You woke up this Sunday morning realizing
you made a mistake as a movie critic. Livebot is from an article focusing on a
robot in a Japanese store. So, first thing to do is correct it with this. “I
made an error by saying livebot was from a movie critic writing about “Ex
Machina”. This is another way to tell the difference between a livebot and a
human, by the errors they periodically make.” – Amorella
0803
hours. I agree. Thank you, Amorella. I have been stewing as to how to correct
this. – I made the correction on FB.
0831
hours. One of the difference between a theoretical livebot as in “Ex Machina”
and a human is that there would be no juxtaposition between an immortal soul
and a mortal human, that is, a being that has, by its organic nature, to be
born and die – a spiritual yin-yang, to do speak.
** **
Yinyang (yin-yang) is one of
the dominant concepts shared by different schools throughout the history of
Chinese philosophy. Just as with many other Chinese philosophical notions, the
influences of yinyang are easy to observe, but its conceptual meanings
are hard to define. Despite the differences in the interpretation, application,
and appropriation of yinyang, three basic themes underlie nearly all
deployments of the concept in Chinese philosophy: (1) yinyang as the coherent
fabric of nature and mind, exhibited in all existence, (2) yinyang as jiao
(interaction) between the waxing and waning of the cosmic and human realms, and
(3) yinyang as a process of harmonization ensuring a constant, dynamic
balance of all things. As the Zhuangzi (Chuang-tzu)
claims, “Yin in its highest form is freezing while yang in its
highest form is boiling. The chilliness comes from heaven while the warmness
comes from the earth. The interaction of these two establishes he
(harmony), so it gives birth to things. Perhaps this is the law of everything
yet there is no form being seen.”
Selected from the Internet Encyclopedia of
Philosophy
www.lep.utmDOTedu
** **
The concept of spiritual balance is
certainly brought up by the marsupial humanoids, but your implication here is
that somehow this is as a motor with the spiritual realm, that is, along with
passion this is the engine of the immortal soul in juxtaposition with the
physical aspect of death, that somehow the soul, by its nature, intends to see
that at least a part of the physical is shifted to the immortal by means of the
soul’s intervention to protect the humanity of heartanmind and keep the soul at
a minimum, pregnant in the concept that humanity is worth more than its
physical parts. – Amorella
0852
hours. Are you saying the soul gains personal meaning by immortalizing by
capture, the individual human’s heartanmind, that the soul gains a kind of
dignity that it would not have pregnant with the concept?
You misuse ‘pregnant’ in this thought. –
Amorella
0856
hours. Okay, the soul gains additional meaning by allowing humanity a link with
immortality.
Why do you add additional? – Amorella
0858
hours. I assume the soul already has meaning built in.
Do you have meaning built in? – Amorella
0859
hours. No. I exist. My meaning is created after the fact. Life is not meaning.
Life is existence, surviving any way it can -- whatever works -- life will
attempt to survive. Life has no choice. Here is an example from BBC a day or so
ago.
** **
'Embryologic twin' tumour discovered in student's brain
24 April 2015
From the BBC section
US & Canada
Yamini Karanam, 26, a PhD student in Indiana, had been
experiencing difficulties with drowsiness, reading and concentration.
The discovery was made when doctors performed a newly-developed
form of surgery to remove the tumour.
The growth, known as a teratoma, had bone and hair.
Ms Karanam, a student at Indiana University, jokingly described
the tumour to KNBC, a
California TV station, as her "evil twin sister who's been
torturing me for the past 26 years".
The tumour was found in Ms Karanam's corpus callosum.
"This tumour was smack in the middle of that, so extremely
deep in the brain," Dr Hrayr Shahinian told the BBC.
It was not until after she awoke from surgery that she realised
the details of her condition.
Ms Karanam told the BBC that her reaction to the news was
subdued at first, but later, when the anaesthetics wore off, she became more
surprised.
"I just thought: 'There was a living thing inside my
brain!'" she said.
Some medical experts
have questioned whether it could be called a twin, but the
doctor told the BBC it was "accurate, technically speaking" to call
it an embryologic twin.
He added that
she would have died if she hadn't had the surgery.
The rare growth was removed using a minimally-invasive
"keyhole" surgery that uses fibre-optics to burrow deep into the
brain and perform the operation.
"Traditionally they would have had to cut her from
ear-to-ear, bring the scalp down in the back, and then open up the entire back
of the skull," Dr Shahinian said.
Instead, the doctor used a half-inch incision in the back of the
skull.
That operation, however, came at high cost, which Ms Karanam's
insurance was not able to fully cover.
A fundraising webpage has been set up to help her cover the
costs, and at the time of writing has raised over $34,000 (£22,400).
"I was
asked if I had any emotions for the 'twin' or something like that, but I'm like
'No!'" she said. "I really don't have any feelings attached to
it."
Selected and
edited from -
http://www.bbcDOTcom/news/world-us-canada-32452814?SThisFB&fb_ref=Default
** **
0909
hours. This is ‘life’, a working to survive, even if, in this case,
misdirected. The ‘working-at-surviving’ is reason enough – come hell or high
water – so to speak. No moral code here, no good or evil or philosophy other
than to-get-the-job-done. Life is self-directed and ironically robotic in its
machine-like though organic nature. Yet, when a child is born many say the
child is a gift from God. Something is not right in this thinking. My
existential nature raises itself here. I do not know the right questions to
ask, but questions need to be raised if we are to define what it is to be human
in detail.
