Warp Baya

I am a a genius… or at least I want to think that for a little while today. I have coined a new job description and I think it’s brilliant. It catches something new and unique, identifies a professional niche of great importance, and is, at the moment, entirely my creation! Hooo Haaaa! Before I…

I have come up with another approach to simulating learning. This one seems more interesting than the previous one and is, I hope, no more difficult to program. Click on the link below to read about this plan to create a program that “learns” in a somewhat “bottom up” way. http://harry.baya.net/emergence/ant_path_1.htm Here is my first…

In the previous Blog entry (“New” Consciousnesses) I wrote some thoughts engendered by reading the book “Emergence”. I put in a link to an exerpt from the book. That excerpt has given me an idea for a program that I think catches some of the “bottom up” intelligence discussed in the book. I have put…

I have re-started reading “Emergence”, a book by Steven Johnson, about “bottom up” intelligence – one example being an ant colony. The full title of the book is “Emergence – The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software. Click here for an excerpt from this book. This triggered a thought today that perhaps “death”…

More about the Flat World. The new world order into which we are entering, the new social fabric that is emerging, seems to me to be most different, most new, in the opportunities it gives to individuals. Before now, it seems to me, only very rare individuals could have a big impact. These were leaders…

I read the first chapter of “The World is Flat” tonight (by Thomas L. Friedman, here is the Amazon.com link). I want to write my thoughts down before I read any more. I’ve been mulling over some thoughts for several weeks and this book is so strongly related that I want to write down my…

One of my favorite sayings is “To a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” I find that this provides a lot of insight in a wide variety of situations. I use that quote several times a week most weeks. Last week I said it to someone and they replied “Did you ever think that to…

For me the absolute big question is “why, or how, does anything exist at all”. Once something exists it can evolve. My best guess is that our universe evolved from something like a big bang… though it may be cyclical… but how did it ever start? I assume that an answer to that is beyond…

Here is my current view of our reality. I think of it as based on what I have read about current scientific knowledge of this area. It seems to me that we are in the middle of a kind of unfolding of our universe. It apparently started off with a very simple, almost pure, substance.…

In a recent dialog with a friend, Rick Randall, I have found myself trying to state clearly some perspectives that have become important to me over the last 30 years or so in relation to truth, faith, and the possible benevolence of the universe. In particular I want to write up the “truth path” I…