The Debt Einstein Owes Leibnitz

The Identity of Indiscernibles from google AI:

The Identity of Indiscernibles (II) is a metaphysical principle stating that if two entities share all their properties, they are actually the same entity. Coined as part of Leibniz’s Law, it dictates that numerical difference (being two separate things) requires some qualitative difference (a different property). 

Key Concepts and Context:

• Definition: If for every property 
  
  F, an object x has F 
  if and only if 
  
  y has F,
   then x and y are identical (x = y).
• Leibniz's View: It argues that there cannot be two distinct things that are absolutely identical in every respect (e.g., two identical spheres).
• Counter-arguments: Critics like Max Black proposed scenarios where two identical items could exist in different locations, challenging the idea that spatial location is an intrinsic property that makes them distinct.
• Indiscernibility of Identicals (II vs. IdI): This is a closely related but distinct, less controversial principle stating that if two things are identical, they share all properties. 

Key Aspects of the Principle:

• Properties Defined: The principle often includes all properties, including spatial and temporal ones.
• Ontological Status: It is considered an ontological principle, rather than a rule of natural science.
• Alternatives: Some philosophers argue that objects can be numerically distinct even if they share all their qualities (a view often referred to as "individual haecceity" or, as in the case of Max Black's, a challenge to the principle). 

Why it Matters:

• It impacts discussions on the nature of space and time.
• It influences theories on substance, individuality, and whether two items can ever be "exactly" alike. 

Buddhism: Replacing Unpredictable Autonomy with a Predictable Ego Ruled by It's 'Compassionate' SuperEgo (for Everyone BUT the Autonomous Self)

Ego:  Managing Shame thru Social Positioning

Leftism: A Crisis of Individual Purposelessness? Or Social Status? Perhaps BOTH.

Intra-Group Rivalry: I Want to Be Seen as the Goodest (Most Supportive and Compassionate) Person in My Collective Identity Group (which Identifies as LEFT and has the Most Intra-Group Social Capital)!

Ziran: Daoism's "Beyond Good & Evil (BG&E)"

...plus a Little Wu Wei Woo-Woo

NASA and ESA Confirm CDG-2 as a Dark Galaxy

More on Candidate Dark Galaxy Two (CDG-2) from ESA

From Google AI:

Candidate Dark Galaxy One (CDG-1) is a rare, low-surface-brightness system in the Perseus cluster, identified as a tight, isolated grouping of four globular clusters lacking visible, diffuse stellar light. Detected via Hubble Space Telescope imaging, CDG-1 represents a potential candidate for a nearly-dark galaxy where stellar emission is almost entirely absent.

• Discovery and Characteristics: CDG-1 was discovered in the Perseus galaxy cluster as a grouping of 4 potential globular clusters without any associated diffuse, starlight-emitting galaxy.
• Observations: Hubble Space Telescope (HST) UVIS F200LP imaging found no detectable diffuse emission, setting a surface brightness limit of > 28.1 mag arcsec, which suggests a high likelihood that the light from the system is almost entirely concentrated in the clusters themselves.
• Nature: It is characterized as a "nearly-dark" or low-surface-brightness dwarf galaxy.
• Alternative Explanation: A less likely possibility is that it represents a chance alignment of four unrelated globular clusters within the halo of a larger galaxy (IC 312).

It should not be confused with CDG-2, a subsequently identified "ghost galaxy" (reported in 2025/2026) in the same cluster, which was discovered with a faint, diffuse, and extremely dark-matter-dominated, low-surface-brightness stellar component.

Sophia

from Wikipedia:

"Fascism attempts to organize the newly proletarianized masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves. The masses have a right to change property relations; Fascism seeks to give them an expression while preserving property. The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life. [...] Mankind, which in Homer’s time was a spectacle for the Olympian gods, has become one for itself. [...] Communism responds by politicizing art." - Walter Benjamin 

Knowing vs. Understanding

"Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"

- T. S. Eliot

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"What I cannot create, I do not understand"

- Richard Feynman 

Franz Kafka, "Dearest Father" (the problem of knowledge derived from Recognized Authority/ SuperEgo vs Understanding thru Self-Creation/ Ego).  Authority vs. Auteurity?

from Wiki:

The Name-of-the-Father (Nom-du-Père) is a central concept in Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory, referring not to the biological father, but to a symbolic function that introduces the subject into the realm of language, law, and desire. As a signifier, it plays a structural role in mediating the child’s relationship to the mother’s desire, instituting the Oedipus complex, and making possible the formation of subjectivity. First emerging in Lacan’s seminars in the 1950s, the concept builds on Freud’s model of the father in the Oedipus complex but is reinterpreted through structural linguistics and semiotics. Lacan’s Name-of-the-Father acts as the "no" (non) that forbids incest and inaugurates the symbolic order. It is the master signifier anchoring the symbolic system. In the event of its foreclosure, as in psychosis, the symbolic order collapses, and the subject becomes vulnerable to hallucinations, delusions, and a breakdown in meaning. In Lacan’s later teaching, the concept is pluralized—Names-of-the-Father—to reflect the transformation and decline of paternal authority in contemporary society. This article traces the development of the Name-of-the-Father from its Freudian roots, through Lacan’s structuralist reformulation, and into contemporary psychoanalytic theory.

"Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it"

-William James 

The Perils of Identity: Sincerity, Authenticity, and Profilicity

...and why so many "Progressive" Liberals are Struggling to Find a Safe Space of Affirmation from their General Peer (critics).

The Censorship Industrial Complex:  Creating and Gatekeeping Online Safe Spaces for Progressive Liberals Since 2014

The answer though, isn't simply to insist everyone thicken their skins.  It's to modify and make "age appropriate" the expectations of everyone as to the nature of both "sincerity" AND "authenticity" in Identity formation... teach that we must all compromise our identity in fulfillment of the many various and distinct social roles and group identities we must share in order to coexist (and thrive).  We are all more than our sexual identities and that not everyone can, or needs, be supportive of it.  The "trans" community need to accept this (hence all the trans/ trantifa killings (suicides by cop) of late.  Remember the old playground adage, "I'm rubber, you're glue.  Everything you say bounces off of me, and sticks to you!" How about, "I know you are, but what am I"?,  I certainly do.

Alysa Liu, Olympic Champion

Update:

Gold Medal Winning Long Program

Update Post Competition Olympic Performance