Theme: Measurement

  • AN INFORMATION APPROACH TO RITUAL & RELIGION (by James Augustus Berens) Position

    AN INFORMATION APPROACH TO RITUAL & RELIGION

    (by James Augustus Berens)

    Position Along Spectrum of Information:

    (-)<–(-2)-(-1)-(0)-(1)-(2)-(*)–>(+)

    |<——————————->|

    (+)

    Truth

    Empiricism

    Individualism

    Markets

    Sovereignty

    Eugenic

    (-)

    Lies

    Mysticism

    Collectivism

    Discretion

    Submission

    Dysgenic

    Religion and Ritual:

    (*) Ratio-empirical Consequentialism: human action under complete, operational information produces deterministic consequences.

    (2) Stoicism: partial but actionable information. Action and cognition directed towards the immediately calculable, operational, actionable.

    (1) Shinto: partial (approaching random) information. Action and cognition directed towards the replicable: precise repetition of ritual in addition to ancestor and nature worship, respectively.

    (0) Buddhism: random, in-actionable information. In-actionable information creates a preference for avoidance/disassociation. Action directed towards escaping conceptualization, accounting and calculation: escapism via meditation.

    (-1) Christianity: partial construction of collective misinformation. Action and cognition directed towards group in attempt to extend kinship altruism and create feelings of [physical] security + belonging (social security).

    (-2) Islam: near-complete construction of, and dependence upon, collective misinformation. Action and cognition directed towards demonstrating and enforcing submission through high-cost of ritual and opportunistic warfare against dissenters.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-24 02:40:00 UTC

  • LAWS OF NATURE, NATURAL LAW, AND LAWS OF INFORMATION 1) Laws of nature (physical

    LAWS OF NATURE, NATURAL LAW, AND LAWS OF INFORMATION

    1) Laws of nature (physical laws) and

    2) Natural laws (laws of cooperation), and

    3) Truth (laws of information)

    consist of a spectrum dependent upon each other.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-23 11:09:00 UTC

  • LETS GIVE EVERYONE A PRECISE LANGUAGE AND FOR THE DISCUSSION OF RELIGION. We hav

    LETS GIVE EVERYONE A PRECISE LANGUAGE AND FOR THE DISCUSSION OF RELIGION.

    We have been misled to thinking that ‘religion’ requires superstition. But that idea is a product of the authoritarian dogma created by the church under christianity. It’s simply not true.

    DECONFLATED, RELIGION CONSISTS OF:

    1) Narrative: historical, mythical, supernatural

    2) Metaphysical Judgments: (in many forms)

    3) Group Evolutionary Strategy: (in many forms )

    4) Normative Rules: (in many forms)

    5) Registries of Familial Property (birth, maturity, marriage, death)

    5) Rituals both private and public: (mindfulness in its forms)

    6) Feasts, Sports, Arts, and Festivals:(in their many forms)

    RELIGION ‘WORKS’ BY:

    1 – providing some variation on ‘mindfulness’ in which we can escape the problem of being honest with ourselves independently of all our accumulated intuitions and biases.

    2 – Forming associations between the ‘pack-response’ and group participation, and eliminating the problem of stress from post-tribal life’s lack of feedback, thereby extending trust bonds across kin groups, class groups, and market groups, which decreases transaction costs of all kinds in all walks of life.

    3 – Establishing normative rules for familial and cross familial behavior, that made (and continue to) reduce natural frictions between genetic variations in gender, class, tribe, race that (truthfully) translate in to different demands for association, reproduction, economic cooperation, and rule – and the status seeking that affects each of those demands, dramatically.

    THE FUNCTIONAL PROBLEM OF WESTERN RELIGION

    1 – Separation of education and religion

    …….. – The failure of religions to reform in response to the scientific enlightenment.

    …….. – The failure of religions to reform in response to Darwin.

    …….. – The Academy’s seizure of the functions of the church upon the failure of the church to reform.

    …….. – The End of western separation and competition between Religion and State by the adoption of the synthesis of jewish cosmopolitan and puritan postmodern by the State, Academy, Media complex the current generation of thinkers refers to as “The Cathedral Complex”, or just “The Cathedral” for short.

