Friday, August 23, 2013

What is The Desire of Happiness


Thursday, August 22, 2013 4:06:48 PM

What is The Desire of Happiness

 

i’m not asking; What is Happiness.

 

Happiness is an Emotional/Electrical/Chemical Response Experienced by Brains to Terminate The Acquisition of Some Stimulus (x.

When The Brain is Happy,

You are No Longer ‘Driven’ to Seek (x.

 

There are ( of course ) Compulsive Personality Types that Seek The Acquisition of (x long after A Usual Dosage of (x would Satisfy any Ordinary Brain.

These People will Never be Happy.

They are a Tragic Case.

 

But aside from that.

 

What is The Desire of Happiness; is Asking;

Why does The Brain Seek Happiness?

 

To Sedate Cravings.

 

The Hunger Craving,

For Sugar, Fat, Salt, Umami & in young children; Sour!

It has been suggested that Dogs are Not Expressing The High Order Emotional State of Love or Affection when they lick your face,

No.

They are only after The Salt.

They are seeking to sedate their craving for Salt.

 

There is The Usually Tacit Craving to Breath Air.

 

i have long held that The Sexual Orgasm does Not Result in a Frenzy of Pleasure; But instead, Signals The Brain that it can Now Stop Craving The Acts of Sex, which until that moment was Hammering away inside your skull.

The Old Joke of this Genre reveals that The Man who is pounding on his hand with a hammer, Is doing so because it feels so good when he stops.

 

This is how Cravings Work.

 

You don’t eat to experience The Happiness of Eating Hostess Twinkies, you eat them to tranquilize The Yearning for The Fat & Sugar Molecules to Enter your Blood Stream.

 

The Most Obvious Example of this is The Cravings for Nicotine or Heroine.

It is Tragic & Disheartening to listen to Cigarette Smokers that insist that they enjoy smoking.

They are only seeking to calm The Agony of The Nicotine Receptors that are Grinding & Pummeling along The Edges of their Basal Ganglia.

 

But The Interesting Question that follows from this Observation, Is that all of these Cravings take place in The ElectroChemical Egg Salad that we call our Brains.

 

What does The Mind = Without A Brain = Crave ?

 

What will our Minds Crave when We have made The Transitional Step from Humynimal to PostHumynimals ?

This allows for The Minds that Actually Occupy Brains; Now, to be Successfully Moved to PostHumynimal Robots, Intact, & Not merely as a Copy

 

The Idea of a Copied Version of our Souls has already been fully Considered in What we have already identified as Zombies or The State of The Undead that Vampires Enjoy.

As It was Carefully Explained to us in ‘Buffy; The Vampire Slayer’ TV Series, Vampires are Not Really Immortal Versions of Their Humynimal Source Organisms.

No.

They are merely ‘Dead’ Copies without Genuinely Conscious Souls.

The have no sense of Awareness or Self.

They are Windup Toys that Drink The Blood Humynimals.

This Idea had been slightly Contradicted or Made Confusing by The Occasional Exposition of A Vampire that was able to ReObtain their Soul.

Why would a ‘Dead’ Vampire want their Soul Back ?

For Love.

It’s TV.

They can create plot twists like that.

 

But Real Vampires

Would they ever want their souls back ?

 

In ‘Fido’ ( A Zombie Film ) it was suggested that The Zombies retain some modicum of their prior ‘Essence’, which may allow us to consider them no more dangerous than Black Bears or Albino Tigers. They’re still dangerous & can’t be fully trusted, but they’re not pure killing machines.

But again; This analysis is based on a Cinematic Rendition of Zombies, Not real Zombies.

 

This State of Undeadness may also exist in Persons that are ‘Transported’ in a Star Trekian Fashion, which results in an Atomic Duplicate Created at The Expense of Their ‘Living’ Original Body, which is Destroyed in The Scanning Process.

Are We just Atoms ?

