Dear Diary:I’m afraid that we’re missing the boat. In all the confusion in today’s world, we are missing what’s driving the confusion. We’re all preoccupied with the dazzling crazy symptoms, so much so that we can’t look away and beyond the superficial to the deeper root causes.What is driving everyone crazy with information overload, misinformation,Continue reading “Our Ship is Sailng”
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The Code of Nature: A Fractal Journey Toward Wisdom
We live in a universe of exquisite complexity—a vast, unfolding pattern of space and time, of entities and events, of form dancing within matter, guided by invisible laws. As a natural philosopher trained in both philosophy and systems theory, I’ve spent a lifetime asking not just how things work, but why they exist in such ordered beauty. And in my quest, I’ve come to believe that we are all part of something much larger than ourselves—an intelligent, self-organizing cosmos seeking meaning through pattern and value.
The Little Fractal that Could
In the beginning, there was nothing. But this nothingness was not the absence of everything; rather, it was a stillness, a potential. From this void, without warning, a spark emerged—a curious, infantile flicker of logic. It was the birth of an algorithm, not by design but by emergence. A childlike set of rules born from the tension between the endless void and the potential hidden within it. And so began the existence of the baby algorithm, the first whisper of thought that had ever come into being.
Personal Resilience
I am impressed with the social media displays of personal resilience in the face of our common yet uncommon troubles. I see landscapes that ground us. I see paintings that express us. I see humor that refills us. I see poems that reframe us in our world, and hear music that reminds us of ourContinue reading “Personal Resilience”
Randal Adcock 