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Further reflections on mathematics
> If the thing in question be created, the definition must (as we have said) comprehend the proximate cause.
Mar 30
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The music of my neighbour Sam
> When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.
Mar 26
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February 2024
On the origins of mathematics
> They seem rather to form a second plane or level of reality, which confronts us just as objectively and independently of our thinking as nature.
Feb 1
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December 2023
Monkey business
An article from my time in Maharashtra last year
Dec 28, 2023
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Child
> Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper…
Dec 11, 2023
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November 2023
The inventor shop
> It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being…
Nov 4, 2023
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September 2023
Creativity and the problem of the improbable
> The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any…
Sep 19, 2023
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Attention as a thing which leaps
> … chickens, twenty, a hundred apples, if you can find nice ones, a hundred or two hundred eggs, if they are for sale there at a fair price … 8…
Sep 5, 2023
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The hand in human history
> For according to that which is present to them doth thought increase in men.
Sep 1, 2023
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August 2023
Compression and prediction as finite and infinite games
> Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work.
Aug 27, 2023
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The golem
Aptly my earliest experience of a story coming to life, exerting its own will.
Aug 21, 2023
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Let me make you beautiful, granny!
This inspired by odd thoughts upon reading a line in Dream of the Red Chamber.
Aug 5, 2023
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