Attack on Randomness from an Emergent "Kant Wholist?"

In the category of history repeating itself as farce emerges upon my desk(top) today a rather peculiar arxix.org paper. "No entailing laws, but enablement in the evolution of the biosphere." Note the use of the word "biosphere." Nowhere does the author credit Verdnadsky the inventor of the concept. This is a "tell' Is the author(s) Mr Kaufman , et al. even aware from whence that term derives? Not from his portentous hero Immanuel Kant, that much is certain. Leave aside the jarring read for anyone slightly familiar with the English language who inwardly must wryly smile that this trio of estimable and serious emergent theorists do not know that the singular of dice is die...But never say die, (forgive me) they clumsily sally forth. Here's a neologism emergent screamer of a word "unprestatable." One must pause to rub one's eyes like the stout Cortes!

Did you know that in Kant's salon a favored special guest was the lunatic hoaxer Swedenborg? I may have in these pages renounced randomness as jiggery pokery, yet nota bene thst Mr. Poe (inter alia) had already pre-disposed (to coin a word) of such Kant--for all this paper does in the end is drop upon the all unsuspecting public complete and utter undigestable twaddle from the emerging Kant whole.

Navalny: An NED Used Up Man

"Swat aliens like flies?" Really? Is this the best that the National Endowment for Democracy, after having spent millions of taxpayers dollars, let alone whatever George Soros slushed in, that they can come up with? What a moronic joke.

MED hit man Navalny comparing aliens to swatting flies. America is this a good way to spend your hard earned tax dollars?

John Lennon "Devil's Own Child" versus Jimmy Carter

Little Richard called John Lennon the "devil's own child" after he claimed to have urinated from his hotel window in Hamburg on nuns passing by. Lennon later reportedly renounced his peace and love gig during the presidency of the born again "I have sinned in my heart" Jimmy Carter.

An associate of mine in 1975 during Carter's presidential primary campaign confronted Jimmy on his ties to Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission of Henry Kissinger et al.. Jimmy abruptly said he never heard of that and proceeded to smilingly autograph the New Solidarity newspaper being waved at him. Later, he appointed only members of said commission to his cabinet. Carter was what used to be known as an idiot savant (today we call this autism spectrum disorder: (shout out to my PC son.)) One fine day, for no apparent reason, Jimmy began to belt out a list of diseases--So you decide, who was more screwed up Jimmy Carter or John Lennon? Certainly our country is still rockin'  and reelin' ...

Newton's Alchemy Apologists Unmasked

The discovery by Keynes that Isaac Newton was a dedicated kook in extremis is always rather blithely dismissed by his adulators with a wink by the pat formula that they were all doing magic nonsense back then. Hmm...really? Was Newton's adversary Leibniz a benighted necromancer as well? Hardly. In fact, read his point by point refutation of John Locke's "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" and you will find just the very opposite.

On the other hand, if you have the stomach to read the lengthy tome The Anatomy Of Melancholy by Robert Burton, you will laugh at all sorts of malarkey about magic stone cures, Rosicrucianism and witchery ad nauseum. See Keats Eve of St Agnes. Rather like the new age kookery from the hippies decades ago. Did you know that Edmund Spencer's Fairie Queene was inspired by Kabalistic magic, and that Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice scene of the choosing of the caskets is right out of the Cabalistic legerdemain. The marriage counselor of Henry VIII was the Venetian Cabalistic monk Giorgi, aka Zorzi (he read auras.)

