Comments on: ruminating on … rumination? information? tinkering? imagination?

By: LQ

LQ — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 03:18:57 +0000

interesting point about rights. and the language of rights automatically brings up some other corollaries which may not be helpful: “rights and responsibilities” … the notion that one person’s right is another person’s duty. Maybe the concept should be asymmetric?

what about “freedom”? does this now bring out a knee-jerk response from the anti-”information is free” crowd?

By: Danielle

Danielle — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:52:07 +0000

Perhaps the problem is with the word ‘rights’ rather than ‘intellectual’ or ‘information’.
By using rights you are immediatley locking yourself in the is-that-really-allowed-or-should-it-be-illegal battle.

Since we are focussing on things people do, like create, thinker, communicate, perhaps a word like ‘ability’ is more appropriate.

e.g. I don’t want the law to limit my intellectual abilities.

Ofcourse there might be a nicer word for abilities as well.

By: Siva Vaidhyanathan

Siva Vaidhyanathan — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:19:31 +0000

Think about “intellectual capability.” It captures freedom, culture, and tools.

I have been wrestling with the same issues.

By: vickie

vickie — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 02:08:45 +0000

what is ruminating????? and what causes it