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My goal on CommunityWiki is mainly to develop thought.
The realms I have talked about (and generally prepared to talk about again) include:
Agenda
What interests me most is developing societies of life and dream: Societies that find meaning in the stories of the highest dreams and hopes of the human heart, and that live in a loving and connected way as they fulfill these purposes.
I look forward to a future with myriad people and societies that welcome difference, commit to perpetual inner change, think positively of themselves and all others, treat their various ecologies with research, spirituality, not wasting or polluting, societies of solidarity, and societies that will argue for these principles.
Additional points:
- Reality needs defending. I argue for science, scientific maturity, and scientific understanding. I study how to explain to people how the brain works, how to explain how social understanding develops, and why people should distrust superstition, and ally themselves with the scientific inquiry and understanding.
- The future needs defending. I speak of a God who lives in the future; His word echos from the future casting back into the present. We perceive his voice in our dreams, our talents, and the whispers of our hearts; And we perceive her voice in the severity of conscience and choice. Good spirits present the way forward. Post-modern despair and religious retreat from the real are unacceptable. Further, sustainability efforts that reduce the human being to an animal jumble of needs, with no meaningful future but mere survival, is unacceptable.
- The imagination is neglected. As a general rule, when we think we are being imaginative, we are not. Here is a legend: Long ago, a dark creature, perhaps the one whom the Damanhurians know as “the enemy of humankind,” sought to imprison humankind. He did this by capturing imagination, and caging her. He caged her in picture frames. He caged her in film. He caged her in the pages between the covers of books. He made magical wooden stages to encase her. He put her into polyhedral dice. Some people would alight in special locations called colleges, but he established a perimeter around them, so that college students would know that they must leave her behind when they join “the Real World.” With those words, he concealed his origin (which lie in the imagination!), and confounded the people. He gave the people a puppy named fancy, and said, “This is imagination! Should you fear me (and right you should,) comfort yourself with fancy. But I am Reality, and you must never forget that.”
Reality, the future, and imagination.
Finally: For all the assertiveness of this agenda, I look forward to being shown wrong. My life has been like wave after wave of events, events that have altered my thinking and shown me new or different dimensions of the motions of the world. It is predictable that my thoughts will change with time. I look forward to the next change, and the agent may be you.
See Also
LionKimbro | LionKimbroArchive (2007-01-01) | LionKimbroArchive2 (2009-09-20)
"Digital Expert (tagging + ...) System
I obviously don’t know what to call this yet. 
That being said, I’ve been trying to figure out how to best reply to ….
“@Hans: I like your quotes around “intelligent.” I have various interesting filing & retrieval methods in software, (and I am always working on new ones,) but I don’t understand what you mean about “anticipating what you want to see next” – that’s very interesting to me as an idea, but I don’t know how to do it. Or rather, the way I do it, is to put related content that I tend to use at the same time together physically (or digitally) together. [Spatial proximity as reasoning tool.] If there is some other anticipatory system though – … I want to know it!
- As you may recall, I started working with TiddlyWiki a few years ago. It’s been a torturous learning curve for me mostly, I think, because I am no longer a “professional” programmer and I am interrupt-driven so I have to be content with being able to scrounge a couple of hours a week from “other duties”, responsibilities, and pleasures. That being said, I have managed to come to the conclusion that: “It has been very much worth while!”. A few supporting findings…
- JavaScript as (yet another) programming language has the LISP-like LambdaExpressions? that interpretive languages can exploit. In effect, this makes it possible to “assemble” code snippets dynamically into executable instructions in a great many permutations and combinations.
- TiddlyWiki, as an AjAx? application, is supported by a very active development community that really “groks” XML (and Tags), CSS, and Plugins. These folks support and encourage a very large user community based at GoogleGroups?. Participating in this communications “river” yields rapid plugin development(s) and a wealth of “how to” insights. Specific points of significance include…
- This software and its users (really, really) really understand Tags in ways that the uninitiated can’t begin to appreciate.
- (Applying Tags can change the behaviour, look and feel, and function of both the plugin code and the “tiddler” objects that are being manipulated). Since Tags can be manipulated by both the user and the software, if become possible to craft “methods” that manipulate the Tags (that are themselves nothing more that the properties of theCore tiddler Objects).
- Obviously, the ability to automate tag management is an immediate result.
- For me, it is extremely important that JavaScript supports its associative arrays as vectors, within which other vectors can be nested.
- Obviously “associative arrays” reduce the traditional memory concerns that constrain traditional regular arrays.
- Having a fundamentally robust ObjectOrientedProgramming? language makes it possible to apply the mathematical operations that are used to manipulate EnDimensionalArrays? (such as rotation) quite easily. Given this, Tags quickly emerge as the names of Dimensions and it is (obviously, (not so much)) possible to “rotate” the dimensions such that whole sets of cells become (auto-magically) “neighbours”. Hence it satisfies your need for [spatial proximity as a reasoning tool.]
- Finally, for now, extending CamelCase WikiWords (which auto-magically beeto embed meanings that both people and their computers can recognize and manipulate. For example…
- My code knows enough to recognize “thisWeek is a pronoun for a container of seven “thisDay” elements and that there are established NameConventions? for the absolute names that these context specific pronouns are currently referring to.
- …
Got to move on to something else. Besides, this is far too complicate to be appended to someone’s HomePage. Since I’ve started documenting it in a different environment, it would be better to direct you there than to clutter this place.
Hey Lion, we haven’t heard from each other for a while. Hope you’re fine. I’ve been pretty busy with your LocalNames for a while now, a brilliant invention btw. Sorry for taking my - long - time.
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