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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus

Sunday, June 1, 2025

Is Gravity an Emergent Result from the Emergent Causal Relations of Relativity?

...or Immanent to a "Time now" point  with Space and Particles positional representations superimposed on a Universe-Scaled Field of Transcendence for Mind to Measure and therefore Comprehend?
If you blinked, you'd miss it.  You wouldn't see the transcendental wave function collapse.
Google AI:
 In the realm of causality, immanent and emergent relations represent different ways in which causes and effects relate to each other. Immanent causation describes a situation where the cause and effect are intimately linked, with the effect existing within the cause. Emergent causation, on the other hand, refers to situations where new properties or behaviors arise at higher levels of organization, without being directly present in the lower-level components. 
Immanent Causation: 
  • Definition:
    An immanent cause is one whose effect is inherent and inseparable from the cause itself. The effect is contained within the cause and cannot exist independently of it. 
  • Example:
    Fire and light are often cited as an example of immanent causation, as the light emitted by fire is a direct and inseparable consequence of the fire itself. 
  • Philosophical Relevance:
    Immanence can be understood in the context of philosophical discussions about the nature of reality, where immanent causes might be associated with the idea of a "whole" or a unified system where everything is interconnected. 
Emergent Causation: 
  • Definition:
    Emergent causation describes situations where new properties or behaviors appear at a higher level of organization that are not simply a sum of the properties of the lower-level components. 
  • Example:
    The emergent properties of consciousness in the brain, or the liquidity of water, are often cited as examples of emergent causation, where these properties are not directly present in the individual atoms or molecules that make up the brain or water. 
  • Scientific Relevance:
    Emergent causation is relevant in many scientific fields, including physics, biology, and computer science, where researchers study the emergence of complex behaviors from simpler underlying mechanisms.
Measure Twice - Cut Once - Theories of Everything - Science or Philosophy?

Saturday, May 31, 2025

Shifty: Coming Soon from Adam Curtis

Shifty - A new series by Adam Curtis coming to BBC iPlayer in June 2025
Shifty shows, in a new and imaginative way, how over the past 40 years in Britain extreme money and hyper-individualism came together in an unspoken alliance.

This series shows in a new and imaginative way how over the past 40 years in Britain extreme money and hyper-individualism came together in an unspoken alliance. Together they undermined one of the fundamental structures of mass democracy - that it could create a shared idea of what was real. And as that fell apart, with it went the language and the ideas that people had turned to for the last 150 years to make sense of the world they lived in.

As a result, life in Britain today has become strange - a hazy dream-like flux in which no one can predict what is coming next. While distrust in politicians keeps growing. And the political class seem to have lost control.

SHIFTY shows how that happened. But it also shows how that distrust is a symptom of something much deeper. That there is a now a mismatch between the world we experience day to day and the world that the politicians, journalists and experts describe to us.

The map no longer describes the territory.

The films tell the story of the rise of that unstable and confusing world from the 1980s to now. They use a vast range of footage to evoke what if felt like to live through an epic transformation. A shift in consciousness among people in how they saw and felt about the world. Hundreds of moments captured on film and video that give a true sense of the crazy complexity and variety of peoples actual lives. Moments of intimacy and strangeness and absurdity. From nuns playing Cluedo and fat-shaming ventriloquists to dark moments - racist attacks, suspicion of others and modern paranoia about conspiracies in Britain’s past.

The politicians from Mrs Thatcher onwards unleashed the power of finance to try and manage and deal with this new complexity. But then they lost control and the money broke free. While at the same time the growing chaotic force of hyper-individualism created an ever more fragmented and atomised society that ate away at the idea that was at the heart of democracy. That people could come together in groups.

Leaving everyone unmoored and isolated in a society which is waiting for something new to come. Something that will make sense of today's unstable and shifty world.

How the Master Discourse Shaped the University Discourse (et al) in America...

Friday, May 30, 2025

Love Without the Fall...

 ...vs. Love with it!

The 'Tech' for Dreaming the Impossible Dream...

Monkey See... Monkey DO!
Perhaps One Day we'll ALL have our own Booths in the Loyalty Center...
...0r our own Pods in the Matrix!

"I took the BLUE PILLS, Dammit!"

To Dream, the Impossible Dream...

Sci-Fi for the New Soviet Man!

Dreaming Tech for the New 'Achievement Subject'
(aka - The Isolated/ Dividuated 'Cloud Serf')

Silencio!

SuperEgo Domination w/ No or Lapsed Oedipal Ego Regrets...

What is the Oedipal Complex?  Guilt-Pride at the "Individual" level, of course!  Not at the "Group" level.  It is a technology used by Ego to define your curated Individual's Identities/ Roles under conditions of Profilicity to meet the Group's (General Peer's) expectations. 

from Google AI
In Plato's philosophy, particularly in the dialogue Philebus, the concepts of Limit (peras) and Unlimited (apeiron) play a crucial role in understanding reality, including the nature of Forms. 
Relationship to Forms:
  • Limit and Form: Plato associates the concept of limit with the intelligible and immaterial realm of the Forms. Forms are seen as providing definiteness and structure to things, acting as a principle of unity. This aligns with the idea of limit imposing order and determination.
  • The Indefinite Dyad and the Unlimited: Plato also speaks of the "Indefinite Dyad," a principle of indeterminacy or unlimitedness, thought to correspond to the Unlimited (apeiron). This can be related to the idea of the potential for variation or change within things.
  • Forms as Causes: The Forms serve as the "cause" of the sensible world, lending some kind of existence to ordinary objects. This causation involves the imposition of limit upon the unlimited potentiality of matter. 
How Limit and Unlimited Function:
  • Establishing Being: The imposition of limit upon the unlimited is essential for something to come into true being. Without limit, the unlimited remains indefinite and cannot be known or understood.
  • Definiteness and Structure: Limit provides external and internal boundaries, bringing definiteness to something and providing internal structure. This is how things in the physical world become what they are, by participating in or resembling the Forms.
  • Measure and Harmony: The interplay between limit and unlimited, facilitated by a principle of "measure," creates harmony and intelligibility in the world. This resonates with the Pythagorean influence on Plato, where number (seen as a universal entity of a qualitative kind) is central to ordering the universe