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Subverting the privacy-security trade-off with 21st century information technologies. In the 18th century Jeremy Bentham conceived of a structure designed in such a way that a single observer could simultaneously supervise each occupant. In Bentham’s “panopticon” security would be enhanced, both because the central observer could detect and disrupt misbehavior, and because the observed would be less likely to break the rules if they knew they were being watched. Bentham’s thought experiment h...
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I. FloatingMeaning is fluid. It is fleeting, ephemeral, intangible: it only exists in a mind. The origin of a thought is hard to pin down — some extrinsic and intrinsic stimulus sensed, focused upon and distilled, conjured from the ether. Insight only manifests within the awareness of a sentient individual. And yet, meaning is the basis of our entire existence. As humans we view the world through the lens of our attention, watching as the universe pours in. As consciousness deepens, pattern r...
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Undermining the logic of violence Today nine countries are presumed to possess nuclear weapons; many more possess the capability to manufacture other classes of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs — biological, chemical and radiological weapons). This existential threat — and humanity’s innate innovative drive, plus perverse incentivization structures related to the armaments industry — means that we are racing towards ever more threatening capabilities. Still more countries are earnestly devel...
_Homo integralis_
Juvenalis XThe Benevolent Panopticon
Subverting the privacy-security trade-off with 21st century information technologies. In the 18th century Jeremy Bentham conceived of a structure designed in such a way that a single observer could simultaneously supervise each occupant. In Bentham’s “panopticon” security would be enhanced, both because the central observer could detect and disrupt misbehavior, and because the observed would be less likely to break the rules if they knew they were being watched. Bentham’s thought experiment h...
Juvenalis XThe Beginning of History
I. FloatingMeaning is fluid. It is fleeting, ephemeral, intangible: it only exists in a mind. The origin of a thought is hard to pin down — some extrinsic and intrinsic stimulus sensed, focused upon and distilled, conjured from the ether. Insight only manifests within the awareness of a sentient individual. And yet, meaning is the basis of our entire existence. As humans we view the world through the lens of our attention, watching as the universe pours in. As consciousness deepens, pattern r...
Juvenalis XWar in the Web3 era
Undermining the logic of violence Today nine countries are presumed to possess nuclear weapons; many more possess the capability to manufacture other classes of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs — biological, chemical and radiological weapons). This existential threat — and humanity’s innate innovative drive, plus perverse incentivization structures related to the armaments industry — means that we are racing towards ever more threatening capabilities. Still more countries are earnestly devel...
_Homo integralis_
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Initial observations
The unmanifest conceptual space is ever present, global and infinite.
The meaning contained within the universe is infinite at every point through time and space.
Without sentience conceptual reality does not manifest. Within a sentient entity’s private awareness, it does — to the depth that the awareness perceives.
Manifestations within conceptual reality are caused by the perception of some data. They do not manifest without this physical cause.
Every object has a subject and every subject has an object. Without either the entity would not exist.
Data is tangible and manifests in physical space; information is intangible and manifests in conceptual space.
Data can be stored as matter or transmitted as energy.
Data carries informational potential about the qualities of its source when it was emitted, reflected or refracted.
[Image from Shannon, 1948)
Initial observations
The unmanifest conceptual space is ever present, global and infinite.
The meaning contained within the universe is infinite at every point through time and space.
Without sentience conceptual reality does not manifest. Within a sentient entity’s private awareness, it does — to the depth that the awareness perceives.
Manifestations within conceptual reality are caused by the perception of some data. They do not manifest without this physical cause.
Every object has a subject and every subject has an object. Without either the entity would not exist.
Data is tangible and manifests in physical space; information is intangible and manifests in conceptual space.
Data can be stored as matter or transmitted as energy.
Data carries informational potential about the qualities of its source when it was emitted, reflected or refracted.
[Image from Shannon, 1948)
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