About Me
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- Biography is either masked ball or epitaph. As you find me, so we are.
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
Friday, 13 July 2012
#8612
Translators prove
that you’re not me -
Do prisons show us
who is free?
Experiments within The
Cell
Sought out a cause
for human hell.
Zimbardo traced the
evil fruits
To situation’s
attributes;
But who’s Observer,
who’s Observed?
Inside the circle all
is curved.
A lone Christina saw The Cross
The men had made. She
sensed a loss
Of self control. It’s ever thus –
The way a Me grows
from an Us.
For, from the moment
Selves emerge,
They’re swallowed up
within the urge
To join the others in
a purge
Of weakness. And so weak, they merge.
The Stanford basement’s
here and now.
Look! Check around
you. Notice how
You copy. Reproduce The Code.
You are The Seed and
you’ve been sowed.
Self-preservation is
The Rule;
But it was written by
a fool.
There is no Self and
nowt’s preserved,
And no one gets what
is deserved.
There are no prisons
but The One
We fail to see.
My rhyme is done.
Monday, 9 July 2012
Two Generals' Problem
(To J.N.G.)*
Two Generals stood on
a hill
And both were General
A
Like twins who
started life as One
But found a unique
way
You might sense they’re
identical
Though they’re A
World Apart
And neither knows how
he might say
When the attack will start
So while the surgeons
start their fun
It’s lucky that I’ve
gone quite numb
The brain’s a body
that’s begun
To think what’s gone
has almost come
As one fine day Jim sailed away
So black and white must fade to Gray
And sail straight on passed Farallon
Where no one turns an EPIRB on
Reflecting is indifference
And Truth a one-way glass
That magnifies inference
Before its feel can pass
Maternal dust and swirling ink
Reflecting is indifference
And Truth a one-way glass
That magnifies inference
Before its feel can pass
Both scattered matter in the drink
Seek Five Alive and space to think
If you don’t swim you’re bound to sink*James Nicholas "Jim" Gray born January 12, 1944 - lost at sea January 28, 2007 -declared deceased May 16, 2012. Computer scientist and winner of the Turing Award. Writer on many things including the Two Generals Paradox, a thought experiment demonstrating the problem of communicating over an unreliable link.
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