kind of electric signals based diet! That'd be awesome, all the savor of the richest meal for a little fee on your electric bill, without the calories!
JonathanArsenault12
http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/3760043_700b.jpg
Não era preciso disciplina nenhuma...
Pois.
Como definir "progresso"?
"[...] De livres e senhores do seu destino... a extremamente pobres e subjugados a uma nova organização social... [...]"
in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7kqYOsZGJk&t=36m47s
Isto não tem muito a ver com o que eu queria dizer no comentário anterior...
De qualquer forma, aqui fica:
http://asopa.typepad.com/asopa_people/2011/07/toulambi-1976-contact-fact-or-fable.html
http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/4840/is-the-tribe-meets-white-man-for-the-first-time-video-fake
http://www.publico.pt/Ci%C3%AAncias/cientistas-ensinaram-animais-a-pedir-acucar-usando-so-a-forca-da-mente-1536423?all=1 <- "[...] Há, no entanto, uma nota importante a lembrar dos resultados desta experiência: parece ser essencial dar feedback da actividade neuronal. "Quando nós cortávamos o feedback, os sons, eles não conseguiam aprender". [...]"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHM_uyuiBXs&t=0m38s <- "[...] delegar as escolhas autónomas dos agricultores para direcções de corporações em cidades a milhares de quilómetros de distância, onde as pessoas que tomam as decisões não vivem com as consequências dessas decisões. [...]"
Relexão acerca dos efeitos da existência de feedback:
«[...] Rhythm 0, 1974 - Marina Abramović:
To test the limits of the relationship between performer and audience, Abramović developed one of her most challenging (and best-known) performances. She assigned a passive role to herself, with the public being the force which would act on her.
Abramović had placed upon a table 72 objects that people were allowed to use (a sign informed them) in any way that they chose. Some of these were objects that could give pleasure, while others could be wielded to inflict pain, or to harm her. Among them were a rose, a feather, honey, a whip, scissors, a scalpel, a gun and a single bullet. For six hours the artist allowed the audience members to manipulate her body and actions.
Initially, members of the audience reacted with caution and modesty, but as time passed (and the artist remained impassive) people began to act more aggressively. As Abramović described it later:
“What I learned was that... if you leave it up to the audience, they can kill you.” ... “I felt really violated: they cut up my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the audience. Everyone ran away, to escape an actual confrontation.” [...]»
in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Abramovi%C4%87#Rhythm_0.2C_1974
Vi isto:
http://andysinger.com/images/samples/smart_phone_family_trip.gif
in http://andysinger.com/index.html
Lembrou-me isto:
"[...] In the late 1950s, Ray Bradbury observed that the novel touches on the alienation of people by media:
In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades. But only a few weeks ago, in Beverly Hills one night, a husband and wife passed me, walking their dog. I stood staring after them, absolutely stunned. The woman held in one hand a small cigarette-package-sized radio, its antenna quivering. From this sprang tiny copper wires which ended in a dainty cone plugged into her right ear. There she was, oblivious to man and dog, listening to far winds and whispers and soap-opera cries, sleep-walking, helped up and down curbs by a husband who might just as well not have been there. This was not fiction. [...]"
^ Quoted by Kingsley Amis in New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction (1960). Bradbury directly foretells this incident early in the work: "And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talking coming in." p.12
in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451#Predictions_for_the_future
??!
Será?
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLd5DlMIy_w&list=UUDoSbHZl9zrOb7RzlJR8hHA <- The Astounding World of the Future (A funny mid-20th century newsreel featuring amazingly accurate predictions of the year 2000.)
Alternative video source: http://youtu.be/GJjUVIIYptE
BEST SHORT FILM - New York Comedy Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Montrael Just For Laughs Comedy Festival
Chicago Short Film Festival
Written and Directed by Scott Dikkers
Starring Tim Harrod, Maria Schneider
DP: Natalie Richter
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312388/
"[...] The secret of a full life is to live and relate to others as if they might not be there tomorrow, as if you might not be there tomorrow. It eliminates the vice of procrastination, the sin of postponement, failed communications, failed communions. This thought has made me more and more attentive to all encounters. meetings, introductions, which might contain the seed of depth that might be carelessly overlooked. This feeling has become a rarity, and rarer every day now that we have reached a hastier and more superficial rhythm, now that we believe we are in touch with a greater amount of people, more people, more countries. This is the illusion which might cheat us of being in touch deeply with the one breathing next to us. The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision. [...]"
Citado em http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/24/anais-nin-global-village/
"[...] Foi a vida dos dias de hoje, muito ligada à vida nas cidades que orientou Raquel Castro na interpretação desta mulher: “estamos tão sozinhos, tantas vezes, numa cidade tão grande”. A par disto, a permanente sensação de se estar com outras pessoas: há no texto a fantasia de que se está sempre ligado a qualquer coisa e a televisão [em palco] é isso. Se o texto fosse escrito agora ela teria um computador com internet “, diz. [...]"
TEXTO INTEGRAL: http://www.publico.pt/culturaipsilon/noticia/a-dona-de-casa-sentese-sozinha-mas-nao-sabe-se-quer-deixar-de-estar-1659723
Pedro e o corpo sem vida de Inês
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/m4UkXeL2t8w <- Bailarinos: Ana Lacerda & Christian Schwarm
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