Thank you for letting me know this (Stanford Law China Guiding Cases Project, MIT OCW in Chinese, ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy and http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/05/egret-in-planning-for-teaching-my.html). That's interesting, what do you mean by translate the courses into Chinese? Look forward to communicating with you.
Yours Sincerely
Yindong Wei
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Hi Yindong (Chen, Li Fei and Nelson),
Thanks for your email. There are two possible directions I see here in terms of translating "the courses into Chinese."
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One would involve translating my Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - (for which Nelson has written the Foreword, as well as some text for the back of my book) into Chinese, so that Chen and I, for example, could create a MIT OpenCourseWare-centric course - e.g. (for example) http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/05/cattle-egret-as-professor-of.html - based on my book, which course itself would involve translation in both directions. Chen and I would thus co-teach this course in English and Chinese. This course could develop partly in the form of a video game even - and see too MIT Professor Dick Yue's quote here about getting started with CC MIT OCW ... http://ocw.mit.edu/help/get-started-with-ocw/ .
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The other involves translating from some of the ~2,300 CC MIT OCW courses here in English here - http://ocw.mit.edu/ - into Traditional Chinese MIT OCW here - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/traditional-chinese/ (with these ~100 courses in Mandarin as models/examples for course translation - to the STEM - science, technology, engineering and mathematics' MIT standard) for free Creative Commons' University degrees for Chinese students. This would involve probably organization within a Chinese University for translation (since MIT OCW didn't share contact information recently about the Chinese university which translated the already existing MIT OCW in Chinese).
Your email came just as I was heading to a Stanford talk with Jeff Dean, a Senior Fellow and head of engineering at Google, and who was talking about their Google Brain project in many ways re Artificial Intelligence and language. He showed the computational model of a neuron which Google Brain is iterating on (among many key AI foci for Google). Further developing computational neuronal modeling in a co-constituting relationship with actual neurons doesn't appear to be a main focus for Google yet - and yet this will make AI and machine learning remarkably robust and generative. And this co-constituting relationship however is where Virtual Reality could be the amazing bridge between computational neurons and biological neurons and especially re room-size classrooms (and WUaS is Google-verified for Google Classroom, but also, as I understand it, China blocks Google). Jeff Dean's research is fascinating re Google's relatively open, excellent, free, best-value ecosystem (e.g. TensorFlow, Google group video Hangouts (... and potentially in ...), Street View/Maps/Earth, Google Translate in 180 languages, Social Media, Youtube, Google Cardboard, Android ... and all their AI/machine learning/machine translation work beyond Brain - and they're using data from Wikidata/Wikipedia a lot!) and with their licensing. Because of Google's relative openness licensing-wise, and the possibility for CC WUaS to build upon this and with CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and with WUaS's plans to be in all 7,943 languages+ in Virtual Reality especially (for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy in Google Street View/OpenSim with time slider and for all languages - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy), I'll introduce you to the very knowledgeable MIT Professor (and possibly a polymath) Ed Boyden - esb@media.mit.edu - for one - e.g. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/9-123-neurotechnology-in-action-fall-2014/. CC WUaS's brain research and courses will focus on http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/ - and are planned in all 7,943+ languages. Tan Le's email is tan@emotiv.com - https://www.visualcv.com/tanttle - and I'll introduce you to her as well. WUaS would like to head toward developing classrooms for online teaching hospital classrooms in all countries' main languages and in VR (e.g. something like Google Cardboard) as well as brain research in Google Street View/Ecosystem / OpenSim as our own project as we grow.
Best, Scott
* Interesting possible angles for focusing brainwave research with digital media:
Great to meet you at Stanford, June at - "The New Great Game: China And South And Central Asia In The Era Of Reform" talk -https://events.stanford.edu/events/606/60613/ - and thanks for your fascinating questions to Stanford East Asian Studies' professor and China specialist Tom Fingar about most of the countries you email about! Greetings, Xiangyan. There's much creative education potential at wiki World University and School, which is like CC Wikipedia (in ~ 300 languages) with best STEM Creative Commons' licensed OpenCourseWare (accrediting on CC MIT OpenCourseWare in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC).
World University and School is seeking high school students from around the world to apply this autumn (from those countries and China, too) and matriculate online in autumn of 2017 for free Creative Commons' licensed MIT OpenCourseWare- and Yale OpenYaleCourses-centric undergraduate BA/BS degrees first in English - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - in Google group video Hangouts, for planning purposes.
On WUaS's wiki side (which is editable like Wikipedia) and which complements WUaS's degree side, planned in all countries' main and official languages - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States & http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages) - it will be particularly great to cultivate wiki schools in each of all of Myanmar, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Kazakhstan's countries' languages, so that people speaking those languages can openly teach and learn. (Wikipedia is in ~ 300 languages with millions of articles because of the relative ease of wiki information technologies to enable people to co-create encyclopedia articles).
Here are the beginning -
Bangladesh World University and School (not yet in Bangla) -
And WUaS is planning an online law school in each of these countries - e.g. http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaS - in your countries' main languages, June, and on hiring nationals from these countries to become law faculty, for example.
World University plans to move to a new Wiki emerging from CC Wikidata/Wikibase (Wikipedia's 3.5 year old inter-lingual database developing with Artificial Intelligence, machine learning and machine translation in 300 languages), and hopefully this spring/summer. This will facilitate greatly the open-ended creativity of wiki teaching and learning at WUaS in many ways.
Could your contacts, June, in Myanmar, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Kazakhstan, possibly help find online undergraduate students first in English? Where are you from Xiangyan and what languages do you speak? In what ways do you want to create education online anew? While World University and School is planning for students to learn from their high school rooms, engaging your ideas or your contacts' thoughts could lead to in-an-existing-school WUaS focus too.
