Nature Conformable to Herself (1992)
ChapterInitially released in the SFI Bulletin Winter/Spring 1992, From a talk offered at the 1992 Complex Systems Winter School, Tucson, ArizonaMore than thirty years earlier, I was the very first going to teacher at the College de France in Paris, with a workplace in the lab of speculative physics. I saw that my speculative associates were often drawing little images in their note pads, which I presumed were diagrams of speculative device. It turned out that those illustrations were primarily of a gallows for hanging the vice director of the laboratory, whose stiff concepts drove them insane.I was familiar with the sous-directeur and talked with him on numerous topics, among which was Project Ozma, the effort to spot signals from another technical civilization on a world of a neighboring...