Abandon Geopolitics

 You may say I’m a dreamer… Imagine if the world lived for the best of all possible futures. No hunger. No disease. No war. No limits to growth. The only problems are how can we attain the next level of necessary development to adequately nourish the unique intellectual scientific and artistic desires of humanity as we inhabit the stars and galaxies. Abandon the nightmares of humanity’s infantile egoistic rages and deadly tantrums. For our species has a greater destiny laying ahead ever unfulfilled. 

For in the finite realm that we all must of necessity dwell, it is the unquenchable appetite of the intellect that must finally guide us out of the inferno of geopolitics once and for all.

The Paradox of Lost Information and the Ironic Universe

 If we imagine black holes as sinks of lost informational "stuff", then there is a subtle effect on what we might signify as causality. For instance, we agree that “gravity” as Einstein formulated its effect on the spacetime continuum as four dimensional hypersphere functional has been tested and proven. However, at the level of rotational variance of galactic disk there is a breakdown in gravity’s expected effects. 

Perhaps, the lost information associated with supermassive black holes, could resolve this paradox, if the information were somehow retrievable. If not, then we may approach the issue by construed possibility of necessary causality alone. The answer is not to attempt to conformally map this ambiguity upon our naïve sensorium, but rather to deploy our expanding breakthroughs in advancing technical resources to the increasing benefits of standard of living understood in the broadest sense possible.

“To do the good” as befits Ben Franklin’s historic gift of the lightning rod free from patent restriction. The irony is that if we appropriately inquire of the constructive principles of the physical universe, it will necessarily benefit our species in the here and now and the future.

Such that, a merely formal problem of loss of clarity among disparate mathematical physics formulations is not in reality a crisis at all. We can carry on quite excellently without any resolution of secondary incongruities. This is not to resort to irrationality as some sort of unknowable overarching dictum in systemic approaches to gleaning “facts” qua information for its own sake, per se. Just the opposite. 

As the immensity of the expansiveness of space and humanity's place in it shifts due to the development of our ability to inhabit it and thrive, the infancy of our species may be relegated to the irrelevant past. Just as our lack of concrete explanation of exactly how the physical universe has somehow embedded within itself the motive capability of evolving a nested sequence of apparently immiscible realms of developmental orderings. This prospect of such a future in space if agreed to will potentially lead us out of the self destructive tragic path of self immolation. 

Benjamin West c 1816

Agenda for Future Successful Vectoring of Our True Species Nature

1. Control of electromagnetic spectrum.

2. Control over space by making it practical for humanity to visit the universe without end.

3. Control of time through expansion of healthy lifetimes ad infinitum.

4. Control of potential participation of creation of beauty via all art forms of all members of humanity.

5. Development of program for continuous perfection of all that knowledge for which we discover the need based upon a series of the forgoing achievements. 

Vernadskyan Domains Understood as Riemannian Multiply Connected Surface Functions

 I have been highlighting today’s vast empirical breakthrough areas of scientific research. One of my motivations to do so is to reinforce the exploration of ontological assumptions as they apply to the programmatic direction of science especially via advances in technological capabilities. 

One theme that has from time to time brought to the fore is that contrary to a notion of evolution as a pure existential struggle to become “fit” in a landscape of predator prey dynamics, the symbiotic co-optation of enhanced capabilities by genetic and organelle transfer evinces a sort of higher order at the level of Vernadsky’s “spheres.”

And furthermore, there is evidence of this developmental potential both within the inorganic physical universe, the biosphere and the human creative domain. These domains are topologically connected and temporally interact especially by the creation of singularities mostly resulting from crises necessitated by diminished energetic constraints in prior outmoded manifolds.

So, far from the geometry of Riemann being divorced from the physical, biophysical and human cognitive domains into some sort of mere mental mathematical gymnastics, its basis in fruitfully approaching the great unfolding of universal history will provide a continuing platform due essentially to its method of Socratic questioning of all assumptions regarding these branches of reality. 

