Prof de Garis explaining his thoughts on cyborgs
http://profhugodegaris.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/nocyborgs.pdf

Prof de Garis’ interview with Ben Goertzel
http://profhugodegaris.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/nocyborgsbghugo.pdf
More of his essays
http://profhugodegaris.wordpress.com/essays/

Another is Journey where you anonymously are paired up with other travelers as you venture on a life journey up to the peak of a mountain in the distance.

The more popular these types of games become and the more attention they recieve, the more big companies will back more artsy, creative projects tha t could benefit the overall minds of the gaming culture, instead of flooding the market with mindless war simulations where you run around on the same maps over and over trying to kill as many of the opposing team as possible, or just get revenge on the guy that killed you.

I can only imagine the possibilities of a gaming culture if and when a VR online environment ever take place.

Btw: Therapists are humans too, prone to succumb to all kinds of bias.

And how do good therapists know which questions to ask?Right, there are tons of categorizations to enable the therapist to know which malfunction is bugging their patient.

If asking questions were all it takes, people should just go to kindergarten.Children can ask lots of questions.

Seriously, sometimes I ask myself how people come up with all this simplistic stuff.

Life is the best comedy there is.

Not for me, thanks. I’ll keep my healthy suspicion for anyone in authority.

But thank you very much; nonetheless! I just want to make clear I don’t merrit your praise, since doing this comes naturally to me.It’s like other some other innate attributes humans can possess: e.g your height, your misandry; etc.

But actually, thinking about it, this superpower makes me want to be evil.So expect no further help.

If anything this would make the experiment even MORE sloppy.

…have you seen that funny FB quote that is going around with a picture of Albert Einstein on the pic and says…”Help me understand the logic of this: Watching 2 hours of violence in a movie has no influence on our behavior BUT a 30 second Super Bowl ad is worth 3.8 Million dollars because it will make us run out and buy a product.” (I don’t think Albert was making this quote of course or watching any Super Bowls, but it was a clever comment).

*** the other thing that I think could skew the results is the fact that participants know they are being watched. Maybe results are different if they are presented with a problem to fix an no one is watching. Most video games will be played at home when no one is watching and many people respond differently when being anonymous (just check out the angry trolls at the bottom of any CNN hot topic). Most avatars or online profiles are void of your real name or real character, so this could go both ways… I just think cops for example behave differently when they know they are in view of their dash cams. I think we all want to be our best selves and will be interesting to see if a video game can remind us for example how to awaken our better self.

ted.com has some interesting experiments about cheating…where if they are reminded not to cheat, then cheating goes way down….if participants thinks everyone cheats a bit, then everyone cheats a bit and feels OK about it. Some interesting ones on social pressures to conform (people in a room and giving answers to a problem will even lie to sound like everyone else to fit in or not buck the trend, even if they know the answer is false). We are so busy upgrading our technology, but human instincts are hard wired in for lots of other reasons (survival is just one) and may not advance to keep pace with our

Government’s experts work tirelessly to fullfil the people’s wish to make them behave.

Mel: “This is just to emphasize how stupid protocols entail stupid interpretations!”
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Marin: “and I bet your interpretation would include…makes you the 3rd subconsciously misogynous commentator on this site.” tltqc

It is well-known that not all schools teach reading skills that go beyond phonics and into the the realm of comprehension, also known as “actually understanding something”.Or in colloquial speech: “getting it”.

One major reason for this might be the fact that deep understanding of a topic can’t be easily measured by standarized multiple-choice questions. The canning of education is a goal of many western nations because it allows the employment of people that aren’t well-suited to the tasks of teaching, and such standarized tests take part of the harder work these occupations entail “from the teacher’s backs”, thus allowing the reduction of unemployement figures while paying comparatively low wages (especially considering the importance of education) to essentially unqualified workers .

Without going to far into these matters, I think it acceptable to mention thinking skills because they must invariably (in this day and age) suffer if there are problems with reading comprehension.

This is the case because the process of psychological maturation rests on the intake (e.g reading) and processing (e.g reflection) of information.The impairment of these key capabilites can slow down the process of becoming a fully matured person; or even bring it to a halt entirely.

An example for the results of these harmful policies would be someone asserting that one’s own evaluation of an individual magically transforms/determines the real nature of the evaluated individual.

Whether really meant that way or just phrased carelessly, the articulation of such a sentiment is a prime example for the muddy thinking style encouraged by our educational institutions.To paraphrase Nietzsche: To improve style means to improve thinking.

Of course, one should take into account the background of the writer.Poor Mr.X ,for example, can’t be held accountable for his (or her, to avoid the accusation of misogyny) horrendous style because he (or she, to avoid the accusation of misogyny) stems from a place where the overwhelming majority of the population show a stunning lack of both style and superpowers.

Anyway: I found melajara’s critic to be justified.This kind of research smells -not literally, of course- like bad “science” (not to mention the simplistic terms good and evil).

Ps: Mr.X preferes the grey zone, which automatically makes him evil to all those who deem themselves on the white, light, right, side.

ah, you got the point.

and I bet your interpretation would include some kind of Freudian penis envy for half of the group, right? Which, by my careless count, makes you the 3rd subconsciously misogynous commentator on this site.

Flying, for a male dreamer, is a potent symbol for sexual arousal if not performance (since an erection is per definition a way to cancel out gravity). So, the so called supermen were subconsciously sexually aroused. Now comes a female investigator who inadvertently is making pens fall. But pens are another potent metaphor for sexual performance (there are indeed in several languages dirty jokes associating pens and penis and wait, actually in English they are just different by a single standing letter! ).

No wonder the aroused “supermen” were prone to help with the spilled pens!

This is just to emphasize how stupid protocols entail stupid interpretations!