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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

Monday, February 3, 2025

Some Sea Stories

On ciguatera poisoning:

196 comments:

Anonymous said...

//In his stories, did Lem ever attempt to tell a tale from the perspective of a man who wasn't a SciFi writer?

???

I see your question as very artifical.

What it should mean?

SciFi is part of our life, same as pulp fiction. Or drama plays. What should mean "does Euripid write something not as drama play writer?"

Well, yes, of course. Lem was prolific writer.

But most of it -- you must learn Polish, as it was never translated -- I suppose. (Heh, that's how big fan of him I am -- even dunno ALL what he did written)

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

Not 'natural'?

Lem never wrote about things he was not an 'expert' in?

It wasn't Lem's "science" expertise that made him a worthy writer. It was his expertise in "the human condition".

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

Like Ursala LeGuin... 'Those Who Walk away from Omelas' as an example.

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

Lem knew what "the Other" was. Something incomprehensible. And if we could eventually comprehend them, we soon uncomprehended them, and believed a "fiction" about them instead of the painful reality ("Provocation"). Why? Be-cause.

Anonymous said...

//Lem never wrote about things he was not an 'expert' in?

And your definition of expert?

Anonymous said...

//Lem never wrote about things he was not an 'expert' in?

And what is 'expert'?

Anonymous said...

Because.

There was such mathematician -- Kolmogorov.

He gave definition of complexity. Very simple definition, indeed.

Like, imagine that you have a phonebook. Where number if different people written in.

It easely can contain hundreds of numbers. Collected through your lifetime.

Let's assume 1000 for the sake of example.

Is it big number? Is it complex, too much?

It depends.

If it stays silently in that phonebook. That book will not need to be big. Pocket suze would be enough. If you writed it in neatly.

But. I'll show you how complex it is.

With simple suggestion -- let you call to EACH ONE of thar list. And assign a meeting. Where'd you have merely a handshake with each one.

Easy? Simple? ;-p

And now imagine that you arranged same meeting BUT... each one of that phonebook bunch will be asked to have a handshake with each one on the list...

Anonymous said...

//Have you submitted a grant request? You can't get recognized for actions you fail to take. NASA works with foreign governments. Submit one to yours. Get an international Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between governments. NASA might give your project a free ride to Space or give you a partner to work with.

You saying that to a fellow that cannot escrow anything better then crappy mobile internet connection.

And things like Greencard or even more -- freaking ticket to a flight to USA -- merely a fantasy... :-/

Anonymous said...

//btw - That's very good job advice for meeting with experts from multiple specialized disciplines. Of course, philosophy is a "generalized" one. It's not narrow and deep and remaining in its' channel. It's shallow and wide, but tries to cover then entire river's surface.

There is separate problem -- every one of em use own language. And have own overview on problem.

But that is -- known issue.

Problem at hand -- I have no authority what so ever to collect am and order em to discuss my ideas...

Anonymous said...

So. First things -- first.

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

a person who has a comprehensive and authoritative knowledge of or skill in a particular area, "a financial expert".

Ever read Plato's "Ion". It's about a "rhapsode", a person has memorized and recites in public from memory Homer's "Iliad". Socrates asks him about several of Homer's characters and the "knowledge" that they exhibit (like Agamemnon, the polemarch). Could Ion do what Agamemnon does, lead an army? Of course says "Ion", he knows what Agamemnon does. Socrates tells Ion that his gift isn't one of expertise, and neither was Homer's. It was an "inspiration from the gods", not hard won knowledge forged from experience...

You, much like Ion, are "rhapsodic" about your idea. But then most "managers" and "investors" always begin that way. And so you must rhapsodize about it, and "inspire" them in the pursuit of the idea. Inspire managers and investors first. And then you must serve as the idea's "conductor". you don't have to be able to play all the instruments... you just need to follow the score. And if it hasn't been written first, compose the score. THAT is your job, rhapsode.

