Love 2

10:45 AM L: yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
10:46 AM <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
10:47 AM me: love you x
10:48 AM L: ditto am hunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

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G: man we is gonna be trippin
5:38 PM i remember at a rave i danced with a twig in a field

L: we shall see. i think if you occupy my fingers and mouth and chest enough then I will not even think about smoking!!

G: i loved it

G: my hands is still got muck in dem

L: you

are

such

a

tease

G: my muscles are aching
5:41 PM
L: would give them a rub

if i could

G: just one zip

L: ha

G: on the suit

L: You are really being quite unfair

G: can u get to exeter in the morning?

i can get there by 10am
5:42 PM
dont ave 2 mind

L: Errrrrrrrr yeah if i get up early enough

G: 12pm?

L: i usually get up fkin early anywya

nah i'll look. 10 should be fiune

G: cooooooooooooooooool
5:43 PM
means we can talk 4 lobegr innit

longer

L: yarp

G: i better get dressed then aint i

just got boxers on

tight white ones
5:44 PM
L: I am not happy with you. I would hiss at you if you could hear me

G: really?

L: well for being such a tease

it is not fair!

G: sorry;(

L: ha
5:45 PM
G: Yo id betta get ready my baby

Love

A funny word, doing what it does.
True? With no lies or disappointed sighs, only apples in her eyes.
Comfortable in skin. Being brave.
Communicating without speaking.
Right here right now, not repairing the past.
Two way flow. Good sex.
Promises kept.

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5th Order Theory of Mind makes Art/Religion possible

Just read a great book by Dunbar entitled "The Human Story" - a review of it is here.



A look at current theories of how human language and culture began, it includes an intriguing look at Theory of Mind.

A good demonstration of what Theory of Mind means is shown by the Sally-Ann test - if you give a 4 year old child (in this example called Sally) a tube of Smarties and ask her what is inside the tube, they should say "smarties" of course - but you have prepared the tube and open it to show pencils you placed in it earlier. After the inevitable disappointment, replace the lid then invite Ann into the room. We now ask Sally what Ann will say when we ask what is in the Smartie tube.



Here comes the key point: to get the correct answer, Sally needs Theory of Mind to comprehend other minds exist beyond her own. This develops in humans at around 4-6 years old. If Sally is below 4, she will answer that Ann will say pencils, not being able to distinguish her own experiences from Ann's. Over around 6 years old, Sally will give the correct answer that Ann will get the question wrong, saying it contains smarties.

This experiment demonstrates 2nd order theory of mind - to pass the test Sally needs to know [1] that Ann will think [2] there are smarties in the tube.

It turns out there are hardly any animals who can comprehend 2nd order theory of the mind - some chimpanzees and maybe dolphins can make the leap.

In humans, we also seem to have a limit of our own Theory of Mind to around 5th or 6th order - beyond that is out of our comprehension.

A forth order Theory of Mind would be something like:
Ann thinks [1] she knows what Bill will say [2] when Bill realises Sally is jealous [3] of Sue being in love with Bill [4].

4th order already is quite complicated, and interestingly women are more adept than men beyond this order.

Now, for religion to function, 4th order functionality is necessary: The general population [1] must know their religious ideals are shared with others [2]: that they are all regarded by God(Gods) [3] who react and listen to prayers [4].

A religious leader who rises up and teaches such would need to be at least order [5], and his inspirational prophet to inspire such following a [6]?

Good art can also be seen to require higher order theory of mind - the example Dunbar gives is Shakespeare:

...Iago had to intend [1] that Othello would believe [2] that Desdemona wanted [3] to love another for his plot to work. Moreover, we, the audience, need fourth-order intentionality [4] to understand the play, and Shakespeare needed fifth-order intentionality [5] to be able to write the play so as to produce the appropriate response in us.

Good art communicates at least what the artist was thinking, and maybe even what a group or nation thinks - Mona Lisa is a good example I think - it has those layers - what was Mona thinking of the artist when she sat for him, what did the artist want the audience to think Mona was thinking of the artist?

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Eternal Life beckons

Saw an excellent programme on BBC iPlayer called "Did Darwin Kill God" which examined the relationship of Ultra-Darwinist's verses Intelligent Design.

A great number of points made, a few take away's include the Creationist's literal reading of the Bible only started in the 1930s after a monumental case trial (Scopes Monkey Trial) put Darwin against the Bible where there had been no conflict before - most Christians even before Darwin throughout its 2000 year history knew not to take the words of the Bible as science, and many of the leading geologists of the day had placed the age of the Earth at a least a few million years; and those Geologists were Anglican Priests.

There is also no reason that a belief in evolution necessitates atheism, despite what the Ultra Darwinists such as Dawkins will try to present otherwise, meme theory their greatest weapon in the attempt, which may come under attack by the Godel incompleteness theorem - meme theory may disprove God, but it also disproves itself, evolution and the rest of science! If anyone has a comment on this, please get in touch, I'm reserving judgement.

But I finish with this thought perhaps promopted by this program and the excellent movie, The Prestige, directed by the same guy who did Memento, another great film.



