This book is a pretty thorough takedown of our subjective feelings of conscious control. Using figure 1.3 as a reference: Figure 1.3: Conditions of human action. “ The upper left quadrant shows the expected correspondence of action and the feeling of doing—the case when we do something and feel also …
I internalized CEP (Circular Error Probable during the cold war) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_error_probable as it pertained to ICBM effectiveness (for those unfamiliar, it is in some ways similar to the difference between precision and accuracy. CEP came to mind during the polling averaging controversy of the recent 2012 presidential election. In my …
[This post is a placeholder for future work.] As I’m reading more, and thinking more, I’m coming the conclusion that there may be a few immediate, practical applications for the “object-oriented-ontology” way of thinking, particularly when it comes to building software supporting scientific applications. This is driven by my experience …