Can there really be a thing like best idea in the world?
We all need Variation, Selection and Heredity. With these 3 we can create evolution. If something is copied with variation and selected then you must have the design appearing. Any information that is varied and selected is called design. Everything is replicated.
Information we copy from person to person through talking, walking, doing something. This is how we replicate designs. It's important to stick with definations because alot of problems can be solved when we stick to definations.
Meme is not a information/design/you and me etc. It's about copying/passing it from person to person. Why do memes spread? Is it good, beautiful ?
A random memes like earphones, people don't design the earphones, they just went out and buy it because they needed it. Toilet paper is spread all over the world.
Memes are all copys of something. Human beings are the main machine. We alone is a meme machines.
All humans in this world are genes machines and meme machines. Genes machines turns the memes into memes machine. Memes is dangerous. Memes are using us to create more stuff. Memes are spreading because they must. It's like Memes are some evil mastermind of replicating. It's like using humans to create because we create memes by making babies.
From the talk i remembered the show Irobot where AI was created and it sort of took over the world. Like it no longer needs the help of human beings. From the video i can see her point saying that memes is dangerous. Everything around us is memes. like bottles, books, laptops, Tvs, Handphone. Everything even ourselves. Like how i am so adapted to this world that if you want me to travel back in time to live there i probably wouldn't know what to do. Everything is different. Well i agree that memes is dangerous, but i believe that we can overcome the memes. How so? I don't know but everything is created out of nothing so we can definately think of something. Like Electricity was created and it becomes the world's greatest invention. Just imagine the world without electricity. We could probably use candles. Just an alternatives i believe but we would not have school anymore because our course requires the use of laptops which requires electricity. Now i can really see the danger in it but we just can't help it.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Dan Denett Video
Ideas are like virus. Ideas are like the parasite that hijack human brains.
Ideas to die for like: Freedom, Justice, Truth, communism, etc. Ideas are infectious as it spreads from grain to grain. We are all responsible about memes. Ideas are easy to be misused that's why it is dangerous. Ideas can live off because it is passed on.
Technology brings about many ideas. Technology is largely wonderful. Among those ideas that flow out into the whole world thanks to technology. Memes are spreading out around the world and they are wiping out cultures, languages, practices. Like pronography spreading out like memes replicating around the world. It affects the education.
How do we tell a good memes and a bad memes? we will never anihilate the germs but we can encourage the spread of the germs.
I feel that the whole talk is only talking about how dangeours ideas are from spreading through technology. I'm not sure if he is trying to make this his point but if it is i would agree that technology is used every single day. And it is perhaps dangerous. When we have the internet, everyone will abuse it like downloading things/ sharing files. Where did this comes from? Ideas? People thought of the idea of creating internet. The ideas spreads to people's mind as they realise that this idea can be used in different ways as well. It's not always a bad thing to spread ideas but one must know and be able to judge what ideas can be used and what not to be used.
Ideas to die for like: Freedom, Justice, Truth, communism, etc. Ideas are infectious as it spreads from grain to grain. We are all responsible about memes. Ideas are easy to be misused that's why it is dangerous. Ideas can live off because it is passed on.
Technology brings about many ideas. Technology is largely wonderful. Among those ideas that flow out into the whole world thanks to technology. Memes are spreading out around the world and they are wiping out cultures, languages, practices. Like pronography spreading out like memes replicating around the world. It affects the education.
How do we tell a good memes and a bad memes? we will never anihilate the germs but we can encourage the spread of the germs.
I feel that the whole talk is only talking about how dangeours ideas are from spreading through technology. I'm not sure if he is trying to make this his point but if it is i would agree that technology is used every single day. And it is perhaps dangerous. When we have the internet, everyone will abuse it like downloading things/ sharing files. Where did this comes from? Ideas? People thought of the idea of creating internet. The ideas spreads to people's mind as they realise that this idea can be used in different ways as well. It's not always a bad thing to spread ideas but one must know and be able to judge what ideas can be used and what not to be used.
Elizabeth Gilbert Video
Ideas taken from other people's idea. Like a circle. Before she writes she would always do her research and browse from other people's ideas. Human beings is just a vesile of passing creativity.
