Recently discovered works of Jean-Pierre Ugarte. His concrete landscapes devoid of human figures reminds me somewhat of Chinese landscape paintings. And one of the only forms of Brutalism that is actually hopeful and inspiring, through the unexpected harmony of the artificial and natural forces.

Good exhibit of more of his works: https://www.sensesatlas.com/metaphysical-territories-jean-paul-ugarte/

Training a neural network using a bucket of water: https://autobencoder.com/2021-04-05-bucket/

It's too many leaps, but I can't help but draw connections to Solaris/Gaia Theory. Is our ocean a giant reservoir computer used to train Gaia?

A bucket of water as a computer for speech recognition:

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-39432-7_63

A "liquid state machine" I saw referenced in James Bridle's "Ways of Being". Bridle reminds us: the world isn't like a computer. Instead, computers are like the world.

Everything is like the world in its own way. Then we can imagine many ways in which computers could be like the world - the Turing machines in current ubiquity are only one of those ways.

What other ways could there be?

The bucket itself is not 'thinking', but it is processing. To extend this in reminiscence of Cryptonomicon, is the ocean a massive analogue computer? Maybe closer to Solaris than we thought.

We must refuel Oil Street