http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD-R_OeP6tU
On educating oneself and the acquisition of knowledge in the age of the Internet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBJ2qP12z4s
http://www.richardprins.com/2011/06/adam-curtis-all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace/ (I listened and watched most of this and found it very interesting and informative, ...... I think it's a MUST SEE and hope you'll take the time to watch/listen) ...cal
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The episodes are titled: Love and Power, The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts, and The Monkey In The Machine and the Machine in the Monkey. The three parts, each lasting ~55 minutes, in a YouTube playlist:
Curtis in the The Guardian: How the ‘ecosystem’ myth has been used for sinister means
When, in the 1920s, a botanist and a field marshal dreamed up rival theories of nature and society, no one could have guessed their ideas would influence the worldview of 70s hippies and 21st-century protest movements. But their faith in self-regulating systems has a sinister history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Urantia_Book
http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Relig/Relig-Logic-RealityParadox.htm
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The best way to understand the Logic-Reality Paradox is to understand particular instances of it. The following are three which have stimulated the writing this essay, but there are probably many more, and perhaps an infinite number.
* The spirit paradox: Physical evidence, as from seances, seems to indicate that there exist things commonly called spirits which are conscious and intelligent entities which -- tho different from ordinary material bodies -- can nevertheless interact with the physical world, and furthermore are responsible for animating human and perhaps animal bodies. However, the notion that a spirit is responsible for animating a body and therefore somehow controlling its brain seems impossible, because it would mean that the brain does not function as a thinking organ, but merely as a sort of collection of levers or buttons which the spirit uses to manipulate the body. This is problematic because it seems to mean that the brain is nothing more than a terminal point for nerve endings, and is especially problematical because it seems to violate conservation of matter and energy by allowing the brain to be operated by 'spirit energy' (whatever that is) rather than physical energy. It is also problematic because it seems to imply that there is some sort of mysterious interaction between the spirit and the body, contrary to scientific observation which deems that brain states are caused only by prior brain states, and not by the intervention of spirits.
* The existence paradox: Since the universe exists, it must have come into existence, and yet coming into existence implies that it came into existence from nothing. This seems completely crazy, because it seems impossible to envision a change where nothing suddenly becomes something.
* The paradox of non-existent existence: Mathematicians say that the square root of minus one does not exist for the simple reason that there is no number which, when multiplied by itself, gives the result -1. In spite of this, however, the square root of minus one is a very useful notion, and finds significant application in the physical world to calculations involving alternating current circuits. This then raises the question, How is it possible for a non-existent number to be useful -- and indeed indispensable -- in certain mathematical calculations?
Note: The above paradox may probably be generalized on the basis that there are many different kinds of existence besides 'normal' existence. For example, there is physical existence (consisting of objects which can be both created and destroyed); the existence of ideas (which are not physical, and cannot be destroyed, altho they have evidently been created); 'non-existent' ideas, such as the square root of minus one; non-existent but possible physical objects, such as my million-dollar bank account; impossible physical objects, such as the object which is both red all over and green all over; and probably an infinity of other objects. I have discussed different forms of existence in my currently-unpublished book Logical Alternatives: Studies in the Philosophy of Logic and Existence.
What I am driving at in citing the above paradoxes is that logic, such as we know it, just doesn't seem to enable us to think about certain things very well, altho it does just fine with ordinary objects and everyday situations. Whether this means that logic needs to be 'improved' -- as some have tried to do with such creations as 'fuzzy logic', 'multi-valued logic', 'deontic logic' and the like -- or whether it represents some kind of epistemological wall which we are 'up against, mutha fukka' because of our innate limitations, I do not know, tho I would guess the latter, as it is difficult to see how logic can be improved in any significant way. But then maybe that is because I am using the wrong kind of logic.
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/mcgowanpeakoilandclubofrome14mar05.shtml
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Popularization of "Peak Oil" comes from Club of Rome!
Ruppert's Heroes Disown Oil Stance
By Dave McGowan
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/mcgowanpeakoilandclubofrome14mar05.shtml
March 14, 2005
John Bordley Rawls (February 21, 1921 - November 24, 2002) was an American philosopher and a leading figure in moral and political philosophy. He held the James Bryant Conant University Professorship at Harvard University.
His magnum opus, A Theory of Justice (1971), is now regarded as "one of the primary texts in political philosophy."[1] His work in political philosophy, dubbed Rawlsianism,[2] takes as its starting point the argument that "most reasonable principles of justice are those everyone would accept and agree to from a fair position."[1] Rawls employs a number of thought experiments-including the famous veil of ignorance-to determine what constitutes a fair agreement in which "everyone is impartially situated as equals," in order to determine principles of social justice.[1] He is one of the major thinkers in the tradition of liberal political philosophy.
