my mind begins to hum...

[Traveller in Time]

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[Simon of the Playa]

[Ugly Dougly]

[Ugly Dougly]

[Traveller in Time]

tl;dr tl;dw tl;dl
took me more then 90 minutes

The weather has a mind of its own

Stephen Wolfram's Take on Artificial Intelligence & The Future of Humanity

Does the weather have intelligence? Does my email-avatar have? Why does the Turing test not involve a pointing device and high res display?

Will the answer be 42 or do we have to follow the long route as a shortcut is not allowed.

[Ugly Dougly]

[Simon of the Playa]

http://www.monbiot.com/2017/11/24/everything-must-go/

[Ugly Dougly]

http://www.monbiot.com/2017/11/24/everything-must-go/

[Ugly Dougly]

https://www.clubofrome.org/report/the-limits-to-growth/

The message of this book still holds today: The earth’s interlocking resources – the global system of nature in which we all live – probably cannot support present rates of economic and population growth much beyond the year 2100, if that long, even with advanced technology. In the summer of 1970, an international team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology began a study of the implications of continued worldwide growth. They examined the five basic factors that determine and, in their interactions, ultimately limit growth on this planet-population increase, agricultural production, nonrenewable resource depletion, industrial output, and pollution generation. The MIT team fed data on these five factors into a global computer model and then tested the behavior of the model under several sets of assumptions to determine alternative patterns for mankind’s future. The Limits to Growth is the nontechnical report of their findings. The book contains a message of hope, as well: Man can create a society in which he can live indefinitely on earth if he imposes limits on himself and his production of material goods to achieve a state of global equilibrium with population and production in carefully selected balance.

[Ugly Dougly]

Where is your magical unicorn now?

[Simon of the Playa]

https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/595b ... apocalypse

[Ugly Dougly]

https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/595b ... apocalypse

Courtesy of our friends at Louis Vuitton.

http://eu.louisvuitton.com/eng-e1/stori ... er/details

A founder of watercolor landscape painting and a virtuoso with oils, Turner is considered a precursor of the Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and even Abstract painting styles. Ancient Rome draws on ancient history to make a contemporary political point. Agrippina, the dutiful widow of an army general, arrives in Rome with her slain husband’s ashes for burial. This tragic scene portending the fall of Imperial Rome serves as a foil for Turner’s opinions about modern decline. Part of the artist’s bequest to the British nation, this painting is held within the collection of Tate, London.

[Ugly Dougly]

Plus Santa Claus is dead.
The bones, they do not tell lies.

[Ugly Dougly]

GOD BLESS THE UNITED SNAKES

[Ugly Dougly]

NARWHALS!
Because the are BOTH unicorns AND whales!!!

[Ugly Dougly]

The Coming "Dark Ages"

[lucky420]

NARWHALS!
Because the are BOTH unicorns AND whales!!!

Thank you so much for this. It’s a catchy lil tune and I think it shall be my theme song for the weekend

[Traveller in Time]

definition of live: withstanding entropy

[Traveller in Time]

definition of consiousness: informational loopback process

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The story concerns a farmer who finds a viper freezing in the snow. Taking pity on it, he picks it up and places it within his coat. The viper, revived by the warmth, bites his rescuer, who dies realizing that it is his own fault. The story is recorded in both Greek and Latin sources. In the former, the farmer dies reproaching himself "for pitying a scoundrel," while in the version by Phaedrus the snake says that he bit his benefactor "to teach the lesson not to expect a reward from the wicked." The latter sentiment is made the moral in Medieval versions of the fable. Odo of Cheriton's snake answers the farmer's demand for an explanation with a counter-question, "Did you not know that there is enmity and natural antipathy between your kind and mine? Did you not know that a serpent in the bosom, a mouse in a bag and fire in a barn give their hosts an ill reward?"

[Ugly Dougly]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opin ... story.html

[Perpetual Burn]

The highest, or most exalted, of the five worlds is called Adam Kadmon. Adam means "in the likeness of" or "in the image of," from the Hebrew word domeh. Kadmon means "primordial", or "primary", from the Hebrew root kadam. So, Adam Kadmon is the primordial world which is "in the likeness of" the Infinite Light which preceded it and which was concealed in the process of creation. This means that even though Adam Kadmon is a world, meaning that it comes into being through the concealment of the Infinite Light, it is such an elevated plane of reality that it is "in the likeness of" the Infinite Light (which, by nature, "precedes" the world of Adam Kadmon).

Adam Kadmon...mirrors the original Infinite Light...
Thus, although the world of Adam Kadmon is a world, it is a level so sublime, pure and transcendent that that it is almost imperceptible. It cleaves to and mirrors the original Infinite Light.

In Kabbala, the world of Adam Kadmon represents the transcendent will of G‑d. G‑d's desire for the Creation and how it is manifest are planned out in one broad, all-encompassing overview, without separation into specific details. This is called the machshava kedumah, or "primordial thought" of Adam Kadmon. The primordial thought functions as the blueprint for all of Creation.

In the world of Adam Kadmon everything is seen in one broad overview, but the exact details are not yet separated and ordered into the categories of reality. All the details of Creation, from the beginning of space to the end of space and from the beginning of time to the end of time, are all superimposed in this one thought, for, in Adam Kadmon, there is no concept of space and time whatsoever. There is as yet no inside and no outside, no up and no down, no before and no after. There is only a potential for these limitations. Everything is undefined, unified, and simultaneous. Here lies the root and source of all the other planes of reality, which descend from Adam Kadmon.

It is clear that the succeeding levels of Creation, i.e. the series of worlds which descend from Adam Kadmon, particularly the lowest world, cannot possibly exist within the parameters of the existence of Adam Kadmon. Everything in Adam Kadmon is undefined, unified, and simultaneous, superimposed in a single primordial thought, which contradicts the very idea of worlds in the sense that we understand them, as limited being which presupposes separation and division. Subjectively, in terms of our awareness of G‑d, the world of Adam Kadmon parallels the highest source of consciousness in man. It is the awareness of total unity with the Infinite Light.

[Simon of the Playa]

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[lucky420]

Definitely not a narwhal

[Perpetual Burn]

One day Buddha was walking through a village. A very angry and rude young man came up and began insulting him.

“You have no right teaching others,” he shouted. “You are as stupid as everyone else. You are nothing but a fake.”

Buddha was not upset by these insults. Instead he asked the young man “Tell me, if you buy a gift for someone, and that person does not take it, to whom does the gift belong?”

The man was surprised to be asked such a strange question and answered, “It would belong to me, because I bought the gift.”

The Buddha smiled and said, “That is correct. And it is exactly the same with your anger. If you become angry with me and I do not get insulted, then the anger falls back on you. You are then the only one who becomes unhappy, not me. All you have done is hurt yourself.

“If you want to stop hurting yourself, you must get rid of your anger and become loving instead. When you hate others, you yourself become unhappy. But when you love others," Buddha smiled...

"Everyone is happy.”