Dear Friends of scatter brains,

- No not zombie killing, honestly
- Not necessarily people who are everywhere all at once
- We are talking multiple #impacts from #different directions

Now then,
That is how Mastodon can work in our favour. We are not being directed along a line of #thinking by the usual culprits But
Finding our own direction and choices.
It is why #lurking, #following and #boosting will define what we experience and we are the 'masters of our own interests'.

I like to be aware of the many kinds of #kindness. The #experiences of people I would never meet but rarely. I like a #diversity. A mixed tableaux. Weaving backwards and forwards through lives lived at #different times and in #alternative ways.

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
-- Henry David Thoreau, from "Walden; or, Life in the Woods"

True or not--it's impressive poetry, if you read it while impressionable.

"The question is not what you look at, but what you see."
-- Henry David Thoreau, from Journal entry, 5 August 1851.

Now...make an answer to the question, and post it!

#Thinking #GreatWriting #ProsePoetry
Quotations are from: "The Henry D. Thoreau Mis-Quotation Page" https://www.walden.org/what-we-do/library/thoreau/mis-quotations/

I used to think this world was full of lunatics. Not anymore, as I realized that when I got here there was still room for me.

#littleme #thinking #nonsense

I'm not that into old vintage tech.. I mean, I can't understand people are into music cassettes again. They sound very bad, they degrade over time, use and temperature... Vinyls on the other hand are almost indestructible: you can soak them and it's just matter of dry them carefully and they will live forever. Bad thing: the vinyl buzz... Some romanticize it. I think it is annoying. And then there is CD: perfection. I know it has a limited useful life, although I got CDs from 1982-1985 totally operative until today.

I use Youtube Music: (YT without ads + music, I think a great combo). And I couldn't imagine myself going back to an mp3 player or some "portable digital music player" for listening on the bus, subway or walking outside (like before). In home, ocasionally I listen to a CD, or a Vinyl.. (I had to sell 90% of my CD collection due to money issues during pandemic), so...

I try to spend less everyday, and subscriptions don't help at all... but youtube, mastodon and YT music is all I consume from internet. And -the most important thing- I just hate advertising (I even worked in advertising and marketing for several years to make a living 🫠).

I removed all my music projects from centralized digital platforms.: they're just on youtube (on their own channels) and bandcamp. I don't know. I think we must distance ourselves from centralized social media, alienation, vice, stupidity, depression and screen addiction, but I can't see myself organizing an iPod as I did almost 20 years ago, listening to sh1tty cassettes or using a battery CD player on the go... well. I've already vented xD thanks for listening!

#thinking #music #tech #cd #vinyls #mp3 #digital #centralized #socialmedia #vintage #minimalism

🧠🧪 #Brains as #chemicalComputers: Why modern #AI can't yet replicate our #thinking

📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2021/12/05/wie-wirklich-ist-bewusstsein/

📺 https://youtu.be/0LG4gU_jfik

#GerhardRoth #Consciousness #Neuroscience #BrainResearch # Cognition #PhilosophyOfMind #BrainComputerInterface #CognitiveNeuroscience #MindBodyProblem #Reality #BodyMindProblem #NeuralNetworks #AIAndConsciousness #ArtificialIntelligence #ChemicalComputers #CognitiveScience #Zoomposium

The Retweeting Class
On people who repeat ideas for social acceptance rather than engaging with them to consider whether they're even coherent.

#philosophy #ideas #thinking #SocialMedia #psychology