I've got my words

I've got my words of the past looking at me.
The actions of people back then made me laugh.
I could say things of death and look back with a smile.
The times have changed for worse and murder.
The broken backs of men lay still.
On desert sands not traveled by me.
But I drive on with gas of blood,
oblivious in a drunken state
But my mittens are warm inside.
My mind is whole and so I sigh.
I've got my words of the past looking at me.
A true life lived with thought and goals.
With drive, I strived for better things.
I still see grace in everything.
But all I see is myself in everything.
I am one with the big universe
I am fun when with 2 bottles of wine
I am without anything that breaks apart my smile.
I frown at all you hunters both of animal and man.
I hug all of you friendly folks that let them just pass by.
But I've got my words of the past looking at me.
The grief of death has run its course enough for a lifetime.
The way life flies by, I question why I try.
But always settle on try cause not trying is how you die
My plastic mind will stay that way as it drifts into an older age.
My running game won't settle down.
My bicycle won't ever slow down
My life will stay forever bound to everything and anything
that found its way on this small planet tucked in the middle of a massive battle
between our black hole galactic nucleus and everything sucked towards it.
But as it sucks it gives us life with formation of our solar system
and all you see is this big blue ball or your great big house or your fancy car or your loved one's tears or your child's fears or your own abused hands as you take your shirt off at night.

Dream

All I want is to explore the universe.
All I want is to explore the universe.
I don't need to open my eyes today.
I don't need to open my eyes today.

Human Evolution Recognition

So I was thinking today about how people can general say that they are better at recognizing features of people of their own race and ancestry. So a question popped into my head. Is this difference in facial recognition fundamental to the nature of that person or a product of their being surrounded for most of their lives by a certain type of person? This could be discovered by comparing people of a particular ancestry that had different geographic and social conditions during their development. we would want to see the degree of activation of the brain, specifically the FFA (fuciform face area) during the stimulus of people of different degrees of genetic separation from that person. Then if it is true that people have a fundamental ability to recognize their own ancestry, perhaps even there is a correlation between a person's genetic separation and ability to recognize. Then if that is true, maybe we can use human computation to measure genetic difference further down the line.

we can clearly think of what the face of an ape look like. We can recognize that it is an ape. we can even think clearly about and visualize several different structures found on the ape's face. But since genetic separation between humans and apes is not insignificant, we can not bring it to light with the same detail another human's eyes and nose and cheeks and chin and hair appears in our minds.

With that we can jump to another end and think about our recognition of dogs and cats. Still mammals, we can see a dog's smile and have strong empathy for them when hurt. Further down the line we come to birds which have faces and features that we can recognize as being related to our own. we can see a beak is a mouth and a bird's eyes are like our own. We can picture the world from a bird's eye view as we glide across the sky from tree to tree to light pole. Then we can jump to an ant. We know it has a head. We can see it has some kind of eyes that are less like our own than the bird's. We can barely make out the features beyond that that the ant has that we share. Through all these, we would hopefully see the difference in activation within the brain. Our significant difference block our ability to recognize and have true connections with them.

But then again perhaps these differences in recognition further back in the chain of human life are merely about geography rather than genetics. If we grow up in a certain area and our ancestors grew up in another area, and the grandparents of someone else grew up somewhere else, then would it be the case that we could recognize better the things our ancestors saw which would be different from the things another person's ancestor's witnessed. This would mean that the differences we could find further down the line may just be because our ancestor's saw less of those sorts of animals. For instance, many people have a good grasp of the differences between trees just as their parents had and their parents before them. So even though the genetic split between humans and trees is enormous, human interactions with trees over thousands of years has increased our ability to recognize the features of trees and our interactions with cats and dogs has increased our ability to emote with cats and dogs.

But the funny thing is, if the second is true, it would be a way of self distinguishing people's fairly local ancestry and if the other is the case then it would be a way to self distinguish people's long term ancestry.

but either way do they all look the same?

We Are Not I

We are the family
We are the friends
We are the city
We are the state
We are the continent
We are the human race
we are nature's way
we are tired for days
we are endless pain
we are lesson's learned
we are timeless, burnt into the ways of every piece of everything

but we are not I

PATRICK (8 Oct 1985 - 12 May 2007)

Bright eyed baby done built a soul
and with a change of lanes it's all lost.
Beautiful minds don't create themselves.
He made good use of his time.

Patrick - "Live it like you mean it"

if I was a bird I would be high all the time

Today I saw several cardinals with a blue jay in pursuit. They flew from branch to branch with the cardinals always taking off together and the blue jay lagging behind. It was as if the blue jay was in an endless pursuit. Always trying to be a cardinal, but trapped in the body of a blue jay. The poor bird would make it to the next branch just as the cardinals were leaving, them always maintaining their synchronized flights.

Then I became distracted by another blue jay that had caught something in its mouth. It was green and in the bird's mouth looked like delicious nourishment. It zipped across my field of vision just barely allowing its catch to be visible. It must've been a grasshopper, but I am not certain. I know it had a single long leg sticking out of the corner of the beak. In a moment the bird disappeared into a tree and though I saw more blue jays, I couldn't be sure I saw that particular champion again.

A chipmunk found its way in my bushes though and let me watch him nibble at little tree helicopters. It seemed disappointed with it, but I picked up a few and decided to try the little green center, well protected from the elements by its little ridged husk. The poor little tree child was not quite flavorful, but seemed like a nice little snack to go with my sun dried tomatoes, so I picked up a hand-full and devoured a few more.

Just as my snack ended, I spied a little bunny rabbit making its way on to my back porch. He hopped about a bit and I stayed very still. He made his way a bit closer to me before I budged a bit and scared the poor fella away.

We are not I though you see. I saw the birds, and you saw them with your mind. We are all connected.

footage for 4 ft high dome

1.394 ft * 30 = 41.82 ft
+ 1.614 ft * 40 = 64.56 ft
+ 1.649 ft * 50 = 82.45 ft

= 188.83 ft

THE BOAT!

Everybody wants to steer the boat
Everybody wants to steer the boat
Everybody wants to steer the boat
Everybody wants to steer the boat
But we're crashing today
Theres no way we can stay

Nobody wants to crash the boat
Nobody wants to crash the boat
but they will
if they keep on trying so hard
in both directions so hard
Straight on path won't go far
we'll crash the boat today

Recycle Your Blastocysts

What's Worse Than Taco Bell?

World peace would be nice

eh?

It is better than Taco Bell

What is worse than Taco Bell?

War

You make a good point

World peace it is then

Peace Today

My rights as a human being are endless
you can't keep that knowledge from me
My rights as a human being are precious
stop trying to take them away from me

All I want is a peaceful way to be
an end to war is what I need to see
theres a way to let our thoughts be free
lets all grow our minds like trees

theres no need to live in fear
theres no need to cause more tears
it is better to say
I I I want peace peace peace today

My rights as a human being are splendid
theres no way to program me
My rights as a human being aren't faded
The work to beat them is lost today

I want to live longer than my father
in the end life might not even be a bother
We need a way to work together better
It will come together to the letter

theres no need to live in fear
theres no need to cause more tears
it is better to say
I I I want peace peace peace today

Meaning of Life

its a process

go with it

maybe you'll become more complex

maybe not

but you are

and eventually you won't be

NO WAR PLEASE

IT IS TIME

When I was a monkey
I loved my family

When I was an ape
I loved my family

Then I got a tribe
I warred with other tribes

Then I was a man
and war was still my plan

Then I found a town
and all my love was downtown

Now I've got a city
and every member is pretty

That city's in a state
and every statesman's great

My state hates other states
But I cannot not wait

For peace around the Earth
Seeing that we all know birth

We all are full of genes
passed down from the monkey scenes

and those are shared with mammals
so we should love all the animals

and those are like the plants
so why is it that people can't

Love everything we know
was there for the whole show

We are all the same
and we have a beautiful name

Nature is what we are
and when its seen we will go far

Hawking told me

humans are chemical scum on the surface of a typical planet that’s in orbit around a typical star (our sun) on the outskirts of a typical galaxy.

BE COURAGEOUS!

Response to Religion

Father Monty said...

Actually - I don't think trees worship the sun or the ground - they probably have a much better handle on this existence thing than most humans.

That is exactly the point...worship is a motivator. Trees have their existence better handled because they are motivated only to grow closer to the sun. They have only that bit of coding in them. Humans got brains and our motivations became more complex. With that complexity comes responsibility. I admit my motivations wouldn't suit everyone. But I also work to weaken my motivations that do others harm. It is within humanity to push our motivations and our responsibility to do so wisely. So be a human because you're not a tree. Trees have it easy.