People in the past (greeks) don't believe creativity came from human beings. They believe that those has creativity uses Daemon to help them be creativity. Like Daemon comes out to help the artist to protect itself it's own work. People who has creativity to them is a genius. Being a genius than rather than having a genius. It's wrong from what she says. When one is being entitle as an artist (genius) they are being put under pressure and this pressure has been going on for the past 500 years.
Ideas of how she does work. Talking to the space helps to change her working process. Her work is all the same and intact but her working process changed.
when one is afraid of doing something or some work, the main idea for this is not to be afraid. Just do your job, your dance, etc. Do not give up and eventually things will keep coming up.
From my point of view as a student, well for a games design student i admit that i have been using most of my life playing games than eating. I admit that i have times that i am very distracted and i know that i am suppose to do work. I remember that i just can't concentrate because my brain is telling me that i am so sick of work. Sometimes i would tell myself that i would start work after playing for an hour or so but it always ends up playing games everyday. So i tell myself that i need to buck up and start doing work so i can kick out my laziness for a few days. Sometimes when i don't concentrate at school work, i would talk to myself. Like asking myself "Is this what you want?" "what will happen if you don't do work?" Those kind of stuff. Something feels weird when i spent alot of times playing games, i feel that i hate myself so much that i am so relaxed. haha...
I agree with her that the talking to space helps with working process. Well i am a person that doesn't have many ideas in mind, the only way to help me see more ideas is by looking at how people generate ideas or get an idea from a person online maybe and try to further expand the idea.
People in the past (greeks) don't believe creativity came from human beings. They believe that those has creativity uses Daemon to help them be creativity. Like Daemon comes out to help the artist to protect itself it's own work. People who has creativity to them is a genius. Being a genius than rather than having a genius. It's wrong from what she says. When one is being entitle as an artist (genius) they are being put under pressure and this pressure has been going on for the past 500 years.
Ideas of how she does work. Talking to the space helps to change her working process. Her work is all the same and intact but her working process changed.
when one is afraid of doing something or some work, the main idea for this is not to be afraid. Just do your job, your dance, etc. Do not give up and eventually things will keep coming up.
From my point of view as a student, well for a games design student i admit that i have been using most of my life playing games than eating. I admit that i have times that i am very distracted and i know that i am suppose to do work. I remember that i just can't concentrate because my brain is telling me that i am so sick of work. Sometimes i would tell myself that i would start work after playing for an hour or so but it always ends up playing games everyday. So i tell myself that i need to buck up and start doing work so i can kick out my laziness for a few days. Sometimes when i don't concentrate at school work, i would talk to myself. Like asking myself "Is this what you want?" "what will happen if you don't do work?" Those kind of stuff. Something feels weird when i spent alot of times playing games, i feel that i hate myself so much that i am so relaxed. haha...
I agree with her that the talking to space helps with working process. Well i am a person that doesn't have many ideas in mind, the only way to help me see more ideas is by looking at how people generate ideas or get an idea from a person online maybe and try to further expand the idea.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
War
The word war is very sensitive word to everyone. When we speak of war the first image that comes to our mind is suffering. War only brings sadness to people, and this decision is made by one that thinks that this decision is not made by him but the others. what can we change? Idealogy
Ideaogy from government, from Religion, from terrorist, etc. What made them do those actions? Is it dreams? Idealogy comes from dreams and a dream is a thought made out of people's subconcious. It's something that we want and hope to achieve for. Sometimes we encounter De javu in our lifes, like we have seen the same scenerio in our dreams before, it's true that we seen it before and it's just a projection of the things we seen. I've encounter various de javu in life also and it still amase me no matter how many times i encounter it.
Subconcious mind is something that we can't control. That is how we get hypnotise as well.
Terrorist is a group of people trying to do something bad to the others because they want revenge for the government. The reason they did so is because they or their families have been hurt before. We tends to judge people by looks, people with beard and long hair tends to looks suspicious, well we are told not to judge a book by it's cover but it's really not happening in real life. Today i just watch Devil and while in the show, my friend and I has been guessing who the real devil is, my friend guessed the old lady while i guess the young man because he looks suspicious. AS the movie unfolds i realise that i was wrong, Just because he was the last one that didn't get killed doesn't mean that he is the bad guy. well my friend guessed correctly and i asked him why did he choose the old lady and he says that the devil always tends to take form of the weak like an old lady or a little girl to create an illusion.
