communism
The current system of producing knowledge in science is a classical example of a failed capitalist system. Researchers are being exploited, and do not receive money for their work: the knowledge they produce in the form of research papers, does not belong to them. And it does not belong to people either. Instead, the knowledge in science today is a private property of a few mighty businesses, who make huge amounts of money from it. Not only that system is an obstacle to the progess, but it also creates huge distances between rich and poor, where poor people are blocked from access to knowledge. And that includes such important areas as medicine and healthcare.
All this was made possible by the fundamentally wrong concept of intellectual property.
Not only intellectual property creates injustice, but is also self-contradictory. The basic unit of scientific knowledge is a publication in academic journal. But journals essentially are vehicles for communication: they exist to communicate, or to make common. Knowledge and communication are inseparable. Hence communism is the true essence of science, information and knowledge.
That idea, that intelligence is inherently connected to communication, is also proven by the brain structure: brain is essentially a network of billions of neurons that communicate between each other.
Also sociologist Robert Merton identified communism as one of the basic ethical values in science. And is not a coincidence that Soviet Union, the first communist state, was based on science.
The central idea of Sci-Hub is that Knowledge belongs to all people
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[2016] Why science is better with communism? conference talk
Ngl, she is a bit, uh, eccentric. But I consider sci-hub to be one of the greatest gifts to society. She deserves a Nobel Prize and an Order of Lenin
No, “Why Stalin is a God” is theory and should be required reading for every grade level
“ And even if you approach the issue from a purely materialistic point of view, it must be acknowledged that Stalin in the mind of people was a God - even if no one called him so. He was a symbol for rational organization of the society, of science and justice. When this symbol was destroyed by slander, the Soviet state was also destroyed. Therefore even in this case, repentance is important to restore that symbol.”
Thinking how to interface brain with computer to experience processes inside microchips and artificial neural networks, I explored various theories of consciosuness. There was an Integrated Information Theory of consciousness that has a point. Brain is a network of billions of neurons connected to each other — that is a gigantic network much like Internet. Hence thinking and consciousness are essentially communication or information transfer.
She turned down my email offers of betrothal, so there's that.
I didn't realize she was so full on as a communist. I wondered if she might have some sort of influence thataway but when I looked into the question previously everything was draped in a lot more liberalism.
i think sci hub would be arguably hero stuff regardless of who made it for what motivation but I always found it difficult to believe a lib would go to all the bother. now that she is being charged with a bazillion counts of so many crimes in many countries, and now a majority of scientists are like individually indebted to her and use her work, I guess there is no reason to remain in the closet?
No. She's a modern day hero—the Aaron Swartz of the East, so to speak. Mercifully, she doesn't live in a country that will end your life over fake property rights.
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