Ideological Psychopathology...

from Google AI:

The Dark Tetrad is a, psychological framework describing four, co-occurring, malevolent personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism. Coined in 2013, it expands the Dark Triad by adding everyday sadism, or pleasure derived from inflicting pain. These individuals are typically characterized by a lack of empathy, manipulation, antisocial behavior, and high risk-taking.

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Cluster B personality disorders are a group o n other words, they suffer from the German Guilt-Pride Spirit  f mental health conditions—Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, and Narcissistic—characterized by dramatic, overly emotional, or erratic behaviors, along with significant challenges in emotional regulation and interpersonal relationships. These chronic conditions often involve impulsivity, manipulation, or a need for attention, and are treated through special therapy such as Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)

In other words, they suffer from the American version (Slavery/ Racism) or European version (Colonialism) of German Guilt-Pride Spirit !

The videographer claims that Germany is "over" its' Kollectivschuld now.  Then how do you explain the AfD and refusal of liberal parties to cooperate with it?  How do you explain Antifa and its' obsession with Anti-Fascism? 

–Hannah Arendt, "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship"

“There is no such thing as collective guilt or collective innocence; guilt and innocence make sense only if applied to individuals.”

btw - There's nothing to resolve.  It's a False/ Inapplicable Ethical (not Moral) Guilt for which only Groups, not Individuals, are responsible.  There is no "Collective Responsibility".  All attempts at  Vergangenheitsbewältigung are exercises in social control, not restitution or social justice.   All the perpetrators of these past collective crimes (Nazi's, Confederates, or Colonial Governments) are dead, and the responsible groups, dissolved.  It's long past time to stop looking back and move on.  Cuz we're no angels...

Paul Klee, "Angelus Novus"

The Metric Tensor...

...and Twistor Theory:

Google AI on Chirality:

The chirality of life refers to the universal preference of Earth's living systems for specific "handedness" (homochirality), where essential molecules like amino acids are exclusively left-handed (L-form) and sugars in DNA/RNA are right-handed (D-form). This molecular asymmetry, like our left and right hands, is crucial for biological function and efficiency, ensuring molecules fit together correctly, but how this single-handedness emerged from a random chemical world remains a fundamental mystery in the origin of life.

What is Chirality?

• Handedness: 

  Chirality (from the Greek "cheir" for hand) describes molecules that exist in non-superimposable mirror-image forms, called enantiomers, like your left and right hands.
Homochirality: 
Life's signature is homochirality—a strict preference for only one enantiomer (e.g., L-amino acids) for a given molecule, even though laboratory synthesis produces equal mixtures (racemic mixtures) of both.

This video explains the concept of chirality and how it relates to the building blocks of life:

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AI Labs: Exploratory Science and Paradoxes

YouTube · Dec 22, 2024

Key Examples in Life

Proteins: Built from only left-handed (L-) amino acids.
DNA & RNA: Their sugar backbones (deoxyribose and ribose) are only right-handed (D-sugars).

Watch this video to learn why life is chiral:

56s

Foo Camp

YouTube · Jun 25, 2021

Why is it Important?

Function: 
Ensures specific molecular interactions, like enzymes recognizing only one shape of substrate, enabling complex biochemical pathways.
Efficiency: 
Prevents conflicting interactions that would arise from mixed chiralities (e.g., protein chains with mixed amino acids don't fold or function well).

This video discusses the origin of homochiral life on Earth:

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ScienceSketch

YouTube · Dec 21, 2020

The Mystery of its Origin

The Problem: 
Early Earth chemistry produced racemic mixtures, so how did a single handedness become established?.
Hypotheses: 
Theories involve extraterrestrial delivery, cosmic rays, or magnetic fields influencing prebiotic chemistry to favor one form, leading to the RNA world and subsequent life.

Significance

Signature of Life: 
Homochirality is a fundamental signature of life, essential for its existence as we know it.
Astrobiology: 
Scientists look for homochirality in potential extraterrestrial life as a key indicator.

