Forest Park (Portland, Oregon): "Hiroshi Ishii, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Making Digital Tangible: The Battle Against the Pixel Empire" talk * * * Psychiatry re Dr. John Money's 'Concepts of Determinism' and Sexology ideas, in part? * * * Wondering about the transcendentalist tradition of Unitarians (writ personal) - and as a de-stressor - and appreciate sitting meditating daily, on the biological side of this (that I call the relaxation response re its biology

Questions from your "Hiroshi Ishii, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Making Digital Tangible: The Battle Against the Pixel Empire" talk

Dear Hiroshi,

Thank you very much for your amazing summary of your 30 years of work in one "Hiroshi Ishii, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Making Digital Tangible: The Battle Against the Pixel Empire" talk - https://twitter.com/ishii_mit/status/1333081639438741505?s=20.

HCI Distinguished Lecture 6: Hiroshi Ishii (MIT Media Lab)

https://youtu.be/XIy-uo6Ja-w

Here are my questions and comments from the Youtube livestream -

Scott MacLeod

What about a realistic virtual earth, think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER with AI to integrate this, Professor Ishii - https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RealisticVirtualEarth&src=typeahead_click?

Thank you for this brilliant, and wondrous creativity, Professor Ishii!

... with a #FilmTo3D App, even - https://twitter.com/hashtag/FilmTo3D?src=hashtag_click ... for some of the whole - in a realistic virtual earth and to integrate Tangible UI even?

Thank you - sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org -

This could be an excellent beginning to a #FilmTo3D App:

AMAZING - & could this be beginnings of #FilmTo3D App from #SmartPhone (& into #GooglePoly even) into esp. 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth (think #StreetView #TensorFlow), #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchitecture & be combined with #MotionCapture & for #EWVWG #EthnoWikiVirtualWorldGraphy ?

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1325896085961728000?s=20

Sincerely, Scott

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Hiroshi Ishii

4:14 PM (5 hours ago)

to me, ishii

Dear Scott,

Thank you very much for your message regarding my talk at the University of Chicago.

The concept of a "realistic virtual earth" is intriguing since we love and care about the real earth.

When a human being has to leave the earth and solar system due to the sun's explosion at its end of life, we may need to prepare for the realistic virtual earth to educate our descendants. ;-)

Sincerely,

Hiroshi ISHII
ishii@media.mit.edu

https://tangible.media.mit.edu/

https://www.facebook.com/ishii.mit

Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>

9:30 PM (15 minutes ago)

to ishii

Dear Hiroshi,

Thank you too for your email reply. And thank you again for your great -

"HCI Distinguished Lecture 6: Hiroshi Ishii (MIT Media Lab)"

https://youtu.be/XIy-uo6Ja-w

- which I'll re-visit.

Would you and MIT be interested in 'taking on' creating the sun and galaxies in 1 realistic virtual universe, as well as life and death genetically + in a realistic virtual earth for genetics, for example?

See -

realistic virtual universe

https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualUniverse?src=hashtag_click

and the image here (re Neha Narula and Arvin's MIT presentations esp.) -

Actual >Virtual >#WUaSBlockchainLedger >#SingleCryptocurrency like #PiCryptocurrency #MinePi > mining space re heavy industries with robotics >ONE realistic virtual earth /universe for everything> https://twitter.com/akrv1/status/1237908120787189761?s=20 #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualUniverse ~

Actual >Virtual >#WUaSBlockchainLedger>#SingleCryptocurrency like #PiCryptocurrency #MinePi> mining space re heavy industries with robotics >ONE realistic virtual earth /universe for everything> https://t.co/zdh1RAnWVL #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualUniverse ~
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 18, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1240142242221867009?s=20

and in a related vein -

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/tunguska-russia-asteroid-1908.html

and - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/asteroid-actual-virtual-blockchain.html

... and regarding life and death ...

realistic virtual earth for genetics

https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?src=hashtag_click

as well as aging reversal regarding genetic engineering -

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23WUaSAgingReversal&src=typed_query

and in also a

realistic virtual earth for evolutionary biology

https://twitter.com/hashtag/realisticvirtualearthforevolutionarybiology?src=hashtag_click

in 1 single realistic virtual earth / universe

https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click ?

