Janus colloids
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Spontaneous system follows rules of equilibrium https://phys.org/news/2017-07-spontaneous-equilibrium.html > The research was spurred when Granick and Yan noticed something strange in the laboratory. As they watched a random mixture of soft-matter particles called Janus colloids, which Granick previously developed, they observed that the particles sometimes sorted themselves by type. Named after the Roman god with two faces, the micron-sized spheres have one hemisphere coated with a thin metal layer. They self-propel in the presence of an electric field, and when a rotating magnetic field is applied, they move in circles. In the presence of these fields, about 50 percent of the colloids orient their metal-coated hemisphere in the same direction. The remaining 50 percent face in the opposite direction. -- glen ep ropella ⊥ 971-280-5699 ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove |
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Glen and the congregation.
I caught that news as well. A bit spooky, Leibnitz's Monads, then this came in https://aeon.co/essays/what-is-the-self-if-not-that-which-pays-attention?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=6898ffd7fb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-6898ffd7fb-69341065 A nicely presented piece... All while trying to coax my own AEE (Artificial Emergent Entity to behave congenially. It's too warm to think clearly lately. That is currently my focus , namely managing folder and subfolder creation with compact names using ahk Script... There seems to be a lot of fire within the Complexity Smoke lately from odd locations. vladimyr -----Original Message----- From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of glen ep ropella Sent: July-10-17 3:58 PM To: [hidden email] Subject: [FRIAM] Janus colloids Spontaneous system follows rules of equilibrium https://phys.org/news/2017-07-spontaneous-equilibrium.html > The research was spurred when Granick and Yan noticed something strange in the laboratory. As they watched a random mixture of soft-matter particles called Janus colloids, which Granick previously developed, they observed that the particles sometimes sorted themselves by type. Named after the Roman god with two faces, the micron-sized spheres have one hemisphere coated with a thin metal layer. They self-propel in the presence of an electric field, and when a rotating magnetic field is applied, they move in circles. In the presence of these fields, about 50 percent of the colloids orient their metal-coated hemisphere in the same direction. The remaining 50 percent face in the opposite direction. -- glen ep ropella ⊥ 971-280-5699 ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove |
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Well, initially I was reminded of Bruce Sterling's novel "Distraction", in which chemical manipulation of low levels of attention in neurons (The App) reestablished a kind of involuntary multi-camerality. OTOH, just about everything these days initially reminds me of "Distraction". Howsoever, reading the article leads me to a notion that native speakers of less information-dense languages (for example, Japanese) have a greater substantive self than native speakers of other languages due to the greater attention to context required to make sense of any utterance. Clearly this notion is fraught, and while the Japanese language is one of my current fields of study, I cannot quite bring myself to go there. Nevertheless I think it introduces the problem of discounting language in terms of discussing substance and vis-a-vis emergent selves. As a sometime Buddhist, one (who?!) may discover a bit of bias re substantive selves. Though so must the Abrahamics. carl On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 1:00 AM, Vladimyr <[hidden email]> wrote: Glen and the congregation. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove |
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Another attention issue.... On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 4:30 AM, Carl Tollander <[hidden email]> wrote:
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