tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36442173.post7996154762435841452..comments2023-11-02T05:44:01.903-04:00Comments on INTUITION IN-DEPTH: The Way the Mind Works: Screens, Walls, and My Uncle MannyLois Isenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15824175568923217819noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36442173.post-3949780354219720732008-01-17T18:58:00.000-05:002008-01-17T18:58:00.000-05:00Whatever we have, be it biological or cyber-mech...Whatever we have, be it biological or cyber-mechanical, let's hope for peace in any form. Maybe a trial run in cyberspace could work. This was fun reading.<BR/>RosieR.F. Rosenzweighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04820059713529979314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36442173.post-51197630974293716622008-01-10T09:08:00.000-05:002008-01-10T09:08:00.000-05:00Of course it is "rewiring your brain." You have be...Of course it is "rewiring your brain." You have been exposed to reinforcement contingencies and your brain has been changed such that you behave in new ways. And the extension of it to a different situation has a name as well - it is called "stimulus generalization" and has been investigated scientifically, at least since Pavlov, though you are talking about generalization of an operant discriminative stimulus.<BR/><BR/>GSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36442173.post-16826905781952493342008-01-10T09:07:00.000-05:002008-01-10T09:07:00.000-05:00Very interesting Lois. Thanks... One of my very fi...Very interesting Lois. Thanks... One of my very first real jobs in <BR/>1971 was at an Ernestine style switchboard. It was a gorgeous brass creation and there were two of us working and it had to be polished daily. And I remember living in a place in the early 70s that still had a party line! How many changes there have been!<BR/>IrisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36442173.post-29512104076154058372008-01-10T05:24:00.000-05:002008-01-10T05:24:00.000-05:00When I first started using freeware, 12 or so year...When I first started using freeware, 12 or so years ago, I found that the new mode of interaction began appearing in my dreams e.g. in the shape of one of those "greyed out" buttons that used to indicate that some function of the software was not available to users of the free, beta version. <BR/><BR/>Ray Kurzweil, in his book 'In The Age of Spiritual Machines', predicts that it will become increasingly difficult for us to distinguish our biologically endowed behaviour from those actions we perform in collaboration with computers.<BR/><BR/>By the way did you see the footage of President Bush walking through Ramallah? He looked to be in a state of terror.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com