"Didn't I meet you in some other hallucination?" anon
To follow up with no 2 of my 3rd last contribution in info.
Always, me hearties, make sure the enemy cannot ram you in the flanks. During
the 20th Century
several interesting new developments took place, IN MATH that were not included
in the manifold
divisibility of Math. They are:
- Georg Cantor into Infinite sets. He is reputed to have gone mad, which in
hindsight does not
surprise me. In IS one can have A and -A co-existent, which is against the
rules of Logic, but
thereof later.
- Benoit Mandelbrot into fractals, using the imaginary number 'i'. It has the
effect on
cosmology to make Einstein's no-centred universe into an everywhere-centred
universe or model
of space. This enabled the holographic universe, whereof later.
- Edward Lorenz elucidation of Chaos theory, accompanying Complexity Theory
which forces the
use of powerful computers
- Bohm and Pribram, neurologist and physicist, the holographic universe for
which both reality
- the real stuff - and the brain are evidence, now widely expanded into many
areas, and even
available as toys. Recently Gariaev and his team showed and experimentally
proved the USA junk
DNA to be a holographic projector, etc..
- Ilya Prigogyne his autopoietic or self organising Universe, using a variety
of theories,
including Systems
- Norbert Weiner his Cybernetics, one of the rare theories that has no physical
proof.
- Rudi Rucker making expansions of Cantor's Infinite Set Theory, which now
comes to three flavours
- The proof of particle entanglement, by the likes of Hannes Alfven and 1982 by
Alan Aspect.
- 1960 by Theodore Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories the first working
Laser. It does the
impossible of producing straight lined light which, fi., can bounce off the
moon, pop balloons
and worse. I've got several mini laser torches, not to ignore the CDRom and
hard disc boot
sector and much more.
- I won't discuss AI which is a bit of a stillborn pup although it has much
expanded computer
databasing. I like Howard's Aikins notion not to be afraid others will steal
your ideas, you'll
have to ram them down their throats.
- In math the shift from the use of number units, all six of them, into sets,
classes, groups
and families. Sets I note are much akin to words.
It certainly shows up in various ways, one of them, being totally
ignored and banned from peer
reviewed publication, enough said. In all the above cases the emergence of the
new notions was
accompanied by heavy email and conferencing with colleagues from a range of
specialities. The
interest is how they emerged as radically new, though grounded in math, prior
to their
emergence there was no such thing in math. Any poking around in Inet and
reading books will
keep one busy awhile. It actually broke the basic closure of some 100 odd
logics and algebras.
One side effect was Spenser Brown's "Laws of Form" which managed a strict
definition of IF,
hitherto taboo in logics. It can be used and is, to pose watertight, circuit
diagram imitant
arguments one can use to go anomaly hunting.
You may notice I have not listed Quantum physics because it is not math
grounded although it
too has had a wide impact on Cosmology, Ontology and Psychology. It's a hot
potato in
Epistemology, science and math strongly divided in epiphenomenal versus global
or universal
sentience. In effect the whole melee around has defied the arrival of a Unified
Theory or TOE.
From it all has emerged an expansion of Logic into the "what if" explorative
stage of
possibilities which put physics, so to speak, back to stage one of exploration
by an in tandem
use of empiricism and speculation about what lies beyond the material
hypothesis. In turn that
has had its effects on math of searches for novel tactics to cope with the
findings. Joke, I'll
ignore Andrew Wiles solution to Fermat's last theorem. I doubt if both Euclid
and Pythagoras
could cope.
Through or around all that I devised what I call syntology for which:
Given any A and B paired
we have
a: Their isolate or "or" usage by opposition
b: Their paired "and" usage by mutual dominance and subordination in
complementary fashion
c: Their union into a continuum in which constants are lacking and all
variables affect each
other simultaneously and continuously, making for a process reality and
philosophy.
This yields six sets as A >-< B, Ab and aB in <->ways, AB and ab, which last
makes it collapse
to five, scale no longer matters. I won't declare the subsets as variations on
major themes, it
would take too long. One major shift following is the remapping of objects in
space as dynamic
process in time. Altogether we can now play "what if" once reserved to
literature.
I was going to indulge in target shooting, Sam Carana, Einseele and
Georges Metanomsky, but
why bother shooting dead ducks. Incidentally Archytas may find benefit for his
icecream bonding
in chaos theory. I want to thank everybody, including the above pejoratives,
for their unaware
contribution to a hitherto vague set of ideas changed into better clarity. What
is now clear,
thanks to Chaos Theory as well, that each item in the above list shows the
validity of Chaos
Theory for which, in Lorenz metaphor, a butterfly can start a storm. I was not
aware of doing
Chaos born thinking. What is fascinating about that is that myth, our
antiquity, was well aware
of how chaos works, though giving it such labels as the battle between Osiris
and his wicked
twin brother Seth as in religion between god and satan, another set of twins,
compare Cain and
Abel and more. Chaos theorists themselves have not noticed it. You will have to
use parametric
analysis for that.
A quick gawp on inet wikipedia shows 'mythemes of Proto-Indo-European
mythology' and 2.5
million websites, so the work is already done. If proto then it's quite likely
yet another
survival of a pre-flood civilisation. The twins named are: * the Greek
Dioscuri, * the Vedic
Ashvins, * the Lithuanian Ašvieniai, * the Latvian Dieva de-li, * Alcis (god),
* Romulus and
Remus suckled by a wolf. The Vedic Asvins are horse tamers and redolent of the
flight and fall
of Icarus into the sun. Their acts as sons of the Sky God are: brothers of the
Sun Maiden,
association with horses, dual paternity, saviours at sea, astral nature, magic
healers,
warriors and providers of divine aid in battle, divinities of fertility,
association with
swans, divinities of dance, closeness to human beings, protectors of the oath,
assisting at
birth, founders of cities. I won't go into their symbolic values but as one
example dance is
frequently used for a complementary process. I'm surprised Egyptian Isis,
Osiris and Uncle Seth
has been omitted and its recurrence in Hamlet.
Finally information is usually treated as needing a medium but in the
presence of sentient
senses and sensors it needs no such thing. You don't need a page boy giving
notice that it
rains. Nor are we born with a handbook pinned to our navel. In a universe where
information is
what happens and what gives the uses of axioms has reached beyond the solely
materially obvious
by expansion of our senses by instrumentation that, in most all cases,
transduces its data into
sensory images. If we are going to have a unified theory of everything it will
be that the
supposedly simple expands into complexity to reframe a clock universe into a
weird version that
both implodes and explodes to distribute through order dancing with disorder in
anisotropic ways.
adrian
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