How the non-local manifests locally
One of the major errors of the reductionist turn in Western thought was collapsing our notions of causality, reducing everything essentially into the…
In proper science, theory’s role is to organize observations according to a coherent model that can produce predictions. These predictions are then used…
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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When we know the opposite of what we do
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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…
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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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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