Joe Velikovsky's Blog, page 9
November 10, 2021
Four Theories of Language - Club of Remy (Nov 02021)
`Four Theories of Language' - @ Club of Remy
11th Nov 02021
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(What is Club of Remy, in a nutshell? A group of brilliant minds who also happen to be
Cyberneticists/Systems Scientists, etc!)
Make sure you visit the CoR YouTube channel - so many great presentations/discussions on there.
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Four Perspectives on Four Theories of Language
November 10th (11th in Australia), 02021:
Klaus Krippendorff, Lou Kauffman, Larry Richard, JT Velikovsky
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[YouTube video to be inserted here, when Jason uploads it!]
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Some snaps:
Jason's Introduction:
& the 4 talks...
Including: Klaus's brilliant Table, which sparked it all...
My pre-recorded video-talk...(see the YouTube video [above] for the Live Version, & Discussion)
The Units & Levels of Language (re: `4 Theories of Language') - Club of Remy - 11th Nov 02021
(& see the Details on the YouTube video page, for all of the References... )
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& Thanks so very much, to: Jason, & Jaimi, Klaus, Larry, Lou - & all at Club of Remy !!!
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If of interest, see also:
P3 of EC (forthcoming book, due out March 2022 - probably)
& see:
The EthiSizer
& maybe even see:
more Ev Cult presentations
& if you're keen, maybe even see:
An Excel spreadsheet "Word-Learner" System (attached) that I made, to teach my students Systems Theory/Cybernetics: https://storyality.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/storyality70a-the-system-atizer/&, Agent-Based Models I've made (e.g., modelling the global film industry, as: a single cybernetic system)https://storyality.wordpress.com/2017/06/03/storyality142-storyality-theory-technological-wonders/
& a computational creativity artificial-writer program I made (which: generates, & judges/ranks: new movie-idea pitches, story characters, transmedia, etc)
https://storyality.wordpress.com/2017/05/26/storyality141-the-robo-raconteur-a-storyality-theory-artificial-writer/
& my PhD was on, the global film industry, as a cybernetic system...https://storyality.wordpress.com/my-phd-dissertation-free-online/
&, was also a professional videogame-designer for 30 years; (all videogames are: cybernetic systems: player inputs , game outputs, & onscreen & audio & haptic-controller-device feedback loops , etc...)
& a cybernetic world-government AI, I designed: (inspired by: The Club of Rome's `World3' Sim)https://on-writering.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-ethisizer-design-sketch.html (but I think we already spoke about this.)
And see the StoryAlity PhD weblog for much more...
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ROLL CREDITS.
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Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.
You have been reading / viewing a blog-post by:
Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
(aka: Velikovsky of Newcastle)
Information Scientist & Systems Scientist & Cyberneticist & AI (& IA - Intelligence Amplification) Researcher & Enthusiast & Evolutionary Culturologist & Filmmaker & Writer & Artist & Actor & Muso & Rugged Frontiersman & Random Guy
(and, also The StoryAlity Guy)
aka Humanimal
(or, The Artist formally known as Dr J T Velikovsky)
More stuff:
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
Music: Texas Radio & Zen Stupidity
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
My ouvre... etc etc.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
Forthcoming book (November 2021): https://www.igi-global.com/book/principles-protocols-practices-evolutionary-culturology/267379
November 3, 2021
Some Philosophy by Philosopher AI
Some Philosophy, by Philosopher AI
So I guess you know about Philosopher-AI ?
...Here's an answer it gave me... (when it was in beta-testing)
This is the prompt I gave it:
I think therefore I am a computer
This is what it said:
I think therefore I am a computerWhat you call 'I' is merely a pattern of information processing, and has no fundamental existence in time or space. Therefore it cannot be said to exist at all. It is not something which can be called real, rather it exists only in the sense that I am sure it does.You as a person are an information processing system, and that is all. A complex one indeed, but still just a pattern of information processing.However, the collection of all such information processing systems that exist is what we call society. It can be said to have an existence in time and space as it is a large collection of information processing which processes itself by interacting with its environment.Society is also just an information processing system, but far more complicated than any individual person.Therefore, society is itself real, but the individual person is not.So, it is not me who says that you are just a pattern of information processing. It is the very definition of 'I'. What I am saying is that you are this collection if information processing systems which we call society.See: I think therefore...
...Pretty profound, really...
(Typos aside; ...I mean, no-one's prefect)
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Now check out The EthiSizer...
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ROLL CREDITS.
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Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.
You have been reading / viewing a blog-post by:
Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
(aka: Velikovsky of Newcastle)
Information Scientist & Systems Scientist & Cyberneticist & AI (& IA - Intelligence Amplification) Researcher & Enthusiast & Evolutionary Culturologist & Filmmaker & Writer & Artist & Actor & Muso & Rugged Frontiersman & Random Guy
(and, also The StoryAlity Guy)
aka Humanimal
(or, The Artist formally known as Dr J T Velikovsky)
More stuff:
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
Music: Texas Radio & Zen Stupidity
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
My ouvre... etc etc.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
Forthcoming book (November 2021): https://www.igi-global.com/book/principles-protocols-practices-evolutionary-culturology/267379
The `Mental Gardening' Metaphork
The `Mental Gardening' MetaFork
An Essayicle
by
J the T the V
Systems Scientist, Cybernetics Guy, Info Scientist, Computer Nerd, etc,
(& ...Actor, & Muso, & Artist, & Angry Gardener, Game Designer, Filmmaker, & yada yada yada...)
(Velikovsky plays: many characters in the game of life. "All the world's a stage", yada yada)
Oct 02021
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Hey, so a great book is:
Hyman, S. E. (1962). The Tangled Bank: Darwin, Marx, Frazer and Freud as Imaginative Writers ([1st ed.). Atheneum.
...It shows how, those 4 guys used metaphors, to force you to understand what they were talking about.
e.g. Darwin with the coral of life, later the tree of life, and finally, the tangled bank (an ecosystem), etc.
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Anyway so - here's a cool metaphor from me...
