bro

what if

bear with me  

what if

what if

the Dude

was a modern day stand-in

for the Big J  ? the JC !!!

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JozAmXo2bDE&list=PL08109F3C918B45C5&index=44

don't know what's more moving

that so many from their hearts come together to offer so huge a tribute

or something that's worthy of such

 art's bigger than you think

'cos your soul's bigger than you think

leave the thinking behind

zen

 it's 30 years late

but i am awake now

the world is off center 

(stop the world i want to get off)

alcohol

so much fun in and around lakes

 

 listening to iron maiden when drunk on beer

is my religion

nothing compares to taking the thought-lattices into the real world

this comes a pale second

but I'll settle for this

Harold be thy name !!!

 workout more

so you can drink some more

more and more 

the stream flowth

debate like the persians

 twice let the ratios clash

then let the swords clash

and let the edge be 

brought forward

and see if you aren't alive

 It's not down in any map

true places never are

said the taxi-driver

 a mirror was walking down the road, when it ran into another person coming down the road

it said, I want to see what I look like

the other person said, that's cool, I happen to be a mirror, ( and it was) but I also want to see what I look like,

and our first mirror said, that's cool, we can both see each other in each other

and so they looked at themselves in each other

but .....

** new reading list

anti-oedipus, thousand plateaus, difference & repetition.... these 

nagle-pricing

light that shines through infinity

ode less travelled

bksi pranayama

feynman lectures

ccna , ccwa

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** oh no more newcomers **

samuel butler - erehwon

hg wells - time machine ! (see ai discussions)

** current reading /read list

McLuhan -Understanding media, the medium is the message

Walden by Thoreau, Emerson 's essays - Nature ...

Hobsbawm

Bibek debroy - ramayana

psychology of money

hardcore zen, sit down shut up, karma dipped in chocolate..., 

Flashman !!!!

truckload of dung, mindf. bliss. beyond

walden

odyssey

AoW, BoFR, OW, P

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** old reading list

 dune

sicp paip aima

model thinking

ashby -  intro-cybernetics, design for a brain

adam smith

william james

intelligent investor

duhigg

emerson essays

darwin among the machines

stross, 

l-systems

complexity digest

model thinking, melanie mitchell

4 hour work week, e-myth revisited

master li

fido

 

what's in a name

Dear Universe , 

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. 

- Marshall McLuhan

They say people named Dennis have a high probability of pursing a career as dentists, and the Louie-s have a high probability of settling in Louisville. 

Some people never had 'Doctor' as a career option. 

Pre-destination much, Dear Universe ??

 

not so popular greek mythological monsters

Head of a Fish, Body of a Snake !!

Glares at you angrily !!

 

 i've learned to avoid prefaces, forewords, introductions, and the like, and get stuck in the first few pages of the first chapter of the books i buy and attempt to read

so, i am experiencing unprecedented levels of high quality failure these days

 The id thinks in  absolutes, without probabilities . Absolutes with a personal bent

Each woman is the President of the World Women's Association, 

but almost all men are but associates  of the World Men's Association 

Each word , like a goldfish in a bowl, dies when taken out of context, and becomes a lie.

For eg, replace mental health with happiness in articles and see what they say 

Contradictory things co-exist abundantly in this universe

 Processing python doesn't work , for me.  And not just the error it throws. This line from the home page

> With the gradual addition ... — it has become increasingly clear that Processing is not a single language, > but rather, an arts-oriented approach to learning, teaching, and making things with code.

 source : https://py.processing.org/

I've highlighted the key bit in brown, like the shit that it is . Hurl !

 If you have enemies , you might end up dead, but you eventually inevitably will. 

If you don't have enemies, you might as well be dead. 

 One might argue that we should provide a universal basic income, so that folks transcend the lower pavilions of Maslow, and are free to explore and practice art and science. 

Thinking about it a little bit, you can see that these are the only two things that man can do with his mind.

Philosophy is study of what the world appears to be.

Art is building things that appear to be like the world, almost, maybe.

Philosophy aims to build abstractions which either encompass, or explain in a generative way, the infinite variations the senses perceive. Hence, it is philosophy that drives measurement, counting, and enumeration & categorisation of properties or attributes of nature.

Art goes the opposite way, and it builds non-abstract things, whose meaning and significance is abstract, whereas that of philosophy is concrete.

Aesthetics, beauty, elegance etc is an orthogonal axis to these.

 What if the big bang was actually an explosion of consciousness, which gave rise to many virtual minds.... after all, the number of minds in the world is claimed to be one ..

In Advaita* even a rock is it. 

What if dark matter which permeates  and is contained in everything, is actually the Tao,  it gives rise to the two - matter and energy, space and time,  positron and electron .....

