by madmin | Jun 26, 2021 | awareness, Neurology, Psychology, Science
Introduction
So here we are. You are reading this, I have written this. These occurrences were not at the same time, yet they connect two things. My mind to your mind. Yet, besides your ability to cognitively (by thought process) distinguish characters, words, language and meaning, you will likely also have your emotional luggage stirring up while reading this. Especially the following. But where does neorology and cognitive abilities meet, divert and moved from one to another?
Where animal and mind meet
Ever watched one of those movies, where they had a human person make a connection with an animal? Think Lassie, White Fang, Life of Pi, etc.
How did you watch such story? Did you think it was fiction? Well, likely you did, as of course movies and books are written from the human mind, and as such are always fiction, even recollections of real life events, they are never fully objective representations.
So, lets get back to the story of man and animal. Have you ever looked at such an event, where for instance a person was wounded in the wilderness and the ‘animal’ was suddenly close to their side, comforting them?
Did you ever consider, why this is? Do you think that a dog, wolf, or tiger, thinks: Look, this meat bag looks delicious and I haven’t seen a chicken for a decade, but I will lay with it, because it looks like he has a cellphone, or atleast some money to buy me a McBurger.
Why would it do that? What animal would consider human concepts as its own? How did we come to these concepts?
I hope you will agree with me, that to understand the ‘motives’ of an animal, you will have to investigate to what it’s ‘reference’ is. An animal doesn’t have any words or abstract conceptualization. What does it have? Well, for one it has emotions.
It is very hard for humans to ‘imagine’ how an animal, even one that is so close to us as an Chimpansee or other primate, behaves, without the appearance of a mind.
Ever been angry? Ever been so so…FF’ing mad that you could hit someone? No? Ever been so heartbroken that it physically hurt? That you couldn’t get a straight word out of your mouth, you couldn’t think a straight line of thought? No….jees, though crowd…ever been so scared that the first reaction you had was to jump back? Yes? Aw…finally. Good. Well, I agree, likely you have had all of the three, but now I guess everyone has some reference to connect to.
These things: Anger, hurt (not only pain), fear, etc, are emotions. They are the place where things go when minds stop working, and they are the thing that makes minds stop working. Why is that? Because of the way it creates the mind just the same.
The mind is considered to be a feedback system between the prefrontal cortex and the Claustrum (apologies for the technical terms if they are new to you). How did this come to be?
Well, in other posts I have already explained how our ancestral primate forefathers/mothers were surviving by evading predators. Yes, before several thousands years ago, humans weren’t the primary force on Earth (apologies for the spoiler if you hadn’t seen the episode yet).
Like most mammals, primates had to survive in a landscape that was warming up again after the last ice age
by madmin | Jun 26, 2021 | Art, Writing
I am currently editing a story I wrote together with my friend for life Jennifer K. Garcia. The story is about a girl who is in a bad place going worse. The story evolves around an unexpected relationship that ends in a epic event.
Currently the story is start to end done, but the story line isn’t…entirely correct. It misses consistency and many of the scenes should be written into either more extensive detail or anachronisms need to be removed.
I have looked at the scenes and they are also under consideration to be reordered.
To give you a ‘teaser’ of the story:
I noticed a change in posture. Like a moment ago when Ally didn’t respond to inquiries, she slowed her breathing, but deepened it with a sigh. Her facial expression changed.
‘I will check what his agenda says, don’t activate the protocol, without oversight please.’
The other girl said sternly, followed by a wry smile at Ally. Then she turns she walks out of the room.
‘Allison….why did your expression change a moment ago?
I read differences in neural patterns, but I don’t understand.
Did you activate a subroutine?’
I asked when the door closes behind her.
The mention of certain words will already give some indication on the direction and genre of the story. This is a scene that I have rewritten, yet am still not too happy with. Likely you will see it in another post being rewritten again.
by madmin | Jun 26, 2021 | Art, Writing
The story of ‘Dawn of a bright day’, is actually a fantasy story. Currently it is planned to be an ongoing series, but the first story is finished and a small part of the second episode is started on. I am currently editing the story, which was created through extensive roleplay writing.
