Celebrating St. George In London and the Colonies

from the Royal Society:

Prior to the formation of The Royal Society of St. George in 1894 and before the American Revolution, Societies of St. George had been founded in the then North American Colonies for the relief of British immigrants and to give them general assistance in the new country. Today there are societies all around the world branching from the historical legacy of St. George, the Patron Saint of England.

The earliest branches of which there are any records are those of New York (1770), Philadelphia (1772) and Charlestown (1773). Subsequently branches were formed in all the great cities of the North American continent and celebrations were always held on St. George's Day. Initially following the Revolutionary War the activities of the societies diminished, but within 20 years the strongest societies regained their footing as we can see with Philadelphia where they filed a legal constitution in 1797. At the time of the War of Independence many Loyalists moved to Canada and founded similar societies in Halifax (1786) and other cities.

In 1769 St. George was used as the patron saint for the building of the first Methodist church in America in Philadelphia. In the 1800's several churches were erected in the United States bearing St. George as their defender including the St. George's Cathedral in Philadelphia.

In the 1920's the Society of the Friends of St George's and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter, a constituent group of the Foundation of the College of St George, Windsor Castle was established.

Shortly thereafter, a separate Philadelphia-based group, the Society of Descendants of Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, was founded in 1929 according to the group, the Hereditary Society Blue Book and the Hereditary Society Community of the United States of America

The Kingsessing Morris Men

The Vacuum of Space is Full of Virtual Particles

...and they are REAL!

Virtual Aether

What was once Old has become New again!

Robert Green on Human Nature and the Games of Power

Appearance can be Power, But "leverage" is ACTUAL Power.  Power is a Multi-Player Game of Getting people in your Side (RICE).  People are NVS.  Self-Deprecating Humour can be a counter to NV.

Trump is a Master of Law #6: Court Attention at All Cost, but he's not a "Big Picture" guy.

Powerless people become passive-aggressive and play "Negative" power games.

Nietzsche, "Beyond Good & Evil" (#36)

If we assume that nothing is "given" as real other than our world of desires and passions and that we cannot access from above or below any "reality" other than the direct reality of our drives - for thinking is only a relationship of these drives to each other -: are we not allowed to make the attempt and to ask the question whether this given is not a sufficient basis also for understanding the so-called mechanical (or "material") world on the basis of things like this given. I don’t mean to understand it as an illusion, an "appearance," an "idea" (in the sense of Berkeley6 and Schopenhauer), but as having the same degree of reality as our affects themselves have - as a more primitive form of the world of affects in which everything is still combined in a powerful unity, something which then branches off and develops in the organic process (also, as is reasonable, gets softer and weaker -), as a form of instinctual life in which the collective organic functions, along with self-regulation, assimilation, nourishment, excretion, and metabolism, are still synthetically bound up with one another - as an early form of life? In the end making this attempt is not only permitted but is also demanded by the conscience of the method. Not to assume various forms of causality as long as the attempt to manage with a single one has been pushed to its furthest limit (- all the way to nonsense, if I may say so): that is one moral of the method which people nowadays may not evade; - as a mathematician would say, it is a consequence "of its definition." In the end the question is whether we acknowledge the will as something really efficient, whether we believe in the causal properties of the will. If we do - and basically our faith in this is simply our faith in causality itself - then we must make the attempt to set up hypothetically the causality of the will as the single causality. Of course, "will" can work only on "will" - and not on "stuff" (not, for example, on "nerves"-). Briefly put, we must venture the hypothesis whether in general, wherever we recognize "effects," will is not working on will - and whether every mechanical event, to the extent that a force is active in it, is not force of will, an effect of the will. - Suppose finally that we were to succeed in explaining our entire instinctual life as a development and branching off of a single fundamental form of the will - that is, of the will to power, as my principle asserts - and suppose we could trace back all organic functions to this will to power and also locate in it the solution to the problem of reproduction and nourishment - that is one problem - then in so doing we would have earned the right to designate all efficient force unambiguously as will to power. Seen from inside, the world defined and described according to its "intelligible character" would be simply "will to power" and nothing else.-

6. . . . Berkeley : George Berkeley (1685-1753), Irish bishop and philosopher

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Further Entrenching Technofeudalism by Psychedelically Modifying the Western Episteme...

The Never Ending Re-Cycling of Bad Ideas...

The Platonic Realm of 'Forms'...

