The Legacy of the Wanton Destruction of Human Creativity

The Islamic Renaissance had its obscurantist opponent in al-Ghazali who wrote The Destruction as an attack on the Socratic Theodicy of  ibn Sina, et al. It is provably the case as noted by Dante's Divine Comedy that the route of reviving the methodology of Socratic reason to escape from the dark ages ran through the works of those inspired scholars. Of which, the Abyssinian Caliphate of Harun al-Rashid is said to have valued great books more than gold in erecting his great House of Wisdom library.  

So too, the European Golden Renaissance was plagued by its own obscurantist oligarchical enemies. The touchstone for this for English speaking audiences in the U.S. at least comes by way of the imperial British magical cults. William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe valiantly and polemically opposed the Venetian spawned sorcerer's apprentices like John Dee. One such was Robert Burton who wrote the ponderous tome of forgotten superstitious babble named The Anatomy of Melancholy. I read this because I was curious as to the origin of Keats' poem The Eve of St. Agnes in that volume. The concluding stretto of all of Burton's monotonous praise of magical nonsense like using precious stones to cure all manner of illness, I was soon to find out was none other than an advertisement for Rosicrucianism. 

(I may be one of the few that have read this as well as Alexander von Humboldt's magnificent antidote The Cosmos, in English translation.) 

Just now, I ran across a very sad example of a trend that has been running rampant for some months in the babblings of pseudoscientific researchers promoting psychotomimetic drugs like LSD as therapeutics. These lost souls are every bit the heirs of erstwhile Nazi doctors. Here is a Google search on "LSD as social therapy." It lists "About 1,910,000 results (0.51 seconds)" I hear Oregon has decriminalized all illicit drugs... Democracy at work...

The beat goes on... As we descend circling upon the wings of Geryon into the abyss of the Inferno where sits Satan frozen in Hell.

Gustave Dore Dante's Inferno

Cervantes as a Polemicist Against Formal Logic

 As I have noted previously, Miguel de Cervantes was a leading conspirator in the mold of Leibniz and Franklin for a project that would have overturned the evils of oligarchism. This is no mere accident. For great art, as his Don Quixote assuredly is, by its very nature intervenes upon the psyche of humanity and thereby produces material effects in promoting what Benjamin Franklin adopted as a lifelong commitment from Cotton Mather, i.e. "to do the good." 

In particular, I refer here to Cervantes' poetic demonstration that the character of formulaic pragmatism in life is deadening to actual creativity. Reading Don Quixote from the first page to the end there is a consistency of purpose that indeed unifies the entirety of the work (which is a sine qua non of all art of any form.) It is a polemic. However, it is never put into any simplistic propositional form and therein lies the irony of the standard of living art. It is immortal in that sense. 

This is why the essence of poetic mentation, qua the creative faculty of higher intelligibility, must guide humanity's necessary mission of space colonization. For what classes of problems will we as a species meet with there?  And even the enumeration of poetic devices alone is not sufficient as a roadmap for the type of creative problem solving that we will be called upon to perform once we emerge onto that platform of human history. 

But the true aesthetic comprehension of the work of the world historical creative genius Cervantes, or his partner Shakespeare is. 

 

Title page to the 1620 London Blount edition, depicting Don Quixote and Sancho Panza astride their steeds

Harmony Abounds in This Best of All Possible Worlds

The untutored imagination of the child needs no prompting to be filled with deep wonder at the beauty of this world. Everyone has a touchstone in memory of some such emotion evoked by this ongoing and emerging and uncanny harmony. The deliberate elevation of the mundane by the artistic composition is the aim of the highest and exalted love for humanity sometimes known by the Greek word agape. 

This morning a unique planetary system's discovery came to my attention. It has been given the very uninspiring name TOI-178. However, it should be named in honor of that giant in the annals of astronomy Johannes Kepler. Perhaps Keplerworld. 

This system is in harmonic resonant alignment in its ratio's of  five out of the six of planetary orbits around its star. They are 18:9:6:4:3 for their orbital periods. Thus this amazing discovery upholds and once again confirms the genius of the profound poetic science of  Kepler's discovery of the elliptic harmonic ratios of our own planetary system and the much maligned principle of Leibniz that we live in the best of all possible worlds.

 

This graphic shows a representation of the TOI-178 planetary system, which was revealed by ESA's exoplanet watcher CHEOPS. The system consists of six exoplanets, five of which are locked in a rare rhythmic dance as they orbit their central star. The two inner planets have terrestrial densities (like Earth) and the outer four planets are gaseous (with densities like Neptune and Jupiter). The five outer planets follow a rhythmic dance as they move in their orbits. This phenomenon is called orbital resonance, and it means that there are patterns that repeat themselves as the planets go around the star, with some planets aligning every few orbits. While the planets in the TOI-178 system orbit their star in a very orderly manner, their densities do not follow any particular pattern. One of the exoplanets, a dense, terrestrial planet like Earth is right next to a similar-sized but very fluffy planet ­­– like a mini-Jupiter, and next to that is one very similar to Neptune. Astronomers did not expect to find this lay-out in a planetary system, and this discovery challenges current theories of planet formation. In this graphic, the relative sizes of the planets are to scale, but not the distances and the size of the star. Credit: ESA

Big Bang Theorists Versus Real Poetic Inspiration

 I came today across another in an apparently endless sequence of  wild eyed theories about the "big bang" epoch. Usually I don't comment much on these fabulous musings obviously meant to pocket some grant for mathematical twaddle. However this latest headline, "Scientists find black holes could reach 'stupendously large' sizes" gave me pause for reflection on the problem of why students are "turned off" from "science." 

I harken back to that much admired promoter of the wonders of science and pothead Carl Sagan's awestruck mantra of "billions and billions of stars." Edgar Poe wrote (my emphasis italicized) in his Rationale of Verse about the symmetry of rhyme this: 

To return to equality. Its idea embraces those of similarity, proportion, identity, repetition, and adaptation or fitness. It might not be very difficult to go even behind the idea of equality, and show both how and why it is that the human nature takes pleasure in it, but such an investigation would, for any purpose now in view, be supererogatory. It is sufficient that the fact is undeniable — the fact that man derives enjoyment from his perception of equality. Let us examine a crystal. We are at once interested by the equality between the sides and between the angles of one of its faces: the equality of the sides pleases us; that of the angles doubles the pleasure. On bringing to view a second face in all respects similar to the first, this pleasure seems to be squared; on bringing to view a third it appears to be cubed, and so on. I have no doubt, indeed, that the delight experienced, if measurable, would be found to have exact mathematical relations such as I suggest; that is to say, as far as a certain point, beyond which there would be a decrease in similar relations.

The problem is the cloying dullness of such theoretical phantasms when true science should be an ennobling mission to "do the good" for the benefit of future generations. The claim that "pure science" is just some disconnected theorizing a la Jonathan Swift's Laputa, like today's "string theory of the landscape" of innumerable multidimensional alternate universes is in the end just so much intellectual onanism.

For an example of true poetic of aesthetic wonder Keats sonnet is among the best ever composed (even though the encyclopedists might quibble over Cortez):

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne;
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star'd at the Pacific—and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

Little Toot, Baruch Plan, Korean War, Bertrand Russell World Government

 In 1948 the Walt Disney company issued a film in the midst of the postwar baby boom called Little Toot. Five years later I was born, the son of a father who had served in he Pacific theater and witnessed the signing, along with a vast multitude of others in the Pacific theater, by General MacArthur of the end of the WWII onboard the USS Missouri on September 2nd, 1945. 