Basically Roleplay writing is nothing more than writing responses as one of the characters. Each writer takes one protagonist, or more and writes what happens with them. This often results in suprising events and pretty original content, but often it also adds a layer of missing context. As the writer of the character and having it respond to another character, makes the character in-depth, but many times misses the depicting of the environment around it.
In Dawn of a bright day, Rin and Asteria are the main protagonists. As always, the story start in a ‘running’ fashion, which I like. No description at forehand, the story starts in action. Blanks are filled in on the go. This always eases the roleplaying part, in my opinion.
Here is a short excerpt of the story as it currently is.
Asteria smiled with a nod, not showing her surprise.
I can hear you little light. What happened to you? Rin recollected the events and tried to bring the new world to Asteria slowly. With a glow on his cheeks he started.
I am Rin. I am a protector from the Dawn-world.
I am not sure what happened to me. It seems the shadows hit me with something, then I raced to reach you, but I lost consciousness. I think their poison took me out.
Rin almost yelled, so he didn’t need to use too much magic, which was draining fast it seemed. he assumed it was because of the fact that the light was not natural sunlight.
More to come later.
by madmin | Jun 26, 2021 | awareness, Culture, Mythology / Religion, Uncategorized
For those reading this who feel that there was a Christ and he had to exist, to rid humanity of its ‘sin’, should seriously try to view the following logic from different perspectives. Not just your own. If you want to be open-minded, you should be able to. The following is written in ‘laymen’s terms’ so people not knowing about the different parts of different religions, aren’t pushed away by reference to reference etc.
Here goes.
The main reasoning of a Jesus Christ to have existed for Christianity, is for his teaching, but moreover for his supernatural link and dying for everyone’s ‘sin’.
To look at things that are represented in words, it is important to understand words. Thus knowing the definition of words that are used. This is a requirement in any situation, because words would be useless otherwise.
Not only is it important to understand the implications of the word ‘sin’, but also what dying means, what supernatural means and what teachings are. Lets start with one and then the other.
‘Sin’ Wikipedia (which I take as a critical platform to provide information, controlled by a global community) says:
sin is the act of violating God’s will.[1][2][3][4] Sin can also be viewed as any thought or action that endangers the ideal relationship between an individual and God; or as any diversion from the perceived ideal order for human living. To sin has been defined as “to miss the mark”.[5]
Etymology[edit]
The word derives from “Old English syn(n), for original *sunjō… The stem may be related to that of Latin sons, sont-is guilty. In Old English there are examples of the original general sense, ‘offence, wrong-doing, misdeed'”.[6] The English Biblical terms translated as “sin” or “syn” from the Biblical Greek and Jewish terms sometimes originate from words in the latter languages denoting the act or state of missing the mark; the original sense of New Testament Greek ἁμαρτία hamartia “sin”, is failure, being in error, missing the mark, especially in spear throwing;[7] Hebrew hata “sin” originates in archery and literally refer to missing the “gold” at the centre of a target, but hitting the target, i.e. error.[8] (Archers call not hitting the target at all a “miss”.)
To shorten the above: In Christianity, Sin is a religious notation to things that are seen as a thought or action of a religious person, that go against the will of their god.
‘Dying’ Again, Wikipedia is my source here:
Death is the termination of all biological functions that sustain an organism.
Well, to be quick to kill any confusion, this is the globally accepted biological definition of dying. Christians will say that dying can also be interpreted ‘spiritually’ or ‘religiously’. They will refer to the illogical promise of death by a god, which then isn’t happening (or the story would have been over right away), so Genesis 2:17 the chapter where the ‘first human’ gets told that if he eats from a specific fruit, he will surely die, would be a failure on both sides. But, after many years, about a couple of thousand, someone came up with this illogical part and ‘quickly’ changed the meaning to ‘spiritual’, making the ‘literal’ interpretation already ‘metaphorical’ from line one. Yet, keeping all of it as ‘literal’ as possible.
So, to use another source to make sure to cover all bases:
gotquestions mentions:
Death is separation. A physical death is the separation of the soul from the body. Spiritual death, which is of greater significance, is the separation of the soul from God.
As you might see, there are some new things added to the equation. ‘soul’, ‘God’, ‘separation’. We will have to distinguish deeper, to make sure we are on the same single page when coming to any conclusion about this.
by madmin | Jun 26, 2021 | Affairs of the State
Well, we are two days down the line and I am still struggling. I felt it would really do something, but I am starting to feel more that the tools don’t really matter. It is a matter of personal perseverance. You want to change, you make the change.
I have two sets of planning papers, one for my work and one for my personal stuff, yet both don’t seem to go far. I did add some changes I want to run on both sides, and the why, but somehow the incentive isn’t causing me to actually put all the effort into it yet. Honest is honest. It depends on myself.
by madmin | Jun 26, 2021 | Affairs of the State
I qualify! I actually qualify!
Yes you heard it here first. I qualify for improving my planning. Yes, seriously, you might not have though I would, but I DO!
I have been trying and trying to change my habit of procrastination. Wrote articles about it, writing articles about anything, but still only marginally changing my behavior. So what?! Well, that means that I keep slamming into the same walls I warn others for. The same premature ending of ‘projects’ that should be finished for it to have effect.
So now I do the following:
I have found a planning document set that I will use to test if it works:
Free planners at Productiveflourishing.com
I didn’t take ONE planner, no I choose to take all of them. And I will explain why, but first the package:
- Individual Project Planner (one page per project)
- Daily Habit Planner (one page per month – 5 habits)
- Daily Productivity Heat Map (one page per day measured)
- Monthly Momentum Planner (one page per month)
- Weekly Momentum Planner (one page per week, should have 4 or 5 I guess)
- Daily Momentum Planner (one page per day, should have approximately 31 or 21, in case of business change).
- (Only in my private paper package, due to this blog) The Blog Post Calendar
Now, why do I include all this?
Because I want to see if this is a way to get good insight into why things fail, what insight I can get into it and how I can address it to improve it. I know habits take a bit of time to sink through the cognitive stage and emotional stage into the instinctive stage, so I hope using this paper work, instead of all the different ‘Apps’ I have tried for this, I will be able to track and improve.
Of course I added the last part, so I will make sure I have a ‘leverage’. I will need to update this blog to have keep track.
If you have questions (taking it, that someone will some day read this), ask away.
by madmin | Jun 26, 2021 | Design Patterns, Technology
DEI stands for Digital Evolutionary Intelligence.
The base of this starts at how the universe caused life (yes, please understand that religious thinking and superstitious wishes don’t really help in science). Life started at the point where an element of the universe started to self-replicate and its reaction to every interaction with the universe was to find ‘equilibrium’. This sounds like a lot of mumbojumbo, but I will explain a bit further.
It all started when I was reflecting on life and how we, humans, determined certain things. Especially ‘good’ and ‘evil’ or ‘bad’. See, these concepts are made by emotional evaluation. Emotional evaluation is the way an individual looks at the result of an event/action and how it impacts the chances for the individual or group he/she is concerned with. However, if we look at other mammals, like apes and other empathic social animals, we see that responses are often the same to specific events that we also have emotional responses to. But they do not decide to give it a label. This is also why only humans can create conceptualized language and naming of things. Likely other animals also are able to label objects or physical dangers, but they can not give something a conceptual naming. This because they lack the expansion of certain areas of the brain (frontal cortex, temporal lobes, etc). Humans are aware of ‘time’, because we have a larger memory ‘module’ than others. We are able to plan, because we (our body/nervous system) have developed the ability to recognize patterns and understand the possibility a pattern will return in the future and choose on the historical events what would be best beneficial response to it. But it didn’t start here. It all depends on the ability to survive. And as we named it survive, it all simply started with: A cell that dries out, dies out. A cell that adjust when in risk of dehydration, survives. A cell that responds to a threat, like something that causes its internal working to fail, will survive more likely. A cell that divides when resources cause its internal working to become a threat, is even more likely to survive, as its structure is now twice as strong for future risks.
