Author: schendlb

Layers are invisible and visible at the same time. Layers are deeply embedded and fundamental but also stand in our way. To touch something is to push against a layer of skin from below, and feel a muted, watered down version of a real touch. There is always something in between you, and where you…

A Conversation between me and and AI system, Claude.ai: ME: I am working on collecting my fascinations. One of them is how many degrees of separatin is introduced for humans in modern life. Is it even possible for us to understand what is actually happening in the world? I would argue it’s not possible. I…

Euclid’s Elements, a fascinating work to establish the rules of geometry. A rule based system that defines our everyday experience. Despite the irregular shapes of the natural world, the universe is hanged upon a perfect grid. Served as a basis for religious symbolism and scientific research.

The cheap and obviously stimulating aesthetics, the potential reward, the unfavorable odds and the societal stigma work all in conjunction to make gambling one of the coolest and deadliest traps. An attraction for great minds and the cognitively unfortunate. This is not for the mid-tier population.

Where there is an opportunity, sooner or later there will be an opportunist. Game theory predicts that the unpredictable can be gamed and channeled to drive profits or other incentives. For example, social media companies teamed up with behavioral psychology created the powerful doomscroll, a “randomly” chosen post with dopamine reward every once in while…

Chance and randomness are novel mathematical concepts. Once seen as heresy, just like the number zero or negative numbers. Does it really exist or is it just the wall of our collective human cognitive capacity? As Einstein said, God doesn’t play dice. The idea of randomness is to witness true mystery.When someone is constantly “lucky”…

Discovering Goedels Incompleteness Theorem is definitely one of the most fascinating scientific adventures one can embark on. I apply it’s implications very loosely and creatively to make it fun.It is about the stability of any system and also proof why a system cannot be supported by it’s own rules alone. Any system needs a superset…

The idea that simple rules can create complex systems. It is an extremely powerful idea and it’s very attractive to my fundamental thinking nature. Don’t look at the surface, look deeper and you will find the truth, then look even deeper and you will find nothing.

The anatomy of creatures is a terrifying and fascinating subject at the same time. A deep disgust conquered by curiosity in my case. We should have never seen the anatomy of a human, it’s unnatural, our inner core refuses it, the fact that we see it supposed to signal that something went terribly wrong.