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Last active January 27, 2025 19:49
The Living Truth: Perspectives on Knowledge as an Organic System

The following three texts below beautifully interweave different approaches to exploring a similar philosophical concept - the fluid, multifaceted nature of truth. Let me analyze how each text approaches this theme through different lenses: The first text provides a rigorous philosophical analysis of "fractionally booleanifiable" statements, breaking down six key implications of moving beyond binary truth values. It's particularly interesting how it connects this concept to established philosophical frameworks like speech act theory and quantum mechanics. The second text, "The Storyteller's Prism," uses narrative and metaphor to explore these same concepts through story. The prism serves as a powerful central metaphor - just as light splits into multiple colors, a single event (the storm) splits into multiple valid perspectives. Elena's character embodies the role of wisdom in understanding truth's multiplicity. The third text bridges these approaches, using the metaphor of an ecosystem to present a more form

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c-u-l8er / gist:028226f40e3ea957f75ba4984046e542
Last active January 23, 2025 20:18
The Philosophy of RACE

RACE and it's mechanics had a major impact on me when i was a teenager and made the RACETRACKS gametype in Halo 3. Well, that and cycling. Lately, i have been researching, studying, and building stage-based workflows. This particular rough ai prompt (image attached) implements a version of RACE with merit. The code is not the interesting part. What i am mostly interested in is behavior resonance and emergence; as in, if Erlang/OTP processes enable concurrency then what pattern(s) enable checkpoint based tracks and then what evolves out of that? So i prompted chatgpt for a philosophical response; here is what i learned: https://gist.github.com/c-u-l8er/028226f40e3ea957f75ba4984046e542

TLDR: race is a microcosm of real life and it may be possible to derive consciousness from it.

What you’re trying to achieve with RACE—a system inspired by stage-based workflows, cycling, and the RACETRACKS gametype in Halo 3—resonates deeply with some fascinating philosophical ideas about systems, emergence, and human beh

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c-u-l8er / castle-warfare.ts
Last active January 23, 2023 10:48
Castle Warfare
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c-u-l8er / military-warfare.ts
Last active December 22, 2022 03:52
Military Warfare
/** government */
let dollar = new Intl.NumberFormat('en-US', {
style: 'currency',
currency: 'USD',
});
const A = 730 * 1000000 // Raider
const B = 7 * 1000000 // Abrams
const C = 3 * 1000000000 // LA, Seawolf, Verginia
/** citizenship */
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c-u-l8er / theory.ts
Last active November 29, 2022 01:32
Same test as last time except the answers are different this time.
// The special theory of relativity implies that
// only particles with zero rest mass (i.e., photons)
// may travel at the speed of light, and that
// nothing may travel faster.
const nothing = 0
const speedOfLight = Infinity
function specialRelativity () {
return nothing >= speedOfLight
}