Oh look, at the age of 29, I did an NP-complete.

One must go through it.

It’s not-viewable. The assumption that all parts of the equation must be visible at all times is part of the problem.

If NP is solvable, then we can mathematically predict the future.
Sitting still, or rather, pure experience – is the answer at any given moment

one must be PRESENT and aware.

The need to remember is in the way too.

A barrier, ie – trying to compress TIME gets in the way.

The trance / time – the experience – is a necessary part.

An NP complete “problem” _is_ human-ness. You can’t reduce humanness to mathematics – it’s not powerful enough.

Solution to NP problems? Look at the map. If there isn’t one, make one.

Kenneth Udut 12-15-2000

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Describe experience as it’s happening without referring to past or prediction as it’s happening.

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I _really_ need to read more Asimov. I must be visiting trails he’s walked upon long before me. Of course I think they’re “mine” but I suspect there’s common “collection points” ideas end up at given enough thinking in certain ways about things.

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That’s another guy I haven’t read much of. In fact, I’ve read nothing from Nietzsche except when people share quotes from him.

But I can definitely see where I got a lot of my thinking from — or rather, himself also not being independent of the processes he describes, from whatever relatednesses we had in common.

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What’s interesting/funny/odd/weird to me is that I feel like I could’ve written that myself and YET I’ve never seen that before from him (that I can recall).

So I suspect I’ve learned from people who learned him or were schooled in his ways of thinking, so in the end, full circle.

I remembered he had a dreadful end which is why I didn’t want to read him, in the off chance that getting too deep into his thinking would lead to my own. Silly I know.

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Thanks! I think I’d rewrite it much differently now, while expressing the same fundamental ideas. Still, I let it stand as it was, which was a couple of hastily scribbled notes in a tiny notepad I keep with me at all times, even now, but moreso then because it’s pre-smartphones and I didn’t trust my Handspring Visor – so I never anticipated an audience really.

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Exactly! How will you know you’ve got there if you don’t know what it looks like? But if you’re ALSO the map-maker making the map as you need to be using it? Well, that’s the process of experiencing isn’t it?

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I’ve been encouraged to read him by many many people through the years. But then I looked at the people who were so strongly recommending him to me and what I saw were highly intelligent people – far smarter than I – who also had a brand of misanthropy that I just couldn’t adopt. I’m a certain kind of misanthropist who also loves humanity incredibly as well, so not REALLY a misanthropist yet also am.

I couldn’t tell if they were highly attracted to Nietzche BECAUSE they were already similar (that was my guess) or if it was because of the influence of Nietsche (which I think was partially true as well – certainly planting seeds in very fertile soil) – and I didn’t want that for myself.either way – just in case.

When you read someone’s writings, you bring a piece of them into you so it’s not a task I take lightly.

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The territory informs the map but it’s missing something: The person writing the map, the person reading the map, experiencing the territory.

Read/write/experience simultaneously and you have a Turing from the perspective of the black box. Or a hard drive….

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http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/R.W.Kaye/minesw/ordmsw.htm ugh – tihs link rather. An old professor who wasn’t even my professor that I hadn’t talked to in 10 years at the college I never completed sent me a magazine clipping with a post-it on it.

It was really surreal. Still is.

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The solution I ALMOST sent in involved hacking it a certain way — sideways, going between the layer of compiled code and below the display level, reading the decisions as they were being made before they were displayed in order to show a solution before the user had a chance to do anything.

But I knew they’d hate that too

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They’re also experiencing the reading of the map while experiencing the territory and if they’re writing the map, they’re experiencing .. well I’m getting repetitive/renunant/saying the same thing a few different ways

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