Michele Pasin / Quotes

Five kinds of identity criteria

So far, we have identified the following classification of identity criteria: style, socio-political system, technological capabilities, strata, and cultural influence. This list will be refined and extended in the near future.

Saved 26 February 2013

#cultural-influences #future #style

The artist's "style" is that peculiar way in which he composed the constituent parts.

Forgers understand this principle very well because in trying to present a painting as a 'Renoir' what they do is to carefully maintain as invariant as…

Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana #relation #style #painting #experts

The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures

Graphics, charts, and maps aren’t just tools to be seen, but to be read and scrutinized. The first goal of an infographic is not to be beautiful just for the…

The Functional Art: An Introduction To Information Graphics And Visualization #style #infographics #emotions #comprehension #sentences

adjectiv

adjective deliberately exaggerated and theatrical in style, typically for humorous effect: the movie seems more camp than shocking or gruesome. • (of a man or…

Osx Dictionary #style #movies #actors #cAMP #nouns

AI and the Lamarckian evolution of our species

By engineering our own offspring, many have proposed that Artificial Intelligence can lead to the Lamarckian evolution of our species. In contrast to Darwin’s…

Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) #evolution #artificial-intelligence #future #humanity

Dewey and going green

John Dewey supported parents at a time when the United States was transitioning from an agricultural to an industrial age. Had someone mentioned “going green”…

Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney) #education #environment #children #future

Different connections, different kinds of self

Where Greenfield gets a little more speculative is when she imagines the variations in types of selves which might emerge if different kinds of connections…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #brain #self #future