What Science Fiction is For

By

 Science fiction is cool...



Here is another link to the post about entopy.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Law of Synergy, a 4 page Complexity Thought Experiment

By
  The following several pages are a  thought experiment  that’s a supplement to the two Extralogical Complexity articles ,  not an essay . Much more concrete explanations and examples of the following concepts are given in those posts.      Emergence and self-organization are the heart of Nature, and it beats with awesome power. Novelties bootstrap themselves out of randomness and into existence. But they must obey the laws of causality and energy conservation. Emergence and self-organization aren’t, by definition, driven by any directed, conscious agency—so what empowers them? Synergy. In addition to being a more figurative notion, synergy is, in a way, the opposite of energy:  It can emerge, but it is not conserved . Then how does it emerge?    Consider a system of 26 highly interactive but still independent variables/parts/or subsystems, A-Z. They can be anything from businesses in an economy to lifeforms in a biosphere to the cells ...
Read more

The Science and Pseudoscience of the Olympic Lifts

By
An understanding of Olympic lifting is helpful but not truly required for the following. Some attempts are made to accommodate the less initiated.   The clean and snatch are not mere weightlifting exercises--but athletic events. Explosiveness, speed, flexibility, and coordination are all involved, especially in the “full” versions of the lifts (that is, if achieved by squatting under the bar). Unlike bodybuilding and “power”-lifting, it is not at all a stretch to call Olympic-lifting a sport.  However, the all-too inevitable aggrandizements of the sport's practitioners have led to the misconception they require more skill and general athleticism than is the case. While this outlook may motivate O-lifters and provide other psychological benefits, it doesn’t make it entirely correct, nor does it make it a useful outlook for conventional athletes performing the lifts for general strength-training purposes. These aggrandizements coupled with common epistemic deficiencies have led...
Read more

Extralogical Complexity Part 1: The Nonlinearity of Nature

By
  For an environment to evolve into something like Nature,  Nature  can’t be what people think.     As discussed in other posts, vertebrate cognition’s need to make comprehensible and motivating models of reality leads to a host of fallacies and illusions about Nature, the World, and human beings ( see summary intro ). Linear change—constant, predictable change characterized by bell curves and straight lines--is too weak to account for the self-organizing, adaptive powers of Nature. Nor can change occur to accommodate neat, satisfying explanations, where initiating events always lead to proportional outcomes (at least outside of people’s cognitively biased minds). This treatise shows the true dynamics of change, which gives rise to the characteristic phenomena of Complex systems theory presented in the upcoming part two.     You’ve heard “the balance of Nature,” “balance in the Force,” and the like. This is almost exactly what Nature isn’t. Some s...
Read more