Michael Garfield Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Michael Garfield

3. The 120th Shrine - regarding The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, kind of a cowboy ballad since you're riding a horse a lot. 4. Seeing Like A State - re: James C. Scott's book, mathematically guaranteed injustice & the tragedy of being one of the ants out a plane window.

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@Robotheology @Helenreflects @CloserToTruth @ADMValverde_ @livingarchitect @leecronin @Sara_Imari And the social science part is fun to think about and very arguably matters in event of possible future Earth- or space-based contact events. ...Or does it? Again, there's an even crazier deeper agnosticism at work in books like Peter Watts' Blindsight: https://t.co/g1T6HH6jo5

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In one of the most @longnow episodes of #FutureFossils ever, I meet with @kevin2kelly to reach deep on his new book Vanishing Asia — and how it begs some of the most pressing questions posed by the modern world: https://www.patreon.com/posts/50526965 #time #memory #change #asia #travel #wonder https://t.co/TVhkCnnCqx

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@C4COMPUTATION @JF_Martel @weirdstudies @Twitter @NoMansSky On that note, two books I highly recommend as worth reading as part of this inquiry: Darwin's Pharmacy by Richard Doyle Alien Information Theory by Andrew Gallimore

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@C4COMPUTATION @sfiscience @MelMitchell1 My unofficial slogan for years, inspired by Geoffrey West and also in large part by @rushkoff's book #PresentShock - and amplified by the pace & intensity of work life - has been "Michael Garfield does not scale." (True for us all...)

Michael Garfield

Next #FutureFossils book club is today! We discuss Benjamin Labatut's When We Cease To Understand The World. Excited to dive into this darkbright mind-bender on science, discovery, mystery, and consequence: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62967826

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@nat_sharpe_ @bonkydog The important piece of this (AR makeup) is being able to present different skins to different viewers in the same place at the same time. Been thinking about this for a while. It helps solve the dilemma of modern life as presented by Robert Kegan in his book In Over Our Heads.

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As @rushkoff explained beautifully in his book Present Shock (a major inspiration to #FutureFossils podcast), and as @caleb_scharf also did in his book The Ascent of Information (discussed on #ComplexityPodcast), we're as burdened as we are empowered. https://t.co/plALNAtaIp 15/n

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Getting tons of mileage from very simple psychedelic jellyfish prompts in @midjourney...inspired by the Nataraja Jellyfish in @rudytheelder's amazing scifi novel Mathematicians in Love: https://t.co/ZhDpgzKTNE

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@C4COMPUTATION On the other hand, "grok" suggests a more embodied and complete knowledge than one might cultivate through conceptual abstraction alone. Tyson Yunkaporta's Sand Talk explores how Indigenous peoples know systems in the whole body, not just the (colloquial) head. Love this book: https://t.co/3Nk0BuTv4y