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I always loved this video/music-video on percussive maintenance. It shows you how much it's in the culture—and how good a successful whack feels!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=insM7oUYNOE

Sure! :D https://warpedandtorn.io/ - Having my own little space to publish whatever I want is extremely liberating.

EDIT: Would love to also set up a blog roll with other HNers. If anyone likes anything on my site link me yours! Would love to chat and share and link to each other's sites!

> Because perception is so centered on thought, we tend to overappreciate the importance of thinking in our lives, in our behaviors and even values

Very true. Thought can become our master easily. As a programmer, I often find myself struggling to get out of 'logic' mode or 'thinking' mode.

> I'll let you ponder the discrepancy from an absolutely (perhaps) low-level logical machine to the possibility of a chaotic non-logical emergent high-level behavior. What it means for life, for AI, and possibly much bigger or smaller things we consider "inert", for now.

Wonderfully put! I think the ideas of emergent behaviours are a saving grace for the incessant desire of ours to reduce everything to its atomic (in the sense of an atomic operation, not an atom) components. The emergent behaviours, can't be predicted. They can't be algorithmized. Becuase to build algorithms one must go down to those atomic operations.

My wider concern is that we are currently obsessed with analytical thought and philosophy and that the continental philosophy has become a 2nd class citizen. I think this has happened becuase analytical thought lends itself to being algorithmized, whereas continental philosophy does not.

Sorry, that was a bit of a tangent!

Yes! Love the pictures! I have had the same thought/feeling when I first saw them too!

Well, the future as a mystery, something to be discovered, not known in advance, depends on randomness. I would argue if life weren't random and we could see past, present, and future with perfect clarity, it would be a little pointless. Every action you took, you'd know the outcome before taking the action. It's boring.

There is no purpose of life, in my opinion. But with randomness it's a lot more intresting.

> You must assume something spiritual if you think there exist rational action without computation behind it.

I'm still uncertain i.e. spiritual. I'm finding, as I grow older, logic and reason fail to answer for my experiences. Whether that's a shortcoming in my own ability to comprehend logic and reason, or because logic and reason simply do not have all the answers, I do not know.

> Randomness does not help there.

The human condition, one might argue, emerged as a way to handle randomness. I suppose, at some level, if we were to remove all randomness from the universe, life would be pretty pointless (insomuch as life is not already pointless.)

Existential dread is most definitely softened! Thank you.

That's a good question.

I guess I'd say a Turing machine is my definition of a machine.

And I suppose the implication is that if we are machines, operating on a stream of input, does that make us deterministic?

EDIT: What I'm ultimately interested in is if we, as humans, are operating in a realm that logic cannot operate in. If that makes any sense? I'll probably have to define realm!

So does this point to us being biological machines? Is it already accepted that we are biological machines?

Took about 3 mins to get working with my jekyll github pages site. Very simple, informative backend panel too. Thank you very much. Shall be donating!

It's funny how one can feel ashamed for not using the esoteric language features.

Whenever someone new joins the firm, and they know all the cool operators ect., I get so nervous around them! But I've caused myself so much stress trying to do something clever, having to go back and update the behaviour, only to curse myself for trying to be clever!

I don't find that surprising at all! It's a tragedy.

Do you think the hegemony is only about oil?

But isn't the US hegemony all about dictating global markets, ect. ? So whilst the US might be ensuring other nation's security, it is also ensuring that the markets are in its desired condition. This modus operandi, I suppose, means that the US homeless will suffer more, as those desired conditions are desired by the people who are able to control the military decisions, and not the homeless, who would most likely want cheaper health care & housing.

ohhh. Thank you :)

Hey, thanks for replying to all my comments btw. I was going through a bit of an existential crisis! (a little one!) May I ask why your username is the_matrix? Are you a philosopher/read in philosophy? Have you read any Jean Baudrillard? Would love to chat some more. My email is in my about me! :)

Sharing is caring ... as the saying goes.

I like this thought on this being a two-way street; could you explain a bit more / build on that idea?

So what are the axioms for Western philosophy?

EDIT: Ludwig Wittgenstein's work is pretty axiomatic right?

Old Media is serving itself, and not the people. This is a big issue. Papers have very little accountability when it comes to reporting the truth in a way that fits a narrative. They often report the correct facts, but they don't report them in a 'correct way'. Or the most useful way for the most amount of people.

Yeah, all I wanted to write was one page. Did you want more?

So I am that drunken monkey after all? I was getting a bit lonely, you know. HMMM. On second thought, it sounds like it's better to not be the drunken monkey?

very interesting. Is this your opinion?

Maths, as I understand it, is merely an a priori deduction from an initial set of assumed-true axioms. In some ways, you can do whatever the heck you like, as long as it's consistent with your axioms and whatever laws govern your deductive process.

* nods frantically! *

"Here is a harder one as we move up the complexity scale."

What is the complexity scale? How do you measure how complex truth is? Can truth have properties other than rightness or wrongness?

This, I think, is where the concept of fuzzy truth could be invoked. What that is I have no idea, I just made it up!

very big problem. I think you are wise to recognise this, 'And I know that a lot of things I think I know are probably propaganda or spin or just one sided stories.'

How can we flush this from our minds? How do we trust those that purport to speak the truth?

"I think this power of defining truth is one of the major battlefields of the 21st century." - That's a really interesting idea.

Isn't truth truth by its definition?

how?

And thank you for the link.

edit: sorry, was being a bit rude.

That's very interesting RE prominent voices. I guess getting into an ego-war with whoever likes to crit your ideas probably happens from time to time.

But I do remember reading about a physicist who wasn't allowed to edit the Wiki on their theory! (sorry can't remember who / when)

thank you very much. Will get in touch when the time is right.

Also, that link doesn't work. think you need a dot! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Yes._We_are_bia...)

I've heard bad things about writing articles on Wikis. Lots of ego-wars. Not really sure it's worth my time? If it's a good place to be, I'm happy to help.

EDIT: But I do trust it. So maybe it doesn't matter?