Over the course of the last few weeks various ideas have crossed my path, and, as any pattern recognition device does, commonalities were found and are detailed below. The…
The Santa Fe Institute hosted one of it’s Business Network Theme Weeks on September 14th through the 18th, 2009. It was a great event and among many, many…
Murray recalled briefly how messy things are when in the middle of a challenge. He recalled a colleague (Dirac?) who had the equations showing the existence of…
where are your allegiances:
to intelligence, or, to homo sapiens?
There appears to be an oncoming force: the explosion of intelligence. This will emerge due to the diffusion…
So close.
Fun day, surprising day walking to lunch with physicist Roy Benedek… finding Steen Rasmussen meeting with Rick Stevens. Rick is nominally a computer scientist, and Steen…
Signs of the times from Princeton, Kentucky: “Market Street Bakery and Cafe, For Sale by Owner” and then down at the corner: “Armory Gun Shop– OPEN” Bakeries are…
2009 and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago is presenting work from at least 50 years ago. Maybe Chicago needs another museum, dedicated to “current experimental stuff.” Maybe the…
When human beings perceive beauty in the repetitive forms of agriculture: rice patties or vineyards, or fruit orchards, what’s odd is, that this beauty is seen in…