I read a little way in. He should go on Joe Rogan.
Also, the graphic at the front is perfectly paired with the writing. Eric (apologies for the Lashon hara; I know one should not do that) > On May 31, 2024, at 11:58 PM, Nicholas Thompson <thompnicks...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > This (see below) got served up to me out of the blue this morning. The way > it's put here, Frank and Bruce might actually agree with it. Still, it's > straight Peirce. I have no idea who the author is; do any of you? > > Here's crucial passage. > > Our understanding of reality needs a complete overhaul. Rather than viewing > it as a fixed, external stage upon which events play out, we should consider > it as a dynamic interplay between observers and their environment > [experiences]. Reality, in this view, doesn’t reside out there, independent > of us. Instead, reality is our interactions with the world [one another], > shaped and defined by our observations [experiences]. Reality is nothing but > [the telos of] those interactions between subjects. > > I had to make those little changes because the author, like so many aspiring > monists, after arguing against observer independence for a hundred words, > slips up by implying that the "environment" is anything but something else > that we have to agree upon, if we are ever going to get on with life. > > By the way, I stipulate that nothing in his argument has ANYTHING to do with > quantum mechanics. The argument would be sound even if the idea of a quantum > had never been thought. However, I like the idea of physics as some kind of > language of convergent belief. > > By the way, In history there seem to have been two ways for people converge > on a common experience, charisma and democracy. In charisma, we pick some > idiot (usually a psychopath) and share his or her experience. In democracy, > we find some way to blend our experiences into a common view. Sometime in > the next few months we will decide which way we want to go. Do we want to > assign Trump the job of determining our common reality, or do we want to > continue to work it out amongst ourselves through experiment and argument. > > Weather gorgeous here in the mosquito infested swamp. Garden thriving. A > much better year. > > Watch that dry line in TX. It's truly amazing. Can it really be true that I > am the only weather fanatic on a list that is devoted to complexity? How > can that be? > > NIck > > > > https://medium.com/machine-cognition/objective-reality-doesnt-exist-it-is-time-to-accept-it-and-move-on-7524b494d6af > > Objective Reality Doesn’t Exist: It is Time to Embrace it and Move On > The shift towards a unified, observer-dependent reality forces us to let go — > once and for all — of the idea of objective reality > medium.com > > > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fbit.ly%2fvirtualfriam&c=E,1,DpegIvK8Dk8zUpXBwVjulA4Quijbv_HRZXdzNZPWVOHEUUO2-fRA68ryLdP4SrtB_eiycBMTgHdJXxHSuxaY3hSVQReQsudUC9GsDpM4rBYqYDBZX1PQC_hM4g,,&typo=1 > to (un)subscribe > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fredfish.com%2fmailman%2flistinfo%2ffriam_redfish.com&c=E,1,D9DitDGMmZFG2qT81hVZw7BhTBx-ACRy4v_QbKJiYOWO6TDmF5cy7rg9m_0RnTqu2C2i2W60bQuiwlk_ffq68v0qja1eTt61VuZ0sbDhOANjERKjE69P&typo=1 > FRIAM-COMIC > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffriam-comic.blogspot.com%2f&c=E,1,CpqThF6FlJleoR6zc2B8M-wo3yjmzdqmEC87OyRa6Id7eA1Ps4zPVyZCElQ9KH7U-F2oizq9XlMdRlDzT29wYAikI_6i1SYsPom2xZiPLXxJ0F9hCzxp1qw,&typo=1 > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fredfish.com%2fpipermail%2ffriam_redfish.com%2f&c=E,1,YAFMmwlzyCq3r0ScSXZoGagI-_oF0-Jwr2eD7vmvy28yYHiS-xQh_rDaHsEqlzt-he2atMVunLY04ugJ-cxavESHCOpJmZElKQNJoImuSNLu7MIVy0Ks&typo=1 > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
