Jessica Flack
@C4COMPUTATION
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Lambent Society Founder | Professor | Hourglass Emergence + Foundations of Computation | Flourishing | Kitchen Alchemist + Vegetarian | Privacy | @EMERGCOMP
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Joined September 2012
What matters is how we treat others in the time that we have in this life, irrespective of relatedness or where one is from, or how one looks.
For those interested in emergence and computation, I have a new homepage and substack under construction. I am also on đŚ at the same handle. https://t.co/22hDUo1pp7
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Spectacular looped-wire sculptures at https://t.co/Q5Je4fe8OJ. HT David Zwirner Gallery. Lovely for thinking about the geometry of hourglass emergence. Ruth Asawa, in her own words, was interested in the idea that âthe relation between outside and inside was interdependent,
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One deeply generative implication of work on collective computation in nature is the possibility of a theory of computation that underlies both biology and physics (and consequently also applies to 'artificial' intelligence) and in which biology is not, as is usually assumed,
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What is the Lambent Society? An umbrella organization Iâm founding that will house an emergence + computation institute ecosystem, entrepreneurial, as well as arts + culture initiatives for the public good, and privacy projects. When I regain a secure machine Iâll finish
A potential renaissance is within our collective grasp. Several related but not yet widely known science advances are challenging old boundaries and revealing new sets of questions. These advances help inform our understanding of emergence, the evolution of the universe, and
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What is information? What does it mean to say the universe or a biological system computes? Wheeler in the late eighties wrote a remarkable paper. In it he developed the idea information came before matterââit from bitâ. He argued the universe is fundamentally participatory and
Wheeler's 48 definition-metaphors for computation + the universe as a computer. From a ~1980 note available in the Wheeler repository at APSâby way of my old twitter-friend Dave Baconâand pasted below with my very brief annotations. https://t.co/Ztl8mFL00T Dave highlights #39
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The sports betting scandal described in this and many other articles is part of the tip of a very large iceberg.
@ATabarrok @matt_levine GAMES AND METAGAMES Old School 1. So and so is feeling a bit ill and will be out for the game tonight. 2. So and so will be ill thanks to the nano tech containing E. coli we added to his food delivery last night. New School 1. The above @NBA game is just one âbattleâ in a
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Remember you are not your doppelgänger. . .or your parents or your children or your siblings but a unique individual. Be the best you can be and help others do the same!
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The correct temporal story has to be told or left ambiguous. I will not allow any misrepresentations or lies. Do not say a person is a genetic father, sister, twin, son, etc. when the genetic relationship is otherwise. I will investigate everything. This btw is a point about
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Stanzas from A.S. Byatt's tour de force, Swammerdamâa poem written by her character, R.H. Ash w refs to individuality, collective behavior, perspective + origins + laws of life. Great Galileo with his optic tube A century ago, displaced this Earth From apprehension's Centre,
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What is greatness and why for some is this abstract concept so motivating? Most of the time pursuit of greatness seems to be born out of nostalgia for a moment in history during which progress could be viscerally felt. This is sometimes measured through the acquisition of
Science is distributed around the world, across groups, departments, and institutes, sometimes in competition and sometimes in collaboration. This dynamic when founded on integrity, open-mindedness, excellence, creativity, and playful rigor fuels innovative solutions to
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Dream Dust By Langston Hughes Gather out of star-dust Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust Not for sale. Langston Hughes had a gift for distillation that like Shakespeare he often achieved with an
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âKafka's idiosyncracy is present in each of these writings, to a greater or lesser degree, but if Kafka had not written, we would not perceive it; that is to say, it would not exist.â In certain groups there seems to be an obsession with (producing) descendants. Borges wrote a
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Wheeler's 48 definition-metaphors for computation + the universe as a computer. From a ~1980 note available in the Wheeler repository at APSâby way of my old twitter-friend Dave Baconâand pasted below with my very brief annotations. https://t.co/Ztl8mFL00T Dave highlights #39
The physicist John Wheeler, inventor of the phrase, "it from bit" at a Princeton blackboard discussing what in nature can be quantized but as if he were looking at Walton Ford's, "Falling Bough," a fantastic depiction of collective behavior.
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Some similar lines can be found in Riding Giants directed by Stacy Peralta. Just as the pioneers of surfing in this film remind the viewer that each wave is different, the future is not set. https://t.co/0Wpb54M3MF
Neither recurrence nor back propagation or related algorithms have anything necessarily to do with âtime looping.â The scientific sense of âtime loopingâ doesn't result in optimizationâor âimprovementâ of the status quoâin meaningful ways. It likely for the most part adds
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