in all disorder a secret order."
Saturday, February 17, 2024
Sunday, January 01, 2023
Borgesian Batesonian Patterns
Friday, November 11, 2022
Improvisational Nature
in the early universe capable of
generating the current complex
structure that we live in,
the complex structures that we are?
And what if these structures
had an improvisational nature."
- Stephon Alexander (1971 - )
The Jazz of Physics
Sunday, October 09, 2022
Idea Chasing
Tuesday, October 04, 2022
Sameness and Novelty
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
Thursday, August 18, 2022
Different Perspectives
Each person has a different reason for being here;
if a person looked at it from the outside, he'd see
us all sitting here and maybe wouldn't know why.
And then...?
Trungpa Rinpoche: That’s what tantric people say.
Question: You mean the more confusion there is,
the more difficult it is to stamp a system on reality?
Trungpa Rinpoche: You see, chaos has an order by virtue
of which it isn’t really chaos. But when there’s no chaos,
no confusion, there is luxury, comfort.
Comfort and luxury lead you more into
samsara, creating more luxurious situations
adds further to your collection of chaos.
All these luxurious conclusions come back on
you and you begin to question them,
which leads you to the further understanding
that, after all, this discomfort has order in it."
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
Maximizing Play
Saturday, July 16, 2022
Inner Sound
if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory,
which accounts for its usefulness.”
Saturday, July 09, 2022
Knowing Nothing of Space
- M.C. Escher (1898 - 1972)
Sunday, February 20, 2022
Web of Time
strands of which approach
one another, bifurcate,
intersect or ignore each
other through the centuries,
embraces every possibility.
We do not exist in most of them.
In some you exist and not I,
while in others I do,
and you do not"
Wednesday, February 09, 2022
We are Stories
complicated centimeters
lines drawn by traces
left by the (re)mingling
together of things in the
world, and oriented toward
the direction of increasing
entropy, in a rather particular
corner of this immense,
chaotic universe."
Sunday, February 06, 2022
Cosmic Sea of Energy
It is full, a plenum
as opposed to a vacuum,
and is the ground for
the existence of everything,
including ourselves.
The universe is not separate
from this cosmic sea
of energy.
quantum interconnectedness
is that the whole universe
is enfolded in everything,
and that each thing is
enfolded in the whole."
Monday, December 20, 2021
Geological Time
"In reality, a river's basic shape... is not a line but a tree. A river is, in its essence, a thing that branches... Although it flows inward toward its trunk, in geological time it grew, and continues to grow, outward, like an organism, from its ocean outlet to its many headwaters. In the vernacular of a new science, it is fractal, its structure echoing itself on all scales, from river to stream to brook to creek to rivulet, branches too small to name and too many to count."
Monday, August 23, 2021
An Element of Absolute Chance
- Charles Saunders Peirce (1839 - 1914)
The Monist (1890-1893), quoted in Truth, Rationality, and
Pragmatism: Themes from Peirce by Christopher Hookway
Sunday, March 21, 2021
Middle Ground
- James P. Crutchfield (1955 - )
Between order and chaos
Monday, February 01, 2021
Edge of Chaos
- Stuart Kauffman (1939 - )