[FairfieldLife] Re: The birth of computer consciousness?

[FairfieldLife] Re: The birth of computer consciousness?

The images look like they were scenes from a psychedelic trip. This idea would be good for artistic expressions by a computer or a human programmer. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : This is really fascinating: Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks http://googleres

[FairfieldLife] Texas Rises Again

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[FairfieldLife] Re: The birth of computer consciousness?

Yep, that is interesting speculation. But can they make a heart chakra and its field affect for a computer? This entraining of computers they talk about with layers of stacked layers sounds a lot like method within training of field dogs for coordinated hunting with humans or starting horses an

[FairfieldLife] The Marshy Effect??

I would love to know how the siddha/guv'nors of FF and the leaders of MUM view this? Is it an example of the "rising sunshine of the Age of Enlightenment," or is it a sign for a renewed push for more donations so Dome numbers and pundit numbers can be increased? Iowa Court Ruling Says Doctors Ca

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The birth of computer consciousness?

First of all the idea 'heart chakra' has to be discovered as a physical construct rather than being conceived as a metaphysical imaginary entity. What is missing so far in artificial intelligence is awareness. What is consciousness that a computer could be conscious? One of the scientific theor

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : LOL, looks like Judy hasn't been paying attention either. Unless I missed the post where Buck apologised to everyone for his blatant abuse of power and promised not to do it again because he wormed a post about David Lynch into his guideli

[FairfieldLife] Fwd: Masters Series: Ron Paul – The U.S. Economy Is 'Fundamentally Unsound'

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

From: "authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 3:52 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?   This post is almost entirely irrelevant to the current situation on FFL.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

Buck, what were your reasons for removing Turq from the group? I know there have been many complaints about him from spiritual cretins as to why they wanted him removed, but you have been silent about it, even though you seemed vocal about it in a general way prior to being appointed moderator.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Texas Rises Again

You mean moron? Perry did go to Texas A&M who's colors were maroon and white. From: "Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 4:40 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Texas Rises Again   As Bugs Bunny would say "Wat a maroon!"

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

I agree with the need to know. If we are expected to follow your interpretation of the vague yahoo guidelines, it is only fair for us to find out what POV we need to align ourselves to until all dissenting voices are inevitably quelled here. So far it is a perfect reflection of the movement s

Re: [FairfieldLife] Texas Rises Again

Right... even though he referred to the event as a crime during the conversation. His rep later said it was clear that Perry misspoke and intended to say *incident*. Ever hear Obama misspeak? One comes to mind instantaneously, he repeatedly sounded the *P* in the word *corpsman*, not once, not t

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

I'm sorry you didn't understand what I wrote well enough to give meaningful responses. (Or perhaps you just chose to indulge in more irrelevancies.) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : From: "authfriend@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, J

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

My comments below: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : This post is almost entirely irrelevant to the current situation on FFL. Moreover, it has quite a few inaccuracies. There is no reason that anyone's equanimity should be deliberately tested by trying to upset them. It may hap

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

Feste, I forgot to thank you for saying something very nice about my participation here. Back at you and thanks. We will see if I can stay this side of the undefined invisible line that has drawn as I try to find out where exactly it is. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I wou

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

What on earth is the difficulty understanding the obvious here? Turq got thrown out because he declared he was not subject to Doug's moderation. There's no need to have Doug explain it to us when we have the evidence of the post in which he explicitly announced he was going to completely ignore

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

As I read through most posts, I often find something to appreciate in what every author has written...Judy, TB, Xeno, CDB, Doug/Buck, Ann, Jim, Steve, Nabby, MJ, and even folks that no longer (or can no longer) post here including Share, Robin, Ravi, and even Richard (I guess these are the th

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : What on earth is the difficulty understanding the obvious here? Turq got thrown out because he declared he was not subject to Doug's moderation. There's no need to have Doug explain it to us when we have the evidence of the post in which he exp

Re: [FairfieldLife] Texas Rises Again

Even this being true, I bet you anything it will cost Perry the nomination. From: "Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 10:54 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Texas Rises Again   Right... even though h

Re: [FairfieldLife] The birth of computer consciousness?

