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Green Man

2010-09-04T06:02:03Z

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WikiMaster

2010-09-03T04:07:55Z

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There once was a true wiki master

with a stomach of gypsum alabaster.

He'd sit there and wait

while his friends would negate,

that the word is amorphous plaster.

Bio2NanoCryystal

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	- sequences of software that evolve - alive? Is the earth, as researchers Lynn Margulis and James Lovelock have argued, itself a living organism? If humans are informatic entities, in what sense are they anything other than machines? This course will analyze the rhetorical patterns that form the history of questions such as these, forging a [http://www.scribd.com/doc/4475734/foucault-nietzsche-genealogy-history genealogy] of living systems from the Upanishads to the present.		- sequences of software that evolve - alive? Is the earth, as researchers Lynn Margulis and James Lovelock have argued, itself a living organism? If humans are informatic entities, in what sense are they anything other than machines? This course will analyze the rhetorical patterns that form the history of questions such as these, forging a [http://www.scribd.com/doc/4475734/foucault-nietzsche-genealogy-history genealogy] of living systems from the Upanishads to the present.

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	[http://mycompwiki.com/index.php?title=Bio2Nano Bio2Nano Syllabus]		[http://mycompwiki.com/index.php?title=Bio2Nano Bio2Nano Syllabus]
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	[http://mycompwiki.com/index.php?title=The_Minstrel The Minstrel] - a Bio2Nano Wiki from DWD		[http://mycompwiki.com/index.php?title=The_Minstrel The Minstrel] - a Bio2Nano Wiki from DWD
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Mobyes

2010-09-01T12:27:01Z

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		+	== You've Got That "inner feeling" ==
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		+	''"... I considered inner feeling, that is, the feeling of being alive, which only animals enjoying the faculty of feeling possess. I collected the known facts concerning this matter, as well as my own observations, and I was soon convinced that this inner feeling constituted a power essential to take into account."'' [http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/lamarck/lamarckF.htm Lamarck]
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		+	Plotinus, like William Penn, tells us that if we are to understand what it means to be alive, we must observe our closest and best example of a living system: ourselves. We must, pace Penn, "look within" if we are to perceive a living system directly, rather then through the lens of our limited and highly specific senses. If we want to know what life is, rather than what it looks like, smells like, feels like, sounds like, tastes like, we must ignore our sensory data and directly witness our own consciousness. We must watch our own thoughts like a birder beholding a Quetzal.
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		+	Hence the importance of the Kena Upanishad's instructions for this "realization."
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		+	While Lamarck, that great taxonomist, continues Aristotle's fascination with categories and the ability to sort the world into "this" and "that", he discovers the dynamic - i.e. changing - aspect of natural forms while studying molluscs in the Paris basin. His epic quest for the nature of life as a transformative process leads him to the same insight as Plotinus, the Kena Upanishad, and Penn: life and consciousness are inseparable:
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		+	''"... I considered inner feeling, that is, the feeling of being alive, which only animals enjoying the faculty of feeling possess. I collected the known facts concerning this matter, as well as my own observations, and I was soon convinced that this inner feeling constituted a power essential to take into account."''
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		+	Life has evolved the inner feeling of itself, a space wherein "life" is observed. This capacity for life to feel itself is not, a "feeling" in the usual sense. It is not our sensory response to the world that we encounter in this feeling, but our recursivity - our capacity to be affected by ourselves. This capacity to be altered by itself could be a useful working definition of consciousness. Lamarck immediately returns to the comfort of taxonomy after the ecstasy of recursion, and limits this "inner feeling of being alive" to animals, but [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CDUQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scribd.com%2Fdoc%2F30487823%2FPlant-Intel&ei=TkZ-TP7LCMP38AbDoInVAw&usg=AFQjCNEejp6IwKCJA0opzgWOHlXVwH1_Mg a long tradition places plants] on the continuum of mindedness.

	== "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself" ==		== "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself" ==

Talk:To assume that there is a difference between Life and Death is maya

2010-09-01T02:46:01Z

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Talk:Bio2Nano

2010-09-01T01:43:47Z

Grading questions

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How is our attendance and participation being measured for the 20% of our grade?

Talk:To assume that there is a difference between Life and Death is maya

2010-09-01T01:35:37Z

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To assume that there is a difference between Life and Death is maya

2010-09-01T01:34:26Z

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Bio2Nano

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	December 16 - Final Paper Due		December 16 - Final Paper Due
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		+	Grades are not really the goal here, and are not to be confused with teaching. Nonetheless, here's how it will go:
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		+	'''Grading Rubric'''
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		+	Participation and attendance: 20 percent
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		+	paper 1: 20 percent
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		+	paper 2: 20 percent
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		+	paper 3: 40 percent

Etherfires

2010-08-31T17:18:54Z

Academic Projects and Pages:

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	# The desire to create the mystical wherever there is a sense of the unknown.		# The desire to create the mystical wherever there is a sense of the unknown.
	# The concept of perfection as a guiding goal and the sense of flawed nature of human beings		# The concept of perfection as a guiding goal and the sense of flawed nature of human beings
		+	# The desire to see the world as made (and thus infused with Humanity) - This is mentioned by Heidegger on pg 29 of '''Poetry, Language, Thought'''
	These four things are core to both the religious imperative and to the way that science has taken on a religious quality. I'm very interested in teasing these out within popular discourse but especially science discourse (most notably Transhumanist discourse)		These four things are core to both the religious imperative and to the way that science has taken on a religious quality. I'm very interested in teasing these out within popular discourse but especially science discourse (most notably Transhumanist discourse)
	* [[Rhetoric of the Mind]]: This paper will be simultaneously a rhetoric, philosophy, and theory of mind paper. It will take my all-favored rhetorical approach by looking at the three ways in which we talk about thing which encounter each other. Each of these will then be correlated to what I see as significant conceptual shifts and important differing aspects involved in the spectrum of interaction. The three are:		* [[Rhetoric of the Mind]]: This paper will be simultaneously a rhetoric, philosophy, and theory of mind paper. It will take my all-favored rhetorical approach by looking at the three ways in which we talk about thing which encounter each other. Each of these will then be correlated to what I see as significant conceptual shifts and important differing aspects involved in the spectrum of interaction. The three are: