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Will to Compute
What is the benefit of trojans, worms, and viruses on the multiversal level? On the multiversal level, there is a truth to our awareness that is so complex it can only be processed by reverse engineering the web itself. This is done by taking samples, “stealing” code. There is a subset that applies here, and a…
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Genius Phenomenon
Today’s topic of Blind Variation and Acquired Savant Syndrome is a bit complex, so my apologies in advance if I struggle with it a bit. There is an issue that many consider a mystery. Science has not yet uncovered an adequate explanation for it. I myself have even given some council to people who suffer…
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Fluid Intelligence
So, there is another theory that is also gaining ground, and my own experience supports as well. It’s backed up by FMRI research also, that motor function and perception are intimately linked to the point that what we consider to be conscious thought is really rather peripheral. You mean, peripheral in a hardware sense? Peripheral…
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Making Intelligible Sense
My area of special talent is “language”, but I’m not a polyglot, not multilingual or even bilingual. I use the language function of my brain to piece together the various elements of my sense perceptions. Vision, as it occurs, is actually not localized in any one point in the brain. Different parts recognize different elements…
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Seeing Patterns
They describe savants as geniuses for the same reason high IQ individuals are described as geniuses. I think where the savant is impaired is the second part of the genius process, selective retention. They struggle to single out some images or ideas or bits of information from others, whereas the normal genius does this more…
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Set of Languages to Mirror Mindset
So we actually have a set of “languages” that mirror the mindset I am describing. The set of languages are the worlds systems of divination, the trinary code of the i-ching, the holistic pictographs of the runes and other such systems. The rhythm and pattern and color based systems of Africa. These have all taken…
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Selective Sensory Satiation
An example of the selective sensory satiation method. What’s a typical problem reduced to one word? Fear? Fear. Say the word fear until you can’t stand saying it any more, then soon after try to think about something that you are afraid of. You may find that rather than seeming frightening, it just seems weird.…
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Thought, Energy, Awareness
There are a great many theories regarding what reality might be. I will be sharing my own this evening and touching upon various elements of science and metaphysics on the way. How far back should we go? I will start with a question. What is the difference between thought and energy? Is there one? I…
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Interesting Questions in Science
Can we find disorganized matter anywhere? Even air and fire form what are called condensates, galactic gas does the same. Is this not strange? Perhaps a better question, could the principles allowing for consciousness have been absent before consciousness emerged? Can we look at matter and identify those principles as being present in some things…
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Sensory Processes are Quantum Processes
Well, perhaps an explanatory sidetrack if that’s all right. They have discovered that photons that lose entanglement retain a “memory” of their previously entangled state. Be deliberately generating entangled photons and retaining one of the particles while projecting the other. “Inertia” at a micro-scale? In a sense, yes. When the projected photons return, they show…
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Memory of Us
Nature loves conserving information. The point that if you nuke a place, the shadow of those far enough from the immediate detonation can be burned permanently onto a wall say, or a rock, interesting no? In our own bodies there is enough energy to destroy a city the size of one of the world’s major metropoli…
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Life in Code
Shall we move on to codes? Some scientists are asking, do we live in a computer simulation? I can see why that may seem likely, but to my point of view we do not live in a computer simulation. Math has an interesting quirk about it, no system of math can be both entirely consistent…
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No Extinction of Consciousness
There is another phenomenon in physics that relates here. When you broadcast a light beam out to an object, there is a wave that returns on the same path as the original traveled. This creates what would be seen by us as noise, but all it is is memory. Any given object has more states…
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No Fixed Form
Is anything “new” under the sun? Well, in that things can become radically different, then the answer is yes. New as in stand out in the flow of time/probability, then no. The multiverse is so full of diversity that if we could see it all the wonders would just blur together. They are all masks…
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The World is Music
The world is music. From the rhythms of messages in our brain, to the patterns of sound and light that play out all around us, the world is structured in such a way that it resembles music. They even put the information pattern of the Higgs boson to music. Not only did it sound like…
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Idea of Insanity
Let’s take off with the idea of insanity for a moment. What is perhaps the most stereotypical example of insane behavior that springs to most people’s minds? Serial killer. Banging your head against a wall. Rash, incoherent, explosive, acting-out? Talking to themselves? Having conversations with an imaginary presence? Rigid repetition. Yes, the repetition. If you…
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Connection to Language
So yes, you are surrounded by music. You have been living in this non-stop rhythm of sensory stimuli all your life. This leads to a form of what they call sensory satiation. The process of evolution or formation that an impression or experience goes through has ceased to have much meaning. Repeat the word ‘taco’…
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Many Voices
The land, of course, speaks with many voices, and so do people. But the reason they are able to do things like write instant messaging software that can take brain signals and translate them into text that isn’t the “speakers” native language is, that the concepts we link our sounds to are indeed universal. AAAAH!…
Category: Metaphysics of Science
Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that focuses specifically on the concepts we use to understand reality itself, rather than what might be the best way to do something. Science was originally classified as a philosophy, in my opinion it still is, but many object to the notion that science is still a philosophy. They point at what they feel is proof that science possesses substance that philosophy doesn’t.
There is a schism between science and metaphysics that I believe would be well served by being bridged rather than having the bridge burned. Would you say that working toward a better and clearer metaphysics is without merit in today’s world?
“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.” Albert Einstein
“Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions” Vera Rubin