Gozoto '08

Positions of political power have remained for a long time either the work of a single man or the work of a massive group. It is about time we decided that there are more things we can understand about group human interaction and speed of decision making. It is never ideal for a single human being to have any executive power. Single trackedness will lead any group straight to the pits. A group of diverse humans of a size of no more than 7, preferably in the 3-5 range is much more optimal. This particular arrangement allows for quick group decisions that can be drawn back by them being able to classify decisions such that a certain number of agreements is needed. I team of people in a political office will better serve the people's diversity. The world is not black and white. The grays of the world are nearly endless. There should never be the decisions of one man and his allies directing global power. The world's conscience, especially thinking of its growth in many parts of the world, should be better heard. And because people are so different, their ideas of what is good for us and bad for us are very different. But we can have it both ways. By having group decisions we come to the realization that there are people of this world that are different from us, but they are not better or worse. The only way we can fit all the different opinions of the world into a nice organization that allows for protection and safety and taxation with representation is to allow never just one person and his agenda to be the agenda. The Government is an institution in constant change. It allows for large funds from the people to benefit the people as a whole. We are one people. We all share the same ancestry back to the first groups of Homo sapiens 200,000 years ago. The image of those first humans huddling together for warmth, working together for food, and playing together when they relax should be better ingrained into the collective conscience of humanity. We are not people of different races, nationalities, and creeds. Those are words that have developed through the growth of our language and became perverted by anger and greed. We have made great strides in somewhat recent history. The world has worked together to end slavery. We have begun to discuss action that needs to be taken to help many third world countries. Action has even been taken on many levels in all of our initial motherland those millennia ago, Africa. As humanity spread across the earth, we evolved and changed and organized. People entered diverse environments and used their brains, never before encountered by Earth, to tackle all the problems they encountered. Every culture has an epic story to tell about their battles with the natural world, when lands of far off places were still frontiers. So now we must look at where we find ourselves today. The human brain has managed to not just harness the power of nature, but more recently, has managed to move its computational power outside of itself with the conception of the computer. We now watch technology grow at a much quicker rate than our own evolution. This has lead to problems with technology mixing with nature. We continue to take energy straight from the earth, a planet that has spent its entire existence changing at its own pace, the pace of nature, the pace of our own development.

Technology has lead us to a time when we can know much much more than we can implement quickly. We know solutions to the problems of global warming, but have not found time to implement them. We know ways of obtaining energy and transporting ourselves around quickly, but have not found time to implement them. We know ways to share all human knowledge instantly across the globe, but the institutions that be have censored and altered, and we have not found time to fix those problems. These problems have led many people to reject technology. Rejecting technology at this point means catastrophic failure of the human race. The only way we have figured out how to adapt to our fast growing population is fast growing technology. The hope we have left is that just like many processes in nature. The detrimental effects of technology and humanity on the planet are oscillatory. If we let technology advance long enough, we will find an implementation of things that allows for mutual advantage between humanity and the planet.

It is for these reasons that I am announcing my intentions to run for cooperative president of the United States of America. If elected, I will work hard to balance my ideas with those of the other 2 to 6 cooperative presidents.



It is my plan to work with the other presidents as a team. Together we can show respect for each other's ideals and find solutions that benefit the most people possible. There is hope for a brighter future. There is hope for novel ways of being that are better than the entrenched ways that exist today. As Copresident I will balance my plans with those around me, realizing that humanity is hugely diverse so my knowledge and opinions are no better or worse than those of the other Copresidents or those of any other human. The best idea is always just mutual respect for every set of ideas.

God Bless America
Vote Gozoto '08

Cyborg Dream

Nature dies every day
Then is born again the same

People don't know where to go
Cycles endless if we stay

All you are is your brain
So thats what we can have remain

As robots we are free
As humans we can never be

Get your food from a plug
Made from stardust up above

No need to kill to survive
Just pet the animals as you pass by

Take a vacation to the sun
You'll survive without blood

Religion

I spent some time with the trees today praising the sun. Reaching up for higher places, I climbed a few. I thought it would be great if I could just stand there all day taking in the sun and that being all I needed to survive. But all I could use that energy for would be to praise the sun by reaching up closer as trees have done for thousands of years.

I ate a granola bar after coming home from the woods. It gave me life with its nuts and fruits. I used the sugars by transforming them into various other molecules that allow me to move electrons around in my head to think, move muscles in my arms and fingers and legs and toes and neck and eyes and all the other muscles I have used since I got home. I used other bits of granola, nuts, and fruit to rebuild my skin that I had scraped while in the woods. A bit more was used to continue healing my elbow, which was wounded the night before, falling off the roof of my home twice while trying to climb it to break into my window. If you have seen a red key or a blue key in a place they shouldn't be...please return.

