Did anyone see this article in the FT on 9th April 2003. Needs registration to read. (Links given are www.agsm.unsw.edu.au/eajm/0209/michelson.html and michael.skapinker@ft.com ) Gossip and informal e-mail comms tell us more about the real state of a company than any formal management reports. So what’s new? Michael Skapinker points out that any attempt to formally harness the informal is doomed to kill the goose. See response to the earlier e-mail article from Hewlett-Packard, which recognised the real value in informal e-mail correspondence. Great, completely correct, 100% true, but totally useless ? (As the “Doc” used to remind us junior engineers. Useful = Better than true. True = Merely true, but useless.)
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Zen and Brian Josephson
Zen and Brian Josephson – Curiouser and curiouser, closer and closer. Brilliant parody of the paradoxical by Daniel Drasin via Josephson.
Does consciousness collapse the wave function ?
Does consciousness collapse the wave function ? Now this is far too close to mysticism (Gary ?) according to Dawkins anyway. But I’m not so sure.
Elizabeth Hill, recorded in the same QM2003 proceedings cannot help also invoking Schroedinger [Quote] the major weak point of the arguement being the explanation as to why we have a collective scientific regard so that out of that scientific regard we all see the same thing. [Unquote]
Fujimura [Quote] substance is a series of events [Unquote]
Brian Josephson sees Quantum Reality as “emergent from the metaphors of Chaos and Complexity”. Brian, did you really pooh-pooh my queries about real life chaos this time last year ?
Lakoff’s Metaphor and War
Lakoff’s Metaphor and War has been much linked and quoted in the blogoshpere. This Joho link picked-up from Solipsism Gradient (Rainer Brockenhof). Blogged a link to Lakoff’s piece earlier without comment, but found it disappointingly shallow given the subject matter – Joho calls it “close to self-parody”. I still have “Metaphors We Live By” and “Fire, Women and Dangerous Things” on my reading list however, and now find Joho’s reference to Lakoff and Johnson’s “Philosphy in the Flesh”.
Quantum, Powerpoint, Simpsons
Quantum, Powerpoint, Simpsons – Why did someone at the Delft Technical University enter this google search string ?
Market Valuation $72
Market Valuation $72 and falling !! Blogshare is a “fantasy” stock market site based on value of blogs – gawd knows why ?
Ishmael Community
Ishmael Community – Blogged earlier that Daniel Quinn’s “Ishmael” trilogy was on my reading list following a recommendation from Peter Senge / Charles Handy via the Peter Drucker Foundation. Picked-up this link from a hit from the highly mystical SohoDojo which I erroneously misread as being connected with Joho.
Q. How to explore the non-scientific side of knowledge without getting drawn into mysticism ?
So much to read, so little time.
Been out of circulation for almost two weeks due to US business trip plus a long weekend in New Orleans. Came back to find a link from Dave Pollard’s blog – thanks for that. Lots of interesting stuff to browse here – particularly noticed several posts on thge “metaphor” thread. Also found a new link from AsWeKnowIt with an antidote to Steven Pinker, who had impressed me. Mainly a series of quotes from H Allen Orr’s review of Pinker in the NYT. Paul Kelly’s own quote about Pinker as being “less about science as politics” is crucial to my position. I’m in no position to judge Pinker’s scientific evidence, though I remain impressed by his ability to present the distinction between science and politics. My Catch-22 position of course is that science isn’t everything, so I guess I’m on thin ice anyway. Which brings us back to one of the Metaphors quoted by Pollard.