I haven't worked much with neural networks but have some old books on it. There are a few things I wanted to try with it. On 06/19/2015 10:15 PM, salyavin808 wrote: This is really fascinating: Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks

[FairfieldLife] A message to Jim at the Peak

I am not a member so I cannot post this there but I know he reads FFL sometimes. Richard is now posting every instance of when I used my real name in the past on your site. The issue is that recent postings of my real name, personal or professional get picked up by search engines as more relev

Re: [FairfieldLife] Texas Rises Again

No. he'll never over- come the oops moment. Nobody cares about an obvious misspeak. Political opponents will try to make hay with something like that but that's just grabbing at straws. I can relate to the oops moment. Perry had undergone back surgery prior to the debate and had been taking some

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

dear laughingG, thank you, not the least of which, for putting me with such interesting, dare I say riveting, posters, the 3 Rs (-: To my amazement, I have become a lurker, and a happy one at that. Same on the Peak. And the recent FFL developments fascinate me. Most everything about online commu

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

Pastor Barry probably emailed Doug some expletives which sealed his fate. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : What on earth is the difficulty understanding the obvious here? Turq got thrown out because he declared he was not subject to Doug's moderation. There's no need to have Dou

Re: [FairfieldLife] Texas Rises Again

Just like Trent Lott  - that guy lied, cheated and stole with both hands and got clean away with it till he made the statement that if good ol' Strom Thurmond had been elected president (when he was running on what was basically a segregationist platform) the country would have been much better

Re: [FairfieldLife] Texas Rises Again

Please explain how Rick Perry is like Trent Lott and how Rick Perry lied, stole and cheated.   From: "Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 12:24 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Texas Rises Again  

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

Share, you caught me completely by surprise with a response...it's good to hear from you! It was not my intention to draw you out of "lurkerdom"...I also enjoy lurking in the shadows...sinister laugh...and really don't understand my fascination with this place unless it's just to see what nugget

Re: [FairfieldLife] Texas Rises Again

No that's not what I meant. I meant that just the similarity between two successful politicians both of whom said the wrong thing at the wrong time. I think Lott was a crook but shouldn't have included that in my post. Tho now that you mention it, Perry is still facing charges on corruption wh

Re: [FairfieldLife] Texas Rises Again

You know Michael, when you have to resort to the Young Turkeys for the low down on Rick Perry, you're scraping the bottom of the barrel. Even the Houston Chronicle can't do any better than the current charges brought by the Travis county DA. Travis county is an Oasis of liberalism in Texas. Ther

[FairfieldLife] A Quiet Day

It's nice to not have my day interrupted by annoying telemarketers and robocalls. In case you missed it the FCC just approved blocking of robocalls and telemarketers with spooded caller id's. I signed up for a blocker yesterday and what happens is you hear the phone ring once and if the numbe

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

Unless Alex was wrong, Doug didn't do anything. It was Rick that gave Turq a "time out". This seems very Shakespearean or "much ado about nothing." I still go with the idea Rick gave in to Doug so he could learn that being a moderator was not "his cuppa tea." ;-) On 06/20/2015 09:43 AM, jr

[FairfieldLife] Why Does Time Exist?

Sean Carroll, a physicist, discusses the various aspects of time but does not cover the various theories of the Big Bang. He did not talk about the unified field or the quantum wave function which was the source of the Big Bang. IMO, the fact that the universe is expanding to eternity means

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

Wrong. According to Alex, it was Doug who deprived Turq of his posting access. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Unless Alex was wrong, Doug didn't do anything. It was Rick that gave Turq a "time out". This seems very Shakespearean or "much ado about nothing." I still go with

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

Don't embarrass yourself, Curtis. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : What on earth is the difficulty understanding the obvious here? Turq got thrown out because he declared he was not subject to Doug's moderation. There's no need to h

