"Non-blocking" means a program will allow other threads to continue running while it's waiting. This is opposed to "blocking" code, which stops execution of your program completely. Normal, synchronous I/O operations suffer from this limitation.

A thread is a way of allowing your computer to break up a single process/program into many lightweight pieces that execute in parallel. Somewhat confusingly, Python's standard implementation of threading limits threads to only being able to execute one at a time due to something called the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL). The GIL is necessary because CPython's (Python's default implementation) memory management is not thread-safe. Because of this limitation, threading in Python is concurrent, but not parallel. To get around this, Python has a separate multiprocessing module not limited by the GIL that spins up separate processes, enabling parallel execution of your code. Using the multiprocessing module is nearly identical to using the threading module.

Asynchronous nature of threading: as one function waits, another one begins, and so on.

The idea of performing a function in response to another function is called a "callback."

Event loops are constructs inherent to asynchronous programming that allow performing tasks asynchronously.

In its purest essence, an event loop is a process that waits around for triggers and then performs specific (programmed) actions once those triggers are met. They often return a "promise" (JavaScript syntax) or "future" (Python syntax) of some sort to denote that a task has been added. Once the task is finished, the promise or future returns a value passed back from the called function (assuming the function does return a value).

An effective definition for concurrency is "being able to perform multiple tasks at once". This is a bit misleading though, as the tasks may or may not actually be performed at exactly the same time. Instead, a process might start, then once it's waiting on a specific instruction to finish, switch to a new task, only to come back once it's no longer waiting. Once one task is finished, it switches again to an unfinished task until they have all been performed. Tasks start asynchronously, get performed asynchronously, and then finish asynchronously.

• for: definition - hope

• definition: (robust) hope

  • has three characteristics:
    • honest
    • astute
    • powerful

• for: definition - the adjacent possible

• definition: the Adjacent possible

  • Inn complexity science, the boundary between between the real and the possible

• for: definition - enough vs feasible dilemma, double bind, progress trap

• definition: enough vs feasible dilemma

  • the changes that are actually required are not feasible to do
  • what is feasible to do is not enough
  • this puts us in a double bind
  • we need to have interventions that are BOTH
    • enough to solve these problems and are
    • feasible to execute

• for: definition - robust hope, robust hope triplet

• definition: robust hope

• honest instead of false
  • astute instead of naive
  • powerful instead of passive

• for: cascades - two types, pernicious cascades, virtuous cascades, definition - pernicious cascade, definition - virtuous cascade

• definition - pernicious cascade

  • knock on effects between systems that produce a level of significant harm to society
• definition - virtuous cascade
  • knock on effects between systems that produce beneficial impacts for society

Persistent homology is a method for computing topological features of a space at different spatial resolutions. It is used to detect more persistent features over a wide range of spatial scales and identify them as more likely to be significant, as opposed to noise or a particular choice of parameters. To find the persistent homology of a space, the space must first be represented as a simplicial complex, and a distance function on the underlying space corresponds to a filtration of the simplicial complex. The essence of persistent homology is to track the birth and death of homological features, providing a robust and informative way to study qualitative features of data that persist across different spatial scales. It is a valuable tool in topological data analysis, as it is robust to perturbations of input data, independent of dimensions and coordinates, and provides a compact representation of the qualitative features of the input.

• for: definition - green colonialism

• definition: green colonialism

  • applying colonialist thinking to the green transition

• for: definition - green democratic revolution

• definition: green democratic revolution

  • Schneider proposes this strategy is more pragmatic than either green growth or degrowth. The words are chosen carefully:
    • green - obvious
    • democratic - authentic equal power of the people
    • revolution - because we are at the precipice, a fast evolution, a rEVOLUTION is necessary
  • He finds both of these current approaches problematic:
    • green growth employs the same elite debt-based growth logic that contributed to the fossil growth economy
    • degrowth is a terrible term for climate communications which brings the wrong immediate connotations to the masses so creates unnecessary friction at the outset for any strategy that needs to win over the masses.

tending to induce drowsiness or sleep

of, relating to, or representing the whole of a body of churches

the study of the nature of God and religious belief.

the promotion of unproven or fraudulent medical practices.

relating to priests or the priesthood; priestly

the art of placing or arranging buildings or other sites auspiciously. 2. divination from configurations seen in a handful of earth thrown on the ground, or by interpreting lines or textures on the ground.

the theory that certain knowledge is impossible.

a collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method.

a belief or practice resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false conception of causation. b. : an irrational abject attitude of mind toward the supernatural, nature, or God resulting from superstition

determined by genetic factors and therefore able to be passed on from parents to their offspring or descendants.

an inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way.

