All information is imperfect.
A commonplace book: an old-fashioned literary diary for recording interesting items from reading you've done. I use mine to record snippets from reading, conversation and life in general. (The early 2003 entries are from a period some years ago -- before the blog age -- when I tried an online commonplace book as a straight web page.)
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Monday, July 16, 2018
Saturday, October 08, 2016
Modern media ... have always been based on the reselling of human attention to advertisers.
Jacob Weisberg, The New York Review (October 27, 2016)
Jacob Weisberg, The New York Review (October 27, 2016)
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Consciousness was indeed real. It had observable energy. That energy translated into movement, into work. That energy ordered information, the stuff of the world, the matter, and recycled that order back into itself, lifting itself to ever higher ground.
Kathleen Ann Goonan, Light Music
Kathleen Ann Goonan, Light Music
Thursday, May 05, 2011
True ambivalence: not feeling unsure, but feeling opposing extremes of conviction at once....ambivalence holds more information than any single emotion.
Rivka Galchen, "Dream Machine" The New Yorker (May 2, 2011)
Rivka Galchen, "Dream Machine" The New Yorker (May 2, 2011)
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