[Pen-l] Apple computer goes to parallel processing

[Doyle Saylor <doylesaylor@xxxxxxx>]

Greetings Economists,

Interesting technical commentary in NYTimes http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/

to quote from article:

Steve Jobs - “Basically it lets you use graphics processors to do computation,” he said. “It’s way beyond what Nvidia or anyone else has, and it’s really simple.”

and

“The way the processor industry is going is to add more and more cores, but nobody knows how to program those things,” he said. “I mean, two, yeah; four, not really; eight, forget it.”

Doyle;

This is based upon processing graphics over text information.  And therefore is addressing issues related to the network properties of images and what can be done to address that.  This breakdown of processing units to parts of the work done on information is not unfamiliar in how the brain works.  But historically information processing is in literate cultures influenced by how writing gets information to the person.

The sequential nature of text has been argued over about linear words in writing for quite a long time.  These arguments often arise from metaphysics of what is knowledge rather than practice about making knowledge.  For example what is language in a picture we make?  The grammar of films?  And so on as questions, and as answers, grammar is innate, pictures are worth a thousand words, words are arbitrary to their content and so on.  All shaped by Enlightenment principles or metaphysics.

In contrast, on the left, the big challenge as China shows is culture change.  The party can achieve control of national means of governing.  But the culture continues to produce a metaphysics of Enlightenment relations.  For example, specialization in science leads to seeing math almost as if it was a sacred language of correctness in economics.  Whereas the left economists going back to Marx's example sees the method as more generalist and finding answers for the 'whole' of society.

I would say knowledge that is shaped by network factors is generalized rather than specialized.  Therefore a culture that arises from knowledge made from multi-core processing creates the basis for communist culture, rather than a communist party.

thanks,

Doyle Saylor

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