The way DEI will look at intelligence, is going into the most basic of complexity that allows decisions (for more on this, read DTM on this site) and build from there. See, inorganic matter doesn’t have any decision process. It doesn’t respond, as there is no internal working that will cause it to respond. The forces of the universe (as far as we can tell) are effects of matter and energy on each other. Movement causes gravity, gravity causes shift in entropy. Everything seems to move towards an equilibrium, the maximum entropy (which is a misinterpretation. Many think it is maximum chaos, however, at maximum entropy, all elements/particles have a maximum distance which causes all effects of forces to cause it to hold position and nothing else to change).
If this project works out, it will result in a system that will work on both conventional digital systems as well will create a unsurpassed situation on (if they ever become real) quantum systems.
by madmin | Apr 30, 2021 | Game Design, Technology
In development of AI movement, A* pathfinding is a sort of summum. You use Dijkstra A* pathfinding and you are an ‘intelligent’ coder or developer in general.
Though the above is true, I think there is something sincerely lacking in the whole method. It isn’t logical. The default states of enemies/AI in games tend to be: Patrol until a signal comes in view. Hunt the signal, no matter where it goes or stop when it goes beyond reach. That is all very well, but is that something a person would do?
Example: Lets take a guard of a mansion. He patrols. Specific weak spots in the ‘defense’ of the perimeter are the points of interest and he moves from each to another. A->B->C. Now the player must infilitrate the perimeter and does so at C. The guard happens to just walk about the spot of C and the raycast (technical term of a signalling line into the distance) detects the player would be in view. The guards FSM (Finite State Machine) dictates that he should be alert and ready to attack the intruder. He turns towards the player, who hastely returns into hiding.
Now, what happens in most games is: FSM dictates alert state cools down and guard will return to default sequence. But is that logical? Only if the guard had the memory of a gold fish (Or Dory). The guard now knows that there is an intruder near C, so his guard will not go down anymore. Worse even, if YOU were the guard, you would either stay at C spot or you would shorten the time on other spots and return to C more often (because you have memory of the incident).
Therefore I will try to extend the A* with a ‘legacy’ or ‘memory’ model. So the agent that follows the path will only follow a path he/she remembers and will more likely take a route that is more valid from memory perspective. Unlike the games where ‘armies’ keep running towards a wall that obstructs the path to the goal, while the previous members of the army got slaughtered. It would make more sense to NOT go to the obstruction, until memory serves that it was removed. In other words: Sentient pathing.
by madmin | Nov 28, 2020 | awareness, Metanews, Philosophy, Psychology, Science
“Nothing is evil which is according to nature.” – Marcus Aurelius
A good start
Think of a person you know. Whether that person is a close relative, or a person far far a way in some forgotten place and time. Imagine that person that has the best intention to the world. The best impact. You would consider that person to be a ‘good person’, right? Why so?
We often find the person that has the most relatible behavior to what we would want to instill on the world, to be a good person. It is the bias of our own emotion and empathy that causes us to consider a person as good. Not just someone that acts like we do, but a person that acts like we WANT to do. This is the person we most often see as good.
Now turn it around. Think again, close and home, far and wide, for a person that you think is a bad person. A personification of evil. Yes, that one. Whether it is a man or woman, killed one or millions with their bare hands, or caused such grief it would be considered equal to as if he/she had killed those. Did you find such a person? Of course you did. Again, we find people that do the farthest of what we would do, the worst, the most evil, the most bad person alive. Not just farthest from what we do…but what we imagine we would do.
Can we agree, from this moment on, that someone we think of as good, is a person that upholds the highest positive values we can imagine (want) and a person that upholds the oposite, or undermines the earlier mentioned values the most, we call a bad or evil person?
If you can agree to the above, you are already quite a step further down the line of acknowledging what the end of this post will tell you (no peeking!)
See no evil, hear no evil
“Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.” – Mark Twain
In the previous paragraph, I tried to show you, that there are distinct features to what you will see as evil or good. These distinctions are very important, but the most important part of them is, to understand that they are SUBJECTIVE. It is what you want them to be. The power of upholding your own moral compass depends on the will to believe that what you do is right and what you envision as good IS good, and visa versa.