Re: [FairfieldLife] Texas Rises Again

It will be interesting to see how the trial goes. The other allegations are pretty standard for politicians. Doesn't make the favors for money a good thing for the people but it is pretty standard stuff. From: "Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogr

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

True, it was Doug who suspended Turq's posting privileges (but, didn't actually boot him off the group.) It was the other removal that was handled entirely by Rick. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Wrong. According to Alex, it was Doug who deprived Turq of his posting access.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

OK, so I remembered incorrectly but the part about a "time out" rather than unsubscribe was correct. On 06/20/2015 12:51 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Wrong. According to Alex, it was Doug who deprived Turq of his posting access. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wro

[FairfieldLife] A fitting place in Hell

As the news reported yesteday, Comcast founder Ralph Roberts, passed away at age 95. I can imagine he is now enjoying a special place in hell staffed by former Comcast CSRs. :-D

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : (snip) But your support for him has eliminated you from the FFL dead pool so in the end your choice my be the wise one here if you still care to post. I resent the implication. Standard Curtis. As it happens, I don't intend to stay around mu

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

cuppa tea,.. not cuppa tea. I'm all for letting the experiment play out for a minimum of 30 days, and hopefully longer. I think the preliminary results have been promising. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I still go with the idea Rick gave in to Doug so he

Re: [FairfieldLife] Texas Rises Again

As for *favors for money* that's pretty standard as well. I'll bet it involve tax credits for new companies locating to Texas. Cuomo advertises the same thing for start ups in New York.   From: "Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" S

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : (snip) But your support for him has eliminated you from the FFL dead pool so in the end your choice my be the wise one here if you still care to post. I resent the implication. Standard Curt

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

Curtis deliberately misrepresents what I said in an effort to switch the context his way. Again, standard. My conclusion about why Turq got bounced was that he declared he was going to ignore anything Doug posted. Kind of like a football player announcing publicly that he was going to ignore

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Curtis deliberately misrepresents what I said in an effort to switch the context his way. Again, standard. My conclusion about why Turq got bounced was that he declared he was going to ignore anything Doug posted. Kind of like a football player

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

Declaring one is going to ignore the authority figure, of course, adds up to far more than simply talking back to the authority figure. And it has nothing to do with the Yahoo Guidelines per se; it has to do with the authority figures themselves. If they want to maintain their authority, they ne

[FairfieldLife] Experimenting

I've been away for a while and thought it might be interesting to test the waters here now that the dynamic is altered. It might just end up being the same old, same old but, being an optimist, I'm going to give it a shot. Hello FFL.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Experimenting

Who are you? What do you want here? What makes you think you can join us? What is your history? Who are your friends here? Why would anyone want to be here..again? You've certainly (my use of this word is poetic) got off on the wrong foot; this will not go well, methinks. -- Brisl

[FairfieldLife] Re: The birth of computer consciousness?

Re "With ideas like 'heart chakra' you have to provide real demonstrable confirmation of the existence of this feature": Does everything have to be validated by scientific, objective standards? Can't subjective experience count as evidence for an individual who has experimented with activat

[FairfieldLife] Re: Experimenting

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Who are you? What do you want here? What makes you think you can join us? What is your history? Who are your friends here? Why would anyone want to be here..again? You've certainly (my use of this word is poetic) got off on the wr

[FairfieldLife] Post Count Sun 21-Jun-15 00:15:07 UTC

Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 06/20/15 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 06/27/15 00:00:00 62 messages as of (UTC) 06/20/15 23:25:16 9 authfriend 7 curtisdeltablues 7 Mike Dixon mdixon.6569 6 Michael Jackson mjackson74 6 Bhairitu noozguru 4 steve.sund

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

Were that true, it was not a post to a Yahoo group, but a personal e-mail and not subject to Yahoo groups guidelines. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Pastor Barry probably emailed Doug some expletives which sealed his fate. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : What

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

What is past is past. Long live the present, an infinitesimal slice between a remembered then and an imaginary to be. But to resurrect a quote from the past: 'Judy is doing what she has done often before -- offering her opinion, and thereafter assuming it (and STATING it) as if it were fact. I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why Does Time Exist?

