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Observation and Creation
Previously I made this set of statements: Computation irreducibility, the principal (unproven), suggests the best we are going to be able to do to understand EVERYTHING is just to keep computing and...
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Unoriginal Thoughts about Symbolics, Thought, Existence and Learning
A variety of thinkers and resources seem to converge on some fundamental ideas around existence, knowledge, perception, learning and computation. (Perhaps I have a confirmation bias and have only...
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Existence as Difference (or what I think is the basis of all existence)
Preface: This essay lays out an extremely brief account of what I believe (see evidence towards) is the source of existence and thus of perception, thought and knowledge. I want to say I have some...
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Too Simple – conclusions are the issue.
There will be no understanding. There should be no blame. Our section of the world is confronted yet again with unexplainable suffering taking the shape of so many other recent events. A person, a...
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YOU ARE A PROGRAMMER/BIG DATA, WE ALL ARE.
We all are programmers. And I want to explain what programming really is. Most people think of it as a writing instructions that a computer will then interpret and go do what those instructions say....
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Happy Father’s Day aka learning to love
The day of my first child’s birth (July 4th, 2003) remains one of the formative experiences of my life. Yes, it was a holiday and the day Barry White died and she was born as the sun was going down and...
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Will this stone yield to me? (a poem)
Yesterday someone told me that science was contingent and logic necessary. I struck the stone – at first lightlyThen I dug in and drew blood. Fractured assumptions flared their flimsy premiseCrumbling...
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How to Program
Here’s a short presentation about programming, my philosophical view of it, that is. How to Program (PPT) How to Program (PDF)
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art and patterns
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ art lives in the mind. but there is no mind. art lives in perception. but there is no perception. art lives as patterns. there are patterns. but there is no...
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I’m Home, Mom.
“Donna Smith Sucks!” some angered person shouted at me from behind a door. I had put a political flyer on a door and knocked hoping to ask someone to consider voting for an upstart democratic candidate...
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What Are We? A Response to David Deutsch’s Creative Block Article
David Deutsch wrote an interesting essay back in 2012 (http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/david-deutsch-artificial-intelligence/). His books follow similar themes and this article is a useful...
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Psychology Today
John H. Bryant – Lone Star College, Conroe, TX “Is it time yet?” “Are we there yet?” No, these are not questions of children eagerly waiting to leave on vacation or arrive at a valued destination....
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Everything is Connected… New Kind of Science Edition
Yes. This is GREAT. http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/what-is-spacetime-really/ While I have many interests and ideas… the most of enduring is my own obsession over the nature of reality and...
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2016 Launch – January 1
When, in 1991, a list was drawn up by an assortment of heavy weight problem solvers to focus on important social and scientific topics receiving prominent play in media over the prior years....
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Contingency Theory: Gravity, Light, Computation and Theory
And I have to start this essay with a simple statement that it is not lost on me that all of the above is 100% derived from my own history, studies, jobs, art works, and everything else that goes into...
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Light The World On Fire
Today I watch a poet do her thing they’re always doing things, unhinged but right always she’s that I think are doing things that matter but don’t, you know – they are crazy ranting and raving making...
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