15 DEC 2013 by ideonexus
Leo Szilard's Ten Commandments
1. Recognize the connections of things and the laws of conduct of men so that you may know what you are doing.
2. Let your acts be directed toward a worthy goal but do not ask if they will reach it; they are to be models and examples, not a means to an end.
3. Speak to all men as you do to yourself, with no concern for the effect you make, so that you do not shut them out from your world, lest in isolation the meaning of life slips out if sight and you lose the belief in the perfection of t...
1 Deep and poetic.
03 OCT 2013 by ideonexus
A Thought is Like Film Being Exposed Over and Over
A thought is a system, and is inherently conceptual-though often
only dimly and confusedly conceptual at the moment of first
awareness of the as yet only vaguely describable thinking activity.
Because total universe is nonsimultaneous it is not conceptual.
Conceptuality is produced by isolation, such as in the instance of
one single, static picture held out from a moving-picture film's
continuity, or scenario. Universe is an evolutionary-process
scenario without beginning or end, because the ...Each new exposure layers onto the old, with echoes of the old still faintly visible. The Universe shares this characteristic over time.
12 APR 2013 by ideonexus
The Early Days of the Printing Press was Like the Early WWW
As was the case during the early days of the World Wide Web, however, the quality of the information was highly varied. While the printing press paid almost immediate dividends in the production of higher quality maps,10 the bestseller list soon came to be dominated by heretical religious texts and pseudoscientific ones.11 Errors could now be mass-produced, like in the so-called Wicked Bible, which committed the most unfortunate typo in history to the page: thou shalt commit adultery.12 Meanw...
2 The glut of books produced a situation of "too much information" similar to the one produced by the world wide web.
28 APR 2012 by ideonexus
The Problem with Reductionism
The analysis of Nature into its individual parts, the grouping of the different natural processes and natural objects in definite classes, the study of the internal anatomy of organic bodies in their manifold forms—these were the fundamental conditions of the gigantic strides in our knowledge of Nature which have been made during the last four hundred years. But this method of investigation has also left us as a legacy the habit of observing natural objects and natural processes in their is...Folksonomies: reductionism holism
Folksonomies: reductionism holism
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notesIs that we also need to look at phenomenon in the context of their web of interactions with other phenomenon in the world.
04 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
Ecological Approach to Nutrition
The interactions of man with his environment are so complex that only an ecological approach to nutrition permits an understanding of the whole spectrum of factors determining the nutritional problems that exist in human societies. 1 notes
notesBecause our interactions with our environments are so complex. Reminds me of Polan's comment that we have to stop looking at vitamins and nutrition in isolation from their foods.
01 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
Black Holes are Separate Universes
In fact, our own universe is very likely itself a vast black hole. We have no
knowledge of what lies outside our universe. This is true by definition, but also
because of the properties of black holes. Objects that reside in them cannot
ordinarily leave them. In a strange sense, our universe may be filled with objects that are not here. They are not separate universes. They do not have the mass of
our universe. But in their separateness and their isolation they are autonomous
universes. 1 notes
notesA strange conceptual idea, that implies our own Universe is a Black Hole as well.
31 JUL 2011 by ideonexus
Join a Community as Parents
For evolutionary reasons, human babies were never meant to be born and raised in isolation from a group. Psychotherapist Ruth Josselson believes it is especially important for young mothers to create and maintain an active social tribe after giving birth. There are two big problems with this suggestion: 1) Most of us don’t live in tribes, and 2) we move around so much that most of us don’t even live near our own families, our natural first tribal experience. The result is that many new pa... 1 notes
notesIncludes a great idea for cooking 50 meals for parents of a new baby.
18 MAY 2011 by ideonexus
How Greek Civilization Came Together
The development of objective thinking by the Greeks
appears to have required a number of specific cultural
factors. First was the assembly, where men first learned to
persuade one another by means of rational debate. Second
was a maritime economy that prevented isolation and parochialism.
Third was the existence of a widespread Greekspeaking
world around which travelers and scholars could
wander. Fourth was the existence of an independent merchant
class that could hire its own teachers. Fifth... 1 notes
notesAnd it only happened once.
01 JAN 2010 by ideonexus
Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) Press Release
MAINTAIN A CONSTRUCTIVE CLIMATE FOR THE RECOGNITION OF THE NEW TECHNOLOGY AND THE ARTS BY A CIVILIZED COLLABORATION BETWEEN GROUPS UNREALISTICALLY DEVELOPING IN ISOLATION. ELIMINATE THE SEPARATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL FROM TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND EXPAND AND ENRICH TECHNOLOGY TO GIVE THE INDIVIDUAL VARIETY, PLEASURE AND AVENUES FOR EXPLORATION AND INVOLVEMENT IN CONTEMPORARY LIFE. ENCOURAGE INDUSTRIAL INITIATIVE IN GENERATING ORIGINAL FORETHOUGHT, INSTEAD OF A COMPROMISE IN AFTERMATH, AND PRECIP... 1 notes
notesArtists cannot develop in isolation. (all caps in original document)
