What really needs to happen is for the government to manage money more responsibly. There isn't a need for tax cuts and there really isn't a need for an increase in taxes. Stop pressing money, stop spending an astronomical amount of military and wham - we'll be doing at least a shred better.

Many European countries have high tax rates of which they also have better school systems and better health care overall. We may have better schools theoretically ; but only if you are able to afford their astronomical prices. Same goes for healthcare if you're one of those many that seem to have millions and millions or one of the 1% that has billions.

This country is just in not ready for a more social democracy - there is too much corruption, the structures (occupational, class, etc)are vastly unbalanced and unchecked and too many people in this country are much too closed-minded to even see how it even effects themselves. Too much of the "majority" think in terms of black & white and launch attacks with generalized criticisms almost seemingly pre-programmed into their synapses; like our good pal' quantummushroom.

I dunno, lucky - not that uneducated. I think the analogy has more to do with the claims made by the YT poster in the description. And I've heard enough "change the world" claims in computer science/engineering before to take 'em all with a grain of salt now.

As for the claim that "scientists are discovering the mathematic equations used to govern memristors are similiar to those which govern synapses in the brain" - that's pretty ridiculous. On the one hand, if all he means is that there is a current discharge in the device when it's depolarized, well, there are lots of biological and synthetic devices that do that. If on the other hand, he means they have similar voltage-gated ion channels that produce a specific response to a huge variety of inputs that are not at all clearly understood by neuroscience, well, then he's just blowing smoke.

I'm not saying it's not a cool tech, but claims of "changing the world" are rather silly for a device whose mechanisms aren't even totally understood, much less how to mass produce them with consistent properties.

btw - why Kurzweil in the tags? Is he involved in developing these? Or because it's something he'd appreciate?

Would someone please remove this woman from the premises, and by premises I mean the United States, and by woman I mean that pile of misfiring synapses, and by remove I mean put her on a rocket ship to the sun? please!?

The instamatic focal point bringing damage to your boroughs
Be some brothers from the east with some beats that be thorough
Got the solar gravitation so I'm bound to pull it
I gets down like brothers are found ducking from bullets
Gun control means using both hands in my land
Where it's all about the cautious livin'
Migrating to a higher form of consequence, compliments
Of strugglin', that shouldn't be notable,
Man every word I say should be a hip hop quotable.

I'm sick of bitches shakin' asses
I'm sick of talkin' about blunts,
Sick of Versace glasses,
Sick of slang,
Sick of half-ass awards shows,
Sick of name brand clothes.
Sick of R&B bitches over bullshit tracks,
Cocaine and crack
Which brings sickness to blacks,
Sick of swoll' head rappers
With their sicker-than raps
Clappers and gats
Makin' the whole sick world collapse
The facts are gettin' sick
Even sicker perhaps
Stickabush to make a bundle to escape this synapse

Man life can get all up in your ass baby you betta work it out
Let me tell you what it's all about
A skin not considered equal
A meteor has more right than my people
Who be wastin' time screaming who they've hated
That's why the Native Tongues have officially been re-instated

(Vibes....vibrations)
Stakes is high
(Higher than high)
You know them stakes is high
(Higher than high)
When we talkin' 'bout the
(Vibes....vibrations)
Stakes is high, you know them stakes is high
When we dealin' with the
(Vibes....vibrations)
Stakes is high
(Hey yo, what about that love?)

Yo, it's about love for cars, love for funds
Loving to love mad sex, loving to love guns
Love for opposite, love for fame and wealth
Love for the fact of no longer loving yourself, kid
We living in them days of the man-made ways
Where every aspect is vivid,
these brothers no longer talk shit
Hey yo, these niggas live it
'Bout to give it to you 24/7 on the microphone
Plug One translating the zone
No offense to a player, but yo, I don't play
And if you take offense, fuck it, got to be that way
J.D. Dove, show your love, what you got to say?

I say G's are making figures at a high regard
And niggas dying for it nowadays ain't odd
Investing in fantasies and not God
Welcome to reality, see times is hard
People try to snatch the credit, but can't claim the card
Showing out in videos, saying they cold stars
See, shit like that will make your mama cry
Better watch the way you spend it
'Cause the stakes is high

Y'all know them stakes is high
When we talkin' 'bout the
(Vibes....vibrations)
Stakes is high

I think that smiling in public is against the law
'Cause love don't get you through life no more
It's who you know and "How you, son?"
And how you gettin' in, and who the man holding
Hey yo, and how was the scams and how high
Yo what up, huh? I heard you caught a body
Seem like every man and woman shared a life with John Gotti

But they ain't organized!

Mixing crimes with life enzymes
Taking the big scout route
And niggas know doubt better
Than they know their daughters
And their sons
(Oh boy)

Yo, people go through pain and still don't gain
Positive contact just like my main man
Who got others cleaning up his physical influence
His mind got congested
He got the nine and blew it
Neighborhoods are now hoods cause nobody's neighbors
Just animals surviving with that animal behavior
Under I who be rhyming from dark to light sky
Experiments when needles and skin connect
No wonder where we live is called the projects
When them stakes is high you damn sure try to do
Anything to get the piece of the pie
Electrify
Even die for the cash
But at last I be out even though you wantin' more
This issue is closed like an elevator door
But soon re-opened once we get to the next floor where the

(Vibes....vibrations)
Stakes is high
Y'all know them stakes is high
When we talkin' 'bout the
(Vibes....vibrations)
Stakes is high
Stakes is high, come on

Yeah the notion of experiencing profound pain and suffering, yet not remembering it is an interesting one. Given the complexity of our brain, and it's ability to record stimuli without our conscious awareness make me wonder if somehow, somewhere in our synapses there IS a recording of that traumatic event. Sort of a chemically repressed memory? An interesting study would be to play a song in the background during the procedure, then play it back among five songs and ask the patient which they liked the least.

"It translates brain synapses and neural skull vibrations into audible speech frequencies."
"Yeah I got one of them too. It's called a mouth. Whats your point?"

That last bit is the part that scares me. My head is the only place I can go where nobody can hear me. If this is perfected then thought crimes may become a very real thing.

God in the Gaps - we don't understand all about quantum theory fully, we don't understand consciousness fully - thus there must be some "higher" connetion between the two.

I'm studying AI at the moment and up until the 80's people thought that the brain worked like a computer, or that tha brain could be simulated in a computer with a classical AI - this cannot be, because a preprogrammed AI must've had all inputs predicted, so that it has some rules and laws with which to process them. Newer theories use a neural network, which is able to process previously unknown inputs and is a highly parallel and analog type of processing. A neuron is not necessarily simply a switch, it can be a whole array of values. Furthermore the connections between neurons (synapses) have "weights" which determine how much influence a given neuron has on the network at whole.

There are different approaches to what intelligience is, and that is basis for any theory of AI. Some say, Turing for instance, that an entity is intelligent when input and out put so to say "fits" - how the computation is done is irrelevant, but if the result is right it must be intelligent. This is called engineering-AI.

Overlapping that is a psycological AI, which is divided into two groups. Group A says that the cognitive processes must be computational in nature, such that they can be copied. Group B (of philosophical AI) believes the emotional, intentional and conscious can be copied computationally as well.

I heard no real argument for quantum consciousness here, just that they both are "uncertain" and have an element of randomness.

fired a couple of synapses when I saw this post... My brother had a fascination with dobermens, and this was a favorite of his.

Moore has way too many FAT cells interfering with the synapses in his eroding brain. He has such a distorted perception of reality and please remove the dummy cap.

{"I think randomized videos should be added mandatorily to the queue list."}whoever said that yeah
This would solve the dynamic of rotting on page 3(obit)

Hey.....to keep the direction of the little click vibe some folks think may be a dynamic, invite soem newbies to yer collectives, the ones that are potential quality contributors.

{"also, it's not "bias" for someone to watch everything MLX (one great example) posts by default. it's just recognition of her track record. people whose posts here do well again and again are (usually) worth trusting."}-pm

PMs' right, there are folks better at bringing a thematic vibe to us, dJ Style)...benjee(documentaries) farhad(eclectic blend of sounds from everywhere)
This dynamic of personal taste transmission thru submission, is one of the reasons I am even here.....

I do not like public masturbation, jack-ass, ambulance chasing,political agendas reaaaaaaaaaaaly piss me off, etc.)....but defer any who with these, thematically and skillfully, spin a series of otherwise boring or diversive viddies, and cause the synapse to wiggle.....

some folks love to engage, others remain detached...i.e. real world

I have always been for the queue being a completely RANDOM order weigh-station....this eliminates the first page hotter/colder/snowball's "chance in hell its posted" dynamic

fuck this-as in, "watch the car wreck, rubberneck, siren-synapse reflex action????"

enough.....
*blog

"NOOOOW1? Yall' kin sang louder n' that!?, Here;s the words t' foller' aloooong!"
BRAINSTEM (Episode P3)
Lyrics by Tom Minton.

Sung to Camptown Races by Stephen Foster.


Pinky: And now, the parts of the brain, performed by The Brain!
Brain: Ye-e-s!

Brain: Neo-cortex, frontal lobe
Pinky: Brainstem! Brainstem!
Brain: Hippocampus, neural node
Right hemisphere.

Brain: Pons and cortex visual
Pinky: Brainstem! Brainstem!
Brain: Sylvian fissure, pineal
Left hemisphere.

Brain: Cerebellum left!
Cerebellum right!
Synapse, hypothalamus
Striatum, dendrite.

Brain: Axon fibers, matter gray
Pinky: Brainstem! Brainstem!
Brain: Central tegmental pathway
Temporal lobe.

Brain: White core matter, forebrain, skull
Pinky: Brainstem! Brainstem!
Brain: Central fissure, cord spinal
Parietal.

Brain: Pia mater!
Menengeal vein!
Medulla oblongata and lobe limbic
Micro-electrodes...
Pinky: Naaarf!
P+B : THE BRAIN!!!

Brain: That ought to keep the little squirts happy. Ye-e-s!

Hell, girl, in Texas, we got tribute songs to tribute songs about Texas. Lessee, who took a good jab at Bama'-Gonna engage the synapse, and get back to ya' on that one. Don't push it though, a grim work of art could be rendered in viddies,if the Yellowhammer's river be dredged.

I wish that would have been true pass.the.grog.

Here's hoping they all spark jays, maybe take some LSD, am sure that's definately rattle those synapses

To jump in on the conversation...

I think this goes beyond indoctrination. Sure, some of these kids will grow up, spark up their first jay, and realize that the world isn't quite so serious, but many of them won't. I make it a hobby of mine to converse with evangelical types wherever I run across them and try out logic on them. It generally doesn't work regardless of age. And this is all even more frightening if you watch the rest of the interview with the camp leader on the movie's website - www.jesuscampthemovie.com - basically, the woman is training Christian suicide bombers. (a slight exageration... but only slight)

Along the lines of daphne's computer comment... Think of brain cells as being able to connect a limited amount of synapses with each other. With repetition, these connections become more and more effortless to the point where it is habitual. As these are more and more embedded in the brain, it becomes harder to form new synapses and break old ones without some sort of event triggering the release of the old ones. My point being, they hard wire the brain to accept only certain synapses while rejecting others. I'm sure memes fit in here somewhere...

or maybe its too late and im rambling at this point. but it's the internet, and im anonymous. so i don't mind.

long story short - this looks like a great movie. Also check out Hell House http://www.hellhousemovie.com/hellhouse/index.html if this topic (christian fundie indoctrination) fascinates you.