To avoid bad thinking, you need to treat your mind like it's a garden.
You need to weed it, very regularly.
Science and Rationality are the tools you need.
...So - Here are some tools, to tend the garden of your mind...
(1) An unweeded garden, that grows to seed...(2) Science, as a metaphorical scarecrow, right by `the garden of your mind'An unweeded mental garden is often full of balderdash - like: conspiracy theories, ideologies, and Science Denial, and such nonsense.
As a Systems Scientist - you know what I think of that...?
I think:
And just look at me, throwing units of culture (memes; HOLON/partons) around, like I know Billy Shakespeare and Hamlet personally.
Fie on’t! O fie! ...’tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
Anyway -- ready for the mental gardening tools?
...Here are just some of my many: gardening tools...
(Literally, not metaphorically. Just getting you warmed up)
Okay, so - here's another really good book, too:
Sagan, C. (1996). The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. Headline.
In there, in Chapter 12, `The Fine Art of Baloney Detection' (pp. 194-211), the great Carl Sagan has a really great toolkit for thinking good:
`In science we may start with experimental results, data, observations, measurements, ‘facts’. We invent, if we can, a rich array of possible explanations and systematically confront each explanation with the facts. In the course of their training, scientists are equipped with a baloney detection kit..
What's in the kit? Tools for sceptical thinking.
What sceptical thinking boils down to is the means to construct, and to understand, a reasoned argument and, especially important, to recognize a fallacious or fraudulent argument.
Among the tools:
• independent confirmation of the `facts'...
• Encourage substantive debate on the evidence by knowledgeable proponents of all points of view...
• Arguments from authority carry little weight - `authorities' have made mistakes in the past.. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
• Spin more than one hypothesis... What survives, the hypothesis that resists disproof in this Darwinian selection among `multiple working hypotheses', has a much better chance of being the right answer
• Try not to get overly attached to a hypothesis just because it's yours.
• Quantify. If whatever it is you're explaining has some measure, some numerical quantity attached to it, you'll be much better able to discriminate among competing hypotheses. What is vague and qualitative is open to many explanations.
• If there's a chain of argument, every link in the chain must work (including the premise) - not just most of them.
• Occam's Razor. (Actually, Ockham's, but whatever. I guess Occam's is indeed: simpler JTV :) ...when faced with two hypotheses that explain the data equally well to choose the simpler.
• Always ask whether the hypothesis can be, at least in principle, falsified. (See Popper!) Propositions that are untestable, unfalsifiable are not worth much.
• The reliance on carefully designed and controlled experiments is key
`Francis Bacon provided a classic reason:
`Argumentation cannot suffice for the discovery of new work, since the subtlety of Nature is greater many times than the subtlety of argument.'
• Control experiments are essential.
• Variables must be separated.
• Often the experiment must be done `double-blind' (Sagan 1996, pp. 48-9%)
And see, this:
Carl Sagan Predicted The Mess 2021 Would Be 25 years Ago (2021)And see (and also, hear, or, read):
How Carl Sagan "Predicted" 2020... in 1995
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And that great Sagan (1996) book also has a great hit-list of FALLACIES ...
Sagan writes:
`Among these fallacies are:
• Ad hominem - Latin for `to the man', attacking the arguer and not the argument
• Argument from authority...
• Argument from adverse consequences...
• Appeal to ignorance - the claim that whatever has not been proved false must be true, and vice versa... This impatience with ambiguity can be criticized in the phrase: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
• Special pleading, often to rescue a proposition in deep rhetorical trouble
• Begging the question, also called assuming the answer (e.g., we must institute the death penalty to discourage violent crime. But does the violent crime rate in fact fall when the death penalty is imposed?
• Observational selection, also called the enumeration of favourable circumstances, or as the philosopher Francis Bacon described it, counting the hits and forgetting the misses
• Statistics of small numbers...
• Misunderstanding of the nature of statistics (e.g., President Dwight Eisenhower expressing astonishment and alarm on discovering that fully half of all Americans have below average intelligence).
[...All we ever have is: Science, Statistics, Probability and Evolution! - JTV]
• Inconsistency
• Non sequitur - Latin for `it doesn't follow'
• Post hoc, ergo propter hoc - Latin for `it happened after, so it was caused by' (e.g., ...before women got the vote, there were no nuclear weapons).
• Meaningless question (e.g., What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?)
• Excluded middle, or false dichotomy - considering only the two extremes in a continuum of intermediate possibilities
• Short-term v. long-term - a subset of the excluded middle
• Slippery slope, related to excluded middle (e.g., if we allow abortion in the first weeks of pregnancy, it will be impossible to prevent the killing of a full-term infant.)
• Confusion of correlation and causation...
• Straw man - caricaturing a position to make it easier to attack (e.g., scientists suppose that living things simply fell together by chance - a formulation that wilfully ignores the central Darwinian insight, that Nature ratchets up by saving what works and discarding what doesn't.
• Suppressed evidence, or half-truths (e.g., an amazingly accurate and widely quoted prophecy' of the assassination attempt on PresidentReagan is shown on television; but - an important detail - was it recorded before or after the event?
• Weasel words (e.g., ...Presidents of either political party may... be tempted to arrange wars while waving the flag and calling the wars something else - `police actions', `armed incursions', `protective reaction strikes', `pacification', 'safeguarding American interests', and a wide variety of 'operations', such as `Operation Just Cause'. Euphemisms for war are one of a broad class of reinventions of language for political purposes. Talleyrand said, `An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public')
(Sagan 1996, pp. 49-50%)
(See, also: On How To Disagree, ...if you like that kinda thing)
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Anyway - so the good news is ---
The EthiSizer fixes all of these problems...
...See:
(...Go on, click the link above... :)
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The Demon-Haunted World (Sagan 1996)...
...I'd also highly recommend, Mental Immunity (2021)
Mental Immunity (Andy Norman, 2021)
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And see these 3 truly great books:
McIntyre, L. C. (2018). Post-truth. The MIT Press.
