It's a kinda curious world we live in, but I'm glad the IRS accepted nonprofit World Univ and Sch's 990 tax form on Sunday morning (and that the WUaS Corp incorporated as a for-profit parallel wing in 2017, with a separate Board and Officers).
Desiderata -
http://mwkworks.com/
and Hippy-angali Yoga Notations -
http://www.scottmacleod.com/
as ideas-ways forward and re the Web/internet? This latter creation posits that we're human primates ... something not many texts like this do. :) (What kind of text is this? :)
Curious whether you've read my short recent book "Haiku-ish" in one sitting? Reading it quickly is very do-able because it's a slim volume, and Haiku-ish are generally around 17 syllables ... kinda
taking the burden of a long book off the reader here. :)
L,
Scott
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A bit confused but more sometimes discouraged about the poverty for academic innovation process I've been engaging over 10 years. Why does no one except basically L pick up on these good academic growth ideas further?
Why am I so poor, traveling so little, have no kids - probably partly re the lack of money question.
What do you think, M?
L, Scott
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Hi M,
How's your day? How are you?
Re poverty and ongoing academic innovations, and speculatively...
Did Dad sonehow sign me up to be in the running to become the president of the USA without my knowing, in the truth is stranger than fiction world we can sometimes live in?
And is my poverty part of this "ecology" I'll call this and re the conception of ecology herein - http://www.scottmacleod.com/
Could possibly make a good novel ...
But ecology ahead, where's a friend with whom I can share love, and begin a family ... for a whole new "ecology" unfolding ... since the future is ahead, and looking back in these regards probably isn't fruitful?
So here I am, president of one organization (World Univ and Sch), acting president of another forked organization (WUaS Corp), which has begun to hire, in a sense, a CEO and 2 Board members, but which isn't generating revenues on either wing. Somewhat "California" I'd say.
Some musings here ... soon to play through the tunes for tonight on both instruments, and for my piping gig on Saturday too.
Has your recorder group started playing again?
L,
Scott
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Hi M,
The expansive "ecology" conception I refer to here -
http://www.scottmacleod.com/
has to do with suggesting explicitly that people are language using human primates, something that's not really taught explicilty or extensively in schools or society (in any country that I know of) in this post Darwinian world we live in, or in psychological theorizing ... let alone connected with hippies, Yoga, or coming into CONVERSATION with or Angela and Victor's yoga. :)
http://www.scottmacleod.com/
has to do with suggesting explicitly that people are language using human primates, something that's not really taught explicilty or extensively in schools or society (in any country that I know of) in this post Darwinian world we live in, or in psychological theorizing ... let alone connected with hippies, Yoga, or coming into CONVERSATION with or Angela and Victor's yoga. :)
So primate ecology in the whole earth household (an idea for ecology partly from the hippy Reedie poet Gary Snyder idea, and a book by him too called "Earth House Hold") of forests with great apes into language using human primates communicating via the forest or web of the internet is partly what I mean, but where Yoga's approaches to positing nonharming might inform the great apes' primate narratives I draw from to explain human primates (here orangs are semi-solitary, common chimps can seem to do primitive war, bonobos seem to be peaceful (yoga-wise too re 'Ahimsa" in their species?) and gorillas seem to live in harems, and none evolved in India, but all in the forests of Africa and Indonesia. And yoga neither has a conception of evolution, nor one of such-knowledge generating conversation.
Some musings and unusual thinking ...
Not easy to do ecological studies based on the current science literature on all of this ... impossible in fact ... except that in coding a realistic virtual earth with time slider for these species including human primates (think 10 person group video hangouts into interactive avatar bots) / all species, steps could be taken toward new creative STEM studies about this, and interesting ones, like about the consciousness, partly as neurophysioligy, of each of these species.
Wonder if Joi Ito's decision about my teaching in the Media Lab will be partly informed in conversation with Charles Nesson.
On to piping and music-making now ... you?
L, Scott
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Good evening, M,
The last SCD tunes I just played were piping tunes with piping settings, and kind of jubilant in the way piping music can be.
Happy Dr. MLK jr. day!
Somewhat productive day here, and creative too.
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L,
Scott
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Hi M,
Thank you!
MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito is a meditator - and in the context of the MIT Media Lab - and with Tenzin there too, with whom he co-teaches a MIT course (and I met Tenzin fairly recently on a panel at Stanford). Here are some blog posts of mine with Joi -
https://scott-macleod.
- and - https://scott-macleod.
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Both WUaS Corp Board members got back to me, and seem to be saying they will participate in monthly board/business meetings. Wow ... good news.
Heather Jane MacKay at Scottish Country Dancing last night, who's a lawyer, said she is is re-writing a prison and law manual ... could be relevant in all ~200 countries' languages at WUaS in the future.
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Not sure how to explain meditation's efficacy for me - and which partly started for me in the Harbin warm pool (in non-theistically f/Friendly sense too, but Joi's parents are Shinto, so I don't think
the divine plays too big a role in Japanese thinking / meditation either) and re the biology of the relaxation response ... but I have a blog label for meditation - https://scott-macleod.
What are you up to today? (Really nice to talk ... and it's time to change my financial situation ... ) ... and perhaps help others financially as well with exploring an Universal Basic Income further.
L,
Scott
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Hi David,
Very nice to see you over Christmas, and thanks for the gift card and other thoughtfulnesses over your visit. Receiving this gift card, it lead me to think about such a simple card as a way to facilitate an Universal Basic Income for 7.5 billion people in all ~200 countries' law systems, such that I even touched on this gift card idea in WUaS's most recent business meeting (adding it my blog too here) -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.
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I'm planning to head to this Universal Basic Income talk this afternoon at Stanford -
https://ethicsinsociety.
Any thoughts about following up with and hearing back from the MIT Media Lab about the faculty position for which I've applied?
Thanks for coming to visit at Christmas!
Warm regards,
Scott
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