Artifice wants you to look away, but if you look at it, you will see marvels. The human body meets the giants (here Lombardy poplars full of starlings) and responds, body to […]
The Five Levels of Consciousness Meets the Starlings in the Poplars
The Artists of Freezing Water
Water is beautiful when it freezes. Over pebbles, far below the freezing point. Splashed with air, right at freezing. Thanks, geese. Holding the sky separate from the sky. Thanks, geese. Bridging an open […]
How Strong is Water?
Stronger than gravity. Stronger than anti-gravity It has edges, but resists them. Even when it doesn’t evaporate, it climbs. We recognize these forms, because we are water. We stare into it. Whoa. […]
When the Snow is the Sky
Ah, so beautiful. Warming and cooling and sun shining through the ice, melting it from below under its icy skin, have made a beautiful thing, neither winter nor spring but both. Pretty […]
The Human Landscape
Look at the artwork that humans have made in the world. This is an old turf house on the bird sanctuary of Dyrhólaey, Iceland, in the midst of its old house fields, […]
The Pheasants are Messing With You (and the Coyotes, Too)
Check out this ring-necked pheasant sneaking away from me through the sagebrush and wild roses. What a guy. But what an environment! We know pheasants mostly by their habit of bolting at […]
Wouldn’t It Be Great to Be a Canada Goose?
There’s not just one way to do it, either! Loads of noisy fun, but when you finally get in synch, so very fine. The cold’s a drag, though. You have to […]
Artificial Intelligence and Buffalo Eddy: Part 5 of a series
When I mentioned yesterday that Elon Musk was an example of Artificial Intelligence, I meant nothing derogatory. He was present because he champions Artificial Intelligence, and I wanted to point out that, […]
Artificial Intelligence 4: What Is Artificial?
So, Artificial Intelligence, eh. That’s dangerous stuff. Elon Musk: An Artificial Intelligence in the Flesh Now, when I call this very successful billionaire, flame-thrower manufacturer, battery man, car builder, rocketeer and sender […]
Artificial Intelligence 3: What is Intelligence
In order to properly understand even what we’re talking about when we talk about artificial intelligence, we need to know, in the first place, what the terms mean. If we don’t, we […]
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