My father, like the majority of his generation believed that the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japanese territories was what forced their surrender. However, this is not the real reason for the use of nuclear weapons. In 1946 Harry Truman, the quondam haberdasher puppet of Churchill, okayed the policy put forward at the United Nations supposed to stop nuclear weapons proliferation. Called the Baruch Plan, it really was a plan for world government to "prevent nuclear war." This failed whereby the "pacifist philosopher" Bertrand Russell decided to take his royal gloves off and show himself as the blood thirsty geopolitician he truly was.  In 1947, Lord Russell wrote the following:

"I should like to see as soon as possible as close a union as possible of these countries who think it worth while to avoid atomic war. I think you could get so powerful an alliance that you could turn to Russia and say, "It is open to you to join this alliance if you will agree to the terms; if you will not join us we shall go to war with you." I am inclined to think that Russia would acquiesce; if not, provided this is done soon, the world might survive the resulting war and emerge with a single government such as the world needs." (United Empire 39, 1948)

The Soviets refused Russell's plan for world government when they rejected the Baruch Plan. Not convinced they could trust the Truman Administration that had carried out those atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the meantime, America was subjected to cultural psychological warfare aimed at instilling hysteria, fear and pessimism preventing any attempt at effecting Franklin Delano Roosevelt's postwar plan to end "the methods of British colonialism." This psy war was two pronged. One was inducing mass hysteria via the cold war threat of nuclear annihilation. This led to McCarthyism anti communism red scares, which at the time of my early youth, I have a vague memory of my father being visited late one night by threatening g-men regarding putting a stop to his union organizing. Also, the very same Lord Russell embarked upon a scheme to promote irrationality as so called freedom in the arts with his founding sponsorship of the CIA funded Congress for Cultural Freedom. (Now called the Open Society Foundations of George Soros, who "liberally" endowed it with 32 billion dollars.)

The Korean war, as the first in a series of geopolitical forever wars found Douglas MacArthur objecting to would be imitators of Russell's population war methods in response for plans to firebomb civilians in North Korea. Answering then General O'Donnell who had asked for MacArthur's acquiescence, he said,  "No, Rosie, I'm not prepared to go that far yet. My instructions are very explicit; however, I want you to know that I have no compunction whatever to your bombing bona fide military objectives, with high explosives, in those five industrial centers. If you miss your target and kill people or destroy other parts of the city, I accept that as a part of war." MacArthur went on to advised JFK to get out of Viet Nam shortly before he was assassinated.

I remember my paternal grandfather calling me "Little Toot," saying, "Little Toot -- just trying to get by in this world." This would have been some ten years after this Disney film was released. This phrase thereafter always stuck in my craw... And until this morning, I hadn't ever looked up the reference. However, the reason this rather innocuous sounding sentence bothered me was that it struck me as the the prevalent unwholesome cultural dictum of the time of the passive "company man" of "go along to get along, don't make waves." 

Thus it strikes me today, that the return to "normalcy," (Harry Truman's very own charming neologism for "normality") means the wholesale resurrection of the incoming administration of Russell's geopolitical and cultural agenda in new clothes. "Recreational drugs" are being legalized to decorticate a new generation and the false narrative of climate change is being pounced upon in a "flight forward" rush by Biden's handlers to bring on the Great Reset/Green New Deal. Soon a blowout of the bubble will occur along with more forever wars and the takedown of the space colonization mission. In the meantime, the American people need a little education in American system economics, otherwise we are doomed to repeat the ever downward spiral toward further chaos.

The Night's Plutonian Geopolitical Shore

 As Trump said in his departing address, he was an outsider to the D.C. Beltway. Therefore that alone made him a target, all the more so by his overt defiance of Comey and the Company of Intel Agencies. As that memorable quote by the current Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer on intel agencies getting Trump "six ways from Sunday." 

The problem though in my estimation that has led to the current push toward shut down on the freedom of speech and even overt calls for reeducation of the deplorable rabble, is that Trump himself was too entangled with the miserable likes of Pompeo and Bannon. 

The LaRouche movement and others, myself as well, had rightly exposed the Saudis and British Intelligence as behind Al Qaeda's 9/11 World Trade Center massacre. The Pompeo claim that Iran is behind all Islamic terror is a lie. Trump almost from day one of his Presidency went to Saudi Arabia, next named Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and engineered via Pompeo and alliance with the Sunni Wahhabi feudalists and Israel. This fuse has been lit due to the placating of the loony American Armageddonists version of the second coming. 

The case of Steve Bannon and the Henry Jackson, English Speaking Union is another problem that has seeded yet another potential for an outbreak by miscalculation with China.

Now, we have the Clintonistas with their unfinished business with their Russian friends... Hillary recently was quoted that Trump probably called Putin to get and OK for an insurrection (!) 

And yet, there may be a few forlorn shoots that may not die of canker. I must say that I am particularly delighted that nuclear rocketry for a Mars colonization mission may be afoot (even

Rolls Royce and Elon Musk may be partnering as rumor has it.) And it has just come to my attention that there is a proposal to set up a human colony in the orbit of Ceres. This of course should be named in honor of Riemann's immortal teacher Karl Gauss. 

The Truth Will Set You Free

I am hopeful, dear reader, this etching of Rembrandt's Adam and Eve will not be whited out by the "AI" bots. However, please refer to an image if so that links here. This posting will refer to this image as a standard for conveying the dramatic irony of truthfulness and beauty. 

If you direct your gaze to the face of Adam what do you see? Like the many self portraits of Rembrandt, what I cannot but marvel at is a soul amidst unrest and mental dilemma. Leonardo and Raphael managed the like within the confines of the prescribed ideal form of human nakedness. (Leonardo, in fact, in his notebooks made clear that the artist should not be so entranced with his own image that it be taken as a model for this ideal.) However, Rembrandt did not adhere to the said stylistic  injunction of the day.

What is the political reality of today's affairs? If we, like Rembrandt, were to dare to lay bare all in its stark humanity in truthful forms, perhaps less than accepted mode of performance art's model of popular entertainment? 

We have, since our acquiescence to a monstrous lie, been living in mental terror of the evil geopolitical framework of mutually assured destruction. The lie was that it was necessary for Truman to assent to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end WWII. Ever since that point, the psychological framework for the future of humanity has been dictated from an embedded and quite viciously evil oligarchy. 

I, and my former comrades, promulgated a strategic option to end this deliberately imposed psychological warfare that came to be known by the term of belittlement engendered through the control of the mass media by that same oligarchy as "star wars." Why and how was this proposal for ending the reign of terror through mutual collaboration of developing technologies based upon new physical principles that would spill over to revive our wrecked and looted industrial economy defeated? Essentially, because of the manipulation of a psychologically crippled little people that had accepted the big lie upon which the postwar liberal order world governance maintained power.  

So, instead of the truth that could have turned over the chess board we got the same polarities of mental chains like Jonathan Swift's Lilliputians fighting over chimeras of mental figments. The problem is that when we chase after these in order to finance a movement, we leave the truth behind. For in the end, it serves not to cater to backwardness rather than bringing the naked truth with its warts and all to light, for only then may we actually challenge humanity to look upon its foibles and start upon the painful yet healthful path of self consciously becoming aware. Without that any movement will necessarily come to nought.

