Great Dinner Conversation
The Twilight of the Scientific Age
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1305.4144v1.pdf
This brief article presents the introduction and draft of the fundamental ideas developed at length in the book of the same title, which gives a challenging point of view about science and its history/philosophy/sociology. Science is in decline. After centuries of great achievements, the exhaustion of new forms and fatigue have reached our culture in all of its manifestations including the pure sciences. Our society is saturated with knowledge which does not offer people any sense in their lives. There is a loss of ideals in the search for great truths and a shift towards an anodyne specialized industry.
arXiv:1305.4144
Ray Bradbury On Process
Given that patt…
Given that patterns are a construct of the human mind and human sense of aesthetics, It would seem to me that in a sense all patterns can be seen as patterns that aren’t there. By the same token, though, the only measure of a pattern’s actual validity is therefore in its elegance or its utility.
Alan Moore
Caldera
Caldera (2012) from Evan Viera on Vimeo.
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Butterfly Girl
