Patented Intellectual Property (IP): Why the West will Lose WWIII to China

They can't practice Shanzhai without violating IP Laws.  China (and Taiwan) don't have this problem.  Innovating on drones in the field and experimenting, THAT is Shanzhai!  

We need a PROsumer  based (Shanzhai) economy, NOT a CONsumer Based One!  IP Enforcement PREVENTS that necessary economic transition.  Intangible Assets constitute the bulk of a tech companies worth.  Neoliberalism is condemning the West into economic  irrelevance.  The West needs an IP-less freedom to innovate in real time!

Let the Workers Guilds Control Access to and Use of the IP for the 1st Year or Two of a Product's Life and Pay "Royalties" to the innovators (if need be)... not the Government Patent Offices and Legal System!  Keep the lawyers out of it until AFTER the product's usefulness as a "standard" has been established.

But we'll never legalize Shanzhai even for a little while. Western Billionaire Technofeudal Lords NEED their billions!

...and a Monopoly on AI to Out Innovate Shanzhai Competitors.

Mythos vs Logos: On the 'Truths' of the Right vs. Left Brain Hemispheres

"Philosophy is the translation of Eros into Logos" - Byung-Chul Han : "...and the desire and pursuit of the whole is called, "Love"" - Plato "Symposium" (Aristophanes' Speech)

"Science is Apophatic" - Iain McGilchrist

On the Apophatic from Google AI:

Apophatic theology, or "negative theology," is the practice of describing God or the divine by negating all finite characteristics, defining what God is not rather than what God is. It emphasizes divine transcendence and the belief that human language and reason are too limited to grasp God's infinite, incomprehensible essence.

Key Principles and Purpose

• Transcendent Incomprehensibility: God is "wholly other" and beyond human comprehension, existence, and logic, which are only created things.
• The "Way of Negation": Rather than saying "God is good" (which limits God to human concepts of goodness), apophatic theology says "God is not not-good" or simply that God is beyond all human concepts.
• Intellectual Humility: It serves to prevent idolatry by stopping us from creating a mental image or "idol" of God based on human concepts.
• Theosis and Union: It focuses on the experience of God, encouraging a journey of "unknowing" and direct mystical experience over intellectual comprehension.

Relationship to Mysticism

Apophatic theology is inseparable from mysticism and contemplative prayer, sometimes called "apophatic prayer" (e.g., centering prayer), which involves emptying the mind of concepts and words to rest in the divine presence. It is described as entering a "luminous darkness" or "divine silence".

Notable Figures

• Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite: Crucial in bringing "negative theology" to the forefront in the late 5th century.
• Gregory of Nyssa: An early 4th-century Cappadocian Father.
• Maximus the Confessor: Linked apophatic theology with hesychasm (stillness).
• Gregory Palamas: A major 14th-century proponent.

Criticisms and Contrast

• Contrast with Cataphatic Theology: While apophatic is negative theology, cataphatic is positive theology (e.g., "God is love"), which often acts as a necessary counterweight in Christian theology, balancing God's transcendence with his revealed, immanent nature.
• Criticisms: It can be accused of leading to an unreachable, impersonal God and sometimes results in a "both/and" approach, as the finite mind still relies on symbols and analogies to understand the infinite.

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On the 'Greater Truth' of (Quantum) Fiction (Mythos)

(Stochaisticaly Decentering an Independent Observer 

- ala Orpheus and Eurydice)

"If you look directly at her, you will shrink her into a Left hemisphere reality"

The Double Slit Experiment

Feynman's "Principle of Least Action" (aka Occam's Razor)

Science's Holy Trinity:

Reason - Intuition - Imagination

When the Biological Wave Function Collapses...

the imperfect particle zoo appears!

Particle Emergence from the Zero Point Vacuum

The Big Bang Theory - A Cataphatic (vice Apophatic) Universe?

Pi: Nature's Debt to Symmetry or "Where All the "Space" gets tucked into when crossing a Singularity's Event Horizon"

Index WHAT'S INSIDE: 

00:00:00 The Circular Trap 

00:02:07 Buffon's Needle 

00:04:56 The Staircase Paradox 

00:07:56 Pi in High Dimensions 

00:10:40 The BBP Formula 

00:11:53 The Beautiful Equation 

00:12:44 Einstein's Equations 

00:15:04 The Eigenvalue Problem 

00:17:00 The Price of Symmetry

Notes:

Pi is the mathematical constant of rotational symmetry.

Pi is the price that the Universe pays when it tries to treat all directions the same

Pi is the normalization constant for rotation.  It's the mathematical reward for continuous smooth transition (If the turn is not smooth (ie. not stepped/ quantized) then the Pi is not there)

In multidimensional space the volume of the numerator (where pi resides) is exponential, but the denominator (gamma function) is a factorial.  In mathematics a factorial eventually outpaces any exponential, no matter how large the base is. As the number of dimensions goes towards infinity, the volume of a unit hypersphere goes to zero.  Meanwhile the volume of the hypercube it sits inside approaches infinity.  In 2D, a circle fills 78% of the area of a square, In 3D a sphere fills 52% the volume of a cube, In 5D its fills 16%, 10D 0.25%, 20D ~0%.  Pi is a constant that dictates how fast that symmetric center disappears (and moves towards the limiting edge ie- Event horizon)

Most Beautiful Equation:  Using e and i and pi:   e^(i*pi) +1 = 0

Constants capturing natural architectures: e of Growth, i of Rotation, and Pi of Symmetry

Smooth symmetry vanishes in high dimensions.