Pseudo Religious Political Movements and anti China vs. Russia, Russia, Russia Pivot

What an execrable mess politics in America is these days.

Today we have a deployment of the agents of geopolitics via religious movements and institutions. On one hand, the Pope is all in on the Green New Deal/Great Reset. (See Biden and Pelosi...) On the other hand we  the supposed pro Israel/Jewish lobby as God's chosen people bringing the prophecy of Armageddon crew.

As if this weren't enough, we have the Tucker Carlson anti China operation on deck...

Oy vey. The times they are a changin...

Duck and Cower, "Celebrating" 70 Years of Psychological Warfare

Soon, the memories of the teachers that had their students drilled to crouch beneath their desks will be all but gone. For I am the ripe old age of near 68 and my teachers had to have been at the very least in their early twenties back then. The time of the duck and cover conditioning began in 1951, a decade before the "edge of destruction" Cuban Missile crisis. What did this do to our collective psyches? 

Jackson Pollock, a victim of Jungian psychotherapy, started his "drip period" at about the same time as the duck and cover psy-ops began. The CIA meanwhile started promoting this literal insanity on canvas as "modern art" of free expression against communism through it's sponsorship of Bertrand Russell led Congress for Cultural Freedom. Today, its successor organization is run by none other than George Soros, the financier of so called color revolutions around the globe. 

The next act was the foray into "research" of mind control via hallucinogens in the CIA project MK Ultra in or around 1953. Thus the irrationality of freedom could be minted a decade later as the counterculture of Timothy Leary's "Turn on, Tune in, Drop out"  mantra could be force fed to those same children that previously huddled beneath their desks for fear of nuclear obliteration. Cool...

And now we are legalizing dope and criminalizing free speech in the "information age" of consumer "gig economy." Qui Bono? Who benefits? It ain't me babe...

 

Chirality and Life

 Even in these benighted times, every once in a while there appears a glimmer of scientific genius that come almost like manna to salve one's despairing mentality. Today, in the midst of my wonted perusal of what passes for scientific inquiry, I came across a rather remarkable bit of hypothesizing about the molecular chiral organization of water. 

In other words, water is so constituted that it conforms congruently to the essential property of organic chirality. Here we see the legacy of Pasteur. The anomalous boundary of living and inorganic afford us the precise vehicle to research what the leader of the true scientific approach, Leibniz clarified as the harmonic underpinning of natural law that makes the constitution of this world the best among all possibilities. And in doing so puts to rest for all but the most diehard blockheads among us that the ordering of our universe is, in potential, always characterized by an evolvability to higher levels of more order.

In this, we find consolation that our struggles to lay the groundwork for unremitting human progress will eventually bear fruit no matter how much those of ill will work to prevent it.

The Space Program's Benefit for Humanity in Its Universal Context

The Christian Humanist Renaissance held that that logos or the word, i.e. reason, being made flesh was understood that mankind was made in the living image of God the creator. And was given a new dispensation and right to uncover the laws of nature for the well being of future generations. 

It is this type of love for humanity that inherently has a power that may not be overcome by any tyranny because it is based upon immutable truth. It has a power beyond all reckoning in the here and now because it unfolds continuously in time as scientific progress, yet is unbounded in the simultaneous sempiternal realm beyond time. 

Thus it is that our better selves, each and every human on this planet, in principle, have a unique correspondence that resonates in harmony with the great mission and purpose for exploring and developing our civilization in space. It is in that particular sense that we are all united with our past hard-fought victory over lawless arbitrary rule of irrational oligarchies that would deny our real creative and universal identities. 

This mission may not ever be defeated and eradicated unless humanity is no more. And this is the context with which everything that is occurring on the political stage of current world history must be strategically organized to bring about this one unifying and necessary future. All nations and all faiths, our science, technology and art can only come into congruence and peace by adopting and fulfilling its promise.  

To The Grand Information Inquisition

If it be subversive to hear and see, 

Then blot your pages from our eyes--

For our spirit still aims to flee

To thoughts above your cave of lies.

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes - The sleep of reason produces monsters

 

On Lincoln's Preamble of Malice Toward None

This morning, I awoke with a shocking and welcome surprise that Julian Assange had his extradition request denied. It is perhaps a portent that the power of the Five Eyes is weakened to a degree. However, we must expect that like a wounded beast they will counter attack, of course. To be sure, the current head of the CIA, Gina Haspel is enmired in the methods of lawlessness of that rogue agency's misdeeds. 

And, as well, we have the prospect of a continuing attempt at any cost to bring into being a dictatorship corporatist state that even Orwell couldn't have imagined. The only pathway out is to uplift all mankind to a higher purpose. For in the end, without that sine qua non, all the exposes of the inveterate evil doers of the Assanges and Snowdens will come to naught. Society will fail. 

But we do have the spirit of Abraham Lincoln, who had he lived, would have led this nation out of the crisis. If we take up the mission that this country represents for the world here, and in space for millenia to come we cannot fail. For the universe is so wondrously composed that if we apply the effort to conquer with good will our worldly needs and wants with malice toward none, we may not fail. And in that we may be gladdened in heart and justly celebrate that which makes each and everyone among us truly human. Our likeness to ever lessen our imperfections and come into conformity with the merciful principle that unites us. 

Beethoven - Missa Solemnis - Kölner RSO / Klemperer

Mankind's Manifest Destiny of Space Colonization

Forty four years ago, in 1976, the Soviet Union returned a sample of lunar soil. The Chinese just returned another sample from the far side of the moon. America failed in its leadership and mission in those two generations that were lost to an abiding cultural pessimism. As I recall, the battle of the elite establishment against the mission for humanity to enter an unprecedented era of prosperity and achievement was waged on multiple levels from the 1960s onward. 

The simple minded and utterly false refrain was that money that was being wasted in space was needed to alleviate poverty here on earth. However, the less obvious, yet just as malign subversion came from the "entertainment industry." This was the new age paradigm shift as it spread its noxious contagion of pessimism throughout the pores of society. 

Barring cataclysmic events precipitated by the authors of the geopolitical "Great Reset" and its "Green New Deal" lunacy, humanity is yet again on the precipice of the age of space colonization and reason. All the power that our putative elites have in the end is the destruction of the universal desire in the imagination of the people of this planet to make a future worthy of our undying quest for discovering and conquering the untold power of the stars that we see unfurling ahead of us. 

What the elites fail to comprehend is that this mission cannot so easily be snuffed out because it is the indissoluble and essential nature of us all. So, it is with that thought and Beethoven's Choral Fantasy that I wish you all a Happy New Year.

Beethoven - Choral Fantasy op 80 - Brendel, Haitink, LPO (1977)

Open Letter to John Tresch Esq. of the Warburg Institute Regarding His Defamation of Edgar Poe

 I read with interest your essay "Matter No More": Edgar Allan Poe and the Paradoxes of Materialism. Your framing of the meaning of the arabesque in Poe (by the way using his middle name should be put aside due to the taint of being on the same footing as an assassin or mass murderer) was certainly interesting. But the avoidance entirely of Poe's politics and mischaracterization of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes as based upon Dupin are telling. For Holmes was no Dupin, but rather totally of the deductive "creeping and crawling" (to cite Poe) method. My ears pricked up at that point. 