Falling from roofs always makes me think of death. If I had fallen just a bit differently, my neck could snap or I could've wounded my brain in a way that could forever change me. I rarely fear death. I know where I should be and I know where I shouldn't. My experiences on top of roofs have been largely good up until last night. The real danger is always in getting started and getting finished. Those dangers hardly just apply to roofs though. One finds danger in starting or finishing any venture. Being aware of these dangers is half the battle though. The other half is attempting to manipulate one's environment to minimize the danger. I didn't break my neck because I set up chairs and suitcases around my climbing position so if I fell, my fall would be broken by better objects than concrete slabs. So when I did fall, the objects I set out allowed cushioning. I did not thank god for my survival. I did not ask god for help in climbing the roof. I knew what I was capable of, I thought about the problem. I briefly considered possible dangers. I prepared for them. I even called a friend to notify them that if I didn't call back in the near future, I had fallen off a roof and needed medical attention. God would not have had anything to do with it if he/she/they did exist. The world needs to realize the world they live in and know how to prepare for the things they will come across that will need preparation. Having faith in a deity that will hopefully only let you die when they feel like it is not included in the necessary preparation ever.

I am not making a front against religion. I realize that groups of religious people have done great things in the past. It is always good to have a community. But I am making an argument that communities will not be hurt when religion passes. Humans are creative beings. We can make decisions related to our immediate environment with the knowledge of environments we have encountered in the past. If we are around each other, we can interact and work together for great goals.

Believing in a god allows for one thing. The prospect that a person can be immortal without working at being immortal. There has never been any evidence that a person exists after death. There has been little or no evidence that humans have anything trumping the laws of nature that require that organisms live and organisms die. There is no reason to believe that once I die, anything will happen other than I will cease to be, rot or be burned, and disappear. Everything that is has existed much much much longer than I will exist and that is something to accept and move on from.

God gives a crutch that isn't necessary. We can all work together. We can all get along. We can all grow old and die. We all have the potential to do great things for each other within certain bounds. Expecting something greater because one's elders told them so because their elders told them so because their elders told them so is unreasonable at best. We used to worship the gods that brought us food, just as the trees worship the sun. Now we worship ridiculous ideas of grandeur, while knowing better of the results.

I only ask you to be a human, not a tree.

Personal Mobility System

The current road system has many problems. The major problem is cars and trucks drive on them. Cars and trucks are large and metal. Moving around large metal boxes with human drivers often on various substances leads to many deaths and large amounts of pollution. There is an answer though...





The Personal Mobility System would involve a small amount of infrastructure to become useful. It would definitely need to grow from a small community system, but would only require a single track in most areas.







If a single person is traveling, only the energy needed to transport
that one person will be used. A lightweight structure can grab onto a
rail or asphalt log in order to maintain stability and traction.






If every car in the system can be monitored and controlled by the track, a person can get from point A to point B simply and efficiently. A destination on the PMS system for the PMSpod must first be chosen. Then the pod routes its course automatically. The system is set up with nodes or intersections that will be notified of a PMSpod's need to pass through it. The node then matches all intersection crossings to a schedule where the time it takes for the PMSpod to safely pass through the intersection without collision is allocated to each pod. Furthermore, when a PMSpod is within a certain distance from the node, it notifies other pods in the area and elicits a response from the other PMSpods to ensure they are not approaching too quickly. If necessary, it adjusts the schedule at this point. If a node's schedule is too full, it notifies other nearby nodes and those nodes reply with their ability to reroute. If that fails, the node also has the ability to increase the speed of nearby traffic to allfow for more swift scheduling of traffic.






PMSpods are not just for travel. The system also has the potential to be a supplier of internet access both in the pods and out. Nodes could also store wifi routers accessible by both the PMSpods and local citizens. The pods will run with highly efficient electric motors with a battery or capacitor storing charge for each voyage. since the load is much lighter, much smaller motors are needed than those of an electric car. In addition, the PMSpods could be charged by the logs they travel on. Metering energy expenditure for billing would not be difficult.



Inside the PMSpod is a cozy interior that can range from a bedlike setting where the person can lie down and watch TV or use a computer and webcam connected to the internet to mass seating for cheap public transportation on the PMS system



PMSlogs also allow for plenty of room for utility lines, which in a log would allow for greater accessibility in servicing. Each node can be removed and replaced and the removed PMSnode can be transported by PMS to a servicing station and then used at another node juncture. The same applies for the connections between nodes which can be modular, each one spanning several meters, but small enough for easy transport to servicing and replacement.

