The MindBox has finally gone global. I have secured a Dot-Com domain name! You can now find it at www.mindboxofmarkbrewer.com

I have managed to arrange events so as to include the whole back catalogue of this version of the MindBox in the new regime. You will be able to view each and every post that has ever been uploaded to this website, along with future posts. With that said, I would like to officially close this version of the blog by saying…

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Episode three of MindBoxTV is now online. It features an illuminating interview with a Mac user. It gives revelatory insights into their innermost thoughts. This is what makes them tick!

I decided to experiment with some tapping on the guitar. I wanted to play some chords and then tap a melody over the top of it. Woop!

I have just attended a debate between Professors Brad Hooker and David Oderberg at Reading University. The topic of debate was whether or not banker’s pay, high pay in particular, was morally justifiable. I would just like to make a commentary on one proposition which Brad Hooker made that I felt was a little frivolous, in retrospect. Obviously, he is a Professor of Philosophy and I am a mere undergraduate and so I am a little anxious as to make frivolity calls in his direction. Nevertheless, the statement has unsettled me for most of the day and sadly he had to teach a class directly after the debate and so I couldn’t question him personally. That being said, like the internet whore that I am, I would like to blog it!

During the Q & A period of the debate the topic of risk taking came up and Brad Hooker made the proposition that the taking of a risk is not morally unjust. This can be said to be true in the case of a stand alone risk made by an individual where only that individual is implicated by the risk itself. However, I belief he forgot to factor in, as is the case with bankers, that where the risk has a probability for negative implications on surplus individuals it can be said to be morally unjust.

For instance, if I decided to take the risk to jump down a flight of stairs and the probability of a negative impact on my state of personal well being was the only factor to consider, then clearly there is no moral question whatsoever. The decision to do that is mine and mine alone. There is no risk of me hurting any other individual and the only issue in question is my sanity. However, if I gathered together a group of ten individuals and had each one of them pay me ten pounds to jump down the flight of stairs, adding the stipulation that I would divide the money equally between the ones that manage to survive the fall without a scratch, whilst the remaining injured parties would recieve nill and feeding all of the individuals “valid” reasons why the should in fact take the plunge, I think there is questionable morality in taking the said risk.

With that little banking analogy, I would like to close by saying that the debate was unexpectedly engaging. As the first debate of term I was expecting a little more of a simplistic topic, but the current issue of the financial climate was a great way to get things started.

That is all.

Yesterday afternoon, when I sat down upon my sofa-chair to learn the six-stringed guitar, little did I know what a pleasurable experience it would be. My steep learning curve has not only impressed me, but also God who informs me that it took him roughly six days to reach this level and he had to have a little sit down for the seventh. Slackers, eh?

I seem to have found that slipping between stonking tech metal and hybrid jazz a piece of proverbial piss.

Since leading world powers seem to find the idea that we might need to spend a little money on the desalination of water repugnant to their very rectum, I’ve decided to direct you to an article that might help you do it yourself.

Desalination is the process by which you can extract excess salt from sea water and use it for drinking. I think that it’s more than obvious that this might be a requirement at some point within the next fifteen to twenty years, what with all of the environmental problems we seem to have a penchant and overall autoerotic tendency for causing. Even if you don’t feel that it’s necessary to solve the world’s quickly increasing fresh-water crisis, it’s still a fun and easy experiment to whet your hydro-oxygenated dreams with.

THIS LINK here will direct you to an excellent instructional guide on how to extract salt from sea water for both scientifically experimental and survival purposes. Have fun now.

For more information on the advantages of water desalination over more conventional sourcing methods, please view this PDF document that was put together by some official, sack scratching source: CLICK

Religious apologist: If there is no God, then where do morals come from?

I: Morals are a tool which evolved to facilitate altruism. We’d all be dead by now if people couldn’t behave nicely towards one another.

That is all.

As Michio Kaku eloquently states, even the most sophisticated computational systems on Earth possess the actual intelligence of a, “…retarded cockroach.”

Research into artificial intelligence has, thus far, yielded poor results. There has been some progress in the field in the last twenty or so years, but no technological leaps that have allowed physicists to predict a time when robots will be as intelligent as humans. This is mainly due to the computer’s inabillity to learn and function in the same way that the human brain does. There is no CPU in the human brain.

However, a new discovery by the lab at Hewlett-Packard HQ could change all of that.

Allow me to redirect you to the NewScientist website for more information:

CLICK HERE

This is not episode two of MindBoxTV. It’s just a little, intermittent video which I made for my own personal amusement. I suppose that defining it as a juvenile rambling is the best critique that I could hope for. It’s not intended to be a reenactment. As you’ll see, my acting skills leave a little too much to be desired for such an accolade.

It literally is just me being an imbecile.

Hopefully the first episode of many.