Atoms are 99% empty space. The boundary between the cup and the tea, or between two objects, is just a lot of space with some particles interspersed. I suppose, the only reason they don't blend into one, is charge, and material specific forces.

Then, if a person could switch off all charge in his body, he could walk through walls ! 

reading : Keepers of the Kalachakra by Ashwin Sanghi

ps : late night reading  of Foerster talking about cybernetics

 https://web.archive.org/web/20150121072726/https://web.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/foerster.html

what if the taoist heaven and earth were nothing more than the wave and the particle ?

pps :* re advaita and vishishtadvaita from sivanandaonline - 

Sankara's personal God, his Isvara, is himself something unreal, Ramanuja's Brahman, on the other hand, is essentially a Personal God

ppps : The ISKCONis sound remarkably like V.Advaita, even though the name they throw about  much in their literature is Advaita....

two poems on money

 

what this money is
in your hand you hold
tis but, fragments of many lives
with hands and sinews who will toil
watch with loving eye for thee
the heart will keep the beat for the time
they are entirely for thee
be gentle, in your words, in your ask
for together this path we walk

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balls of all
in my fist
I squeeze

Who needs Lucy when you have McLuhan

this one page of mcLuhan quotes is such a trip in itself !

 https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan

 

Channeling Alan Watts

Historically gods have enjoyed immense power and strength, riches, success in all battles, battalions of beautiful women.  Everybody aspired to be one , to wander forests and come upon some magic or mage who would confer such powers onto them.  Of course, conveniently ignoring Ragnarok. The death of Krishna doesn't get sung much.

 The stories of Buddha in the east, and later Jesus in the middle-east, put an end to that. Now godding is not an aspirational career choice any more. No more 'celestial monarchs'. Will new gods be in charge of the Interest Rates of the Universe ?

More Alan Watts - "Money  isn't real. It's book-keeping"

It's only as good as it is enforceable, hence morality, law & order, and enforcement. 

Universal basic income would fail in societies where rationality isn't predominant. Brains fear  the unseen tiger in the bushes more than the fruit(?) dangling off it.  Hence, in any society, over time, money will flow to the one who can keep the monsters at bay, and typically the monsters are kept at bay by other monsters, hence you'll find them in the police and army. 

Can a maslow index be calculated , to describe how a person/society would behave, given a situation, where in the hierarchy would the response come from ?

brainy people need to express themselves to remain happy. brains secrete thoughts like stomachs secrete acid, said a buddhist. and in keeping with the rules of physics, we can assume the secretions pile up and up in the head until the human  is paralysed. that is why yoga nirodhas the citta-vrittis, and nirvana is a 'wind'-less landscape.

2 take aways from mark manson's elon musk video - problem solving as a way to wealth, and doing one thing for a few DAYS as way to be more effecting. 

 super-apps !

i think an app dealing with just, say, menus, would be easier to create, operate, and maintain.

An Exploration of the fractal hand model and its pertinence to significance and patterns of emergence, existence, and evolution of sub-sects in society

Fractal Hand Model : A Thought Construct

Top View

SideView

The Nature of Consciousness *

The Prickles & Goo Model

Delanda de-stratified

The  Consciousness of Nature

Five functions of a Swarm

Side effects :  McLuhan Numbness

Contradiction & Co-existence

There are no paradoxes in nature - Ayn Rand

The previous sentence is true - Godel

My nose is growing - Pinocchio

Identity, Hierarchy, and Control

I am Strange Loop

Types of loops

Perception

thnking outside the box

Symbolic representation & manipulation, and predictability

AKA Computers and poker

Cybernetics

Smallest physical model of feedback

Is Feedback Perception

Non symbolic perception, and the embodied observer

Unified Actor-observer entities

Simultaneously autonomous  and pre-destined agents : fingers of the fingers of the hand

Exploring fingers

(thousand plateaus?1000 years of non linear ?)

Baroque, Surrealist, Impressionist

Minimalist, 

Capitalist,  communist, socialist

Cool, hip, fashionable, expensive

wormgrub

Care and nurture of your agent

Religion as value-reinforcement systems

Religion as 'moralising' the unpalatable

Religion as out of your head

Thinking out of the box de-mystified

Religion as opium

Religion as de-stratifying agents

Reversing McLuhan Numbness

Karma : Weaponising (softly) McLuhan Numbness

Retraining

Speaking of things without using their name(s)

Loosening up

The Graham Hancock Phenomenon

Meditation as refactoring the symbol manipulator value map

Odds and Ends

Only one electron

L-systems

General Semantics

E-prime

spotlight and searchlights of attention

 ADD is not a deficit of attention, it's the inability of a student to focus on what the teacher says, and it's more of an authoritarian flex than anything else.

ADD is a super power, and small minds want to snuff it out in others when they are young and can't defend themselves.

Prove me wrong