As I draft my (two) book(s) – and a paper for ISSS2025 in July – I find myself revisiting certain key Psybertron posts and pages and unable to refrain from making update / elaboration edits, effectively turning them into potential draft chapters.
As a collection there is significant near-repetition and an incompleteness about only sample / informal references that happened to be topical at the time they were first written. (Every time I draft something new, a document in isolation from the blog posts, the repetition keeps leading me back to – “I’m sure I wrote something that already covered this …”
There’s obviously a good deal of editing / indexing / referencing to be done, not to mentioning joining-up the narrative flow of the whole, but it seems worth making the collection more explicit, standalone, shareable, editable, with subject matter headings, etc. So here goes, in no particular order:
What Am I Thinking? – despite “no particular order”, this post and the PhD Research Proposal, are probably the best recent summary of the whole agenda, even if the particulars are only “examples” of the whole. https://www.psybertron.org/archives/17062 And that PhD Research Proposal. https://www.academia.edu/109958139/Research_Proposal_Ian_Glendinning_Draft_4
John C Doyle and the problem with Zombie Science (2021 talk, 2022 post). The human operating system is evolutionarily badly optimised to deal with 21stC “viral” information. It’s about the architecture, not “things” in the physical layer(s). https://www.psybertron.org/archives/15903
Determinist Reductionism Sucks. Sapolsky, Mitchell, Hossenfelder and Dennett – and commenter Tom Clark – whom I owe a Mitchell<>Clark essay. https://www.psybertron.org/archives/17961
Hold Your Definition – Dennett and Levenchuk on the downsides of definitions as “coffins” for enlightened progress. The right kind of definitions in the right layers of abstraction. https://www.psybertron.org/archives/6539
Dichotomies – really an extension to the expectations for honest definitions. Boundaries. Choice of words. Distinction – non-pejorative “discrimination” – matters, without being divisive of whole camps / linguistic subject areas.
Good Fences. https://www.psybertron.org/?s=Good%20Fences&sort=relevance
More Than Science. https://www.psybertron.org/?s=More%20than%20science&sort=relevance
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Going to use some tools to construct a summary of my own words above.
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