Philosophers, protesters and Blind Faith

I was thinking of the group Blind Faith today - from 1968 when I was a freshman at Western Kentucky University. The next couple of years this music played at late-night gatherings of anti-war protesters, philosophers, poets, and good-time, live-in-the-moment friends.

Here are the lyrics from my favorite song - it can bring back all feelings of those important days:

Can't Find My Way Home
by Steve Winwood

Come down off your throne and leave your body alone.
Somebody must change.
You are the reason I've been waiting so long.
Somebody holds the key.
But I'm near the end and I just ain't got the time
And I'm wasted and I can't find my way home.
Come down on your own and leave your body alone.
Somebody must change.
You are the reason I've been waiting all these years.
Somebody holds the key.
But I can't find my way home.
But I can't find my way home.
But I can't find my way home.
But I can't find my way home.
Still I can't find my way home,
And I ain't done nothing wrong,
But I can't find my way home.

Lipstick Pink Day

Lipstick pink
Starts the day
One uncertain of
Sky color moods
With gray sky cover
A sheer over periwinkle
Striated white
Overlays the day.

Jeff Hawkins on creativity

Revolutionary thinker and expert on artificial intelligence Jeff Hawkins, in his book On Intelligence, says AI developers must better understand what intelligence is - with memory that stores experiences that reflects the true structure of the world, remembering sequences of events and the relationships. He says memory-prediction systems form the basis of intelligence.

I am reading the pages on "Can you train yourself to be more creative?" - I hope he says yes!

He does: "Yes, most definetly. First you need to assume up front that there is an answer to what you are trying to solve. People give up too easily..... Second, you need to let your mind wander. You need to give your brain time and space to discover the solution....Try taking the parts of your problem and rearranging them in different ways-literally and figuratively.... "

Hawkins says to be careful, "The brain is an organ that builds models and makes creative predictions, but its models and predictions can as easily be specious as valid. Our brains are always looking at patterns and making analogies. If correct correlations cannot be found, the brain is more than happy to accept false ones."

I find this interesting to ponder, really, to try to understand the real from the unreal!

Crown of Thorns

Crown of thorns
Sitting on top
Of the world
Juxtaposed with the soft
September light
Reflecting goodness
Off the sky onto this day
In my world.