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My PDA tells me that the quarterly dinner for the DC Transhumanists is supposed to be tonight. But I cannot find any references on the web to confirm this....
Harvey Newstrom
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Jun 1, 2006
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Hi Harvey, NO meeting is scheduled for JUNE. To be sure, DC Future Salon meetings are usually the FIRST WED of each month. However, our last meeting was two...
Bruce J. Klein
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Bruce, You're slightly confused here: Harvey was not asking about the DC Future Salon, but rather about another (currently less active) group, the DC ...
Ben Goertzel
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Jun 1, 2006
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Whoops... I confused DC Transhumanist w/ DC Future Salon ;-) Harvey, I don't know if DC Transhumanist meet tonight. ... -- Bruce J. Klein, President Novamente...
Bruce J. Klein
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Jun 1, 2006
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I was actually asking about the local WTA / Life Extension Society / DC Futurists, not the DC Future Salon. I know when these meetings are, and our websites...
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... Yes, I plan to attend myself. DC Transhumanists are meeting in Crystal City VA, Hamburger Hamlet, on the right hand side as you come up the escelator from...
Alan Grimes
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By the venue, I'm assuming that the transhuminists aren't all vegetarian, which frankly boggles my mind. Something doesn't quite connect in the logic there -...
Sibley Verbeck
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Hi Sibley, While hamburgers are clearly not healthy, I don't think it's well-demonstrated that a non-vegetarian diet is necessarily unhealthy. There are pretty...
Ben Goertzel
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Wow, I have to say that that is completely wrong. Fish is the largest food product by weight in this country that is not regulated by contents. I've done...
Sibley Verbeck
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Sibley, I guess this is somewhat off-topic for dcfuture, but it's of interest to me, so I'll continue anyway ;-) Do you feel that the fish on sale locally at...
Ben Goertzel
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(while enjoying a delicious vegan dinner), looks like IBM Almaden had a similar idea to the AGIRI workshop with their Cognitive Computing conference, including...
Melanie Swan
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Jun 1, 2006
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There is a big distinction between farm-raised fish (articles have suggested not consuming more than 1 portion of farm-raised salmon per month) and wild fish,...
Melanie Swan
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Jun 1, 2006
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Interestingly, though, if you look at IBM's workshop programme, it is extremely neuroscience-focused, whereas the AGIRI workshop was more ...
Ben Goertzel
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... Sorry I didn't see this answer until too late. Maybe next time. -- Harvey Newstrom <HarveyNewstrom.com> CISSP CISA CISM CIFI NSA-IAM GSEC ISSAP ISSMP...
Harvey Newstrom
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Jun 2, 2006
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... I agree. Vegetarians tend to live longer. It now seems clear that this is due to antioxidants, high fiber, low fat, low calorie. I find the vegetarian...
Harvey Newstrom
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Jun 2, 2006
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... The vegitarians I've run into have all been emaciated husks for lack of protein. 'nuff said. -- Don't let your schoolwork get in the way of your learning. ...
Alan Grimes
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Alan, that is just foolish! Vegetarianism, done properly, is definitely a healthy diet ... and furthermore, I've known plenty of overweight "junk food ...
Ben Goertzel
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Whatever you ingest, taste it first. Preferably raw. I bought and immediately tested some vitamin E at the Harvest Coop in Central Square, Cambridge a couple...
Bruce A. McHenry
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Thanks to Harvey Newstrom for his well written and thoughtful contribution to this thread. I agree on all of his points though do not yet use or test flax...
Bruce A. McHenry
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... I just watched the video on my new broadband connection and I must say: "What a marvelously brilliant fool!". He begged off questions about how the frontal...
Alan Grimes
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Interesting but still not fully revealing of their activities http://www.numenta.com/Numenta_HTM_Concepts.pdf...
Melanie Swan
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Harvey, (At the risk of extending the discussion, if not life.) Regarding butter/margarine products, there's a product called "Smart Balance Light" which feeds...
Ralph Broom
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Jun 2, 2006
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... I think it's a good article. In fact, it does seem to fairly fully reveal the scope and nature of their current scientific activities, though it says...
Ben Goertzel
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"Ben Goertzel" <ben@...> wrote, ... I agree. Bloom's Taxonomy of cognitive thought has six levels of intellectual skills. What we have here is the...
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... It's unhealthy to eat farm-raised fish, and generally environmentally unsound to eat wild fish. __________________________________________________ Do You...
Phil Goetz
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... Many transhumanists are vegetarian, but few exercise every day. Yet the life-extending benefits of exercise are considerably better-proven than those of...
Phil Goetz
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Alan Grimes <agrimes@...> wrote, ... It is very easy to get too little protein on a vegetarian diet. (Just as it is very easy to get too much...
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"Ralph Broom" <rbroom@...> wrote, ... Cool. ... I use Olivio, which is olive oil based. Same reasons. It lowers bad cholesterol and raises good...
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I read Hawkins' paper and clearly he DOES have a theory of behavior. I'm not sure why he was feigning ignorance at the IBM conferance... He definitely knows...
Alan Grimes
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