Leibniz attacked Newton's magical belief that the universe was set into motion by a fatherly clock maker who must then stand back and impotently watch the entropic magical action at a distance mayhem ensue. Descartes' momentum he proved is not  equivalent to force. Descartes and later Grassman's vision of a manifold of empty space where we can only describe an algebra that locates mere dead points. The very belief today that according to the much worshiped Second Law of Thermodynamics humanity is doomed to run out of energy and that technology is evil is the epitome of cultish kookery today centered where? In the "British" monarchy's Worldwide Fund for Nature (which really isn't English at all, Leibniz in fact would have been prime minister, in effect, for the Electress of Hanover, Sophie Charlotte upon her succession, had she lived) --that's where! So now Greenpeace and green this and green that and earth this and earth that are called science. Gaia worship is all it is. The same crowd that subverted Vernadsky's rigorous evolutionary concept of Noosphere Teilhard de Chardin. The same lunacy of the futurologists singularity Omega point garbage that wag Newt Gingrich's mouth. And who pray tell was the biggest addicted opium eater (laudanum back then) of them all old boy? Queen Victoria that's who.

Friday follies

From a political blog today:

"So whaddaya think: should we put truthtelling back up there at number one?"

This question, I can only presume, is quite deliberately tongue in cheek, right?

Bravura Performance by Ever Wiley Shimon Peres

 From today's Jerusalem Post:

"President Shimon Peres on Thursday denied that Israel was involved in the killing of a nuclear scientist in Iran on Wednesday. During an interview with CNN, Peres was asked whether Israel was involved in the killing of a university professor and department head of a uranium enrichment facility in Tehran to which he answered: "Not to the best of my knowledge."

""I know that it is fashionable that whatever wrong happens in Iran, it is the United States and Israel. There is nothing new in this approach," said Peres."

Reviewing these few comments delivered apparently off the cuff by Mr. Peres, one might easily have missed the exceptional irony therein. I believe that these words were chosen with a very high degree of precision to deliver a very intentional message. The key phrase is "whatever wrong happens in Iran..." Now my question is does Mr. Peres truly believe that this killing is something that "went wrong?" Isn't that a somewhat ambiguous and rather curious turn of phrase? And look at the masterful pairing of "the United States and Israel" following hard upon the heels of that said extreme ambiguity. Thus I think my title dubbing this as a bravura performance that only someone of Mr. Peres' proven ability to weather all political vicissitudes is capable.

Scientists recreate evolution of complexity using 'molecular time travel'

The real issue is that mere pairwise mechanical interaction in supposed entropic space and time cannot account for the willful noetic identity of mankind.

Barack Insane Obama, Tebowing, and HRH Rocketman

Obama would be quite happy, I would think, were he to spend the rest of his days on a basketball court at some nondescript mental institution...dribbling. Here is a man who carries out the invidious mission of ending the manned space program and average Joe six pack hardly notices. Instead we watch football on bigger and crisper boob tubes, or is it 3D LEDs or plasmas? All to make the world go away. And, if that weren't enough, to make matters worse, we are force-fed the crisp anti technology lyrics of Sir Elton John 24 hours a day.

What Did Mr. Shakespeare Actually KNOW About Machiavelli?

"When first we practice to deceive"
Niccolo Machiavelli was one of the foremost partisans of the future American experiment (whether he knew it or not.) It is undeniable, for any fair reading of his "The Prince," inter alia, that Niccolo was squarely on the side of humanity.  For-- the abject idiocy of set piece warfare slaughter, according to Hoyle, as it were, old chap, had come a cropper.--Merely mow the red rapscallions down from behind the thickly forested New World "City on the Hill." Easy pickin's, eh what?
But for Shakespeare, Machiavelli, that evil malevolent angel, was downright pure calculated evil. It is simply too easy to pooh-pooh Shakespeare's supposed insouciance literary licence in this instance as just the touch of dumb stage management, as it were...He, just picking up on the dumb touchstone of popular opinion then reigning. Really? Shakespeare-- forgiven as literally all too naive? He, the king of the double and even triple entendres-- simply a babe in the woods? Hmm... hard to believe, somehow.
But what if the vaunted literature of ye Jolly Olde England be tainted be with the whiff of something else?
To be continued... with p'raps my head tucked underneath my arms, if I know what's good for me...

