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.

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
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-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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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.

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.
( ? )

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?
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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?
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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.
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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 ?
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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.

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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An Assortment of FreeWill Rants that have Been Piling Up.

Book Report
( i actually proofread this one a little )

Fate, Time & Language
An Essay on Free Will
© 2011
An Anthology of Essays from:
Fatalism by Richard Taylor
With Responses by:
John Turk Saunders, Peter Makepeace, Bruce Aune, Raziel Abelson, Richard Sharvy, Steven Cahn & Charles D. Brown
Terminating with An Essay by David Foster Wallace
“Richard Taylor’s “Fatalism” and The Semantics of Physical Modality

Edited by Steven M. Cahn & Maureen Eckert
With An Meandering Introduction by James Ryerson
And An Epilogue by Jay Garfield

i have for some time become more & more disillusioned by The Search for Deep Truths by ‘Philosophers’. Many idle thinkers prior to this have come to this conclusion quite some time ago; That philosophy is just a lot of hooey.
i have been holding out for some time, but this book is The Lynchpin of All Hooey.

The Initial Essay; By Richard Taylor; “Fatalism”
Which is built up as a major consideration for all deep philosophical thought, Consists of a brow beating to The very Simple Idea of Determinism;
If p Then q
The unique flavor of this argument, twists this around to suggest that p is either true or false ( Eliminating The Grey Area of Reality ) according To The Philosopher’s Law of The Excluded Middle.

i had some considerable difficulty after this first principle, as i have been developing my own Propositional Logic for many years that is based on A Fractional Continuum of Truth Values from 0 to 1.
This system requires a complete reworking of Propositional Operators that allows for The Use of AND, OR, XOR, IFT and so on, so that they can manipulate these fractional values.

Taylor’s Argument then goes on to assert that The Truth Value of p is dependent upon whether q turns out to be True or False at some Future Time.
( ! )

Then he twists this around some more in an attempt to create a dichotomy between whether or not this Law of The Excluded Middle ( Which he assumes to be a fundimental Axiom of Logic & Sound Reasoning ) or That Fatalism ( known to most of us as Determinism ) is Real.

His implied Conclusion ( Completely Unsupported by any Intervening Argument ) is that Fatalism is -Obviously- Wrong, Therefore This Presumed Premise, which can not be wrong ( ? ) is Wrong.

He seems to have attempted to have created an Argument by Absurdum, which he then proves his Absurd Conclusion, and then failed to show us why it’s Absurd.

What is so very annoying about this book is that Taylor’s whole argument is so silly and then The Authors & David Foster Wallace consider it so Serious & Important.

( sigh. )

In The Spirit of Full Disclosure,
i did not read The Entire Book.
i found The Introduction, which pretty much covered The Contents of The Entire Book so Tedious & Redundant, And Taylor’s Essay so Silly, that i only flipped through The Remainder of The Book.

If There was some deeply subtle idea concerning Freewill in any of these essays, They sorrowfully Neglected to Bring it or them to light.

My own idea of Fractional Propositional Logic is based on The Idea that while in some Cartoon Reality Occupied by Sherlock Holmes, Plato or Kant, They may insist that any given proposition must be either True or False.
This False Dichotomy is The Principle reason why Computers have been so Astonishingly Lame in Modeling Real World Problem Solving, because we can just Never Really Know if Some Statement (x is True or False.
i often use The Expression; As True as Elephants ( in Africa ).
Are there Elephants in Africa?
i believe that there are, But it’s entirely conceivable that there aren’t.
There might not even be an Africa. It could be that all The Books i’ve read on Africa were faked for some Nefarious Reason.
So i give The Statement that there are Elephants in Africa a Truth Value of .8 .
Most things that we encounter in our daily lives are True or False to a more certain degree, but there should always be some reasonable doubt.

If you’re going to construct a ‘Real World’ Argument Using Fractional Propositional Argument for The Guilt or Innocence of An Accused Murderer, Who Killed JFK, Who was behind 911 or Whether Flying Saucers are occupied by Aliens from Other Worlds;
The Problem is: How do you Initially Determine What The Truth Values should be for all of your Assumed Premises ? ( !!! )

The Solution that i would propose is to simply & entirely arbitrarily, give all these statements a Truth Value of .5 ( Completely Unknown ) And then let The Argument, as Worked through inside a Super Computer, Churn through it Recursively, Back & Forth, Round & Round, Changing these Values according to How Often & To What Degree The Other Statements believe that some Other Statement is True or False.
Ultimately; The Process will only find The Conclusion to be True to Some Fractional Value of Truth;
But i believe that this result would be considerably better than The Usual Way that People Decide if some Conclusion is True or Not,
Based on how Pleasant it is to Believe or Not.

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A Methodology for Determining if FreeWill is Necessary

Premise:
Given a Simple Environment & One Rule,
How Much Complexity Could Conceivably be Created?

Since it seems to me that if we are living in a universe that actually is,
Pretty much as it seems to be - -
As Opposed to living in universe that is completely different than as it seems to be.
- - Then; Given that The Fundamental Unit of Reality must be just one thing ( ? )

( It seems to me that if there were two fundamental particles, then in order for them to interact, they would have to have common properties, and thus have parts. )

So that The Universe as we know it is The Result of just such a scenario.
One particle with One Rule.
Of course; Given that there must be a whole bunch of this one ( kind of ) particle, There would have to be some underlying substrata that tells all these particles to be exactly The Same.
What is this SubStrata made of?

Never mind that.

Is there some way to calculate how much complexity may result from a given number of Rules, and additionally measure The Complexity of These Rules,
And from that:
Determine how many Rules would be required to Produce this Reality.

The Question Being :
Does The Universe Contain more Complexity than The Number of Rules Warrant?