From: "jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 7:41 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Why Does Time Exist?   Sean Carroll, a physicist, discusses the various aspects of time but does not cover the various theories of the Big Ban

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

Oddly enough, that quote (?) doesn't seem to appear in the archives. Wherever you got it from, it would be interesting if you were able to refute what I wrote. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : What is past is past. Long live the present, an infinitesimal slice between a remem

Re: [FairfieldLife] Experimenting

From: "awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 10:44 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Experimenting   I've been away for a while and thought it might be interesting to test the waters here now that the dynamic is altere

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

P.S.: Note also that the "quote" itself states an opinion as if it were fact. Opsie! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Oddly enough, that quote (?) doesn't seem to appear in the archives. Wherever you got it from, it would be interesting if you were able to refute what I wr

[FairfieldLife] Fairfield Questions

Since I was once a resident of Fairfield, IA, I was wondering a couple things, so if any of you who live in FF might know... First does MUM still use what were once called "town employees?" Meaning of course non-meditating Fairfield residents who did jobs at the university. All the ones I worked

[FairfieldLife] Re: Of sound mind

Re my post: " . . . "one of the mantras used is that of Saraswati. She is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, arts, wisdom and learning. So surely someone who was given this bija and used it during TM would gravitate towards a life centred on science or the arts? . . . ": No one responded

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Of sound mind

I've said many times that due to the use of the Saraswati mantra TMers often seem to have overstimulated intellects. Real gurus give students mantras that are balancing. On 06/20/2015 06:50 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Re my post: " . . . "one of the mantras used is that of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Of sound mind

Re "overstimulated intellects": That doesn't strike me as a common problem in today's world! This is the age of dumbing down. Do you know if TM teachers were ever taught that - beyond the general stress-reducing effects of TM and talk of transcending and contacting pure consciousness - sp

[FairfieldLife] Matching Gifts For Consciousness-Based Education

FW: On May 23, a record graduating class of 391 students from 61 countries graduated from Maharishi University of Management. Former Japan Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama gave the commencement address and received an honorary degree from President Morris. Watch the video of the graduation ceremonie

Re: [FairfieldLife] Matching Gifts For Consciousness-Based Education

Seems like a solicitation to me. Ain't that agin the rules, Mr. Moderator? Would you be keen to see a fund raising solicitation from Amma? Or Sri Sri Ravi?Or a group that is opposed to TM and the TMO? Your biases are showing Bucky. >From the Fairfield Life Yahoo page - note the nest to last entr

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield, Iowa Questions

Good questions. Yes more work is being done by the labor of outside employment. Is on a similar course like with the trajectories other spiritual millenarian revolutionary ashram-like villages in American history, like with spiritual practice groups in aspects of transcendentalism in the Shaker

Re: [FairfieldLife] Matching Gifts For Consciousness-Based Education

Obviously, not anything goes. Outing people being one,. excessive trolling being another. I'll back Doug up with his actions to put an end to Barry's posting privileges. I admire your attempts and those of others to reverse this action of the moderator. But, I'd like to see Doug's d

Re: [FairfieldLife] Matching Gifts For Consciousness-Based Education

Related to FFL? Of course this is packed relevant news to FF when we consider the numbers, our communal well-being here and our very survival as a community. You don't live here but the Welfare of the meditating university in Fairfield should be everyone's interest in living in Fairfield, Io

[FairfieldLife] Re: Experimenting

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I've been away for a while and thought it might be interesting to test the waters here now that the dynamic is altered. It might just end up being the same old, same old but, being an optimist, I'm going to give it a shot. Hello FFL.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The birth of computer consciousness?

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yep, that is interesting speculation. But can they make a heart chakra and its field affect for a computer? This entraining of computers they talk about with layers of stacked layers sounds a lot like method within training of field dogs for co