<!DOCTYPE html><html><body><div dir="auto">Nice shout out to Cliff. I haven't talked to him in years (decades?).<br><br>On May 17, 2023 12:52:44 PM PDT, Steve Smith <sasmyth@swcp.com> wrote:<br>>In followup to the aphorisms related to "Life which wills to live" and "I am who you think I think I am"...<br>><br>>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" <<a href="https://www.organism.earth/library/document/glimpsing-the-global-brain">https://www.organism.earth/library/document/glimpsing-the-global-brain</a>> in the Francis Heylighen/Cliff Joslyn sense following an architecture not unlike Jeff Hawkin's 1000 Brain <<a href="https://www.numenta.com/resources/books/a-thousand-brains-by-jeff-hawkins/">https://www.numenta.com/resources/books/a-thousand-brains-by-jeff-hawkins/</a>>s? But if I factor in Ed Yong's perspective <<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/616914/an-immense-world-by-ed-yong/">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/616914/an-immense-world-by-ed-yong/</a>> 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?<br>><br>><br></div></body></html>