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  • The Goal of Art
    A good work of art is designed to induce a reaction within the individuals who observe it. You can love or hate the work art. The induced reaction is important. Art is a way to trigger the unconscious mind of the audience.

    The creative energy for the art, comes from the unconscious mind of the artist. The good artist builds a bridge between his unconscious mind, and the unconscious minds of his audience. The unconscious minds of the great artists, anticipate the future, and can convey this vision to others though the art; unconscious bridge to the future.

    For example, art during the industrial revolution, changed from photographic clarity, to the fuzziness of impressionist art. This change paralleled the shift in culture away from the historical farm life, based on centuries of pastoral repetition, to unprecedented factory life. The industrial revolution had an impact on human nature, making things fuzzy. The art movement anticipated this change.

    Abstract art, which came next, anticipated other changes in culture, made by theory like relativity and uncertainty, where cause and affect became distorted; determinate versus indeterminate. The artists unconsciously sensed and/or anticipated the change, and helped make it conscious.

    Idol worship has a connection to the unconscious art affect. The golden calf was a good work of art, that had power over some people, due to its unconscious induction affect. The ancients would project the induced feelings, as coming from the work of art; god in the art. The induced affect was inside them all the time. The art made it conscious. A new car has an art affect, in the sense it induces a feeling of importance.

    One modern artist from the 1950's. who was prophetic of now was Escher. He has a work of art called Relativity. In this work of art, there are people climbing staircases at all angles. If you look at any particular staircase, the reference appears fine, by itself. However, if you look at the bigger picture, all the references cannot exist at the same time.

    The trick behinds this affect is connected to creating an illusion of 3-D, using 2-D; flat paper. A 3-D illusion can exist in 2-D, but it will not exist in actual 3-D. I can draw a ball on a flat piece of paper to look 3-D. But it you touch it with your finger you can feel it is flat. It can fool the eye but not touch.

    Logic is based on cause and affect, which is 2-D (x,y). Logic can create spatial illusions which look 3-D to the eye, but which do not exist in 3-D. One such affect is connected to special relativity. Einstein defined three parameters in special relativity; relativistic distance, time and mass. However, most of physics only uses space-time and ignores relativistic mass. This downgrade from 3-D to 2-D, allows 3-D illusions in 2-D. If you include mass; energy balance, the illusions are easier to see.
  • Is objective morality imaginary?
    Morality is objective, if you look at morality with the group/team in mind. Morality was not designed to maximize the individual. Morality maximizes the team. The team has the unique property of being able to become more than the sum of its parts. The team affect can elevate all the individuals on the team.

    As an example, the ten commandments were written from the objectives POV, maximize the team. Each commandment makes it easier for the team to get along and trust each other with minimal policing resources. The commandments address pitfalls in human nature that can sabotage the unity of the team. The first commandment, there is one god and no god before him, is there to prevent religious arguments which can divide or break the team.

    Morality is not designed to maximize the individual. Like in sports, all the players would love to play all the time, at any position they want. But the coach creates rules that budget the time and the job of each player, so the team is maximized. Some players will complain that this is not fair to them and is not even rational. But the goal is not to make everyone happy, but to bring the team to the championship game. If the team gets there, then everyone is a champion. The sacrifice for the team with then makes sense to all.

    In modern times it is all about the individual. If you had a propensity to steal, you would think the commandment, thou shall not steal, is subjective and arbitrary. Since stealing comes natural to you, you should be allowed to do it so you are happy. However, if you are allowed to steal, this will make other people more defensive and less trusting, causing a problem for the team. The divided team is less than the sum of its parts.
  • Human nature vs human potential


    Human nature is based on genetics. While human potential builds upon our genetics via epigenetic changes. Genetics is fixed and defines our human nature. Epigenetic changes are secondary changes to the generics, which can impact genetic expression. The first is nature, while the second is connected to nurture.

