Friday Thinking, is a playful reflection of the week's pondering moments.
It is dedicated to illuminating that the next tomorrow won't be like today's yesterday.
Was watching a Grand Boxing in the WWE-MMA spectacle tradition taking place Saudi Arabia. A big-oil spectacle. And yet i think i smelled or caught a whiff of a sort-of 'Fin de Siècle' atmosphere. Fin de Oil-Siècle - just a few pixels of. And there was something grotesque about this spectacle - past-peak slavishness.
During another time I pondered - about a point-of-view perspective that is enacted by every part of a living system. Everything alive, every living system - Eats and Shits - something.
That is how the energy to 'run the system' is harnessed. The self-running system is the measure of the system to be alive. Despite that, being alive, changes the conditions of being alive next - moment. Life is an energy harnessing system.
The question is: Does this produce more or less energy? Because while energy may balance within some unknowable ultimate boundary that is the whole. But that doesn't work as a construct because it enacts a distraction from a desperate fear that must avoid the possibility of infinity.
A calculate-able logic starts at the place where there has to be some boundary-bounded space. Whether in the direction of that goes all the way up-down. But I think such enactmeants are unknow-able, because of eternal sensitivity to initial conditions - butterfly-turbulence.
but that doesn't work -
because it avoids -
the possibility of infinity -
compelling some boundary -
at spectrum scales -
future enact-meants -
are unknow-able -
because of afford-dances -
in eternal sensitivity to -
butterfly-turbulence -
initial conditions -
And I wanted to get back to the economics of metabolism. That every living thing eats and shits. It metabolizes what it eats to harness the energy released by its own livingness. Does the living system simply rent? Or does it create? The energy released and dissipated throughout what is an entangled living-in-environment-system.
So what can it mean when energy reservoirs are empty ?
And a prime Axiom is that energy is neither created or destroyed. And another prime Axiom that matter is energy - M=E
So the only trick is how to rent-surf-shape the dissipation of the energy through living matter.
Re-minded that my thinking of eating and shitting actually paraphrased one of my favorite thoughts:
The key idea in evolution is survival; yet living organisms, by definition, are dying all the time; they live by dying, which is metabolism.
Biological "survival" is a grand, breathtaking, and accurate metaphor, but only a metaphor. Nothing of a gene is surviving in material reality when it reproduces; what "survives" is a piece of abstract information, the sequence {pattern] of nucleotides on the DNA chain [none of the same atoms or molecules]. My liver dies and resurrects itself every few days. It is no more "surviving" than a flame.
A billion-year-old chunk of granite would, if it could, laugh at the lunatic claims of an organism to be "surviving" by hatching eggs, or by eating and excreting. …Yet... there is as much limestone, built from the corpses of living organisms, as there is granite.
A mere phantom – a pattern of information – can move mountains.
And if so abstract, so spiritual a thing as that pattern can masterfully determine the structure of large chunks of matter and the whole surface of our planet, why should not the even more abstract and metaphysical entities of goodness, freedom, spirit, soul, divinity and beauty? And has not the success of the epic-composing societies borne out this strange fact in the realm of human history?
Frederick Turner - Epic: Form, Content, and History
Every living system eats and shits- metabolizing what enables the shaping constraints that dissipate a flow of energy for its self-reproductive survival of its own living.
This of course changes the environment the living system is entangles within and by. This asks for a spectrum of membrains rather hard boundaries of private property.
When energy reservoirs are empty? Living systems are search engines to seek out new 'know how' about niches that can be energy farmed. And if we believe that energy is neither created or destroyed, that matter is energy - does that mean matter too will evaporate?
Can the only trick be to re-cognize that matter and energy will all-ways be abundant and to be alive is a 'grey'-matter (puns afforded) of Know-How - for metabolizing more ways to metabolize a wider diversities of afford-able matter-energy transformations. Or simply new forms of eating and shitting.
I check my spam folder regularly. I like to keep it empty. This evening I deleted two tweets about 'defense gutters'. And I re-cognize two things:
- I've been getting this type of spam regularly and
- the information mil-bloggers use to identify events-places
Linking those two things and re-calling how, this winter, as a home owner I've noticed-worried about the ice-dams over some of my roof eaves. I've been comparing other homes to see if this is normal.
The re-cognition? That advertisers are linking real-time satellite data on local conditions of identifiable internet user home addresses. Has anyone with an address Not had something shipped to them.
Of course - how can I possibly be surprised. What I think the real question is why aren't we able to know how to use this data for our collective well being. How can we ensure this Common Wealth of ours enables a more robust and useful public infrastructure.
I made a #micropoem about what I literally heard a mainstream news broadcaster say: "Things went left the went wrong". And immediately my George Lakoff alarm went off.
things went left -
they went wrong -
the news got it -
right -
this is what -
i think i -
herd -
Maybe it was only me - but i sense a micro-muscle twitch of cognitive dissonance has the broadcaster heard his own words.
On Jimmy Kimmel the other night, he had a person-in-the-street interview bit. Asking what the last book a person had read. The bit ended in a brilliant comic-jazz.
When asked, the person said that the last book he read was: "The History". Probed again he described it about "the community, the world" and when as who wrote it the person said, "America".
Amazing and I wrote this #micropoem
wow -
the history -
the community -
the world -
by America
sort-of -
brutal honest -
reflex-admission of -
America's -
orientation -
framework -
I am going to end this drift of Friday Thinking with a channeling of one of my many beautiful intellectual heroes. The inspiration are the new horizons being revealed through the play with generative afford-dancing of 'stochastic parots and automated statistics' (Bruce Sterling phrase for AI).
if McLuhan -
were writing today -
he would call -
his mcluhanisms -
prompts -
fore -
collective-intelligence -
mhm
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