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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Emergence
Emergence results in the creation of novelty Fritjof Capra 2004 05 24 From Fritjof Capra’s The Hidden Connections Emergence results in the creation of novelty, and this novelty is often qualitatively different from the phenomena out of which it emerged. … Continue reading
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Macro-Sanity
The Macro-Universe: Korzybskian Sanity & Unsanity 2001 03 07 Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion Democritus I say that my term macroinformation takes its diction from the concept of the macro-universe, that the macro-universe is … Continue reading
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Information Meta-Levels: Preparation
Warm up of 2002 11 02 Level 0: Difference Foreground is significantly different from background. Speech is notable from ambient sound. To be legible, print must contrast with the color of the window open on the monitor-desktop. Level 1: Data … Continue reading
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Concrete vs Eidetic Information
Recreating (and advancing) pk’s censored domains: Macroinformation.org & Knatz.com / Teaching / Thinking Tools / Information / Macroinformation / Views / Mission: to emphasize discontinuities between data and complex information Macroinformation is my term for that part of information which … Continue reading
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Interactions Between Levels
Interactions between different logical levels produce phenomena unseen at either level Bateson Macroinformation is my term for information more complex than some threshold, the complexity being occasioned by interactions among more than one meta-level. I am developing my theory of … Continue reading
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Drunks or Hawks
When I was a kid my suburban neighborhood surfeited me with girls. Toward the end of grade school the society began shoving us into ballroom dances. Then I attended an all male college: meeting women was accompanied by alcohol: bars, … Continue reading
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Aldi’s Flagrant Foul
/ DeCentral / DeSchool / Voluntary Data Bases / Feed Back / Services / Four times recently I’ve bought prepared food under an Aldi’s store brand and gotten inedible, dangerous food. One frozen veggy pack chewed down to a mass … Continue reading
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Torture of Animals
Recreating (and advancing) pk’s censored domains: Macroinformation.org & Knatz.com / Teaching / Society & Its Pathologies / Social Survival / Little boys are famous to sticking a flaming arrow up the ass of the mutt on the street. I don’t … Continue reading
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Happy Endings
Till age five I probably knew an average number of movies for a white American. Maybe I knew a few more: my father was a lawyer: and even though he drank too much to be very successful, he knew rich … Continue reading
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Revisionist Culture
I begin this post in tandem with the preceding: Pirates of the Caribbean. I’m half-way through the DVD, and love it. Thursday night Jan and I watched Delovely, the biopic of Cole Porter, and adored it. I’d already known the … Continue reading
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