Once upon a time there were three story-generating algorithms. The first story-generating algorithm wrote a long and complicated story, full of twists and turns, in which the second algorithm appeared and wrote a story. The second algorithm’s story was shorter, and not so complicated, but it featured the third algorithm in action. And the third algorithm wrote this story.
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A Meta-Story
Posted in brief postings on May 15, 2009|
A study of interstellar communication
Posted in brief postings, well-founded visions on January 5, 2008| Leave a Comment »
A recent theoretical study of interstellar communication yielded a fundamental argument for the advantages of relatively slow mass exchange (like package delivery) over radio or other speed-of-light communications, based on a lower energy cost for information transmission. A popular summary is also available.
Science vs. mathematics?
Posted in foundations, longer postings, science on December 26, 2007| Leave a Comment »
The greatest conflicts are not usually between right and wrong, but between two conflicting positive values. The quantitative sciences depend on mathematics as an essential tool, and mathematics depends on the sciences for fruitful new problems. But these two natural allies can fall into discord when the subject is ontology, the study of what most fundamentally exists and what is most real. (more…)
The Cogniverse 