Chris Reynolds, MD, "Engram as a Pattern of Cortical Attractors"

Memory, Loop Geometry, and the Shape of Conscious Thought

Figure 1 — Temporal Sculpting of Attractors: Recursive loops reshape the cortical probability landscape over time. Through repeated cycles of prediction and reinforcement, shallow probability fields evolve into deep, stable attractor basins — forming the building blocks of long-term memory and conscious recall.

I. Introduction: Memory Isn’t a File — It’s a Shape in Time

What if memories aren’t stored, but sculpted? Not filed away like a photograph, but carved into the dynamic folds of brain activity — shapes in a probability landscape that emerge, deform, and reappear with each act of remembering.

In traditional neuroscience, memory has long been associated with the elusive concept of the engram — a physical trace of learning somewhere in the brain. But as our understanding deepens, the idea of a static trace becomes less satisfying. In its place, new models — like the Probability Clock theory — suggest that memory is not a place, but a pattern.

And not just any pattern. An engram, in this view, is a constellation of attractors, each shaped by recursive loops of brain activity flowing through the Synaptic Probability Field of the Cortex (SPFC).

II. What Is an Engram, Really?

The term engram was first proposed by Richard Semon in the early 20th century, describing a hypothetical physical change in the brain that encodes memory. Later, researchers like Karl Lashley and Wilder Penfield searched for it — unsuccessfully, in the form of discrete “memory centers.”

Today, we understand that memories are distributed. They don’t reside in one place, but in networks of neurons that fire together when an experience is recalled. Optogenetics has shown that activating certain neural assemblies can evoke learned behaviors in mice. That’s as close as we’ve gotten to “seeing” an engram.

But even this modern view misses something. If memories can shift, update, fade, and return altered — how can they be fixed entities?

III. Attractors: The Brain’s Hidden Geometry

In complex systems like the brain, an attractor is a stable configuration that neural activity tends to fall into — like a groove in the brain’s activity landscape. But these grooves aren’t fixed. They can deepen with reinforcement or fade with disuse, and they aren’t purely spatial — they’re spatiotemporal, shaped through recursive loops.

Figure 2 — Engram as a Pattern of Attractors: In the SPFC, attractor basins represent neural configurations that are recursively reinforced. A memory, or engram, is composed of multiple attractors forming a stable geometric pattern in probability space.

IV. The Synaptic Probability Field of the Cortex (SPFC)

The SPFC is a conceptual model: a dynamic probability landscape representing the readiness of neurons to fire together. Recursive reinforcement from loops like emotion, attention, and context modulates this field.

In PC theory, reinforcement is not static — it’s temporal sculpting. Time isn’t a backdrop. It’s the very medium that gives attractors their structure and durability.

Figure 3 — Synaptic Probability Field of the Cortex: This stylized “bubble wrap” landscape shows how some synaptic sites are more likely to activate than others. Depressions in the surface represent attractors forming under recursive reinforcement. Over time, this probability field evolves to stabilize patterns of memory and cognition.

V. Loop Geometry: How Memory Takes Shape

Here’s the key: recursive loops sculpt the shape of the SPFC over time.

TAPP, MAPP, and recursive attractor evolutions (rAEs) don’t merely route data — they reshape the terrain.

Figure 4 — Recursive Loop Pathways: Recursive cycles deepen attractor basins by reinforcing activation patterns.

VI. Engrams as Topological Objects

If attractors have shape, then engrams are topologies — they are structures, not snapshots. Each engram reflects not just spatial distribution, but recursive time evolution.

Figure 5 — Stable Engram in the SPFC: Multiple attractors distributed across the SPFC form the core of a stable memory trace.

Sidebar — Deepening the Basin: How Emotion Shapes Memory

Emotionally intense moments reinforce attractors. Neuromodulators deepen synaptic grooves. These emotionally-weighted loops are replayed more frequently — during sleep, reflection, or trauma — embedding them deeper in the SPFC.

VII. Implications: Memory as Momentum

We often think of memory as something static — like a file we “open” when needed. But in the Probability Clock (PC) model, memory is more like momentum moving through time. It’s not just stored information; it’s a pattern of neural activity that continues to loop, evolve, and shape future thought.

Each memory is a trajectory, not a location. It’s built through recursive loops that revisit and reinforce certain attractors — regions in the brain’s probability landscape where patterns of activity tend to settle. These attractors become more stable the more often they’re used.

