What, Why & How do we Know ?
Less is More Counter intuitive recommendations from Netherlands experience is that fewer traffic priority rules / lane markings/ signals etc make roads and junctions safer. Kids are involved in less road accidents if they are encouraged to play in traffic. Essentially human psychology compensates by adjusting speeds and habits to enable tacit negotiatiation by eye-contact … Continue reading “Less Is More – Netherlands Traffic Signs”
Threads of Cybernetics and Cognitive ScienceA bit like the problem I had finding links from Kosko to the Fuzzy Logic “mainstream”, I’m finding difficulty cross linking several threads which claim to be the embracing the whole of cybernetics. The Heylighen / Joslyn / Turchin axis under Principia Cybernetica (see links) does not seem to connect … Continue reading “Cybernetics & Cognitive Science”
Paine’s Age of Reason in 1794[The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is Reason …. My own mind is my own church ….. it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself …. infidelity consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.]
Hobbes’ LeviathanOn organisational behaviour, natural language, and motivation in 1651.There is absolutely nothing new under the sun. Leviathan is Hobbes’ term for “commonwealth”, a self-organised “society” of humans acting as one “body” – ie an Organisation or almost literally a “Corporation” [ …. in which the sovereignty is an artificial soul, as giving life and … Continue reading “Hobbe’s Leviathan”
Ahab’s Wife or The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund Pub Oct. 1999. 688p. illus. Morrow, $28 (0-688-17187-7). Ahab’s wife, Una (nee Spencer), named by her mother after the personification of Truth in Spenser’s Faerie Queene, is so vividly portrayed that she seems more real than fictional in Naslund’s fanciful opus. (ref Booklist) “Captain Ahab was … Continue reading “Ahab’s Wife – Naslund / Spenser’s Una”
Semantic WebLog / Pepperone Postcards – Danny Ayers blogs.RDF techie (must learn what RSS is / does)but anyway some key tidbits, not least links to … Orchard – “Data Manipulation Framework . Sounds familiar. Appears to be DOM grove based”.See my Manifesto – Orchard, Grove, and Jorn’s Fractal Thicket.Daniel Rivers-Moore had it right already with … Continue reading “Pepperone Postcards – Fractal DOM”
My e-Mail is down due to a server migration.Please resend anything from Fri 21st or today Sat 22nd again on Mon 24th. Coolest Media Company of 2002Fortune, no less, names Pyra (Blogger)However it also says “Nothing destroys productivity like blogs”. Ooops.
Tables, Taxonomies and Trends and causality too, but it doesn’t alliterate.Why do these appear to be “human nature” aspects of analysis and rationalisation ? “Emergent Properties” – hold that thought.