[OpenID] Polyphrenia (was Yahoo's "Project Rushmore")

[Nate Angell]

This is somewhat off-topic, but I'd like to introduce the community to what may be a useful term—tho many of you may have heard it before.

Polyphrenia: psychologist "Jean Houston coined the phrase "polyphrenia" to describe a high-functioning, multi-leveled consciousness that is well-organized and synergistic within its levels. At my best I am a community of awarenesses, each patiently (and urgently) waiting for its turn to express something."
http://polyphrenia.blogspot.com/2007/04/polyphrenia.html

Polyphrenia is considered a healthy state in opposition to schizophrenia, which is commonly used to mean dissociative identity disorder, even tho technically schizophrenia is something else.

FWIW: I first heard the term polyphrenia from http://twitter.com/caseorganic, who like many of us, provides a good example of polyphrenia in the wild.

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Nate Angell
http://twitter.com/xolotl
http://xolotl.org

On Dec 2, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Johannes Ernst wrote:

>> On Dec 2, 2009, at 9:46, Chris Messina wrote:
>> 
>>> we need identity++!
> 
> I'd call that, naturally, multiple personality disorder. But then, if it is post-incremented, we might have a chance ;-)
> 
> But seriously, I think I understand the business logic for what has been announced, and that business logic is rather revolutionary.
> 
> If Yahoo can apply this business logic, many others will follow the same logic leading to FB (a single-vendor solution).
> 
> The questions are:
> 1. why not OpenID? (and other open standards) [methinks: we don't have our act together]
> 2. is anybody bothered by that? [methinks: I'm not sure, to be honest]
> 3. if enough people are bothered enough about it, what are we going to do about it?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> 
> Johannes.
> 
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