by orchaeus | Nov 16, 2017 | Shared Link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonini%27s_paradox∞ Simulations are by nature derivative and incomplete. So, too, descriptions, definitions, and explanations. And the more ‘complete’ they become… the more incomprehensible they become. “In modern...
by orchaeus | Nov 15, 2017 | Shared Link
https://medium.com/ill-ixi-lli/home-dfad76c02591∞ It’s a place we forge… together… with and for each other. “Sometimes when I was sitting there, at the station, looking out into the night and the restaurant, I would begin to kind of daydream....
by orchaeus | Nov 14, 2017 | Shared Link
https://medium.com/ill-ixi-lli/the-zoo-bracelet-6d59b69908cc∞ “I imagine Earth (and every living world) as a peculiar sort of charm bracelet the universe wears… and the bracelet contains a spot for every possible life form. On this bracelet, all the...
by orchaeus | Nov 14, 2017 | Shared Link
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-11-people-recurring-life-crises-decade.html∞ Actually, we are ignoring something obvious: humans »molt. »Internally. On a schedule that is at once unique, and related to personal history, circumstance and predilection. Those...
by orchaeus | Nov 13, 2017 | Shared Link
https://medium.com/ill-ixi-lli/language-vs-human-intelligence-13441c78a733″Language. Like everything that matters, we have a lot of provisional knowledge about it, but know nearly nothing of why we have it. It’s the stuff of science-fiction, or more —...
by orchaeus | Nov 13, 2017 | Shared Link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity∞ THE ETHICS OF DEBATING or HOW TO NOT BE A CHARLATAN (revision of earlier discussion) You can attack what a person *said* or what the person *meant*. The former is more sensational. The mark of a charlatan is to...
