Tempest on the moon
Storms ripple tides;
My eyes share water
With the ocean and sea.
Stars dot the connect
Once upon a keyboard
Asterisk, ellipses
Breaking the silence.
I carpe diem
So much confusion
Searching for the perfect word--
In poetry we shall never part.
Bard broken
Eating my heart out
That is so self consuming:
The clock's moving hands.
Short on oxygen
Deforestation;
Human extinction
Dust to dust.
Playing hooky
Green behind the ears;
Wilful liberation
Ignoramus on roll-call.
Telepathy
My soul takes a breath
From your soul-
Rainbow's end.
Killer looks
Intrigued by
Your silence---
For your eyes only.
Sting
Song of the desert rose
Cactus dreams
Of rain.....
I am a real Parisian,
I am a resident of Vienna, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Constantinople,
I’m from Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne,
I am from London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, Limerick,
I am from Madrid, Cadiz, Barcelona, Oporto, Lyon, Brussels, Bernes, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Turin, Florence.
I am at home in Moscow, Krakow, Warsaw, or north at Christiania or Stockholm, or in the Siberian Irkutsk, or some street of Iceland.
Je suis un vrai Parisien, Je suis un habitant de Vienne, Saint-Pétersbourg, Berlin, Constantinople, Je suis d’Adélaïde, Sydney, Melbourne, Je suis de Londres, Manchester, Bristol, Edimbourg, Limerick, Je suis de Madrid, Cadix, Barcelone, Oporto, Lyon, Bruxelles, Bernes, Francfort, Stuttgart, Turin, Florence. Je suis chez moi à Moscou, Cracovie, Varsovie, ou au nord à Christiania ou Stockholm, ou dans la sibérienne Irkoutsk, ou quelque rue de l’Islande.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) in Poésie involontaire et poésie intentionnelle, Paul Eluard (1895-1952), est un écrivain et poète américain.
« N’imitez rien ni personne. Un lion qui copie un lion devient un singe. »
“Do not imitate anything or anyone. A lion that copies a lion becomes a monkey. »
Victor Hugo (1802 – 1885), est un poète, dramaturge, peintre, dessinateur, pamphlétaire et romancier français. Chef de file du romantisme, grand poète, il est aussi l’homme des grandes luttes de son temps : abolition de l’esclavage, celle de la peine de mort… Pair de France, député, sénateur, élu à l’Académie française en 1841, il meurt à l’âge de 83 ans ; la IIIème République lui fera des funérailles nationales. Victor Hugo sera inhumé au Panthéon.
June is a glorious month! Spring is officially present and encroaching upon sultry summer. June is the month of rebirth, of nature after a long, frozen winter. June ushers in twittering song birds, a various array of fine green colored plants and trees, brilliant pinks, white and yellow blossoms. June is famous for of the pink Strawberry moon, also known as the Rose moon or Hot moon and the ushering in of the summer solstice.
Above: Flaming June, by Lord Leighton 1895 (public domain.)
June is the astrological month of Geminithe twins and after the twenty-first Cancer the crab.
The ancient goddess of time that resides over June is the pre-Roman goddess Juno, was an original Creator Goddess or Spirit. Juno is named in Aesop’s fable of Juno and the Peacock. This maternal goddess of fertility governs several phases of the feminine principal of life…
Each Easter Monday the petite town of Bessieres France (Haute Garonne) implements their unique tradition beginning in 1973. The town chefs carefully create a huge, tasty omelette, made from 15,000 eggs and its diameter is 4 metres! Fifty or so folks volunteer to crack all the eggs. This takes all about 90 minutes including cooking time for the omelette. The town’s folklore was based from a 19th century tale. Napoleon Bonaparte and his army stopped over at one of the Inns at Bessieres. The Inn keeper cooked up a delicious omelette for Napoleon Bonaparte while he was sojourning in Bessieres. He savoured the omelette so much that the whole town used all their eggs and cooked him a colossal omelette.
Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) Napoleon Crossing the Alps — Kunsthistorisches Museum in Public Domain
A very interesting question. Do they have some? Or are we aware of our own? I don’t know if I have some 😀 but surely I would wish to have a “Consciousness-Ometer”!
here is an amazing research about that; Take a look, be honest, and be aware of your good “conscience” on your “consciousness” 😉
Author: Tam Hunt Affiliate Guest in Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara
How can you know that any animal, other human beings, or anything that seems conscious, isn’t just faking it? Does it enjoy an internal subjective experience, complete with sensations and emotions like hunger, joy, or sadness? After all, the only consciousness you can know with certainty is your own. Everything else is inference. The nature of consciousness makes it by necessity a wholly private affair.
These questions are more than philosophical. As intelligent digital assistants, self-driving cars and other robots start to proliferate, are these AIs actually conscious or just seem like it? Or what about patients in comas – how can doctors know with any certainty what kind of consciousness is or is not present, and prescribe treatment accordingly?
In my work, often with with psychologist Jonathan Schooler at the University of California, Santa Barbara, we’re developing a framework for thinking about the many different ways to possibly test for the presence of consciousness.
There is a small but growing field looking at how to assess the presence and even quantity of consciousness in various entities. I’ve divided possible tests into three broad categories that I call the measurable correlates of consciousness.
There are three types of ways to gauge consciousness.
You can look for brain activity that occurs at the same time as reported subjective states. Or you can look for physical actions that seem to be accompanied by subjective states. Finally, you can look for the products of consciousness, like artwork or music, or this article I’ve written, that can be separated from the entity that created them to infer the presence – or not – of consciousness.