Subconcious records all the things that you've seen or done, I once watch a show about this girl killing a guy and forgets all about it because she is in a shock state that it triggers to lock up that part of her memory and through hynotism that she remembers what happens and recover.
Idealogy works when the thoughts is spreading around. Like brain wash, Misinterpretation of what people says and Up bringing of one. Speaking of terrorism i feel safe in singapore though there have been bomb cases but i think that i am still safe in some way, not like some one will come in from my window and steal my stuff or people breaking in banks to rob them.
Games created with violence while for this everyone has their way of getting violent, like banging tables, etc. But if games that doesn't have violence contents does that means we'll be safe from it? Well it's fun to play games that have violence contents like fighting and blood splattering all around but people just need to know what is real and what is not.
I think it's good that the school lets us learn the history of war, and understand the true meaning of what it is trying to convey. I can't say fully that i understand the meaning of war but the history of it lets me understand more about singapore.
politics is the cause for war. Though i didn't have to go through it but i heard stories about world war from my grandmother. My grandmother got hurt by the bomb before and she says it happens so sudden that she didn't know what to do. Well she told me that she and her mum was working under one of the Japanese chief and she says that he is very polite to them. My grandma and her mum helps with the house whole chores and was ironing the clothes for them when the japanese walks in and bow to them. Well i think they are not as bad as they looks.
photos taken from:
http://www.techspot.com/gallery/data/502/medium/Counter-Terrorist.jpg
http://www.juegomania.org/Terrorist+Takedown+2/foto/pc/12/12052/10.jpg/Foto+Terrorist+Takedown+2.jpg
Secret Society
Secret society sounds cool to me, like some big mission done by people that we commoners didn't know about. How did they even manage to create a society secretly.
Illuminati is one of the secret society founded by Adam Weishaupt. The goal of the Illuminati is to create a new world order under one goverment, like domination, taking control of everyone and to limit wars between countries. As i have guess before knowing it's purpose, i think it's created because of war and will only fight with the government to gain power.
Illuminati can also be found in modern times through media like music, movies, books etc. There are many reasons why secret society is form, could be that they feel that life is unfair that they have to starve while the rich have lots of money to waste on food, women and house. Anti religion, war, society and life they had. All these people wanted is freedom and revenge, because they believe they can make their life better.
Does these beliefs brought more suffering to the people? Life is unfair and it just depends on how people sees it. When one is positive, the things he/she sees is positive and if one is negative the things they see will all be negative. What are they any different from the people they wanted revenge on?
The symbols is everywhere even in movies, i find this really scary since we tend to see it in our surroundings. Is secret society still alive?
Photos taken from:
http://www.taroscopes.com/miscellanous-pages/images_marksofaton1/ma1_20.jpg
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Final Blog Entry for Sem 1
1) Reflection
If i were to choose 5 topics that i like i would choose Heroes, Games in Movies, Crime, SuperNatural and A.I. First as we talk about heroes we all know that heroes in movies are all special, we can also think it in a way that even though we don't participate in movies or have healing powers, we are still a hero in our lifes. Heroes that helps others when one is in trouble. To me the heroes in my life is my grandmother and my parents. They give life to me and teach me well, although they are a nag sometimes but i know they care alot for me. Not to mention we all had our neighbourhood heroes like our police man, doctors, nurses. When a protagonist exist, a antagonist will appear. The antagonist in my family is my grandfather, wouldn't go into details on this anyway, When a life has both the good and the bad, we have already create a game.
Life is like a game, though we don't have a second chance when a crime is made but we have the choice to make our own decision. Whether to our wisdom wisely or destroy it. What happens when it's the end of one life? I once heard this phrase before "The end of one life is the beginning of the other" When one is dead the other is born. I believe this is true because everyday life is brought to earth. But what will actually happen when one is dead? It's all like what the others have been saying, supernatural. Those that claims to be able to see it, can't proff that they can but people just wants to believe. For me i use to believe there's ghost because of movies i watch. Now that i notice there isn't anything happening to me in my life that is not explainable, well maybe because i've been finding excuses of not believing it?
