“To facilitate communication with another person, I must grant them three rights, [%] the right to speak, [2] the right to be understood, and [3] the right to know that they have been understood. These rights can't be taken, they can only be given. So in order to enable communication, I have to give you these three rights, I have to voluntarily without any strings attached without any kind of presupposition of outcome without any, any expectations that those rights will even be returned to me. I give those three rights. And in the reaching out and the vulnerability of that process, I hope and pray that they will themselves also be so skilful and so motivated, of their own free choice without strings attached, and so on, to grant those three rights back to me.”
—Forrest Landry
[pdf] https://www.ucl.ac.uk/global-governance/sites/global_governance/files/transcript_global_governance_futures_forrest_landry.pdf
#forrestlandry #communication

”…the ICT [Incommensuration Theorem] regards symmetry and continuity to be mutually inconsistent. … Therefore, the notion that reality is absolutely lawful is inconsistent with the notion that reality is absolutely local. In effect, a conception of reality must either allow 1) multiple mutually inconsistent sets of different physical laws which are applicable in different places and times (failure of lawfulness and symmetry), or 2) inherently non-local interactions and changes which are fundamentally non-deterministic (failure of locality and continuity). No theory of reality can assert both total generality, and total determinism.”
—Forrest Landry
https://web.archive.org/web/20220407112446/https://www.magic-flight.com/pub/uvsm_1/ict_dialog_3.htm
#forrestlandry #incommensurationtheorem #physics

”Insofar as mathematics is the study of pure relationship, considered as abstracted in various ways of all other details, and insofar as physics is the study of causal interactions, which are themselves a kind of (sets of) relationship(s) between things and events, then it is not so much of a surprise to recognize that within these two domains, each having a concept in a similar primary role (relation and interaction), would have those corresponding concepts operate in similar corresponding ways. Nor would it be unexpected that therefore mathematics would be very useful as a basis for modeling physics.”
—Forrest Landry
https://web.archive.org/web/20220407112446/https://www.magic-flight.com/pub/uvsm_1/ict_dialog_3.htm
#forrestlandry #mathematics #physics

”…each theory of physics defines a kind of API -- an Application Programming Interface -- of what sort of causal relations can be invoked, and consistently relied upon, when developing various kinds of technology.
If we extend this metaphor to consider the/this universe -- as an instance of a domain -- as to be a kind of 'operating system', then as students learning about the system for the first time, we would first become aware of and interested in what we can do -- what APIs exist -- before we become fully aware of what we cannot do -- what APIs do not (yet?) exist. Moreover, we can re-recognize that the concept of a domain would be defined as a kind of programming language environment, ultimately considered in terms of statements ('commands'), syntax (how to compose commands), and semantics (what those commands are intended to mean/do, or, more hopefully, what they actually do).”
—Forrest Landry
https://web.archive.org/web/20220407112446/https://www.magic-flight.com/pub/uvsm_1/ict_dialog_3.htm
#forrestlandry #physics #causality #metaphor #applicationprogramminginterface #universe #operatingsystem

Love is that which enables choice. Love is always stronger than fear. Always choose on the basis of love.
—Forrest Landry
https://youtu.be/iAmLRLc4ffk?feature=shared&t=1173
#forrestlandry #love #choice #action

“…it’s not just about constraining the marketplace so that it doesn’t go off the rails and make pollution and existential risk that’ll get us all killed and so on. It’s the notion that if we understand ourselves well enough, and we understand, if we genuinely inhabit and imbibe the value systems deeply enough, clearly enough, then from that intersection we can start to come up with clear plans about how to actually get from here to there, and also to know specifically what ‘there’ is. So in terms of my own description of this, the ‘how’ is about the transition, how do we, like if we’re making a bridge, ‘how’ would be how do we build the bridge? But the ‘what’ would be essentially where is the bridge going? Where’s the island, or the other continent, or the footings that the other side of the bridge is going to land on? So having a clear vision about what does a healthy future look like? What does a thriving humanity look like? So I’m not just saying thriving economy. I’m basically saying thriving humanity.”
—Forrest Landry
https://accidentalgods.life/meeting-the-world-unmasked/
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“We need to ground the notion of choice in something that is…meaningful. We need to show that the notion of meaningfulness is actually itself grounded. It's not just about purpose. It's not just about, what can we do? But it's about, why are we doing it and what does that mean? So, in effect, what I've done is I've created a series of concepts, a series of architectures, that allow for the emergence of those concepts to be recognized as grounded at a level of truth that is at least as deep as everything we know about science and technology, and more, much more.”
—Forrest Landry
https://youtu.be/7gO7Qic804k?feature=shared&t=4431
#forrestlandry #choice #meaning #purpose