Wednesday, April 27, 2011
A new and disturbing voice
As Ireland heads toward default, two major and one minor victories will
be apparent. We stopped electronic voting; we used frankly Kamikaze
tactics to stop a German hack from hull University repeating hull's
evisceration of tenure in Britain; and we forced political leaders to
debate in Irish. Wrt the second, the damage to mine, Paul Cahill's and
Dylan Evan's once brilliant careers is probably irreversible. We all
faced losing our houses as well as our careers (I actually lost my
house)
It is increasingly clear that the self-appointed elite in Ireland saw a chance after 1998 to distance themselves from us rabble. The 1916 proclamation was to be seen not as the program for national liberation which it is intended to be, but as a franchise belonging to a cabal, centered around bertie ahern. As the EU/IMF makes ever more specific demands, it is clear that the country is again a colony
From 1998, and the increasing closeness with the Anglo-American war efforts, the Irish state increasingly encroached on aspects of civil society that had previously been inviolate, like popular music and indeed science and tech. One of the reasons the country is broke is that a vast, expensive new civil service was required for areas in which Irish people used to excel out of a sense of patriotism. The Cabal was allowed produce its own artists; why not make your kids pop stars (David Kitt) or chick lit novelists (Ahern) even if that means an unworkable copyright act and a taxpayer-funded movie as pathetic “as “PS”?
Then, from 2004, the opportunity to own vast properties overseas presented itself, be the property a $100 million Cap Ferrat house with an underground disco for an obese middle-aged man, or New York's Apthorp. That required restricting the regulations on bond issues by our native banks; it is almost certain that the bond-holders were told they would be bailed out by the taxpayer, even at the cost of national collapse. The 2008 world crash will be seen as a good thing sub specie aeternitatis
With this in mind, it is interesting to see Derry republicanism eschew the shibboleths of Church, the GAA and the cabal/ gombeen class who now leech off the whole island;
http://www.derry32csm.com/2011/04/ira-easter-statement-2011.html
The threat to kill police is exactly the same as Martin McGuinness routinely enunciated in the 1980's, together with his condemnation of the electoral process;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzvpMlHuIrs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch5u8YbOyIE&NR=1
MM's fantastical idea that voice prints can identify the (admittedly disturbing) speaker is exactly the kind of thinking that caused internment;
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/mcguinness-real-ira-has-limited-but-dangerous-capability-502703.html
The disturbing aspect is that the hatred of the power structure on the island of Ireland will resonate a lot more deeply than ever before. I do not claim to speak for Dylan and Paul -let alone Connell Fanning - but we have all had several millions of taxpayers' money used in an attempt to destroy us. The same procedure was used in the music business, and one assumes in hundreds of other areas of our erstwhile civil society
Seán Ó Nualláin Ph.D , Stanford University
Cinco de Mayo 2011; a few sources
Hull;
http://www.thecollegeview.com/2008/1...ollege-bosses/
David Kitt got his record deal partly 'cos Daddy gave a demo to a record company during negotiations for the 2000 copyright act;;
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-79370142.html
Now we have an unworkable copyright act and you have to take a US federal court case to stop theft of your music, with 50+ Irish acts affected(as documented here);
27 u Aibrean 2011
PPS Having heard the voice of the Derry 2011 real ira speaker, I contend he sounds exactly like - Martin McGuiness himself! High-pitched and clearly not really used to reading
If we find he is an agent provacateur, I will not be surprised
It is increasingly clear that the self-appointed elite in Ireland saw a chance after 1998 to distance themselves from us rabble. The 1916 proclamation was to be seen not as the program for national liberation which it is intended to be, but as a franchise belonging to a cabal, centered around bertie ahern. As the EU/IMF makes ever more specific demands, it is clear that the country is again a colony
From 1998, and the increasing closeness with the Anglo-American war efforts, the Irish state increasingly encroached on aspects of civil society that had previously been inviolate, like popular music and indeed science and tech. One of the reasons the country is broke is that a vast, expensive new civil service was required for areas in which Irish people used to excel out of a sense of patriotism. The Cabal was allowed produce its own artists; why not make your kids pop stars (David Kitt) or chick lit novelists (Ahern) even if that means an unworkable copyright act and a taxpayer-funded movie as pathetic “as “PS”?
