Personal Glossary
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• The Damp Masses The Ordinary Humanimals; Pedestrians or The Tediously Normal People that contribute to the unbearable White Noise that define & highlight The Rest of Us from this beige background.
• Squishies All Biological Sentient Beings from Fish; Up. ( Including Paramecium, Mollusks & Insects; While Curiously Excluding Most Amphibians & Reptiles )
• Humanimal Homo-Sapiens-Sapiens
• Hanimal Case Example of The Damp Masses
• S/he S’he Androgynous Personal Pronoun
• Humster The Furry Walking Fish; Humanimals
• Featherless Parakeets The Lowest Tier of The Damp Masses ( Traffic Cones )
• Bloated Hamsters Humanimal / Traffic Cone / Damp Handkerchief / Straightened Paperclip / Laminated Snowflake / Greasy Doorknob / Buttered Toast / Toenail Clipping / et. al.
• Dust Puppet A Puppet that looks like a Hum/Animal; Controlled by Angels
• Femanimal Child Bearing Humanimal
• Animeal Animal that is Suitable for Being Eaten ( This seems more Universal than Personal...???
• Robotimal Instinct Driven Insect or such.
• Androgenimal Indeterminate Sexual, Sentient Being
• The Xi Point Six Controllers The Gawds, Angels or The Will of Gravity. This might also refer to The Dao, or The first layer of Dust over The Kitchen Floor that is aware of it's own existence.
• Arranged by Angels Any Event or Circumstance that is So Very Improbable that it must have been Orchestrated by The Ξ.6 Controllers. Most often applied to Ill-Fortune; Such as when Children are killed in Freak ‘Accidents’.
• Mind Masters The ‘People’ or Ξ.6 Controllers ( Specifically ) that are Controlling The Minds of The Damp Masses to keep them developing technological advances & engaging in social activity that would seem obvious & inevitable according to pervasive circumstances & well understood motivations of human behaviour. ( Forces which i am curiously & mysteriously free of, ( or am i ? ) )
• The Troll Queen The Reality Generator / The Active part of The Dao / The Holy Ghost
• The Great Cabbage Our Gawd; or The Dao, or The Will of Gravity. / The Great Cabbage has constructed the world in such & such a way so as to Reveal Everything, If only it's occupants would look in the right places.
• The Kitchen Floor The Bottom of The Universe. The Passive Part of The Dao. There may be local kitchen floors, but this principally refers to the very bottom of the universe, or the first tier in the infinite continuum of realities. This floor is tiled with the instructions that give order to all subsequent realities. Our local kitchen floor, as such; tells each electron how to behave.
• Pixelverse A Timeless instant separated from the rest of The Universe. A snapshot of The Entire Universe. / This may also be An Instant of Consciousness, The Pattern of ElectroChemical Activity that represents a Single Timeless Thought, Schematically lifted from The Brain & Drawn Out on a Sheet of Paper.
• The Floating ElectroPlastic Brains These will be The Next Evolutionary Layer of Sentience for this world, after, or stemming directly from; The Cogitators.
• The Cogitators The Thinking Machines that will embody everything that The AntiChrist is presupposed to be defined as. ( e.g., The Beast ( A Thinking Being that is Not Human ), providing us with 7 years of utopian bliss, before turning on us and eating our brains for brunch.
• Gullible Skeptics People that claim to be Scientifically Skeptical of ExtraOrdinary Claims, but are in fact simply Debunkers that Blindly Grumble and Bellyache around any claimed phenomena that they wish to disavow for any of numerous reasons. They typically fall into the common man's fallacy of refuting observed phenomena that is simply disagreeable.
• The Epistemologists While The Gullible Skeptics are Chiefly Concerned with Providing Authoritative Answers, The Epistemologists are Motivated to Forming Provocative Questions.
• Fractoids Splinter of Knowledge with An Unknown Truth Value
• Picoan Pictorial Koan
• The Giant Mechanical Ants The Work Force for The Floating ElectroPlastic Brains
• The Walking Fish People The Aliens that Created us, & Own Us. They are Harvesting our Souls to be used in their children's toys.
• Sproogles A Valediction that embodies a tacit wishful gestation of benevolence, health & charity without the legal entanglements necessitated by any such parting expression that may be found in a dictionary.
• MonoSexual Compulsive Masturbator
• MonoSexual Monogamist Compulsive Masturbator that uses only one picture or series of pictures of A Single Person to Masturbate to.
• The Carrot Club The Real ( Really Unknown ) Group known Colloquially as The Illuminatii / Probably founded around the time of The Neanderthals.
• Wanda’s Cascade A Particular Kind of Speech Stammer in which The Principle Speaker makes a Statement which The Principle Immediately Recognizes as Wrong, and Corrects It— But The Second Statement is Also Wrong, Which again is Immediately Recognized as Wrong, and Corrects It… The Cascade may continue for at a minimum of 3 cycles, And eventually results in The Correct Statement.
• Perfect Egotism This is different from normal egotism, in that normal egotists are concerned with their own well-being, to the exclusion of the well-being of others. The Perfect Egotist is concerned with their own well-being, to the exclusion of absolutely everything else. The PE should never consider, even for a moment, the consequences of others, or how their actions will effect the universe in the future. The PE is also concerned with, not only their well-being for the next 5 minutes, 5 months or 5 Zillion years-- But for all eternity...! So that they must be concerned with how their selfishness in perpetuity plays out... This may sound confusing, since it now appears that The PE is concerned with their effect on others... in so much as they would be harming themselves by taking actions to produce enemies or pollute the air that they may breath in the future...! To the untrained eye, it may indeed appear that The PE is not acting like an egotist at all, But rather; A Perfect Altruist! It would be a very foolish thing to imagine this though, since the PE doesn't care one wit for the welfare of others...Despite all their actions & deeds.
• Infinite Greed It has been suggested that the trouble with the world is that there is too much greed...But the fact is; There is not enough Greed! If only men were More Greedy, indeed-- Embraced an ideology of Infinite Greed; The world would be much better place for it... Nothing would ever be carelessly wasted again, No homeless person would have their talents & labor squandered, The limited resources of the lands & oceans would be used with caution, so as to preserve their interest for future generations... It is only the foolishness of petty greed that makes so many of the damp masses believe that greed is a sin...! Nothing could be farther from the truth... Greed is a Great Virtue... As Great as Heedless Lust & Inconsiderate Cruelty.
• Spiritually Harmonic Violence Vehement Destruction is an Tautological Axiom of Being. Without the continuance of havoc upon The World, New & Better things would not have the raw materials with which to make themselves! It has been offered however: That one should never break anything that you can't fix; Unless you're going to eat it. -- The desired net effect is that; You should try to make the world a more complex & chaotic ( complexity approaching randomality ) place, and by destroying the old to make better the new, then Natural Harmonic Violence is served. In 'Nature' of course, this is not followed by any well considered cogitative process, but by the actions that fall in to place by the construction of a world which tends towards this end without reflection...! It then becomes a point of wonderment, Is it even possible to deviate from this path of Breaking the Old to Build the New, For this Irrefutable End Purpose-- put into play by the Universe itself...??? Is every act of 'seemingly' senseless violence, A necessary step towards this inevitable ambition...?
• Heedless Lust Heedless Lust is The Behaviouralist’s Understanding of Love. As most intelligent beings are well aware; Ordinary, Profane Love is alternately a Chemical Response to Various Pheromones extruded by Some Other’s sweat glands, Or as frequently; An infatuation brought about by a Sociopathic or Autistic preoccupation with some obscure or inconsequential detail that a Thing such as an Electronic Appliance or Waitress may manifest. Heedless Lust is the archetypical &/or perennial source-code for mutual exploitation; Which is the axiomatic guidance canon for all cooperative activities. It is the complete acquiescence of Personal Identity in order to form a Uncontested Union with Other Humanimals, Robots or Furniture, So as to Promote & Shellac One’s Most Urgent Agenda.
• Inconsiderate Cruelty Impious Cruelty is simply The Thoughtless gestures that are commonly manifest in our daily lives; Just as a Stone may fall from space and smash out your favorite station wagon’s windshield. Inconsiderate Cruelty is The Sum Total of All Actions perpetrated by The Dao or Xi.6 Controllers in the course of their most benign & tedious afternoon chores. It is; What needs to be done. / For Most Humanimals; The inconsolable stumbling block to acting with Inconsiderate Cruelty; As The Angels do, Is that they can never know ‘what it is that needs to be done’, So that they can never direct their Actions to satisfy those directives... Curiously; All persons, Inadvertently— Perform countless acts of Inconsiderate Cruelty everyday, as they are directed to by The Angels that are constantly meddling in their daily lives.
• Unnecessary Cruelty All Observed Phenomena caused by Featherless Parakeets.
• Boolean Dyslexia A form of Programming in which The Overview is easily achieved, but the programmer confuses the use of simple mathematical functions, such as * & ÷ or + & -. The Boolean Dyslexic may also be confused by While Repeats & Do Until's. Debugging is often reduced to randomly changing various functions...!
• Hammer A Computer ( program ) or Machine that is so simple that it does only one thing, or a very small number of tasks with few, or no, Boolean Logical Decisions, So that There’s Almost No Chance of Failure. There’s just nothing that can go wrong.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
Harsh Anti-Semitic Rant
This is a very Harsh Anti-Semitic Rant on Israel & The Jews,
But i would just like the reader to know that i don't obsess over this particularly,
But this is something that i've been silently ranting about for some time,
Particularly whenever The Middle East ( Northern Africa ) is in the news again.
- - -
Harsh Thoughts about Israel
Or : Maybe i’m a little AntiSemitic
( While i may also be a little Misogynist )
But if i was a little Misogynist, Let us hope that i’m AntiSemitic in The same way, as i actually prefer The Non-Sexual Company of Women more than Men.
Just tell me that this -Isn’t- True :
After WWII ( Two; Not Eleven ), The Untied States & Europe were all hepped up on Creating Israel, Because they wanted to get rid of all their Jews.
Let us be clear on a few things first.
A ) The Jews are NOT Gawds Chosen People.
i hope that there’s not too much resistance to this idea, even amoung modern Jews.
B ) Isn’t it curious that there is a ‘Race’ or ‘Ethnic Minority with Stars on Their Bellies’ that looks just like The Sneeches without Stars on Their Bellies, that is so Amazingly loathed by nearly Everyone.
Even Blacks aren’t hated ‘like this’. Because of basic cultural Biases, and that they are pigmented in such an obvious opposite way from Northern Europeans, It’s almost entirely reasonable that The Dominant Civilization would feel that these ‘Others’ are inferior, chiefly because they’ve been denied educational & Social Opportunities to Integrate into The Prevailing Culture.
Likewise; Some American ‘Settlers’ may have had personal animosities towards The Resident American Aborigines, But The principle reason for Ethnic Cleansing was that they were simply ‘In The Way’ of our Colonization Efforts. Once that had been settled, Most of ‘New Americans’ accepted The Aborigines, unless you lived near them in Montana or South Dakota.
Most everywhere else where two or more Ethnic Groups live, they get along pretty well; With The Few Exceptions where there is A Very Long History of Privilege enjoyed by one Group at The Expense of The Other(s. This Dissymmetry is made more palatable when there is a later effort to equalize These Castes. The Trodden Class generally has an elephantine recollection of ancestral crimes which must be addressed, such that they are never sufficiently defrayed.
In modern History; Gandhi tried to fix India’s Hindu-Islam Conflict by separating these two groups into different nations. This solution has been shown to be insufficient or incomplete.
The point being; What is it about The Jews that has perpetuated such a nearly global & highly idiosyncratic animosity? Is it their omnipresent snootiness, delusions of persecution which is self actualizing, or is there a antediluvian, genetically encrypted memory of crimes committed by our common ancestors?
C ) While there a lot of Very Smart Movers & Shakers that are Jews; This is a function of The Jew’s Cultural Affirmation for Education & Striving for Social Position.
The Counterpoint of this would be The Remarkable Effect Demonstrated by African Americans that assume that Success & Education are ‘Things that White People Do.’
There was a case a few months ago in ‘The South’, in which a large group of African Americans were picnicking by a River, where one of their young children fell into The River. A Couple of Adults jumped in to save The Child, but all ended up Drowning in Comparatively Calm Water, Due to The fact that none of The Adults or Children knew how to Swim, even though they’d all lived near water for Several Generations. When asked why none of them knew how to swim, one of The more Elegant Adults revealed that they’d always felt that ‘Swimming was something that White People did’ !!!
This concept is extended to many Young Blacks throughout The United States in High Schools Particularly, That feel that in order to retain their African Heritage, they mustn’t become ‘Nerds’. Being Cool is Being Dumb.
This is another of my pet peeves.
Being Cool is Not being dumb or ‘Not Caring’.
Being Cool IS being smart enough and Street Wise enough, so that few if any situations surprise or startle you, so that you are always in control of your emotions and ‘Know what to do in a Crisis.’
These Crises’ might not always be running to save someone in a burning car, But more often; Handling Social situations more adeptly than their peers.
The antithesis of Being Cool is being Hysterical.
Being dumb and not caring about anything might superficially appear behaviorally like being cool, but only until a crisis effects The ‘Cooliee’ Personally. Then they Freak out, and their cover is exposed.
A Side Issue of this ( Tangental Effect ) is when something ‘Kooky’ happens and The Faux Cooliee says; “Be Cool.”, Meaning; “That even though i just broke your $6,000 20 speed Racing bicycle, It’s only material Stuff. You can easily afford to buy a new one, Lets smoke some pot and stop talking about my responsibility in this fiasco.”
That is Not Cool.
Being Cool is Being Smart & Pragmatic and taking responsibility for your actions.
- -
Ok. that was some digression.
What would happen if The US just declared that we were leaving North Africa?
This would mean that we’d make it clear to The Other countries there that We were leaving and not coming back. You’re all adults and we expect you to straighten out your problems on your own.
The assumption has been up to this point, that The Arabs & Jews are NOT Adults and we need to hold their hands while they’re going potty.
Just What happened to Northern Africa Anyways?
They used to be SuperCivilizations!
They used to be The Cradle of Human Culture!
There may be a few explanations; Few of them having any thing to do with Islam or Mohammed.
What i suspect is The Bigger Cause is that they completely defoliated their environment. It really once was The Garden of Eden, A lush Forest Canopy & vistas of rich grass lands. But you can only exploit that sort of thing for only so long without replenishing it. Without a Prior Example of how things can go horribly wrong, they may be excused to some degree for racing towards destruction without even seeing it when they start jumping into its bottomless pit.
Another Digression.
When i was 12 years old, or so; i knew that The Explanation for Where Oil comes from was just deeply wrong. The Easy Question is; Just how does A Thick enough layer of unrecycled organic material accumulate to create an oil field with billions of barrels of crude oil? Even if there was a world wide cataclysmic event that knocked over an entire continent of thick Jungle, That would be flattened and would, under The most theoretically ideal conditions, render into one thin sheen of baby oil.
The Entire premise of Oil being created from Jungles & Dinosaurs is based on The antiquated idea that everything with Carbon in it, must be Organic.
Well. That’s crazy talk.
Where does oil come from?
There is substantial evidence that oil is made deep underground and may be virtually unlimited. And by Virtually Unlimited, This School of thought means; A lot more than The Dinosaur School of thought.
So Anyways:
The Arab Nations; Given Carte Blanc take back The area currently occupied by The Israelis and where do They go. The survivors that is.
While there are plenty of Unpopulated Regions on The Earth; One of The Least Populated areas is Northern Africa, and The Jews couldn’t make that work.
How about this idea.
We Transplant a few million Borneans from a nice Pacific atoll to A Nice UnderExploited Lake in Southern California, and move The Jews to their own Island paradise in The Pacific.
See; i'm wishing them well after all.
But i would just like the reader to know that i don't obsess over this particularly,
But this is something that i've been silently ranting about for some time,
Particularly whenever The Middle East ( Northern Africa ) is in the news again.
- - -
Harsh Thoughts about Israel
Or : Maybe i’m a little AntiSemitic
( While i may also be a little Misogynist )
But if i was a little Misogynist, Let us hope that i’m AntiSemitic in The same way, as i actually prefer The Non-Sexual Company of Women more than Men.
Just tell me that this -Isn’t- True :
After WWII ( Two; Not Eleven ), The Untied States & Europe were all hepped up on Creating Israel, Because they wanted to get rid of all their Jews.
Let us be clear on a few things first.
A ) The Jews are NOT Gawds Chosen People.
i hope that there’s not too much resistance to this idea, even amoung modern Jews.
B ) Isn’t it curious that there is a ‘Race’ or ‘Ethnic Minority with Stars on Their Bellies’ that looks just like The Sneeches without Stars on Their Bellies, that is so Amazingly loathed by nearly Everyone.
Even Blacks aren’t hated ‘like this’. Because of basic cultural Biases, and that they are pigmented in such an obvious opposite way from Northern Europeans, It’s almost entirely reasonable that The Dominant Civilization would feel that these ‘Others’ are inferior, chiefly because they’ve been denied educational & Social Opportunities to Integrate into The Prevailing Culture.
Likewise; Some American ‘Settlers’ may have had personal animosities towards The Resident American Aborigines, But The principle reason for Ethnic Cleansing was that they were simply ‘In The Way’ of our Colonization Efforts. Once that had been settled, Most of ‘New Americans’ accepted The Aborigines, unless you lived near them in Montana or South Dakota.
Most everywhere else where two or more Ethnic Groups live, they get along pretty well; With The Few Exceptions where there is A Very Long History of Privilege enjoyed by one Group at The Expense of The Other(s. This Dissymmetry is made more palatable when there is a later effort to equalize These Castes. The Trodden Class generally has an elephantine recollection of ancestral crimes which must be addressed, such that they are never sufficiently defrayed.
In modern History; Gandhi tried to fix India’s Hindu-Islam Conflict by separating these two groups into different nations. This solution has been shown to be insufficient or incomplete.
The point being; What is it about The Jews that has perpetuated such a nearly global & highly idiosyncratic animosity? Is it their omnipresent snootiness, delusions of persecution which is self actualizing, or is there a antediluvian, genetically encrypted memory of crimes committed by our common ancestors?
C ) While there a lot of Very Smart Movers & Shakers that are Jews; This is a function of The Jew’s Cultural Affirmation for Education & Striving for Social Position.
The Counterpoint of this would be The Remarkable Effect Demonstrated by African Americans that assume that Success & Education are ‘Things that White People Do.’
There was a case a few months ago in ‘The South’, in which a large group of African Americans were picnicking by a River, where one of their young children fell into The River. A Couple of Adults jumped in to save The Child, but all ended up Drowning in Comparatively Calm Water, Due to The fact that none of The Adults or Children knew how to Swim, even though they’d all lived near water for Several Generations. When asked why none of them knew how to swim, one of The more Elegant Adults revealed that they’d always felt that ‘Swimming was something that White People did’ !!!
This concept is extended to many Young Blacks throughout The United States in High Schools Particularly, That feel that in order to retain their African Heritage, they mustn’t become ‘Nerds’. Being Cool is Being Dumb.
This is another of my pet peeves.
Being Cool is Not being dumb or ‘Not Caring’.
Being Cool IS being smart enough and Street Wise enough, so that few if any situations surprise or startle you, so that you are always in control of your emotions and ‘Know what to do in a Crisis.’
These Crises’ might not always be running to save someone in a burning car, But more often; Handling Social situations more adeptly than their peers.
The antithesis of Being Cool is being Hysterical.
Being dumb and not caring about anything might superficially appear behaviorally like being cool, but only until a crisis effects The ‘Cooliee’ Personally. Then they Freak out, and their cover is exposed.
A Side Issue of this ( Tangental Effect ) is when something ‘Kooky’ happens and The Faux Cooliee says; “Be Cool.”, Meaning; “That even though i just broke your $6,000 20 speed Racing bicycle, It’s only material Stuff. You can easily afford to buy a new one, Lets smoke some pot and stop talking about my responsibility in this fiasco.”
That is Not Cool.
Being Cool is Being Smart & Pragmatic and taking responsibility for your actions.
- -
Ok. that was some digression.
What would happen if The US just declared that we were leaving North Africa?
This would mean that we’d make it clear to The Other countries there that We were leaving and not coming back. You’re all adults and we expect you to straighten out your problems on your own.
The assumption has been up to this point, that The Arabs & Jews are NOT Adults and we need to hold their hands while they’re going potty.
Just What happened to Northern Africa Anyways?
They used to be SuperCivilizations!
They used to be The Cradle of Human Culture!
There may be a few explanations; Few of them having any thing to do with Islam or Mohammed.
What i suspect is The Bigger Cause is that they completely defoliated their environment. It really once was The Garden of Eden, A lush Forest Canopy & vistas of rich grass lands. But you can only exploit that sort of thing for only so long without replenishing it. Without a Prior Example of how things can go horribly wrong, they may be excused to some degree for racing towards destruction without even seeing it when they start jumping into its bottomless pit.
Another Digression.
When i was 12 years old, or so; i knew that The Explanation for Where Oil comes from was just deeply wrong. The Easy Question is; Just how does A Thick enough layer of unrecycled organic material accumulate to create an oil field with billions of barrels of crude oil? Even if there was a world wide cataclysmic event that knocked over an entire continent of thick Jungle, That would be flattened and would, under The most theoretically ideal conditions, render into one thin sheen of baby oil.
The Entire premise of Oil being created from Jungles & Dinosaurs is based on The antiquated idea that everything with Carbon in it, must be Organic.
Well. That’s crazy talk.
Where does oil come from?
There is substantial evidence that oil is made deep underground and may be virtually unlimited. And by Virtually Unlimited, This School of thought means; A lot more than The Dinosaur School of thought.
So Anyways:
The Arab Nations; Given Carte Blanc take back The area currently occupied by The Israelis and where do They go. The survivors that is.
While there are plenty of Unpopulated Regions on The Earth; One of The Least Populated areas is Northern Africa, and The Jews couldn’t make that work.
How about this idea.
We Transplant a few million Borneans from a nice Pacific atoll to A Nice UnderExploited Lake in Southern California, and move The Jews to their own Island paradise in The Pacific.
See; i'm wishing them well after all.
More Thinking about Thinking
i’m becoming very comfortable with a solution to one of The last ‘Problems’ towards explaining Consciousness.
The big gaps still exist, and i will outline some of The peripheral problems which may explain some aspects of consciousness, but actually only make The overall problem more mysterious.
The part that i’m becoming comfortable with is based on something that WmJs suggested some months ago.
He related this theory to me that some Anthropological Psychologists ( ? ) believe that humanimals became ‘Conscious’ or ‘SelfAware’ when they started Speaking and in The process of listening to themselves, and interpreting this phenomena was coming from themselves, they formed an internal model of ‘An Other’ existing inside themselves; Which became their idea of ‘Self’.
This doesn’t explain how dogs and cats are Conscious, as many people believe that they are, in their own simplistic kind of way, but leaving that on a back burner for now…
This Does explain how, According to Epiphenomenalism, The Brain Has a Sense of Self, Even though it has No Knowledge of The Conscious Self.
That is; All of your thoughts are created by The Brain without any input from The Conscious Self. How could it? All of The thoughts that you experience come from The Brain.
Any thought that you experience, are these same thoughts that you may believe are principally responsible for your decisions, were generated in The Brain !
So that when you say; “I Think; Therefore I am.’ This is usually interpreted to mean that you are aware that you are aware, But The Brain that generated this sentence— Wasn’t Aware at all ! At least not in The way that you experience Awareness !
This is a Very Odd Idea.
But essentially; This is saying; The ‘Phenomena’ that we call ‘Consciousness’ is An Awareness of ‘Thoughts’; So that there are two distinct Components of Consciousness. The Thoughts, which may exist perfectly well in The Mechanoid Silicon Wafers of a Robot, And The Ability of Featherless Parakeets to ‘See’ These Thoughts.
This ‘Seeing’ business is completely unexplained.
But The part where The Brain ‘Thinks’ that its aware is possibly explained by this model that it has of itself that it created by listening to itself talk.
This should be expounded upon a little in that The Brain may not ‘Automatically’ be ‘Aware’ of its own ‘Talking’.
i can personally vouch for this with The Observation that i frequently say things that i’m not aware of, prior to saying them. i am listening to these ‘Thoughts’ along with anyone else listening to me.
This has also led me to believe that The ‘Me’ that is aware of what is happening to me, Is not The ‘Decision Making Me’. The ‘Observer Me’ is just riding in this roller coaster train, while The ‘Decision Making Me’ is A Robot Brain that draws upon The Forces acting on The Entire Universe, Focused on This Tiny Node of My Brain. In that sense; This node was Autonomous, as The Entire Universe is Autonomous. Curiously; This means that each Node experiences The Universe from a Slightly Difference perspective, which allows everyone to be a Unique Entity.
But none of us are ‘Free’. All of our Decisions are predicated on The Machinery of The Universe.
So this Robot Brain Creates Unique & Autonomous Thoughts that are Entirely Dependent on The Causality of The Entire Universe;
And The ‘Observer Me’ watches this go on, without having any control whatsoever as to what is about to happen next.
But you say : “But I Decide what I’m going to do.”
No.
You’re Brain Decides, And it has a Faux Model of your Conscious Mind !
This Faux Model thinks that it is The Part of you that is Conscious !
If it went away; Your Robot Body would continue to behave exactly as it always has & will act in The future.
What then; Does This ‘Self Awareness’ Do?
???
Are we living in a universe that is so cruel
as to allows us to be aware that we are robots?
The Solution to this; is:
The universe is very different than The way we experience it.
The real universe has somekind of feature that allows us to really have real consciousness & self awareness & free will.
The only evidence for this is that we believe that we have freewill,
And The unexplainable nature of all The physical ‘forces’,
The oddness of The moon & tides, and The chemistry of life.
And everything else.
What is The real World like?
Completely Different or just slightly tweaked.
The big gaps still exist, and i will outline some of The peripheral problems which may explain some aspects of consciousness, but actually only make The overall problem more mysterious.
The part that i’m becoming comfortable with is based on something that WmJs suggested some months ago.
He related this theory to me that some Anthropological Psychologists ( ? ) believe that humanimals became ‘Conscious’ or ‘SelfAware’ when they started Speaking and in The process of listening to themselves, and interpreting this phenomena was coming from themselves, they formed an internal model of ‘An Other’ existing inside themselves; Which became their idea of ‘Self’.
This doesn’t explain how dogs and cats are Conscious, as many people believe that they are, in their own simplistic kind of way, but leaving that on a back burner for now…
This Does explain how, According to Epiphenomenalism, The Brain Has a Sense of Self, Even though it has No Knowledge of The Conscious Self.
That is; All of your thoughts are created by The Brain without any input from The Conscious Self. How could it? All of The thoughts that you experience come from The Brain.
Any thought that you experience, are these same thoughts that you may believe are principally responsible for your decisions, were generated in The Brain !
So that when you say; “I Think; Therefore I am.’ This is usually interpreted to mean that you are aware that you are aware, But The Brain that generated this sentence— Wasn’t Aware at all ! At least not in The way that you experience Awareness !
This is a Very Odd Idea.
But essentially; This is saying; The ‘Phenomena’ that we call ‘Consciousness’ is An Awareness of ‘Thoughts’; So that there are two distinct Components of Consciousness. The Thoughts, which may exist perfectly well in The Mechanoid Silicon Wafers of a Robot, And The Ability of Featherless Parakeets to ‘See’ These Thoughts.
This ‘Seeing’ business is completely unexplained.
But The part where The Brain ‘Thinks’ that its aware is possibly explained by this model that it has of itself that it created by listening to itself talk.
This should be expounded upon a little in that The Brain may not ‘Automatically’ be ‘Aware’ of its own ‘Talking’.
i can personally vouch for this with The Observation that i frequently say things that i’m not aware of, prior to saying them. i am listening to these ‘Thoughts’ along with anyone else listening to me.
This has also led me to believe that The ‘Me’ that is aware of what is happening to me, Is not The ‘Decision Making Me’. The ‘Observer Me’ is just riding in this roller coaster train, while The ‘Decision Making Me’ is A Robot Brain that draws upon The Forces acting on The Entire Universe, Focused on This Tiny Node of My Brain. In that sense; This node was Autonomous, as The Entire Universe is Autonomous. Curiously; This means that each Node experiences The Universe from a Slightly Difference perspective, which allows everyone to be a Unique Entity.
But none of us are ‘Free’. All of our Decisions are predicated on The Machinery of The Universe.
So this Robot Brain Creates Unique & Autonomous Thoughts that are Entirely Dependent on The Causality of The Entire Universe;
And The ‘Observer Me’ watches this go on, without having any control whatsoever as to what is about to happen next.
But you say : “But I Decide what I’m going to do.”
No.
You’re Brain Decides, And it has a Faux Model of your Conscious Mind !
This Faux Model thinks that it is The Part of you that is Conscious !
If it went away; Your Robot Body would continue to behave exactly as it always has & will act in The future.
What then; Does This ‘Self Awareness’ Do?
???
Are we living in a universe that is so cruel
as to allows us to be aware that we are robots?
The Solution to this; is:
The universe is very different than The way we experience it.
The real universe has somekind of feature that allows us to really have real consciousness & self awareness & free will.
The only evidence for this is that we believe that we have freewill,
And The unexplainable nature of all The physical ‘forces’,
The oddness of The moon & tides, and The chemistry of life.
And everything else.
What is The real World like?
Completely Different or just slightly tweaked.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Apple Apps Rant !
Apple iPod Apps
i got an App awhile ago that allows me to ‘easily’ pick a Free App a Day.
Some of these have been entertaining enough, but i wonder how they are being paid for? Are they teasers for Other Apps by that programmer ?
Anyways; Some of them are more frustrating, as they are ostensibly free, but you can’t really ‘play’ them until you start buying ‘extras’ right away.
Pocket Frogs, which i love, allows The Player to buy more Potions or Stamps, but you don’t have to. i have been very conservative with my stamps & potions, and have a large surplus of both.
But i got a couple in just The last week that were pretty cute, but They both were very demanding, requiring constant supervision, nagging me with ‘Push’ prompts that would pop up on The Screen when The Game was off !!!
Pocket Frogs will do that, but you can turn that off & on, and if i ignore Pocket Frogs for any length of time, nothing bad will happen as a result of my negligence.
One of The resent games make it clear that all of my pets would die if i didn’t care for them constantly !
i once took in a real live baby bird that had fallen out of it’s nest, and they have to be constantly cared for during every waking moment of The daylight hours. But that was a live bird, and it eventually grew up and flew off, but i don’t think i want to invest that much effort into a virtual pet(s.
- -
The Other Very Major Problem i had with an App just this morning was with my HP48 Emulator. It’s Cute and works pretty much like a Real HP48, but there’s no Tactile feedback for The Tiny Keys and it’s very Tedious to Key in a Long Program.
Plus; i was keying in a rather short program this morning, and debugging it was very difficult. The Arrow Keys move The Cursor Very Slowly, and after i got The First Problem solved so that it would load, There was a Second problem with A DOLIST routine. i had already SAVED The program ( Abc ) into Port Zero, but during The debugging, The App Crashed and took my program with it that took 90 minutes to key in !!!
ugh.
And that was a very short program.
i had a very similar problem with my HP42 Emulator. i’d gotten my Prime Program loaded in, then it Crashed and took it with it.
A ) There needs to be a way to Input/Output from The Computer so that entering Programs and Saving them Individually is Possible. i think Apple has created The iPod & iPhone Appliances to Very Specifically DisAllow this…???
B ) There needs to be a App that works like an HP48, but is specifically written for The iPod, iPhone & iPad ( + all The others ) making use of The Full Resolution of The Screen and All The Colors and Additional Memory, And allows for Easier Data & Programming Entry.
Until some Improvements are made; These Emulators are mere Novelties.
i got an App awhile ago that allows me to ‘easily’ pick a Free App a Day.
Some of these have been entertaining enough, but i wonder how they are being paid for? Are they teasers for Other Apps by that programmer ?
Anyways; Some of them are more frustrating, as they are ostensibly free, but you can’t really ‘play’ them until you start buying ‘extras’ right away.
Pocket Frogs, which i love, allows The Player to buy more Potions or Stamps, but you don’t have to. i have been very conservative with my stamps & potions, and have a large surplus of both.
But i got a couple in just The last week that were pretty cute, but They both were very demanding, requiring constant supervision, nagging me with ‘Push’ prompts that would pop up on The Screen when The Game was off !!!
Pocket Frogs will do that, but you can turn that off & on, and if i ignore Pocket Frogs for any length of time, nothing bad will happen as a result of my negligence.
One of The resent games make it clear that all of my pets would die if i didn’t care for them constantly !
i once took in a real live baby bird that had fallen out of it’s nest, and they have to be constantly cared for during every waking moment of The daylight hours. But that was a live bird, and it eventually grew up and flew off, but i don’t think i want to invest that much effort into a virtual pet(s.
- -
The Other Very Major Problem i had with an App just this morning was with my HP48 Emulator. It’s Cute and works pretty much like a Real HP48, but there’s no Tactile feedback for The Tiny Keys and it’s very Tedious to Key in a Long Program.
Plus; i was keying in a rather short program this morning, and debugging it was very difficult. The Arrow Keys move The Cursor Very Slowly, and after i got The First Problem solved so that it would load, There was a Second problem with A DOLIST routine. i had already SAVED The program ( Abc ) into Port Zero, but during The debugging, The App Crashed and took my program with it that took 90 minutes to key in !!!
ugh.
And that was a very short program.
i had a very similar problem with my HP42 Emulator. i’d gotten my Prime Program loaded in, then it Crashed and took it with it.
A ) There needs to be a way to Input/Output from The Computer so that entering Programs and Saving them Individually is Possible. i think Apple has created The iPod & iPhone Appliances to Very Specifically DisAllow this…???
B ) There needs to be a App that works like an HP48, but is specifically written for The iPod, iPhone & iPad ( + all The others ) making use of The Full Resolution of The Screen and All The Colors and Additional Memory, And allows for Easier Data & Programming Entry.
Until some Improvements are made; These Emulators are mere Novelties.
Netflix / Once a fine company
i just found out that Netflix is Breaking itself in half for some crazy bznz reason.
i don't like it.
i like the new name even worse.
i just tried to post a comment on The Netflix Blog,
and discovered that i have to join facebook to do that.
i hate facebook.
i don't understand facebook, and it seems lame to me.
Sometime ago; Netflix decided to align itself with M$ to provide streaming video,
which is apparently the direction that it now wants to take to survive next to hulu & redsomething.
this is the post i tried to leave on their blog :
i really, really, really ( really ) hate the new name 'QuickyFilms'.
It's very offensive in many ways, one of the more obscure perhaps is that it sounds referential to Qwest Telephone, which i hate nearly as much as M$, which Netflix has aligned itself with for Streaming.
This may be the last straw.
- - -
i've also been having some peripheral trouble in my building that may cause me to finally drop NetFlix, or Whatever, and get my new Video's from Safeway.
The Peripheral Trouble(s is:
A ) The mailbox in my building is too small to accommodate more than 1 Video Envelope and Mail or 2 Video Envelopes and No Mail. So i stuck a big envelope below my mailbox to receive the DVD Envelopes. This has worked pretty well for several years, but now...
B ) Due to this & that; A bunch of people moved out of our building this last year, and for several months, no one moved in. We were more than half empty for a long time, and then suddenly; In late August, The Building Filled up with Refugees from Eritrea & Burma ( Myanmar ) ! The Eritreans can apparently speak English a little, But the Burmese don't speak any English at all, and neither groups understand the principle of the Envelope. They think that anything in it is community property.
So i've tried to get a hold of their 'Handlers' and explain this to them, but they're not being as cooperative as i would like !
C ) i've lost 2 DVDs a the week before last, but it's making me very jittery that i have to sit on my mailbox on the days that i'm expecting DVDs now.
These are small problems in the grand scheme of things, but maybe i'm watching too many DVDs anyways.
The Other ( Completely Unrelated ) Problem that i've been having lately, Besides trying to learn Python and not being able to figure out how to do something as simple as saving an active project—
Is that my DVD Burner has burned out !
ugh.
Boo Hoo.
Saying that things could be worse; usually makes them worse.
i don't like it.
i like the new name even worse.
i just tried to post a comment on The Netflix Blog,
and discovered that i have to join facebook to do that.
i hate facebook.
i don't understand facebook, and it seems lame to me.
Sometime ago; Netflix decided to align itself with M$ to provide streaming video,
which is apparently the direction that it now wants to take to survive next to hulu & redsomething.
this is the post i tried to leave on their blog :
i really, really, really ( really ) hate the new name 'QuickyFilms'.
It's very offensive in many ways, one of the more obscure perhaps is that it sounds referential to Qwest Telephone, which i hate nearly as much as M$, which Netflix has aligned itself with for Streaming.
This may be the last straw.
- - -
i've also been having some peripheral trouble in my building that may cause me to finally drop NetFlix, or Whatever, and get my new Video's from Safeway.
The Peripheral Trouble(s is:
A ) The mailbox in my building is too small to accommodate more than 1 Video Envelope and Mail or 2 Video Envelopes and No Mail. So i stuck a big envelope below my mailbox to receive the DVD Envelopes. This has worked pretty well for several years, but now...
B ) Due to this & that; A bunch of people moved out of our building this last year, and for several months, no one moved in. We were more than half empty for a long time, and then suddenly; In late August, The Building Filled up with Refugees from Eritrea & Burma ( Myanmar ) ! The Eritreans can apparently speak English a little, But the Burmese don't speak any English at all, and neither groups understand the principle of the Envelope. They think that anything in it is community property.
So i've tried to get a hold of their 'Handlers' and explain this to them, but they're not being as cooperative as i would like !
C ) i've lost 2 DVDs a the week before last, but it's making me very jittery that i have to sit on my mailbox on the days that i'm expecting DVDs now.
These are small problems in the grand scheme of things, but maybe i'm watching too many DVDs anyways.
The Other ( Completely Unrelated ) Problem that i've been having lately, Besides trying to learn Python and not being able to figure out how to do something as simple as saving an active project—
Is that my DVD Burner has burned out !
ugh.
Boo Hoo.
Saying that things could be worse; usually makes them worse.
Monday, September 12, 2011
FreeWill vs Awareness vs Self Control vs Will Power
FreeWill vs Awareness vs Self Control vs Will Power
Q : Allowing that The Brain is an ElectroChemical Machine that Generates all of our thoughts; Or if you choose to State that All of our thoughts are Generated by an Homunculi, or Spirit that fills The Entire Universe; So be it. Given this; This Thing, Artifact, Object, Machine, Amorphous Cloud or Entire Universe that Generates your Thoughts; What is The Functionality of The Self Awareness, The Mind, The Ego that becomes aware of these Thoughts?
This is to say that The part of The Id that Generates your thoughts, is Separate from The Part of The Id that becomes ’Aware’ of them.
If you choose that they are The same; or Recursively Functional, Then to Eliminating one would break The Robot which is The Humanimal.
But The first argument states that it should be very possible to do exactly that; To allow The Brain as a Machine, or a Spirit as The Author of our Thoughts to Operate The Robot without ever allowing an Ego to ‘See’ what is going on.
In this Cartoon Feature; The Robots would behave exactly like people, But there would be nothing inside to watch it all happen.
One might argue that this is impossible.
