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My|self, F2R and Macalla in a Triolectic Fantasy Play
At the Museum Jorn in Silkeborg, 2026, April 10-12, Patrick presented the inaugural address at a Symposium on triolectics and absurdity. If behaviour in an existential crisis could be framed as a surreal game of imagination could it evolve as a piece of theatre in the genre of LitRPG? If so, we have an absurd…
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My|self© in a No-Exit-Endgame
There is a new book planned for next year. The narrative is centred on My|self a[1] fictional character, a player in a surreal game of waiting. The character should be understood as a kind of illusionist in the sense of Prospero who conjures a strange world into existence. It’s a chance to explore our curiosity…
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Bilocation, Virtual Immortality & Saint Revolut©
As a Revolut customer you can be in two different places at the same time transacting, spending money with your mobile Revolut App. Imagine you in one place and an unknown scammer or skimming-thief in another place fraudulently spending your money simultaneously on your App. Is this possible? Bilocation is a miraculous ability for you…
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Habits of ‘Ƭ-rational’ Obedience during Covid
The Prisoners’ Progress This essay is a brief note from a bigger project that explores the meaning of obedience as a categorical imperative solution in a game of waiting[1]. The original essay and an accompanying stage game has been published[2] elsewhere. Some of my notes are also available for download at the following: http://www.patrickmcnutt.com/blog/playing-the-spectator-while-waiting-for-covid/ focusing…
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Ode to Bob Dylan : A Poem to Irregular Hopes
Ode to Bob Dylan at 80: A Poem to Irregular Hopes Enjoining Austin Clarke, Dylan Thomas & Ted Hawkins with Bob Dylan in a poetic ‘strange loop’ Pretty mama, I don’t understand Tell me what’s so special about this man[1] As the cherry blossoms curl To the ground below A dream twister, Thran…
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Playing the Spectator While Waiting for Covid
Across the world we are adjusting and adapting to life under lockdown, furloughed, cocooning, and moving around within an agreed social distance. We are responding to a new world order under Covid, a new normal with a greater degree of mutual interdependence as people observe and respond to each other’s behaviour. While there are computer…
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Artificial Intelligence Transubstantiation
A future beckons where typing may be redundant. In that future, what if your brain could type? Beginning with a sufficiently intelligent algorithm (henceforth AL. Gorithm) we have argued that AL. needs a conscious and wisdom. For the purposes of this Blog essay, a conscious and wisdom are presented as images, allowing us to generalize…
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An ultimatum game of ichi-go ichi-e
There was an opportunity, one meeting at Osaka for world leaders at the recent G20 summit. A valuable starting point for the policy-makers, faced with a menu of economic theories, is trust in each other and a new inter-disciplinary approach with an emphasis on ethics and economics. Climate change, migration and displacement, IoT and 5G,…
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Do You Want To Eat Grandma?
The eye of Sauron gazes down upon us as we click, search and buy online in an endless feedback loop of transactions. We rely on algorithms for advice, for direction and general guidance and reassurance in our personal lives. Machines and robots are thinking because rational humans have stopped thinking. Consider this thought experiment: mentally…
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Could Labour Win? Condorcet Loser in UK Election
A recent YouGov poll last week, Tuesday 30 May, provoked a discussion of a likely ‘hung parliament’ in the upcoming UK election. Voters are challenged, faced with many candidates across a spectrum of issues, as the old left-right dichotomy breaks down. In the literature on voting theory, there is a phenomenon called the Condorcet Loser.…