http://www.futurehi.net/ Your Community for Visionary Art, Culture, Science and Spirituality. Seeking to create a joyous, infinitely expanding future; Future Hi is an online community exploring the frontiers of higher intelligence, accelerating technology, anthropological exodus, utopian dreams, trance, autonomy, imagination and logic. en-us dale@futurehi.net Primarily Public Domain http://www.futurehi.net/ http://www.futurehi.net/images/icon_8circuit.jpg March 23, 2008 08:38 AM dale@inquisitorbetrayer.com 2008-03-20T13:53:32-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000879.html We will take the site down, including the forums, this Saturday in memory of Arthur C. Clarke. A special web page will be shown in place of the all mighty 404 error. We will resume normal day to day Sunday. dale... 879@http://www.futurehi.net/ Announcements 2008-03-20T13:53:32-08:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000878.html Many active forums with active debates are found at Future Hi's Forums. You can get there by clicking forums at the top menus. You will need to register to view them. Be sure to use a current email as you will be asked to confirm registration. dale... 878@http://www.futurehi.net/ Community 2008-03-12T09:48:38-08:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000877.html Donations are needed Donations are needed to keep the blog and forums up and running. This year we are running very short on cash to pay the bills. Please donate. How can you donate? See the “make a donation” button near the bottom of the page or note the send a PM to the owner in the forum. dale... 877@http://www.futurehi.net/ Announcements 2008-03-06T16:06:56-08:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000876.html Hi everyone. I"m not sure if anyone is still out there checking on the 'blog' portion of Future Hi. Looks like the discussions have moved wholesale into the forums area. For those of you interested, I finally am back on the net with my own website and blog. The blog includes most of my old posts from here at Future Hi, along with new and... 876@http://www.futurehi.net/ Announcements 2008-03-05T10:15:48-08:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000875.html Space exploration has become a topic of interest in U.S. presidential debates for the first time in over 40 years. Seventeen individuals are running for president in the two major parties' primaries. 875@http://www.futurehi.net/ Space 2008-01-02T15:15:07-08:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000874.html I am a long time donator and many system set up to run the @ home program to process the data. I am also one of the owners of the SETI Tech Desk a Yahoo group (SETI_techdesk@yahoogroups.com). Here is a copy of a email. dale Copy as follows ( Donate to SETI@home at: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_donate.php ) Dear kay-net, The SETI@home team has achieved much progress in... 874@http://www.futurehi.net/ Science 2007-12-12T15:08:08-08:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000873.html If you've been following the technology news cycle, Google announced their intention to bid on the new 700mhz spectrum opened up from the closure of old TV airwaves. As part of this bid Google also announced it will create a totally open, neutral network that anyone can use with with any compatible wireless device. This move was a total salvo at the Telco's, and... 873@http://www.futurehi.net/ Technology 2007-12-09T10:50:33-08:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000872.html http://youtube.com/watch?v=G6CVj5IQkzk 872@http://www.futurehi.net/ Consciousness 2007-12-03T12:13:57-08:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000871.html On the other hand, we mustn’t be dogmatic about group selection always being an unworkable or outdated idea. If music did have individual-level benefits, such as courtship benefits under sexual selection, then it may be possible for group selection to reinforce those individual benefits with group benefits. Under this model of group selection, there would be no necessary tension between the individual and group levels... 871@http://www.futurehi.net/ Consciousness 2007-07-17T19:50:22-08:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000870.html Geoffrey F. Miller Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution University College London Gower St., London, WC1E 6BT, England geoffrey.miller@ucl.ac.uk Published as: Miller, G. F. (2000). Evolution of human music through sexual selection. In N. L. Wallin, B. Merker, & S. Brown (Eds.), The origins of music, MIT Press, pp. 329-360. Introduction: A Darwinian approach to music evolution “... it appears probable that the progenitors... 870@http://www.futurehi.net/ Consciousness 2007-07-17T19:41:43-08:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000869.html Going loopy over consciousness Reviews: July 2007 I Am a Strange Loop Douglas Hofstadter 2007 Basic Books 412pp £14.99/$26.95 hb Douglas Hofstadter's writing talent makes his love of paradox contagious. Reading I Am a Strange Loop inclines one to see whimsical connections, language games and self-reference everywhere. Part of Hofstadter invades one's brain and starts thinking there in its own right – a phenomenon that... 869@http://www.futurehi.net/ Books 2007-07-15T22:43:43-08:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000868.html First "heat transistor" unveiled 13 July 2007 Physicists in Finland and Italy claim to have built the world’s first "heat transistor" in which the flow of heat between two electrodes is controlled by a voltage applied to a third lead. The flow can be increased, decreased or even switched off by changing the voltage -- in much the same way as electrical current is controlled... 868@http://www.futurehi.net/ Technology 2007-07-15T22:35:48-08:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000867.html Hi Everyone It's been a while since I asked for donations. They are still needed. To run Future Hi and update the software, funds are required. At the beginning of the year I asked and did receive some funds. That help keep us going to the level we are now. Now it's time to ask for more. There is a paypal button you can use... 867@http://www.futurehi.net/ Announcements 2007-07-15T22:05:37-08:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000864.html There exists, even among long term practitioners, gross misunderstandings of magical principles. Even after the lessons of chaos magic theory (CMT) regarding belief as tool rather than operating system, some magicians still cling to the delusion that (for example) tracing five lines into a shape human minds recognize as the pentagram is by itself magically efficacious. Long-time practicing magicians (those who should most know better) are not immune to this phenomenon. Indeed, a tendency exists to imprint one's own tradition as the operating system of reality, lending their system an objective belief Robert Anton Wilson described as "the death of thought." Most modern magicians show at least a passing intellectual understanding of a principle outlined succinctly by Uncle Al several decades before CMT made it creed: "In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth, and the Paths, of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether they exist or not. By doing certain things certain results follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophic validity to any of them." (Liber 0 I:2). 864@http://www.futurehi.net/ Magick 2007-03-26T12:14:47-08:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000863.html Man is not fated to being merely human; the human condition is perennially evolving and transmogrifying into the true Godlikeness inherent in even the most errant of hominids. It is not by breaking with Nature and with our own natural inclinations that our true likeness to God is exposed; it is, rather, by acknowledging and fully participating in our own natural Godhood that we may... 863@http://www.futurehi.net/ Spirit 2007-03-12T11:49:22-08:00