Welcome to Octopedia

Anthony Eufemio’s Personal Notes and Writings

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to my personal wiki, where I share my views, reflections, and discoveries on topics that I find interesting. My pursuit of knowledge throughout my life has been thrilling and full of adventure, and I’m happy to have you along for the voyage with me.

On this page, you can find many personal writings that focus on topics ranging from philosophy to technology and even further afield. I advocate the constructivist approach to learning, and a significant portion of what you read here is the result of my own personal journey.

I am grateful you stopped by my website and decided to accompany me on this learning adventure.

Octopedia

1. I am fascinated by Cephalopods particulary with the Octopus which I have learned have some very fascinating neurological systems that one would consider alien when compared to our own. There are some interesting things about their nervous systems that have some implications on computer science and robotics.
2. The eight forms of intelligence as described by Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences which I clearly aspire to master and balance in myself.
3. It relates to The Eight Circuit model of consciousness by Timothy Leary which was expanded by one of my favorite authors on cognitive anarchy, Robert Anton Wilson.
4. It represents eight spokes of the Chaosphere in Chaos Magick which are the colors of magick.
5. Oxygen is the 8th element of the Periodic Table of the Elements which continues to fascinate me ever since I read Nick Lane’s book Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World.
6. 8 is the first number which is neither prime nor semiprime and the only nonzero perfect power
7. I went to a school in the Philippines that had an Octagonal building where the school’s computer lab and the library were located which was where I spent a lot of time during those early years.
8. My sun sign is Scorpio which is the 8th astrological sign of the Zodiac.