Another way of looking at this;
Given that The Universe must ( ? ) consist of a given number or structural rules,
Which allow The Fundamental Units of Matter or Energy or Forces,
To Make all of Our Familiar Leptons & Quarks, & Elements,
And Then These may combine to form Suns & Planets,
And possibly even Self Replicating Molecules - -

There is a problem ( ? ) at some point ( ? ) where The Complexity of The Universe,
Particularly in Any Fully Actualized Organic Environment
or Post Literate Culture of Sentient Beings - -
Become Too Complex for This Kind of Model of ( x ) Rules ?

It seems to me that it would indeed be Very Curious if The World,
As it is Observed,
Could be Created from a Fixed Number of Simple Rules.

Is it -More Reasonable- to simply Assume that There Exists a Different Kind of Determinism ( That we call Freewill ) ?

It has occurred to me previously that if you made a Common Fly, and tried to build into it, All The Rules of Behaviour that would be Necessary to make it behave like a Common Fly - -
A Better Example may be if you Substituted The Fly with a Bee or Ant )
- - Or Would it Be More Reasonable to Build into It, A Conscious Sentience that Could Act Appropriately to A Wide Variety of Unexpected Circumstances without trying to Incorporate All The Behavioural Routines in Neural Synapses that had to be Encoded into a limited number of DNA Shoelaces.

The AntiThesis to The Approach is that given ‘humanimals’ that are presupposed to possess Sentience, They Clearly Contradict this model of Consciousness that allows for Intelligent Behaviour without A Foundation of Built in Behavioural Instincts.
People just appear to be amazingly stupid in all The ways that this Cognitive Sentience Model is Supposed to Prevent.

This may be The Definitive Approach to Lots of Different Questions.
Is it more reasonable to assume that Magic explains ( x ) or Some Insanely Complex System of InDefensible NonSense ?

When it comes to Evolution, The Big Bang Theory or Quantum Mechanics, Biologists, Astronomers & Physicists are so Entrenched in their Pet Dogma that They are willing to Allow Their InDefensible NonSense to Take on Greater & Greater Tiers of Accumulative Silliness to Argue Against whatever Evidence is presented that Contradicts their Theories as they were defined a few moments before.
They simply refuse The Possibility of Either Magic or The Unknown.

At some point; Magic is The Least Crazy Alternative.

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Free Will :

A Deterministic Universe...

Implies that Everything that is happening at any given point in time (x) is The consequence of An ( infinite & holistic ) Chain of Falling Dominoes that Preceded it.
This model means The Apparent Order & Structure of Our World was ( Decided ) at The Moment ( or AntiMoment ) of Creation.
-[ Very Improbable; But in An Infinite Universe, One would -Expect- a bubble appearing exactly like ours, not only eventually, but this exact ‘Universe’ occurring an Infinite Number of Times - - But still; It seems -wrong- because we believe that we have freewill, but this may be a consequence of our -real- experience of -conscious awareness- ! What is substantially less palatable though, is that while this Awareness is Real, We experience it only as observers, Not as Controllers. ]-

A Deterministic Universe, Whose Determinism Constructs The Laws of Physics

The First Scenario Implies that as A Line of ( Chaotic ( Deep Complexity ) ) Dominoes; There is No Structural Overview of This Process.
But of course; There -Must Be- Some Mechanical -Rules- That govern The Toppling Process. ( ? )

There is also ( Slight Digression ) The Side Issue that seems to be mislaid in these discussions; Why are all The Electrons in The Universe Exactly The Same?
This implies that they’re all getting their instructions from ( Where? ).
The Chinese Called it The Dao, And i call it The Kitchen Floor.
The Bottom of The Universe.
Where The True Reality Resides.
This Magical Realm decides what is really possible & impossible.
Asking Crazy Questions like : What is below The Kitchen Floor?
Is like asking, Who Broke that Vase?
or Why did they Cancel my Favorite TV Show?

End of Digression.

But This Option Considers that The Initial Determinism Constructs a More Expansive Physical Process, Which is then responsible for Allowing Stars to become Fusion Furnaces and even Chemistry to Produce Self Replicating Molecules.
This Strikes me as Rather Odd Though; In that This -Structural Orderliness- somehow side-steps The Purely Deterministic Universe by Applying A Blind Watchman.
If anything; It Implies that There May Be Determinism AND A Directional Force that Creates Order & Patterns, Albeit; A Blind & Deaf Gawd without Any Plans for Tomorrow.

If you’re going to allow that We are living in A Deterministic Universe,
That is Governed by The Most Elemental -Dominoes- Physics,
AND A Second Kind of ( Unique ) Structuralism that Gives Rise to A More Complex Collection of Physical Rules - -
AND We allow that -Awareness- & -Benign Consciousness- Are Real - -
THEN Is it so Unreasonable to allow for Still Another kind of Orderliness that gives rise to A Finer Structural Mechanism?

Granted; This Finer Layer of Structural Orderliness remains Completely Undefined & Unknown, But There is That Pesky Loose Shoe Lace of Consciousness that needs to be fitted into The Standard Model + Gravity.

If anything; This Crude Analysis suggests that There are Layers of Determinism.

?

Many Time Traveling Skiffy Stories Suggest that It is Possible to Go Back in Time and Change some Detail so that Event (A is Severely Altered or Eliminated, While The Events Surrounding it are Substantially NOT Changed !
i have always found this Analysis of Chronological Determinism rather ludicrous, as it defies my basic understanding of Domino Determinism.
If you change any, Any little thing at some point in Time, It is going to have Gigantic Chronological Effects to Everything down The Road.
But Now.
i am thinking that there is another kind of Determinism that certainly allows for this kind of ‘Small Changes Have No Effect’ Determinism.
The Easiest Example would be a Cloud of PreStellar Material that is Collapsing into a Solar System. If you could Duplicate this Cloud Exactly Several Dozen Times, And then Stir Up Each Copy, i would assert that each will then collapse into very Similar, Perhaps even Indistinguishable Versions.
The Kind of Star, The Number & Size of The Planets would be determined by Global Variances, and Depend very little on The Local Distribution of The Elements.
( ? )

While i allow that A Single Neuron that Discharges or Not may radically change future events, Would The Elimination of any Given Cell in your body change your future behaviour at all ?

While Every Particle in The Universe Effects ( Most Every Other ) Particle in The Universe; There are also likely to be Local Events that may seem to Causing Dramatic Global Events, Then be Washed Out or Diluted by Some Other Catastrophic Event that Much More Dramatically Changes Future Events, but Even this, May only Strongly Influence Relatively Local Events.

This still doesn’t explain or provide a model for Consciousness or Freewill,
But - -
It does continue to suggest that There are Numerous Distinct Layers, Tiers or Classes of Determinism.

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New Video on YouTube

i just posted a New Video on YouTube,
And typically, i try to use a sound track that matches the length of the video.
In this case; Rather than using one of the 'Stingers' provided by Apple,
i used a Tune by Count Basie, and Mentioned this in the notes;
And YouTube Caught it -Immediately- !
They sent me a letter and informed me that the tune was The Property of EMI Records
And Curiously, they let it slide, allowing me to use it !
That was pretty nice of them huh ! ( ! )

Missing Luggage / NightLine Program

Monday, June 13, 2011 11:42:37 PM
Nightline Program Title : Unclaimed Luggage : Bought & Sold

On Nightline tonight they had a piece on ‘Lost Luggage’
and while Nightline and other ‘news’ programs like this often get astonishingly worked up over celebrities or politicians that are caught in the most benign examples of ’Shenanigans’,
When they are faced with Grand Theft Larceny against The World’s Travelers, they treat it like a giant Joke !!!
What they should have explained is How Exactly The Airlines make a reasonable attempt to find the owners of The Luggage that they’ve misplaced...?
Just What is: ‘UnClaimed’ ?
How can people get off a plane and simply forget about their baggage filled with expensive clothes, jewelry or electronics?
Just what does the Airline expect the traveler to do to ‘Claim’ their misplaced Luggage?
This is so amazing evil !
This is simply more evidence that everyone about western civilization is completely wrong.
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i will try to be charitable here towards the airlines;
Considering that according to this report, a full 1% ( A Stupendously Gigantic Number, given the millions of people traveling by air every hour ) of the luggage that everyone now has to pay an extra $100 per bag for, is misplaced.
This is assuming that the tag that was ostensibly attached to the bag at the time of check in was somehow, by some means, innocent or malicious, was removed.
If the tag is still in place, the owner should be painfully easy to locate and return at the expense & all difficulties of the airline.
The Third possibility is that the tag on the bag is Not the Tag that was put there at Check In, or During Check In, The Tags were somehow mixed up with Other Tags of Other Passengers. Once this is discovered, the Bag would be considered as a Bag without a Tag.
There may be some ‘Encrypted’ ( ? ) information that may be deduced from The Incorrect Tag, But it may also only lead to greater confusion by making fallacious assumptions as to when & how The incorrect tag was attached.
This also assumes that The Traveler has failed to include their name & address inside their bag, as every cautious & prudent traveler should.
If Not :
The traveler recognizes that their bag has not met them at their destination and they go to the airline’s counter and report that their bag is missing.
Let us now imagine that the traveler is unable to provide an accurate description of their bags, because they possess an IQ of only 100, and have never given more than a thought or two to ever having to provide an accurate description of their own luggage.
They may also be unable to remember in any detail what is in the bag. Clothes, This & That...
Expensive Jewelry or Electronics they may recall, but these are undoubtedly generic items and could match the contents of dozens of bags.
In the piece; There were dozens of Big Item Electronics, in particular i recall an iPad; As they mentioned the unusuality of this; ‘Who would have so easily abandoned an iPad?’ But certainly; This iPad and many of the other electronic items were Registered ! By some means; It should should be a simple matter to contact the manufacturer and discover the name & address or email of the owner, so as to return the entirety of the items found with it.
If a computer was found in the bag, It would be difficult to imagine that it would not contain numerous references to its owner.
What should the Airline be doing to find the owners of the bags that end up someplace, and are ‘UnClaimed’?
Upon Discovering that there is an UnClaimed Bag somewhere, they should immediately attach a difficult to remove sticker with the time and place that it was discovered, And enter that information into their UnClaimed Computer DataBase. The Computer compares the reports by Irate Travelers to the unclaimed bags, and determines if a given bag (A) could possibly be The Lost Bag (B). If there is still a question of compatibility, The lost bag would be opened in a constricted space ( that is; An enclosed space such that nothing could possibly be mislaid ) and an inventory made of the most ‘memorable’ or ‘unique’ items. And this inventory would be compared with an eye for ‘approximate’ matching to the inventories that the travelers report was in their bags.
The bags that meet this ‘Matching’ Criteria would then be delivered to the Traveler’s door, wherever they happen to be at that time.
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It’s just crazy that the airlines are simply accepting that these bags are ‘UnClaimed’.
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If you knock off a liquor store and accidentally shoot a clinically obese, chain smoking clerk that disrespected you by making a snide comment about your dear irish mother; You’ll get the electric chair,
But if you steal billions of dollars worth of luggage from deeply stressed and abused travelers, The 4th branch of our government, the last line of defense that is supposed to protect us from the abuses of the rich & powerful; they think it’s fawking hilarious. !!!
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More Confusion Regarding The Illusion of FreeWill

Regarding : A concise statement of the problem of free will

From Wm Jas’ Bugs to fearen babes withall

John C. Wright recently posted on Determinism and Indeterminism and quoted this concise statement of the problem of free will, which was written by a reader of his called Lucky Marty:
Consider the following propositions:

1) All events are either the deterministic result of prior events or else they are random. ( Are there ANY Random Events? / Is Determinism Defined ?

2) Free choices are not fully determined by prior events. ( Definition

3) Free choices are not random. ( Definition

4) People make free choices. ( Wistful Dreaming

All of them seem highly plausible,
and in fact it’s not easy to see how any of them could be false.
But they can’t all be true
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It seems to be that statements of Fact may be considered either true or false;
But these are Not statements of fact; At Least Some of them are Definitions.
As such; Are Some or All of them Exclusive ( XOR ) Definitions?