My Midnight Confession

Your honors: it being only 6PM or so EST, (let alone GMT) that title above must be forgiven as "poetic license" I pray, if it so please your honors, begging your pardon.

Here goes. How comes it that we baby boomers-- thrust out naked-- a la Schopenhauer, as it were,  into the brave new world, as we were, have all seriously collectively "come a cropper?"  Harrumph says I (if my trusty spell checker be not awry on that word.) Could there be some telltale anti-genetical predisposition p'raps...some non-Mendelian inheritance a la Big Mama psychology? Whatchamacallit in the argot of tenure-dumberer babble designated as "epigenetics?" Hold onto your Google cursors ye twits, if ye know what's good for ye...

Well, if I haven't just witnessed the biggest whitewash (tho' Robert E. Lee was named as role model, if but  in passim) ever. A PBS, la dee da ((generic historical Ken Burns (huckster, dare I say, extraordinaire) inspired insipid piano quasi-patriotic mood music biopic)) on Harry S Truman, the man without a middle name, tho' they left that minor (see no period on letter S, yet why is he accorded one on PBS?) detail out.

(In his autobiography, Truman stated, "I was named for ... Harrison Young. I was given the diminutive Harry and, so that I could have two initials in my given name, the letter S was added. My Grandfather Truman's name was Anderson Shippe [sometimes also spelled 'Shipp']Truman and my Grandfather Young's name was Solomon Young, so I received the S for both of them.) (Sorry, dear heart the Wikipedia has at least this tale of forgotten lore right, tho' it pains me to aver...)

Now Harry was the biggest middlin' flop/bankrupt that ever was 'til he got picked up as a "war hero" for screaming at the dough-boys in that "war to end all wars" to "stop running you Irish sons of bitches" by boss Pendergass. (Which by no mere happenstance became S's favorite cuss word: SOB.)

So, after watching this mealy mouthed and mawkish tribute to "give em hell Harry" the patsy of Fritz Kissinger's and Robert MacNamara's Starngelovian M.A.D.-- Hiroshima and Nagasaki A bombs antics--what does yours truly take away? Why that we are all big momma's boys after all... We nuked Japan cuz we had to stop the GIs from gettin' komikazied (after all we had already carpet bombed civilians along the way, in WWII, no biggie...) So as we could get down to makin' real money...or if that didn't float your boat there was always the emerging psychomimetic avant-garde scripted by the Ford Foundation/CIA/MI6 funded "Congress for Cultural Freedom."

I was born after this sordid stuff had played out. Dirty Bertie Lord Russell had come a cropper on his WAPWoG mission to nuke Russia and instead now the next best plan was to deaden the mission which JFK had pronounced "We shall go to the moon." Whence Barack "Insane" Obama and all his Republican allies
today grovelling for contributions, to a momma's boy just like them at NBC/Fox TV, sitting in the City o' London...

Why Rembrandt Like Keats Understood The Ironic Beyond the Grave

Viewing the really marvelous (magnifiable) National Gallery online Ecce Homo by Rembrandt, it is evident that his genius for espousing truth is his only motivation in this piece. For he took a subject that had been part of the regular pantheon of traditional artistry and ironically elevated it to a commentary against the oligarchy then ruling the Netherlands, soon to be inflicted upon Britain and of course the world.

(Compare Bosch's great Ecce Homo) 

The bust of the Emperor hovers over the staged scene. What irony is here just in that very arrangement. It is not Pilate or the Hebrew audience whence the order is given for the crucifixion, it is Rome! (Or perhaps, better yet, the Isle of Capri.)

