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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

Saturday, October 15, 2022

Dark Matter...The Modern Quintessence?

“Man is a rope,” Zarathustra cries out to the crowd, “fastened between animal and Superman – a rope over an abyss."
- Nietzsche, "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"


and

Moar...

...but always for the Omega-eth time?  I'd better get out my calculator again...

...anyone care to place an Alpha -bet?

Cuz dialectically speaking, I can't tell if this problem whether this problem is better suited for a part-time or whole-time mereologist.  I can't even tell whether I should deduce its' solution with my Left Hemisphere or induce one with my Right.  Perhaps, as Nietzsche postulated in "Zarathustra", the time has come for a more Heraclitian thinker than Parmenides.

Nietzsche, "Thus Spake Zarathustra" 

Then, however, something happened which made every mouth mute and every eye fixed. In the meantime, of course, the rope-dancer (-FJ) had commenced his performance: he had come out at a little door, and was going along the rope which was stretched between two towers, so that it hung above the market-place and the people. When he was just midway across, the little door opened once more, and a gaudily-dressed (beamish/ Q) fellow like a buffoon sprang out, and went rapidly after the first one. "Go on, halt-foot," cried his frightful voice, "go on, lazy-bones, interloper, sallow-face!—lest I tickle thee with my heel! What dost thou here between the towers? In the tower is the place for thee, thou shouldst be locked up; to one better than thyself thou blockest the way!"—And with every word he came nearer and nearer the first one. When, however, he was but a step behind, there happened the frightful thing which made every mouth mute and every eye fixed—he uttered a yell like a devil, and jumped over the other who was in his way. The latter, however, when he thus saw his rival triumph, lost at the same time his head and his footing on the rope; he threw his pole away, and shot downwards faster than it, like an eddy of arms and legs, into the depth. The market-place and the people were like the sea when the storm cometh on: they all flew apart and in disorder, especially where the body was about to fall.

Zarathustra, however, remained standing, and just beside him fell the body, badly injured and disfigured, but not yet dead. After a while consciousness returned to the shattered man 
(+FJ), and he saw Zarathustra kneeling beside him. "What art thou doing there?" said he at last, "I knew long ago that the devil would trip me up. Now he draggeth me to hell: wilt thou prevent him?"

"On mine honour, my friend," answered Zarathustra, "there is nothing of all that whereof thou speakest: there is no devil and no hell. Thy soul will be dead even sooner than thy body: fear, therefore, nothing any more!"

The man looked up distrustfully. "If thou speakest the truth," said he, "I lose nothing when I lose my life. I am not much more than an animal which hath been taught to dance by blows and scanty fare."

"Not at all," said Zarathustra, "thou hast made danger thy calling; therein there is nothing contemptible. Now thou perishest by thy calling: therefore will I bury thee with mine own hands."

When Zarathustra had said this the dying one did not reply further; but he moved his hand as if he sought the hand of Zarathustra in gratitude.

OMG!  The sum of parts have become GREATER than THE black whole!  My calculator must have broken!   My remainder is 1/137!  I'd best keep my Objet petit 'a to myself and lay off the sucker bets for a while.  I'm not cut out for meta-Physics.  :(

Zeno/ Parmenides, can you help us out, again?  "If One is not, then Nothing is."  Got it!  There is no "remainder".

16 comments:

Q said...

That is like in my direction?

But I already admited that I do not groke that Zaratustra thing that much.
To give some witty comment here, I think.

Only thing I can say -- it's your own life. And it's your own right and burden to decide what to do with it. Trying to thrug such responsibility on others is... disingenious.

Thersites said...

I don't place responsibility on you, I merely express the desire that you surpass anything that I might offer in my thinking with better concepts of your own making.

Q said...

"Better" that is inherently subjective concept. How I could know what is "better" for you?

And... I am not sleazy ball crook, to try to sweettalk you into something.

I can only describe what is "better" for me -- for me personally, perspective of increase of knowledge... increase that can happen ONLY with new more advanced techs... it is "better" in itself.

Knowledge itself is Power!!! (tm) ;-)

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Who said better for me? To be challenged and presented with information of a superior quality doesn't make me better, too?

Q said...

To the post. To try to unwind that symbolism in it.
Who is Zaratustra in that allegory? ;-)


Alas.
"Information of a superior quality" exist ONLY inside already established enterprise.
For example, if I'd be an engineer and you are CEO, or vice versa. ;-)
And I would come to you with something I spotted on the Web, something what can be used in our lab, and then factory.
You'd immediately would see, is it better or is it worthy, and what drawbacks possible.
Because, there'd be base for a comparation.
Because "better/worse" is relativistic.