    …….. – The beginning of state financed New Indulgences (we call them ‘college diplomas’) that promise a middle or upper class level of consumption instead of forgiveness of sins and entry into heaven – when the postwar economic boom that made possible the rapid expansion of the consumer class was just a temporary product of the combined tragedies of the Great European Civil War’s destruction of centuries of accumulated production capacity, plus the destruction of, and delay of expansion of, world production caused by the movement we call world communism (and now, its inheritor, world islamism).

    2 – the academy seized control of the commercial education and the ‘religious’ education (liberalism), but failed to seize familial education – and in most cases, assisted the state in the destruction first of black families, then white families, and now all families, in order to (a) provide women with child care (schooling), force them into the labor pool (feminism), and then consume the entire proceeds of women’s labor so that the war and boomer generation could retire early and lie on the next generation’s labor, and then immigrating third world labor to provide cheap labor (social programs) that cannot replace the prior generation because of lesser aggregate abilities. The family destruction was increased by attempt to create a mobile workflorce and thereby deprive women of the multi-generational support necessary to raise more than one child without exhaustion. And now it is impossible for women to return to child bearing and child rearing because of the tax demands placed upon their earnings by the immigration of underclasses and the dependency of the aged yet healthy enough to work.

    3 – The state sponsored secular ‘religion’ that we currently teach is pseudoscientific (false, and dishonest), where the content of christian religion (the extension of kinship forgiveness to non kin) was ‘true’ but conveyed by nonsense and authoritarianism.

    4 – One of the unstated drivers for the current conflict in america is not just the decline of the white population and the ascent of the colored cities, but because science has caught up and since 1990 has been aggressively disproving the universalist, globalist, equalitarian democratic secular socialist religion. And those who are aware of this are … angry … and full of conviction that their traditions and intuitions were correct. Therefore they feel betrayed and deceived.

    THE WEST HAS ALWAYS BEEN POLYTHEISTIC

    While it is the secret to the west’s competitive advantage, we are sometimes misled by our (false) historical narrative: The west never engaged in conflation, by creating ‘one book’ so to speak. We have always had:

    1) Law (limits) for the Ruling (fathering) Classes,

    2) Commerce (pragmatism) for the producing classes.

    2) Religion (utopianism) for Science / pseudoscience, philosophy / pseudorationalism, and Theology / fraud for the Educating (mothering) classes (church/academy).

    And have always maintained the three estates of the realm using the three methods of coercion

    1) Law/Limits: Force / ostracization from movement/ resources / life itself.

    2) Exchange/Utility: Payment / Remuneration / Ostracization from consumption.

    3) Religion: Gossip / Rallying / Shaming / Ostracization from opportunity for insurance from the tribe.

    THE WEST’S ADMINISTRATIVE RELIGION IS THE COMMON SOVEREIGN INDO-EUROPEAN/ARISTOCRATIC/ANGLO SAXON LAW, AND ITS PRIEST’S ARE OUR JUDGES

    Reason, empiricism, science, and now ‘testimonialism’ (the completion of the scientific method) all evolved out of western empirical common law.

    There is no reason our founding myths:

    1) Homer, takes of kings, princes and princesses: the germanic myths, legends, and fairy tales;

    2) History and the lives of the great thinkers;

    3) the tales of jesus and the saints;

    Cannot be taught as ‘religion’ and their contributions celebrated.

    RELIGION IS NECESSARY FOR EVOLUTIONARY REASONS, BUT SUPERSTITION, PSEUDO-RATIONALISM, PSEUDOSCIENCE, CONFLATION AND DECEPTION ARE NOT.

    THE CYCLE OF REVOLUTIONS (TRUTHS) AND COUNTER REVOLUTIONS (LIES)

    ———————————

    1) REVOLUTION: The invention of aristocracy (horse, bronze, wheel).

    COUNTER-REVOLUTION: organized conflationary superstitious advisory religion.

    2) REVOLUTION: The invention of truth, reason, deconflation, competition.

    COUNTER-REVOLUTION: Conflationary Monotheistic Authoritarian Religion

    3) REVOLUTION: Empricism

    COUNTER REVOLUTIONS:

    – French Pseudoscientific Moralism: Rousseau et al.

    – Russian literary nihilism.

    – German pseudorational philosophy.

