In Search of Zora

Ran across this Wired article, "5 Things Google Still Needs to Fix in Android" via Twitter.  Skimming through, I quickly lost count of the number of comment/critiques along the lines of: "make everything the same", "don't let users...", "prevent apps from..."

This is timely reminder for me as to why certain colleagues favor Apple software.

It's also stark reminder for me as to why I do not.

There is Grandeur in this View of Life

(Notes on Richard Dawkins' AAI 2009 Address)

Information on how to handle the present (so as to survive into the future) is necessarily gleaned from the past. The database (or manual) exists in the gene pool.In all living kingdoms, the fundamental components of DNA are identical.

The Four Memories: DNA (primary that configures the rest)

1. Immune 
2. System
3. Nervous System
4. Culture

DNA: Genetic 'Book of the Dead' (Past)

• Useful manual for survival in the future
• Contains instructions on past environments and how to outsmart (or survive) them
• Every 'member' is a sample from the species' database
• Species = Genre?
• Note: DNA in all gene pools contain information regarding parasites

Immune System (Past)

• Contains instructions on past diseases and how to survive them
• We don't contract polio because our bodies have been fooled into thinking that we have contracted it in the past (vaccinations = false memories)
• Built up by quasi-Darwinian process of random variation and non-random selection of proteins for their capacity to neutralize invaders

Brain Memory (Present)

• Reasoned trial and error process (another analogy to genetic mutation)
• Searching for food = punishment vs. rewardLimited to our personal experiences in the present

Culture (Future)

• Imprints of the ancestors' 'brain memory' live beyond them