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Weaver D.R. Weinbaum
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Open-Ended Intelligence
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The Practice of Thinking: Cultivating the Extraordinary
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Social Systems: Where is the Ground?
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“Living life as an experiment is not merely a lifestyle choice. It is a metaphysical commitment to the primacy of difference over identity and of becoming over being. One’s life gains meaning in as far as it facilitates the possibility of evolution, of growth and the overcoming of limits. Life lived as an experiment becomes an expression of open-ended intelligence. Style and aesthetics do mightily matter but these are not prescribed; they need to be figured out in the course of one’s becoming. Life as an experiment is a thought experiment and an experiment in thinking. It is to think and let oneself be thought while not taking anything for granted; to be able to escape the banality of everything habitual in sense and thought. A real thought is real to the extent that it transforms the thinker.”
― Open-Ended Intelligence
― Open-Ended Intelligence
“Social systems can move mountains and eventually perhaps planets and stars. Still, no walking through walls.... And if they come to allow walking through walls eventually, just as a point, it will require a serious tweaking of constraints and degrees of freedom at the relevant substrate level (i.e., atoms, molecules, etc.) just as the very reality of your mobile phone requires.”
― Social Systems: Where is the Ground?
― Social Systems: Where is the Ground?
“There is no underlying principle or reproducible pattern associated with extraordinary intelligence exactly because it operates prior to principles and patterns. The only way to understand it is in historical perspective, when the naked New has already been enrobed/incorporated into a system of distinctions, labels, concepts and relations; when it has already become organised into a containing narrative. It is then, in retrospect, that we can reflect and see it for what it is or is not. Even so, this is not anymore the instance per se that we are talking about but its representation in relation to an already constructed narrative and where both representation and narrative emerge as secondary products after the fact. So paradoxically, instances of extraordinary intelligence are irretrievable as such; we can only follow the traces and after-effects they have left in our minds, much the same as we learn about elementary particles in physics only by following the traces they have left in a bubble chamber.”
― The Practice of Thinking: Cultivating the Extraordinary
― The Practice of Thinking: Cultivating the Extraordinary
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