Category: Books
-
Retrospective 2024-33
This is a retrospective of week 33, 2024 (2024-08-12–2024-08-18). This week, I have read Min europiska familj: de senaste 54000 åren by Karin Bojs. The book is in Swedish and is about Bojs’ family for the past 54,000 years. The first part of the book is more interesting than the last part. The last part…
-
Retrospective 2024-32
This is a retrospective of week 32, 2024 (2024-08-05–2024-08-11). I’ve started reading two books this week: Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment by Charles Taylor, and Christ Way, Buddha Way: Jesus as Wisdom Teacher and a Zen Perspective on His Teachings by Tim Langdell. Charles Taylor writes the following about his book Cosmic…
-
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…
-
Philip Ball and Iain McGilchrist on How Life Works
This post contains highlights from Philip Ball’s conversation with Iain McGilchrist which focuses on Ball’s book How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology. Philip Ball …this is a book that has…taken me decades to get to. …when I’m talking about a new biology, I’m trying to get across what has changed in…
-
Retrospective 2024-27
This is a retrospective of week 27, 2024 (2024-07-01–2024-07-07). This week I’ve finished reading The Map of Consciousness Explained: A Proven Energy Scale to Actualize Your Ultimate Potential by David R. Hawkins. I wonder how the consciousness-calibration research was done? As mentioned last week, there’s positive as well as negative bias in the consciousness calibration.…
-
Myrdalarnas hemliga brev
Häromdagen fick jag möjlighet att snabblåna De hemliga breven av Alva & Gunnar Myrdal, Jan Myrdal och Bosse Lindquist (introduktion och urval). Jan Myrdal försökte få kontroll över dessa brev. Här är mina intryck. Under åren har Jan Myrdals texter tagits för sanna. De hemliga breven betonar vikten av kritisk granskning. Bosse Lindquist skriver: Jans…
-
Retrospective 2024-26
This is a retrospective of week 26, 2024 (2024-06-24–2024-06-30). William Tiller’s book Psychoenergetic Science: A Second Copernican-Scale Revolution arrived this week. I’ve also started reading The Map of Consciousness Explained: A Proven Energy Scale to Actualize Your Ultimate Potential by David Hawkins this week. So far I’ve found some great quotes on humanness, reason, love,…
-
Retrospective 2024-25
This is a retrospective of week 25, 2024 (2024-06-17–2024-06-23). This week finished read Bridging Science and Spirit: The Genius of William A. Tiller’s Physics and the Promise of Information Medicine by Nisha J. Manek. Manek views the book as “a work in progress” and describes the “uneasiness” with writing it as follows: Any writer will…
-
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…
-
Christopher Alexander on Observation
Christopher Alexander has the following to say about the new method of observation which he proposes in The Nature of Order, Book One: The Phenomenon of Life (italics in the original text): [The method of observation] goes directly to the intuitions which are widely shared and raises them to a formal level as techniques of…