• for: futures - neo-Venetian crypto-networks, Global Chinese Commons, GCC, cosmolocal, coordiNation, somewheres, everywheres, nowheres, Global System One, Global System Two, Global System Three, contributory accounting, fourth sector, protocol cooperative, mutual coordination economics

• summary

• learned something new
  • I learned a number of new ideas from reading Michel's article. He gives a brief meta-history of our political-socio-economic system, using Peter Pogany's framework of Global System One, Two and Three and within this argues for why a marriage of blockchain systems and cosmolocal production systems could create a "fourth sector" for the transition to Global System Three.
  • He cites evidence of existing trends already pointing in this direction, drawing from his research in P2P Foundation

• for: definition - somewheres - nowheres - everywheres

• for: definition - protocol cooperative, question - protocol cooperative

• question: protocol cooperative

  • this seems to be the same definition as cosmolocal. Why not call it a cosmolocal cooperative?

• for: portmanteau - coordiNation, definition - coordiNations

• for: definition - Global System Two

• for: definition - Global System One

• for: Thomas Theorem, The definition of the situation, William Isaac Thomas, Dorothy Swain Thomas, definition - Thomas Theorem, definition - definition of the situation, conflicting belief systems - Thomas theorem, learned something new - Thomas theorem

• definition: Thomas Theorem

• definition: definition of the situation
  • "The Thomas theorem is a theory of sociology which was formulated in 1928 by William Isaac Thomas and Dorothy Swaine Thomas:

If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.[1]

In other words, the interpretation of a situation causes the action. This interpretation is not objective. Actions are affected by subjective perceptions of situations. Whether there even is an objectively correct interpretation is not important for the purposes of helping guide individuals' behavior.|

• comment
• learned something new

• key insight: polarization

  • Behaviors subsequently are enacted out of a set of beliefs.
  • If there are a multitude of conflicting belief systems emerged from different cultures, then real conflicts can emerge out of the disharmony of conflicting beliefs
  • This is a very important insight into the polarization we see in the world today

• adjacency between:

  • polarization
  • Thomas Theorem

• adjacency statement

  • polarization can be explained by the Thomas Theorem

• reference

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_theorem#:~:text=The%20Thomas%20theorem%20is%20a,This%20interpretation%20is%20not%20objective.

• for: double overshoot, definition - double overshoot

• definition: double overshoot

  • ecological and cultural overshoot

• for: definition - permanent security, examples - permanent security

• definition: permanent security

  • Extreme responses by states to security threats, enacted in the name of present and future self defence.
  • Permanent security actions target entire civilian populations under the logic of ensuring that terrorists and insurgents can never again represent a threat. It is a project, in other words, that seeks to avert future threats by anticipating them today.

• example: permanent security

  • Russian-Ukraine war
    • Vladimir Putin reasons that Ukraine must be forcibly returned to Russia so that it cannot serve as a launching site for NATO missiles into Russia decades from now.
  • Myanmar-Rohingya conflict
    • The Myanmarese military sought to squash separatism by expelling and killing the Rohingya minority in 2017
  • China-Uyghur conflict
    • China sought to pacify and reeducate Muslim Uyghurs by mass incarceration to forestall their striving for independence forever
  • Israel-Palestine conflict
    • Israel seeks to eliminate Hamas as a security threat once and for all after the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel
  • US-Iraq-Afghanistan
    • The US sought to eliminate Saddam Hussein's nuclear capabilities and to eliminate Osama Bin Laden for his bombing of the World Trade center.

Est-ce que ça ne s'applique pas aussi dans la première définition?

si je comprend bien, toute action entreprit dans un environnement numérique est synonyme d'éditorialisation. Reste une définition très large

• for: definition - dharma

• definition: dharma

  • the Buddha flipped the meaning - dharma means reality holds you in freedom from suffering

• for: definition - epoche, bracketing

• definition: epoche

  • the epoche is a form of suspense of judgment,
  • a way to let the phenomena speak while `bracketing' the usual presuppositions that are in force in any given situation.

