Kester Brewin

Tag: Complexity

  • When Web2.0 Doesn’t Work | Blogging 2.0

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    Perhaps I’m being professionally defensive here, but having looked at RateMyTeachers.co.uk I was left wondering whether this was actually a project that had any use. Part of the beauty of the ‘ratings’ section of sites like Amazon and Flickr is that they actually allow you to make decisions – which seller is reliable, which photos…

  • Ascension

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    Ascension Day “He rose from the dead and ascended into heaven” Words full of vectors. Above and below. Travelling on this great y-axis. Cutting into the earth, and rising above it. And disappearing from sight. We’ve got too Cartesian in our theology And want to co-ordinate To assign vectors and fix positions “He was here!”…

  • SwarmSketch

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    “Collective sketching of the collective consciousness.” Via Wired. Emergence-y question: will the sketches get better and better with time, or will they need chasing down from local peaks to properly improve? Technorati Tags: Art, cartoons, Complexity, Emergence, Swarm, Technology

  • Steven Johnson | Fed-Ex Planes in Thunderstorms

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    If you’ve read The Complex Christ, you’ll know that I’m a big fan of Steven Johnson’s book ‘Emergence – the connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software‘. Turns out he has a blog, plus a new book launching in London this autumn. The blog is well worth visiting if you’re interested in emergence and…

  • On Meaning [3] | Absolute Truth | Power | Stages of Faith

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    On Meaning [1]  | On Meaning [2] In the previous two posts I have been trying to set out why I still hold to a position that absolute truth exists. The discussion began as a meditation on meaning and language, and I’ve tried to make the connection between these and truth. I ended the last…

  • On Meaning [2]

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    It’s been a knackering week, so this is going to be even more lacking ‘meaning’ than it’s going to anyway, but here we go with part two. In response to the previous post ‘on meaning’, Nic wrote: [I want to react against] some sort of pre-ordained meaning, rules of engagement or ‘isness’- a divine database…