In my final conclusion of Assertion;
Or Assertion that remains an unsubstantiated Conclusion:
The First Claim is Suspect.
Everything that we experience in the macroworld closely adheres to the model of cause & effect; Yet Quantum Physicists ( seem to ) be suggesting that there are events within or in the vicinity of atomic nuclei that are random.
We have no direct experience with anything that is genuinely random,
So it’s not entirely proved that there even are random, uncaused events.

My Unsubstantiated Assertion is that there is another class of phenomena that occurs routinely, but is something other than cause & effect.
To make this Claim slightly more palatable,
If i were to successfully make distinctions between well understood examples of cause & effect, then these separate cases of what we are tentatively calling Causality; Then it may be reasonable to lay them out along a continuum that features realms that we do not have ready examples for, but which we may provisionally assert that -Maybe- There are Undefined Instances which fit into that niche of QuaziCausality.
( ? )

1) There is the simplistic idealized case of one domino falling against the next.
In this example; The ONLY thing effecting Domino B is The Action upon it from Domino A.

2) There is a Perception of Another Case in which things are Caused by Localized Events. A Workings of An Automobile Engine, or The Behaviour of this Automobile is entirely the result of it’s construction & the instructions given to it by it’s driver. / Another Example is That The Mind is The Result of The ElectroChemical Activity of The Brain, which in Influenced by Its Senses & Related Local Events.
But [ 3 ] will show that this is an illusion.

3) In The Real World; Every Domino is Effected by The Gravitational & Electromagnetic Fields of Every Other Particle in The Universe that supports these forces. This asserts that when a Domino in The Real World Tips over, It is The State of The Entire Universe that is Effecting it.
This may not be convincing when applied to Dominoes, But it may be more reasonably believed when applied to Whether or Not a Single Neuron in A Brain, Teetering on Firing or Not Firing, May be Influenced by such subtle effects as The Gravitational Waves radiating from a distant quasar or The ElectroMagnetic Fields of all The Toasters in North America. This Single Neuron may determine the outcome of some grandiose, historical effect.
In such a case; Each Decision is the result of how the entire universe is ‘set’ at that moment.
This hardly seems like classical ‘Cause & Effect’,
It is more like ‘What is; Is.’ or ‘Everything is.’
It should be added that i am not suggesting that simply because a system is insanely complicated, or even Chaotic, that it Categorically Transcends The Simpler Models of If A then B, or A causes B.
In all cases, There are numerous causes for B.
But - When Chaos transcends Chaos and slaps upside the butt cheeks of Randomality, Then maybe there is a sliver of A Categorical Shift.
This is a NetherRegion of; Not Quite Random.
It’s one subunit short of Infinite Chaos.
.999... doesn’t equal 1.
.999... doesn’t in any way explain, justify or allow for Freewill,
But it does suggest that there is another Category that is not Cause & Effect,
And it’s not Genuine Randomality. It’s Something else.
And if .999... is a unique value,
Then there are undoubtedly other kinds of ‘Order’ that are not readily familiar to us.

4) If There are Tachyons or other particles that freely travel back & forth through time, or perhaps; Electrons or Photons or Other bundled Leptons or Quarks may occasionally skim off the edge of A Black Hole’s Event Horizon, Falling backwards or forwards in time; The it may well by that every decision that any given neuron contributes to, May be Influenced by All Past & Future Events.
This is even less like classical ‘Cause & Effect’.

5) Since there are particles that apparently ( According to The Standard Model & Other Theories that Include Gravity ) Are Not effected by some Forces; The Remaining Particles Are Effected by Proximal Forces Only. This is slightly different from The Single Domino A falling on B. It is more like A Mysterious Cloud of Indeterminacy Telling an Electron to Fall from One Atomic Orbit to Another, Either Absorbing or Releasing An Photon.

There may be other Classes;
But i think that this should demonstrate that this idea of Classical Cause & Effect doesn’t really exist at all.
Everything effects Everything.
The Universe, Like The Brain, filled with dozen & dozens ( et. al. ) of neurons that may or may not be responsible for The Mind, consists of A Pattern at any given moment, that Determines what the next Pattern in the sequence of Time & Space or Consciousness will be.
Or
Maybe there are other causal forces that we are not familiar with,
Even within our ability to imagine,
Or our meta-ability to imagine.

This Meta-Ability to Imagine ( x )
Simply means that there are ( Undoubtedly ? ) Phenomena within the universe,
Or The Universe that our Universe Resides within,
That is beyound The Human Mind to Consider even as nonsensical gibberish.

This is where freewill may be able to stick it’s fingers into.

The final conclusion here is that ( ? ) The Universe is The Sole Generator of The Mind, Which is Distributed to Innumerable ‘Nodes’ which are encased in Brains.
The Autonomous Universe is The Mind Generator.
And Brains are somehow uniquely structured to allow Minds to Coalesce These Patterns into Awareness.

The Paranoid Solipsist Universe
Consists of One Mind that Believes it is many Minds.

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i have also asserted ( elsewhere ) that freewill is necessary for Consciousness.
i realize that this conclusion is detached from an argument.
So perhaps one should be forwarded.

i should first suggest or reveal; that i am of two minds when it comes to these metaphysical topics.

i often wonder; If the brain is solely responsible for creating the mind,
How might it do this?
And i believe that i am comfortable with the assertion that the brain may indeed be responsible for all human behaviour,
But i am deeply flummoxed ( or vexed ) by the idea the brain creating the mind.

i am even comfortable with a robot ( without conscious reflection or awareness ) duplicating ALL Human behaviour, from the lowest to the highest, the most altruistic to the most senselessly violent & sadistic behaviours.
This robot would be able to make art, compose symphonies, and provide itself with self directed motivations, based on very simple core instructions ( our instincts ).

But how can a pattern of ElectroChemical Neurons spread out over a brain, Create The Holistic Experience of ’Seeing’, which is quite different from what the robot does. The robot can identify things in it’s visual field and act on them, but does a robot ‘See’ things? Is The robot conscious of a visual field in front of it, where these identified things all fit together into a 1::1 correspondence with what is actually out there?

