RIP Ralph Abraham. One of my most influential mentors and friends. One of the last meetings of the Formless Ocean Group. 1990-91? The day's participants (rotating line-up) with names listed. flic.kr/p/5vJ7YD

Bibliography on play and learning in the Renaissance for a project comparing Atalanta Fugiens and Hypnerotomachia Poliphili in the light of Renaissance theories of play and learning for professional development and creativity cc Reverend 🎄Erik🎅 docs.google.com/document/d/1P7…

RAWIllumination.net: Nick Herbert's new 'Metaphase Typewriter' idea rawillumination.net/2024/10/nick-h…

Robert Anton Wilson The Metaphse typewriter was my inspiration for a software-based cut-up/chatbot mashup I did in the late 90s. flickr.com/photos/jmathen…

(I am just starting to read a bio of Raymond Palmer today. Seeing this post appear in my timeline is an interesting synchronicity)

I'm always fascinated by all those philosophies about fundamental physics. But how can an average guy like me hold an opinion on all that without being an expert in math? (BTW, John Horgan explores this question brilliantly in his free online book: johnhorgan.org/books/my-quant…)

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A superb collection of essays (most of which are free to download) by Ācārya Sthaneshwar Timalsina - a wondrous resource for anyone interested in tantric studies. vimarshafoundation.org/writings

It’s no accident that MIT Media Lab also developed Scratch, a drawing-based programming language designed for kids!

“In this article we present two ontological problems for the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness 4.0” frontiersin.org/journals/psych…

Missing Ralph Abraham open.substack.com/pub/drbrucedam…

This book I have got to read. Like Jayne's "Bicameral Mind" the book explores the possibility that the minds of people from the past differed considerably from our modern minds.

Many interesting ideas in this post, for instance : "the unity of consciousness is *useful* for computational purposes, much akin to how quantum coherence can be useful for information processing." "it doesn't really make sense for something without unity to have preferences "

Sometimes you’ll see it said that all the world’s writing systems descend from three original scripts—Egyptian hieroglyphs, Chinese logograms, or Mayan hieroglyphs. But not all writing systems derive from those three original scripts. Here's how 👇

Demons xkcd.com/3006

In memory of Phil Lesh, here’s a lesser-known experiment he did with Ned Lagin in electronic music (let’s not forget Lesh studied under Luciano Berio, with none other than Steve Reich as a classmate!). youtu.be/BcAbfYOEbB8?si…

(better to read the first three installments before ): medium.com/@eric.wargo_87… medium.com/@eric.wargo_87… medium.com/@eric.wargo_87…