
2007.01.21 • 14:07 • 0 com • este artigo em português
• Game theory connections with aesthetics: musical improvisation, stand-up comedy and the Japanese art of flirtation; proteans, self-ridicule, self-irony, best response, hecklers, trembling hand perfect equilibrium, catharsis/epiphany and self-organized criticality; reason, emotion and body dexterity gestalt; irony, nonsense and deadpan: connections between ethics and aesthetics in humor. Jokes: exactness, synthesis, rhythm; punch line; albur; Verfremdungseffekt; vajra deadpan: seriousness, transcendence and humor.
• Wittgenstein and buddhism, the argument against private language and Prasangika Madhyamika; ahimsa, principle of charity and negation/affirmation as violence, parrhesia; debate (traditional debate rules in Tibetan Buddhism), ludic nature of debate and meaningful communication, language-game, metacommunicative competence; semantic externalism.
• Non-violent "protocols": paraconsistent logics and the possibility of valid information mining on contradictory systems: databases, Buddhist dialectics, game theory, software rot, software brittle, japanese aesthetics of incompleteness, self-organized criticality; hidden premises and ipsedixitism, koans, ambiguity tolerance, autism. Proprieties of dialog: glitches, hazards, mind kipple, protocol entropy, race condition, deadlocks, synchronization, no-win situations, satisficing, double bind, zugzwang, mamihlapinatapai, Bohm Dialogue, Occam's razor applied to protocols, dialogism, game semantics.
• Personal ontology (computer science) and mind mapping, computer aided brainstorming, expert systems, houses of cards vs. ikebana approaches to knowledge representation, deep blogging, public mind mapping; terminology extraction, folksonomy, dynamic taxonomy, semantic network, semantic relationships formalization; graphic modeling of mind maps using virtual physics; grok, flow, intelligence amplification and metacognition; infornography, consciousness of death and intellectual production.
• Anti-patterns: transposition of software engineering themes to philosophical methodology and writing in general.
• Japanese aesthetics of incompleteness and programming: featuritis, reinventing the wheel, quick-and-dirty, worse is better.
• Cybernetics, Crowd psychology, charisma, professional amateurs, the long tail, semantic web, "cybershamanism", viral marketing and meme design, buzzwords. Net anonymity, darknets, crypto-anarchism, dining cryptographers protocol, "cybermandala"; butterfly effect, decision theory, catastrophe theory, complexity theory and strategy; wikis, collective intelligence; haragei vs. pluralistic ignorance; Umwelt, Weltanschauung.
• Spiritual materialism, self-deception, doublethink, sophistry, cognitive dissonance, wishful thinking, magical thought, lying, point of no return, lie, indoctrination, propaganda, big lie, brainwashing, groupthink, illusion of control, clustering illusion, pareidolia, apophenia; political correctness, psychobabble, technobabble.
• The lifes of the 84 Mahasiddhas, yeshe chölwa, idiossincratic spiritual teachers; personality, individuality and Buddhism; daimon, genius.
• Philosophy of mind, definition of consciousness, possibility of artificial consciousness; connections with the incompleteness theorem, externalism, problem of other minds; self-reference; sentience, qualia, hard problem of consciousness; arguments against epiphenomenalism, emergentism and anomalous monism; artificial intelligence (weak and strong), pattern recognition, machine learning, symbol grounding, cognitive architecture; embodied philosophy; artificial consciousness rights, animal rights, bioethics; mind and suffering, first person science, meditation, rigpa.
• Concepts of property and intellectual property; Buddhism and property, anti-copyright, infoanarchism, micropatronage; "Property is theft!" Essentialism and property, differences between possession and property, the problem of originality; arguments against self-ownership; allemansrätten; inalienable right of copy.
• Greco-buddhism, mutual influences between Greek and Buddhist civilizations. Interpretatio graeca, cultural imperialism, syncretism. Transition from sudhamma to mahayana.
• Elite theory, Iron Law of Oligarchy, hacker culture, conspiracy theory, radical transparency, direct democracy, e-democracy, inclusive democracy; anti-corporate activism, anti-consumerism, corporate personhood; direct action, Walden, simple living, frugality, freeganism, civil disobedience, conscientious objector, deep ecology; friendship, style, personal boycott to smokers and those who indulge in other similarly barbaric habits.
• Mandala, Indra's net, autopoiesis, system theory, Avatamsaka Sutra, ikebana, fractals, complexity, diamond-like mind, recursion, strange loops, self-similarity, symmetry, endless knot, coemergence, subject-object problem.
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Funniest mindless movie of the last few years. McLovin is the best, and the other guys grew on me.
In his job he needs to undervalue the suffering of others in order to make more money. Then there’s the smell, the ass and the eye. The degree of objectification of desire is in direct proportion to the self-debasement of the indulger. By degrading the other, he nullifies himself. The very indifference to the overjealous ones, the suppressed recalcitrant losers of the world, is what causes their victims to exist. Great disturbing movie.
A lost science fiction PBS movie with Taoist undertones is a real find, right? A guy discovers his dreams change reality—when he wakes up he finds himself in a world where the content of his dreams have actually happened. He of course gets scared after a couple of nightmares, seeks relief in drugs, and then, because of them, is lead to a psychiatrist. 
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In imdb a user commented: "Annoying little transition into some sort of regurgitated independent film values finds this shallow project from Brad Silberling offering little and providing less in this embarrassingly exploitive work." I agree, yet it is still watchable — even more so if you understand how clichê is the fabricated spontaneity in it. It is as if independent movie has aquired its own hollywood-like formulaicism. So it kind of becomes an interestingly consumated aesthetic portrail of so many cult-status fabricated stylishness examples we see around. Many people liked 





