3QD
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The Finger Pointing At the Map
A description is a way of dividing the world into at least two parts: the phenomenon to be described, and the phenomenon used to do the describing. If we describe a rose as red, we implicitly divide the world into the rose on one side and everything else (such as concept of redness) — on…
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Science does not disprove free will
Someone contacted me through Quora recently because they were having an existential crisis — it was stimulated by the ostensibly scientific notion that humans do not have free well. Any theory that insists that we do not actually make choices is going to causes distress among many people who valorize academic thinking. Many hard-nosed metaphysicians…
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Jazz Cosmology
The Music of the Spheres is more like jazz than classical. Structured chaos, open plans, and conductor-free conduct. Jazz at its best is a model of social democracy — enabling individuality and freedom within a cohesive structure. And this structure is not imposed by geometer gods, kings, or police (those social metronomes), but through resonance…
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An emergence reading list
I initially wanted to devote individual blog posts to the best of these readings from our emergence journal club, but the previous post is getting an unexpected amount of attention, and there were some requests for reading material. So here is what we have discussed so far: