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by | May 2, 2019 | Status Update

“Most explanations arise from situations where a failure was sensed. Before I formed an explanation, things were simply working as I wanted them to, for whatever reasons I wanted that.” — an anonymous informant

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by | May 2, 2019 | Status Update

I took a book to the Botanical Gardens this afternoon. As I was walking through the gardens I saw two elderly Japanese ladies carefully examining some flowers. I thought to myself how musical their voices were… and ‘I bet they make delicious food, and I...

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by | Apr 27, 2019 | Status Update

There will always be dangers facing humans in living in the natural world as embodied animals. Nature, then, comprises a domain where safety, comfort and life-support are neither guaranteed nor universal. In this sense, our* world can be analogized as an astonishingly...

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by | Apr 27, 2019 | Status Update

Two assertions by a physicist that will »always be true: “1. We’re making mistakes we can’t find yet. 2. Nature has something we can’t find yet.” To these I will add a third: 3. We probably don’t know what ‘we’ means if...

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by | Apr 19, 2019 | Status Update

This quote caught my attention. It isn’t, however, that no one seems to care. Rather, it is that our supercultures are uncontrollably destructive, and the common people are largely if not completely deprived of meaningful agency in their shadow. Though we...