In earlier posts, I described two approaches to living with respect to the historical record we leave behind. One approach I described as being like an employee of history who strives to identifying the acts with the most beneficial outcome to add to the historical record instead of the bucket of missed opportunities. …
In earlier posts (such as this here, here, or here) I played with some ideas about how to see my place in history with the overarching description of being an employee of history. To summarize: Science is divided into two areas: present-tense science focused on collecting observations and affecting events, and past-tense science that examines…
My last post was risible. There is more to the present than concern about what it will look like in the historical record. There is certainly more to intelligence than having that concern. We are as likely to laugh at history and with good reason. YouTube includes abundant examples of historical misfortunes uploaded…
One of my themes is the idea of being generous in acknowledging intelligence elsewhere. That generosity comes in the form of striving for a broader definition of intelligence than just saying it must be like us. Being like us means it has to have a brain-like organ that allows it to use its own…
In defining the word dark as a generalization in the use of dark matter and dark energy, I am working with the idea of dark data. Dark data is missing data that we don’t know anything about but we use some concept in its place. The concept is treated a single idea even though…
In earlier posts I talked about my views of the difficulty of maintaining super-majority consent to majority rule (people have to get along with each other), the misguided attention to standardized testing instead of personal acknowledgement of intelligence, and the admirable qualities of medieval scholars who took seriously the idea of history and their responsibility…
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