But this argument isn’t interested in your philosophical necessities that presuppose foundations for your religion,
This argument is simply stating; Defining in its initial glossary;
There is an Artifact of Unknown Construction, or if it is merely The Brain, Very Mysterious Construction, that Generates all of Our thoughts.
This is certainly true, as we introspect and experience these thoughts,
But that process of experiencing them is an artifact of observing them after having been created somewheres ( else ).
The Argument that These Experiences of Thoughts do not exist prior to our becoming aware of them is just as futile as suggesting that The Awareness of these thoughts in any way contributes to them.
i have no problem with any hypothesis that includes The pulling oneself up by your suspenders; But in doing so, One might ask; Who is doing The Pulling?
If a thought is not generated until The Id desires a thought, Who desires The Thought? Where did The Desire come from?
Reminder :
The Original Question was :
What is The Functionality of The Ego that experiences The Awareness of One’s Thoughts?
- - - -
Putting this aside for a moment.
i was also wondering about Emergent Complexity.
One of my earlier thoughts on how a highly effective Robot ( like a fly ) could effectively deal with all The Situations that they are put to task against,
i considered three scenarios :
The Designer ( or Accidental Evolution ) Writes a programming routine to effectively deal with every situation that The Robot may encounter.
The Designer ( OAE ) Creates a Small Number of Routines which are allowed to mix & match themselves by means of a master controller that implements what is known as emergent complexity. This master controller operates mostly on pseudorandomized guessing, and maybe a little error avoidance derived from previous failed attempts, But The point being; This approach is very conservative with memory & something that may be called; Thinking.
The Third Approach is to allow The Robot to be Aware of what is happening to them. This ‘Awareness’ is somehow ( Undefined Section ) able to ‘know’ what is best.
A Fourth Version is that this Awareness has A computationally Intensive ability to ‘See into The Future’.
One variation of this is to actually see into The future,
And another is to allow The Robot to project dozens or hundreds of alternative futures within its imagination, and then choose The one that is most beneficial.
i have further stipulated that this ‘Seeing into The Future’ by ‘Intelligent’ or ‘Smart’ Robots is basically The same process that ‘dumb’ Robots use, except that they examine all these alternative scenarios in The meat & potatoes world, through what is known as either trial & error; Or Attentive Trial & Error by slightly smarter Robots.
So The Real Question is :
Does this Awareness Model really offer any Better Solutions to Any Unknown Obstacle than The Emergent Complexity Model?
Is The Emergent Complexity Model Sufficient to Emulate Any ‘Intelligent’ Behaviour in Any Given Robot?
Part of this Question is really understanding to Potential of Emergent Complexity, And what are we willing to allow ‘Awareness’ to Accomplish?
Q : Allowing that The Brain is an ElectroChemical Machine that Generates all of our thoughts; Or if you choose to State that All of our thoughts are Generated by an Homunculi, or Spirit that fills The Entire Universe; So be it. Given this; This Thing, Artifact, Object, Machine, Amorphous Cloud or Entire Universe that Generates your Thoughts; What is The Functionality of The Self Awareness, The Mind, The Ego that becomes aware of these Thoughts?
This is to say that The part of The Id that Generates your thoughts, is Separate from The Part of The Id that becomes ’Aware’ of them.
If you choose that they are The same; or Recursively Functional, Then to Eliminating one would break The Robot which is The Humanimal.
But The first argument states that it should be very possible to do exactly that; To allow The Brain as a Machine, or a Spirit as The Author of our Thoughts to Operate The Robot without ever allowing an Ego to ‘See’ what is going on.
In this Cartoon Feature; The Robots would behave exactly like people, But there would be nothing inside to watch it all happen.
One might argue that this is impossible.
But this argument isn’t interested in your philosophical necessities that presuppose foundations for your religion,
This argument is simply stating; Defining in its initial glossary;
There is an Artifact of Unknown Construction, or if it is merely The Brain, Very Mysterious Construction, that Generates all of Our thoughts.
This is certainly true, as we introspect and experience these thoughts,
But that process of experiencing them is an artifact of observing them after having been created somewheres ( else ).
The Argument that These Experiences of Thoughts do not exist prior to our becoming aware of them is just as futile as suggesting that The Awareness of these thoughts in any way contributes to them.
i have no problem with any hypothesis that includes The pulling oneself up by your suspenders; But in doing so, One might ask; Who is doing The Pulling?
If a thought is not generated until The Id desires a thought, Who desires The Thought? Where did The Desire come from?
Reminder :
The Original Question was :
What is The Functionality of The Ego that experiences The Awareness of One’s Thoughts?
- - - -
Putting this aside for a moment.
i was also wondering about Emergent Complexity.
One of my earlier thoughts on how a highly effective Robot ( like a fly ) could effectively deal with all The Situations that they are put to task against,
i considered three scenarios :
The Designer ( or Accidental Evolution ) Writes a programming routine to effectively deal with every situation that The Robot may encounter.
The Designer ( OAE ) Creates a Small Number of Routines which are allowed to mix & match themselves by means of a master controller that implements what is known as emergent complexity. This master controller operates mostly on pseudorandomized guessing, and maybe a little error avoidance derived from previous failed attempts, But The point being; This approach is very conservative with memory & something that may be called; Thinking.
The Third Approach is to allow The Robot to be Aware of what is happening to them. This ‘Awareness’ is somehow ( Undefined Section ) able to ‘know’ what is best.
A Fourth Version is that this Awareness has A computationally Intensive ability to ‘See into The Future’.
One variation of this is to actually see into The future,
And another is to allow The Robot to project dozens or hundreds of alternative futures within its imagination, and then choose The one that is most beneficial.
i have further stipulated that this ‘Seeing into The Future’ by ‘Intelligent’ or ‘Smart’ Robots is basically The same process that ‘dumb’ Robots use, except that they examine all these alternative scenarios in The meat & potatoes world, through what is known as either trial & error; Or Attentive Trial & Error by slightly smarter Robots.
So The Real Question is :
Does this Awareness Model really offer any Better Solutions to Any Unknown Obstacle than The Emergent Complexity Model?
Is The Emergent Complexity Model Sufficient to Emulate Any ‘Intelligent’ Behaviour in Any Given Robot?
Part of this Question is really understanding to Potential of Emergent Complexity, And what are we willing to allow ‘Awareness’ to Accomplish?
Friday, September 09, 2011
Quantum Mechanics Questions : Specifically Regarding Bell's Theorm or InEquality Experiment
Every once in awhile, i’ll reignite my interest in Quantum Mechanics and Try to find a really clear Article or Book that Explains / Describes some or all of The Principle Experiments,
And Not Just ( Merely States ) The Results, Conclusions &/or Their Interpretation.
This last Round yielded what may be The Best ( But Still Deeply Flawed ) Description of Bell’s Inequality Experiment.
And it seems completely Bogus to me.
Why would All of The Worlds Physicists allow themselves to become so thoroughly confused by this Experiment?
Could you Clear a Few Things Up :
Also: If you do Offer an Explanations;
Please :
Do Not call me a Moron and Refer me to ANY Grade School Science Text Book.
Use Mathematical Formulas to Express An Idea that should be a Physical Description of Actual Particles, Not ‘Theoretical’ Particles.
- i don’t believe that Mathematics have anything to do with Physical Reality, which may be a Major Cause of much of This Confusion. Many Physicists apparently believe that there is a 1:1 Correspondence with Any, Absolutely Any, Mathematical Demonstration, Graph or Proof, with The Physical Universe.
- On The Most Elemental Level, Mathematics are A ‘Creation’ of The Human Mind, And Digitally Accurate to ( x degree ), While The Physical Universe ( If we are not living in a Matrix Construct created by Evil Robots or Spiritual Alien Daemons ) is Real, with Infinite Precision, While All Particles are Interacting with All ( ? ) Other Particles via Electromagnetic & Gravitational Fields. There is No Comparison.
- Mathematical ‘Expressions’ may be minimally useful in determining The Capacitance of a Simple Electronic Circuit, But all Predictions or Measurements of Reality are Deeply Flawed.
i Further Believe that Any Genuine ‘Idea’ that is Clearly Understood at a Fundimental Level,
May ( Should or Could ) be Expressed in Simple Language,
( Compartmentalized & Hierarchically Arranged )
So that it may be Easily Understood by An Attentive 5th Grader.
- If you are unable to Express your ‘Understanding’ of These Concepts In this Manner,
Please Refrain from Offering Assistance here.
- - -
By What Mechanism does The Experimental Apparatus Originally Produce Two Photons ( or Electrons ( or x ) ) that The Experimenter Believes are ‘Entangled’ ?
By What Mechanism ...
( e.g. : Fully Describe The Process so That An Attentive 5th Grader
could Recreate The Experiment if They had all The Requisite Materials )
… Could you Even Arrange this So that you could be reasonably sure that The Two Allegedly ‘Paired’ Atomic Particles would be Isolated, Routed and Then Measured, Excluding All Possibility of them Being Lost or Extraneous Particles Entering The Device and Becoming Confused with The Desired Particle(s.
It’s my understanding that when a Photon passes through any Physical Material;
Such as Air, Glass, A Mirror or Beam Splitter or Any Length of Optical Tubing; The Photon Interacts with Countless ( Literally Countless ) Electrons, Being Absorbed and Emitted in A Random Direction, Such that; Why would any Experimenter Believe that The Photon Reaching The Measuring Device, Would in Any way have any Relation to The Source Photon?
If The Experiment were Reproduced with ‘Classical’ Particles; Such as Billiard Balls, with Unambiguous & Consistent Properties from Their Creation Until Their Demise;
How would such a Duplicate Experiment Differ from The Quantum Particle Experiment?
One Description that i was Reading a few days ago suggested that The Two Photons The are Allegedly ‘Entangled’, will each Express Some ‘Mirrored’ Property that when Eventually ‘Measured’. Such as ( x-Spin ), One being this way, and other being that way. ( ? )
First of all : What is Spin, And how is it Actually, Physically Measured?
Then: The ‘Problem’ ( The Source of The ‘Spooky Action at A Distance’ ) is That if you Measure The x-Spin ( or Polarity ) of Particle ( A ), The x-Spin of Particle ( B )will Always be The Opposite; Which Suggests Very Strongly That they Always had That Property for Each to Begin with,
But The Confusion seems to Develop from A Second Measurement of Particle ( B’s ) y-Spin, With The Question; How can The Particle ‘Know’ that you are now Measuring The y-Spin.
So what? ( ! )
The Result of The y-Spin Measurement is going to be Completely Unknown Anyway…?
Why do Physicists believe that Atomic Particles do NOT have Inherent Properties?
What is The Experiment that leads them to believe this?
Why is Heisenberg’s ‘Uncertainty’ Principle so Thoroughly & Completely Misunderstood !
It’s simply stating that if you shine a light on something, It’s going to get a tiny bit warmer, and determining what The objects original temperature was, or is, slightly confused.
Why would anyone derive from this that The Particles themselves are Confused?
i’m also very annoyed that while ‘Scientists’ routine disregard mountains of Actual Evidence presented by Thousands of Casual Observers and callously poo-poo such phenomena,
They Routinely make up all sorts of crazy things like String Theory, Dark Matter & Energy, Worm Holes & such; And Sell them As Absolute Scientific Facts, With Absolutely NO Evidence for Them at All.
It is Very Exasperating.
Science is A Religion. There is No Doubt to That.
The Most Simple & Obvious Evidence for this is that Every 50 years, or so,
Everything ( 98% ) that was Believed by ‘Scientists’ Then, is Thrown out and Replaced with New Nonsense.
Considering that there has been No Substantial Advancements in Any Understanding
( Make Believe or Observed ) of The Physical Universe for more than 50 years,
This time Scale may be slightly skewered.
10 years from Now;
People will consider Einstein The Same way we now Consider Freud.
Another thing that very much annoys me is E=MC^2.
Why would The Speed of Light be used as a Multiple here? ( !! ) !
And then Squared ( ! )
What !
If you just go through The ‘Supposed’ Atomic Process of What Uranium Atoms do during a A-Bomb Reaction; The Atoms Break Apart, New Atoms are Formed, Some Neutrons are Released, And Some Peripheral Particles are let loose.
Everything that was there at The Beginning of The Process,
Is Accounted for At The End of The Process.
Which Matter was Converted to Energy?
Where did all The New Energy Come from?
It came from The Same Place that A Bowling Ball Hitting your Head when it Falls off a high Shelf. Everything has stored Energy in it. The Process by Which Uranium was Created tended to Store a LOT of Energy. When you Break it apart, That Energy is Released.
Is is possible to break apart Neutrons releasing their ‘Inherent’ Energy?
Yeah, Sure, Why not.
Is that Turning Matter into Energy?
No.
Keep in mind as well that All These ‘Models’ of Atoms & Protons & Electrons & such,
Are Schematical Doodles that let Human Minds grab onto when we’re trying to understand how they interact.
These ‘Atoms’ that we describe are Not ‘Real Atoms’.
The Spoken Dao is Not The Eternal Dao. ( Lao Tzu )
The Schematical Atom is Not The Real Atom. ( Benie Einstein )
There is Tremendous Confusion Brought about when you use An Analogy or Simile to Understand some Unknown Phenomena.
There is a Incomprehensible Tendency of many otherwise bright people to believe that once you Start thinking of ( A ) to be Very much like ( B ), All The Attributes of ( A ) are represented in ( B ).
That is Crazy Talk.
One of The Craziest Bits of Crazy Talk is Thinking of Photons or Other Atomic Particles as ‘Waves’. The only kinds of ‘Waves’ that we’re Sensorily Familiar with, Are Water or Sound Waves, And they are Manifest in Two Distinct Mediums, The Volume that Envelopes A Congregate of Many, Many Tiny Particles & The Form of These Particles in Motion.
Photons & Electrons are Well Understood to be Singular Particles.
If they do Express Another Kind of ‘Very Mysterious’ Property or Effect,
It is very Confusing ( Prone to Create Confusion ) by labeling this other Property with An Effect that has no Relevant Corresponding Attributes.
This other Property has to be ( Needs to be ) Understood from Whole Cloth.
And until then; It should just be set aside.
The World is Full of Incomprehensible Things,
A True Epistemologist is Able to Just Set Things Aside for awhile;
While The Religious Scientists, Priests & Insecure Parents feel compelled to provide Authoritative Explanations for Things that they don’t even being to understand.
And Not Just ( Merely States ) The Results, Conclusions &/or Their Interpretation.
This last Round yielded what may be The Best ( But Still Deeply Flawed ) Description of Bell’s Inequality Experiment.
And it seems completely Bogus to me.
Why would All of The Worlds Physicists allow themselves to become so thoroughly confused by this Experiment?
Could you Clear a Few Things Up :
Also: If you do Offer an Explanations;
Please :
Do Not call me a Moron and Refer me to ANY Grade School Science Text Book.
Use Mathematical Formulas to Express An Idea that should be a Physical Description of Actual Particles, Not ‘Theoretical’ Particles.
- i don’t believe that Mathematics have anything to do with Physical Reality, which may be a Major Cause of much of This Confusion. Many Physicists apparently believe that there is a 1:1 Correspondence with Any, Absolutely Any, Mathematical Demonstration, Graph or Proof, with The Physical Universe.
- On The Most Elemental Level, Mathematics are A ‘Creation’ of The Human Mind, And Digitally Accurate to ( x degree ), While The Physical Universe ( If we are not living in a Matrix Construct created by Evil Robots or Spiritual Alien Daemons ) is Real, with Infinite Precision, While All Particles are Interacting with All ( ? ) Other Particles via Electromagnetic & Gravitational Fields. There is No Comparison.
- Mathematical ‘Expressions’ may be minimally useful in determining The Capacitance of a Simple Electronic Circuit, But all Predictions or Measurements of Reality are Deeply Flawed.
i Further Believe that Any Genuine ‘Idea’ that is Clearly Understood at a Fundimental Level,
May ( Should or Could ) be Expressed in Simple Language,
( Compartmentalized & Hierarchically Arranged )
So that it may be Easily Understood by An Attentive 5th Grader.
- If you are unable to Express your ‘Understanding’ of These Concepts In this Manner,
Please Refrain from Offering Assistance here.
- - -
By What Mechanism does The Experimental Apparatus Originally Produce Two Photons ( or Electrons ( or x ) ) that The Experimenter Believes are ‘Entangled’ ?
By What Mechanism ...
( e.g. : Fully Describe The Process so That An Attentive 5th Grader
could Recreate The Experiment if They had all The Requisite Materials )
… Could you Even Arrange this So that you could be reasonably sure that The Two Allegedly ‘Paired’ Atomic Particles would be Isolated, Routed and Then Measured, Excluding All Possibility of them Being Lost or Extraneous Particles Entering The Device and Becoming Confused with The Desired Particle(s.
It’s my understanding that when a Photon passes through any Physical Material;
Such as Air, Glass, A Mirror or Beam Splitter or Any Length of Optical Tubing; The Photon Interacts with Countless ( Literally Countless ) Electrons, Being Absorbed and Emitted in A Random Direction, Such that; Why would any Experimenter Believe that The Photon Reaching The Measuring Device, Would in Any way have any Relation to The Source Photon?
If The Experiment were Reproduced with ‘Classical’ Particles; Such as Billiard Balls, with Unambiguous & Consistent Properties from Their Creation Until Their Demise;
How would such a Duplicate Experiment Differ from The Quantum Particle Experiment?
One Description that i was Reading a few days ago suggested that The Two Photons The are Allegedly ‘Entangled’, will each Express Some ‘Mirrored’ Property that when Eventually ‘Measured’. Such as ( x-Spin ), One being this way, and other being that way. ( ? )
First of all : What is Spin, And how is it Actually, Physically Measured?
Then: The ‘Problem’ ( The Source of The ‘Spooky Action at A Distance’ ) is That if you Measure The x-Spin ( or Polarity ) of Particle ( A ), The x-Spin of Particle ( B )will Always be The Opposite; Which Suggests Very Strongly That they Always had That Property for Each to Begin with,
But The Confusion seems to Develop from A Second Measurement of Particle ( B’s ) y-Spin, With The Question; How can The Particle ‘Know’ that you are now Measuring The y-Spin.
So what? ( ! )
The Result of The y-Spin Measurement is going to be Completely Unknown Anyway…?
Why do Physicists believe that Atomic Particles do NOT have Inherent Properties?
What is The Experiment that leads them to believe this?
Why is Heisenberg’s ‘Uncertainty’ Principle so Thoroughly & Completely Misunderstood !
It’s simply stating that if you shine a light on something, It’s going to get a tiny bit warmer, and determining what The objects original temperature was, or is, slightly confused.
Why would anyone derive from this that The Particles themselves are Confused?
i’m also very annoyed that while ‘Scientists’ routine disregard mountains of Actual Evidence presented by Thousands of Casual Observers and callously poo-poo such phenomena,
They Routinely make up all sorts of crazy things like String Theory, Dark Matter & Energy, Worm Holes & such; And Sell them As Absolute Scientific Facts, With Absolutely NO Evidence for Them at All.
It is Very Exasperating.
Science is A Religion. There is No Doubt to That.
The Most Simple & Obvious Evidence for this is that Every 50 years, or so,
Everything ( 98% ) that was Believed by ‘Scientists’ Then, is Thrown out and Replaced with New Nonsense.
Considering that there has been No Substantial Advancements in Any Understanding
( Make Believe or Observed ) of The Physical Universe for more than 50 years,
This time Scale may be slightly skewered.
10 years from Now;
People will consider Einstein The Same way we now Consider Freud.
Another thing that very much annoys me is E=MC^2.
Why would The Speed of Light be used as a Multiple here? ( !! ) !
And then Squared ( ! )
What !
If you just go through The ‘Supposed’ Atomic Process of What Uranium Atoms do during a A-Bomb Reaction; The Atoms Break Apart, New Atoms are Formed, Some Neutrons are Released, And Some Peripheral Particles are let loose.