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

Nietzsche, "On the Future of Our educational Institutions"

"Now, on the other hand, assume that your musical sense has returned, and that your ears are opened. Look at the honest conductor at the head of the orchestra performing his duties in a dull, spiritless fashion: you no longer think of the comical aspect of the whole scene, you listen--but it seems to you that the spirit of tediousness spreads out from the honest conductor over all his companions. Now you see only torpidity and flabbiness, you hear only the trivial, the rhythmically inaccurate, and the melodiously trite. You see the orchestra only as an indifferent, ill-humoured, and even wearisome crowd of players.

"But set a genius--a real genius--in the midst of this crowd; and you instantly perceive something almost incredible. It is as if this genius, in his lightning transmigration, had entered into these mechanical, lifeless bodies, and as if only one demoniacal eye gleamed forth out of them all. Now look and listen--you can never listen enough! When you again observe the orchestra, now loftily storming, now fervently wailing, when you notice the quick tightening of every muscle and the rhythmical necessity of every gesture, then you too will feel what a pre-established harmony there is between leader and followers, and how in this hierarchy of spirits everything impels us towards the establishment of a like organisation. You can divine from my simile what I would understand by a true educational institution, and why I am very far from recognising one in the present type of university."

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

Someone who can "write a book" about a particular field of knowledge. In today's world, those fields get narrower and deeper as time progresses.

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

Indeed. You need to compose the "score"... and then "conduct the piece'. And it starts with a rhapsodic "elevator pitch"... for you will likely need MANY composers to develop a plan (score) that will bring all elements required to realize the objectives of that initial pitch to fruition.

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

...and so far your "teaser" elevator pitch needs a lot of work.

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

Usually it takes the "form" of an unsolicited grant proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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

Although you'd be wiser to start in your own country and its' corresponding science foundation.

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

You keep trying to "swallow the whale".

Anonymous said...

It's what Life is about. ;-p

Every little cell trying to achieve something that is bigger than it can swallow. ;-p

Anonymous said...

//Although you'd be wiser to start in your own country and its' corresponding science foundation.

What makes you think that I *not* tryed that???

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

;p

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

Try harder.

Anonymous said...

//...and so far your "teaser" elevator pitch needs a lot of work.

Recieve Bruce Lee smack again. ;-p

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

You made a mistake? Try again... differently.

Anonymous said...

No use. It rotted out to the roots.

And had have NO money for such endeavors anyway.

Why do you think science in Europe stagnating. And Japan and Europe space agencies can do only as much as being subcontractors of Great and Prosperous NASA.

Because that is game -- where size DO matters.

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

;p

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

;0

Anonymous said...

//Try again... differently.

I thought that that's exactly what I doing. ;-P

Anonymous said...

Well. There is ones who write broad overview books too.)))

Anonymous said...

Like Feinman.

That instead of describing his craft -- electrodynamics.

Made his lectures spanning ALL Physics.

Yawn.

Anonymous said...

Hah.

Groked it not?

Anonymous said...

//a person who has a comprehensive and authoritative knowledge of or skill in a particular area, "a financial expert".

That's two DIFFERENT persons.

One who have knowladge -- have NO power.

One who have power -- do not have need in knowladge. Usually.

Anonymous said...

//Nietzsche, "On the Future of Our educational Institutions"

"Now, on the other hand, assume that your musical sense has returned, and that your ears are opened. Look at the honest conductor at the head of the orchestra performing his duties in a dull, spiritless fashion: you no longer think of the comical aspect of the whole scene, you listen--but it seems to you that the spirit of tediousness spreads out from the honest conductor over all his companions. Now you see only torpidity and flabbiness, you hear only the trivial, the rhythmically inaccurate, and the melodiously trite. You see the orchestra only as an indifferent, ill-humoured, and even wearisome crowd of players.

Obviously. That Niet-kun have met NO conductors in his life. And clearly dunno what it babblong about.

