Category: Retrospectives
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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 2024-30
This is a retrospective of week 30, 2024 (2024-07-22–2024-07-28). This week I’ve started reading How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology by Philip Ball. I have also listened to Philip Ball’s conversation with Iain McGilchrist which focuses on the book. Philip Ball writes (my emphasis in italics): Fundamentally, this new view of…
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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 2024-28
This is a retrospective of week 28, 2024 (2024-07-08–2024-07-14). I have read Timothy Snyder this week, who writes: Strongman rule is a fantasy. Essential to it is the idea that a strongman will be your strongman. He won’t. —Timothy Snyder, The Strongman Fantasy https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-strongman-fantasy At least, the fantasy goes, the strongman will get things done. But…
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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.…
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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,…
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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…
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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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Retrospective 2024-23
This is a retrospective of week 23, 2024 (2024-06-03–2024-06-09). This is a reminder to myself that I still haven’t finished my review of Robert Rosen’s book Anticipatory Systems which I started writing week 10. The reason I mention this is that I listened to Krista Tippett’s conversation with Janine Benyus and Azita Ardakani Walton this…
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Retrospective 2024-22
This is a retrospective of week 22, 2024 (2024-05-27–2024-06-02). I’ve continued reading The Living Classroom by Christopher Bache this week. I’ve mentioned the book here and here in previous retrospectives. The book is about collective consciousness and teaching, but it is as applicable to any circumstance where people gather with a common intent. I’ll review…