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232<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Continuing with most of my new writing on <a href="https://psybertron.substack.com/">Substack at</a> <a href="https://psybertron.substack.com/">https://psybertron.substack.com/</a> but still making updates and linking notes here.</p>
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244<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Four updates at Substack</strong> since <a href="https://www.psybertron.org/archives/21110">I last rounded-up here in August</a>.</p>
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249<li><a href="https://psybertron.substack.com/p/values-into-action"><strong>Values Into Action</strong></a><br />&#8211; a &#8220;review&#8221; of Mark Carney&#8217;s 2021 book &#8220;Values&#8221;</li>
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253<li><a href="https://psybertron.substack.com/p/an-old-story"><strong>An Old Story</strong></a><br />&#8211; a &#8220;review&#8221; of Arundhati Roy&#8217;s 2025 memoir &#8220;Mother Mary Comes to Me&#8221;</li>
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257<li><a href="https://psybertron.substack.com/p/sign-of-the-times"><strong>Sign of the Times?</strong></a><br />&#8211; a recap on &#8220;illusionism&#8221; in the sciences &amp; philosophies of consciousness &amp; free-will, prompted by a hit on an older piece.</li>
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261<li><a href="https://psybertron.substack.com/p/technology-driven-economy"><strong>Technology Driven Economy</strong></a><br />&#8211; a riff on where so-called AI might be leading us, prompted by Dave Snowden referring to Brian Arthur&#8217;s talk to the Adam Smith Institute&#8217;s &#8220;New Enlightenment 2026 Conference&#8221;.</li>
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266<p class="has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>PREAMBLE</strong></p>
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270<p class="wp-block-paragraph">After a few days away walking in the (English) Lakes, I was at <strong>the <a href="https://www.systemspractice.org/Schedule26">SCiO &#8220;SysPrac2026&#8221; conference</a> in Cranfield Uni</strong>, Monday and Tuesday this week.</p>
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274<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As ever, I have lots of notes from individual sessions, which I won&#8217;t spend any time making presentable here, just some overall impressions taken away.</p>
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278<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Large event ~200 attendees, and great facilities &amp; service quality for conference sessions, large and small and for the catering. (<em>Only minor downside was the &#8220;Cranfield Management Development Centre&#8221; accommodation / dining space and the &#8220;Vincent Building&#8221; conference facility were at opposite ends of the campus, even though the former also had extensive conference facilities?</em>)</p>
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282<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Great facilities, but the facilitators in the main / larger hall in particular should probably have done better with the sound level. Also, a tendency for the key officers / members of the SCiO to start off on first name terms with each other, presuming everyone knew who they were, without each introducing themselves. That said, great diversity of membership, majority women and a younger generation evident to replace the old guard.</p>
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286<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I was in lurking (listening and learning) mode, no direct participation this time, same as the Hull CSS conference earlier this year. Many old and new faces, and several specific new topic contacts to follow-up. That counts as success for my own research and writing.</p>
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290<p class="wp-block-paragraph">What I was put in mind of, is how many different overlapping / complementary groups there are in this space with varying degrees of collaboration. Some are just networks on platforms like LinkedIn or WordPress blogs, some are free-emailing lists, some are low-overhead membership and some are proper corporate / professional and or academic institutions, and some special interest combinations of all of these. Below are a few where I&#8217;ve had at least some interaction:</p>
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294<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>The IFSR (<a href="https://ifsr.org/members/">Institute for Systems Research</a>)</strong> is set up as a coordinating umbrella organisation whose members and affiliates are many of those other organisations, 20 of which are listed.</p>
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298<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>The LinkedIn (<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/groups/2639211/">Systems Thinking Network</a>)</strong> has 50,000 individual members, many of whom are also members of one or more of the other groups.
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302<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>The SCiO (<a href="https://www.systemspractice.org/">Systems and Complexity in Organisation</a>)</strong> is cheap and cheerful as well as professional, with ~600 members and ~1500 subscribers. <em>Having been a subscriber, I am now in 2026 a full member. It has the most fitting name for an organisation in this space.</em></p>
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306<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>The ISSS (<a href="https://www.isss.org/home/">International Society for the Systems Sciences</a>)</strong> is another smaller group with ~160 members, <em>where I have been a full member for 4 years or so</em>.</p>
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310<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>INCOSE (<a href="https://www.incose.org/about-incose/">International Council on Systems Engineering</a>)</strong> has ~27,000 paid-up members and is the most corporate of the professional organisations. <em>I&#8217;ve never actually been a member, but have crossed paths with very smart individual members since around 2008, in both day-job and independent-research contexts.</em></p>
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314<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>SysCOI (<a href="https://stream.syscoi.com/">Systems Community of Inquiry</a>)</strong> is an open source blog sharing links to pretty much all and every resource published under the auspices of any of the other groups.</p>
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318<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>CSS (<a href="https://www.hull.ac.uk/research/centres/centre-for-systems-studies">Centre for Systems Studies</a>)</strong> at Hull University (<em>not to be confused with Hull students union Computer Science Society</em>). <em>First came into contact with Hull CSS via their annual Mike Jackson lectures in June 2021 with the Carlo Rovelli and Paul Mason keynotes on Aleksander Bogdanov. Mike has become the epitome of pragmatism for me in this &#8220;complex self-adaptive systems&#8221; space.</em></p>
