Sunday, 30 September 2007

Passives and Creators

when I was younger I saw people one day, doing things where they had little engagement with the flow of the world, like watching TV24 hours a week, playing with consoles, attending concerts, theatre, championships, games, browse the web.
Only interactivity was seen in internet use (irc, clan-fps, mmorpg).

Then i found that the passives world could be described by a computer program in a fairly easy way. I thought then that thats what the big difference is - the method and life of the creators can not be defined as a program.

The other type was the creator - programmers, philosophers, artists, mathematicians, physicists, playwrits and authors.
Performers would have fit in somewhere ther too, their creations would have been more fluid and attached to them.

The divide seemed very big. While the passives who consumed what was created lived and kept repeating these passive activities throughout their lives.

Wednesday, 26 September 2007

AI

A think tank is a new phenomenon in itself - agroup of researchers and anaysts
solving scientific/diplomatic problems.
I propose a new test. Turing computer - man test can be advanced.
I think that AI can be overcome to a certain extent by a group of humans if there is an allowance of time. The opposition would be a swarm of AI agents or expert agents.

Tuesday, 25 September 2007

Communism as a dead horse

One should keep flogging a dead horse.
One should bury the horse with a ceremony.
One should leave the thought of a dead horse.

Well I face a dilemma about whether to look at the faults of communism or whether to look at the faults of our economy.

Market economy, Communist economy.
The first of these gave the idea of the value of produce to come from the market.
Value is then manipulated by the owners through a magical transformation system. Fudge.
Actually value has many attributes and most notably there is the value as formed on the market. Market also demands value of storehousing and delivery and promotion and finally use value.
Perhaps Marx wanted a general or universal theory of value that would work in any society whether in communist or capitalist. However he wrote that it would not work in primitive cultures.
If the value does not originate in the production the idea of surplus value is an excessive fiction.
The ends of his theory are the premises of the theory, therefore there is a fault.
If the value is defined on the market then the price is reduced until it approximates what demand defines its value as use value.
If the labourers also inhabit a market of wages, then they choose and improve the wages and conditions of work.
Owners support migration of the workers.
If the value is defined by the collusion of the owners of production then society loses by not recieving the use value of the produce. Such collusions face cooperatives and new businesses as a challenge.
If the owners take the surplus value created at production then the market has no need for the owner. Yet it is needed and the owner needs to work on the market or with offical resellers and promoters.

On the other side of the coin are the changing times, paradigm alteration changes the focus of profit. If the market disappears then value is defined between use value and labour value.


If communism cannot be defined then how can the steps towards it be defined? If these cannot be defined how can it come to being? '

If laws are set up to safeguard the socialist state then what would happen if these "wither away"? Would the safeguarding mechanism that needs to be maintained need a state itself?

Comparison of barbarism and red terror. Could there be a civilized revolution? Could pacifism be a road to socialism? Aid in means of production as among the primary methods of spreading socialism.

Do different political economies have their respective perspectives on the definition of value?

When the middle class creates the pattern of consumption that the proletariat desire to mimic, the birth pangs  of the aristocracy of the proletariat start. The smaller the proletariat the faster it develops a class consciousness if other nations have it already.

Does the revolution in one country appear as a holistic event, caused by friction between nations, pathos from the comparison of disparities between the different nations, economic considerations between capitalist nations and technological changes including early capitalism and more advanced capitalism.

Piece meal social engineering

Societies could be changed slightly with small methods and through small groups, eventually this would add up, and cause big changes and these could perhaps end up being big or hard to challenge, or be costly to reverse.

Saturday, 22 September 2007

Simple principles

So many disciplines are defined or run by simple principles that form great and often complicated systems, that it seems amazing. Some of them are making rules that generate systems.
I have compiled a list of these and perhaps I will set up a web page for these.

