The Circumpunct And The Saints John

The Circumpunct is bound by the parallel lines of the Saints John, with John the Baptist on the left symbolizing Judgement, and John the Evangelist on the right symbolizing Lovingkindness. That’s a direct parallel with the Pillar of Severity and the Pillar of Mercy on the Tree Of Life.

On Science, Demarcation, And The Necessity Of Maximally Fit Epistemic Systems

 

Axiom 1:  The metrics by which an epistemic system is to be judged, are its explanatory power and its ability to make testable, repeatable predictions that reliably allow reality to be influenced in conformity with will.

Duck And Cover: Dumbest Thing Ever (Right?)

Obviously, back in the 1950’s, people simply weren’t smart enough to realize that a flimsy desk wouldn’t protect you from the raw fury of a broken strong nuclear bond. Their Loony Tunes routine just highlights how laughably ignorant they were. Right?

Towards a Unified Theory of Perception, Cognition, Language, Reality and realities.

“Out of the stream of sensation, the mind carves objects in space and actions in time…” (Tversky, 2004)
“[The] truth is modeled as an object in the domain of a semantic model to which sentences are mapped by an interpretation function.” (Hinzen, 2003)
“A truth judgment as such has no correspondence to anything in ‘reality’.” (Hinzen, 2003)

Reality, with an R, is a sea of stimuli. The human mind is what gives us our ability to use tools, and it should come as no surprise that pattern recognition itself is one of the tools in our array. It should also come as no surprise that even when we see  meaningless patterns the mind restlessly strives to make them meaningful as simply as possible.