Free Will vs. Predetermination
Leaving aside the religious angles on predetermination and being grossly simplistic on an overdone topic, it comes down to these:
If we have free will, then actual randomness must exist in the universe.
If we do not have free will, then everything is predetermined.
If everything is predetermined, then time is tenseless. (past, present, future are all fully formed and time's passage is an "illusion")
If everything is not predetermined, then time's passage takes on the form of the present and multiple futures are possible.
If time is tenseless, then there is no such thing as free will.
If time is tenseless, then there is a possibility of a unifying theory of everything.
My telos is a techne to support facts.
Godel claims proof that there are no closed systems.
All basic math and physics depend on equations based on ideal circumstances. They also use maths solved in 2 and 3 dimensions, which are not factual physical objects, and therefore can only ever be considered models of reality and never theories of reality.
Non-linear dynamics approaches fractional dimensions and is the only math trying to describe actual reality, its prince is the fractal.
If the fractal represents physical reality, evidence is pointing toward free will.
make leaps with me, it's fun.
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Friday, April 17, 2015
Monday, April 13, 2015
linocut Gano
People are perturbations.
Some of them are especially perturbing. Robert Gano is this poet. His poems are simple and dramatically cadenced: jackhammer, quicksand, catapult. They deconstruct meaning, turning ideas into objects both as an absurd commentary on an entitled generation and as a Buddhist meditation on assigned values. One senses that the message of his work reveals more about the reader than Gano himself, yet the poems are vulnerable and embarrassingly human.
His work does to context what ee's did to syntax.
Robert is featuring at Blue Monday poetry open mic tonight. You should be there.
[[ 4/13, 8 pm Arts Bar 3611 Broadway 64111 ... no cover]]
In the meantime, Robert is a constant inspiration to my art and companion to my braining. I made this linocut from a self-portrait photograph of/by Robert and combined it with an enjambed word.
dis-
appointment
This was the first enjambment which unlocked some of the deep coding I find in Gano's writing. Think of appointment, only. It implies that there exists a person to do the appointing, as well as the appointed thing. Then the action of dis-appointing a thing can be positive, the thing can cease being a concern. The enjambment also suggests that when you classically disappoint someone, it is a loss of status ... you lose the appointment.
anywhy, here is the thing, I did a run of 14.
Some of them are especially perturbing. Robert Gano is this poet. His poems are simple and dramatically cadenced: jackhammer, quicksand, catapult. They deconstruct meaning, turning ideas into objects both as an absurd commentary on an entitled generation and as a Buddhist meditation on assigned values. One senses that the message of his work reveals more about the reader than Gano himself, yet the poems are vulnerable and embarrassingly human.
His work does to context what ee's did to syntax.
Robert is featuring at Blue Monday poetry open mic tonight. You should be there.
[[ 4/13, 8 pm Arts Bar 3611 Broadway 64111 ... no cover]]
In the meantime, Robert is a constant inspiration to my art and companion to my braining. I made this linocut from a self-portrait photograph of/by Robert and combined it with an enjambed word.
dis-
appointment
This was the first enjambment which unlocked some of the deep coding I find in Gano's writing. Think of appointment, only. It implies that there exists a person to do the appointing, as well as the appointed thing. Then the action of dis-appointing a thing can be positive, the thing can cease being a concern. The enjambment also suggests that when you classically disappoint someone, it is a loss of status ... you lose the appointment.
anywhy, here is the thing, I did a run of 14.
the retired linoblock
my deeply cut finger, derp.
photos are fun
#philosophy #art #woodblock #gano #thatsreal #poetry #poem #metaperturbation
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