  1. Newton's three laws of mechanics
  2. Thomson's five assumptions of thermodynamics
  3. Einstein's three postulates of relativity
  4. Seven subjects of a business plan
  5. Ten axioms of a field of mathematics
  6. Ten Commandments/Ten precepts
  7. Eight fold path of existence (Buddhism)
  8. Five types of programming patterns (Fowler)
  9. Five rules of stock trading
  10. Ten rules of refactoring software code (Fowler)
  11. Six forms of diplomacy (Kautilya)
  12. Six types of government (Aristoteles)
  13. Seven Virtues (Christianity)
  14. The Beautitudes(Bible)
  15. Six Perfections(Buddhism)
  16. Six excellences (Taoism)
  17. Seven causes of aging (SENS)
  18. Four phases of meme propagation
  19. Four basic freedoms
  20. Ten types of patterns of profits (Slywotzky)
  21. Three laws of logic(Aristotle, separately in China)
  22. Five principles of forming definitons
  23. Five principles of arguments
  24. Axioms of geometry(Euclid)
  25. Four forms of Idea(Plato)
  26. Ten Categories(Aristotle)
  27. Five principles of aerodynamics
  28. Five methods of Analysis(Freud)
  29. Nine states of awareness(ancient Yoga)
  30. Twelve types of connections(Buzan)
  31. Five exercises to balance whole body musculature()
  32. Eight concepts of innovation (Altshuller)
  33. Five causes of suffering
  34. Five types of wisdom(Buddhism)
  35. Twelve types of intelligence
  36. Twelve patterns of evolution (of concepts)
  37. Four tempers ()
  38. Four types of character(Jung)
  39. Four control dramas(J. Redfield)
  40. Four games people play ( Eric Berne)
  41. Twelve principles of living systems(Chris Alexander)
  42. Nine points of a storyline
  43. Five forms of Art(Schopenhauer)
  44. Three sources of profit (Smith)
  45. Twelve techniques of memorisation
  46. Seven Perspectives (Psychoanalysis)
  47. Seven layers of Internet Protocol (OSI)
  48. Seven states of matter (EB condensate, superconductor, solid, liquid,superfluid,gas,plasma)
  49. Three patterns of aging in tissues
  50. Four fundamental components of cellular biochemistry (proteins, glycans, lipids, nucleases)
  51. Three necessities of happiness (friendship, autonomy, analysis)
  52. Four sources of wealth for nations (taxes, tolls, tariffs, tributes)
  53. Four forces
  54. Five types of Capital (Green, Financial, Human, Infrastructural, Social)
  55. Seven Archetypal stories
  56. Ten universal emotions (Ekman)
  57. Twelve methods of persuasion
  58. Six biohacks (Dave Asprey)
  59. 6 rules of thinking
There are more complicated systems
  1. 40 Principles of invention (TRIZ)
  2. 38 Stratagems of argumentation (Schopenhauer)
  3. 20 Basic Plots
  4. 36 Dramatic Situations (Polti)
  5. designthroughstorytelling.net
  6. 38 Signs of lying (Ekman)
  7. 209 drum patterns
  8. 214 Radicals For Japanese kanji (writing)
  9. 185 piano chords
  10. 52 periodic-table-of-bodyweight-exercises 
  11. 40+ patterns of profit

On happiness

I propose that happiness comes from a change in experience. Therefore the pursuit of happiness also includes the redefinition of happiness and study of life to find those new definitions of happiness.

The second important aspect is excitement, humans need some excitement towards which they work. I think it would be possible to have a constant excitement stream as part of life, similar to the experience of flow in creativity.

I have an experience of this from my life and i think that is unquestionably a goal for every human existence.

Friday, 14 September 2007

Third Place

1Work
2Home
3Game

Popper:
1Physical
2Psychological
3Knowledge

Buddhism
1Suffering
2Altruism
3Enlightenment

Christianity
1Heathens/Eternal Nothingness
2Earth
3Heaven/Eternal Life

The perception of the world - including or excluding the perception of consciousness of self in the given environment changes. There are many environments where people stay which define the type of perception of the world and is defined by the world.


  1. World
  2. VR Cyberspace Mind-Net interface
  3. Sleep
  4. Memories
  5. Visualisation
  6. Hallucination
  7. Augmented Reality AR-HUD visor/ mobileMW labels
  8. AR-holographics
  9. Genetic World - genetically grown houses, Genetically engineered vehicles
  10. Nanothetically formed World

On the verge of dystopia

I would like to pass on these great news of hope for humanity.