Rawls received both the Schock Prize for Logic and Philosophy and the National Humanities Medal in 1999, the latter presented by President Bill Clinton, in recognition of how Rawls' work "helped a whole generation of learned Americans revive their faith in democracy itself."[3]
http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Salmonella_typhimurium
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http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Salmonella_typhimurium
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Salmonella typhimurium is a pathogenic Gram-negative bacteria predominately found in the intestinal lumen. Its toxicity is due to an outer membrane consisting largely of lipopolysaccharides (LPS) which protect the bacteria from the environment. The LPS is made up of an O-antigen, a polysaccharide core, and lipid A, which connects it to the outer membrane. Lipid A is made up of two phosphorylated glucosamines which are attached to fatty acids. These phosphate groups determine bacterial toxicity. Animals carry an enzyme that specifically removes these phosphate groups in an attempt to protect themselves from these pathogens[4]. The O-antigen, being on the outermost part of the LPS complex is responsible for the host immune response. S. typhimurium has the ability to undergo acetylation of this O-antigen, which changes its conformation, and makes it difficult for antibodies to recognize [5].
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Osho, born Chandra Mohan Jain (Hindi: चन्द्र मोहन जैन) (11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), also known as Acharya Rajneesh from the 1960s onwards, as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh during the 1970s and 1980s and as Osho from 1989, was an Indian mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher who garnered an international following.
A professor of philosophy, he travelled throughout India in the 1960s as a public speaker. His outspoken criticism of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi and institutionalised religion made him controversial. He also advocated a more open attitude towards sexuality, a stance that earned him the sobriquet "sex guru" in the Indian and later international press.[3] In 1970, he settled for a while in Bombay. He began initiating disciples (known as neo-sannyasins) and took on the role of a spiritual teacher. In his discourses, he reinterpreted writings of religious traditions, mystics, and philosophers from around the world. Moving to Pune in 1974, he established an ashram that attracted increasing numbers of Westerners. The ashram offered therapies derived from the Human Potential Movement to its Western audience and made news in India and abroad, chiefly because of its permissive climate and Osho's provocative lectures. By the end of the 1970s, there were mounting tensions with the Indian government and the surrounding society.
In 1981, Osho relocated to the United States and his followers established an intentional community, later known as Rajneeshpuram, in the state of Oregon. Within a year the leadership of the commune became embroiled in a conflict with local residents, primarily over land use, which was marked by hostility on both sides.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacron-3
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Simulacron-3 (1964) (also published as Counterfeit World), by Daniel F. Galouye, is an American science fiction novel featuring an early literary description of virtual reality.
except for one, that they are only electronic impulses in a computer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_F._Galouye
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Daniel Francis Galouye (11 February 1920 – 7 September 1976) was an American science fiction writer. During the 1950s and 1960s, he contributed novelettes and short stories to various digest size science fiction magazines, sometimes writing under the pseudonym Louis G. Daniels.
Born in New Orleans, Galouye (pronounced Gah-lou-ey)[citation needed] graduated from Louisiana State University (B.A.) and then worked as a reporter for several newspapers. During World War II, he served in the US Navy as an instructor and test pilot, receiving injuries that led to later health problems. On December 26, 1945, he married Carmel Barbara Jordan. From the 1940s until his retirement in 1967, he was on the staff of The States Item. He lived in New Orleans but also had a summer home across Lake Ponchartrain at St. Tammany Parish in Covington, Louisiana.
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/tavistochumanrelations.htm
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Genome structure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osho_(Bhagwan_Shree_Rajneesh)Excerpt:
Osho, born Chandra Mohan Jain (Hindi: चन्द्र मोहन जैन) (11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), also known as Acharya Rajneesh from the 1960s onwards, as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh during the 1970s and 1980s and as Osho from 1989, was an Indian mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher who garnered an international following.
A professor of philosophy, he travelled throughout India in the 1960s as a public speaker. His outspoken criticism of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi and institutionalised religion made him controversial. He also advocated a more open attitude towards sexuality, a stance that earned him the sobriquet "sex guru" in the Indian and later international press.[3] In 1970, he settled for a while in Bombay. He began initiating disciples (known as neo-sannyasins) and took on the role of a spiritual teacher. In his discourses, he reinterpreted writings of religious traditions, mystics, and philosophers from around the world. Moving to Pune in 1974, he established an ashram that attracted increasing numbers of Westerners. The ashram offered therapies derived from the Human Potential Movement to its Western audience and made news in India and abroad, chiefly because of its permissive climate and Osho's provocative lectures. By the end of the 1970s, there were mounting tensions with the Indian government and the surrounding society.
In 1981, Osho relocated to the United States and his followers established an intentional community, later known as Rajneeshpuram, in the state of Oregon. Within a year the leadership of the commune became embroiled in a conflict with local residents, primarily over land use, which was marked by hostility on both sides.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacron-3
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Simulacron-3 (1964) (also published as Counterfeit World), by Daniel F. Galouye, is an American science fiction novel featuring an early literary description of virtual reality.
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Simulacron 3 is the story of a virtual city (total environment simulator) for marketing research, developed by a scientist to reduce the need for opinion polls. The computer-generated city simulation is so well-programmed, that, although the inhabitants have their own consciousness, they are unaware,except for one, that they are only electronic impulses in a computer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_F._Galouye
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Daniel Francis Galouye (11 February 1920 – 7 September 1976) was an American science fiction writer. During the 1950s and 1960s, he contributed novelettes and short stories to various digest size science fiction magazines, sometimes writing under the pseudonym Louis G. Daniels.