• for: personality types - diminishers and illuminators, definition - illuminator, definition - diminisher

• definition: illuminator

  • a curious, empathetic person who genuinely listens to you, pays attention to you, asks questions, make you feel heard, seen and acknowledged. In short, they treat others as sacred

• definition: diminisher

  • a person who has lost sight of the sacred and are not interested in others. They are not curious about others, stereotype, ignore and don't ask questions. They make you feel unheard, unseen and unacknowledged.

• for: definition, definition of experience, question, question - what is experience?

• question : experience

  • what use experience?

definition: experience - it just the sum of the sensations feelings emotions thoughts and actions that i live instant after instant

• for: learned a new word

• definition: alterity

  • Merriam Webster
    • OTHERNESS specifically : the quality or state of being radically alien to the conscious self or a particular cultural orientation

via u/mannyocean at https://www.reddit.com/r/Notion/comments/17mg82a/zettelkasten_in_notion/

He seems to define "zettelkasten" in a productivity sense and not in the currently broader Luhmannian sense.

• for: key insight, key insight - Andrew Millison, key insight - geomorphology, quote, quote - Andrew Millison, quote - geomorphology

• definition: geomorphology, geomorphic

  • geomorphology.is the study of the shape of the land and geomorphic means conforming to the shape of the land.

• quote: Andrew Millison

  • The fundamental flaw of our civilization is that our political boundaries and our land management units, property boundaries are not conforming to the shape of the land. Because if they did, then decisions we made would have an integrated holistic landscape scale impact instead of a fragmented or fractured impact.
• date: 2023

This section helped me understand a key feature

Definition

Definition

• for: double bind, definition - double bind - evolutionary, Gregory Bateson - definition of double bind

• for: definition, definition - double bind

• definition: double bind

  • the definition of a double bind is that you have a problem (a bind) in one context and you can't actually solve it in that context because it's caught in another context
  • Gregory Bateson defined the double bind as an evolutionary trait of species due to their changing nature.
    • Since individuals of a species are constantly changing, there comes a day when all that it knows what to do in order to survive is outdated due to the changing environment. When it repeats the old behavior that served its survival in the past, it dies.

• comment

  • adjacency
    • between
      • double bind
      • progress trap
  • adjacency statement
    • progress traps are related to double binds because in a progress trap, an implemented solution to a problem in one context gives rise to a new problem in another context.
    • the original problem (bind) in one context appears to be resolvable but actual isn't. Future unfolding of the implemented solution unfold a future unexpected problem.
    • The two problems are not simultaneously occurring as in a double bind, but time-delayed
    • both double bind and progress traps emerge from the same root of violating holism
    • in not grasping the implications of the emptiness of phenomena, we ignore intertwingled nature of reality, we circumvent Indra's meet of jewels at our own peril

• for: Moloch, definition, definition - Moloch, trancontextual decontextualised reductionism, Nora Bateson

• comment

  • those is similar to Nora Bateson's description of decontextualised reductionism
    • https://hyp.is/vS3QOm49Ee69E8e7ZWchKg/docdrop.org/video/j44AVKgdORs/

• for: definition, definition - analogical reasoning

• definition: analogical reasoning

  • comparing archeological and paleontological evidence of past life forms with behavior, anatomy and morphology of existing living species to shed light on past life

• for: definition, definition - evolutionary convergence, evolutionary convergence

• definition: evolutionary convergence

  • similar environmental conditions can give rise to similar biological adaptations
• example: evolutionary convergence
  • during Cambrian explosion, over a period of 40 million years, a diverse range of species developed with the ability to see
  • a number of species have the same arm appendages:
    • human
    • bird
    • bat

It doesn't claim that science can explain everything, but rather, it uses science to explore and understand our understanding of the world. The surprising part is that the science it uses is the same science we use daily, so nothing new needs to be learned or old knowledge discarded.

One example of a surprising discovery made through Plex is that, contrary to Stephen Hawking's theory, there was no beginning to time and space. This contradicts the popular "big bang" theory, which suggests there was an initial moment when time and space began. According to Plex, this idea of a "big bang" is just a result of how our current science views the nature of the universe.

Plex also differs from other scientific approaches in that it doesn't rely on axioms, which are assumptions made without proof. Instead, Plex only uses definitions, meaning it only accepts as true what can be clearly defined and understood.

