I'm doing 20 things
Exist: To experience this flesh and blood body
3 years ago
sunson's Life List
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1. learn hindustani
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2. experience Nibbana
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3. Run a Carnatic Music Sabha
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4. perform on stage
75 people -
5. learn sound engineering
1 cheer3 people -
6. learn to play the mandolin
1 cheer252 people -
7. race a car
38 people -
8. produce my own food
3 people -
9. Love someone for all that they are
3 people -
10. learn music
1 cheer75 people -
11. Go to Mars
136 people -
12. die painlessly
46 people -
13. fly a space ship to another galaxy
6 people -
14. garden
285 people -
15. meet hippies
2 people -
16. attend the burning man festival
256 people -
17. meet a robot
1 entry3 people -
18. play jazz guitar
21 people -
19. read all of asimov's books
3 people -
20. speak japanese
290 people
Recent entries
The current-day pathetic Sabhas
3 years ago
The Sabhas of today are pathetic (barring a few) in terms of giving a ‘quality concert experience’.
The plan is to run a Carnatic sabha that does the following well:
1. Have an own hall for the sabha that has excellent acoustics.
2. Hire a professional sound engineer (or be the sound engineer, after doing a course on sound engineering :) )
3. Book top notch artists.
4. Have schemes to encourage budding talents.
5. and please… the mixing console should be at the rear end of the hall. Not close to the artists!
6. Ban mobile phones, pagers and babies in the hall.
7. One top notch canteen to keep up with the Concert tradition :)
Meeting a Robot
4 years ago
Consciousness is a ‘barely’ defined thing. Can a robot have a ‘consciousness’ comparable to us? (or even to, say, a slightly lower form Mammal). Just because I don’t “feel” the “code” thats running beneath my skull doesn’t mean I’m not a robot. Humans are chemical robots. Like how, to a computer, inputs alter its ‘state’, chemical inputs have shown that our ‘state’ can be altered.
I would really like to talk to a robot. It would be like talking to yet another species, probably the one that is going to ‘obsolete’ us humans and represent Intelligence in alien lands.