Then, from 2004, the opportunity to own vast properties overseas presented itself, be the property a $100 million Cap Ferrat house with an underground disco for an obese middle-aged man, or New York's Apthorp. That required restricting the regulations on bond issues by our native banks; it is almost certain that the bond-holders were told they would be bailed out by the taxpayer, even at the cost of national collapse. The 2008 world crash will be seen as a good thing sub specie aeternitatis
With this in mind, it is interesting to see Derry republicanism eschew the shibboleths of Church, the GAA and the cabal/ gombeen class who now leech off the whole island;
http://www.derry32csm.com/2011/04/ira-easter-statement-2011.html
The threat to kill police is exactly the same as Martin McGuinness routinely enunciated in the 1980's, together with his condemnation of the electoral process;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzvpMlHuIrs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch5u8YbOyIE&NR=1
MM's fantastical idea that voice prints can identify the (admittedly disturbing) speaker is exactly the kind of thinking that caused internment;
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/mcguinness-real-ira-has-limited-but-dangerous-capability-502703.html
The disturbing aspect is that the hatred of the power structure on the island of Ireland will resonate a lot more deeply than ever before. I do not claim to speak for Dylan and Paul -let alone Connell Fanning - but we have all had several millions of taxpayers' money used in an attempt to destroy us. The same procedure was used in the music business, and one assumes in hundreds of other areas of our erstwhile civil society
Seán Ó Nualláin Ph.D , Stanford University
Cinco de Mayo 2011; a few sources
Hull;
http://www.thecollegeview.com/2008/1...ollege-bosses/
David Kitt got his record deal partly 'cos Daddy gave a demo to a record company during negotiations for the 2000 copyright act;;
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-79370142.html
Now we have an unworkable copyright act and you have to take a US federal court case to stop theft of your music, with 50+ Irish acts affected(as documented here);
27 u Aibrean 2011
PPS Having heard the voice of the Derry 2011 real ira speaker, I contend he sounds exactly like - Martin McGuiness himself! High-pitched and clearly not really used to reading
If we find he is an agent provacateur, I will not be surprised
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Metabolism, evolution, consciousness
Animals with larger social networks, such as humans, inflict a large metabolic demand on the organism with 18-20% emerging as the consensus figure for humans for his “dark energy” . Allometric scaling of brain function would require new neurons and new bands to be exploited in large primates and cetaceans to prevent excessive power investment in bands already exploited by smaller brains. It's an essential metabolic issue, managing energy production and use as a function of evolutionary size.
The von Economo neurons are inventions of large social animals, and abnormalities in their density in autistic brains relative to controls is attributed to the social deficits. In large social animals the von Economo neurons regulate that higher social sense required to keep track of up to 100 different individuals in your social group (ref. a well known allometric scaling of brain size versus group size). In a highly significant hypothesis, autism has been correlated with lack of von Economo neurons.
This is particularly significant, as there is an attested positive relationship between animals who care for their young with the use of extended social groups and brain size when the young are born relatively helpless and need extended formation. Obviously, homo sapiens sapiens is a classical example. Yet this extended brain could become a metabolic drag on the organism.
The argument here is that consciousness reflects a trick that large brains have perfected; switching themselves on and off a few times a second, as the theoretical and experimental work I did with Walter Freeman (Freeman et al 2008) indicates. Meditation is extended identification with the process of consciousness; it is relatively content-free. The hypothesis here is that consciousness may not be causal to any real extent; it reflects this on/off process, which in turn increases the sensitivity of the brain, Freeman and I alo showed; there is less need for stochastic resonance, as the “reset' makes the brain exquisitely sensitive, for the tenth or so of a second necessary to process stimuli.
Let's first consider the extent to which brain waves like gamma attenuate the metabolic demand by the brain. Here we have gamma, in its synchronized form an accepted index of consciousness, pushing the brain's metabolic demand down by a factor of ten thousand;
We now consider how this energy, if available as normal “free energy”, would facilitate some essential biochemical processes. Glycolysis, one of the two main energy paths in mammals, uses the free energy at the end to make NADH and ATP, two stores of energy. The gamma process above creates free energy to do exactly this, as to ease the path of glucose into cells, get rid of misfolded proteins, and so on.
While representation algorithms like “sparse coding” free up such energy to some extent, it does seem plausible that synchronized gamma frees more energy in excess of normal homeostasis.
Seán Ó Nualláin Ph.D , Stanford University