In the brain; In the visual Cortex; The impulses from the eyes have to be ( ? ) broken apart into their smallest constituents to determine their color, form, edge properties and whatever else is used a cues to finally identify the innumerable blobs of light as stems of grass, faces, formless clouds, encyclopedias of symbols, or any number of other objects which may appear in countless orientations and be very reliably identified, and then; Be somehow reassembled into this movie screen which the mind ‘Sees’.
How is this done? The Robot may be able to accomplish everything quite easily,
Up until that last step.

A computer may easily identify a blobby green thing as a leaf,
But the mind doesn’t ‘See’ A Blobby Green Thing; It sees every detail of every leaf.
This seems like quite a different thing to me.

It is as nearly incomprehensible to consider how an ordinary computer can display characters on a screen, as for a human mind to see them.
It may be argued that the former may be astonishingly tedious for the computer,
But genuinely impossible for The Mind to Understand the latter.
But when sufficient tedium meets complete impossibility,
The effects are equally weighed.

But how does this relate to Freewill?
By Freewill, Maybe what i mean is Autonomy.
Does one need Autonomy for Freewill?
i would think so.

Is Autonomy necessary for Consciousness?

The Conscious Mind without Autonomy, would be either;
A Subset of A Greater Autonomous Mind or Mind Generator
or
A Mere Observer in A Mechanical World.

The Theory of Epiphenomenalism takes this latter Conclusion.
It is Very Convincing.
Epiphenomenalism argues that Consciousness is real,
Awareness is Real, The Autonomous Mind is Real,
But it is trapped in a bubble from which all it’s thoughts are generated by the brain, which is subservient to the machines of reality.
It Watches Only.
The Mind has No influence on The World or even it’s own robot vehicle or it’s own thoughts.

If The Conscious Mind were without Autonomy And as such; A Subset of a Greater Mind that Controls it; Then this Argues for Either a Genuine Autonomous Mind, and or A Recursive, Infinite or Torus Shaped Continuum of Conscious Entities.

i’m not entirely opposed to a boot-strap theory of these things, but i don’t necessarily see how that’s really going to advance a greater understanding or explain away elemental difficulties.

The Major Problem with Epiphenomenalism is not that the argument itself is critically flawed, it’s just that it provides no clue whatsoever how this agent of awareness is generated.
It simply takes The Conscious Mind and strips it of any involvement in The Mechanical Universe.

What is Required to make a Conscious Mind?

This is remain unanswered until one is given to a robot,
And even so; As i have suggested already, This robot may exhibit all genuine human / Conscious behaviour, without being conscious at all.

How would you test for Consciousness?
Assuming that it -Could Be- Successfully faked.

Could a Robot Successfully Fake Freewill?

If this Very Human Like Robot were made ( Very Large ) so that every decision or action it partakes in could be mapped out as the result of every fully documented Gear rotation or Transistor Switching Action, Then The Assertion; Made By The Robot, that it was Free & Self Aware, would be suspect or utterly disproven- -
But if This Robot was composed of elements that could take advantage of gravity waves propagating from distant quasars or The weak force shedding apparently random neutrons, Then No Such Map of Every Decision could be made, and The Robot would be, should be, considered humanly autonomous until demonstrated as otherwise controlled.

But is it Really Free?

Does it all come down to The Appearance of Freewill for all possible Cases?

Is there, Conceivably, an AntiThesis to this Assertion?

The Ultimate Sacrifice ( ? )

Memorial Day

i heard the phrase ‘Ultimate Sacrifice’ several dozen times today and naturally, As a Contrarian, i was thinking that it wasn’t really =The Ultimate= Sacrifice.

What would be The Ultimate Sacrifice?

One of my heretical ( deeply heretical ) ideas is that only Atheists will be going to heaven. This is based on the crazy idea that gawd wants thinking beings of genuinely courageous convictions, rather than filling an infinity of paradise with mindless sheep. Consequently; The Atheists, particularly those that actually believed that The Catholic Church was The One True, Veritable Liaison between gawd & men, Nevertheless; Chose to believe that many of The Church’s teachings & dogma were severely mistaken or misinterpreted from An Accurate Rendition of The Genuine Reality. In other words; They got it wrong, and they spoke up about it, and were burned at the stake. These are the entities that would be welcomed into heaven.
What would become of the faithful that obediently stuck their head in a bucket of water and mutilated their genitals?
They would be recycled.
( Reincarnated - As this interpretation doesn’t allow for a hades, You have to believe that you have a good chance of ending up in hell, to be considered for a nice room in the mansions of heaven, but no one really goes there. )

Anyways.

i find it very annoying that ‘Religious’ people think that a mortal death is a big deal. A mortal death marks a transition from leaving this ‘faux’ world to the real world.
This is another thing; Most ‘Religious’ people think that this is the real world, and heaven is a subset of that. That is exactly backwards.
Heaven is the real world, This world is a contrived testing ground within The Real World. When you die in this world, you are processed in The Real World and then something mysterious happens.
My personal model says that there is no ‘heaven’ actually. That is; A paradise which is the reward of whatever. That’s crazy.
You spend a few scant years here and are then judged to spend an eternity in paradise, or not ( ? )
That seems implausible to me.
Especially if you factor in eternal damnation.
No.
i think that the true reality is ‘The Same Old Shit for Ever & Ever.’
You will be reincarnated again & again,
And the very sad part is; There is no real Evolution of your soul.
You just wax & wain with various qualities, but if you were steadily moving towards some grandiose perfection, then it doesn’t seem to be working.

Anyways.

The Ultimate Sacrifice would be something like;
Knowing ( or Believing that you Knew ) that there is a hell,
And by doing ( x ) you will be sent to hell,
But, You also very strongly believe that by doing ( x ),
You will somehow be benefiting the people still living in this world,
And possibly provide them with a greater chance of reaching heaven.
That person would be sacrificing their eternal existence in eternal damnation for others.
And if the other’s were strangers, that might even impress gawd more.

