11-02-2010, 09:59 AM
Ed Jewett Wrote:David, I had occasion to read a draft RAND paper on the application of swarm AI systems applied to UAV's to be used in homeland security as part of an invite to participate in a future project with folks set up through a university in Oklahoma near a former military base for simulation and training purposes; I declined, and I think they caught wind of my need to take that simulation technology in the wholly opposite direction, so they declined further contact. That was years ago.
What we read about in the common public press is, I think, at least in some cases, merely a timely release of information because it is clear that the public has already gained knowledge of something out there now freed from within the realms of black budget technology which means that the application is no longer someone's brainstorm but real, likely in use or ready for use, etc. There is also a new wave of larger UAV technologies, sort of death from the sky 2.0 as it were, with larger units able to carry more, flying off carriers and. no doubt, other naval platforms or any mini-base now operating as a FOB. (There are thousands of FOB's on the Pentagon vest,)
[Those Jung books will be here any day now. I just received word they have been shipped. Perhaps there is food for further posters, satire, understanding, exposure of the evil, and -- dare I hope-- for prevention.]
Thanks Ed.
What little I know about UAV's is restricted to the larger drone aircraft like the Predator, which is deadly I understand. But I hadn't considered the same idea applying to insect sized UAVs. Silly me, I suppose.
Btw, I am sure you'll find the Red Book fascinating. You have to wonder why Jung wrote a clause in his Will that this would not be published until the year 2000 (although it's taken another 10 years to finally arrive due to wrangling by his family, I believe). Jung himself was not the sort of person (imo anyway) who would've worried about any sort of impact on his reputation this book might have had - he was well beyond those sort of ego concerns. So it seems to me there was another factor that made his inlcude this restriction. ???
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14