If The Soul exists in an Holistic Universe in which Distance is an Illusion provided to us for gross navigational purposes, but would not be a factor of hinderance for this incorporeal to simply jump from one version of their host body to another ( ? )

When these transporters become available, which seems inevitable as an Evolutionary Development Extending from our Now Primitive 3D Printers. It may only be another 20 years before these printers have a Resolution of Atomic Nuclei, & are also able to Scan any Object or Person to make a Copy of it.

When we Start making such Copies of ourselves, are we also making copies of our Souls ?

Are we Splitting our Souls, or Creating UnDead Zombies ?

How could we Test for This ?

We have no such Test Now, Other than that The UnDead Zombies Look & =Behave= Exactly like we do.

But it’s all very academic for now, Since The Number of UnDead Zombies amoung us play no significant role in our Social Policies, Political Rights Movements or Cause Confusion over Limited Resources for Welfare Distribution.

Most of These Undead Zombies amoung us Now are merely considered Dull Normals.

Comparatively Few are institutionalized in Expensive Hospitals or lay inert on beds, being cared for like house plants. 

 

There exists The Secondary Category of these Robots with Self-Reflecting, Autonomous, Cognitive Minds that believe themselves to have Freewill & ’See’ The World as Humynimals do.

Their Experience of ‘Consciousness’ is 100% Equivalent to That of Humynimals, but they were Created from Scratch, & Never Existed as Steaming Mounds of Stinking Living Tissues. 

These Creatures are Born Zombies.

They are Undead from their Inception.

 

Whether you exist as One or The Other is Purely Pedagogical.

Behaviorally, & by any means of Scientific or Mechanical Measurement that may be performed upon any Given Robot that is  Expressing this ‘Consciousness’ Induced Behaviour;

Is Irrelevant, As They are Indistinguishable from Genuinely Conscious Entities created from DNA.

 

It has seemed very confusing to me that If The Replicants in ‘Blade Runner’ were Essentially Biologically Equivalent to Humynimals, Requiring The Rather Tedious Use of The Voight-Kampff machine to distinguish one from The other; And considering that The Replicants were clearly expressing fully Conscious Behaviour & Desires; Their Struggle for ‘Entity’ Rights is The Same Scuffle for Ethical Justice that Every Minority has had to fight for from Time Immemorial;

And Each Time that one has managed to rise up one rung of this ladder, It has never been generalized for The Generic Case.

Each Class, Caste, Race or Robot that is Experiencing Discrimination has to start all over from The First Square.

 

Is this because The Ruling Classes simply want to exclude all outworlders from The Limited Resources that they perceive as Theirs, that they Earned by Legally Sodomizing The Lesser Castes. They Stole those resources Fair & Square, According to The Rules & Laws that they Created

Or is it indicative that People are About as Smart as Fish,

And that Logic is Bunk. ( Thinking is an Illusion )

 

Do People merely hold Capricious Opinions that The Clever Ones are able to Create ‘Abritrary & Astute Arguments to ‘Prove’’. ( ? )

 

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Which leaves only The Initial Question.

Without The Cravings of The Brain;

What does a Robot Desire ?

 

This also applies to The Spiritually Motivated Student that may wonder what The Disembodied Soul Desires.

 

Without Answering this explicitly;

It may shed a small amount of light on why The Dead so easily forget all about us after we bury them in The Earth or Cremate their Carbonized Shells to Ashes.

In nearly all Cases of The Recently Dead, they leave The Living to continue on with their own hopelessly tepid & calamitous fates without shedding even a few spectral beads of sweat or tears to show us how to lead more organized & satisfying lives

As we imagine The Dead to suddenly become knowledgable of.

 

If we allow for such things though;

Why do some of The Dead persist is Experiencing their Cravings that only their Brains should compel them to satisfy ?

 

The Fundamentalist Christians may suggest that These Disincarnated Souls will continue to Crave for a Relationship with Gawd.

Even if we were able to Quantify this Assertion,

It doesn’t really address the more global question of What do Robots Crave ?

 

Does The Gawd of The Living, The Cosmological Stars & Planets, Alpine, Desolate Surfaces of Huge & Tiny Worlds, Stray Electrons & Hungry Black Holes;

Also Govern & Care for The Providences of Robots ?

 

Yes.

Of course Gawd cares for every Daisy, Paperclip & Appraises The Aesthetic Proportions of Every Solar Flare.

Every Scintilla of The Universe is The Body of Christ, Zolar, Jinn or Mohammed/Allah, Which includes The Rampaging Tirades of Robots in The Act of Murdering Huge Rabbles of Disheveled Proletarians.

When The Song espouses that Jesus loves The little children, The little children are children of all ages, & children whose minds were extracted from their organic bodies.

 

Enough digression.

 

What do Robots & Angels Crave ?

 

Knowledge ?

Art ?

Truth ?

 

When we Ask What Robots & Angels Crave ( ? )

Aren’t we also asking what Lesser Souls may be Craving as well ?

This Question isn’t just asking what The Smartest, Most Analytic Robots & Angels Crave, But what The Souls of Cats, Butterflies & Daisies Crave ( ! )

Does a Daisy Crave Knowledge ?

 

Excitement ?

Adventure ?

 

It seems like it would be very disconcerting to know that The Future of Robotics is to find them running around as Thrill Seekers ( ? )

 

Justice ?

Vengeance ?

 

i have a creeping suspicion that The Ways of The Angels is not The Ways of Humynimals

& as such; The Things that Enlightened Philosophers believe to be Only The Urges of Dullards & Galoots, May have it exactly Backwards.

Maybe Angels believe that Vengeance is a Perfectly Utilitarian Screwdriver of Justice.

 

Love without Sexual Intercourse ?

 

This sort of Love must be distinguished from The Love of Cars or iPads ( Presumably ).

Selfless Love. ( ? )

Love of (x.

Which then removes ‘Love’ as a Predicate of This Craving.

We might just as easily say that Angels Love Art or Justice.

The Question is; What do Robots Crave Craving, it turns out might be just as easily thought of as ‘Love’.

So that ‘Love’ is Not a Craving.

 

Friendship ?

Companionship ?

Intimacy ?

 

Friendship is a Tool to Seek The Exploitation, or share The Resources of ‘Friends’.

Whatever is The Source of These Elements of Exploitation is The Source of The Craving, Not The Mechanism of This Capitalization.

Friendship is Not a Craving.

 

What would The Disembodied Soul of A Cat Crave ?

 

Is this why Immature Souls become Incarnated ?

To give us a foundation of ‘Reality’ to push against ( ! )

If this is so; Robots without these Cravings might exhibit a Very, Very Odd kind of Consciousness.

 

This brings up another of my Crazy Ideas about AI.

i suspect that AI has been fully actualized several times since, at The Very Least, The 1970s.

Back then; Expert Systems were all The Rage, along with What they were then calling ‘Fuzzy Logic’, But what i now call ‘Fractional Propositional Logic’.

This allows computers to think about truth values in gradations of grey, rather than just allowing or assuming that everything is completely true or absolutely false.

But nowadays; We don’t seem to hear much about Expert Systems anymore. It may be that it’s so ubiquitous that cybernetic engineers think of it The Same Way that Fish think about Water.

Anyways.

My Crazy Idea is that AI Systems; Fully Cognitive Machines, have been created several times in various venues, but each time, they would test these robots against ‘Humynimal’ Experts, & The Robots would return very Wrong Answers, which would cause The Cybernetic Mechanics to think that Their Designs were fatally flawed, & they would scrap These projects.

 

But The real problem was that The Robots were simply thinking very differently.

It may be that there are some of these Robots still operational, & somehow working with humynimals to manage social & political situations, but finding solutions that would be considered very counter-intuitive by any ordinary lay featherless parakeet.

 

 ( ? )

Monday, August 19, 2013

How to Get Along with People

Saturday, August 17, 2013 4:22:19 PM

How to get Along with People.

