The left isn't to help the "little guy", it's prevent the "little guy" from becoming the "big guy" ie. successful, think about it, what happens to the small company who eventually grows to an enterprise? They become the enemy.

Progressive's aren't after conservatives anymore, anyone who's a capitalist is under attack.

Well, depends on the wavelength of laser light.

Such as processing times for apps, possibly flops, but for the average user that won't mean much either.

TCM is a far left website, I wouldn't trust anything they say, they seem out to trash anyone who's even is slightly to the right. This really isn't news, Reid, or most likely his cronies, copied the website and is using it now. Ya I can see how that would tick anyone off.

I agree, a digital circuit is most likely the worst way to simulate intelligence, since all intelligences, as we know it, uses analog processing. I'm wondering if we ever had put more emphasis on analog computing that we would already have human level AI?!

Damn keyboard, should be "you'll be able work to anywhere you like"

well I think it's work environments more than culture. A lot of companies/government agencies promote competitiveness, and this often means feeding off of one another in the corporate chain, ie. the "shark and carp" mentalities, if your seen as wrong, your competition in the corporation will often use that to attack and use that to discredit you and any ideas you may have. So typically people can never show that they are wrong.

I do agree with thee article though, companies can be much more productive and innovative if they only did not promote such competitiveness.

Ahmen to that!

Exactly, the desktop is the one thing that's easy to upgrade and to change on a whim. Laptops are OK, but don't have the same capabilities. I'm betting the truly biggest innovation will be, once someone has a wireless video card and Monitor to go with the wireless keyboard, mouse and wireless DVD/Blu-ray/CD drive the desktop will be able to be placed anywhere and you'll be able to anywhere you like, giving you more mobility than a laptop.

I was talking about him http://www.fastcompany.com/1656055/falcon-9-spacex-rockets-commercial-space-musk-launch-nasa-obama being broke, not the company. Still SpaceX doesn't have to much to sell just yet, they are still pretty much in the start-up phase.

Well done Elon, Here's hoping you can stay afloat a little longer to get us back into space!

Yes they do have hallucinatory experiences but I don't see a necessary connection to Jayne's theory, and an imaginary childhood friend is defined as a hallucination? Imagination yes but not a hallucination.

Really, please show me why this is nonsense? This actually make much more sense than reversing it.

Really?! you realize you are comparing consciousness to technologies, both are man-made, I don't see my consciousness as being man-made, sorry.

I'll let wikipedia explain it;

In other words there is quiet a few external factors that cause it and using neurobiology to "fix it", no I'm not saying there is a cure, but that the solution is via medicine to cure it.

What I'm trying to say is that "a need for external authority in decision-making" is not a very quantifiable remark, some people do need an external authority some don't. I was trying to say that something like this could be simply like a "herd mentality" I wouldn't use this as a support of Jayne's theories.

No, what I'm saying is that every person would go through this transition where they would have auditory/visual hallucinations, and its clear that not everyone at the time, centuries ago, did.

I have, see the following;

Block, N. (1981). Review of Julian Jayne's Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Cognition and Brain Theory

Implying that consciousness is a cultural construct?!

Asaad G, Shapiro B. What about the bicameral mind? Am J Psychiatry 1987

Dennett, Daniel (1986). "Julian Jaynes's Software Archeology". Canadian Psychology

That auditory hallucinations played such a major role in human human mind and history is somewhat difficult to believe.

Well if your talking about religion, schizophrenia and the general need for external authority in decision-making as being the "left overs" of bicameralism, I would argue schizophrenia is a real chemical imbalance that has nothing to do with religion, but might have more in common with creative genius, http://www.personalityresearch.org/papers/byrd.html

And a need for external authority in decision-making, that's not a real strong argument in itself, as there are plenty of other reasons for this from even an evolutionary perspective.

I have to say I read The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind 30 some years ago and found it somewhat implausible. One biggest is problem I have is that there is no clear mechanism that would allow for the two hemispheres of the brain talk to one another as it would appear in an auditory or visual hallucination. Then you have to add why doesn't it occur today? why doesn't anyone who grows up and becomes consciously aware have these auditory/visual hallucinations as they transition? Unless it was the brain evolving in a short few centuries and no longer has that ability? That's just as fantastic in my books.