We're saying let's consider the concept of a "big bang". In traditional science, we might assume the existence of a "big bang" like this:

instead of thinking big_bang = True

But in Plex, we would only accept the "big bang" if we can define it:

python def big_bang(): # Define what a "big bang" is # If we can't define it, then it doesn't exist in Plex pass

Let's not assume reality but rather just try to define the elements we need to use

• for: definition, definition - CLIP models

• definition: CLIP model

  • contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) model allows model information in one modality - predictive modeling in one domain to be translated to another domain

• for: definition, definition - CommGrid, definition - commoning electricity grids

• definition: CommGrid

  • commoning electricity grids

• for: definition, definition - FET

• definition: FET

  • an MET or MCT that is absolutely necessary but insufficient by itself to trigger processes that result in MST

• example: FET

  • eukaryotic single-cell organisms are an MET and FET.
  • other events are required to lead to MST
    • biotic - other living organisms such as bacteria or viruses
    • abiotic - environmental change such as rising levels of free oxygen

• for: definition, definition - MCT, definition - major competitive transition

• definition: major competitive definition

  • remarkable morphological adaptations that confer major competitive advantages in survival or reproduction.
  • example:
    • water-to-land transition,
    • land-to-water transition,
    • creation of new niche - evolution of flying organisms
    • vascular tissue of plants

• for: definition, definition - fusions, definition - information leap, organismal complexity, fusions, information leap, traditional METs

• paraphrase

  • there are two classes of adaptations that qualify as gains in organismal complexity and constitute traditional METs:
    • definition start: fusion
      • a process whereby independently reproducing entities are incentivized into combining into higher, integrated levels of obligate reproductive cooperation, due to factors such as:
        • selective advantages of division of labor and mutual dependence.
        • maximization of inclusive fitness
        • ability to punish cheaters
    • definition end
    • definition start: information leap
      • novel forms of information storage or transmittal across individuals, ranging from
        • genes
        • symbolic writing
    • definition end

• for: definition, definition - sensory ecology

• definition: sensory ecology

  • The field of sensory ecology is based on studying the sensory systems of animals in order to understand
    • what they perceive in their environments and
    • how that is going to affect their interactions with that environment

• reference: Dangles et al. 2009

  • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcore.ac.uk%2Freader%2F30694936%3Futm_source%3Dlinkout&group=world

• for: transcendent, transcendental, definition - transcendental, Kant - transcendental, phenomenology

• definition: transcendental

  • not what is BEYOND appearances (the usual colloquial meaning of transcend) but what is BELOW appearances
  • in other words, it is the condition of possibilities of these appearances, it is from where appearances appear

• perspective shift: transcendental

  • Until encountering this explanation, I battled with and puzzled over the explanation of the transcendental given by all other authors. I found them overly complex and unintelligible without understanding many other major hidden assumptions
  • In my view, this proves Bilbot's mastery as a an educator on the most profound ideas in philosophy
    • Above all, he has a deep understanding of the salience landscape of his audience, something which almost all other author's and educators miss

• for: experience replaces objects, nondual replaces dual, Heidegger, situatedness

• comment

  • there is a parallel between objective reality and the private experience
    • visual field
      • vanishing point indicates presence of the seer
    • interior, first person experience
      • situatedness indicates presence of experience being had from somewhere (specific) - situatedness

• definition start

  • this is called by Heidegger and Husserl the transcendental deduction
• definition end

• definition: phenomenological reduction (aka epoche)
  • There is an experience in which it is possible for us to come to the world with no knowledge or preconceptions in hand;
  • it is the experience of astonishment.
    • The “knowing” we have in this experience stands in stark contrast to
    • the “knowing” we have in our everyday lives, where we come to the world with
      • theory and
      • “knowledge” in hand,
      • our minds already made up before we ever engage the world.
  • However, in the experience of astonishment,
    • our everyday “knowing,” when compared to
    • the “knowing” that we experience in astonishment,
  • is shown up as a pale epistemological imposter and is reduced to mere opinion by comparison.
  • The phenomenological reduction (aka epoche)
  • is at once
    • a description and
    • prescription
  • of a technique that allows one to voluntarily sustain the awakening force of astonishment
    • so that conceptual cognition can be carried throughout intentional analysis,
    • thus bringing the “knowing” of astonishment into our everyday experience.