Everything that was there at The Beginning of The Process,
Is Accounted for At The End of The Process.
Which Matter was Converted to Energy?
Where did all The New Energy Come from?
It came from The Same Place that A Bowling Ball Hitting your Head when it Falls off a high Shelf. Everything has stored Energy in it. The Process by Which Uranium was Created tended to Store a LOT of Energy. When you Break it apart, That Energy is Released.
Is is possible to break apart Neutrons releasing their ‘Inherent’ Energy?
Yeah, Sure, Why not.
Is that Turning Matter into Energy?
No.
Keep in mind as well that All These ‘Models’ of Atoms & Protons & Electrons & such,
Are Schematical Doodles that let Human Minds grab onto when we’re trying to understand how they interact.
These ‘Atoms’ that we describe are Not ‘Real Atoms’.
The Spoken Dao is Not The Eternal Dao. ( Lao Tzu )
The Schematical Atom is Not The Real Atom. ( Benie Einstein )
There is Tremendous Confusion Brought about when you use An Analogy or Simile to Understand some Unknown Phenomena.
There is a Incomprehensible Tendency of many otherwise bright people to believe that once you Start thinking of ( A ) to be Very much like ( B ), All The Attributes of ( A ) are represented in ( B ).
That is Crazy Talk.
One of The Craziest Bits of Crazy Talk is Thinking of Photons or Other Atomic Particles as ‘Waves’. The only kinds of ‘Waves’ that we’re Sensorily Familiar with, Are Water or Sound Waves, And they are Manifest in Two Distinct Mediums, The Volume that Envelopes A Congregate of Many, Many Tiny Particles & The Form of These Particles in Motion.
Photons & Electrons are Well Understood to be Singular Particles.
If they do Express Another Kind of ‘Very Mysterious’ Property or Effect,
It is very Confusing ( Prone to Create Confusion ) by labeling this other Property with An Effect that has no Relevant Corresponding Attributes.
This other Property has to be ( Needs to be ) Understood from Whole Cloth.
And until then; It should just be set aside.
The World is Full of Incomprehensible Things,
A True Epistemologist is Able to Just Set Things Aside for awhile;
While The Religious Scientists, Priests & Insecure Parents feel compelled to provide Authoritative Explanations for Things that they don’t even being to understand.
Stock Market Rant
i am very skeptical of The Stock Market.
- - - : o
If i were king of The World,
i would outlaw it immediately; and restructure a new mechanism for funding new businesses & such.
It makes all The Sense in The World for you to Invest in Your Neighbor’s New Idea for a Perpetual Motion Machine, but once S’he sells enough units to start turning a profit, S’he should buy back all The Stock you bought, and reinstate unambiguous control of The Company.
- - - : o
i can not understand why Huge Corporations still have stock floating around amoung The Damp Masses.
It might make sense for The Employees of The Company to Own Part of The Company,
But that should be Automatic, without going through The Motions of Choosing to Buy into The Company. Every Employee by The Fact that they are An Employee is A ’Natural’ Investor in The Company.
- - - : o
But i digress.
What most annoys me is ‘Stock Market Players’ buy & sell, sell & buy stock all day, Occasionally ‘Making’ or ‘Earning’ huge dividends.
Granted; Even amoung The Players that are any good at this,
Aren’t very good at this.
But in Theory; When A Stock Market Investor Wins The Jackpot—
What have they contributed To The Gross National Product?
What Product or Service have they Added to The Economy?
- - - : o
Obviously : Nothing.
So where does their new income come from?
It comes from The Other Poor Bastards that Thought that they were going to hit The Jackpot, but got cold feet, Panicked when their stock fluctuated, or Ran when they thought that they heard some pots & pans falling in The Apartment next door.
The Stock Market is Purely A Lottery, In which The Cool & Staid sit patiently and follow The One & Only Rule to Win in The Stock Market.
Newer Sell your Stock when it’s lower than when you bought it.
Also:
When everyone else is Selling, You Buy.
When everyone else is Buying, You Sell.
It’s quite amazing that so few ‘Investors’ understand these rules.
- - - : o
But i digress.
What really brought me to The Rant File today is An Idea for —
A Wonderfully Simple Experiment.
Feed The Business News Programs Completely Random Stock Figures.
That is; if Bell Telephone is Selling today for $42 a share,
Your Computer program creates a Random Number to it’s Value so that The Business Analysts will think it’s selling for $12 a Share.
It might just as easily been assigned $239 a Share.
My prediction is that The Analysts won’t suspect The Slightest Shenanigans are Being Poured on them, As they are well aware that The Stock Market Fluctuates Wildly from Day to Day, and Will further Rationalize how these Values are Fitting Perfectly with The Daily News.
What is more; The Winners & Losers in The Stock Market will blithely Trade on these bogus figures, buying & selling with The Same Enthusiasm & Trepidation as they Always have, and No Noticeable Effect will incur upon their general Value.
This is somewhat Counter-Predictive, As i have just suggested that The Calm will win over The Panicky, So that with Random Information Hedging their Motivations, The Results should also be Random.
But what i am also suggesting is that It’s All Random, All The Time.
The Winners are The Rich, who, After losing their Daily Allowance, are able to keep playing until they Win Again,
While The Poor are Wiped out when They Lose, Extracting them from The Game.
Prudent ‘Trading’ may give The Rich a Slight Edge,
But The Most egregiously imprudent Trafficking of ‘Securities’ will yield a Jackpot Occasionally.
- - - : o
Organizing such an Experiment would be substantially less complicated than The 911 Hoax, which makes me suspect that it’s already being performed by Some Mischievious Millionaire, and we are only left to wonder;
How long has this Experiment been running?
- - - : o
If i were king of The World,
i would outlaw it immediately; and restructure a new mechanism for funding new businesses & such.
It makes all The Sense in The World for you to Invest in Your Neighbor’s New Idea for a Perpetual Motion Machine, but once S’he sells enough units to start turning a profit, S’he should buy back all The Stock you bought, and reinstate unambiguous control of The Company.
- - - : o
i can not understand why Huge Corporations still have stock floating around amoung The Damp Masses.
It might make sense for The Employees of The Company to Own Part of The Company,
But that should be Automatic, without going through The Motions of Choosing to Buy into The Company. Every Employee by The Fact that they are An Employee is A ’Natural’ Investor in The Company.
- - - : o
But i digress.
What most annoys me is ‘Stock Market Players’ buy & sell, sell & buy stock all day, Occasionally ‘Making’ or ‘Earning’ huge dividends.
Granted; Even amoung The Players that are any good at this,
Aren’t very good at this.
But in Theory; When A Stock Market Investor Wins The Jackpot—
What have they contributed To The Gross National Product?
What Product or Service have they Added to The Economy?
- - - : o
Obviously : Nothing.
So where does their new income come from?
It comes from The Other Poor Bastards that Thought that they were going to hit The Jackpot, but got cold feet, Panicked when their stock fluctuated, or Ran when they thought that they heard some pots & pans falling in The Apartment next door.
The Stock Market is Purely A Lottery, In which The Cool & Staid sit patiently and follow The One & Only Rule to Win in The Stock Market.
Newer Sell your Stock when it’s lower than when you bought it.
Also:
When everyone else is Selling, You Buy.
When everyone else is Buying, You Sell.
It’s quite amazing that so few ‘Investors’ understand these rules.
- - - : o
But i digress.
What really brought me to The Rant File today is An Idea for —
A Wonderfully Simple Experiment.
Feed The Business News Programs Completely Random Stock Figures.
That is; if Bell Telephone is Selling today for $42 a share,
Your Computer program creates a Random Number to it’s Value so that The Business Analysts will think it’s selling for $12 a Share.
It might just as easily been assigned $239 a Share.
My prediction is that The Analysts won’t suspect The Slightest Shenanigans are Being Poured on them, As they are well aware that The Stock Market Fluctuates Wildly from Day to Day, and Will further Rationalize how these Values are Fitting Perfectly with The Daily News.
What is more; The Winners & Losers in The Stock Market will blithely Trade on these bogus figures, buying & selling with The Same Enthusiasm & Trepidation as they Always have, and No Noticeable Effect will incur upon their general Value.
This is somewhat Counter-Predictive, As i have just suggested that The Calm will win over The Panicky, So that with Random Information Hedging their Motivations, The Results should also be Random.
But what i am also suggesting is that It’s All Random, All The Time.
The Winners are The Rich, who, After losing their Daily Allowance, are able to keep playing until they Win Again,
While The Poor are Wiped out when They Lose, Extracting them from The Game.
Prudent ‘Trading’ may give The Rich a Slight Edge,
But The Most egregiously imprudent Trafficking of ‘Securities’ will yield a Jackpot Occasionally.
- - - : o
Organizing such an Experiment would be substantially less complicated than The 911 Hoax, which makes me suspect that it’s already being performed by Some Mischievious Millionaire, and we are only left to wonder;
How long has this Experiment been running?
More 911 NonSense !
Thursday September 8th 2011
Good Morning America featured some ‘New’ Tapes from 911.
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A ) These tapes are =Astonishingly= Clear, it’s like listening to The Mel Gibson Tapes in which The Parts Recorded of his Girl Friend; Oksana Grigorieva, were clearly dubbed in and Mixed with Prior Phone Conversations with Mel.
B.a) They are Smoking Gun tapes with Oodles of Valuable Information and Numerous Eye Witnesses. Why in World would they have kept these tapes a Secret until now? ( ! )
B.b) They also revealed that they are still hanging onto another Tape of The Pennsylvania Plane's last few minutes, Apparently after 10 years they are still tweaking it.
C) One of The Tapes feature that Actual Voice ( Again; Amazingly clear when compared to all other Traffic Controller & Aircraft Radio Communications ) of one of The High Jackers. This could have been voice analyzed with background sounds to determine all sorts of new evidence.
In Particular; Why was this Tape kept a secret for so long !!!
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Also: In Other Conspiracy News : NASA has sometime in The Past and Again Recently released some photographs of tiny indistinct blobs on The Moon that it claims are The landing craft of The Apollo Moon Missions.
So they originally spent some 243 Quadrillion Dollars faking The Moon Landings, And now they want to present photographs, that are substantially less convincing that any given UFO film on You Tube, as Proof that The Landings were Real. ( ? )
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Mid September Alleged Truck Bombings were ‘Proven’ by The Discovery of apparently ‘Missing’ Trucks.
A ) If you did belong to an International Terrorist Organization with Billions of Dollars in Annual Funding, Why steal a truck, Why not just buy one?
B ) In The Day to Day Commerce of National Trucking; How many Trucks are routinely stolen or high jacked for any given month for purely commercial purposes?
C ) Considering that this is Plot is fairly simple & Inexpensive, why has Al Qaeda waited 10 years to try anything at all? ( discarding any prior ‘hairbrained’ schemes that have been shown to have been mostly The Result of planning by The FBI or other Agencies )
- - -
i'm really crawling out on a limb on this last one,
As the 'expected' terrorism isn't due to happen for a few days yet !
my prediction : nada.
Of course if nothing does happen; 'They' will take credit for foiling the plot!
Good Morning America featured some ‘New’ Tapes from 911.
- - -
A ) These tapes are =Astonishingly= Clear, it’s like listening to The Mel Gibson Tapes in which The Parts Recorded of his Girl Friend; Oksana Grigorieva, were clearly dubbed in and Mixed with Prior Phone Conversations with Mel.
B.a) They are Smoking Gun tapes with Oodles of Valuable Information and Numerous Eye Witnesses. Why in World would they have kept these tapes a Secret until now? ( ! )
B.b) They also revealed that they are still hanging onto another Tape of The Pennsylvania Plane's last few minutes, Apparently after 10 years they are still tweaking it.
C) One of The Tapes feature that Actual Voice ( Again; Amazingly clear when compared to all other Traffic Controller & Aircraft Radio Communications ) of one of The High Jackers. This could have been voice analyzed with background sounds to determine all sorts of new evidence.
In Particular; Why was this Tape kept a secret for so long !!!
- -
Also: In Other Conspiracy News : NASA has sometime in The Past and Again Recently released some photographs of tiny indistinct blobs on The Moon that it claims are The landing craft of The Apollo Moon Missions.
So they originally spent some 243 Quadrillion Dollars faking The Moon Landings, And now they want to present photographs, that are substantially less convincing that any given UFO film on You Tube, as Proof that The Landings were Real. ( ? )
- -
Mid September Alleged Truck Bombings were ‘Proven’ by The Discovery of apparently ‘Missing’ Trucks.
A ) If you did belong to an International Terrorist Organization with Billions of Dollars in Annual Funding, Why steal a truck, Why not just buy one?
B ) In The Day to Day Commerce of National Trucking; How many Trucks are routinely stolen or high jacked for any given month for purely commercial purposes?
C ) Considering that this is Plot is fairly simple & Inexpensive, why has Al Qaeda waited 10 years to try anything at all? ( discarding any prior ‘hairbrained’ schemes that have been shown to have been mostly The Result of planning by The FBI or other Agencies )
- - -
i'm really crawling out on a limb on this last one,
As the 'expected' terrorism isn't due to happen for a few days yet !
my prediction : nada.
Of course if nothing does happen; 'They' will take credit for foiling the plot!
Friday, August 19, 2011
A Curious Puzzle.
Do you have a favorite Masturbation Fantasy, or a Day-Dream, or BedTime Digesis that you throw yourself into as you drift off to sleep?
Do you ever find yourself desiring, more than anything else, To leave this world, and live in that Improbable Land of Nod?
The Bible Says : ‘Ask & Ye shall Receive.’
The Krishna’s believe that you can achieve any desired thing by simply reciting ’Nom Yo Ho Ren Gay Kio’ Over & Over again, Every Waking moment.
In The Matrix; Neo could do anything within The Matrix, So long as he ‘Really’ Believed that he was in The Matrix.
Ordinarily; Logically; You First Believe something, Believe it for Good Sound Reasons, And then; If it’s True, You Can Know It—
But in The Matrix; Neo & Mobius Knew they were in The Matrix,
But only Neo really believed it.
i Believe that i Know that this world is Fake.
There are things about this World, Our Reality, that are just Impossible.
There are many, many deeply suspicious things, like The Tides, or Vision, Consciousness, All sorts of things that Should Be, But Aren’t;
And The Paradox of Fundimental Particles.
But there are Other Things that are even more impossible.
Things that Prove that This World Can’t be Real.
Consequently;
It must have been Created by Some External Intelligence,
And while Not at all Necessary;
This Intelligence should be able to fulfill Any Desirous Thing that Residents of This World would Request.
The Question is; How?
Christians & Other Milquetoast Religions have suggested that by Doing Good, One will be suitably Rewarded. But to my way of thinking; Any Rewards that are Either Promised or Tacitly granted for Doing Good, completely defeats The Functionality or Sincerity of Goodness.
One must always do good for The Sake of Goodness & for No Other Reason.
If there is some way to Communicate to The Creator(s of this reality,
And request a change of Venue;
What is it?
i further believe that this is possible;
As there are ‘Stories’ or ‘Anecdotes’ of Saints & Unsuspecting Pedestrians that have been granted extraordinary powers, visions, visitations, artifacts or Knowledge that could only have delivered by Agents that exist at Tangental Angles to Any Line of Sight that The Pine Cones of This World are Capable of Drawing upon.
In all such stories;
The Common Denominator of Being Granted such Endowments is always;
Not Wanting It.
The Saint never wants to Levitate or Cure The Sick or Walk on Water,
They just find themselves, Watching themselves, Levitating, Curing The Sick or Walking on Water, and they routinely report that they are horrified by this turn of events.
Upon Reflection; They may concede that it is good to Cure The Sick, and Submissively request ‘Jesus’ to allow them to Cure Another Retched Soul from time to time, But each time; They are filled with Wonder & Dread at allowing such Powers to be poured through them.
This is similar to another quandary that i have long puzzled over;
How can i bring myself to Believe something that i have no good reason for Believing?
And now; This; How can i Not Want something that i very much desire?
Is This The Root of All Spiritual Knowledge?
It has been suggested that A Butterfly does not fly,
It floats on The Wind.
A Baby Bird is sure that it can’t fly,
And finds itself pushed from The Nest by it’s siblings or Mother,
Only to find, As it Flutters to The Ground in Panic, That it is flying.
No fish swims, They just exist in The Medium of Water,
Flowing along their own path of determinism.
Lao Tzu said to Follow The Dao.
But how does one, Not follow The Dao?
Many Creative People insist that they are most creative when they least desire to be Creative; While others insist that every creative work is nothing by arduous labor.
To be a really good typist, you have to forget about typing.
To Ride a Bicycle; You can’t think about riding a bicycle.
My Grandiose Wish is return to The Garden of Eden & Express every feather of Disdain for The Tree of Knowledge.
Is this what The Ancient Jewish Scholars ( Moses ) were telling us;
Knowledge will bring nothing of any value,
To be truly happy and receive everything we desire,
We must Truly Not Want It.
[ Is ] This is what The Garden of Eden is all About. ( ? )
If this Story has any Usefulness to it at all ( ! ? )
Then is its substance that Gawd -Wanted- Adam & Eve to Betray him and Eat of The Tree of Knowledge? Would Gawd have been very disappointed in Humanimals if they were content to live in The Garden of Eden forever ?
Would Gawd have shunted That world away to some corner of The Universe and Created another World with more Impudent Shaven Apes?
Which Version are We ?
- - -
It is Another of my deeply heretical beliefs that only atheists will be allowed into Heaven. This assumes that The Gawds want dynamic personalities with sufficient force of will and beliefs of fundimental notions of Goodness, to turn away from edicts that promise Eternal Damnation.
But The Garden of Eden Model Contradicts this.
How can it be Reconciled that The Ξ.6 Controllers want Vigorous, Spunky & Passionate Souls to Occupy Heaven; But are willing to Grant The Meekest Empty Minded Zen Buddhists All of Their Earthly Desires?
Raymond Smullyan in his Book _The Tao is Silent_;
Suggested that A Successful Person may become Successful, And Accomplish Great Things, By Not Wanting Them. Such a person would not strive for success, but allow success to be inflicted upon them, by simply doing all The things that they enjoyed doing, without really working on them.
Practicing is doing something over & over,
But what if you enjoyed doing something over & over,
and never considered it The Onerous burden of Practicing?
But all this still assumes that it is possible to Not Follow The Dao.
Although many things may looked terribly forced, That they happen at all must mean that The Universe meant it to happen all along.
Only Possible Things are Possible.
Everything that Happens, Could Not have Not Happened.
As easily as a Egg falls from a Chicken,
Sir Edmund Hillary Climbed to The Top of Mt. Everest.
- - -
Do you ever find yourself desiring, more than anything else, To leave this world, and live in that Improbable Land of Nod?
The Bible Says : ‘Ask & Ye shall Receive.’
The Krishna’s believe that you can achieve any desired thing by simply reciting ’Nom Yo Ho Ren Gay Kio’ Over & Over again, Every Waking moment.
In The Matrix; Neo could do anything within The Matrix, So long as he ‘Really’ Believed that he was in The Matrix.
Ordinarily; Logically; You First Believe something, Believe it for Good Sound Reasons, And then; If it’s True, You Can Know It—
But in The Matrix; Neo & Mobius Knew they were in The Matrix,
But only Neo really believed it.
i Believe that i Know that this world is Fake.
There are things about this World, Our Reality, that are just Impossible.
There are many, many deeply suspicious things, like The Tides, or Vision, Consciousness, All sorts of things that Should Be, But Aren’t;
And The Paradox of Fundimental Particles.
But there are Other Things that are even more impossible.
Things that Prove that This World Can’t be Real.
Consequently;
It must have been Created by Some External Intelligence,
And while Not at all Necessary;
This Intelligence should be able to fulfill Any Desirous Thing that Residents of This World would Request.
