Jade

• JadeAug 20, 2012, 3:01 PM

  2 points

  on: Nat­u­ral Laws Are De­scrip­tions, not Rules

  One reason for privileging the laws of physics is revealed to be the product of a confused metaphysical picture.

  I have a fix for others’ “confused metaphysical pictures.” It’s another (moving) picture: an updated, more complex, dynamic version of Powers of Ten (that includes info that came out of different humans and at least one non-human animal and a computer—to convey perspectivism). But it’s in my head and I don’t have the skills to express it through multimedia production & distribution. Help?

• JadeJul 25, 2011, 10:07 PM

  5 points

  in reply to: Armok_GoB’s comment on: The limits of introspection

  When asked for favorites or ‘what do you like to do for fun,’ I offer recommendations (for myself and/​or the questioner). Or, to help the questioner generate recommendations, I give recent likes, potential likes, and/​or liked/​disliked characteristics. This way, we have ideas of what to do in the future and don’t get stuck on past interests or activities that have become boring. The NY Times website also uses the word “recommend,” instead of “like,” on its Facebook-share button. [If you didn’t know this already: information about your preferences may be used by another’s (esp. a stranger’s) brain to calibrate how much to associate with or help you; see for example “Musical Taste and Ingroup Favouritism:” http://​​gpi.sagepub.com/​​content/​​12/​​3/​​319.abstract.]

  “Why did you do that?” --> “Multiple factors...”

  “What will you do” or “What should you do?”--> “Depends...”

• JadeMar 28, 2011, 9:50 PM

  0 points

  in reply to: Emile’s comment on: In Praise of Boredom

  Another way to get one category instead of two… Think of boredom as a signal of not incorporating new, useful physical info. Breathing and thinking (usefully) are not boring because those processes facilitate the body’s exploitation or incorporation of physical info. In other words, boredom arises from a lack of novelty on the level of physics, though the process of breathing may seem repetitive or non-novel on the level of biomechanics.