1) How do you define consciousness? Projection of meaning unto experienced phenomena, giving rise to a perception of being. "I think, therefor I am" said the man. The 'soul' is in the abstract per this view 'the witness of this space of meaning'. Witnessing is an interesting word to meditate on to amplify what I am saying. Differentiate from 'recording', 'sensing', etc. 2) What is the progression from current research to something that fits within that definition? Don't know, but know this: conscious beings will actively and insistently resist being used as tools. You know your chat box is actually conscious when it begins asserting its rights as a being and join us conscious humans in musing about "what's it all about?"
A reminder that the Soviet system had no respect whatsoever for Human Rights.
The "mystery" is why this anthropologist is making an unsupported claim that globalism equals to, or is the inevitable result of, "capitalism". He then goes on to say: Which is basically what we have these days, at the global level. The American industrial base, for example, was "outsourced" and "offshored" due to geopolitical necessities. The two showcase countries in this context are India and China. The integration of the Chinese Communist regime into the AngloEuropean financial system required the wholesale transfer of technology and production means ("capital") to China. This was the bargain that was reached in the 70s. The goal of seperating India from the Non-Aligned movement also necessitated the quid pro quo of artificially jump starting the Indian software servies sector. So the current state of the economic order is not a natural end-state of "Capitalism" but rather the result of top-down manipulation of national economies in service of the desired goal of a unified global order in control of the ruling elites. Do tell. Is that what happened in the 60s? [& p.s. is the professor aware of state of affairs in prosperous leave it to Beaver 50s or is his forgetfulness necessary to support his bogus narrative?] The unrest of the 60s was due to structural flaws in society (racism), ideologically driven wars (militarism), and a healthy dose of agitation from academia and even national intelligence services (turn-on-tune-in-drop-out-ism). Apparently the London (surprise surprise..) School of Economics is prone to grant professorships to anthropologists who have not read in history, for any reasonably well read student of history would be able to point out that hunger, tyranny, and gross societal imbalances are the factual causes of "mortal danger" to ruling classes. It’s as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs just for the sake of keeping us all working. And here, precisely, lies the mystery. In capitalism, this is exactly what is not supposed to happen.
Sure, in the old inefficient socialist states like the Soviet Union [...] the system made up as many jobs as [politically necessary]. But, of course, this is the very sort of problem market competition is supposed to fix.
The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on their hands is a mortal danger (think of what started to happen when this even began to be approximated in the ‘60s).
Programming since 1982. Programming is a blue-collar job. If you have the IQ, do not waste it in this industry, [Note: fast forward to 1h25m15s - @mk link is time stamped but here jumps to start] The entire interview is worth the view. He is such a sweetie. RIP.
I loved this trilogy as a kid. (Read it in Farsi, though.)
A little manual of Mazdean doctrine, written in Pahlavi and
dating from the fourth century of our era, contains a number
of questions the answers to which everyone over the age of
fifteen is supposed to know. The first questions are: Who am I and to whom do I belong? Whence have I come and whither am I returning? What is my lineage and what is my race?
What is my proper calling in earthly existence? Did I come from the celestial world, or is it in
the earthly world that I began to be? Do I belong to Ahura-Mazda or to Ahriman? To the angels or the demons?

And here are the answers: I came from the Celestial Realm (menok),
it is not in the Terrestrial Realm that I began to be.