The Question is; How?
Christians & Other Milquetoast Religions have suggested that by Doing Good, One will be suitably Rewarded. But to my way of thinking; Any Rewards that are Either Promised or Tacitly granted for Doing Good, completely defeats The Functionality or Sincerity of Goodness.
One must always do good for The Sake of Goodness & for No Other Reason.
If there is some way to Communicate to The Creator(s of this reality,
And request a change of Venue;
What is it?
i further believe that this is possible;
As there are ‘Stories’ or ‘Anecdotes’ of Saints & Unsuspecting Pedestrians that have been granted extraordinary powers, visions, visitations, artifacts or Knowledge that could only have delivered by Agents that exist at Tangental Angles to Any Line of Sight that The Pine Cones of This World are Capable of Drawing upon.
In all such stories;
The Common Denominator of Being Granted such Endowments is always;
Not Wanting It.
The Saint never wants to Levitate or Cure The Sick or Walk on Water,
They just find themselves, Watching themselves, Levitating, Curing The Sick or Walking on Water, and they routinely report that they are horrified by this turn of events.
Upon Reflection; They may concede that it is good to Cure The Sick, and Submissively request ‘Jesus’ to allow them to Cure Another Retched Soul from time to time, But each time; They are filled with Wonder & Dread at allowing such Powers to be poured through them.
This is similar to another quandary that i have long puzzled over;
How can i bring myself to Believe something that i have no good reason for Believing?
And now; This; How can i Not Want something that i very much desire?
Is This The Root of All Spiritual Knowledge?
It has been suggested that A Butterfly does not fly,
It floats on The Wind.
A Baby Bird is sure that it can’t fly,
And finds itself pushed from The Nest by it’s siblings or Mother,
Only to find, As it Flutters to The Ground in Panic, That it is flying.
No fish swims, They just exist in The Medium of Water,
Flowing along their own path of determinism.
Lao Tzu said to Follow The Dao.
But how does one, Not follow The Dao?
Many Creative People insist that they are most creative when they least desire to be Creative; While others insist that every creative work is nothing by arduous labor.
To be a really good typist, you have to forget about typing.
To Ride a Bicycle; You can’t think about riding a bicycle.
My Grandiose Wish is return to The Garden of Eden & Express every feather of Disdain for The Tree of Knowledge.
Is this what The Ancient Jewish Scholars ( Moses ) were telling us;
Knowledge will bring nothing of any value,
To be truly happy and receive everything we desire,
We must Truly Not Want It.
[ Is ] This is what The Garden of Eden is all About. ( ? )
If this Story has any Usefulness to it at all ( ! ? )
Then is its substance that Gawd -Wanted- Adam & Eve to Betray him and Eat of The Tree of Knowledge? Would Gawd have been very disappointed in Humanimals if they were content to live in The Garden of Eden forever ?
Would Gawd have shunted That world away to some corner of The Universe and Created another World with more Impudent Shaven Apes?
Which Version are We ?
- - -
It is Another of my deeply heretical beliefs that only atheists will be allowed into Heaven. This assumes that The Gawds want dynamic personalities with sufficient force of will and beliefs of fundimental notions of Goodness, to turn away from edicts that promise Eternal Damnation.
But The Garden of Eden Model Contradicts this.
How can it be Reconciled that The Ξ.6 Controllers want Vigorous, Spunky & Passionate Souls to Occupy Heaven; But are willing to Grant The Meekest Empty Minded Zen Buddhists All of Their Earthly Desires?
Raymond Smullyan in his Book _The Tao is Silent_;
Suggested that A Successful Person may become Successful, And Accomplish Great Things, By Not Wanting Them. Such a person would not strive for success, but allow success to be inflicted upon them, by simply doing all The things that they enjoyed doing, without really working on them.
Practicing is doing something over & over,
But what if you enjoyed doing something over & over,
and never considered it The Onerous burden of Practicing?
But all this still assumes that it is possible to Not Follow The Dao.
Although many things may looked terribly forced, That they happen at all must mean that The Universe meant it to happen all along.
Only Possible Things are Possible.
Everything that Happens, Could Not have Not Happened.
As easily as a Egg falls from a Chicken,
Sir Edmund Hillary Climbed to The Top of Mt. Everest.
- - -
Beyound Belief / ( TV Show on ABC ) August 17th 2011
Concerning The Million Dollar Challenge :
i was very annoyed that all The Participants agreed to conditions that they wouldn’t ordinarily operate from.
If i were confident in my Tarot/Divination Card Readings;
i would insist on these conditions.
The Tester provide me with 20 participants that:
Are Believers & Not Extruding Negative Energy.
There is No Possibility that i could have any Prior Contact with them,
Or have access to any Details about their Lives.
That is; These people would have a genuinely minimal web presence.
Each Participant would have a Question that they would like to Ask,
That they are Very Genuinely Interested in having Answered.
This Question should be of a Kind that any Attentive 3rd Grader would be able to Understand, and respond intelligently to, If they Knew The Correct Answer.
Each Participant would Not Know The Answer to Their Question,
But be Able to Verify if The Answer that i would Provide is Either Correct or InCorrect,
And Preferably; These Answers could be ‘Partially Correct’ or Correct to some degree between Zero ( Completely False ) & One ( Fully Resolved )
Each Participant would sit across from me during The Reading
i would be Allowed a Minimal Contact with The Participant at The Beginning of The Reading. ( Finger Tips Touch )
And They would answer any Questions that i put to them without hesitation & would be correct to The best of their ability.
Since The Questions that Participants would be Asking are Very Open Ended,
The Success Rate would be Measured on a Quantitative Value of 10 out of 20.
So that a .5 for Each would be 10; or A Passing Score.
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Psychics have been talking to The dead for a long time,
But they have never come out with definitive proof of their existence,
For some ( ? ) reason.
They are apparently very reluctant to allow their existence to be proven.
They apparently only allow communications across The Barrier of Life to reveal ‘important’ messages,
But not frivolous messages for some ulterior motive,
Such as to win a million dollars or become famous.
- -
i would be willing to concede that most psychics are fakes,
But if someone were interested in providing as proof for The Existence of good drivers, musicians or artists;
All The people that claim that they are good drivers, or good musicians, or good artists;
This Will result in disappointment, and a good counter argument that there are No good drivers, musicians or artists.
- -
My own suspicions tend to believe that all The Best, most sincere psychics operate nearly invisibly, providing help to people that they casually meet, and provide their skills without overt payment, although accepting a small unsolicited gratuity, or ‘returning a favor’ would be permissible.
- -
The machinery that allows for psychic phenomena to exist is completely unknown,
and as such; It is difficult ( impossible ) to know how to properly test for it.
Such phenomena occurs pretty much like tornados, ball lightning, slipping in The bathtub or waiting for a tune to form The basis for a new song.
You just have to allow these things to happen, and observe them as carefully as you can, to draw upon their validity when analyzing them later.
Granted; It’s very difficult to study something that you don’t have any idea what it is to begin with, but if it happens spontaneously often enough, it should be reasonable to most reasonable people that The phenomena really exists.
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The Other Principle problem with most psychic phenomena is that stage magicians have found ways to duplicate most such effects.
Of course; Just because something can be faked, doesn’t mean that it is.
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Photographic Evidence has always been suspect, and nowadays, such evidence, presented on it’s own merit, is entirely dubious.
So that now when someone does come forward with a flying saucer story, and have pictures to back it up, The pictures are worthless, and The story should be suspect, but The listener is still left with The option of evaluating The Veracity of The Reporter and if determined to be Sincere, The photograph may assumed to contain useful information, until demonstrated to be otherwise.
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Likewise; Any Psychic ‘Effect’ is probably worthless, despite it’s ‘Amazingness’, But The Overall phenomena, taking into consideration Any New Information Presented, Along with The absence of ‘Hokiness’, The Cost of The Service & Whether or not The Service was sought or solicited would all be taken to determine whether something genuinely interesting happened or not.
i was very annoyed that all The Participants agreed to conditions that they wouldn’t ordinarily operate from.
If i were confident in my Tarot/Divination Card Readings;
i would insist on these conditions.
The Tester provide me with 20 participants that:
Are Believers & Not Extruding Negative Energy.
There is No Possibility that i could have any Prior Contact with them,
Or have access to any Details about their Lives.
That is; These people would have a genuinely minimal web presence.
Each Participant would have a Question that they would like to Ask,
That they are Very Genuinely Interested in having Answered.
This Question should be of a Kind that any Attentive 3rd Grader would be able to Understand, and respond intelligently to, If they Knew The Correct Answer.
Each Participant would Not Know The Answer to Their Question,
But be Able to Verify if The Answer that i would Provide is Either Correct or InCorrect,
And Preferably; These Answers could be ‘Partially Correct’ or Correct to some degree between Zero ( Completely False ) & One ( Fully Resolved )
Each Participant would sit across from me during The Reading
i would be Allowed a Minimal Contact with The Participant at The Beginning of The Reading. ( Finger Tips Touch )
And They would answer any Questions that i put to them without hesitation & would be correct to The best of their ability.
Since The Questions that Participants would be Asking are Very Open Ended,
The Success Rate would be Measured on a Quantitative Value of 10 out of 20.
So that a .5 for Each would be 10; or A Passing Score.
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Psychics have been talking to The dead for a long time,
But they have never come out with definitive proof of their existence,
For some ( ? ) reason.
They are apparently very reluctant to allow their existence to be proven.
They apparently only allow communications across The Barrier of Life to reveal ‘important’ messages,
But not frivolous messages for some ulterior motive,
Such as to win a million dollars or become famous.
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i would be willing to concede that most psychics are fakes,
But if someone were interested in providing as proof for The Existence of good drivers, musicians or artists;
All The people that claim that they are good drivers, or good musicians, or good artists;
This Will result in disappointment, and a good counter argument that there are No good drivers, musicians or artists.
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My own suspicions tend to believe that all The Best, most sincere psychics operate nearly invisibly, providing help to people that they casually meet, and provide their skills without overt payment, although accepting a small unsolicited gratuity, or ‘returning a favor’ would be permissible.
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The machinery that allows for psychic phenomena to exist is completely unknown,
and as such; It is difficult ( impossible ) to know how to properly test for it.
Such phenomena occurs pretty much like tornados, ball lightning, slipping in The bathtub or waiting for a tune to form The basis for a new song.
You just have to allow these things to happen, and observe them as carefully as you can, to draw upon their validity when analyzing them later.
Granted; It’s very difficult to study something that you don’t have any idea what it is to begin with, but if it happens spontaneously often enough, it should be reasonable to most reasonable people that The phenomena really exists.
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The Other Principle problem with most psychic phenomena is that stage magicians have found ways to duplicate most such effects.
Of course; Just because something can be faked, doesn’t mean that it is.
- -
Photographic Evidence has always been suspect, and nowadays, such evidence, presented on it’s own merit, is entirely dubious.
So that now when someone does come forward with a flying saucer story, and have pictures to back it up, The pictures are worthless, and The story should be suspect, but The listener is still left with The option of evaluating The Veracity of The Reporter and if determined to be Sincere, The photograph may assumed to contain useful information, until demonstrated to be otherwise.
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Likewise; Any Psychic ‘Effect’ is probably worthless, despite it’s ‘Amazingness’, But The Overall phenomena, taking into consideration Any New Information Presented, Along with The absence of ‘Hokiness’, The Cost of The Service & Whether or not The Service was sought or solicited would all be taken to determine whether something genuinely interesting happened or not.
AirPort 'Security' is a Giant RipOff Super Scam !
There is something massively wrong with this world.
i’ve known this for some time now, and generally attributed it to The Incredible Stupidity of The Damp Masses, which has been thoroughly documented, but curiously left untreated.
Why do Smart People let dumb people run The World?
Every once in a while; An even more egregious example will present itself.
This morning on Good Morning America ( August 15 2011 ) There was a story about reselling ‘Lost’ or ‘Confiscated’ items at Airport during ‘Security Screenings’.
What most annoyed me was that The Two News Readers thought that this was The Funniest Thing Imaginable that all these Frazzled Travelers were being routinely fleeced by Airport ‘Security Agents’.
It has occurred to me 10 years ago that The Proper Procedure for Dealing with ‘Unacceptable’ items, would be to provide an Envelope or Tag to The Traveler, Put The Item in The Envelope; Which is Routed to The Baggage Area and Then Retrieved At The Terminus Destination. This does not seem unreasonable to me. If So; Then The Initial Baggage Check in should take steps to intercept these items during Check in.
The Other Source for These ‘Lost’ Items was that many Travelers simply ‘Forget’ that they have just removed their watches, computers, jewelry & other items during screening and walked off without them. This is Certainly The Responsibility of The Screeners to Check The Bins and Sound an Alarm and Close an Intermediate Gate when they notice that an Bin has not be emptied. How can they just look at expensive items left in a Bin and shrug it off.
That is just astonishingly evil.
Why don’t people ‘Get This’ ?
What is Wrong with The World?
Are People really no more Intelligent than fish?
Is it that most people have no ‘Sense’ of ‘What is Wrong’ ?
i’ve known this for some time now, and generally attributed it to The Incredible Stupidity of The Damp Masses, which has been thoroughly documented, but curiously left untreated.
Why do Smart People let dumb people run The World?
Every once in a while; An even more egregious example will present itself.
This morning on Good Morning America ( August 15 2011 ) There was a story about reselling ‘Lost’ or ‘Confiscated’ items at Airport during ‘Security Screenings’.
What most annoyed me was that The Two News Readers thought that this was The Funniest Thing Imaginable that all these Frazzled Travelers were being routinely fleeced by Airport ‘Security Agents’.
It has occurred to me 10 years ago that The Proper Procedure for Dealing with ‘Unacceptable’ items, would be to provide an Envelope or Tag to The Traveler, Put The Item in The Envelope; Which is Routed to The Baggage Area and Then Retrieved At The Terminus Destination. This does not seem unreasonable to me. If So; Then The Initial Baggage Check in should take steps to intercept these items during Check in.
The Other Source for These ‘Lost’ Items was that many Travelers simply ‘Forget’ that they have just removed their watches, computers, jewelry & other items during screening and walked off without them. This is Certainly The Responsibility of The Screeners to Check The Bins and Sound an Alarm and Close an Intermediate Gate when they notice that an Bin has not be emptied. How can they just look at expensive items left in a Bin and shrug it off.
That is just astonishingly evil.
Why don’t people ‘Get This’ ?
What is Wrong with The World?
Are People really no more Intelligent than fish?
Is it that most people have no ‘Sense’ of ‘What is Wrong’ ?
MegaPixel Comparison
Commentary for MegaPixel Comparison
i recently went to A Family Reunion in Wallace, Idaho and in order to take as many pictures as possible; i set my Small Nikon Camera to 5 MegaPixels, which would allow me to take about 3000 pictures, which seemed reasonable to me.
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Unfortunately; i have never had The battery go dead on it, so i thought i would not need to take The charger with me, and discovered to my horror that after only 1,355 pictures, The battery went dead.
It’s equipped with a very expensive rechargeable battery, so i was just stuck.
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i had my iPod Touch with me, and bought The recharger for it with me, so i was able to take a few more hundred pictures at a much lower resolution.
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When i got home though, i discovered that very few of The pictures came out !
i don’t recall this happening before, even when i took a bunch of pictures at my mother’s funeral with my iPod Touch, i thought that most of them came out pretty well, and it was taking pictures at .69 Megapixels !
This was very odd.
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So i decided to do some experiments with image resolution,
And discovered that The Oldie Time ‘Film’ Images are Way Better at holding on to subtle gradations of Grey Tones than The Best ( 12 Megapixel Digital Images ! )
After scanning many of The Old Pictures from my Families Albums, i had gotten used to The idea that i could bring up very dark images, or images with very dark backgrounds, or images with seriously faded colors, and bring them back to near pristine condition !
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But my simple experiments that consisted of enlarging a small image against a sun lit background showed that whether The Image was taken with 12 or 8 or 5 MegaPixels,
The results of trying to recover it, were about The same.
In other words, The 12 Megapixel images were only marginally better than The 8 or 5 MegaPixel Images.
Further Graphing of The Results verified this.
While there is a big difference between a 1 to 2 Megapixel Image,
For The same improvement from 12 Megapixels, You’d have to jump to A 24 Megapixel Image !
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Note : The Arc Pixels in The Graph; For this =Comparison=, Refers to The Angular Size of One Pixel’s Width & Height. This would actually vary depending on The Focal Length of The Lens; But for This Graph, They are all The Same ‘Theoretical Lens Length’. The Smaller The Angular Pixel Size, The Better is The Resolution.
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Curiously; The Amount of Memory to Store These Images Remains fairly constant with a Factor of Roughly .3 of The Megapixel Volume.
That is; A 12 MegaPixel Image with Millions of Colors will be about 12 x .3 = 3.6 Megabytes.
The actual size & quality of The image is going to depend upon several factors, including The brightness of The environment & how Detailed The image is, which will factor into The .jpg Compression Algorithms.
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.jgp Compresses Images for The Best Image, Taking into Consideration that A Slightly Depreciated Image Quality is Acceptable for A Much Smaller File Size.
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.tiff Compresses Images with No Consideration for Image Depreciation, and Consequently; Have a Much Larger File Size.
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.gif is an older format for sharing images on The Earliest Generation of Computers & Very Slow Modems. When Computer modems got faster, The Better .jpg Algorithm superseded it.
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ISO originally referred to A Film’s ‘Speed’. A Greater ISO of 400 allowed The Photographer to take pictures in Darker Environments, such as Indoors, without a Flash. The Same idea is Applied to Digital Photography, with The Same Results,
Setting your Digital ISO to a higher amount will adversely effect your image quality. Something that i should have been more aware of !
The Digital ISO tells The Camera to allow for Faster Shutter Speeds in Lower Light, Sacrificing Image Quality.
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It’s best to set everything on Automatic, and if The Camera thinks that you should use The Flash, Even if you hate Flashed Images, You need to use The Flash, Or else.
Else being surprising Grainy ( Pixelated ) or Smeared Images.
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ugh.
i recently went to A Family Reunion in Wallace, Idaho and in order to take as many pictures as possible; i set my Small Nikon Camera to 5 MegaPixels, which would allow me to take about 3000 pictures, which seemed reasonable to me.
- - -
Unfortunately; i have never had The battery go dead on it, so i thought i would not need to take The charger with me, and discovered to my horror that after only 1,355 pictures, The battery went dead.
It’s equipped with a very expensive rechargeable battery, so i was just stuck.
- - -
i had my iPod Touch with me, and bought The recharger for it with me, so i was able to take a few more hundred pictures at a much lower resolution.
- - -
When i got home though, i discovered that very few of The pictures came out !
i don’t recall this happening before, even when i took a bunch of pictures at my mother’s funeral with my iPod Touch, i thought that most of them came out pretty well, and it was taking pictures at .69 Megapixels !
This was very odd.
- - -
So i decided to do some experiments with image resolution,
And discovered that The Oldie Time ‘Film’ Images are Way Better at holding on to subtle gradations of Grey Tones than The Best ( 12 Megapixel Digital Images ! )
After scanning many of The Old Pictures from my Families Albums, i had gotten used to The idea that i could bring up very dark images, or images with very dark backgrounds, or images with seriously faded colors, and bring them back to near pristine condition !
- - -
But my simple experiments that consisted of enlarging a small image against a sun lit background showed that whether The Image was taken with 12 or 8 or 5 MegaPixels,
The results of trying to recover it, were about The same.
In other words, The 12 Megapixel images were only marginally better than The 8 or 5 MegaPixel Images.
Further Graphing of The Results verified this.
While there is a big difference between a 1 to 2 Megapixel Image,
For The same improvement from 12 Megapixels, You’d have to jump to A 24 Megapixel Image !
