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Paul Grobstein's picture

how to use uncertainty

From a recent lunch conversation with Mike Sears following up on some evolsys open group discussions.  Perhaps worth a session in that and/or in the core group?

Alternative perspectives on randomness and its significance

"There is certainly something appealing about a perspective that equates current uncertainty with ignorance that can be overcome in the future.  Among other things, it defines a clear task, to make certain everything that is currently uncertain.   But I find still more appealing the notion that uncertainty is a persistant and generative condition, one that allows us a creative role in shaping a future that will in turn always have new things into which to inquire ..."

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