Category: Notes
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Bill Plotkin on Soul, Felt-sense, and Metaphor
The Journey of Soul Initiation by Bill Plotkin is a thorough description of the most essential things Plotkin has learned over the past 40 years about the journey to full maturity as human beings. Bill Plotkin uses common words in uncommon ways. Soul is, for example, an ecological concept. Soul Bill Plotkin writes (my emphasis…
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Craig Holdrege on Living Thinking
I want to show that it is possible to move beyond object thinking and develop what I will call living thinking. Living thinking is a participatory way of knowing that transcends the dichotomies of man-nature, subject-object, or mind-matter, which are so ingrained in the Western mind and form the bedrock of object thinking. One of…
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Förr eller senare kommer verkligheten ifatt
Förr eller senare kommer verkligheten ifatt! Frågan är bara hur lång tid det tar? Det tog femton år (1987–2002) innan verkligheten kom ifatt Percy Barnevik. Det skedde i samband med kraschen i ABB och pensionsaffären 2002. Hur lång tid kommer det att ta innan verkligheten kommer ifatt Elon Musk, som tog över Twitter den 27…
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It does not have to be this way!
CNBC reported Oct 31, 2022, that Elon Musk has pulled 50 Tesla employees into his Twitter takeover. Tesla employees have been involved in code reviews even though their skills do not overlap with the programming languages and systems Twitter uses. Tesla engineers don’t have experience in designing and operating platforms that are broadly accessible to…
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My Microblog: A Zettelkasten?
Niklas Luhmann used his Zettelkasten as a thinking and writing tool. It consists of 90,000 notes. He wrote 50 books and 550 articles. This can be compared with the 40,000 quotes and notes that I have collected during ten years of reading. I have a manuscript (in Swedish) for an unfinished book that I started…
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Zettelkasten: A Thinking Tool
Niklas Luhmann (1927–1998) was a sociologists. All in all, he wrote 50 books and 550 articles. The number of publications is unprecedented in contemporary sociology.1 The large number of publications would have been impossible without his filing system (Zettelkasten, or anteckningslåda in Swedish).2 Of course, I do not think of all this on my own;…
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En innehållsförteckning
Jag hittade ett utkast till en bok som jag började skriva innan jag började blogga för tio år sedan. En del av frågorna är riktigt bra! Undrar vad jag skulle svara idag? Vilka frågor skulle jag ta bort och vilja lägga till?
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A Word about Fractals
Robert Rosen expresses profound ideas in his Essays on Life Itself. This is an attempt to summarize his ideas in order to understand. For the ancient Greeks, the length of a curve was the length of a line when the curve was straightened out. It was presumed that this could always be done without changing…
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Subjectivizing vs. Objectivizing
Robert Rosen expresses profound ideas in his Essays on Life Itself. This is an attempt to summarize his ideas in order to understand. Objectivizing of mind is the reverse aspect of the subjectivizing of nature, to the point where the mind can grasp it. An impredicate loop arises in putting these two things together.1 Objective…
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The legacy of bullshit ideas
I have read David Graeber and David Wengrow’s the Dawn of Everything: A New History of Everything. I was struck by the thought that the great tragedy in human history is how easily we fall victim to our own bullshit ideas. The sickness we have suffered throughout history is our callousness to the intrinsic value…