It must likewise be noted in this space given the ongoing political crisis that threatens the very future of humanity that this very same geometric method of the overcoming and subsumption of differences via a higher ordering of such manifold human relations is desperately needed at this conjuncture. 

The Simultaneity of Eternity

The ever upward spiral

Grows out heavenward —

Along its axis of radiation,

And alternates between 

Such curved spaces

That vision gives us

From positive accomplishment

To clashing crises at once

The live long drama’s

Singularity inducing.

As perpetual discovery 

Of the Non-other principle’s 

Negative theology.

Anew as development

Beyond the countable infinite —

The thematic ironic fugue

Of the universe in its

Truthful evolution

Toward immortality.

Yes! 

A mission thus

As Socrates radical

By Rembrandt - internet, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6375105

Questioning of every

Assumption and folly

At large in the world.

Then and yet unborn

But never quite unknown.

MAD Shenanigans

I remember when I raised money to help finance a TV political ad that put Jimmy Carter's head juxtaposed inside a mushroom cloud... (there is no image online from that LaRouche campaign commercial. I searched...) One of my co-organizers back then went to a Carter rally and approached him with the charge that he was intending to put David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission's Zbigniew Brzezinski in his cabinet. Carter answered, "Never heard of him” and promptly autographed a copy of the newspaper she was holding that had a headline charging the same...

We used to call this the Tavistock grin back in those heady days... (you can actually look that one up successfully) There is a breed of quite insane geopoliticians sometimes dubbed the Utopians who believe in pushing nuclear showdown brinksmanship all the way and winning... They owned Carter and they own Grandpa Joe today, even though I think he said he won't press the button recently when asked... (hard to say because he's not quite with it...) In these desperate times, as we sit chatting on Twitter (making sure not to offend the democracy gods) is it time to ask the question, "Is the mask coming off?"

So, all I can say is we need to keep plugging away with the actual non-utopian agenda of getting off the planet soon, extending the human healthspan indefinitely, developing nuclear fusion plasma torch economy and the other hard things not because they are easy... Boom.

Cheers to you, kind readers.

France's Macron Provides a Glimmer of Hope

French President Macron met with Putin for six hours. Putin then issued a demarche on NATO and Ukraine. Macron then announced that France would be building 14 new nuclear reactors. Biden backed down from putting US troops in Ukraine saying that would mean "world war."

So what gives? There is a fragmentation with realists like Gary Hart (remember him?) promoting what the banner of this site has been proclaiming lo these many years: nuclear fusion. Nuclear fusion is the only way out for humanity. So the realists say well maybe pollution from hydrocarbons can be conquered without reducing the world's population. 

Now they have not gone so whacky as myself and my crazy co-thinkers with ideas like greening the deserts, colonizing Mars, maglev rail, and biophysical defense treaties.... Yet. (Rolls Royce is planning to build nuclear propulsion systems and modular reactors that can power colonies on the moon and Mars...) All those years that I ate mostly unhealthy airport food yelling my fool head off about the need for nuclear power and the end of geopolitics may not have been for nothing.

Perhaps realists like the Macrons of this world will restore a modicum of sanity out of the nightmare of the age of Kissingerian nuclear terror otherwise known as MAD. I will keep shouting crazy things in my retirement from my easy chair. "Hey you kids, get some brains and start planning to colonize Mars..." Who knows maybe humanity is not yet ready to throw in the towel quite yet. 

French President Emmanuel Macron at the GE Steam Power System main production site for its nuclear turbine systems | Jean-Francois Badias/AFP via Getty Images

Black Holes and Riemannian Topology

Planets revolve around stars. Stars revolve around black holes that are forces that move matter into a non visible dimension or some other unknown region which however proceeds with a similar effect to gravity. Likewise galaxies will be found to rotate around perhaps yet another form perhaps of a similarly new singular dimension. Does this adequately account for anomalies in rotational galactic gravitation? How can  this paradox be addressed?

