by orchaeus | Dec 15, 2023 | Status Update
“… I suspect the common modern person would balk at the idea that trees represent something analogous to »vehicles; that under some circumstances a human being can relate with them in such a way that »a form of travel results… which may »appear to be...
by orchaeus | Dec 15, 2023 | Status Update
“Though you would not expect it, the sudden intrusion of additional domains of meaning and relation in your experience… would result in you experiencing something … at least conceivably… ‘more real’… than the relatively...
by orchaeus | Dec 14, 2023 | Status Update
“Just suspend the urge to measure.” — infraheard
by orchaeus | Dec 14, 2023 | Status Update
“There is a direct biological conflict between organisms and analysis. The goal of simulating, for analysis, all the activities of a single eukaryotic cell over one second is literally unachievable. It would require far more than all the computation ever...
by orchaeus | Dec 14, 2023 | Status Update
“At present, homo sapiens are ‘a dead species, walking’. There are precisely zero human societies with the capacity to »develop and use the brakes… to know not only ‘what not to do/build’, but also ‘what must never be...
by orchaeus | Dec 14, 2023 | Status Update
“We are unable to define the concept of temperature for a space that is in direct sunlight.” — Richard Muller, Prof Physics UC Berkeley This is provocative for its metaphoric projection on many other domains that we measure — to begin to measure, we must...
