Things that Are But Cannot Be ($)
Lincoln Stoller2023-02-09T16:01:07-08:00Do we look for sense in the world because it's sensible, or because we're wired to understand it that way?
Do we look for sense in the world because it's sensible, or because we're wired to understand it that way?
Confusion exists on an interesting spectrum. Ultimately, it’s what you decide it to be.
In terms of the trends of human behavior, our minds don’t change because of our technology; our minds change when we understand ourselves.
Unless you can formulate your answers in terms that are practical, you don’t have a valid question. All you’ve got is a program, and that program can amount to anything or nothing at all.
I don’t make a big deal of it, but I think questions of spirit are questions of meaning, reason, and purpose, and, in this regard, natural science has spirit.
How networks can create a way of measuring, and how this measurement can evolve as a network changes.
How we gain knowledge through struggle, danger, and fear. Learning in nature in pursuit of engagement.
I’m interested in networks because I suspect they can describe aspects of nature beyond mathematics and sentences.
Love is hugely misunderstood, but closely related to harmony and balance, and grows from those things. I’ve created an audio file to bring to you some of the ideas and associations that came to me during this walk.
"A long time ago, before I can even remember, I saw a picture of a balloon-like animal conjectured to live in the atmosphere of Jupiter. That image caught my imagination, and stuck with me... and now I have
"And after a while we found ourselves on the racked and dusty, beat-up logging track, crested a hill and dropped our packs above to a briar-choked creek bed. We repacked, ate some food, and wondered
"We talk about the lifetime of a system as the time over which it works, between its beginning and its end, and for stars that shine this is a long time. "What does it mean