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The inventor shop
> It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being…
Nov 4
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September 2023
Creativity and the problem of the improbable
> The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any…
Sep 19
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Attention as a thing which leaps
> … chickens, twenty, a hundred apples, if you can find nice ones, a hundred or two hundred eggs, if they are for sale there at a fair price … 8…
Sep 5
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The hand in human history
> For according to that which is present to them doth thought increase in men.
Sep 1
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August 2023
Compression and prediction as finite and infinite games
> Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work.
Aug 27
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The golem
Aptly my earliest experience of a story coming to life, exerting its own will.
Aug 21
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Let me make you beautiful, granny!
This inspired by odd thoughts upon reading a line in Dream of the Red Chamber.
Aug 5
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July 2023
History is too large for men
Time was once a personal relationship with eternity, now tends instead entail a mathematical dominion over the individual.
Jul 29
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Birth and behaviour in the sacred beetle
> Hail to thee, O Khepri, who came into existence by himself.
Jul 20
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Bureaucratic intelligence and the zone of proximal development
> What resides in the machines is human reality, human gesture fixed and crystallised into working structures.
Jul 14
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June 2023
Preliminary remarks on desire and obedience
> Perhaps there was one who thought it fitting enough that the wish was no longer vivid, that the barb of pain was dulled, but such a man is no knight.
Jun 27
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Alone over the ocean, I saw it with a different eye
> A man’s at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.
Jun 17
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