And yes, Poe's Eureka did identify the "Hoggian" method with Francis Bacon. But you left out that Hogg was also a reference to James Hogg, the murderer and so called Ettrick Shepherd Bard sponsored by none other than Sir Walter Scott. 

Finally, the imputation that Poe's Eureka was somehow an eternal recurrence cum pantheistic obscurantism finally quite burned my same ears...

It was only after I finished reading the essay that I found you are with the Warburg Institute. Then it all made sense. I recalled a presentation I attended many years hence by Gerald Rose of the Schiller Institute entitled: How The Venetians Took Over England and Created Freemasonry In it the Warburg Institute of  your colleague Frances Yates is exposed as nothing more than a Delphic branch of the Rosicrucian cabalistic mumbo jumbo of the likes of John Dee (007) of British Imperialism. 

So it all came together for me at once. You needn't deny any of this. It is an all too transparent hit job on Poe.

Yours truly.

Robert Arnold 

Riemann's Uber die Hypothesen and the Non Commutativity of Forces

As is evident from Riemann's great roadmap for scientific progress "The Hypotheses that are the Foundations of Geometry," Riemann, in spirit, followed Kepler's injunction against reliance on algebra for determining physical causality. Riemann, as well, avoided the error of Cartesianism that Leibniz warned against.   

The which is encompassed in especially two main ideas from that work that operate together in the fashion of a musical dialogue in a great fugue. One that asserts "The questions about the infinitely great are for the interpretation of nature useless questions. (...)We are therefore quite at liberty to suppose that the metric relations of space in the infinitely small do not conform to the hypotheses of geometry; and we ought in fact to suppose it, if we can thereby obtain a simpler explanation of phenomena." 

In other words, there is evidence of a breakdown in the infinitely large and infinitely small of normal geometrical relationships. Indeed, isn't this precisely what the quantum world challenges us with? Our normal assumptions based upon reasoning from our macroscopic world break down. For how can a thing be simultaneously a wave and particle as well as participating in superposition. This violates our geometrical assumptions based upon our visual manifold of what an identity of a "thing" is, after all.

At the other end of the spectrum in the infinitely large, we are confronting another daunting paradox. It seems that unknown forces are propelling galaxies to rotate out of synch with gravity. Additionally, the very fabric of spacetime itself is measured to be constantly expanding by a factor denoted as lambda. 

The other principle that Riemann appended to his great Gedankenexperiment was that one must set aside all prejudices when embarking upon the realm of physics, "Researches starting from general notions, like the investigation we have just made, can only be useful in preventing this work from being hampered by too narrow views, and progress in knowledge of the interdependence of things from being checked by traditional prejudices. This leads us into the domain of another science, of physic, into which the object of this work does not allow us to go today."

Now it is the case that Einstein, in his breakthrough relativity theory, did precisely as Riemann had supplied in the body of his hypotheses by adopting a curved spacetime in a particular four dimensional manifold by challenging "traditional prejudices." However, Einstein encountered a roadblock in attempting to formulate a "unified field theory."

Now, it occurs to me that when speaking of forces qua geometrical relationships in the realm of the physically non-living, at the level of the infinitesimal, we have a breakdown of the principle of Cartesian "empty" metrical space. Otherwise, how can we justify the strong and weak nuclear forces as operating disparately in a continuous manifold. And at the same time that we can prove that the quantum realm is itself discontinuous? 

Likewise, at the realm of the infinitely large the rotational forces holding together galaxies operate in a somehow different fashion than our conception of conventional gravity, or we must imagine the influence of unknown and hidden non luminous particles. But perhaps there is another type of strong force at this infinitely large realm analogous to that which holds the nucleus together? Likewise the weak force of radioactive decay might find a physical analogy somehow in the lambda expansion. 

Now all of this foregoing returns me to Kepler, who approached the geometry of our solar system from a principle that there must be an overall unity of lawful harmony in the planetary elliptical orbits. It is from this standpoint that Leibniz developed his own Monadological approach to unification of what Vernadsky would later further refine as the realms of Lithosphere, Biosphere and Noosphere.

Because, echoing Riemann's warning above, when attempting to unify forces, one must depart the framework of the inert non living. This is so because the living lesser monads have a sort of primitive force, a connatus, that separates themselves hermetically from the non living. For while being constituted from the same atoms as the non living, the living force is radically non commutative, in an analogous manner that there are distinct transfinite numerical orderings as demonstrated by Georg Cantor. Likewise, within the realm of the Noosphere of creative human mentation there is a transfinite boundary separating all other lifeforms. We humans have the unique capacity of reason. However, this capacity is not some mystical substance. Rather it is our willful capability to overcome physical and biological limits of the lower realms of reality. 

The Continuing Relevance of Leibnizian Science

Leibniz stringently demonstrated a physical geometric basis for harmonic action across the domains of universal reality. The qualitative differences among these were defined as associated with lower and higher monads. 

A very recent brilliant study on sound wave propagation through a fermionic "perfect fluid" illustrates the remarkable foresight of Leibniz' enduring contribution to scientific methodology. The state of this lab created fluid was achieved by creating a condition where all individual fermions operate as strongly interacting lithium-6 atoms of extremely low viscosity. Such man made systems are models for extreme anomalous naturally occuring exotic conditions such as neutron stars. This type of research includes Bose Einstein condensates and superconducting materials.

The connection to Leibniz is just this: at the level of harmonic interaction of individual monads there are higher monads, the highest being the indivisible human "soul," and lower monads. A system of such monads that resonates harmonically, Leibniz characterized as a pre-established ordering. Thus evidence of a universal lawfulness that must partake of a continuing process of unfolding or becoming toward more, not less, perfection concomitant with the ongoing progress of human economic interaction with nature.

This harmony extends to all realms of physical reality. Indeed in the referenced experiment, the fermionic monads are among the very lowest order possible to the extent that they almost have totally lost their individual differences. This is what gives them their near quantum frictionless fluidity. The ability to create a resonance of soundwaves in this laboratory created gas is a technological achievement in the footsteps of Leibnizian science that will allow humanity to further progress.

Credit: Christine Daniloff, MIT

Thoughts Upon Biophysical Dynamics

 The levels of regulation of the functioning in the domain of the biotic realm are currently being more and more elucidated. For instance, the roles of small RNA molecules in control of various processes. This recent finding of how microRNAs are degraded after their role in messenger RNAs is completed exhibits exquisitely intricate nested levels of cellular processes whereby types of molecular machinery are controlled. 

This brings to mind that there must be a kind of biophysical topology that displays nested enthalpic degrees of freedom. Looking at this in the context of my ongoing remarks upon the principle of how proteins can act as singularities within connected functional phase spaces based upon Riemannian multiply connected manifolds, it is possible to further refine the overall structure.

The topology I am referencing must be thought of as a itself subsumed by the necessity of the living healthy ordering biophysical processes of the organism. The mathematics that would adequately render such a geometry of life has been merely glimpsed heretofore. It is tantamount to locating integrated processes of individual functional life forms within the evolution of the entire biosphere. There are thereby nested manifolds of interaction that are in principle consistent with Cantor's transfinite orderings. This direction in thinking will provide the basis for scientific investigations that will revolutionist human practice as we go forward as a space faring species.

Saturn and Jupiter Over Italy

In the dim prehistory of man,

Saturn and Jupiter once appeared as distant tyrants. 

Capricious gods -- bringing chaos among us:

Now they are places we visit.

