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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/5/23 12:24 PM, glen wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:7fe362dc-48df-4721-e443-abd6cdf47e65@gmail.com">I try to
be careful about my allusions to "openness". I attribute (perhaps
wrongly) the openness of science to Critical Rationalism (Popper,
but better described by David Miller). Good (and bad) ideas can
come from *anywhere*. </blockquote>
The "problem with having an open mind is that just about anyone can
pour just about anything into it" ?<br>
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cite="mid:7fe362dc-48df-4721-e443-abd6cdf47e65@gmail.com">Even
those miracle people like FGJ Perey can come up with bad ideas. My
(false) dichotomy between nonsense and abductive triggers might be
problematic. But that's just a distraction. The real point is
about the interstitial spaces *between* models, not the models or
the ground they cover.</blockquote>
<p>I think this is what I was trying to gesture/allude to with the
"superposition" of models... they are intrinsically
"incompatible" else they would be all part of the same model or
"meta-model", no? But how to characterize these "implied
spaces"? I think we spoke offline of implied spaces and
spandrels recently?</p>
<p>A novelist/friend of mine (Walter Jon Williams) from ABQ wrote
his version of it 20 years ago? A lot of great ideas in there,
but no answers to the James/Husserl superposition I don't think...</p>
<p>Maybe H and J first have a "learning session" with NLP and in
fact convince one another of their complementary
spaces/viewpoints... a sort of "Gift of the Magi" updated for the
cybernetic era? Maybe I should ask GPT4 to "write a short story
on the theme of GoM using James and Husserl as the main characters
but in the style of Stanislaw Lem's <i>Le Cyberiad</i>?"<br>
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!important; float: none;">Aristide, a semi-retired computer
scientist turned swordsman, is a scholar of the implied
spaces, seeking meaning amid the accidents of architecture
in a universe where reality itself has been sculpted and
designed by superhuman machine intelligence. While exploring
the pre-technological world Midgarth, one of four dozen
pocket universes created within a series of vast, orbital
matrioshka computer arrays, Aristide uncovers a fiendish
plot threatening to set off a nightmare scenario, perhaps
even bringing about the ultimate Existential Crisis: the end
of civilization itself. Traveling the pocket universes with
his wormhole-edged sword Tecmesssa in hand and talking cat
Bitsy, avatar of the planet-sized computer Endora, at his
side, Aristide must find a way to save the multiverse from
subversion, sabotage, and certain destruction.</span></font></p>
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