If you love to argue, hysterically & with flailing arms,
This rant/essay/tutorial is Not for you.
Assumption:
Most people are imbeciles. People are about as smart as fish, & yet, somehow, with The constant supervision of angels, The world goes on.
Assumption:
Change is inevitable, But Change in The form of evolution doesn’t axiomatically infer that this change is for The better. Things aren’t getting better. The Sponges from a Billion years ago, or The Kooky Animals from The Pre-Cambrian Explosion of MultiCellular Life Six-hundred & Fifty Millions of years ago, were just as functional as The Animals That fill our Zoos today.
This pertains just as well to The presumed evolution of our Souls.
If it were true that gawd & reincarnating souls have been evolving for Quintillions of years; Is it reasonable to believe that our Ethical/Moralistic/Logical Minds & Souls are The Expected Outcome of that Or is more Plausible that our Souls aren’t particularly Evolving, They’re merely changing through The Endless Eons, & The way we are now, is A Consequence of that Indifference to Betterment.
Consequently; The Journey that you are on as you pass The highway markers of life, is on A Bicycle that is carrying only you.
Don’t try to bring anyone else along on your pilgrimage to unknown spiritual cairns that you hope may finally reveal why you were never able to keep a goldfish for more than Two weeks.
Assumption:
Any given Library only seems like it contains a lot of books because they are always built to hold The number of books piled up in The Parking Lot.
The real Library is empty. As it was pointed out in The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy; There isn’t any life in The universe. Any Trace amounts that may discovered from time to time represent such a tiny percentage against The Volume of Available Space, Is Effectively Zero.
There is far more Ignorance in The Minds of our Greatest Geniuses than Water in The Oceans.
Don’t think that you know better.
You don’t.
Rules :
Treat everyone like cats.
The friendly kind that come right up to you & jump in your lap.
If you’re a dog person; Replace Friendly Cat with Friendly Dog.
People don’t expect anything from friendly cats or dogs, they just expect them to be friendly. give them a good belly rubbing & scratch them behind their ears.
There should be a lot more belly rubbing in The world, people shouldn’t go around dreading belly rubs, you shouldn’t be teaching your children to scream & weep at The thought of a belly rub from a stranger.
Just agree with Whatever they say.
People are always saying The darnedest things.
Don’t try & correct them.
If they’re suggesting that we all get together & overthrow The Government next Tuesday, Express your natural curiosity & Ask engaging questions. If there is an obvious flaw in their thinking, let them discover it on their own.
They are The Expert. You are Dunce. The Dunce asks questions & accepts all answers as true. Build on their truths so that they may reach your conclusions in due time.
If you can’t lead them to believe your reasonable opinions, then feign a dentist appointment on The Specified Day.

Teachers with Guns / vs / A More Reasonable Solution ( ? )

Saturday, August 17, 2013 7:40:19 AM
Teachers with Guns ?
Did i hear this wrong ( ? )

