Below is a record of a conversation I had with the OpenAI trained chatbot called ChatGPT.

Me: I read that human cognitive experience is .5 seconds delayed from present time. Can you explain how this is known?

ChatGPT: It’s true that human cognitive experience is typically thought to be slightly delayed compared to the present moment, but the exact amount of delay is not well-established and there is some disagreement among researchers about the precise amount of delay. Some studies have suggested that the delay may be as short as 100 milliseconds, while others have found evidence for a longer delay of around half a second. Continue reading →

I recently found this letter written by myself in the mid 1980s to myself in 1978.

Claude;

As you are no doubt aware even after the most cursory observation, you cannot hold an aim steadily for more than a few minutes, hours, or maybe days. I don’t recall an example of the latter but let’s give you the benefit of the doubt. Even so, you cannot maintain attention on a project for the months and years required for voluntary evolution.

Voluntary evolution is not a quick and easy process. If I told you the actual time required to evolve to any significant degree you would find it to hard to believe. Let it suffice to say that it takes at least years. Continue reading →

A group interconnected, cooperative, and functional.

That’s it. Well, accept for one small added ingredient: a love of the Work.

There may or may not be recipes for cooking up a Work machine from a solo individual. I can’t say whether it is possible or not.  I have my suspicions. But that’s not the kind of thing I’m involved in. So for that info you’ll need to look elsewhere.

That leaves us with Group.

If there is no interconnection then we are back to a bunch of individuals — and, that won’t work for this recipe.

Generally speaking a group dynamic  is either cooperative, competitive, or a mixture of the two. In the case of this recipe it needs to be cooperative all the way.

That leaves us with the final ingredient. The group can either be functional or dysfunctional. For the recipe to be complete (and the group bake, rise, or gel) the group needs to be functional. This does not mean the group needs to be functional at money making. The measure of functional is dependent on the specifics of the group.

This is a wordpress embed test of the virtual galleries produced by KunstMatrix.com. Nadija Szram (Fine Art International) has kindly sent us the sample embed code to access this gallery.

Enjoy.

Consider a time line.

This time line is fundamentally a mathematical construct. We  contrive a three arbitrary points — a point in the past, a point for the present, and a point in the future.

It is not unusual for people to have the experience of time flowing from the past to the future. Continue reading →