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Thanks for responding. To be clear, I don't object to the inclusion of the mysticism, I simply find it intriguing. Most surprising to me were not your beliefs,

Thanks for responding. To be clear, I don't object to the inclusion of the mysticism, I simply find it intriguing. Most surprising to me were not your beliefs, but that you had coined a term, "Neuro-Occultism," that is utterly ungooglable--the only results returned are your own writings. I spent some time reading your blog where you discussed at length your connections between mysticism and Lisp. I was disappointed, though, to learn that your place of employment is not strictly Lisp-only. ...Now I feel like a total stalker. It's all a few clicks away from the LLTHW site, I swear!

thephoeron 12y ago
Haha---it's fine. The internet makes everyone's life an open-book. Which place of employment do you mean, though? As a contractor, I jump around a lot; but I'm also involved with a start-up (but that's still running in stealth mode, so there's not much posted about it online). I have managed to use Common Lisp at nearly every contract or job I've worked at for the past few years though---once employers and clients became more responsive to it again. Even when the job didn't strictly allow it, I used Lisp for code generation anyway. As to your clarification---yes, that was understood. I was more speaking to the general criticisms about my tendency towards mystical language, since that comes up fairly often. I would be more surprised if there was third-party material discussing Neuro-Occultism, TBH---the occult community at large dislikes it because I deny a metaphysical explanation; and most of the people in the scientific community that I've shown it to dislike it because it even deals with the problem of mysticism (much like Freud criticized the work of Carl Jung for the same reason). How dare I! That being said, I have been making good progress this year on my adapted process calculus---I'm just putting the finishing touches on the BNF grammar, and then I can begin testing its logical consistency and writing proofs. Once it's finished, I'm hoping to be able to describe physics, quantized consciousness, quantum and classical computing all with the same notation. Fingers crossed.

thephoeron 12y ago

Haha---it's fine. The internet makes everyone's life an open-book. Which place of employment do you mean, though? As a contractor, I jump around a lot; but I'm also involved with a start-up (but that's still running in stealth mode, so there's not much posted about it online). I have managed to use Common Lisp at nearly every contract or job I've worked at for the past few years though---once employers and clients became more responsive to it again. Even when the job didn't strictly allow it, I used Lisp for code generation anyway. As to your clarification---yes, that was understood. I was more speaking to the general criticisms about my tendency towards mystical language, since that comes up fairly often. I would be more surprised if there was third-party material discussing Neuro-Occultism, TBH---the occult community at large dislikes it because I deny a metaphysical explanation; and most of the people in the scientific community that I've shown it to dislike it because it even deals with the problem of mysticism (much like Freud criticized the work of Carl Jung for the same reason). How dare I! That being said, I have been making good progress this year on my adapted process calculus---I'm just putting the finishing touches on the BNF grammar, and then I can begin testing its logical consistency and writing proofs. Once it's finished, I'm hoping to be able to describe physics, quantized consciousness, quantum and classical computing all with the same notation. Fingers crossed.