    4) REVOLUTION: Science: Darwin (evolution), spencer (operationalism), poincare(mathematical realism), maxwell (electromagnetism), nietzche(restoratino of aristocratic aesthetics)

    COUNTER REVOLUTION:

    – Jewish Cosmopolitan Pseudoscience: Boaz (anthropology), Marx (economics and sociology: cooperation), Freud (psychology), Adorno et al (Aesthetics).


    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-22 16:28:00 UTC

  • YES, MATHEMATICS IS TAUGHT AS FICTION: “LET US TEACH EVERYONE A VERY INTERESTING

    YES, MATHEMATICS IS TAUGHT AS FICTION: “LET US TEACH EVERYONE A VERY INTERESTING AND IMPORTANT LESSON VIA MR JOHN BLACK.”

    —“Mathematical fictionalism is more tenable than mathematical platonism.”—Melvin Davila Martinez

    “There are no such things as abstract objects?

    Prove it.” — John Black

    The verb ‘to-be’ = ‘exists’. (is, are, was, were, be, being, been) It is the most ‘irregular’ verb in the english language. Irregular means ‘fungible’. In other words, it is the least precise verb in the english language. It allows us to ‘cheat’, and save both thinking and words, and to claim authority rather than subjectivity, by circumventing the process of constructing the existence of the referent.

    Example:

    The cat is black = i see a cat, and the cat looks like the color black to me.

    The first is both a verbal shortcut, a testimony of one’s honesty, and an appeal to authority by a definitive statement, which can only POSSIBLY be a subjective statement.

    The same applies to the use of the word ‘number’ which is an irregular NOUN – that like the most irregular VERB ‘to be’, allows us to ‘cheat’, and save thinking and words, by circumventing the process of constructing the existence of the referent. the natural numbers refer to a set of names for quantities of anything we choose to categorize.

    But everything else we call a ‘number’ is, like the verb ‘to-be’ a pretense, since a number, including fractional representation using numbers, refers to the name of a quantity, whereas all other referents are the result of operations: FUNCTIONS, not numbers.

    So let us scientifically test this statement:

    “There are no such things as abstract objects.”

    …. which translates to ….

    “There [exist] no such [referents] as [non-existent] [referents]”

    To which the answer is:

    “There exist constant relations between constant relations.”

    which is a tautology. In other words, its meaningless.

    Why? Because what is a measurement? A measurement is a unitary quantity of constant relations. And what is a number? the name of a constant relation of quantities.

    Do constant relations exist? Yes, we call this ‘determinism’ in the scientific ( not philosophical) sense: that the universe operates by a set of constant relations we call ‘laws’ that we must only discover. If the universe did not operate by constant relations thought would be impossible, since that is the function of memory: to identify constant relations, and test inconstant relations.

    So do constant relations exist? Yes. We name those constant relations by the use of names that we call numbers, and functions that we reduce to the symbolic equivalent of numbers.

    But all that ‘exists’ are constant relations. Mathematics currently consists of a large set of verbal myths and parables by which we reduce complex sequences of consistent operations upon a unitary measure of constant relations.

    In other words, when we say Christianity or Aristotelianism, we give a name to a complex set of undefined operations. When we speak in much of mathematical language we do the same.

    Why? Because the human mind uses mathematics as a symbolic store of constant relations beyond which our perceptions are able to discern, and beyond which our short term memories are capable of holding. So we speak in the language of manipulating the symbols and begin to treat those symbols as existential rather than as names for the set of constant relations and constant operations that they refer to.

    ANY TESTIMONIAL STATEMENT (ANY STATEMENT IN WHICH YOU CLAIM TO CONSTRUCT A TRUTH PROPOSITION) THAT CONTAINS THE VERB TO BE, MUST BE TESTED AS A POTENTIAL ACT OF FRAUD, BECAUSE EACH SUCH STATEMENT IS A FRAUD CANDIDATE, SINCE ANY TESTIMONIAL STATEMENT CAN BE STATED WITHOUT THE VERB TO BE WITH GREATER DEFENSE AGAINST CONFLATION, SUBSTITUTION, SUGGESTION, AND DECEIT.

    Almost all philosophical questions that we normally find irresolvable are dependent upon the use of the verb to be to create appeal to authority through the use of confusion and incommensurability by acts of polymorphism by the use of conflation, substitution, suggestion, loading (moral distraction) and deceit (counter-factual loading).

