❧ arisbe, a guess at the riddle ❧
“There have recently been uncovered at Nineveh tablets four thousand years old, containing an account of the Babylonian cosmogony. In the first tablet are placed, side by side, the two primitive sources of creation, — Chaos and Ideality. They stand silent and immovable, — imperturbable meditation and inactive mass, — like the sphinx by the pyramid. There they might have remained eternally unproductive. But the tablet’s next record is the birth of Motion. Motion is the divine energy of creation; it signifies change and phenomena, and the genesis of the powers of evolution, with the controlling, planning, and warring gods. How this creative energy could itself have been born is of all mysteries the most incomprehensible. It is the inevitable impossibility inherent in any speculation which would develop everything out of nothing.” — Benjamin Peirce, Ideality in the Physical Sciences (1881)
Dilettante—Math, Peirce, Anomaly, Emergence, Poetry. — “𝔸𝕟𝕕 𝕀 𝕞𝕒𝕕𝕖 𝕒 𝕣𝕦𝕣𝕒𝕝 𝕡𝕖𝕟 || 𝔸𝕟𝕕 𝕀 𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕚𝕟’𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕔𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕣”
The Sphinx
❧ a guess at the riddle ❧
The Sphinx is an interdisciplinary publication focusing on philosophy, semiotics, emergence, and poetry. We also republish important articles, books and poems from intellectual history.
The 𝙽𝚎𝚡𝚞𝚜 𝑃𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑙
- a quick ride to the top 🚁
Mapping subject area contexts for newcomers: archive.org books, quotes, excerpts, diagrams, articles, photos, lectures, videos, and bibliographies. Additionally presents and explicates concept lattices and their property tables (formal context analysis).
Pursuing Anomaly
“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”
Pursuing Anomaly is an interdisciplinary publication focusing on the study of anomaly, relevant statistics, information theory, research methods for individual change (psychology), and also any associated philosophy & history.
Meaning, Reason & Peirce (The Sphinx)
What is meant by "a reason"? series
1. Psychology, Logic & Rhetoric
2. Reason & Scope, Context Integration, Synergy, & Chemical Analogies
3. Stability, Information, Error, Darwinism, & Cybernetics
4. Chance, Cause, Topology & Teleology in Reason
5. Logical, Statistical & Causal Inference
6. Metaphysics and Reason
On Meaning series
1. Meaning in Philosophy & Semiotics
2. Meaning, Emergence, Absence & Teleology
3. Meaning & Measurement
4. Mathematics and Meaning
5. Iconology, Traditional & Religious Symbolism
6. Information Theory, Coding Theory & Causal Emergence
7. The Development of Meaning
Charles Sanders Peirce series
1. Some Peircean Precursors
2. Peirce’s Categories and His Taxonomy of Signs
3. The 10, 28, and 66 Sign Classifications
4. “Degeneracy” and “Prescision” with a concordance
5. On a New List of Categories annotated
6. Pliny Earle Chase's Intellectual Symbolism
7. A Book Proposal for a Peircean Philosophy of History
8. Peirce’s Diagrammatic Logical Notation
9. The Logic of Information & Inquiry
10. Teridentity & Peirce’s Reduction Thesis
YouTube (Curation Channels)
arisbe, a guess at the riddle
Lecture Courses on UNIX, Web3, Math, Complex Systems Theory, Psychology, & Neuroscience, Western Culture, Meaning, Linguistics, Rhetoric, & Research
tuva or bust!
Lecture Courses on Natural Science, Engineering, HPC, Algorithms, Business, Social Science, Philosophy, Mythology, Religion, Mysticism, Big History
songs of innocence and of experience
Videos & Lectures on the performing arts: Music, Lyrics, Dance, Theatre (also Music Production)
Classical Language & Readings (curation)
==Organized collection of playlists having to do with classical languages and audiobook readings of such texts.
Tacit Knowledge (curation)
Lectures & Videos on what you can't easily learn reading.
Medicine (curation)
Curated playlists relating to the the medical profession and education.