Born in New Orleans, Galouye (pronounced Gah-lou-ey)[citation needed] graduated from Louisiana State University (B.A.) and then worked as a reporter for several newspapers. During World War II, he served in the US Navy as an instructor and test pilot, receiving injuries that led to later health problems. On December 26, 1945, he married Carmel Barbara Jordan. From the 1940s until his retirement in 1967, he was on the staff of The States Item. He lived in New Orleans but also had a summer home across Lake Ponchartrain at St. Tammany Parish in Covington, Louisiana.
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/tavistochumanrelations.htm
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These Tavistock-U.S. institutions have in many cases grown into gargantuan monsters, penetrating every aspect of our government agencies and taking command of all policy making. One of Tavistock's chief wreckers of our way of life was Dr. Alexander King, a founder member of NATO and a favorite with the Committee of 300, as well as an outstanding member of the Club of Rome.
When it was decided that a super-body would control European affairs, the RIIA founded the Tavistock Institute, which in turn created NATO. For Five years NATO was financed by the German Marshall Fund. Dr. King was assigned by the Club of Rome to destroy America's education by taking control of the National Teachers Association and working in close conjunction with certain law makers and judges. Scientists engaged in the process of conditioning are called "social engineers" or "new-science social scientists" and they play an integral part in what we see, hear and read. The "old school" social engineers were Kurt K. Lewin, Professor Hadley Cantril, Margaret Meade, Professor Derwin Cartwright and Professor Lipssitt who, together with John Rawlings Reese, made up the backbone of new-science scientists at Tavistock Institute.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_King_(scientist)
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Alexander King CMG, CBE (26 January 1909 - 28 February 2007) was a scientist and pioneer of the sustainable development movement who co-founded the Club of Rome in 1968 with the Italian industrialist Aurelio Peccei.
At the time of the Club of Rome's founding, King was a "top international scientific civil servant, Scots by birth, living in Paris."
In 1940, Henry Tizard invited King to join the Ministry of Production as Deputy Scientific Adviser. While there he would learn from an intercepted letter the properties of the insecticide dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, coining the acronym DDT. He travelled to the U.S. in 1943, becoming Head of the UK Scientific Mission and Scientific Attaché at the British Embassy in Washington.[1]
Following the war he became Secretary of the Advisory Council on Scientific Policy and personal adviser to the Lord President of the Council, Herbert Morrison. He later became Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.[1]
In 1957 he joined the European Productivity Agency in Paris, where he remained until 1974.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_King_(scientist)
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Alexander King CMG, CBE (26 January 1909 - 28 February 2007) was a scientist and pioneer of the sustainable development movement who co-founded the Club of Rome in 1968 with the Italian industrialist Aurelio Peccei.
At the time of the Club of Rome's founding, King was a "top international scientific civil servant, Scots by birth, living in Paris."
[edit] Education and early work
King attended Highgate School, studied chemistry at London's Royal College of Science and the University of Munich, then taught and carried out some important research at Imperial College, London.[1]In 1940, Henry Tizard invited King to join the Ministry of Production as Deputy Scientific Adviser. While there he would learn from an intercepted letter the properties of the insecticide dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, coining the acronym DDT. He travelled to the U.S. in 1943, becoming Head of the UK Scientific Mission and Scientific Attaché at the British Embassy in Washington.[1]
Following the war he became Secretary of the Advisory Council on Scientific Policy and personal adviser to the Lord President of the Council, Herbert Morrison. He later became Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.[1]
In 1957 he joined the European Productivity Agency in Paris, where he remained until 1974.[1]
http://911closeup.com/nico/911truthling_cult4.html
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1957
First known use of the term "transhumanism".
Transhumanism is an international intellectual and cultural movement supporting the use of new sciences and technologies to enhance human cognitive and physical abilities.
During the early 80s, the transhumanist vision of a profoundly transformed future humanity arrives also in the Computer Society.
The first self-described transhumanists meet formally at the University of California, Los Angeles, which becomes the main center of transhumanist thought.
In 1986, Eric Drexler published Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology.
In 1988, philosopher Max More founded the Extropy Institute.
In 1998, philosophers Nick Bostrom and David Pearce founded the World Transhumanist Association (WTA).
In 1999, the WTA drafted and adopted The Transhumanist Declaration.
Transhumanism or Extropianism also influences the so called cyberpunk genre, exemplified by William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984) and Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix (1985).
It also infects some cults like the Raëlism and Scientology.
http://newmiddleeast.wordpress.com/page/2/
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21st Century Strategy: Militarized Europe, Globalized NATO
“[T]he Strategic Concept must be clear that Article 5 means what it says: an attack on one is an attack on all. The concept also must go further to strengthen Article 5’s credibility with a firm commitment to enhance deterrence through appropriate contingency planning, military exercises, and force development.”
Hillary Clinton: “I want to reaffirm as strongly as I can the United States’ commitment to honor Article 5 of the NATO treaty. No Ally – or adversary – should ever question our determination on this point. It is the bedrock of the Alliance and an obligation that
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