Hi! Welcome to the website for the Creative Eric Platt: Writings, Photos, and Inventions.
Consulting
Writing
- Substack: Ideaphoria
- On Beyond Zen: Non-Duality (off-site "blog": opens in new tab)
- Non-Fiction (on this site)
- Fiction (more coming soon)
A Science Fiction story about AI from 1991: The Zero Point
Inventions
- ME2: The Money Engine 2.0 – An Investment & Trading System-Philosophy for Financial Independence – especially for "Creative" with small budgets – via identifying subjective mispricings in financial markets, and using Options Spreads to harvest premiums from volatility fluctuations (experimental). Loosly based on a modernized version of a former client – Andrian (Andy) Kremm's – idea in his book The Money Engine: Powering to Greater Dollar Returns in Good or Bad Times.
- Universal Hydro: An adaptive hydroponics system with multiple automatic modes and modules that can be configured and used anywhere, for any crop.
- Plant Propagation Chamber: An automated Plant Propagation Chamber (PPC) for use with the Universal Hydroponics system or independently, for raising seedlings and clones indoors to their full genetic potential.
PROPOSED: - Universal Memory Systems: solving the world's problem of digital data permanence (white paper).
HISTORICAL: - DR. CHALLENGER: An Eliza-like chatbot from 1979 that was an inspiration for research into AI, psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, consciousness, etc
SOFTWARE (LIVE): - Peakpassword
Photography & Art
Art Archive (Painting, Drawing ,Photography, Electronics Sculpture)
* I see creativity as a general power, one that can be applied to any field of interest or love, from the most 'technical' and 'scientific' to the most 'artistic'. Any child knows this: just watch how they play, naturally flowing and dancing from one activity to another... Only later does society impose categories, criticisms and restrictions to this natural love and enthusiasm.
That freedom is available to any of us, either as a recovered power or a present reality. It is a source of problem-solving, joy, and the end of boredom. Our only real limitations are the ones nature provides, which are much less than you might imagine... bodies, skills and knowledge are mere tools, instruments, as well as the clay of creation.