Thursday, January 31, 2002 - No Simpler than this' Thoughts Archive - like it or not, we're all in this together.

# 14:15 HelloWorld		Asc Mo
last time... "Why do we continue to ..": homeostasis, of course... but take these detours, i find this stuff fascintating and just brewed up a rough story showing a simple phase/flow noun/verb mapper for the zodiac .. which i want to mention in this context without forgetting to leave a link to go beyond the question to a large scale integration. i brewed up the elements on the story some months before my life would get ripped apart. somehow i think that walking through the big picture aided by a wee bit of algebra helps audit one's thinking. it also likely that coding has completely fried my brain. anyway, i had a traumatic time and this thing didnt get cleaned up until today. enjoy. and check out tiller.

# 12:51 HelloWorld		Asc Mo
THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2002\| "Why do we continue to act as if the universe were constructed from nouns linked by verbs, when we know it is really constructed from verbs linked by nouns?": "I believe we are edging towards a new paradigm, in which process and interaction — the verbs— are all there is, and material stuff — the nouns — are simply placeholders for more verbs. However, we don't yet have suitable language or mathematics for describing this new viewpoint, and we never will if we fail to recognise the reasons why we so easily slip back into our old ways. Before we can construct something new we must deliberately deconstruct what we have. So the first question I want to ask is: how is our understanding constrained by the apparatus we use for gaining that understanding? After that we can start to discuss what new kinds of language and mathematics might liberate us from this paradigm trap." I've been grappling with this for a bit and would ask "how is our ~~understanding~~ happiness/effectiveness constrained by the apparatus we use for gaining that understanding?" and whack at the nouns to get "how is our ~~understanding~~ happiness/effectiveness constrained by ~~the apparatus we use for gaining that understanding~~ our perceptions?" you could now talk about AC interfaces (by mapping to an 'applied math' domain), impedance matches, resonances, dissonances, and have lots of algebra to guide your thinking. we kind of know that if you go slow enough you can map the stuff both ways. i find the imaginary numbers arising with AC especially neat. nouns then become DC, or verbs without any degrees of freedom. by looking at it this way you get a suggested answer for the 2nd question too. anyhow, i think the answer is, as implied in the question, 'our perceptual distortion' and our investment in them.. two terms. i think they reduce to homeostasis.

# 11:38 HelloWorld		Asc Mo
Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe by Andrew Boyd ran into this book in the checkout line of my local magazine store yesterday. satire on a sickday felt like homeopathy. i just flipped through it, read one or two of the pages. neat, funny, mindbending, not to be trusted and clear about it:) i liked it.