What a difference two decades makes, or does it? I’ve been blogging over 20 years and rather than do a new year post on highlights from last year, I thought I’d look back over the decades.
Compare earliest posts in January 2002, 2012 and 2022.
Jan 2002 – reading Bart Kosko’s “Fuzzy Logic” (only my 25th post since starting in Sept 2001) – searching for alternatives to accepted rationality?
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- Why model something approximately rationally, I concluded,
when it is precisely irrational or predictably chaotic? - Also points to “Systems Theory” paradigm from 1950’s / 1960’s
- Already referring to Heylighen’s Principia Cybernetica.
- Picked-up my first Wittgenstein reference just 3 days later! But hadn’t yet noticed the Pirsig ZMM relevance until the end of that month. (Significant because it was Pirsigian theologian Sam Norton later turned me onto Witt?)
- Why model something approximately rationally, I concluded,
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Jan 2012 – Musing on computation – understanding the manipulation of information without programming skills.
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- An acknowledgement of a female team member intuitively understanding what was needed unlike her male managers.
- Noting “agile” as a general principal, not just a specific methodology.
- Just 2 days later a reference to “Mesopotamian HTML / XML Mark-Up Language” in ancient spreadsheets – nothing new under the sun!
- And just a week later already reflecting retrospectively on the Cybernetics thread in the whole project.
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Jan 2022 – Already following-up references beyond McGilchrist’s “The Matter With Things“. The most important read of the decade.
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- Focussing initially on Eddington
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- The 2020’s looking like we’re repeating the errors of the 1920’s
- Already concluded (again) – this is all about rehabilitating ancient wisdom – wisdom as Natural Theology or Sacred Naturalism – a humanism that respects humanity as part of nature’s cosmic ecosystem.
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