Jazz Maia and Steve Keen on Hope, ... Sara Imari Walker on Life

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I was going to post a comment to the effect that the stock markets are basically all just one giant fraud, ... See Michael Hudson Interviewed by Glenn Diesen.

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Now I think we desperately need a decent communications system! See Ian Clarke on Freenet.

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48:03 The search worked! See I Asked Google A Personal Question, ... 

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58:22 I like hearing people talking about perfect circles. My favourite perfect circles are the ones which are curves where the perpendiculars to the tangents all intersect exactly one straight line. Other people may prefer other kinds of perfect circle, that's OK. I might be talking nonsense though. 

1:04:20 Language as a physical causal structure?! How about perfect circles as a physical causal structure then? I think language is abstract, and arises in language, just like perfect circles do. Language doesn't need any particular physical substrate any more than perfect circles do. And this shows why I don't understand the idea that "information is physical", because information is represented in many different ways, and some of those are misrepresentations, and others are misinterpreted, just as the ideas of molecules are misinterpreted in some complex contexts. I prefer the idea of data as being represented by information, but the information is always interpreted by some subject. Then maybe we can say that something is physical just when it can bear, as a substrate, the representation of some information. I remember as a kid hearing all these really fancy words like "adjective", "verb", "adverb", "pronoun" and "article" and thinking "so these words were just invented to describe English!" I wasn't very impressed. What did impress me though was seeing a grammar in Backus-Naur form, describing itself. Then the terms that it used were still a sort of English, but it was clear they could be anything at all and this language would still be describing itself. So what I was looking at was the essence of abstraction. 

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