Remi Sussan
@sremi
Nature of reality, of consciousness, of language and other futile things
🦀 see a crab, post a crab 🦀 www.crabmuseum.org/blog/logic-g... www.technologyreview.com/2012/04/12/1...
A collaboration between Andrew Gallimore and Donald D. Hoffman.. osf.io/preprints/ps...
Very good article by Julian Vayne about Peter Carroll. I was especially interested in Carroll’s relationship with games. julianvayne.substack.com/p/rememberin...
A little too much maths for me to understand it all, but this paper addresses a hugely important topic : the role of creativity in delaying aging (I hope my two screenshots give a good glimpse of the content)...And I’ve rarely seen such a long list of authors ;-)
Interesting results. They go against the conclusions of many other studies. www.psypost.org/brain-scans-...
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice in Chains.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... This is not new (from R.A. Wilson Cosmic trigger) and let's not forget Ernst Junger...
From "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs", Abelson & Sussman, 1984
This promises to be extremely interesting. Something important is happening in Life Sciences, these days... thoughtforms.life/symposium-on...
What perfect albums came out when you were 16?* *No retroactive cool, please. Albums that were in the house that you actively purchased and listened to
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
I wonder if Brill has the same politics as Elsevier in STEM, which are highly controversial, to say the least... (Old articles, but I doubt much has changed.) www.theguardian.com/science/2017... www.theguardian.com/science/poli...
25 Favorite Science Fiction Novels No particular order 25/25 #Booksky 🪐 📚👀 #bookchallenge. I saw the movie when I was 8, and it left me shaken. But of course, I didn’t understand anything. It was only later, by reading Clarke’s novelization, that I began make sense of it all.
25 Favorite Science Fiction Novels No particular order 24/25 #Booksky 🪐 📚👀 #bookchallenge. Valis is IMHO Philip K.DIck masterpiece. I might be an exception among French SciFI fans.Dick is huge is my country, but the French cartesian mind has difficulty to swallow Dick's gnostic visions/1
Korzybski also inspired Douglas Engelbart in his search toward a new computer interface, as seen in his text 'how to augment human intellect" (Engelbart invented the Mouse). /4 web.stanford.edu/class/histor...
25 Favorite Science Fiction Novels No particular order 23/25 #Booksky 🪐 📚👀 #bookchallenge. Van Vogt's The World of Null-A will remain the book that popularized Alfred Korzybski's General Semantics. Although this discipline remains a fringe theory, it has been highly influential on some thinkers. 1/
This was the first book that got me interested in Western Magic, I read it in the french edition of Galaxy Magazine ("Galaxie") when I was 12. And I recently rediscovered this old issue on my shelves!
25 Favorite Science Fiction Novels No particular order 22/25 #Booksky 🪐 📚👀 #bookchallenge. This Blish's book (or, more exactly, these two books) is AFAIK the only example of "Hard Magic" as one might speak of "Hard Science". The story is based on classical Grimoiric magic, especially the Goetia.
25 Favorite Science Fiction Novels No particular order 21/25 #Booksky 🪐 📚👀 #bookchallenge. Like Illuminatus : unavoidable
25 Favorite Science Fiction Novels No particular order 20/25 #Booksky 🪐 📚👀 #bookchallenge. Another Zelazny book, inspired this time by Egyptian mythology. Here, he uses an experimental style and non-linear narration, with a touch of dark humor.
25 Favorite Science Fiction Novels No particular order 19/25 #Booksky 🪐 📚👀 #bookchallenge. Contrary to some other authors, like Robert Sheckley or Fredric Brown, Michael Moorcock is not especially known for his humorous writings. But The Dancers at the End of Time series is hilarious.
25 Favorite Science Fiction Novels No particular order 18/25 #Booksky 🪐 📚👀 #bookchallenge. After Catherine Moore’s Lovecraftian Space Opera, why not some Necromantic Space Opera? I recently discovered Tamsyn Muir (I haven't even read the other books in the trilogy yet). A very original universe.
25 Favorite Science Fiction Novels No particular order 17/25 #Booksky 🪐 📚👀 #bookchallenge. I’m using the French cover of this book because I don’t know the English title. It’s the collection of Northwest Smith’s adventures, I can describe this as Lovecraftian Space Opera. Brilliant!
25 Favorite Science Fiction Novels No particular order 16/25 #Booksky 🪐 📚👀 #bookchallenge. I put these two books together, because they are part of the same universe. Stapledon's writings are more philosophical (of the "cosmist" kind ) than mere novels... (warning :spoiler ahead !) 1/
25 Favorite Science Fiction Novels No particular order 15/25 #Booksky 🪐 📚👀 #bookchallenge. George R.R.Martin didn't just write Game Of Thrones. "The Armageddon Rag" is about rock n'roll (and I like it !)