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322<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Cynefin</strong> &#8211; <a href="https://thecynefin.co/about-us/about-cynefin-framework/">Dave Snowden&#8217;s management consulting vehicle</a>, much referenced by other practitioners mostly, but not always, positively. (<em>Over the years, Dave has a fully elaborated and extended definition of that Welsh word he used to name his entity not to mention the approaches to methodologies behind it. Perhaps controversially, I think of the pre-existing word Cynefin translating to &#8220;comfort zone&#8221; &#8211; in the sense it&#8217;s the environment our thinking inhabits quite naturally, comfortably, even though we can never fully understand it or why, without some meta-thinking about our thinking. The philosophically abstract is distinct from the practical methodologies, but we need both. I&#8217;ve been crossing paths with Dave&#8217;s work since 2002/3 in knowledge-management contexts</em>.)</p>
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342<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Школа системного менеджмента (<a href="https://system-school.ru/">Russian School of Systems Management</a>)</strong> founded by Anatoly Levenchuk when the Russian Chapter of INCOSE lost its US affiliation. <em>Anatoly is one of those &#8220;smart INCOSE people&#8221; who after my 40+ years engineering systems of all kinds, hard and soft, introduced me to the idea around 2008/09 that &#8220;systems&#8221; were recognised as a thing in their own right. Ironic since Cybernetics and the 1946 Macy Conferences were central to my Psybertron research project from the outset in 2001. He invited me to speak at INCOSE conferences in Moscow in 2010 and Nizhny-Novgorod in 2011. Those other two INCOSE smarts were his colleague Victor Agroskin and, quite separately, Rob Black of UKAEA around 2020/21.</em></p>
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350<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Some for Systems, some for Complexity. Some for Thinking generally, some for Science more narrowly, some for Engineering(*) even more narrowly, some for Research, some for Cybernetics (Organisation, Management and Governance).</p>
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358<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The common interest is in better <em>systemic understanding</em> of how the world works through human organisations. The better we understand how the world <em>really </em>works, the better we can organise ourselves to act for better future outcomes. With so many seemingly existential poly-crises and/or meta-crisis to concern us, there is increasing clamour &#8211; <em><strong>there has to be a better way </strong></em>&#8211; all the way from personal lifestyle through every human organisation to local, national and supra-national government and development. </p>
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362<p class="wp-block-paragraph">One way or another these better understanding and decision-making considerations lead us to government and governance more generally. Democracy or the next best thing, not forgetting how we decide what is &#8220;better&#8221; anyway?</p>
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366<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Given the scale and urgency facing us, there is a strong recent focus in the activities of these interest groups on <em><strong>practical implementation</strong></em> and engagement with those institutions that most directly influence our collective governance.</p>
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371<li>The Hull CSS 2026 conference in March this year was entitled &#8220;<strong>Systems Thinking Systems Practice</strong>&#8221; bridging the gap between theory and practice.</li>
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375<li>The ISSS 2026 conference in June was themed &#8220;<strong>Elevating Systems Science to Address Humanity’s Greatest Challenges</strong>&#8221; followed by &#8220;<strong>Reimagining our World Systemically &#8211; From Problematique to Purposeful Action</strong>&#8220;</li>
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379<li>The SciO 2026 conference earlier this week was advertised as a follow-on from the Hull CSS event explicitly entitled &#8220;<strong>Systems  Practice (SysPrac) 2026</strong>&#8220;.</li>
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384<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>A Better Way?</strong> &#8211; the periodic re-imagining of the world as a better place is as old as philosophical literature itself, from Plato&#8217;s Republic via Utopian literature arising from the ages of enlightenment and revolution (Thomas More, Karl Marx, Aleksander Bogdanov, Nikolai Chernyshevsky, H G Wells, Aldous Huxley, etc.) and the post-war <em><strong>world-in-crisis</strong></em> soul-searching of The Vienna Circle (after WW1) and The Macy Conferences (after WW2). It&#8217;s worth understanding the history of what these thinkers hoped a better future might be AND how it might be achieved, <em>quite separate from</em> any imperfections in their thinking and the errors by those empowered to implement them.</p>
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404s what both Levenchuk&#8217;s &#8220;Systems Thinking 2020 &#8211; <em>there is ALWAYS thinking to be done over and above actual project planning to act</em>&#8221; &#8211; and the higher loops of multi-loop organisational learning architectures, are about. The different architectural layers are not optional. Our thinking is part of the real world. We mustn&#8217;t flatten the abstract thinking out of our specific plans to act.</p>
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416<p class="wp-block-paragraph">That &#8220;So What?&#8221; essay section above will be brought forward into the Psybertron Substack &#8211; and elaborated with another draft already started there.</p>
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424its roots in ingenuity anyway, the ingenious ways people responded to the need for <em><strong>better engines of war</strong></em>. Those came before motive-engines, engineers and engineering. (<em>All more obvious in French</em>.)</p>
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511<p class="wp-block-paragraph">(This is just a stub post to collect multiple links.)<br /><br />Tax the Rich? is the headline, but it&#8217;s the recurring issue of how nation states can remain meaningful, <em><strong>when individuals and commercial entities can become bigger, wealthier and more powerful than nation states</strong></em>, and can avoid regulation and taxation by seeking exceptions in weaker states, without strong federal / international commitment. I&#8217;m suggesting beyond a certain level of wealth the marginal tax rate should be <em>agreed to be</em> 100% &#8211; achieving it is a whole &#8216;nother set of questions &#8211; and how rich is too rich, etc. (How free-democratic nation states, and their supra-national arrangements, operate is the natural end game of Systems / Cybernetic / Governance thinking.)</p>
