This afternoon it occurred to me that I didn’t even know my body’s name. I know, of course, “my” name, the names that I have been given and the names that I have taken. But I had never, up until then, taken the time to find out what my body called itself.
“What has fins like a whale, skin like a lizard, and eyes like a moth? The future of engineering.”
I remember reading in a book at my store that St. Francis of Assisi had a nickname that he’d given to his body, “Brother Ass”
Francis acted quickly because he acted from the heart; he didn’t have time to put on a role. Once he was so sick and exhausted, his companions borrowed a mule for him to ride. When the man who owned the mule recognized Francis he said, “Try to be as virtuous as everyone thinks you are because many have a lot of confidence in you.” Francis dropped off the mule and knelt before the man to thank him for his advice.
Which are we worse off having all this information, the FBI or Google? The future lies in pitting powers against one another to create safe havens of liberated dynamic tension and creative positive expression. Will Google be able to search your tattoos? Will they one day learn, much like the Mormon Church, the secret hopes and dreams of your long-buried ancestors?
The FBI is gearing up to create a massive computer database of people’s physical characteristics, all part of an effort the bureau says to better identify criminals and terrorists.
But it’s an issue that raises major privacy concerns — what one civil liberties expert says should concern all Americans.
The bureau is expected to announce in coming days the awarding of a $1 billion, 10-year contract to help create the database that will compile an array of biometric information — from palm prints to eye scans.
A friend of mine told me he had the FBI send him its file on him. Much of it was blacked out. It strikes me as comical that there are things, observable truths, facts as reality, which you’re simply not allowed to know about yourself. What kind of narrative world do we live in? Which one will we end up in?
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So far the best prediction I’ve read along the lines of technologically based human immortality was bad news for the concept. Is was from a Luciferian remote viewer who said that he saw the downloading of minds/spirits into computers beginning in Japan. He says this became a great tragedy because as soon as the download was complete the peolpe began begging for the robot, or whatever, to be turned off. He never said what was so unbearable or if they could be turned off.
I believe in multiple, changing, timelines so maybe this future has changed. He also thought that life on Earth would be destroyed by various diseases and mold. Being really allergic to mold I can see this happening but maybe my preexisting biases led me to his site.
My other related thought:
Whether or not we can build AI is no longer a question to me, so much as whether or not we can convince them to buy consumer lifestyle products and services…
I don’t think AI will have too many of our psychological flaws, or at least it won’t care enough about them to try to change them. Megolomania maybe, but not worry over flabby thighs.
I don’t know, I feel like a certain kind of meta-level intelligence, that’s all it would be: paranoia and constant existential fear of its own extinction, hell of its own existence!
Or, it would so clearly understand itself as an eternal, ensouled, being that it wouldn’t take care of it’s physical elements and wind up as a class of intelligence/being in the multiverse.
I think consciousness might slip right though code like water through a net…
That’s exactly what you’d want, I think.
I’m not sure I understand what you mean there.
It slipped past the net of ur perception?
Aaron Donahue, rival of Ed Dames. I have all the RV trading card, even the ultra-rare rookie season Ingo Swann from Topps — the “Penetration” edition.
This new theme and WP upgrade action is making me feel great!
Yeah,I had forgotten his name and the whole rivalry thing. What a soap opera. I’m sure a lot of that stuff is true but I never trusted the whole RV thing.
For suppoesdly patriotic individuals interested in national security they were a pretty self absorbed bunch.
Everyone is interested in national security, it’s a very profitable interest to have.
It’s the same as John McCain promising that he could get Osama IF he got elected — a transparently bullshit claim of the most cynical kind. If there were any truth to it, you’d be morally obligated to DO IT rather than wait for payment and contracts to be written.
There’s a strange space between the professional detachment of “mentalists” who insist it’s all just a very persuasive trick, and then the flip side of Aaron Donahues who believe everything the spirits tell them because It’s True.
Yeah, totally through my net there. Something’s holding it though. It’ll come through eventually, I’m sure…