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Factors of Accumulation II
There’s a profound saying about Chan (Zen) practice: Great faith, great doubt, great determination. The great Chan patriarchs would be aghast to learn that the same can be said about silver (though who knows, as meditation masters in a land that prized silver above all, they must…
Jun 23
Factors of Accumulation I
Silver and Lapis
Jun 22
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Factors of Accumulation III
All roads lead to Kaifeng
Jun 24
Second Contact, Part III
According to Borges, Pierre Menard was a practitioner of right-handed Tantra in public. Among his many achievements was a book on George Boole’s symbolic logic. He also worked on Leibniz’s philosophy and Zeno’s paradox - which makes me believe the longstanding rumor that he was…
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Second Contact Part II
There’ something refreshing about hard SF. The writers whom I admired (and still do to a lesser extent) didn’t care about literary skills - their…
Jun 20
What is it like to be a Planet? Part II
It was fun reading Solaris; I was sucked in at the very beginning and finished most of the book in one long sitting. The truly alien atmosphere, the…
Jun 17
What is it like to be a Planet? Part I
Hard Science Fiction, if not Science Fiction as such, is the story of society’s victory over nature, so complete a victory that society has left the…
Jun 16
Second Contact
First Contact First contact is when the hero encounters the alien for the first time - ideally an alien intelligence, but if he isn’t ambitious, he…
Jun 15
Lemmings and other animals
Lem beyond Solaris. Solaris Beyond Lem.
Jun 14
The Globe and the Earth so far
Today’s update is both a retrospective and a prospectus, or in plain English: where we have come from, and where we are going. Swimming into our Ken I…
Jun 13
On Contradiction II
Nature and Society
Jun 10
On Contradiction I
Contradiction has many meanings. In logic it denotes situations when we are led to conclude p&¬p for some proposition P. In much of modern logic…
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