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515<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Note that this has nothing to do with limiting freedoms to earn etc, or the general unfairness of grotesque wealth disparities between individuals (though that ought to be an issue) &#8211; just a basic pragmatic orderly society question. How can we <em>govern ourselves</em> if &#8230; ?</p>
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519<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The prompt for capturing this stub today is the emerging consequence of the US (and other) national debts hitting multi-Trillion record highs, and economic commentators warning of potential disastrous consequences. The feature that many are pointing out is that gilt / government bond rates are creeping up to unprecedented levels too. A major lever of government regulation of national finances has been that government treasuries were the lender of last resort &#8211; with the steadiest / safest (lowest rate) source of investment funding. What&#8217;s changed? Some of the tech-bros can now compete for that lending business. (<em>Check &#8211; have I got that summary the right way round? &#8211; either way the point is individual entities are becoming &#8220;bigger&#8221; than nation states in these markets that regulate interest and inflation rates especially in times of national / international financial and banking crises. &#8220;Scary&#8221; as an actual Bank of England ex-chairman said this morning, ditto Andrew Neil watching the gilts markets yesterday and the debts this morning US 40Tn / UK 3Tn.</em>)</p>
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530https://t.co/FdVPQgL9ZL</a></p>&mdash; Andrew Neil (@afneil) <a href="https://x.com/afneil/status/2089643238265118886?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 18, 2026</a></blockquote></div>
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547<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9d8z72nn02o">BBC story on the US and comparison to others</a> inc UK, the key point being that because the US$ is still the main base currency the US can actually get away with the risk for longer than the rest of us. The risks are real if any new political or financial crisis arises.</p>
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555<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Previously here on Psybertron:</p>
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559<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.psybertron.org/archives/19392">Borders vs Business &#8211; from last year</a>. (And more on states without national borders &#8211; <a href="https://x.com/sarahrutherfor2/status/2091623342381883419?s=20">we are nothing &#8211; from Matthew Syed</a>.)</p>
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571<p class="wp-block-paragraph">To be continued, somewhere &#8230;<br /><br />(And &#8211; reminder &#8211; need to read Mark Carney&#8217;s &#8220;Values&#8221;?)</p>
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654<p class="wp-block-paragraph">All my original postings and notes are on SubStack these days, so here a catch-up posts since my last one here <a href="https://www.psybertron.org/archives/21093">on only recently having read Roger Penrose (1989) &#8220;Emperor&#8217;s New Mind&#8221;</a>. Starting from the most recent:</p>
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658<p class="has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong><a href="https://psybertron.substack.com/p/whats-so-funny-bout">What&#8217;s So Funny &#8216;Bout</a></strong><br />&#8211; the Peace, Love and Understanding of Jason Arday?<br />(<em>First mention, the day after his death</em>.)</p>
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686<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Post note: and before I continue, I picked-up some new reading. <a href="https://www.psybertron.org/archives/1281">Loved Arundhati Roy&#8217;s writing in her &#8220;God of Small Things&#8221;</a> though I didn&#8217;t write a review much longer than that comment, but I kept an eye on here lefty-feminist activities ever since. Love the person too. In a casual trip to the local bookshop I was passing today, I noticed her &#8220;Mother Mary Comes To Me&#8221; latest title. The title is a song lyric, a Beatles song. Last weekend&#8217;s Sunday Session playlist, was Beatles covers. Apparently her mother Mary didn&#8217;t say &#8220;Let It Be&#8221;. It&#8217;s a memoir with 40-odd short, titled chapters I noticed &#8220;What&#8217;s So Funny [&#8217;bout]?&#8221; and &#8220;Declaration of Love&#8221; which put me instantly in mind of my last post about <a href="https://psybertron.substack.com/p/whats-so-funny-bout">Jason Arday being ridiculed when talking about his &#8220;Axis of Love&#8221;</a> and his use of song titles and lyrics in his work. Anyway, none of those things are actually connected, but I bought the book on spec and have already started to read. <strong>(<a href="https://psybertron.substack.com/p/an-old-story">Read and reviewed here</a>.) </strong></p>
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690<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Oh, and wow, the links never end. That post above on my previous reading of Roy, was on <a href="https://www.psybertron.org/archives/1281">the day we experienced the biggest, closest, thunderstorm of our lives</a> in Chattanooga &#8211; the lightening bolts and thunder simultaneously exploding on the bonnet of our car while stopped at the lights! Talk about gut-feel. As I type, there&#8217;s a welcome rainy thunderstorm crashing around outside, here on the NE coast of England. And an item on BBC R4 &#8220;News At One&#8221; on the newly licensed Tunny (Tuna) fishing in Whitby, all over the social-media locally in recent months. The first commercial landing of a couple of 2.5/3m long specimens just yesterday, after several months of licensed catch-and-release establishing sustainable stocks and generating sport-fishing income. </p>
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781<p class="wp-block-paragraph">For completeness, posting mainly new content on Substack these days, but just cross-posting a link here to maintain semantic connectivity until the whole project is functioning.</p>
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785<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I&#8217;d never read Penrose before today, despite his obvious relevance to my long-standing agenda here.</p>
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789<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://substack.com/profile/21157024-ian-glendinning/note/c-300150506">https://substack.com/profile/21157024-ian-glendinning/note/c-300150506</a></p>
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876<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Posting this on the original Psybertron blog because it was missing from my 2006/7 archive. Forests, thickets, trees and clearings (<em>and fences, and gates</em>) are frequent metaphors in knowledge discovery (<em>and identity and definition</em>) contexts, and the number of times I&#8217;ve remembered this image, but failed to re-find the copy I blogged back then, is scary and time-wasting.<br /><br /><a href="https://chatgpt.com/">Thanks to ChatGPT</a> for finding it for me:</p>