    In other words MATHEMATICAL FICTIONALISM truthfully and scientifically describes the ‘story’ or ‘mythology’ of mathematics. When we speak in the names of heroes, and refer to myths and legends, and use these parables as methods of decidability in the face of a kaleidic universe, we are ‘calculating’ using symbolic referents and operations. Just as when we claim that the square root of two exists, when it cannot, since we refer to a constant relation that cannot be reduced to a constant relation without a context to provide the information supplied by context: what mathematicians call ‘limits’ or ‘decidability’ or ‘the axiom of choice’.

    Mathematics is to Programming, what Rationalism is to Empiricism: a smaller set of properties. Mathematics functions as a language for the expression of constant relations greater than the constant relations we can express by other means.

    Mathematics is spoken in terms of mythology, but computer science is not. This is what separates the imaginary and mythological, from the existential, and computable.

    Programming tests mathematics. Because functions exist, because operations exist. Everything else refers to some complex set of constant relations we give a name to: a function: a sequence of existentially possible operations.

    QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM

    Thus endeth the lesson.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine


    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-21 08:25:00 UTC

  • THOUGHT OF THE DAY Just as we teach our children nouns, and asians teach their c

    THOUGHT OF THE DAY

    Just as we teach our children nouns, and asians teach their children verbs, what if we all taught our children spectra?

    In Propertarianism I have guarded against conflation and substitution and enforced causal relations by reliance upon iterating (over and over again) spectra.

    three points test a line. a spectrum tests each point.

    Defense against the gravity of ignorance: our desire for reduction by a process of conflation and substitution.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-21 06:43:00 UTC

  • God and prayer as a unit of measure

    God and prayer as a unit of measure.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-20 11:41:00 UTC

  • define ‘successful’. Gypsy civilization is ‘successful’. Pygmy civilization is ‘

    define ‘successful’. Gypsy civilization is ‘successful’. Pygmy civilization is ‘successful’. What’s your measure?


    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-17 18:42:07 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/799321738089791489

    Reply addressees: @BulgakovsPilot

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/799321504160714752


    IN REPLY TO:

    @BulgakovsPilot

    @curtdoolittle haven’t there been countless *successful* civilizations that did not acknowledge any existence of natural law? i.e. Islam

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/799321504160714752

  • The Model Is Information – For All Thought.

      There is no steady state. the rules are not stateful, but adaptive. There is no ‘done’. genes and culture and norms and institutions all store past information that we can express when needed. It’s not that we are machines that adapt to a fixed set. but that we store a broad range of possibilities that we can express through genetic, cultural, normative, personal, political and institutional SELECTION. We are still thinking in terms of mechanical models rather than informational models. man and the universe are correctly represented as information.

    This is what Hayek was trying to tell us but he was too early, and the crisis too early. It took Turing and two or three generations of programmers to understand what he and popper had intuited: information is not only the model for the physical sciences, but we are part of the physical sciences, and information is the current model we must work from.
  • The Model Is Information – For All Thought.

      There is no steady state. the rules are not stateful, but adaptive. There is no ‘done’. genes and culture and norms and institutions all store past information that we can express when needed. It’s not that we are machines that adapt to a fixed set. but that we store a broad range of possibilities that we can express through genetic, cultural, normative, personal, political and institutional SELECTION. We are still thinking in terms of mechanical models rather than informational models. man and the universe are correctly represented as information.

    This is what Hayek was trying to tell us but he was too early, and the crisis too early. It took Turing and two or three generations of programmers to understand what he and popper had intuited: information is not only the model for the physical sciences, but we are part of the physical sciences, and information is the current model we must work from.
  • (note) Tell a story, teach a lesson. in every great era … model… information

    (note)

    Tell a story, teach a lesson.

    in every great era … model…

    information is our era’s model

    in physics, in economics

    revise our prior understandings

    the success of the west in the ancient and modern worlds.

    for a host of reasons, we can see that

    the west calculates faster and better than the rest.

    the origin story.

    the result.. sov -> markets in everything

    calculation in everything.

    faster adaptation and invention

    but what has gone wrong?

    the innovaton and reacton cycles

    this cycle was pseudoscience.

    the reason for the success of pseudocience,

    the reason for the failure to counter it.

    the solution to it

    The end of history is the truthful civilization


    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-16 01:42:00 UTC