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Contextual Inheritance
How the non-local manifests locally
Applied Complexity Science
Oct 31, 2022
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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…
Applied Complexity Science
Oct 28, 2022
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September 2022
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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Sep 15, 2022
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August 2022
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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Aug 15, 2022
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June 2022
The (Mis)Alignment of Knowledge
When we know the opposite of what we do
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Jun 1, 2022
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March 2022
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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Mar 24, 2022
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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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Mar 4, 2022
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February 2022
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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Feb 25, 2022
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Stone Walls, Randomness, and Order
This Spring will have me trying my hand at some stonework. I’ve been reading up, but of course nothing will instill real lessons like giving it a shot…
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Feb 23, 2022
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The Danger of Conspiracies
To label someone a ‘conspiracy theorist’ has come to mean they are, essentially, a tinfoil hat wearing lunatic. One of the more sophisticated critiques…
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Feb 2, 2022
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January 2022
A Tale of Two Top-Downs: Part II
Coarse-to-fine Processes
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Jan 31, 2022
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A Tale of Two Top-Downs: Part I
Blueprint Processes
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Jan 31, 2022
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