Note: Technology has driven me to take notes on a handheld, so the publishing of aphorisms should be much faster now... They are also better organized (by author).
Nota: Por flojera y globalización, he dejado de traducir al español, además de que la mayoría de los aforismos han aflorado en inglés... Si es requerida, se puede intentar una traducción automática al Español (No recomendada).“La naturaleza se creó a si misma” (Nature created itself)
“You can have great ideas. But if you cannot communicate them, they have no place in science. It's like a rainbow in the darkness...”
“Sorry that I'm using hebrew letters, but we run out of greek ones in the other model”
“If the universe is a computer, how do you program it?”
“If the univrse was a computer, I sincerely hope that it is not running (or crawling...) MS Windows...”
“edge of chaos can be seen as the border between yin and yang”
“everything in struggle is in a critical state?”
“causality is storytelling”
“It is not wether somehting is wrong with subjectivity. We are embedded in it, so we can only deal with it, or be blind and attempt to ignore it”
“any dogmatism, including scientific, in a sense, is autistic, because it cannot contextualize ideas, nor accept ideas from other contexts”
“Do our Seelenzustandes (personal contexts) get less incomplete, or just shift with experience???”
*“Development is not only about learning new things, but also about forgetting old ones”
*“There is no such thing as a soul without a body”
“La vida es un baile de nosotros con nosotros mismos” (sueño, Vicente Guerrero, 1-jul-2004 )
(Life is a dance with ourselves)
*“Any systemic definition of will be contextual (!=subjective)”
“Women are NP-hard...”
* “Knowledge brings more questions than answers”
* “El sentido de la vida depende no de donde se encuentre uno sino de adonde se dirija”
(The meaning of life does not depend on where one is standing, but on where one is heading towards)
“<Every theorem needs axiom(s) | Every idea needs belief(s)>, so not anything goes. Even if there are several sets of axioms, used each in different contexts, the set of all axiom sets limits the space of possibilities”
* “Free will is a consequence of consciousness”
“Can proteins be heroic? Or heroism is a fashionable kind of <chance|luck>?”
“How much information can a line carry?”
“Is a seed alive? Potentially...”
*“When we are children, we think that adults know how the world works. When we become adults, we know enough about the world to know that we know nothing about it...”
*“We shouldn't see ourselves as ‘controllers' of the world, but as ‘actors' in the world”
“For me, beauty is such that provokes love. That which only creates arousal is pornography, and has nothing to do with beauty”
*“Science, as an institution, cannot be independent of human passions”
“Pornography, like emergence, cannot be attributed solely to an object. An observer is required to relate the object in question to a context, thus giving it meaning. This is not subjective, since it is also dependent on the object. An object cannot be judged as pornographic independent of a context”
*“All meaning is for an observer”
*“A one-night-stander is someone who does not dare to explore the full potential of a relationship, just like a child who is afraid to go to the deep part of the pool. The latter does not want to learn how to swim, the former does not want to learn how to live”
“Philosophers get paid for posing interesting questions; scientists for answering them. Thus, one cannot live without the other...”
*“You shouldn't compete against others. You should compete against yourself.”
*“Everything can be seen as a system because there is nothing you cannot <split|decompose>”
“It is interesting that all drunk men speak in the same way independently of the language they use”
*“Disobey this phrase”
“If there was an absolute truth, why shouldn't everyone agree with it?”
*“Don't try to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.”
“Remember emotions”
“Siempre habrá alguien mejor que tú” -Luis San Vicente (There will always be someone better than you)
“You cannot say what you are until you know what you were” (dream)
*“Life is a constant adaptation”.
“The art of packing consists in minimizing the entropy of the suitcase”
“Just add a bit of self-organization, and coordination will emerge...”
*“Who is stronger: the one who gives the blow, or the one who endures it?”
“Every adaptation has limits”
“It is hard to have tolerance towards others. It is harder to have it towards yourself”
“Yes, any system can be seen as a computer. But every computer needs an observer to interpret what it is computing”
“The difference between science and religion is precisely that science questions its axioms”
“Reason is just a small part of the human mind”
“Life is a continous voyage of discovery of oneself”
“Emotions blur "rational" thought”
*“Others are mirrors of one's soul”
“Who told that all in life should be joy?
Some suffering allows us to enjoy more”
“Who told that love was only about happiness?”
“Sources of pleasure bring a dependance hiding up their sleeve”
“Sex should not be a goal, but one of the means to express erotic love”
*“You should make life fit to you, not to make you fit life...”
*“There is, and should be, high redundancy in the memetic space”
“Variety is the grandmother of complexity”
“We humans are strange ceatures: we complain constantly, but if you ask someone if she/he is not satisfied with her/his life, almost nobody will say no”
“The goal of life is not to be happy, but to have something to live for”
“People should find their own path, not to follow blindly the path of others”
“You cannot say that the evolution of bat wings was not novel just because bird and insect wings had evolved in different contexts. In a similar way, new ideas can recall previous ones, and still be novel”
“It seems serious because I am not familiar with it”
*“<Life self-organizes>2”
*“There is no game in which you cannot cheat”
*“Rel-beings are situated in a context with which they interact, just like animals in an environment”
“There is no attractor that cannot be destabilized. Therefore, the universe will have no end.”