The bust of Homer is just as ironic, yet in a different way. And this is the nature of multiple levels of irony known only to the genius of poetic truth. But irony is not mere pedestrian stuff. For it is clear as day that Homer's bust can "see"-- from the light exudes from him. Just as it ironically does in his Philosophe Lisant, the life of Christ etchings and needless to say the ever quite literally optically moving self portraits. Yet Aristotle is evidently utterly blind though he claims that the senses are all. For Rembrandt knew the nature of precisely what lives on beyond the grave...He knew how to "cap the imagination" of supposed kings and like Keats could well have written lines like these- were he not primarily a composer in paint:

The living hand, now warm and capable
Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold
And in the icy silence of the tomb,
So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights
That thou wouldst wish thine own heart dry of blood
So in my veins red life might stream again,
And thou be conscience-calmed--see here it is--
I hold it towards you.

The Creative Mind Versus Neurology

Today I came across this research title and winced: "Is there a neurobiology of the free will?Can neurobiology help to resolve the age-old discussions about freedom, cause and chance?"

What has been known to the creative power of mind since the age old epic of Prometheus--since Heraclitus posed the ironical paradox of constant change as substance--is that the composition of the mind of mankind is like the greatest fugal music that can never, never be reduced to mere mechanical machinery; no matter its complexity.

That is the essence of all that will ever hold the beauty of truth.Those that argue otherwise are all unknowingly quite ugly. As Goya so wonderfully illustrated there are those whose faces deserve to be covered by trousers.

Billions of Tons of Fresh Water...Yet We Still Die of Thirst. Why?

 

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NASA Finds Russian Runoff Freshening Canadian Arctic

Increasing freshwater on the U.S. and Canadian side of the Arctic from 2005 to 2008 is balanced by decreasing freshwater on the Russian side, so that on average the Arctic did not have more freshwater. Here blue represents maximum freshwater increases and the yellows and oranges represent maximum freshwater decreases. Credit: University of Washington
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January 04, 2012

PASADENA, Calif. - A new NASA and University of Washington study allays concerns that melting Arctic sea ice could be increasing the amount of freshwater in the Arctic enough to have an impact on the global "ocean conveyor belt" that redistributes heat around our planet.

Lead author and oceanographer Jamie Morison of the University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory in Seattle, and his team, detected a previously unknown redistribution of freshwater during the past decade from the Eurasian half of the Arctic Ocean to the Canadian half. Yet despite the redistribution, they found no change in the net amount of freshwater in the Arctic that might signal a change in the conveyor belt.

The team attributes the redistribution to an eastward shift in the path of Russian runoff through the Arctic Ocean, which is tied to an increase in the strength of the Northern Hemisphere's west-to-east atmospheric circulation, known as the Arctic Oscillation. The resulting counterclockwise winds changed the direction of ocean circulation, diverting upper-ocean freshwater from Russian rivers away from the Arctic's Eurasian Basin, between Russia and Greenland, to the Beaufort Sea in the Canada Basin bordered by the United States and Canada. The stronger Arctic Oscillation is associated with two decades of reduced atmospheric pressure over the Russian side of the Arctic. Results of the NASA- and National Science Foundation-funded study are published Jan. 5 in the journal Nature.

Between 2003 and 2008, the resulting redistribution of freshwater was equivalent to adding 10 feet (3 meters) of freshwater over the central Beaufort Sea.

The freshwater changes were seen between 2005 and 2008 by combining ocean bottom pressure, or mass, data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellites with ocean height data from NASA's ICESat satellite. By calculating the difference between the two sets of measurements, the team was able to map changes in freshwater content over the entire Arctic Ocean, including regions where direct water sample measurements are not available.

"Knowing the pathways of freshwater is important to understanding global climate because freshwater protects sea ice by helping create a strongly stratified cold layer between the ice and warmer, saltier water below that comes into the Arctic from the Atlantic Ocean," said Morison. "The reduction in freshwater entering the Eurasian Basin resulting from the Arctic Oscillation change could contribute to sea ice declines in that part of the Arctic."

"Changes in the volume and extent of Arctic sea ice in recent years have focused attention on melting ice," said co-author and senior research scientist Ron Kwok of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., which manages Grace for NASA. "The Grace and ICESat data allow us to now examine the impacts of widespread changes in ocean circulation."

