THROBBING GRISTLE PROMO 2010 from Industrial Records on Vimeo.
Chris Carter from Throbbing Gristle has put together a promo video (above) for TG’s current tour. Be sure to check Carter’s Chemistry Lessons if you’re interested in making electronic music.
(via BoingBoing)
It hasn’t been promoted much, but yes – EsoZone Portland 2010 is happening. And it’s happening next weekend. I haven’t been involved in it much this year but I will be there.
EsoZone Portland 2010. Mutant unconference. Psychopomp as the wrap party. Consider what you’re contributing, contact us, and stay tuned.
Friday – 9pm til close
Saturday 2pm til close
Sunday 2pm til closeAutonomy
316 Nw 4th Ave
Portland, ORSites:
Possible subject matter:
Outsider Art Discordia SubGenius The Occult Satanism Conspiracy Analysis Life Extension Intelligence Enhancement Space Migration Psychedelic Futurism Conciousness Expansion R/evolutionary Living Renegade Metaphysics Radical Psychotherapy Aliens NeoShamanism Temporary Autonomous Zones Body Modification Alternative Sexuality Fringe Culture Human-Dolphin Communication DIY Media Cybernetics and Systems Theory Pranks Atheism Zen Martial Arts Recession Hacking
Facebook page (Seems to be the primary resource now)
Esozone.com (not really the primary resource any more)
Here’s a video from one of last years sessions:
My groomsmen from my wedding and me. Perhaps not the best example of group intelligence.
When it comes to intelligence, the whole can indeed be greater than the sum of its parts. A new study co-authored by MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, and Union College researchers documents the existence of collective intelligence among groups of people who cooperate well, showing that such intelligence extends beyond the cognitive abilities of the groups’ individual members, and that the tendency to cooperate effectively is linked to the number of women in a group.
But Dr. Tononi’s theory is, potentially, very different. He and his colleagues are translating the poetry of our conscious experiences into the precise language of mathematics. To do so, they are adapting information theory, a branch of science originally applied to computers and telecommunications. If Dr. Tononi is right, he and his colleagues may be able to build a “consciousness meter” that doctors can use to measure consciousness as easily as they measure blood pressure and body temperature. […]
For the past decade, Dr. Tononi and his colleagues have been expanding traditional information theory in order to analyze integrated information. It is possible, they have shown, to calculate how much integrated information there is in a network. Dr. Tononi has dubbed this quantity phi, and he has studied it in simple networks made up of just a few interconnected parts. How the parts of a network are wired together has a big effect on phi. If a network is made up of isolated parts, phi is low, because the parts cannot share information.
But simply linking all the parts in every possible way does not raise phi much. “It’s either all on, or all off,” Dr. Tononi said. In effect, the network becomes one giant photodiode.
Networks gain the highest phi possible if their parts are organized into separate clusters, which are then joined. “What you need are specialists who talk to each other, so they can behave as a whole,” Dr. Tononi said. He does not think it is a coincidence that the brain’s organization obeys this phi-raising principle.
New York Times: Sizing Up Consciousness by Its Bits
(Thanks Bill!)
Britain is facing a major brain drain as scientists abandon the country for better-funded jobs abroad, a Guardian investigation reveals today. […]
The Guardian has spoken to researchers in fields ranging from cancer and human fertility to nuclear physics, and found that many are preparing to emigrate. Professor Brian Foster, a particle physicist at Oxford, said he was likely to shift most of his research to Germany, having been offered a professorship at Hamburg University which comes with £4.3m to spend on research.
Dr Carlos Gias, a stem cell researcher at University College London, has decided to move either to Singapore or the US. Gias, whose research is focused on a form of blindness called age-related macular degeneration, said: “I have seen people from this department leaving to Singapore, and they have been trying to find jobs in Britain and they couldn’t. It’s not been just one or two [but] several of them, and [in Singapore] … they don’t have any problems of funding.”
Guardian: Britain faces brain drain as cuts force top scientists to leave country
(via Richard Yonck)
The US has actually been keeping our foreign Phds despite concerns. That could always change, though.
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