Back from Cottage

 I'll say one word - Bandwidth.  None at the old tin hut in the woods.  

Arctic air still draining down on us.  We in Toronto, have been enjoying a sliver of heat.  It was so nice at the cottage with a cool wind off the lake.  So Islandishy.

Still cold in trumpy country.  Ha.  

The Arctic air looks disorganized.  That's good for summer.  Still some drainage on us from an Arctic vortex.  Bad for summer.  I'll let you know when it dies.

I stopped my AI (Artie) articles for now.  So many scaling limits, it blew up my head.  Look to more 'fancy' thoughts as they make it bigger.  A fundamental scaling limit, based on the laws of physics.  Although fantasy always ignores the big cliff ahead, it's still there, and the Arties are going to hit it.

ps 'fancy' - hellucynations - too big to type.

ps I really like to collect the most dramatic predictions.  Not a chance, but what happens when it fails, like all other doomer things?  Nothing.

For mass destruction there has to be heat energy, not just a 'flash in the pan' micro 1 day heatwave.

ps Ha, imagine if this got into Influencer Land.  The tech giant also says that Gemini Omni understands physics, history, science and cultural context. It understands gravity, kinetic energy, fluid dynamics and more.

Neurons and Brain - Part 3

 Scaling Limit - Energy.  Neurons take a lot of energy.

Back to our worm, he needs a neuron.  These are cells that go 'ballistic' when agitated.  They have an unstable charge arrangement.  Add just a few electrons, and more are shed, down in a wave that resembles a copper wire, but not the same.  

Neurons and brain cells are almost the same.  A neuron needs a sheath or tube to confine it to be long, and I don't really know what came first.  They also have their little buds or axioms, that can initiate a charge run, or are charged by it.

The worm picks up a neuron that runs its length.  This helps it immensely to know when something is chomping on its butt.  Obviously, evolution provides more.  The worm is generating a current at the head to know which way is which.  All these neurons grow to the head, and then stop.  They are workaholics and have to do something, so all these creatures develop a nerve tangle at the head.  This is our first brain, and it the main reason we exist.

Tied at the top, they develop sensors, and training, so that when a big dark thing hovers overhead, they scoot. (again, another million years)

Just as molybdenum controlled the first life, neurons define the meaning of 'animal'.  And a nerve tangle defines a 'brain'.

How the tangle works now presents other scaling limits.  It all the same with Arties, where the tangle is formed from chips.  Plants can develop reactions, but it is a broader charge cascade, like the Venus fly trap, and not neurons.  

- to be continued - too dang hot.

ps SERIES ENDING!  Can't think my way to the end.

Cottage Report - Victoria Day

 Really hot.  We are hoping the dragonflies pop out today.  No weather charts today, but it is the same old.  The Arctic has a huge inventory of cold air and it keeps pouring out, with no tropical plumes to fight it.  The tropics temperature chart is diving like a rock.  

'Extreme Weather' is now being hijacked as a clange thing.  Fifa will burn.  All great stuff.

ps this one is the best