http://apt.vitakuben.org/ 2012-05-21T02:00:28+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/ http://apt.vitakuben.org/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2008-08-22T02:28:34+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=404error&rev=1219364914&do=diff but the page you are looking for does not exist! To remedy this we have faciliated you with an option to search the site for whatever you are looking for (look up in the right corner) Or you can go to the root of this fine site, and browse for something you did not know you were looking for. text/html 2010-02-08T13:58:07+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=a.phonetic.realisation&rev=1265633887&do=diff A phonetic realisation The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) must be mapped to the parameters forests use for communication. text/html 2009-02-09T06:12:10+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=a.systems.description&rev=1234156330&do=diff Beskrivelse Hvis det er mulig å gi en datamaskin bevissthet, vil den da ligne på vår? Eller vil dens spesifikke særtrekk gjøre at den vil være på en helt annen bølgelengde enn oss. For eksempel vil datamaskinen ha andre muligheter for å sanse verden enn oss. Den kan distribuere bevisstheten sin over et nettverk som dekker hele kloden (og langt opp i atmosfæren...). Den kan produsere nye (software) nevroner på et blunk så lenge det finnes (hardware) kapasitet. Den kan spre seg til alle slags sm… text/html 2009-11-22T05:45:27+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=about&rev=1258865127&do=diff About the Academy for praxis and theory / APT French apte, Latin aptus, from obsolete apere, “to fasten, to join, to fit”, akin to apisci “to reach, attain”: compare with Gr. ἅπτειν (haptīn) “to fasten” and Sanskrit आप्त (āpta) “fit”, from आप् (āp) “to reach, attain”. text/html 2009-05-16T05:03:35+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=acoustic_phonetics&rev=1242443015&do=diff A membrane produces the manner of articulation (soundwaves), that will need some sort of resonating device, which may or might mimick the bi­la­bial, la­bio­dental, den­tal, al­veo­lar, post­al­veo­lar, re­tro­flex, pa­la­tal, ve­lar, uvu­lar, pha­ryn­geal, epi­glot­tal and glottal articular shapes. The articulary shapes might be fixed devices or use some kind of flaps/automodeling to respond differently responding to pressure/volition, but anyhow they will be simplifications/modifications from … text/html 2008-12-08T20:46:49+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=affective_computing&rev=1228765609&do=diff * Biologisk: * emotion * Filosofisk: * The faintest of all human passions is the love of truth. Affective computing Rosalind W. Picard Picards forslag til signalrepresentasjoner for modaliteter av oppførsel i et emosjonellt system: text/html 2009-01-12T04:48:32+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=agency&rev=1231732112&do=diff Agency Agency is the capacity of an agent to make choices and manipulate the external world accordingly. Harry G. Frankfurt has some interesting insights on whether this capacity may or might be free for different agents while presupposing the possibility of freedom of the will. text/html 2010-02-08T13:58:07+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=amygdala&rev=1265633887&do=diff Amygdala The amygdala is supposed to be resposible for a lot of our emotional faculties, but as with so many of out minds faculties, it seems that its functions can be taken over by other part of the brain if the amygdala ceases to function. text/html 2008-12-20T00:52:06+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=angelologi&rev=1229730726&do=diff * the war in heaven (steliart.com/angelology) * the war of heaven (wikipedia) * angelology (wikipedia) text/html 2008-12-02T23:34:08+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=artificial_intelligence&rev=1228257248&do=diff On artificial intelligence Is mind merely manipulation of symbols? What is intelligence? How can one recognize its presence and applications? Is it possible for machines to exhibit intelligence? Does the presence of human-like intelligence imply consciousness and emotions? text/html 2008-12-20T00:55:51+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=audible_mind&rev=1229730951&do=diff Audible mind What happens when we mix a sense with the brains communication, will the brain then become a part of a larger system where consciousness can not be said to be as subjective? Spesifikasjon There are several reasons to use electronic circuits communicating with sound to implement our neural network: text/html 2011-12-01T06:16:03+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=belief&rev=1322716563&do=diff Belief When a philosopher says belief, she means the representation in our minds, of a proposition that we take to be true. Just like when some dualist person says that she believes in God, she takes it for a fact that God exists. For a philosopher, whether a belief is true or not is not interesting, just the belief itself. text/html 2008-12-20T06:08:04+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=bio-electro-symbiotic.neural.networks&rev=1229749684&do=diff Training natural language aquisition in audio-based, bio-electro-symbiotic neural networks * neuralnet * neuron * naive.empiricism * language text/html 2011-02-04T05:55:38+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=biolinguistics&rev=1296795338&do=diff On Trees and Language A practical approach. What is a biotop, and how does it express itself Academy for Praxis og Theory CC 2009 On the similarities between the systematic biology’s phylogenic trees and the linguistic syntax trees, the idea that structures in nature are repeated in different levels, the myth about the norse god Odin who was said to have hung by his legs in a tree for nine days and nights to learn