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Two of Wright’s Haiku: That frozen star there, Or this one on the water,— Which is more distant? Keep straight down this block, Then turn right where you will find A peach tree blooming

theory via predictive coding, theories of individuality + collective computation + fitness. 72 years later other components of “information”—semantics + function—await formalization. Weaver on three "communications problems," from their 1949 monograph: raley.english.ucsb.edu/wp-content/Eng…

Dijkstra redirects attention to computation's foundations, stressing good abstraction/compression, semantics + hierarchy. He also envisions a hybrid system in which we cognitively co-evolve w generative algorithms we create. Very Santa Fe Institute emergent engineering+AI relevant. 2/2

Wheeler, who cites Wiliam James, wanted to know how a vision of one world arises out of the information-gathering activities of many observer-participants. Essentially abt collective computation, it's remarkable to think this question could unite physics + biology + even AI. 1/n

Nina Simone's Sinnerman. . .one of my all time favorite songs. youtube.com/watch?v=QH3Fx4…

Murray Gell-Mann once whispered (in a typically mischievous Murray way) to me during an Santa Fe Institute seminar, "biology is not ready for maths." I don't agree but I am sympathetic. Moving forward requires triangulating bw diff types of representations. Even as we approach the

Turing—key contributor to the foundations of computation—made this remark 65 years ago yet the distinction he stresses remains poorly understood and also hard to operationalize. It's tangled up with communication, computational accessibility, and representation. Could AI models

Isaiah Berlin—proponent of negative liberties as a remakably effective + broadly useful yet relatively simple (compressed) guiding moral principle—on the perilousness of ideological certainty. From an essay The New York Review of Books by Henry Hardy. nybooks.com/articles/2001/…

C. Brandon Ogbunu Genetics Society of America Doc Edge This excellent paragraph from the Gattaca essay—which stresses the beauty in learning and improving—captures the profound power in a No (Limits) perspective for all people, no matter their genomic or social backgrounds. 💥

As an example, clarity on a coarse-graining issue arrived on this spectacular, remote run that starts high in south San Juan Wilderness at just over 11’000’ + then spends most of its time on the tundra between 12’000’ + 13’000’ feet.

Any transformative AI built using my poached work and curated databases (as I keep saying) must be made open source to increase the likelihood it is used for flourishing not exploitation, and to facilitate its use by everyone. The idea that it is already in use behind closed

Can entropy transitions observed initially in biological systems potentially account for the wavelike properties (behavior?) of electrons, photons, and other objects in quantum cosmology? More on this question and other possible parallels in Babel Blog on my website.

How does the universe get its shape, are there multiple mechanisms for interstellar travel, and what might hourglass emergence (the conceptual origins of which lie in study of biological computation) have to say about these questions? Preliminary ideas are now up at the

Murray had eight doctoral students (according to Wikipedia) and from him and them came some of the 20th centuries most important work in physics, work that quite possibly will also underlie some of the 21st centuries most important, generative work in science. Five of his

Through hourglass emergence, complexity begets complexity...is one of my favorite sayings. A cell is a blob of cytoplasm with a few organelles floating about—or so the textbooks teach and you probably learned in school. This massive over simplification continues to pervade

What processes increase the probability of hourglass emergence? One of the key ideas of my collective computation work is that slow variables arising through endogenous, collective coarsegraining can reduce uncertainty if 'readable' by microscale components, changing the

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, —William Butler Yeats, whose birthday was June 13, 1865, and his poem, The Lake Isle of Innisfree, posted tbis morning in memory of Cormac, who died on June 12, 2023.

This poem is not so much about peace as it is about the fundamental character of social life and by extension the role of conflict management in societal cohesion. Conflict management principles rooted in negative liberties cultivate cohesion–even flourishing—without crushing

Murray and Jim Hartle together in Murray's institute office. Jim and Murray had an ongoing quantum cosmology collaboration, which brought Jim frequently to Santa Fe. Several years ago Jim and I, with others, co-organized an institute workshop on the arrows of time. Photo

Kashmir Hill Truly awful are the stories relayed in this article about the negative experiences some users of chatbots have when asking about the nature of reality. There is little worse than a beginner or intermediate skier finding himself at the top of the mountain "with no easy way down".