Beim Denken sind Tiere auch nur Menschen

Artikel von Georg Rüschemeyer in der Frankfurter Allgemeinen:

"[...] Die verblüffenden Fähigkeiten vieler Tiere, die die relativ junge Forschungsrichtung der vergleichenden Kognitionsforschung seither nachgewiesen hat, lassen nur einen Schluss zu: Wir sind nicht die einzigen klugen Wesen auf der Welt."

"In Japan gehen Krähen noch einen Schritt weiter und lassen andere die Arbeit für sich tun. Sie werfen Nüsse auf die Straße und warten, bis ein Auto darüber fährt und die harte Schale knackt. Weil es auf einer vielbefahrenen Straße nicht ganz ungefährlich ist, sich anschließend das Innere der Nuss zu holen, haben sich einige der Vögel auf Fußgängerampeln spezialisiert. Sie warten, bis die Ampel den Autoverkehr anhält, und holen sich dann in aller Ruhe ihr Futter."

"[...] Dies zeigt aber auch, wie vorsichtig man sein sollte, wenn man einem Tier eine bestimmte Empfindung zuschreibt oder sein Verhalten zu erklären versucht. Ein Hund lebt nun einmal in einer anderen Welt, einer Welt aus Gerüchen, und eine Fledermaus besitzt mit ihrem Ultraschall-Ortungssystem gar einen Sinn, den wir nicht einmal ansatzweise nachvollziehen können. Der amerikanische Philosoph Thomas Nagel hat das so ausgedrückt: „Es kommt nicht darauf an, wie es sich für uns anfühlen würde, eine Fledermaus zu sein, sondern wie es sich für die Fledermaus anfühlt, eine Fledermaus zu sein.“ Und dafür muss man nun mal eine Fledermaus sein."

22.4.2012, 14:42

Working on true, bottom up subsidiarity

22.4.2012, 21:55

The Adobe Creative Cloud is coming!


With todays launch of the Adobe Creative Cloud, something I have been dreaming of for more than the past 20 years is becoming a reality in a big way!

With the Creative Cloud subscriptions now offered by Adobe, the creative professionals have access to a toolbox of all the software they may need for any given project, without that the hurdle of an upfront startup investment to obtain that toolbox. Essentially, you can rent the tools you need for any given project. This is a fantastic new reality that levels the playing field for individual creatives vs larger agencies, allowing individual creatives to leverage their diverse range of skills and put them to work for their customers.

Adobe's Creative Cloud doesn't just offer access to the range of software in its Creative Suite, it also provides additional services that reinvent the creative process and empower the creatives to unleash their full potential! This is not marketing speech! I'm serious! It's like joining a franchise network that provides you with a major productivity boost, for a monthly fee that makes it possible to get started even with the smallest of projects.

Tune into the live online event for the release of Adobe Creative Cloud and CS6 today at 19:00 CET here:

http://www.adobe.com/special/cs6/launch-event-desktop.html

23.4.2012, 16:28

Jacob Appelbaum and National Security Agency whistleblower William Binne on growing state surveillance

This interview is part three of a 4-part special of Democracy Now.

Click here to see segment one, two, and four.

...just in case you were in denial about it.

23.4.2012, 17:45

Out of Print: The 20th Century

The Missing 20th Century: How Copyright Protection Makes Books Vanish

Paul Heald:

"This is super exciting, interesting preliminary data, I think. I had one of my students write a computer program that would crawl through Amazon.com and pull 2,500 fiction titles at random. ... The findings are absolutely fascinating."

"We broke these out by decade. ... You would expect that if you can crawl through Amazon looking at only new books and only books sold by Amazon -- so these are not used books, these are not sold by Amazon associates, this is what's in Amazon's warehouses -- of course, the biggest number of books is from the decade 2000-2010. That's what you'd expect; they're more recent, more popular. Drops off really quickly for books in the 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, '60, 1950, 1940, 1930 -- here's the point in time where books start falling in the public domain. Suddenly it goes up and up and up. There's as many books [that] Amazon is selling brand new right now from the 1900s to 1910 as from the 2000s to 2010. You go all the way back to 1850 -- there's twice as many books from the 1850s being sold on Amazon right now as the 1950s. So this sort of confirms the notion that there's some sort of positive public-domain effect ..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DpfZcftI00

23.4.2012, 22:02

If what you are doing is not helpful, please stop doing it. Seriously.

Nuff said.

24.4.2012, 7:15

>>> International Anarchism Gathering, St-Imier 2012

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> The Mycelium Model of Glocal Governance
> Anarchy 2023 renversé









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