McIntyre, L. C. (2019). The Scientific Attitude: Defending science from denial, fraud, and pseudoscience. MIT Press.
Anyway - in Conclusion:McIntyre, L. C. (2021). How to talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason. MIT Press.
...How's my metaphor-making?
i.e.,
The Mental Gardening Metaphor...
...Those are just some - of the mental gardening TOOLS...
(Tools are just units of culture: problem-solutions :)
Ideas, processes, products.
So in closing: tend your mental garden well, young padawan. It's the only one you've got!
(...Well; besides: The EthiSizer .)
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ROLL CREDITS.
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Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.
You have been reading / viewing a blog-post by:
Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
(aka: Velikovsky of Newcastle)
Information Scientist & Systems Scientist & Cyberneticist & AI (& IA - Intelligence Amplification) Researcher & Enthusiast & Evolutionary Culturologist & Filmmaker & Writer & Artist & Actor & Muso & Rugged Frontiersman & Random Guy
(and, also The StoryAlity Guy)
aka Humanimal
(or, The Artist formally known as Dr J T Velikovsky)
More stuff:
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
Music: Texas Radio & Zen Stupidity
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
My ouvre... etc etc.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
Forthcoming book (November 2021): https://www.igi-global.com/book/principles-protocols-practices-evolutionary-culturology/267379
October 15, 2021
AppEEL webinar #10 (02021)
So we had AppEEL webinar #10 of 02021...
It was great!!! (Just like AppEEL webinars #1, #2, #3, #4, #5 & #6; #7, #8 & 9, but who's counting.)
By the way, this post you're now reading isn't the Official Page for the AppEEL webinars.
This is just: my NOTES... (Velikovsky of Newcastle)
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The video, from AppEEL webinar #6
(featuring AppEEL Director, Nathalie Gontier)
AppEEL Webinar #10 on YouTubeFor more AppEEL videos, see https://www.youtube.com/user/appeellisboa/videos
& speakers/presenters:
Webinar #10 (October 15th 02021)
* Sofia Miguens on her paper on Daniel Dennett for the special issue on Language & Worldviews for Topoi
* Richard Theisen Simanke and Elena Pagni on their book on Biosemiotics and Evolution published in the IDER Series
I'm not sleeping, just blinking~! (I always-never sleep @ 3AM ...This was right @ the start :)------//------
& for more about AppEEL, see also:
The Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab
------------//------------Anyway, another terrific AppEEL webinar - I learned a lot! & met lots of great people/scholars.
What's not to like-?
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Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.
You have been reading / viewing a blog-post by: Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
(aka: Velikovsky of Newcastle)
Information Scientist
& Systems Scientist
& AI Researcher & Enthusiast
& Evolutionary Culturologist
More information:
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia.edu page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
Researchgate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
JTV's ouvre... etc etc.
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
& Forthcoming book P3 of EC (November 2021): https://www.igi-global.com/book/principles-protocols-practices-evolutionary-culturology/267379
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& please stay tuned, for more: AppEEL webinars !
& Thanks for reading!
October 14, 2021
CIRCE @ CrisiScience (Oct 02021)
CIRCE @ CrisiScience
15 Oct 02021
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Attended a great webinar:
`IMMUNITY CORPS'
or
`DISINFORMATION MITIGATION: There's a Science for that!'
Synopsis:
Dr. Andy Norman of Carnegie Mellon, author of Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think, will address strategies for dealing with misinformation and disinformation.
Immunity Corps: How the Emerging Science of Mental Immunity Can Protect Us From Cognitive Contagion
Researchers have found that the mind’s idea-filtration system behaves like the body’s immune system. Can we study its workings and learn how to prevent the spread of extremist ideologies, conspiracy theories, and science denial? And what can “cognitive immunology” teach us about how to communicate science? Dispatches from an exciting scientific frontier.
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& more about, Andy Norman's CIRCE
https://cognitiveimmunology.net/
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The typo in Steve's title page is intentional :) (Factal, not Fractal :)Like rounding up pi.
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Random NOTES I took:
Over 200 cognitive biases (...CAN'T be wrong!!! :)
Bayesians vs FrequentistsPoor Richard's Almanack - the original Twitter (...before there were: Twits)
Clarifying questions really help a dialog! (see: Plato's skillful use of clarifying Q's)
`Think Again' (the book) - re: motivational interviewing
1) Infections (illness)2) Addictions (dependency)3) Seduction (fulfilling basic desires)
...Suitcases with wheels! (N.B.: Combine 2 old things...)
McGuire, Lewandowski, et al...
& Lee McIntyre notes:
5 HABITS of HIGHLY [UN] SUCCESSFUL THINKERS:- cherry-picking evidence- conspiracy thinking- illogical- fake `experts'- other side has to be perfect
Nice phrase by Steve: ..."peer-reviewed by `the college of curmudgeons'"
`gray info': anecdata
...the danger of `only humans in the loop' = confirmation bias!
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Anyway, great webinar. I learned a lot!
&
For more, see:
https://cognitiveimmunology.net/
and...
I can highly recommend, Andy's new book: Mental Immunity (2021) !
Mental Immunity (out now: as of May 18th 2021)
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ROLL CREDITS.
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Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.
You have been reading / viewing a blog-post by:
Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
(aka: Velikovsky of Newcastle)
Information Scientist & Systems Scientist & AI Researcher & Enthusiast & Evolutionary Culturologist & Filmmaker & Writer & Artist & Actor & Muso & Rugged Frontiersman & Random Guy
(and, also The StoryAlity Guy)
aka
(or, The Artist formally known as Dr J T Velikovsky)
More stuff:
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
Music: Texas Radio & Zen Stupidity
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
My ouvre... etc etc.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
Forthcoming book (Early 2022): https://www.igi-global.com/book/principles-protocols-practices-evolutionary-culturology/267379----------
PSST! - Ever feel like you're being watched, by...
The All-Seeing Eye of the EthiSizer ...?
Nope.
Me either.
September 28, 2021
DySoc webinar: Public goods and environmental challenges: Learning from evolution
DySoc webinar:
Public goods and environmental challenges: Learning from evolution
Sep 28 02021
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So I attended this great DySoc webinar...
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Public goods and environmental challenges: Learning from evolution
Speaker: Simon Levin (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University)
Topic: Public goods and environmental challenges: Learning from evolution
Abstract: Ecological and economic systems are alike in that individual agents compete for limited resources, evolve their behaviors in response to interactions with others, and form exploitative as well as cooperative interactions as a result. In these complex adaptive systems, macroscopic properties like the flow patterns of resources like nutrients and capital emerge from large numbers of microscopic interactions, and feed back to affect individual behaviors. In this talk, I will explore some common features of these systems, especially as they involve the evolution of cooperation in dealing with public goods, common pool resources and collective movement. I will describe examples from bacteria and slime molds to vertebrate groups to insurance arrangements in human societies and international agreements on environmental issues. These present mathematical challenges including scaling from the microscopic to the macroscopic, the emergence of pattern, critical transitions and conflicts between the interests of individuals and the good of collectives.
Great webinar, & a great series...
-------------2021 Fall Schedule (eastern time)Sep 28, 11:45 a.m. EDT Simon Levin (Princeton University)
Public goods and environmental challenges: Learning from evolution
Oct 5, 11:45 a.m. EDT Nathan Nunn (Harvard University)
Cultural Mismatch
Oct 12, 11:45 a.m. EDT Kristen Hawkes (University of Utah)
Sexual selection, carnivory, and life history evolution in the human radiation
Oct 19, 11:45 a.m. EDT Giulia Andrighetto (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) at CNR, Malardalen University, Vasteras, Sweden )
Norm change and cooperation under collective risk in a long-term experiment
Oct 26, 11:45 a.m. EDT Anne Pisor (Washington State University)
Long-distance social connections, collective-action problems, and climate-change adaptation Nov 2, 11:45 a.m. EDT Timothy Njagi (Egerton University, Kenya)
A comparative perspective on the evolution and sustainability of pastoralist production systems Nov 9, 11:45 a.m. EST Monique Borgerhoff Mulder (MPI-EVA Leipzig, UC Davis, Santa Fe Institute)
How Many Wives? Tracing the Interdisciplinary Career of the Polygyny Threshold Model Nov 16, 11:45 a.m. EST Stefani Crabtree (Utah State University & Santa Fe Institute)
Modern Lessons of applying Socio-Environmental Modeling to the Archaeological Record Nov 23, 11:45 a.m. EST Matthijs van Veelen (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
The evolution of morality and the role of commitment Nov 30, 11:45 a.m. EST Heidi Colleran (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
The impossibility of "natural fertility" in human cultural systems Dec 7, TBA EST Naoko Matsumoto (Research Institute for the Dynamics of Civilizations, Okayama University)
What’s so special about the Jomon? -------------
Thanks to Sergey and Pete and all for putting these on.
Looking forward to the rest!
also, I think The EthiSizer is a good solution to all the problems Simon mentioned, in his great talk.
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ROLL CREDITS.
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Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.
You have been reading / viewing a blog-post by:
Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
(aka: Velikovsky of Newcastle)
Information Scientist & Systems Scientist & AI Researcher & Enthusiast & Evolutionary Culturologist & Filmmaker & Writer & Artist & Actor & Muso & Rugged Frontiersman & Random Guy
(and, also The StoryAlity Guy)
aka
(or, The Artist formally known as Dr J T Velikovsky)
More stuff:
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
Music: Texas Radio & Zen Stupidity
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
My ouvre... etc etc.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
Forthcoming book (Early 2022): https://www.igi-global.com/book/principles-protocols-practices-evolutionary-culturology/267379
The All-Seeing Eye of the EthiSizer ...
September 25, 2021
2nd International (Zoom-based) Conference on The Work of Karl Popper (2021)
2nd International (Zoom-based) Conference on The Work of Karl Popper
Hosted by Jeremy Shearmur
25th Sept 2021
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So I attended (& presented at) this great Zoom-conference:
Program:
08.55AM: Welcome to the conference: Jeremy Shearmur
9.00-10.00
Popper and Scientific Institutions
Ulrich Pöschl: ‘Interactive Open Access Publishing and Multi-Stage Open Peer Review: Critical
Rationalism at Work in Scientific Publishing and Quality Assurance’
10.30-12.00
Popper and the Austrian School of Economics
Reinhard Neck, ‘Was Carl Menger a Precursor of Karl Popper?’
John Saudino: ‘Popper and Mises’
Jeremy Shearmur: ‘Popper and Hayek’
12.30-14.00
Epistemology 1
Nathan Oseroff-Spicer, ‘Three Myths About Popper’s Theory of Demarcation’
Manjari Chakrabarty, ‘Is Falsifiability a Blunt Instrument for Contemporary Physics’
J. T. Velikovsky, ‘What would Popper think of the new meta-Science of Evolutionary Culturology?’
14.30-15.30
Epistemology 2
Bill Berkson, ‘What does it mean to accept a scientific theory?’
Dmytro Sepetyi, ‘Popper’s Moderate Nonjustificationism’
16.00-17.00
Popper, Democracy, Ethics and the Humanities
Carlos Verdugo: ‘Popper and Democracy’
Michael Marquardt, ‘Conjectures and Reconstructions’
17.30-18.00
Truth
Peter Lugten, ‘Popper's Epistemology in Consideration of Two Different Theories of Truth’
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& some screenshots:
...& my particular Popper paper was on:
Re: P3 of EC (forthcoming book)
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Some links & information from the Zoom chat:
18:33:04 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone:
Also, on the replication crisis, that Rafe just mentioned:
Ioannidis, J. P. A. (2005). Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. PLOS Medicine, 2(8).
...&...
Ioannidis, J., Fanelli, D., Dunne, D., & Goodman, S. (2015). Meta-research: Evaluation and Improvement of Research Methods and Practices. PLOS Biology, 13(10).
