The Science of the Butterfly Effect
The Science of the Butterfly Effect
Bird Trail. #Nature #Complexity
Book: Simplicity - by Edward de Bono
"Implicate and explicate order" are ontological concepts for quantum theory coined by theoretical physicist David Bohm during the early 1980s.
Book: Science, Order, and Creativity by David Bohm and F. David Peat (1987).
#Science #Space #Philosophy #Religion #Complexity #Creativity
Jeffrey Epstein and the Decadence of Science - by John Horgan
"The Epstein scandal, which embroiled many prominent scientists, is just one of many signs that a gloomy prophecy is being fulfilled."
Multiverse Theories Are Bad for Science - by John Horgan
"New books by a physicist and science journalist mount aggressive but ultimately unpersuasive defenses of multiverses."
From OODA (US Airforce) and Theory of change (Aspen/CIA) to Cynefin (IBM/DARPA) and Sensemaking - many of the popular knowledge-management/decision-making frameworks emerged in western military/war contexts. Due to this heritage, they all suffer from similar, very serious conceptual & practical illnesses: fetishizing control, design, objectives, knowledge, performance and power. (Just have a look at the kind of books OODA creator John Boyd was into: cuckoo cybernetics + pop science + esoteric woo woo + TED-style motivation BS + WAR). In many ways, ancient approaches are still far more advanced and enjoyable.
Did scientists get climate change wrong? - Interview by Sabine Hossenfelder with Prof Tim Palmer from the University of Oxford.
Great Interview! Taking into consideration other recent "big picture healthy skepticism's" by Sabine Hossenfelder (such as "The crisis in physics is not only about physics" or "Is Climate Change Inconvenient or Existential? Only Supercomputers Can Do the Math"), i wonder what Sabine's general confidence level is in the current climate models. An extra level of complexity not touched on in this interview, is the inherit highly political nature of climate models, that makes them prime targets for corruption, manipulation and weaponisation. Such "social uncertainties" should likely be factored into the models themselves to make them more robust and realistic - especially given these models are (almost by definition) highly "closed source" and exclusive, due to required specialized personnel, computational resources etc.
Thoughts on physicist Mario Livio talking about "Why Is There Anything At All?":
#Comment: So many fancy words used to essentially just say "we don't know - at all". Particularly contemporary western scientists with their "knowledge fetishism" seem to have a very hard time acknowledging, that there are a great many questions which are fundamentally "unknowable" (situated right at the base of the "pyramid of knowledge/science", threatening to collapse the entire game built upon them). One would think, things like Gödel's "incompleteness theorem", Asimov's "The Last Question" or countless Zen Buddhist texts would have made the case rather clear by now, but apparently not. Scientist pretense of knowledge is especially comedic, such as when they tell us what happened a femtosecond after big bang or what happens inside the event horizon. They state their wild speculations as facts while they clearly just confuse their models and equations with reality. In praxis, contemporary scientsist resorts to the very same tricks the christian church used for millennia: First make up fictive ghost stories that sounds important but way too complex for anyone to understand. Then convince the public that they are the only ones that can make sense of this and use this to grab respect, authority and power. This comic summarizes this silly game nicely: https://samim.io/p/2019-10-30-proposal-for-a-monument-to-logical-fallacies-by-san/
Lao Tzu (601 BC) on Knowledge
'It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.' - Aldous Huxley
“Proposal for a Monument to Logical Fallacies” - by Sandow Birk.
Is Climate Change Inconvenient or Existential? Only Supercomputers Can Do the Math - by Sabine Hossenfelder (nytimes)
"Accurate predictions of Earth’s warming require computers that are too expensive for one country or institution."
“It’s not like this is string theory,” said Timothy Palmer, professor of climate physics at the University of Oxford. “We know the equations.” But we don’t know how to solve them. The many factors that affect the climate interact with one another and give rise to interconnected feedback cycles. The mathematics is so complex, the only way scientists know to handle it is by feeding the problem into computers, which then approximately solve the equations.
The crisis in physics is not only about physics: https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-crisis-in-physics-is-not-only-about.html
What is the quantum measurement problem? https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/10/what-is-quantum-measurement-problem.html
Computerized fakery intrude onto our reality: https://selforum.blogspot.com/2019/10/computerized-fakery-intrude-onto-our.html
"Absolute scale corrupts absolutely": https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190819
#Complexity #Technology
"Preventing the Collapse of Civilization" - talk by Jonathan Blow (2019)
"What Can Nature Teach Architects about Resilience" - by Victor Delaqua: https://www.archdaily.com/921428/what-can-nature-teach-architects-about-resilience
#Architecture #Regenerative #Biology #Complexity #Generative
"How system thinking is killing your creativity" - by @bonnittaroy: medium.com/open-participa… or in other words: "The only good system is the sound system."
https://medium.com/open-participatory-organized/how-system-thinking-is-killing-your-creativity-2b127aee0b11
Stéphane Douady: http://www.lps.ens.fr/~douady/ https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%A9phane_Douady
Caption Sand dunes acoustics research. Microphones and a modelling apparatus being used to study the acoustics of sand dunes. Known as 'singing sand', this phenomenon is produced by wind passing over and around the dunes. It is thought that the factors affecting the sound include humidity and the size of the sand grains. This study was carried out by CNRS (French) researcher Stephane Douady. Photographed in 2010.
Le chant des dunes présenté par Stéphane Douady.