The Days are Just Packed: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection (Volume 12):
Watterson, Bill: 9780836217353: Amazon.com: Books
Some "days" in the FriAmVerse are "Just Packed"... and this week is one
of them!
I had forgotten about Chris's work with Ralph... and neglected to
mention the first time I encountered him when he penned an Escher Ruboff
for the 1985? "Evolution Games and Learning"
announcements/T-Shirt/Agenda at LANL. I had my T-shirt for decades
but it slipped away sometime in the last 20 years. It was the classic
Escher "hand drawing hand" but with one hand a *robotic* one.
Drawing Hands” large poster – M.C. Escher – The Official Website
The *last* time I actually saw this image was sitting at el Parasol in
Pojoaque when it appeared on a tall, lean, blond nordic young man. He
was the spitting image of Steen Rasmussen ( who attended the Evolution,
Games, Learning workshop as well). Of course it was his (now 20ish)
son Leif who I hadn't seen since he was 12! We chatted briefly but I
didn't get a picture (it was surely before cell-phone cameras... maybe
2002?)... I saw Steen 3 years ago in Copenhagen on my way back from
Merle's gig in Stockholm.
Thanks for more Landau links... the Cuban thing was very... "very"...
- Steve
On 10/14/22 8:15 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
*On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 3:45 PM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote:*
*THE Ralph Abraham
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Abraham_(mathematician)>? Or
the OTHER Ralph Abraham
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Abraham_(politician)>? Or
Yet Another... ?*
Yes, the first :-)
*On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 3:45 PM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
*
*The Trialogues
<https://www.sheldrake.org/videos/trialogues-at-the-edge-of-the-millennium>
comes to mind... I didn't realize how young McKenna was when he
passed just a few years later. I still can't get past most of
Sheldrake's hyperbolic-woo-pseudoscientific framing, and do wonder
at how Abraham sorts all that out internally. It isn't
surprising to find a pure Maths guy engaged in very mystical
thinking, no fundamental contradictions required I don't think.*
Ralph credited some high-dimensional math insights to hallucinatory
experiences with DMT - an interest shared with McKenna. As you know my
interest in Transactional Intepretation of QM
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_interpretation> with
"advanced" reverse-time waves "handshaking" time-forward "retarded"
waves, Sheldrake's morphic resonance fields aren't too many nodes of
crazy away from me - though, I prefer the duality of woo-oow science :-)
*On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 3:45 PM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
*
*I don't think I've ever met Ralph and I could never quite suss
out how much influence he had directly (certainly indirectly?) on
Shaw/Farmer/Packard/Crutchfield's "Chaos Cabal"... *
UCSC Faculty Bill Burke and Ralph were supporters of the Cabal as they
worked on their PhDs with some shared pub credits. Rob refers to
Burke as the Godfather to the group. (mentioned in the Gleick's
chapter on Santa Cruz that you linked to).
Last time I saw Ralph in Santa Fe, I asked him about the group and
that Rob was with us at SFx. He said "Rob was the smartest one" - high
praise given the other three :-)
Full disclosure: I once slept with Ralph's brother, Fred, director of
theBlueberry institute <http://www.blueberry-brain.org/>. They were
out of hotel rooms at the SCTPLS 2002 Portland conference, and Fred
asked to bunk with me :-)
*On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 3:45 PM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: *
*Does anyone know how to find Julia Landau's strange documentary
tangenting "Strange Attractors <https://vimeo.com/129239092>"? *
Such a cool project.You can see it trying to get off the ground in
2008.
<http://reelchanges.org/projects/show/ef3718b0-4176-012b-7345-005056c00008/> I
emailed Rob in 2013 to find out status and he said Julia was still
looking for funding to complete. Beyond the trailer, did you notice:
Clip 1 Intro <https://vimeo.com/344238322>
Clip 2 - Imagining Rob, Meeting Howard <https://vimeo.com/344238191>
Clip 3 - Finding Rob in Chaos Theory <https://vimeo.com/344238021>
Finding Rob in the Chaos <https://vimeo.com/136946323>
I ran into Rob in Honolulu in 2017 - I asked him about it again and
still the same status.
BTW, check out the other couple of clips on Julia's Vimeo. I found her
father's "will the real terrorist standup
<https://vimeo.com/125292604>" somewhere online about the Cuban Five.
When I was in Havana with Tom Johnson for ABM Workshops he helped
organize, I learned more about the Cuban Five and for a couple years
followed all news stories and histories I could find on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Posada_Carriles and
Americam-sponsored terrorism in Cuba. Pretty f&#ked up.
*On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 3:45 PM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
*
*Gleick's book
<https://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.4822680> was the
first time I realized that Doyne and Norm came from Silver City,
and then I discovered that my sister with to Kindergarten with
Norm's brother Vance... Rob used to hang out at SFx from time to
time and his brother Chris would drop through and talk about his
Haptek-sponsored "chatterbot"/avatar/PeoplePutty work:
https://aidreams.co.uk/forum/haptek/chris-shaw-talk-at-chatbots-3-2/
which was pretty advanced, considering what we are getting excited
about with deepfakes/AI-art these days. I knew Haptek when it
formed originally to develop haptic hardware interfaces for VR a
decade earlier... *
Cool, hadn't seen Chris's chatbot video. And in addition to
illustrating Rob's papers and books, I think you know about Chris and
Ralph Abrham's collaboration on the four volume classic Dynamics:
Geometry of Behavior
<https://www.amazon.com/Dynamics-Geometry-Behavior-Ralph-Abraham/dp/0201567172> with
Chris providing beautiful technical illustrations of attractors and
dynamical flow fields.
On 10/14/22 12:56 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote:
What did everyone think about this last hearing? I watched it
with Ralph Abraham, whom some of you might know of. He is
visiting me for a week here in Santa Fe and had some interesting
perspectives on our present politics.
Of course Ralph and I are also having fun conversations about the
ever-present and unknowable electromagnetic field. Life is good,
despite the possibility that I am but a hologram in a random
universe heading down a Black Hole.
On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 10:56 AM Frank Wimberly
<[email protected]> wrote:
Several people, including me, want to watch the hearing.
When I left Dave West and Jon Z were the only ones there.
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