Prime Universe

The Universe is built upon prime numbers. Prime numbers are the base of an existence thereafter. Each prime come from only the most simple of elements, one, and of course, itself. Ode, to Hydrogen. All that is, thereafter.

Once you have taken the first step away from that essential prime, you realize that within that universe the rules are slightly different. The base knowledge is shifted. What goes up, does not necessarily come down. The universe it is, just where are you?

Number theorists types study prime numbers as their career. Amazon will sell you many, many books about the magical prime. They spread out in random patterns, infinitely forever. They take with them your control over the universe, as we haven't as of yet cracked the code (if there is one...).

And at the far end of one of these trees, twisted deeply within its vines, lies my universe. My rules. My math and my physics. Come wander. Welcome to Earth. We believe in Math.

Brain of 10,000 Transistors

Giant Computer Rat Brain Taking Over!

But -- has there been mental activity?

The newborn "Blue Brain" surprised the designers with its willfulness from the very first day. It had hardly been fed electrical impulses before strange patterns began to appear on the screen with the lightning-like flashes produced by cells that scientists recognize from actual thought processes. Groups of neurons started becoming attuned to one another until they were firing in rhythm. "It happened entirely on its own," says Markram. "Spontaneously."

A phenomenon arising from the arrangement of a certain set of items put in a certain arrangement. A whole that is greater than its parts. Think of a solar system. A bunch of random dust. Then a few solidifying bodies. Then very few larger bodies circling the giant mass of slowly building and heating at the center. Eventually the center lights up due to the crush of matter and it rains the energy of life onto those smaller bodies which then starts it own chain reaction on the planet...We arise from mass.

Russian Intelligence Sees Buildup of American Forces on Iranian Border

Countdown to Iran?

British troops on Iranian TV. American War exercises going on in the Gulf.

A war in Iran is a different beast. We cannot hope to truly ever defeat Iran. We would merely punch it very hard, damage its infrastructure, punish it economically via the show of American technological might and set them back a few years in development. The Persians were smart people and are still around doing quite well in 2007. We will harden the resolve of some, as there are plenty who would enjoy a war with us within the country. There will be many who are in that in-between group who will move toward hate. There are many children who will grow with an ingrained desire to fight back against the US and its Western ideas and allies. People will die.

The current rulers of the world were probably born starts around the 1920's and through the 50's. There is a lot of history inside of them. They have managed to weather getting to the heights of their respective groups through a dizzying variety of skills (the Corporate world makes me more cynical daily). The mentality is of survival.

When might we evolve a bit further?

Coal Based Cars?

A new take on an old resource...

Human intuition. Kinda neat we are. We look at every system and search for a potential benefit. We have turned into evolving our environment for us. Our human evolution is creeping along. We are taller and smarter these days. Our collection of ideas is growing. Maybe we will attack this thirst of future energy with a rainbow of solutions, all eating tiny bits away.

If we can survive...

"For cars, he says the company's processes can be used to produce barrels of "oil" for car fuel that will cost about half of what conventional oil costs today, which is around $50.

What's the secret? Coal , a word that makes most people's flesh crawl. Silverado takes low-grade coal, pulverizes it and cooks it under pressure with water until it develops a waxy coating. The waxy coal particles are then reunited with carbon-infused water removed at an earlier part of the process to make a liquid fuel. So think of it as a coal latte. "


Coal latte, eh?

Human Evolution...

Now that we have a thought based upon research (see a previous post) about human cranial size relating to the climate. And cranial size has been associated in various studies with greater intelligence. Brain size follows along. Moving into the nether regions of the world in a colder climate will lead to a need to depend on others in harsher landscapes. Can we assume that human evolution is greatly influenced by the symbiotic relationship of a pair of people raising a child? A recent discussion with a friend now makes me believe that the emotion we term love is a by product of the need to raise and develop a human child. Social ties expand and deepen as two care for each other and the child. The child takes longer and longer to grow and learn. The care between two people gets greater. A pretty long circle. It seems chilren are staying with their parents even longer now a days. Human life is getting longer. Generations are wider. Mothers having children later. Staying in the work force longer. Children going through education for longer periods of time. Children living at home longer. Children (young adults) moving out into a world of debt.

There is a subtle shift. I guess it is continual and the observation of it is of no real significance. I leads to me wonder though...will the societies with a greater social bond and a higher degree of altruism grow larger? The Greek city states did well because of their ability to bond together when a powerful neighbor attached. Economic Socialism has yet to truly take form in the world (as neither has Capitalism). Will China rule the world because it has the largest families? Darwinism upon Socialism upon layers upon layers.

