by orchaeus | Aug 22, 2018 | Shared Link
https://medium.com/@organelle/the-myth-of-reality-b1a95a854478″Reality” doesn’t exist in the ways our ideas and language consistently imply…
by orchaeus | Aug 20, 2018 | Shared Link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/apr/19/bill-compulsory-science-fiction-west-virginia?CMP=twt_gu∞ “As long ago as Future Shock (circa 1970), Alvin Toffler was calling for exposing young people to science fiction as ‘a sovereign prophylactic’...
by orchaeus | Aug 6, 2018 | Shared Link
https://gizmodo.com/you-arent-living-in-a-hologram-even-if-you-wish-you-we-1791793355∞ Language is extremely dangerous and misleading stuff in general, but when the media attempts to talk about science, the factors that contribute to nonsense are nearly automatically...
by orchaeus | Jul 25, 2018 | Shared Link
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/07/native-americans-managed-the-prairie-for-better-bison-hunts/”For a group of hunters on foot, like the ancestors of today’s Blackfeet people, one of the most efficient ways to take down large prey like the American...
by orchaeus | Jul 18, 2018 | Shared Link
https://www.thoughtco.com/hasty-generalization-fallacy-1690919One of the most common and lethal of ‘modern’ habits of thought or declaration… note that it can be referred to as ‘insufficient sample’ (which can be taken as: the often...
by orchaeus | Jul 17, 2018 | Shared Link
∞ We breed and confuse frameworks and reference frames, failing to discriminate or sustain them. Many of our ‘deepest questions’ are not questions, they are framework/reference frame errors. In these chapters on Light, Hermann Bondi gives us a glimpse of a...