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

I grok'd it. So write the algorithm.

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

He missed a few then.

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

It's taking too long. How many lifetimes will you need?

Fail again. Fail better.

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

Sounds like you need to sharpen your elbows... :P

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

Didn't take band/ orchestra in High School, huh? Worst music EVER! Not like this.

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

Practice, practice, practice. 10,000 hrs... is only the beginning.

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

Can you escrow a stamp? Write the proposal and mail it to the Grant Application Section at the NSF. if it's good, they'll probably expedite you an H1-B Visa.

Anonymous said...

With algorithms its all the same. Or even worse. ;-p

Go read about Turing's Machine.

Anonymous said...

???

Anonymous said...

Does my three tier project eligible for it?

Is there, ones who review that application much smarter then you, to understand the point.

Or... it will be thrown into recycle bin right away.

To you infirmation, I even have sent an application to CIA.

And what do you think?

Crickets.

Yawn.

Anonymous said...

Well.

Same as any other animal so far...

Anonymous said...

Practice without theoretical backbone -- risky and dangerous. ;-p

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

Not again... @@ ;p

Anonymous said...

Naah. I do not need to become an imbecile. Thank you, but no, thank you.;-p

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

Feynman never studies dark matter/energy. What he did was provide a systemic way of looking at particle interactions (diagrams) universally applicable to Physics much like "math" is universally applicable to physics. For as Plato said in "Philebus"...in the scale of good: First in the scale is measure; the second place is assigned to symmetry; the third, to reason and wisdom; the fourth, to knowledge and true opinion; the fifth, to pure pleasures; and here the Muse says 'Enough.'

Feynman "universally" contributed to "measure" and "symmetry"...

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

Does it have to (apply directly). You want to swallow the whale. Nibble at a fish in the first tier, preferable in response to a specific grant being solicited. Then, build from there.

ps - F*ck the CIA. It's being "outsourced" as we speak. Trump/DOGE just offered buyouts to all CIA employees. Everything is being "privatized" (even NASA).

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

Nibble, nibble, nibble!

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

With your dreams, you'll need to go WAY outside your comfort zone. They're to big for timidity. As Plato's says in "Charmides"... Modesty is no virtue in a needy man.

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

Try. Fail. Try again. Fail Again. Try again... but Fail better!

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

Daniel 5:5-31

"mene, mene, tekel, upharsin"

Anonymous said...

So? You know Turing's Principle? ;-p

Anonymous said...

So did Newton.

Yawn.

Anonymous said...

And Piphagoras.

That bustard.

Anonymous said...

Yeah.

Of that whale -- Reality.

Yawn.

Anonymous said...

Yeah.

And I am one.

A beggar. A vagabond. A bozo.

Anonymous said...

Yeah.

For Evolution.

Yawn.

While fore mere nibbler that sound "go die, sucker! bu-ga-gah".

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

Not a fan of digital physics. I prefer standard & quantum physics.

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

Climate models - disaster.

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

Hey, Plato started out as a Pythagorean....

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

That whale can't be eaten. It leaves a 'surplus' (matter).

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

Soon to be faced with a "Sophies Choice" (most likely). The powers that be having been giving their "provocation" (ala Lem).

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

Who told you that life would be fair? When the song stops you've got to find a seat.

Anonymous said...

???

Anonymous said...

Then... you cintradicting to yourself.

Yawn.

Anonymous said...

???

I refered to one about Problem of Turing Machine Stoping.

How it relates to 'digital physics' whatever it should mean -- you say.

Anonymous said...

Yeah. Idealism in and out...

Anonymous said...

That's... MY point.

That only way to tackle with it we have in our belt -- technology!

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

It's digital (runs a program). It's physics are virtual, ergo, fallible.

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

Really? It's a paradox? LOL! Maybe I should view the parallax... before the lamella flies off.

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

...or the strict Materialism of Ma-ma-ma-ma-MY Sharona!

