| Novelty Theory |
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The theory proposes that the universe is an
engine designed for the production and
conservation of Novelty. Novelty, in this
context, can be thought of as newness, or
extropy... when "novelty" is graphed over
time, a fractal waveform known as simply the
timewave results. The graph shows at what
time periods, but never at what locations,
novelty increases or decreases... The graph
of extropy had many enormous fluctuations
over the last 25,000 years, but amazingly,
hit an asymptote at exactly December 21,
2012... In other words, entropy (or
habituation) no longer exists after that
date. It is impossible to define that state.
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| Terence McKenna - Timewave Zero - Novelty Theory (1/3) |
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Novelty theory attempts to calculate the ebb
and flow of novelty in the universe as an
inherent quality of time. It is an idea
conceived of and discussed at length by
Terence McKenna from the early 1970s until
his death in the year 2000. Novelty theory
involves ontology, morphogenesis, and
eschatology. Novelty, in this context, can be
thought of as newness, density of
complexification, and dynamic change as
opposed to static habituation. According to
McKenna, when "novelty" is graphed over time,
a fractal waveform known as timewave zero or
simply the timewave results. The graph shows
at what times, but never at what locations,
novelty is increasing or decreasing.
According to the timewave graph, great
periods of novelty occurred about 4 billion
years ago when Earth was formed, 65 million
years ago when dinosaurs were extinct and
mammals expanded, about 10,000 years ago
after the end of the ice age, around late
18th century when social and scientific
revolutions progressed, during the sixties,
around the time of 9/11, and with coming
novelty periods in November 2008, October
2010, with the novelty progressing towards
the infinity on 21st December 2012.
--Wikipedia
Sources:
The Fractal Time Software:
www.hermetic.ch/frt/frt.htm (note: there is a
free version around on the net/p2p)
Novelty theory at Wikipedia:
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_theory
Film footage from
www.photosynthesis.com/Terence_Mckenna.html
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| The Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience of Categorization, Novelty-Detec... |
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Google Tech Talks
November, 15 2007
ABSTRACT
Neurocomputational models provide fundamental
insights towards
understanding the human brain circuits for
learning new associations
and organizing our world into appropriate
categories. In this talk I
will review the information-processing
functions of four interacting
brain systems for learning and
categorization:
(1) the basal ganglia which incrementally
adjusts choice behaviors using environmental
feedback about the consequences of our
actions,
(2) the hippocampus which supports learning
in other brain regions through the creation
of
new stimulus representations (and, hence, new
similarity
relationships) that reflect important
statistical regularities in the
environment,
(3) the medial septum which works in a
feedback-loop with
the hippocampus, using novelty-detection to
alter the rate at which
stimulus representations are updated through
experience,
(4) the frontal lobes which provide for
selective attention and executive
control of learning and memory.
The computational models to be described have
been evaluated through a variety of empirical
methodoligies including human functional
brain imaging, studies of
patients with localized brain damage due to
injury or early-stage
neurodegenerative diseases, behavioral
genetic studies of
naturally-occuring individual variability, as
well as comparative
lesion and genetic studies with rodents. Our
applications of these
models to engineering and computer science
including automated anomaly
detection systems for mechanical fault
diagnosis on US Navy
helicopters and submarines as well more
recent contributions to the
DoD's DARPA program for Biologically Inspired
Cognitive Architectures
(BICA).
Speaker: Dr. Mark Gluck
Mark Gluck is a Professor of Neuroscience at
Rutgers University - Newark, co-director of
the Rutgers Memory Disorders Project, and
publisher of the public health newsletter,
Memory Loss and the Brain. He works at the
interface between neuroscience, psychology,
and computer science, where his research
focuses on the neural bases of learning and
memory, and the consequences of memory loss
due to aging, trauma, and disease. He is the
co-author of "Gateway to Memory: An
Introduction to Neural Network Models of the
Hippocampus and Memory " (MIT Press, 2001)
and a forthcoming undergraduate textbook,
"Learning and Memory: From Brain to
Behavior." He has edited several other books
and has published over 60 scientific journal
articles. His awards include the
Distinguished Scientific Award for Early
Career Contributions from the American
Psychological Society and the Young
Investigator Award for Cognitive and Neural
Sciences from the Office of Naval Research.
In 1996, he was awarded a NSF Presidential
Early Career Award for Scientists and
Engineers by President Bill Clinton. For more
information, see http://www.gluck.edu.
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| 80s Novelty hits |
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collection of novelty hits from the 1980s.
Young ones cliff richard livin doll neil hole
in my shoe toy dolls nellie the elephant
timelords doctor in the tardis spitting image
chicken song black lace agadoo matchroom mob
chas n dave snooker loopy the firm star
trekkin
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| Daniel Teruggi: The novelty of concrete music. |
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It is sixty years since Pierre Schaeffer
started "musique concrète" in Paris. Does it
make any sense to go on speaking of concrete
music today? Who are the composers who
perform it? A reply to these two questions
comes from this musical encounter of Tempo
Reale, headed by Daniel Teruggi, composer and
Director of Research, INA/GRM, the
institution founded by Schaeffer himself. He
led the listeners in a journey through the
present day and the history of a musical
genre which has had no mean influence on
contemporary languages.
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