mediacyclone

Fuster nailed it! See also the Lloyd Armstrong video clip in this blog.

    •    It has been said that creative intelligence is the ability to invent goals, projects, and plans-in other words, we might say, to invent the future (242).


    •    A reasonable assumption is that the creative process consists of the formation of new cognits (brain circuits) , that is, new network representations in the cortex (the brain´ś grey outer shell).

    •    These representations result mostly from divergent thinking as opposed to convert thinking.


    •    Convergent thinking consists of inductive and deductive reasoning, which converge towards logical inferences and the solution of problems(Guilford, 1967).


    •    Divergent thinking, on the other hand, is free of logical constraints, autonomous and to some extent free-floating, reliant on the imagination, and minimally anchored in the immediate reality.


    •    Creative cognits emerge mainly from divergent thinking.


    •    To create, in the present context, is to make new cognits out of old ones.


    •    At the root of this process is the formation of new associations between old cognits.


    •    Thus, to reinvent the future is to reinvent the past by making new associations in it.


    •    The new cognits are potentially infinite, much as the old ones where, because the range of either is determined by the practically infinite combinatorial power of some 10 billion cells or subgroups ( i.e Modules, assemblies) of them.


    •    Therefore, the spread and configuration of created cortical cognits and their supporting networks are extremely variable.

Fuster, J.M. (2003). Cortex and mind: Unifying cognition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh  ....Let's go back in time ...and fight some religious wars .... http://tinyurl.com/2536npa

Honestly, have you ever thought you live in the 21st Century? Double mistake. You believed in PROGRESS! There isn't any. History is more or less circular, or if you like meandering and often going backwards. The coming years are not very nice, i assure you. Eh... well unless you are part of the book burning team.. you know.. we had that before ..

But honestly ..Lets have a burning Books Festival, let's burn the Bible, the Vedas and Bhagavad Gita, and Buddhism the sutras and live (or die) happily ever after in a world that is marching straight into Doomsday because some idiots can't get their heads around thinking something useful. Welcome to 2012.

  I wouldn't expect anything else from this kind of scum ...

watch this..

Google Wave: You need to pay attention to this.

So here's the deal with Wave:  If you deal in technology, and you get this one wrong, you'll miss the boat.  And it's a big boat.  If, on the other hand, you get this one right, you have the potential to do some incredible innovation.

In a nutshell, this is the next revolutionary leap in Internet application architecture.  Maybe the first truly revolutionary leap since HTTP itself.

I've been wanting to write this post for a while, but first I wanted to read fully thru and digest the specs and available code.  I haven't done any posts about XMPP for quite a while, but you're going to start hearing a whole lot about it, and not just from me.

What I've seen so far isn't that new. What is new is the synthesis. Various building block from the past and the present re-assembled in a new Deleuzian "assemblage", a communications machine enabling collaboration on a new level, or for now lets say a more convenient level.

More to come ...