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

The war will end soon... and not very favorably for Ukraine.

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

Well, you'd better invent that portal gun as soon as you can.

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

Cuz Pickle Q is kinda lame.

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

How does a Materialist define "consciousness", anyways?

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

Do you see the paradoxical problem?

Anonymous said...

The war... Third World War, barely even started.

Yawn.

And who cared. Or who cares now. That on premices of WW2 there was war in Spain? Or that WW2 officially started from war in Poland.

Do you know it? Do you care?

You will care only when ICBMs will start flying over YOUR head. And -- they will.

Cause? Inertia.

Yawn.

Anonymous said...

Inner contradiction -- not always paradox.

Most usually it is symptom of poor thinking.

Yawn.

Anonymous said...

Materialism are idealistic too.

Because it is product of our brain -- which is idealistic device.

Yawn.

Anonymous said...

???

Anonymous said...

There are MANY different kinds of programs...

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

So you CAN write one that solves the Turing Machine stopping paradox?

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

There will come a time when there are no wars? Please. The best one can wish for is to persist in the world. And sacrificing Ukraine will allow Europe to 'persist' a while longer.

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

Ukraine... not so much.

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

Idealistic? What are all those neurons for?

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

Every word contains the paradox of its' opposite. Not poor thinking, poor language used in thinking. Individual cells don't have that "problem". They don't use "language". They use "chemicals". They use "stress/ pain".

Anonymous said...

//There will come a time when there are no wars? Please.

World wars?

There was just too of em. Though, it was somewhat exaggerated naming.

Well, you just do not have it in your ancestral memory -- whole cities ruined to the ground.

Yawn.


//And sacrificing Ukraine will allow Europe to 'persist' a while longer.

Yap.

In previous time it was Checkhoslovakia. And how much time it "bought", for Europe??? A year?

Anonymous said...

DNA --- is the same linear structure as text.

Yawn.

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

...our language depends upon "jouissance"... attaching either "joy" or "disgust" to a word like "democracy" or "freedom". We develop neural pathways that link thoughts to these "feelings". Septal nuclei... disgust pathways.

The septal nuclei are a group of nerve cells in the brain that are part of the limbic system. They are located in the anterior basal forebrain, near the midline of the cerebral hemispheres.

Function:
Memory and learning: The septal nuclei are important for learning and memory, and are strongly connected to the hippocampus.

Motivation and appetite: The septal nuclei control the autonomic and somatomotor systems that regulate feeding, drinking, and sexual behavior.

Emotional behaviors: The septal nuclei are associated with fear and anxiety.

Structure:
The septal nuclei are divided into four regions: lateral, medial, posterior, and ventral.

The lateral septal nucleus is the largest nucleus in the septum.

The medial septal complex contains at least five cell types.

Connections:
The septal nuclei receive connections from the olfactory bulb, hippocampus, amygdala, hypothalamus, and thalamus.

The septal nuclei project to the mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus and to the cortex, mostly to the orbital-frontal cortex.
Research:

Septal nuclei have been understudied in humans, but recent research suggests they may be a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease.

Septal nuclei may also be involved in schizophrenia.


Receive signals from the "olfactory" system. Smells. Stinks. Rotten food... Disgusting....

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

DNA is code. But something has to "select" and "apply" it (as needed).

Anonymous said...

//Idealistic? What are all those neurons for?

Yap.

Exactly for that?

What doing even each individual neuron -- collecting some signals through his dendrites. And then summarizing em to fire output.

What is that logically speaking -- if not an Inductive Reasoning -- base for idealism.

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

...and THAT something isn't DNA.

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

Just two? LOL! There are always wars. We never have whirled peas.

Anonymous said...

That "something" (tRNA exactly) are part of DNA too.

Yawn.

Go enlight yourself into that trivia you trying to talk about, will ya.

Or... do not enlight -- this way you'll entertain me with your feeble thinking.
.. more, MORE, MOOOARRR!!!