Are you suggesting that ‘life’ is neither
fair nor unfair? – Amorella
0917
hours. I am saying that ‘life’ just is.
Post. – Amorella
0919
hours. Higher consciousness is a blossom that springs from ‘life’. Higher
consciousness provides stair steps to meaning and from higher meaning to higher
purpose. Higher is in reference to a moral compass, a reflection, a way the
soul gains added dignity in meaning, in its own purpose. – I think this is
something that can be incorporated in these Merlyn books – into a kind of
evolutionary organic to spiritual force.
That humanity drives the spiritual force? –
Amorella
0924
hours. No. That is an error. The spiritual force is as a First Cause in this
context. Spiritual force sugars the bait.
Time for a break, orndorff. – Amorella
0926
hours. I will have to read over this and see if this string of thoughts makes
sense at least for use in a fiction.
Agreed. Read it over, boy. - Amorella
0919 hours. Higher consciousness is a blossom that springs
from ‘life’. Higher consciousness provides stair steps to meaning and from
higher meaning to higher purpose. Higher is in reference to a moral compass, a
reflection, a way the soul gains added dignity in meaning, in its own purpose.
– I think this is something that can be incorporated in these Merlyn books –
into a kind of evolutionary organic to spiritual force.
That humanity drives the spiritual force? –
Amorella
0924
hours. No. That is an error. The spiritual force is as a First Cause in this
context. Spiritual force sugars the bait.
Time for a break, orndorff. – Amorella
0926
hours. I will have to read over this and see if this string of thoughts makes
sense at least for use in a fiction.
Agreed. Read it over, boy. - Amorella
You are sitting at the Rahe Access along the
Little Miami and have just eaten your half of a Subway and chips. Carol is
working on The Target and you had a fleeting thought about how spiritual force
is not specific enough. – Amorella
1448
hours. It reminds me of the Force in the “Star Wars” series and spiritual we
use to counterbalance the physical. It seems to me that in the books both are
shown as natural elements. Supernatural has yet another connotation. Divine
Will comes to mind but that too carries a burden in its definition. Will has to
create First Cause. Will had to come before the Big Bang – it was a Gathering
Law of Nature of what is the Spirit Before. Obviously, I have to see this on
the screen to remember what I am thinking about.
Your mind is too cluttered because the “Well
of Souls” of Indiana Jones fame rolled in from the various medias in your world
of memory.
1504
hours. I think there are loads of stories between the Mind of G---D and the
appearance of spirits and/or souls before material life came about in a silent
first flash of raw natural light.
That took a while to make itself to the
conscious surface. – Amorella
1508
hours. All these words are to prime the unconscious pump. There are the world
myths. I loved teaching World Mythology at Indian Hill, maybe more so than
teaching Science Fiction/Futures Study. There was a lot of leeway in a high
school class because you had to start with the general and move into examples
of the specific. College classes, at least as I thought of them, had to begin
pretty much with specifics after a short objective introduction. Basically,
both quarter classes were introductions.
Carol is on page 427 of her book. You aren’t
on your book. – Amorella
1516
hours. Good one, Amorella. I am searching for a spiritual foundation to use in
fiction, one that incorporates angels and souls. I wonder if incorporates is a
pun here?
** **
incorporate
- verb
ORIGIN late
Middle English: from late Latin incorporat- ‘embodied,’ from the
verb incorporare, from in- ‘into’ + Latin
corporare ‘form into a body’ (from corpus, corpor-
‘body’).
Selected
and edited from the Oxford/English
** **
I think it is a pun. I like the word ‘embodied’. In the book
the soul embodies the heartanmind not the other way around. It all depends on who
is gobbling up whom. As dark humor is rolling in I think I need a break. (1524)
You are home from your local travels about
and going about the house moving trash out as tomorrow is trash day. Carol has
been working in the basement getting rid of education oriented papers and old
classroom essentials she has found no use for in the last decade or so. You
have done this but have more to do. Old notes can be chucked. I’ll help you
decide what to keep. – Amorella
1802
hours. That will help. A writer keeps his notes waiting for something of
‘writing’ value to come from them, but it is getting a little late for that.
Notes I haven’t addressed for decades can all go as far as I am concerned.
Some are worth keeping so you see how you
got to where you are in your writing. It adds to your authenticity. – Amorella
1806
hours. Amorella, what I am doing now is
about it. Completing the GMG series and continuing with the EIM blog is enough
writing. I’m just an old man talking to myself on the computer rather than out
loud. I don’t know how anyone can remember their thoughts without writing them
down first. Every once in a while everybody has a thought they wish they had
written down.
Don’t
overrate yourself, boy. – Amorella
1815
hours. This is a personal thing, Amorella, unless I am thinking I have little
value for my life. Thinking keeps me engaged in living. Writing it down says to
me, “You are here, orndorff. You exist.” This is worthless to anyone else. This blog reminds me of a common man’s volumes of Pepys’ Diary. Samuel Pepys was
high up in the government and military and his Diary gives people insight as to
what life was like for a well to do Member of Parliament and Chief Secretary to
the Admiralty back in the seventeenth century. My blog could be titled “A Retired
High School Teacher’s Twenty-First Century Notes for Writing a Series of Novels
about Merlyn”.
Good title, boy. Post. - Amorella
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