A mental exercise exploring the strange twists and turns of what we call reality. FACT-REALITY-FACT:   Almost all projects (public and private) proposed and conducted today are for legal and financial gains through the processes of doing the projects – NOT for accomplishing the project’s objectives. This is why projects to improve and maintain our infrastructure…

These occurred in Google+ Larry Victor  Jan 24, 2013 WOW, my emotions were swept back and forth throughout this video. While I was excited about their creativity I felt a cloud akin to Genetic Engineering sinking down on me.  Do we really want to add this deep and detailed layer of digital everywhere?  What might…

INTRO This is only one small, but significant, piece in a large puzzle. The full comprehension of this piece occurs only in the context of this nu, large puzzle; not by attempting to squeeze it to fit more traditional puzzles it strives to challenge. Distinguish knowing and comprehending. This essay is one of many attempts…

World Hypotheses is a 1942 book by Stephen Pepper.  It is highly recommended that you NOT read this very heavy and difficult book.  Gary Schwartz discovered Peter a while back and has been modifying his model for more modern application. This gathering of about 60 selected persons-of-interest was convened in Tucson to test the newest…

Musical compositions are patterns in time. Although a written score can be seen as a whole and a CD held in your hand – both are “static in time”, the music must unfurl as temporal texture to be experienced.  If “meaning” is to be gained from the music it comes from hearing it “over time”….

May I revel you in a story or two? Our tale bridges two distinct, but complementary realities, with a weave of metaphor and symbolism. Tangible and Abstract – labels flying around seeking a place to roost. Cell = basic component (unit/entity) of  life. once upon a time there were stories of worlds in transition.   …

Composing this doc has been a wild ride. It is in context with other equally wild docs – not yet posted. This probably should be in a well organized collection – but this is yet to come. I can’t continue to write more until I get some feedback.  I will copy/paste this from my outliner…

These queries may be presented to a gathering of about 60 persons on Jan 20, 2013 at Canyon Ranch in Tucson, AZ.  The gathering is to explore World Hypotheses in relationship to our sustainability challenge. These are not questions to be answered. They are queries to be explored after which a new pattern of activity…

There is truly AWESOME activity underway – but I feel it is all at the same level.  My metaphor are clouds at different altitudes.  The moisture rises and spreads at the appropriate climatic levels, filling the sky with intricate activity.  Later, beams pierces upward from the cloud and moisture rises to another, higher, level and…

An honest query: How much of this exciting looking discipline: ADAPTIVE AI3 do I need to comprehend and follow? Even with 2 PhDs under my belt, I recognize that this site would be like a freshman wandering into a final year graduate seminar. I can’t even get started from the home page. With fortitude, this…