Robotic Behavior

1. He wakes up early, drops off his children at school and arrives at work on time. He has had a stressful day – worked hard. He goes home after work, greets his wife, has dinner and watches the News. They talk about plans for the weekend. Each day repeats itself.

2. She picks up the children everyday after work and sometimes goes to the Mall. Today it has an incredible clearance sale and she doesn't want to miss it. There will be so much to talk about with colleagues.

Since I was child I’ve been waiting for the so called Androids - robots with human appearance and behavior. Sadly the Robotman came first, people with robotic attitudes and a programmed way of life.

“A human being is a part of a whole, called by us "universe", a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of our consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” – Albert Einstein

Inconsistences

Let’s start thinking about the sentences below:

1) The following sentence is false.
2) The sentence above is true.

If we presume that the first sentence is really true we conclude sentence (2) is false. But if (2) is false it implies (1) to be false, being a contradiction with the premise we started with.

Instead if we begin by (1) being false, so (2) is true. But again if (2) is true it implies (1) to be true. This is a contradiction.

When the reasoning has such a logic cycle that it doesn’t close it’s said to be an inconsistence.

Moebius Strip

A similar way of thinking happens when we follow a path on the surface above and we surprisely “return” to the same start-point, but on the other side, without cross any borders.

These reflections open the way for the provocation beneath:

The prediction of a particular event resulting from a present choice would change our original decision in a manner to have a different consequence, implying an inconsistent forecast.

The video that follows is very interesting and also comic:


To read more about these subjects I suggest reading the book Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas R. Hofstadter.

Time

The New Dinossaur

Picture of The New Dinossaur

The greatest horror movie was just released. It’s the greatest because it’s catastrophically real and its narrative is about our immediate future. “A Crude Awakening: The Oul Crash” is a documentary about the end of the today's easy and extremely cheap oil (America’s price is less than a bottle of water cost… How come?).

Following a list of some of the movie’s celebrities:

Abdul Samad Al-Awasi – Kuwaiti Oil Consultant

Fadhi Chalabi – Former Secretary-General of OPEC and Iraqi Oil Minister

Luis E. Giusti – Former CEO of PDVSA

Colin Campbell – www.peakoil.net

This crisis is close and will affect each one of us. The explosion in population and transport, as well in technologic, habitation, medical care, and etc. observed in the last four decades would be unthinkable without the Oil. The world population doubled from 3 billion people in 1961 to 6 billion in 2000. Now we’re 6,5 billion approaching 9 billion in 2050.

Populational growth since 10.000 B.C.

On the other hand, the demand of these new inhabitants is so far larger than the previous one. And everything has Oil behind. As Bush said in 2006: “We have a serious problem: America is addicted to Oil”.

As like you, I also believe in the human ingeniosity and inventiveness. Though, unfortunately there is no imagined or developed solution to minimize this situation. It doesn’t exist. Even worse, if we started now to put our energetic plants to generate energy we couldn’t supply the actual energy demand (without the Oil). Who have seen politicians take actions before the problems happens? Rarely do they take corrective actions. The problem is passed to the next generation. And the OPEC thinks about the actual budget.

Anyway, who wants to know about it? I’m asking myself if someone read until this point... Prepare yourselves for 2020 (13 years from now??) we will be paying approximately $ 300 dollars per oil barrel, four times more than the current $70. Everything will be much more expensive. In a few years only some will be able to drive a car or travel by airplane if we don’t react and find a solution.

This is the nature applying the dialectic of theses and antitheses resulting in a syntheses. And the regression is painful.

Time's Special Report on Global Warming

To read the whole report click here. You'll dicover why we need to be so worried.

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O Fortuna - Carmina Burana

O Fortuna O Fortune
(Latim) (English)

O Fortuna O Fortune,
velut luna like the moon
statu variabilis, you are changeable,
semper crescis ever waxing
aut decrescis; and waning;
vita detestabilis hateful life
nunc obdurat first oppresses
et tunc curat and then soothes
ludo mentis aciem, as fancy takes it;
egestatem, poverty
potestatem and power
dissolvit ut glaciem. it melts them like ice.

From Carmina Burana - Carl Orff (Medieval Poetry written in the early 13th century).

Scenery for Reflection