WUaS is planning to become the online Stanford / Harvard / MIT {Media Lab} of the Internet to offer free, CC online BA/BS, Ph.D., Law, and M.D. degrees, as well as I.B. high school diplomas, in all countries main and official languages, as well as with wiki schools in all 7,943+ languages for open teaching and learning. CC MIT OCW - http://ocw.mit.edu/ - in 7 languages -http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/ - is our/WUaS's starting place for the free CC degrees.
Please let me know your questions, ideas, thoughts and interests in these regards and I can send you further information.
Glad to hear from you. Thank you so much for reaching out to me first.
I came from China in 2005. I have been in the U.S. for about 11 years. I grew up in Beijing. I can speak Mandarin Chinese. I also learned Korean and Japanese in college. I am interested in your work that tries to build an online global learning community. I love the idea of providing learning opportunities and educational resources to people all over the world for free. I appreciate and respect the work your organization has done so far.
As you might have heard, K-16 schools in China are growing so fast and trying to catch up with the West in terms of reforming their curriculum development and teaching methods. Over there, students, parents, teachers, educational leaders are very starving to learn from the outside to improve their own system and everything. I went back to China two months ago and talked to some of my friends who are developing Apps and other platforms for online learning. Those friends are my peers in the graduate school of education in China. There is a huge demand for this type of learning methods and materials. Because of a strong exam-driven system, Chinese parents, particularly those from upper-class, and educators from magnet schools started to seek an alternative approach to provide educational resources and opportunities for the kids to complement what they learned at school. You can tell, kids in cities are in a rush to get prepared well. Also, there is a huge gap between kids in urban and rural areas in China. Lacking of access and networks to the technology-based resources, kids in rural areas cannot get the same level of education in terms of both quality and quantity as those in urban areas for education. After reading your email, I am thinking it would be fantastic if the open learning sources could be provided to those not only in urban but also to those in rural areas. This is just a quick thought. I believe innovation is not just creating something new from nothing, but also making something already there better.
I would love to learn more from you about the organization. I live in San Jose. Do you live in the Bay Area? Please let me know how I can be further help. Thank you so much!
Best,
Xiangyan
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Hi Xiangyan (and June),
Thanks so much for your email and your interest in reaching out to Chinese students, for example. In responding to your "I am thinking it would be fantastic if the open learning sources could be provided to those not only in urban but also to those in rural areas," and re CC MIT OpenCourseWare centric World University and School, I see the possibility here of translating this open course ware further into Chinese (than http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/traditional-chinese/) so that WUaS could offer these courses online for free CC university degrees in China in Mandarin. Access to this in rural areas would happen with broadband in China there, and possibly even with a kind of partnership with Google/Stanford/University of California if we could develop this.
So all of this would involve developing a team for translating some of the ~2,300 CC MIT OCW courses here in English here - http://ocw.mit.edu/ - into Traditional Chinese MIT OCW here - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/traditional-chinese/ (with these ~100 courses in Mandarin as models/examples for course translation - to the STEM - science, technology, engineering and mathematics' MIT standard), again for free Creative Commons' University degrees (BA/BS, Ph.D., law, MD and IB) for Chinese students in Chinese. This would involve probably organizing translation of this within a Chinese University (since MIT OCW didn't share contact information recently about the Chinese university which translated the already existing MIT OCW in Chinese).
We could explore developing some of these courses partly in the form of video games eventually even - and see too MIT Professor Dick Yue's quote here about getting started with CC MIT OCW ...http://ocw.mit.edu/help/get-started-with-ocw/.
I live in the east bay hills of the SF Bay Area, about and hour and 15 minutes from (excellent) Stanford, for example (where June and I went, and where June studied in college). Shall we 3 explore possibly meeting at Stanford to talk further about some of this (and the countries you're interested in, June) at some point soon?
I just came across this interesting Stanford education talk with President John Hennessy, Sal Khan, and Stanford Professors Sean Reardon, Linda Darling-Hammond - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0XG80yt-xo - which you might be interested. China is mentioned only a little.
* In reading the above Yale summary: while "Freud (1st edition cover) doesn't provide a language whatsoever for the eliciting of loving bliss neurophysiology in a biological way, I'll riff a little with his translated title into English," in seeking to go way way beyond the pleasure principle ...
Freud
Jenseits des Lustprinzips (1st edition cover)
(translated as "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" in English)
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Here's the cover to Karl Marx's 1st edition cover to "Das Kapital" (translated as "Capital" in English)
Probably heading to Stanford today and will try to set some goals in getting my Harbin ethnography index done (http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html), which I'm doing daily, but balking at indexing too, yet after Stanford's Anne Austin's talk on Friday evening (related blog post tomorrow), and re creating a 1st edition, I have further reasons to finish my Harbin index.
L, S
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I hope to develop further research approaches and clinical approaches to the medical practice of online psychiatry at World University (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Psychiatry & http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Psychoanalysis - and digitally informed) out of the above (Lacan>John Money>online psychoanalysis to loving bliss elicitation) and multi-lingually, and re eliciting loving bliss biology.
I enjoyed your excellent "Embodying the Goddess: Revealing the Practice of Tattooing in Ancient Egypt" - http://events.stanford.edu/events/608/60867/ archaeological/anthropological talk (with its interpretive emphasis on the Egyptian Goddess Hathor) on Friday evening at Stanford a lot. Your recent remarkable and unusual find from about 3200-3500 years ago of a (female) mummy with tattoos in Egypt raises all kinds of creative and interesting new interpretive possibilities in your discipline (which are approaches I enjoy, for example, and in writing my Actual~Virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnography - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html). How does the academic literature on Ancient Egypt further distinguish between religious culture/discourse and culture/discourse beyond Ancient Egyptian "religion" and "decorum"? Thanks for your helpful reply to my question. (I asked this question with "religious culture" in India and religious culture in "U.S." today in mind, for example, and by way of very loose comparison, as distant as these are from each other and from scholars' understandings of Ancient Egypt's "religion," which is not generally as "culture," in my very, very limited reading. India is still very religious in my interpretation and in ongoing ways in the modern world / the information age, having visited 3 times). Ancient Egyptian "culture," archaeologically, is such a fascinating topic and so distant, especially given Anthropology's theoretical developments over the past, say, 100 years.
Understanding Ancient Egyptian culture, both "religious" and in complementary "not-religious" ways further would be significant in, for example, beginning to create a data set which might inform a virtual earth in Google Street View/Maps/Earth with time slider - for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy (here's the Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy label in my blog
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy) - in the places and periods in which you do field work, Anne, and the questions you are asking. Both tattooing and how such new data, and finds, might create very new developments in interpreting Ancient Egyptian culture (fabric of daily life) could be further engaged very generatively with developing information technologies in so many ways (not to overstate the obvious:).
Your talk also highlighted the significance of digital technologies in revealing new finds. In my ongoing Harbin ethnographic research, where I hope in part to create a virtual Harbin Hot Springs as ethnographic field site for ongoing comparative anthropological study in something like Google Street View with time slider with OpenSimulator, your talk on tattooing suggested to me that people reading my book 3,500 years from now, or looking at the virtual Harbin/earth then from around now might also begin to ask questions of (or make discoveries about) tattooing at Harbin, for example - of which there is some, and viewable in the Harbin pool area.
And thanks to your talk, I may in subsequent Harbin books I write seek to make distinctions about questions of culture - e.g. "religious culture" and "culture more generally" - further re Harbin, which emerges out of California in the 1960s and 1970s as counterculture, in my interpretation, and is also a little New Agey as well as "California" culturally. Harbin is both two churches, HCC (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Heart%20Consciousness%20Church) and NACOB - but which aren't affiliated with any other churches and which may have been a hippy tax dodge in 1975 and 1996, and Harbin embodies a kind New Age clothing-optional hippy culture (e.g. hippy Hinduism and Buddhism and language etc.) a few decades after the 1960s. How will all of this emerge digitally and for "publishing" Harbin in a film-realistic, 3D, interactive, group build-able, wiki with avatars, and in all 8K languages, and for later research are fascinating questions for me. Harbin is also simply a nice place to visit. (Have you been there?)
(More about CC World University and School possibly in the future).
Thanks for your fascinating Stanford talk, Jeff, on "Deep Learning for Text Understanding and Information Retrieval" last week on Th, May 19th - http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs276/. In addition to posting below my recent email (on F, May 6) to Eric Schmidt and Peter Norvig, about which WUaS would like to inquire with you about please, I'd like to ask you about the following.
Re the AI word focus in your recent Stanford talk, in addition to WUaS planning to work with all 7,943+ languages (re my recent IBM CSIG Universal Translator talk with slides here http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/05/12-initial-foci-of-wuas-universal.html), WUaS wants our wiki-informed Universal Translator to work with so-called "dead" and "invented" languages too, and so develop an etymological history approach to our Universal Translator. CC WUaS, which is like CC Wikipedia/Wikidata/Wikibase (in ~300 languages) with best STEM CC OCW (accrediting on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC, for planning purposes, in all countries' main languages) would like to develop this word/lexical-centricity potentially with Google Translate / CC Wiktionary / CC Wikimedia Foundation Content Translation, as well as potentially with phoneme-centricity (for voice) all of which will be central to the planned WUaS Universal Translator. Wikimedia's Creative Commons' licensing is also central to Creative Commons' licensed WUaS. And WUaS's Universal Translator in its lexicality focus will eventually further WUaS and other multi-lingual online brain-language research - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/and via the Brain_and_Cognitive_Sciences wiki subject page http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Brain_and_Cognitive_Sciences - planned in many/all languages.
WUaS would like also its universal translator to eventually be in a realistic virtual earth (i.e. film-realistic, interactive, 3D, wiki-build-able, with avatars (both realistic and fantastic - e..g Google Hangouts in Street View? - and in all 7,943 languages) such as in Google Street View/Maps/Earth with its time slider with a precise OpenSim/SecondLife build-ability, in which your Google AI word-focus eventually could be seen, for example, in classrooms therein (e.g. in rooms at the virtual Cambridge University in this planned realistic virtual earth with time slider), but also in a variety of other ways.
WUaS eventually will be able to support your creative Google AI work faculty- and language-wise since World University and School is planning to hire first graduate student instructors (and eventually faculty members) in all languages on both WUaS's degree side in ~204 countries and on our open wiki school side, in all 7,943+ languages.
In what ways could WUaS possibly co-develop parallel projects with Google Brain/AI/Search which would further support your interesting projects and help develop the WUaS Universal Translator, and in a realistic virtual earth as well? In what ways could WUaS become a co-developer? WUaS is planning to facilitate each countries' main language creating their own major research university with free CC accrediting degrees (e.g. on http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/). How might you, Jeff, see us collaborating further in generative ways?
CC WUaS donated WUaS to Wikidata last autumn with its 3.5 year old inter-lingual database developing with A.I., machine learning and machine translation. Central to WUaS again is CC MIT OCW in 7 languages, which WUaS plans to add to Wikidata and develop further.
In what ways could we further engage the Stanford Computer Science students in Chris Manning's and Pandu Nayak's class in all of this (http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs276/)?
Thank you.
Best, Scott
Dear Eric and Peter,
Greetings, and how are you? Having just this spring been in a UC Berkeley Law "New Business Practicum" course as a client developing World University and School, which is like CC Wikipedia with best STEM CC OpenCourseWare (and accrediting on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC), I'm writing with a few questions about developing World University further in collaboration with Google. WUaS is planning to be in all ~204 countries' main languages as accrediting universities offering online Creative Commons' licensed BA/BS, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees (and also CC MIT OCW-centric I.B. high school diplomas), as well as facilitate wiki schools in all nearly 8,000 languages for open teaching and learning, and developing in interlingual Wikidata in 300 languages. WUaS is also in Google Classroom thanks last year to the very helpful (Evan) P.S. at Google and WUaS is therefore Google-verified.
This spring also, CC WUaS in a lengthy correspondence with MIT Assistant Dean of Online Learning Cecilia d'Oliveira (and former executive director of CC MIT OCW) clarified ways in which CC WUaS can both "share" and "adapt" CC MIT OCW in 7 languages (and ways in which we can't commercialize this on WUaS's CC Core non-profit side - since forking WUaS, again re this same Berkeley Law course, is further planning a commercial side).
WUaS is looking to improve our main web page - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/- focusing it for ~17 year old students (we may matriculate possibly 2000 students in the autumn of 2017 for free CC BA/BS degrees) applying this autumn from all over the world for online CC MIT OCW-centric undergraduate degrees. WUaS is planning many other developments including a universal translator between all 7,943 languages, about which I just gave an online IBM CSIG talk yesterday morning - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f48b0Z4VffQ .
I just talked on the phone with a Google representative at Google Sites - https://apps.google.com/intx/en/products/sites/ (which costs $5 per user per month, she confirmed) - who said they don't really do web sites (WUaS hasn't become financially operational to speak of yet, whatsoever). They only support very simple web sites as kinds of intranets for company team work - which I think WUaS could be interested in, but the Google person said supportively she didn't think it was what we want.
What suggestions please might you have for collaboration of all of this within the Google ecosystem?
Since World University has Google Classroom and plans to build major online accrediting universities (the Harvards of the internet) in all countries' main languages, and using Classroom, would there be a possible way you could see please for World University and School to work with a Google team in developing WUaS further?
And would it be possible please to talk in person with you or even in combination with Peter Norvig whom I know a little, and who has been on the WUaS monthly business meeting email list for years further about this as well? Thank you very much.
Berkeley Bowl (co-op like grocery store) mini-ethnography here: strawberries for 1.39/lb, the guy with the dreads has a head band over them near the meats, and his glasses are cool ... into the fruits and veggies ... journeying in in in to this pool of visual mind expansion :)
Swimming in colors as I back in to the check out line to barter with not bicycling bitcoin, not cash, but credit with the chip on the card ... so yes returning here to political economy qs .. but soon now to return to visual media
Loss leader seeker here - cukes for .29 each...but, on Skyline Drive now, soon to head home to Canyon, with a different palette of visual media, Kai!
See, the person at the cash register back at the Bowl is from Ethiopia, part of the large Amharic-speaking community in the East Bay and she, who is centered and great and I think appreciating being in the States, is an example of the people-focus of this mini Anthropologyy in text messaging ..I bet there could even be a dissertation up in the UC Berkeley Anthropology library ... but anyway, Kai, here's a beginning startup online Amharic language University - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Amharic_language - not yet Amharic ... not sure whether the Ethiopia WUaS (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States) is already begun or not. How are you? :) Your Bowl-ethnographer signing of for awhile. :)
* O, just checked - it is ... here's the beginning Ethiopia World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ethiopia - not yet in Amharic or other languages there ...
Dear MIT Prof. Ed Boyden and Aldis Sipolins (Virtual Reality at IBM),
I'm writing to introduce you to one another. Aldis is Head of Virtual Reality & Game Design for IBM Research (https://twitter.com/AldisSipolins) and Ed is a Neuroengineer and Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab and MIT McGovern Institute. Aldis and World University and School (which is MIT OCW-centric in its 7 languages +) have been emailing about exploring partnering around questions of developing online classrooms and Aldis recently emailed me with "I'd be happy to start a dialogue with MIT if you have connections there you could introduce me to, as well" so I'm emailing you both to introduce you to one another.
World University and School, which is like CC Wikipedia (in ~300 languages) with best STEM CC OpenCourseWare (accrediting on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC) is developing free online accrediting major CC universities in all countries' main languages (offering free CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and Yale OYC-centric BA/BS, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. degrees), on the one hand, and wiki schools in all 7,943+ languages for open teaching and learning, on the other hand, and would like to develop our platform and information technologies by planning for all-languages' brain science research and classrooms. CC WUaS plans further to develop in CC Wikidata/Wikibase/Wikipedia with artificial intelligence, machine learning and machine translation.
Having just attended a Stanford talk last week with Jeff Dean, a Senior Fellow and head of engineering at Google, and who was talking about their Google Brain project in many ways re Artificial Intelligence and language - "Deep Learning for Text Understanding and Information Retrieval" - WUaS would like to explore developing our all-languages' approach to A.I. while modeling neurons computationally in a direct co-constituting relationship with biological neuronal processes. In his talk, Jeff Dean showed the computational model of a neuron, which Google Brain is iterating on only very gradually (among many key AI foci for Google). Further developing computational neuronal modeling in a co-constituting relationship with actual neurons doesn't appear to be a main focus for Google yet - and yet this will make A.I. and machine learning remarkably robust and generative in multiple ways - and in room-size classrooms (Aldis's focus) especially. And this co-constituting relationship however is where Virtual Reality will be an amazing bridge between computational neurons and biological neurons and especially re room-size classrooms.
Jeff Dean's research is fascinating for WUaS/me re Google's relatively open, excellent, free, best-value ecosystem (e.g. TensorFlow, its new chip, Street View/Maps/Earth, Google Translate in 180 languages, G+ Social Media, Youtube, Google Cardboard, Android, Brain, Search ... and all their A.I./machine learning/machine translation work beyond Brain) and with their licensing. Because of Google's relative openness licensing-wise, and the possibility for Creative Commons' licensed WUaS to build upon this and with CC MIT OCW in 7 languages, and with WUaS's plans to be in all 7,943+ languages in Virtual Reality especially (for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy in Google Street View/OpenSim with time slider and specifically for all languages - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - and for developing a comparative actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic field site for my anthropological research and as a classroom too), WUaS sees much potential planning-wise in thinking in terms of Google's ecosystem. In developing World University's artificial intelligence room-size classrooms in something like Google group video Hangouts in a developing, ever more engineering-centric, virtual earth such as in Google Street View with time slider with Maps/Earth with OpenSim/Second Life, WUaS would like to develop our Virtual Reality both building on MIT OCW and via courses like yours, Ed, e.g. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/9-123-neurotechnology-in-action-fall-2014/.
