[FRIAM] Radical Empiricism

[Steve Smith]

On 6/5/23 12:24 PM, glen wrote:
> 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*. 
The "problem with having an open mind is that just about anyone can pour 
just about anything into it" ?
> 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.

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?

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...

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 /Le 
Cyberiad/?"



    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.


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