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| The Paradox of Empty Centers. The most powerful systems organize around absence: The wheel turns around emptiness Languages pivot on undefined terms Communities cohere around unanswerable questions NoOrg's strength lies in what we refuse to define. Like the eye of a hurricane that organizes the storm while remaining perfectly still, our undefined center generates order at the periphery. We cultivate productive ambiguity. GitHub. Active Inference Institute. NoOrg. #1297  |
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| Joscha Bach: I find that in contrast to the god of meaning, the unmoved god of movement may be an ontological necessity. ... Consciousness is intrinsically a process, spanning more than one state. To notice that we are conscious, we must be able to access patterns of information that we may interpret as past world states, along with other patterns that we may interpret as different past world states, and in comparing them to experience that a progression of states takes place. A progression of states requires a principle that allows for transition from one state to the next. This is reflected in our definitions of computation, which are based on states that are ordered by a transition function. In other words, the universe does not manifest itself as a giant pattern of bits, but as a succession of patterns, which means that something must progress from one pattern to the next. Some function, outside of the context of the state of the universe, must push the tensor network we tentatively call reality from one moment to the next. The computations of the universe can in principle not be self-contained. If the universe contains mechanisms that allow it to compute, then something must act as its computational substrate that moves the computations of the universe along. There is of course nothing we can say about this computational substrate, except that it realizes a transition function capable of moving the universe from one state to the next. Joscha Bach. Four Gods. #1591 |
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul. Wikipedia: The Over-Soul #740 |
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| Madan states that the Garuda Purana elaborates the repeatedly found theme in Hindu religious thought that the living body is a microcosm of the universe, governed by the same laws and made out of the same substances. All the gods are inside the human body; what is outside the body is present within it as well. Body and cosmos, states Madan, are equated in this theme. Vishnu is presented by the text as the supreme soul within the body Wikipedia: Garuda Purana #1513 |
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| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/al-kindi/ #751 |
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| Aristotle: It is clear then that there is neither place, nor void, nor time, outside the heaven. Hence whatever is there, is of such a nature as not to occupy any place, nor does time age it; nor is there any change in any of the things which lie beyond the outermost motion; they continue through their entire duration unalterable and unmodified, living the best and most self sufficient of lives… From [the fulfilment of the whole heaven] derive the being and life which other things, some more or less articulately but other feebly, enjoy. — Aristotle, On the Heavens, I.9, 279 a17–30 #1590 |
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| taiji (Chinese: 太極; pinyin: tàijí; Wade–Giles: tʻai chi; trans. "supreme ultimate") is a cosmological state of the universe and its affairs on all levels—including the mutually reinforcing interactions between the two opposing forces of yin and yang (a dualistic monism), as well as that among the Three Treasures, the four cardinal directions, and the Five Elements - which together ultimately bring about the myriad things, each with their own nature. Wikipedia: Taiji (philosophy) #1328 |
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| Wújí 無極 (without axis) the formless, dimensionless, limitless, unbounded, infinite void. Wikipedia: Bagua #1239 |
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there was the void. We can call it one or we can call it nothing -- it had no qualities whatsoever, not even the one described by this sentence Then the void became aware of its nothingness. And now there were two things: void, and awareness of void. Then the void became aware that it was aware, and that it had rent itself by its awareness. And so there were four things: void, awareness of void, awareness of awareness of void, and an image of void as it had been before the advent of awareness. Ben Goertzel. The Journey of the Void. #1224 |
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| Margaret Thatcher Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. #1063 |
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| Black Knight Wikipedia: Black Knight (Monty Python) #640 |
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| Aristotle unmoved mover Wikipedia: Unmoved mover #503 |
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