The quest for extra dimensions in the misguidedly unphysical string theory is an attempt of itself to mold an actual physically causal domain of some sort. Yet it never arrives there due to the ineluctable multiplicity of the so called landscape of possibilities. This is a carryover of the stultification produced by statistical mathematics.

Time as vector of enumerable space metricity operating a-causally will provide no empirical tool to query experimentally the forgoing hypothesis due to the issue of the loss of "information" in black hole models. Thereby we see as quasi statistical theories about what is unfathomable to the naïve imagination. So some epiphenomenal insight at the level of known physics seeks to provide physical extensions up to the limit of intelligibility. Such that, for instance, if your model of physical ontology is governed by statistics then you get it's loss thereof. I.e. loss of information serves as a tautology. 

Really signifying nothing very useful to coin a meme. Telescopic experiments however can accomplish  mega-wide apertures in the electromagnetic spectra. Thus space travel over vast distance will increase that aperture. 

A route toward removing the bias the flaws of assumptions of both analytic geometric extra-dimensionalities' mere countable enumerations and stochastic weltanschauungs may be sought for by going back to Riemann's method.  That is, Riemannian multi dimensional sheeted functions appertain here. For these "hidden dimensions" are really alternate functionally "curved metrical spaces" connected at topological polar branchpoints. In this regard, black holes can allow lost information to comprise the next such sheet and thereby the problem of loss of in formation is overcome. This makes much more sense than the positing of some sort of "wormholes" of multiverse landscapes. 

Unravelling the psychology of pure algebraic topology as it imperfectly is applied to these anomalies can be done with rigor and occasionally in a fruitful direction.

Time for Humanity

 We know of various segmentations of time for all realms of physical reality. There are half lives of radioactive elements as well as for fusion in the interiors of stars. Then there are the regular exudations and waves of radiation of cyclical growth and regeneration of plants and animals. These manifest themselves at the nano dimension of proteins and DNA all the way up to the level of the populations of species interactions. 

We currently have telescoped our uniquely human conception of time into a very narrow range due to fomenting of crises of potential extermination of society due to the sequalae of financial breakdown and impending global nuclear warfare. This theme of the veritable one minute to midnight syndrome is pervasive and colors all our comings and goings, willy nilly. It is a cultural pessimism that promotes a vitiated and rather ugly type  of escapism crudely dressed up as "freedom."

However, for a moment or two, let us explore an alternative perspective of a kind of potentially adjusted timeframe for humanity. Suppose we set our sites on populating Mars and terraforming it over the next century or so. Simultaneously, we will create a habitable "planetoid" fueled by matter anti matter reactions for likewise terraforming the next potentially habitable planet in the closest "Goldilocks zone" star system. This endeavor will perhaps be accomplished say in a few centuries. As part of this mission, we will also extend the health span of individual humans by many years.

What we have pointed toward here may seem like a fantastical vision of science fiction. But if we were to mentally put ourselves back  a mere say two centuries of human history would not what we take for granted as technological accomplishments seem fantastical? Thus time is relative to the happiness of humanity's mission orientation. In that sense we experience the simultaneity of eternity in the realm of scientific and artistic truly human imagination. 

To his Coy Mistress

by Andrew Marvell


Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
We would sit down and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love's day;
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side
Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood;
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow.
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.

But at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
That long preserv'd virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust.
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace.

Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may;
And now, like am'rous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour,
Than languish in his slow-chapp'd power.
Let us roll all our strength, and all
Our sweetness, up into one ball;
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life.
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.

Psychological Manifold Theory

 Gustave Fechner maintained that the individual human psyche was a result of a variety of voices that were inescapably present to that individual. If these voices were in a dialogue that was “well tempered” so to speak with regard to the underlying governing assumptions of particular cultures then a condition of apparent functional mental heath was attained. If, on the contrary, these voices were out of synchronization with the axioms of society then either a mental crisis would be unresolved leading to a possible mental breakdown or instead a healthy attitude challenging of inadequate or false presumptions of that society’s practice. 

