MXP Article

I've got an MXP article on cybertechnews.com.

Back to that chess match Beth Coleman brought up:

Suppose that Yuri and 3Jane are sitting in a drawing room playing at chess. Between them is a checkered board with pieces on it; the black pieces belong to Yuri, suppose, and the white to 3Jane.

There are some great parallels with a virtual world here:

1) the chess board, like the virtual world, is not a continuum; it is broken up into a discrete coordinate system

2) Yuri and 3Jane are participants in a consensual experience.

3) the chess pieces are objects, and each is owned by a particular participant

4) the rules of chess, the strategies, etc. are IN THE MINDS of the participants; not in the chess board itself

Arkowitz

intelligence is green

There is a lot of emphasis on being green these days. There is a growing consensus that we are going to destroy the world with our wasteful, polluting ways. We are not.

The carbon dioxide we are adding to the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels... we get it out of the ground. How did it get into the ground in the first place? Where was it before organisms decomposed and became oil? Didn't the abundance of life on the earth millions of years ago lead directly to the depositing of oil and other fossil fuels into the ground? From the air, to the ground. From the ground, to the air.

If we are not destroying the world, then why is our wasteful way of life so intuitively bad? I believe it is bad because we make everything ugly. Because we create conditions which bring about our own misery.

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Intelligence is the ultimate way to be green. All technologies for energy production are problematic; it is the intelligent application of mixtures of them - and, even more, the intelligent use of the energy itself - which leads to harmony.

Green is beauty.

Arkowitz

the mathematical implications

In my emerging cosmology, energy is the fourth dimension, not time.

Arkowitz

time in virtual worlds

Godel's extension of Einstein's work shows us that time does not really exist. It is imaginary. There is no time - only space and energy.

Just as the past is not an additional "dimension" into which we could ever travel, because the past exists only in our heads and the heads of many other organisms as well; the future is imaginary too. There is only the distribution of energy through space right now.

This only is the only of science, logic, and some aspects of the "creative" art of philosophy. Time surely exists because we bring it into being; we the participants in shared sensory experiences; communication.

This is the role of virtual worlds as well.

I hereby redefine a virtual world as a shared space-energy, no longer a shared spacetime. The time part will emerge as a direct result of the messages sent to the bubble server; I used to think croquet's teatime did this but then I read something that made me think it doesn't; rather, it enforces an arbitrary definition of time; a synchronized clock. We will not synchronize a clock; we will make time a function of messages arriving. Messages are packets of energy in space, and they appear to move, to us.

Arkowitz/Ben


ps - Beth Coleman's analogy of a chess game applies quite well to virtual worlds and will be the subject of my next post hopefully

new focus on biotech

Green Phosphor has joined a small business incubator, run by FAMU and the SBA. This has allowed us to move into fantastic office space in Innovation Park. When I look out my window I see two buildings: the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and the Northwest Regional Data Center.

I'm very close to finalizing Green Phosphor's business plan. We're focusing on the biotech industry, and will be using our patent-pending 3D user interface technology to create an appliance for model based drug development. I can't wait to see genes, codons, hormones, proteins, and their interactions - all in 3D within the virtual world. Here's a video we just made, introducing the technology.

Ed has been working very hard on the first public beta of our Glasshouse gateway. It's a Java application which can be launched from our website and used to connect to your own databases, allowing you and other users to see the data you publish in 3D in our public Sun Wonderland sandbox, Second Life, or your own Wonderland instance! We'll have it live within a couple weeks!

I'm very excited about the new year!

currently reading: Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson

Cheers,
Ben

global warming will save the frogs

unification

As things move forward through time, they lose energy. This entropy is an increase in complexity. Thought processes suffer from an increase in complexity as well; take as a simple example the counting of the whole numbers starting from 1. Every prime encountered along the way is a major increase in complexity.

Life is the process of architecting a solution to the multidimensional prediction problem of how to continue life.

Life uses information flow to optimize its fight against entropy.

Information flow may be accomplished using resonance of spinning fields with one another. Resonance may be the way to solve the uncertainty problem; a system may be measured but not interfered with if we have another system achieve resonance with it and then measure the second system.

Imagine a unification of Einstein, Godel, Heisenberg, and ... Tesla.

Arkowitz