Movies are so popular that a movie theater can never go bankrupt. Everyday will be crowded and who would thought that we can watch games in movies as well? Movie is a good media that can tells us alot of things. Not just about the entertainment. Movies with games elements brings new ideas to people, like dreams in movies(Inception) or even fantasy in movies(Alice in Wonderland). Mixing game genres into movies gives people space of imagination. And i believe that with these imaginations we will be able to create something new.
Who would have thought that we can make robots now? Though the robots we seen in movies were always so intelligent, fast, strong and ability to think for themself. we can't really make one out like this for now. Since Japan has been playing with robots and making a human robot, they are able to make them walk by themself and make certain emotions. Maybe by combining robots and movies, we can even create a hollogram and watch our movies or even shift the hollogram around like Iron man 2. It would be cool if i can have one of those stuff =D
2) Speculate about the future of gaming
I didn't really think about it since we have all we wanted now and i am contented that we have laptops, Televisions, and even game console like Wii, PSP, etc. Well there's a few things i thought about when i finish watching a movie. I use to think that it would be great if the train station would stop by my house that i would not have to walk all the way to the station, or maybe have a teleport machine at home so i can just teleport to school or anywhere else, or maybe i can have a flying device so i can fly high up to the sky? When i play games i know that i can't just play enough of it. It's so good that i want to jump into the games and play real. Maybe life is too boring here for me since all i did is go to school, come home, eat, play games, sleep. Everyday life style. I wanted to change and perhaps i just want to run away from reality like how doraemon gives his buddy a time machine to stop time so he could finish his work on time?
Samuel Johnson
"Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion"
Quotation from:
http://quotations.about.com/cs/inspirationquotes/a/Life1.htm
so true indeed =D
3) Creativity
I've learn that inorder to be creative we need to absorbe what others did and combine them together. Example if we see a circle and we were to play with it there's many ways we can play with, throw it, toss it, lick it, eat it, give it away, etc. One can play in his own ways to create something out of it's imagination.
Here's my creativity model/game
The first thing that i base my design on is House and Tree, i combine it together because for me in order to be creative i want to feel comfortable like when i'm at home, this is where i feel most comfortable with and then i combine it with tree because trees absorb sunlight and water to create food for themselves, i want to use this idea and so i created my design with 2 compartment, one is the current ideas that i have, second is the memory. I place my current ideas and my memory into Process 1: Idea generator to choose and select the one i want, next is to move the selected items up so i can see clearly now that i have selected the things i want, Last ideas will be branched out at the roof and even if ideas were branched out, more ideas can branch out from that single idea tree.
If i were to choose 5 topics that i like i would choose Heroes, Games in Movies, Crime, SuperNatural and A.I. First as we talk about heroes we all know that heroes in movies are all special, we can also think it in a way that even though we don't participate in movies or have healing powers, we are still a hero in our lifes. Heroes that helps others when one is in trouble. To me the heroes in my life is my grandmother and my parents. They give life to me and teach me well, although they are a nag sometimes but i know they care alot for me. Not to mention we all had our neighbourhood heroes like our police man, doctors, nurses. When a protagonist exist, a antagonist will appear. The antagonist in my family is my grandfather, wouldn't go into details on this anyway, When a life has both the good and the bad, we have already create a game.
Life is like a game, though we don't have a second chance when a crime is made but we have the choice to make our own decision. Whether to our wisdom wisely or destroy it. What happens when it's the end of one life? I once heard this phrase before "The end of one life is the beginning of the other" When one is dead the other is born. I believe this is true because everyday life is brought to earth. But what will actually happen when one is dead? It's all like what the others have been saying, supernatural. Those that claims to be able to see it, can't proff that they can but people just wants to believe. For me i use to believe there's ghost because of movies i watch. Now that i notice there isn't anything happening to me in my life that is not explainable, well maybe because i've been finding excuses of not believing it?
Movies are so popular that a movie theater can never go bankrupt. Everyday will be crowded and who would thought that we can watch games in movies as well? Movie is a good media that can tells us alot of things. Not just about the entertainment. Movies with games elements brings new ideas to people, like dreams in movies(Inception) or even fantasy in movies(Alice in Wonderland). Mixing game genres into movies gives people space of imagination. And i believe that with these imaginations we will be able to create something new.