Another word.
Isn't COVI-19 is a NEW information? Isn't it make one "better"?

No. New information is dangerous. ;-P
That's why most of the people wisely, or instinctively (like TC ;-P) avioding that info coming into their brain.

Only freaks seeking for new info. And only that bloody bastards progressors and inventors trying to deseminate minds with something bew. ;-P

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

In the allegory, Zarathustra is a philosopher coming out of 10 years of seclusion, away from society and outside influencers who wants to share what he has learned, but can't find anyone with "long-enough" ears. His philosophical message is not ready for his "time" (or in another way, his message is "ahead of its' time").

Alas, enterprises don't "exist"... people "exist". Existing enterprises are merely networks of 'formalized' social relations with a "capitalist owner" or a salaried "owner's representative" (corporate structures) as the boss.

New information danger: Consciousness "exists" soley to deal with new/changing information. That is its' purpose... to train the cerebellum to "react" and myelinate/ encode the appropriate muscle neuron axon sheaths in their proper firing sequences. Once they've been encoded, the subject has "muscle memory" and can react "instinctively"... without thinking.

Thinking/doing myelinates... teaches. People who avoid this, handicap themselves.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

It builds the right "neural pathways" for thinking "correctly".

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...w/o thinking.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Myelination is the key... it's like an insulator for a wire. It makes the current flow "correctly" down the proper well-thought-out pathway and not get "short-circuited".

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

IMO Alzheimers represents a "deterioration" of the myelin and the brain's inability to clear out its remnants and/or repair it efficiently.

So use it or lose it.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Myelin enables "quick thinking" without "effort". Instinctive thinking.

Like learning to ride a bike or roller skate in "advance". The training of the athlete is like the training of a "thinker". It's simply a different part of the brain.

Q said...

\\Blogger -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...
In the allegory, Zarathustra is a philosopher coming out of 10 years of seclusion, away from society and outside influencers who wants to share what he has learned, but can't find anyone with "long-enough" ears. His philosophical message is not ready for his "time" (or in another way, his message is "ahead of its' time").

Do you mean, Lem? ;-)

Well. Still. And what is the message... no THE Message, of that phyposopher?


\\Alas, enterprises don't "exist"... people "exist".

Enterprises DO consist of people. Your Captain Obvious. ;-)



\\New information danger: Consciousness "exists" soley to deal with new/changing information.

Interesting theory.
Never heard about one.


\\Thinking/doing myelinates... teaches. People who avoid this, handicap themselves.

More like ones who DOING it.
Me and you as exaples. ;-P
Or what... you can claim that you are successful in your journey? ;-)


\\Blogger -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...
It builds the right "neural pathways" for thinking "correctly".

Ha-ha... it leaves a glaring question -- WHO decides what is "right" and "correct" in such setup? ;-)


PS I hope that was not message in itself. (as it was in a case with
TC)
But paving needed roadblocks for a more profund missive.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Well. Still. And what is the message... no THE Message, of that phyposopher?

Zarathustra (Nietzsche)? That most people are "last men" and everything is "Will to Power" for the Ubermensch.



\\Blogger -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...
It builds the right "neural pathways" for thinking "correctly".
Ha-ha... it leaves a glaring question -- WHO decides what is "right" and "correct" in such setup? ;-)


Good question.

Q said...

\\That most people are "last men" and everything is "Will to Power" for the Ubermensch.

That's lame.
That way ANY children are ubermensch. In compare to their parents. ;-P


\\Good question.

I do not open YouTube links. :-(

I used https://youtubesummarizer.com on it.
Here is result:
" hey a cupcake hamster one bart zero experiment two the food is connected to a mild electrical current the hamster has learned a valuable lesson beware the hand of man wise guy eh now if any of you ever i love you bart could you go get the cupcakes cupcakes cupcakes intelligent hamster you've got okay this little guy writes mysteries under the name of j.d mcgregor how can a hamster write mysteries well he gets the ending first then he works backwards oh bad i propose to determine the answer to the question is my brother dumber than a hamster hey elise look what i can do remarkable stupid books"

:-))))))))))))))))))))))
Looks worthless, isn't it?

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

I do not open YouTube links

Then you miss all the "good" stuff! Of course it's worthless, but it shows that you can either build your own neural pathways, or someone else will build them for you. If you want to sit here in Plato's cave chained to your seat and watching the shadow plays, that's up to you.

Q said...

Well. Yeah. No profund missive. (yawn)