[FRIAM] Umwelten Was: Bard and Don Quixote

[Steve Smith]

> Nice shout out to Cliff. I haven't talked to him in years (decades?).

I was on a proposal team with him about 8 years ago and he pulled out 
silently near the end... I never resolved quite why but the other 
members of the team who were in closer contact at the time did not 
report any problem there... just circumstance?   I tell myself I should 
follow up with him but I never do.   My first co-publication with him 
was 1998? on Symbiotic Intelligence, the most recent (2004?) was on 
visualizing the Gene Ontology, and I can't remember the topic even of 
the project in 2014(ish) but it was in collaboration with NREL...

Marco Rodriguez still lives in the Pojoaque Valley who was Johan 
Bollan's student who in turn was Heylighen's Student.   Marco got thrown 
off all his social media accounts early during COVID I think.   I used 
to run into him at Pojo Market or the Transfer Station but that has been 
a decade as well.

If I were less Narrative and more Episodic I might only remember the 
fact of the events, but not the order of them?

I am always curious about the episodic mode but in my own life it only 
reminds me of the ultimate Alzheimer's/Dementia I expect to fade me out 
of this world...  but that is very subjective I suspect... there are 
probably episodic aspects of my "self" which I forget or am unaware that 
I would consider more a feature than a bug.

In the fullness of time (and space?)



>
> On May 17, 2023 12:52:44 PM PDT, Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
> >In followup to the aphorisms related to "Life which wills to live" 
> and "I am who you think I think I am"...
> >
> >In a complementary tangent, as we (somebody) begins to wire up the 
> IoT to Stable Diffusion models we will be perhaps actualizing the 
> neocortex of a "Global Brain" 
> <https://www.organism.earth/library/document/glimpsing-the-global-brain> 
> in the Francis Heylighen/Cliff Joslyn sense following an architecture 
> not unlike Jeff Hawkin's 1000 Brain 
> <https://www.numenta.com/resources/books/a-thousand-brains-by-jeff-hawkins/>s? 
> But if I factor in Ed Yong's perspective 
> <https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/616914/an-immense-world-by-ed-yong/> 
> I think we need to boost up the standard kit (weather stations, 
> security cameras, humidity/ph garden sensors, ???) in the IoT sensors 
> to include a much broader Umwelt?
> >
> >
>
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