Merge branch 'master' of github.com:flancian/garden

V(λ).md

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+- a [[person]].
+	- [[friend]]
+	- https://twitter.com/weirdrubikscube
+	- there's another entry about them in the Agora, but I've forgotten where that is.

beagle.md

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+- a [[ship]].
+	- [[charles darwin]]

capra course.md

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 	- [[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]]
+				- based his theory on two core ideas:
 					- [[chance variation]] -> [[random mutation]]
 					- [[natural selection]]
-	- [[lecture 5]]
+				- 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)

journal/2022_03_27.md

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 - [[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
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 		- #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]] (!)
+- [[risks]]

journal/2022_03_28.md

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+- [[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)]]

journal/2022_03_29.md

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+- [[write]]
+	- [[yoga with x]] as a [[short story]]
+		- a project plan that worked?

risk.md

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+- #pull [[existential risk]]

risks.md

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+- 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]]