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888<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Today&#8217;s context is that I was reminded of the missing image above when I saw this short MP4 below showing the rivulets left behind a tide ebbing over the mudflats of a Chinese river. (<em>Social media algorithms being what they are, I have captured the image / video but have completely lost the details and provenance</em>.)</p>
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898<p class="wp-block-paragraph">(Despite the help of ChatGPT can only find similar but not the same video, so all I know: <strong><em>“Tidal tree” on the Qiantang River, Zhejiang, China. Original filmmaker/source currently unknown—identification welcomed</em></strong>.)</p>
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981<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Had some very productive writing time recently. Turned down a couple of gigs and writing of reviews &#8211; they&#8217;re my escape from the intellectual project(s), but it&#8217;s easy to fill your time with those instead. Also avoiding a couple of conferences I&#8217;d normally support, to the point of feeling guilty, but still found myself reading &#8211; all writing / research related but &#8211; nevertheless:</p>
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993<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And a Kindle copy of this:</p>
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1001<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So, in the order I&#8217;ve read them:</p>
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1009<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Andrea Wulf&#8217;s &#8220;The Traveller&#8221; biography of George Forster</strong>. Bought on the strength of her <a href="https://www.psybertron.org/archives/18123">two previous biographies of Humboldt and the Jena Set</a>, and it&#8217;s getting great reviews. In the same way that Humboldt was the first &#8220;ecologist&#8221; Forster was the first &#8220;human rights&#8221; advocate, where humanity included the locals encountered on his youthful foreign travels with his father in 1760&#8217;s Russia and with 1770&#8217;s James Cook. So many overlaps and influences on the great and the good (and the not so good). Mind-bogglingly fascinating. Won&#8217;t be reading to a conclusion for now, but recommended and back on the shelf as reference for now.</p>
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1013<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Laura Spinney&#8217;s &#8220;Proto&#8221; is a history of language</strong> (and geography, civilisations and culture) through the <em><strong>Proto-Indo-European language family</strong></em>. One of those topics I&#8217;ve <a href="https://www.psybertron.org/?s=PIE%20Proto&amp;sort=relevance">written about multiple times before 2005/07/13/16</a>, but always tainted with doubt as to the authenticity of &#8220;Aryan&#8221; stories told by 19th/2oth-C white, western, ex-colonialists. It&#8217;s real alright, 10,000 years of language, <em>before written history</em>, and now backed by so much 21st-C science in archaeology and genealogy. Endlessly fascinating already, after the front and end matter and just a couple of chapters. (<em>A hobby-horse of mine; lots of those &#8220;rules&#8221; of sound and spelling changes as languages migrate, b&lt;>v and art&lt;>craft&lt;>rta etc, which reveal essentially the same words across languages that diverged millennia ago</em>. <em>And, even the good-old &#8220;Mama&#8221; as first word / sounds of human offspring before any actual language &#8220;learning&#8221; &#8211; topical in recent days with &#8220;two-Dads&#8221; parenting cases</em>.) (<em><strong>Post Note</strong> &#8211; hat tip to <a href="https://x.com/si_ad/status/2076820666226032656?s=20">Simon Adams for this Claude-AI attempt</a> at the language tree</em>.)</p>
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1017<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Will also put aside for future reference for now.</p>
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1021<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Back to the writing &#8211; picking-up on the inputs to my &#8220;Identity and Distinction&#8221; chapter from <a href="https://psybertron.substack.com/p/pirsigs-4-layer-metaphysics">the RPA Dialogue with Keith Gillette</a>. Just one more chore first.</p>
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1102		<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://www.psybertron.org/archives/21066" rel="bookmark">Onto-Epistemic Layering of Values</a></h2>	</header><!-- .entry-header -->
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1108<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As notified, my writing has effectively moved to Substack, and here is my most recent post there:</p>
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1112<p class="has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph"><strong><a href="https://psybertron.substack.com/p/pirsigs-4-layer-metaphysics">Multi-Axis Evolutionary Layering<br />of Values in &#8220;Onto-Epistemic Structures&#8221;</a></strong><br />(with Pirsig&#8217;s 4 Layer Metaphysics as one example.)</p>
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1120<p class="wp-block-paragraph">(Prompted by <a href="https://discord.com/channels/1227601952389468230/1511921492978434078">
1120a discussion with Keith Gillette</a> on the new <a href="https://discord.gg/cBrPEhhT">Robert Pirsig Association discussion forum</a>.)</p>
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1203<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As of today, I&#8217;ve switched my writing and blogging to <a href="https://psybertron.substack.com/">my SubStack</a>.<br /><br />A note on <a href="https://psybertron.substack.com/p/vive-la-difference-difference-differance">my latest SubStack post (on sex differences of brain &amp; mind</a>) has a note explaining the shift, quoted here:</p>
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1208<p class="wp-block-paragraph">(*1) My <a href="https://www.psybertron.org/">Psybertron blog “What, Why and How do we Know?”</a> has over 25 years of content on WordPress. A fork in development of that technology platform is making support increasingly problematic (see post note below), so whilst I am maintaining that content on-line, I am looking for alternatives to preserve its value and accessibility as well as continue future blogging on SubStack. In that 25 years I have often remarked that blogging notes was very similar to the paper-slips or index-card techniques used by various authors to create and organise their semantic web of complex ideas and their relationships into manageable evolving texts. <a href="https://www.robertpirsig.org/online-resources/">Robert Pirsig’s story</a> of how he wrote both “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” and “Lila” is one clear example. That technique however has a name &#8211; “Zettelkasten” &#8211; German for note-box, and unsurprisingly these days there are electronic tools that support it. Not for the first time, I’m in the process of capturing the semantic-web of my own thinking and writing to date, in <a href="https://obsidian.md/">the “Obsidian” tool</a>.</p>