-for: parallel polis, parallel alternative society, Vaclev Havel, definition, definition - parallel polis

• definition: parallel polis
  • a community-created safe space in which people can mutually support each other, directly produce what they need, and build a kind of shadow society – outside of the machinery of the dominant political system.

develop

Phase-locking value. A statistical measure of the extent to which oscillatory activity in different brain networks is synchronized, for the purpose of determining how interconnected those brain networks are.

• for: stress - satisfaction, lack project, poverty mentality, David Loy
• comment
  • what is interesting is that there is strong emphasis on Buddhist and other contemplative teachings on acceptance of the present state and cessation of searching.
  • In Buddhist teachings, desire is an expression of a dissatisfaction of some aspect of the present and drives change
  • and last but perhaps most importantly, Buddhist teachings teach that the source of the desire is indicative of attachment to the constructed self narrative
  • hence, at first read, it would seem the goal-oriented nature of the definition is at odds with Buddhist teachings.
  • David Loy refers to desires as a way to fulfill something we feel is missing. He refers to this as a "Lack project"
    • When we feel incomplete, we are motivated to strive towards those things that we perceive to make us feel more complete. This is also referred to in some branches of Buddhism as poverty mentality: https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=poverty+mentality
  • If we penetrate the self construct and see it's constructed, provisional nature, then we also expose the greater already existent reality that we already are.
  • It seems paradoxical. While we are strongly reifying the self-construct, we will be goal-seeking and a priority goal may be to experience the self as a construct, which has the effect of ending root level goal seeking.

• for: definition, definition - self, compassion, science - compassion, self-illusion, self-illusory, nilhism
• definition
  • Self is an illusory modelling construct created by perceptual systems of Agents

• paraphrase

  • Self is an illusory modelling construct created by perceptual systems of Agents
  • Agents construct models of causal Selves for others, and for ourselves, using the same machinery.
  • The same mechanisms that cause an agent to act toward stress reduction in itself
    • (even though the beneficiary of those actions is in an important sense impermanent)
  • can be expanded to extend to other Selves.
  • In this way, while our focus is on understanding and formulating Self in a way that is applicable to a broad range of scientific contexts,
    • we also see ourselves as here contributing to the treatment of perennial issues in contemporary Buddhist philosophy
      • such as the feasibility of genuine care in a world without real individuals

• comment

  • the last statement has always been a paradox for me
  • Buddhist teachers often warn of how mistaken, immature views of emptiness can lead to harmful action
    • Indeed, if no selves exist, then over can easily mistaken nilhism as the logical behavioural conclusion
    • yet, teaching texts make clear that there is something critical the student has missed it they come to that conclusion
  • the transformation is missing its most important element of that false conclusion persists

• for: definition, definition - stress, stress
• comment
  • this is a generalized definition of stress that includes basal cognitive organisms
• definition: stress
  • In the context of a generalized definition of intelligence applied beyond the traditional definition that applies only to organisms with neurons and nervous systems to include organisms that display basal cognition,
    • stress is defined as the delta between
      • current state and
      • optimal state,
    • or the difference between the goals at different subsystems’ levels
  • Reduction of this stress parameter is a driver that keeps the system exerting energy in action to move and navigate within the problem space.
  • The authors note that stress can be seen as the inverse of “satisfaction”, and is relative to a contextual and non-stationary target.

• for: basal cognition, definition, definition - basal cognition
• definition
  • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Flink.springer.com%2Fcollections%2Faacdfgjegj&group=world
  • https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-023-01780-3
  • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Flink.springer.com%2Farticle%2F10.1007%2Fs10071-023-01780-3&group=world

• for: basal cognition, definition - basal cognition
• definition: basal cognition
  • cognitive behavior of non-neural organisms
• paraphrase
  • Long before the appearance of neurons and nervous systems, evolution had already laid a solid foundation of capacities to enable organisms to
    • become familiar with
    • value
    • exploit
    • evade
  • features of their surroundings to further existential goals.
• source
  • special issue on Basal Cognition
  • https://link.springer.com/collections/aacdfgjegj

• for: wisdom signaling, ego - reifying, foolbodied, definition, definition - foolbodied, definition - wisdom signaling, humbleness
• definition: foolbodied
  • to be aware of how ignorant (foolish) one is in an embodied way

• definition: wisdom signaling

  • the act of talking about wisdom that conveys a sense of epistemic authority or that may sound wise regardless of the actual presence of wisdom

• comment

  • this subtle shift is actually quite important
  • the centrality of our ignorance, in contrast to the focus on our wisdom is a natural antidote to reifying ego
  • Wisdom signaling appears to be a movement towards the direction of reifying ego and self-righteousness
  • Many of the greatest minds (and hearts) of humanity talk genuinely about how ignorant they are about reality because of the paradox that
    • the more you know, the greater your discovery of how much you don't know, and therefore the awareness of how expansive our ignorance is
  • in this sense, the continual reminder and awareness of the enormity of one's ignorance creates authentic sense of humbleness, not a contrived one

when a myth is grounded to a specific place

This definition does not follow that of the general social connotation this word generally carries. The question is not whether or not it is true or false, but rather, what does a myth say about a society's history/beliefs/opinions/etc?

