Pierre Levi. Inteligencia colectiva

"¿Qué es inteligencia colectiva? Es una forma de inteligencia
universalmente distribuida, constantemente realzada, coordinada en
tiempo real, y resultando en la movilización efectiva de habilidades.
Agregaré la siguiente característica indispensable a esta definición. La
base y meta de inteligencia colectiva es el reconocimiento mutuo y
enriquecimiento de individuos en vez del culto de comunidades
fetichistas o hyperestatizadas.

Mi premisa inicial se basa en la noción de una inteligencia
universalmente distribuida. Nadie sabe todo, todos saben algo, todo
conocimiento reside en la humanidad. No hay una provisión trascendente
de conocimiento y el conocimiento es simplemente la suma de lo que
sabemos. La luz de la mente brilla aun cuando intentamos persuadir a
otros que no existe ninguna (inteligencia): fracaso educativo, ejecución
repetitiva, subdesarrollo. El juicio demasiado prominente de la
ignorancia se vuelve en contra de los jueces. Si estás tentado a juzgar
a alguien de ignorante, busca el contexto en el cual su conocimiento se
pueda transformar en oro. "

Para uno que decia que no tiene adicción

One of the obstacles to the study of drug dependence is the question of whether animals experience true addiction, rather than simply self-administering drugs. Two recently published papers in Science present evidence for a transition from drug taking to compulsive drug-seeking behaviour in rats — which parallels compulsive behaviour in humans — and help to explain the conditions under which this occurs.
Vanderschuren and Everitt reported that in rats trained to self-administer cocaine, there was a transition from casual drug taking to the compulsive drug seeking that is characteristic of addictive behaviour. They showed that the presentation of a conditioned harmful stimulus (the delivery of an electric shock) curbed drug-seeking behaviour in rats with a short-lived exposure to cocaine but had no effect in rats that had experienced a prolonged access to the drug. This effect was not seen when a natural reinforcer, sucrose, was used in place of the drug. Moreover, further experiments showed that an increase in incentive value of the drug and reduced fear conditioning or pain sensitivity could not explain these changes in behaviour. So, extended drug experience seems to induce compulsive, addiction-like behaviour. Deroche-Gamonet et al. showed a similar transition to compulsive behaviour in rats after prolonged access to cocaine, again evident from an increase in drug seeking when the drug was not available and persistent drug taking in the face of harmful consequences (shock conditioning). Furthermore, these authors reported high levels of activity motivated towards procuring the drug. This was measured using a 'progressive-ratio schedule', whereby the number of responses required to receive the drug progressively increases until the animal reaches 'breaking point' (the maximum amount of work that an animal is prepared to do to receive the reward); the dependent rats showed higher breaking points. These three symptoms were present only in a subset (17%) of the rats — similar to the percentage of human cocaine users that are diagnosed as addicts — whereas the remainder tended to show a decrease in these addiction-like behaviours over time, despite no differences in cocaine intake during the self-administration period. Importantly, a high level of drug-seeking behaviour was associated with relapse after periods of withdrawal of either 5 days or 30 days, which was not seen in rats that showed low levels of addiction-like behaviour. These two papers present an animal model that distinguishes between drug taking and true addiction, and so opens up new avenues for the study of the biological mechanisms of drug dependence. Crucially, this might help to answer some key questions, such as why some individuals are more vulnerable to addiction than other.

Publicado en prestigiosa revista cientifica el October 2004 Vol 5 No 10

El viento

La vida despues de un hackmeeting, nuevo año, nuevas inquietudes
Como las cosas se las lleva el viento, como muchas veces lo importante no es decirlo, sino hacerlo, porque no es tan vital el dinero, el entorno, la politica, el que sepan lo que hacemos, sino cosas intangibles como no perder la prespectiva de que somos personas coexionadas por diferentes inquietudes, (tan dispersas y tan diversas como jamás podamos imaginar), desde aqui te lanzo una propuesta de trabajo en común:
ROMPIENDO TOPICOS
Por mi parte :
poner el maximo esfuerzo en aprender todo lo que me puedas enseñar,
a que un joven me enseñe a vivir su prespectiva
a pasar de "Maruja de pro" a h*.*
a cambiar de Guindows a Linux
a desvincular los topicos de charlas sociales y charlas técnicas
modificar la prespectiva de genero femenino a prespectivas sin genero
a trabajar, paso a paso, en un entorno que posiblemente nuestros conciudadanos calificasen de cibernetico, en aras de demostrar que cualquier mujer corriente puede ser un h*.* en un año.
a documentarlo
a implementarlo
y a publicarlo

y como cierre te propongo esta frase para un posible blog: "Lo importante no es el sexo de los angeles, son los demonios que llevamos dentro."
María