These mental axioms for the most part are not made conscious to the individual person living in society. A sort of gendanken experiment to gauge this principle for yourself is this. — Mentally relive some epoch of your life wherein your working axioms were considerably different than they are now, sort of a “channeling” of your previous worldview. From this standpoint you can construct a kind of manifold of functional axioms governing your behavior which may or may not have undergone one or more phase changes over time.

The mental geometry that we are bringing into consciousness has the quality of a conformation to Bernard Riemann’s great life’s work on gauging the hypotheses that underlay mathematical geometry. Thus his model of how the functional space may proceed through transformational singularities has its correlates in this mental space. I have previously described this correlation for biophysics as a continual theme in these posts. Recalling that the substance of such transformations for biophysics is observable through experimentation, the same should hold true for the psychological manifold. 

What this confronts us with is that the mapping of such individual mental manifolds into the reigning societal norms is also experimentally observable. Now, taking the current world’s zeitgeist as our jumping off point, we can see that a profound crisis confronts ourselves in an unparalleled way in human history. Whereas previously warfare was a given historic axiomatic norm (see forever wars,) the advent of possible all out thermonuclear war leading to the virtual extinction of humanity has necessitated the abandonment of that newly proven false axiom. At the same time, the axioms of divisions of society by inherited historic familial standing based especially on monetary aggregates and power over our governance and form of religion have likewise been brought to a critical breakdown phase. 

The resolution of these dual crises is foreseeable only on the basis of a concert of interests of nations and individuals in them given the opportunity to participate in the mission of creating a new space based civilization via ongoing scientific breakthroughs. This in fact is the only course for the resolution of the disparate voices of our current seemingly insoluble crises.

The Battle of Anghiari after Leonardo da Vinci   By Peter Paul Rubens - [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=59569

An Assortment of New Year’s Eve Musings

 The set of manichean assumptions in popular entertainment are also really propagandistic psychological warfare that only validates viewers as participants that are “with it.” This is also tribalism. Are you an educated sophisticate or a dumb as nails hick?

This mesmerizing of the populace to the inevitability of perpetual war. Us versus whatever “them” is at hand for the moment. However, an effectual push against the tide of this existential nonsense, may propel humanity beyond the reach of this distraction from our true purposeful mission orientation.

Behavioral modalities are transient among those whose conscious imprints on the vectoring of human action is paramount in effective transmission. And by transmission also is meant a power to subsume time into an invariant necessary trans-mission. 

Dedication of the unwavering variety to a category of necessity for our survival is piecemeal yet evident. Take justice or progress. Greenwald and Musk fit those particular categories for the nonce. But perhaps there are a multiplicity of inhabitants of those and necessary adjunct categories.

To the New Year

Shine on! O marvel in the sky.
You and I shall have a say
To light the far flung stars
A Universe away
So shine on you newly minted
Force of our slightly better
Vision in the spectrum
Of the first light so far away
The imagination trembles
To receive such news of time
Gone by such a long long
Time ago...Mirror of my mind.
Tutor of my rhyme.

Advances in Technology are Natural

This morning, I came across this excellent hypothesis. Importantly, the history of human usage of available resources in one mode of technology recapitulates this biospheric evolutionary forcing vector. Resolving the false claim that humanity is "unnatural."

The principle really goes back to the process of the creation of a physical plenum. After all availability of states in a phase of work in the biosphere are used, a crisis of depletion of resources, in this case iron, evolution finds a pathway to diversify. It solves a problem. 

In this sense, evolution exhibits a primitive sort of willfulness by changing in the face of the pressure of continued existence. Right now, we are in the throes of combatting a virus that is displaying precisely that very same principle. 

Yet again, we confront the unique property of human consciously willful creative discovery that requires our civilization to advance to the next resource base of thermonuclear fusion energy. And as I have been emphasizing the equally transformative development of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fusion plasma torch for redefining our available resources. 

