The 1des 0f 1deas
By Jeremy Bentham
The 1des 0f 1deasApr 19, 2020
MetaState: Ghost in the Machine. Chapter 6 - A Memory for Forgetting
Quickly, our experiences deprecate to deeper and more defunct representations of our former lives. The day it happened to a year from now, the mind's holons abstract recall to primitives, criteria of relevance.
Stamping in can better seal the deal for recall but how much and how often. Do words as symbols inform us for long, or must other conditionals assist along the way for a better permanent impermanence with our own mind's eye?
MetaState: Ghost in the Machine. Chapter 5 - Triggers & Filters
Hierarchies are but mechanistic chains, one Holon at a time, delivering function moving through the order.
A nest is a simple an elegant example of a natural holon.
So many eco-systems triggered and triggering other systems to build.
Constantly, patterns recognized manifesting constancy.
MetaState: Ghost in the Machine. Chapter 4 - Individuals & Dividuals
We sojourn through our next great work of polymathic erudition. This time by Arthur Koestler.
Types of Hierarchies make the mula. Universe inny, universe outy. Reality, existence, life, each dance to the tune of different types of hierarchies, all a type of Holon.
Life in the minutiae possess patters, cellular songs, self-regulating lingers in the space between dissectibility and indivisibility. Inter-dependence, independence are blurred with our human conceptions of cooperation and stamina, whether ant, worm, or hydra.
MetaState: Ghost in the Machine. Chapter 3 | The Holon
We sojourn through our next great work of polymathic erudition. This time by Arthur Koestler.
The watchmakers Bios and Mekhos assess their inputs and outputs, but for one the process is a dizzying mosaic moving slower than the clocks ticking in the background.
Hierarchies optimize for building, creation, as they do for damage control. Enter nodes, or Holon, derived from Greek holos for whole. The geometry of hierarchies when done well does allow Janus' to see the forest from the trees.
MetaState: Ghost in the Machine. Chapter 2 | The Chain of Words and the Tree of Language
We sojourn through our next great work of polymathic erudition. This time by Arthur Koestler.
Conversations with our fellow humans are chained in complexity, beyond the mechanization of slot machines; the transactional.
Language is poly-dimensional mischief-maker, by sound and phoneme, as in written words and morphemes. A dog who kicks a postmen isn't the Noam we are looking for but it does help us branch out the conundrum.
Speaking is hierarchical. To speak is to express logic, song.
Just because we are not slot machines, that doesn't make us Jukeboxes.
MetaState: Ghost in the Machine. Chapter 1 | The Poverty of Psychology
We sojourn through our next great work of polymathic erudition. This time by Arthur Koestler.
Dead horses with vicious kicks. A dyspeptic response to Behaviorism. Making Ratatouille a bug rather than a feature.
The human mind, if be a titch Freudian and a tat Jungian, it nevertheless is more complex than a simple string of analogies.
MetaState: Science Since Babylon, Part 13 - Epilogue
Here in the Epilogue, Price concludes his work with challenges and questions as to the future of scientific inquiry. A visually-dependent portion of the book, you may also enjoy consulting my own visual confection experiment of Price's work here.
Science is muchly no longer a one person show, with the fields exploding into levels of complexity and depth for seemingly no one Earthling able to compress. The challenge is thus put forward as to produce new maps of meaning and research for the scientific foray, with a particular emphasis to re-invite the humanities back into the fold.
MetaState: Science Since Babylon, Part 12 - Exponential Growth & Unflattening the Sigmoid Curve
Covering all of Chapter 8, Price considers a more granular take on the great contributions of scientific discovery. A visually-dependent portion of the book, you may also enjoy consulting my own visual confection experiment of Price's work here.
The acceleration from Bodkin to cocktail dinner napkin takes continues. Taking on a now graphical analysis, from Enlightenment to 1900, it is predicted that the pace of scientific research and cultural emphasis is growing at an unsustainable rate, building towards a job-fulfillment vacuum of inestimable imagination.
Nations are catching up with one another, and with each new nation-state starting ever-later in the race, all the more experience they seem to possess in leap-frogging the previous nations technological evolutionary path.
Where will we be in the electronic age?
Can society manage an ever-present scientific trajectory?
MetaState: Science Since Babylon, Part 11 - Fleeing from'st Phlogiston
Covering all of Chapter 7, Price considers a more granular take on the great contributions of scientific discovery. A visually-dependent portion of the book, you may also enjoy consulting my own visual confection experiment of Price's work here.
Frauds by accident are produced by making honest errors with the guilt of pride unable to see beyond what one knows. The proliferation of curiosity can overwhelm, mistaking chronicling historical science for scientific history, leaving a blurred trail for more straight line of hardy experimenters. Becoming an X-Ray society started out as a Headline fanaticism for burgeoning scientific communities unfamiliar with the printed celebrity.
Where the seance ended, radioactivity began, harnessing the ability to see through and into so much.
MetaState: Science Since Babylon, Part 10 - The Technology of the Gaps
Covering all of Chapter 6, Price considers a more granular take on the great contributions of scientific discovery. A visually-dependent portion of the book, you may also enjoy consulting my own visual confection experiment of Price's work here.
What is the difference between science and technology?
What sort of tests would one take to make it into Edison's lab?
Can 10,000 technologists brute force their way unto the level of a mad scientist?
How many researches does it take to create a light bulb?