The power of creative, unbound mind

Is the greatest force in the universe --

In knowing, conquers wayward time's flight.

Beethoven - Egmont - Overture

 

The Mission of Preventing the Pandemic Extinction of Humanity

 According to a quick search on the Internet there are currently 195 nations on this planet. As of this writing, there are some 7,117 spoken languages, in flux, known as of this time according to the website Ethnologue. This planet will hopefully not continue to be the only home of humanity as we emerge into a new age of space colonization. 

The problem, however, is that due to a shared psychotic worldview among supposed intellectual elites, the current trajectory of humanity is doomed to extinction. This is the stark reality facing us. How can we be sure that this is the case? 

There is a concept that is much abused known as the carrying capacity of the earth. The notion is quite simple, however as the old saw goes, the devil is in the details. The organization, of which I was formerly an active member, associated with LaRouche, had a a definition called "relative population potential." Much like the number of languages this metric is also constantly in flux and is not a simple quantity. 

However, it is easily understandable that it may be a possibility that if humanity were to fall below a tipping point there might be no return. We might not be wiped out via global war in a "nuclear winter" but instead by disease in an unstoppable pandemic or perhaps a series of pandemics.

The mission of producing the science required to prevent this must be the lightning rod that brings humanity out of the paranoid worldview of geopolitics. There must be instead a concert of sovereign nations that establish the economic framework for truly ending poverty once and for all on this planet. There is no other viable alternative.

Biophysical Self Similarity as a Negentropic Higher Ordering Principle

Since the mission of combating disease and aging are anchoring research to reality in biophysics much progress is being made as a result, despite limitations of investigative methods adherence to philosophical biases. The difference with the Quixotic quest for an unverifiable unified field theory of everything in physics is stark in contrast. 

I contend that much of the brilliant hypothesizing that created the non Euclidean, Riemannian spacetime manifold geometry is just as applicable, if not more so, to biophysics. In the broadest overview within the domain of the biosphere we encounter nested sequences of functional dynamic orderings. To seek to bring these into coherence we must locate the progression of evolutionary sequences in capability of nonlinear improvements in energy flux density of negentropy. The biosphere itself is bounded by the inorganic and human noetic power analogous to Dirichlet's principle in least action bounding dynamics for topology. 

Within that biosphere we can investigate how the divisions of life types adhere to the intake and transformation of useful energy. It is the interaction with the inorganic domain that limits the development of both. For example, the organic carbohydrates that comprise the biosphere require for their dynamic life sustaining elements to be incorporated to resolve their ability to reproduce. Thereby the uptake of phosphorus by mitochondria as catalytic in providing energy reduction by the enzymatic framework of ATP was evolved for the different branches of cellular life.

One intriguing direction would be developing a rigorous geometrical framework for the protein "interactome." There exist multiply connected functions within that interactome and there are coherent classes of cases of proteins acting as singularities that bridge them. For example, the scaffolding functions of actin and myosin might be bridged in some cases by multifunctional proteins interacting with signaling entities like sonic hedgehog. There appears to be a scale of closer integrated cellular functions enmeshed with these multifunctional proteins with some that are referred to as moonlighting seemingly unrelated such functions. Topologically, these disparate states might be thought as Riemannian non deformable surfaces of higher ordered connectedness.  

However within such extended topologies there also exist the equivalence of multi sheeted polarities whereby the multifunctional proteins exhibit the characteristic of operating as branch points. This physical geometric framework was supplied toward the end of 19th century by Riemann and Abel among others. The problem is that the further development of this physical geometry was vitiated by the usage of the statistics of entropy as a fundamental principle for scientific research. 

It should have been apparent that a negentropic higher ordering principle contradicted the materialist assumptions of limited resources. This proceeds from the top down via human creative breakthroughs that reorganize and redefine what constitutes resources for economic survival of society. That principle of moving beyond the relatively fixed limits of reproduction within that economic topology is equivalent to the emergence of life from the fixed limits of the inorganic domain. It is representative of a higher harmonic class of ordering.

In that context, I came across a rather startling bit of brilliant research bearing upon morphogenesis yesterday evening. The apparent random process of cellular reproduction are controlled by "morphogens" that admit self organization in embryogenesis. It is my contention that such agents of self organization apply as a limiting principle to the entirety of the domain of biophysical interactions. Thus we see cohesin and topoisomerase functions operating upon the mitotic DNA reproductive process, for instance. This represents a principle of self similar harmonic ordering that "closes" the boundaries of structure of the biophysical domain that Dirichlet provided for compact manifolds. 

Reflection Upon the Paradox of Spacetime and Universal Absolute Motion

 Leibniz remarked that Newton's supposition that a body set into motion without any other forces acting upon it would continue in a straight line was insupportable. For said body could just as easily be supposed to continue to move ad infinitum in a curved line. 

Indeed, as Nicholas of Cusa showed due to the principle of coincidence of opposites in the limited imagination of the infinite in the realm of human cognition, there is no difference between straightness and curvature. For that matter, likewise there is in fact no difference between infinite motion and infinite rest. 

However, in the concrete physical medium, there is no infinite motion. The speed of light is the greatest possible speed of electromagnetic propagation. Thus providing a boundedness for three dimensional extension to "go over" via Riemann's principle of n+1, into a kind of 3+1 dimensionality at right angles to the totality of the other three spatial dimensions. Thus giving rise to a what is called Einsteinian spacetime. However, one caveat here is that spacetime is not continuously traversable in either direction, but can only proceed up to the speed of light forward in the dimension of time. (This is why all talk about reversibility of time and thereby entropy is nothing more than vain imaginary reasoning.)

As Einstein correctly hypothesized mass is proven to be converted to energy as the square of the speed of light. However, as we have noted above that entity can have no physical meaning such that we cannot multiply the speed of light at all for absolute space except as a relative term in spacetime. Thus were developed by Einstein the overall field equations involving measurement tensor geometries describing the effects of gravity as a form of curvature of spacetime. Hence the complaint that Leibniz made against Newton's pairwise attractive force of gravity is a false, magical action at a distance is overcome by Einstein's revolution in physics.

It is remarkably consistent that Einstein's own complaint about the statistical assumptions of quantum mechanics are likewise faulty. For the use of statistics for the sake of making consistent measurements  can never magically stand in the place of causality. To date, the edifice of the standard model of particle physics that rests upon quantum mechanics statistical wave function that Einstein criticized as based upon mere chance rather than lawfulness has not been resolved. 

If it were possible to add the universal manifold of motions of any one frame of reference "at rest" like the earth, what would be the set of nested variables involved? As a thought experiment let us make an attempt. We know at the largest scale that our Milky Way galaxy is moving as a part of the Virgo cluster group toward the "Great Attractor" group of galaxies which in turn comprise portions of the super cluster called Laniakea.  However, the cosmological constant lamba that is the basis for some unknown "dark energy" that is expanding the fabric of space time. This must be added to this velocity as well.

From the very largest scales, our rotating planet is moving within the solar system, which in turn is rotating within our home galaxy the Milky Way. If we could actually correctly model all these motions within motions relative to an "absolute space" reference frame, and that is a big if, then it is my intuition that many of the problems associated with the great paradoxes of the big bang, dark matter, dark energy and black holes in the context of quantum physics standard model may become resolved in an analogous manner by which Einstein superseded Newtonian mechanics. This would serve as the basis for a unification theory for the forces within the inorganic realm of reality, however it cannot in itself account for the transfinitely higher ordering of the biophysical, just as the biophysical cannot account for the human noetic domain.  

The Universe within 500 million light years, showing the nearest galaxy walls

Galaxy filaments, walls and voids form web-like structures.

Physical Reality or Mathematical Formalisms?

Today, we have a crisis in physical science that mirrors and maps onto the corresponding crisis in culture. This has to do with the irrationality of the provably false belief that a statistical array that apparently coheres approximately with some physical function may be substituted for causality. 

This has led to the embarrassing absurdity of a sort of latter day cargo cult quasi religion of string theory. In which we find an inextricable tangled mess of a imaginary figment known as the multiverse landscape of possible parallel worlds where reality is left completely and irremediably behind. If only these stultified probability junkies had picked up and comprehended Leibniz on the issue, they might never have been entranced futilely babbling to each other ad infinitum about unprovable yet putatively "beautiful mathematics."

As LaRouche has repeatedly pointed out about so called pure geometry given in the most advanced treatment to this date by Riemann, it is inadmissible to attempt to substitute, as in the manner of an algebra, it (pure geometry) for physical reality. Indeed, the great Riemann explicitly warned of just that in his groundbreaking doctoral thesis. 

"A decision upon these questions [i.e. of curvature type and dimensional manifold] can be found only by starting from the structure of phenomena that has been approved in experience hitherto, for which Newton laid the foundation, and by modifying this structure gradually under the compulsion of facts which it cannot explain. Such investigations as start out, like this present one, from general notions, can promote only the purpose that this task shall not be hindered by too restricted conceptions, and that progress in perceiving the connection of things shall not be obstructed by the prejudices of tradition.

This path leads out into the domain of another science, into the realm of physics, into which the nature of this present occasion forbids us to penetrate." 

And yet, that has been precisely the path taken that has led us into the present abyss. It is clearly an irrefutable tautology that statistics is not causality. However, it is also the case that irrationality is not beauty. And yet our would be authoritative cultural establishment has ordained the opposite. 

The mathematical forms taken from Riemann (for example the Riemann Roche theorem) have been "mapped" into statistical wave functions and become "reified" as physical substance. This has transformed Riemann's principled challenge of the false sense certainty of Euclidean space into the false axiomatics of "statistical space."  

Such perversity is nothing new. In fact it can be found at any historical epoch wherein the arbitrarily imposed will of an oligarchy is radically challenged. In particular in Plato's dialogues that record the open questioning of that very irrationality by Socrates resulting in his judicial execution by mob rule. This proceeds in the course of the Republic where Thrasymachus represents the justification for such arbitrary rule by force. This today is the essence of  the push toward geopolitical tyranny of global neoliberalism that goes hand in hand with the intellectual disability of and crisis of probabilistic "sciences."

 

Endosymbiosis of Mitochondria as Nicholas of Cusa's Principle of Contracted Maximality

 As I have insisted within these pages and elsewhere, Nicholas of Cusa is not a mystic. In fact, the truth is precisely the opposite. And anyone professing to identify Cusa's works as such, merely demonstrates his of her intellectual shortcomings. 

By the phrase "just the opposite" I mean to say that the method of philosophic dialogue that Cusa develops is the basis not for mysticism but rather it is the basis for scientific investigation. I shall demonstrate this in what follows. 

We do not know, and will never know precisely when and how the mechanism of cellular energy throughput came about in the history of the biosphere. We do know that the remarkable near universality of the mitochondria as the locus of the energy throughput via the engine of the enzyme ATPase supplying ATP as the source of energy to the cell. We know that this constitutes an endosymbiosis, in which the cell's nuclear DNA is separate and distinct from the encapsulated mitochondrial DNA. This constitutes a unity as the basis for the very organization of life across the boundaries of its aerobic and anaerobic forms. 

The principle for this process of development of our organic existence is twofold. One is the necessity of the capture and useful reduction of energy underlying and differentiating the living and non-living states of matter. The second principle is the process of subsumption of opposites in the manifold contractedness of substance.  This occurs via that which Riemann established as the equivalence of degrees of freedom through added dimensionality. This is understood as the orthogonal movement of n dimensions to n + 1 dimensions. 

Thus for all history, the subsumption of the mitochondria into the cell, constitutes a nodal event that rather efficiently demonstrates that which Cusa identified as learned ignorance. For we will never know precisely how this came about, however by investigating this very biophysical irony, if you will, we know that we shall progress upon the pathway of humanity's necessary mission of conquering disease and extending our "healthspan." We do this not as an isolated goal, but instead as the complement for humanity's larger mission of space colonization.

It is likewise not accidental that the scientific progress in the investigation of the inorganic realm hinges upon a subsumption of a different, restricted kind. That is both matter and anti-matter somehow are related as a basis of energy throughput of that nonliving realm. How it is that there is a sort of directionality of the priority of matter over anti-matter in the evolution of the cosmos will never be precisely known. However, we know that in investigating this, we will likewise afford humanity the ability to achieve a new degree of freedom in energy throughput. For it is known that the potential of matter/anti-matter reactions will bring about a new regime for providing thrust for that very same mission of space colonization identified above. 

Once again, we as a unique species are by our nature fitted out to carry out these scientific investigations. In any one historical epoch of such necessary endeavours, we understand that we are merely providing guidance and a potential pathway for what future generations must achieve to further the true mission for humanity. And once again, we return to the principle of "investigation" cited above for both the inorganic and organic realms. This time however we are applying the principle of subsumption of opposites as Cusa develops in his Docta Ignorantia in a different manner. 

Firstly, even though the history of mankind pivots around two different and opposed principles, it is only by the utter defeat of one upon which our continued existence hinges. The organization of society by an irrational oligarchy whose goal is itself destructive of the means and ends of civilization's necessary missions must be once and for all overcome. Now, achieving that does require an uplifting of humanity out of such infantile irrationality. It means extinguishing forms of oppression such as the mechanisms of financial looting of the physically productive economy. In this case it is not a relation of symbiosis that we are dealing with so much as parasitism.

However, there is a precise meaning for the unity of opposites as Cusa developed in his great work De Docta Ignorantia. It is in the national language cultures and philosophical and religious beliefs that apparent opposites can and must be overcome. The ongoing cooperation of eradicating poverty, defeating disease and colonizing space is the basis of creating a new degree of freedom for humanity. Moreover it is by the production of beauty in the arts that we inspire progeny to take up that very same mission. This represents the principle of the Contracted Maximum in human history and as such qualifies the philosophy of Cusa as the basis for scientific progress. 

Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), detail of relief ‘Cardinal Nicholas before St. Peter’ on his tomb by Andrea Bregno, church of St. Peter in Chains, Rome

Time Out of Mind: Revisited

 Avicenna remarked that he was not of the Ismaili sect as has been claimed. It is also stated by the narrator Cide Hamete Benengeli of Don Quixote that Avicenna said however that the whole world is mad.

The so called Union of Concerned Scientists has recently moved their doomsday clock a tick closer to midnight. Perhaps the fuse will be lit in some unexpected corner of our interconnected globe. 

We suspect that humanity has been in control of fire for perhaps 400,000 years now. (This has been updated to 670,000 years ago!) I hope to live a vigorous age of near 100 years by 2050 AD or so. My grandparents were born in the latter part of the 1800s. So that more or less covers the span in three generations of some 200 years. So we need a mere two thousand (3.35 thousand, updated) of those units of time to arrive at the point that mankind first used fire. Before that, really, you can't call anybody hardly human.