Kwok said on whole, Arctic Ocean salinity is similar to what it was in the past, but the Eurasian Basin has become more saline, and the Canada Basin has freshened. In the Beaufort Sea, the water is the freshest it's been in 50 years of record keeping, with only a tiny fraction of that freshwater originating from melting ice and the vast majority coming from Russian river water.

The Beaufort Sea stores more freshwater when an atmospheric pressure system called the Beaufort High strengthens, driving a counterclockwise wind pattern. Consequently, it has been argued that the primary cause of freshening is a strengthening of the Beaufort High, but salinity began to decline early in the 1990s, when the Beaufort High relaxed and the counterclockwise Arctic Oscillation pattern increased.

"We discovered a pathway that allows Russian river runoff to feed the Beaufort gyre," Kwok said. "The Beaufort High is important, but so are the hemispheric-scale effects of the Arctic Oscillation."

"To better understand climate-related changes in sea ice and the Arctic overall, climate models need to more accurately represent the Arctic Oscillation's low pressure and counterclockwise circulation on the Russian side of the Arctic Ocean," Morison added.

For more on Grace and ICESat, visit: http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/ , http://grace.jpl.nasa.gov/ , andhttp://icesat.gsfc.nasa.gov/icesat/ .

JPL is managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

Indefinitely Detained

I once had a country whose name was hope-
But the name became fetid and blasted
And the light that was sought now flickered
And smoke and ashes stood in its place
For the horrible ghastly fear that remained
Gave a mocking lisp of a smile
To the petty and fiendish crowd of gawkers at the gate
Of the tomb which was hope, now palsied and mute
Into a pit where forever a gnawing takes hold
On the source of a light once thought glorious and bold

The tale is an old one --it lulls into sleep
The forlorn remains
Of the feast that we still keep
In the mind fast receding
To its final repose
As the quenching of mission is tortured with sleep
Far too damning to be mere fantasy's prison
All thought of future--a crime now become

The law newly minted says much of this race
Of cowardly forlorn life -- without grace.

"Evaporating blackholes" sounds like an apt metaphor for the economy to me...

Physicists propose test for loop quantum gravity

January 3, 2012 by Lisa Zyga 

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Artist's illustration of loop quantum gravity.

(PhysOrg.com) -- As a quantum theory of gravity, loop quantum gravity could potentially solve one of the biggest problems in physics: reconciling general relativity and quantum mechanics. But like all tentative theories of quantum gravity, loop quantum gravity has never been experimentally tested. Now in a new study, scientists have found that, when black holes evaporate, the radiation they emit could potentially reveal “footprints” of loop quantum gravity, distinct from the usual Hawking radiation that black holes are expected to emit.

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In this way, evaporating black holes could enable the first ever experimental test for any theory of quantum gravity. However, the proposed test would not be easy, since scientists have not yet been able to detect any kind of radiation from an evaporating black hole.

The scientists, from institutions in France and the US, have published their study called “Probing Loop Quantum Gravity with Evaporating Black Holes” in a recent issue of Physical Review Letters.

“For decades, Planck-scale physics has been thought to be untestable,” coauthor Aurélien Barrau of the French National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (IN2P3) told PhysOrg.com. “Nowadays, it seems that it might enter the realm of experimental physics! This is very exciting, especially in the appealing framework of loop quantum gravity.”

In their study, the scientists have used algorithms to show that primordial black holes are expected to reveal two distinct loop quantum gravity signatures, while larger black holes are expected to reveal one distinct signature. These signatures refer to features in the black hole’s energy spectrum, such as broad peaks at certain energy levels.

Using Monte Carlo simulations, the scientists estimated the circumstances under which they could discriminate the predicted signatures of loop quantum gravity and those of the Hawking radiation that black holes are expected to emit with or without loop quantum gravity. They found that a discrimination is possible as long as there are enough black holes or a relatively small error on the energy reconstruction.

