Prices, Dreams, and the Bayesian Brain
Markets and dreams do the same job. They are error-correction loops in a predictive system that cannot see the whole, and they fail in the same way when suppressed.
Suhas Kashyap
A bricolage of musings on science, philosophy, dharma, economics and beauty.
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Science
Systems, complexity, and the grammars that nature shares with markets and minds.
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Thinking about thinking. Error, learning, and the limits of human rationality.
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What traditions quietly knew, and modernity is slowly relearning.
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Money, sovereignty, and the strange physics of compounding.
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Aesthetics as a way of knowing. The noticing that precedes the argument.
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Long covid, error, and aborting missions. A four-essay arc on knowing when to stop, and why the stopping is the learning.
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From jellyfish to monetary systems: a five-essay arc on emergent order and why the authority you can't see is often the one doing the work.
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The World Is a Verb, Not a Noun
What Sanskrit, metabolism, and markets reveal about reductionism's deepest error.
The Compounding Architecture of Debt
What software maintenance teaches us about biological maintenance. Technical debt and metabolic debt are the same phenomenon in different substrates.
Why you need a plan B for financial security
Financial diversification strategy that will give you self-sovereignty like never before
To err or not to err?
The good(?), the bad and the ugly side of errors