Tag Archives: Communication

“What we’ve got here is (a) failure to communicate” • 4

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Excerpt from Sigmund Freud, “Project for a Scientific Psychology” (1895) The Experience of Satisfaction The filling of the nuclear neurones in Ψ has as its consequence an effort to discharge, an impetus which is released along motor pathways. Experience shows … Continue reading →

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“What we’ve got here is (a) failure to communicate” • 3

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Communication, as you may have guessed, is one of those areas where I more often mis- than hit, so I always have lots of chances to reflect on the trials of communication, its ways and waylays. Communication works if the … Continue reading →

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“What we’ve got here is (a) failure to communicate” • 2

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

There are areas of human concern and conduct where I have a lot of personal experience but very little positive knowledge — my experiences are rich in disappointment, failure, frustration, very spare in success.  What knowledge I gain is the … Continue reading →

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“What we’ve got here is (a) failure to communicate” • 1

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

A figure rises, in bas relief, as the ground slips away …

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Where Is Fancy Bred?

Posted on August 24, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Artem Kaznatcheev • Fitness Landscapes as Mental & Mathematical Models of Evolution The question of “mental models” has occupied my thoughts for quite a while. As intelligent agents with a capacity for inquiry, we have ways of forming and … Continue reading →

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Moneytheism

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Cathy O’Neil • Profit as Proxy for Value There is a deep and pervasive analogy between systems of commerce and systems of communication, turning on their near-universal use of symbola (images, media, proxies, signs, symbols, tokens, etc.) to stand … Continue reading →

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Meno Meno Tekel Upharsin

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Theodora Goss Can we ever become what we weren’t in eternity? Can we ever learn what we weren’t born knowing? Can we ever share what we never had in common? Lately I’ve begun to see that these ancient riddles … Continue reading →

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Oracles

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Computing, in its way, and science, in its broader way, both involve the relation between what appears limited and what appears not. Whether you believe in divinity or not, and whether you believe that humanity contains a spark of divinity … Continue reading →

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