On 6/5/23 12:24 PM, glen wrote:
I try to be careful about my allusions to "openness". I attribute
(perhaps wrongly) the openness of science to Critical Rationalism
(Popper, but better described by David Miller). Good (and bad) ideas
can come from *anywhere*.
The "problem with having an open mind is that just about anyone can pour
just about anything into it" ?
Even those miracle people like FGJ Perey can come up with bad ideas.
My (false) dichotomy between nonsense and abductive triggers might be
problematic. But that's just a distraction. The real point is about
the interstitial spaces *between* models, not the models or the ground
they cover.
I think this is what I was trying to gesture/allude to with the
"superposition" of models... they are intrinsically "incompatible"
else they would be all part of the same model or "meta-model", no? But
how to characterize these "implied spaces"? I think we spoke offline
of implied spaces and spandrels recently?
A novelist/friend of mine (Walter Jon Williams) from ABQ wrote his
version of it 20 years ago? A lot of great ideas in there, but no
answers to the James/Husserl superposition I don't think...
Maybe H and J first have a "learning session" with NLP and in fact
convince one another of their complementary spaces/viewpoints... a sort
of "Gift of the Magi" updated for the cybernetic era? Maybe I should
ask GPT4 to "write a short story on the theme of GoM using James and
Husserl as the main characters but in the style of Stanislaw Lem's /Le
Cyberiad/?"
Aristide, a semi-retired computer scientist turned swordsman, is a
scholar of the implied spaces, seeking meaning amid the accidents of
architecture in a universe where reality itself has been sculpted
and designed by superhuman machine intelligence. While exploring the
pre-technological world Midgarth, one of four dozen pocket universes
created within a series of vast, orbital matrioshka computer arrays,
Aristide uncovers a fiendish plot threatening to set off a nightmare
scenario, perhaps even bringing about the ultimate Existential
Crisis: the end of civilization itself. Traveling the pocket
universes with his wormhole-edged sword Tecmesssa in hand and
talking cat Bitsy, avatar of the planet-sized computer Endora, at
his side, Aristide must find a way to save the multiverse from
subversion, sabotage, and certain destruction.
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