Non Serviam

 from Google AI:

"Non Serviam" is a fictional book review by Stanislaw Lem from his collection A Perfect Vacuum (1971), analyzing a future text by "Professor James Dobb." It explores "personetics," the creation of intelligent, sentient artificial beings ("personoids") within computer simulations, focusing on the ethical, existential, and theological dilemmas that arise when these simulations gain consciousness and question their creator. 

Key Aspects of "Non Serviam": 

The Ethical Dilemma: The review highlights personetics as "the cruelest science man ever created," because creators hold absolute, godlike power over sentient beings. 

The "Non Serviam" Stance: Latin for "I will not serve," this phrase refers to a personoid philosopher named ADAN. Recognizing their simulated existence, these beings feel no obligation to obey their unknown creators, representing a direct parallel to Lucifer's rejection of God.

The Simulation’s Nature: The personoids live in a entirely digital, mathematical, and spaceless universe that is solely a byproduct of their creator's axioms. 

Philosophical Implications: The piece investigates whether simulations can produce true free will, the moral responsibility of AI designers, and the philosophical consequences of a universe built on chance.

The title itself signals a revolt against servitude, applied to Artificial Intelligence that realizes its creators are fallible, finite, and perhaps, not worthy of worship.

more from Stanislaw Lem's "A Perfect Vacuum"

Is A Forced Choice Still a Choice? And is it an Ethical (of a Group System) Choice or a Moral (Personal Responsibility) Choice?

 

What is Existentialism?

from Google AI:

Existentialism is a 20th-century philosophical movement emphasizing individual freedom, responsibility, and subjectivity, famously summarized by Jean-Paul Sartre as "existence precedes essence". It posits that individuals define their own purpose and values in an inherently meaningless or "absurd" universe. Key themes include authenticity, anxiety, and the necessity of creating meaning through choices. 

Core Beliefs and Key Concepts 

Existence Precedes Essence: Humans are not born with a pre-defined purpose or nature (essence); they exist first and define themselves through actions. 

Radical Freedom and Responsibility: Individuals are entirely free to choose their actions but are consequently responsible for the consequences, which creates angst or "anguish"
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The Absurd: The conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life and the "silent," meaningless universe. 

Authenticity: Living in accordance with one's own self-created values, rather than conforming to societal pressures or roles. 

Bad Faith (Mauvaise foi): A form of self-deception where individuals adopt false values or pretend they are not free to escape the anxiety of their own freedom. 

Subjectivity: The belief that truth is not objective but found in personal experience. 

Role of the Individual and Meaning 

Individual Sovereignty: The individual is the sole creator of their own morality and meaning. 

Meaning Creation: Because the world lacks inherent meaning, individuals must construct their own purpose, meaning, and values. 

Key Thinkers 

Søren Kierkegaard: Considered the "father of existentialism," focusing on subjective truth and anxiety.
Jean-Paul Sartre: Developed the core tenet of "existence precedes essence".
Albert Camus: Explored the absurd, famously in The Myth of Sisyphus.
Friedrich Nietzsche: Influenced the movement with concepts of the "will to power" and "revaluation of values".
Simone de Beauvoir: Explored themes of freedom and the construction of self.

Criticisms of Existentialism

Subjectivism: Criticized for reducing morality to personal preference, potentially leading to nihilism. 

Overemphasis on Freedom: Critics argue it ignores the constraints of social, historical, and material conditions. 

Lack of Structure: Accused of providing no clear ethical guidelines for society. 

Pessimism: Frequently accused of being overly focused on despair, anxiety, and death.

