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Steve Talbott on consciousness vs. computers

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"The highest parts of our humanity are the parts where we are most fully conscious, most alertly engaged, with our intentions most thoroughly penetrating our activity. ... Whenever we find ourselves activing passively, dreamily, automatically or mechanically — states all too easily induced when we spend hour starting at a screen! — we
are descending to the subhuman"

"Perhaps one of the most important things I have done throughout my life is to live with a single question or problem or theme for weeks, months or years ... You being to discover the difference between deepening your thought and merely letting run in logical ruts over the surface of things."

-from a McCall newspaper interview http://mcall.com/netizen

Steve Talbott is a well respected writer with O'Reilly books and is well known for quitting programming and becoming an organic farmer. and then still writing more tech books.

Its been one of my themes lately to stay well away from INBOXism, to not get caught just responding to life (and all that information, promising you this and that). That's an overly Yin state (The Receptive; devoid of substance, looking outside).

To lead your pursuit from your goals and projects is to have a Yang strength. However, too much Yang is too much (The Creative; all substance , staring into the void). Remain flexibile and dance with the external.

http://natureinstitute.org/txt/st/index.htm
http://netfuture.org/i

Links and things

I am timeblind on myspace. thanks for the add.

I am crucialfelix on del.icio.us which is where I link to all the interesting shit I come across.

I put my photos up on flickr

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When I listen to music at home it all gets echoed onto here and on my Last.fm page. Most of the time I don't use that cause I don't want you to see me obsessively listening to my own mixes, really bad working titles.

You can read some posts I thought were interesting from various feeds.

I've been doing the Dance Music Business Resource since 1995, back when it was on hyperreal.org. Articles and info for artists and small labels. Recently I've been posting interesting industry news items and adding some new content about downloads etc.