Furthermore, CC WUaS's brain research and courses will focus, for example, on - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/ - and again are planned in all 7,943+ languages. And WUaS would like to head toward developing online teaching hospital classrooms (e.g. http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hospital) - and for clinically engaging brain related medical issues digitally (for our online medical students in all 200 countries' main languages, with a poorest country focus, to aid these countries medically) - again in all ~204 countries' main languages and in VR (e.g. something like Google Cardboard) as well as for brain research in Google Street View/Ecosystem with group-buildable OpenSim as WUaS's own project, as we grow.
Brainwave head sets, such as Tan Le's or Brainfinger's - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/01/flower-coral-brainfingers-hands-free.html - would be an integral part of WUaS's all-languages' brain research platform and our room-size classrooms - for both directions - brain neuron > computational neuron and vice versa - as brains learn and WUaS learns about learning via these technologies, and faculty members teach about this in classrooms.
Given that Aldis is "exclusively interested in developing for room-scale virtual reality with the HTC Vive," ... and ... "given that the system costs about $2000 all told ($800 for the headset, $1200 for the computer to run it), [and that] it'll be a while before the hardware is cheap enough to scale," and as a way for me to contribute to furthering this dialogue, in what ways do you, Aldis, a) envision brain research to be taught in room size classrooms and b) in what ways will class-room dialogue itself (e.g. between, for example, MIT students in group video) emerge in the classrooms (such as moving this Google Hangouts themselves into a virtual earth / Google Street View/Maps/Earth-informed - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/03/parnassius-wuas-holding-conversation.html - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PpOy64y9O4) you envision? (By the way, Stanford's upcoming president in June is neuroscience pioneer Marc Tessier-Lavigne).
Ed, I'm including Jim and Dianne in this email since both are heads of IBM Global University and have been involved in Aldis and my correspondence. (Jim Spohrer also has a BS from MIT in physics and a Ph.D. from Yale in CS).
Looking forward to further communication about this. Thank you, Ed and Aldis.
Thanks, Aldis. It will indeed be interesting how gaming technologies (see the MIT OCW in the beginning "Gaming-Digital" wiki subject at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Gaming_-_Digital - as a kind of blueprint) emerge within a film-realistic, interactive, 3D, wiki, group build-able, all-languages’ virtual earth, with both realistic and fantastic avatars with brains (see too the MIT OCW in the beginning "Virtual World" subject here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Worlds - as a preamble to CC WUaS moving into CC Wikidata and adding CC MIT OCW in 7 languages to Wikidata too) scaled to room-size classrooms in physical space - for virtual multi-lingual teaching hospital classrooms and also for remote digital clinical brain care therein. The degrees and ways that the co-constituting relationships of brain-neurons to/from computational-neurons will inform versions and systems of AI and for gaming for learning are enormous.
How CC World University and School will teach CC MIT OCW about this in countries' main languages (e.g. hiring MIT graduate students who are learning to become faculty members) re the systems you design with "brain-gaming" information technologies and Watson, Aldis, as well as in a realistic virtual earth in, for example, Google Street View / Google Brain systems with its word focus (Brainfingers is a brainwave headset that I’ve tried which allows one to pick letters from a keyboard with “brainwaves,” and without spoken words or gestures), and in new ways emerging from MIT, will create many new courses in many large languages (as well as much new virtual brain research potential).
Ed, where do you see brain research and virtual reality, and teaching about this, finding a generative future beyond the video you shared on Twitter, and in ways, as Aldis wrote, that "capitalize on the cutting edge of VR tech that's hit the market in the past few weeks to make uniquely immersive, engaging lessons" and also particularly re university / company partnerships?
Best, Scott
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Thanks for your email, Ed Boyden.
* Thanks for your email again, Aldis.
* Hi, Aldis, Ed and Gordon (Jim and Dianne),
Greetings, Gordon! Thanks for a fascinating IBM CSIG talk this morning on “Cognitive Computing” and your reply to my question about natural language processing and neuromorphic clusters of 1000 neurons. (Both IBM's Aldis and I have given recent IBM CSIG talks - http://cognitive-science.info/community/weekly-update/ - on VR and a universal translator). Ed Boyden here is a neuroengineer and MIT Professor; where you've worked I saw, Gordon (who is neuroscientist with IBM) and Aldis is the head of Virtual Reality at IBM. I'd like to introduce all of us to one another, Gordon, and invite you into this developing Virtual Reality / neural processing and engineering email conversation.
Aldis and Ed, in a parallel way, part of my long term actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' anthropological project is to digitally model the fluid environment of the Harbin warm pool - which is roughly 15 feet by 30 feet - for ongoing actual-virtual film-realistic, interactive, 3D, wiki, build-able, with realistic and fantastic avatars, all 8k languages' comparisons - at the Street View level, as well as at the neuronal and nano levels. Not only would there be aqueous parallels digitally/computationally between modeling and visualizing the brain at both the neuronal and nano levels/scales, but I'm also interested in terms of research on the effects on the brain re visualizing in the Harbin warm pool - and for a variety of ground-level specific mental / cognitive processes. And again in terms of AI, I'm further interested in the co-constituting relationship between computational neurons and biological neurons (see previous email).
And Watson Virtual Reality, Google Brain environments, your work, Gordon, and your team's "Multiplexed Neural Recording Down a Single Optical Fiber via Optical Reflectometry with Capacitive Signal Enhancement" work, Ed, will likely be taught at MIT OpenCourseWare - and in multiple languages. (Did you happen to watch and hear, Aldis, the very relevant CSIG IBM talk this morning by IBM's Dr. Gordon Pipa - http://cognitive-science.info/community/weekly-update/ - which touched on neuronal processing and cognitive computing?). Engaging brainwave headsets would be a very important part of this research and precise VR neural / nano developments.