Who would have thought that we can make robots now? Though the robots we seen in movies were always so intelligent, fast, strong and ability to think for themself. we can't really make one out like this for now. Since Japan has been playing with robots and making a human robot, they are able to make them walk by themself and make certain emotions. Maybe by combining robots and movies, we can even create a hollogram and watch our movies or even shift the hollogram around like Iron man 2. It would be cool if i can have one of those stuff =D
2) Speculate about the future of gaming
I didn't really think about it since we have all we wanted now and i am contented that we have laptops, Televisions, and even game console like Wii, PSP, etc. Well there's a few things i thought about when i finish watching a movie. I use to think that it would be great if the train station would stop by my house that i would not have to walk all the way to the station, or maybe have a teleport machine at home so i can just teleport to school or anywhere else, or maybe i can have a flying device so i can fly high up to the sky? When i play games i know that i can't just play enough of it. It's so good that i want to jump into the games and play real. Maybe life is too boring here for me since all i did is go to school, come home, eat, play games, sleep. Everyday life style. I wanted to change and perhaps i just want to run away from reality like how doraemon gives his buddy a time machine to stop time so he could finish his work on time?
Samuel Johnson
"Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion"
Quotation from:
http://quotations.about.com/cs/inspirationquotes/a/Life1.htm
so true indeed =D
3) Creativity
I've learn that inorder to be creative we need to absorbe what others did and combine them together. Example if we see a circle and we were to play with it there's many ways we can play with, throw it, toss it, lick it, eat it, give it away, etc. One can play in his own ways to create something out of it's imagination.
Here's my creativity model/game
The first thing that i base my design on is House and Tree, i combine it together because for me in order to be creative i want to feel comfortable like when i'm at home, this is where i feel most comfortable with and then i combine it with tree because trees absorb sunlight and water to create food for themselves, i want to use this idea and so i created my design with 2 compartment, one is the current ideas that i have, second is the memory. I place my current ideas and my memory into Process 1: Idea generator to choose and select the one i want, next is to move the selected items up so i can see clearly now that i have selected the things i want, Last ideas will be branched out at the roof and even if ideas were branched out, more ideas can branch out from that single idea tree.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Pseudoscience & Fringe Science
Since we all learn science before like physics and chemistry we know that we need to do both theory and practical test in order to pass and other than that we need to also prove our theory by doing experiments.
There are different types of science in this world. And since we are talking about science we know that mathematics is related as well. Pseudoscience is similar to fantasy whereby it inclues some real life elements. Science is actually alchemy in olden times and magic is involve. I don't really know if it is real since this worldi s full of mysteries and i don't know if there were people that don't age at all cause even if there is they wouldn't just come out and say i'm immotal.
Astrology is the predictions of celestial activity. Some of us has actually make predictions on what is doing to happen. Like a projection from an object. since we all are born differently we all have different personality as well and our moon sign and star sign plays a big role in our life.
Finge sciences is mostly called as weird science because phenomenona happens and it's just not logical at all. Hypnotism is something we all hears about as it is use in phychology treatment to make people remember that they forget like going back to the past. Hypnotism is something more to human beliefs, when one believe in it they will obey to it, I watch the myth busters doing test to see if hypnotism works on all people and sadly it works on all BUT when one is force to do an action they don't want to do they will not do it no matter how many hypnotism test they went.
Psychic phenomena works in a way that it is able to control something. Like an object moving etc. We actually proff this right because there's a guy being interviewed on tv asking him how he is able to play chess with just using his mind.
Dimentional Travel is something that is untouchable for now. Well i guess the only dimention we can go to is from Human to ghost. In the show fringe, in order for one to travel to another dimention called the parallel world, they need to find the correct spot. Like the weakest point for both earth and parallel world so that one can enter to the other side.
Fringe is nice to watch but if it really happens in real life i would say it is definately going to be a catastrophe. Humans that can explode, humans that change into a monster, human being used as experiments.
Game Design in this sense doesn't have much link to it unless some one is going to make a game using fringe science then it's possible other than that i think it's really nothing much to it.
photo taken from:
http://www.zona39.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/fringe-season-2-poster3.jpg
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)