diff --git a/V(λ).md b/V(λ).md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5e80fe0b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/V(λ).md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +- a [[person]]. + - [[friend]] + - https://twitter.com/weirdrubikscube + - there's another entry about them in the Agora, but I've forgotten where that is. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/beagle.md b/beagle.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cccdfaf22 --- /dev/null +++ b/beagle.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +- a [[ship]]. + - [[charles darwin]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/capra course.md b/capra course.md index 5a89f4363..485549a0c 100644 --- a/capra course.md +++ b/capra course.md @@ -19,13 +19,110 @@ - [[lecture 4]] [[the systems view of evolution]] - [[summary]] https://spring.capracourse.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Lecture-4-Summary.pdf - [[prebiotic evolution]] - - [[lipid walls]] acted as proto membranes + - [[lipid walls]] acted as proto membranes, formed [[bubbles]] - within simple bubbles that tended to let some compounds selectively in and keep them in, those compounds collisioned and interacted much more often than without - - yields [[network chemistry]] + - yields [[network chemistry]], highly [[non linear]] + - ()[[non linear dynamics]], [[complexity theory]] figures prominently.) + - competition for nutrients yielded [[evolutionary pressure]] - [[universal ancestor]] is thought to have come into existence around ~3.5B years ago - - rather than seeing evolution as the result of random mutations, the central focus is on the creativity and the dynamics of life as processes of increasing complexity - - [[history of evolutionary thought]] + - colonized essentially our whole environment, making future life possible + - #push [[the systems view of evolution]] + - [[prebiotic evolution]] plus new understanding of [[biological evolution]] + - rather than seeing evolution as the result of random mutations, the central focus is on the creativity unfolding of life in forms of increasing complexity of increasing diversity + - the [[dynamics of life's creativity]] + - #push [[history of evolutionary thought]] - #push [[charles darwin]] - - [[chance variation]] -> [[random mutation]] - - [[natural selection]] - - [[lecture 5]] \ No newline at end of file + - based his theory on two core ideas: + - [[chance variation]] -> [[random mutation]] + - [[natural selection]] + - all living organisms are related by common ancestry + - [[beagle]] + - Darwin knew not of a remedy to a problem of his theory: he thought heredity worked so that offspring received 50% of the traits of each ancestor, their offspring 25%, theirs 12.5%, etc. + - Darwin saw this as a flaw as it showed that positive traits would disappear very quickly after arising and being selected by chance. + - [[Mendel]] of course discovered the units of heredity, [[genes]]. + - [[Mendel]] wrote to [[Darwin]] ()!), and allegedly Darwin didn't read the letter because it was in German and had too much math on it (!). + - [[radical shift]] in biological thought: from [[being]] to [[becoming]] (a shift towards change) + - [[holistic view]] + - #push [[neodarwinism]] + - evolutionary variations result from random mutations, being random genetic changes, followed by natural selection. + - #push [[systems view of evolution]] + - recognizes three major avenues of evolution: + - [[random mutations]] == [[genetic mutations]] + - most mutations are harmful, few lead to positive variations + - note that one bacteria can become [[billions]] in just one day + - [[horizontal genetic transfer]] == [[gene trading]] + - [[bacteria]] freely trade genes, swap genes with each other + - global trading of genes (!) + - [[lynn margulis]] + - some [[microbiologists]] argue that [[bacteria]] should not be categorized into [[species]] + - during the first [[2 billion]] years of evolution, only bacteria were around + - [[bacteria]] bootstrapped it all, established the global system + - #push [[bacteria]] also invented: + - [[fermentation]] + - [[photosynthesis]] + - [[nitrogen fixation]] + - [[rapid motion]] + - [[respiration]] (!) + - [[symbiogenesis]] + - [[evolution through symbiosis]] + - [[lynn margulis]] as well + - hypothesis: long term [[symbiosis]] involving [[bacteria]] and other [[microorganisms]] as hosts/guests led to complex life + - [[acquiring genomes]] + - compares organisms to [[corporations]] + - all three of the previous produce changes that need to be integrated into the physical and chemical environment; if the integration of new genetic information doesn't work, the organism can't survive -> there's natural selection + - [[epigenetic network]] + - real life example: in human life you make plans (you have a plan for your night), plans need to adapt to random occurrences (people you run into; other events out of your sphere of control). evolution works the same way. + - #push [[david brower]] narrative: compresses 4.5B years (the [[age of the earth]]) into the six days of [[biblical creation]] + - [[sunday midnight]] creation + - [[tuesday 8am]] first bacterial cells + - [[thursday midnight]] planetary system + - [[friday 4pm]] sexual reproduction invented + - [[saturday]] all visible forms of life evolved + - [[1.30am]] first marine animals + - [[9.30am]] first plants come ashore + - [[16.50]] great reptiles, roam for five hours + - [[17.30]] first mammals + - [[22]] first primates + - [[23]] first monkeys + - [[23:40]] great apes appear + - [[23:56]] [[homo habilis]] + - [[23:59:30]] [[homo sapiens]] begins to evolve + - [[23:59:49]] humans + - less than one second before midnight: [[written history]] + - [[australopithecus afarensis]] + - [[big brains]] seem to have yielded all these innovations [[four million years ago]]: + - [[language]] + - [[reflective consciousness]] + - [[tool making]] + - [[social]] + - [[homo habilis]] [[two million years ago]] + - [[homo erectus]] + - [[homo sapiens]] [[250k years ago]] + - [[cro magnon]] -- anatomically identical to us. fully developed [[language]]. brought about an explosion of technological and artistic innovations. + - [[lascaux cave]] + - [[chauvet cave]] + - [[300 paintings]] of high artistic achievement and with a [[narrative]] + - [[lecture 5]] [[mind and consciousness]] + - [[summary]] https://spring.capracourse.