Category: Articles
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Retrospective 2024-36
This is a retrospective of week 36, 2024 (2024-09-02–2024-09-08). I’ve read Overcoming the Newtonian paradigm: The unfinished project of theoretical biology from a Schellingian perspective by Arran Gare this week. Arran Gare writes: “The concept of an atom did not emerge from any analysis offered by Newton; rather, he simply presupposed particles without structure and…
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Retrospective 2024-35
This is a retrospective of week 35, 2024 (2024-08-20–2024-09-01). This week, I’ve spent a couple of days in the northern part of Sweden. I visited Umeå and Skellefteå. Bonnitta Roy has written an interesting essay about Christopher Alexander on Generating a Living World (part 1 & part 2). Roy is one of few who sees…
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Retrospective 2024-31
This is a retrospective of week 31, 2024 (2024-07-29–2024-08-04). This week I’ve been reading two books: I’ve also read the following articles about generative AI: I found the following quote of Iain McGilchrist in a mail 2024-08-02 from Eric Schaetzle to the McGilchrist Irregulars: I don’t think practices in themselves will ever achieve what needs…
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Retrospective 2024-29
This is a retrospective of week 29, 2024 (2024-07-15–2024-07-21). Ulrika, my grandchild’s mother, sent a beautiful quote this week: Before a child speaks, it sings.Before they write, they paint.As soon as they stand, they dance.Art is the basis of human expression.—Phylicia Rashad I search the web and found a research article in the British Journal…
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Retrospective 2024-24
This is a retrospective of week 24, 2024 (2024-06-10–2024-06-16). This week, I’ve read an article about the persistent inaccuracies which plague Large Language Models (LLMs). The authors argue that it’s more accurate and useful to describe “AI hallucinations” as bullshit. These models replicate human language without any concern for truth. This is a serious problem…
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Gina Gustavssons ledare i DN
Gina Gustavsson är docent i statskunskap vid Uppsala universitet och fristående kolumnist i Dagens Nyheter. Här är en översikt över Gina Gustavssons ledare i Dagens Nyheter (bakom betalvägg): 2021-12-23: Det är först när vi möter andra åsikter och värderingar som vår tolerans prövas 2021-11-16: Pandemin hanterades fel – men i stället för att ta ansvar…
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Retrospective 2021-03–13
This is a summary of my reading during the first quarter 2021 (weeks 3–13). There are two list below: The first list consists of books, articles, and letters that I have read (more or less in the order read). The second list are notes I made while reading (in chronological order). A collection of robert…
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Notes on Goethe’s Aphorisms
Daniel Christian Wahl has translated Goethe’s collected aphorisms in ‘The Tip of the Iceberg’ Goethe’s Aphorisms on the theory of Nature and Science. I appreciate that Wahl has attempted to stay as close as possible to the literal meaning of Goethe’s writings in order to avoid unnecessary interpretations. Here are my own brief notes, which…
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Retrospective 2020-31
This is a summary of my reading during the week. Books I have read Wholeness in Science by Guus van der Bie. The author attempts to develop Goethe’s method in his interest in a humanization of medicine. Similarly, I think it’s possible to develop Goethe’s method in the interest of humanizing work. Traditional management, which…
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Norm Hirst’s Propositions on Life
This post is a summary of Norm Hirst’s Propositions on a New Metaphysics and Science of Life-Itself. Background Norm Hirst (1932–2012) was an independent scholar studying life and values for over 50 years. At MIT, Hirst studied with Robert Hartman, a visiting professor developing a formal axiology. See my reviews of Hartman’s Freedom to Live…