But imagine that you were actually wrong? Look at the item you hold as good (whether you have rational reasons to accept this as good or not), and see it as evil for a second. Can you? No? It will be hard, but there are reasons you can’t easily change your view. They are the ways your emotions have been ‘etched’ on the cognitive biases you have created/enforced, in your neurology.
“You can think of anything to be good, until the aftermath of the action shows you otherwise.”
People that you might think as evil, have done the same as you, but visa versa. Even sociopaths and psychopaths don’t automatically wake up in the morning: ‘Woah, I need to do something superbly evil today, or people will not think I am a psychopath!’. They wake up as Joe next door, mind you, married and playing in a soccerteam or hard laborer at their company. They don’t intend to do evil, they tend to approach their ideal of good as best as they can. This ideal can seem bad to you, but imagine you have been searching your life for what is good and you found out all around you are dellusional and lying people. Even if they don’t, if you believe it, it will mean those are bad. We can agree that lying is bad, right? Being dellusional is not a healthy treat, right?
Evil is as evil does
So, why do we think that someone did good, even if that person has a history of violence? And now I will come with a very dangerous example, because I myself find this man to have changed the world for the better, as many do: Nelson Mandela.
He fought against apartheid, by many means. He did so by being a lawyer, by presumably using militant force against citizens (these days called terrorism or rebelism). Thanks to his effort new generations of humans live more equal to each other.
Another person, who many think was good, is someone I do not think in any way represents what is good:
Che Guevara.
He fought for freedom of his people in Cuba, but used such brutal force and enjoyed violence at one point, that I can not find myself to agree with anyone wearing a Che silhouet shirt. It is, to me, a utter sense of ignorance of history.
These two are examples of many people, ranging from Mother Theresa, to Ghandi, to worse examples like Stalin, Hitler and Mohammed ‘the prophet’. Sainthood can be attained by showing good, even when being bad. As such, if you don’t openly ‘do bad’, you are not seen as bad or evil (example most vile is Mother Theresa, who gained sainthood, while she openly has shown misconceptions on the need for human suffering on more than one occassion).
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
As you will know from this page, it is in no means a religious page. Even the opposite, it is rationalist and atheist. So why use this phrase used often, regarding an imaginary place from contemporary religious writing? Because of the meaning that is indistinctive calling from it.
The general idea of a place called ‘hell’ in judeo-christian religion, is that of bad omen. If you go there, you did something bad (or not enough good, depending on the perspective of religiosity). In general, all participants of this believe that if you do evil, you go to this place.
Regardless of faith, if you equate ‘hell’ as destructive and negative impacting the environment around one, you could say, that one easily causes unwanted negative effects, while wanting to do good things.
You can think of anything to be good, until the aftermath of the action shows you otherwise. The same is true in reverse. How many stories or movies have you watched, that you were sure the bad guy was bad, until at the end, the real cause and effect was differently explainable, making the bad guy the good guy all along? Yes, that is right. Until the point where the protagonist in the 12 Monkeys accepts that HE is the one who brought out the disease, all viewers are thinking that HE is the good guy. Now a more heavier load is the latest (year 2020) ‘phase’ ended in the ‘MCU’ Marvel Cinematic Universe), where the bad guy Thanos was portrayed as such a rational guy, that his reasons for doing what he did almost seemed good.
Good measurement, evil insight
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. – Will Rogers
Now, I did add the ‘almost’, but the most important thing to remember is, that good and evil don’t exist. They are constructs in our emotional-cognitive worldview. They are concepts, a hatstand for combining observations into a more complex judgement.
Once you forget about the idea of evil and good in the judgemental sense that even the best religions and politics try to hold you on, you will start to make better judgement for yourself. Remember, any human is as good as you, you are as good as any human.
Let me know what you think.
by madmin | Sep 3, 2020 | Culture, Mythology / Religion
Mythology
Many will claim that Judaism, Christianity and Islam are living ‘religions’, while in fact they fall within the same mythology range as all other magical stories regarding ‘creation’ and ‘gods’.
Other religions have been moved to mythology for having the same base as these monotheistic. The oldest of the three, is Judaism. It is said to go back 4000 years. It is therefore oldest monotheistic mythology.
https://www.history.com/topics/religion/judaism
