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Uncategorized | unGuide
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All posts in category Uncategorized. The beneficial side-effect, in this case, is that the sentences are thought-provoking quotes by various famous personalities across the ages. For instance, Mark Twain’s classic: “. I’ve never let my schooling interfere with my education. Today I came across one such quote:. Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. And regarding the freedom of one’s choices? In short, collectivism may appear like a hard one to decipher. But as Holmes ...
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Modules | unGuide
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What are the questions we seek to answer? And how do we start to explore the answers to these? Two questions that have been eternally pursued, both by individuals as well as communities:. What are the surroundings that we find ourselves in, and. How do we organize ourselves in the best possible manner? By studying systems, their functioning as well as interdependence. The same will aid us to arrive at possibly better (more comprehensive, at any rate) answers. And how do these layers affect each other?
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To robots | unGuide
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Robots, steal our jobs! We are heading into an era of rapidly increasing aid of technology in doing all our work. Is it so far-fetched then, to suggest that the machines are going to. Displace us as the primary work force. Because we are capable of higher functions. What is ‘higher’, exactly? A partial answer to this is given by Bucky Fuller in one of his lectures: Prospects for Humanity. To paraphrase: this is about the efficiency of two fundamental operations: differentiation. And so, it follows that i...
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Why is money so valuable? | unGuide
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Why is money so valuable? I just answered this question. On Quora (my first one) here. Seemed generic enough for a post ]. Quoting from a document called. Released a few years ago by the Federal Reserve Bank:. Money, like anything else, derives its value from its scarcity in relation to its usefulness. December 27, 2012. Posted by root on December 27, 2012. Quine, quine again. January 2, 2013. Thanks for sharing this. Thanks to you I now know the banking system works. January 2, 2013. Although many peopl...
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Quine, quine again | unGuide
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Quine, quine again. Well the AAP did it! But if this is all the reaction we can muster, then funny enough, I think we’re all missing the point. yet again. I cringed when we elevated Narendra Modi to super-Jesus status. And here we are at it, yet again. If anything, the AAP’s biggest success was to show that if anybody, only we the people can accept and fulfill the responsibility of solving our problems. The AAP symbol is the broom! If you’d listen to Dr. Vandana Shiva. Starting with some random thoughts:.
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Education | unGuide
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I don’t even know how to get started on this. But to begin with maybe a single line: education is a progressive refinement of the map to correspond to the territory. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. Quine, quine again.
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Environment | unGuide
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What is the environment? On the first layer, we understand it as simply the laws of nature. Everything stems from here. Looking more closely, we find specific diverse ways in which these laws have manifested since the beginning of Universe as far as we can tell, have created certain sets of conditions in various regions of Universe. Is a mystery to me.). You can help to expand upon this unGuide stub; please start by leaving your inputs and thoughts in the comments below. Quine, quine again unGuide. You a...
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Giordano Bruno and Lord Kelvin | unGuide
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Giordano Bruno and Lord Kelvin. What do Giordano Bruno and Mahatma Gandhi have in common? And what do Lord Kelvin and Nathuram Godse have in common? I was just writing a comment on a friend’s post that linked to this article. But soon it seemed to be running long enough for a post in itself; so here goes. ]. 8220;Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” – Lord Kelvin. Who was this Lord Kelvin? As it turns out, apart from his well-known accomplishments. Made in 1895. Seems like he might have ...
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References | unGuide
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Introduced well in books by W. Ross Ashby. In particular, his. Design for a brain. Goes a long way in helping us appreciate a design-oriented, almost mechanistic viewpoint of organism survival and adaptability. A term coined by Bucky Fuller, referred to as “nature’s own coordinate system” in his books. Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking. Vol I and II. Did his own thinking for 50 years; to produce some of the most astounding artefacts. A Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Scientist.
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Energy | unGuide
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Is there enough of it? Hydroel…Solar… Wind…Geothermal…Tidal…. Is there any other energy source? Certainly not; [ Casimir effect, I think ]. Is it practical yet? Quite possibly. Implications? Tremendous. speed-of-light breached! Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. Quine, quine again.