I’ll power up VSCodium from time to time to quickly flip through reams of pages of code, though I’m always annoyed at the faux vi features and end up doing real work in the terminal.
I’m not sure I would be as comfortable without screen.
Complicated means more
Extraneous and more than necessary. Complexity means an order of magnitude beyond an immediate account.
Resilience requires that failure at one level minimizes the likelihood of catastrophic chains of failure. This may mean redundancy or heuristic response (both threaten the rule of extraneous.)
The design of any system should consider how each piece of a larger assemblage may perform its functions clearly, without unnecessary dependencies. Further, such components should self identity their status and provide tools or process by which each feature may be tested without disrupting their role in the greater system dynamic.
I would disagree on one hand as mechanisms can and shall inevitably outperform human thought capacity at some scale.
And agree on another, the human mind is an efficient quantum computer (I know …) which uses constructive and destructive interference for some holographic rendering rather than a composition of linear conditional logic.
Do not let the confines of human ignorance set the horizon for Truth!
Allow that science is only a tool for undeceiving ourselves.
Universal rejection sounds like dogma, not science.
Potential is composed of the super-amplitude. Process would be the physical system influencing the resolve (which may vary allowing different technological approaches, i.e. organic or silicon or otherwise.)
QM exclusively allows this super-amplitude. No physical process can compare, yet without some physical medium the amplitudes would be unbound.
Modernity sees state as the building block of reality. Quantum dynamics says it is POTENTIAL through constructive and destructive interference resolving into state in the moment of now (a continuously transitive and ephemeral moment.)
Is it so hard to see consciousness as the domain of existential POTENTIAL, and living systems as a feedback loop into this echo chamber of potential?
Does potential not sound more like consciousness than the arrangement of state?
A perspective on the definition of consciousness. Sorry I didn’t respond in line to the comments I am actually addressing. I thought it overall relevant.
By all this I am saying consciousness is our echo chamber, something grounded in the quantum cloister of objective reality, not directly related to intelligence.
Throwing out the definition of consciousness as “the inflection upon the potential of existential being.”
All matter in the universe is dormant consciousness and life technology animates this through electrochemical biotechnology.
By this definition quantum computers are more consciousness than an infinitely complex algorithm, yet consciousness is analogue (not qubits.)
We still understand so little and I accept your skepticism yet this is the definition that is not being discussed.
All those other messy details are yours to sort out (bacteria has bacterial consciousness.)
Our brains are vast by comparison, and like any holographic system (constructive and destructive interfering wave fronts) higher resolution.
Also subjective doesn’t mean some detached arbitrary thing, it literally means (and may be a direct synonym of) “a point of perspective.” In a non anthropomorphic way it means from the perspective of a specific instance of a thing (forensic referential interpretation.) In this way the angular corners of a triangle are subjectively relative to one and other, yet all exist on an objective plane.
It may be better to merely use a versioning field and allow some entries to be hidden by mods (published/draft/hidden indicator.)
Rollbacks at the database level will make things harder to understand and prevent future reference to disputed entries.
(Mods may want to deliberate or keep for future reference.)
Besides, wouldn’t you want access to old revisions?
Now is an arbitrary point as it is not the times which limits your quality of life, it is your good taste and self determination which is lacking.
Your best life would come by your fullest awareness that you are the source of most anxiety and want.
Sure, there is deprevity and want in the world yet it is so very far away from the average these things might as well be a fluke.
Consider, that NOW is a magical time in which our homes are safe, with running water, electricity, heating and cooling. Abundant foods of every variety and intrigue brought right to you (or at least your neighborhood grocer.) a time of mechanical wonders that can transport you (and all your belongings) great distances, even through the air! Things which make your life equal to that of Gods (or royalty) in ancient times.
Now isn’t your problem, knowing how to live is your problems.
Try living lean, without over leveraging. Choose good taste and lifestyle integrity rather than convenience or habit.
Take good care of yourself, as your health and mental well being are the greatest assets in this life! And while you’re at it, treat others well!
This has been a controversial critique in terms of karma (up and down so many times it has leveled out.)
It’s a bit crass, though my reply was regarding the relevance in today’s world (dirty secrets we don’t confront) more than the author’s shake up.
Le Guin’s social commentary is still pressing in our day.