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1217<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I&#8217;m contemplating simply switching all you historical followers and commenters here directly over to the new channel, but <a href="https://psybertron.substack.com/">feel free to subscribe there directly</a>.</p>
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1225<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong><em>Post Note: </em></strong>I&#8217;m not killing my WordPress instances, just looking for insurance for valuable content and off-ramps if things go completely pear-shaped. I&#8217;ll keep them live even if I reduce dependency for now.</p>
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1306		<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://www.psybertron.org/archives/20888" rel="bookmark">David Deutsch and &#8220;The Pattern&#8221;</a></h2>	</header><!-- .entry-header -->
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1312<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The video embedded below is a conversation between Russ Roberts (EconTalk) and David Deutsch &#8211; a hero of mine, a quantum physicist who is incredibly thoughtful and erudite about government, democracy and society &#8211; read his &#8220;<a href="https://www.psybertron.org/archives/903">Fabric of Reality</a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href="https://www.psybertron.org/archives/12348">Beginning of Infinity</a>&#8221; if you haven&#8217;t already.</p>
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1316<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Their discussion topic &#8211; Deutsch&#8217;s particular thesis &#8211; is seeing antisemitism as &#8220;The Pattern&#8221;. <strong><em>A meme</em></strong> &#8211; existing long before &#8220;Jews were held responsible for the killing of God in the body of Jesus&#8221; &#8211; <strong><em>the impulse to legitimise hurting jews </em></strong>&#8211; whether big historical genocides, pogroms and lethal terrorisms or not, it&#8217;s there nascent in everyday life. In that sense they are &#8220;bottom-up&#8221; atrocities, <em>not primarily</em> decreed by authorities, except in some specific infamous &#8220;holocaust&#8221; cases where The Pattern was exploited by authorities. And it&#8217;s the <em>impulse to legitimise</em> hurting, not necessarily actively hurting, let alone killing. And the meme is not itself active &#8220;Jew-hate&#8221;, that&#8217;s also a symptom arising regularly from The Pattern.<br /><br />It obviously conflicts with many other moralities in other (eg Christian) cultures, but has always been &#8220;accommodated&#8221; even if that is reducing in more recent history. The Pattern sustains, without actively being worked against. The accommodation &#8211; of the legitimisation impulse &#8211; is built into society&#8217;s world-views, quite formally and explicitly so by Augustine and Martin Luther, say. These are often rationally perverse and contradictory, often intended to help Jews, softening the impulse from active killing, without actually reversing the impulse.</p>
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1325<p class="wp-block-paragraph">&#8220;This [the pattern] isn&#8217;t the only irrationality going around.&#8221; Deutsch.</p>
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1330<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I&#8217;ll say! &#8211; Pretty much my agenda, <a href="https://www.psybertron.org/archives/20736">where the antisemitism and islamophobia cases are mere examples</a>. If we had the right / better understanding of the phenomenon, surely we&#8217;d be better placed to address it, opines David. Hear, hear!</p>
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1348<p class="wp-block-paragraph">My thesis is that both antisemitism and islamophobia (and other public irrationalities) are about problematic <strong>self-identity</strong> in public, and the only reason I asked David for the above link to explain &#8220;The Pattern&#8221; was because of the dialogue arising on X after he had posted this:</p>
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1439<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I&#8217;m putting off reading (and watching / listening) as much as possible to focus on the writing, but I keep getting things &#8211; related to the writing &#8211; I really do want to give attention to.</p>
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1443<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I did respond to this (Facebook) post about <strong>Brian Josephson</strong>, Nobel prize-winning physicist that&#8217;s been part of my metaphysical origins story since the start. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/berebichez/posts/pfbid02en5LNHGtEktfmxtp9d76L1TRvEjmMCvnQDHMBTXijxzLaJGq9wK5DSdiLAoPaBzql">The FB post</a>. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ian.glendinning.94?comment_id=Y29tbWVudDoxMDE2NTQyMzc5NDg0NDk3M18yMTcyMjE4MzEzNTkyMDky&amp;cft[0]=AZazQ7JXGNLiuIKR04T7uXqSFBe2iMXitXxpAs2f_GpcTW8zLla3Qjr64UxOCSgmzU_kNpfRd8Uq5tkad46TNN7pmSsZkY_M7ZkPXapXN3FevEm_4_8zCAF9fWz1lwWZxo11gCg1EzI4H9hlP_Uo83iuVMYOiJk1RnDFRrMGHRlklQ&amp;tn=R]-R">My response</a>. [<em>Will dig out text, but FB is very badly behaved</em>.]</p>
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1451<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Further to last week&#8217;s <strong>Blake</strong> post <a href="https://iai.tv/articles/heisenberg-meets-william-blake-the-danger-of-sciences-single-vision-auid-3379">a piece from IAI linking Blake to Heisenberg</a>.</p>
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1455<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">
1456<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Heisenberg meets William Blake: The danger of science&#8217;s &#8220;single vision&#8221; The need for poetic science.</p>
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1458
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1460
1461<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And finally, I only interjected one small comment to Ben Taylor about this LinkedIn post on Karl Friston. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7454854349576482816/">The LinkedIn post</a>. Hat tip to Daniel Friedman (mentioned in my previous post) for commenting / sharing. The post is a defence against <strong>a critique of Friston&#8217;s Free Energy Principle</strong> which matters to me a great deal:</p>
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1465<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">
1466<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Ben commented (quoting an effective summary) &#8216;high entropy states are most effectively achieved by the involvement of low entropy/negentropic agents&#8217;</p>
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1471<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">
1472<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I replied &#8220;That&#8217;s certainly been my take for a decade or two.&#8221; ie the creation / evolution of intelligent life &#8211; localised low or neg-entropy &#8211;