    A good example is our physical body is defined by genetics. We may be naturally/genetically thin or heavy. The teen male might decide to use his willower to work out with weights if he is thin, or take up running if he is heavy. These activities induce epigenetic changes that mold the body into a new and improved shape. If they stop working out, the body reverts back to genetics. The body builder muscles lose tone and the runner legs get larger again. Epigenetic is not permanent.

    The same schema also works with the brain and mind. Some students have a natural genetic potential for math. Others like math but need to work at math, but can still achieve the same results. The first is genetic while the second is genetic plus epigenetic.

    Epigenetic changes cannot only be used for progressive changes to genetic expression. It can also be used to dumb down genetics; repression of instincts. The dumbing down creates unconscious potential, with the genetics trying to remove the epigenetic repression. In this case, higher human potential will require learning where the cultural epigenetic repressions are, so they can be changed back by the genetics.

    For example, say a group of radicals are trained to collectively hate someone. If this becomes an epigenetic change in the brain, the hate will become almost second nature, even though this is not natural. This is not natural to the brain or to genetics. Higher human potential will require they learn to get rid of this blockage, so the brain has more flexibility in terms of emotions.
  • The Coin Flip
    Probability and statistics is a useful manmade tool. However, it is not a statement of fact.

    If you look at coins, cards or dice, these are all manmade objects designed to be elements for games. The difference between the two sides of a coin, the six sides of a dice, or the difference between cards in a deck, are all based on human subjectivity, and not any objective potential. This is not how nature works.

    For example, the hydrogen atom has distinct; quantized, energy levels, each being distinct based on difference in physical potential; energy. The dice is designed to weigh the same on all sides. The difference in the sides of the dice is not a physical potential, but subjective potential, since any decoration, will work the same way. This is not natural reality, but is really based on a type of manmade game reality.

    If you designed a dice to mimic the first six energy levels of the hydrogen atom, each side would have different odds depending on the situation. Each side would weigh differently, based on its potential. This is not how dice work, since they are manmade. The sides of a dice alway weigh the same in terms of potential. The difference is superficial and subjective.

    Say we take a deck of cards. The cards in the deck only differ by the picture that is printed on the face of the card. This print has no physical potential. If you burn a 10 and a 2, the 10 does not give off more energy, like in nature. The potential within the cards is imaginary; game. Say I erase all the pictures, how does this affect the odds? The odds become 1.0 that a blank card will be drawn. The subjective element controls the odds.

    Statistics has to be one of the best magic tricks in science, with almost everyone fooled. It is a tool whose game assumptions have been turned into the facts of nature, and nobody sees the subjective pitfalls within the game itself.
  • Does God make sense?


    One way to address this is with physics. If you were to travel at the speed of light the universe would appear contracted to a point-instant, due to special relativity. This point-instant universe allows you to be everywhere in the inertial universe at the same time; omnipresent. God can be omnipresent if he in a speed of light reference.

    Jesus said his kingdom is not of this realm. In tradition God is not inertial, but is spirit or in a reference at the speed of light. Spirit is closer to energy, than it is to matter. There is a consistency between tradition and what we know of relativity; God is at the speed of light.

    At the speed of light, space-time breaks down into separate space and separate time. This allows one to move in space without time and move in time without space. The reason this becomes so at the speed of light is because a point-instant universe requires no time or no space to be anywhere or everywhere, since everything to overlap in space and time ay a point.

    If you move in time without the restrictions of space, you can know the history of the universe, omniscience. If you can move in space without the restrictions of time you are omnipresent. These are consistent with God traditions and relativity.
  • Does God make sense?


    I agree with what you said. However, much of this approach is still considered soft science that is not entirely consistent with the philosophy of science, except in terms of approach.

    A good example of this is the psychology of Carl Jung. His thesis of the archetypes of the collective unconscious, is supported by a blend of historical symbolism, dreams and a career of case studies compiled in a scientific manner. However, not all scientists agree with this thesis, because it is not as easy to verify, like observing a new bird or collecting the rain water.