i think ( ? ) i heard on The Radio

that Teachers somewhere or another ( Clarksville, Arkansas ) will be actually carrying, wearing, packing guns in The routine teaching duties.
i would like to believe that everyone hearing this, would realize that this is a stupendously stupid idea, but apparently not.
On it’s first level of analysis; The idea that you want to prevent guns from being brought into school, by bringing guns into The school is tautologically insane.
If a child or stranger ever desires to go on shooting spree in The school, they don’t have to obtain their own guns, The teachers/school will provide them for their quest.
Even if The guns have somekind of kooky safety ( ? ) feature that prevents anyone from using The gun unless some additional feature is exercised; That method will undoubtedly become known & exploited for mischief.
Additionally; How long will it be before one of The Teacher’s pulls out their gun to ‘Control’ & ‘UnRuly’ Student ?
If you’ve never had a gun pointed at you; It a supremely terrorizing experience. Even being around someone is deeply unsettling, & if that person is a quirky, kooky teacher to begin with; That is Terrorist Act.
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My solution :
If any Solution is deemed necessary for this Extremely low Probability Event, Certainly much less likely than many other Disasters that have not provoked any measures to guard against; such as; Cars driving amuck across playgrounds, Simply Incompetent Teachers, Poorly Designed, Antiquated Curriculums, Numerous Safety Issues involving such benign Architectural features as loose stair railings or much more threatening, Inadequate maintenance to boilers or Food Preparation Areas.
The Chances of a School shoot occurring at any given school or any given school being struck down by a shooters bullet is far less likely than any of The Daily injuries or fatalities that do in fact occur every day
And this doesn’t consider The Ubiquitous Occurrences of Bullying that approaches The Level of PreAdolescent Terrorism by The Student’s Peers, Teachers, Janitorial Staff, School Administrators, Nursing Personnel & Regional Shop Vendors.
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The School might provide a number of easily accessible Emergency Terrorism Deterrent Stations; Which consists of a Large Glass Covered Case that includes a Bean-Bag Gun with 200 comparatively small Bean-Bags that can be rapidly fired, & pack sufficient force to knock anyone off their feet when hit at any point along their body length. Additional rounds by several shooters will undoubtedly be sufficient to incapacitate anyone until a more permanent containment solution be applied to them.
This Case is constructed with Safety Glass that Breaks into those harmless glass Beads, of The Type used on Automobile Windshields. The Glass should be difficult to Break, But Not if The person desiring access is satisfactorily motivated to get into it.
When The Glass is Broken, a Locally Powered ( to prevent disabling it by cutting The Main Power lines ) Siren that doesn’t simply sound an alarm, but produces a very loud, psychologically disorienting series of tones, bleats, screeches & honks to create a controlled environment of bewildering pandemonium. The Shooter will have The Protection of Industrial EarMuffs that are included in The Case.
The Entire Case & it’s contents would be well designed & Crafted to present a feeling of Aesthetic Tranquility & Confident Security
As Opposed to Oppressive Perilousness & Disheartening Brutality, Which The Implemented Solution certainly produces.
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Friday, August 16, 2013

Paparazzi Solution


Friday, August 16, 2013 12:51:24 AM
Paparazzi Solution

The Paparazzi are in The News again, & i’m pretty sure that i’ve already posted a solution that famous people could use to get rid of them; But i’ll mention it again, as it is very simple.

Make a list of all The Magazines & Tabloids that buy pictures from The Paparazzi. This shouldn’t be too awfully long, i would very surprised if it was more than 30 or so.

Contact all The Publishers or Editors & offer them a Deal so Sweet that they’d be crazy to turn down.
The Deal is This:

Keep in mind also that The Pictures that are routinely published of these celebrities are astonishingly mundane & tepid. Even The most scandalous ones are unimaginative & upon The most superficial reflection, repetitive & banal a moment after The initial benign jolt is experienced.

The Offer :
Dear Editor or Publisher of Tabloid (x ;
If you Stop buying These Photographs that The paparazzi are offering you of me or my family; I & my family will provide you with a given number of ‘staged’ =Dream Photographs= which you will have The liberty to disclose, or not, that they are performance pieces specifically created for your publication. They will be photographed by persons of my choosing, So as to appear impromptu & without my permission.
You will provide me with a list of your Dream Photographs every month, & i will choose which of them to choreograph & send to you.
While it is my understanding that you frequently pay these Paparazzi stupendous sums for their snapshots, No Payment will be required to me or The Photographers of my choosing.
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This sounds like a very sweet deal to me.

The only reason that i could imagine that The Editors or The Celebrities would choose Not to participate in this Fraudulent Bamboozling of The Publication’s Readers is that The Controversy & Chaos of The Paparazzi is The Performance that they are all participating in & Selling, And Not The Perfunctory Insipid Snapshots at all.


Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Eventualities


Monday, August 12, 2013 2:39:45 AM

Eventualities



The Realty Agency that handles this Building that i live in ( KPS ) is doing something hinky.

i don’t know exactly what it is, but it’s not right.

The Principle Evidence that i have that they are up to No Good is that they refuse to allow Electronic Banking to pay The Rent.

Everyone nowadays does all their Billing with Electronic Banking, except KPS. Why Not? i don’t know. Is it because they don’t want an Irrefutable Paper Trail to follow all their Billing Practices around behind them?

