Janus ⁽¹³⁾

Can you fix the world by typing better? The world is made in the same moment we are each born, and just as helpless. We are each already there, but not quite all there. This is part of the help and part of the helplessness. Baby and world are not the same thing, not even the same kind of thing,…

I’ve been thinking more about Kurt Gödel and his incompleteness theorems, ① that attack on formalism with reference to his intuitive Platonism, and ② the observer around which many human efforts are now circling, or circulating. Recommended reading: Alexander T Englert. “Kurt Gödel, His Mother and the Argument for Life after Death.” Aeon. 2 January 2024. https://aeon.co/essays/kurt-godel-his-mother-and-the-argument-for-life-after-death If, as it…

The “extended phenotype” is a phrase I collected on reading the book of the same name by Richard Dawkins. It's where that word 'meme' as ideas in the mind-brain as parasitic replicate was born. At the time in the early 90s I thought we could move onto talking about 'rede's and interpretive viewpoints about epigenetics but the cybertroll bros have…

In reshelving books on their shelves recently, with the two bookshelves themselves only returned to their place in the living room after we replaced the flooring, my eye lingered on a book cover. I did not recognise it, but it was familiar in the way one's infancy can return feelings. The book is then both unknown and known at the…

Wherein I try to define my terms (see chatgpt etymology for this term/terminus/terminology plex using my own contexts and examples (of themselves). The major context assumes an animal life’s logic, point of view (POV) and scale. The essay is also about those as limits to the understanding we have as animals when we are looking out and about as prey or…

Christopher Brennan calls the gaping issue an ‘annoying wobble between’. I like that, it is less pompous than my Janus dancing the two-faced ratios. My wife Mona went to ante-natal exercises called Pregnastics here in Hobart, and her classmate, an old friend, Anitra, said that it was ‘really just a wobble and a chat’. Our to-be-born child is now 21…