Now, we know it takes the earth some 200 million years to circle the milky way. That's about that a thousand times longer again from when we became, in a sense, truly human by cooking our food. In about ten million years from now our planet will be bobbing along the Milky Way's spiral arm closer to the Virgo Cluster of galaxies and receiving a huge dose of radiation from the shockwave of cosmic rays. 

Our human minds, our consciousness are able to conceive of the vast spectrum of time that clusters of galaxies like the milky way produce such shockwaves that impinge upon us. We can view these shockwaves as relics of radio waves and estimate in several billion light years when the merger of these clusters caused these shockwaves. 

Now we are told by theoreticians of quantum physics that in the act of viewing the probabilistic  "wave function" associated with the very smallest particles of matter causes that wave function to collapse. But the human mind was produced by the vast scope of the unfolding of and in time of the universe. This is a paradox that has been caused by viewing the mathematics of probability as reality. 

The solution is to know that the potential of collapse of human society can be averted, but that it requires us to realize and act to change our assumptions about reality. There is no final fate of this wonderful universe as we might imagine from the limited perspective of mere deterministic mathematics. Humanity has vital missions ahead of us. 

One is to utilize what we have so far grasped scientifically to eradicate poverty and more effectively combat disease among us. Another is to move off this planet and conquer the limits of dwelling in "outer space." The lessons we learn about the power of shockwaves in the immense vastness of time and space for accelerating matter and anti-matter will propel us to worlds we know not where but may only imagine. 

First we must conquer the tyranny, the madness that chains us to a failed system of beliefs. For we are not hapless animals merely here for the ride as victims of fate. The time since we conquered the power of fire is hardly an instant in the face of the long arc of cosmic time as we know it now. The future is determined by our willful choices. Time is what we make of it, not of what it makes of us.

Shockwaves of Galactic Clusters and Implications of the Microcosm and Macrocosm Interrelationship

 I have repeatedly brought attention to the seminal work of Bernard Riemann on the principle of shockwave propagation. Keeping in mind his insistence as well that the physical geometry outside the range of our limited human or better yet perhaps mammalian perceptions may bring into play the alternative curvatures of of non-Euclidean "space." 

In this regard, the discovery of the presence of shockwave formations of merging galaxy clusters in the radio wave spectrum as so called radio relics is very important research for moving the frontiers of scientific progress forward. This is especially due to their almost unimaginably vast structure at the same time propelling the very smallest particles' acceleration to relativistic speed of light velocities.

 This is the indissoluble connection that is always apparent of the macrocosm with the microcosm as Nicholas of Cusa demonstrated in his "triune" principle. The very large and the very small macrocosm/microcosm connectedness as an analogue of the human relationship of the universal creator with the individual person via creative reason, in non religious terms.

The curvature as the shockwave front nears the limit of transmissibility for the medium of electromagnetic propagation proceeds naturally from a positive spheroid type to a negative horn. Indeed, Riemann is again proven correct that the physical system precedes choice of mathematical geometry. The various types of further such potential particle accelerations and scatterings, etc. are the platform upon which we can be confident scientific progress accruing to the future benefit of humanity will necessarily proceed as both Riemann and Cusa would surely agree. 

MeerKAT radio contours (magenta) on A2384 XMM-Newton image. Credit: Parekh et al., 2020

" The origin of the radio relic is puzzling.(...) This radio relic could be the result of shock wave propagation during the passage of the low-mass A2384(S) cluster through the massive A2384(N) cluster, creating a trail appearing as a hot X-ray filament." V. Parekh, et al.: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.02724

Gauss and Riemann Understood from the Standpoint of Vernadsky, Leibniz, and LaRouche: Updated

 In nearly all descriptions of the principle conformal mapping one sees displayed a simple globe whose south pole is situated at the origin of a Cartesian x,y two dimensional plain and rays from the surface projected through the north pole. This represents a transformation from the flat plain to the positively curved sphere. 

By Original: Mark.Howison at English Wikipedia This version: CheChe - This file was derived from:  Stereographic projection in 3D.png:, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56357179

However, the great Carl Friedrich Gauss developed a different type of mapping of irregular extended curvature onto a unit sphere: the "Gauss map." Here the normal from the curved surface that is given by the differential curvature (but not its magnitude) is mapped by a parallel projection onto the unit sphere. It is the tendency for change at that "point" that is being mapped which is something altogether different than a mere point in the above mapping.

Now, in an extended surface the map will show an orientation as one moves across the surface. Also, importantly since on any surface the same normal can be repeated there can be many sheets or layers. This could for instance pertain to the Einstein gravitational tensor directional locus of curvature mapped from the known universe. Also, it has been shown that the visual perceptual apparatus operates in an analogous manner of mapping. There exist "grid cells"in the entorhinal cortex of the mammalian brain  that are activated based upon location, direction and distance orientation.

The great student of Gauss, Bernhard Riemann developed this principle yet further with his surface function. It is a surface that combines different sheets of a multi-valued function through singular branch points of that function. Here, our attention is turned from curvature per se to how a function that can take on many values. Viewed from the standpoint of an n dimensional manifold, a branch point might provide a pathway to a new degree of functional freedom to an n+1 dimensional manifold as Riemann detailed in his doctoral habilitation dissertation. 

The conception of a singularity where a function branches becomes especially important in physical terms beyond the mathematical formalism. This can be shown in systems that undergo a critical condition and emerge into another regime or phase change such as in plasma physics. It can also be thought of as supplying a means of representing a multi-valued function of proteins in biophysics. There are a whole host of examples where proteins may have more than one role in disparate biological functions and sometimes wholly contrary ones. 

Indeed, the most important case of this principle comes into play for the human economy. If we view an invention as a kind of creative singularity for the functional "space" of the physical economy. That is, due to the development of a new degree of freedom the economy "goes over" into a new functional set of relations via the branchpoint of that invention. 

No matter, which type of extended space  we have to deal with the principle of Leibniz' monadology comes into play. For as Leibniz clearly proved, the mind, or soul if you will, is not an extended substance. That is, it has no parts. Now this is what Riemann is referring to as its "compactness" in his statement "The mind is a compact, multiply connected thought mass with internal connections of the most intimate kind. It grows continuously as new thought masses enter it, and this is the means by which it continues to develop." Likewise, all true infinitesimals or monads have no parts. Leibniz called the non-mechanical force arising therefrom "vis viva." If one looks at the human economy as an extended functional system of physical relations one can perform a type of mapping of its distinct elements that operate together in much the same way as a Gauss map. The normal to the "curvature" is the inter-relationship of types of physical goods produced and operatives for the entirety of the reproductive cycle of the economy. In this way, we have a mapping characterized by distinct categories that were developed by Lyndon LaRouche's correction of Marxian economics.