*“To know your limits you need to go beyond them”
*“Everything is about balance. The problem is that one aspect seeking balance may unbalance other aspects.”
“Don't stop. Everything is in flow...”
“Since everything is related and in flow, no balance will be ideal.”
“Any 'solution' will bring further 'problems'”
“On average, how many seconds of a persons' life occur in total homeostasis?”
“Is there such a thing as total homeostasis?”
“You can always find a context in which anyone/anything will be in trouble”
“There will always be problems”
“Problems are unavoidable. We can only adapt to the ones we couldn't predict.”
“Hagas lo que hagas, algo estará mal” (Whatever you do, something will turn out to be wrong)
“Without pressure, there cannot be natural selection. However, there will always be some pressure.”
“My own theory of everything: stuff is”
“Only naive people do not have problems”
“Cognition is in the observer”
“If you're on the top, you can only go down”
“Beauty can always increase”
*“Every joy brings the sorrow of its absence in its wake”
*“When I am a part of the herd I cannot see the stampede”
“You can never get even.
Not even after death.
The only way to restore balance is through forgiveness”
*“A happy life is full of sufferings”
*“Only misery is for free”
*“Even if you do everything a woman wants, it will not be enough. But of course, this is no reason for not doing it”
“There is nothing completely new because everything is related to something else. But there is always novelty in anything, since contexts change constantly”
“Life is a game complex enough not to be able to always win”
*“Life is not meant to be perfect”
“The problem of being unaware is that you are unaware of being unaware”
*“Tendencies tend to change”
“I'm making a PhD in Hand-Waving Science”
*“If we could achieve all that we wanted, there would not be anything left to enjoy”
*“It's much easier to take a woman into your bed than into your life”
*“Winning or losing does not matter as much as what you learn from it”
“For most things, you need to give in more than what you get out. (2nd law of homodynamics?)”
*“Do not suffer for what you lack,
enjoy what you have”
“Those who have less usually give more”
“If you care too much about your goals, you will never reach them.”
“You say ‘I'm a scientist‘ with a voice as if saying ‘I'm a pervert‘”
“Future's like a whore. When it's time to pay you'd always realize, you are paying for the wrong thing...”
“Life is great, but sometimes it is too difficult”
“I'm 25 and I love my life. Is that normal?
“I enjoy it. I enjoy it a lot. But it gets on my nerves.”
“Money is bad, but without it it's even worse”
“El orden no es garantía de paz” (Order does not guarantee peace)
“Que nadie lo haya hecho no significa que sea imposible” (The fact that nobody has ever done it doesn't mean it's impossible)
“Using time for yourself does not mean losing it”
“Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. All three are processes in which useful or accessible forms of some quantity, such as energy or money, are transformed into useless, inaccessible forms of the same quantity. That is not to say that these three processes don't have fringe benefits: taxes pay for roads and schools; the second law of thermodynamics drives cars, computers and metabolisms; and death, at the very least, opens up tenured faculty positions.” -Seth Lloyd
“Indeed, scientific truth seems merely myth with few blattant errors" -John J. Hopfield
“The data is somewhat massaged” -Frank Wilczek
“It is as though a puzzle could be put together simply by shaking its pieces.” -Christian De Duve, "Life Evolving", p. 22.
“Absence of evidence is not an evidence of absence” -Christian De Duve
“Modeling, it should be clear, is an art form. It depends on the experience and taste of the modeler. In this it is much like cartooning, especially political cartooning. The modeler (cartoonist) must decide which features to make salient (exaggerate), and which features to eliminate (avoid), inorder to answer the questions (make the political point)” -John Holland, Hidden Order, p. 11
“The less time you spend doing research, the more money you get” -Sorin Solomon
“(...) our brains are only minuscule fragments of the universe, much too small to hold all the facts of the world but not too idle to speculate about them” -Valentino Braitenberg, Vehicles, p. 1.
“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in ceating out of void, but out of chaos” -Mary Shelley
“The thoroughly well-informed man - that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughy well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-а-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.” -Oscar Wilde, 'The Portrait of Dorian Gray'
“Most people, when they go around not speaking clearly, somewhere in their unconscious they're asking for trouble” -Haruki Murakami, 'Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'
“"To tell the truth, I do not know this thing called 'mind', what it does or how to use it. It is only a word I have heard."
"The mind is nothing you use," I say. "The mind is just there. It is like the wind. You simply feel its movements."” -Haruki Murakami, 'Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'
“What's lost never perishes” -Haruki Murakami, 'Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'
“To get irritated is to lose our way in life” -Haruki Murakami, 'A Wild Sheep Chase'
“Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his destiny a chain of predeterminate links: some 'future' events may be linked to others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has actually closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath” -Vladimir Nabokov, 'Transparent Things', Ch. 24.
“Understanding is but the sum of our misunderstndings” -Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart, Ch. 11, p. 146
“Knowledge multiplies sorrows” -Russian proverb
“The only thing I know about geography is that Mexico is below us” -Marko Rodriguez
“You choose your own constraints” -Erden Göktepe
“As a philosopher, I am a person who asks questions, nasty questions. And then I run away as quickly as possible” -Jean Paul Van Bendegem
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