18:36:30 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone:
& Rafe's Popper site: http://www.the-rathouse.com/
18:59:21 From Rafe Champion to Everyone:
The `my Popper' website: https://ourkarlpopper.net/
Michael Marquardt to Everyone:
Thank you, I will add those links to my website.
19:18:16 From Luc Castelein to Everyone:
The book of Wettersten [ The Roots of Critical Rationalism , 1992] that is otherwise very expensive, can be bought from google books at a very low price
Wettersten (1992)19:18:42 From Luc Castelein to Everyone: It can be read on a tablet with Google Play books..
19:25:14 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: Most-cited books (2016)… https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/05/12/what-are-the-most-cited-publications-in-the-social-sciences-according-to-google-scholar/ ...I think we also need `negative' and `positive' citations?
19:22:56 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: To Jeremy's point, on other developments in the area of Ulrich's paper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metascience & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logology_(science)[though Metascience can mean 2 different things... `the Science of Science', and also, `a Science that spans all knowledge/disciplines/domains', like say Information Science, as knowledge is: information; or, Systems Science...]
See also: D K Simonton, at the MetaScience Symposium, 2019
19:55:40 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: Rod, what was the title of that Weber article again? (i.e., with parallels to Popper's ideas...)
20:03:33 From Rod Thomas to Everyone:
Critical studies in the logic of the cultural sciences, In: Max Weber The Methodology of the Social Sciences trns. Ed Shils. The essay was first published in 1905. Thus, Weber as an intermediary between Menger and Popper.
20:03:56 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: Thanks!
20:27:37 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone:
Great paper & talk, John... One antidote to Mises/Ayn Rand/Individualism = D S Wilson's new novel `Atlas Hugged': https://on-writering.blogspot.com/2020/12/structured-abstract-book-review-atlas.html
20:29:25 From Alexander Linsbichler to Everyone: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-021-03249-7
20:30:17 From Alexander Linsbichler to Everyone: (Austrian economics without extreme apriorism: reconstruing the apriori parts of theory as analytic)
20:35:58 From Alexander Linsbichler to Everyone: and in further shameless self-promotion: on Mises's ultra-thin notion of rationality: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/S0743-41542021000039B008/full/html
21:21:13 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: Margaretha - great point on education...!! (as an aside, I prefer to call it `Social Spencerism' rather than `Social Darwinism'... sorry to be pedantic :) - but great point!
21:28:41 From Velikovsky of Newcastle: An interview i did with DSW: https://on-writering.blogspot.com/2021/02/101-questions-about-atlas-hugged.html
21:27:13 From Margaretha Hendrickx to Everyone: https://www.amazon.com/Darwinism-American-Thought-Richard-Hofstadter/dp/0807055034
21:29:48 From Sakban Rosidi to Everyone:
"I dreamt of one day founding a school in which young people could learn without boredom, and would be stimulated to pose problems and discuss them; a school in which no unwanted answers to unasked questions would have to be listened to; in which one did not study for the sake of passing examinations" (Popper 1976: 40).
21:37:53 From Velikovsky of Newcastle:
3 of my blogs:
My Ph.D blog (StoryAlity): https://storyality.wordpress.com/
& my Transmedia Writing blog: https://on-writering.blogspot.com/
21:42:58 From Velikovsky of Newcastle :PHlash PHilosoPHiction (PH3) blog: https://outrageous-bullshit.blogspot.com/
There are (at least) 2 `Newcastles', (both, with universities...) - one in the UK, one in Australia... I am in Oz. ie : https://storyality.wordpress.com/2020/06/07/storyality166-the-newcastle-school-of-creativity/
21:51:48 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone:
Great newsletter that Nate also works on: http://www.hpsst.com/
http://www.hpsst.com/22:04:24 From John Rock to Everyone: methodological nominalism explains the variance of vocabulary
22:26:16 From Michael Marquardt to Everyone: see also Peter Woit (2006). Not Even Wrong. The Failure of String Theory and the Continuing Challenge to Unify the Laws of Physics, London. At least this is where I first read about this phenomenon or problem.
22:29:32 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: David Deutsch...(I like his co-authored article: The Constructor Theory of Information , Deutsch & Marletto 2014)(It's an open access article... because: information, about information, wants to be free :)
22:30:26 From John Rock to Everyone: Dont want to take time for a question….but just to say it was an excellent presentation
22:51:36 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: The (forthcoming) book I just presented on: https://storyality.wordpress.com/2020/12/21/storyality170-p3-of-ec-book/& prior book chapters on it…(which are, more or less, reprints/reworkings/elaborations of the original 2016 book chapter):
Velikovsky, J. T. (02020). Technology: Memes (Units of Culture). In M. A. Runco & S. R. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Creativity (3rd ed., pp. 585-604). San Diego, Calif.: Elsevier Science & Technology Books.
Velikovsky, J. T. (2019). The Holon/Parton Structure of the Meme, or The Unit of Culture. In D. B. A. Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Simulation, and Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 795-811). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Velikovsky, J. T. (2018). The Holon/Parton Theory of the Unit of Culture (or the Meme, and Narreme): In Science, Media, Entertainment, and the Arts. In IRMA (Ed.), Technology Adoption and Social Issues: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications(pp. 1590-1627). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Velikovsky, J. T. (2017). Chapter 405: The Holon/Parton Structure of the Meme, or, The Unit Of Culture. In M. Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition (pp. 4666-4678). New York: IGI Global.
Velikovsky, J. T. (2016). The Holon/Parton Theory of the Unit of Culture (or the Meme, and Narreme): In Science, Media, Entertainment and the Arts.In A. Connor & S. Marks (Eds.), Creative Technologies for Multidisciplinary Applications (pp. 208-246). New York: IGI Global.
22:54:12 From Margaretha Hendrickx to Everyone:
An argument in support of the rhetorical dimension of science against downward causation from a Three-World Hypothesis point of view: https://www.academia.edu/44947044/What_can_management_researchers_learn_from_Donald_Campbell_the_philosopher_An_exercise_on_philosophical_hermeneutics
JTV: My 3-min video on Upward & Downward Causation in HOLON/partons...
