Re: Some open questions.. some leading questions

2019-10-20 Thread Vincent Gaulin
Frederic's point certainly rings true to me: >"A linguistic expression can be an adequate approximation of reality for a specified context and a specified purpose." especially as he points out that the scientific/Western Enlightenment episteme has been significantly hamperred by the low hanging

Re: Fw: Interlude: Heidegger summarizes signal from 2 decades of nettime

2019-10-20 Thread Morlock Elloi
This may sound far off, but there are wider analogies that may hint to solutions. (some) drugs are sanctioned (illegal, regulated) because they have significant effect on human behavior. Air pollution is regulated because it adversely affects people. Sex is (more or less) regulated, because

Re: Fw: Interlude: Heidegger summarizes signal from 2 decades of nettime

2019-10-20 Thread John Young
Any topic online or off with the word Heidegger in it may help terminate neant of the mal mot "existential." # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more

Re: Fw: Interlude: Heidegger summarizes signal from 2 decades of nettime

2019-10-20 Thread Morlock Elloi
[inline] On 10/20/19, 11:16, Max Herman wrote: On the first video, I see the danger of making everything instantly available so to speak online. It removes the role of doing your own activities, having one's own life, just getting one online. Also the I think that there is another issue:

Re: Social robotics, cognitive bomb

2019-10-20 Thread olivier auber
@Mar Herman. Thanks for your relevant thoughts and quotes (Olaf Sporns, Networks of the Brain, and the Washington Post paper). In my book Anoptikon, I rely on the research in neuroscience of Guillaume Dumas & all (Institut Pasteur, Paris), who study experimentally the influence of level of