 (posted from Montreal)
As many of you
know, I have recently become enamoured of complexity theory, and this
has caused me to re-think many of the ideas presented here on How to Save the World. I am blogging today from Montreal, where I have been attending the First Annual Global Colloquium
on Complexity and Chaos. The event has catalyzed or emerged some new
conceptions about the nature of communications, and specifically
blogging, and I have decided, starting tomorrow, to incorporate these
thoughts into this online journal. So get ready for some big changes
here. Beginning tomorrow:
- The red, blue, and green system charts and process charts
you have become accustomed to on this blog will be discontinued. In
their place you will see graphics such as the one above. The lack of
borders on these charts indicates the omnipresence of intellectual
miasma, and the lack of connections on these charts represents
universal uncertainty. All that we can presume to know is that ideas
and conceptions have the apparent quality of co-existence and that
understanding of their relationship will, with time and contemplative
study, gradually emerge.
- No arrows will appear in any graphics from now on. Such
presumptions of causality are, at best, oversimplifications and, at
worst, dangerous misinformation.
- The words question, answer, problem and solution will be
scrubbed from posts on this blog. In our world, as a complex system,
these concepts are meaningless. There are no answers or solutions, just
learnings about ideation, being and nothingness, consciousness and
unconsciousness.
- You will no longer read the words 'how' or 'why' on this blog. In the absence of causality on the edge of chaos such terms are
pretentious. Effective tomorrow the name of this weblog will be Convergence Bridge.
- The categories feature of this weblog will be discontinued.
Since everything is related and the true relationship between the
conceptions discussed uncertain, it no longer 'makes sense' to have
artificial categories. And instead of arguing, as I have in past, in
favour of personal taxonomies and ontologies, I will argue, in the
first article tomorrow, that there are no taxonomies or ontologies, and
that such arbitrary categorizations are fraudulent.
- I will also eschew the use of the question mark in all
posts, since questions imply the existence with reasonable certainty of
answers. Instead, I will begin using the 'degree' symbol (º), the
circle representing the endless pursuit of perfect understanding at
points in my discourse where a 'pause' for considered thought is called
for. Likewise, periods, with their naive implication of order and
finality, will be replaced by commas, the perfect symbol of
tentativeness and uncertainty,
- And finally, the absurd words 'know', 'knowledge' and
'information' will no longer appear in my posts. Again, a symbol, the
colon, with its gentle suggestion of possible relationship, will be
used in place of such anachronisms,º
It is my sincere belief that these changes will allow a higher level of
intellectual discourse on these pages: I look forward to our continued
journey together:º |
MADE IN CANADA
trust your
instincts 
