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Comment on Is The Digital Redefining Death? by dclaydon

dclaydon — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:03:42 +0000

I think I started with one idea then it slowly mutated as I was writing the blog.

I started off with the idea that when we die, our whole CNS doesn’t die with it. Our body (that is, of the flesh and bones variety) is no longer capable of expressing thought but our blogs, and YouTube videos, art, etc are still capable of expressing our thought for us, albeit in exactly the same way as when we commited them to that medium.

Comment on Is The Digital Redefining Death? by joe

joe — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:31:34 +0000

I think the logical conclusion here boils down to whether you think that the human existence / identity can be reproduced computationally or not.

The computational model of the human mind argues that the brain is simply a neural computer; when we are technologically advanced enough, we will be able to replicate it. Thus it ought to be possible to transcribe our brain and nervous system into the technological network we build around ourselves: that the cyborgs we build in the future will not be a break from humanity, but an evolution of humanity.

On the other hand, if you subscribe to the view that the human mind / existence is not computationally reproducible (i.e. there is something ‘beyond materiality’ – magic, soul, spirit, etc, whatever) then if we do build intelligent machines, they will almost certainly become our enemies.

Comment on Idioms by Westy

Westy — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:47:02 +0000

Sounds cool dan.. i expect that you will find it so useful with the google maps api and maybe you could tie in the idiums thing into the project in a different kinda way as you probably want to focus on the project and if you can combine the two then that would work well mee thinks..

The thing about writing php code from scratch is really tru i need to get on with doing that as i really cant even get this google maps thing to work.. any pointers to learn this would be great..

cheers dan

Comment on Google Maps by joe

joe — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:29:08 +0000

yeah moved it to its own server. check out the js, the xml and i can show you php too if you need it

Comment on Google Maps by dclaydon

dclaydon — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:09:47 +0000

I was having a look for it the other day google only bought up links to http://impserver.bournemouth.ac.uk/bournemouthsoundseeing/ where it doesn’t seem to exist anymore. I’ll check it out hough definately, cheers joe.

Comment on Google Maps by joe

joe — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:33:32 +0000

interesting. of course you can also look at http://www.websoundscape.com/bournemouthsoundseeing and view the js source to see how that uses GMap’s built in XML parser.

Comment on Halloween by Timothy

Timothy — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:38:30 +0000

hey dude can we colloorateon the google maps api thing as that swhat i am going to be doing allot of my stuff for spotskenya.com on.. whats yours…

Comment on VIVE LE REVOLUTION! by dclaydon

dclaydon — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:43:43 +0000

Wow, I’m quite impressed you managed to find some manner of coherence from my post, it was essentially just a shitstorm of loose ideas that are unfinished (I guess thats quintessentially blogging, though) and not well researched.

I think I just quite liked how my thoughts naturally went from Russell Brands podcast >> anarchism >> childhood >> Proudhon.

I agree that “to make it lasting and meaningful it would have to be bigger than people. Something transcendental.” Kind of like some kind of innate mechanism in everyone allowing for tolerance and harmony etc?

In a round about way I think the way Jimmy Wales explains how Wikipedia works as a community is quite relevant, and interesting. I suppose its just a case of MeatSpace being a different kettle of fish to the interweb. (He talks about it here: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia.html)

Comment on VIVE LE REVOLUTION! by circlesperfect

circlesperfect — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:45:47 +0000

Nationalisation is a socialist principle, I think with thoughts like what you mentioned.. it’s how things sort of kick off. Proudhon was the father of anarchic thinking.. I guess, socialists might say all property is theft and that it belongs to the state but anarchists will say all property is theft, to ‘own’ something is to hold it back from someone else and there is nothing written in the sky which says it’s yours.. but as with most of history it’s whoever can exert the will to power over other individuals which really owns property.. i would say. It’s all a big fight really, the war of the gods of the lower case g.

I would say it’s in many cases it is only a matter of degree’s which distinguish ’socialism’ in practice to national socialism or fascism.. who defines the limit? All forms of control among people are oppressive I’d argue.. which I think is what Proudhon is his works voices, that isn’t to say there is no authority however I’d say.. but to make it lasting and meaningful it would have to be bigger than people. Something transcendental.

Theres a tension between something which unites people and something which controls them. We’re all slaves to something however I’d argue, it’s what which is the question.

Cool post.

Comment on Finally! by dclaydon

dclaydon — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:29:42 +0000

Yeah its the terms on page 7 of the Free Culture pdf that he is given away for free.

Infact, whilst the page previous has “CC Some Rights Reserved” saying it can be reproduced non-commercially if you give credit that quote on page 7 says “C All Rights Reserved” and forbids reproducing any of the content unless the publisher AND the author gives express permission.

Good to see CC simplifying all this copyright nonsense, oh, wait…