1472 is an efficient part of the universe&#8217;s drive to maximise overall entropy. The &#8220;reason why&#8221; intelligent life exists.</p>
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1474
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1476
1477<p class="wp-block-paragraph">(The above is clearly closely related to the earlier FEP critique &#8220;The Emperor&#8217;s New Markov Blankets&#8221;.)</p>
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1481<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Confirmation bias is a good thing. It exists for good reason 🙂</p>
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1698	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2022/07'> July 2022 &nbsp;(6)</option>
1699	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2022/06'> June 2022 &nbsp;(8)</option>
1700	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2022/05'> May 2022 &nbsp;(15)</option>
1701	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2022/04'> April 2022 &nbsp;(19)</option>
1702	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2022/03'> March 2022 &nbsp;(8)</option>
1703	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2022/02'> February 2022 &nbsp;(9)</option>
1704	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2022/01'> January 2022 &nbsp;(15)</option>
1705	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2021/12'> December 2021 &nbsp;(12)</option>
1706	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2021/11'> November 2021 &nbsp;(13)</option>
1707	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2021/10'> October 2021 &nbsp;(13)</option>
1708	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2021/09'> September 2021 &nbsp;(2)</option>
1709	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2021/08'> August 2021 &nbsp;(9)</option>
1710	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2021/07'> July 2021 &nbsp;(12)</option>
1711	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2021/06'> June 2021 &nbsp;(13)</option>
1712	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2021/05'> May 2021 &nbsp;(14)</option>
1713	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2021/04'> April 2021 &nbsp;(7)</option>
1714	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2021/03'> March 2021 &nbsp;(4)</option>
1715	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2021/02'> February 2021 &nbsp;(12)</option>
1716	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2021/01'> January 2021 &nbsp;(5)</option>
1717	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2020/12'> December 2020 &nbsp;(1)</option>
1718	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2020/11'> November 2020 &nbsp;(2)</option>
1719	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2020/10'> October 2020 &nbsp;(6)</option>
1720	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2020/09'> September 2020 &nbsp;(8)</option>
1721	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2020/08'> August 2020 &nbsp;(2)</option>
1722	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2020/07'> July 2020 &nbsp;(2)</option>
1723	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2020/06'> June 2020 &nbsp;(1)</option>
1724	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2020/05'> May 2020 &nbsp;(4)</option>
1725	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2020/04'> April 2020 &nbsp;(2)</option>
1726	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2020/03'> March 2020 &nbsp;(2)</option>
1727	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2020/02'> February 2020 &nbsp;(1)</option>
1728	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2020/01'> January 2020 &nbsp;(3)</option>
1729	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2019/11'> November 2019 &nbsp;(3)</option>
1730	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2019/10'> October 2019 &nbsp;(2)</option>
1731	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2019/09'> September 2019 &nbsp;(1)</option>
1732	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2019/08'> August 2019 &nbsp;(8)</option>
1733	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2019/07'> July 2019 &nbsp;(10)</option>
1734	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2019/06'> June 2019 &nbsp;(11)</option>
1735	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2019/05'> May 2019 &nbsp;(5)</option>
1736	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2019/04'> April 2019 &nbsp;(10)</option>
1737	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2019/03'> March 2019 &nbsp;(7)</option>
1738	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2019/02'> February 2019 &nbsp;(4)</option>
1739	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2019/01'> January 2019 &nbsp;(8)</option>
1740	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2018/12'> December 2018 &nbsp;(7)</option>
1741	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2018/11'> November 2018 &nbsp;(6)</option>
1742	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2018/10'> October 2018 &nbsp;(6)</option>
1743	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2018/09'> September 2018 &nbsp;(8)</option>
1744	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2018/08'> August 2018 &nbsp;(16)</option>
1745	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2018/07'> July 2018 &nbsp;(7)</option>
1746	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2018/06'> June 2018 &nbsp;(9)</option>
1747	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2018/05'> May 2018 &nbsp;(12)</option>
1748	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2018/04'> April 2018 &nbsp;(16)</option>
1749	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2018/03'> March 2018 &nbsp;(20)</option>
1750	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2018/02'> February 2018 &nbsp;(3)</option>
1751	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2018/01'> January 2018 &nbsp;(11)</option>
1752	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2017/12'> December 2017 &nbsp;(6)</option>
1753	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2017/11'> November 2017 &nbsp;(19)</option>
1754	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2017/10'> October 2017 &nbsp;(18)</option>
1755	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2017/09'> September 2017 &nbsp;(17)</option>
1756	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2017/08'> August 2017 &nbsp;(23)</option>
1757	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2017/07'> July 2017 &nbsp;(11)</option>
1758	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2017/06'> June 2017 &nbsp;(11)</option>
1759	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2017/05'> May 2017 &nbsp;(5)</option>
1760	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2017/04'> April 2017 &nbsp;(11)</option>
1761	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2017/03'> March 2017 &nbsp;(7)</option>
1762	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2017/02'> February 2017 &nbsp;(5)</option>
1763	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2017/01'> January 2017 &nbsp;(8)</option>
1764	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2016/12'> December 2016 &nbsp;(3)</option>
1765	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2016/11'> November 2016 &nbsp;(6)</option>