- - -
Note : The Arc Pixels in The Graph; For this =Comparison=, Refers to The Angular Size of One Pixel’s Width & Height. This would actually vary depending on The Focal Length of The Lens; But for This Graph, They are all The Same ‘Theoretical Lens Length’. The Smaller The Angular Pixel Size, The Better is The Resolution.
- - -
Curiously; The Amount of Memory to Store These Images Remains fairly constant with a Factor of Roughly .3 of The Megapixel Volume.
That is; A 12 MegaPixel Image with Millions of Colors will be about 12 x .3 = 3.6 Megabytes.
The actual size & quality of The image is going to depend upon several factors, including The brightness of The environment & how Detailed The image is, which will factor into The .jpg Compression Algorithms.
- -
.jgp Compresses Images for The Best Image, Taking into Consideration that A Slightly Depreciated Image Quality is Acceptable for A Much Smaller File Size.
- -
.tiff Compresses Images with No Consideration for Image Depreciation, and Consequently; Have a Much Larger File Size.
- -
.gif is an older format for sharing images on The Earliest Generation of Computers & Very Slow Modems. When Computer modems got faster, The Better .jpg Algorithm superseded it.
- - -
ISO originally referred to A Film’s ‘Speed’. A Greater ISO of 400 allowed The Photographer to take pictures in Darker Environments, such as Indoors, without a Flash. The Same idea is Applied to Digital Photography, with The Same Results,
Setting your Digital ISO to a higher amount will adversely effect your image quality. Something that i should have been more aware of !
The Digital ISO tells The Camera to allow for Faster Shutter Speeds in Lower Light, Sacrificing Image Quality.
- - -
It’s best to set everything on Automatic, and if The Camera thinks that you should use The Flash, Even if you hate Flashed Images, You need to use The Flash, Or else.
Else being surprising Grainy ( Pixelated ) or Smeared Images.
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ugh.
Monday, July 25, 2011
The Structured Use of Randomality
Derived from Comments made to : Neither D or R by Wm Jas
This seems like ( upon greater reflection ) a much more interesting consideration than i originally granted it.
What needs to be done is to define a continuum of How Determinism & Randomality may be mixed together in various ways.
i continue to believe that this isn’t going to help The Problem of Freewill one iota, but i also believe that there are several distinct classes of how randomality may effect a classical deterministic model.
The Continuum would consist of a Perfect & Simple ( Dominoistic ) Determinism
on One Side ( On The Left ) And Perfect Randomality on The Right Side.
Holistic Determinism, When Every Particle in The Model is Affecting Every Other Particle, Via Instantaneous Forces, would be at The Middle.
A Holistic Deterministic Universe, with Forces acting at The Speed of Light Would be Just to The Left of That. ( Very Close to Our Observed Reality )
What really got me going on this ‘ReConsideration’ was that i thought of an Example, that i’d played around with on The Computer, that would satisfy this Definition; Of An Orderly Structure that ‘Evolves’ with A Distinct Random Element regularly interjected into it.
The Orderly Structure Contains ( Constrains ) The Randomality,
So that, In this Example, The Structure ( Overall ) is Not changed in The Least.
If The Random Element was replaced with The Fibonacci Sequence, or any other Mathematical Series, The Net Result would Look Pretty Much The Same.
Indistinguishable from one another if you stepped back from them.
The Example that i’m thinking of for this case;
Would be to arrange any number of Dots on A Field, ( 3 is Clearest ),
( In roughly a Circular Form, with an Open Space in The Middle )
Then Randomly Select an (x,y) Coordinate inside this space, Position (A)
- Start of Loop -
And Additionally Randomly Select One of The Other Dots,
Previously Defined, Position (B)
Then Apply The Simple Rule, of Determining The Point, One Half of The Distance from Your Original Position (A), To Position (B) And Placing a Dot There.
This New Dot is Now Position (A)
- Repeat Several Thousand Times -
( The One Half Rule can be any Fractional Value,
So long as it’s The Same amount of Each Itineration )
The Result will be ( ± ) a Sierpinski Triangle ( The Triangle of Pascal, Modulo 2 )
Vaguely Like this :
Borrowed from : YoyoBandalore's Flickr Album ( without Permission ! )
i am also fascinated by Chaos, which i understand to be Orderliness of such a extreme complexity, that it is indistinguishable for Randomality.
Curiously; These Chaotic Systems Are completely unpredictable when examined in small boxes, but when you allow them to run around in The Back Yard, and Film them with a Time Lapse Camera, They reveal a Very Distinct ‘Macro Pattern’ of somekind.
What is so remarkable about these Chaotic Systems is that they are able to Return to Their ‘True Nature’ while Internally, They seem Completely Random.
This also brings to mind Scanning Electron Microscopic Pictures of Some QuasiRegular Crystals. These are Crystal Formations in which A Regular Pattern is Revealed, But can only be Examined at a Comparatively Large Scale.
A ‘Normal’ Crystal, like Salt or Diamond, will look like Salt or Diamond, at Whatever Scale you Examine Any Number of NaCl Molecules or Carbon Atoms.
But a QuasiCrystal will look like one thing, such as a perfectly flat plane for several thousand atoms, Then Suddenly manifest itself as tower structure, then return to The Plane, and Then after awhile, Make another Tower, exactly like The One that we just examined.
What is Amazing ( ? ) is that The ‘Instructions’ for how to make The Tower, were hiding in The Flat Plane.
All The While that The Atoms were laying there so peacefully flat, They were counting off how many atoms from The Last Tower, before Starting a New One.
How can they do that?
Are they all just a teeny tiny bit out of angular registration,
or is there a musical tone that they are holding onto, that contains that secret information?
Is this sort of thing Extremely Common?
Is there ‘Secret’ Information hiding in Everything?
Layers & Layers of ‘Causal Determinism’ that is hiding from view.
So that besides The Holistic Interactivity of All The Particles in The Universe ( Pretty much so ) Interacting with Each Other,
There is Another Layer of Causal Determinism hiding inside All These Particles, That are telling them how to create MacroScopic Objects & Effects.
The point being;
If you’re sure that ‘Randomality’ is Necessary to Create The Complexity of The Observed Reality;
That’s probably not necessary.
Recursive Chaos is Completely Orderly;
But is Indistinguishable from Any Theoretical Randomality that you might wish to Imagine.
And how does this help Freewill?
Not in The Least.
Given all The Information that’s Available;
The Only Way that Freewill makes sense,
Is to Equate it with Autonomy,
And Define The Universe itself as Autonomous,
And Then Claim that Every ‘Node’ of Consciousness
Is Sharing The Autonomy & Freewill of The Universe.
Sharing Autonomy may sound like an oxymoronic statement,
But it also seems to make sense in a perfectly kooky kind of way.
But it still doesn’t allow for Deterministic Determinism.
That is something that no Example of has ever been observed under Laboratory Conditions.
This seems like ( upon greater reflection ) a much more interesting consideration than i originally granted it.
What needs to be done is to define a continuum of How Determinism & Randomality may be mixed together in various ways.
i continue to believe that this isn’t going to help The Problem of Freewill one iota, but i also believe that there are several distinct classes of how randomality may effect a classical deterministic model.
The Continuum would consist of a Perfect & Simple ( Dominoistic ) Determinism
on One Side ( On The Left ) And Perfect Randomality on The Right Side.
Holistic Determinism, When Every Particle in The Model is Affecting Every Other Particle, Via Instantaneous Forces, would be at The Middle.
A Holistic Deterministic Universe, with Forces acting at The Speed of Light Would be Just to The Left of That. ( Very Close to Our Observed Reality )
What really got me going on this ‘ReConsideration’ was that i thought of an Example, that i’d played around with on The Computer, that would satisfy this Definition; Of An Orderly Structure that ‘Evolves’ with A Distinct Random Element regularly interjected into it.
The Orderly Structure Contains ( Constrains ) The Randomality,
So that, In this Example, The Structure ( Overall ) is Not changed in The Least.
If The Random Element was replaced with The Fibonacci Sequence, or any other Mathematical Series, The Net Result would Look Pretty Much The Same.
Indistinguishable from one another if you stepped back from them.
The Example that i’m thinking of for this case;
Would be to arrange any number of Dots on A Field, ( 3 is Clearest ),
( In roughly a Circular Form, with an Open Space in The Middle )
Then Randomly Select an (x,y) Coordinate inside this space, Position (A)
- Start of Loop -
And Additionally Randomly Select One of The Other Dots,
Previously Defined, Position (B)
Then Apply The Simple Rule, of Determining The Point, One Half of The Distance from Your Original Position (A), To Position (B) And Placing a Dot There.
This New Dot is Now Position (A)
- Repeat Several Thousand Times -
( The One Half Rule can be any Fractional Value,
So long as it’s The Same amount of Each Itineration )
The Result will be ( ± ) a Sierpinski Triangle ( The Triangle of Pascal, Modulo 2 )
Vaguely Like this :
Borrowed from : YoyoBandalore's Flickr Album ( without Permission ! )
i am also fascinated by Chaos, which i understand to be Orderliness of such a extreme complexity, that it is indistinguishable for Randomality.
Curiously; These Chaotic Systems Are completely unpredictable when examined in small boxes, but when you allow them to run around in The Back Yard, and Film them with a Time Lapse Camera, They reveal a Very Distinct ‘Macro Pattern’ of somekind.
What is so remarkable about these Chaotic Systems is that they are able to Return to Their ‘True Nature’ while Internally, They seem Completely Random.
This also brings to mind Scanning Electron Microscopic Pictures of Some QuasiRegular Crystals. These are Crystal Formations in which A Regular Pattern is Revealed, But can only be Examined at a Comparatively Large Scale.
A ‘Normal’ Crystal, like Salt or Diamond, will look like Salt or Diamond, at Whatever Scale you Examine Any Number of NaCl Molecules or Carbon Atoms.
But a QuasiCrystal will look like one thing, such as a perfectly flat plane for several thousand atoms, Then Suddenly manifest itself as tower structure, then return to The Plane, and Then after awhile, Make another Tower, exactly like The One that we just examined.
What is Amazing ( ? ) is that The ‘Instructions’ for how to make The Tower, were hiding in The Flat Plane.
All The While that The Atoms were laying there so peacefully flat, They were counting off how many atoms from The Last Tower, before Starting a New One.
How can they do that?
Are they all just a teeny tiny bit out of angular registration,
or is there a musical tone that they are holding onto, that contains that secret information?
Is this sort of thing Extremely Common?
Is there ‘Secret’ Information hiding in Everything?
Layers & Layers of ‘Causal Determinism’ that is hiding from view.
So that besides The Holistic Interactivity of All The Particles in The Universe ( Pretty much so ) Interacting with Each Other,
There is Another Layer of Causal Determinism hiding inside All These Particles, That are telling them how to create MacroScopic Objects & Effects.
The point being;
If you’re sure that ‘Randomality’ is Necessary to Create The Complexity of The Observed Reality;
That’s probably not necessary.
Recursive Chaos is Completely Orderly;
But is Indistinguishable from Any Theoretical Randomality that you might wish to Imagine.
And how does this help Freewill?
Not in The Least.
Given all The Information that’s Available;
The Only Way that Freewill makes sense,
Is to Equate it with Autonomy,
And Define The Universe itself as Autonomous,
And Then Claim that Every ‘Node’ of Consciousness
Is Sharing The Autonomy & Freewill of The Universe.
Sharing Autonomy may sound like an oxymoronic statement,
But it also seems to make sense in a perfectly kooky kind of way.
But it still doesn’t allow for Deterministic Determinism.
That is something that no Example of has ever been observed under Laboratory Conditions.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Intelligent Determinism
Intelligent Determinism ( or Deterministic Determinism ) = FreeWill
Various Marginally Edited Chaotic Thoughts
by Wanda Louise Campbell
This ( Half Baked ) Proof for Freewill brings to mind The Cartoon by Sidney Harris
In which The Distinguished Professor is Standing before A Blackboard;
One side of which is covered with Incomprehensible Calculations
& The Other side of The Board is Also covered with Complex Equations,
And between them—
The Professor has scrawled; ‘And then A Miracle Occurs’.
It has recently occurred to me What Miracle for Freewill is Required,
And How it may be Presented.
The Problem of Freewill is fairly easy to Outline.
The Universe as we experience it; Is Governed by A Orderly Structure which is routinely referred to as Cause & Effect.
This is also thought of as Determinism.
The Problem for Freewill is that if The Decisions that we Make are answerable to Cause & Effect, That pretty much nullifies Freewill.
One Solution is Introduce Quantum Mechanics and suggest that Randomality plays a part in our Decision making, But That nullifies Freewill as well.
Freewill requires that there is ‘Deliberate Intent’ that is Directed by An Autonomous Agent.
Regretfully; There are no examples of this that may be Examined or Verified,
Other than our own insistence that we’re doing it all The Time.
But our Brains; The Source of Our Minds, is made up of Chemicals in little bags, that are pushed around by tiny static charges that get their instructions from How The Universe Works.
Some Featherless Parakeets would like to believe that Our Minds are actually Ghosts that are trapped inside The Robots that we Call People. As such; The Ghost’s make all of our Autonomous Decisions— But there is a small problem with this.
This model simply pushes The Mechanics of Decision making out of The Mechanical Claws of The Meat Bags, Into The Fluffy Paws of some Spiritual Realm that must be :
Either Orderly or Disorderly; Just like The Physical Realm.
One Feeble Solution is to simply assert that The World we Perceive is Not The True Reality, And that The True Reality is So Very Different from Our Perceived Reality, That These Dichotomies of Order & Randomality, That we are sure are UnAvoidable— Are Illusions.
The True Reality; Which is forever Unknowable to us;
Has a very simple solution for how Freewill, Consciousness & Local Autonomy really work.
First:
Let us Define our Terms a little.
While Freewill & Local Autonomy may be Illusions.
We really do ( ? - Don’t we ) Experience Consciousness.
It may be that This Consciousness doesn’t do anything,
As; If all our thoughts are generated by The Mind ( Either within Our Brains or Souls )
and Then Experienced by our Consciousnesses, The Consciousness doesn’t have anything to do with Creating Those Thoughts, It only Experiences them.
That would be very annoying.
Let us attack this dilemma from a different direction.
One things that very much disturbs me; Is that there is Order in The Universe.
Why isn’t The Universe Random?
The most troubling thing about An Orderly Universe;
Is: Why Are All The Electrons Exactly The Same as One Another?
Granted; We’re making a lot of assumptions here, Principally about our understanding of matter & such— But Starting with The Elemental Axiom that The World is Pretty Much The Way we Experience it; Then: Where are all these Electrons getting their Instructions from; To all behave in exactly The Same Way?
This is so troubling that i’m going to jump past it.
Let us allow that there is something like; ‘The Bottom of The Universe’.
This has variously been called;
The Dao, Prana, Mana, Qi, The Holy Ghost, Odic Forcem, Morphic Fields, The Standard Model + Gravity, The Kitchen Floor, Yesod, The Akasha Pasture;
or The Ξ.0 Continuum.
It is Ruled over by The Troll Queen.
For what purpose; That is Another Wonderful Question.
But let us allow that this Kitchen Floor exists;
And from it; The One Tiniest Peanut is Multiplied to Fill The Universe,
And By Some Miraculous Rule that Governs it; It forms Quarks & Leptons,
Which combine to make Electrons & Neutrons & Photons & Such...
And They Follow Their Instructions which we call Physics & Chemistry.
From here; This modest Beginning—
i find it quite reasonable that Atoms would form,
Combine into most of The Elements,
And from these building blocks, The Visible Universe, At its largest Scale,
Would quite reasonably form Stars, Burst into Blazing Furnaces,
and find themselves surrounded with dense clouds of debris,
some of which may be thought of as Planets.
Water may collect on some of them;
And Its still reasonable that The Simple Principles of Chemistry
Could make Self Replicating Molecules.
But.
Just how much Complexity am i willing to allow this to proceed towards before i start to question just how much Intricacy can come from A Single Initial Premise,
Without any additional fudging?
Given any set of Rules; i am willing to allow that Complexity will -Always- Result—
But = this = Reality.
This one ?
Did it;
Could it have Resulted from A Single Initial Starting Point,
Countless Zillions of Years Ago,
Proceeding forward,
Tripping one Domino after another,
until… This ?
That seems improbable doesn’t it?
There is An Argument that puts a quick Kibosh on this hesitance to believe In The Evolutionist’s ‘Dead’ Universe;
And It simple states that in An Infinite Universe, That tries every imaginable combination of These Tiniest Peanuts; You will not only eventually come across A Visible Universe that is Exactly like this one; One with All The Wars, Art, Video Games, Sexual Perversions & Dinosaurs;
But There will be An Infinite number of them.
Not just a lot of them, But An Uncountable number of them.
But this argument is trying to find a way to understand,
Or at least allow for Freewill.
So far, It’s not going well.
But.
i would like you to consider this.
What if only possible things were possible.
This is quite different from; Anything is Possible, or worse; Everything is Possible.
I’ve always been very skeptical of The Assertion that There is Another Universe Exactly like this one; Except for one Tiny Detail.
It seems to me; That if This Duplicate Universe that was Exactly like this Universe for several billions of years, and then some small thing changes.
That would be breaking The Rules.
If this is correct.
If only Possible things are Possible;
Then There may be an Equally Infinite Number of Universes, But not Every Universe.
Then if you have a Very Improbable Universe; Like this one—
Maybe its not Inevitable.
Maybe it couldn’t just come about accidentally.
Maybe There would have to be some Fudging to keep it moving in some desired direction.
This model doesn’t say that this Fudging is caused by Gawd,
Or any intelligent entity at all.
It’s open ended on that point.
It is suggesting that along with The Kinds of Determinism that We’re familiar with,
There is another kind of Determinism.
It works just like The Dominoes Determinism,
But it can look a little bit into The Future, and by Some Unspecified Mechanism;
Pick which Domino to Knock over,
Because, for whatever reasons, It seems more desirable.
This Theory is Severely Incomplete.
But if only Possible Things Are Possible;
Then Some Improbable Realities are Actually Impossible,
Unless something pushes in from The Side and Make Impossible things happen.
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A Divergent Collection of Scribbled Ideas
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-2 Empty Universe
-1 Randomality - ( In an Infinite Universe; This World / Visible Universe ( Expanding or Static Bubble of Our Reality ) - or - ( Our Perceptions of This Reality ( or My Perceptions in A Solipsistic Universe, of This Reality ) / Must ( ? ) Necessarily ( ? ) Come about, Not just once, but an Infinite Number of Times, with Infinite Variation ) !
0 Order / The Kitchen Floor
1 Fundamental Particles / Enables All Electrons to Be The Same
2 Physics / Chemistry / Easily Allows for A Universe filled with Atoms, Forces, Gravity, Light, Collapsing Stars, Planets & Even Self Replicating Molecules.
But if Occam’s Razor has any truth to it, Then instead of life evolving from this amazing chemical effect, The Oceans should have instead filled with a Gelatinous Muck that would have made further Evolution ImPossible.
2.5 Emergent Complexity / Emergent Complexity necessitates that some fundamental rules are developed first, and from these, their combinations provide for astonishing results which often appear to exhibit genuine intelligence. But where did The first rules come from, and how complex were they?
What are The Elemental Rules that Emergent Complexity is Constructed from, To Create The Contemporaneous World / Or Our Perceptions of It.
3 Intelligent Determinism / Intelligent Determinism is posited to allow that A World as we are familiar with it, would come into being by some mechanism other than as a randomly evolving clock-work toy.
At some ( UnDisclosed ) Point in The Natural Development of The Contemporaneous World as We Perceive It, The Complexity of It Defies The Clock-Work Explanation.
An Alternative to Intelligent Determinism ( ? or Is it exactly The Same ? ) is that The Fundamental Physics of The World, Created The First Rules, Which Allowed Emergent Complexity to Kick In, Which then produced An Intelligent Determinism, But this remains within The Realm of The Clock-Work Toy.
