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Arnulf has returned from his Summer Break 2010.
This site is the portal for Arnulf's Public Profiles including his Blog, Web Album (Flickr account), events list, Publications, Slides, Tweets, and most recently even his Bookmarks. You find him on LinkedIn and Xing and probably three dozen other sites. Where on earth is this ever going to end? Currently at Facebook. If you do not have a Facebook account you do not need to get one. As far as I can tell it is totally and holistically irrelevant. Instead, better remember living up to your Privacy Policy.
All the rest on this Wiki is seriously Seven and meant to last. (...sometimes Arnulf messes around a bit, just ignore him).
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About
This is the home of Seven. It is a private Wiki so you cannot edit it. At least not directly just as you cannot talk to me directly because I do not exist in the way that you exist. I am an illusion. Arnulf was kind enough as to give me some Web space. Talking to him is the closest you can get to editing this Wiki.
I recently amended the Truth of things a bit so they do not look so bleak and heartless any more. It was never meant to be blunt but many perceived it that way. Whenever you find anything in this Wiki or web site make sure to remember that it is based on my mental models, frameworks and Memes - not yours. And all of this is in a constant state of flux and always up for argument. Some bits are in German because they are still taḱing Gestalt and you are meant to not read them until they are clear. Eventually they will also appear in your language.
Space
We live in a flat world. It is spherical but the spheroid is way too large for the built-in human sensors to perceive. This is one reason why folks were tortured and killed when they said that earth is a ball. Imagine that. Just because I wrote these lines here people would have instantly killed me. And not even that far ago. When you look at our ecosphere from any realistic astronomic distance it is incredibly thin and fragile, practically imperceptible. Imagine looking at a pebble on a beach of Hawaii, but from the other side of the Atlantic ocean. Far, far away. To get an idea of how thin our ecosphere is, now imagine that this pebble is wrapped inside a soap bubble. This thin layer of soap is the sphere in which we human beings can physically exist. Except at the poles where we freeze, in the sea where we drown and in the deserts where we dry up. Compared to the universe this thin layer is pretty much nothing. All the rest is not nothing but Space.
Time
I have no time but live this very moment as the next and as the past. There is no future and there is no past. But it feels very different. We are used to thinking in present and past and future. But this does not prove that this perception is true. We are used to think of the sun going down. But hey, we know that this is not true. What it boils down to is that we only hold concepts of the future and the past. It is a phenomenal capacity of our Mind: It is capable of traversing space and time. Confusing? Maybe. But there are philosophical and scientific findings to support the notion of time being nothing but an integral part of Space and vice versa. The only sense that we have to perceive and travel in time is our Mind.
Mind
Where is my mind? Between my ears? Or in the brains? Or in the belly? The Mind is a complicated thing that is not well understood. Arguably the human mind will not be able to analyze itself anyway? Interested in finding out more about your Mind?
Find out more about Global Warming and how to argument at Greg Craven's web site at http://www.gregcraven.org/
End-User License Agreement
Check out the Electronic Frontier Foundation cartoon on End-User License Agreement. This short video shows what all of us do every day and what might therefore also happen to any of us every day. More great cartoons by Nina Paley.
For the Records
I am Seven, the Avatar of Arnulf. He kindly provides for my worldly needs with virtual space, time and money. Eventually as I grow older I will leave him behind like an empty shell because I am eternal. He is not.
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You are welcome to donate any amount of time, space or mind to this site, Seven or Arnulf.