And in what ways could we explore collaboration regarding creating a CC-4 MIT OCW-centric (and wiki) Japan World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Japan - in Japanese, and offering free-to-students' online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, MD and I.B. high school degrees as well? :) And an online Media Lab - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Media_Lab_at_World_University_and_School - in each of all ~200 countries - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - and in their official and main languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages?

Thank you very much, Hiroshi, and looking forward to further communication.

Sincerely,

Scott MacLeod

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* * *

Maitreyi

Hi Ma,

Glad Ed spent time with his family, 'blood,' over the weekend - who is his last surviving aunt, and older relative on his father's side, ... (And are he, Valerie and their kids a troop, as in troop-bonding, per John Money (http://scottmacleod.com/JohnMoneyConceptsOfDeterminism.html), - and were we as a family (the Brown genes on Thanksgiving) all a troop in Zoom video on Thursday, you, Cathy and Steve, Ann, and invisible Tim, Kate and Sandy and me ... ?)

Inaugurated my new red seat cushion today on a pretty day ...

And are we all navigating the 'fore-doomance' (per John Money too) idea with the interest in aging reversal via genetic engineering? ... with all of this having many implications even for psychiatry and in all countries and languages, I'd suggest and theorize (with related emails in Happy Thanksgiving! (and happy birthday, Pat & Marti!) thread here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/11/fennec-fox.html - and I'll probably add this one: )

Great to be in touch with Fettes College in Edinburgh today, re 'blood' too in a sense, and these and email to Maitreyi in some of these regards from today are here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/11/pelican-loving-bliss-resaerch-aging.html -

Now have enjoyed both new Ikea red and green seat cushions, but will bring them inside regularly, to keep them clean ...

Has Jean found a buyer for their house, or could even Lillian move back in there again, after Jean moves out, for example?

How was your day?

Love, Scott

(Re the following picture, are we going to get great holograms out if Covid-19 ... and further bioterrorism preparedness, as well as further Aging Reversal genetic engineering successes, and developments in 2021?) ...
Photo: Elin Åberg
The government's crisis chief: May live with the virus throughout 2021

The report highlights concerns about reduced defense capability and questions about Sweden's access to vaccines.
https://www.dn.se/sverige/regeringens-krissamordnare-vi-far-leva-med-viruset-under-hela-nasta-ar/
(Check it out with Google Translate!)

just shared this with Elliott -

Hi Elliott!

Good to hear from you. Yes, glad to be in a (possibly temporary) safe house just north of Berkeley, away from the mentally ill former owner and his unwell daughter, landlady toward end, in Canyon. (I called the Moraga police twice over the summer to make 3 official reports if illegal beak ins, entries, thefts (which could even lead officially to involving federal authorities). New landlord, landlady are Indian / Gujurati, from Tanzania, Africa, in their early 80s, and who had at the end of career a 7000 sq ft import export shop at corner of Ashby and San Pablo. Enjoying living / being just north of Berkeley, but World Univ & Sch's addresses are still in Canyon, ... If sick landlord moved into secure nursing home, or prison, or bought a house in Watsonville, for ex. And his daughter and new husband moved to a nice house near their college, where they teach, I could see moving back in there ... If Canyon as a whole was somehow getting 'cleaned up' ... Am on Arlington in El Cerrito for awhile longer.

How are you, and Katherine? Nice to talk with David ☺️ not too long ago...

Good to be in touch!

Fond regards, Scott

Daily blog is happening, and here are ok risk 5 Hypothetical News' Items re Covid-19 from 4/1/20 - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html?m=0 ... Cheers, Elliott, regards, Scott

Navin Doshi, my new landlord, first came to Berkeley in 1970... Berkeley at that was fascinating counter-culturally, I'd posit .. and lived through so much of it :) ... and I wanna see it and relive in a realistic virtual earth for history - :) https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory?src=hashtag_click ~

Scott

* *

Pin, Mrs. Mazumdar, Marti, Pat, Ma, Tym, Sunheart, Mr. Mazumdar, All,

So very nice that you called, Pin, last night! Thank you! I was just walking on my longest walk ever from my new home (a 'safe' house even, I'm calling this) north of Berkeley ... and 1.8 miles up to the closed (due to the Covid-19 pandemic) Unitarian Universalist Church of Kensington (Berkeley), and 1.8 miles back ... a de-stressor walk, and wellness walk, as well. I don't think I've ever been in this Church or met any of its community (but I was singing in UU Church of Palo Alto choir for a semester or two a year or 2 ago, when I was visiting Stanford almost daily).