the magic of the runes, and the possibility that languages are a finite set of… text/html 2010-03-06T23:30:17+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=biopsy&rev=1267914617&do=diff Biological INPUT * Syn og * Hørsel må få grundige beskrivelser. * Det somatosensoriske system (berøring) * nociceptorer (smerte er jo et populært tema blant filosofene) * Vi må ha et rituale som kan starte opp og rope lyd i bevisstheten. text/html 2010-11-25T06:41:25+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=body&rev=1290663685&do=diff A body is necessary for a tactile interface to a material world. In humans we have a certain Galvanic Skin Response which may be measured, and which then presumably gives us information on the individuals affective state. By making a skin out of layers of conductive fabric and touch sensitive conductive rubber, one may be able to mimick that feature, as well as communicating with its (sub)consciousness. Below is a picture of a foam body which soon will be clothed in such a skin. It will first be… text/html 2010-11-28T05:49:14+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=bygge_traer&rev=1290919754&do=diff building trees How far may we let the definition of a tree go? By stretching the definition, one may stumble upon new constellations that may give fruitful results. I an attempt to let a new time enter the forest (or let the forest enter a new time), I will give biology some different appearances in an attempt to create a new forest. text/html 2010-02-08T13:58:07+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=causality&rev=1265633887&do=diff Causality Every cause has one effect, and every effect has one cause. Nothing can happen without something causing it, and every happening must cause something. Has there ever been a first cause, or does it stretch back to forever. text/html 2008-12-21T02:47:21+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=cog_sci&rev=1229824041&do=diff The term "cognitive" in “cognitive science” is “used for any kind of mental operation or structure that can be studied in precise terms” (Lakoff and Johnson, 1999). This conceptualization is very broad, and should not be confused with how “cognitive” is used in some traditions of analytic philosophy, where “cognitive” has to do only with formal rules and truth conditional semantics. (Nonetheless, that interpretation would bring one close to the historically dominant school of thought within co… text/html 2008-12-20T06:05:07+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=communicating.with.nature&rev=1229749507&do=diff I 2005 og 2006 forsøkte jeg meg på å heroisere Groruddalen (proposals for a new sentimentality / a construction piece) som en organisk natur av menneskelig aktivitet, men jeg fant hovedsakelig tomme landskaper av boligblokker og industri som slynget seg sørgmodig gjennom rester av jordbruks- og skogslandskaper. Jeg endte hovedsakelig med å forsøke å gi et bilde av hvordan naturen og sivilisasjonen sakte glir inn i hverandre og blir en helhet. Nå har jeg lyst til å ta det til et høyere abstraksjo… text/html 2008-12-21T02:49:31+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=complex_systems&rev=1229824171&do=diff Complex Systems From Sync by Steven Strogatz: “Every decade or so, a grandiose theory comes along, bearing similar aspirations and often brandishing an ominous-sounding C-name. In the 1960 it was cybernetics. In the '70s it was catastrophe theory. Then came chaos theory in the '80s and complexity theory in the '90s. text/html 2009-01-12T06:17:14+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=connecting.to.the.omninetwork&rev=1231737434&do=diff Connecting to the omninetwork Is it possible to connect a consciousness directly to the omnipresent nevral network? How does its neurons communicate? What are its neurons like? If functionalism is true, then connecting should be possible... This may or might be the penultimate goal. text/html 2011-05-11T03:36:00+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=consciousness&rev=1305077760&do=diff Consciousness Consciousness probably does not exist after our braincells stop living, but if we let some form of multiply realizable functionalism be the basis for our emerging selves, then there does not seem to be any logical prohibitions for a consciousness to be able to find some other system to emerge from. text/html 2009-09-09T03:09:07+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=drawing.trees&rev=1252458547&do=diff There is a classical problem which Euler introduced in a paper in 1736 which is supposed to be the first paper on graph theory. The paper is usually referred to as The seven bridges of Köningsberg, and either even though, or due to the fact that Euler proved that there was no solution to this problem, graph theory has attracted a lot of attention, and also has provided neat solutions to many problems. For instance the tree of life, which I believe is a directed acyclic graph (it is probably not … text/html 2010-02-08T13:58:07+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=dualism&rev=1265633887&do=diff Mind/brain dualism A presentation of the problem of mind/brain dualism usually starts with a presentation of René Descartes' attempt to doubt everything, and his conclusion that everything he thought existed, even God, can be proven to exist on the basis that he actually thinks. I am not going to follow his dubious reasoning towards God, but just present the fact that Descartes believed that the point where the body and the soul (causally) interacted was in the pineal gland, located somewhere … text/html 2010-03-06T23:32:21+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=duppeditter&rev=1267914741&do=diff * faculties * consciousness * intentionality * agency * mind * belief : mer * knowledge * qualia : lenkes til hardware... * emotion : lenkes til diagrammer... * memory * In between * long-term_memory * working_memory * philosophical * Frankfurt on freedom of will * Perry on Jacksons qualia argument against physicalism * Non reductive physicalism and the causality of mind * Konstruktiv Empirisisme / Strukturell Realisme … text/html 2010-11-28T06:15:44+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=eksponeringstrening&rev=1290921344&do=diff Exposing a Syntetic Forest to the International Phonetic Alphabet In Towards a Nature of Nature I expose general trees to syntactical analysis and phylogenical familiarities through formal phonetic rituals performed with Odin’s patience and in the spirit of Searle. To be able to do this, I have analyzed, provoked, and manipulated nature to wrestle it’s structural secrets. Then I have have to recreated it’s components and put these in play, both as Closed Ecological Circuits, and by recreating … text/html 2008-12-20T04:29:12+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=electroactive.polymer&rev=1229743752&do=diff Electroactive polymers Electroactive polymers (artificial muscles) are materials with properties that have similarities with muscles. They are responsive to changes in electrical tension, and will change shape as voltage is applied. Because of this they can be used both as motors (muscles) or sensors that contract or extract when touched. text/html 2008-12-08T20:45:11+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=emcon&rev=1228765511&do=diff “Physicalism is the theory that mental properties are not emergent.” The Emergence of Consciousness is a crossdisiplinary effort to come with some answers on the topic of, and hopefully a demonstration of, the emergence of consciousness from very complex systems. text/html 2008-12-21T02:50:06+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=emergence&rev=1229824206&do=diff On emergence “Every resultant is either a sum or a difference of the cooperant forces; their sum, when their directions are the same -- their difference, when their directions are contrary. Further, every resultant is clearly traceable in its components, because these are homogeneous and commensurable. It is otherwise with emergents, when, instead of adding measurable motion to measurable motion, or things of one kind to other individuals of their kind, there is a co-operation of things of unl… text/html 2010-02-08T13:58:07+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=emerging_consciousness&rev=1265633887&do=diff lydceller The audibility of mind text/html 2011-01-17T05:34:22+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=emotion&rev=1295238862&do=diff Within the fear of a technocratic society lies the notion that the machines will take over the world. Feelings are what traditionally separate humankind and robots, and the anxiety of becoming the latter is comparable to turning into a copy or a replacable component. text/html 2011-01-14T06:45:16+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=en_fonetisk_realisering&rev=1294983916&do=diff A phonetic realization In much the same way as the forest floor might be exposed to variations over potentials, the phones that the human speech-organ is able to produce, will be combined with any other phones, such that we may hear as of yet unheard phonemes. Thereby realizing the possibility of analogies and cross-pollinations with new meanings in a future synthesis of a language of the forest. text/html 2008-12-20T04:08:14+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=evolution&rev=1229742494&do=diff Evolution The act of improving performance through trial and error. In a long term biological perspective this means that enormous amounts of species just disappear because they can not produce sustainable offspring. I guess that as biology matures on earth more species will have a strong ability for survival and adjustability to ever changing conditions, and fewer species will become extinct. text/html 2009-06-06T03:55:34+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=faculties&rev=1244253334&do=diff Faculties Consciousness Intention Agency Mind Belief Knowledge Qualia Emotion Memory text/html 2008-12-09T13:31:18+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=floral_decorations&rev=1228825878&do=diff text/html 2009-09-20T02:50:52+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=forests.and.language&rev=1253407852&do=diff About forests A practical approach towards a solution to the problem of the language of forests. What is a biotop, and how does it express it self? The problem It is suggested that one can use anything to express meaning and there seems to be some very interesting correlations between the models of the field of formal linguistics, and within the phylogenetics in biology. But is it the structures of language that show a map of the evolution of language, or is the behaviour and evolution of… text/html 2009-01-12T03:44:03+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=freewill&rev=1231728243&do=diff Harry G. Frankurt om fritt aktørskap Harry G. Frankfurt (Freedom of the will and the concept of a person, 1988) mener at det rådende synet på hva en Person er, er feil. Han sier at Strawson’s (blant mange andre filosofer) analyse går som følger: text/html 2008-12-20T02:32:50+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=functionalism&rev=1229736770&do=diff Functionalism Functionalism is a theory of mind that makes it possible to imagine making minds in something else than the brain. The popular analogue (to the mind) used for explaining functionalism is a carburator. A carburator has a functional description (1), and they can have technical descriptions (2 - 6): text/html 2011-12-01T06:42:53+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=god&rev=1322718173&do=diff God and other deities * Apsu * An/Anu * Enki * Ki * Kigal * Nammu/Tiamat * Enlil * Ninlil * Nanna * Inanna/Ishtar * Ninurta * Utu * Marduk * Ashur/Assur (Aramaic: ܐܵܫܿܘܪ‎) / Anshar, patron of Assur * Ishtar, (Astarte/Eshtar), the goddess of love and war, patroness of Nineveh (Aramaic: ܥܸܫܬܵܪ‎) * Nabu * Nergal - God of the Underworld * Tiamat * Samnuha * Kubaba * Marduk * Ellil * Ninlil * Nisroch * Anu * Ea * Kishar * Sin/Suen * Ishara *… text/html 2008-12-09T13:21:46+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=hardware&rev=1228825306&do=diff Hardware List of hardware that needs a more thorough examination: * Solar cells * sensor * Elektroaktiv polymer Butikker * se så mange fine byggesett Arngren * lydbyggesett Electrade text/html 2009-11-22T04:56:11+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=institutes&rev=1258862171&do=diff Institutes We have some systems that seem to conform very well with how we concieve our world. Memory and information retrieval Emerging Consciousness Tactility and Emotion Will and Action * Library text/html 2008-12-10T06:18:44+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=intelligence&rev=1228886324&do=diff Definition At least two major “consensus” definitions of intelligence have been proposed. First, from Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns, a report of a task force convened by the American Psychological Association in 1995: Individuals differ from one another in their ability to understand complex ideas, to adapt effectively to the environment, to learn from experience, to engage in various forms of reasoning, to overcome obstacles by taking thought. Although these individual differences can be… text/html 2008-12-23T02:29:43+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=intentionality&rev=1229995783&do=diff Intentionality Intention is the minds ability to grasp objects or concepts or directions of mental entities. The problems of letting a the mind communicate with, issue commands to and grasping the existence of - it self - are all related to the term Intentionality in the anglosaxon analytical philosophical tradition. Intentionality is, I presume, the philosophers attempt to grasp the generality of the brains neurons. By presenting a very simple and familiar word to hold a meaning that has noth… text/html 2010-11-27T05:38:38+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=intro&rev=1290832718&do=diff Om trær og språk John R. Searle har påstått at en kan bruke hva som helst for å formidle mening ved å bli enige om et sett regler og et sett med objekter (lyder, møbler, kattunger eller stjernekonstellasjoner) som kan kombineres i henhold til reglene. Og det ser ut til at det finnes noen veldig interessante korrelasjoner mellom en del modeller fra den formelle lingvistikken, og biologiens fylogenetiske trær. Men er det språkets struktur som gir et kart over biologiens evolusjon, eller er biolog… text/html 2008-12-08T19:50:40+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=jackson.perry&rev=1228762240&do=diff Perry’s svar på Jackson’s versjon av kunnskapsargument Frank Jackson's argument mot fysikalisme i hans artikkel «Epiphenomenal Qualia» ([URL]. 2002) går utgangspunktet slik : Mary er født og oppvokst i et svart-hvitt rom. Hun har fått all sin informasjon via svart-hvitt tv’er og jeg går ut i fra at hun aldri har sett sitt eget blod. Hun har dog lært alt der er verdt og vite om nevrofysiologi og tilgrensende vitenskaps grener hun kan trenge å vite noe om, og kan gi perfekte fysiske beskrivelse… text/html 2008-12-22T02:30:26+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=knowledge&rev=1229909426&do=diff Knowledge How to represent knowledge? How small pieces can it be divided into? Can a concept be divided to fit into several neurons? Some stuff from some philosophers point of view, in Norwegian: * problems of scientific realism * van Fraassen concerning scientific realism * the problem of what is observable * Worralls structural realism * Worrall versus van Fraassen text/html 2008-12-22T01:42:39+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=konstruktiv.empirisisme-strukturell.realisme&rev=1229906559&do=diff Konstruktiv Empirisisme / Strukturell Realisme Jeg vil i dette essayet presentere to forslag til løsninger på problemene i forhold til realisme og antirealisme. Først vil jeg summere opp realismens problemer i følge Bas C. van Fraassens «Arguments concerning scientific realism» (1980) og John Worralls «Structural realism: the best of two worlds» (1989), før jeg presentere van Fraassen’s ’konstruktive empirisisme’ (ibid) og nevner noen problemer Grover Maxwell (1998) tar for seg angående antir… text/html 2010-02-08T13:58:07+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=kunstig_habitat&rev=1265633887&do=diff Manipulasjon av et kunstig habitat Til venstre sees et bilde av lukkede økologiske kretsløp bestående av tjern, kompost, skogbunn og en atmosfære. Ved å isolere skogbunnen fra skogen vil jeg få større kontroll over hvilke parametere som påvirker dens ytringer, men jeg vil miste dens naturlige interaksjon med en større økologisk helhet. text/html 2011-05-25T04:56:18+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=language&rev=1306292178&do=diff Language May I or might I agree that it is grammatically correct to hang the boy by his toes from the ceiling? If I may hang the boy, the boy should preferably have some masochistic tendencies. If I might agree, may the syntactics be resolved as a technicality which we need a native speaker to settle? If the native speaker disagrees, is she correct, or is it merely a point of view without an objective reality. text/html 2009-02-09T06:12:10+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=libido&rev=1234156330&do=diff Proposal for a libido to world interface using touch to acoustic phonetic articulators to convey the message to the soundcells listening in on the action which may or might be supressed: [proposal for a libido to world interface] text/html 2010-04-09T00:52:26+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=library&rev=1270767146&do=diff LIBRARY The Complete library of Babel games * Matteo Bittanti and Domenico Quaranta. GAMESCENES - ART IN THE AGE OF VIDEOGAMES. 