Excellent paper here about addiction and meaning It forms the link between meaning and addictive bahaviours. This model of addiction links Friston’s predictive processing (i.e. the brain’s function to avoid uncertainty or surprise) by choosing…
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Entropy and creativity
My understandings of entropy and creativity so far. Something starts of as ordered, low entropy, meaning that it is a predictable ‘structure’ but very little potential. As the entropy increases, complexity is able to emerge…
Facing Entropy
The ultimate creativity machine would create everything. Its purpose: “create everything”. And that must be the universe And within that universe … An ocean, low tide. A long flat dry sandy beach, children running around.…
The Human Purpose
“The human purpose, if such a thing can be considered, is to pursue meaning – to extend the domain of light, of consciousness – despite limitation. A meaningful event exists on the boundary between order…
A conversation about ‘First Values and First Principles’
This conversation was prompted by the book “First Values and First Principles” by David Temple. It was recorded in the patio. Transcript So let’s go back to first principles and first values of cosmo-erotic humanism!…
Oregon Experiment – Book review
I was pleased that the third book in Christopher Alexander’s series centres upon Cambridge as an example of the ‘Timeless Way of Building’. I live in Cambridge and perhaps there is no coincidence that a…
Scaling Creativity and Wisdom
This is the first draft of our interpretation of how one can scale wisdom, knowledge-seeking, creativity and beauty at various levels In our own experience, even as a triad, nothing really moved until we had…
Writing Values
As we continued talking long into the night, we began to reflect on the process of how we wrote the values and ultimately what they meant for us. Whilst we were still following an urge,…
How to find values
We sat down together to explore how we went from initial urge to formalising the values and why we needed values. Full video recording Audio download Transcript M: So we’re here to talk about our…
The Princess’s Kiss & The Female Hero’s Journey
If it’s true what the cognitive neuroscientists say that story and myths inform you about what to do when you don’t know what to do, then stories are fundamental to decision-making under uncertainty, and that…