Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • Universal Grammars of Action and Experience

    [I] think that any set of symbols in any form, capable of reconstructing the requisite experience of reality allows for some degree of truth communication between humans, superhumans, human-made-machines, and if they exist, aliens capable of action and communication.

    I have a hard time imagining that a basic instruction set is not accessible to any sentient creature capable of acting in reality. That’s because most of what we wish to communicate is state change, and I can easily see a universal grammar of state change in the physical world, just as easily as I can see a universal grammar of mathematical operations. Actions produce state changes.

    What I can’t see is a universal grammar of subjective experience. It is hard enough to communicate across cultures and languages. I can see “in my interests” and “against my interests” as well as the plural “our interests”. It appears to be possible to create a universal grammar of emotion among earth’s creatures, because it is a very simple thing. So maybe a universal grammar is possible (now that I think about it, I think I might be able to do it.) (Damn…. I just gave myself more work to do.)

  • Man Creates Truth

    [M]AN CREATES TRUTH. TRUTH MUST BE SPOKEN. ALL ELSE IS JUST EXISTENCE. You see, the statement ‘full of truth’ is an existentially impossible statement. The universe exists. Truth must be stated. Error, bias, imagination, wishful thinking,  and deception can be removed from our utterances. I use the term “Truthful” for warrantied speech. It is not so much that ‘Truthful’ speech is full of truth, but that it is laundered of error, bias, imaginary content, wishful thinking, and deception. So our utterances can never ‘be full of truth’. Truth is constructed. It does not exist prior to its construction. Truth is a product of man’s action. Everything else is just existence. Source: (1) Curt Doolittle – MAN CREATES TRUTH. TRUTH MUST BE SPOKEN. ALL ELSE…

  • Man Creates Truth

    [M]AN CREATES TRUTH. TRUTH MUST BE SPOKEN. ALL ELSE IS JUST EXISTENCE. You see, the statement ‘full of truth’ is an existentially impossible statement. The universe exists. Truth must be stated. Error, bias, imagination, wishful thinking,  and deception can be removed from our utterances. I use the term “Truthful” for warrantied speech. It is not so much that ‘Truthful’ speech is full of truth, but that it is laundered of error, bias, imaginary content, wishful thinking, and deception. So our utterances can never ‘be full of truth’. Truth is constructed. It does not exist prior to its construction. Truth is a product of man’s action. Everything else is just existence. Source: (1) Curt Doolittle – MAN CREATES TRUTH. TRUTH MUST BE SPOKEN. ALL ELSE…

  • Emily Johnson Happy Birthday!!!! (big hugs from far away)

    Emily Johnson Happy Birthday!!!! (big hugs from far away)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-02 10:10:00 UTC

  • Josh Jeppson Thanks for the chat today. You inspired me. 🙂

    Josh Jeppson Thanks for the chat today. You inspired me. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-02 08:01:00 UTC

  • THE END OF MICROSOFT OFFICE? I can see what it looks like. I know what post-Exce

    THE END OF MICROSOFT OFFICE?

    I can see what it looks like.

    I know what post-Excel looks like

    I know what post-Word looks like

    I know what post-Outlook looks like

    I know what post-Powerpoint looks like

    I know what post-SharePoint looks like

    I know what post-Project looks like

    I know what technologies they’re built in.

    And that is all I’m sayin’. I thought of it a year and a half ago. But since then I can see the technologies on the web maturing. And I see the post desktop future on the web, and I see it without Microsoft.

    If I wanted to work for Google I could make it happen.

    (I kinda like writing philosophy though.)

    Cheers.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-02 07:19:00 UTC

  • Can The Truth Be A Commons?

    (Interesting)

    —“Truth telling is commons, but truth is not commons?”—

    [L]et me state this clearly:

    “The act of habituating truth-telling as both a normative behavior and skill is an expensive normative commons (asset) for a population to construct.” 1) How does truth telling exist? The commons of truth telling exists as both demonstrated habit, and in the institutional means for its inter-temporal and intergenerational persistence: testimony, jury and law. 2) How does truth exist? I put it this way: that information can be treated as a commons, and we can protect the informational commons just as we do every other commons both physical and normative. So when we propose the statement ‘is the truth a commons?’ we are stuck with whether can we treat the truth as a commons. That requires we define truth, which as far as I know, can consist only of the extant history of truthfully constructed statements. If we protected those statements, then that’s not logical. Because we do not in fact know whether they are true, only that they are truthfully constructed. 3) So our only choice then is to require that only truthful statements enter into the commons, and then let the best surviving statements rise and the lesser fall. Just as we require only non-harmful products enter into the market for goods and services and allow them to rise and fall. There is no truth that can exist as a commons. There can exist only truthfully constructed statements. And we cannot protect those statements since it’s counter-productive. We can only prohibit ‘polluting’ them like all other commons. Cheers. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine.

  • Can The Truth Be A Commons?

    (Interesting)

    —“Truth telling is commons, but truth is not commons?”—

    [L]et me state this clearly:

    “The act of habituating truth-telling as both a normative behavior and skill is an expensive normative commons (asset) for a population to construct.” 1) How does truth telling exist? The commons of truth telling exists as both demonstrated habit, and in the institutional means for its inter-temporal and intergenerational persistence: testimony, jury and law. 2) How does truth exist? I put it this way: that information can be treated as a commons, and we can protect the informational commons just as we do every other commons both physical and normative. So when we propose the statement ‘is the truth a commons?’ we are stuck with whether can we treat the truth as a commons. That requires we define truth, which as far as I know, can consist only of the extant history of truthfully constructed statements. If we protected those statements, then that’s not logical. Because we do not in fact know whether they are true, only that they are truthfully constructed. 3) So our only choice then is to require that only truthful statements enter into the commons, and then let the best surviving statements rise and the lesser fall. Just as we require only non-harmful products enter into the market for goods and services and allow them to rise and fall. There is no truth that can exist as a commons. There can exist only truthfully constructed statements. And we cannot protect those statements since it’s counter-productive. We can only prohibit ‘polluting’ them like all other commons. Cheers. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine.

  • Language, Like Genes and Traditions….

    [T]he Good, the useless and the bad.

    —“But my experience is that language, like traditions, and genes, grows to contain useful, useless, and damaging content.”— Curt

    Source: Curt Doolittle

  • Language, Like Genes and Traditions….

    [T]he Good, the useless and the bad.

    —“But my experience is that language, like traditions, and genes, grows to contain useful, useless, and damaging content.”— Curt

    Source: Curt Doolittle