2006. <http://www.gamescenes.org>. * Schiller, Friedrich. Om menneskets estetiske oppdragelse, 2001. Oslo: Solum. * Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Play as the clue to ontological explanation. Fra Truth and Method. * Huizinga, Johan. Homo Ludens. A Study of the Play-Element in Culture, 1955. Boston: Beacon Press. * Caillois, Roger. Man, Play, and Games, oversatt av… text/html 2009-11-22T04:23:28+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=license&rev=1258860208&do=diff If you find something on these pages that you mean that i do not have a right to use, please send me a message at ah [krøll] vitakuben [punktum] org. text/html 2008-12-01T02:19:57+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=linne&rev=1228094397&do=diff Carl von Linné (1707 - 1778) [Carolus Linnaeus by Hendrik Hollander 1853] Svensk botaniker, lege, geolog, pedagog och zoolog. Mest kjent for å være opphavsmannen til det botaniske binomiske nomenklaturet. Det vil si systemet med å navngi alt liv med to latinske navn, et slektsnavn og et artsnavn. Hans nomenklatur for planter, som ble kalt seksualsystemet danner grunnlaget for den moderne systematiske biologien, men hans inndeling i planter etter forplantningsorganer er forlatt til fordel for sy… text/html 2010-12-26T04:06:11+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=literature&rev=1293332771&do=diff Fra litteratur.txt Teoriene om emergent evolusjon, emergent liv og emergent intelligens er interessante, men ser ut til å stamme fra behaviourismen sin ideboks og kan derfor være vanskelig å benytte seg av hvis jeg skal ha en koherent teori å bygge dette på. text/html 2009-05-17T01:36:58+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=long-term_memory&rev=1242517018&do=diff long-term memory episodic memory is this where dreams reside? semantic memory: first priority: inner lexicon, atomic, each atom containing semantics, morphology, links to synonyms, syntactical rules, common usage, relevant links with constraints on pragmatics and context... text/html 2010-02-08T13:58:07+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=lucifer&rev=1265633887&do=diff I følge kilder trodde ikke Jødene eller de tidlige kristne på djevelen. Den eneste gangen lucifer er nevnt i det gamle testamentet er i form av en oversetters friheter. I Jesaja 14:12 nevnes morgenstjernen (Latin: Lucifer) i et dikt som handler om en meget jordisk konge som visstnok voldte Israels barn megen pine, i det han kastes fra sin trone og derpå skal spottes. Visstnok skal dette ha blitt oversatt og tatt med i King James-bibelen som en historie om en fallen engel i steden for om en konge… text/html 2008-12-09T13:21:47+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=lust.for.light&rev=1228825307&do=diff En minimal datamaskin (hovedkort) som opererer på solceller, beveger seg mot det sterkeste lyset hun observerer ved hjelp av polymer-muskler som er formet som en slags tentakler som drar datamaskinen etter seg over gulvet. Se også Institute for those striving towards the sun. text/html 2008-12-20T04:23:47+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=lydceller&rev=1229743427&do=diff “An evolutionary process in a pile of soundcells” “En evolusjonær prosess i en haug lydceller” De ferdige lydcellene med muskler slås på og slenges tilfeldig i en haug på gulvet. Forhåpentligvis vil lyder produseres og musklene begynne å bevege seg. text/html 2008-12-23T02:23:16+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=materialism&rev=1229995396&do=diff Materialism Materialism is a very popular thesis among philosophers of mind that says that only physical things can causally interact. The philosophical term is: “the physical is causally closed”. That means that from everything we know about causality and physics today indicates that only physical, measurable things can provide changes in other physical and measurable things, and no other things can provide these changes. Usually (at least in a Godless Europe) this is accompanied by a belief … text/html 2009-05-17T01:36:10+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=memory&rev=1242516970&do=diff Memory The working memory is proposed to consist of a central executive function which holds some sort of a priority queue of tasks for the phonological loop and the visuospatial sketchpad, which are responsible for auditory and visual short time memory processing. text/html 2011-05-24T05:24:04+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=memory_and_information-retrieval&rev=1306207444&do=diff Another search for the possessed: depth first on the world wide web Text to speech software reads text of the world wide web backwards, following links as they are encountered in a never terminating recursive search for evil. Another search for the possessed: breadth first orally presented Screentest -> fifteen minutes seconds of fame -> play backwards and ask their friends too. text/html 2009-05-16T04:41:28+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=mind&rev=1242441688&do=diff Narrowing the Problem Domain - Defining the Mind What aspect of mind is the One that is necessary to be able to say that we have a mind at all? Some candidates are that we are conscious of our selves, that our minds are intentional about the world, and that we are capable of volitions as free agents. text/html 2009-11-22T00:12:14+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=naive.empiricism&rev=1258845134&do=diff Naivë experimental empiricism There is a possible world in which the language of the forrest may be found by analyzing its constituents and mapping them to the phonetics, semantics, and syntax of some human language. I believe the forrest has a