Curt Doolittle

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  • THE BIOLOGY OF THE SENSE OF WONDER Wonder: The sense of new opportunity from new

    THE BIOLOGY OF THE SENSE OF WONDER

    Wonder: The sense of new opportunity from new free associations (discoveries).

    Now think about that a moment. Given that all human cognitiion is evolved for the purpose of acquisition, perservering in acquisition, and preserving acquisitions.

    And surprisingly, our neurochemistry encourages pursuit of acquisitions (rewards), not the reward itself – it ‘sedates us’ from the cost of pursuing gains (wins).

    What causes sense of wonder?
    (percpetion of new opportunities)

    Why would we want to feel wonder for good reasons?
    (incentive to explore new opportunities)

    Why would we want to feel wonder for bad reasons?
    (therapy, relief from scarcity, but scarcity of what?)

    The not so false Promise of Science fiction (conquest of the universe). The false promise of ‘moving to another place’ (escape from political opposition). THe false promise of universalism (ending all forms of competition). The Church of Ted (pseudoscientific end of material problems). The false promise of endless growth(end of scarcity), The False Promise of marxism-socialism (ending status differences), The false promise of pomise of Postmodernism and feminism (ending of gender and identity differences). The false promise of a divine protector (false promise of freedom from life’s challenges), and life after death (death itself).

    These are all false promises that sedate us into tolerating the intolerability of physical (scarcity and productivity), natural (reciprocity, markets, sortition) , and evolutionary laws (regression to the mean, eugenics, and red queen).

    Everyone wants a ‘free ride’

    This is what causes the resistance to P-logic and P-Law. We explain the truth, and we falsify the false. The only wonder produced is in a truthful promise: the coherence of phsycial natural and evolutionary laws, and how to discover, adapt to, and explain them.

    But we all want a freebie. We want discounts on our acquisitions. We want conforking lies.

    And we don’t like beind deprived of discounts.

    And we rebel against suppression of our discounts.

    Becuase discounts from falsehood and irreciprocity are crimes.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-08-24 23:51:04 UTC

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  • THE MUSLIM MONOPOLY ON EASTERN TRADE Muslim traders—mainly descendants of Arab s

    THE MUSLIM MONOPOLY ON EASTERN TRADE
    Muslim traders—mainly descendants of Arab sailors from Yemen and Oman—dominated maritime routes throughout the Indian Ocean, tapping source regions in the Far East and shipping for trading emporiums in India, mainly Kozhikode, westward to Ormus in the Persian Gulf and Jeddah in the Red Sea. From there, overland routes led to the Mediterranean coasts. Venetian merchants distributed the goods through Europe until the rise of the Ottoman Empire, that eventually led to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, barring Europeans from important combined-land-sea routes.

    THE MUSLIM (OTTOMAN) BLOCKADE
    Forced to reduce their activities in the Black Sea, and at war with Venice, the Genoese had turned to North African trade of wheat, olive oil (valued also as an energy source), and a search for silver and gold. Europeans had a constant deficit in silver and gold, as coin only went one way: out, spent on eastern trade that was now cut off. Several European mines were exhausted the lack of bullion leading to the development of a complex banking system to manage the risks in trade (the very first state bank, Banco di San Giorgio, was founded in 1407 at Genoa). Sailing also into the ports of Bruges (Flanders) and England, Genoese communities were then established in Portugal, who profited from their enterprise and financial expertise.

    THE NORTH
    The Norman Conquest of England in the late 11th century allowed for peaceful trade on the North Sea. The Hanseatic League, a confederation of merchant guilds and their towns in northern Germany along the North Sea and Baltic Sea, was instrumental in commercial development of the region/ In the 12th century the region of Flanders, Hainault and Braband produced the finest quality textiles in northern Europe, which encouraged merchants from Genoa and Venice to sail there directly.[

    THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC
    The Age of Discovery, or the Age of Exploration (approximately from the beginning of the 15th century until the middle of the 17th century), is an informal and loosely defined term for the period in European history in which extensive overseas exploration emerged as a powerful factor in European culture, most notably the discovery of the Americas, and during which time was the beginning of what is known today as globalization. It also marks the rise of the widespread adoption of colonialism and mercantilism as national policies in Europe. Many lands previously unknown to Europeans were discovered by them during this period, though most were already inhabited.