This type of mapping of physical inputs and outputs can be carried out as energy throughput for the entire planet's biosphere for instance. Which brings us to back to the issue of "vis viva" and types of lower and higher monads. Firstly, it is clear that Leibniz qualified the human mind as the highest type of monad. Also that it, the substance of mind or soul is imperishable. How is this so? To show this, we must investigate the concept of pre-established harmony of the monads. In all "spheres" of reality as defined by Vernadsky, i.e. Lithosphere, Biosphere, and Noosphere there is a type of connatus that bounds it, hence its compactness. (Here one should adduce an Astrosphere to Vernadsky's as mankind enters the age of space colonization.) Now Leibniz proposed that not all monads have a kind of window upon the world.  Some, however operate as a window for the higher monads. Such are the cilia signaling cells and the place cells, for instance. I would contend that this idea represents a type of mapping of the particular frame of reference of the monad to the universal. (It is of no small import that Einstein's principle of relativity is just such a kind of distinctly Riemannian mapping.)  It is here that the harmonics comes into play and it is also in that sense that this enduring non perishable lawful relationship governing all reality makes this the "best of all possible worlds." (So much for ill begotten theories of stochastic and lawless chaos of the rule of irrationality.) 

To conclude this survey, next take the physics of pressure waves that Riemann presented in his 1857 paper "On the propagation of planar airwaves of finite amplitude." In this paper Riemann in essence has predicted so called sonar shockwaves. For in any medium there is a governing and limiting characteristic rate of transmission. At the point of going beyond that, a singularity occurs where the curvature goes from a positive spherical (or technically for the case of spacetime hyperspherical) to a negative Mach cone type. 

Now this is representative of the manner in which a nonlinear progression is pre-established in the ongoing composition of external and internal reality is distinctly cognized by human noetic or creative mentation in the arts and science. The searching out of such anomalous singularities is the true method for the production of necessary human progress. And here I will end this brief overview to remind my audience that whether these principles come to the fore in human relations will determine either the pathway to a new Renaissance or a new Dark Age.

Since I wrote this post there has been dramatic progress in research on the nature of grid cells. I am happy to report that my intuition that toroidal action is indicative of a principle of metastability across many facets of physical reality has been confirmed yet again. It turns out that the topology of grid cells in the brain take the form of a torus. This confirms to me that in the domain of animal life, there exists a wonderfully built in capacity for a sort of problem solving skill that relies upon a surface that has both positive and negative curvature embedded within it. Recalling that Riemann pioneered non Euclidean curved surfaces and the propagation of shockwaves (that result in negative curved horn surface in a series of Mach cones) as a student of Gauss, it is only lawful that this particular geometry would be in the words of their great predecessor Leibniz be pre-established. See this wonderful linked video. 

The Unfinished American Revolution

Today America is in the throes of roving riots of anarchists fomented by a concert of Democratic Party leftists, radical environmentalists, "Eastern Establishment"media, and globalist foundations and financiers. Today's so called color revolutions of which the current umbrella movements of Black Lives Matter and Antifa in the US are components are being spread and paid for by vehicles like George Soros' Open Society, the Tides and the Ford Foundations, among others. 

In order to comprehend the way in which these forces are threatening this nation, it is necessary to learn and apply the lessons from the battleground of history both recent and as far back as antiquity. I shall first go into my own background from some nearly fifty years ago.

I had gone from high school to the University of Buffalo in 1971 majoring in mathematics. In my case, I was thoroughly disillusioned from the start when I attended there a seminar for mathematics majors. On the first day of that seminar, the instructor stated that there was no other motivation for the study of pure mathematics than mere exercise for the brain. This repulsed me. I had not entered the University with a mind toward obtaining a career and had a New York State Regents scholarship that left me owing nothing. Therefore, I felt free to explore and see if there might be other less completely worthless course of studies than this University's mathematics department could offer. I decided to leave several mathematics courses I began as "incomplete." Instead I veered toward philosophy, literature, art, music, linguistics and classical studies.

I took some courses with something there called Vico college, sort of a University of Chicago "Great Books" copycat. Their premise was the rather Hegelian idea of Vico's that the history really only came into it's adulthood with ancient Rome. This stuck in my craw due to the fact that I considered the Roman Empire to be the epitome of evil. As pat of a course in that college I wrote a paper about Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid. My thesis that when Aeneas returned from hell through the false gate of ivory, it was symbolic of Rome's founding upon falsehood. (I have since recently learned, to my surprise, that this idea has gained some adherents.)  As my little foray in writing the short tale A Little Fugue attempts to show, what I found at that University's stock of intellectuals was quite rotten. The reading materials presented for classes in the history of ideas was dominated by a sort of agreement that existentialism and the new left were the current unchallengeable paradigms for academia. Now, of course, if you as a student desired to avoid this you could try to ignore it and bury your head in your seemingly apolitical course of studies. However virtually all fields of study were tainted by this "culture."

However, one very important and lifelong influence I did encounter was in a course I took there in logic. The reading list included Leibniz' writings. This really threw my worldview at the time into a profound crisis. Up until that time I considered myself to be a non religious thinker. However, Leibniz proof of the existence of God in the Theodicy I could simply not refute or ignore. It has always been my habit once I discovered an interesting author to read everything I could not only by that author but in connected background material referenced. This quickly led me to realize that there was a whole historical counter to the disgusting existential zeitgeist of the 1970s American academia. For example the study of philology rather than linguistics. The development of mathematics not in isolation as a hermetic category of mind games, but as integral to human development. However, none of this nascent viewpoint of what critical thought dawning upon me was available at this university. 

It was with this at this point that I decided to wade into to the rather bizarre world of new left politics that I encountered. I took several mostly non credit courses on the agenda of radical thought. Not just on the economics of Marx but courses on the left's impact on literature like so called social realism. I had all but dropped out of college at this point; I was at an impasse and intellectual crisis in my young adult life. 

Then, I made an abrupt decision and became part of the so called LaRouche movement. The organizer who I first encountered from that movement on Main Street in Buffalo asked me if knew that there was an impending financial collapse coming and what was my idea of the economics needed to change things. I stated that I was veering towards Marx' ideas. This prompted her to provide me with the first pamphlet called "What Only Communists Know: the Italy Lectures." And to provocatively and forcefully tell me something to the effect that "we are not atheists." This of course intrigued me to no end, given my recent wrestling with Leibniz. I became a "contact" by giving her my phone number. I avidly read the material was quite impressed by the original level of thought that opposed the then emerging zero growth environmentalism of the "New Left." After I received several "briefings" on the phone, I attended a meeting of a US Labor Party/ NCLC local in Buffalo. Upon the close of the meeting, I was invited to help distribute literature. I agreed. So began my twenty some years as a political organizer. 

This brings me to the subject on this blog post. Around the lead up to the Presidential election in 1976, LaRouche's US Labor Party issued a pamphlet called The Party of International Terrorism. Unfortunately, this pamphlet seems to be unobtainable online. However, that pamphlet provided the evidence that foundations including the Rockefeller Brother's Fund and the Ford Foundation, allied with the Democratic Party, were financing and responsible for creating terrorist groups like the Weather Underground, for instance. Today, some 45 years on, American cities are literally burning once again due to the instigation and financial "generosity" of these same and new such "philanthropies." The financial bubble created as a result of the deindustrialization of the post industrial, free trade, information age, consumer economy has been bailed out and blown up beyond anyone's wildest imaginings. The Green New Deal being touted by the City of London and the Democratic Party would lead to a total economic breakdown even beyond the current rotten destruction of our infrastructure and cities.  

So what must be done? The rediscovery of the economics of the American System of Alexander Hamilton and finishing of the American Revolution is the answer. The principles that hearken back to the writings of Leibniz have not changed, only the current circumstances to which those principles need to be applied have. If you take the future welfare of this nation seriously you should help bring about their implementation.