    It would take a certain amount of opened mind effort; accept certain premises, to get the observational mind right, so the evidence appears more reliable. A hostile research team, that does not like religion, would not take the extra subjective; theoretical steps, to make any religious claims easy, when this effort is not straight forward, and the results will never be called hard science.
  • Right vs Left - Political spectrum, socialism and conservatism
    The main difference between Conservative and Liberal, is Conservative, as the name implies, tries to conserve the past, It conserves the past, which has a test proven history of working. Liberalism is more about fad and change; novelty items. Liberalism is more analogous to R&D , while Conservatism is more about long term production, based on long term proven claims. The Conservatives want a literal interpretation of the Constitution; conserve. The Liberal is more about R&D; changes.

    For example, the nuclear family is not new. It is very ancient and world wide. It is still the most efficient way to deal with a wide range of social issues; childhood to elderly care. This will be a Conservative issue. It is based long term thinking, is test proven, and ready for production. The left will attempt R&D and alter this to include other perturbations, such as the single parent family. This may also work, but it is not very efficient. It requires much more propping up by government programs. There is a higher overhead and social cost due to the scaffolding/prosthesis needed to create the illusion of being the same.

    The left is like an R&D team, that can be useful for creating new approaches; think out of the box. However, it often goes into production, before the science is fully settled, and all the data is collected. The result tends to be inefficient and wasteful and need a high prosthesis or scaffolding requirement. The Conservatives try to get back to proven production techniques, that are cost effective. This may seem old fashion but it works, but with fewer whistles and bells.

    The Liberals instituted PC, to help out people who get hurt feelings, due to words. However, this has a hidden social cost; loss of freedom of speech. Conservatives will look to the past to see what worked best; least social cost. They will stress freedom of speech, and require the over sensitive and neurotic, mature and grow. The higher level of emotional maturity, than leads to even more freedom of speech for all.

    In the USA, President Trump is a threat to the left, because he may reduce the funding for social prosthesis and scaffolding. This will make ideas that are not ready for production, appear more suspect since the propping up illusion will be impacted. Tis may result in going back to the R&D drawing board, or looking to the past for efficient solutions. As long as government grows, half baked ideas can appear to look better. If government starts to shrink, only good ideas will look good.

    The analogy is in construction. You need a lot of scaffolding to help support some structures, so it looks self standing. However, it is only standing because of the scaffolding. If you take that away it will collapse. Big government is full of scaffolding rigs. Old school ideas did not have the benefit of big government, so they needed to develop different building techniques, not as scaffold dependent.
  • Does God make sense?
    One of the problems with answering this question, using science, is the connected to the philosophy of science. As an example, say I had a dream. I relate my dream details to a group of scientists. My account would never be accepted as fact, even if I am honest and accurate, since my dream violates the philosophy of science. There is no way to verify my claims, nor is there any way for others to reproduce my dream, for verification. Yet, paradoxically, we have all had dreams and can understand that my claims are not out of the realm of possibility. However, it violates the philosophy.

    There is a wide range of brain/mind data that is real and even common, but is not consistent with the philosophy of science. This type of data is connected to what is called soft science. The philosophy of science was designed to help segregate physical sensory based reality; verifiable, from internal psychological reality, which is also real. The former is assumed to be objective; verifiable, while the latter is assumed to be subjective; not easily verifiable.

    Say God, was a physics dark energy affect; hypothetically, that requires the brain work as a delicate receiver. The input signal triggers output, in the brain, such as a dream or vision. This type of data; dream and visions, which are not uncommon, violates the philosophy of science, since it is not verifiable or repeatable. Instead, science would prefer God be defined as someone who is tangible, so we can use mechanical instruments to determine if God is a repeatable observation. However, this may not be how you observe this affect so it is never seen that way.

    If you look in the bible, for example, many affects that are claimed to be connected to God are based on visions and dreams. These type of output affects are connected to a special analytical tool called the brain. However, the human brain does not network with other brains in a way that is consistent with the philosophy of science. It is not the same as computers and telescopes. We do not have the tools to get a direct feed between brains for verification.