U.K. ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY/CULHAM CENTRE FOR FUSION ENERGY/EUROFUSION

Left or Right Pill

Some folks from either the left or right are Hobbesians that believe that the nature of humans always is toward war & evil & therefore must be curbed for the "good" of maintaining social order by removing legal "permissions" to continue their existence. They are convinced that their side is "enlightened," but they sometimes violently disagree on what constitutes the "good." It really is the Jonathan Swift tale of the Lilliputian wars over which is the correct end of the egg to crack on... Will it be the fundamentalists or the conservationists? 

Greeting the New Year

Every time we lift our eyes heavenward
With new eyes that never a soul
Has peered ere now across the universe
We celebrate a new eclipse of powers
So gently aligned with our destiny
To be forever in the stars yet not begun
Unleashed and still unbowed for evermore.

Comet Leonard Before Star Cluster M3
Image Credit & Copyright: Dan Bartlett

Knowing More of What We Do Not Yet Know

 Two recent studies yet again point to the principle that in an evolving living universe we can never come to the end of knowledge about it. However, by plumbing what we don't yet know, we can outline where areas of advancement in knowledge most probably lie. 

In a remarkable survey of the protein communities, it has been estimated that we probably know less than half of what makes up cellular organization. This was made possible by combining two technologies via artificial intelligence as the article makes clear. (This use of AI as a method of categorizing biological functions does not mean that it replaces human creative thinking but merely aids it.) 

The second study used the very same database MuSIC 1.0 or multi-scale integrated cell to show how families of proteins are organized as subunits of interactions. Again, the tool of AI is used to measure the distance of protein functions.

In addition, yet another study from Baylor School of Medicine and the Czech Academy of Sciences shows remarkable evidence of the coordination of protein complexes regulating transcription in an astoundingly harmonic orchestral fashion. This discovery of such wonderfully precise and delicate fine tuning at the cellular level yet again harkens back to Leibniz' dictum of pre-established harmony.

In this blog, I have attempted to show how a method adopted from Riemannian geometry fits the protein "interactome." The machinery of protein aggregates operates across a multiply connected manifold of functions. Individual and groups of proteins also may play roles as singularities that operate in separate and distinct functions. In this way, the Riemann surface function adequately models the global connections of these individual and protein conglomerates. 

At the higher level of such global organization in virtually all realms of physics, biophysics and human psychology Riemann's principle of geometrical mapping of multidimensional interrelationships holds enduring value. And no doubt will be applied to successfully to organize such databases.  

Remarks on fMRI Research on Conceptual Brain Directionality

I came across a rather unique research paper yesterday and recorded my thoughts on Twitter in the following order. (I will copy the series of posts here because I believe taken together they are duly coherent as to my meaning.)

A "compass" in the brain to navigate thoughts

Thoughts as a physical substantial manifestation was first elucidated by Riemann. See Gauss unit normal mapping function.

The research paper is here.

From the paper:  "To conclude, here we report that a network of regions in the human brain represents the directions existing between elements of a conceptual space. Among them, the precuneus and the retrosplenial cortex seemed to play a crucial role in our experiment. Our results extend the current theoretical accounts that see the processing of the geometry of conceptual spaces as mainly dependent upon the activity of the hippocampal formation and medial-prefrontal cortex, and support the view that the parietal cortex might also play a crucial role in representing relational knowledge between concepts in memory using spatial codes."

 

There is still another dimensionality that will yet be required as more abstract concepts become untethered from physical sensation, but this is indeed a remarkable advancement. For instance the physical corelative of ironic "fugal" juxtaposition of seemingly incongruent ideas that leads to new knowledge must have a "space" in the brain. In other words newly minted creative ideation must also be substantial.

See my post.

The Best of All Possible Worlds

It may seem to any rational observer that the good ole USA is at a nadir of sorts these days. And perhaps that is perhaps an understatement... What with a pending hyperinflationary blowout, "elite" geopoliticians deliberately provoking the Russians and the Chinese at a time when they both have demonstrated hypersonic weapons. And China marches forward in space while the US flounders as usual. 

Oh, and did I mention the corona virus and possible civil war here at home? 

