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Provocation and adaptation

My last post, on the topic of resisting the circumstances in life, ended with a question. What choices should I make to resist maximally, given that choices make me stronger, i.e. choices have long term side effects on me? So I would like to, probabilistically, maximise my set of skills in order to best be […]

Posted 23 June 2010 † johan § Philosophy ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Resisting circumstances

Friedrich Nietzsche famously said that “what does not kill me, makes me stronger.” While true in some ways, this statement appears to be a generalisation masking a more complex truth. For instance, cutting off one’s hand does not kill one, but hardly makes one stronger, unless one specifically desired greatly improved dexterity of the other […]

Posted 21 June 2010 † johan § Philosophy ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

On statefulness

Last year I made some attempts at free association around formal languages and state machines. But at that time, not much was said about the idea of a state itself; an idea which I think holds a lot of interesting uncharted territory. To begin with, what is state really? Intuitively the word distinguishes states of […]

Posted 15 June 2010 † johan § Computer science § Philosophy ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,