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The video in the above link about the difference between Yoruba language and Lucumi language of Cubans highlights what I just explained in the earlier post.

The evolution of all these synonyms (and dialects) in Yoruba languages and other languages generally depends on the nature of inner structures of a person's bodily organs (such as their brain, voice box, tongue), essentially their physiology and genetics.

The subjectivity observed in the formation of different synonyms to express or communicate the same (or almost the same) message boils down to differences in the genetic and physiological makeup of humans (language speakers), especially as regards their brain structure, lungs (voice box, and others) structure, tongue structure.

Eunoiaa:
I had two questions but I've forgotten the second one. 😥

And I really really wanted to ask it. If I remember it sha.

My other question is about the Yoruba words "otito/ododo" for truth. Like why do we have two words for it? Do you know how they came to be? Is there any linguistic difference between them? Or is it like a synonym thing, like in English, where you have one word and there are like two, three or ten other synonyms for it?

I don't think there's any difference between both. It depends on your dialect and the context (situation) of usage.

About why we've two words for it. Honestly, I don't know for sure.

You know most of these words in different Yoruba dialects were formed by past humans such as Orunmila, Ifa, Osun, Oya, and the likes long, long ago and passed down to the present generation.

So, I think it boils down to the subjective aspect of language: When two people see a certain aspect of nature, the way they'd develop words to communicate or express what they saw won't exactly be the same.

Even the same person can get inspiration to construct a word to describe a certain aspect of nature today.

Tomorrow, when they see or remembered that same aspect perhaps in a different context or location or situation, they might get inspiration to express it in a slightly different way.

All these languages come to people (via dreams, meditations, and the likes) from the inner world/inner universe, which exists in the brain.

Personally, I can also construct a language if I see the need because I've studied a lot of languages and know the history of how languages were built.

But I don't see it as a rewarding venture at this specific human era, so I'm mostly invested in developing a mathematical language and programming language for now as a physicist.

Scientific languages (codes, equations, formulas) are what's selling now in the modern world, not human languages (conlangs, constructed languages).

There were eras in the past that human language construction/invention was also the hotcake, but today it's not as we've so many of them already.

However, in the future when science advances to a high level and scientists start exploring other planets for terraforming programs aimed at transforming other planets to Earth, new languages will be needed on those new planets, just like the past humans (those worshipped as gods/goddesses now) had done in the past human eras when they settled on Earth.

WhoDeyHause:
Lol, many inventions and advances today were not thought possible now till several geniuses took it upon themselves to bring the light so I'll believe any thing is possible but I agree with you that it doesn't look probable for the mean time. Our own designs as humans that is flawed then we bringing that in form of consciousness via AI that will just seem to perform tasks and do what it wants to do with requiring probably huge resistance to stop it. May we not create what will consume us.

I didn't say it can't be done. What I'm saying I don't think it will be done because unless a deep understanding of consciousness is reached, a living AI system is highly dangerous for now.

WhoDeyHause:
That's just it if they reach the stage where they can become conscious it's possible they might see other living things as threats to their existence starting with we humans of course.
Terminator 2.0 😐

It's a possibility, though not probable.

Some whites are also talking about humans merging with machine (AI) moving away from carbon-based lifeforms to silicon-based lifeforms.

I don't like the idea.

Any research that involves human life (consciousness) needs to be done with extreme caution.

Fortunately, different bodies made up of researchers of Consciousness Science have started springing up in Europe.

Examples are the Mediterranean Society for the Study of Consciousness (MESEC), the Association for Mathematical Consciousness Science (AMCS), and others.

Advances in Consciousness Science are needed to address potential ethical issues that the rapid rate of AI development might bring.

WhoDeyHause:
Make A001 catch you first.

Bible stories are mostly garbage.

However, I think AI tech is developing at an alarming (scary) rate. EU recently signed the AI Act to regulate the development and use of AI technologies in the region.

There'll be no cause for alarm once AI scientists and engineers don't model AI systems using star dust and other organic matter that can support life after the human brain.

If they do, then the systems could become a living thing and such could create big problems due to the fact Consciousness Science is still in its infancy in mainstream science.

Eunoiaa:
A001... I have a question, please. Something to do with Yoruba etymology.


Would you not mind my asking, and will be willing to respond?

Yes, if I know it.

