Curt Doolittle

Category: Science, Physics, and Philosophy of Science

  • by Martin Štěpán The universe is governed by physical laws that govern interacti

    by Martin Štěpán

    The universe is governed by physical laws that govern interactions of articles. Provided quantum mechanics really is nonsense, or at least, within limits or particle formation, they are deterministic.

    An emergent property of these interactions is life (nature). Life is a process of replication and everything that derives from it (variation, competition, positive and negative selection, adaptation, hierarchies, symbiosis, supply, demand…). Interactions of replicators are governed by natural laws that are probabilistic, expressed in bell curves and pareto distributions, described by game theory.

    In this view, what Curt discovered is a specific natural law, the natural law of reciprocity which describes what criteria does an interaction have to fulfill in order to be reciprocal (symbiotic) not just between the parties involved but the entire group (no negative externality).

    The reason such interactions are preferable is due to the outsized benefits of cooperation that make us into a fitter group, better able to compete with other groups. The rule of law of reciprocity then enforces reciprocal interactions by increasing the cost of every alternative.

    Does this make sense?

    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-12 03:12:55 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102426291390109091

  • (…) Here we use high-density bead arrays to genotype individuals from 14 Jewis

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    Here we use high-density bead arrays to genotype individuals from 14 Jewish Diaspora communities and compare these patterns of genome-wide diversity with those from 69 Old World non-Jewish populations, of which 25 have not previously been reported. These samples were carefully chosen to provide comprehensive comparisons between Jewish and non-Jewish populations in the Diaspora, as well as with non-Jewish populations from the Middle East and north Africa. Principal component and structure-like analyses identify previously unrecognized genetic substructure within the Middle East. Most Jewish samples form a remarkably tight subcluster that overlies Druze and Cypriot samples but not samples from other Levantine populations or paired Diaspora host populations. In contrast, Ethiopian Jews (Beta Israel) and Indian Jews (Bene Israel and Cochini) cluster with neighbouring autochthonous populations in Ethiopia and western India, respectively, despite a clear paternal link between the Bene Israel and the Levant. These results cast light on the variegated genetic architecture of the Middle East, and trace the origins of most Jewish Diaspora communities to the Levant.
    (…)

    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-12 03:03:25 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102426254044398253

    Replying to: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102426249136889546

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    NO THEY’RE NOT EUROPEAN. WTF IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE? LUNATIC FRINGE…. 1. “Middle eastern populations began as the ‘marsh arabs’” 2. “Jewish origins are are indistinguishable from palestinians. ” 3. “Most (converts) women were of Italian origins (during the roman empire)” 4. “Jewish men located, married local women, and began immediately inbreeding.” 5. “Jews have been a distinct ethnic group in europe for over one thousand years” 6. “The Male Y is 50-80% levantine (even today).” ORIGINS IN ME, AND SPLIT BETWEEN LEVANTINE AND MESOPOTAMIAN(BABYLONIAN-IRANIAN) The genome-wide structure of the Jewish people Doron M. Behar, Bayazit Yunusbayev, Mait Metspalu, Ene Metspalu, Saharon Rosset, Jüri Parik, Siiri Rootsi, Gyaneshwer Chaubey, Ildus Kutuev, Guennady Yudkovsky, Elza K. Khusnutdinova, Oleg Balanovsky, Ornella Semino, Luisa Pereira, David Comas, David Gurwitz, Batsheva Bonne-Tamir, Tudor Parfitt, Michael F. Hammer, Karl Skorecki & Richard Villems Nature volume 466, pages 238–242 (08 July 2010) | Contemporary Jews comprise an aggregate of ethno-religious communities whose worldwide members identify with each other through various shared religious, historical and cultural traditions1,2. Historical evidence suggests common origins in the Middle East, followed by migrations leading to the establishment of communities of Jews in Europe, Africa and Asia, in what is termed the Jewish Diaspora3,4,5. This complex demographic history imposes special challenges in attempting to address the genetic structure of the Jewish people6. Although many genetic studies have shed light on Jewish origins and on diseases prevalent among Jewish communities, including studies focusing on uniparentally and biparentally inherited markers7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16, genome-wide patterns of variation across the vast geographic span of Jewish Diaspora communities and their respective neighbours have yet to be addressed. (…)

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102426249136889546

  • “Adult neuronal networks are composed of neurons that are born sequentially duri

    —“Adult neuronal networks are composed of neurons that are born sequentially during development and slowly mature according to genetic and environmental cues. Once established, those circuits, although plastic to some extent, cannot be dramatically altered.”—

    You are born with neurons (switch boxes (routers?)) and axons (cables) that cannot be replaced, even if dendrites and axon terminals (plugs), and synapses (wires) can grow (create), connect (update), reinforce (read), and disconnect (delete.)

