Future HiYour Community for Visionary Art, Culture, Science and Spirituality. Seeking to create a joyous, infinitely expanding future; Future Hi is an online community exploring the frontiers of higher intelligence, accelerating technology, anthropological exodus, utopian dreams, trance, autonomy, imagination and logic.Evolution of human music through sexual selection part 2- July 18, 2007 On the other hand, we mustnt be dogmatic about group selection always being an unworkable or outdated idea. If music did have individual-level benefits, such as courtship benefits under sexual selection, then it may be possible for group selection to reinforce those individual benefits with group benefits. Under this model of group selection, there would be no necessary tension between the individual and group levels...http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000871.html Evolution of human music through sexual selection part 1- July 18, 2007 Geoffrey F. Miller Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution University College London Gower St., London, WC1E 6BT, England geoffrey.millerucl.ac.uk Published as: Miller, G. F. (2000). Evolution of human music through sexual selection. In N. L. Wallin, B. Merker, & S. Brown (Eds.), The origins of music, MIT Press, pp. 329-360. Introduction: A Darwinian approach to music evolution ... it appears probable that the progenitors...http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000870.html Going loopy over consciousness- July 16, 2007 Going loopy over consciousness Reviews: July 2007 I Am a Strange Loop Douglas Hofstadter 2007 Basic Books 412pp 14.99$26.95 hb Douglas Hofstadter's writing talent makes his love of paradox contagious. Reading I Am a Strange Loop inclines one to see whimsical connections, language games and self-reference everywhere. Part of Hofstadter invades one's brain and starts thinking there in its own right a phenomenon that...http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000869.html First "heat transistor" unveiled- July 16, 2007 First "heat transistor" unveiled 13 July 2007 Physicists in Finland and Italy claim to have built the worlds first "heat transistor" in which the flow of heat between two electrodes is controlled by a voltage applied to a third lead. The flow can be increased, decreased or even switched off by changing the voltage -- in much the same way as electrical current is controlled...http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000868.html Fund Drive- July 16, 2007 Hi Everyone It's been a while since I asked for donations. They are still needed. To run Future Hi and update the software, funds are required. At the beginning of the year I asked and did receive some funds. That help keep us going to the level we are now. Now it's time to ask for more. There is a paypal button you can use...http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000867.html |