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Contextual Inheritance
How the non-local manifests locally
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Form by Matter, and Matter by Form
One of the major errors of the reductionist turn in Western thought was collapsing our notions of causality, reducing everything essentially into the…
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Applied Scientism as State Policy
In proper science, theory’s role is to organize observations according to a coherent model that can produce predictions. These predictions are then used…
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Counting to Three to Count to Two
My eldest daughter is two and some months old. She is at an age where she is quite taken with counting and reciting the alphabet. She does not do either…
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The (Mis)Alignment of Knowledge
When we know the opposite of what we do
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Imagination Is Not Creativity
Christopher Alexander died a week ago today. He was one of my last heroes. I won’t name the others. He had a unique impact on me in the way his work not…
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Constraints: Without and Within
A very useful way of characterizing the behavior of a system is in terms of its constraints. This yields an entire spectrum of “looseness” or…
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The Townspeople and the Boy Who Cried Wolf
In the classic telling of Aesop’s Boy Who Cried Wolf, a boy who is bored while tending sheep stirs up excitement for himself by making up a story about…
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