However, if the observant reader amongst you has taken notice of the banner on this little old site directly above, I am yet of the opinion (if I may be permitted to use that much abused term) that just as in Poe's Pit and the Pendulum  after we begin to come to grips with the shock and terror of our headlong careen toward oblivion,  a determined and grim sort of rationality response takes hold of us. And we begin the agonizing process of blood and sweat problem solving even in this most dire of circumstances. Recall to mind that back in Poe's days we were headed for a cataclysmic civil war too. And yet somehow the cavalry, in the form of Abraham Lincoln saved the Union at the very last moment...

So Voltaire, the misanthropic pessimist, satirized Leibniz in Candide as a befuddled and constantly falsely optimistic Dr. Pangloss glowingly opining upon the beset of all the possible plagues visited upon mankind his renowned adage that this is the best of all possible worlds.

And yet... Here we are with the advent of commercialized nuclear fusion. And this point is key  it is not just an alternative energy source. I personally spent some twenty odd years out flogging the premise to all and sundry that would take note on the contrary the technology is potentially transformative. And I implore you for God's sake do read this tremendous write up by my former colleague Marjorie Mazel Hecht on the advent of the Fusion Torch here. If you would like proof of why this is indeed what the title of this post claims. 

Enough said.

The preamplifiers of the National Ignition Facility are the first step in increasing the energy of laser beams as they make their way toward the target chamber. Credit: Damien Jemison/LLNL

Some Thoughts upon the Immortality of Human Science

Upon reading this write up about this remarkable research project that has created tags RNA and DNA within living cells, I was forced to formulate this question to my quondam philosophical adversaries. So, as reductionist materialists, do you still insist that the irrational acausality of purposeless chaotic and universal entropy somehow wound up creating this vast hyperorganization of cellular biology? Really???

Now, I am not in any way an advocate of simplistic biblically inspired creationism. However, I have not ever been able to refute certain classical principles that seek to prove that there exists a universal ordering power or force that is continually transforming the substance of this universe for the better. And that the human intellect is uniquely situated to uncover and indeed further the potential of this very power for the benefit of untold generations of our collective progeny. 

Let me restate this in another way. We as mortal and conscious beings can only know that that consciousness is ever present while we are alive, existing. (And I include our conscious experience of dream states or the periods that we must intuit of provably non conscious lapses in wakefulness.) What we can never know is non existence, in the pessimistic and cowering words of Shakespeare's Hamlet that "undiscovered country, from whose bourn," from which "no traveller returns, puzzles the will, and makes us rather bear those ills we have." 

Putting aside such maudlin reflections, isn't it the case then that we do know that life will go on for humanity in its universal struggle to discover beyond this our "mortal coil?" And thus in potential, if nothing else our very existing consciousness is capable of enhancing that purposive scientific mission inherent in our human existence? And may we not also agree that by necessity this entire process spanning the whole unfolding of human history is in fact good? Or indeed, the Good?

DNA and associated cellular machinery is gathered and organized by certain non-coding RNAs, each region shown in a different colored jellybean-shape in this model. Credit: Inna-Marie Strazhnik

(For educational purpose only.)

Time Travel

 In the theater, the stage is but a prompt for the mind to travel in place and time. Thus we engage and acquiesce as audience to the poetry of illusion. 

A dream of things past that beguiles the conscience may be our realm to imagine. Or the present enwrapped in the birth pangs of a future waged by outlooks on the stage of choice, either true or false.

The judgment is not far off for only some self acclaimed prophetic seer to be thereby materialized in the drama. Yet, we are soaked and saturated in that war of the rulers of mind. 

So, to our todays must we be made aware, they are but as dust in the tapestry of unfurling time and space. And it is thus pregnant of hope with an intensity that powers even whole galaxies along the pathway toward assisting creation as the next step along the curve of that final mission of that thing we denominate as "humanity." If this be mere worship, that is a shortcoming. For the task at hand must be resolved forthwith.

So we are dismissed from the interlude back to the acting not in the mindseye but here and now, in reality.

The Bubble and the Star Cluster
Image Credit & Copyright: Lorand Fenyes