Of course; That person would go straight to heaven instead.

But - - The exact opposite is true.
All these soldiers that are fighting for Truth & Justice believe that they are going straight to heaven for being so brave, and killing muslims for our freedom, which they hate.

But whenever you do anything for the reward, you don’t get the reward.
Most ‘Religious’ People invariably think that gawd is a sucker and can easily be tricked in a wide variety of ways.

i would like to believe that gawd can see right through you,
And s/he will know why you’re really doing ( x ).

Screaming at The TV ( Again )

There was a story on Good Morning America this morning about Teens that are
( for whatever reasons )
helping the police ‘Catch’ Adults that agree to buy them Booze.
Is this Entrapment?
What is Entrapment?

One annoying aspect of this ‘Story’ was that the reporter was ‘going along with’ the police officers that were creating this sting operation. They brought up the question ( indirectly ) that this may have been considered an Entrapment operation, but then meekly accepted the lame denial that it wasn’t.
This was just another case of ‘So Called’ News Reporters/Investigators simply reading a script that the government had handed them.
Entrapment is when you trick someone into committing a crime that they would probably not ordinary commit.
The police are arguing that they are creatively catching criminals,
But what they are really doing is Creating Criminals.
Should the police be making criminals, rather than catching predeclared criminals?
Obviously in a situation like this; The teenager that asks an adult to buy them liquor is also guilty, but in a sting operation, in which the teen breaks the law to create an adult criminal, they are given a Get Out of Jail pass.
It is obviously very wrong to break the law to trick someone else into breaking the law.
In a case like this; The adult would probably not cruise through a neighborhood looking for teens with a few dollars, and then offer to buy them liquor.
This sort of ‘crime’ is always a crime of spontaneous opportunity.
But i would consider this Entrapment.
One aspect of this that the teenagers acting as ‘Pigeons’ or ‘Bait’ by the police, is at our first perusal, We would have to believe that the police are acting astonishingly irresponsibly by putting these children in situations with what they themselves are considering dangerous felons.
But aside from that; The teenagers are acting as the initial domino of a series of events which are entirely unpredictable.
One of the teens claimed that two of her friends were killed in a driving accident in which alcohol was a determining factor—
But what if the adult that she lures into buying her a six pack of beer has a warrant out for his arrest, and when confronted by the police, pulls out a gun and starts shooting. The police, bystanders, the buyer & the teen themselves may be in mortal danger, over what may reasonably be considered a minor misdemeanor.
This is why Entrapment is its most wrong. You are creating a situation in which anything crazy can happen, and there’s no way of knowing what the consequences of your game may be.
It’s a very dangerous tournament of chicanery.
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Obvious: It is wrong for anyone to use mind altering drugs and then participate in social engagements, such as driving cars or having sex,
But what is the more ethical solution?
The Store Owners should be cognizant of teenagers hanging around their liquor stores, and either chase them off, or report them to the authorities.
Do they have a right to just hang out anywhere?
Well, Yes; But they’d be chased off for their own good,
The alternative would be if the police arrived and waited for them to commit a crime of their own scheming.
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Another Story that was on this morning, was that of a store owner that shot a teenager that was engaging in an armed robbery of a store of some kind. There were two perpetrators, one was shot once in the head, and the other fled. The store owner ( or clerk ? ) that shot the first robber, gave chase to the second robber, but he apparently got away.
The owner/clerk then returned to the store and shot the wounded robber 5 more times.
He was charged with 1st Degree Murder, Convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
Did he do wrong?
It seems to me that he should have pleaded temporary insanity,
As anyone that is threatened with a gun, and is witness to others of their employee or coworkers being threatened with a gun, Should, Reasonably, be in an altered state of Ethical Sanity.
My Rule of Thumb is that when someone brings a gun to a party,
They have brought with them a new set of rules that rescind all prior mores of expected ethical behaviour, And if you’re able to get their gun away from them, Then you are free to use it however you’d like. The number of bullets they brought are your’s to use at your discretion.
And this applies to The Police as well.
That is; If a police officer draws and points his gun at you, are you obligated to just let him shoot you?
Or do the same rules apply as if they were the criminal?
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Curiously; i am fanatically against capital punishment,
Because once you have someone in custody, and It is Necessary to hold a trial to determine their guilt, because that guilt is uncertain, then you should be discreet & measured with your solutions.
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But if you are standing right there when a crime is being committed by someone,
then you -Know- that they are guilty. A trial is Not necessary !
It makes all the sense in the world to resolve the situation right then & there,
When are the facts are Irrefutable & All The Participants are Present ( ! )
In a perfectly sane & magnanimous world, you would be measured & Gentle with those that have misstepped with their criminal etiquette; But in the world that we live in, Things often happen more quickly than the careful administration of morality could be considered & applied.
You of course must eventually take & assume responsibility for your actions,
But you are also obligated to act decisively to control & remedy the situation that you are immediately involved in.
Hopefully; When your trial comes due; The jury will find that you acted reasonably, given the extraordinary circumstances and your necessity of acting quickly with a minimal amount of information.

Al Qaeda ( Rough Version )

Al Qaeda

i really don’t know where to begin with this.
i should have been keeping notes since 2001 or earlier.
Mostly i just have a few dozen questions that no one else seems interested in asking or answering.