Muslim's Abusing the System

Muslims say religion misused by insurgents

Every religion in the world has a zealot. Every non-religion in the world has a zealot. Every system of values has a zealot. The issue is that in order to defend yourself against the .1% of those in a group who scare you, you have to stereotype the rest of the folk who are similar. It is easier and faster that way as you then don't have to get to know the people, just their stereotype.

In this particular case we Americans get to lament about the evils of the Muslim. Of course we forget the history of Christianity (the Crusades come to mind first off...) and its very real evils. As individuals we have a fear of the unknown. A desire to remove the variables and simply survive.

To survive, in the end, is the real purpose. Some people, in order to survive, I have learned, kill others. Using any tools possible.

HARDware evolution

Scientists are learning about evolution on a mathematical level. I have read about other groups building software that evolves to take advantage of the hardware that it is built in. Imagine writing a piece of code that over 10,000 generations (in a computer this can be very fast) learns to re-write itself to take advantage of extra pieces and learns “new” functions. One example was the code which figured out that there was a radio signal nearby via some function and through generations learned to detect and decipher that radio signal.

Are they coding AI?

This group say they want their software to:

Discover causes in the world
Infer causes of novel input
Make predictions
Direct actions

What are we if we are not our thoughts?

A Chinese Democracy

Though the words sound very common to the ear for someone tired of the banter from American politics...is it as common to hear something similar from the leading of he Communist world? A Chinese democracy would be an interesting concept. Who is to say taking the long, gradual road toward their democracy isn't the correct path. We must remember, this is the first time human society has had a chance at doing the things it does.

The Korea Times - Democracy in China

``Planning and market forces are not the essential difference between socialism and capitalism,’’ he said. ``A planned economy is not the definition of socialism, because there is planning under capitalism; the market economy happens under socialism, too’’

The market, Deng concluded, is simply a tool that can be used by both socialist and capitalist societies. Since then, China has become transformed into a country where the market trumps planning at virtually all levels but still calls itself a socialist society.

Asked at his annual press conference if he meant that ``there will be no democracy in China in the next 100 years,’’ Premier Wen responded, echoing Deng: ``Democracy, legal system, freedom, human rights, equality and fraternity’’ are not peculiar to capitalism. ``Rather, they are the common achievements of human civilization made in the long course of history and the common values pursued by entire mankind.’’

Natural Isotopes Counter Free Radicals

Eurek Alert! - Meat and two neutrons -- the key to a longer life

A while back I read an article from a crazy looking guy talking about the coming immortality. One of his thoughts was that we would learn how to counter free radicals in our body and extend, incrementally our life span. Looks like someone has hit on a slight piece of things...

The most interesting thing is that the same gentlemen from above is quoted in the story and he seems to be the pessimist...I guess being a well educated person in a certain field and understanding the complexities of the human body might make you a cynic.


Ageing experts are impressed with the isotopic approach. Aubrey de Grey, the Cambridge-based gerontologist, says it could be very relevant to the rates of several chemical and enzymatic processes relevant to ageing 'It is a highly novel idea,' he says. 'But it remains to be seen whether it can be the source of practicable therapies, but it is a prospect that certainly cannot be ruled out.'

Charles Cantor, a professor of biomechanical engineering at Boston University, said: 'Preliminary data indicates that this approach can potentially increase lifespan without adverse side effects. If this is borne out by further experiments the implications are profound.'

"Elsie - mother of the modern loaf"

Elsie - mother of the modern loaf - BBC.Com

Very interesting article.

"Elsie Widdowson and her scientific partner, Robert McCance, oversaw the first compulsory addition of a substance to food in the early 1940s, when calcium was introduced to bread.

They were also responsible for formulating war-time rationing - some experts say that under their diet of mainly bread, vegetables and potatoes, that was when Britain was at its healthiest."

Very interesting tidbit at the end...

"She studied children at a German orphanage where one group was scolded as they ate - and found these children did not thrive as well as other orphanage children fed the same diet."

Iran

British Troops Under Arrest in Iran

This could be it. This could be the logic to go to war with Iran. Another step.


And while rooting around I found this...

British Troop Seizure Planned in Advance

Maybe it isn't it...I think I want us to not be in a position of absolute power. I think I want my country to be in a healthy competitive environment. We fuck with them. They fuck with us. It generates evolution. The constant washing machine of this struggle on our planet. We are socialized now. We are primed.

The Brain as We See It

Albany.edu - The Higher Primate's Brain and Climate

Please don't use knowledge to confirm your foolish beliefs of genetic superiority...we have intermixed among ourselves so much those benefits have fallen away (do take notice of your socialization though...). However, do take notice that as we move about in a world that is always changing our bodies and our abilities to live within it change.

