Category: Science
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Retrospective 2024-42
This is a retrospective of week 42, 2024 (2024-10-14–2024-10-20). I’ve seen The Challenge of Rudolf Steiner (part 1 & part 2) this week. Rudolf Steinder said we shouldn’t “accumulate learning” as our own “treasure of knowledge”, but “place this learning in the service of the world”.1 He called Goethe the “Copernicus and the Kepler of…
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Is the whole thing grounded?
The whole thing, in this case, is Iain McGilchrist’s hemisphere hypothesis. Jonathan Rowson,1 says that McGilchrist reads very persuasively, but…when it comes to actually build on it you want to be sure that it’s not going to buckle under you.2 I find Rowson’s conclusion highly relevant, not least because McGilchrist himself refers to the possibility…
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Stephen Wolfram on Combinators
Stephen Wolfram traces the history of combinators in Combinators: A Centennial View. Wolfram says in the associated lifestream event, Combinators: A 100-Year Celebration, that he has been interested in combinators for a long time and gives an indication of the historical arc of combinators and how they relate to other things. Stephen Wolfram writes in…
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Retrospective 2024-02
This is a retrospective of week 2 2024 (2024-01-08–2024-01-14). Here is the retrospective of the previous week. I’m currently reading the following books: I’ve started reading: Notes:1. See Attention as a moral Act: Iain McGilchrist and Jonathan Rowson in Conversation, YouTube, https://youtu.be/YHUGuUhB1c4. Accessed: 2024-01-14. Published: 2023-03-06.2. David Ellerman makes principled arguments against the rental of…
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Stephen Wolfram on Computational Irreducibility
…I strongly suspect…that in the vast majority of cases where the behavior that we see in nature and elsewhere appears to us complex it is in the end indeed associated with computational irreducibility. … In the past it has normally been assumed that there is no ultimate limit on what science can be expected to…