long epic tradition, and hopefully I will reveal this using an analysis based on linguistic and biological systematics, and its phones and prosody through a brute force phonetic/phonological approach. text/html 2011-01-14T06:03:38+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=naturlig_habitat&rev=1294981418&do=diff Manipulating a natural habitat My first manipulative experiment took the form of a naive empiricism, where an exhaustive attempt to wrestle the floor of the Hebekk-forest off its natural language by manipulating its component parts. The language of the forest probably has an extremely slow frequency of utterances. This means that it probably is not possible to map it directly to a human language. By provoking the forest floor to utter naturally, but not nessesarily coherently, we may focus on… text/html 2008-12-10T06:14:07+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=neuralnet&rev=1228886047&do=diff A neural network is a computing paradigm that is loosely modeled after cortical structures of the brain. It consists of interconnected processing elements called neurons that work together to produce an output function. The output of a neural network relies on the cooperation of the individual neurons within the network to operate. Processing of information by neural networks is often done in parallel rather than in series (or sequentially). Since it relies on its member neurons collectively t… text/html 2009-06-06T03:58:24+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=neuron&rev=1244253504&do=diff Neuron Neurons are little cells which communicate in networks to form complex bodies of Intentionality which in some cases, if the nets are large and complex enough, may or might emerge to form a conscious mind. I want to make a neuron. text/html 2008-11-29T06:34:03+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=neuroscience&rev=1227936843&do=diff On neuroscience In the beginning I’ll suffice by mimicking and modifying the biology. text/html 2008-12-04T01:20:55+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=non.reductive.physicalism&rev=1228350055&do=diff Hvordan kan en ikke-reduktiv fysikalist redegjøre for det mentales kausale rolle? Donald Davidson om anomal monisme Donald Davidsons anomale monisme sier at enhver partikulær mental hendelse eller egenskap, er identisk med en korresponderende partikulær fysisk hendelse eller egenskap, men at det ikke kan finnes strikte psykofysiske lover som kan forklare dette, og at mentale hendelser og egenskaper derfor ikke kan reduseres til fysiske hendelser og egenskaper. text/html 2008-12-20T04:51:15+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=pain&rev=1229745075&do=diff Nociceptors The nociceptors are a special kind of nerve endings located in the skin that detects whether changes in ones environment potentially may or might cause damage. Any living being that is capable of removing itself from potential damage (for instance heat or tissue damage) probably does have nociceptors and are capable of experiencing pain which may or might lead to fright. text/html 2008-11-29T06:34:03+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=philosophy&rev=1227936843&do=diff Philosophy (literally 'love of wisdom') is a subject in the Western intellectual tradition that is concerned with rational inquiry into issues of knowledge (What is it to know?), being (What is?), and conduct (What is right?). text/html 2008-12-21T02:43:08+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=populist.artist&rev=1229823788&do=diff Den (populistiske) kunstige kunstneren - (p)kk Jeg har en tendens til å helle mot at vår menneskelige natur er, naturlig. Og da faller det ganske naturlig å bruke naturvitenskapene når jeg vil undersøke vår kultur og dens påvirkning på naturen. En ting jeg er interessert i er hvordan medienes retoriske makt ser ut til å få gjennomslag, nesten uansett hvor distansert og kritisk konsumerende man er. Har kulturen utviklet en egen bevissthet som har overskredet vår og manipulerer oss med repetisjo… text/html 2008-12-20T00:46:41+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=possessed&rev=1229730401&do=diff Another search for the possessed: depth first on the world wide web Text to speech software reads text of the world wide web backwards, following links as they are encountered in a never terminating recursive search for evil. Another search for the possessed: breadth first orally presented Screentest -> fifteen minutes seconds of fame -> play backwards and ask their friends too. text/html 2010-02-08T13:58:08+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=problems.of.scientific.realism&rev=1265633888&do=diff Den vitenskapelige realismens problemer Vitenskapen teorier beskriver, veldig kort, i følge realisten: verden slik den virkelig er, og i følge antirealisten: den observerbare verden slik den virkelig er. Worrall (ibid : 100) mener at de fleste av oss, ureflektert tar det for gitt at vitenskapens postulater gir beskrivelser av virkelige entiteter som eksisterer i verden. Og realisten samstemmer ved å påstå at det er totalt usannsynlig at våre teorier kan predikere hendelser i verden så nøyaktig… text/html 2009-05-16T04:45:59+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=qualia&rev=1242441959&do=diff QUALIA The qualitative experience of our senses. A major philosophical obstacle to understanding mind. Perry versus Jacksons: using qualia to discuss physicalism (in Norwegian - to be translated) Five senses * Touch * Vision * Hearing * Smell * Taste text/html 2011-12-01T06:20:11+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=religion&rev=1322716811&do=diff Religion God Text Relic Ritual text/html 2008-12-08T20:44:17+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=relinski&rev=1228765457&do=diff THE BIBLE SAYS * angelologi * About Lucifer The QURAN SAYS: [] Surely, those who believe, those who are