tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753820.post116758764631249663..comments2023-10-30T04:16:25.917-04:00Comments on Sentient Developments: Must know terms for today's intelligentsiaGeorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13003484633933455827noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753820.post-1168234419778794952007-01-08T00:33:00.000-05:002007-01-08T00:33:00.000-05:00Some interesting ideas, too bad they didn’t make a...Some interesting ideas, too bad they didn’t make a glossary instead of just a list.<BR/><BR/>“remedial ecology”? <BR/><BR/>But I think the rhetoric is offensively pompous, elitist, and naïve. <BR/><BR/>I guess I don’t get the guidelines for the list. Concepts intelligent people should know? Concepts about the future people should know? Seems very arbitrary. Why words ordinary words like “automation” and “open source” and not “evolution” or “market economy”, “sustainable development”, “non-zero-sum”? I guess don’t really grok. Maybe I’m just an intelligentsia halfling.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753820.post-1168231060538006812007-01-07T23:37:00.000-05:002007-01-07T23:37:00.000-05:00>>I would have liked to mention something about ho...>>I would have liked to mention something about how consciousness is still a hard problem in science, but I'm not sure how I could encapsulate that in a simple term.<BR/><BR/>How about: "the problem of consciousness"?<BR/><BR/>personally, I think a big part of the problem is that people talk about consciousness as if it's a single thing. Things like memory and attention, or emotions like love, for example, are very multifaceted. I think people need to look at consciousness as being a suitcase word that we fill with all sorts of notions, and then talk about consciousness as if it's a single thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753820.post-1168103554713012482007-01-06T12:12:00.000-05:002007-01-06T12:12:00.000-05:00Hi Karen,The purpose of this exercise was to come ...Hi Karen,<BR/><BR/>The purpose of this exercise was to come up with a list of concepts that have the most critical potential impact on the human condition. If you look carefully, you'll notice that these are not niche terms; I tried to be as multi-disciplinal as possible. Put another way, I am trying to establish the fundamental vocabulary required to grok the changing zeitgeist.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13003484633933455827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753820.post-1168024658538365242007-01-05T14:17:00.000-05:002007-01-05T14:17:00.000-05:00Hasn't it been at least a couple hundred years or ...Hasn't it been at least a couple hundred years or so since a well-educated person could be up to date in all fields? Pretty much any educated person could come up with a list of specialised terms (or buzzwords) in their discipline that wouldn't be familiar to people in other fields. I think it's self-flattering arrogance to claim a special status for your little corner of things.<BR/><BR/>I guess i don't pass the test to become an official member of <I>today's intelligentsia</I>, in spite of having a Ph.D., a couple dozen peer-reviewed articles and book chapters published, and thirty years of research and university-level teaching experience in a scientific discipline.<BR/><BR/>I'm also fairly well informed in politics and economics of current events, history, and literature, and am well read in literature and poetry in my second language.<BR/><BR/>But I don't know what a computronium is. Perhaps I need to go on an <I>information quest</I>. Or maybe I could simply look it up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753820.post-1168010942251691342007-01-05T10:29:00.000-05:002007-01-05T10:29:00.000-05:00We need a term to describe the genre of surprising...We need a term to describe the genre of surprisingly successful books which attack religious belief:<BR/><BR/><B>atheography</B>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753820.post-1167868593058765482007-01-03T18:56:00.000-05:002007-01-03T18:56:00.000-05:00great list! I'd add:neuro-theologymorphogenetic fi...great list! I'd add:<BR/><BR/>neuro-theology<BR/><BR/>morphogenetic fields<BR/><BR/>And how about these topics from a more lettered perspective on transhumanism:<BR/><BR/>post/trans fallacy<BR/><BR/>the multiplicity of dreams<BR/><BR/>lucid dreaming<BR/><BR/>intersubjective spaceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753820.post-1167703010728406282007-01-01T20:56:00.000-05:002007-01-01T20:56:00.000-05:00I like Progress Porn.My girlfriend refers to the r...I like Progress Porn.<BR/>My girlfriend refers to the recent spate of CGI disaster documentaries and shows (It Could Happen Tomorrow, Supervolcano, Tens Ways the World Could End, etc) as Disaster Porn.<BR/><BR/>When the state of Connecticut did a "What If" docu about how well the state could handle a Katrina-style storm hitting us, I used the phrase in passing during a production meeting. It has since caught on with some Emergency Management officials.<BR/><BR/>I'd put forth the idea that physical human enhancement (most biotech) and Intelligence Augmentation (I prefer the term Cognitive Enhancement) might need seperation. I think the first inklings of true posthumanism will see two different markets develop along those lines.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753820.post-1167698215421544612007-01-01T19:36:00.000-05:002007-01-01T19:36:00.000-05:00I look forward to the repost with links. Interest...I look forward to the repost with links. Interesting read!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753820.post-1167616836651863352006-12-31T21:00:00.000-05:002006-12-31T21:00:00.000-05:00progress porn (examples: about every issue of Popu...progress porn (examples: about every issue of <I>Popular Science</I> you can remember, especially the ones with pictures of flying cars or new and now mysteriously MIA sources of energy on the over)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753820.post-1167606202303357202006-12-31T18:03:00.000-05:002006-12-31T18:03:00.000-05:00Hi Jamais, okay point well taken. What I'll likely...Hi Jamais, okay point well taken. What I'll likely do is re-post in a couple of days with a revised list and I'll include links.<BR/><BR/>I've just thought of another one: virtual teams.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13003484633933455827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753820.post-1167604386159844182006-12-31T17:33:00.000-05:002006-12-31T17:33:00.000-05:00Steve, I thought about adding links, but I figured...Steve, I thought about adding links, but I figured that readers could simply go on information quests on their own.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13003484633933455827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753820.post-1167602956013523602006-12-31T17:09:00.000-05:002006-12-31T17:09:00.000-05:00It'd be useful to have explanatory links for these...It'd be useful to have explanatory links for these terms.<BR/><BR/>Simply knowing them isn't sufficient - knowing what they mean is important.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753820.post-1167597950976168912006-12-31T15:45:00.000-05:002006-12-31T15:45:00.000-05:00I've thought of couple more:- anthropic principle-...I've thought of couple more:<BR/><BR/>- anthropic principle<BR/>- neurodiversity<BR/><BR/>And how about one on bias management? I'm wondering if there's a better term, and perhaps something related to a reinvigorated rationalism.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13003484633933455827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753820.post-1167597837385169422006-12-31T15:43:00.000-05:002006-12-31T15:43:00.000-05:00Hi Elf,- intelligence augmentation gets covered by...Hi Elf,<BR/><BR/>- intelligence augmentation gets covered by human enhancement<BR/><BR/>- amortalism: interesting consideration; perhaps that and 'deathism' belong on the list<BR/><BR/>- bio romanticism/chauvinism gets covered with substrate chauvinism and human exceptionalism<BR/><BR/>- pangenderism / nongenderism could most certainly be added, but I prefer the term postgenderism<BR/><BR/>- privacy management - another interesting one<BR/><BR/>- ubiquitous computing - yes<BR/><BR/>- ubiquitous intelligence is probably covered with ubiquitous computing, or you could use the term distributed intelligenceGeorgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13003484633933455827noreply@blogger.com