Design without a Designer
Our very, complex economic system has a design without a designer.
Author: Robert Hamill
4 and 20 Years to Go
I always liked Stephen Stills song, "4 and 20 Years Ago." Now I have, maybe, 4 and 20 years before I go.
Gerrymandering Thwarts Majority Rule
The majority of PA votes were cast for Democratic candidates but gerrymandering lead to Republicans winning 13 seats with Democrats garnering but 5 seats!
Two Methods of Thinking
Pattern-matching, like analogy, where we treat partial matches like exact fits. It's possible to make errors. It's possible to jump to a good answer without…
Language and Pattern-Matching
Words are the names of the situations and patterns we experience
Active Completion of Internal Worldview
Each of us only receives a slice of the entire reality at any particular minute, but our internal world sees it as complete. How?
The Lonely Sentinel at Old Dorsey Church
“Leave the GPS in the SUV,” I say to my grandson. We stroll down the old road, abandoned two score years. Since the floods of…