Friday, February 12, 2010

Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Around Simulation - A Final Thought

So, the future of virtual life will be the
negation of limits between virtual territories and real ones.

The fist step is  the coming age of the metaverse that will be a
unification of all virtual wolds such as Sollipsis projects

http://dreamorange.orange-innovation.tv/?title=les-mondes-virtuels-en-attendant-le-metaverse&p=Portal/document&JDocumentOid=734

The second step is the French project
Idenum, that broke the frontiers between the web and the real identity

http://www.numerama.com/magazine/14980-idenum-le-gouvernement-lance-un-label-pour-s-identifier-en-ligne.html

 
--- En date de : Ven 12.2.10, Pier Luigi Capucci <plc@noemalab.org> a écrit :

De: Pier Luigi Capucci <plc@noemalab.org>
Objet: Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Around Simulation - A Final Thought
À: "YASMIN DISCUSSIONS" <yasmin_discussions@estia.media.uoa.gr>
Date: Vendredi 12 Février 2010, 17h40

Dear Natasha,

thank you for your inspiring post, which emphasizes the importance of art and artists, so arriving / returnunig to the starting and (maybe) the final point of our discussion.

Sharing  your interests in "future humans, bio-synthetic life, NBIC enhancement, and radical life extension", yes, I think with you it should be important to go through some kind of theory of simulation.

Best,

Pier Luigi

Il giorno 11/feb/2010, alle ore 19.02, Natasha Vita-More ha scritto:

> "We shall not cease from exploration
> And the end of all our exploring
> Will be to arrive where we started
> And know the place for the first time."
>
> Thus wrote T.S. Eliot [1] in "Little Gidding", No. 4 of Four Quartets
> (1968).
>
> In a world of artistic exploration which takes the artist from the beginning
> of a body of work and around and back to that beginning, it is also the
> observer who travels together with the body of art itself.  This links to
> the cybernetics of cybernetics (second order) and to the double-bind theory
> of Gregory Bateson. In Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (1979), Bateson
> addresses the patterns that connect us to each other and the environment in
> an ecology of thinking that locates the patterns of thinking about thinking.
>
> Which is the real you, the real environment, the real situation, and which
> interpretation, of many interpretations, holds current and significant value
> for your duration in real time or simulated time-space?
>
> The interdependency of actions and actors do matter because, as artists, we
> address them each and every moment.  There is no need to quantify a truth
> within them, for that is left to the hard sciences.  Yet, we engage a
> certain truth  in large part by emotive-driven reasoning and truth is
> fundamental to aesthetics in a rational investigation about life and meaning
> wherein truth is borne. 
>
> Simulation has truth, even if its realization is momentary, simply because
> it occurs.  Theorizing elements of the occurrence is secondary to the
> immediacy of the experience. Nevertheless, it is the theory of simulation
> that is necessary in an age where alternative universes and synthetic
> systems are suggested to contain personal existence of many types and forms
> of life-biologically derived or otherwise.
>
> To those of us interested in future humans, bio-synthetic life, NBIC
> enhancement, and radical life extension, these issues have great
> significance because the mind/body of neuroscience and simulation are
> getting married and witnessing their union is something that "every
> school.[person] should know" (Bateson).  Regardless of the face that the
> Blue Brain [2] simulation is working slowly (and hopes to self-assemble
> neurons to function like a biological brain), attention to relationships of
> neuroscience and simulation affects artistic practice working with
> simulation.
>
> In the biological brain, a simulation is created by interacting neurons.
> Yet, neuroscience "does not know everything there is to know about neurons".
> [3]  Nevertheless projects like the Blue Brain involve brain/mind simulation
> which could undoubtedly help to understand the fundamental principles of the
> brain and the visual and semantics of the mind of memory and cognitive
> projection. [4] A future exobody neocortex as a connective human mind could
> modify biological prerequisites with bio-synthetic structure in
> designing/forming experiences.
>
> The necessary unity of mind and nature, real-time experience and simulation
> are crucially intertwined.  This is an area forthcoming and one which has
> unyielding potential for the simulation of simulation.
>
> [1] T.S. Eliot received the Nobel Prize for Literature.  He was the second
> person in recorded time to have referred to transhumanization of humanity in
> his comedy "The Cocktail Party", concerning human behavior and which is
> linked to Alighieri Dante's use of transumanar in the Divine Comedy.
> [2] Noah Sutton's documentary on Markram's Blue Brain Project
> http://thebeautifulbrain.com/2010/02/bluebrain-film-preview/
> [3] John Clark (Extropy chat email list]
> [4] http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/out_of_the_blue/P1/
>
>
> Natasha Vita-More

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Pier Luigi Capucci
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