Many worlds theory gives us the notion that every possible consequence of the laws of Physics exists, but humans, or an observer, only experience one of these at the time.

We hear of disasters and experience loved ones die, but there is one thing we can never imagine, and that is death - the final visage of non-experience.

Do we live charmed lives? You reading this post could of died under a bus yesterday, but wouldn't be here reading this nonsense; the Universe in which you are dead exists, but is not remmebered in this Universe.

Will we all live until our body decays to death, our maximum lifespans, only halted by degrading cells and a will for life? Is faith the driving force that keeps this version of you which is alive from committing suicide?

I'm not explaining myself well, but needed to jot something down - but my idea on how we may all be lucky(?) enough to have eternal life:

As we near the Technological singularity it may be possible to download our experiences out of our bodies so our existence will never need to be given up due to an old worn out body.

Any accidents or fatal decisions that may kill the human typing out this blog post, there will always be one version of me in the future who will survive - the alive cat.

The "Live" cat version of me is the version of me I will always experience. At the very least, my lucky future self will have the same expereinces and memories of my life up to this point right now. As would a version of me that gets struck by lightning as I walk out of the door tonight.

ME/YOU/I/SELF I define as the survivor - not the unlucky ones. Its the maximum experience this bunch of organs, cells, atoms and quarks experiences over all space-time that is my full self.

Hmm. Its the motive of The Last Question and Tipler's Omega Point theory that speak to me after all these years still after reading them as a teenager.

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Trago Mills are Rascists

Well well, it looks like my local Trago Mills "superstore" has finally crossed the line with its pseudo-political adverts it places in the local paper. Already know for using it as a platform for David Challice's UK independence party views, Trago recently released an advert calling "any cash strapped Moslems" to come to the UK and claim benefits abusing the benefits system in the UK.

Read for yourself at Engage, an internet site dedicated to fighting racism on the web.



I for one am tired of Trago being so retarded to not realise multi-cultrulism strengthens the UK, bringing in £2.5 billion last year, as reported by the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) in the Independent. A similar story is reported at the BBC.

According to the Independent news story,

Immigrants make an "important contribution" to the economy and neither take jobs from native Britons nor drain public expenditure, according to Britain's business leaders.

What can we do to make ourselves heard?

First of all, register a compliant with the ASA HERE.

The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) upheld a complaint against Trago Mills in 1998 over an editorial on its advert page which referred to homosexuals as "poofters" and said the young should be protected from "this foul minority".

A further complaint lodged in July 2006 on a piece entitled ‘Immigrants Not Brits Must Adapt’ was rejected with the company arguing that out of a potential readership of a million, only one complaint was lodged with the ASA.

So if you want some action done over this, register the compliant, again, the link is HERE.

If you have a website, you can help bring this to wider public attention.

Use this code in your website, and we'll let every know that Trago Mills are Cornish Racists by putting them #1 in Google for that phrase.


It will look like this: Trago Mills are Cornish racists.

Also, take a picture of yourself holding a sign saying "Trago Mills are cornish racists" - name the file "cornish-racists" and upload it to photo sharing sites such as Flickr.com or onto your website/blog.

Please tell over people about this and get this talked about on as many blogs as possible, Trago must know that racist ideology is not welcomed by the majority of people these days, that to attack minority in this country is counter-productive, and it is in fact them who are a minority.

Further reaction to the Trago Mills advert this Jan 2009 can be read here at Bristol Indymedia

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Music Flash Game - Auditorium

A very unique game, where you guide rays of music to fill pods - you make your soundtrack to this game since your aim to complete the score waxes and wanes as you guide music rays with gravity style forces. The free-form game style reminds one of flOw. Very addictive, and as you go up levels the music instrumentation changes. Well worth a look.



Auditorium

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Why we live in 3 spatial dimensions plus time

Fermi's Paradox

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Incredibots - Even better than Fantastic Contraption

The pace of this game genre is great, we now have a worthy successor to Fantastic Contraption ......*drumroll*...... Incredibots gives more customisation to your cyber-mechanical object, so you have to drive your mad scientist machine to your goals - there is also a sandbox feture where you can just try out machine designs in your lunchbreak.

Check out what one player did, accessible from the sandbox load library - yep, you can save your replays of your machine for others to watch - he created a hand robot that can swing tarzan like over any gorge!



Incredibots come via a nice game developer called Bonte Games, whom I'm going to check out heavily, since other games seem intelligently put together, including the puzzler Factory Balls, and he publishes links to other games he admires as well.

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Orbits in our solar system

Following on from my previous post of the nearest 32 stars to the Sun, I came across this site that shows all the orbits of the moons and planets in the solar system, as well as some extra solar ones from planets we've found orbiting other stars.

The flash app Solar System Visualizer is found here

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Nearest 32 stars to the Sun

A great representation of the nearest stars with a zoomable, interactive flash application. You can see another constellation, Leo, as well. It's been created by some German game designers with some interesting looking posts also about game design.

Click on picture to go to site

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