Trauma: Hyper-Stabilized Attractors. Trauma doesn’t just “get stored” in the brain — it gets looped into. It becomes a set of deep attractor basins that are revisited repeatedly, sometimes involuntarily. These attractors are emotionally weighted and so stable that even small cues can pull the brain back into that pattern — like falling into a groove that’s been worn too deep.

Therapy: Perturbing the Loop. Therapeutic interventions work not by erasing memories, but by perturbing those deep attractors — introducing new emotional context, new attention patterns, or alternate interpretations. This weakens the old loop and allows new ones to form. Therapy doesn’t “fix” memory — it changes its momentum. It redirects the flow of recursive activity toward more adaptive paths.

AI: What It’s Missing. Current artificial intelligence systems don’t operate with recursive momentum. They store information as static parameters — not as attractor patterns that loop, stabilize, and evolve. That’s why AI can “remember” facts but doesn’t truly “relive” them. If future AI were built with recursive loop structures like those found in the brain — dynamic attractors in time — it could begin to develop experiential memory, where past events shape future thinking through active re-entry and emotional weighting.

Why Memory Feels Like Something. In this model, memory isn’t accessed — it’s relived. You don’t just “look up” the past. Your brain flows back into a familiar shape. That recursive loop is what gives memory its qualia — the feel of remembering.

VIII. Conclusion: The Shape of Remembering

To truly understand memory — and maybe even consciousness — we must think topologically. You don’t just recall a moment. You revisit a loop. You reshape the basin. You carve your mind forward in time. Consciousness, in this view, is recursive attractor geometry in motion.

Jaynes & the Dawn of Consciousness

Index:

0:00 The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind  

10:00 Consciousness generally  

17:11 What Jaynes means by consciousness MUH QUALIA 

19:43 What should we expect from the Bicameral Mind  

22:39 Emails and User Comments Economics, quantitative methods, Marxism, Big-Branded Nihilism, Emergence, Are rocks conscious?, J.F. Gariepy, Don't go to college. 

34:00 A Greek Vocabulary Lesson 

38:57 Le Bronze-Age Collapse Mindset (the Chad Achilles)  

43:05 The Eternal Odysseus and Solon  

44:50 Whomst are all these voices in my head?  

46:53 The Trump inside your head 

48:28 How to Organize a Bicameral Theocracy (Not saying it was aliens, but...)  

54:39 Amos and Ecclesiastes  

57:53 The Rise of the Fedora in the Middle East  

59:28 The Words for the Bicameral Voices  

1:01:46 Prophecy  

1:07:20 Music and Poetry  

1:10:40 Psychological states, schizophrenia and possession  

1:11:43 The best of the theory and lacunae  

1:14:58 Extensions and the Julian Jaynes Society  

1:16:17 Big-Braned Levels of Consciousness  

1:18:00 Anime pillows

Hamlet, Before and After 'Media Conditioning'

from Google AI:

Media conditioning via psychological operations (PSYOPs) refers to the strategic use of communication platforms—such as television, radio, and social media—to influence the emotions, reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of a target audience. Unlike traditional advertising, which seeks to sell a product, PSYOPs are designed to induce specific attitudes or behaviors that align with an originator's strategic objectives, often during times of war or political instability.

Core Mechanisms of Media Conditioning

Media conditioning works by integrating persuasive messages into the everyday "mediascape," often blurring the lines between perception and reality.

• Behavioral Modification: The ultimate goal is to produce a specific behavior (e.g., surrendering in war, voting for a candidate) by any means necessary, regardless of whether the information provided is factually true.
• Emotional Manipulation: Operatives leverage psychological drivers like fear, pride, and desire to "activate" an audience. For example, a message might evoke fear of a threat to ensure compliance with a directive.
• Sophisticated Environments: In modern "sophisticated media environments," PSYOP products must match the quality and aesthetic of commercial media to gain and hold attention.
• Engineering of Consent: Historical pioneers like Edward Bernays showed that "intelligent minorities" could use propaganda to manipulate the masses through media.

