[FRIAM] Janus colloids

[Carl Tollander]

Another attention issue....
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-library-of-heaven


On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 4:30 AM, Carl Tollander <carl at plektyx.com> wrote:

> 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-pa
>> ys-attention?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=6898ff
>> d7fb-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
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ep
>> ropella
>> Sent: July-10-17 3:58 PM
>> To: friam at redfish.com
>> Subject: [FRIAM] Janus colloids
>>
>>
>>   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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