Make Yourself

Here is what it is all about; time goes both ways in the human mind. The remembered past and the anticipated future are represented to consciousness from the same cognitive machinery of memory. Any hypothesis about the past or the future emerges from the same present state of meat. Is tomorrow presented to the present awareness with privilege over the past or is it the other way around? Is this the future  you remember?

The many plausible paths that brought you here and the many divergent paths that lead from here arise from simulations running in brains embedded in bodies. At three second intervals of each specious present we transport a virtual self forward in the direction of advancing time. The three second interval comprehends the interplay of working memory, short term memory and long term memory. The neurocorrelates of the cognitive now and the dream now make guesses about what happens next and the reaction to what happens next come alive as response to the current mess unfolding before me.

I have named the remembered past and the anticipated future the dream-now to distinguish it from the experiential now. The amazing fungibility of memory spans many possible past and future paths. The dream now is wondrously diverse. This impermanent self follows the laws of this universe in the multiverse. From this garden of the self each of us emerges.

Make your next slip a good slip, make yourself from the past self and your future self. You have just three seconds so act now; enjoy the ride foxes.

Stand Alone Complex 1.0

The astrologer I keep on retainer informs me that the blog demands a proper name. Ghost in the Shell rocks so now this is section 9.

I remonstrate for 'fail fast' approach to new platforms planted in the garden of old platforms. An accelerated life cycle works as a test bed for engaged action. Currently, fiefdoms of stakeholders resist starting because they are holding back on resources to negotiate a better deal. Plus, by holding back they can avoid the risky behavior of having a new idea. New ideas in isolation are difficult and anxiety producing. New ideas seem to commit me to uncertainty as a plan of action.

The idea is collective action without central authority until the first fail in a customer socket.

Roadmap Generation

Filters and Bottlenecks

Filters operate at multiple stages in a continuous series of process steps. An atmosphere of doubt creates filters across many opportunity selection steps. Filters are self-imposed or, more likely, emerge from many poor guesses about what happens next. The filters are constructed from past failures and result from a yearning not to repeat highly visible future failures.

Bottlenecks occur when some work product arrives at a stage where only a fixed number of activities are allowed. Wafer starts in a factory are a type of bottleneck. Every other stage could have filters (incremental yield depressed by defects per unit area too high) but having escaped at each of these stages the final bottleneck depends on the entire factory load and not on one particular lot. No matter how many brilliant discoveries in physics each year, only one Nobel in physics is awarded. Don't show up when the bus is full.

[ed. the last natural ginger post. now a member of the team B3asT]