The New York Times reports a death on Saturday, March 18 —
From posts tagged SXSW 2017 —
Friday, March 24, 2017
The Southwest Furthers
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Saturday, March 18, 2017
Gamers
A search for Gamers in this journal yields …
This is not unrelated to the title of a 2008
book by Jeremy Gray:
Plato's Ghost:
The Modernist Transformation
of Mathematics .
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Thursday, March 16, 2017
Gaming
Taking place from March 16 – 18, 2017
in the Austin Convention Center . . . .
See also the previous two posts.
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Product
"Human perception is a saga of created reality."
— Don DeLillo, Point Omega
See "Important Product" in this journal and the previous post.
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Hexagram 64 in Context
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“Bulk Apperception”
"By groping toward the light we are made to realize
how deep the darkness is around us."
— Arthur Koestler, The Call Girls: A Tragi-Comedy ,
Random House, 1973, page 118
"Dear boys — We’re going to have some fun, aren’t we?"
— Maeve in "Westworld," Season 1, Episode 6,
after her "bulk apperception" has been upgraded
to the maximum.
"Bulk apperception" is defined in the script as "basically,
overall intelligence." The phrase is apparently unique to "Westworld."
These two words do, however, nearly occur together in
at least one book — Andrew Feffer's The Chicago Pragmatists
and American Progressivism :
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