[FRIAM] Janus colloids

[Carl Tollander]

Well, initially I was reminded of Bruce Sterling's novel "Distraction", in
which chemical manipulation of low levels of attention in neurons (The App)
reestablished a kind of involuntary multi-camerality.  OTOH, just about
everything these days initially reminds me of "Distraction".

Howsoever, reading the article leads me to a notion that native speakers of
less information-dense languages (for example, Japanese) have a greater
substantive self than native speakers of other languages due to the greater
attention to context required to make sense of any utterance.   Clearly
this notion is fraught, and while the Japanese language is one of my
current fields of study, I cannot quite bring myself to go there.
Nevertheless I think it introduces the problem of discounting language in
terms of discussing substance and vis-a-vis emergent selves.

As a sometime Buddhist, one (who?!) may discover a bit of bias re
substantive selves.   Though so must the Abrahamics.

carl

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 1:00 AM, Vladimyr <vburach at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Glen and the congregation.
>
> I caught that news as well. A bit spooky, Leibnitz's Monads, then this
> came in
> https://aeon.co/essays/what-is-the-self-if-not-that-which-
> pays-attention?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=
> 6898ffd7fb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_04&utm_medium=email&
> utm_term=0_411a82e59d-6898ffd7fb-69341065
>
> A nicely presented piece...
>
> All while trying to coax my own AEE (Artificial Emergent Entity to behave
> congenially.
> It's too warm to think clearly lately.
>
> That is currently my focus , namely managing folder and subfolder creation
> with compact names using ahk Script...
>
> There seems to be  a lot of fire within the Complexity Smoke lately from
> odd locations.
> vladimyr
>
>
>
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>
>   Spontaneous system follows rules of equilibrium
>   https://phys.org/news/2017-07-spontaneous-equilibrium.html
>
> > The research was spurred when Granick and Yan noticed something strange
> in the laboratory. As they watched a random mixture of soft-matter
> particles called Janus colloids, which Granick previously developed, they
> observed that the particles sometimes sorted themselves by type. Named
> after the Roman god with two faces, the micron-sized spheres have one
> hemisphere coated with a thin metal layer. They self-propel in the presence
> of an electric field, and when a rotating magnetic field is applied, they
> move in circles. In the presence of these fields, about 50 percent of the
> colloids orient their metal-coated hemisphere in the same direction. The
> remaining 50 percent face in the opposite direction.
>
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