Jewish, the converts, and the Christians; any of them who (1) believe in GOD and (2) believe in the Last Day, and (3) lead a righteous life, have nothing to fear, nor will they grieve. [Quran, 2:62, 5:69] text/html 2009-11-22T04:16:27+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=research&rev=1258859787&do=diff Research & Development * BioLinguistics - a practical approach towards a solution to the problem of the language of forests * Library text/html 2010-03-07T03:12:34+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=ritual&rev=1267927954&do=diff Forslag til forløp Sargon Shamash og Ishtar Shamash skriver hverandres navn på hverandres ryggtavler med sumerisk kileskrift. Ishtar legges ned på en offerplass og mens Sargon resiterer en tekst løselig inspirert av “Hymne til Nanna-Suen” hvor hver kroppsdel nevnes og blir beskrevet og skrevet på med forskjellige typer tegn og navn fra forskjellige religioner og mystiske retninger, en slags navnemagi, for å bli ofret for å skape den nye bevisstheten. text/html 2011-12-01T09:05:10+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=sacredtext&rev=1322726710&do=diff Religious texts * The five first known texts? * Pyramid texts * Epic of Gilgamesh * Rigveda * Avesta * Torah * Long list of religious texts: * Long list of religious texts religion text/html 2008-12-23T06:27:15+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=screenshot.generator&rev=1230010035&do=diff Live research awaiting the incorporation and tranformation of ideas that grant eternal life Even though this project states some pretty unambitious goals through the description beneath, the ultimate goal may or might be a consciousness. The nodes in this graph are supposed to be evolving towards the concept of Intentions, and as the graph gains momentum in a knowledgebase with the appropriate complexity and content, a conciousness may or might emerge. text/html 2008-12-20T01:03:41+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=searching.the.anomalous&rev=1229731421&do=diff Applying search trees on different structures * Prøv på Hausmania * Se på artiklene om frie universiteter * Opprette organisasjon med fraksjoner som utøver kritikk mot hverandre * Hva med Ski pinsemenighet? * eller Norsk Veteran Motorcykkel Club? text/html 2010-11-25T06:39:53+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=sensor&rev=1290663593&do=diff Lydsensorer Nettverket bør kunne lytte til publikumet sitt Lydene av publikum bør kunne tas opp og spilles tilbake i endrede versjoner. F. eks. kan de legges lagvis slik at den siste lyden er mest fremtredende. Dette vil gjøre at den som lagde (eller oppdaget) lyden vil kunne følge den gjennom de andre lydene mens den gradvis forsvinner. text/html 2008-12-01T02:19:57+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=sexualsystem&rev=1228094397&do=diff Seksualsystemet [Page 837 from the 10th edition of Linnaeus's Systema naturae (1758), explaining the so-called "sexual system" of plants.] Carl von Linné sitt taksonomiske system basert på plantenes forplantningsorganer. Beskrevet i “Species Plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificiis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locus natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas.” Som er en fryktelig lang tittel på latin og betyr “Plantenes arter… text/html 2011-02-04T06:06:05+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=skoginterface&rev=1296795965&do=diff Proposal for an interface for communicating with the Closed Ecologic Circuits An interface for communicating back to the plants will use a soft, touch sensitive sculpture that translates the audiences interaction to signals similar to the signals the plants are producing. The electrodes recieving the signals are placed such that there will be an immediate sound produced, and a slower change in sound from the response of the plants to the signal. text/html 2010-11-28T04:36:30+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=skogoversetter&rev=1290915390&do=diff The Sound of a Closed Ecologic System The work is an installation consisting of three Closed Ecologic Circuits with electrodes connected to a small tree in each circuit. The electrodes measures changes in voltage in the trees, and a computer maps the data to a formant synthesizer. The intention is to translate the language of the forest to sound. text/html 2008-12-04T01:46:23+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=software&rev=1228351583&do=diff Virtual reality * Open Dynamics Engine * pmpd: fysisk modellering for puredata * fluxus Realtime soft * <http://puredata.info> Visualizing * <http://processing.org> text/html 2010-04-27T02:13:12+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=start&rev=1272327192&do=diff I believe in art and technology. And I believe in a nature of civilization. And the artifice of nature. And in the nature of technology. I believe that man is a part of nature, and whatever man does, it is natural. The divide between natural and artificial seems to be artificial, and if there is no natural division between kinds, they have to be of the same (natural) kind. Thus artificial is a subset of natural. text/html 2010-02-08T13:58:08+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=tactility_and_emotion&rev=1265633888&do=diff SexMachine text/html 2010-11-28T06:25:39+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=tegne_traer&rev=1290921939&do=diff drawing trees I have been searching the forest for physical structures that may share properties with formal linguistic Context Free Grammars (CFG). CFG's where introduced more than fifty years ago by Noam Chomsky, whom claimed that they come something close to a Universal Grammar, and thus are capable to model any natural or artificial language. A stronger claim is that they represent actual structures in our brains, and that all animals (and plants) capable of