tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11679714.post4957941857158796603..comments2024-03-28T11:36:22.391-04:00Comments on Half an Hour: The Uber-ToolStephen Downeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06140591903467372209noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11679714.post-83676574855773270142010-11-12T16:20:12.086-05:002010-11-12T16:20:12.086-05:00Interesting use of the term 'uber'.Interesting use of the term 'uber'.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12593735969463935403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11679714.post-44650178423388153022010-11-01T18:26:30.364-04:002010-11-01T18:26:30.364-04:00@Stephen You want a cyber twin, not an uber tool. ...@Stephen You want a cyber twin, not an uber tool. :)Maria H. Andersenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04686325011770339309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11679714.post-84316535470364656402010-11-01T16:39:33.196-04:002010-11-01T16:39:33.196-04:00I think our uber-tool is like our third eye or min...I think our uber-tool is like our third eye or mind’s eye (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_eye -- see “In Creative Thinking”), Stephen. <br /><br />And where would we place it if we had the choice? I think I’d like mine on an antenna sort of hovering above watching me think through all the possibilities I can and then encouraging me to imagine even more.<br /><br />Garrett Lisi’s theory of everything < http://bit.ly/1d1ddW > uses the metaphor of the E8 coral “with particles at any location interacting in every possible way” to explain that “all possibilities are expanding and developing at once.” <br /><br />In Quatum physics, “everything that can happen does. All possibilities are realized” (Lisi, TED). My uber-tool would help me see more possibilities rather than those I can hold in my mind because I have limited short-term memory or poor strategies for keeping related resources in my mind and close enough to retrieve to add to the mix.<br /><br />Lisi’s theory is all about patterns and networking particles. I think the pattern recognition you speak of and tools for helping us see more patterns, more possibilities at once could be the “tool of everything.”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11679714.post-85161908657654971132010-10-31T11:18:29.303-04:002010-10-31T11:18:29.303-04:00That makes sense to me. I wonder if there would b...That makes sense to me. I wonder if there would be different interpretive filters, for different data sets. For example, the eye interprets visual data, the ear interprets auditory data etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11679714.post-77866784385314996682010-10-31T10:28:38.518-04:002010-10-31T10:28:38.518-04:00> Kind of a scaffolding exercise?
Yeah, could...> Kind of a scaffolding exercise? <br /><br />Yeah, could be. But that's not really what I'm thinking of.<br /><br />The layers of the visual cortext http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_cortex are a bit like a pre-processing system for visual perception.<br /><br />The different layers perform analytic functions, such as edge detection, or motion detection. The data which is, if you will, presented to the brain has been interpreted for us.<br /><br />With respect to the internet, we are, if you will, at the place where data first comes into the visual cortex. We have to do edge detection and motion detection manually, which means we need to learn how to do this, and then actually do it.<br /><br />What we want is not so much a better way to learn how to do this, but rather, a system that does this for us, so the data we are presented with can now be analyzed at a much higher level. If we don't have to laboriously detect edges, we can begin to form an ontology of objects, for example.<br /><br />So such a system is in a sense a scaffold, but not in the sense that it performs functions we later want to do, but rather, in the sense that it allows us to perform higher order functions.Stephen Downeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06140591903467372209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11679714.post-83771942328036828832010-10-30T23:13:22.343-04:002010-10-30T23:13:22.343-04:00>Something that creates a certain level of expe...>Something that creates a certain level of expertise for us, allowing us to achieve some sort of higher expertise?<br /><br />Kind of a scaffolding exercise?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com