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Lecture-5-Summary.pdf + - [[gregory bateson]] + - [[1960s]] mind as a [[process]] + - #push [[santiago theory]] + - [[humberto maturana]] + - [[francisco varela]] + - a new conception of the nature of [[mind]] and [[consciousness]] is an implication of the [[systemic understanding of life]] + - it goes beyond the [[cartesian division]]. + - [[rené descartes]] based his thought on a fundamental division between [[res cogitans]] (the thinking mind) and [[res extensa]] (matter, the extensive thing) + - [[mind]] as an intangible entity poses the question of how it interacts with matter + - mind and consciousness are not [[things]], they are [[processes]] + - [[gregory bateson]] [[mental process]] + - independently [[humberto maturana]] had similar ideas w.r.t. [[cognition]] + - [[francisco varela]] worked with him and developed his insights into a theory known as [[santiago theory of cognition]] + - [[cognitive science]] is a [[transdisciplinary approach]] + - the process of knowing and the process of life are one and the same + - [[cognition]] is the activity involved in the self generation and self perpetuation of [[living networks]] + - the self organizing activity of a living system at all levels is [[mental activity]] + - the interactions of a living organism with its environment are [[cognitive interactions]] + - life and cognition are inseparably connected at all levels of life + - cognitive activity is [[immanent]] in life + - [[cognition]] does not require a [[brain]]/nervous system + - plants, bacteria which don't have nervous systems are all constantly involved in [[cognitive activities]] (as they perceive, react) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/journal/2022_03_27.md b/journal/2022_03_27.md index 88b073fae..16e653738 100644 --- a/journal/2022_03_27.md +++ b/journal/2022_03_27.md @@ -1,6 +1,22 @@ - [[covid]] - feeling better than yesterday morning, but still not recovered. some cough and a sore throat remain. - I read about the [[fossil]] [[scm]] in [[hn]] +- #push [[sql]] + - today I reviewed/refreshed [[sql joins]] apropos of a random article on [[hn]] + - reminded me of when I studied [[relational algebra]] back in university, it was nice +- [[capra course]] + - DONE [[lecture 4]] + :LOGBOOK: + CLOCK: [2022-03-27 Sun 17:36:43]--[2022-03-27 Sun 22:24:34] => 04:47:51 + :END: + - NOW [[lecture 5]] + :LOGBOOK: + CLOCK: [2022-03-27 Sun 22:24:36] + :END: +- [[flancia]] + - [[open letters]] + - [[commons]] + - [[agora]] - [[agora]] - [[agora bridge]] - fixed a long standing bug with invalid repos requesting username:password on pulling and blocking the queue: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1508031488301936645 @@ -10,18 +26,9 @@ - #push [[maubot]] - [[maubot standalone]] looks great, what we want to integrate this better with [[agora bridge]] I think: https://docs.mau.fi/maubot/usage/standalone.html - recommended by [[tulir]] -- [[capra course]] - - NOW [[lecture 4]] - :LOGBOOK: - CLOCK: [2022-03-27 Sun 17:36:43] - :END: - - LATER [[lecture 5]] -- -- [[flancia]] - - [[open letters]] - - [[commons]] - - [[agora]] -- [[antiflancia]] +- [[Antiflancia]] + - I try not to think of Antiflancia very often, I realize. But sometimes it happens. - I'm an [[anti fascist]], so I guess that means in [[Antiflancia]] there are [[fascists]]. - [[nazis]] - - [[hugo boss]] (!) \ No newline at end of file + - [[hugo boss]] (!) +- [[risks]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/journal/2022_03_28.md b/journal/2022_03_28.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b029beb70 --- /dev/null +++ b/journal/2022_03_28.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +- [[covid]] + - still not recovered somehow -- taking longer than expected + - [[worked]] today but was low energy most of the day, only really felt myself "activate" after meetings/in the evening +- [[V(λ)]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/journal/2022_03_29.md b/journal/2022_03_29.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2f9abb74d --- /dev/null +++ b/journal/2022_03_29.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +- [[write]] + - [[yoga with x]] as a [[short story]] + - a project plan that worked? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/risk.md b/risk.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8cf1aa4d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/risk.md @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +- #pull [[existential risk]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/risks.md b/risks.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4413e016b --- /dev/null +++ b/risks.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +- My [[plan]] sometimes amounts to trying to [[change the world]] by believing it can be changed, even in the face of contradictory evidence. + - What's the worst that could happen? + - My dreams could crash down on me, of course -- which they will, which they do. +- a [[list]]. + - #pull [[risk]] \ No newline at end of file