What is Al Qaeda?
How many Members does it have?
What is their Annual Operating Budget?
Is it really a world wide terrorist organization, or, if it exists at all, just a small number of vaguely motivated criminals?
What is the agenda of Al Qaeda?
Why is it the The West ( US ) doesn’t seem to ‘Get It’ that the people that are blowing themselves up as Suicide Bombers, are really upset about something?
What is This Something?
Why does our ( West / US ) Media keep telling us that they are just crazy, or That they Hate Freedom?
i find it very hard to believe that anyone, certainly anyone low enough within a political party to blow themselves up, really Hates the idea of Personal Freedom. i can perhaps sympathize with a government wanting to suppress the rights of it’s people, but even so; This imaginary government wants freedom for themselves. It has always seemed to me that These people that want the US to keep out of Northern Africa, have a much more astute understanding of Freedom than Americans do; they worship freedom in a much greater pragmatic way than american do, In that they want Freedom from The Enslavement of The UEO and The USA. What Annoys The USA Government is that They don’t know their Place in the grand scheme of things.
Was there ever a real person corresponding to the Name Osama Bin Ladin?
Was this figure always just an imaginary Boogey Man?
After the Recent “Murder of Osama Bin Ladin”, A Search of his compound revealed many “Plans” for more Terrorism against the United States, The question that has always plagued me; Why was there so few, ( if any ) attacks on the US after 911?
Doesn’t it strike you as odd that the supposed attacks were comically ridiculous?
As for The Christmas Tree Attack; The news stories of this seemed to contain two stories; One That The FBI caught A Terrorists, And Two; The stories seemed to contain enough details that made it clear that it was the FBI that recruited this man, trained him & then sent him on this mission, only to arrest him before any harm was done. ( ? )
Why are all the attacks in Afghanistan & Iraq against their own people, and not, so much against high level US Military targets?
It has always seemed to me that these attacks were perpetrated by someone or some agency that was far more interested in keeping US Troops in Iraq & Afghanistan, then kicking them out, or even allowing them to leave. ( ? )
There were certainly many, many very odd things that happened on 911, What annoys me more than simple denial of these things, is that The Gullible Skeptics are in denial that -Anything- Odd happened on 911.
i recently read that there are other like minded people in the world that assert that there really isn’t anything like ‘Al Qaeda’, in pretty much the same way that these is on ‘Mafia’. There are certainly a lot of crime families, but there’s No Overseeing Criminal Organization that unites them in a grander scheme of things. They may occasionally form temporary alliances or truces, but The very fact that there is so much violence amongst the criminal gangs, Especially in Inner Cities & Along the Mexican Boarder, that this Mafia or Whatever, does not exist.
In this same sense; There is no World Wide or even local Oversight Committees that organize all the tiny groups that may have a beef with This or That Foreign Government or even an invading army. They each have their own agenda and are completely unwilling to serve someone else’s. They have no sense of The Greater Good. There’s no Media Superstructure to Brain Wash them into uniting into a large force for (x).
Essentially; It’s completely crazy to go to war with entire nations in order to arrest, capture or assassinate a tiny number of common criminals.
The same logic applies to all Wars really.
If we’d simply sent a SEAL Team, Airborn Rangers or Army Green Berets into Germany in 1937, WWII could have been avoided.
Why did The USA Administration keep changing it’s account of what happened during the murder of Osama BL? If it was all faked, they should have had a pat story line all written before hand? And if it was real, the early reports should have been accurate. The only explanation seems to be that it was faked, but the person making up the story was never properly designated. The Various people that thought that it was their responsibility to make up the story, kept releasing their versions without checking with whoever was supposed to be supervising the operation. ( ? )
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Why did Barrack H. Obama take so long to release his birth certificate?
This story that The State of Hawai`i doesn’t allow anyone to view or obtain a copy of their original birth certificate seems somewhat disingenuous?
Here in Washington State, you go down to the records office or send in a request by mail, along with $3, and they’ll send you a copy of the original in a few days.
And there is also the problem of the announcement found in the newspaper, 2 weeks after he was born, ( In Hawai`i ) that wasn’t discovered until 3 years after the first suspicions of his birth place were brought up.
As a suspicious person; i would very much like to obtain a court order to see the original birth certificate in the file cabinet, and compare it, forensically, to other birth certificates of that same period.
The very fact that that’s never going to happen either, is just another layer of suspicion.
Pretty much since the beginning of this fiasco; The far left has said that it wasn’t being concealed at all, but this latest version of ‘The Complete’ Birth Certificate is very different than anything previously released. Just how many States issue a ‘Short Version’ of A Requested Birth Certificate?
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What is the Airport Security Screening really accomplishing?
What is that really all about?
If i was a terrorist and i wanted to blow up airplanes or get into any other of the many venues of mischief that A World Wide Terrorist Organization ‘Should be’ engaging in, i could easily accomplish these feats with a very small budget and despite the best efforts of Homeland Security.
So why isn’t this World Wide Terrorist Organization more active?
Why are they always blowing up such feeble & inconsequential targets?
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Given a Population of (x); How many of them are genuine Criminals?
If we simply identified certain people, early on, of being ‘AntiSocial’ and provided them with greater supervision instead of serially incarcerating & releasing them, Would this have a greater success rate of making Society more secure.
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i would like to believe that the people that are behind ‘Homeland Security’ mean well,
But their true agenda is far from what they are selling it as.
They are afraid of something; But what?
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Regarding The Taliban &/or Other ‘Islamic’ Societies which have the same Sexual Dichotomy of Labor as The United States had in the 1950s and before.
Also: This idea of The Burqa covering an entire woman.
This is really any different than a suit & hat coving an entire man?
i personally find it fascinating that western civilization has made it one of its highest crimes to express your identity as a homosapien. You have to hide yourself under animal skins to demonstrate that you are not an animal. ( Or something like that ) Even diehard Secularists go along with this.
i heard a very curious story from a westerner visiting Iraq or ( ? ) sometime ago. He happened to be wandering through a residential area and came across some women working in the courtyard. The women had on something like dresses, but were not wearing their hoodies. Upon seeing the man, they immediately threw their dresses up over their faces, which exposed their genitalia & breasts. In their culture; It was more important to cover their faces than their ‘Swimsuit Areas’.
Back in the Wild and Sexually Promiscuous 60’s, Barbara Eden ( in; I Dream of Jennie ) couldn’t show her belly button on TV, and Lucille Ball couldn’t say that she was Pregnant.
These are just Crazy Cultural Taboos.
Every Culture has them. They’re intended to simply indicate that we are us, and you are them.
They have nothing to do with reason, justice or economic prosperity.
The question i have is; These people that live under the Taliban and obey these rules, What are they getting out of it?
If it was really a dysfunctional society, The People would eventually overthrow it, or evolve it into something else. But these societies have been around for centuries.
They particularly don’t want to be westernized.
The west is an amazingly decadent culture that is falling apart. They can see what we can’t. We are on our way out, they will persevere in their simple ways.
And it probably has a lot to do with Europe and The US reestablishing Israel, just to keep the Jews out of Europe and The Americas. This plan was naive at best, as not all Jews fled to Israel, and Not all Arabs were Sand Farmers, Some of them actually had aspirations of their own.
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Shortly after 911, when The USA began rounding up persons of Middle Eaastern ( Northern African ) Decent and shipping them off to Guantanamo on the theory that once they leave USA soil, they are no longer protected under the pretext of Our Constitutional Laws, or even any World Standards of Human Rights or The Rights Guaranteed under the Geneva Convention. This was so obviously wrong, and everyone seemed to think that it was perfectly alright.
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Bill Maier ( ? ) had a Late Night TV Show on sometime after 911 and this was supposed to be a deeply heretical comedy talk show format, and he made the observation/Joke (?) that the ‘Terrorists’ that flew into the world trade towers were Not ‘Cowards’ as the media was widely reporting them as, but while he didn’t go so far as to say they were Heros, It was certainly not a cowardly act to commit suicide in a manner such as this; What was, or may be considered cowardly, is our US Soldiers sitting thousands of miles from a war zone and pushing a button to annihilate a few city blocks in Iraq.
Needless to say; His show was immediately canceled.
So much for our FREEDOM of Speech. ( Especially when it’s true )
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i’m very much in favor of Iran, North Korea & Libya having nuclear weapons.
Maybe they will keep the US from invading them, as they are sure to do sometime soon anyways.
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It seems to me that ships at sea & aircraft carriers are amazingly vulnerable.
All you’d have to do is silently swim up under one of them in a whale costume, blow off their propellers and attach a series of bombs along the bottom at your convenience.
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Given that most days are very slow news days, i find it distressing that the local media whores are working so hard to ‘make news’.
i think that it would be much more productive to have a series of fall back stories of community service or public education programs to fill in on these days.
The other thing is that i find it very annoying that the news whores seldom, if ever, ask obvious questions. They are simply news readers in the very worst sense. The government hands them a script and they are forbidden from questioning it or doing their own investigations.
Honestly; i don’t believe a word on the news, local or national anymore.
This Country & the World really needs an independent news organization that is really interested in understanding the world.
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Was there ever really a ‘Cold War’?
It certainly seems to make sense that the USSR would have been very wary of Europe & The United States, that was based on a very selfish & socially destructive economic model that was essentially enslaving its working class, while communism & socialism were ostensibly based on sharing wealth & seeking the optimum economic plan through central planning. They may have been wrong about a few things, but the united states had just developed an insanely powerful weapon and Europe had just kicked it’s ass and invaded several countries that buffered it from Western Europe. At the very least, All of the European Nations did absolutely nothing while Germany invaded Eastern European Nations one after another. They were very righteously paranoid. They had very serious enemies on both coasts and over the north pole.
Was The Cold War entirely a product of The USA’s desire to export Capitalism throughout the world?
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Unexpected Pocket Frogs Surprise !