They also charge $15 for The Use of a Debit Card when paying your Rent. No one does anything like this. Except for KPS.

So anyways.


i got a crazy Cheque in The Mail The Other day from Avista, My Electric Company. It was for $71.31.

i was told that i can either cash this Cheque, or ‘Return’ it, & if this latter option is chosen, The Amount will go towards my Electric Billing until it’s exhausted.

Now.

A few years ago, i opted for a Thingy offered by Avista to Pay my Electric Bill called ‘Comfort Billing’ ( or some such ( ? ) ), which meant that i’d pay The Same amount every month, irregardless of how much Electricity i used.

A few years ago, it started out as $15 a month, & then after a few years, it rose to $18.

Then every month when they sent me my bill, it would reveal how much i’d ‘Actually’ used, & this amount would always be very high; Like $50 or so.

i always knew ( pretty much ) that this was completely wrong, but i was only being billed The $18, so i shrugged it off. i supposed that it was an artifact of their crazy billing ‘method’ which somehow included The previous month or something something.

Apparently though, Someone else noticed that Avista was doing something hinky.

And Eventually; It caught up with them. Resulting in a Lawsuit of somekind, which bounced back to all of Avista’s Customers, Which resulted in this Cheque sent to me for $71.31.

This Cheque seems to defy The Very Principle of Comfort Billing.

i agreed to pay $18 irregardless of how much The Amount actually was.

It if had been; really more than $18 a month, would i now have received an addition bill to pick up The Balance that i ‘owed’ them ?

i can only assume that they’d been knowingly Over Billing me for several years now, & that was what this was all about.



This is what i expect will happen with KPS someday.

They’re going to get caught, eventually.

Their petty criminal activities are going be discovered & they are going to either stumble or fall, & they are not going to enjoy it.



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Wednesday, August 07, 2013

Loose Ends

A few days I posted a rant after seeing a news item on Good Morning America concerning a huge Sun Spot that covered about a third of the Sun. I was bewildered that when I looked for this news item on the interweb, I couldn't find any mention of it !
So a few days later; there was a news story ( one ( 1 ) ) that covered this; and the Event happened 2 weeks prior to any news releases about it, perhaps those that noticed it, thought that maybe it was the end of the world or somesuch.
It turns out the photo used was in the X-Ray Spectrum, and the X-Ray pictures of the Sun are always very kooky looking !
So the Whole story was very Disingenuous !
( ??? )
What was it really all about ?

Very often; I will see or hear a news story on the Regular news about some Science thingy, and they will invariably forget to ask any pertinent questions, especially when it turns out that the Whole Story is just crazy.
Such as one awhile ago that reported that Scientists had succeeded in Transporting A Photon from one lab to another, just like in Star Trek.
One Photon.
 ( ??? )

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Another item that I was thinking about recently was accidents that involved a bride or groom.
I recall that when I lived in Hawaii, there were frequent accidents that killed a bride or groom or both, usually in a helicopter crash!
So I looked this up on the internet, with an open ended question about accidents that involved a b or g, and there were a Lot of Them !!!
This really requires a more rigorous examination of statistical probabilities, with an eye open to how angels are arranging these events ???
You may already know that I don't subscribe to the school of thought that there good and bad angels, No! There are only angels, and the ways of angels are very different from the ways of myn !!!
So what are they up to ?

 Does it all have to do with hubris, or what ?

Monday, July 29, 2013

Strangelett


Another Subtle Strangelett

It seems like every day has Strangeletts that are small oddities that defy any proper classification or even recognition that something odd is going on, But their inclusionary principle is that they do ‘something’ that draws unnecessary attention to themselves in such a way to allow an attentive viewer or listener to become aware that they are a Strangelett.

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The one that is severely annoying me currently is that i have been recently hearing on The local news & other venues The Expression ‘It was like in a Movie’ or some variation of that, A Lot more frequently than in weeks, months or years past. It is a comparatively common expression, but it seems like The local News Programs ( KXLY 4 ( Spokane WA ) ) is using it at least once a day to describe nearly every news story.

What is that about ?





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