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Food without the wrappers

Tonight I spent some time with some vegan friends that have formed a passion for cooking delicious vegan food. And with mind turning, I started to convince them that there was a way to start an online vegan food service where they cook some meals and distribute them very locally by using the internet.
The idea would be to have them decide how many meals they want to make that day and cook a few meals with fresh ingredients on a semi-large scale each day. We could then use reusable bio-plastic containers to hold the food for when it is either frozen or distributed. This would hopefully allow us to safely package these foods in sets of five meals, looking to fill 5 meals of this person's diet with delicious vegan food. The containers will be reusable so they will cost them the first time they buy the food, but the next time we will not charge for the container if the previous one is returned for cleaning.
Range of this service will be limited to bicycle reach which amounts to most of Bloomington. Limited quantity makes delivery a small daily task.
This model leaves little waste, the importance of limiting negative byproducts is observed at every turn. This food distribution model also allows for expansion, not from a single group, but through a large online community. Surely everyone knows a person who can cook delicious food. It is not unreasonable for that person to want to share their food with the rest of the world for a minimal profit. They could offer even as little as 5 plates of home cooking up on a website at a price reasonable for the ingredients, delivery, and overall effort. A localized food ebay would allow much greater diversity in the foods experienced by people everywhere. Reusable containers could be used universally as a calling card for such food. Allowing patrons of previous microrestaurants to clean the containers and sell their own meals locally. Risk of food poisoning is always a concern, so it is clear that in order to cook meals for others, there would have to be an initial inspection of the food, but quality control beyond that should be community based, with people commenting on the meals they received allowing the best meals to increase their prices to meet with raised demand. This will allow expansion of some people's passion for food into full restaurants. This allows for a food minor league for lovers of great cooking that don't have the funds to create a whole restaurant.

I plan to spend a few hours a day on web design to throw this idea into action. The vegans will start thinking about cooking and we may see a new way to eat formed out of the ether.

Idea for voice box with pitch

The pitch of a person's voice is determined by by the vocal cords or
vocal folds


image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_cord

When the folds close together they vibrate as air goes past
them.  The pitch is determined by the resonant frequency of
the folds.  So their closing must be determined by some
measurable nerve impulse.  This appears mostly possible
now through a metal probe placed into the adjacent muscle
tissue.  This could at some point be possible with external
electrodes.

That signal can then be processed to find a maximum and
minimum activity values that would fit to a pitch range. 
This would allow for that signal to be sent to an
electronically generated voice box that would have a
variable pitch.  This whole apparatus could be gently
strapped to the neck allowing the rest of the process
to occur in the mouth, like in a normal voice box device.

The smoker of yesteryear without a voice, could then
enjoy a much more expressive range of speech.  With
heightened control, the voice sound could become any
other sound, allowing the person to sing with any
musical instrument.

We are not I

I was thinking about deaf people today and decided to investigate what language deaf people think in. Unable to find a nice neuroscience study, I settled for a few blogs that discussed talking about the question with their deaf friends. Many of them said that they thought in sign. Attempting to think in sign myself was quite impossible, but thinking in expressive movements came very quickly. This is largely because I do not have the sign language vocabulary to establish a monologue in the language. My ability to communicate through movements of my body are limited to emphasis and emotion. Take a moment to think about frowning and sadness without frowning. Going through the motions in your mind. I would argue, aside from having less connection to the language centers of your brain, there is little difference between this action and the inner monologue you normally think through. Now try smiling and happiness in your mind and discover that this is much easier, smiles being one of the most contagious expressions, one could argue that your smile is nearly always primed.



So what does this tell us about the nature of consciousness?



There is certainly a question of motivation. Thinking jumps around from thought to thought, reliving experiences, repeating information, allowing full access to all functioning parts of the brain. A thinking person can visualize objects, practice speech, mix and meld ideas based on heuristics they have developed for doing so. This all seems to be for practice. Regardless of whether you are a person that has dedicated themselves to math, science, art, writing, business, or religion, you are constantly thinking and a good portion of that happens in the language you know and most of us speak that language well, at most as well as our conscious thoughts. It is natural for us to be motivated to talk to ourselves in our heads so we can better be able to communicate with others.



