With thanks to Andrew Marr’s seminal My Trade. An essential read.
The model works less well for corporations until they start having the same influence on society as the media. They do communicate internally of course, or try to. But the media are tools of and influence their owners, while companies usually restrict themselves to the morality of the bottom line.
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( 3 / 166 )Resonance between circuits a major player, perhaps the king
How lubricants reduce friction
Feeding all ?8 levels of the mind
Reflection at barriers
Reinforcement gives detail to pictures
Dysfunctional memories
All storage is transient
Storage can be mended and manipulated
Watching energy flows via fMRI is too young and slow
‘Chi’ as putative vehicle, but Science blanks Mysticism
Hypnotism explained; self-hypnotism harnessed
Resonant patterns to detect and unlearn
Seeking definitions of brain, mind, soul and conscience
Data rich, theory poor at present but predictive models are near
The net as model source, nourisher and nurturer.
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( 3 / 152 )Green men and river trolls exist in all cultures.
Friend or foe, we need their help to cross nature’s barriers.
When they become ravening monsters we send for George,
who succeeds if we can arm him/ fix his foot/ help him think .
Just as Thatcher had to slay union power, so New Labour’s legacy may be the death of the extended Whitehall corporation. While the monster was still chained to British shores, this was quite possible. Now that it is controlled by various Balkan mafias, via their tools in passport control and higher, (Gin, sir? Influence? A word to the subs? A couple of good school places?)
Unlike Thatcher, Blair’s Labour will never be able to boast until out of power, for fear of revolts by the remnant. The next lot will profit from retrenchment, salary for work done, and pension for success not years of service.
Outsourcing schools is a smart move. All involved want a better product.
Outsourcing civil service is a wider challenge. The trick will be to make those still aboard actually want to row. And little boats are easier to cox. Hence dodging forests and bridges.
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( 3 / 148 )Survival of which fittest?[\b]
If the first priority is survival, lesser questions of ethics and religion and education and capitalism become tools for leaders. The public face of probity remains, but the inner circle knows the reality: Marxism was right about church and opium, wrong about saying it; education becomes a medium for raising taxpayers; Roe vs Wade reduced the lifelong compulsory farmworkers so must be overturned; only private schools produce those with the skills to lead.
The species is different only in degree: untermensch need eugenic control; the gay scene is a very acceptable contraceptive; those who drug or otherwise die early need only minimal street-clearing care; public education is for soundbytes to fill the space for debate; progress is limited only by our ability to sell these ideas to the church communities. And so long as we pay the preacher, he will sing the right song.
Only the student and the soldier in us have the wit and motive and opportunity to tackle the issue. Luckily the spiritual rewards outweigh the fear of the consequences.
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( 3 / 152 )Brain, mind, memory and consciousness -
a short personal topic list of how I think we think.
To a hammer, every problem is a nail. Quoted by Steven Rose
Protrusions will be hammered in. Japanese proverb
Evolution of brain with body.
Early cells survived by sensing good and bad, and reacting.
Clusters of cells found better survival techniques, like messaging, transforming and specialising.
Learned behaviour in plants and animals.
Advantages of memory and consciousness.
A first list of some modes of memory.
Distributed brain power and localised brains.
From molecules to neurons via resonating potentials
Early 21st century scanning
The designed computer network versus the evolved brain.
Are we just dynamic neural networks?
With thanks to Steven Rose of OU and UCL for his 21st Century Brain.
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