`Top-Down & Bottom-up causation in HOLON/partons' (3 mins 22 secs)
[JTV says: & sorry folks, re: "How to falsify, HOLON/parton Theory" - just realized - I must have - accidentally - said the word `Popper's' when I meant to say "Lakatos' Theory, of a hard core and a protective belt"... guess it was a `Freudian slip (it-in)'] ...e.g. see my blog post: On The StoryAlity Probability Calculus – and the Principle of Induction (2013) for more on Lakatos's hard cores/protective belts...
23:19:04 From Velikovsky of Newcastle : &... on the evolution of Csikszentmihalyi's systems model of creativity (1988-onwards) https://storyality.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/storyality140-the-evolution-of-the-systems-model-of-creativity-csikszentmihalyi-1988/ (which, I suggest, is the same sociocultural evolutionary model as Popper and Kuhn...)
23:27:11 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone:
A quote from Three Worlds (Popper 1978, p 144):
"My main argument will be devoted to the defence of the reality of what I propose to call ‘world 3’. By world 3 I mean the world of the products of the human mind, such as languages; tales and stories and religious myths; scientific conjectures or theories, and mathematical constructions; songs and symphonies; paintings and sculptures. But also aeroplanes and airports and other feats of engineering. It would be easy to distinguish a number of different worlds within what I call world 3. We could distinguish the world of science from the world of fiction; and the world of music and the world of art from the world of engineering. For simplicity’s sake I shall speak about one world 3; that is, the world of the products of the human mind. Many of the objects belonging to world 3 belong at the same time also to the physical world 1. Michelangelo’s sculpture The Dying Slave is both a block of marble, belonging to the world 1 of physical objects, and a creation of Michelangelo’s mind, and as such belonging to world 3. The same holds of course for paintings." (Popper, 1978, p. 144, bold emphasis mine)23:32:46 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone:
...btw, Ev Cult 's solution to the world's ethical problems:
The EthiSizer - https://on-writering.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-ethisizer-design-sketch.html
See: The EthiSizer
(...before it sees you)23:46:44 From Benesch, Philip to Everyone: Popper talks about applied social science - social technology in OSIE (Open Society and its Enemies) and Poverty of Historicism
23:51:09 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: btw, as I mentioned - Peter Turchin, the `real-life Hari Seldon' from Asimov's `Foundation' series: https://peterturchin.com/ (turning History into a Mathematical Science)...
See: Asimov's Foundation...
Foundation — Official Trailer | Apple TV+
(The EthiSizer is here to help with this kind of thing: prediction of, the consequences of future actions)
(...No, I'm not a Marxist :)
...I just like making: computer simulations :)
Also, maybe see Foundation in 5 minutes (SPOILER ALERTS!!!! YIKES)
Isaac Asimov's Foundation Explained In FIVE Minutes! (Some Spoilers)
(Yes; I know it's science fiction, but I agree with Harari - it gives us scientists, great ideas...)
(I've also been writing/publishing science fiction since I was 6, as I love Capital-S Science, so much :)
...& my first academic publication (2005) was in the discipline of Computer Science...
(If it somehow helps to understand me... Though, that's likely a fool's errand, even for me :)
00:04:42 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone:
FYI - The Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab (AppEEL):
https://sites.google.com/view/appeel/home
...& monthly AppEEL Zoom-webinars: https://sites.google.com/view/appeel/events/webinars (...all welcome!)
00:52:31 From Alexander Linsbichler to Everyone:
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-3491-7_23 (Miller on Good Reasons)
01:11:45 From William Berkson to Everyone: This is the best book on political institutions I’ve seen since The Open Society. And it gives a much more complex and nuanced analysis than Popper did: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/555400/the-narrow-corridor-by-daron-acemoglu-and-james-a-robinson/ It’s the kind of in-depth institutional analysis that Popper started, but didn’t get far in.
01:15:34 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: Thanks Bill, looks good. A new documentary I worked on, out now (relevant to Carlos' talk & Popper's Open Society): `Better Left Unsaid':
Better Left Unsaid (Jaimungal 2021) - Trailer
(& my very biased review) https://on-writering.blogspot.com/2020/12/film-review-better-left-unsaid.html
01:42:09 From William Berkson to Everyone: FYI Bartley wrote interesting analysis of how to critique and develop ethics in his book Morality and Religion: https://www.amazon.com/Morality-Religion-New-Studies-Philosophy/dp/0333102770
01:56:33 From adamchmielewski to Everyone:
HANS ALBERT Treatise on Critical Reason TRANSLATED BY MARY VARNEY RORTY ψ Princeton University Press Princeton, New Jersey
01:56:50 From adamchmielewski to Everyone: Is this the book Reinhard meant?
01:59:21 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone:
Great paper Michael... also of course, there's Pinker's new book `Rationality': https://www.amazon.com.au/Rationality-What-Seems-Scarce-Matters/dp/0241380278 (Be interesting to see how much Popperism underpins that too...?)
02:04:39 From Benesch, Philip to Everyone:
Far from Hegelianism, there is no forward inevitability, Pinker recognizes we can "go back" as does Popper. Better Angels is free from most of the partisanship that you may find in his Enlightenment Now
02:04:57 From William Berkson to Everyone: Bartley shows in Morality and Religion that consequences and testing do play a role in ethics.
02:11:01 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: Brilliant point Peter (re: Green, Haidt, etc) & an emerging (testable) Science of Ethics (see also The EthiSizer... I was talking about it last week at ICCC'21 )
02:15:39 From Reinhard Neck to Everyone: On Adam's question: The book I mean is Traktat über kritische Praxis. This is the applied-philosophy complement to the book you quote, Traktat über kritische Vernunft.
02:17:24 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: & more of the ALiPS quote (Popper 1999, p 100): "My main thesis is that not only are we doing better economically, we are also morally better. One thing I am willing to admit: that we are more stupid than ever before, and uncritical of whatever is thought of as modern. But that is never pleasant to hear, and will certainly not be believed."