1766	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2016/10'> October 2016 &nbsp;(6)</option>
1767	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2016/09'> September 2016 &nbsp;(15)</option>
1768	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2016/08'> August 2016 &nbsp;(18)</option>
1769	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2016/07'> July 2016 &nbsp;(10)</option>
1770	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2016/06'> June 2016 &nbsp;(4)</option>
1771	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2016/05'> May 2016 &nbsp;(13)</option>
1772	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2016/04'> April 2016 &nbsp;(13)</option>
1773	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2016/03'> March 2016 &nbsp;(16)</option>
1774	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2016/02'> February 2016 &nbsp;(12)</option>
1775	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2016/01'> January 2016 &nbsp;(11)</option>
1776	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2015/12'> December 2015 &nbsp;(2)</option>
1777	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2015/11'> November 2015 &nbsp;(2)</option>
1778	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2015/10'> October 2015 &nbsp;(11)</option>
1779	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2015/09'> September 2015 &nbsp;(7)</option>
1780	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2015/08'> August 2015 &nbsp;(12)</option>
1781	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2015/07'> July 2015 &nbsp;(13)</option>
1782	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2015/06'> June 2015 &nbsp;(19)</option>
1783	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2015/05'> May 2015 &nbsp;(18)</option>
1784	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2015/04'> April 2015 &nbsp;(18)</option>
1785	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2015/03'> March 2015 &nbsp;(16)</option>
1786	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2015/02'> February 2015 &nbsp;(12)</option>
1787	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2015/01'> January 2015 &nbsp;(8)</option>
1788	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2014/12'> December 2014 &nbsp;(20)</option>
1789	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2014/11'> November 2014 &nbsp;(11)</option>
1790	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2014/10'> October 2014 &nbsp;(11)</option>
1791	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2014/09'> September 2014 &nbsp;(21)</option>
1792	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2014/08'> August 2014 &nbsp;(21)</option>
1793	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2014/07'> July 2014 &nbsp;(12)</option>
1794	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2014/06'> June 2014 &nbsp;(18)</option>
1795	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2014/05'> May 2014 &nbsp;(8)</option>
1796	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2014/04'> April 2014 &nbsp;(15)</option>
1797	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2014/03'> March 2014 &nbsp;(9)</option>
1798	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2014/02'> February 2014 &nbsp;(10)</option>
1799	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2014/01'> January 2014 &nbsp;(8)</option>
1800	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2013/12'> December 2013 &nbsp;(4)</option>
1801	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2013/11'> November 2013 &nbsp;(5)</option>
1802	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2013/10'> October 2013 &nbsp;(20)</option>
1803	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2013/09'> September 2013 &nbsp;(18)</option>
1804	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2013/08'> August 2013 &nbsp;(24)</option>
1805	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2013/07'> July 2013 &nbsp;(23)</option>
1806	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2013/06'> June 2013 &nbsp;(20)</option>
1807	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2013/05'> May 2013 &nbsp;(17)</option>
1808	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2013/04'> April 2013 &nbsp;(4)</option>
1809	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2013/03'> March 2013 &nbsp;(8)</option>
1810	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2013/02'> February 2013 &nbsp;(17)</option>
1811	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2013/01'> January 2013 &nbsp;(18)</option>
1812	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2012/12'> December 2012 &nbsp;(7)</option>
1813	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2012/11'> November 2012 &nbsp;(11)</option>
1814	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2012/10'> October 2012 &nbsp;(10)</option>
1815	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2012/09'> September 2012 &nbsp;(12)</option>
1816	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2012/08'> August 2012 &nbsp;(19)</option>
1817	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2012/07'> July 2012 &nbsp;(26)</option>
1818	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2012/06'> June 2012 &nbsp;(23)</option>
1819	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2012/05'> May 2012 &nbsp;(12)</option>
1820	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2012/04'> April 2012 &nbsp;(11)</option>
1821	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2012/03'> March 2012 &nbsp;(7)</option>
1822	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2012/02'> February 2012 &nbsp;(27)</option>
1823	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2012/01'> January 2012 &nbsp;(21)</option>
1824	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2011/12'> December 2011 &nbsp;(20)</option>
1825	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2011/11'> November 2011 &nbsp;(17)</option>
1826	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2011/10'> October 2011 &nbsp;(5)</option>
1827	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2011/09'> September 2011 &nbsp;(12)</option>
1828	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2011/08'> August 2011 &nbsp;(11)</option>
1829	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2011/07'> July 2011 &nbsp;(10)</option>
1830	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2011/06'> June 2011 &nbsp;(5)</option>
1831	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2011/05'> May 2011 &nbsp;(3)</option>
1832	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2011/04'> April 2011 &nbsp;(5)</option>
1833	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2011/03'> March 2011 &nbsp;(18)</option>
1834	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2011/02'> February 2011 &nbsp;(9)</option>
1835	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2011/01'> January 2011 &nbsp;(21)</option>
1836	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2010/12'> December 2010 &nbsp;(21)</option>
1837	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2010/11'> November 2010 &nbsp;(18)</option>
1838	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2010/10'> October 2010 &nbsp;(21)</option>
1839	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2010/09'> September 2010 &nbsp;(16)</option>