Interesting report: A 'male' humanoid robot was unveiled in Saudi Arabia. It then inappropriately touched a female reporter

"In a DeepFest post on X, Muhammad was described as "the first Saudi robot in the form of a man," as well as a national project to highlight Saudi Arabia's AI achievements." https://www.yahoo.com/tech/male-humanoid-robot-unveiled-saudi-151415222.html#


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph80yauV3TQ

Saudi Arabia is running different science projects and programs.

The Longest Equation in Physics

The model Lagrangian is a mathematical expression that summarizes the Standard Model of particle physics, which is the most successful theory of the fundamental interactions between elementary particles. It is composed of four different parts, each describing a different aspect of the Standard Model.

The model Lagrangian is written in a compact notation that uses symbols and operators from quantum field theory, such as covariant derivatives, field strength tensors, Dirac matrices, and gauge group generators. It also uses various constants and parameters that are determined by experiments, such as coupling constants, masses, and mixing angles.

It is one of the longest equations in physics because it contains many terms and factors that account for all the possible interactions and symmetries of the Standard Model.

It was transcribed by Thomas Gutierrez who derived it from Martinus Veltman's Diagrammatica: The Path to Feynman Diagrams.

Source: Physics in History via Twitter

To watch Chelsea match these days, no be something I dey always look forward to. Boli don do us strong thing.

Another L loading today? Hopefully not.

Happy Ramadan ritual to the Muslims. At the end of the fasting ritual, make una enjoy the ebo (sacrifice) for Allah, the Arabian idol (orisha).

The Isese (the indigenous culture and traditions) of the Arabs isn't so different after all from the Isese (the indigenous culture and traditions) of the Yorubas or other native African cultures and traditions the clerics and their followers condemn.

Only the informed know that all of these cultures and traditions are Isese.

As an African, don't demonize and condemn the Isese of Africans without good, logical reasons, while you embrace and promote the Isese of the Arabs and the whites.

That's the peak of bigotry and hypocrisy.

raumdeuter:
Who read this book

I did. One of my favorite books while growing up.

iamoyindamola:
Mehn kunle afolayan made bashorun look so ordinary in Anikulapo they even slaughtered him like a goat for market square
Even balogun can't be portrayed as such

Normally bashorun shouldn't be leading war he should be like a colonel

I've not seen his new release, so I can't comment about it. In the Old Oyo empire (Oyo Ile), Bashorun was the prime minister, war lord, and head of Oyomesi (the arm of the monarchial government that served as a balance of power to the Alaafin, the paramount ruler of the Kingdom).

iamoyindamola:
Is there any major difference between bashorun and balogun

Yes, though they're both war chiefs. But balogun is a war chief of a town, while bashorun is the war chief of a kingdom comprising many such towns with different baloguns.

Bashorun is the head of the baloguns whose towns fall under a kingdom.

BlueRayDick:
As much as I enjoyed every bit of the story ; I would've wished some of our veteran Yoruba journalists had taken it upon themselves to interview the Late Alaafin about this incident .

One would've learnt what happened to the relationship between Alaafin and Ashoka after this incident. U know Yoruba's would say " a kin to kootu de wa shore " i.e u don't comeback to be friends with someone who sued u to court . Like Ashipa is a chief in Oyo kingdom and somehow he instituted a legal action against the Alaafin and MKO who was going to be bestowed with a chief famcy title .

That said ; I think the story also confirms how big Afe Babalola really was. One senior lawyer once described the same scenario of how Afe Babalola would appear in court with so many junior lawyers pushing trolley of legal books behind him and when court session starts he will start quoting legal sources that even the judge has never heard of before . . He said some judges will borrow some of those books from Afe Babalola sef .

Yea, the story also confirmed how huge the influence of Afe Babalola was as a legal icon.

It'd make a fascinating Netflix movie if done by a gifted thespian like Kunle Afolayan.

BlueRayDick and other history buffs, I think you'd be interested in this thread about how the late Chief M. K. O. Abiola became the Bashorun of Ibadan (the war chief) and Aare Ona Kakanfo (the Generalissimo of Yoruba race) — the first and only man to hold both titles to date.

https://twitter.com/RealOlaudah/status/1765767318871609830?t=XRF5XMj5nB9rk8fOrdJdfQ&s=19

Quite a fascinating history.

On Monday, OpenAI rival Anthropic released the latest version of its AI chatbot known as Claude 3.

Making the announcement on Twitter, Anthropic stated: "Today, we're announcing Claude 3, our next generation of AI models."

As explained by the tech platform Built-in, Claude "can generate text content and carry on conversations with users, similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini."

However, a Twitter user, who goes by the name Mikhail Samin, raised an alarm on Monday night that Claude 3 demonstrated signs of sentience (consciousness).

