TED Community » Scalino Corleone di Napoli

More About Me

I'm passionate about

Everything related to the mind, the spirit, and their substrates (biological or not). If meat can think, why silicon couldn't?
Also music, rock in particular. And space exploration. And computing...

An idea worth spreading

Well, the main one which comes to my mind right now, is to get our planet back.
And I mean, not a single square meter on Earth is actually, solely and purely "earther"; it always belongs to someone or some Nation(s). Antartica would be the closest thing to fit the character, but it's only an "international" territory (and yet, not everywhere if I got it well...). And it's pretty cold a place to live...
So, maybe the best way to express this idea would be as a question, something like: "Which Nation would stand up first and bravely give back a part of its territory to our beloved planet Earth?"

People don't know that I'm good at

Funnily enough, I'd say translations... :) When I'm translating something, I feel like I'm home. And I'm glad to be able to put that "natural" ability to fruition here on TED. Such a brilliant place!

My TED Story

Filling this drearily empty field...

Comments

• TEDCred score: +34.10 TEDCred reflects your contribution to the TED community.

• A comment on Conversation: If you woke up today and money ceased to exist, what is the first thing you would do? Why?

  Jul 27 2011: drink coffee, as usual... Then, probably, I'd take my day off...

• A reply on Talk: Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world

  Jul 27 2011: No need to bring up string theory, fractals or splitting electrons to explain why 'algorithms are nature', imho,, or rather what he refers to by saying that. He refers to this:
  
  We - humans - are the universe, or more precisely and universally speaking, we are one instance of what the universe looks like after 14 billions years of evolution. We are not "resulting products" of the big bang, we are the big bang itself. And so is everything that makes us what we are, whether biological, mental or spiritual; so are our creations, as expressions of ourselves. So are our algorithms.
  
  Study Zen; it says it all, with the fewest words possible.

• A reply on Talk: David Cameron: The next age of government

  Jul 15 2011: Yep, I too think the (only) positive point in this talk is the intrinsic value of the specific ideas being expressed, and not the attempt to make it fit with conservative positions - now what did people expect listening to a politician...?
  
  To be more precise, in my opinion, what's really positive is all that allows him to have the least beginning of a first (hopefully) proper approach of what "the grain of human nature" really is. (so it has nothing to do with him in particular) In other words, it's somehow some kind of consecration of neuroscience research, if you see what I mean... :)
• +2

  A comment on Conversation: What kind of job would you do if you were not worried about the income?

  Mar 18 2011: Hi,
  
  funnily enough, I'd still design and develop software, compose and play music, and write, though I'd take more time to write, novels in particular, and the choice of software will be strictly mine therefore quite different.
  
  But I'd say the biggest difference would be in the place where I'd be living ('cause I wouldn't have to live close to my current company) and the consistently lower amount of cortisol in my veins (anxiety hormone).
  
  A very good idea anyway, do you postulate to support us if we "make the leap"...? :)
  
  Scalino

• A reply on Talk: Robert Thurman: Expanding your circle of compassion

  Aug 30 2010: Hi Sean,
  
  "Experience is much more transforming then belief"
  
  Hmm... maybe not... Have a look at this great 2 parts lecture by Bruce Lipton "The New Biology" on Google vids.
  (first part here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6568107389365915765&hl=en&emb=1)
  
  Well, the end of the second part might be a bit 'over the top', but the rest is just brilliant and seriously sourced!
• +1

  A reply on Talk: Jeremy Rifkin: "The empathic civilization"

  Aug 30 2010: Hi Jeanette,
  
  "The correct information in it he got from following the news.
  And, the rest is BS"
  
  Well, could you please provide us with some reference proving what you're saying?
  Cause afaik, my references are all going in that same direction (Ramachandran / Carl Rogers / Herman Epstein / Bruce Lipton / Alex Ramonsky / etc...)
  
  Scalino
• +2

  A comment on Talk: Brian Cox: Why we need the explorers

  Aug 17 2010: My dear fellow dudes... (& I mean everyone)
  
  Why so much hate & ideologic stances about things that have nothing to do with the subject of the vid? Are you still aware all you are doing are "ripples on a blue pixel"...? Or maybe you didn't have to go all the way through to know what it's really about, hmm...?
  
  The subject of the video is: "I know we're supposedly living difficult economic times [& if you're anyhow keen on debugging assumptions I'd suggest this latter one as a much better choice...], but don't forget that it's explorative science which has led us where we are (meaning the real status of our global economy), so don't cut our subventions/grants/salaries/etc... cause you'll be cutting the very branches on which you're sitting".
  
  Considering this as the true purpose here, I think the speech reaches its goal (& intended audience), doing it in a moving and elegant manner, by someone who's precisely at the right place at CERN, to talk about those considerations.
  
  Namaste dudes

• A comment on Talk: Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide

  Mar 24 2010: Well... the name of a man, the discipline he created, and his renowned first law come immediately to my mind, about this current "raw data" trend:
  Alfred Korzybski, General Semantics, and of course...: "The map is not the territory" ;)
• +6

  A reply on Talk: Cat Laine: Engineering a better life for all

  Jan 20 2010: I'm totally backing up what you've said Colleen!
  
  Actually, arrived at this height of the page, I'm deciding that your comments are the only educated ones, so far...
  
  For me there's absolutely no disrespect in her smilings. It's nothing else than the power of hope and wisdom, coming from a really enlightened and elevated soul (at a level I personally fathom to be still quite further up on my own path).
  
  Scalino