The important aspect of the methodology I'm developing which I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy (here again are the slides from my UC Berkeley talk on this from last November - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/11/waters-36-slides-from-uc-berkeley-talk.html) relating to your, Ed, very precise engineering approach at the nano-level, and your precise VR engineering approach for brain research (and learning about the brain through gaming approaches), Aldis, is that World University and School would like to make very precise STEM building/engineering processes accessible to potentially all researchers from a very wide variety of disciplines in all languages. (Again, CC WUaS is like CC Wikipedia in ~300 languages with CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC, and planning to develop in CC Wikidata/Wikibase eventually in all 7,943+ languages).
I'm planning to apply for this MIT Media Lab junior faculty position - http://www.media.mit.edu/about/faculty-searchapplication due July 15) - re World University and School which again is planned in all 7,943 languages as wiki schools and which is developing major accrediting online CC universities (CC MIT OpenCourseWare- in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC-centric) in ~204 countries (for online free CC BS/BA, Ph.D., Law and M.D. and I.B. degrees). I think databases at the nano and neuronal levels in all these languages, which WUaS plans to facilitate, will be key to room-scale VR and nano-level modeling.
Let's explore further developing room-scale VR visualization for precise brain research at the neuronal, nano and Street View levels, as this could "be an exciting area for collaboration."
looking into [1] I read that Wikidata supports 358 languages. Is it still true? For example, I tried to add label in language coded as "nan" (defined in ISO 639-3) and it worked. However it didn't worked for e.g. "arb", which is also part of the ISO 639-3 standard. So how many?
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[1] VRANDEČIĆ, Denny, KRÖTZSCH, Markus. Wikidata: A FreeCollaborativeKnowledgebase. CommunicationsoftheACM. 2014-10, Vol. 57 No. 10, 7885. DOI 10.1145/2629489.http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/10/178785-wikidata/fulltext
which I just learned yesterday in the #wikimedia-office hour at 2pm PT (on Wednesdays).
CC World University and School, which is like CC Wikipedia with CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC (and planning online free best STEM CC OCW accrediting university degrees in ~204 countries' main and official languages) is seeking additionally to develop wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,943+ languages building in CC Wikidata/Wikibase, if possible - as well as for an universal translator. How easy ahead will it be to simply "populate" a list of all 8K languages in Wikidata/Wikibase for various artificial intelligence, machine learning and machine translation developments?
* Some recent Wikimedia office hours with related language developments ...
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And here's WUaS's Creative Commons' licensed Nigeria World University and School -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nigeria - not yet in any Nigerian language (besides English if this is one). World University and School, which is like CC Wikipedia (in ~300 languages) with best STEM CC OpenCourseWare (accrediting on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC) is developing free online accrediting major CC universities in all countries' main languages (offering free CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and Yale OYC-centric BA/BS, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. degrees), on the one hand, and wiki schools in all 7,943+ languages for open teaching and learning, on the other hand, and would like to develop one main platform and information technologies in CC Wikidata/Wikibase/Wikipedia with artificial intelligence, machine learning and machine translation.
And, since you're a M.D., here's the beginning Medical School at World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - which WUaS is also planning with online Hospital in all countries' main and official languages in Africa, by way of example.
I just wanted to get in touch and connect via email. (And perhaps I'll loop in Jim Ferguson and Laura Hubbard and others at a later point about some of this as well).
Perhaps NtFs could think of this new thread re - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/21/us/university-of-miami-establishes-chair-for-study-of-atheism.html and "[NTF-talk] University of Miami Establishes Chair for Study of Atheism" - as a RfC (Request for Comment, which process goes back at least through the 1970s when TCP/IP - internet protocols, the so-called back bone of the internet - was being written, with the intent to implement such a NtF job description by hiring someone, if this then seems to make sense.
The query I'm posing in a Friendly ways is ... "What is best NTFriendly job description language for an endowing online Professorship/Chair of Nontheistic Friendly/Quaker Studies at Friendly-informed World University and School?" Here's a recent and first job description at WUaS - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/05/leafy-seadragon-first-wuas-job.html- for the executive director of Italian World University and School (planned in Italian and CC MIT OpenCourseWare centric), which some heads of the Italian Cultural Center in SF and its affiliated Italian language school suggested I write because they had some possible candidates they wanted to send it to, of whom there weren't any after all, by way of comparison. While this would be an administrative position at Friendly-informed WUaS, the NtF professorship/chair would be a faculty position. Here's the Haverford College Human Resources' page - https://www.haverford.edu/human-resources - with just a few science faculty positions open presently, by further way of comparison. WUaS seeks to become the MIT/Stanford/Harvard of the Internet - and in the Quaker world too - offering free CC BS/BA, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. degrees - and no Quaker college offers Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. degrees that I know of. And WUaS seeks to create online Universities in all countries' main languages, which would be relevant in this NtF Professorship position language conceiving. (CC Wikipedia is in ~358 languages and CC MIT OCW is in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC is in English).
A, besides your helpful response to the historical-translational NTF approach I posed in the previous email thread in conceiving of this potential job description language, what 10 NtF books might such a Professor in a NtF/Quaker Professorship be lead to write in the course of their work in this endowed chair at this online Friendly University (WUaS) might be another further related query, for example?
Thanks for asking.
Friendly regards, Scott
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Scott:
I'm unclear as to what you are asking of us. Perhaps you are just sharing your thoughts.
I don't think the professorship needs to be an either/or. It could include historical and translating areas. It might also include the effects and/or implications of the presence of nontheists in the SOFs.
Anita
* Hi Anita, Bill, Os, James, David Boulton and NtFs,
Starting a new thread here ...
In thinking through how to conceive of a possible job description for an endowing online Professorship/Chair of Nontheistic Friendly/Quaker Studies at Friendly-informed World University and School, your email, Anita, made me wonder about exploring conceptually a kind of historical approach, where NTFs emerge out of the Religious Society of Friends (most recently since the 1970s) vs a translating approach, where NtFs re-connote Quakerly and other related religious traditions' key beliefs / concepts in terms especially relating to non theism / theistic schools. The value of such an approach may only be in informing a conversation that would like to a clear NtF job description at WUaS. How would NtFs think we could best develop such a job description? (I'll probably start a new thread for this as well). Thank you.