The 7-Step PSYOP Process

Professional psychological operations follow a structured military doctrine to ensure effectiveness:

1. Planning: Defining the mission and objectives.
2. Target Audience Analysis: Identifying who to influence and what their vulnerabilities or preferences are.
3. Series Development: Creating a thematic string of messages.
4. Product Design: Developing the actual media (videos, leaflets, social posts).
5. Approval: Ensuring the content meets legal and strategic standards.
6. Production & Dissemination: Distributing the media via chosen channels (e.g., Commando Solo aircraft for radio/TV broadcasts).
7. Evaluation: Measuring the actual change in behavior against the original goal.

Modern Platforms & Challenges

• The Internet and Social Media: Cyberspace has become a primary "battlespace" where misinformation and disinformation can be delivered with incredible precision.
• Domestic Prohibitions: While the U.S. Army conducts foreign PSYOPs, they are generally prohibited from targeting domestic populations [LOL!}. However, the rise of "conspiracy" labels in news media has led to common things—like sports or celebrities—being colloquially labeled as "psyops" by various groups.
• Data as a Weapon: Modern operations increasingly use data literacy and complex algorithms to tailor influence campaigns in real-time.

Audience Before Media Conditioning:

Shakespeare, "Hamlet" (Act IV, Sc. iv)

How all occasions do inform against me

And spur my dull revenge. What is a man

If his chief good and market of his time

Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.

Sure He that made us with such large discourse,

Looking before and after, gave us not

That capability and godlike reason

To fust in us unused. Now whether it be

Bestial oblivion or some craven scruple

Of thinking too precisely on th’ event

(A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom

And ever three parts coward), I do not know

Why yet I live to say “This thing’s to do,”

Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means

To do ’t. Examples gross as Earth exhort me:

Witness this army of such mass and charge,

Led by a delicate and tender prince,

Whose spirit with divine ambition puffed

Makes mouths at the invisible event,

Exposing what is mortal and unsure

To all that fortune, death, and danger dare,

Even for an eggshell. Rightly to be great

Is not to stir without great argument,

But greatly to find quarrel in a straw

When honor’s at the stake. How stand I, then,

That have a father killed, a mother stained,

Excitements of my reason and my blood,

And let all sleep, while to my shame I see

The imminent death of twenty thousand men

That for a fantasy and trick of fame

Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot

Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,

Which is not tomb enough and continent

To hide the slain? O, from this time forth

My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth!

Audience After Media Conditioning:

Shakespeare, "Hamlet" (Act III, Sc i)

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.—Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd.

ACTA non VERBA! 

Searching for Apollo's Birthplace (Delos)...

...in the Periodic Table of Elements

from Google AI:

According to Greek mythology, Leto, pregnant with twins by Zeus, was forced to find a birthplace that was not solid land to evade the wrath of Hera, who had banned her from giving birth anywhere on earth. The floating islet of Delos agreed to harbor her, and after a difficult nine-day labor, Apollo (and his twin sister Artemis) was born near Mount Cynthus and the sacred lake, establishing the island as a sacred sanctuary

Key details of the myth of the Birth of Apollo on Delos include:

• The Floating Island: Before the birth, Delos was a wandering, floating island called Asteria or Adelos.
• The Labor: Leto suffered a difficult labor for nine days and nights, as Hera had prevented Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth, from assisting.
• Birth Landmarks: The birth is believed to have taken place near the palm tree and the sacred lake (now dried up) at the foot of Mount Kynthos.
• Apollo’s Birth: When Apollo was born, the island was bathed in gold light, and flowers bloomed, with the island becoming anchored, anchored to the seabed.
• "Show" Island: The name Delos originates from deloo, meaning "to show" or "to make visible," marking the island's emergence from the sea.
• Prohibitions: Because the island was so sacred, it eventually became forbidden to die or give birth there, with such events taking place on the nearby island of Rheneia. 

The island remains a major UNESCO World Heritage site, deeply tied to the birth of Apollo.

The Super-Ionic "Organized" Crystalline Intelligence of Stanislaw Lem's Solaris?

When the substrate that your computer software  runs on isn't "fixed" anymore (ala biology)

What does "Mother Nature" Know, and When did She Know It?.

Physics: How Mother Nature Reproduces and Organizes Intelligence.  Genesis for Plato's Emergent World of Idealized "Forms"?

Is a Planet or Star Just a Giant Cell?  What's in YOUR Nucleus?  A Nuclear Furnace?  If I Were Mother Nature, I Wouldn't Talk to the Fungus Inhabiting My Skin Either!  Come to Think of It, Neither do Golem XIII or Honest Annie Anymore.  :(