I wonder about the transcendentalist tradition of Unitarians (writ personal) - and as a de-stressor - and appreciate sitting meditating daily, on the biological side of this (that I call the relaxation response re its biology - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2008/09/arc-steps-to-elicit-relaxation-response.html - or rename an inner releasing action), and which relaxation response I find happens naturally both in unprogrammed tradition of Quaker Silent Meetings (in the manner of Friends), and in the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool, which I explore here too in these Hippy Anjali Yoga Notations - http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html - but not yet in a realistic virtual Harbin from one's bathtub, for the releasing action on one's bodymind neurophysiology of the warm water.

Here's an interesting talk by a Harvard-trained UU minister, Paul Sawyer (who also invited the Grateful Dead to play in a UU church in southern California around 1966) -

The #CoronavirusPandemic has still closed the #UnitarianUniversalistChurchofBerkeley (in Kensington) Enjoying this conversation with #UUMinister Paul Sawyer

https://youtu.be/jmsWXa5D-As blogged abt http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/10/spicebush-swallowtail.html?m=0… & re #Quakers among #Unitarians re #RealisticVirtualHarbin too!

The #CoronavirusPandemic has still closed the #UnitarianUniversalistChurchofBerkeley (in Kensington) Enjoying this conversation with #UUMinister Paul Sawyer https://t.co/eV7njB0Xaw blogged abt https://t.co/bg90SHFYAJ& re #Quakers among #Unitarians re #RealisticVirtualHarbin too! pic.twitter.com/52s0RWmQAV
— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) October 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1312810649601232897?s=20

Maitreyi, and All, the idea for doing genetic engineering from home on smartphone is here -

Do #GeneticEngineering on it? Map your whole genome w next generation #GooglePixelSmartPhone? Visit #RealisticVirtualHarbin @HarbinBook in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM with it https://9to5google.com/2020/11/30/pixel-4a-5g-review-the-price-perfect-pixel-video/ at cell & atom levels too? Think #StreetView with #TimeSlider @WorldUnivAndSch!

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1333608791787532288?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1333613415416307714?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1333644494042906624?s=20

- and -

For #WUaSGeneticEngineering? #MapYourOwnGenome with the next generation #GooglePixelSmartPhone? Visit #RealisticVirtualHarbin @HarbinBook in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM with it https://9to5google.com/2020/11/30/pixel-4a-5g-review-the-price-perfect-pixel-video/ at cell & atom levels too? Think #StreetView with #TimeSlider @WUaSPress!

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1333610873860997121?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1333613227763122176?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1333644586913202176?s=20

Is the time now for this? ... :)

It looks like your Dean, George Church, Harvard / MIT Prof of Genetics in HMS is leading an online genetics' conference on one's smartphone out of India as I write this, and is the keynote, which we can all attend (walk down the hall in the HMS if you're there tomorrow, and watch him teach research - or might you already be participating in this :) -

george church
@geochurch
http://riidl.org/bio
https://thedarwin.in
NOW! Dec 2-5

https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1334134268747014146?s=20

Great !

Pin, Siddartha, might we explore talking monthly, like you do with Partha? :) And let's stay in touch, All, about both online #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for all 7.8 billion people (and in developing a single realistic virtual earth for telerobotics surgery - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery?src=hashtag_click - even, VASCULAR surgery first even?), with online WUaS medical schools and teaching hospitals, as well as UBI experiments with the Stanford Mine Pi cryptocurrency to DISTRIBUTE a single cryptocurrency in most of ~200 countries and their languages - brainstorming-wise, for all 7.8 billion people too (see WUaS Minutes below:)

And how to grow, or explore, the transcendentalist tradition of Harvard & Unitarians and in brand new ways, I wonder? (I don't head in the Transcendental Meditation (TM) direction, but my friend and Harbin informant, Sunheart, at Harbin Hot Springs ,learned much from the Maharishi, in this tradition in the late 1960s and in the '70s in the US - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/11/cairngorms-national-park-virtual-harbin.html :).

Warm regards, Scott

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Good Minutes from the WUaS Monthly Business Meeting (in the manner of Friends), which I sent out yesterday - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/mirabilis-jalapa-minutes.html :)