(1) Medical Science; (2) Neurology, Psychiatry & Psychotherapy; (3) Pharmaceutical Sciences; (4) Diagnostic, Clinical, Pathology; (5) Internal Medicine; (6) Surgery; (7) Genetics, Molecular Bio, Genomics; (8) Technical Instrumentation; (9) Biomedical Engineering & Informatics; (10) Public Health, Health System, Insurance, Health Economics, Hospitals, etc
Nature, Natural History & Wildlife (curation)
Nature, Wildlife and Natural History documentaries.
Geography, Anthropology & History (curation)
Organized collection of playlists relating to cultural geography, anthropology & history.
Coding, I.T., Electronics (curation)
==Organized collection of playlists on coding, information technology, electronics, and computers. ==
Trades, Applied Tech, Vocational Ed (curation)
Infrastructure, Cities, Resources (curation)
Organized collection of playlists regarding infrastructure, cities, resources, etc.
Organized collection of playlists regarding the trades, applied technology and vocational education.
Applied Arts / Design (curation)
Organized collection of playlists regarding the applied arts and design.(1) YouTube Creator School; (2) Communication Design (Typography, Graphic Design, Data Visualization); (3) Information Architecture & Interaction (UI) Design; (4) Computer Graphics & Game Design; (5) Environmental Design (Architecture, Interior Design); (6) Industrial Design; (7) Film School; (8) Design Patterns, Theory, Foundations, Elements & Principles; (9) Crafts; (10) Intellectual Property Law
Self-Reliance (curation)
Organized collection of different playlists broadly related to the topic of self-reliance.
Video Essays & Documentary (curation)
Curation/aggregation of content from channels specializing in documentary, montage/supercuts, video poems, anime opening/closings, commentary, analysis, & critical video essays on classical and popular media (books, films, series, games) as well as commentary of a scientific or philosophical nature.
Conspiracy, Paranormal, Occult (curation)
Collection of playlists on conspiracy, the occult, and the paranormal along with the possibly relevant educational courses necessary for research into such subjects. I include most theories whether plausible or ridiculous.
❧ None of us know our end really, or what hand will guide us there. A king may move a man, a father may claim a son, but that man can also move himself, and only then does that man truly begin his own game.
Remember that howsoever you are played or by whom, your soul is in your keeping alone, even though those who presume to play you be kings or men of power.
When you stand before God, you cannot say, ‘But I was told by others to do thus,’ or that virtue was not convenient at the time. This will not suffice. Remember that. ❧
(King Baldwin IV., Kingdom of Heaven)
❧ “He who strives on and lives to strive Can earn redemption still” ❧ (Goethe. Faust II)
❧ “𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝒻𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑎” ❧ (Virgil)
In the course of our inquiry into Nature, inductive inference inevitably becomes redefined as consilience. Its conclusion, the fruit of an inquiry lifecycle becomes the germ of the mystery-feeling calling on the abductive inference of our higher-self.
The degree to which the whole fractal of inquiry reflects concrete reasonableness itself is the degree to which it reflects a valid conceptualization of induction itself, refining itself until it becomes inquiry itself, universal abduction of real induction.❧ ❧ ❧“...𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑛ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔.” —Benjamin Peirce❧ ❧ ❧In time the optimum economy of inquiry emerges. Of course different inquiries will have different profiles but a self-similar archetype of inquiry, a personality, will eventually manifest concretely.But does its emergence bring with it pathology or transcendence? Will it be the end of our wider quest, the inquiry of inquiry? It is a question that inevitably answers itself.The end of inquiry is not inquiry but a larger purpose--not a proposition, not a feeling, and not an argument but the embryonic and min-continuous soul of being. The embryonic form of inference (degenerate-generative inference) is analogy and the most embryonic of analogy is the analogy of proper proportionality.
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Latin. 𝚊𝚋 "away" + 𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚎𝚛𝚎 "lead"If you abductively infer the universe do you abduct the universe? Shall we embark on grander adventure still? Where shall we go?
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“𝐴 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡, 𝐶, 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑏𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑑...”
warpheart—𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚊𝚐𝚎
"𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑖𝑡. 𝐼 𝑑𝑜𝑛’𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑎𝑐𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝕒 𝕘𝕚𝕗𝕥 𝕚𝕟 𝕞𝕪 𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕥." — Joe Inoue
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𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑄𝑢𝑒𝑒𝑛
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