There is also a question of how the idea of "I" or self realization occurs. If you are most greatly developed through the communications of other people, and you practice the skills of communicating with other people through your conscious thoughts, along with your other skills. What will you call yourself other than I, given you are constantly communicating with yourself. Many have come to call themselves by their own names. No doubt I would be better at saying my own name if that were the case for me. Your self could be described as a graph with all your skills and ideas on the x axis and a bar coming up from each describing how primed or practiced each is. The greatest being the most practiced and ready to be filtered through language and become the start of a conversation.



So I is a creation of humanity and we must look past this humanity to realize that I is nothing without Us. We are not I because everything that makes up I comes from the world around us and what we gain from the communal pool of knowledge. Our ideals and faiths are a product of the part of the pool we come in contact with, but perfection as a species comes from allowing each of us to reach as deep as we can into that pool. That is where we can find the greatest truths and the insights into why we are the way we are and what we should do next.



We are not I.

6.5 billion minds should never think alone

650 quintillion neurons should never fire alone

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The Ether

The ether is probability. We have only come so far to say if the event is repeated over and over again, it might be this thing or it might be that. The electron may be there or there or there. But we know the electron is. We can feel its force and harness it to run the information age. But what has God done for us. Spoke to a few people that were very pre-information age, pre-science, and provoked by a lack of value for life and humanity in the world around them. All we have for science is a set of knowledge created from a process that has allowed humanity to progress much faster than it ever has in the past. Religions also have a collection of knowledge from texts, but more they have influence. They have the influence to convince millions to do right and to tell them what right is. Science only looks to know what helps and how it helps. Every one of us can look into our lives and find a quick decision that turned out poorly. Religion is the quick decision by humanity to sacrifice a little choice for a lot more justice. That balance should never be shifted away from justice, but I'm not convinced that the choices limited by modern religions are those that should be worried about. At a time when the human population is rocketing in the third world, religious and cultural movements in the Arab and African world have worked to prevent condom use and stop abortions. In a time when we can finally see the massive benefits seen in societies with growing education systems, religious and cultural movements move to control education and censor scientists. Rules must always exist to protect. Rules must always exist to control. But a cultural movement that started early in humanity must gain its validity from the world we can see and feel. Even when we look into ourselves it is there, but so are the building blocks of language, the processes necessary to learn. These abilities ride beside each other within the human mind, not because God blessed them upon us, but because they formed and grew as our society became more complex and largely integrated. That is why there are different religions in different areas where people were isolated from each other at different times. With language barriers behind us and people learning and gaining from science all over the world it is time to force our own evolution away from a god fearing race and into a race that realizes the universe is massive and complex and our minds and existence are simple in comparison. With a vast sky above us, we must praise and follow the light of the unknown to discover meaning and greatness in the world around as well as to survive another day. Maybe god exists, maybe the electron is there and going that fast, but the answer is not upon us so lets move on and think about what we can do to glorify humanity and the world we reside on.

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Braino Fako

MIT World » : Can a New Theory of the Neocortex Lead to Truly Intelligent Machines?



HTM(Hierarchical Temporal Memory)



This guy is pretty much describing a pattern recognition system that mimics the way our brains recognize patterns. This presentation is fairly simplistic in its discussion of it, but I can't wait for this to be the general way to think about things. A human interacting with this technology that does what our brain does in a very finite and nice way could probably lead to humans mimicking the end result of this technology.



When someone takes a drug, lets say a neurotransmitter mimic, we get all this extra activation. Extra patterns pop out of things that weren't necessarily there in the first place, but often the final result is seeing a pattern that even without the drug has a lot of legitimacy to the world around us. In a system that mimics our pattern recognition, but in an adjustable way, we, as humans, can adapt to better look at patterns that this system adapts to and adapt to them ourselves.



Also it could give us greater insight into how we can learn. For instance, given an equation that a person might see while learning to do some kind of low level math. (2+9=11)...we see 2 then + then 9 and then our brains give a high probability of the answer being 11. This is something not far from the ability of this technology and getting from just recognizing those numbers to the final answer has many steps that would become more easily modeled with this type of technology.



EXCITING!

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Women vs Men

MIT World » : Intelligence, Cognitive Reflection, and Decision Making





This crazy dude makes an interesting argument for smart people being risk takers and more patient and the less intelligent liking risks less and being more impatient. At the same time he has plenty of data showing women are less intelligent than men.



His measure of intelligence is a test of cognitive reflection where the person is given questions where there is an obvious trick answer and a right answer that takes some amount of computation.



Silly womens.

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