Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge: Text>BEYOND & into 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth for talking e.g. w #RICHARDRORTY from past #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory with REALISTIC #WUaSAvatarBots Moving TO #TextInTheSideBar in #GoogleStreetView with TIME SLIDER & TensorFlow AI ~changing ACADEMIA radically~ #WUaSPhilosophy ! * * * Naked Harbin Ethnography p. 5ff - #Virtual 'not actually, but as if’ New D. Hume #WUaSPhilosophy re #ActualVirtual @HarbinBook in #RealisticVirtualHarbin #EthnoWikiVirtualWorldGraphy for Phil.? Princeton philosopher David Lewis https://britannica.com/biography/David-Kellogg-Lewis - https://philpapers.org/rec/SIEWDH-2 ~ * * * Book readings in Lake County public libraries after the publication of my 2016 "Naked Harbin Ethnography" - which readings, and the writing of too, might contribute to bringing a kind of ethics (anthropologically and writing informed) to Harbin

Beyond TEXT & into 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth for talking with PROFESSORS from the past #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory with REALISTIC #WUaSAvatarBots ~Moving TO #TextInTheSideBar in #GoogleStreetView with TIME SLIDER & TensorFlow AI ~changing ACADEMIA radically~ #WUaSPhilosophy !

Beyond TEXT & into 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth for talking with PROFESSORS from the past #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory with REALISTIC #WUaSAvatarBots ~Moving TO #TextInTheSideBar in #GoogleStreetView with TIME SLIDER & TensorFlow AI ~changing ACADEMIA radically~ #WUaSPhilosophy ! https://t.co/zrcDp5eQB3

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) September 19, 2020

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Text>BEYOND & into 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth for talking e.g. w #RICHARDRORTY from past #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory with REALISTIC #WUaSAvatarBots Moving TO #TextInTheSideBar in #GoogleStreetView with TIME SLIDER & TensorFlow AI ~changing ACADEMIA radically~ #WUaSPhilosophy !

Text>BEYOND & into 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth for talking e.g. w #RICHARDRORTY from past #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory with REALISTIC #WUaSAvatarBots Moving TO #TextInTheSideBar in #GoogleStreetView with TIME SLIDER & TensorFlow AI ~changing ACADEMIA radically~ #WUaSPhilosophy ! https://t.co/eZtbQFSSun

— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) September 19, 2020

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Consciousness of Self, Hume https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-intentionality/consciousness-self.html into #RealisticVirtualHarbin? For brain research re supervenience into #PossibleWorlds https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/david-lewis/https://philarchive.org/archive/DIEIOSv1 in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM w #WUaSBrainWaveHeadsets #WUaSPhilosophicalConsciousness ~

Consciousness of Self, Hume https://t.co/woC0uBLBAV into #RealisticVirtualHarbin? For brain research re supervenience into #PossibleWorldshttps://t.co/X5onUsgLfHhttps://t.co/ZI4uGGHA9R in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM w #WUaSBrainWaveHeadsets#WUaSPhilosophicalConsciousness~ https://t.co/LikmJ42Ht1

— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) September 19, 2020

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Naked Harbin Ethnography p. 5ff - #Virtual 'not actually, but as if’ New D. Hume #WUaSPhilosophy re #ActualVirtual @HarbinBook in #RealisticVirtualHarbin #EthnoWikiVirtualWorldGraphy for Phil.? Princeton philosopher David Lewis https://britannica.com/biography/David-Kellogg-Lewis - https://philpapers.org/rec/SIEWDH-2 ~

Naked Harbin Ethnography p. 5ff - #Virtual'not actually, but as if’ New D. Hume #WUaSPhilosophy re #ActualVirtual@HarbinBook in #RealisticVirtualHarbin#EthnoWikiVirtualWorldGraphy for Phil.? Princeton philosopher David Lewis https://t.co/AWHAoIsM8l - https://t.co/vBZz8VBuXS~ https://t.co/LikmJ42Ht1

— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) September 19, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1307456912619794432?s=20

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A #WUaSPhilosophy basis for the #Virtual 'as if'? re #ActualVirtual @HarbinBook in #RealisticVirtualHarbin #EthnoWikiVirtualWorldGraphy for Phil.? Princeton philosopher David Lewis https://britannica.com/biography/David-Kellogg-Lewis - https://philpapers.org/rec/SIEWDH-2 in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth Humean Supervenience

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1307409783918489600?s=20

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basis for #WUaSPhilosophy for #Virtual - 'as if'? re #ActualVirtual @HarbinBook in #RealisticVirtualHarbin #EthnoWikiVirtualWorldGraphy for Phil.? Princeton philosopher David Lewis https://britannica.com/biography/David-Kellogg-Lewis - https://philpapers.org/rec/SIEWDH-2 in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth Humean Supervenience

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1307408935670837248?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1307409486689087489?s=20

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in On the Plurality of Worlds, "Lewis defended modal realism: the view that possible worlds exist as concrete entities in logical space, & that our world is one among many equally real possible ones"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lewis_(philosopher)https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/david-lewis/ #WUaSPhilosophy basis #Virtual ?