True Intelligent Determinism Suggests that This is A Distinguishable Form of Determinism from The Clock-Work Variety.
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Pulled off The Interweb :
With no evidence of intelligent life other than ourselves, it appears that the process of starting with a star and ending with "advanced explosive lasting life" must be unlikely. This implies that at least one step in this process must be improbable. Hanson's list, while incomplete, describes the following nine steps in an "evolutionary path" that results in the colonization of the observable universe:
1. The right star system (including organics & potentially habitable planets)
2. Reproductive molecules (e.g. RNA)
3. Simple (prokaryotic) single-cell life
4. Complex (archaeatic & eukaryotic) single-cell life
5. Sexual reproduction
6. Multi-cell life
7. Tool-using animals with big brains
8. Where we are now
9. Colonization explosion
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The Curious Thing about my Argument for The Necessary Intervention of A Determinant Determinism to Fudge The Ordinary Progression of Determinism,
( See xy Complexity Chart Above )
i am only troubled by a couple fine slivers along The Natureal History of This Reality.
i am fully comfortable in An Orderly Universe with Physics & Chemistry
And Stars forming,
And Planets with Oceans,
And Self Replicating Molecules,
And Then one of these Slivers appear,
And then Once There are Oceans full of Prokaryotes,
That seems perfectly reasonable,
Until They Develop into Nucleated Cells with DNA,
Which is Huge Stretch.
There are just too many layers of Cellular Mechanics that all have to work together from The First Step.
So that would be The Second Sliver.
And Then Multicellular Animals.
What is now known; All The Animals that Suddenly appeared during The PreCambrian Explosion of Life, All came from One Fully Formed Animal. It is now known that The Eyes in Insects & People didn’t Evolve Independently. Our Common Ancestor had Eyes.
It must have been a fully formed, Sexually Reproducing Animal.
Where did it come from?
Once you have all These Animals though; The Reigning Explanation of how They Mixed together to form all these other animals is quite elegant and believable.
But once these animals became a little bit pickier about allowing only sperms from their own species to fertilize their eggs, You’ve got problems again.
Every Time a New Species comes into existence, with it’s own unique number of chromosomes, you have to have several of them. You can’t just have one mutation, It has to be a bunch all at once.
But then if you jump way ahead to A Fully Functional Featherless Parakeet,
i am perfectly willing to allow that you could have a planet of Consciousless Robots that behave -Exactly- The way we do.
i am perfectly willing to allow that Emergent Complexity could produce all human behaviours in Robots—
Once you have a Viable Set of Axiomatic Rules to Work From.
Could these come about from The Thread of Natureal Evolution?
That’s another Stretch.
Another Sliver where A Little Fudging is Necessary.
Of course; Human Existence would seem to require a constant stream of these interventions.
Granted; Most people, Most of The Time, would not require any oversight.
Most people, Most of The Time; Are on AutoPilot. They are mindless Robots.
Most people i know have never uttered an original sentence, or suggested an original idea.
They usually seem to be experiencing a form of Consciousness very different from The Kind that i believe i am experiencing.
But This argument isn’t dependent upon Everyone being Genuinely Locally Autonomous, with Genuine Freewill; It only presupposes that there is at least one case.
This is called Solipsism.
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Various Marginally Edited Chaotic Thoughts
by Wanda Louise Campbell
This ( Half Baked ) Proof for Freewill brings to mind The Cartoon by Sidney Harris
In which The Distinguished Professor is Standing before A Blackboard;
One side of which is covered with Incomprehensible Calculations
& The Other side of The Board is Also covered with Complex Equations,
And between them—
The Professor has scrawled; ‘And then A Miracle Occurs’.
It has recently occurred to me What Miracle for Freewill is Required,
And How it may be Presented.
The Problem of Freewill is fairly easy to Outline.
The Universe as we experience it; Is Governed by A Orderly Structure which is routinely referred to as Cause & Effect.
This is also thought of as Determinism.
The Problem for Freewill is that if The Decisions that we Make are answerable to Cause & Effect, That pretty much nullifies Freewill.
One Solution is Introduce Quantum Mechanics and suggest that Randomality plays a part in our Decision making, But That nullifies Freewill as well.
Freewill requires that there is ‘Deliberate Intent’ that is Directed by An Autonomous Agent.
Regretfully; There are no examples of this that may be Examined or Verified,
Other than our own insistence that we’re doing it all The Time.
But our Brains; The Source of Our Minds, is made up of Chemicals in little bags, that are pushed around by tiny static charges that get their instructions from How The Universe Works.
Some Featherless Parakeets would like to believe that Our Minds are actually Ghosts that are trapped inside The Robots that we Call People. As such; The Ghost’s make all of our Autonomous Decisions— But there is a small problem with this.
This model simply pushes The Mechanics of Decision making out of The Mechanical Claws of The Meat Bags, Into The Fluffy Paws of some Spiritual Realm that must be :
Either Orderly or Disorderly; Just like The Physical Realm.
One Feeble Solution is to simply assert that The World we Perceive is Not The True Reality, And that The True Reality is So Very Different from Our Perceived Reality, That These Dichotomies of Order & Randomality, That we are sure are UnAvoidable— Are Illusions.
The True Reality; Which is forever Unknowable to us;
Has a very simple solution for how Freewill, Consciousness & Local Autonomy really work.
First:
Let us Define our Terms a little.
While Freewill & Local Autonomy may be Illusions.
We really do ( ? - Don’t we ) Experience Consciousness.
It may be that This Consciousness doesn’t do anything,
As; If all our thoughts are generated by The Mind ( Either within Our Brains or Souls )
and Then Experienced by our Consciousnesses, The Consciousness doesn’t have anything to do with Creating Those Thoughts, It only Experiences them.
That would be very annoying.
Let us attack this dilemma from a different direction.
One things that very much disturbs me; Is that there is Order in The Universe.
Why isn’t The Universe Random?
The most troubling thing about An Orderly Universe;
Is: Why Are All The Electrons Exactly The Same as One Another?
Granted; We’re making a lot of assumptions here, Principally about our understanding of matter & such— But Starting with The Elemental Axiom that The World is Pretty Much The Way we Experience it; Then: Where are all these Electrons getting their Instructions from; To all behave in exactly The Same Way?
This is so troubling that i’m going to jump past it.
Let us allow that there is something like; ‘The Bottom of The Universe’.
This has variously been called;
The Dao, Prana, Mana, Qi, The Holy Ghost, Odic Forcem, Morphic Fields, The Standard Model + Gravity, The Kitchen Floor, Yesod, The Akasha Pasture;
or The Ξ.0 Continuum.
It is Ruled over by The Troll Queen.
For what purpose; That is Another Wonderful Question.
But let us allow that this Kitchen Floor exists;
And from it; The One Tiniest Peanut is Multiplied to Fill The Universe,
And By Some Miraculous Rule that Governs it; It forms Quarks & Leptons,
Which combine to make Electrons & Neutrons & Photons & Such...
And They Follow Their Instructions which we call Physics & Chemistry.
From here; This modest Beginning—
i find it quite reasonable that Atoms would form,
Combine into most of The Elements,
And from these building blocks, The Visible Universe, At its largest Scale,
Would quite reasonably form Stars, Burst into Blazing Furnaces,
and find themselves surrounded with dense clouds of debris,
some of which may be thought of as Planets.
Water may collect on some of them;
And Its still reasonable that The Simple Principles of Chemistry
Could make Self Replicating Molecules.
But.
Just how much Complexity am i willing to allow this to proceed towards before i start to question just how much Intricacy can come from A Single Initial Premise,
Without any additional fudging?
Given any set of Rules; i am willing to allow that Complexity will -Always- Result—
But = this = Reality.
This one ?
Did it;
Could it have Resulted from A Single Initial Starting Point,
Countless Zillions of Years Ago,
Proceeding forward,
Tripping one Domino after another,
until… This ?
That seems improbable doesn’t it?
There is An Argument that puts a quick Kibosh on this hesitance to believe In The Evolutionist’s ‘Dead’ Universe;
And It simple states that in An Infinite Universe, That tries every imaginable combination of These Tiniest Peanuts; You will not only eventually come across A Visible Universe that is Exactly like this one; One with All The Wars, Art, Video Games, Sexual Perversions & Dinosaurs;
But There will be An Infinite number of them.
Not just a lot of them, But An Uncountable number of them.
But this argument is trying to find a way to understand,
Or at least allow for Freewill.
So far, It’s not going well.
But.
i would like you to consider this.
What if only possible things were possible.
This is quite different from; Anything is Possible, or worse; Everything is Possible.
I’ve always been very skeptical of The Assertion that There is Another Universe Exactly like this one; Except for one Tiny Detail.
It seems to me; That if This Duplicate Universe that was Exactly like this Universe for several billions of years, and then some small thing changes.
That would be breaking The Rules.
If this is correct.
If only Possible things are Possible;
Then There may be an Equally Infinite Number of Universes, But not Every Universe.
Then if you have a Very Improbable Universe; Like this one—
Maybe its not Inevitable.
Maybe it couldn’t just come about accidentally.
Maybe There would have to be some Fudging to keep it moving in some desired direction.
This model doesn’t say that this Fudging is caused by Gawd,
Or any intelligent entity at all.
It’s open ended on that point.
It is suggesting that along with The Kinds of Determinism that We’re familiar with,
There is another kind of Determinism.
It works just like The Dominoes Determinism,
But it can look a little bit into The Future, and by Some Unspecified Mechanism;
Pick which Domino to Knock over,
Because, for whatever reasons, It seems more desirable.
This Theory is Severely Incomplete.
But if only Possible Things Are Possible;
Then Some Improbable Realities are Actually Impossible,
Unless something pushes in from The Side and Make Impossible things happen.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
A Divergent Collection of Scribbled Ideas
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-2 Empty Universe
-1 Randomality - ( In an Infinite Universe; This World / Visible Universe ( Expanding or Static Bubble of Our Reality ) - or - ( Our Perceptions of This Reality ( or My Perceptions in A Solipsistic Universe, of This Reality ) / Must ( ? ) Necessarily ( ? ) Come about, Not just once, but an Infinite Number of Times, with Infinite Variation ) !
0 Order / The Kitchen Floor
1 Fundamental Particles / Enables All Electrons to Be The Same
2 Physics / Chemistry / Easily Allows for A Universe filled with Atoms, Forces, Gravity, Light, Collapsing Stars, Planets & Even Self Replicating Molecules.
But if Occam’s Razor has any truth to it, Then instead of life evolving from this amazing chemical effect, The Oceans should have instead filled with a Gelatinous Muck that would have made further Evolution ImPossible.
2.5 Emergent Complexity / Emergent Complexity necessitates that some fundamental rules are developed first, and from these, their combinations provide for astonishing results which often appear to exhibit genuine intelligence. But where did The first rules come from, and how complex were they?
What are The Elemental Rules that Emergent Complexity is Constructed from, To Create The Contemporaneous World / Or Our Perceptions of It.
3 Intelligent Determinism / Intelligent Determinism is posited to allow that A World as we are familiar with it, would come into being by some mechanism other than as a randomly evolving clock-work toy.
At some ( UnDisclosed ) Point in The Natural Development of The Contemporaneous World as We Perceive It, The Complexity of It Defies The Clock-Work Explanation.
An Alternative to Intelligent Determinism ( ? or Is it exactly The Same ? ) is that The Fundamental Physics of The World, Created The First Rules, Which Allowed Emergent Complexity to Kick In, Which then produced An Intelligent Determinism, But this remains within The Realm of The Clock-Work Toy.
True Intelligent Determinism Suggests that This is A Distinguishable Form of Determinism from The Clock-Work Variety.
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Pulled off The Interweb :
With no evidence of intelligent life other than ourselves, it appears that the process of starting with a star and ending with "advanced explosive lasting life" must be unlikely. This implies that at least one step in this process must be improbable. Hanson's list, while incomplete, describes the following nine steps in an "evolutionary path" that results in the colonization of the observable universe:
1. The right star system (including organics & potentially habitable planets)
2. Reproductive molecules (e.g. RNA)
3. Simple (prokaryotic) single-cell life
4. Complex (archaeatic & eukaryotic) single-cell life
5. Sexual reproduction
6. Multi-cell life
7. Tool-using animals with big brains
8. Where we are now
9. Colonization explosion
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The Curious Thing about my Argument for The Necessary Intervention of A Determinant Determinism to Fudge The Ordinary Progression of Determinism,
( See xy Complexity Chart Above )
i am only troubled by a couple fine slivers along The Natureal History of This Reality.
i am fully comfortable in An Orderly Universe with Physics & Chemistry
And Stars forming,
And Planets with Oceans,
And Self Replicating Molecules,
And Then one of these Slivers appear,
And then Once There are Oceans full of Prokaryotes,
That seems perfectly reasonable,
Until They Develop into Nucleated Cells with DNA,
Which is Huge Stretch.
There are just too many layers of Cellular Mechanics that all have to work together from The First Step.
So that would be The Second Sliver.
And Then Multicellular Animals.
What is now known; All The Animals that Suddenly appeared during The PreCambrian Explosion of Life, All came from One Fully Formed Animal. It is now known that The Eyes in Insects & People didn’t Evolve Independently. Our Common Ancestor had Eyes.
It must have been a fully formed, Sexually Reproducing Animal.
Where did it come from?
Once you have all These Animals though; The Reigning Explanation of how They Mixed together to form all these other animals is quite elegant and believable.
But once these animals became a little bit pickier about allowing only sperms from their own species to fertilize their eggs, You’ve got problems again.
Every Time a New Species comes into existence, with it’s own unique number of chromosomes, you have to have several of them. You can’t just have one mutation, It has to be a bunch all at once.
But then if you jump way ahead to A Fully Functional Featherless Parakeet,
i am perfectly willing to allow that you could have a planet of Consciousless Robots that behave -Exactly- The way we do.
i am perfectly willing to allow that Emergent Complexity could produce all human behaviours in Robots—
Once you have a Viable Set of Axiomatic Rules to Work From.
Could these come about from The Thread of Natureal Evolution?
That’s another Stretch.
Another Sliver where A Little Fudging is Necessary.
Of course; Human Existence would seem to require a constant stream of these interventions.
Granted; Most people, Most of The Time, would not require any oversight.
Most people, Most of The Time; Are on AutoPilot. They are mindless Robots.
Most people i know have never uttered an original sentence, or suggested an original idea.
They usually seem to be experiencing a form of Consciousness very different from The Kind that i believe i am experiencing.
But This argument isn’t dependent upon Everyone being Genuinely Locally Autonomous, with Genuine Freewill; It only presupposes that there is at least one case.
This is called Solipsism.
- - End : Intelligent Determinism Rant- - - - -
Guillible Skeptics vs Epistemologists
The Principle Difference between
The Gullible Skeptic & The Genuinely Critical Epistemologists
Is The One is Chiefly Concerned with Providing Authoritative Answers,
And The Other is Only Motivated to Forming Provocative Questions.
The Gullible Skeptic & The Genuinely Critical Epistemologists
Is The One is Chiefly Concerned with Providing Authoritative Answers,
And The Other is Only Motivated to Forming Provocative Questions.
Near Sighted People See Blurred Images
A Very Raw Observation
i just realized The Other Day that people with Near or Far Sightedness,
See Blurry Images !
This strikes me as rather odd, in that it seems to me that The Brain should take in information from The Eyes, and if The Image is Blurred, The Interpretation is Going to be Flawed, But not so much that The Correct Identification of Items in your Visual Field will be Wrong,
So The Problem that i’m having with this is; The Brain takes in all this information, in The Form of Raw Pixels, which have to be thoroughly processed to be Identified, And then Processed in some Deeply Mysterious Way to Form The Conscious Representation of The Visual Field of ‘Things We See”.
Why then; Would This Visual Representation be ‘Created’ from Items that were Properly Identified, As Blurry Objects?
It must be That we’re ‘Seeing’ The Raw Image provided by The Eyes.
This Seems to leave The Brain out at some critical step.
( ? )
i just realized The Other Day that people with Near or Far Sightedness,
See Blurry Images !
This strikes me as rather odd, in that it seems to me that The Brain should take in information from The Eyes, and if The Image is Blurred, The Interpretation is Going to be Flawed, But not so much that The Correct Identification of Items in your Visual Field will be Wrong,
So The Problem that i’m having with this is; The Brain takes in all this information, in The Form of Raw Pixels, which have to be thoroughly processed to be Identified, And then Processed in some Deeply Mysterious Way to Form The Conscious Representation of The Visual Field of ‘Things We See”.
Why then; Would This Visual Representation be ‘Created’ from Items that were Properly Identified, As Blurry Objects?
It must be That we’re ‘Seeing’ The Raw Image provided by The Eyes.
This Seems to leave The Brain out at some critical step.
( ? )
Friday, July 15, 2011
Recent News Items
More nonsense about Bin Laden in The News.
Today’s News brings us again Principally Grandiose Plans That Bin Laden was Planning, But That in The 10 years since 911, None of them were Actualized.
If Bin Laden really was The Head of a Well Funded World Wide Criminal Organization with Thousands or Millions of members,
Why was it so Ineffectual?
- -
All The Supposed ‘Attempted Attacks’ with Explosive Underwear or Shoes or Christmas Trees, were all comical in their disclosed details, which invariably included all The Information that an Attentive 5th Grader should need to put it together to conclude that they were intended to be a joke, But astonishingly; Few People ‘got The joke’ ( ??? )
Just how stupid are people?
- -
Doesn’t it make more sense that it’s all a hoax?
That there is no Al Qaeda, That Bin Laden was just an anachronism of The Russian War with Afghanistan, And was used as a figure head by The United State’s CIA or Whoever, to Create a Boogey Man.
All those tapes & Videos, of astonishingly poor quality, that were supposed to have been of Bin Laden, always contained elements that were just ‘Wrong’. They always contained Grandiose claims made after The fact, & The Figures identified as Bin Laden never looked like Bin Laden.
It’s like 911 itself; As if The people that Created these events deliberately included elements that should ’Tip Off’ Any attentive 5th Grader that it’s a Hoax.
If these things were created by people that actually wanted to perpetrate a Believeable Hoax, they would not contain so many flaws.
It would seem to be somekind of crazy experiment to see how silly they can be, and still get 80% of The Populace to believe it.
- -
More news :
Balancing The Budget.
This is going to be a Massive Train Wreck somewhere down The line.
i just do not understand how The Economy Works.
i don’t understand how most small businesses survive. Most little stores that i pass by every day, never have any customers in them. And this includes most of The stores at The mall. Maybe most people shop late at night, when i’m hiding under a stack of blankets in my closet, But how can they do enough business to make a few pennies off each item sold, to pay a clerk minimum wage every day ?
This deeply mystifies me.
And while it does make a little sense to me that if i buy something on credit, i owe The bank x amount and they are willing to let it slide for any length of time, while adding a little something to it for every day that goes by.
But how does a government rack up trillions of dollars in debt?
Who is taking these loans?
If China is buying up all our debt, Where are they getting all this surplus money?
All this money that The US is borrowing, has to be paid someday, with interest.
When is this going to happen?
At what time in The future, under what circumstances, will The US Catch Up ?
- -
And something that i haven’t heard anyone discussing, and it’s something that i think is an absolute Certainty, Is that someday, Someday soon, someone is going to break The AI puzzle. And when an artificial brain or Synthetic Consciousness becomes available, It will mean that all Middle Management Positions will become obsolete overnight. Unemployment will jump form 9% to 90%.
And when you add on Robots that can Do anything, there will be almost no Jobs that humans will do better than machines.
Is anyone thinking about how an Economy will work after this comes into play?
Will it suddenly be a utopian paradise or complete anarchy.
