Malcolm Ocean's roamblog

July 9th, 2020

edited 2020-07-09 · open in Roam

Read this amazing interview with Alan Kay re Tools for Thought & human universals
- The Father Of Mobile Computing Is Not Impressed
- I've got a bunch of notes on twitter
  - twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1281232545993105408
Did a little writing on a new page meta-norms
- (related topic: feedback loops)
tweet about holding contradictions in your head... relates to paradox
- twitter.com/regancodes/status/1280948582301020160
you can't talk about something without talking about it - paradigm ontology
- twitter.com/TheOrangeAlt/status/1281312648538263553
Reading this article by Charlie Awbery and this twitter exchange, I'm thinking about paradox and contradictions and What are Opposites?
- Tweets
- And it seems there's sort of a few basic metaphors here:
  - cyclical process, eg in-breath out-breath
    - relates to the idea of "balance" - be careful with that
      - twitter.com/TheOrangeAlt/status/1281310906157355008
  - oscillating contradiction (similar to above)
    - buzzer in circuit
    - i/j in paradox logic
  - self-destructive contradiction
    - ?
  - double bind
  - higher-dimensional thinking
    - Higher Dimensional Thinking, the End of Paradox, and a More Adequate Understanding of Reality
  - goals that are incompatible might be resolveable with higher-dimensional thinking or they might amount to a double bind or oscillating contradiction (similar to above)
thingness isn't conceptuality

1 linked reference

Relational Exegesis

July 9th, 2020 Seeing Nature by Paul Krafel
- I like the sense of gradients as being over space, and over time.
- thinking about the relationship between the gradients he's talking about directly, and the potential-energy-gradient involved in the water flowing etc