How has society plunged pragmatically with it's view of science-minded denizen?
Research has morphed from dark and dreary room with but a bodkin to lavish cocktail parties and scribbled dinner napkins.
The velocity of scientific research and revolution appears somewhat proportional to a similar revolutions in the means of performing of such research and experiment. Mushroom culture be damned!
MetaState: Science Since Babylon, Part 9 - Scratching Itches & Cyclotrons
Covering all of Chapter 5, Price considers a more granular take on the great contributions of scientific discovery. A visually-dependent portion of the book, you may also enjoy consulting my own visual confection experiment of Price's work here.
For every Newton, Galieo, or Faraday, existed dozens of people of lessor repute toiling away just as diligently, filling in the smaller gaps, crystallizing numerous iterative progress, provoking the conditions for watershed moments.
Vis Adamnain - The Vision of Adamnan
Experimenting with interesting stories of a historical + spooky/supernatural tone for our All Hallows season!
Hundreds of years before Dante penned his Le Divina Commedia, off the northwestern coast of Scotland, lie the island of Iona. It was there, in Early Medieval Christendom, would a Monk imagine a woeful underworld, where the penitent and the unrepentant would be tasked to toil through an ethereal triptych of hounds, serpents, and flame.
Survived by the fragments of one Lebor na hUidre, the oldest extant work of Irish heritage, it is also one of the first to use a rich visual language to express the culture of Western Christianity and a civilization it was forging, one abbey at a time.
Sources:
Lebor na hUidre (reissue English translation)
Scans of original copy
Ahead of the Curve: Episode AC03F5
Time emits nothing inert. My journey into The Rockies elicited a great quieting. Currents are elusive, inclusive, exclusive, and illusive. What do we do, removed from'st modernity, naked and facing all but our own voice?
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Ahead of the Curve: Episode FFB600
The second episode of a weekly meditation on the state of reality, powered by the architecture of language and Lindy-compliant lore of all subjects and interests.
Meat space wants us hidden from the hidden world that which is viral, so we descend upon the hidden world where the only currency is virality.
A bullying economy where micro-correcting the world over listening to it might be a culprit to placing us on such a precipice.
Diseases, bacteria, panaceas...
Are we more than muster mark?
Ahead of the Curve: Episode 383838
The first episode of a weekly meditation on the state of reality, powered by the architecture of language and Lindy-compliant lore of all subjects and interests.
Wars are all around us, but first and foremost, in our minds. What is attention in this epoch and can we re-affirm commitments to a personal senso commune?
MetaState: Science Since Babylon. Part 8 - When the Arcane is just Geometry
Covering all of Chapter 4, antiquity has provided us a litany of angels mistaken or represented as angles and vice versa. A visually-dependent portion of the book, you may also enjoy consulting my own visual confection experiment of Price's work here.
Many images become symbols for many reasons, across many disciplines; sometimes they remain in the barely approachable station of knowledge, as their weighted and direct lineage of discovery is ill-told. Many of civilizations talismans possess many portent utilities, embedding itself into architecture, astrology, algebraic influence all the same.
Cultures cross continents breath differing life into similar shapes, each a varying degree of geometric brilliance, like enjoying many different trees across the globe, each telling a different tale while each enriching us with oxygen.
MetaState: Science Since Babylon. Part 7 - Heronic Jackwork, Yahoos, and Ancient Modernity
The remainder of chapter 3 intimates that the imagination overtime is always ahead of it and what is made into fruition where the moment remains both mysterious and curiously blurry. Our first machines in phenomenology and application are centuries divided, nevertheless, the iterations in between are worldly, odd, and beautiful. Wastes of time in one era become indefatigable and most valued in another.
MetaState: Science Since Babylon. Part 6 - The Origins of Mechanism
Astutely, bygone eras possessed a dynamic appetite to simulate nature; mechanization was the path some found most natural. Ancient imaginations witnessed amongst their peers along the Mediterranean such feats of mind and method. Clockwork was living mythology coming alive before them.
MetaState: Science Since Babylon. Part 5 - Not Painting Electrons
The conclusion of chapter 2 finalizes the journey to the oldest working university on Earth to finalize the discovery of Ancient Greece's darkhorse mechanical wonder, The Antikythera Mechanism. What would little green men think of Earth in the year 4000?
MetaState: Science Since Babylon, Part 4. Proto-clocks.
The machinations of mechanizations in the ancient far east. Su Sung's Water-clock. Where did all this complexity come from? Antikythera is all Greek to me.
MetaState: Science Since Babylon, Part 3. Celestial Clockwork
Where did all the gear trains go...er, come from? Chaucer's poetic interest in the stars.
MetaState: Science Since Babylon, part 2
Conclusion of chapter 1. Two hemispheres, both alike with amygdala. Questions of how to be both competing parties fair Babylonia to round out a tempered and modern mathematical mind.
MetaState: Science Since Babylon, part 1
The instruction manual is only discovered after refusing to read the instructions. The wonders of a scientific mind are both abstract as they are mechanical. The history of mechanical minds can be abstracted in the poetry of doing more things imperfectly as perfection is the unreliable narrator we deserve but don't need right now.
1729 is the answer, but to what? We dive into the metropolitan fold of Derek de Solla Price's anthology of hat tips to the curious peculiarities of bygone eras. Automata for the people...If you believe there's nothing up his sleeve...Then nothing is cool