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Quantum Mechanics – To Understand or Not Understand, that is the question

January 9, 2012
Fractal Flower

Introduction About 100 years ago the birth of quantum theory changed forever how humans perceive the universe… sort of.  Certainly “quantum physics” is a phrase found far outside the boundaries of physics classrooms, and has even achieved a fairly wide popularity through movies such as What the Bleep and works like Fritjof Capra’s Tao of Physics.  Does this [...]

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Thinking about “What’s for lunch?”

December 28, 2011
What's for Lunch?
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This question is a touchstone for the modern human dilemma, and it’s all about consciousness. I’ve recently been in some discussions around transitioning to being vegetarian/mostly vegan.  Part of the discussions revolve around the available evidence for the state of affairs with respect to our food production.  Two heavy-hitting potential sources for perspective can be [...]

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Sketches of Another Future

October 29, 2011
Sketches of Another Future
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http://vimeo.com/10929373 This is a great interview with Professor Andrew Pickering, University of Exeter, author of The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future. It gives a nice introduction to some key aspects of cybernetics.  He doesn’t make much of a distinction between first and second-order cybernetics, but it is a great presentation.  Some highlights (in note [...]

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An Esoteric Guide to Spencer Brown’s Laws of Form #6

September 13, 2011
Laws of Form

(New readers will want to start with the first installment.) We ended the last installment by discussing the esoteric nature of the injunction.  We continue this exploration, and bring this series to a close. LoF p. 81 In the command “let the crossing be to the state indicated by the token” we at once make the token doubly [...]

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An Esoteric Guide to Spencer Brown’s Laws of Form #5

September 6, 2011
Laws of Form

(New readers will want to start with the first installment.) We ended the last installment with a recognition that the Laws of Form naturally led GSB to an understanding of both the necessity and importance of the realm of imaginary numbers.  We will continue this elaboration. You are likely familiar with the paradoxical sentence: “This sentence [...]

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An Esoteric Guide to Spencer Brown’s Laws of Form #4

August 30, 2011
Laws of Form

(New readers will want to start with the first installment.) We ended the last installment having come to realize something of the esoteric significance of the taijitu, or yin-yang, form, in something of an extended tangent. We return now to the text. GSB himself seemed to understand the importance of the Laws of Form, even if [...]

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Identity

August 24, 2011
Identity

Metaphor: The unknown attempts to know itself. It marks itself. Space arises in no space. Identity marks itself in time. Time transforms identity. Identity dissolves in time. Space yields no space. The mark unmarks itself. The known is newly unknown. Time for a new metaphor. [hana-flv-player video="http://www.spiritalchemy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Identity.f4v" width="436" height="630" description="" player="3" autoload="true" autoplay="true" loop="true" autorewind="true" [...]

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An Esoteric Guide to Spencer Brown’s Laws of Form #3

August 23, 2011
Laws of Form

(New readers will want to start with the first installment.) We ended the last installment noting that the first distinction must be of distinction, but this must be considered as a complex, recursive creation and simultaneous crossing of a boundary that is just precisely the boundary between that very activity of its creation and the fact [...]

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An Esoteric Guide to Spencer Brown’s Laws of Form #2

August 16, 2011
Laws of Form

(New readers will want to start with the first installment.) Let us continue our beginning: LoF p. 1 We take as given the idea of distinction and the idea of indication, and that we cannot make an indication without drawing a distinction. We take, therefore, the form of distinction for the form. If this doesn’t strike you as [...]

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An Esoteric Guide to Spencer Brown’s Laws of Form #1

August 9, 2011
Laws of Form

(A full PDF of this article can be had here.) George Spencer Brown (in his spirit, I would like to say: “Let George Spencer Brown = GSB”), a logician, engineer, and teacher, wrote a curious little book called Laws of Form, that inspired countless interesting people of widely varying backgrounds.  The book is not a [...]

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