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Artifical Intelligence With John Shirley

Most of the material in this blog post is drawn from an email interview of me by my old pal John Shirley, for the ezine Instant Future , run by Brock Hinzmann. As is my usual fashion, for my blog-post version I added some images that may seem to have no connection with the interview […]

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Roadtrip To Encinitas

The grief is still quite harsh; it comes and goes. Today alone in the supermarket I was lost in a haze of remorse. All the things I didn’t do, or did wrong. Even though, in her last months, Sylvia said, “I forgive you for anything you ever did. You’re being so nice to me now, […]

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Free Will, Immortality, and Sylvia

This post is based on an email interview that my long-time corrspondent Giulio Prisco made with me for his own website, Turing Church. Born in Italy, Giulio now lives in Budapest with his Hungarian wife. GP1: Let’s start with Juicy Ghosts. Your concept of lifebox immortality proposes a deep database on a person, coupled to […]

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Sylvia Bogsch Rucker, 1943-2023

My wife Sylvia died on January 6, 2023. We had a memorial service for her at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Los Gatos on February 4. It was a beautiful service. At Sylvia’s request we draped her quilts over the pews. We had a  big crowd, over 130 people in the little church, everyone brimming […]

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Painting A Lot. Family.

I’m done with space paitnings for now. I sold my now-finished New Glasses to my nephew Hans von Sichart. It’s a very nice painting; I put in a whole extra day on it, sharpening it up. Hans came to our house to pick it up; it was nice to see him, had been nearly ten […]

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Notes From The Underground

“Ahna bogbog du smeepy flan,” as the prehistoric Egyptian potter says in my ultrapunk 1983 story “Buzz.” I finished a big new painting, Space Jellies. I started out with the dark blak/purple background, then put on small stars by flicking my thumb across paint-laden brushes. The yellow-orange pattern is a kind of shape I like […]

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Cosmic Cliff

Still flipping out on clouds after Sweden.  One of those full-on “glory” sunrises here in Los Gatos, with those rays…odd looking split in the middle.  Uncool to paint such scenes, I suppose, but might be fun to try. Can always throw in some UFOs. Once a painting teacher decreed or pleaded with me: “Don’t do […]

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Stockholm Joy

After I gave my talk in Helsinki, Sylvia and I went and spent five days in Stockholm. I had no idea what Stockholm would be like, but it was wonderful. The city itself is on a number of islands crowded together, and the sky—at least in the summer—is a lovely parade of clouds, very crisp. […]

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Helsinki Math & Art

Early in August, 2022, Sylvia and I took a trip to Scandinavia. I’d been invited by the Bridges Organization to give a talk at their 2o22 conference at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. Their annual meetings feature talks and demonstrations and exhibits relating to connections between math, art, music, architecture, and culture. Perfect for me. […]

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Podcast #113. “Logic, Gnarl, Writing, Painting.”

August 1, 2022. I was invited to give a plenary lecture at the Bridges group’s “Mathematics & Art” conference in Helsinki, Finland. Over my long career, I’ve used math, computer graphics, writing, and painting as ways to express myself, and to get clearer images of certain things that interest me.  Four eyes, all looking at […]

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