Rene Descartes is important to the Enlightenment Period. He is known as The Father of Philosophy. Meditations on First Philosophy is one of his greatest works.
Great article! It brings up some interesting points. Thisis something that I have thought about a lot lately, because with a lot of technology options today we don't even have to remember information, we can simply save it and have easy access to it later...just not in our brains but on our phones, computers, etc. Also, a really great reference to some interesting research that has been done with taxi drivers.
An interesting article. I believe thisis true. Think of the wide range of art in the world today. This also has a great deal to due with technology and the ability to share images, of course. Democracy itself has allowed art to blossom and allowed the visual expression to become quite a personal thing.
Here is the comment I left on the SlideShare website: Thisis super important stuff, thank you for sharing. In our digital age, a person's ability to market themselves on the web is a form of social capital. The more people follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and the blogosphere, the greater influence we can have. It makes me think about what happens in the book, 'Ender's Game' by Orson Scott Card. In the story, Peter and Valentine publish a lot of political commentary under aliases which eventually have a huge impact on world politics. Our future world may be run by those who can best market themselves and let their voice be heard.
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Thisis an article from the Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert. I clicked on it interested in how architecture was seen and got a quick history lesson!
The spirit of these principles is that there should be transparency to the methods, observations, data collection, data access, communication, collaboration and research tools. Instead of limiting the sharing of the practice of science to publication of selected results, the entire scientific process should be exposed to potential users, collaborators and extenders of the work.
We are blessed to be at a school that is heavily involved in social entrepreneurship. BYU, in many ways, is one of the leading schools of thought in the microfinance realm. Consider this new innovative model which was largely developed at BYU: microfranchising
The Socialistic bourgeois want all the advantages of modern social conditions
without the struggles and dangers necessarily resulting therefrom. They
desire the existing state of society, minus its revolutionary and disintegrating
elements. They wish for a bourgeoisie without a proletariat.
It is summed up in the phrase: the bourgeoisis a bourgeois — for the
benefit of the working class
These proposals,
therefore, are of a purely Utopian character.
the concentration of capital and land in a few hands;
overproduction and crises; it pointed out the inevitable ruin of the petty
bourgeois and peasant, the misery of the proletariat, the anarchy in production,
the crying inequalities in the distribution of wealth, the industrial war
of extermination between nations, the dissolution of old moral bonds, of
the old family relations, of the old nationalities.
This was probably a rhetorical question, but I don't. I believe that our economy will adjust accordingly. Just because the media industry is changing dramatically, doesn't mean people are giving away free food, free houses, free services. I feel thisis just an adaptation, not a complete economical revolution.
When I was just out of graduate school, I attended my first meeting of the American Physical Society in New York City. A highlight was a special event arranged by the conference organizers: the great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov had been invited to speak to us.
Hour after hour he wrote down the stories he found in books in the university library about people protesting the invention of things like machines to spin thread and to weave cloth, steam-powered trains, automobiles, airplanes, etc. All of these advances were perceived by the general public either to be physically dangerous or to be a threat to the livelihoods of workers in trades that were about to be destroyed by these advances.
when he started to write science fiction, he remembered all of this work he had done. So while his fellow writers were all rhapsodizing about the thrill of rockets and space travel (long before such things were possible), he wrote a story about how the local populace showed up at the launch site with torches and pitchforks in opposition to space travel. Years later, when rockets and travel outside of the earth’s atmosphere became possible, there were protests, and many of Mr. Asimov’s colleagues were astounded that he had predicted so far in advance that this would occur.
“Why,” Mr. Asimov then asked us, “among all of these talented and visionary writers, was I the only one who was able to predict that this resistance to change would occur?” He let us think about the question for an uncomfortably silent minute, then leaned into the microphone and said in an intense voice that I still vividly remember: “It’s because people are stupid!”
The lesson I take from my memory of this experience is that the proper attitude to have when confronted with the vast complexity both of the universe and of the ideas and activities of the people who live on this small planet orbiting an ordinary star far away from the center of things in our galaxy is profound humility.
Difference engines are strictly calculators. They crunch numbers the only way
they know how - by repeated addition according to the method of finite
differences. They cannot be used for general arithmetical calculation. The
Analytical Engine is much more than a calculator and marks the progression from
the mechanized arithmetic of calculation to fully-fledged general-purpose
computation.
Physical Legacy
Aside from a few partially complete mechanical assemblies and test models of
small working sections, none of Babbage's designs was physically realized in its
entirety in his lifetime. The major assembly he did complete was one-seventh of
Difference Engine No. 1, a demonstration piece consisting of about 2,000 parts
assembled in 1832. This works impeccably to this day and is the first successful
automatic calculating device to embody mathematical rule in mechanism. A small
experimental piece of the Analytical Engine was under construction at the time
of Babbage's death in 1871. Many of the small experimental assemblies survived,
as does a comprehensive archive of his drawings and notebooks.
The designs for Babbage's vast mechanical computing engines rank as one of
the startling intellectual achievements of the 19th century. It is
only in recent decades that his work has been studied in detail and that the
extent of what he accomplished becomes increasingly evident.
A visual essay of some of my own photography that I feel/hope conveys spiritual truth AND artistic truth. See my blog post at http://tamesequels.blogspot.com for my discussion about these two kinds of truths. All of these pieces are taken with a low resolution camera phone to try and convey that artistic beauty can be found in this world with the humblest means and mediums. Thisis one of my new art projects. I have always had an interest in photography, so this has been a good chance for me to experiment. I will try to post a photo on this site every day.
I like what you are doing, especially the wires photograph. I believe it ties in nicely to the sublime we talked about during Romanticism, that there is a glimpse of God in nature.
Today we have a modern equivalent of the printing press in the Internet and all that it means. The Internet allows everyone to be a publisher, to have their voice heard,
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New Media is facilitating a world-wide conversation on almost every subject including religion, and nearly everyone can participate. This modern equivalent of the printing press is not reserved only for the elite.
may I ask that you join the conversation by participating on the Internet, particularly the New Media, to share the gospel and to explain in simple, clear terms the message of the Restoration
we have a major responsibility as Latter-day Saints to define ourselves, instead of letting others define us
Every disciple of Christ will be most effective, and do the most good by adopting a demeanor worthy of a follower of the Savior of the world.
Thisis your world, the world of the future, with inventions undreamed of
that will come in your lifetime as they have in mine. How will you use these
marvelous inventions? More to the point, how will you use them to further the
work of the Lord?
The printing press and other media have allowed us to take the Lord’s message to
almost every corner of the earth.
Make sure that the choices you make in the use of new media are choices that
expand your mind, increase your opportunities, and feed your soul.
Thisis a fascinating article on the Church's view on evolution. It is interesting that in spite of the Church's official position, many people throughout the Church seem to teach anti-evolution "doctrine" as if it was the Church's official stance.
have you ever read the "origin of man" by the First presidency in 1909? it pretty much gives a definitive stance on the subject. it is pretty interesting stuff.
One of my favorite books ever. Raskolnikov kills two women to prove that he is one of the "supermen" Nietzche talks about as being able to rise above the moral structure of God, which, according to Nietzsche, is now dead. "is not the greatness of this deed too great for us?"
Coase's analysis proceeds by considering the conditions under which it makes sense for an entrepreneur to seek hired help instead of contracting out for some particular task
because the market is "efficient" (that is, those who are best at providing each good or service most cheaply are already doing so), it should always be cheaper to contract out than to hire
Coase noted, however, that there are a number of transaction costs to using the market
This definitely makes you think about whether or not it is worth having nuclear power plants. Or maybe there could be a better way to generate electricity.