Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking. . . . If we are to be sure of our liberty, we must be ready to fight for it.
But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.
The world is colors and motion, feelings and thoughts and what does math have to do with it? Not much, if 'math' means being bored in high school, but in truth mathematics is the one universal science. Mathematics is the study of pure pattern and everything in the cosmos is a kind of pattern.
It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.
If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!
Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.
In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.
Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.
It's got to be weird to sit in an office all day and deal with these creative types without having any idea of what they do or how they do it.
For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.