smanchy

enough of the fancy smanchy philosophy professors of America
who offer nothing more that chicky reviews and smart-ass advice
"I have a thought experiment to make"  ha ha

do it!

what does it mean

what does it mean to put out a disk
why don't you come and play us our songs?

why don't you send us in your disk
we don't wanna see you again

you see where this is going ...


what does it mean to drive?

I see a lot of training, for something - that goes forward

I see a lot of people avoiding boredom - that goes backward

I'm not satisfied with the answer

americans

i knew the americans are based on goth and are steeped into middle ages
the core of them were a bunch of criminals and low lifes

but i wanted to be light on it to see how it plays out

well it will not go any darker that it is

the rectangles

the being

- Did I tell you the being is a well polished sculpture with all the microstructure and the inner empty?
- Oh yeah? what of it?
- Chicks love it!

phenomenology of equations

                                         The above is the equation of the optical flow

we see the + has a prominent pose and the - (ok we need the distance)
the divide seems extravagant extraneous
I am also squeamish about the multiply

I'm proposing to consider all equations in this appeal of + (adding something) and - (difference/distance)

(In fact I would have preferred it like this

what about this?

)

extraneous

every extraneous thought brings us closer to reality
the mind brain duality
a thousand little girls chewing gum
me scraping off

will i be able to hold those four lines in my brain?
that's a technical device

a thought must be recorded to maintain its existence
a thought doesn't have to be recorded
a thought once it emerges is recordable
a thought is never recordable

our deepest thoughts are never recordable
like cornflakes to your breakfast

and what have i done?


the self is never recordable

the self is so unique
it hurts

it hurts to remember all those

so sleep well my beauty

always and usually never

that's what I have to say because I have to end with something positive

which is not aways true

and usually never

audio object

an audio object is something that contains and only contains sound

thus instructions on how to construct an audio object do not fall under this category

the audio object may not be a continuous stream of purposeful sound one that is being created by human

thus it may contain holes of absolute silence or unpurposed sound such as environment

an audio object is not necessarily music as it is construed currently

an audio object may be absolute silence but that is only one that type of object

an audio object is not necessarily to be heard for the purpose of enjoyment it simply has to exist

an audio object has to be recorded so that it may sustain its existence

an audio object may age and thus may suffer deterioration and degradation
it has however to have such characteristics that will maintain its character

you are blessed

I've been following the radio speakers

for a while

mostly progressives  because the conservative ones are so deep in it that becomes outrageous

previously I listed to Rush Limbaugh for some time he was good when relaying his stories from boyhood
when they treat and tricked some  old guys in the neighborhood that was entertaining

but then it stopped


randi rhodes is thin
that is she's very thin on the substance
like  taking a tiny bit a dough and spread  it on the table it will start to show through  holes will break out

shes is of lower intellectual level

stephanie miller was amusing and entertaining until she made the 'lesbian' turn
then I stopped I can't be listening to a lesbian (with  the knowledge that I do)
it's turning off

and turned into "dame" mode which will show later in her age
now she has turned back to somewhat amusing role but that's not it then she relies mostly on support guys

none of the speakers are currently thick

they all repeat huge speaking points that engulf them
and repeat the same again and again

until they become cliched

and what can you expect from political commentators? political commenting
nothing more

and outrage

if it's a little bit of humor

you are blessed

"your ass is on the line"

"your ass is on the line"

picture that

that's a picture with very sexual implications

taken literally it's  a man or woman's ass (and the adjoining man or woman of course) seating on a line on a wire

of course "ass" is so commonly used in american and anglo- culture that it is nearly a substitute for  'self'

seen

most people want to be seen
(that's why god gave them their body)
and that relieves them of their tension
once they are seen in a good way

some people are so bangled in their minds
that they don't sense that
because their bodies are dead

tear off

let's get this out of the way
"the devil is in the details"
if I ever see this expression again i'll tear off the screen

the devil is in the details
and the god is in the whole picture
so go  find your devil
I'll go and find my god

said

J J Gibson is known for starting the optical flow or apparent motion algorithm that Computer Vision people took from

I have nothing to add here except that JJ Gibson looks like a militaristic(army) guy from the one picture I saw
it looks like some other aviation people I know
he has that look that face posturing

and people in the military don't believe in metaphysics that's for sure
so that's where his direct vision comes in what you see is what you get
nothing behind the mask a complete facade
a flat topology

freewill

we can choose to look in any direction we want
is that supported by lower brain activity?
not necessarily
and usually our lower brain corrects that behavior and we turn to the direction we meant to

so free will is certainly not in the brain that thinks free will

free will is a term that we created when our brains advanced to a level where we could see inspect our lower brain

so it's an amusement for the higher brain

otherwise there is no free will there is no -no free will

the brain follows its route

infinite regression

the best we can hope for is infinite regression

in fact I wish it infinite regression so much
that my head spins around

outlook

and then the greeks will come from behind
we gave them the lights of the civilization

I don't know where those 'lights' come from maybe it's the lights on the Parthenon that try to hide the destroyed part (it's not their fault of course but they try their utmost to present an outlook)

and that's what's left from old empires like this the outlook the facade

and one need not look too far and hard to realize that these greeks are little related to the ancient greeks
and cannot know what those ancient greeks were just that they found themselves in that place in that time

the west takes them as their point of departure it's ok and who was before them? and before them? its all a chain of evolvements

what is convenient for us we take it as a starting point

YouTube

the minimal video is that with one image
and is there a video with zero images?
yes that's the audio  track

of course YouTube won't accept audio tracks
you gotta have something to view
let's be real

real

my current understanding is that quantum is a convenience [and I'm sure i will be proven wrong]

it's one of those things that gets you off when you hit a snag
like negative numbers

two things being at the same spot at the same time?
 impossible it doesn't happen it doesn't happen in real life maybe in imaginary

what does it mean to have -2 friends

and what does it mean that if i double on those 2 friends I can get negative number of friends?

complex numbers they are not really complex more like composites one real and one imaginary

I only understood them as two dimensionals
and then the magic starts

the e and the exponentials and the relation to cosines

I'm sure if you set back you will see what that means

it's all repeated in different form

what does it mean? I don't know

it's engineering to get around some holes
and then move on

the fancy language of mathematics is just the jargon of the complex minded it's another way to hide things while they can be said in very plain terms but they don't bother nobody bothers

and if you go to the ghetto you won't understand a thing that is if u are a white guy

new

new every product is new
it gets us off that old
and something new is coming down the line
another form of cheap escapicism from the science magazines or simply escapicism

if i go back and condense all those new-s into another one
they will not count more than the moment the present moment

or you could be in that tropical paradise
you will if you work hard for a few days and then amass a huge amount of money
and go there

and then it will all be bland again

or maybe i'm naive

i do have some naive moments that point in that direction

or that's my wicked mind that presents that so i can raise my ranking
to where?
to the eyes of you readers

"is that another reality again?"
"stop twirling your hair miss
and chewing that gum"


and yet these are the thoughts that come to me
right now

emotives

if we are not going to be emotive
what the hell are we going to be??
and you are blocking my emotives!!

August

in the dog days of August
no thoughts enter into your brain
you just stay there
and think the abyss

girl

there was this girl
supersmart
in computer science
and attractive
she had the boyish outlook

she had some break outs on her face but nonetheless attractive very attractive (Erin I remember her name)

and she sensed that I was attracted to her

she was looking at me in a certain way

i could sense that

but nothing beyond that

that was her way of saying "nice of you to feel attracted to me"

and she sensed the dread i was in as she had a little smile

I would never think of coming on to her

that was never the thought

the thought and feeling was that of an attraction

I now realize I would never been able to keep up with her

I would never been able to keep up a relationship

she must work at Google Tech now I assume or somewhere

[I'm almost embarassed writing this but what the heck it's all in the open]

feel

well we have reached the first decade of the new millenia

and it feels fine

every moment feels the same to the people who live it

does that mean that the world is unchanging?

we can see around us the changes

but I repeat every moment feels the same to the people who live it

too

[and now for a hole into my brain]

i reach a creach state
a state where the two brains collide
the epidermis
and the underdermis
"I followed all the rules man
and it didn't lead me anywhere"
"you have to pat someone in the back"

[then you have to lay there like all the other dogs
is that what you mean
is that what you are trying to say but not saying it?]


i followed all the rules
I passed all courses with good or better grades
I struggled with some too

programming didn't come natural to me it wasn't in my instinct
now i understand it mostly at the logical imperatives level
if you do this you will get this
or if you do that a number of times ...