When a story gets written down it becomes folklore?

Art is an expression of things that often cannot be easily described by words. Art can be coping mechanisms, art can be part of a process itself. Art can simply be how or why we did something. There is no easy way to define it, so we have established a more contextual definition, but overall, "art" is a very loose term.

• for: symmathesy, mutual learning, mutual transcontextual learning, individual collective entanglement, Indyweb, Indraweb, Indynet, Indranet

• definition: symmathesy

  • mutual transcontextual learning in living systems

• comment

  • symmathesy lay at the heart of the Indyweb and Indraweb

• for: symmathesy, mutual learning, mutual transcontextual learning, individual collective entanglement, Indyweb, Indraweb, Indynet, Indranet

• definition: symmathesy

  • mutual transcontextual learning

• comment

  • symmathesy lay at the heart of the Indyweb and Indraweb

• for: definition, definition - solastalgia, homesick while at home
• definition: solastalgia
  • feeling homesick while still at home
• author: Glenn Albrecht

• for: definition, definition - heat dome, Pacific Northwest heatwave

• paraphrase

  • This event was widely described in the media as a “heat dome”, wherein
    • subsidence/adiabatic warming,
    • “trapped air”, and
    • sensible heating
  • are the dominant mechanisms driving the anomalous heat.
  • This conceptual model ignores the role of upstream diabatic heating,
    • which our analysis
  • shows is a significant heat source.
  • This “heat dome” phrase is not a common phrase within the scientific community

• comment

  • the authors do not refer to this event as a heat dome, as is popularly used in the media because diabatic heating was involved

• for: definition, definition - state capture, state capture
• definition: state capture
  • when governments, public servants, the media and the majority of decision-makers and influencers become captured by vested interests.

Dissipative Adaptation, I should really add this to my vocabulary

• for: definition, definition - mentalism, hermetic philosophy
• definition: Mentalism
  • things are created from and expand from the mind
• paraphrase
• quote
  • There are different ways that you can interpret this,
    • but in its simplest form it means that
    • everything that we do in life begins with a thought or a feeling.
  • The thought or feeling always precedes the action. / Comment: This is part of the philosophy of Deep Humanity that entangles inner transformation with outer transformation /
  • Therefore the inner world, the spiritual world, drives the physical world. It is a mirror. / Comment: A Deep Humanity way to express this is to say that the outer world is a reflection of the cumulative inner world's of humanity/
  • Everything that humans have ever done throughout our entire history
    • has begun as thoughts and feelings,
    • which then manifested as actions in the physical world.
  • Our society is therefore shaped by the interaction between
    • our inner worlds and
    • the laws of nature.
  • We cannot change the laws of nature
    • and so if we want to change the world,
    • we must focus our attention inwards. / Comment: Again, this is reflected in the Deep Humanity phrase: A stimuli occurs, the heart feels, the mind thinks, the body acts and an impact appears in our public, shared reality/

• for: definition, definition - spirituality
• definition
• paraphrase
  • spirituality is simply
    • the process of exploring the mysteries of the self and the universe, and
    • believing that there is more to life than material survival,
    • even if we don’t know what.
    • If the material world is what we can observe with our five physical senses,
    • the spiritual world is everything else.
• author: Tom Greenwood

• date: Aug. 23, 2023

• comment

  • Tom'w working definition is similiar to neuroscientist David Eangleman's definition of possibilian and possibilianism
• reference
  • David Eagleman's Possibilian website:
    • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.possibilian.com%2F&group=world

• for: definition, definition - triple bottom line, triple bottom line
• adjacency: definition, John Elkington, triple bottom line
• definition: triple bottom line
• author: John Elkington

