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Reading: How to Change Your Mind
For your reading list. “How to Change Your Mind” by Michael Pollan. Continue reading
Category: Thinking
Things I’m learning about. Concepts I’m developing. Quotes I like. Debates I’m engaging in. Run away before it’s too late…
Of Fish and Water
In our element we get it right most of the time. At least we behave consistently and in alignment with expectations in that particular space. Outside of our zone of familiarity god-only-knows what nonsense we’ll conjure up. Continue reading
The Future of Software Engineering
For the record. Software engineering will ultimately become a branch of psychiatry. Likes(1)Dislikes(0) Continue reading
What We Actually Know
I hate to break this to you, but you are not omniscient. Perhaps more disturbing, you can’t be. This is a point that many humans seem to like to ignore. Choosing to believe that even if they don’t know everything now, they certainly could if they put their minds to … Continue reading
CHON: Experimental validation of an old idea
The CHON Vat. Continue reading
The Implications of Arithmetic
What if we learned division first? Continue reading
Believing and Acting Beings
I updated the sketch from last week’s post so that it now looks like the sketch on the right (click on it to make it larger). Here are the changes… I replaced physics with reality in an attempt to be a little less obtuse. I also added “(Expectations)” to Beliefs. … Continue reading
Frameworks
The human body is a great source of metaphors. One of my favorites is how the framework of our skeletons is “fleshed out” with the necessary tissues to create a human that might be just like you. The framework/”tissue” pattern is likely repeated in more places than we realize, but … Continue reading
Reframing
Understanding the current political insanity is helped by understanding the broader forces in play. This post by Gail Tverberg is helpful. Likes(0)Dislikes(0) Continue reading
The Best Available Explanation
The only perfect model of reality and the universe is reality and the universe. All other models fall short in some way. Likes(0)Dislikes(0) Continue reading