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An inspiration engine for ideas
Potentialities for growth, then, are available in all directions—toward what has never been thought and back to what must be rethought.
Perry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett • Curiosity and Networks of Possibility
While scientific progress, then, proceeds by curiously exploring adjacent possibilities, preference is given to work closely tied to existing science and conducted by a privileged subset of scientists.
Perry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett • Curiosity and Networks of Possibility
Collectivities of humans, moreover, take a myriad of shapes, from small groups to organizations and transnational corporations. This is not even to mention the curious possibilities pursued in and among the more-than-human world. The dynamics we are describing, then, are scalar in nature and have wide conceptual purchase accordingly.
Perry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett • Curiosity and Networks of Possibility
the loss of these small groups, in favor of nation-level organization of atomized individuals, has had serious consequences for human welfare and human agency. We are missing a layer of organization essential for our happiness.
Sarah Perry • Gardens Need Walls: On Boundaries, Ritual, and Beauty
Are Blockchains Decentralized? Unintended Centralities in Distributed Ledgers
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
resonantcomputing.orgBy altering the ingredients of the idea menu they are exposed to, we might, in turn, minimize the dangerous inputs to the processes of belief and network updating.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
Rosenblum and Travis (2015) argue that, despite the coexistence of both privilege and oppression within any one person, stigma is so pervasive and strong in our society that oppression can often trump privileges that one’s other statuses might offer. They point to health, housing, economic, hiring, and promotion disparities as evidence that
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