This is motivated by Glistening’s new post of her lifetime project: “we can begin to formulate a hypothesized set of basic prerequisites that a planet sized being might need to become functionally self-aware.” SOME QUERIES: In modern Western philosophy, sentience is the ability to experience sensations (known in philosophy of mind as “qualia”). In Eastern…

International games of nation-states continue as speculative contexts for contemporary activity in local regions such as the Ukraine, Iraq/Syria/Iran, Israel/Mid-East, BRICS, etc. US-MSM (Main-Stream-Media) comment at levels below this context. Four recent urls attracted my attention, relevant to this extended context: Dmity Orlov on the Russian National Character. An interesting and possibly relevant aspect for…

This is a very rough, speculative, set of ideas in early emergence. “THE Market” is the brand name for an ideology.  “THE” implies there is only ONE market, where in reality there are many. In a two only faux competition between economic ideologies, “THE Market” is contrasted with the only alternative a “TOTALLY CONTROLLED, CENTRALIZED,…

One view of a new local economy for the USA is presented in a 5 minute, quality animated video. Although I have no objections to the scenario portrayed, it left me empty.  Is this the New American Dream, a Lite Consumer Economy? Time freed up from employment is channeled into self employment for lite consumerism….

Humanity will have significant differences from biological organisms (cells, tissues, organs, physiological subsystems, whole multi-celled being, hives), but we can gain insight from exploring analogs. Living systems are nested hierarchies or holarchies. It is too complex to attempt to comprehend whole organisms as composed of cells. Intermediate holons make our comprehension possible, and probably also…

This, in fragments, was initially posted as comments to a FaceBook post. This will be a “brief” note on diversity with mental imagery competencies. At age 22 (now 80) I discovered that I lacked mental imagery in ALL sensory modes. I have yet to discover one other person so lacking. An old study showed 3%…