Neural correlates of consciousness
Over the last two decades, scientists have proposed various ways to probe cognition and consciousness in unresponsive patients. In such cases, there aren’t any behaviors to observe or any creative products to assess.
You can check for the neural correlates of consciousness, though. What’s physically going on in the brain? Neuroimaging tools such as EEG, MEG, fMRI and transcranial magnetic stimulation (each with their own strengths and weaknesses), are able to provide information on activity happening within the brain even in coma and vegetative patients.
Cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene has identified what he calls four signatures of consciousness – specific aspects of brain activity he deems necessary for normal consciousness. He focuses on what’s known as the “P3 wave” in the dorsolateral cortex – the part of the brain behind the top of your forehead – because it seems to correlate most reliably with normal conscious states. He also focuses on long-range synchronized electric fields between different parts of the brain as another key signature of consciousness.
In tests which look for these signals in vegetative and minimally conscious patients, Dehaene and his colleagues have successfully predicted which patients are most likely to regain more normal states of consciousness.
Sid Kouider, another cognitive neuroscientist, has examined infants in order to assess the likelihood that very young babies are conscious. He and his team looked for specific neural signatures that go along with subjective experience in adults. They looked specifically for a certain type of brain waves, similar to the P3 wave Dehaene focuses on, that are reliable indicators of consciousness in adults. They found clear analogs of the P3 wave in the brains of babies as young as five months old. Kouider concludes – unsurprisingly – that even young babies are very likely conscious in various complex ways, such as recognizing faces.
Behavioral correlates of consciousness
When considering potentially conscious entities that can’t communicate directly, and that won’t allow neuroscientific measurement tools on their head (if they even have heads), it’s possible to consider physical behaviors as clues for the presence and type of consciousness.
You know that a massive range of human behaviors are accompanied by conscious experience. So when you see similar behaviors in other animals or even non-animals, can you reasonably infer the presence of consciousness?
What’s going on in there? Maggie Villiger, CC BY-ND
For example, are cats conscious? Their brain architecture is a little different than humans’. They have very minimal prefrontal cortex, which some scientists think is the center of many higher-order activities of the human brain. But is a prefrontal cortex necessary for consciousness?
Cat behavior is complex and pretty easy to map onto human behavior in many ways. Cats purr, flex their toes and snuggle when petted, in similar ways to people demonstrating pleasure when physically stimulated – minus the purrs, of course. They meow loudly for food when hungry and stop meowing when fed. They demonstrate curiosity or fear about other cats or humans with various types of body language.
These and many other easily observable behaviors add up to convincing evidence for most people that cats are indeed conscious and have rich emotional lives. You can imagine looking for other familiar behaviors in a rat, or an ant or a plant – if you see things close enough to what you’d expect in conscious humans, you may credit the observed creature with a certain type of consciousness.
Creative correlates of consciousness
If, for whatever reason, you can’t examine neural or behavioral correlates of consciousness, maybe you can look to creative outputs for clues that would indicate consciousness.
For example, when examining ancient megalithic structures such as Stonehenge, or cave paintings created as far back as 65,000 years ago, is it reasonable to assume that their creators were conscious in ways similar to us? Most people would likely say yes. You know from experience that it would take high intelligence and consciousness to produce such items today, so reasonably conclude that our ancient ancestors had similar levels of consciousness.
What if explorers find obviously unnatural artifacts on Mars or elsewhere in the solar system? It will depend on the artifacts in question, but if astronauts were to find anything remotely similar to human dwellings or machinery that was clearly not human in origin, it would be reasonable to infer that the creators of these artifacts were also conscious.
Researchers could conduct a kind of “artistic Turing Test”: ask study participants to consider various artworks and say which ones they conclude were probably created by a human. If AI artwork consistently fools people into thinking it was made by a person, is that good evidence to conclude that the AI is at least in some ways conscious? So far AI aren’t convincing most observers, but it’s reasonable to expect that they will be able to in the future.
Can anyone get a definitive answer about the presence of consciousness, and how much? Unfortunately, the answer to both questions is no. There is not yet a “consciousness-ometer,” but various researchers, including Dehaene, have some ideas.
Neuroscientist Giulio Tononi and his colleagues like Christof Koch focus on what they call “integrated information” as a measure of consciousness. This theory suggests that anything that integrates at least one bit of information has at least a tiny amount of consciousness. A light diode, for example, contains just one bit of information and thus has a very limited type of consciousness. With just two possible states, on or off, however, it’s a rather uninteresting kind of consciousness.
Rather than integrated information as the key measure of consciousness, however, we focus on resonance and synchronization and the degree to which parts of a whole resonate at the same or similar frequencies. Resonance in the case of the human brain generally means shared electric field oscillation rates, such as gamma band synchrony (40-120 Hertz).
Our consciousness-ometer would then look at the degree of shared resonance and resulting information flows as the measure of consciousness. Humans and other mammals enjoy a particularly rich kind of consciousness, because there are many levels of pervasive shared synchronization throughout the brain, nervous system and body.
Tests for consciousness are still in their infancy. But this field of study is undergoing a renaissance because the study of consciousness more generally has finally become a respectable scientific pursuit. Before too long it may be possible to measure just how much consciousness is present in various entities – including in you and me.
The continual of a wonderful explanation by symbolreader of a fascinating book of all time;
She begins with this announcement of Dr Jung to explain how he tried to search and find out <again> his inner. and she continued with the analysis of Jung’s finding a point; a very important point:
that is surely useful for many, who might be on the search for the answers. (like me 😉 )
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