As you can see -- both a favorible for me.;-p

Anonymous said...

//Septal nuclei... disgust pathways.

Yap.

And how they eat that blue cheese.

Or... solfstrioming.

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

Inductive reasoning (constructing big picture) is conducted mostly in the Right hemisphere. Deductive (considering small details), the Left.

Anonymous said...

There is wars. And there is WAAARS!!!

Why do you think people fighting regular wars.

And fear WWs... so much???

Why there was Cold War? Though USA and USSR have had EVERYTHING ready for 3rd one???

WHAT have stopped it?

Anonymous said...

BS.

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

One must learn how to "discriminate". Do you have "discri minating tastes? As the Sufi proverb about coffee goes..."He who tastes, knows; he who tastes not, knows not."

Anonymous said...

//So you CAN write one that solves the Turing Machine stopping paradox?

You said that you KNOW it.

//-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA JewFebruary 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I grok'd it.

So what?

You want me to start treating you as blatant liar?

Yawn.

Anonymous said...

))))))

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

The right hemisphere is dominant for visual processing (3-D elements/ depth perception). The Left hemisphere is dominant for auditory processing (sound depth perception). Sound cues vision. Vision affirms and releases plans for future activity in the Right prefontal cortex and passes to Left PC (Attention/Consciousness).

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

It's all about "crossing the corpus callosum".

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

I'm not a Turing Machine. Ever solve Xeno's paradox?

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

A machine (or program) that runs forever can't "run forever". Achilles racing a tortoise cannot be broken down into "infinite" distances.

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

:P

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

Common sense... which exists in ever smaller quantities the bigger the wars become.

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

So what triggers the production of initiation (and retardation) factors for tRNA? What triggers the cell signalling in the allosteric regulation process.

Allosteric regulations are a natural example of control loops, such as feedback from downstream products or feedforward from upstream substrates. Long-range allostery is especially important in cell signaling.[3] Allosteric regulation is also particularly important in the cell's ability to adjust enzyme activity.

In biology, cell signaling (cell signalling in British English) is the process by which a cell interacts with itself, other cells, and the environment. Cell signaling is a fundamental property of all cellular life in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.

Typically, the signaling process involves three components: the signal, the receptor, and the effector.[citation needed]

In biology, signals are mostly chemical in nature, but can also be physical cues such as pressure, voltage, temperature, or light


Now there's some "collective intelligence" for you!

Anonymous said...

//I'm not a Turing Machine. Ever solve Xeno's paradox?

"Wisdom of the Past grow incorrect and even outdated, with time"© one wiseman ;-p

Of course, in times of Xeno we did not know that whole Universe are finite and have miserly 14(billions) years old.

Anonymous said...

That's not the point.

Main idea -- we CANNOT know results, before program got completed

Anonymous said...

BS.

Go read about people with split brain.

Yawn.

Anonymous said...

B...

Well. Yawn.

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

No, the point is that the problem you're "trying to solve" can't exist because computers can't "run forever". A human "knows" when to cut his losses and collapse the wave function with a "best guess". In other words, he sets a LIMIT on processing. You're trying to play a dialogue with absolutes (Plato, "Parmenides") "If One is Not, then NOTHING IS"!

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

He didn't need to. He knew the difference between the finite and the infinite (an absolute). He knew that we existed in a "mixed" universe.... but that only the "soul" (through processes of mind) had ever been exposed to absolutes.... and that they couldn't exist except as "soul" in "mind" in OUR universe.

Anonymous said...

//So what triggers the production of initiation (and retardation) factors for tRNA?

Entropy.:-p


//What triggers the cell signalling in the allosteric regulation process.

You can google for it, read about it and enlight me -- yourself.;-p

Because, I am not allrounded specialist in that sphere.


//Allosteric regulations are a natural example of control loops, such as feedback from downstream products or feedforward from upstream substrates. Long-range allostery is especially important in cell signaling.[3] Allosteric regulation is also particularly important in the cell's ability to adjust enzyme activity.

