When somebody asks you, “what are you thinking about these days?” wouldn’t it be nice to just hand them a “thought” they can load into their own head, rewind, rethink, and extend for themselves?
This is really the problem I’m working on these days: portable thought streams
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My hypothesis is that this is the dual problem to the problem of psychohistory, and once you crack portable thought streams, you’ll have a viable attack on psychohistory.
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Think of it as memetic cloning. In the limit, transferring all active thought processes to another mind. Not upload to cloud, but pass-forward, like a newton’s cradle momentum transfer. I wrote about a restricted version of the idea (memory transfer) here ribbonfarm.com/2014/03/06/imm
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That’s a book, no? But a short one, that you compose and compile and transfer on the spot.
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*Some* kinds of good writing is *sometimes* a special case of portable thought streams. Music is probably the best simple example.
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It's nice that you have friends who like to ask what you are thinking about, that you have pleased them with describing your thoughts, to where they want more. Also, you just described a zine. Print zines, carry them, hand them out.
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What can print zines do on this front that blogs don’t do much better? I genuinely don’t get the appeal.
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Approximating this is a big part of what I like about twitter
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Morning! Woke up at 5am with Victor Wooten’s “it’s so simple, but we make it hard” quote on my mind
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