1840	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2010/08'> August 2010 &nbsp;(10)</option>
1841	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2010/07'> July 2010 &nbsp;(21)</option>
1842	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2010/06'> June 2010 &nbsp;(24)</option>
1843	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2010/05'> May 2010 &nbsp;(12)</option>
1844	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2010/04'> April 2010 &nbsp;(8)</option>
1845	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2010/03'> March 2010 &nbsp;(13)</option>
1846	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2010/02'> February 2010 &nbsp;(6)</option>
1847	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2010/01'> January 2010 &nbsp;(46)</option>
1848	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2009/12'> December 2009 &nbsp;(11)</option>
1849	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2009/11'> November 2009 &nbsp;(26)</option>
1850	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2009/10'> October 2009 &nbsp;(27)</option>
1851	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2009/09'> September 2009 &nbsp;(16)</option>
1852	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2009/08'> August 2009 &nbsp;(19)</option>
1853	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2009/07'> July 2009 &nbsp;(26)</option>
1854	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2009/06'> June 2009 &nbsp;(14)</option>
1855	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2009/05'> May 2009 &nbsp;(14)</option>
1856	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2009/04'> April 2009 &nbsp;(13)</option>
1857	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2009/03'> March 2009 &nbsp;(22)</option>
1858	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2009/02'> February 2009 &nbsp;(17)</option>
1859	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2009/01'> January 2009 &nbsp;(28)</option>
1860	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2008/12'> December 2008 &nbsp;(14)</option>
1861	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2008/11'> November 2008 &nbsp;(6)</option>
1862	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2008/10'> October 2008 &nbsp;(4)</option>
1863	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2008/09'> September 2008 &nbsp;(14)</option>
1864	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2008/08'> August 2008 &nbsp;(4)</option>
1865	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2008/07'> July 2008 &nbsp;(1
18650)</option>
1866	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2008/06'> June 2008 &nbsp;(9)</option>
1867	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2008/05'> May 2008 &nbsp;(14)</option>
1868	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2008/04'> April 2008 &nbsp;(20)</option>
1869	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2008/03'> March 2008 &nbsp;(13)</option>
1870	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2008/02'> February 2008 &nbsp;(14)</option>
1871	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2008/01'> January 2008 &nbsp;(5)</option>
1872	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2007/12'> December 2007 &nbsp;(30)</option>
1873	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2007/11'> November 2007 &nbsp;(9)</option>
1874	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2007/10'> October 2007 &nbsp;(23)</option>
1875	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2007/09'> September 2007 &nbsp;(4)</option>
1876	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2007/08'> August 2007 &nbsp;(9)</option>
1877	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2007/07'> July 2007 &nbsp;(17)</option>
1878	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2007/06'> June 2007 &nbsp;(5)</option>
1879	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2007/05'> May 2007 &nbsp;(5)</option>
1880	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2007/04'> April 2007 &nbsp;(9)</option>
1881	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2007/03'> March 2007 &nbsp;(6)</option>
1882	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2007/02'> February 2007 &nbsp;(15)</option>
1883	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2007/01'> January 2007 &nbsp;(2)</option>
1884	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2006/12'> December 2006 &nbsp;(3)</option>
1885	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2006/11'> November 2006 &nbsp;(14)</option>
1886	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2006/10'> October 2006 &nbsp;(15)</option>
1887	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2006/09'> September 2006 &nbsp;(5)</option>
1888	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2006/08'> August 2006 &nbsp;(19)</option>
1889	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2006/07'> July 2006 &nbsp;(5)</option>
1890	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2006/06'> June 2006 &nbsp;(7)</option>
1891	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2006/05'> May 2006 &nbsp;(7)</option>
1892	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2006/04'> April 2006 &nbsp;(5)</option>
1893	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2006/03'> March 2006 &nbsp;(30)</option>
1894	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2006/02'> February 2006 &nbsp;(29)</option>
1895	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2006/01'> January 2006 &nbsp;(42)</option>
1896	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2005/12'> December 2005 &nbsp;(11)</option>
1897	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2005/11'> November 2005 &nbsp;(25)</option>
1898	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2005/10'> October 2005 &nbsp;(21)</option>
1899	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2005/09'> September 2005 &nbsp;(29)</option>
1900	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2005/08'> August 2005 &nbsp;(42)</option>
1901	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2005/07'> July 2005 &nbsp;(24)</option>
1902	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2005/06'> June 2005 &nbsp;(46)</option>
1903	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2005/05'> May 2005 &nbsp;(49)</option>
1904	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2005/04'> April 2005 &nbsp;(29)</option>
1905	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2005/03'> March 2005 &nbsp;(16)</option>
1906	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2005/02'> February 2005 &nbsp;(24)</option>
1907	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2005/01'> January 2005 &nbsp;(22)</option>
1908	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2004/12'> December 2004 &nbsp;(16)</option>
1909	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2004/11'> November 2004 &nbsp;(18)</option>
1910	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2004/10'> October 2004 &nbsp;(26)</option>
1911	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2004/09'> September 2004 &nbsp;(41)</option>
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1945	<option value='https://www.psybertron.org/archives/date/2001/11'> November 2001 &nbsp;(10)</option>
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