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#91
Close reading / Eggplant Episode 126: Building...
Last post by droqen - November 12, 2023, 06:52:50 PM
Regarding Eggplant Podcast's
"Building Your Own Platform with Zach Gage"

It's been a whiiile since I've kept up with Eggplant! I'm listening to this episode specifically. I love Eggplant! But I'm going to be my usual ornery self regarding this episode because it's very important for me to slice and stab at things to figure out how I feel about them.
#92
Close reading / Re: The Nature of Order // Boo...
Last post by droqen - November 12, 2023, 01:03:15 PM
I am thinking of Pay attention to what is important, not just quantifiable. There must be significantly more writing on how e,g, the scientific process as we know it biases all ideas about truth in the world towards that which is quantifiable(?) by the scientific process.

In Alexander's statement he is suggesting that the mechanistic worldview is introducing, or rather has introduced, deeply-rooted biases that the only things which are true are those things which can be measured, proven, quantified.

Our tools are not sufficient, however, to quantify everything that is important. Perhaps they never will be. But the common world-picture may be built on a foundation of reliable knowing. This is what Alexander is attempting to oppose in his book.
#93
Close reading / Re: The Nature of Order // Boo...
Last post by droqen - November 12, 2023, 12:57:31 PM
P19

beyond-mechanistic or ultra-mechanistic assumptions . . . control much of what we say and think and do . . . These ultra-mechanistic assumptions about matter -- not strictly justified by mechanistic science itself, but inspired by it and encouraged by it -- have shaped our attitude to art and architecture and society and environment. . . .

TACIT ASSUMPTION 1*.    What is true, is only
the body of those facts which can be represented as
lifeless mechanisms.


{ * this is 1 of the 10 tacit assumptions 'inspired and encouraged' by mechanistic science, by the 'ultra-mechanistic', described by Christopher Alexander }
#94
Close reading / Re: The Nature of Order // Boo...
Last post by droqen - November 12, 2023, 12:43:39 PM
On page 18 Alexander describes how spiritual, religious, ethical belief systems are not enough to resolve the rift... Whitehead's rift (described on an earlier page) between our picture of how the world works, "the mechanical-material picture of the world (which we accept as true)", and our belief in some immaterial thing, "our intuitions about self and spirit (which are intuitively clear but scientifically vague)"
#95
Close reading / Re: The Nature of Order // Boo...
Last post by droqen - November 11, 2023, 03:21:14 PM
P8

. . . it is in the nature of matter, that it is soaked through with self or "I." . . . the thing we call "the self," which lies at the core of our experience, is a real thing, existing in all matter, beyond ourselves, . . . this is the nature of matter.

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~ The Idea of the World, idealism in general
#96
Close reading / The Nature of Order // Book Fo...
Last post by droqen - November 11, 2023, 03:17:00 PM
Regarding Christopher Alexander's
"The Nature of Order"
(Book 4, The Luminous Ground)
#97
Vessels & Memories & Deep Feelings / Re: Vessel 9 -- Cyberattack on...
Last post by droqen - November 03, 2023, 05:07:45 PM
The murder of a particular little blue bird...
#98
Vessels & Memories & Deep Feelings / Vessel 9 -- Cyberattack on the...
Last post by droqen - November 03, 2023, 05:06:48 PM
Who would do such a thing? The library's website... where I go to check my holds on books that I want to read... the library, a shining bastion of light...

:(

QuoteToronto Public Library Website Update
Friday, November 3, 5:00 pm: We are actively addressing a cyber security incident that came to our attention on Saturday, October 28.

As a result of the incident, the following services are unavailable: tpl.ca, "your account", tpl:map passes and digital collections. Public computers and printing services at our branches are also unavailable.

Branches are open as scheduled. Wifi is available in library branches, and branch telephone lines are working. Materials can be borrowed and returned in branches until further notice.

There continues to be no evidence at this time that the personal information of our staff or customers has been compromised.

TPL has proactively prepared for cybersecurity issues and promptly initiated measures to mitigate potential impacts. We have engaged with third-party cybersecurity experts and law enforcement to help us in resolving this situation.

Based on our progress to date, we anticipate that it will take a week or more before all systems are fully restored to normal operations. However, we expect that some services will be brought back online before then.

We will update this page as more information becomes known. We appreciate all the words of support that we've received, and thank you for your patience and understanding while we do everything we can to resolve this matter as quickly as possible.
#99
Synapses / Re: Process for intensifying t...
Last post by droqen - November 03, 2023, 10:17:02 AM
"good but too weak" - a phrase i've found myself returning to many times
reiterated upon here in My notes from the cruise
Quotethrough the use of rules or any other medium, one does not create beauty or goodness, but discovers and enshrines it. traps it. grants an invisible thing visibility, by granting the appreciator line of sight to that thing. to create is to create connection.
see also this longer post (bottom)
very similar to Don Potts' thing, his "trap"
#100
Primordial soup / Re: My notes from the cruise
Last post by droqen - November 03, 2023, 10:13:56 AM
"good but too weak" - through the use of rules or any other medium, one does not create beauty or goodness, but discovers and enshrines it. traps it. grants an invisible thing visibility, by granting the appreciator line of sight to that thing. to create is to create connection.

~ SYNAPSE ~ "good but too weak" - Process for intensifying the feeling that is generated.

sketched rules, responding to actual play - rather than drawing up final rules right away, we draw up rules to allow us to play in a play-space, to see what the actual play is like. this is a difficult problem, but see "good but too weak" above; the rules of YES OR NO obviously evolved from noticing some bit of human behaviour and enshrining it, making it the center for a time.

limitations and focus - this is so deeply related to the above! in creativity, we experiment, of course. when playing, we play widely, freely, openly. a wide net catches many things, too many things. we must narrow our focus; higher focus grants us a higher ability to create pristine visibility of one thing.