Yap.




I//n go, cell signaling (cell signalling in British English) is the process by which a cell interacts with itself, other cells, and the environment. Cell signaling is a fundamental property of all cellular life in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.

Yes.

//Typically, the signaling process involves three components: the signal, the receptor, and the effector.[citation needed]

Ughum!

//In biology, signals are mostly chemical in nature, but can also be physical cues such as pressure, voltage, temperature, or light

Now there's some "collective intelligence" for you!

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

In other words, he was well aware of the universe's "finitude" and the "nature" (nonexistent) of things outside it. "If one (uni) is not, then nothing is" - Plato "Parmenides".

Parmenides is a dialogue of absolutes.

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

Not entropy. OTHER CELLS. Cells communicating and cooperating, some starting processes, others shutting them down.

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

Assemblies of cells... to higher and higher levels... to "organs". Not "organs without bodies" (Deleuze & Guattari)

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

Life is the "reverse" of entropy.

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

I have. The hemisphere are doing opposite things on opposite sides. Damage one side... then observe the resulting strange behaviours.

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

Read Patricia Churchland's book on Neurophilosophy.

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

...localized and temporary.

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

from Google AI:

While life does not technically "reverse" entropy, it appears to go against the natural tendency towards disorder by creating complex structures and organized systems within its environment, essentially acting as a "local pocket of order" by utilizing energy from its surroundings to maintain its low entropy state, which is why many scientists describe life as "fighting against entropy

Anonymous said...

//Life is the "reverse" of entropy.

Yawn.

BS.

Life DO EXIST because of it.

Like all inner cell chemistry possible only because of Brawn's Movments.

Yaaaaawn.

Anonymous said...

//from Google AI:

While life does not technically "reverse" entropy, it appears to go against the natural tendency towards disorder

That "google ai" just dunno modern physics (well, what modern... like from 80th of previous century.

Well, Google is not scientific project -- but commercial one.

And oriented at ordinary people from gray mass/crowd.

Yaaaswn

Anonymous said...

//essentially acting as a "local pocket of order" by utilizing energy from its surroundings to maintain its low entropy state, which is why many scientists describe life as "fighting against entropy

BS.

It *actively* helping to INCREASE Entropy.

Yawn.

Like for example we people -- drilling for oil.

There is NO other natural mechanism to rise that diposites of order from under that mass of soil and minerals.

So, Nature invented US to accomplish that task. ;-p

Anonymous said...

ubi nihil nihil

Anonymous said...

//He didn't need to. He knew the difference between the finite and the infinite (an absolute).

Did he differentiate between actual and potential infinity? ;-p

Anonymous said...

//No, the point is that the problem you're "trying to solve" can't exist because computers can't "run forever".

BS.

Most of most important programs inside computer perform " infinite" loops.

Not in that sense that they ACTUALLY go through infinity of steps (how that could look like, even??? ;-p)
But, set up to continue indefinitely (until there is electricity in your power outlet).

Anonymous said...

Yawn.

Actual Science VS Popular one.

Simplified and bastardised, so ordinary lasy and ignorant f... dudes, would got at least something.

Plus -- lame seeking of cheapnfame.

Like DiBi doing.

Yawn.

Anonymous said...

//I have. The hemisphere are doing opposite things on opposite sides. Damage one side... then observe the resulting strange behaviours.

Not children brains. ;-p

Anonymous said...

////I have. The hemisphere are doing opposite things on opposite sides. Damage one side... then observe the resulting strange behaviours.

Not children brains. ;-p

That's just like computer.

If it brand new -- trying to run random thing from it memory -- will fail, as there is nothing there.

But if it old, with lots of programs installed and memory nearly full -- OF COURSE yiu'd have "strange results".

But what is so strange in it?

Only thar people STILL are so stupid and ignorant to deem it strange.

