Fractal Animation
Fractal Animation
"Through Fields" Animation Created using GauGAN (via)
About the Future of Engineering - by Hans Konstapel (2020)
About Entrainment - by Hans Konstapel (2010)
#Complexity #Systems #Science #Generative #Regenerative #Philosophy
Emergent Design - Explorations in Systems Phenomenology in Relation to Ontology, Hermeneutics and the Meta-dialectics of Design - by Kent Duane Palmer (2009) (PDF)
Synopsis: A Phenomenological Analysis of Emergent Design is performed based on the foundations of General Schemas Theory. The concept of Sign Engineering is explored in terms of Hermeneutics, Dialectics, and Ontology in order to define Emergent Systems and Meta-systems Engineering based on the concept of Meta-dialectics.
“The infinite works of nature, are woven together in a unity filled with marvelous patterns.” - Leonardo Da Vinci
AI-Written Articles Are Copyright-Protected, Rules Chinese Court (worldipreview)
Machines Are Learning To Write Poetry (newyorker)
#Comment: The real test for "Creative A.I" capabilities, is if it can generate such highly advanced forms of bullshit, akin to what humans (authors, lawyers, bankers, artists, etc.) "thinking" and writing about A.I produce regularly. I doubt it...
"Dynamics Patterns in Water as Analogue Models" - talk by Rupert Sheldrake (2019)
Related: "Determinants of Faraday Wave-Patterns in Water Samples Oscillated Vertically at a Range of Frequencies from 50-200 Hz" - by Merlin Sheldrake & Rupert Sheldrake
"The meaning of life is…" - answers generated by the GPT-2 machine learning model:
the meaning of life is a good, not an afterlife. Thus, accepting death has to mean accepting life. Surprisingly, this revelation is simple, humble, and radical. It leaves all of my other beliefs at the door and replaces them with our own theism. I have to mention here that every other answer I've seen to life after death ties to the idea that God exists to explain or justify our choices, needs or desires. My personal life goal is to leave God's name in my will, and my personal death warrant to be followed.
the meaning of life is now available to anyone who is ready to listen," she said. She has in the past argued that the committee process can distort Parliament, and a select committee of parliamentarians does not properly represent the whole Canadian population.
the meaning of life is to exist as an event in an era before time." If space is infinite then in what context is an event described as "a former existence" a matter of preference? If, for purposes of inquiry, the mathematics of multiple universes is discovered to be purely analytic then does that make the infinite nature of the universe a matter of preference or is there any way that we could determine what the role of time might be in the theoretical situation?
In this paper, we believe that these difficulties can be handled with the assumption that time is not an important part of the possible universes. We will begin with a formalization of how the potential of a non-empirical way to identify a single universe in many parallel universes is improved on by a principled theory of universes
the meaning of life is to protect innocent lives and that love and love alone will enable us to stop the evil in the world. The education in Christianity is also led by Jesus who, rather than teaching that all people are good, shows that just as some are evil, so too some are good and, therefore, as a loving God, has prescribed the perfect and depraved paths of existence as a prelude to everlasting damnation. The effect on children is that they learn that none are without fault, and they are taught that they are inherently capable of doing wicked things because God has given them the ability. The concept of sin does not exist in
Presenting POET (Paired Open-Ended Trailblazer) - by Jeff Clune (Uber AI Labs)
ICML 2019 Tutorial: Recent Advances in Population-Based Search for Deep Neural Networks
Simple but fun #Generative #Art idea, from a post about Brian Reffin Smith
Cellular automaton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automaton
Causal deconvolution by algorithmic generative models (2019, Nature) - by Hector Zenil, Narsis A. Kiani, Allan A. Zea & Jesper Tegnér (Code)
Making Sense of Sensemaking
Modelling serendipity in a computational context - Research paper by Joseph Corneli, Anna Jordanous, Christian Guckelsberger, Alison Pease, Simon Colton (2019)
A more naive interpretation of serendipity from the paper "Designing a Semantic Sketchbook to Create Opportunities for Serendipity" (2012):
"All models are wrong, but some are useful" - George Box
Quality-Diversity optimisation algorithms - "Site lists papers related to QD algorithms, links to tutorials and workshops, and pointers to existing implementations of QD algorithms."
qdpy - Quality-Diversity framework for Python (MAP-Elites, CVT-MAP-Elites, NSLC, SAIL, etc.)
Notes on Pattern formation in Nature and other peculiar ideas - by Jaap Bax
Corporate Evolution and the Chaos Advantage - By Phyllis Kirk
Notes on the Book The End of Certainty - by Ilya Prigogine (1997)
Interesing summery of the book by Mona M.Abd El-Rahman:
Prigogine’s view on cosmology (the more widely accepted Big Band Theory and The Steady State Theory) agrees with that of the Indian cosmologist Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, who wrote “Astrophysicists of today who hold the view that the ‘ultimate cosmological problem’ has been more or less solved may well be in for a few surprises before this century is out”.
“Many scientists have been willing to explain this singularity (the big bang) in terms of the “hand of God” or the triumph of the biblical story or creation.”
“In accepting that the future is not determined, we come to the end of certainty” says Prigogine. He does not believe, however, that this is an admission of defeat for the human mind. He asserts that the opposite is true.
He views the universe as a giant thermodynamical system far from equilibrium, where we find fluctuations, instabilities, and evolutionary patterns at all levels.
Some great quotes from the end of the book: For Einstein, science was a means of avoiding the turmoil of everyday existence. He compared scientific activity to the “longing that irresistibly pulls the town-dweller away from his noisy, cramped quarters and toward the silent high mountains. Einstein’s view of the human condition was profoundly pessimistic.
Science began with the Promethean affirmation of the power or reason, but it seemed to end in alienation – a negation of everything that gives meaning to human life.
Einstein repeatedly stated that he had learned more from Fyodor Dostoyevsky than from any physicist. In a letter to Max Born in 1924, he wrote that if he were forced to abandon strict causality (classical physics and relativity), he “would rather be a cobbler, or even an employee in a gaming house, than a physicist”. In order to be of any value at all, physics has to satisfy his need to escape the tragedy of the human condition. “And yet and yet”, when Einstein was confronted by Godel with the extreme consequences of his quest, the denial of the very reality that physics endeavors to describe, Einstein recoiled. (Godel took Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and classical physics and showed that past and future are equivalent and that it is possible to travel back in time).
Prigogine has tried to follow a narrow path between two conceptions that both lead to alienation: a world ruled by deterministic laws, which leaves no place for novelty, and a world ruled by a dice-playing God, where everything is absurd, acausal, and incomprehensible.
Prigogine ends his book with the following words: “As we follow along the narrow path, we discover that a large part of the concrete world around us has until now “slipped through the meshes of the scientific net”, to use Whitehead’s expression. We face new horizons at this privileged moment in the history of science”.
From Wikipedia, on "The End of Certainty":
"In The End of Certainty, Prigogine contends that determinism is no longer a viable scientific belief: "The more we know about our universe, the more difficult it becomes to believe in determinism." This is a major departure from the approach of Newton, Einstein and Schrödinger, all of whom expressed their theories in terms of deterministic equations. According to Prigogine, determinism loses its explanatory power in the face of irreversibility and instability."
An interview with Ilya Prigogine by Yiannis Zisis
Ilya Prigogine – On Dualist Knowledge
Dissipative system (wikipedia)
"A thermodynamically open system which is operating out of, and often far from, thermodynamic equilibrium in an environment with which it exchanges energy and matter. A tornado may be thought of as a dissipative system."
#Science #Complexity #Generative #Regenerative #Religion #Philosophy #Book