Two Spheres
Opportunities at the intersection of two technology domains The drive for economic growth often sits in tension with the moral impulse to preserve environmental health. Economic value can be created by extracting and exploiting physical resources, and cost savings can be realized by degrading public goods. In the 21st century, however, emerging technologies are creating the opportunity to realign incentives so they point towards both economic and environmental goals. This proposal focuses on ...
Two Spheres
Opportunities at the intersection of two technology domains The drive for economic growth often sits in tension with the moral impulse to preserve environmental health. Economic value can be created by extracting and exploiting physical resources, and cost savings can be realized by degrading public goods. In the 21st century, however, emerging technologies are creating the opportunity to realign incentives so they point towards both economic and environmental goals. This proposal focuses on ...
Within Our Reach
Today is a day to look forward. I imagine the garden as a world in which all living beings co-exist in harmony. No violence, and no need for violence. Abundance. Scarcity needs are met and belonging needs can be freely pursued. Harmonious, regenerative living. This reality — Eden — never existed, except perhaps as truly inert matter. Since molecules developed agency, violence — which in its broadest sense consists of destructive action without the consent of that being acted upon — has satura...
Within Our Reach
Today is a day to look forward. I imagine the garden as a world in which all living beings co-exist in harmony. No violence, and no need for violence. Abundance. Scarcity needs are met and belonging needs can be freely pursued. Harmonious, regenerative living. This reality — Eden — never existed, except perhaps as truly inert matter. Since molecules developed agency, violence — which in its broadest sense consists of destructive action without the consent of that being acted upon — has satura...
On the laws of conceptual reality
I am struck by a gap in my understanding of how the world works, one that I am coming to see as fundamental to a complete and coherent worldview — one that includes the informational domain. Communication is the transfer of meaning between informational entities. Claude Shannon (1948) formalized a mathematical theory of communication. However, I believe that not all communication is mathematical in nature. Shannon’s definition of a “message” is useful in his context, it seems obvious that it’...
On the laws of conceptual reality
I am struck by a gap in my understanding of how the world works, one that I am coming to see as fundamental to a complete and coherent worldview — one that includes the informational domain. Communication is the transfer of meaning between informational entities. Claude Shannon (1948) formalized a mathematical theory of communication. However, I believe that not all communication is mathematical in nature. Shannon’s definition of a “message” is useful in his context, it seems obvious that it’...
On Value
Value is a measure of a quality of an object. All objects have many qualities. We experience these when we interact with the object. Information about an object’s qualities are transferred through space and time, borne on data. All data is analogue. Information can be analogue or digital. The ether has infinite informational potential at every point in space. Data manifests in the ether, though the origins are unclear. Material manifestation — mass, ie. energy and matter — can all be consider...
On Value
Value is a measure of a quality of an object. All objects have many qualities. We experience these when we interact with the object. Information about an object’s qualities are transferred through space and time, borne on data. All data is analogue. Information can be analogue or digital. The ether has infinite informational potential at every point in space. Data manifests in the ether, though the origins are unclear. Material manifestation — mass, ie. energy and matter — can all be consider...
The Conceptual Domain
Initial observations The unmanifest conceptual space is ever present, global and infinite. The meaning contained within the universe is infinite at every point through time and space. Without sentience conceptual reality does not manifest. Within a sentient entity’s private awareness, it does — to the depth that the awareness perceives. Manifestations within conceptual reality are caused by the perception of some data. They do not manifest without this physical cause. Every object has a subje...
The Conceptual Domain
Initial observations The unmanifest conceptual space is ever present, global and infinite. The meaning contained within the universe is infinite at every point through time and space. Without sentience conceptual reality does not manifest. Within a sentient entity’s private awareness, it does — to the depth that the awareness perceives. Manifestations within conceptual reality are caused by the perception of some data. They do not manifest without this physical cause. Every object has a subje...
