text: Reflections: “Stupidity as a choice” is an apparently irremediable social ill which generates all manner of dubious yet persistent self-validations across the spectrum of human behaviour and knowledge. Some questions arise:
  If serial and wilful ignorance provide little to no overt evolutionary advantage (i.e. survival aptitude) for individuals, what are the distributed (social or network) benefits to be derived from the possession, sharing or otherwise replication of stupid statements, beliefs or actions ?
  Viewed from a purely information systems perspective – is it the case that the possession and communication of wilfully ignorant notions is a method by which gestalt, emergent, self-propagating information-processing systems (as cliques, tribes, cultures, ideologies, societies) can minimise internal stochastic novelty to cultivate a continuing environmental tenure for those systems ?
  If ridiculous ideas are persistent in socially-networked information-processing systems, they must serve a purpose of some sort for the overall coherence and continuity of those systems. Just what that purpose might be is another question altogether.
  
  We believe that meanings and values are stored in things, in objects, places, people but this is not true. Meanings and values are stored as and in the distributed properties of complex, adaptive and interdependent fields and relationships of reference. The value of an artwork is not in the artwork itself, it is a property shared across many minds, stories, texts, other artefacts and logical or cultural references.
  Similarly, the value of money is not stored in a piece of paper, a credit statement or some abstract digital record of numerical quantity. Money is the stored or projected, consensus value of a networked, distributed belief. It is a shared trust in the value of money – it is an abstraction which, like so many other immaterial abstractions, is in itself empty.
  It is in the adaptive refential interdependence and profoundly collaborative shared construction of our reality that value acquires significance. An acquired belief in the intrinsic value of things, objects, places and symbols is grounded in that critical error of judgement that threads from an individuated, embodied psychological experience of existence through to a world of scattered trust, staccatto adversarial conflict and problematically contested narratives of unity and purpose.
  Meaning is shared, as is value; there is no independent or intrinsic meaning because it is always a distributed property that is spread across an entire system of knowledge, communication and information processing. This also means that there is no personal Self – it is always a manifestation from a wider field evolving symbols, statements and autonomously self-propagating emergent narratives.
  
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  The issue we are having is when he pushes the youtube button on the remote it doesnt go to youtube it just stays the same.it did work previous but dont know what the issue is.	
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