but if you throw me the Dos and the Loops and the For I's
I don't get anything

I got a very distant feeling for it
i understood it at the level of example
if you use this program to compute the prime numbers then to compute the numbers to 1000
it would be the same, or similar

thus i struggled

and all the kids i teach afterwards
I could only explain it at that symbolic level

I can't explain why FOR has three letter and not two

[unless I resort to my unpleasant and exquisitive internal language
umbiguous and uncompromising]

scheme 1

in the doggdays of August
no thoughts enter into your brain
you just stay there restless
immovable

WFMU

transfer that to online and you have a bunch of cursing guys cursing at each other
and some women friskying in between
even leading that opera

science

directors like cameron and all that seems to be replete with new ageism

people who conflate science with religion
and final aitiology

[it's another patriotism - it exalts the tribe the power of the tribe]

who believe that science will have the answers to everything one day, or that indeed it has the answers to everything already

in fact they are looking at some painted doors

each and everyone

one is what he/she presents
and that's just as well
for each and everyone's defense

and we are left to wonder

whether ellen degeneres is safely on the other side of the border or
she could work both ways and that was her big show semi-stunt move, which seems to be her propensity

no more stunts left now since she made the big one "it's the big one honey I'm coming to join you elizabeth"

Dennet

Dennet is a psycho-engineer

he's not a philosopher
he's a psycho-engineer who tries to raise his thoughts into philosophy level

all those faint-philosophers that cover the entire hemisphere of USA

now off we go...

what say you Mr Dennet?

my brain is in Texas and my heart in New York?

that already been told by so many artists

let's hear the music!

am i the  only person who doesn't like the beatles?
of course i'm not
statistical theory shows otherwise
that sweet bitter sentimentality
that harsh soft
of course now i can do the analysis

but previously i avoided by instinct

i'm sure mozart was a disagreeable or devious character

let's hear the music!

dislocated neck

when you dislocate your neck you start the blathering
because that's the only defense
and those who are hurling invectives
are already of the hook

when you start seeing the fragments of your life that
means you are broken
and that's maybe good
the trouble is the other people will get in on you
the environment
to fill in the cracks

0-50b

Τερλέγκας: η ερημιά
Ζαν Πωλ Σαρτρ: η παγωμένη αίσθηση της μοναξιάς

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The fact that you want to talk about the elections
is that you want to talk

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εγκλωβισμένος στην ανάγκη
σου μένουν μόνο λίγες αναλαμπές
σαν ρούχο βρεγμένο πάνω σου
και τους άλλους να στο θυμίζουν
και να σ' επαναφέρουν στην τάξη

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I always thought cellphones are for frivolous people
unfortunately 98% of the people use cellphones

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art: presenting us our essence, in a form that we cannot use
science: trying to discover our essence in a form that we can use

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ένα μεσημέρι θα σε δω κι εσένα
ν' ανεβαίνεις
με το στενό πουκάμισο

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ποίηση είναι περισσότερο ομιλία προς τον εαυτό μας

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αφού έφτασα ως το θάνατο
γύρισα πίσω
στη ζωή
αφού σκότωσα κάποιον στα ονειρά μου
ήρθα και τον κομμάτιασα στα δικά του

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νά 'σαι ευτυχισμένος που πήγες από πολύτιμη πέτρα

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ότι θα διαβάσουν
δεν είναι αυτό που θα γράψεις

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Σήμερα θα κάνουμε μάθημα για τις ανισότητες υψηλού βαθμού
αυτές που έχουν το γράμμα έψιλον [e] : e^-ix
σήμερα θα κάνουμε μάθημα υψηλού βαθμού
σαν τα λάχανα που φύονται αυτοφύονται
σαν το στυλό που καρφώνεται στο πάτωμα
σαν την κόρνα που ακούγεται από μακριά και σ' εκνευρίζει
σαν τη φωνή του αγωγιάτη
σαν τα σταφύλια στο τσαμπί
σαν το κέρινο ομοίωμα
σαν τα μάρμαρα  => [e]

Zoe

Zoe Dechanel when I heard her on the radio Terri Gross show (i.e Fresh Air)
I thought she is some kind of serious actor singer songwriter and all that
and has come up time and time again
it seems Terri finds something common in her

it turns out she's a pricky personality
and she is not even careful to hide it
in fact she is projecting that

so then we must accept that that's her truth
and move on

illusions

- some illusions are needed  to sustain us
- and the illusion of Life?
- is the biggest one of all

Derrida

Derrida says Heidegger was my torchlight
but then says I never read his work

that's lot of Bull

of course it's a political statement

John Fof

- Hi my name is John Fof
  Friends call me the Fofster
- Wat can I do for yu?
- Did you see Joe Fife tonite?
- Who's Joe Fife?
- He's around town
- Ohhh

apparent

it is apparent that artform reaches its saturation points with exercises such as conceptual writing and etc

[
(if i take someone else's poem and put it in my hands that constitutes a different art-work - what if a beggar
put a poem in his hands would that be called art? yes according to the proponents
but I say there is also intention of the mind mind-set projecting certain energy that "I want this to be called art"
which forces us to accept it in that direction (at least as long as the energy lasts)

there is myriad dispositions of a work of art a book is fallen into the ground would that constitute different work of art
than the book itself?
I think we are reaching absurd levels of notions that only entertain as thought and might as well go into some handbook
but not be called art at least to the current conceptions of art - something that I worked to physically produce

otherwise the 4 55 moments of silence of Cage can be considered as a nice dance gesture can be categorized as dance it's pretty simple

and those who put in their hands books of others can be categorized as dancers
or performers in other sense

that's perfect let them do that dance and let us see (it) the dance

but of course we only see the end result of the dance which is the bodies frozen (in time and space)

a visual art like if the dancers were to be frozen there for ever

that would constitute sculpture

or if they were frozen in film that would constitute a film re- representation of the dance of the activities which was called art in the
beginning


therefore the 'artist' have some concept and pass it on to others to perform it's performance art

and we see the end result of course the end result is nothing in itself but we have to take in the whole performance

and that to be seen in its entirety is difficult if not impossible in some cases

therefore we have a fragmentation of art

where something is conceived in the minds of some people in italy and they are executed in afganistan

where is the art in this whole body?

it's the whole body which we don't it have as a whole

thus the exasperation you can't own that whole body

you would have to own the artist its mind and the produced result

or do we get the energy of the artist on the art work?

thats always the case (a painting of picasso carries his energy)

but now it becomes more pertinent as the artist is explicitly part of the art object

thus because these artists can't produce actual artworks (they are physically incapable or not inclined to do so)
they embody themselves int the art object which becomes
object from work

i.e. concept +work

thus the concept comes to the fore and we have to celebrate them for their concepts

that's science and they would do well to devote themselves to science

]

where the artform reaches the highly intellectuals where there is no action of the body but only of the brain (someone will say this happens
in every epoch - and then?)

these can be categorized as conceptual activities but the term 'art' carries enough currency so that everyone will want to be included in that

of course the definition of art changes it was craft in the ancient world (e.g., the Parthenon)

where now craft is relegated to the lower echelons of folk and kitschy activities

everyone will agree that art is to produce something beautiful but what that beautiful means is different for different people
it can also mean anti-beautiful such as those feminist-based activities which are used to protest something

I say art is the expression of non-functionality and the genuiness of it will be determined by time

this includes the above named activities and it is unfortunate that it does

but I think the above named activities are a show-off

so then we will have to deal with practice and cut off some


I like the notion of Bill Benzon http://new-savanna.blogspot.gr/2012/07/bryant-watch-mcart.html that brings it back to the 'eye of the beholder' or bring it back to circle
'let me hang this in the wall and let people see it and decide if it is art if it has any effect on them positive negative

[I have to re-read heidegger's on the work of art but I think his dictum is that the work of art opens up truth]


this opens the question of categorization

different levels of people will have a reaction to different levels of 'art'

so it is a problem of time

and don't go be taking exit polls outside the museum
there will be ohhhh and aaaaahs of the people
then they go home and sit down on it
or years will pass
or centuries

of course other forms are easily detectable right off hand

I have to say I'm surprised by the conceit of these people

they are clever manufacturers

of course everything that is is
and everything that exist exists

technocrat

when you watched dick chenney in the 90s you would say this is a technocrat - of course he says what he has to say ("capability")
but he is a "correct" technocrat

[i never knew the bent of the neck is code especially in the busino-executive style for blocking the
activity from going to my brain so i can continue to lie without being disturbed]

noone would suspect what he hid in his side

mechanistic

many scientists believe in free will but work to cut down reality to small size pieces that it becomes mechanistic