    The fundamental problems of neurons are, that a neuron cell body must supply its entire mini-network of dendrites, axon, axon terminals and synapses, that and memories are structurally(physically) retained.

    We know a heart is good for 3B beats and there is not much we can do about it. I do not know the equivalent durability of a neuron but because of massive parallelization, redundancy, continuous memory reformation, and continuous abstraction of general rules, we can tolerate a great deal of decline and decay and still function at the cost of new learning, rates of recognition, and overall calculation, because calculation in the brain is a process of competition for successful prediction.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-11 20:35:40 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102424729368297652

  • “CURT, WHICH DNA SERVICE SHOULD I USE?”— —“Curt; Which DNA service?”— Depe

    —“CURT, WHICH DNA SERVICE SHOULD I USE?”—

    —“Curt; Which DNA service?”—

    Depends upon what you want from the service.

    FIND LIVING RELATIVES (General)
    Ancestry is cheapest largest, easiest to understand with 10M people, testing 700k markers, and 500 regions, producing lots of information – but we detect anti-european ‘bias’ in the results. Definitely for the ‘mixed race’ demographic

    HEALTH, AND MORE PRECISE ETHNICITY (More)
    23andMe is expensive, but if you opt in it includes your health information. 7M people, 1000 regions. Definitely for better ancestral ethnicity and health. Some anti-european bias to appeal to the “what am I?” market.

    PATERNITY, ORGAN DONOR TESTING (really) (lots more)
    Family Tree DNA … Paternity Testing and other specific tests (really, these guys test everything) every additional test costs but then .. when you wanna know… you can know.

    Notes:
    a) Ancestry and 23andMe both require ‘interpretation’ of results by ‘human judgement’
    b) You are best served by getting both tests and comparing them.
    c) Anything below double digit percentage is ‘noise’ that means nothing more than ‘at one point shared a common ancestor’.
    d) You are largely the product of last six generations … after that it’s very difficult to tell much of anything meaningful because whatever remains is ‘artifact’. that artifact might be from eight generations ago… or hundreds of generations ago.
    e) for example, southeast asian most often means native south american with god knows who, and finally the fragment ended up in you.
    f) so if you don’t know human migration patterns you can incorrectly interpret the ‘artifacts’.
    g) or that you have no such artifact, only share earlier markers in common with people from a region due to even earlier migrations.
    (Ancestry.com tries to muddy the waters on purpose)

    In other words, view any origin below 20% with extreme skepticism. 😉

    Good 2019 review here:
    exploringlifesmysteries.com/best-dna-test/

    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-11 20:12:50 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102424639582302125

  • ” Most causal SNPs that are regulatory SNPs that do not encode for proteins dire

    —” Most causal SNPs that are regulatory SNPs that do not encode for proteins directly. Instead, the causal SNPs change how encoding proteins operate. “—

    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-11 02:00:48 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1149136427885744128

  • RT @DegenRolf: Review paper sounds the death knell for the claim that neurogenes

    RT @DegenRolf: Review paper sounds the death knell for the claim that neurogenesis, the birth of new neurons, does occur in the adult human…

    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-06 22:11:59 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1147629290600783872

  • CIVIC HONESTY AROUND THE GLOBE — WORSE THAN YOU’D THINK

    CIVIC HONESTY AROUND THE GLOBE — WORSE THAN YOU’D THINK

    https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2019/06/19/science.aau8712.full

    Source date (UTC): 2019-06-23 21:56:52 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1142914445515137024

  • There is a substantive problem in pseudoscience (philosophy) that depends upon a

    There is a substantive problem in pseudoscience (philosophy) that depends upon an observer (self) that is mistaken. But this is something we have only come to understand in the past few years. Intellectual history, math, photography, computer sci have contributed to this error.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-06-17 13:12:20 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1140608113101479936

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  • Well, the problem is that today it is used as cover for woo woo and pseudoscienc

    Well, the problem is that today it is used as cover for woo woo and pseudoscience – just as it has been in the past.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-06-16 14:43:05 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1140268565414711297

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    Note how Hume used the term “metaphysical” as synonymous with a theoretically detached, distanced, or disinterested “scientific” treatment of a humanistic subject matter, as opposed to a practical, involved, ‘warm’ treatment of that same subject.

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  • Why would a quantum(particle) or wave function(wave) equation ‘create the earth’

    Why would a quantum(particle) or wave function(wave) equation ‘create the earth’? Instead you might ask, how a big bang that creates a universe, galaxies, solar systems, and planets, can emerge from an instance of a dead (cool) universe.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-06-15 20:28:12 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1139993027555069952

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