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+ | When our animal senses are all awake, our skin rippling with sensations as we palpate the surroundings with ears and eyes and flaring nostrils, it sometimes happens that our body becomes part of the larger Body of the land—that our sensate flesh is taken up within the wider Flesh of the breathing Earth—and so we begin to glimpse events unfolding at other locations within the broad Body of the land. | ||
+ | The smartphone replicates something of this old, ancestral experience of earthly acumen that has long been central to our species: the sense of being situated over Here, while knowing what’s going on over There. | ||
- | **symmetry breaking** (algorithmic technique) | + | Perhaps it is easier to understand, now, why we’re so enthralled by our digital technologies, |
- | Definition: To differentiate parts of a structure, such as a graph, which locally look the same to all vertices. Usually implemented with randomization. | + | -David Abram |
- | Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, CRC Press LLC, 1999, " | + | </blockquote> |
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+ | Charisma makes us hesitate, wavering in its force field. What if charisma were actual? What would the emission of such an energy field imply? It would imply, for a start, that art isn't just decorative candy. It would imply what " | ||
- | **antichain** (definition) | + | Appearance and essence are like two different " |
- | Definition: A subset | + | What art gives us, argues Kant, is the feel of data, the data-ness of data, otherwise known as givennes (datum, Latin for what is given). This data-feel is, he argues, an attunement space, the one place in the whole universe where mesmerizing hesitation can happen—a very important mesmerising hesitation, because it underwrites |
+ | Attunement is the feeling of an object' | ||
- | Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, CRC Press LLC, 1999, " | + | -Tim Morton |
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+ | antichain (definition) A subset of mutually incomparable elements in a poset. | ||
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+ | Bloom filter (data structure) A data structure with a probabilistic algorithm to quickly test membership in a large set using multiple hash functions into a single array of bits. | ||
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+ | Simulated annealing (SA) is a probabilistic technique for approximating the global optimum of a given function. Specifically, | ||
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+ | The name and inspiration come from annealing in metallurgy, a technique involving heating and controlled cooling of a material to increase the size of its crystals and reduce their defects. Both are attributes of the material that depend on its thermodynamic free energy. Heating and cooling the material affects both the temperature and the thermodynamic free energy. The simulation of annealing can be used to find an approximation of a global minimum for a function with a large number of variables" | ||
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+ | Hydrological Cycle Algorithm (HCA) simulates nature’s hydrological water cycle. More specically, | ||
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+ | The field of meta-heuristic search algorithms has a long history of finding inspiration in natural systems. Starting from classics such as Genetic Algorithms and Ant Colony Optimization, | ||
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+ | So, image for a moment an object, a material, which can literally do anything. It can move across categorical boundaries with no difficulty whatsoever. So what do I mean? I mean that if you possess the philosopher' | ||
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+ | —Terence McKenna, Lectures on Alchemy | ||
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+ | When you cook bread from a recipe, you’re following an algorithm. When you knit a sweater from a pattern, you’re following an algorithm. When you put a sharp edge on a piece of flint by executing a precise sequence of strikes with the end of an antler—a key step in making fine stone tools—you’re following an algorithm. Algorithms have been a part of human technology ever since the Stone Age. | ||
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References | References | ||
+ | * Abram, David. Magic and the Machine | ||
* Amato, J. A. Dust: a history of the small and the invisible | * Amato, J. A. Dust: a history of the small and the invisible | ||
* Blohm, H., Beer, S. Suzuki, D. Pebbles to Computers: The Thread | * Blohm, H., Beer, S. Suzuki, D. Pebbles to Computers: The Thread | ||
* Caillois, R. [[https:// | * Caillois, R. [[https:// | ||
- | * Cohen, J.. Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman | + | * Cohen, J. Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman |
* Cohen, J. Stories of Stone | * Cohen, J. Stories of Stone | ||
- | * Calvino, I., & McLaughlin, M. L. Collection of sand: essays | + | * Calvino, I. & McLaughlin, M. L. Collection of sand: essays |
- | * Harris, P.A., Turner, R., Nocek, A.J. Rock Records, SubStance Volume 47, Number 2, 2018 (Issue 146) | + | * Emergence Magazine Issue No. 3: Technology https:// |
+ | * Harris, P.A. Turner, R., Nocek, A.J. Rock Records, SubStance Volume 47, Number 2, 2018 (Issue 146) | ||
* Jemisin, N.K. The Broken Earth Trilogy | * Jemisin, N.K. The Broken Earth Trilogy | ||
+ | * Morton, Tim. Attune | ||
* Ogden, J. G. The Kingdom of Dust | * Ogden, J. G. The Kingdom of Dust | ||
- | * Thacker, E.In the dust of this planet | + | * Thacker, E. In the dust of this planet |
+ | * NIST. Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures. https:// | ||
+ | * Sonic Acts. Living Earth | ||
+ | * Sonic Acts. The Geologic Imagination | ||
+ | * Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions | ||