I find myself endlessly amazed that we have not yet grown past the Age of Empire and Ego…
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Shadows
Are shadows merely the poor cousins of reflections ?
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Doctor Who ?
In an infinite Universe, anything that can happen *will* happen…
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Systemic Metamorphosis
Our global bureaucracies (on all scales) can not match pace with the accelerating rates of systemic change within which they find themselves…
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Infinite Improbability
On the topic of infinite improbability…
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Metrics
The value of science as an open-ended creative enterprise is in its unremitting incompleteness and perennial iterative process of what is ultimately self-discovery…
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Once in a Lifetime
This is not my life…
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Impossible destinations
Honesty with other people can be difficult; honesty with ourselves can prove to be impossible…
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The Problem of Evil
When bad things happen to good people…
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A Rusty Spring
It is as though every Sunday night some unrepentant fiend winds up the vast mechanical and rusty spring of my working week and then, yet again, I must endure the tedious unfurling of this coil through until the welcome arrival and cathartic release of Friday evening. Working life probably only seems to be the wasted […]
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Ransomware
An enduring irony of structured attempts to prohibit various nefarious behaviours (including cybercrime) is that the actions taken tend to create evolutionary selection pressures which unwittingly produce the next generation of successful technological malfeasance. Viewed holistically as an ecosystem or complex emergent-systems environment of all possible behavioural states or technological solutions, any specific measure taken […]
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Aesthetics, Language, History
It only takes a few colours, a few shapes for the human mind to impose order upon otherwise patterned chaos. Visual processing largely follows its own logical rules, not unlike language, physics or mathematics. Just as with language, visual aesthetics and the logical intelligibility of any specific imagery is partially hard-wired in the brain as […]
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