“Unfortunately for its inhabitants, one of the more absurd theories of the universe turns out to be true: Nothing necessarily exists unless something else is looking at it. Everything unobserved is a fuzzy mass of possibilities. We look at it and decide.” — Peter Welch, Noware
#PeterWelch #Quotation #Quote #QOTD #indeterminacy #ObserverEffect #SchrödingersCat #uncertainty #universe

https://yahooeysblog.wordpress.com/2026/03/30/quote-of-the-day-5466/

I’ve been listening to this sublime new Morton Feldman Trios box set on Another Timbre over the last couple of days. Born 100 years ago this month, Feldman composed music that, when performed, seems to exist halfway between the ephemeral and the infinite. The notes slip in and out of existence in the air around us, and everything ends in mystery.

These performances by Taylor MacLennan and GSBR Duo are an absolute joy to hear. I think if I could listen to the music of only one composer for the rest of my life, it would be Feldman’s.

https://www.anothertimbre.com/products/morton-feldman-trios-box-set

#MortonFeldman #MortonFeldman100 #Indeterminacy #AnotherTimbre #TaylorMacLennan #GSBRDuo

#PatrickHaggard - #FreeWill: Key to #Consciousness?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9C7Hw2dRlw

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #PhilosophyOfFreeWill #Will #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Physics #Determinacy #Indeterminacy #Randomness #Intentionality #Neuroscience #VoluntaryAction #Causality #Brain #Events #Experience #Dualism #Human #Humans #Psychology #Reflex #Memory #Evolution #Volition #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

First listen: Graffiti Composition by Christian Marclay, recorded 2006, released August 2010

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/christian-marclay/graffiti-composition/

#indeterminacy #music

#PhilipClayton - How Does #Metaphysics Reveal #Reality?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnvdf-5T3yU

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Knowledge #Epistemology #QM #QuantumMechanics #QuantumPhysics #Observer #Indeterminacy #Information #Consciousness #Mind #Biology #Evolution #Genetics #Death #Mortality #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#MenasKafatos - What Does #QuantumTheory Mean?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8Hrd-kOhTY&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #QM #QuantumMechanics #QuantumPhysics #Complementarity #Entanglement #Metaphysics #Indeterminacy #Uncertainty #NonLocality #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

back in 2020, right before rehearsal one day I wrote a quickie composition using dice

we played it exactly the one time ever, made a lo-fi recording & moved on

it's been in my demos playlist ever since

I finally learned it just now & we're gonna try to play it in a few minutes

it's just simple rock&roll,
crunchy power chords & such,
but it has an odd-time intro
& a few key changes I would not have come up with on my own!

whee!

(so far it's just called "Dice Piece" lol, may come up with something else eventually...)

#Songwriting #Composition #Indeterminacy #RockAndRoll #BandPractice

Survey of Definition and Determination
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/04/06/survey-of-definition-and-determination-2/

In the early 1990s, “in the middle of life's journey” as the saying goes, I returned to grad school in a systems engineering program with the idea of taking a more systems-theoretic approach to my development of Peircean themes, from signs and scientific inquiry to logic and information theory.

Two of the first questions calling for fresh examination were the closely related concepts of definition and determination, not only as Peirce used them in his logic and semiotics but as researchers in areas as diverse as computer science, cybernetics, physics, and systems science would find themselves forced to reconsider the concepts in later years. That led me to collect a sample of texts where Peirce and a few other writers discuss the issues of definition and determination. There are copies of those selections at the following sites.

Collection Of Source Materials
• https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey/EXCERPTS

Excerpts on Definition
• https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey/EXCERPTS#Definition

Excerpts on Determination
• https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey/EXCERPTS#Determination

What follows is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on Definition and Determination, with a focus on the part they play in Peirce's interlinked theories of signs, information, and inquiry. In classical logical traditions the concepts of definition and determination are closely related and their bond acquires all the more force when we view the overarching concept of constraint from an information-theoretic point of view, as Peirce did beginning in the 1860s.

#Peirce #Semiotics #Inquiry #Logic #Information #Definition #Determination
#Constraint #Form #Structure #Entropy #Indeterminacy #Uncertainty
#Comprehension #Extension #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory