Sounds of a Northern Forest (video)

What Would Dick Nixon Do if Given 6 Months to Edit Watergate Tapes?

What would Richard Nixon do if given six months to edit his Watergate tapes? Would they have been as nice as Hillary Clinton's private email accounts for state department business? What would Richard Nixon do with the Patriot Act tool for re-election? Would he have been recalcitrant about having lawyers go over opfor party communications?

In public business regarding secrecy and surveillance, candor and civil rights it is important to remember President Nixon and ask-What would Dick Nixon do? 

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/nsa-domestic-surveillance-program-expire-tonight-counterterrorism-official/story?id=31429802

The Legion of Devils in Artificial Intelligence

There is a certain way of thinking about the future of artificial intelligence that stimulates a field of ethical or philosophical as well as security questions. The event horizon whereat artificial intelligence passes up human intelligence and makes humans pets as if they were units or products allocated to corporate stores or cheap labor that earn in a year what a CEO earns per hour is one such speculation. It is worthwhile considering non-standard approaches to development of artificial intelligence briefly, as well as one of the forms.

Infiltration of nanobotics into the human brain might be used initially for therapy for physical and psychiatric conditions. After the development of nanobots and nanobotic swarms into the brain there will be those that would research making permanent non-organic improvements on brain-mind functions even if initially to roll-back characteristics of aging that damage organic infrastructure. In time the human brain and mind might evolve into artificial intelligence itself. I believe that would be like Ransom’s discovery on Mars in Bradbury’s Chronicles that ‘we are the Martians’.

It is challenging to anticipate to what extent communications will be infused in artificial minds. Sharing computer language processing could be complicating ior the integrity of individual persona-programs. Unlike human minds that more or less remain the same all of their life with one self-aware consciousness experiencing a space-time experience line, the computer mind can add new programming and entirely change itself as often as there is some instruction or 'will' to arising someplace within or without. Human minds are physically bound within their brain however computer minds would be unbounded except as their program code is isolated. Isolation of a mind-human or artificial, would be rather unnatural. Humans learn yet haven't the potential for changing their mind much or of reconstructing their intellectual hardware or even software architecture to a significant degree. Their cognitive processing and ways of thinking can be improved with information. Computer minds on the other hand can entirely change their content or copy a persona to any other computer mind location given adequate storage space.

Another point on probable forms of artificial intelligence are those residing in computer logic units with multiple-processors. Human beings have single minds and single-core processors to use an analogous computer brain-cpu analog. Computers today have gone beyond the still common single core of tradition to dual core, quad-core and multi-core processors that each could have its own artificial consciousness some day. Within one computer with a nice smiling human look-alike could be embedded a dozen artificial intellects that more networked than National Public Radio. Each computer mind, unlike NPR broadcasters with single cores tied together through same-lexicon code-words, programmatic logic and imp-subs, could have its own local lexicon and persona yet have a back--door 'godfather' community coordinator allocating mind resources.

Multi-core artificial intellects should become a natural development since multi-core computers are the rule rather than the exception for pc's today. Computer artificial intellect could not be real intelligence without emotion or organic ties to immediate physical experience of being; foundational for self-awareness. The multiple computer core persona issue would tend to implicitly neutralize the self-awareness of being as it is displaced by a community of multiple artificial intelligence with own their own social reality.

There are lots of jokes and paradoxes possible about individual robots with crowd sourcing in there own brain. They are a legion of devils placed in a metal jar in a way. Several computer minds thinking side by side and perhaps sharing literal designed interties for thought creates some very weird prospects for that bright happy robot of your dreams down the road-none of which are very encouraging.

On Troubles Getting the Spark of Faith

 Faith without works is dead, faith without sanctification is dead, faith without holiness is dead. Seems like trouble getting spark with fouled plugs. The list might be increased. I think the Holy Spirit provides all three to the elect, and those predetermined in the right degree. If one is using the three to evaluate the condition of the faith of another, one must be very careful. David and Peter had their moments, yet Judas seemed o.k. outwardly to most perhaps, except Christ.

I think there is subjectivity present in evaluating all three elements. Though true in-themselves, what is wisdom to man is foolishness to God. Conformity to particular holy rites and relics' could be counterproductive at times to spiritual health.

Chess and the Wild Kingdom

In the game of chess there are many ways to win, and to lose. A favorite method for semi-technically competent players is to get a slight advantage then reduce and simplify, trading off pieces in order to win the end game- keeping that initial slight advantage. The opponent may have nothing remaining other than its king, soon killed with checkmate. Environment management can't be won that way. 

When the environment is reduced and simplified with species extinction and habitat replacement by concrete, asphalt and steel, as human economic victory rises; while human population economics build more housing starts and insatiable consumerism is thought of as winning, environmental health declines. The end game achieved with reduction of wild environmental health does not produce victory for humanity; instead the end game creates a slight advantage for the environment as human civilization crashes and burns without support of a healthy environment. The environment evolves recovery in a world without humans perhaps replacing them with maggots, flies or roaches.

Christians will be saved regardless of how the chess game is played. Human beings have a challenge before them to learn how to  play against the environment and win. The best method seems to flow toward restoring environment and increase its health to let it support human life for a humanity that has learned how to 'ride' it, rather than just eat it.

Rand Paul; Maybe a Good VP Candidate for Rice or Bernie Sanders

Rand Paul's statement about Republicans perhaps being responsible for the rise of ISIS seems to prove he has an objective, independent point of view. He may actually be different than the rest of the Clinton-Bush-Obama axis of insider candidates. The United States is doing well with the same old same old-another 8 years of the declining morals and economic picture along with rotting infrastructure and environment is just bad.

One shouldn't feed the animals and express anything that might be exploited by the Clinton campaign obviously. Democrats are expert at exploiting people they regard as class enemies and do so to lever political power. Even so one needs ton acknowledge that Bush II post-war nation rebuilding wasn't good at all and continues to provide a legacy of death and instability not helped much by the Obama administration and its own Middle East bungling with a little better plausible deniability.

If neo-cons had not caused the thoughtless bungling of the quick Iraq war victory and maybe had allowed the former Iraq Army to stabilize the country without be purged so completely the chaos might have been avoided thereafter. The ordinary people of Iraq needed to own the oil fields themselves in the reorganization so people of all sects had a unifying thing material reason to fight for a unified government. The Bush II administration and V.P. Dick Cheney had to give the oil contracts to Exxon, Halliburton et all, and that is a reason why nothing besides ISIS and civil war seems to flourish. So Paul wasn't entirely off the mark though a British Rhode Scholar Governor thinks so.

FIFA Soccer Admin Charged; Payback?

When the United States couldn't make the world cup soccer quarterfinals in 2014, know one knew they would get payback on the FIFA people that let such a plainly corrupt situation develop (only joking). It is sad if soccer were in some ways dominated by steroids or scripted a little like wrestling or possibly football. Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds can affirm that the U.S. Government knows about important issues-nothing like the national debt , instead its foreign sports organizations that matter-they need renewal of the Patriot Act for that to find out what sort of corrupt arrangement soccer officials had with foreign heads of state.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/soccer/soccer-officials-arrested-in-zurich-world-cup-votes-probed/ar-BBkhJzk