• for: quote, quote - Stowe Boyd, quote - progress trap, quote - unintended consequences, unintended consequences, progress trap, cultural evolution, technology - futures, futures - technology, progress trap
• quote:
  • Technological change is an accelerant and acts on the social ills like pouring gasoline on a fire
• author: Sowe Boyd
  • consulting futurist on technological evolution and the future of work
• paraphrase
  • In an uncontrolled hyper-capitalist society,
    • the explosion in technologies over the past 30 years has only
      • widened inequality,
      • concentrated wealth and
      • led to greater social division.
    • And it is speeding up with the rise of artificial intelligence,
      • which like globalization has destabilized Western industrial economies while admittedly pulling hundreds of millions elsewhere out of poverty.
  • And the boiling exhaust of this set of forces is pushing the planet into a climate catastrophe. -The world is as unready for hundreds of millions of climate refugees as it was for the plague.
  • However, some variant of social media will likely form the context for the rise of a global movement to stop the madness
    • which I call the Human Spring
  • which will be more like
    • Occupy or
    • the Yellow Vests
  • than traditional politics.
  • I anticipate a grassroots movement
    • characterized by
      • general strikes,
      • political action,
      • protest and
      • widespread disruption of the economy
    • that will confront the economic and political system of the West.
  • Lead by the young, ultimately this will lead to large-scale political reforms, such as
    • universal health care,
    • direct democracy,
    • a new set of rights for individuals and
    • a large set of checks on the power of
      • corporations and
      • political parties.
  • For example,
    • eliminating corporate contributions to political campaigns,
    • countering monopolies and
    • effectively accounting for economic externalities, like carbon.

• for: definition, definition - second order science, first order science, second order science, entanglement, complexity
• definition
  • second order science
    • "Second Order" science contrasts with first order science.
    • In first order science, the scientist is an observer standing apart from that which is observed.
    • Second order science is science in which the scientist is part of the observed phenomena and experiment itself.
    • Second order science is value driven, in contrast to first order science.
• paraphrase
  • first order science is what we humans have participated in most of our history
  • but second order science is really what's applicable now
  • second order science is reflective and involves both science world and stakeholders
    • a group of stakeholders want something to happen and science is engaged in building towards that aspiration, so it's a bit like engineering
      • this makes it value driven
  • second order science still requires first order science in many cases but it needs a level of transparency that states the desired goal of the science

• for: definition, definition - decentralized city, decentralized city, network city, definition - network city, question, question - decentralized city, question - network city
• definition
  • decentralized city
  • network city
    • a virtual city united by rules of governance for its members via the internet but with physical buildings and infrastructure all over the planet. Each physical location is considered a neighborhood of the decentralized or network city
• questions
  • does this mean that each networked city is really only defined by its membership and virtual governance framework?
  • these physical settlements would still have to abide by the bylaws of the actual physical location (ie. ward or district of a city) they are located in

• for: ecological civilization
  • Nora Bateson
    • Nora shares about the many diverse intentional communities she has lived in and found them all dysfunctional.
    • The problem is that they have a mission statement, a purpose.
    • The perspectival knowing is different for each person.
    • How do you nurture unintentional community?
    • support unintentional possibility
    • top-down instructional is an unecological process
    • The question "who can you be when you are with me?" is preferred over "what should you be?"

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/roguishly_adv?tab=meaning_and_use#25189406

https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=inasmuch

• for: definition, definition - Tweedledums, Tweedledees
• definition
  • Tweedledums
    • This is a Reactionary Caste that believes that salvation lies in a return to a non-existent nostalgic past, characterized by respect for
      • authority,
      • order,
      • hierarchy,
      • individual initiative, and
      • ‘traditional’ ways of doing things,
    • governed by a
      • strict,
      • lean,
      • paternalistic elite
    • that leaves as much as possible up to individual families guided by
      • established ‘family values’ and
      • by their interpretation of the will of their god.

• for: definition, definition - tweedledees, tweedledees
• definition
  • Tweedledees
    • This is a PM (Professional-Managerial) Caste that believes that salvation lies in striving for an impossibly idealistic future characterized by
      • mutual care,
      • affluence
      • relative equality for all,
    • governed by a
      • kind,
      • thoughtful,
      • educated,
      • informed and
      • representative
    • elite that appreciates the role of public institutions and regulations, and is guided by principles of
      • humanism and
      • ‘fairness’.