    The human mind is the final frontier of science. We first needed to isolate external reality, so we have a firm foundation. Internal reality will come last, as knowledge of the outside isolates the inside. The philosophy of science, would then need to be updated, to deal with the unique experiences of the mind that are based on common human experiences; dreams and visions.
  • Mind over Matter?
    Brain activity traces it roots back to how neurons work. A neuron expends the lion's share of its metabolic energy; up to 90%, pumping and exchanging ions. The neuron is actively using most of its energy segregating sodium and potassium ions on either side of the membrane.

    This active segregation of ions creates an entropy potential in the membrane. Left to their own devices, the ions would prefer blend to form a uniform solution; highest entropy. The active segregation by the neuron, lowers the entropy and sets an entropy potential.

    The second law states that the entropy of the universe has to increase. However, the neuron is going the wrong way in terms of the second law. The analogy is the neuron is like the water pumped up a fountain against gravity. The second law is like gravity that is acting on the water, bringing the water back down to earth.

    Brain waves, whether awake or sleeping, is the entropy fountain cascading downward in an attempt to lower the neuron entropy potential.

    The result is a dynamic equilibrium in the brain between the needs of the second law; fire the neuron to remove the ion gradient, and the direction induced by the neurons; segregate the ions to increase the entropy potential. The second law is connected to anything that can fire the neurons. This includes all the sensory systems interacting with the world, all of which can induce neurons to fire. The second law is also connected to the spontaneous firing of neurons without direct sensory induction; imagination.

    Like the fountain, the water that cascades downward; due to neuron firing, does so, along prescribed paths in the fountain; levels. These paths are connected to our human nature. The flow of increasing neural entropy, down the prescribed paths of human nature, gives humans a common empathy.

    Since the net goal of the second law is to increase brain entropy, over time, while individual neurons are constantly fighting this change, locally, by expanding energy and reestablishing the gradient, the long term needed increase in brain entropy, for the second law, needs be achieved in other ways; bulk brain wiring changes; creative output.

    The ego or the center of the conscious mind, is also connected to the second law. Hundreds of billions of individual neurons, all trying to lower entropy, requires a lot of second law compensation, in terms of increasing entropy via changes in bulk wiring configurations. The ego evolved as a secondary way to help the second law. Willpower and choice offers new paths.
  • The Book of Job
    Further evidence that Satan was the left hand man and the COO of God, during the old Testament, was the temptation of Christ in the desert. Satan promises Jesus the wealth and power of all the kingdoms of the earth, if Jesus would bow down and worship him. This is considered a temptation, because Satan had the authority to do this, since he was in charge of these possessions as COO. Jesus does not call Satan out, as someone trying to con him. Rather, Jesus does not accept the offer.

    The analogy is, God was like the owner of a lot of fast food franchises; universe. In each store, he has a manager. Each manager has the authority to make decisions and spend money on the behalf of the owner. The owner is busy keeping track of the bigger picture, and periodically has his managers report to him.

    Satan as manager of the earth franchise, had a lot of autonomy, and could act on the behalf of God. During this advisory committee meeting with God; Job, Satan was demonstrating his leadership style. He was sort of a bully, and God starts to wonder if Satan is right for the job. He is not fired right away.
  • Is 'information' physical?
    Information is not physical. Information has levels of subjectivity, while physical is objective.

    For example, sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can never hurt me.

    If I throw a stick or stone at you; physical, this will cause pain. If I throw information at you, like name calling, the impact can vary from person to person, due to the subjectivity of information. There is no universal or consistent action and reaction when it comes to name calling. Physical is consistent.

    Information, like name calling, can trigger different levels of response and different levels of emotional and physical energy output. Picture is lighting a match with the result different reaction each time or for each person. The impact of the rock is not different each time, unless the person extrapolates the cause and affect of the rock, through information; overreaction or under reaction.