Yawn.

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

Ubi nihil vales - "Wherein you have no power, therein you should not will"

Anonymous said...

//Not entropy. OTHER CELLS. Cells communicating and cooperating, some starting processes, others shutting them down.

Whatever.

It starts from ONE cell and ONE string of DNA.

Yawn.

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

All non-schizoid brains that have begun to "organize" based upon language. Hemispheric dominance. Visual signal from left side shared across the corpus callosum to allow right side to "compare" and calculate depth (depth perception). Info then procedes up layers of meninges (built like a circuit board) for higher level processing. this minimizes the energy required (two sides doing the same processing). Audio higher processing gets processed on the Left side.

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

The "Lacanian Symbolic" order... the Symbolic Order is a concept in Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic theory that describes the realm of language, culture, and social norms that shape human experience. It's also known as the "big Other".

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

No, they "time out".

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

...without drawing a useful 'conclusion" from having "timed out".

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

That's what a "mixed universe" does.

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

...the "concept" of a "mixed universe". or as Plato would have called it it his "Philebus" the distinction between "pure" and "impure" pleasures. Impure="mixed".

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

Water and wine "mixed" in a bowl for drinking at a Symposium. ;p

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

...only a woman (Lysistrata) would drink wine un-mixed. ;)

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

Life is a chemical System that uses energy to keep itself from reaching chemical equilibrium. Equilibrium is the situation in which chemicals no longer have a tendency to react over time.

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

....like Rust

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

Children are not a tabla rasa. They start with a sucking "boot program" A computer needs to be "plugged in" to an external power supply. It starts sucking energy the moment it gets plugged in.

Anonymous said...

Like Oxygen you trying to say?

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

It needs a "mother" to feed it. Cells need other cells to supply their needs. Humans need a planet to exploit and a sun to power.

Anonymous said...

Yawn. Dynamical Equilibrium.

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

...from two external LIVE sources.... but feel free to CRISPR one up should you feel ambitious.

Anonymous said...

Whatever.

Yawn.

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

...of course you'll need a LIVE cell to insert the CRISPR'd DNA into.

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

...and it'll be responding to comms from nearby cells.

Anonymous said...

That's correct.

Cudos!

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

...running DIFFERENT programs.

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

...at least until you can CRISPR/replace them as well.

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

Did you know that an Egg cell is surrounded by a bunch of other cells?

The egg cell, or ovum, is surrounded by the zona pellucida and the corona radiata.

Zona pellucida
A thick, transparent membrane that surrounds the egg cell
Also known as the egg coat

Made of glycoproteins and other macromolecules

Protects the egg and helps it be fertilized by sperm

Allows only one sperm to enter the egg during fertilization

Corona radiata
The outermost layer of cells that surrounds the zona pellucida

Nourishes the egg and helps it interact with its environment

Provides support for the egg cell

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

Gotta share electrons to fill up valence layer from somewhere before radiation decay can punch them all out? What's the half-life?

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

Yawn - cell wall/membrane. Mechanism for local conservation of energy.

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

Ho Hum... Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" Vol. 2: "Critique of Practical Reason"; Vol. 3: "Critique of Judgment"

Anonymous said...

//Did you know that an Egg cell is surrounded by a bunch of other cells?

Cells?

Anonymous said...

Yap.

What doing Oxygen in our atmosphere? From where it came?

Anonymous said...

Well. Whatever.

That is not a news.

From Cambrian times.

Half a billion years.

Yawn.

Anonymous said...

From SAME string of genes.

Anonymous said...

Really? %)))

Anonymous said...

And you can provide correct meta-talk? Refs and citations?

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

...until the "mixing" (egg fertilization by sperm).

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

Comets. Meteors. H20. Volcanoes. SO2. oceans. plankton photosyntheis. CO2 Land photosynthesis Great oxygenization event.

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

Mind if I pierce yours with a few well aimed rounds or a sharp bayonet?