NtFriendly regards,
Scott
From the NTF email thread -
[NTF-talk] University of Miami Establishes Chair for Study of Atheism
Hi Bill, Anita and NtFs,
Great. While endowing a chair at Stanford or MIT could cost even more than a million dollars, for example, it might be great to start gradually and by developing an annual salary for such an online Professorship of Nontheistic Friendly Studies at Friendly-informed World University and School. World University seeks to matriculate its first undergraduate class in English in 2017 in English with 2000? students potentially from all ~204 countries in the world (accrediting on CC MIT OCW - http://ocw.mit.edu/ - and CC Yale OYC - http://oyc.yale.edu). Shall we explore forming a NtF endowment committee for this?
Friendly regards,
Scott
Hi, NtFs,
Thanks for sharing this, Anita!
NtFs, let's explore with time creating a Nontheist Friends' endowed chair for the study of Nontheistic Quakerism re, for example - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F) - i.e. an online Professorship of Nontheistic Friendly Studies at Friendly-informed World University and School, as WUaS accredits further to offer online free Creative Commons' licensed best STEM (CC) OpenCourseWare university degrees (accrediting on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC), with high schools and high school students applying this autumn - http://worlduniversityandschool.org.
* As such a scholar begins to study our NTF Google Group archives over 10-15 years now, as part of this new career position, I want to make a plug for a big focus on NtF loving bliss neurophysiology eliciting in such a way that in her/his writings she helps people facilitate this experientially ... George Fox's "This I know experimentally" (which meant experientially in 1656 - http://laquaker.blogspot.com/2012/01/this-i-knew-experimentally-friends-and.html; see too https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Fox) ...
I'd also like to encourage a cultivation of wiki editing in all 7,943 languages with highest quality, (Nt) Friendly-thinking contributions in addition to a focus on goodness ... in addition to care and non-harming (ahimsa - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ahimsa_-_Nonviolence_-_Pacifism_-_To_avoid_harming - think India too) as an expression of the Quaker Peace Testimony ...
* Drawing on my Reed College religion major, with its 4 part focus - social science, philosophy, theology and history - in the early 1980s, I wonder about exploring in this job description focusing on these for possible books, in addition to an evolutionary biological/naturalism focus (which Os Cresson has already written one NtF book about) ...
As some of you may know, I have a long time focus of inquiry about how to elicit loving bliss neurophysiology (brain chemistry or bodymind chemistry, as I think of this). Here's the beginning wiki subject page for open teaching and learning about this at World University - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology). It's kind of an out-of-the-box philosophical inquiry - and definitely seeks to be scientific too - but with the ongoing goal of finding, as B.E. once said on Cuttyhunk, the on-off switch for this neurophysiology which I can also call 'neural cascades of pleasure' - and realizing this when wanted. Music-making is a main focus of this generative inquiry for me currently (all you professional violin players!:).
I just found this related article on an UC Berkeley Ph.D. student friend's twitter feed, who went to Stanford as an undergrad - https://theconversation.com/why-do-only-some-people-get-skin-orgasms-from-listening-to-music-59719 - which could inform even protocols for studying this, both online and possibly experimentally. While I'm actually interested in finding ways to elicit loving bliss neurophysiology for 9 hours per day, every day, for the next 50 years, for example (again thinking way outside the "box"), and whenever, there are a lot of questions I have in terms of thinking about how this would work bodymind chemistry-wise, and how different scientists and people would study this. It would be fun to come into further conversation about this with all of you with time.
* I attached some further sheet music we just played on Monday in Open Band which I enjoyed playing on small pipes (as well as on a keyboard, playing bass lines). On the Scottish small pipes' chanter in A mixolydian, I play the tunes in D major and A major. Have any of you ever done Scottish Country Dancing - I just posted this nice video about SCD from RSCDS Edinburgh to OpenBand on Twitter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhDsPBmglYc - https://twitter.com/dancingforth/status/736479294403252224 (https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand).
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Interesting, and in the Bing auditorium (which I haven't yet been in, and in which we visited the foyer together not too long ago) ...
L,
Scott
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Stanford laptop OrchestrA in Bing Auditorium
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This performance was great ... a Japanese/Chinese Zen/Chan MacBook blue-light glowing vision in Bing Auditorium, with an orange string used by each of all 12 MacBook players to modulate the sound of their computer instruments. (And I think the director of this orchestra is Chinese or Chinese American or Japanese or Japanese American and with long hair). Echoes of a Steve Jobs' Apple vision throughout the performance, with Google making some appearances on the big screen for visuals. The performance began with two MacBook players playing their MacBooks together as accordions - with orange screens - a mazurka, I think ... cool ...
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As part of this performance in the new, very beautiful Bing concert hall, the MoPho - the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra - http://mopho.stanford.edu - also came up on the big screen, as did some amazing Mac Computer graphics.
* This orchestra's repertory is becoming "polished" I think and there's an amazing range of potential new sounds and new ways of composing music (also now quite developed after a few decades)
* In thinking how to compose {computer} music for eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology, building on what already works for me, I didn't get "there" yesterday evening with the computer compositions I heard, yet would like to explore these possibilities composing-wise.
* So I turned on the Grateful Dead's Scarlet Begonias / Fire on the Mountain ... I can return to Not Fade Away as well as live concerts particularly from the 1970s for this ... with some regularity
* In what ways are musical instruments and musicians already akin to computers?
* Here are some SLOrk performances from previous years ...
* Also heard this and connected with the Stanford bookstore about doing something similar ... This talk was a good example re my upcoming Harbin Hot Springs' ethnography book talks ... http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ...