• definition
  • extra-somatic energy
    • energy that is used by humans but not used in direct human metabolism

Definition of Osteoporosis

• for: ecological civilization
  • William Rees

• for: ecological civilization
• Rex
  • danger is we will build a model
  • question to Rex:
    • what then is the alternative?
    • admit we are animals
    • if we overshoot, we have to contract

• for: progress trap
• definition
• quote
  • progress trap
    • A progress trap is the condition in which we find ourselves when science, technology and industry create more problems than they can solve. Often inadvertently.
• author
  • Dan O'Leary
• source
  • https://www.progresstrap.org/2010/02/12/the-progress-trap/

• definition
  • snowy peak problem
• if you are a minority looking up at management in politics, business or other hierarchical organizations, you often see old, white males at the top.

In other word, "reification" or treating abstractions as if they were concrete real events or physical entities.

A theoretical construct in neuroscience/neuropsychology that is

a unit of cognitive information imprinted in a physical substance, theorized to be the means by which memories are stored[1] as biophysical or biochemical[2] changes in the brain or other biological tissue, in response to external stimuli. (wiki)

Cf. this note to a 2015 neuroscience paper that purports that it's been "found/discovered".

p. 35 where [[Richard McElreath]] defines [[weakly informative priors]] aka [[regularizing priors]] in [[Bayesian statistics]]. Notes that non-Bayesian methods have a mathematically equivalent approach called [[penalized likelihood]].

Argues that distinguishing between

• "radiant light" (light emitted from an energy source)

• "ambient light" (light reflected by the environment as a source)

resolves issue of - wanting a physical theory of light - wanting info about objects to be conveyed by light

But needs ecological optics to be combined with physical optics to justify this theory.

Defines - stimulus energy as relevant to [[receptor-cell]]s - stimulus information as relevant to [[organ]] or [[perceptual system]]

Defines "stimulus".

on ways of getting stimuli to the sense organs of individuals.

Defines "knowledge" as "perception at second hand".

Gives definition of "medium": - allows animals move - allows objects get displaced - allows the "flow of information"

A definition of what Penrose is.

Accents: Contrast is created by means of highlighting certain elements of the music, either regularly or irregularly. When timbre or duration are not at play, accents are the only rhythmic criteria. Timbre: Contrast is produced by hearing/playing different tone colors in turn, either regularly or irregularly. When accents or duration are not at play, timbre is the only rhythmic criterion. Duration: Contrast is produced by the succession of unequal time val- ues. When accents or timbre are not at play, durations are the only rhythmic criteria. 16 As for meter, Arom adds that “it is in fact the most elementary manifestation of rhythm,” 17 made of identical durations with regular stress patterns. Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoff suggest other definitions of the accent, of which they see three types:

Definition

Is there a data structure for these? These things are key to building Westworld IRL

Enneagram

• finite time singularity

  • when the mathematical solution to the growth equation becomes infinitely large at some finite time

• comment

  • this is also salient for the accumulation of unresolved progress traps
  • the Anthropocene can perhaps be viewed as the occurence of finite time singularities due to unresolved problems arising from progress traps that innovation is too slow to solve

In a musical setting, however, when spoken words and sentences are replaced with motifs and melodic phrases, the structure of the call and response might not be as obvious. To be a good communicator, we have to know how to listen, pay close attention to what the other musicians are playing, and try to be receptive to their ideas. In certain scenarios, however, the use of call and response technique might create less than desirable effects. For instance, when the call and response takes the form of exact and immediate repetition, it might be impressive but not necessarily in keeping with the surrounding musical context. A much more subtle way of thinking about the call and response technique involves musical interaction at the level of the entire performance in which non-adjacent sections relate to one another, and where the flow of the performance is regulated by logically introduced musical ideas. In creating a musical narrative, then, we can also respond to each other’s playing, but these responses are not as obvious as simple repetitions tend to be. We can demonstrate our listening skills, for instance, by incorporating an idea that we have previously heard (i.e. a rhythmic motive from the drummer, or a melodic gesture from the guitarist) and develop it in such a way that leads to a more satisfying musical discourse. The call and response aspect of improvisation means that musicians understand each other’s intentions, have an unspoken agreement, so to speak, and project them with a high level of personal expression and musical commitmen

my editor who's from completely outside this world just Mark that and said you know I don't know what these words mean the Evangelical subculture right I was like okay take it out and let me let me show don't tell and but the truth is like it's invisible to people on the outside what the Evangelical subculture is