or, “Why Isn’t There A Science of X?”
or, “Alchemy is to Chemistry as Astrology is to…?”
Relevant (/inciting) Facebook threads here (public-facing) and here (members-only group).
...
“If people don’t believe us after all the results we’ve produced, then they never will.”
“It’s time for a new era, for someone to figure out what the implications of our results are for human culture, for future study, and — if the findings are correct — what they say about our basic scientific attitude.”
– Robert G. Jahn
“We have been very open with our data. But how do you get peer review when you don’t have peers?”
– Brenda Dunne
“The culture of science, at its purest, is one of freedom in which any idea can be tested regardless of how far-fetched it might seem.”
– Benedict Carey, writing on the PEAR Lab for The New York Times
✨ OKAY, SO:
Unweaving The Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
by Richard Dawkins
https://bookshop.org/a/24290/9780618056736
Re: Our Lady of Fátima
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_F%C3%A1tima
FF 26 - Jessa Gamble (Circadian Rhythms & The Science of Sleep)
https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/26
Hybridizing Mechanism and MaxEnt: Ecological Theory for the AnthropoceneSFI Seminar by John Harte
Re: dissipative structures and evolution as an algorithm optimizing coverage of search-space
Re: Criticisms of The Bell Curve
(1995) https://www.brookings.edu/articles/does-the-bell-curve-ring-true-a-closer-look-at-a-grim-portrait-of-american-society/
(2017) https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/the-real-problem-with-charles-murray-and-the-bell-curve/
Re: science vs. myth; sacred texts across the developmental spectrum
CP 60 - Andrea Wulf on The Invention of Nature, Part 1: Humboldt's Naturegemälde
https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/60
CP 61 - Andrea Wulf on The Invention of Nature, Part 2: Humboldt's Dangerous Idea
https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/61
Re: Occam’s Razor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
CP 72 - Simon DeDeo on Good Explanations and Diseases of Epistemology
https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/72
Supertheories and Consilience from Alchemy to Electromagnetism
by Simon DeDeo
Re: The Royal Society’s platypus skepticism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/04/01/the-platypus-is-so-weird-that-scientists-thought-the-first-specimen-was-a-hoax/
Darwin’s Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and The Evolution of the Noosphere
by Richard Doyle
https://bookshop.org/a/24290/9780295990958
Technologists of Attention (2016 MG talk at The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors)
Re: the attention manifold, curvature, evolution, and manipulation of
(a 2.5 hour commentary on Darwin’s Pharmacy)
Aviv Bergman’s 2022 SFI Seminar on evolution, robustness, and metastasis
https://twitter.com/sfiscience/status/1524457532772790274
Ecology and economics for pandemic prevention
by Andrew Dobson et al.
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abc3189
On The Edge with Roland Harwood 35 - Michael Garfield on The Purpose of Polymaths
DanceSafe
https://dancesafe.org/
Re: The RAVE Act
https://www.aclu.org/other/dea-must-not-be-allowed-chill-speech-or-shut-down-electronic-music-events
RE: What is and is not computable
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP_(complexity)
FF 117 - Eric Wargo on Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious
https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/117
FF 171 - Eric Wargo on Precognitive Dreamwork and The Philosophy of Time Travel
https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/171
An association between geomagnetic activity and dream bizarreness
by Darren Lipnicki
https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0306987709001388
Do ambient electromagnetic fields affect behaviour? A demonstration of the relationship between geomagnetic storm activity and suicide
by Michael Berk, Seetal Dodd, Margaret Henry
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bem.20190what
Integral Ecology: Uniting Multiple Perspectives on The Natural World
by Sean Esbjörn-Hargens and Michael Zimmmerman
https://bookshop.org/a/24290/9781590307670
FF 60 - Sean Esbjörn-Hargens Goes Meta on Everything: Integral Ecology & Impact
https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/60
FF 150 - A Unifying Meta-Theory of UFOs & The Weird with Sean Esbjörn-Hargens
https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/150
W. Brian Arthur on Economics in Nouns & Verbs
https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/68
https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/69
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World
by Timothy Morton
https://bookshop.org/a/24290/9780816689231
The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/princeton-engineering-anomalies-research-pear
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/10/science/10princeton.html
On Doug Rushkoff and Chronobiology
https://justadandak.com/present-shock-matching-the-rhythms-of-the-moon/
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27083
CP 48 - Peter Dodds on Text-Based Timeline Analysis & New Instruments for The Science of Stories
https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/48-m2OkoDWG
Re: Zen and Great Doubt
https://www.dailyzen.com/journal/great-doubt
https://tricycle.org/magazine/great-faith-great-doubt-great-determination/
Recent Patron’s Only Writing: “The Future Is Noisy”
https://www.patreon.com/posts/65686933
Cover image ripped from Camille Flammarion, L’Atmosphère: Météorologie Populaire (Paris, 1888)
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