Category: Intake
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Michael Levin | Cell Intelligence in Physiological and Morphological Spaces
came to me via Bonnitta Roy
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How Electricity Actually Works
I remember when I studied electronics and electricity in high school I was able to do the math ( V = IR ). It was presented to me as something “very intuitive” but it didn’t feel intuitive to me … and I didn’t dare to ask, because if it was “obviously intuitive” and I wasn’t…
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Aphantasia?
This came to me via Bonnitta Roy: When I shared this with Sunni she asked me if I feel I have this … and this was my answer: I am not sure that “it” is really a thing. I do not trust the dichotomies of “it-ness” that mechanistic thinking likes to assume and impose. I…
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The Madame Butterfly Effect
This podcast episode on ripples through history by Daryl Cooper is a gem … if I could, I would hand him my “podcast episode of the year” award! “Why were there Japanese people in an Israeli airport killing Puerto Rican Christians to support Arabs who hated Jews?” Daryl Cooper – Martyrmade Podcast A German named…
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The Edge of Something
This comes to me to compliment an impoverished philosophy. “I feel I am on the edge of something …” David Bohm
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AlphaGo
I enjoyed this documentary about AlphaGo – the AI that cracked the game of Go. However, I felt that there was another player at the table, an overlooked player: the qualitative outcome. Despite the potential complexity of the game of Go, its outcome is still a simplistic quantity: area conquered. I have a feeling that…
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… not quite adding!?
Ryan Singer posted this on twitter: “Adding” and “integration” are different operations: Adding: Bolt working wholes together w/ no problem solving. Integration: Solve lots of problems to connect parts together into a working whole. Complex problem? Orthogonalize into integration problems that can then be added. source I had to read it a couple of times…
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Consequences
There is a special time, a special transition … when I complete the asana part of practice and transition to pranayama and sitting. Today, just as that time arrived the world outside exploded with the noise of barking dogs … many dogs … our dogs and others. A neighbor came driving down the road from…
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Indra Adnan On New Politics, Soft Power and the Feminine
I am increasingly feeling disconnected from podcasts (and other materials) about subjects I care about (or think I care about!). I mostly feel that ideas are not well grounded and talk about (what strikes me as) disassociated fantasies. The latest wave of disappointment comes from this list from Richard Bartlett (whose work and person I…
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Yoga of Groups
Yoga is a solitary practice, it focuses inwards … my body, my breath, my attention. Maybe that is one of the reasons it appealed to me. When I researched Yoga, I also considered martial arts where there seems to me to be more potential for interaction with at least one other human being. But I…
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Shumacher College Alumni Gathering
Disclaimer: this post is a note to myself, it may change as memories and reflections from the event continue to move in me. That which touched me personally and deeply Jerome (from France) seeing an Israeli in me and for softly offering this insight to me with an open heart. I usually feel deeply alienated…
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Spiraling Together?
Context This post is an echo from a short interaction between Nora Bateson and I on Twitter: Nora: The distraction of fighting for the meager leftovers after the wealthy corporate robbery of life, future, human rights and ecology while trillions in off shore accounts could be used for building a new way of life: #Refugees…
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Elinor Ostrom and the Tragedy of the Commons
I see the tragedy of the commons for manifesting around me, and though I do believe it doesn’t have to manifest, it seems that often it does. This article pays respect to the work of Elinor Ostrom and cites her set of design principles for avoiding the tragedy of the commons: Clearly defined boundaries:…
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Kishore Mahbubani: Has the West Lost It? Can Asia Save It?
I found this talk interesting and refreshing. It tallks about the shifting balance of power from the USA to China & India. If highlights the western bubble most western media is immersed in. It felt well informed and balanced and somewhat hopeful … though … I believe that there was also something backwards-facing in the…
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Jeff Bezos: They know it when they see it
In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig describes teaching students to write and how much clarity and agreement there was between students about what constituted good writing (and how impossible is to define what “good writing” is) … and … wholeness anyone? Jeff Bezos confirms: “In a letter to shareholders, founder and…
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Living in Darkness
A … I don’t quite know how to describe it … softly meandering … through … it all???? … tale of circles, light, dark, change, war, peace, love, pain, death … and deep surrender … and Jennifer.
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Inside Grand Seiko
“This is the minimum requirement in making a beautiful watch: First, each individual part must be beautiful.”
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So Much dis-Love: sports, police, sex, marriage
I saw this first video a couple of days ago … my initial thought was: my god how much resources we invest, as a society, into institutionalized, competitive anger and hatred (ie. “the business of sports”). The second video painted in a startling correlation (that I am insinuating!) … a continuum of expressions indicating an…
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