In addition to the impact of global cooling, "By paying close attention to the geographic origin of each of the fossilized skulls," said Gallup, "it became clear that seasonal variation in climate may also have been an important selective force behind the evolution of human cranial capacity. Specifically, we found that as the distance from the equator increased, north or south, so did brain size."

China Growing

Watching China and listening to its growing pains is awe invoking. 1.3 Billion people pushing for a piece. Some of money...many of money. Some for harmony. And some deep down inside real Communists. Which really wouldn't be that bad if it weren't for scarcity and evil human beings. There is the continual presence of its manufacturing might. The volumes of money that are currently being shifted toward Asia due to the demand of the Chinese machine are immense. The environmental costs are torrential. And the government can tear from the people their moral fabric.

The world is always growing. Pushing, pulling…contraction and growth.

Reality

I try to think along ideological lines. I think there is value to it. The excuses I give myself include:

1. There are a large number of people who don't think ideologically. There patterns aren't based upon any particular of thought (be they famous or not). They simply live day to day. Breath to breath.

2. The average of the all comes from many different parts moving in a general direction. When viewed from he ground we see amazing varience, from above, the herd I would guess. I am but one of many lines of thought. It is part of my duty to think how it is that I think...

3. There is purity in the universe. By purity, maybe I mean perfection. By perfection, maybe there is an idea that is constant. A constant could be thought of as a rule. A rule could be determined to be right or wrong. Ring and wrong could be defined as truth. Maybe I am hunting for my own sort of God. My own something to believe in. Maybe in all of that I am looking for a purpose. A purpose being defined as a place.

I am sure over time I will gain other rationlizations that convince me logically.

Of course, I begin to attack my own thoughts...

1. Who am I to define a pure logical thought? Maybe every single person in the world lives an ideological path that is truly independent of all others. And maybe everyone of us runs along a line that ties directly to something...sorta like "Who the fuck am I?" Maybe we never deviate from our own ideological paths. All decisions come from something.

::immediate thought in relation to that...we don't always act how we want to, we are always in a compromise, or being forced into action::



I try to act upon an ideological belief because I believe by injecting my little piece into the system I can push it toward a better result. There are plenty of realists and darwinists in the world. I guess there are plenty of idealists as well...

The World Economic Tail

Kiva – The purpose of this website is to help The Long Tail of the human race to develop. The idea of Kiva is based upon MicroEconomics (a recent winner of the Nobel Prize solidifies the world opinion of microeconomics – it is here to stay, at least for a while).

I have always thought that helping out people far away was good. But I never really put the numbers to it.

Lets say (all of these numbers come from the CIA Factbook..heh)…

(Notable issue with numbers – nothing reported for the Vatican City)

US Economy = $12,982,323,352,500/year
World Economy = $79,422,560,891,818/year
Per Capita World: $11,327
Per Capita US: $43,500

If we remove 300,000,000 Americans from the math we are left with:

World Population = 6,712,879,586
World Economy = $66,440,237,539,318/year
Per Capita = $9,897

If we remove the top 40 countries, we are left with…

World Population = 5,619,236,117 (80% of the people)
World Economy = $32,895,685,600,218 (41% of the business)
Per Capita = $5854.12


Imagine…bringing up the poorest 80% of the world simply up the to average of the entire world ($11,327)…

80% at $11,327 = $63,653,332,143,109


New Grand Totals
World Economy = $110,180,207,434,709
Per Capita = $15,714

The world Economy grew 72%. Even the rich should want this…

Project Epoc: Brain Wave Game Controller

Project Epoc: Brain Wave Game Controller




"Project Epoc is a headset that uses a set of sensors to tune into electric signals naturally produced by the brain to detect player thoughts, feelings and expression. It connects wirelessly with all game platforms from consoles to PCs. Project Epoc now makes it possible for games to be controlled and influenced by the player's mind."


This product isn't available yet, but the technology behind it is getting sharper and it will be ready soon. Are you ready to remote control you house from your brain? How about your car? I know the US Military is watching technology like this (if not integrating it already).

Snowless winter first for Tokyo

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6407771.stm

This the first time no snow has fallen in winter since records began in 1876, the agency said.

And they played down a direct link to global warming.

"We believe El Nino can be one factor (of course el nino comes every few years...maybe 15-20 times since 1876). Another theory is that the seasonal southward movement of cold air from the Arctic region was not sustained and weak (So why then after 131 year would those patterns change?)"," one official from the agency said.

"It's a bit of stretch to link this directly to global warming. But the winter was very warm, for sure."