    The difference has to do with the connection between language and information. Language is subjective. There are roughly 6500 languages in the world. The sounds, noises and characters for language are arbitrary with no consistent reason why any sound is chosen. The medium used to process information is subjective.

    The hydrogen atom, which is physical, is not arbitrary. It can become so, as information. As information the hydrogen atom can be like a planet orbiting the sun, or as a wave function. We can have more than one theory for any given phenomena. This is not a function of physical reality, but rather it is a function of human subjectivity; information.

    This forum demonstrates how the same evidence; information, can impact each of us differently; different written output. Physical does not work that way, except when massaged by information.
  • The Book of Job
    The book of Job is important because it tells us that Satan was the left hand man of God at the time of Job. Satan is not thrown from Heaven until Revelations of the New Testament, which was way in the future, with respect to the time of Job. Satan is in heaven during the Old Testament and most of the New Testament, until the future prophesied by the Revelations of John.

    At the time of Job, Satan was analogous to God's Chief Operating Officer; COO, in terms of humans and the earth. Although God ranks above Satan, God is not fully involved in the day-to-day operations of humans. He delegates most of this job to his COO, Satan. This is why God is open to the council of Satan. The story of Job, tells us about the beginning of a falling out between God and his old Testament COO. God realizes he was given bad advice about Job.

    What is important about the book of Job is it brings up the point that the assumed God of the old Testament, may have actually been God's COO, Satan. This explains the apparent hypocrisy of God. The analogy is owning a business and having a CEO who makes decisions that reflect on you. Satan is still Heaven, even at the time of Jesus. In Revelations, Jesus eventually takes over the role of COO; right hand of God. God was/is still the same and unchanging, but now he has better council; new COO Jesus.
  • Thoughts on love versus being "in love"
    Love, in general, is based on certain brain chemical combinations. The main difference between love and being in love is based on how these love chemicals are induced. Being in love is more based on sensory input inductions, from an outside source, such as from a mate or from your child. Love, in a more general term, is based on internal generation of these chemicals using our memory and our imagination as a trigger.

    When memory is created in the brain, aspects of the limbic system will add emotional tags to the memory, as it is written to the cerebral. This is why our strongest memories tend to have the strongest feelings; marriage, trauma, graduation, vacations, etc. This dual memory storage;thought-feeling, and writing schema is useful to the animal since if he encounters a similar situation; new good food object, he will react to the feeling attached to the original triggered memory and can act on the feeling without having to think. He will eat.

    Love, in general, is when we use our memories, with attached love feelings, to induce the love chemicals. For example, we can think of when we first met our mate. Once the love chemicals are flowing and we feel love, we can trick the limbic system to use these chemicals, in part, in the writing process; love your enemy. The enemy will not help you induce love, externally, through your sensory systems. He will try to induce fear and hate chemicals to the writing process. So you need to induce the love to cancel the fear/hate so you can control the writing process, from within.
  • Theory of Relativity and The Law of Noncontradiction
    We measure moving objects by their light emissions, with the light traveling at the speed of light. If the two objects are on the arc of a circle; same distance from the observer, they will appear to be synchronized. If they are at different distances, they will never appear simultaneous, unless one of the sources generate its light signal, with the correct time delay.

    In terms of the mass of objects, we do not measure the mass directly. The mass or material is inferred from the energy signal; bending. Conceptually, two masses can synchronize at any distance, but since we observe them indirectly through their energy signals, human perception of the energy middleman will be the rate limiting step to observing simultaneity.

    Say you traveled at the speed of light, but in a very tight 3-D spherical orbit, so you can see the entire universe at the same time. According to SR, the size of the universe will appear to contract to a point-instant. This means, the entire universe will appear synchronized at the speed of light since there is no time delay between overlapping points. Perception that there is no synchronization is an artifact of inertial reference using middle man energy signals to define the universe.

    It is sort of a magic trick, where the audience is distracted by the middleman.