What There Is

What I Wrote

• The Aleph anti-FAQ which really only makes sense if you've read the FAQ of the Aleph mailing list
• The Bactra Review: of books, magazines, and whatever else happens to strike my fancy. A conceit, in several senses.
• Cadmus, an apologia for my feeble efforts at putting books on-line
• On Chomsky: A ``Study in Total Depravity''
• The imaginatively titled Cosma's Home Page, which is presumably where you just came from.
• Net secedes from the Real World (so-called)! Read the Emergency Revolutionary Backbone Cabal Governing Junta for National Formation, Salvation and Euphony's Decleration of Autonomy of Cyberistan or suffer extraordinary punishment #2!
• A Few Words on Polluting Precious Bodily Fluids, i.e. the use of drugs. (Summary: They are over-rated, over-feared and ought to be legal, if only because the laws against them are bad and unenforcable.)
• Is the Primordial Soup Done Yet? Quantifying Self-Organization, Especially in Cellular Automata. Too close to a human document for journal publication; hopefully not so close to a journal publication that it can't explain what I'm doing. (The main title is a dig at my adviser.)
• Jesus Cthulhu
• Notebooks: Things I find interesting, things I try to explain, things I need to learn about, questions I'd like answered, resources I recommend, things I ought to read. A brain-dump on the part of a compulsively academic scribbler.
• A chain of interlinked, almost free-associated pieces of prose tentatively titled Oblivion Her Poppy.
• ``Sing, Ye Countinghouse Muses,'' a term paper on musicians, commerce, aristocracy and the uses of myths in ancient Greece. I had to persuade the professor I hadn't plagarized it from the professional literature; and greater praise than this, I cannot expect to receive from the Berkeley classics department. (Yes, I'm proud of it. I have the rest of my life to learn humility.)
• The Story So Far, a conspiracy theory, explaining who has been running the world for the last 2,500 years, and what they plan to do next. This was written with a number of friends (who choose to remain anonymous) in the spring of 1993. It was posted to the net --- including the alpha.centauri.* hierarchy. Some got the joke, but an incredible number thought I was serious. One person wrote me that it made sense of his thirty years of ``occult investigations,'' and I didn't have the heart to respond.
• Summer School Lectures on Computational Mechanics
• Thermodynamic Depth of Causal States: When Paddling around in Occam's Pool, Shallowness Is a Virtue, co-authored with Jim Crutchfield
• Your Final Exam, on the future of the Internet

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