Sunday, May 29, 2011 11:13:32 AM
One of the games on play a lot on my iPod is Pocket Frogs.















This is not really a game, but more like a Tomagotchi Variation in which you’re allowed to breed frogs which hop around; and so on.
There’s not much to it.

One thing that i think would make it much more interesting,
is if when you breed two frogs,
the attributes of the two parents would be genuinely mixed to create a new version of frogs, So that The number of versions would approach infinity?

Instead; There are only a finite number of Frog Types
and Any Pollywogs ( which you never get to see;
As the eggs hatch directly into fully developed small frogs,
which grow into bigger frogs. )

Another fine point to that, would be if you could breed genuine mutations,
in which frogs could be created that have more than the usual number of legs or are covered with spikes.

Anyways.

Oh! And Objects.
You can buy and fill your ‘Habitats’ with Objects and Backgrounds.
It would be fun if the users could create their own backgrounds and objects.
Then if you made a really nice object or background,
you could load it to a central administrative depot
that would allow others to use your ‘really good’ artifacts.

So.

Just today; i was browsing around on Pocket Frogs,
and i peeked in The Frog Mart, which i never do,
because i have all the Frogs, except ONE.

And There in The Frog Mart was The ONE Frog that i didn’t have !!!

i had come to believe, and have read on many Pocket Frog Sites,
that this Very Rare Frog was only available by certain means,
and if you missed out on one of these windows,
you’d just never get it.
Except by trading.

So a week or two ago, i tried to get one by trading,
and messed up ( Again! ) with my ‘Password’
and had to create a new account at Plus+ Whatever,
That is an Over Site Something for Pocket Frogs ( ??? )
And as a result of creating this second redundant account,
i essentially broke my first account
and the second one wouldn’t work.
And once you do something like this
( like with my Apple Mail Account )
There is no way to fix it. ( ??? ) !!!

But there in The Frog Mart this morning was a Tribus !!!
The Rarest Pocket Frog !!!
Which i could buy !!!

This Frog is So Rare though, that you can’t buy it with money!
You have to use something much more valuable than Money !!!
Potions !

Potions are very hard to get,
and you can buy them on the internet site for Pocket Frogs,
but they are outrageously Expensive !
Or you can spend hour & hours & hours on the pond looking for ‘Presents’
which may or Probably Not, contain a few potions.
You can use to Potions to hurry up the growth of a frog,
or make them happier, or give them a boost in a race
to win a frog that you don’t have.

The Tribus Frog cost 25 Potions,
which is like The Cost of a Fancy Escort Whore for 2 Nights!
But it was worth it.

Now i can finally finish The Last Award Category ( Nearly Last ) !!!