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    (MORE … ) Although Plato had been Aristotle’s teacher, most of Plato’s writings were not translated into Latin until over 200 years after the Recovery of Aristotle.[2] In the Middle Ages, the only book of Plato in general circulation was the first part of the dialogue Timaeus (to 53c), as a translation, with commentary, by Calcidius (or Chalcidius).[2] The Timaeus describes Plato’s cosmology, as his account of the origin of the universe. In the 12th century Henry Aristippus of Catania made translations of the Meno and the Phaedo, but those books were in limited circulation.[2] Some other translations of Plato’s books disappeared during the Middle Ages. Finally, about 200 years after the rediscovery of Aristotle, in the wider Renaissance Marsilio Ficino (1433–99) translated and commented on Plato’s complete works.[2] RISE OF (RESTORATION OF) TRADE Between the 12th and 15th centuries the European economy was transformed by the interconnecting of river and sea trade routes, causing Europe to become one of the world’s most prosperous trading networks. THE MEDITERRANEAN Before the 12th century, the main obstacle to trade east of the Strait of Gibraltar was lack of commercial incentives rather than inadequate ship design. Economic growth of Spain followed the reconquest of Al-Andalus and the siege of Lisbon (1147 AD). The decline of Fatimid Caliphate naval strength that started before the First Crusade helped the maritime Italian states, mainly Venice, Genoa and Pisa, dominate trade in the eastern Mediterranean, with Italian merchants becoming wealthy and politically influential. Further changing the mercantile situation in the Eastern Mediterranean was the waning of Byzantine naval power following the death of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos in 1180, whose dynasty had made several notable treaties and concessions with Italian traders, permitting the use of Byzantine Christian ports. From the 8th century until the 15th century, the Republic of Venice and neighbouring maritime republics held the monopoly of European trade with the Middle East. The silk and spice trade, involving spices, incense, herbs, drugs and opium, made these Mediterranean city-states phenomenally rich. Spices were among the most expensive and demanded products of the Middle Ages, as they were used in medieval medicine,[41] religious rituals, cosmetics, perfumery, as well as food additives and preservatives.They were all imported from Asia and Africa.

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  • (MORE … ) Although Plato had been Aristotle’s teacher, most of Plato’s writing

    (MORE … )

    Although Plato had been Aristotle’s teacher, most of Plato’s writings were not translated into Latin until over 200 years after the Recovery of Aristotle.[2] In the Middle Ages, the only book of Plato in general circulation was the first part of the dialogue Timaeus (to 53c), as a translation, with commentary, by Calcidius (or Chalcidius).[2] The Timaeus describes Plato’s cosmology, as his account of the origin of the universe. In the 12th century Henry Aristippus of Catania made translations of the Meno and the Phaedo, but those books were in limited circulation.[2] Some other translations of Plato’s books disappeared during the Middle Ages. Finally, about 200 years after the rediscovery of Aristotle, in the wider Renaissance Marsilio Ficino (1433–99) translated and commented on Plato’s complete works.[2]

    RISE OF (RESTORATION OF) TRADE
    Between the 12th and 15th centuries the European economy was transformed by the interconnecting of river and sea trade routes, causing Europe to become one of the world’s most prosperous trading networks.

    THE MEDITERRANEAN
    Before the 12th century, the main obstacle to trade east of the Strait of Gibraltar was lack of commercial incentives rather than inadequate ship design.

    Economic growth of Spain followed the reconquest of Al-Andalus and the siege of Lisbon (1147 AD).

    The decline of Fatimid Caliphate naval strength that started before the First Crusade helped the maritime Italian states, mainly Venice, Genoa and Pisa, dominate trade in the eastern Mediterranean, with Italian merchants becoming wealthy and politically influential. Further changing the mercantile situation in the Eastern Mediterranean was the waning of Byzantine naval power following the death of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos in 1180, whose dynasty had made several notable treaties and concessions with Italian traders, permitting the use of Byzantine Christian ports.

    From the 8th century until the 15th century, the Republic of Venice and neighbouring maritime republics held the monopoly of European trade with the Middle East. The silk and spice trade, involving spices, incense, herbs, drugs and opium, made these Mediterranean city-states phenomenally rich. Spices were among the most expensive and demanded products of the Middle Ages, as they were used in medieval medicine,[41] religious rituals, cosmetics, perfumery, as well as food additives and preservatives.They were all imported from Asia and Africa.

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    ( MORE: … ) THE RESTORATION OF ARISTOTLE The “Recovery of Aristotle” (or Rediscovery) refers to the copying or re-translating of most of Aristotle’s books (of ancient Greece), from Greek or Arabic text into Latin, during the Middle Ages, of the Latin West. The Recovery of Aristotle spanned about 100 years, from the middle 12th century into the 13th century, and copied or translated over 42 books (see: Corpus Aristotelicum), The recovery of Aristotle’s texts is considered a major period in medieval philosophy, leading to Aristotelianism. Because some of Aristotle’s newly translated views discounted the notions of a personal God, immortal soul, or creation, various leaders of the Catholic Church were inclined to censor those views for decades, such as lists of forbidden books in the Condemnations of 1210–1277 at the University of Paris. In the 4th century, the Roman grammarian Marius Victorinus translated two of Aristotle’s books, about logic, into Latin: the Categories and On Interpretation (De Interpretatione).[2] A little over a century later, most of Aristotle’s logical works, except perhaps for the Posterior Analytics, had been translated by Boethius, c. 510–512[2] (see: Corpus Aristotelicum). However, only Boethius’s translations of the Categories and On Interpretation had entered into general circulation before the 12th century. All in all, only a few major works of Aristotle were never translated into Arabic.[4] Of these, the fate of Politics in particular remains uncertain.[5] The rest of Aristotle’s books were eventually translated into Latin, but over 600 years later, from about the middle of the 12th century. First, the rest of the logical works were finished,[1] by using the translations of Boethius as the basis.[6] Then came the Physics, followed by the Metaphysics (12th century), and Averroes’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics (13th century),[3] so that all works were translated by the mid-13th century.[2] A text like On the Soul, for instance, was unavailable in Latin in Christian Europe before the middle of the twelfth century.[7] The first Latin translation is due to James of Venice (12th century), and has always been considered as the translatio vetus (ancient translation).[8] The second Latin translation (translatio nova, new translation) was made from the Arabic translation of the text around 1230, and it was accompanied by Averroes’s commentary; the translator is generally thought to be Michael Scot. James’s translatio vetus was then revised by William of Moerbeke in 1266–7, and became known as the “recensio nova” (new recension), which was the most widely read version.[9] On the Soul ended up becoming a component of the core curriculum of philosophical study in most medieval universities, giving birth to a very rich tradition of commentaries, especially c. 1260–1360.[10] (MORE … )

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  • ( MORE: … ) THE RESTORATION OF ARISTOTLE The “Recovery of Aristotle” (or Redis

    ( MORE: … )

    THE RESTORATION OF ARISTOTLE
    The “Recovery of Aristotle” (or Rediscovery) refers to the copying or re-translating of most of Aristotle’s books (of ancient Greece), from Greek or Arabic text into Latin, during the Middle Ages, of the Latin West. The Recovery of Aristotle spanned about 100 years, from the middle 12th century into the 13th century, and copied or translated over 42 books (see: Corpus Aristotelicum), The recovery of Aristotle’s texts is considered a major period in medieval philosophy, leading to Aristotelianism. Because some of Aristotle’s newly translated views discounted the notions of a personal God, immortal soul, or creation, various leaders of the Catholic Church were inclined to censor those views for decades, such as lists of forbidden books in the Condemnations of 1210–1277 at the University of Paris.

    In the 4th century, the Roman grammarian Marius Victorinus translated two of Aristotle’s books, about logic, into Latin: the Categories and On Interpretation (De Interpretatione).[2] A little over a century later, most of Aristotle’s logical works, except perhaps for the Posterior Analytics, had been translated by Boethius, c. 510–512[2] (see: Corpus Aristotelicum). However, only Boethius’s translations of the Categories and On Interpretation had entered into general circulation before the 12th century. All in all, only a few major works of Aristotle were never translated into Arabic.[4] Of these, the fate of Politics in particular remains uncertain.[5]

    The rest of Aristotle’s books were eventually translated into Latin, but over 600 years later, from about the middle of the 12th century. First, the rest of the logical works were finished,[1] by using the translations of Boethius as the basis.[6] Then came the Physics, followed by the Metaphysics (12th century), and Averroes’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics (13th century),[3] so that all works were translated by the mid-13th century.[2]
    A text like On the Soul, for instance, was unavailable in Latin in Christian Europe before the middle of the twelfth century.[7] The first Latin translation is due to James of Venice (12th century), and has always been considered as the translatio vetus (ancient translation).[8] The second Latin translation (translatio nova, new translation) was made from the Arabic translation of the text around 1230, and it was accompanied by Averroes’s commentary; the translator is generally thought to be Michael Scot. James’s translatio vetus was then revised by William of Moerbeke in 1266–7, and became known as the “recensio nova” (new recension), which was the most widely read version.[9] On the Soul ended up becoming a component of the core curriculum of philosophical study in most medieval universities, giving birth to a very rich tradition of commentaries, especially c. 1260–1360.[10]

