Re: [FRIAM] Trans/Post Homo Erectus/Sapiens/Faber/Hiveus

2019-04-18 Thread Marcus Daniels
Going back to the original thread you split (subject line), I would probably have more concern for parallax if I thought there were different perspectives and some kind of nuance that was at risk.Metaphorically speaking, we aren’t driving in the fog or snow, we are driving on a cool, dry, su

Re: [FRIAM] Trans/Post Homo Erectus/Sapiens/Faber/Hiveus

2019-04-18 Thread Steven A Smith
> < We can turn up the brightness and narrow the focus to maximize flux, > but for many problems, that is not unlike hitting our high beams in a > snowstorm or fogbank.   One of the things I hope (mostly in vain, but > not entirely) for from this list is discussion of how to apply Complex > System

Re: [FRIAM] Trans/Post Homo Erectus/Sapiens/Faber/Hiveus

2019-04-18 Thread Marcus Daniels
< We can turn up the brightness and narrow the focus to maximize flux, but for many problems, that is not unlike hitting our high beams in a snowstorm or fogbank. One of the things I hope (mostly in vain, but not entirely) for from this list is discussion of how to apply Complex Systems Theory

Re: [FRIAM] Trans/Post Homo Erectus/Sapiens/Faber/Hiveus

2019-04-18 Thread Marcus Daniels
Steve writes: < Would you say that you have more confidence or faith in enhancing individual agency than in seeking the synergies and emergent possibilities through enhancing collective agency? > Something close to no confidence for the latter. I think empowered cohesive minority groups wil

[FRIAM] Digital forensics

2019-04-18 Thread Tom Johnson
Russ Standish wrote: *"Using Linux, you can just mount the Mac's hard drive, and use unixtools to investigate those files that were touched in the time span ofinterest. To be really sure, you should clone the drive first (egusing the Linux dd command) so that you don't accidently destroy anyev

Re: [FRIAM] Trans/Post Homo Erectus/Sapiens/Faber/Hiveus

2019-04-18 Thread Steven A Smith
Marcus - > > < I personally expect *practical* post/transhumanism to continue > inevitably at an accelerated rate and see no advantage in trying to > stand in it's way, but DO feel an ethical drive to try to at least > caution against the kinds of technological-outrunning-of-headlights I > believe

Re: [FRIAM] Trans/Post Homo Erectus/Sapiens/Faber/Hiveus

2019-04-18 Thread glen∈ℂ
And ... Restoration of brain circulation and cellular functions hours post-mortem https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1099-1 I've been guilty of calling the "brain in a vat" thought experiment silly. I'll have to stop doing that now. On 4/17/19 4:09 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: < As an (a

Re: [FRIAM] Trans/Post Homo Erectus/Sapiens/Faber/Hiveus

2019-04-18 Thread Prof David West
Replying mostly to Steve's post about psychedelics /CAW, I was a member of the Minneapolis Nest of CAW when I was an undergraduate student 68-72 and I must confess it was mostly about the sex, closely followed by struggles to re-define gender/social relationships/roles when everyone acknowledge