I'm going to start a little geeky, but be patient, I'll keep it super short & it's totally relevant. What's interesting about TCP (heard of TCP/IP? Yeah, it's part of that) is how the initial communication, the 'handshaking' bit goes. Very roughly, it's goes like this: Hello? [SYN] I can hear you! [SYN-ACK] Me too! [ACK] …
Here's an old, but useful exercise: Pay attention to your thoughts. What are you thinking right now? Ok. Good. Here's another one: What are you feeling right now? What is your primary emotion? Ok, excellent. Bear with me. If you lost your little finger in an accident, would you still be you? Or, put another way, since …
I was talking to a friend the other day about karma, and I got to wondering — what the hell IS it, exactly? I mean, everyone thinks they what it is, right? You do something bad — in this life or past — and it'll come back & bite you on the arse. Ok, well that's simple. …
I was catching up on some light reading this morning — reading The Economist (the funniest magazine I know), when I came across this article, which points out that physical displays of pride & shame are hardwired at an evolutionary level. Ie, they're not learned behaviours. This was discovered by watching athletes that were blind …
Post humanism is, essentially, what it will be like to be "more than human" — ie, what are we going to evolve to next. This could be purely biological, purely mechanical, some kind of nano-tech, or a combination of the lot. Transhumanism is more or less synonomous with "human enhancement". This is the stepping stone to …