Today’s News brings us again Principally Grandiose Plans That Bin Laden was Planning, But That in The 10 years since 911, None of them were Actualized.
If Bin Laden really was The Head of a Well Funded World Wide Criminal Organization with Thousands or Millions of members,
Why was it so Ineffectual?
- -
All The Supposed ‘Attempted Attacks’ with Explosive Underwear or Shoes or Christmas Trees, were all comical in their disclosed details, which invariably included all The Information that an Attentive 5th Grader should need to put it together to conclude that they were intended to be a joke, But astonishingly; Few People ‘got The joke’ ( ??? )
Just how stupid are people?
- -
Doesn’t it make more sense that it’s all a hoax?
That there is no Al Qaeda, That Bin Laden was just an anachronism of The Russian War with Afghanistan, And was used as a figure head by The United State’s CIA or Whoever, to Create a Boogey Man.
All those tapes & Videos, of astonishingly poor quality, that were supposed to have been of Bin Laden, always contained elements that were just ‘Wrong’. They always contained Grandiose claims made after The fact, & The Figures identified as Bin Laden never looked like Bin Laden.
It’s like 911 itself; As if The people that Created these events deliberately included elements that should ’Tip Off’ Any attentive 5th Grader that it’s a Hoax.
If these things were created by people that actually wanted to perpetrate a Believeable Hoax, they would not contain so many flaws.
It would seem to be somekind of crazy experiment to see how silly they can be, and still get 80% of The Populace to believe it.
- -
More news :
Balancing The Budget.
This is going to be a Massive Train Wreck somewhere down The line.
i just do not understand how The Economy Works.
i don’t understand how most small businesses survive. Most little stores that i pass by every day, never have any customers in them. And this includes most of The stores at The mall. Maybe most people shop late at night, when i’m hiding under a stack of blankets in my closet, But how can they do enough business to make a few pennies off each item sold, to pay a clerk minimum wage every day ?
This deeply mystifies me.
And while it does make a little sense to me that if i buy something on credit, i owe The bank x amount and they are willing to let it slide for any length of time, while adding a little something to it for every day that goes by.
But how does a government rack up trillions of dollars in debt?
Who is taking these loans?
If China is buying up all our debt, Where are they getting all this surplus money?
All this money that The US is borrowing, has to be paid someday, with interest.
When is this going to happen?
At what time in The future, under what circumstances, will The US Catch Up ?
- -
And something that i haven’t heard anyone discussing, and it’s something that i think is an absolute Certainty, Is that someday, Someday soon, someone is going to break The AI puzzle. And when an artificial brain or Synthetic Consciousness becomes available, It will mean that all Middle Management Positions will become obsolete overnight. Unemployment will jump form 9% to 90%.
And when you add on Robots that can Do anything, there will be almost no Jobs that humans will do better than machines.
Is anyone thinking about how an Economy will work after this comes into play?
Will it suddenly be a utopian paradise or complete anarchy.
Jaycee Lee Dugard
It seems to me that a reasonable defense for Philip Craig Garrido ( & His Wife Nancy Bocanegra ), The Kidnappers of Jaycee Lee Dugard ( Prisoner for 18y ) would be to assert that given that Jaycee has demonstrated such strength & resiliency, That her years under their care was a very positive experience for her, and was The very anti-thesis of criminal activity. They actually provided a more positive environment than if she was allowed to live in her ‘normal’ mediocre home with her parents.
Friday, July 08, 2011
Casey Anthony Rant ( + )
re : Casey & Kalyn ( ? ) Anthony
Despite The Astonishing Hand Wringing in The Few Days after The Surprising Verdict of Not Guilty, Very little Consideration has been Given to Some of The Most Vexing Questions. ( ? )
What is The Deal with The Google Searches for Chloroform?
Why Didn’t Casey’s Mother or Father or Brother Report Kalyn Missing?
It seems clear to me that there is A Larger Conspiracy in That Household.
Everyone in that home knew what happened to Kalyn, And they Conspired to Cover it Up.
Why?
If it was an Accident, Why cover it up?
It seems much more reasonable that someone in The Family Murdered Kalyn,
But why would The Other Members of The Family Go Along with The CoverUp.
What was The Motive for The Murder?
How could they have believed that No One Else would notice Kalyn Missing?
Why did her Mother Suddenly Report Her Missing?
What is The Larger Narrative?
Why is The Media Ignoring this Larger Narrative?
It seems to me that in Light of A Conspiracy Theory,
The Family would Support Casey, and Casey would support her Family after her Arrest, But after a time, Casey Decided that The Truth would be more Beneficial to Her Situation.
But.
When Casey decided to Tell The Truth, She would have to Translate The Larger Narrative into a Believable Story, And in doing so, She decided to Simplify A Larger Narrative which may be Insanely Complicated that Spanned Her Entire Life & The Lives of Her Family Members.
Then after you simplify one element and try to make it Fit with The Other Simplified Elements, you’d have to continuously bend & twist your story to get everything to fit makes it more & more disingenuous & contrived.
If Casey ever did want to ‘Back Up’ and Start The Simplified Narrative over again, it would only make it all worse, or if she decided to try and reveal The Larger Narrative, There is no way that she could get all The Details Right so that it would make a believable Story, because her understanding would be only one perspective with numerous other actor’s views & motivations unknown to her.
The Investigators would have to have first conceded that there was A Larger Narrative, But The Police are always looking for The Simple Murder, Not A College Graduate Thesis in The Complexities of Human Behaviour.
Plus; Even if this Larger Narrative were Fully Disclosed, How could they ever present it to A Jury to Get any kind of reasonable Conviction?
i have heard of other cases like this, Where a Crime involves a little extra Complexity, A Few Extra Details that are NonSensical or In any Sense Sensible, The Prosecutors &/or Judges simply throw The Case Out rather than think to hard about something that will only cause UnNecessary Grief & Headaches.
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As a Side Issue :
Hate Jury Duty...?
i have an idea for Restructuring The Judicial System, So that all the rights & responsibilities of the Accused & Accusers will be preserved, But that Citizens will be lining up to be on Juries, Instead of shunning them.
The first & most elemental assumption that i'm making about the functionality of a legal trial, is that it consists of an logical & reasonable argument of guilt by The Prosecutor, which is rebutted by The Defense Attorney.
What this Trial is Not; Is a Theatrical Performance.
The New & Improved Structure that i am proposing, May seem even more Theatrical than the current structure, but it is intended to provide more & clearer information in a more confined & well regulated format.
The New Structure is simply This:
All the principles of the case; Accused, Prosecutor, Defense, Judge, Witnesses & Various Experts conduct the trial in a manner very reminiscent of a conventional trial, With the tiny exception that instead of presenting it to A Live Jury; It is simply made into a full & complete Video Presentation.
What are the advantages to this:
* All parties have complete control of what the final presentation will consist of, disallowing or sharply reducing, the possibility of an appeal by either side.
* This complete control means that there will be No unexpected outbursts, irrelevant comments, pointless delays, & all other wearisome & tedious content for The Jury to Endure. / It may be argued that on various occasions, Either side of the debate would like to introduce what may appear to an unexpected outburst, but such theatrics will now have to be carefully argued at a meta-level with all concerned parties for their inclusion.
* Expert Witnesses may be Video Conferenced from Distant Locations, or Pre-Recorded Explanations of Evidentiary Content may be inserted seamlessly into the final Presentation.
* Detailed Examinations of The Crime Scene may be included with fancy Graphics & detailed computer simulations. / These sorts of things are present in current legal proceedings, but only in the most contrived & often clumsy manner.
* These Video Presentation Arguments will be created by professionals working with all interested parties to make a final, professional looking product that will contain all relevant information, disallow irrelevant information and be pleasing & engaging to watch.
* The Jury may view the entire Presentation or any subsection repeatedly.
* The amount of time that The Jury would have to commit to the Trial may be as little as a single afternoon. / Or conceivably; They could view The Presentation from home and deliberate with other jury members within a Secured Chat Room.
* The Presentation would be available for review by anyone, in it's complete form, for reconsideration, appeal or historical purposes at any later time.
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Additional Digression :
Prosecutorial Responsibilities
For every trial by jury or judge;
The jury or judge could find the accused overwhelmingly innocent,
which would be the other side of The Scottish ‘Not Proved’. ( Also an Option )
When a verdict of Overwhelmingly Innocent is reached;
The jury would then find The Prosecutor guilty of Malfeasance,
And then assess a suitable punishment while all the facts of the trial are still fresh in their minds.
If the accused is found merely innocent;
A Misdemeanor fine could be levied against the prosecutor, at the juries discretion.
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More Digressing :
Why i would never serve on A Jury
There are layers & layers of kookiness when it comes to Our Judicial System.
The First & Foremost is that Moral Responsibility, Which is Necessary to be Judged for One's Misbehavior, Requires FreeWill, Which is Logically Impossible.
If This Reasoning; In Support of The Illusion of Freewill is Flawed, Then A System of Justice that prides itself on Logical Thinking & Protocols, Is Flawed for Using this Illusionary Foundation of Reason.
If; Contrary to This : The Judicial System is based on Mere Vengeance, Then it is Unconscionable, And i can not be Party to it.
If Likewise; Freewill is An Illusion, The Very Thinking of it as an Illusion, is an Illusion as Well, Since this Reasoning does not Exist. It is merely a long chain of Cause & Effect, Perpetrated on ElectroChemical Processes within The Brain, Each Step, Decided by The Fundamental Rules of Electrons, Billions or More, years ago.
But if this is True, As Well— Then All The Charades of The Judicial System are not performed out of Mischievious Ignorance or Malfeasance; But because all of it's actions were likewise decided Billions, or More, Years ago at a point in The Fabric of Reality when Randomality gave way to Determinism.
In Summary:
If There is No Freewill; Then The Judicial System is Grossly Unfair to The Robots it Persecutes.
Or— If There is Freewill; While our Foundations of Logic clearly refute this Condition, Then This Same Foundation of Logic which The Judicial System is Based on, Or Not, Is Deeply Flawed and is Grossly Unfair to The Fallen, Wingless Angels that were Raised in a Culture that is Devoid of A Rational System of Thought to Teach Them Moral Righteousness.
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More of The Same :
More Evidence that Logic is Bunk!
In the One Venue in which Logic & Reasoning really should have been actively codified to exclude all Irrational Thinking...
Has Not Done So.
The Judiciary.
You might want to believe that Prosecutors construct Logical Arguments that Convict Innocent Parakeets, But the very fact that all Preliminary Avenues of Reasoning between The Prosecution & Defense is Terminated with The Assemblage of 12 Ill Educated & Proven Sociopaths to Arbitrarily Decide if The Accused is Guilty or Not.
If it were The Case that Western Civilization had a Viable Fractional Propositional Logical System; The Process would consist of The Police &/or Private Investigators presenting their evidence for someone's guilt to a Municipal Judiciary, Which would then take a Prosecutor from Their List of Authorized Barristers, And if Necessary; A Defense Attorney as well. Then The Prosecutor & The Investigators would go over the evidence And Construct Their Argument. The Defense would Then come along and debate the construction of The Argument, As well as The Assigned Truth Values for All Applicable Variables.
A Independent Judge would then Moderate The Final Fractional Propositional Argument; Which when Finished; Would reveal If The Accused is Agreeably Guilty or Not.
The Actual Value for Acceptable Guilt may Vary from County to County.
The Argument & All Other Particulars would then be posted on The Interweb for All to Examine— And at That Point; A Jury of The Totality would determine if The Prosecution of The Accused Was Fair or Not.
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Random Thoughts :
Judged by a Jury of Your Peers
Has there ever been a case in which, or criteria defined, to actually exclude someone from a jury because they are Not a Peer of The accused?
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Despite The Astonishing Hand Wringing in The Few Days after The Surprising Verdict of Not Guilty, Very little Consideration has been Given to Some of The Most Vexing Questions. ( ? )
What is The Deal with The Google Searches for Chloroform?
Why Didn’t Casey’s Mother or Father or Brother Report Kalyn Missing?
It seems clear to me that there is A Larger Conspiracy in That Household.
Everyone in that home knew what happened to Kalyn, And they Conspired to Cover it Up.
Why?
If it was an Accident, Why cover it up?
It seems much more reasonable that someone in The Family Murdered Kalyn,
But why would The Other Members of The Family Go Along with The CoverUp.
What was The Motive for The Murder?
How could they have believed that No One Else would notice Kalyn Missing?
Why did her Mother Suddenly Report Her Missing?
What is The Larger Narrative?
Why is The Media Ignoring this Larger Narrative?
It seems to me that in Light of A Conspiracy Theory,
The Family would Support Casey, and Casey would support her Family after her Arrest, But after a time, Casey Decided that The Truth would be more Beneficial to Her Situation.
But.
When Casey decided to Tell The Truth, She would have to Translate The Larger Narrative into a Believable Story, And in doing so, She decided to Simplify A Larger Narrative which may be Insanely Complicated that Spanned Her Entire Life & The Lives of Her Family Members.
Then after you simplify one element and try to make it Fit with The Other Simplified Elements, you’d have to continuously bend & twist your story to get everything to fit makes it more & more disingenuous & contrived.
If Casey ever did want to ‘Back Up’ and Start The Simplified Narrative over again, it would only make it all worse, or if she decided to try and reveal The Larger Narrative, There is no way that she could get all The Details Right so that it would make a believable Story, because her understanding would be only one perspective with numerous other actor’s views & motivations unknown to her.
The Investigators would have to have first conceded that there was A Larger Narrative, But The Police are always looking for The Simple Murder, Not A College Graduate Thesis in The Complexities of Human Behaviour.
Plus; Even if this Larger Narrative were Fully Disclosed, How could they ever present it to A Jury to Get any kind of reasonable Conviction?
i have heard of other cases like this, Where a Crime involves a little extra Complexity, A Few Extra Details that are NonSensical or In any Sense Sensible, The Prosecutors &/or Judges simply throw The Case Out rather than think to hard about something that will only cause UnNecessary Grief & Headaches.
- -
As a Side Issue :
Hate Jury Duty...?
i have an idea for Restructuring The Judicial System, So that all the rights & responsibilities of the Accused & Accusers will be preserved, But that Citizens will be lining up to be on Juries, Instead of shunning them.
The first & most elemental assumption that i'm making about the functionality of a legal trial, is that it consists of an logical & reasonable argument of guilt by The Prosecutor, which is rebutted by The Defense Attorney.
What this Trial is Not; Is a Theatrical Performance.
The New & Improved Structure that i am proposing, May seem even more Theatrical than the current structure, but it is intended to provide more & clearer information in a more confined & well regulated format.
The New Structure is simply This:
All the principles of the case; Accused, Prosecutor, Defense, Judge, Witnesses & Various Experts conduct the trial in a manner very reminiscent of a conventional trial, With the tiny exception that instead of presenting it to A Live Jury; It is simply made into a full & complete Video Presentation.
What are the advantages to this:
* All parties have complete control of what the final presentation will consist of, disallowing or sharply reducing, the possibility of an appeal by either side.
* This complete control means that there will be No unexpected outbursts, irrelevant comments, pointless delays, & all other wearisome & tedious content for The Jury to Endure. / It may be argued that on various occasions, Either side of the debate would like to introduce what may appear to an unexpected outburst, but such theatrics will now have to be carefully argued at a meta-level with all concerned parties for their inclusion.
* Expert Witnesses may be Video Conferenced from Distant Locations, or Pre-Recorded Explanations of Evidentiary Content may be inserted seamlessly into the final Presentation.
* Detailed Examinations of The Crime Scene may be included with fancy Graphics & detailed computer simulations. / These sorts of things are present in current legal proceedings, but only in the most contrived & often clumsy manner.
* These Video Presentation Arguments will be created by professionals working with all interested parties to make a final, professional looking product that will contain all relevant information, disallow irrelevant information and be pleasing & engaging to watch.
* The Jury may view the entire Presentation or any subsection repeatedly.
* The amount of time that The Jury would have to commit to the Trial may be as little as a single afternoon. / Or conceivably; They could view The Presentation from home and deliberate with other jury members within a Secured Chat Room.
* The Presentation would be available for review by anyone, in it's complete form, for reconsideration, appeal or historical purposes at any later time.
- -
Additional Digression :
Prosecutorial Responsibilities
For every trial by jury or judge;
The jury or judge could find the accused overwhelmingly innocent,
which would be the other side of The Scottish ‘Not Proved’. ( Also an Option )
When a verdict of Overwhelmingly Innocent is reached;
The jury would then find The Prosecutor guilty of Malfeasance,
And then assess a suitable punishment while all the facts of the trial are still fresh in their minds.
If the accused is found merely innocent;
A Misdemeanor fine could be levied against the prosecutor, at the juries discretion.
- -
More Digressing :
Why i would never serve on A Jury
There are layers & layers of kookiness when it comes to Our Judicial System.
The First & Foremost is that Moral Responsibility, Which is Necessary to be Judged for One's Misbehavior, Requires FreeWill, Which is Logically Impossible.
If This Reasoning; In Support of The Illusion of Freewill is Flawed, Then A System of Justice that prides itself on Logical Thinking & Protocols, Is Flawed for Using this Illusionary Foundation of Reason.
If; Contrary to This : The Judicial System is based on Mere Vengeance, Then it is Unconscionable, And i can not be Party to it.
If Likewise; Freewill is An Illusion, The Very Thinking of it as an Illusion, is an Illusion as Well, Since this Reasoning does not Exist. It is merely a long chain of Cause & Effect, Perpetrated on ElectroChemical Processes within The Brain, Each Step, Decided by The Fundamental Rules of Electrons, Billions or More, years ago.
But if this is True, As Well— Then All The Charades of The Judicial System are not performed out of Mischievious Ignorance or Malfeasance; But because all of it's actions were likewise decided Billions, or More, Years ago at a point in The Fabric of Reality when Randomality gave way to Determinism.
In Summary:
If There is No Freewill; Then The Judicial System is Grossly Unfair to The Robots it Persecutes.
Or— If There is Freewill; While our Foundations of Logic clearly refute this Condition, Then This Same Foundation of Logic which The Judicial System is Based on, Or Not, Is Deeply Flawed and is Grossly Unfair to The Fallen, Wingless Angels that were Raised in a Culture that is Devoid of A Rational System of Thought to Teach Them Moral Righteousness.
- -
More of The Same :
More Evidence that Logic is Bunk!
In the One Venue in which Logic & Reasoning really should have been actively codified to exclude all Irrational Thinking...
Has Not Done So.
The Judiciary.
You might want to believe that Prosecutors construct Logical Arguments that Convict Innocent Parakeets, But the very fact that all Preliminary Avenues of Reasoning between The Prosecution & Defense is Terminated with The Assemblage of 12 Ill Educated & Proven Sociopaths to Arbitrarily Decide if The Accused is Guilty or Not.
If it were The Case that Western Civilization had a Viable Fractional Propositional Logical System; The Process would consist of The Police &/or Private Investigators presenting their evidence for someone's guilt to a Municipal Judiciary, Which would then take a Prosecutor from Their List of Authorized Barristers, And if Necessary; A Defense Attorney as well. Then The Prosecutor & The Investigators would go over the evidence And Construct Their Argument. The Defense would Then come along and debate the construction of The Argument, As well as The Assigned Truth Values for All Applicable Variables.
A Independent Judge would then Moderate The Final Fractional Propositional Argument; Which when Finished; Would reveal If The Accused is Agreeably Guilty or Not.
The Actual Value for Acceptable Guilt may Vary from County to County.
The Argument & All Other Particulars would then be posted on The Interweb for All to Examine— And at That Point; A Jury of The Totality would determine if The Prosecution of The Accused Was Fair or Not.
- -
Random Thoughts :
Judged by a Jury of Your Peers
Has there ever been a case in which, or criteria defined, to actually exclude someone from a jury because they are Not a Peer of The accused?
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