Here is my Pataphysics remix:
"The funniest solution is most likely the right one." - Samim's Razor
Related: "Bontrager's Law": "Every-thing is more complicated than it seems."
Here is my Pataphysics remix:
"The funniest solution is most likely the right one." - Samim's Razor
Related: "Bontrager's Law": "Every-thing is more complicated than it seems."
"Time is three eyes and eight elbows." - Dogen Zenji
#Comment: A peculiar characteristic of the dominant (western) science paradigm, is how little emphasis is placed on cultivating mind-body states (beyond pure book learning, jointly shaping mental & physical conditions via exercise, meditation, diet, etc.) of participants (peers & public), while they interact with the science discipline and its fruits. During the past century, science has (re-) discovered, that the process of thinking-acting in living beings (incl. humans) is inherently embodied, multi-modal, contextual and distributed. Long dead is the notion of a disembodied philosopher king, generating objective truth from high above. Health and Cognitive accessibility are key for effective change-making. Yet, contemporary science is still practiced as strictly intellectual activity of sedentary elites, producing sacred knowledge on the assembly-lines of giant for-profit institutions. Peculiar indeed, as ancients cultures in India (Vedic, Yoga), China (Daosim, Qigong) or Greece (Philosophy, Sports) demonstrated the efficacy and joyfulness of a more holistic paradigm.
"Guerrilla Ontology is the basic technique of all my books. Ontology is the study of being; the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?'" - Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminati Papers (1980)
"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must pass over in silence"
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1922).
"Keep quiet. Don't touch the thoughts. Let them be."
- H. W. L. Poonja
“If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.” - Confucius
“The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants”
- from Homage to an Exile by Albert Camus, 1955
“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”
- The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, 1942
"Aldous Huxley suggested that bureaucracies behave stupidly because, unlike its individual members, a bureaucracy nevers sleeps and therefore never benefits from a fresh start in the morning of the mind. Sleep deprivation in most mammals promotes aggression as well as stupidity. The cosmopolitical headline here: International Sleep Disorder Causing Epidemic Dumbness and Hostility." (via, via)
"Men invented time to feel comfortable in space. But it doesn't actually exist. All experience is happening at once." -Albert Einstein
Time measurement unites (via World Encyclopedia of Time)
Hindu units of time - "from microseconds to Trillions of years".
Back to the future: The original time crystal makes a comeback: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/11/back-future-original-time-crystal-makes-comeback
"I am life wanting to live with life that wants to live." - Albert Schweitzer
"All Models are Wrong. Some Models are Useful." - George Box
See as well "Any Map is Better Than No Map At All". #Ideas
New research from Imperial Centre for Psychedelic Research: "Ayahuasca compound changes brainwaves to vivid ‘waking-dream’ state": https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/193993/ayahuasca-compound-changes-brainwaves-vivid-wakingdream/
"A total of 13 participants were given an intravenous infusion of DMT. DMT affects human consciousness by significantly altering the brain’s electrical activity."
#Comment: The comedy show which is psychedelic science continues. Ever since Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris fell in love with Friston and they are seriously trying to explain subjective experience of highly isolated agent brains with probabilistic (machine learning) models, things are rapidly becoming full Monty Python. Their approaches rely so heavily on myriads of highly arbitrary reductionist choices, it would make any renaissance alchemists giggle. Even DARPA is taking a much more interesting approach at this point and people like Dr. Michael Persinger must be laughing from their graves. I suppose let them dive down the fractal of knowledge in search of some illusive "final hard truth". If mathematicians and neuroscientists would only accept that the thing-in-itself is infinite (not a bug, but its essence) - and that there is everything in infinity (incl. nothing) - their entire house of cards would collapse. The only thing left to-do at that point, is to live a simple, humble and compassionate life.
Online Knowledge Management Thoughts & Links
#Comment: That feeling when one finally closes a browser tab, after weeks of keeping it open in search of a moment to read it (which never arrived). Repeats 3 times: The web is a river, don't try to hold on. Browser Tabs don't age well: When a site is added to the "will read later" tabs, it seems vitally important. Yet only days later, the site starts to feel irrelevant & eventually the tab is closed. (Spatio-temporal) Context is key for knowledge management - Browser are horrible at it. When one thinks about knowledge management long enough, one starts to understand that management is the wrong method and knowledge the wrong question: My essential needs for such tools are around personal knowledge praxis (highly action oriented & context depended), not so much knowledge management (archiving/data hoarding oriented).
“Reality is not always probable, or likely.”
― Jorge Luis Borges
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
"The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created. Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon." —Bill Strickland
Moore's Law is deeply miss-understood: While technologists like to frame it as "number of transistors double every 2y" - they never truly inquire "WHY does it double?". Its no magic: The law is a metric of unfettered economic growth, of the very kind that created climate change.
It would be interesting if financial currencies (¥€$) & measure (GDP) were linked to real world biodiversity (instead of to highly speculative computer games). Such a scheme would economically reward growing biodiversity and punish its destruction - a reversal of today's dynamics.