Moth

It might be an 'Underwing Moth"...but not sure...I have a Butterfly book, but no Moth Book...paddled over to the Village to look for bolts for bracket repair, but no luck (friend later at work had one that fit!)....but spotted the little Moths....and pic...and that was it for pics today!...another quiet day...wandered about the Artists Grove after Flicker call....but that was about the only pursuit...sunny hazy blue warm...

Link of the Day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_amplification

One of my thoughtHobbies is about how technology can take on a life of its own...the monster move theme of flics like Terminator, and a very old flic, called Gog and Magog...the usual idea is a giant computer begins using robots and hardware devices to menace...if I remember right, Hal shut the airlock door stranding Dave out in space in 2001....all this is sometimes referred to as AI, Artificial Intelligence--DATA on Star Trek comes to mind...and R2D2 and C3Po....but that's machine using machine....there's people using machines...and I'd been thinking last night of machines using people....which is a bit like pets mastering their masters.....which they do!...dogs know how to play up to our feelings....cats purr...and so forth....dont know if this can be followed!...but I sometimes think that cars can sidle up with their looks....anyway...I googled up a search..'.machine man symbiosis'...and found the curio called 'IA'

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Intelligence amplification (IA) (also referred to as cognitive augmentation andmachine augmented intelligence) refers to the effective use of information technology in augmenting human intelligence. The idea was first proposed in the 1950s and 1960s by cybernetics and early computer pioneers.

IA is sometimes contrasted with AI (Artificial Intelligence), that is, the project of building a human-like intelligence in the form of an autonomous technological system such as a computer or robot. AI has encountered many fundamental obstacles, practical as well as theoretical, which for IA seem moot, as it needs technology merely as an extra support for an autonomous intelligence that has already proven to function. Moreover, IA has a long history of success, since all forms of information technology, from the abacus via writing to the Internet, have been developed basically to extend the information processing capabilities of the human mind (see extended mind and distributed cognition).

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the 'autonomous intelligence' is us--people....there are a lot of symbiotic relationships in Nature...as Muir put it, one finds one thing hitched to another thing....here's a bit called:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka–Volterra_equation

which goes into how predator and prey populations change...lots of Squirrels increase Coyotes food supply, and so more Coyotes, but too many Coyotes means fewer Squirrels, and then fewer Coyotes, and then more Squirrels, and so on...

dont know but that's just the sorta thing the auto industry goes through....

but what I'm trying to wrap my thoughts around is how Squirrels being chased by Coyotes got to look like and behave like Squirrels, and visa versa for Coyotes...it's a symbiosis of some sort--and I suspect, in principle, the same thing happens with people and technology....hmmph...dont know but that judgement may be out still on whether people have been 'proven to function'!