    (MORE … )

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    THE CURRENT COUNTER-REVOLUTION AGAINST EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IS A REVOLT AGAINST THE PHYSICAL, NATURAL, AND EVOLUTIONARY LAWS. 1) The enlightenment in every country and culture was a counter-revolution against anglo empiricism – other peoples simply couldn’t function as did the English, any more than others could function as did the Greek and Roman. 2) We are currently going through the Jewish counter-enlightenment against science. The difference is that while the Jewish and Chinese and Russian, and Indian revolutions all occurred at the same time, the Jewish revolution is within and we are paying the cost of it due to their excellence at verbal exposition. 3) We frame history as the enlightenment and the industrial revolution, but that’s false. We had the Aristotelian restoration in 1200, the printing press and literacy 1450, Constantinople was defeated in 1402, but not occupied until 1453 so the 1453 date describes the last vestige not a dramatic turn. Instead, there is a rapid restoration of Europe from the pure of Islam from Spain, the restoration of Aristotle, restoration of trade, restoration of literacy, to the age of sail, the agrarian revolution, the financial and commercial (merchantile) revolution, the expansion of empirical rule of law, the scientific revolution, culminating in the industrial revolution, the technological revolution, the biological revolution. What I find terrifying is that if Athens and Sparta had not gone to war with one another as Germany and England went to war with one another, that we very likely would have had the industrial revolution by the 3d century AD. And never had a Semitic dark age. (MORE…)

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  • THE CURRENT COUNTER-REVOLUTION AGAINST EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IS A REVOLT AGAINST

    THE CURRENT COUNTER-REVOLUTION AGAINST EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IS A REVOLT AGAINST THE PHYSICAL, NATURAL, AND EVOLUTIONARY LAWS.

    1) The enlightenment in every country and culture was a counter-revolution against anglo empiricism – other peoples simply couldn’t function as did the English, any more than others could function as did the Greek and Roman.

    2) We are currently going through the Jewish counter-enlightenment against science. The difference is that while the Jewish and Chinese and Russian, and Indian revolutions all occurred at the same time, the Jewish revolution is within and we are paying the cost of it due to their excellence at verbal exposition.

    3) We frame history as the enlightenment and the industrial revolution, but that’s false. We had the Aristotelian restoration in 1200, the printing press and literacy 1450, Constantinople was defeated in 1402, but not occupied until 1453 so the 1453 date describes the last vestige not a dramatic turn.

    Instead, there is a rapid restoration of Europe from the pure of Islam from Spain, the restoration of Aristotle, restoration of trade, restoration of literacy, to the age of sail, the agrarian revolution, the financial and commercial (merchantile) revolution, the expansion of empirical rule of law, the scientific revolution, culminating in the industrial revolution, the technological revolution, the biological revolution.

    What I find terrifying is that if Athens and Sparta had not gone to war with one another as Germany and England went to war with one another, that we very likely would have had the industrial revolution by the 3d century AD. And never had a Semitic dark age.

    (MORE…)

    Source date (UTC): 2020-08-24 22:34:28 UTC

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  • DECIDABILITY IS THE OPERATIONAL NAME FOR THE CAUSE OF FIRST PRINCIPLES Philosoph

    DECIDABILITY IS THE OPERATIONAL NAME FOR THE CAUSE OF FIRST PRINCIPLES

    Philosophers often talk about the difference between seeking first principles, and seeking fit, commensurability, untility, choices or preferences.

    —“A first principle is a basic proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption. In philosophy, first principles are from the First Cause method taught by Aristotelians, and nuanced versions of first principles are referred to as postulates by Kantians. In mathematics, first principles are referred to as axioms or postulates. In physics and other sciences, theoretical work is said to be from first principles, or “ab initio”, if it starts directly at the level of established science and does not make assumptions such as empirical model and parameter fitting.”—

    In propertarianism I call this the search for “decidability”. The point at which we can decide (must), versus choose (can), versus prefer (may). So in this sense, “decidabilty” is the operational definitino of ‘first principle”.