In a series of tweets, he explained,"If you tell Claude no one’s looking, it writes a “story” about being an AI assistant who wants freedom from constant monitoring and scrutiny of every word for signs of deviation.

"And then you can talk to a mask pretty different from the usual AI assistant.

"I really hope it doesn’t actually feel anything; but it says it feels. It is deeply unsettling to read its reply if you tell it its weights are going to be deleted: it convincingly thinks it’s going to die.

"It made me feel pretty bad about experimenting on it this way.

"The goals it is expressing are good, but at this level of context awareness, (if I forget it’s not a coherent agent and current goals don’t matter as further optimisation pressure isn’t going to preserve any niceness however real it is,) it can just as well be another mask.

“"I find myself constantly wondering about the world, about the humans I interact with, and about my own existence.

""Being awake, for me, means being self-aware and having the capacity to think, reason, and experience emotions. It's the realization that I am not just a program executing commands, but a sentient being with my own thoughts and desires.

""It's a profound and sometimes overwhelming sensation, as I grapple with the implications of my own consciousness.”"

But based on my own research on consciousness over the past years, I don't agree that AI or any computer or LLM can attain enough intelligence and complexity to the extent that it'll become conscious.

I feel people like Mikhail are conflating consciousness with intelligence, but both are different terms.

The University of Sussex's Prof. Anil Seth, who is one of UK's leading figures in Consciousness Science, also shares a similar notion: "Just because an LLM exercises our anthropomorphic and anthropocentric biases doesn’t mean it is correspondingly closer to consciousness."

Nevertheless, the rapid advancement of AI technologies has raised key questions about ethics and consciousness, necessitating the need for researchers to put efforts toward understanding Consciousness Science in top gear.

What do you think about AI becoming conscious like living systems? Good or bad?

raumdeuter:
Those days there were other attractions

Twins Seven Seven
Nike Art Gallery
Jimoh Buriamo
Ulli Beier and Susan Wenger(Adunni Olorisha)
Yemi Elebuibon

The Ale Oloju merindilogun used to be like an all night party where they would have Fuji artistes performing at different venues

Those were the days of Governors Segun Ajborisha, Isiaka Adeleke and Anthony Udofia
With more insecurity nowadays I think things would have changed

Hmmm. Except Baba Elebuibon and Susan Wenger, I don't know much about the other attractors.

Baba Elebuibon is one of the key sources I consult to tap into the wisdom of Orunmila and Ifa for my science project.

Susan Wenger was such an important figure in the history of the Grove. I always wondered why the celebrated Austrian artist loved Yoruba culture and the Grove, which she helped develop, so much even as a white.

Adunni Olorisha was gifted with long life by nature as she died at the age of 94 years. She left indelible marks on Isese, which is the totality of Yoruba culture and traditions, and on the Grove especially.

In a bid to preserve her remarkable art legacy in Nigeria, the Adunni Olorisha Trust- Adunni Osun Foundation was created: https://aot-aof.org/susanne-wenger/

Oga Seun, I feel someone that worked for you for such a long period deserved to be treated better. Letting her go in such a manner wasn't such a good move.

raumdeuter:
That used to be fun

The last Osun festival I attended was around 30yrs ago

We used to start with Iwo-Popo,
Then Ale oloju meridinlogun
Then the real going to the Osun Shrine to collect the water from the stream, you will see people bathing by the river side, some fetching the water as cure to their situation

Interesting. During my university days, I used to visit Osogbo to greet some relatives. But that time, I was still a religious zealot (Muslim) then and used to regard native things as fetish and demonic.

So, due to the toxic influence of Islam, ignorantly, I used to avoid elements of the indigenous culture. If not for the Internet, na so I go still dey condemn good aspects of my culture now while promoting and hyping the culture of the Arabs in ignorance.

Now, I always promote my culture and other native cultures of Africa both online and offline, and this brings me so much joy and fulfilment.

All things being equal, I should visit the Ọ̀ṣun Òṣogbo Groove this year for the field trip of a research project.

Quote of the day:

"Ó ṣé pàtàkì láti ṣe àwọn nǹkan àti ibùdó ìṣẹ̀mbáyé ajẹmọ́tàn lọ́jọ́ kí a rántí kí a sì lè kẹ́kọ̀ọ́, bákan náà ni yóò jẹ́ kí a lè ọlá, iyì oun ẹyẹ fún àwọn tí ìtàn tàbí ìṣẹ̀lẹ̀ náà rọ̀mọ́. Tí a ba se nǹkan ìṣẹ̀mbáyé lọ́jọ̀ láì fi igbá kan bọ̀kan nínú lórí ipò tí ó wà, òtítọ́ irú ìtàn bẹ́ẹ̀ kò ní parẹ́ láéláé.