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1307413979480817665?s=20

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to Pin, Tym, Ed, Janie

Hi, Ma, Tym, Pin, Ed,

Emailed Berkeley physics' grad student John Groh yesterday evening, who may be organizing in part the 'Kensington house' in seeking a new housemate ... (see my email from this morning to my mother below).

Just emailed Tourism Studies' Working Group folks too, since there had been some confusing communications about a Zoom TSWG meeting yesterday evening or not - 

to sgindin, Nelson, Tourism, Bertram, Dean, Amir, Amir, Juliet, Jing, Laurence

Thanks, Nelson and Bert, for the updates. 

Hoping to tune in next week,

Scott

PS

Thanks too for the opportunity to have given four talks in the TSWG since 2012 - 

see: Tuesday, February 20, 2018

"Blue borage: 4th Harbin Hot Springs' actual-virtual ethnographic talk on 2/23/2018 at UC Berkeley TSWG this Friday."
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/02/blue-borage-4th-harbin-hot-springs.html 

- and one in lieu, even, of book readings in Lake County public libraries after the publication of my 2016 "Naked Harbin Ethnography" - https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity - which readings, and the writing of too, might contribute to bringing a kind of ethics (anthropologically and writing informed) to Harbin - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethics - and perhaps newly in a realistic virtual Harbin for #ActualVirtual anthropology, text in the sidebar. 

PPS

"Japanese honeysuckle: A beginning virtual Gradara village in Google Street View, which we - and all tourists - could further add to, as a preamble to an Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs’ TSWG talk here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/tour - soon * * * Rohit (India), Sri (Sri Lanka), Marisol (Stanford and Peru), Peter (Germany), Partha, (USA and West Bengal) - an email conversation with Poland World University and School regarding its development"

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/japanese-honeysuckle-beginning-virtual.html

PPPS

Open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting in about 10 minutes - 

"Asian emerald cuckoo: Agenda & News for open World Univ & Sch Monthly Business Meeting AND the WUaS Corp on Sat. 9/19/20 at 9am Pacific Time" 

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/09/asian-emerald-cuckoo-agenda-news-for.html

Am not clear how questions of ethics play out in California and differentially regarding the rest of the country, but am glad to have just finished WUaS Monthly Business Meeting, and touched briefly on identity verification re GDPR even - re all 7.5 billion people on planet - which raise ethical & legal questions too, and even re privacy (and possibly the illegal sex trade even, in all ~200 countries, for example). On with my search for a new place, a hassle, - and due I think to calling the Moraga police and making an official report about an illegal break in and entry on the night of 7/26/20 when I was sleeping! "It's not fair" Psychiatrist Lacanian George Alexander MD taught his parakeet to say - and because he heard this from his analysands a lot? ...  C'est possible ...  

I suppose seeking a new place to live is a form, for me, of the Desiderata's "Exercise caution in your business affairs, ..."..." - but face no consequences, social justice and law-wise. 

It would be great to find, however, a great place to live in this search soon, since that would indeed be exercising caution in my business affairs ( ... ??) ... Am an appreciator of social justice and law, and peace! :)

Friendly regards,

Scott

Nice to talk last night.

On with the house search. Living by myself has some merit, but I emailed John Groh last night asking if the opening was still available; I could move later into one of the 2 cottages/garden apts. Will begin to look further at the lists too, and seek to post something as well. 

Am wishing I could begin field work at Harbin again soon, in some ways, both actually and virtually - but socioculturally the same issues of ethics emerge around Harbin and Middletown as around Canyon and Berkeley - as I seek to navigate people stuff. I think George Alexander's Lacanian psychoanalytic psychiatric thinking has been helpful in both these places, but the Desiderata (and re below too) doesn't touch on computers, a field George mentioned with regards to career, and which - computers - do inform many aspects of my career, including the above Harbin project and my big educational project. Monthly Business Meeting for big educational project is in 1.3 hours, ... And then on with housing search. 

 I hope your book group is enjoyable, and that you will have read salient parts of it by tonight. 

Appreciating greatly Ma your wonderfulness! Thank you! 

Love, Scott

I use the same pronoun - me - below which you used in talking last night, but it fits ... 

Ma, 

I guess this writing process to you in part involves me to

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others 

from https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html

as well as 

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs,

... where I think continuing to look for a new place is a form of exercising caution in my business affairs ... (if possibly questions of law and justice could be playing out, unbeknownst to me, and re this 670 Ridgecrest Canyon 94516 place too).

So as I continue to 

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings

writing and language are a help! 

And so ... 

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

Thanks for your support and understanding, Ma!

Love, 

Scott

 

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- Scott MacLeod

- http://scottmacleod.com 

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