1 We are run by the decisions of eight countries, where the most powerful are puppet makers for other states in the world.
2 The sudden drying that goes concurrent with global warming is going to happen faster than thought
-probably in 10-15 years, burning all vegetation of the planet.
3 Governments are going to cut emissions by 20%only does that bring a probable reduction of 20% on the 3-5 degree increase in temperatures, conitnuing the heating or even the increase in heating
a dramatic drop is needed within 7 years OR else ...
4 China is a dictatorship, World buys everyhting from it.

Wednesday, 12 September 2007

Superwill

Idea about the human drive to transcend the will that he has through spiritual means.
Also a superset of the Will.
Will to live ->Will to Power
Will to truth

I think this constains the vital and important aspect that as will develops for humans through ethical changes he does evolve more integrated will for the world and self - for the ego. This opposes to the idea that there is will to demise or a will to self-denial in religion.
This is answered well in Buddhism with the path of the golden middleway. and in the sign of the cross itself in Christianity where heavenly matters are divided from earthly matters between excess and shortage. (Greed and Repentance)

M2 Pleasure

Pleasure is something that veils us from the true nature of existence as much as aggression, from our capability to compassion and from the state of our health. It comes in cycles.



Pleasure from addictive substances
This has two sides and one is illicit the other part of everyday habits common in society,
it is these that i like to talk about, the costs of alcohol related problems far outstrip their returns even if state collected 100% tax. Coffee causes incontinence, anxiety, sleeplessness, memory problems, impatience and metanoia. The effects are small but withdrawal brings symptoms.

Pleasure of eating
This is something that can turn humans to overeat, to seek the comfort feeling. On the other hand it si necessary and vital to our lives that we eat every day.

Sublimated pleasure
Enjoyment of what you create.
Enjoyment of how you actualise yourself
Enjoyment of transcending limits

M1 Aggression

Adrenaline is the cause of spiritual animation of aggression and is similar to dopamine, indeed as aggression susides it turns to dopamine. As this is an addictive state it is coveted by those who use this mechanism to get adrenaline and dopamine, engaging in dangerous, harmful and wanton activities.


Violence as employment

State channels some people to a regime of the army to form defensive and expansive forces for the state. As democracies have progressed they have come to use less of their production on military.

Violence passively
This includes the production of addictive and harmful substances that are everpresent in society, production of weapons.

Violence from apathy
Standing by as society harms its members, ignoring them eventually has effect on how you live.

Violence sublimated
Sports, extreme games are forms of getting the same buzz in a controlled and civilized environment. Work is another sublimation, that does not use the same mechanism, but employs something else and therefore transplants the agressive energy.

Violence as disorder
Violence is entropy increasing behaviour. As this is increased or coordianted the result is increase in entropy of the state. As states often claim a function of defence of its territories and interests. They therefore form a system for creating a function that harms its own members.

Monday, 10 September 2007

Everpresent in mass consciousness

One common denominator in the culture as we see it today is the semios of violence and aggression
*action films
*suspense films
*cartoons
*games - fps,rpg-snh,rts-seu
*boardgames
*toys
*news
and that seems to desensitise the populations in the world to the being of violence.
It is a method for perpetuating a monster that inhabits human society and parasitises human creative time by perpetuating the adreanline addiction. I call it the M1. You can read about M0 from www.reciprocality.org
there is more i think that works as parasites in human cultures. one of them being M2 the pleasure cycle. That takes humans away from the contributions to each other and keeps them in the pleasure for the pleasure, Completely removed from the primary object of hapiness in some cases.
It is suffocating as a material in the daily world to read of this. It subsumes a being where we lack choice with the fact that there is no option not to choose it, because it has replaced the daily drink and bread.
It forms a monotony and drives a certain public relations agenda while those who succumb to it
become robots of this state of being. Agents of violence are formed daily, and though rationally society has not accepted these agents and rejects them, they are formed from the actions and level of spirit of the society.

Wednesday, 5 September 2007

Interconnectivity

music can be translated to other systems like mathematics and programming, and visual images.

as well as other type of music.

an isomorphic translation system would allow no loss of data if changing or transforming music to some other forms of data. this means that each item in the music and each conncetion of this item is recorded and translated as unique.

more on this later.

superego

Something that transcends the self, and its existence.
Something that joins the other egos (interfaces between reality and persona).
Something that overcomes and sublimates the personhood.

there is a way to it and i think that each part influences the others reflexively and without linear development.