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

You can't Google "Kant's critiques" against Leibnitz (Monodology).

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

...lazy b*stard!

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

Don't feel bad, I only got 30-40 pages into Critique of Pure reason before I switched to Schopenhauer's "World as Will and Representation". Kant's hard to read.

Anonymous said...

That's not a news. From Cambrian period. Half a billion year. Lyndy! ;-p

Anonymous said...

//Great oxygenization event.

Yeah.

And why it happened? ;-)

Anonymous said...

???

Anonymous said...

I understood long ago -- there are MOAAARRR book then I can read(((((

Anonymous said...

Again trying to pretend that you have groked it?

Anonymous said...

Yeah.

So what?

Have it helped neurosurgians?

Or... can be used by devs of AI?

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

Can Feynman diagrams?

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

Puncture your external bodily membrane (skin) and watch your energy in the form of blood "drain away" and allow you to revert to a state of "chemical equilibrium" (non-life)? ;P

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

...so don't eat the cheesecake!

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

Photosynthesis.

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

Anaerobic to Aerobic life forms which allowed the assembly of bigger "structures/ assemblies" of cellular life forms.

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

Instead of using energy from ocean thermal vents...

The anaerobic energy system is a metabolic pathway in the body that produces energy rapidly without the use of oxygen, primarily used for short bursts of high-intensity activity like sprinting, weightlifting, or jumping, and is often referred to as the "lactic acid system" due to the byproduct lactate produced during this process; it utilizes stored glucose to generate ATP quickly, but can only sustain activity for a limited time due to the buildup of lactic acid in the muscles.

Key points about the anaerobic energy system:
No oxygen required:

Unlike the aerobic system, the anaerobic system does not require oxygen to produce energy.

Fast energy production:
This system is designed to provide quick bursts of energy, making it ideal for short, intense activities.

Glycolysis process:
The primary process involved in anaerobic energy production is glycolysis, where glucose is broken down to produce ATP.


Lactic acid buildup:
A byproduct of anaerobic glycolysis is lactic acid, which accumulates in muscles during intense exercise and can cause muscle fatigue.

Components of the anaerobic system:
ATP-PC system (alactic): This is the fastest anaerobic system, utilizing stored creatine phosphate to produce immediate energy for very short bursts.

Lactic acid system (glycolytic): This system provides energy for slightly longer durations by breaking down glucose into lactate.

Examples of activities that heavily rely on the anaerobic energy system:
Sprinting, Weightlifting, Jumping, High-intensity interval training (HIIT), and Short bursts of activity in team sports like soccer or basketball.

Anaerobic Energy System: What It Is, Why It's Important for Cyclists, and ...

The anaerobic energy system, also called the lactic acid system, is the body's way of creating energy in the form of ATP quickly.


...blah, blah, blah...

Anonymous said...

Still BS.

Structure integrity.

It's common for every metter -- live and not.

Go pierce a statue, and it will "die"/shatter the same.

Yawn.

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

Free Oxygen was needed to sustain higher forms of life.

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

...assemblies of cell varieties.

Anonymous said...

Are they even relatef to how brain works???

Anonymous said...

Yap.

Or what? You thought that I will start calling you a fool, for citing correct scientific knowlage? %)

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

Is code (an ordered symbolization) needed for computers to work?

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

No, you'll call me a fool (and you'd be right) no matter what knowledge I cited.

It's only "knowledge" if you can answer the "why" question.

btw - You think Einstein's "Theory of Everything" was complicated... @@

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

...and you that your paradox can transcend the problem and "emerge" from it.

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

...and I that they must be read in "order". You need Kant to grok where Schopenhauer's coming from. And Leibnitz to grok Kant.

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

That's why you must use "antifragile" materials or allow for the ship of Theseus to be constantly "repaired"... or better, repair itself.

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

A techie would put on a kevlar vest. But that wouldn't stop a bullet aimed at the head.