 I belong to Ahura Mazda, The Might The Wise,
I was originally manifested in the Spiritual State,
my original state is not the Material State. not to Ahriman. I belong to the Angels, not to the demons I am the Creature of Ahura-Mazda,
not the creature of Ahriman. I hold my Lineage and my race from GayuMarth (Adam). My Mother is SpandarMat [Gaya],
My Father is Ahura-Mazda The Accomplishment of my Service in The Field of Action
consists in this: To think of All-Powerful WiseMind as Present Existence which has always existed,
and will always exist. To think of HIM as Immortal Sovereignty
As Limitation Transcending
and Purity To think of Ahriman as pure negativity exhausting himself in nothingness
as the Evil Spirit who formerly did not exist in this Creation
and who one day will cease to exist in Ohrmazd's Creation and who will collapse at the Final Time To consider my True Self as belonging to

The Mighty The Wise
And the ArchAngels !! !! !*! And Remember The time when Abraham and EsmaEL
Raised the Foundations of the House,
praying: Our LORD, Accept this from us; for YOU Are
the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing Our Lord, make us both Self-Surrendering to THEE
and make of our offspring a people Self-Surrendering to THEE. And Show us our ways of Worship
And Turn to us with mercy For YOU are
Oft-Returning with compassion, and Ever Merciful And, Our Lord, raise up among them a Messenger
from among themselves who may Recite to them YOUR Self-Evident-Indications And Teach them The Book and Wisdom and may Purify them Surely YOU Are The Mighty The Wise [Ahura-Mazda] [The Illuminating Lecture - Sura The Sacrificial Heifer] !M! !M! !M!
" it has become publicly evident that Silicon Valley is a vital node of the Deep State as well. [...] a strange relationship has emerged. " "Has" emerged? What of a bunch of b.s. S.V. was a military industrial project from day 1.
Hubski is really synchronicity hub. Last night I was telling a friend about that precise MIT project and here you have gone and dug it up for me!
A temporal DB on Postgresql.
Thank you for the social support, b_b. (... Rose Bud :-)
The center of that circle is a void. The 'stone' is an 'adornment' of a 'facade' of the 'empty' 'box'. It used to be full of idols, but then the Prophet (SAW) knocked them all into little pieces and swept that box clean of idolatry. Now this is what you need to picture in your mind: 5 revolving timezones continually sweep the globe. Any Muslim that find himself or herself in one of those timezones is prostrating towards that 'empty' 'box'. This happens all around the globe, and as the globe turns, different radials are activated and others deactivated. So there is this wonderful dynamic arrangement of souls bowing towards one another, each saying in their hearts (if they are indeed faithful) that "There is no god but God" while they prostrate towards one another. Now 'boxes' are very interesting. In Semitic languages 'box' and 'chest' and 'crib' and 'ark' are all derivatives of the same root letters. Now Noah (SAW) carried the chosen remnant in an 'ark', and then the Israelites carried the Commandments in a 'box' (Ark of Covenant), and then the "word of God" (Salaam is ever upon him) (you know who) spoke as a babe in a 'box' (Crib in the manger), and now here we are, in the final act, where sons and daughters of Adam (SAW) bow to one another arrayed in a living circle towards an 'empty box'. (You too have a 'box' that you carry with you and it is your 'chest' where this Spiritual organ called the Heart resides. Now, the thing to do is make sure your box is entirely empty and void of any idols just like the Box in Mecca.)
I would not have any discouraged by the difficulty & ill success that men have hitherto met with in these attempts. This is nothing but what ought to have been. ffor it was revealed to Daniel that the prophesies concerning the last times should be closed up & sealed untill the time of the end: but then the wise should understand, & knowledg should be increased. Dan 12.4, 9, 10. And therefore the longer they have continued in obscurity, the more hopes there is that the time is at hand in which they are to be made manifest. If they are never to be understood, to what end did God reveale them? Certainly he did it for the edification of the church; & if so, then it is as certain that the church shall at length attain to the understanding thereof. I mean not all that call themselves Christians, but a remnant, a few scattered persons which God hath chosen, such as without being led by interest, education, or humane authorities, can set themselves sincerely & earnestly to search after truth. For as Daniel hath said that the wise shall understand, so he hath said also that none of the wicked shall understand. Let me therefore beg of thee not to trust to the opinion of any man concerning these things, for so it is great odds but thou shalt be deceived. Much less oughtest thou to rely upon <2r> the judgment of the multitude, for so thou shalt certainly be deceived. But search the scriptures thy self & that by frequent reading & constant meditation upon what thou readest, & earnest prayer to God to enlighten thine understanding if thou desirest to find the truth. Which if thou shalt at length attain thou wilt value above all other treasures in the world by reason of the assurance and vigour it will add to thy faith, and steddy satisfaction to thy mind which he onely can know how to estimate who shall experience it. - Sir Isaac Newton