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One (Many) Giant (Nonlinear) Baby Step(s)
To begin, the data:
" As I breathe the sky anew
Lungs contract faintly white
(Body, scatter in the dust of the sky)
The top of a gingko tree glitters again
The zypressen darker
Sparks of the clouds pour down."
-Kenji Miyazawa "Spring and Asura"
" So the biosphere, it seems, in its persistent evolution, is doing something literally incalculable, nonalgorithmic, and outside our capacity to predict, not due to quantum uncertainty alone, nor deterministic chaos along, but for a different, equally, or more profound reason: Emergence and persistent creativity in the physical universe is real."
-Stuart Kauffman
"When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of youself."
-Shunryu Suzuki
"Nested withing a nonlinear complexity that is unrivaled in the known Universe, Life combines all aspects of a creature's dynamics: its physiological, conceptual, motivational, and motor activities in an unsimulatable autopoietic network."
-Alwyn C. Scott
" He was a physicist and a computer-composer in his spare time. Why was he so stupid? Because he was of the opinion that the only thing that will engage the intellect is the measurement of relations between things. When told that his mind could change, his response was,'How? Why?'."
-John Cage
(A start to) discussion:
As the blanket of the natural universe unfolds into sheets of inquiry, exponentially highlighting vast areas of unknown complexity, causing even the most ardent physicists to shift their Newtonian assumptions (the scientific gold standard cum retro), and further pushing onto the horizon the "ultimate knowledge" of reality, why do we still bathe in the old philosophical concerns of time/no time, space/no time, self/no self, free will (if you want it), etc? If formal theorizing is receiving a major schoolyard quality flat-tire from REALITY itself, should humility not be the mode of course for the sciences of human social and mental life?
I propose that the new human scientist is an owner and applier of poetic awe-a protean mechanic of mind as it investigates, changes, and participates in reality. I propose that the new human cognition relies not on the physics of cause and effect but, rather, the incommunicable, immense systems of dynamic relationships that make up everything we know, from entangled particles to the humid breathe of H. Sapiens' history. How can one scientifically investigate so-called enlightenment itself? We may soon find out.
(Loaded words: search for new vocabulary commences....now)
" As I breathe the sky anew
Lungs contract faintly white
(Body, scatter in the dust of the sky)
The top of a gingko tree glitters again
The zypressen darker
Sparks of the clouds pour down."
-Kenji Miyazawa "Spring and Asura"
" So the biosphere, it seems, in its persistent evolution, is doing something literally incalculable, nonalgorithmic, and outside our capacity to predict, not due to quantum uncertainty alone, nor deterministic chaos along, but for a different, equally, or more profound reason: Emergence and persistent creativity in the physical universe is real."
-Stuart Kauffman
"When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of youself."
-Shunryu Suzuki
"Nested withing a nonlinear complexity that is unrivaled in the known Universe, Life combines all aspects of a creature's dynamics: its physiological, conceptual, motivational, and motor activities in an unsimulatable autopoietic network."
-Alwyn C. Scott
" He was a physicist and a computer-composer in his spare time. Why was he so stupid? Because he was of the opinion that the only thing that will engage the intellect is the measurement of relations between things. When told that his mind could change, his response was,'How? Why?'."
-John Cage
(A start to) discussion:
As the blanket of the natural universe unfolds into sheets of inquiry, exponentially highlighting vast areas of unknown complexity, causing even the most ardent physicists to shift their Newtonian assumptions (the scientific gold standard cum retro), and further pushing onto the horizon the "ultimate knowledge" of reality, why do we still bathe in the old philosophical concerns of time/no time, space/no time, self/no self, free will (if you want it), etc? If formal theorizing is receiving a major schoolyard quality flat-tire from REALITY itself, should humility not be the mode of course for the sciences of human social and mental life?
I propose that the new human scientist is an owner and applier of poetic awe-a protean mechanic of mind as it investigates, changes, and participates in reality. I propose that the new human cognition relies not on the physics of cause and effect but, rather, the incommunicable, immense systems of dynamic relationships that make up everything we know, from entangled particles to the humid breathe of H. Sapiens' history. How can one scientifically investigate so-called enlightenment itself? We may soon find out.
(Loaded words: search for new vocabulary commences....now)