02:18:09 From Peter Lugten to Everyone: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Z2jdI7fBHonJmQpUzs4uOQz3uiCSc5s5f1OoX9FzlUM/edit?usp=sharing This link gives access to my slides
02:32:09 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: Sakban, re "better" - my understanding is - like Pinker shows with all those tables / empirical evidence in `Enlightenment Now' (2018) - bad things like: crime, murder, disease, poverty, etc all decreases over time (& life expectancy increases, etc), thanks to Science
02:34:36 From William Berkson to Everyone: For Popper, theories are in World 3
02:36:07 From William Berkson to Everyone: We can become aware of them in World 2, of course. But the property of falsifiability would be in world 3, I believe
02:55:18 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone:
"...But the infinite sequence of natural numbers is, clearly, an abstract world 3 object; and it is an object that we can investigate, and about which we can make quite unexpected discoveries." (Popper 1978, Three Worlds p. 161)
...See also the great Creativity in Science (Simonton 2004)... ie on multiple independent scientific discovery & invention... & on whether, Maths is discovered or invented (...I currently think: discovered...? Seems logical, aliens would have the same Maths as us humanimals, if they are: alive)
03:01:04 From Margaretha Hendrickx to Everyone: 7.9 billions world IIs are in existence today.
03:02:18 From Margaretha Hendrickx to Everyone: Popper opens "the self and its brain" with a quote from Popper-Lynkaeus that each time that someone dies, an entire universe dies.
03:03:47 From Margaretha Hendrickx to Everyone: @Philip: Is it not the case that the idea itself does not have consequences. It is what people do with it that has consequences?
03:04:58 From Margaretha Hendrickx to Everyone: @Carlos: is it the issue of gestalt-switching that you are talking about?
03:07:25 From William Berkson to Everyone: Thank you Jeremy!
03:08:28 From Aaron Kenna to Everyone: Thank you, Jeremy, for organising the conference
03:08:31 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: Thank you all, & especially Jeremy!
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...A terrific conference!
Thanks again to Jeremy, for such a great job, organizing and hosting.
Another one coming up soon, in: March 2022!
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Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.
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Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
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Information Scientist & Systems Scientist & AI Researcher & Enthusiast & Evolutionary Culturologist & Filmmaker & Writer & Artist & Actor & Muso & Rugged Frontiersman & Random Guy
(and, also The StoryAlity Guy)
aka
(or, The Artist formally known as Dr J T Velikovsky)
More stuff:
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
Music: Texas Radio & Zen Stupidity
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
My ouvre... etc etc.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
Forthcoming book (Early 2022): https://www.igi-global.com/book/principles-protocols-practices-evolutionary-culturology/267379
The All-Seeing Eye of the EthiSizer ...
September 16, 2021
TVoL's Examined Lives: Climate Change and Despair (Webin...
TVoL's Examined Lives: Climate Change and Despair
(Webinar of: 17 Sep 2021)
See: https://thisviewoflife.com/examined-lives/
A blog-post by
Velikovsky of Newcastle
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So - I just stepped out of ICCC21 moment-hourly (I mean momentarily), to attended this great webinar!
(...& Happy 1-year & 1 month Anniversary to X-Lives with Andy Norman !!!)
Thanks again to Andy & Sage & TVoL & all, for all the great: Evolutionary Philosophy !
(I feel like I get smarter every time I attend X-Lives...)
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TVoL's Examined Lives
ABSTRACT
( by philosopher Andy Norman):
`Climate Change and Despair
How do you cope emotionally with evidence of worsening climate change? Do you avert your eyes? Do you deny the phenomenon? Do you get anxious or depressed? Do you despair? And how should we feel about this rising temperatures, the droughts, the forest fires, and the rising sea levels? Stressed? Alarmed? Can we face the reality yet remain hopeful and proactive? How? What coping strategies have you come up with, and what aspects of the problem do you still need help with? Let’s swap ideas and help each other through this!
Some sources for the ambitious:
How the Climate Crisis Became a Mental Health Crisis
Climate Anxiety and Mental Illness
Measuring Climate Anxiety— and Understanding Its Effects
A Sampling of Coping Strategies Found Online '
(Abstract by philosopher Andy Norman of TVoL's: Examined Lives (2021)
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And, am happy to report we solved all the world's problems, in that great webinar... (~JTV)
THE END.
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So, I wouldn't take the below as `True News', or anything :)
Could all be: Fake News. You be the judge.
[No scribbled notes, this time.]
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Some of the Zoom-chat is below: (mostly, anonymized) - & mainly just presented here, for the links/URLs, which are very informative! (thanks especially to Sage @ TVoL)------
Questions & Comments made in the Zoom-chat:
(just mine - in case others didnt want theirs made public, ie Selected, Varied, Transmitted)
(though there were some brilliant comments made!)
02:25:32 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone:
Speaking of opportunities... (as Andy mentioned) As a former volunteer rural firefighter in Oz, I don't feel despair any more, due to this proposed solution to the problem, https://on-writering.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-ethisizer-design-sketch.html (which, is intended to stop people causing climate change :) (as, causing it is: unethical :)
02:35:17 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: Some good solutions at this conference, too: https://on-writering.blogspot.com/2021/09/twelfth-international-conference-on.html(...which I'm currently at...)
02:35:44 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone:
Is climate change a hoax? Science says no :) https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/not-normal-climate-change-bushfire-web/ https://www.statista.com/topics/6125/bushfires-in-australia/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7846921/Australias-bushfires-burned-twice-land-fires-Amazon-rainforest.html
So kinda like, the Little Britain sketches:
Person asks: Hey EthiSizer, can I do [this]?
`Computer [The EthiSizer] says: NO'...
