I have events queued, and then there’s my scheduler. It’d be fun to write science fiction where the so-called mental faculties were invented after computer science. We might say that’s how it was: the abacus came first. Somewhere anyway.
What comes first in locale A is sometimes very late to show up in B’s storyline. And that’s not saying B is deficient in some way. The existence of spatiotemporal permutations need not imply some moral gradient. Some ethnicities worry way too much about goodies vs baddies, when we’re just doing the math.
One of those as yet unscheduled events is my birthday (May 17), the celebratory lunch, which could be within a wide range of dates. Another event involves an art show opening, not my first rodeo on that score, and related to Wanderers.
I still hangout with various Wanderers and Thirsters, although not always during official meetups. Portland is still a “small town” in some respects, meaning our many networks are somewhat aware of one another, because they overlap. Somewhat. Small but not that small.
My film studies kick took me back into English lit for a spell, into William Blake in particular. Those studies have taken me to various YouTube channels, such as Esoterica by Dr. Justin Sledge.
No one calls Blake’s Albion saga a work of science fiction, but they could. He’s using myth, like we do in Martian Math, and psychology. Urizenites might complain it “lacks rigor” (don’t they always?).
I’m seeing Blake somewhat in the Romantic lineage, the conventional wisdom, but yes, he’s something of a singularity, more like a Tolkien or C.S. Lewis in how he engages in world creation, populating his vista with allegorical archetypes, or Egregores, the four Zoas, and their fallen forms and emanations. Definitely a namespace.
Not only does he write about these agentic players, he engraves them for our viewing pleasure. The guy was a multi-media genius, foreshadowing Tomorrowland’s animations.
Perplexity wasn’t that impressed when I tried to prompt up some ties twixt Blake and Bayes, as in Bayes’ Theorem.
In data science lore, we talk about the pushback the Bayesians got from the Frequentists. The latter complained of “subjectivism” which got me thinking about what I’d learned from Rorty, and from Kierkegaard himself, about Kierkegaard.
Another queued event: taking in a movie about discovering bees watching television (another allegory by the sound of it). I’ve been reading some of the buzz (it’s not new). After that, I’ve queued posting a review.
