The idea of a machine proving theorems in logic, and the idea of using logic to understand what a machine was doing … this double relationship began to inspire me because it was clearly not very simple. The relationship wasn't just an inverse relationship “I bite you and you bite me”: the computer says: “I will automate your logic” and the logic says “I will tell you what your programs mean”. These are two different relationships. [from http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/mfb21/interviews/milner/]
This statement is false 1-step strange-loop, Godel's self-reference > incompleteness theorem
An opportunistic research program investigating the messianic amplification of p & ¬ p.
On the Use of the Dead to the Living, and the Living to the Dead; dialogues of the dead, dialogues with the dead.
Bentham's Auto-Icon - the utility to be derived from auto-icons, and the promotion of the idea of ‘auto-iconism’ as an economic and efficacious substitute for traditional funeral arrangements and rituals see http://www.utilitarian.net/bentham/about/2002----.htm
http://philosopedia.org/images/a/a1/Bentham3.jpg
and ‘Auto-Icon purgatory’ in which Auto-Icons were to stand, with their heads turned away from public view, those that were temporarily out of favour
exquisite.code
http://exquisite-code.com/ theory of fictions: the production of all that language whose terms do not refer to real entities into language whose terms do refer to real entities but “a fictitious entity is an object, the existence of which is feigned by the imagination, feigned for the purpose of discourse, and which, when so formed, is spoken of as a real one” (Bentham).
Quine on Bentham and language: Another striking trait of scientific philosophy [since the nineteenth century] has been an increasing concern with the nature of language. In responsible circles this has not been a retreat from more serious issues. It is an outcome of critical scruples that are traceable centuries back in the classical British empiricists Locke, Berkeley and Hume, and are clearer in Bentham. It has been appreciated increasingly in the past sixty years that our traditional introspective notions -our notions of meaning, idea, concept, essence, all undisciplined and undefined- afford a hopelessly flabby and unmanageable foundations for a theory of the world. Control is gained by focusing on words, on how they are learned and used, and how they are related to things Quine, W.V. Theories and Things. Cambridge, Mass and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 1981 p. 192.
phenomena
a] microwave > ear [expands briefly as a click], transit clicks [military] > transmit numbers 1-10
b] Colin Key > meteors > glasses or afro hair as transducer
c] Voice of God > 2 red lasers interference ionise air > modulate to transmit sound to make talking fireball
d] Dr Neil Davison http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=317796
Medium
magnetite and magnetic tape (coomber 5 outputs)
Kiruna
Possible Venue - Museum http://www.hjalmarsgard.se/ [requested from dan@hjalmarsgard.se images of Ön before and/or during its disappearance in the 60's]
Swedish Institute of Space Physics http://www.irf.se/ http://www.irf.se/Mars2006/
The objective of the meeting is twofold. The first is to review the modern views on the Mars - solar wind interaction and its impact on the Martian atmosphere. The second is to bring together teams working with the data from plasma instruments operational now at Mars, i.e., the particle and field sensors aboard MGS and MEX.
http://www.irf.se/Offices/Kiruna/?chosen=office_kiruna
Swedish Space Corporation - 45 miles north of the town is Esrange, Europe's only civilian rocket base http://www.ssc.se/?id=5997
http://www.strangeharvest.com/mt/archive/the_harvest/kiruna_the_town.php
http://www.lewism.org/2006/11/24/kiruna/ Tectonic Notebook
http://www.timabrahams.net/article.php?uid=64
CLUI in Kiruna http://www.clui.org/lotl/v32/h.html
“professors Ingo Vetter and Florian Zeyfang of Umeå Univeristy brought a group art students to take part in a series of public forums to conceptualize the future of Kiruna. CLUI chief anomalist Erik Knutzen and artist Åsa Sonjasdotter came along to help frame the discussion.”
Swedenborg (underlig - strange, 'the unaccountable one')
http://www.e-swedenborg.com/tp/books/tremulation/chpt1.html
http://www.thenewphilosophyonline.org/journal/data/107a/Swedenborg_Reviewers--New_Philosophy_January-June_2004.pdf contemporary reviews of Sw. scientific work incl. Opera Philosophica et Mineralia, 1734
lithopuncture? http://www.ljudmila.org/pogacnik/Stran2.html