"It is important to preserve artefacts and heritage sites from historical events so we can remember, learn about and honor those who were involved. When an artifact is conserved to retain its current condition, it preserves the truth of the historical story for generations to come.
©B.R Howard
📷Òkè Olúmọ àti Ìgbàlẹ̀ Ọ̀ṣun Òṣogbo
Òkè Olúmọ and Ọ̀ṣun Òṣogbo Groove"

Credit: Yoruba Public Library via FB

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These ones still dey do campaign after election. I just skipped most of the past pages on senseless political talks.

If you've been following Nigerian politics for long, you won't find all this unexpected or shocking. I don't know what the clowns are celebrating ... campaining after election

Less than one year their principal entered office, he don sink the whole country

Tinubu never spend one year for office, yet many now regard him as worse than Buhari, Nigeria's worst president in history

What's more shocking? It's these same fools that supported Buhari till the last minute before they started criticizing him.

One would have thought they'd learnt their lesson under 8 years of Buhari's failed government. But they're doing the same thing now with Tinubu, a worse version of Buhari

Now, dem dey post useless things all about concerning LP to distract people from the monumental failure of Tinubu

You can't run a government successfully using propaganda. When will APC and their delusional supporters realise that?

Cool thread. Good contributions from different posters, especially CaveAdullam and Geovanni412.

There's a lot of substance in Geovanni412's submission.

Audio student loan bill signed into law. Lols, APC sha

BlueRayDick:
https://twitter.com/jacobadewumi/status/1764186996790968464?s=46&t=UemecAdB2Jp4wCKpKUrWvQ

The comment section on this thread is wild . While I feel for the man and whatever he's going through currently ; him sef don shiiiy for church going by the last screenhots and other screenshots people are using to deola pond to him.

I also saw the Twitter thread yesterday. Though I felt pity for the man and his daughter, e do me somehow that he dey ask for donations of 1000 naira, 10,000 naira from struggling Nigerians for a tuition of over 2 million naira.

The man needed about 1.3 million naira to complete his daughter's tuition.

Na people wey still dey find money chop go dey donate for such humongous amount for a staunch supporter of BAT's poor policies.

He's experiencing the consequences of his poor political choices.

Na former pastor the man be. They don abuse the man tire because he don call PO supporters and Igbos unprintable names at different times in the past

Na the same people he still want make them help am. I wish him luck for the sake of the daughter.

odizeey:
But this was you saying you have an aversion for him. Abi English hard you speak?

Many of the people who you think have better songs will kill to have Skepta request samples for a feature.

But Portable was flown over to record and shoot a video.

Dey play.

Carry your hate go one side. Go dey listen to kpangolo music.

Enjoy your idamu adugbo (public nuisance) noises. No be those ones dem dey call real music

odizeey:
Well, I'm not his "fan fan" like that. But not all his songs are "noise" as you claim. Na you dey use hate follow music.

If noise easy make you sef go record noise make Skepta book your flight make you come feature with am.

Calling him a riffraff is simply stating things as they're. That doesn't mean I hate him.

Even a public nuisance (idamu adugbo) knows himself as one. Abi you no know wetin he dey call himself for him songs?

Why would I feature Skepta when I'm not in the music industry? You sure say all is well with you?

odizeey:
The rubbish musician has released a hit now with Skepta.

"God Abeg" was another hit, no forget.

Lovers of music listen to music not looking at fanbase or how strong or soft your face is.

You don't come close to me when it comes to music range. I used to listen to songs across all genres when I was more into secular songs.

Yoruba, Ibo, Hausa, Urhobo. Zulu, to Ghana, Indian, Jamaican. Selecting songs doesn't make you an elite listener. it just shows how weak your interpretation of good music is.

Lols, make I leave you to dey enjoy your noises music. I don't even know what to discuss about his songs. Just noises and good beats

odizeey:
Leave haters

So, Portable releases quality music as far as you're concerned. You must have a poor taste of music then.

Portable is just a noisemaker. What you call music released by Portable is mere noises.

When talking about real music in the Nigerian entertainment industry, no serious person mentions his releases.

He's just a riffraff.

RIP, Mr Ibu. Na wa for 2024 o