I am sad to say that my favorite online cellular automata app is now
deceased[†]. In the very early 2000's, I worked as a medical secretary,
in gastroenterology, at the Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland. Every day,
I would take a bus and then a train and then walk to a ziggurat at the
center of the ca
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Comonads, like trees or stacks, are data structures which guide a
computation along a chosen line and imply a mode of reasoning. That they
first arose in the context of category theory should not make them lesser
citizens.
What the comonad captures is the essence of loc
comonadic-style: WAS: stygmergy, CA's, and [biological] development
Comonads, like trees or stacks, are data structures which guide a
computation
along a chosen line and imply a mode of reasoning. That they first arose in
the
context of category theory should not make them lesser citizens.
What t
Grand narratives. Oh, neener, neener, neener. I assume that we are all endowed
with a very fuzzy ruleset from which patterns of association arise. What's
grand about it. I admit to a desire to join with others in taking
responsibility for our future. I think that such a joining is a "good",
Well, I'm not fluent enough to know how deeply social contract thinking had
embedded itself in the people who *liked* the document at the time. But social
contracts are only one, very debatable, construction for "inalienable rights".
Just because it makes the most sense to you, doesn't mean it p
Yes. Thanks for the correction. Holton. I get it confused with Houlton, ME,
which, by the way, is right next to Old Town, Me.
Look. Rights are things we give one another by incurring obligations. The
document should have read: "All people are created equal and they are endowed
by their
*Usefulness* is almost certainly intensional. An *Image* can either be a
beacon or a beckoning siren, with no way to distinguish from the type
signature alone. That is, the use of an image may be maximally stateful.
Discussion was at a point like this one, parallel discussions about
canalization a
Ugh. Sorry for this: Holton, not Houlton:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Holton
And the semantic slippery slope from moral equivalent to inalienable rights is
just nonsense, trickery that should never be forgiven. Now, where I disagree
with Dave is that it might be possible to establish so
Dave, Glen, n all,
I agree with Houlton that “All men are created equal AND they are endowed by
their Creator with certain unalienable rights …” is a pretty good place to
start. You will recall that I even think this leads in theory to a prejudice
against inheritance and in practice to ta
It raises, I think, the question of whether large diagrams/visualizations like
these are *categorically* different from close examination of the "physics" of
the system. For the CA, VoC gives you not only the presets for the rule, but
the ability to edit the rule. It reminds me of Andy Wuensche'
Hi Glen, Dave,
As my rationalism has been routed and is retreating in disarray, I am inclined
to think of charisma as a social process not an intellectual one. But I think
it was Houlton who pointed out that these are not in any sense mutually
exclusive, that a charasmatic idea can point to s
Glen, n all,
Sorry, I may have gotten my "-ists" mixed up. Thanks for the dope-slap. That
doesn't change my sense that there are those out there who feel that the post
civil war constitution is less valid than the pre-civil war constitution,
perhaps because it was agreed to under duress.
from Glen's post:
*Holton: [...] Can you and I, as an intellectual exercise, think of anything
wrong with, all people are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain
inalienable rights? That’s not the whole story, but I can’t find anything wrong
with that. Can you?*
"endowed by their
Very cool! I've added Fragments to my wishlist. I'm wondering how/if it relates
to black radicalism, of which I'm still completely ignorant.
Egalitarianism was briefly covered in the podcast:
Holton: [...] Can you and I, as an intellectual exercise, think of anything
wrong with, all people are
I simply don't get this part of your post. If I replace "textualism" and
"textualist" with "originalism" and "originalist", then it makes some sense.
But the textualists are trying to keep the document *current*, right? It's the
originalists who want the document to mean the same thing it meant
Ha! Of course. Well, since you don't say what the "error" was, I suppose it's
no skin off my nose. Both Windows and NetLogo are abominations. You choose your
poison. >8^D If we take your "schooled to write a program yourself" point
seriously, VoC would be the clear choice. If, instead, Miles is
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