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I am scheduled for a one hour discussion at the FGC Gathering
on Quaker terms and practices that are suited, or could be suited, to both
theists and non-theists. As I am not familiar with the word
"tenderizing" which, as Scott says, is "on both sides of
theism/nontheism understandings", I thought I better ask
what other words would readers of this listserv think would
fit the description? I have thought of "centering,""proceed
as way opens," "testing the depth of the waters" (which I
think is Biblical), and, yes, "holding in the light," and
"walking in the light."
Margaret Conrow
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Hi All,
Doesn’t ‘tenderizing’ mean bashing meat with one of these to make it more tender? Not wildly Quakerly, though very cathartic.
Cheers,
Tim.
* One Quaker word on both sides of theism-nontheism understandings I enjoy is "tenderizing" but rather "to become tender" and re "loving and caring" ...
* Hi Tim, Claire and NtFs,
:) Yes, and polysemy makes translation into a NtF lexicon even more interesting.
My Apple dictionary suggests that "delicate" is an etymological root of "tender" -
ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French tendre, from Latin tener ‘tender, delicate.’
Claire, I like the Friendly phrases you wrote about which you may lead a workshop on at FGC, and here, Claire, Tim, and NtFs, are some further Friendly language, including "to be made tender" and "to become tender-hearted" - http://www.quakerjane.com/spirit.friends/spirituality-glossary.html - with much worth parsing here, as I see it, re a Friendly theistic-non theistic understandings.
{For me, becoming tender relates to a kind of meditative "relaxation response" easing ... and is facilitated further by the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool in terms of a further kind of connectedness/biological oneness ... with parallels with sitting in Quaker Meeting - and a little bit different from becoming "tenderized" :) ... see my blog - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com - for "Nontheist Friend,""relaxation response,""oneness,""connectedness,""Quakers" labels}.
Glad here to be exploring NtF language that's salutary.
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Margaret, I should say (rather than Claire) - sorry!
And here are some further possible resources for the FGC workshop you'll facilitate - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Quakers - which as a wiki page may well grow with resources and in multiple languages, Friendly-wise.
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The Woolman quote re "tender," with the URL reference link to his online Journal (since this quote isn't permanent on the Ben Lomond Quaker Center page - which is in the Santa Cruz mountains of the wider SF Bay Area) is ...
Thus He whose tender mercies are over all His works hath placed a principle in the human mind, which incites to exercise goodness towards every living creature; and this being singly attended to, people become tender-hearted and sympathizing; but when frequently and totally rejected, the mind becomes shut up in a contrary disposition.
One Quaker word on both sides of theism-nontheism understandings I enjoy is "tenderizing," which might emerge from the caring community of Friends' culture/Meetings ... and has to do with moving toward a neurophysiology of caring and love out of Quaker process, as I see and experience this. The ~350 year old culture of Friends has explored tenderizing - that is "becoming tender" - in various ways (perhaps in the legacy of Quaker journals for example - is this idea both in Fox and Woodman's writings?), I think, and context is important here.
I was trying to find in my blog some emails I shared on this list about Quaker terminology that could be understood as already "out of the box" non-theistic thanks to Quaker history. While I haven't found the particular blog entry (or two) I have in mind for this yet, here are two very related blog entries "[NTF-talk] Translating Theist Words" and particularly re "Translating Quaker Theist Words" where this context would be important.
While a translation approach is interesting, World University and School seeks to create an actual Universal Translator (think of a kind of Wikipedia-ized Google Translate in 10 or 20 years with A.I., machine learning and machine translation), and context is a significant interesting challenge here as are images.
But I'd like to find inspiring NtF correlates of the following words in a Quaker context:
Here again is my Dalton letter in this blog entry (which I've shared before with NtFs) with its exploration of many words for the word love:
"Kenyan cheetahs: LOVE ... here is love in its best senses, as I've thought of it, in my Dalton Friends' letter, which is quite Friendly, as well as Nontheistically F/friendly, ' ... empathy; delight; sympathy; centered caring; tenderness; sensitivity; ineffable ecstasy ... '" - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/03/kenyan-cheetahs-love-here-is-love-in.html
And what about ...
valley of love and delight? ...
How would NtFriends translate the above words?
Friendly cheers,
Scott
* In thinking about the gavel (which we NtFs can now potentially 3D print), that Judge Thomas Fell (he was the husband of Margaret Askew Fell, considered the mother of Quakerism; Thomas Fell died in 1658 - and Quakerism can be said to begin around 1652; hewas also interested in Quakerism and helped to provide a first main "place" of Quakerism as well as home in Swarthmoor Hall) possibly used in the 1630s,1640s and '50s, I came across this sentence re the word "God" :
"Margaret Fell writes that the first 20 years of her marriage was spent seeking of the best ways to serve God which included having traveling ministers stay at Swarthmoor"
Margaret, Anita, and other NtF translators, where shall we head with early Quaker pamphlets in terms of NtF lexicon translation?
(I think there's a possibility too to create further Friendly lawyers and judges - with or without gavels - and in many countries' main languages with the online law school at Friendly-Informed WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School - for example).
what an amazing attunement (attainment too) to certain kinds of beauty and in reading Nabokov and so many other writers ... and re "neural cascades of pleasure" unique to individuals ...
what presence and consciousness ....
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Inspired by this video again, let's move beauty generation into song and music-making (I'd like to ... ) ... and generate this for 8 hours a day ... way beyond the interview ... and for others ... in all kinds of ways that a variety of listeners would ken to ... and thereby come to access their own neural cascades of pleasure
* I see this video interview as a ...
cultural portrayal of genius
A Dutch cultural portrayal of American literary/philosophical/neopragmatic genius
* How great and cool for Rorty to connect his own understandings of beauty with both readings of philosophy and literature, and so somehow intimately mind-wise ... and somehow wonderfully
* His talk about ecstasy begins about the 28 minute mark
* How to study this STEM-wise and at World University and School? ... (all 8,000 languages will open an amazing palette) ...
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Of Beauty and Consolation: Part 23 – Richard Rorty
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