Creation of life would be easier to explain, if we even had a clear description, but too often when we think we have a description accurate enough to use in an argument, an exception is found that throws another joker in. When it comes to life, too much of what we call knowledge from both sides of the origin camp, is only intuitive guessing, and an attempt to explain something beyond us in terms that are too simple. I had wondered how long it would be before humanity split into a number of lines, each intelligent, with features that were expressed clearly enough to create a distinction according to an accepted biological standard. The fact that humanity spread across the globe, and then bega...

Creation of life would be easier to explain, if we even had a clear description, but too often when we think we have a description accurate enough to use in an argument, an exception is found that throws another joker in. When it comes to life, too much of what we call knowledge from both sides of the origin camp, is only intuitive guessing, and an attempt to explain something beyond us in terms that are too simple. I had wondered how long it would be before humanity split into a number of lines, each intelligent, with features that were expressed clearly enough to create a distinction according to an accepted biological standard. The fact that humanity spread across the globe, and then began linking the last few dots about 500 years ago, threw everyone back into the same gene pool before such a split and this has accelerated diversity, and potential to adapt. If a division is created between Humanity again. that process of divergence will resume, it's speed proportional to the differences in the environments of the two divisions. A big hypothetical, but in the last few hundred years we have turned a pack of cards into a pack full of jokers. The bottom line. We have absolutely no idea where we are going. We'll be lucky if we know where we are when we get there.

I have known Dr. Ian Pearson, the"futurologist" at BT who comes up with this stuff, for years. According to him, speaking 10 years ago at least, we should, by now, all have memory implants in our brains which would record all our experiences for play back in our minds or on the Web.
The problem with Ian is that he totally ignores the nature and the fundamental existence of consciousness. If we understood how consciousness works, then it *might* make sense to think about its automation. But we don't, so his predictions are therefore make no sense. His is the kind of futurology that predicted we would all be in flying cars, but forgot about the real issues which will influence the future like...

I have known Dr. Ian Pearson, the"futurologist" at BT who comes up with this stuff, for years. According to him, speaking 10 years ago at least, we should, by now, all have memory implants in our brains which would record all our experiences for play back in our minds or on the Web.
The problem with Ian is that he totally ignores the nature and the fundamental existence of consciousness. If we understood how consciousness works, then it *might* make sense to think about its automation. But we don't, so his predictions are therefore make no sense. His is the kind of futurology that predicted we would all be in flying cars, but forgot about the real issues which will influence the future like the available of oil et. etc.
However, the evolution of consciousness, is happening through the collaboration of multiple human intelligences over the Web, for instance. Clipmarks, itself, is an example ... especially if groups form devoted to achieving greater undstanding of different topics.
Perhaps we could form such a cooperative group on the evolution of consciousness. One way of doing it would be to tag anything we find that is relevant with a unique word -- say Evcon -- so we can quickly find ourwork. What do other people think?
I shall start by tagging the Clips about the Mayan view of the evolution of consciousness with Evcon.

From Clip by Sohil "What happened to clipiversity?"
Friday 10:12am
Comments :
adamc
We've had our heads down for the past couple of weeks preparing for a major release (keeping it quiet for now, but you're gonna love it). Even Skiff has been getting his hands dirty with the code for this one -- we just haven't had the man hours to pull off the daily show.
ericskiff:
Some day Clipmarks on the big (little) screen shall return. No doubt Skiff will drop by here to say a few words.

ericskiff:
Indeed
So, I was going to apoligize for our lack of shows here, but the truth is, I'm so excited about what we've got coming that I don't think you'll mind too much once you see it.

I've somewhat une...

From Clip by Sohil "What happened to clipiversity?"
Friday 10:12am
Comments :
adamc
We've had our heads down for the past couple of weeks preparing for a major release (keeping it quiet for now, but you're gonna love it). Even Skiff has been getting his hands dirty with the code for this one -- we just haven't had the man hours to pull off the daily show.
ericskiff:
Some day Clipmarks on the big (little) screen shall return. No doubt Skiff will drop by here to say a few words.

ericskiff:
Indeed
So, I was going to apoligize for our lack of shows here, but the truth is, I'm so excited about what we've got coming that I don't think you'll mind too much once you see it.

I've somewhat unexpectedly found myself in the middle of the development this time around and it's nice to put my programmer's hat back on for a bit, even though it means falling behind on some other things like producing the show. I haven't had this much fun working on a project in quite a while and I have to admit I've gotten so addicted to working on it that I've seen the sun come up a few times recently.
Me:
They were talking about having trouble with searches and tags and said they were looking for solutions on one of the clipiversity clips.. The next version might improve tagging, but it's a surprise. Sometimes perfecting something, takes a lot of trial and error.