Header Ads Widget

Ticker

6/recent/ticker-posts
Showing posts with the label AgencyShow all
Low-flying birds: Can you or I navigate the waters of social structure, if you will, vis-à-vis liminality, which the academic discipline of Anthropology has examined, to explore the benefits of liminal states of being - online exclusively?, Communal bliss in watching Grateful Dead shows online vis-à-vis earning a living online, Related pragmatic benefits of enjoyment and freedom that Anthropological research unfolds
Blue bell tunicate: Friends' Dalton Letter - some progress on 'loving bliss neurophysiology elicitation,' in terms of context
Nilgiri langurs: Further with loving bliss, and particularly generating this neurophysiology, both with awareness (consciousness) and for various qualities of this brain and body, so bodymind, chemistry ...   As a question of agency (causal intention), how could I, or you, do this explicitly, and whenever, and especially to generate it? Music seems to be a most fruitful approach ... and for me, this would be with bagpiping, keyboard (as well as singing)
Rosy-faced Lovebird: Agency, Agent (with autonomous causality) and actant co-constituting each other? California condor: What's anthropological agency?, Agency can be an important idea in that, conceptually and philosophically, it can lead to finding ways to individual freedom
Bulrush: Ability to use language to create virtual Harbin in OpenSim & Second Life, as well as to communicate in this virtual Harbin
Wildflowers: Virtual reality -- how the metaverse will change filmmaking, What is IBM developing in terms of digital goggles and AI especially vis-a-vis a virtual earth (and as classroom and field site and eventually for brain science research), "How might one ENTER INTO ANY FILM in a 3D interactive movie realistic VIRTUAL WORLD?," "Web: Avatar Agency, A Talking Richard Rorty Bot?"
Sundews - Drosera prolifera: Planning to teach "Information Technology and the Network Society," on behalf of WUaS, this autumn 2014, This course asks: What is information technology, broadly conceived? In the second half, we'll develop a new course direction to focus on wiki MIT OCW-centric World University and School, to ask further in what ways to grow this WUaS conversation remarkably and flourishingly on the Internet?, ... What makes great universities great, and how might this apply to WUaS with its internet- and STEM-centricity?, ... And what are some of the inter-lingual implications of WUaS?
Firefly: I came upon a feast of lights spread speckle 'cross hill and vale
Beautiful Succulent: Letters between Friends Interested in Exploring Eliciting Loving Bliss Together
Polynesian navigation: Fascinating day at Stanford - Great envisioning and knowledge-generation happening at Stanford as place, as ethos, as great university. For example:  * * * Are Yoga poses in the morning like Xmas presents, each involving a kind of "opening" :), Angela and Victor's Yoga marriage here - and re innovative Hippy Anjali Yoga Notations
Nilgiri langurs: Further with loving bliss, and particularly generating this neurophysiology, both with awareness (consciousness) and for various qualities of this brain and body, so bodymind, chemistry ...   As a question of agency (causal intention), how could I, or you, do this explicitly, and whenever, and especially to generate it? Music seems to be a most fruitful approach ... and for me, this would be with bagpiping, keyboard (as well as singing)
Asiatic golden jackal: What might greatly 'intellectual,' as well as greatly enjoyable learning/studying, be at world-class World University and School?
The blueness of the sky at night: I do choose to write the muse of bliss unfolding
Mt Nimba, Africa: Both Bachelors, MD, Law and PhD tracks  as a MIT/Reed on the Web AND a 'drop out' track for folks to think, Counterculture, Bliss
Sapien: Anthropology has long focused on questions of identity, Now, Human primate identities
Wildflowers: Virtual reality -- how the metaverse will change filmmaking, What is IBM developing in terms of digital goggles and AI especially vis-a-vis a virtual earth (and as classroom and field site and eventually for brain science research), "How might one ENTER INTO ANY FILM in a 3D interactive movie realistic VIRTUAL WORLD?," "Web: Avatar Agency, A Talking Richard Rorty Bot?"
Mt Nimba, Africa: Both Bachelors, MD, Law and PhD tracks  as a MIT/Reed on the Web AND a 'drop out' track for folks to think, Counterculture, Bliss
Hopetoun Falls, Australia: Example here of savant pianist Derek Paravicini is fascinating re thinking about the brain as computer, Great model also of sociality in my thinking, and very English, (less so Italian re his last name), and his sociality and warmth are also examples to aspire to, Piano, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Brain Computer Interface wiki subjects at WUaS, The language and culture of psychology is opening ... and possibly liberating ... Oliver Sacks' "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For His Hat," Derek's brain differentiates music and counting and friendliness and connection with his piano tutor, nearly lifelong, in unique ways that provide a basis for understanding brain processes in human behavior, Derek seems very very happy, (In a way this is a model for a quality, or code even, of loving bliss for me), Another fascinating thing is his sociality, How to incorporate this sociality, and happiness too, into online piano learning?  "Playing/Practicing a musical instrument" and "Loving Bliss" wiki subjects, Prof. Alia Crum at Stanford and Prof. Ed Boyden at MIT