some tomorrow today was

it is latening. i am running code, looking to get a feel for the urban density of rural georgia, my computer sniffing the rolling 0000110011011 landscapes, through a satellite memory. this code has demanded the simplest, and most difficult coding things that i have encountered in too long. i must not be being challenged too much as a programmer. good thing i am not a programmer.

spent a good deal of today, writing to my grandparents, three neat sheets.
you mentioned something recently that i began commenting on, and meant to finish commenting on, but failed somehow. i will later stumbled upon it as a tool, in order to think something else.

you mentioned having your thoughts follow trajectories dictated by things you had recently seen or read. then, you experienced a severing of influence, and a liberation in stream of thought, and the impulse to dwell there, and then the realization of that having the potential to become an cognitive overbearer.

this leads, in a way, to my recent seeming inability to sustain certain detailish things in my memory, and my initial despairs in the face of notionloss .. but that, what i seemed to have gained was a greater intuition of how some underlying principles work in more broad classes of phenomena.. a sort of generalization of knowledge, instead of (and in fact in place of) just raw accumulation of knowledge/experience. i realized that, given the finite nature of the human mind, one could process complex information more efficiently if perhaps, instead of having to refer to numerous specific instances, one could harness the essential principle, in its most adaptable form. of course, this is true of us, as in learning, and much, and most else.
the notion to which i might well be referring to, is that of a larger cognitive regime of behavior, on a continuum. we can imagine some humans as having more of a "empirical nature", which creates a perspective centrally based around previously organized and integrated knowledge and experiences, with many well maintained notions, relationships, and strucutres. this is compared to an "intuitive nature", which will less often hardwire solutions or conceptual structure, while more often leaving concept and experience fluid, for revisions and adaptations. where was i going with this?
ah yes, the superefficiency of the intuitive mind! it is not the case!! rather, it is only the case in certain situations, where intuitive leaps and adaptive jumps are advantageous. there are plenty of situations where conventions, structure, and rigidity are more efficient...
this is exactly a notion in complexity science. when a complex adaptive system tunes itself in such a way that, they are right on the edge of stability and instability, they are in the optimally adaptive position. if stability is possible, and useful, then the system can be stable. but, if something changes drastically, the system is not far from an unstable state which kicks it large distances in state space.. potentially allowing it to fall into a state which is more commensurate with the newly transformed surroundings. the whole thing is referred to as evolving to "the edge of chaos",..
whatever it is worth, i was lead hear.