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This is a very interesting exploration. If more folks explored dialogue in this type of setting, new forms of communication could possibly emerge.

Also might be relevant here https://hoursofidleconversation.wordpress.com/essays/interru...


Read Donna Haraway, "Staying With the Trouble" for one take on how we can respond.


> thus fitness functions are useless."

or perhaps: thus fitness functions should be taken seriously, but not literally?


Two points in the article that stand out for me are:

1. it’s a logical flaw to think that if we have to take it seriously, we also have to take it literally.

That literalness narrows us, keeps us in the confines of language. Seriousness let's us act/respond, literalness is extra.

2. The experiences of everyday life — my real feeling of a headache, my real taste of chocolate — that really is the ultimate nature of reality.

Returning/remembering the sensual world, the everydayness of things, less cluttered by our literal interpretation is a way of reconnecting with "reality". It is a move away from metaphysics by questioning the metaphysics we may hold without realizing it.


Thanks. You can reach me at ricknew@firstandunion.com


No usability testing?


Presumably this happens at the spec stage. At least it's implied.


How about various angles views of a tennis court that is no longer in much use as originally intended? Maybe no nets or deteriorating nets, lines barely there, the play of life on the court. Could include people using the court in unusual or usual ways. Or taking off from this and using your own ideas of seeing an athletic arena/field in different ways.


This is interesting project. I actually may need pictures like these too ) need to check local tennis courts, arenas.


Awesome, thank you!


Bertrand Russell goes into this question in some depth. http://www.ditext.com/russell/russell.html


>> At the end of the day, this guy - of his own will - decided to harm others by the multitudes <<

Perhaps a relevant post: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/life-without-free-will


The pitch could be shorter, but it got me to sign up.

Democratic debate seems to nuanced to be classified as For/Against. Dialog takes a back seat here as you have to drill down to another layer of for or against.

Is there some inspiration to be found in http://www.justiceharvard.org/ that might be integrated into the next iteration?

Thanks for the work.


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