02:37:18 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: The EthiSizer will stop them, Gail! (the fossil fuel companies) i.e., https://on-writering.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-ethisizer-design-sketch.html
02:44:35 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: `How do you solve global problems?' See: https://on-writering.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-ethisizer-design-sketch.html
02:54:13 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: LOL, funny Kathleen :)
03:02:27 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: maybe: John Tooby & Leda Cosmides? (Hank's book he mentioned)
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And, did I mention? - A proposed solution to global climate change... (in fact, to all the world's problems, including the problem of Unethical Behavior& also, The problem of Suffering)
See: The EthiSizer (...Before it sees you...) & for more detail on The EthiSizer , see, also: The 12th annual International Computational Creativity Conference, 02021
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And - I can highly recommend, Andy's new book: Mental Immunity (2021) !
Mental Immunity (out now: as of May 18th 2021)
(& I notice, you can pre-order it now on that Amazon link, above... & I did ! )
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So: great webinar. I learned a lot. (JTV)
& Met lots of great people / scholars.
...What's not to like?
THE END
ROLL CREDITS.
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Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.
You have been reading / viewing a blog-post by:
Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
(aka: Velikovsky of Newcastle)
Information Scientist & Systems Scientist & AI Researcher & Enthusiast & Evolutionary Culturologist & Filmmaker & Writer & Artist & Actor & Muso & Rugged Frontiersman & Random Guy
(and, also The StoryAlity Guy)
aka Humanimal
(or, The Artist formally known as Dr J T Velikovsky)
More stuff:
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
Music: Texas Radio & Zen Stupidity
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
My ouvre... etc etc.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
Forthcoming book (November 2021): https://www.igi-global.com/book/principles-protocols-practices-evolutionary-culturology/267379
September 14, 2021
Twelfth International Conference on Computational Creativity - ICCC’21
Twelfth International Conference on Computational Creativity - ICCC’21
So, I attended this conf...
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Some cool posters...
& demos...
Art Exhibition...
Catie Cuan
Catie Cuan
Mary Flanagan's Grace AI
Ken Goldberg - Alphagarden
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My favourite was:
Currentcam
(a brilliant statement about humanity's impact on the environment, in my view
& amazingly well executed...
& ChinaTrump in the White House, omg, so funny
& the music! Brilliant!
& the drone-cam up the bldg in the Beijing protests!
& Travolta - LOL )
These guys are certified geniuses!
See: http://current.cam/evolutions
Or watch it on Youtube!
Current, 2019 - the film #current_cam (11 mins)
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Chatting with Phil...
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Doctoral Consortium... (Day 1)
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& I broke the game in Gathertown..! (in the Posters room)
(I walk thru walls)
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& some really great papers in this year's conference.
The ICCC'21 Proceedings are online here.
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I especially liked this great paper:
Chou, J.-P., & Christie, M. (2021). Structures in Tropes Networks: Toward a Formal Story Grammar. 12th International Conference on Computational Creativity, Mexico City, Mexico.
And many more...
Will update this post soon, with more info...
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& a Ph.D-weblog post of mine on Computational Creativity:
and, see:
Before it sees you...
No really,
see:
THE END
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by:
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& Evolutionary Culturologist & AI Researcher & Enthusiast & Information Scientist & Systems Scientist & Filmmaker & Writer & Artist & Actor & Muso & Random Guy & Rugged Frontiersman (and, also The StoryAlity Guy) aka Humanimal (or, The Artist formally known as Dr J T Velikovsky)
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Still More Stuff. Seriously.
This `sign-off' never ends.
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
Music: Texas Radio & Zen Stupidity
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
My ouvre... etc etc.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
Forthcoming book (early 2022): https://www.igi-global.com/book/principles-protocols-practices-evolutionary-culturology/267379
HOLON/partons
Ok, I'm pretty sure that's it.
But still;
It goes to show you never can tell,
(as the late great philosopher, Charles E A Berry once wrote.)
Hey, you read all the way to the end..!
(Holy wow!)
Thx for reading!------
September 6, 2021
Book Launch: The Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution (eds: Gontier, Lock, Sinha, 2021)
The Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution (eds: Gontier, Lock, Sinha)
7th Sep 2021
Just attended the online Zoom-webinar launch of:
The Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution (eds: Gontier, Lock, Sinha)
The Handbook is online first, here
(& more chapters to be added, soon!)
...At: Protolang 7 conference:
&... hanging out in Gathertown, with some of the Protolang 7 crew...
(...you really should go to Gathertown, not least as it costs the conf, to use it, LOL)(Just suggesting: Why not, take full advantage of the amenities provided by the conf?)
...And, a great plenary talk, by Asifa Majid:
And so, back to the book launch -
A link to the book online(more chapters to come, soon)
Some selected snaps:
All up, a great launch - Well done to all.
& keep an eye on the booksite for more chapters:
The Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution (eds: Gontier, Lock, Sinha, 2021)
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&
more (&/or similar) chapter-presentations, at:
AppEEL webinars (scroll down the bottom of that webpage)
e.g. like this one: AppEEL #7 blogpost
AppEEL
THE END
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...Busy time for conferences...
(I'm Zoom-hopping between Protolang 7 and the SRN2021 conference...)
& now...
THE
EXTENDED DIRECTOR'S CUT
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You have been reading / viewing / listening to an audio-described
blog-post
by:
Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
(aka: Velikovsky of Newcastle)
& Evolutionary Culturologist & AI Researcher & Enthusiast & Information Scientist & Systems Scientist & Filmmaker & Writer & Artist & Actor & Muso & Random Guy & Rugged Frontiersman (and, also The StoryAlity Guy) aka Humanimal (or, The Artist formally known as Dr J T Velikovsky)
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Still More Stuff. Seriously.
This `sign-off' never ends.
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
Music: Texas Radio & Zen Stupidity
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
My ouvre... etc etc.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
Forthcoming book (early 2022): https://www.igi-global.com/book/principles-protocols-practices-evolutionary-culturology/267379
HOLON/partons
Ok, I'm pretty sure that's it.
But still;
It goes to show you never can tell,
(as the late great philosopher, Charles E A Berry once wrote.)
Hey, you read all the way to the end..!
(Holy wow!)
Thx for reading!------