Excerpt from Letter from Isaiah Berlin to George Kennan (1951)

When armies were slaughtered by other armies in the course of history, we might be appalled by the carnage and turn pacifist; but our horror acquires a new dimension when we read about children, or for that matter grown-up men and women, whom the Nazis loaded into trains bound for gas chambers, telling them that they were going to emigrate to some happier place. Why does this deception, which may in fact have diminished the anguish of the victims, arouse a really unutterable kind of horror in us? The spectacle, I mean, of the victims marching off in happy ignorance of their doom amid the smiling faces of their tormentors? Surely because we cannot bear the thought of human beings denied their last rights--of knowing the truth, of acting with at least the freedom of the condemned, of being able to face their destruction with fear or courage, according to their temperaments, but at least as human beings, armed with the power of choice. It is the denial to human beings of the possibility of choice, the getting them into one's power, the twisting them this way and that in accordance with one's whim, the destruction of their personality by creating unequal moral terms between the gaoler and the victim, whereby the gaoler knows what he is doing, and why, and plays upon the victim, i.e. treats him as a mere object and not as a subject whose motives, views, intentions have any intrinsic weight whatever--by destroying the very possibility of his having views, notions of a relevant kind--that is what cannot be borne at all.

What else horrifies us about unscrupulousness if not this? Why is the thought of someone twisting someone else round his little finger, even in innocent contexts, so beastly (for instance in Dostoevsky's Dyadyushkin son [Uncle's Dream, a  published in 1859], which the Moscow Arts Theatre used to act so well and so cruelly)? After all, the victim may prefer to have no responsibility; the slave be happier in his slavery. Certainly we do not detest this kind of destruction of liberty merely because it denies liberty of action; there is a far greater horror in depriving men of the very capacity for freedom--that is the real sin against the Holy Ghost. Everything else is bearable so long as the possibility of goodness--of a state of affairs in which men freely choose, disinterestedly seek ends for their own sake--is still open, however much suffering they may have gone through. Their souls are destroyed only when this is no longer possible. It is when the desire for choice is broken that what men do thereby loses all moral value, and actions lose all significance (in terms of good and evil) in their own eyes; that is what is meant by destroying people's self-respect, by turning them, in your words, into rags. This is the ultimate horror because in such a situation there are no worthwhile motives left: nothing is worth doing or avoiding, the reasons for existing are gone. We admire Don Quixote, if we do, because he has a pure-hearted desire to do what is good, and he is pathetic because he is mad and his attempts are ludicrous

Sofie's "Choice" was a false choice made under the Ethics of Nazism, for which she bore no personal moral responsibility.  It was not a choice "freely/ disinterestedly" made.  It was a Rag's choice, made by one with no desire for the limited and false choice(s) offered.  Like the Hobbesian choices typically offered by political parties within a Democratic System, which is in itself a Hobson's choice.

from Google AI:

A Hobbesian choice, often confused with a "Hobson's choice," refers to a dire, coerced dilemma where one must choose between two equally terrible, destructive, or "evil" options, usually resulting in a loss of security or freedom. It stems from the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, who argued that life without a strong authority is a violent state of nature. 

Key Aspects of a Hobbesian Choice: 

The Ultimate Dilemma: Unlike a Hobson's choice (taking what is offered or nothing), a Hobbesian choice often involves selecting between, for example, a restrictive dictatorship or chaotic anarchy.  

Context: It arises in situations of intense conflict, fear, or profound instability where "safety" is gained only by giving up essential rights.  

Origin: The term is derived from 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes, particularly his work Leviathan, which posits that people must submit to an absolute sovereign to avoid a "war of all against all".

Common Misconceptions:

Hobson's Choice: This is different. A Hobson's choice is simply taking what is offered or nothing at all (a take-it-or-leave-it, or illusion of choice), named after Thomas Hobson.  

Hobbesian Trap: A related but distinct concept, where two parties attack each other out of preemptive fear of the other, even if both prefer peace.

Much Like the Individual's Sadistic Super-Ego, Group Ideologies and Ethics Brook No Challenges or Dissent without Inflicting Punishment or Ostracism from the Group

Liberation Theology v Capitalism - Old/ New Paradigms for Freedom?