While the scientists have shown that an analysis of black hole evaporation could possibly serve as a probe for loop quantum gravity, they note that one of the biggest challenges will be simply detecting evaporating black holes.

“We should be honest: this detection will be difficult,” Barrau said. “But it is far from being impossible.”

He added that black holes are not the only possible probe of loop quantum gravity, and he’s currently investigating whether loop quantum gravity might have signatures in the universe’s background radiation.

“I am now working on the cosmological side of loop quantum gravity,” Barrau said. “This is the other way to try to test the theory: some specific footprints in the cosmic microwave background might be detected in the future.”

Hail Fellows--Well Met!

Christmas Eve was ushered in by Obama with the "disclosure that the administration would sell $30 billion in fighter jets, munitions, spare parts and support services to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia."

Top: Israeli Fighter Jets                                                                                     Bottom: Saudi Fighter Jets

OBAMA'S NEW YEAR DICTAT: HOPE YOU DON'T GET INDEFINITELY DETAINED!!

Leonardo's Enemies: the Undead

If Leonardo’s study of vortical filamentation as the basis of the non entropic ordering principle inhering in substance is not science, then science is utterly a worthless fraud.

A Fool's Errand

Now one thing has become exceedingly clear,
It is impossible to assassinate the character
of these self styled candidates
today--from Obama to Paul,
for none of them have any character at all.

The Standard Model of Physics and Edgar Allan Poe

I have remarked a short while ago that Poe, had he not been killed, would have come to reject the fraud of Isaac Newton's supposed genius. As Webster Tarpley, has so thoroughly documented Newton was but a cats-paw for the morally and intellectually dead souls then known as Il Nuovi in their feud over the fate of England's succession with the true founder of modern physics Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

Today, we have a replay of the nonsense of Newton's "method" for the calculation of the infinitesimal, which Charles Babbage so devastatingly mocked as the "dotage" of the British educational system, or what was in the nineteenth century passed off as such. The issue of what the particle theorists call perturbation theory brings us foursquare back into the realm of infinite (and infantile) regression of what Leibniz justly rejected as the wrong headed tilting at windmill's of the riddle of the nature of the labyrinth known as the continuum. Poe had a hook into this rather tenebrous domain via the sensational issue of Francis Bacon and Shakespeare. (By the way, it is entirely lawful that Georg's Cantor's mental breakdown went hand in hand with his involvement in both the continuum hypothesis and Francis Bacon is Shakespeare hoax!!) For it seems that Poe's contemporary litterateuse Delia Bacon, was the inspirator of this stuff.

How one could be so muddled as to somehow take the plays of Shakespeare as equivalent to the noxious neo-Aristotelian Francis Bacon speaks for itself. But this was unfortunately widespread back then and unless one had the weltanshauung of a detective like Poe did, much of the crux of such creepy crawly philosophy went unremarked. Even the man to whom Poe dedicated Eureka, Alexander Humboldt, otherwise a giant upon the world's stage, had been horns-waggled by the Newtonians. Now, this is not to deny that it is perfectly reasonable to suggest that Shakespeare's plays were a platform to provoke the public politically. They were preeminently so. This is what Fredrich Schiller's aesthetics was very much all about.

To conclude these musings upon the spot here, had Leibniz defeated the hoaxer Samuel Clarke and been made Prime Minister of England, perhaps there would have been no British Empire and the revival of rank oligarchic empire-icism of Hume, et al. And Mr. Poe's enemies would not have stopped him from what his alter ego, Andrew Marvell so marvelously punned as "making time run." So this morning it seems that the image Poe's unfinished work "The Lighthouse" grips my attention. For today, we should ony hope to be in the situation of a keeper of a lighthouse for the existential crisis that plagues the world. Hoping against hope that we will come to our collective senses. And not those of the Hoggian kind...