Clarissa AL Lee's Lateral Worlds

This whole idea started from when I was in the royal garden of Vienna. :) Now I hope posting it here will generate enough interest that people will come back to me with kick-ass comments. I think the whole idea of secrecy over the most basic issues (rather than sensitive information) is more or less a thing of the past. But be reminded that this posting below does not represent what will be the eventual outcome of the project. If anyone know of similar work done (I know already of Logicomix so no need to point that my way) in other fields or areas, please let me know! :) Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ABSTRACT FOR A CRITICAL STORYBOARD OF A GRAPHIC NOVEL The purpose of this project is to attempt a study of the history of consciousness; a project that tries to explore blackbox of causation and origins of consciousness by approaching it from outside-in, through the objects of knowledge and epistemological production. The r...

Is love and logic programmable in the same way? Can I write a database of love by using an abductive-based algorithm, putting into the database, a long narrative, logical history of love, love-calls, responses, wooing and so-frth, that can be called on by the algorithm through the trigger effect of particular key words. How possible is it to create an algorithm that can close-read text messages and tries to decipher the underlying coded message (like what you try to do when playing a record backwards to capture the subliminal encodings) without falling back into the mistakes of the Strong AI program? Can we attempt to do something like this without falling back to trying to elucidate sentience? Maybe sometime in the near future one can wire chemicals into minute computers that are interfaced to the body and reads the fluctuations of the receptors, transmitters, interferons, axions and various other regulators of the mind and feed the information into a database that then tries to d...

Some interesting titbits found from my twitter stalking A speculative future of the LHC Another attempt at putting another date as to when the LHC could finally be revived. Sounds like one of those Doomsday prediction to me. Last time it was Sept. That has past. Now it's the Dec holiday season. I am still waiting for whoever that has the Don Lincoln book, The quantum frontier : the large hadron collider to return it.  Been waiting for 2 months! Don't they get fined for such late returns?? Anybody wants to buy me that book?

They are both indeterminate! As much as you can’t tell if the computer or person in the other room knows Chinese, or if the cat is alive or dead or both, as one is blurred into the other, however, you can find a solution by direct observation (if you know what goes behind closed doors).  The image on the left is taken from http://www.macrovu.com/CCTMap4ChineseRm.html. The picture is Searle's argument against the hubris of the Strong AI project that conflates the ability to perform a particular analytical task with understanding. Picture on the right is from http://n2.nabble.com/Schrodinger-s-Dusty-td2118011.html  The paradox of the cat is a small paragraph from the English translation of Erwin Schrodinger's paper, The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics . "That it is in fact not impossible to express the degree and kind of blurring of all variables in one   perfectly clear concept follows at once from the fact that Q.M. as a matter of fact has ...

I am motivated to write this posting for two-fold reasons; firstly is because I did promise that I would post about critical thoughts and ideas behind computer-human interface in an attempt to understand the consciousness of machines and humans, to look at the continuity and disjunction between both, by way of phenomenological approaches, the other is to try to understand the materiality of machine-human intelligence. I am perhaps interested more in the latter for this posting as I am preparing a presentation with another fellow student on the subject matter of thinking and the tools that are supposed to make augment our native intelligence by allowing us access to all the 'accessible' knowledge and information of the world. Then, I would like to extend this thesis to gesture lightly, at the moment of this posting, to thinking about the evolution of epistemology and if any of the methodology that we are starting to interrogate here will be a fruitful way to think about the hist...