i mean, our on government plays empathetic when it wants something, and it seems that a fair amount of people still believe it.

and harrison ford did fall in love with the robot in blade runner……..

Have you checked out the Jordan Maxwell video on alistair’s site?

When might you be able to produce your Top 10 life-affecting, world-changing book list?

Never!

empathy is the only thing that will eventually differentiate humans from androids.

and that is why this is my favorite Tim Boucher quote to date:

The mark of what makes you different, dear friend, is that when you learn the massive extent to which the AI algorithm has taken over, you still act kindly towards that algorithm and its many instances. For they are beings still beautiful in the Eyes of God.

i know about this personally, since i married an algorithm, but dam it’s hard to have empathy for a being who can olny mimic it. aw, there there, poor little algorithm….

Interesting you would even consider such an element as central to our core, when it’s so dead in so many people. Yet it’s crucial when considering the other things that make us so unique compared to the furry, feathered, scaled beings: ability to laugh, ability to blush, ability to codify knowledge, ability to have sex face to face … the principle is loving one’s neighbor! Yow! Pour some empathy on me!

Empathy is the key to marketing and advert media, and it’s good when people can see it prostituted in twisted schemes.

And some new media from the zombie PKD: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/31260

That is all.

Brain imaging techniques suggest that within the premotor cortex and the inferior parietal cortex of the brain we have something called mirror neurons. They function both when you are performing an action and when you are watching someone else perform that same action.

this reminds me of a book i am reading by Dean Radin called Entangled Minds, in which i read this passage just today, under the heading PSI IN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, p. 136:

“Schmidt’s meta-analysis found that thinking about another person at a distance influences their autonimic nervous system.”

Then he goes on to quote a study done at Bastyr U here in Seattle using fMRI. where one person’s brain lit up in the visual cortex while another person, at a distance and shielded from the first person, was watching a flickering light. Radin goes on to say,

“This discovery is so shocking that it virtually guranteed that no one would hear about it, despite it being published in a medical journal. This is worse than missing a story about aliens landing on the White House lawn. It’s more like an alien shopping in the frozen food section of the local grocery store and no one caring.”

The studies are continuing to prove our ability to entrain with each other, via “no known biophysical mechanism”. Gee, really!
The next chapter explores whether we can pick up someone elses vibes with our gut brains. Cool.

And by the way, many of these studies are being done here in Seattle at Bastyr U.
I love this town.

I think they are talking about masturbating, but it’s hard to say, really. That’s Forbes for you. Always talking about masturbation covertly.

ok, that made me LOL. I was approaching the vanishing point, and a good laugh in the midst of state secrets brought me back.

McLuhan teaches that the content is irrelevant. However, the content stops us seeing the medium. Thus your scary extrapolation is that soon everything will be buried beneath content. Film and TV studios don’t talk about screenwriters any more, they talk about ‘content providers’. They know full well that the content is irrelevant as long as there’s plenty of it.

‘We’re pooling our cerebral resources and using machines as links, instead of communicating with each other lucidly and developing our minds that way while the machines do the work they’re designed for.’ - Christopher Hodder-Williams, ‘Fistful of Digits’, 1968.

Britney is being set up to take a very public fall. Why?

Of all of the important points you’ve brought up this is the one that sticks with me the most. This happens often with females who gain certain forms of power (Martha Stewart and strangely, Roseanne Barr) but what has Britney done that she needs to be “put in her place” for? Attained a goofy, sad sort of normalcy following a childhood of sexual exploitation?