Category Archives: Ideas

Wicked problems

Posted on May 31, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

[ 31/May/23 Mike wrote:An amazing presentation in this morning’s plenary about space exploration, bringing us up-to-date on the latest tools of exploration and their findings, including some of the Webb space telescope’s awe-inspiring discoveries.Heady stuff, but in some aspects also … Continue reading →

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The Singularity

Posted on May 31, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

What is the Singularity? How do you think it will affect humanity, and what can we do to prepare? [ 22/May/23 ] In mathematics, a singularity is a point at which a function takes an infinite value. In more common … Continue reading →

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Moehanga Day

Posted on May 3, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

Moehanga Day [ 27/April/23 ] Moehanga Dayhttps://nzhistory.govt.nz/moehanga-becomes-first-maori-visit-england The day (27 April 1806 – 217 years ago) that the first Maori discovered England. It makes at least as much sense as celebrating the first European to “discover” New Zealand (which was … Continue reading →

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Reality, Probability, and Perception

Posted on May 3, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

Reality, Probability, and Perception | Frankly #29 [ 21/April/23 ] Very well done Nate. I was the only person in my district of some 4,000 people fully prepared for the 7.8 earthquake that hit us 6 years ago. I was … Continue reading →

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Nate & Kim – Climate, Fiction, and The Future”

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

Kim Stanley Robinson: “Climate, Fiction, and The Future” | The Great Simplification #66 [ 19/April/23 ] Burning Carbon isn’t fundamental to the economy – energy is.Carbon based chemical energy sources are very “convenient”, on a variety of metrics. Agree with … Continue reading →

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Platonic Ideas

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

[ 22/March/23 Walter Kant wrote:World of platonic ideas = world of pure being and thinking; it is accessible only through reason, not through the senses.Which platonic ideas are independent of time and of the world observed with the senses? It … Continue reading →

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Agency, cooperation, respect

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

[ 21/March/23 ] Michael Ward,Yeah.We always have far more influences working upon us, at far more levels, than we can possibly deal with consciously, and we all have the ability to create degrees of agency and to take responsibility for … Continue reading →

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Beauty

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

[ 15/March/23 ] A lot in what Susana wrote. For me, being an autistic spectrum, science geek interested in the depths of evolutionary strategy and all levels of the complexity of existence; then science usually wins out; and everything is … Continue reading →

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Supermarket comic

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

[ 17/February/23 Chrys posted a Cartoon of 6 people in a supermarket ailse, and the supervisor saying “OK, you guys know the drill. Our customers finally know where to find everything. Tonight we mix it all up again.”] For spatially … Continue reading →

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Life

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

Life [ 11/February/23 Mariyan Antony posted – Life is finite resources and applications of beautiful wisdom of real factual history of rational philosophy.] It’s much more like:Life is an exploration of infinite unknowns, based on heuristics sorted by multiple levels … Continue reading →

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