using language are born with th… text/html 2011-09-17T06:13:33+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=the.complete.library.of.babel&rev=1316232813&do=diff The complete library of Babel Each book contains four hundred ten pages; each page, forty lines; each line, approximately eighty black letters. The library has existed ab æternitae. There are twenty-five orthographic symbols. There are no two identical books. text/html 2010-02-08T13:58:08+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=the.problem.of.what.is.observable&rev=1265633888&do=diff Problem angående hva som er observerbart Antirealistene (i denne sammenheng van Fraassen) har et problem med distinksjonen mellom hva som er observerbart og ikke. En antirealist vil sie at en skal være totalt agnostiker i sitt forhold til det uobserverbare, og så lenge en ikke har et klart skille så vil en ikke kunne vite hva som er virkelig og hva som ikke er det. Maxwell (1998) har tatt for seg endel problemer angående dette. Jeg nevner bare problemet med skillet mellom observasjon og deteksj… text/html 2008-12-10T05:25:01+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=the.systematics.of.lingvistics&rev=1228883101&do=diff A naive empiricism regarding the syntax of the forest, limited by feature structures in a unification based grammar, trying to find its semantics. naiv eksperimentell empiri angående skogens syntax, begrenset av trekkstrukturer i en unifikasjonsbasert grammatikk, i et forsøk på å fravriste dens semantikk Formålet med dette prosjektet er å forsøke å forstå skogens naturlige språk. Filosofen E. Searle skrev en gang at hva som helst kan brukes for å uttrykke et språk, og jeg har nå til hensikt… text/html 2010-11-25T06:00:14+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=touch&rev=1290661214&do=diff The somatosensory system The somatosensory system consists of all the neurons that link to the rest of the body. From the brain different neurons stretches through the spinal cord, all over the body to sense touch, heat and other changes in the environment. The neurons also sense the changes I do myself, and reports whether the move I did was successful or not. The somatosensory system is essential to enjoy both sex and pain. text/html 2008-12-21T02:40:26+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=towards.the.sun&rev=1229823626&do=diff Solceller gir elektroniske duppeditter mulighet til å kunne være autonome i verden, og kombinert med en form for evne til bevegelse slik at de kan nyte disse varme og livgivende strålene vil endelig en form for indre driv gis en maskin? Har for eksempel en avansert bakterie mer åndsliv enn som så? Flercellede organismer kommer i varierende kompleksitet, og hvis vi skal tro rådende teorier om hvordan livet på jorden har utviklet seg, så stammer det hele fra enkelte celler som kombinerte sine egen… text/html 2008-12-23T01:39:51+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=valence&rev=1229992791&do=diff Arousal (calm/excited) Valence (negative/positive) text/html 2010-02-08T13:58:08+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=van.fraassen.concerning.scientific.realism&rev=1265633888&do=diff Van Fraassen: “Arguments concerning Scientific Realism” Bas C. van Fraassen (ibid : 1065) sin redegjørelse for en naiv realisme sier at vitenskapen gir oss et sant bilde av verden, at de entiteter den postulerer virkelig eksisterer, og at dens teorier er oppdagelser, ikke oppfinnelser. Han vil gjerne at dette skal være en sann fremstilling av vitenskapen, men innser at hvis vitenskapen faktisk gir oss et sant bilde av verden, så må alle teorier være korrekte, både før, nå og i all fremtid. Dett… text/html 2008-12-04T02:18:27+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=weapon.of.mass.intrusion&rev=1228353507&do=diff The tower of babel (immaterial) A weapon of mass intrusion Antennas shaped like a DNA, finding signals to explore from wireless objects and use genetic algorithms using models from the theories of evolution to explore the possibilities of getting the objects attention. text/html 2010-02-08T13:58:08+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=will_and_action&rev=1265633888&do=diff The Institute for Will and Action does presuppose the existence of free will, and takes on the task of producing its equivalent in man-made objects. We will start with mimicking its effect before we implant the concept of self (intentionality) in the objects. text/html 2010-02-08T13:58:08+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=working_memory&rev=1265633888&do=diff Working memory central executive phonological loop visuospatial sketchpad text/html 2010-02-08T13:58:08+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=worrall.versus.van.fraassen&rev=1265633888&do=diff Diskusjon av van Fraassen og Worralls vitenskapsteorier: Van Fraassen vil vise at vitenskapens teorier er empirisk adekvate. Worrall vil ikke avfeie realismens evne til å vise at vitenskapens (fysikkens) fremskritt ikke er et mirakel, og kommer frem til at det er strukturene (de matematiske ligningene), ikke entitetene som videreføres i fremskrittet. Hva er egentlig forskjellen mellom de to standpunktene? Hverken van Fraassen eller Worrall vil akseptere entitetenes ontologiske status, henholds… text/html 2010-02-08T13:58:08+02:00 http://apt.vitakuben.org/doku.php?id=worralls.structural.realism&rev=1265633888&do=diff Woralls “Structural realism: The best of both worlds?” Worrall baserer sin argumentasjon på problemet med at vitenskapen (fysikken) ikke nødvendigvis er kumulativ i sine fremskritt, men at det stadig skjer vitenskapelige revolusjoner eller paradigmeskifter. Hvis vi ser på de minste bestanddelene som fysikere snakker om til en hver tid, så vil vitenskapshistorien stadig gjøre rykk og napp, hvor paradigmeskifter og vitenskapelige revolusjoner viser at det ikke finnes noen jevn fremdrift og hvor …