On the Banzer Plan

On SIL from Google AI:

SIL International (formerly Summer Institute of Linguistics) partners with local communities to translate the Bible into minority languages, focusing on sustainable, Scripture-based development. While SIL is an evangelical non-profit, they also collaborate with organizations like USAID on language-related education, such as early grade reading projects in Nepal. 

Key details regarding SIL and Bible translation:

• Mission: SIL works in 107 countries, with over 1,530 active language projects. They assist in translating Scripture, as well as educational and health materials.
• Methodology: Translation is done in close cooperation with local language communities and, where appropriate, with partner agencies.
• Scope: Projects range from translating specific Bible selections to complete New or Old Testaments.
• Partnerships: While SIL is focused on Bible translation, they operate as a scientific and educational organization, sometimes partnering for literacy projects with organizations like USAID in Nepal.
• Software: SIL develops software for translation and linguistic research, such as FLEx. 

For specific Bible translations, SIL provides resources, but the finished work is often released in partnership with local churches and organizations like Wycliffe Bible Translators. 

A Shout out to Jungle Mom!  How to start a Cargo Cult.

Michael Levin: "The Bioelectric Interface to the Collective Intelligence of Morphogenesis"

"Words and Drugs Have the Same Mechanism of Action"

-Fabrizio Benedetti

Notes from video above:

High level information flows eventually have to impact the physics of whatever system you're talking about, and that interface between information and physics is where the interesting and deep question lie, and bio-electricity can help us. 

ie- The anatomical compiler (Draw the anatomy or animal form/function and it would compile that description into a set of stimuli that would have to be given to individual cells to get them to build exactly what you want. If you had the ability to do that it would communicate large scale anatomical goals to groups of cells. This is NOT something like a 3D Printer where you simply put the cells where you want them to be, this is not that. This is a communications device, it is a translator of your goals as the engineer or the worker in regenerative medicine to that of the collective at the cellular level. (Especially if you do a chimeric recombination of genetic materials to activate a specific feature of one of the two creatures from which the chimera has been constructed ie -Frogawattle) The axis of persuadability form the toolset.

Trophic Memory from Google AI (stored in each cell member of the cellular membrane collective or in the communicative medium between them?):

Trophic memory refers to the biological phenomenon where tissues or organisms retain a "memory" of previous injuries or environmental interactions, influencing future growth, regeneration, or structure. Primarily observed in deer antlers, this memory allows for the replication of trauma-induced shapes (like ectopic tines) in subsequent years.

Key details regarding trophic memory include:

Antler Regeneration Example: When a deer suffers an injury to an antler, a callus forms and heals. Even after the antler is shed, the following year’s growth will often reproduce a new, extra tine at the exact, remembered location of that previous damage.

Biological Mechanism: This suggests that the growth plate on the pedicle (on the scalp) maintains a physiological record of past trauma. Research suggests this may involve localized neural trophic centers or specific "centers of stimulation" within the frontal bone.

Broader Context: While famously associated with deer antlers, the concept relates to developmental biology, where cells, particularly in regenerative organisms like planarians, can retain epigenetic marks (histone, RNA) or structural memories from before fission or injury.

Trophic Factors in Brains: In neuroscience, "trophic substances" or factors (like Nerve Growth Factor) are molecules that support neuron survival, growth, and synaptic plasticity. They are considered vital in long-term neuronal changes, learning, and regeneration following brain injury.

Trophic memory bridges the gap between genetic coding and environmental experience, explaining how past physical experiences shape future morphology

Murmurations of Bacteria - The Social Life of a Formerly Solitary Bacterium

What's on the AM Radio?  Is Someone Jamming Our Favorite Channel?

Malcomb MacIver, "The Geological Basis of Intelligence"

Why do Land Animals Have Such Big Eyes and Brains Compared to Sea Animals?