Gravity is isotropic. Pi is the reason that gravity spreads uniformly in all four space-time dimensions (Einstein's field equations). 8pi is 4pi x2... to cover tensors in the energy density + tensors in the Pressure (in all directions).  It's a structural requirement, not a choice.  

If space were directional (jagged/stepped/quantized), gravity would behave differently.  Instead of round stars and smooth orbits, mass would clump along a preferred axis.  This uniformity is a hard-coded property of how fields behave in a vacuum.  It leads us to a single mathematical operator that explains why pi keeps appearing in the equations.  

The Eigenvalue problem.  Pi is the fundamental frequency of any continuous isotropic space.  It is the lowest possible vibration of a coordinate system that has no bias.  Pi is not just a measurement of a circle's edge.  It is the lowest-energy state of any universe that treats all directions the same.

Pi is not a property of the circle.  The circle is just one possible expression of Pi.

Pi is the price of symmetry.  What it costs for a system to be perfectly fair to every direction simultaneously.  It's the numerical signature of a Universe that hasn't picked a side.

Folding Space into the Edges

and calculating the Resulting Probabilities

Principle of Least Action

Direction of Spin?  Chirality Bias?

from Google AI

Broken symmetry in physics occurs when a system’s underlying physical laws are symmetric, but the actual, realized state is not, leading to ordered, lower-energy states. Spontaneous symmetry breaking, critical in quantum field theory and the Standard Model, allows symmetric laws to produce non-symmetric, ordered outcomes.

Key Concepts and Types

• Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking: The Lagrangian (physics law) possesses a symmetry, but the ground state (vacuum) does not, such as a pencil falling in a random direction (symmetric tip to asymmetric lying down).
• Explicit Symmetry Breaking: The underlying physical laws themselves contain terms that violate the symmetry.
• Significance: This concept explains the emergence of structure, ordered phases (like crystals or magnets), and particle mass generation.

Examples in Physics

• Particle Physics (Higgs Mechanism): The electroweak symmetry is broken, allowing and bosons to acquire mass while keeping photons massless.
• Condensed Matter Physics: Superconductivity occurs when the electromagnetic gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken.
• Phase Transitions: As a liquid cools, it freezes into a crystal, breaking translational symmetry, as noted by.
• Magnetism: In a magnetic material, the magnetic moments align in a specific direction below the Curie temperature, violating rotational symmetry.

Broken symmetry is deeply related to Noether’s theorem, where a symmetry is linked to a conservation law; in many cases of broken symmetry, the symmetry is hidden rather than absent, often with key implications for fundamental particle interactions

What Kind of Physics Are we Talking About, Holmes?

1/137?

Catherine Liu: How Woke Liberal Professionals Monetized Trauma

"Postcolonialism is the invention of some rich guys from India who saw that they could make a good career in top Western universities by playing on the guilt of white liberals."

-Slavoj Zizek 

Empire Strategies and the Thucydides Trap

Meden Agan!

Authority and Legitimacy, How Can They be Distinguished from their Opposites?

How Should We Interpret Their Symbols in Our Ordo Amoris?

The Decline and Fall of Institutional Authority?

Dante, "Inferno" (Canto V):

FROM the first circle I descended thus

Down to the second, which, a lesser space

Embracing, so much more of grief contains

Provoking bitter moans.  There, Minos stands

Grinning with ghastly feature: he, of all

Who enter, strict examining the crimes,

Gives sentence, and dismisses them beneath,

According as he foldeth him around:

For when before him comes th' ill fated soul,

It all confesses; and that judge severe

Of sins, considering what place in hell

Suits the transgression, with his tail so oft

Himself encircles, as degrees beneath

He dooms it to descend.  Before him stand

Always a num'rous throng; and in his turn

Each one to judgment passing, speaks, and hears

His fate, thence downward to his dwelling hurl'd.

"O thou! who to this residence of woe

Approachest?"  when he saw me coming, cried

Minos, relinquishing his dread employ,

"Look how thou enter here; beware in whom

Thou place thy trust; let not the entrance broad

Deceive thee to thy harm."  To him my guide:

"Wherefore exclaimest?  Hinder not his way

By destiny appointed; so 'tis will'd

Where will and power are one.  Ask thou no more."

The Divine Comedy: A Journey of the Soul (Will/ Desire) through Duty/ Obedience... Reciprocity... and Free Will

Why Sisyphus is Happy in Hell!

...and Jesus Had no Need to Liberate Pagan Souls after his Death/ Crucifixion from Hell

...and why Dante resurrects Dido (and Beatrice) in "memory" (heaven?)

Learning to trust your own instincts, intuition, and imagination in a world of unreliable narrators

Detailing the narrative impetus for the transition from the Age of Faith through the Reformation and into the Age of Reason/ Enlightenment

...but what comes after all that?

Feynman on The Quantum Physics of Glass

TIMESTAMPS: 

00:00 — Every solid blocks light. Except the one in your window. 

03:12 — The classical argument: why solids SHOULD be opaque 

08:45 — "Maybe glass has tiny holes?" — wrong, and here's why 

12:20 — The myth that glass is a liquid (and why it won't die) 

15:30 — The quantum staircase: why electrons are picky eaters 

22:00 — Band gaps — the key that unlocks transparency 

28:15 — Why glass blocks UV but lets visible light through 

33:40 — Why metals are opaque and diamonds sparkle 

38:50 — Newton's impossible puzzle: how does the photon know? 

44:10 — Feynman's little arrows and the probability of reflection 

50:30 — Colored glass, impurities, and the art of selective absorption 

55:00 — Your window is editing reality — what else is?

Partial replacement for above censored video

Andrew Culp, "Dark Deleuze"