    In the examples above, first principles (decidability) in mathematics is provided by position in an order (positional names), adding(increasing) to or subtracting(decreasing) from a position in that order. To say that mathematics instead consists of axioms is only partly true. The axioms are logical consequences of positional names. As such they are variables, and only first principles. For example, ZFC axioms in mathematics are statemetns of set theory (ideals) not operations (reals).

    As I’ve written elsewhere, Kantianism is a psychological not operational system of thought in the german (conflationary) school of philosophy (and logic), versus the anglo analytic (depersonalized, or legal ) school of philosophy (logic), or what I suppose we should call today’s cognitive science or neural network school of logic – which is no longer philosophy but operational science. In Propertarianism I translate Kantianism’s apriori logic into formal logic.

    THE NEW AGE OF PHILOSOPHY
    So I would call the current era the Operational and Neural Network Age of Logic, leaving behind the second age of idealism (Platonism).

    What’s the problem with neural networks? We can’t introspect on them yet either (although we will).

    EVOLUTION FROM FIRST CAUSES:
    Myth: inter-Imaginary,
    Law: inter-personal, and
    Engeneering inter-physical
    … … … … … Play … Literature ->
    Mythology … History ————>
    … … … … .. Theology (myth+law) ->
    Law … Politics … Economics —>
    …. … … … Philosophy(law+math) ->
    … … … … … … … …. … ..Science ->
    Engineering … Mathematics —–>

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  • Boost of @curtd DECIDABILITY IS THE OPERATIONAL NAME FOR THE CAUSE OF FIRST PRIN

    Boost of @curtd DECIDABILITY IS THE OPERATIONAL NAME FOR THE CAUSE OF FIRST PRINCIPLES

    Philosophers often talk about the difference between seeking first principles, and seeking fit, commensurability, untility, choices or preferences.

    —“A first principle is a basic proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption. In philosophy, first principles are from the First Cause method taught by Aristotelians, and nuanced versions of first principles are referred to as postulates by Kantians. In mathematics, first principles are referred to as axioms or postulates. In physics and other sciences, theoretical work is said to be from first principles, or “ab initio”, if it starts directly at the level of established science and does not make assumptions such as empirical model and parameter fitting.”—

    In propertarianism I call this the search for “decidability”. The point at which we can decide (must), versus choose (can), versus prefer (may). So in this sense, “decidabilty” is the operational definitino of ‘first principle”.

    In the examples above, first principles (decidability) in mathematics is provided by position in an order (positional names), adding(increasing) to or subtracting(decreasing) from a position in that order. To say that mathematics instead consists of axioms is only partly true. The axioms are logical consequences of positional names. As such they are variables, and only first principles. For example, ZFC axioms in mathematics are statemetns of set theory (ideals) not operations (reals).

    As I’ve written elsewhere, Kantianism is a psychological not operational system of thought in the german (conflationary) school of philosophy (and logic), versus the anglo analytic (depersonalized, or legal ) school of philosophy (logic), or what I suppose we should call today’s cognitive science or neural network school of logic – which is no longer philosophy but operational science. In Propertarianism I translate Kantianism’s apriori logic into formal logic.

    THE NEW AGE OF PHILOSOPHY
    So I would call the current era the Operational and Neural Network Age of Logic, leaving behind the second age of idealism (Platonism).

    What’s the problem with neural networks? We can’t introspect on them yet either (although we will).

    EVOLUTION FROM FIRST CAUSES:
    Myth: inter-Imaginary,
    Law: inter-personal, and
    Engeneering inter-physical
    … … … … … Play … Literature ->
    Mythology … History ————>
    … … … … .. Theology (myth+law) ->
    Law … Politics … Economics —>
    …. … … … Philosophy(law+math) ->
    … … … … … … … …. … ..Science ->
    Engineering … Mathematics —–>

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  • Thanks. That’s even better. 😉

    Thanks. That’s even better. 😉

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  • So I’m the model for the villian in the new Batman Movie?;) Looks like me, talks

    So I’m the model for the villian in the new Batman Movie?;) Looks like me, talks like me. lol https://t.co/DH7AVC60fS

  • Patriarchy: “society or government in which men hold the power and women are lar

    Patriarchy: “society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it.”

    Because women infantilize others to maintain control by manipulation and men produce agency in others in order to compete against groups of other men.

    Evidence is evidence.

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