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 23 May 2008 @ 12:26, by redwind. Investigation, Intelligence
Un pasaje de Comentarios sobre el Vivir.
La meditación es una acción muy importante en la vida;tal vez es la acción que te la mas grande y profunda significación.Es un perfume que no puede captarse facilmente,no se adquiere por el esfuerzo y la práctica.Un sistema puede dar solamente el fruto que ofrece,y el sistema,el método se basa en la envidia y la codicia.No poder meditar es no poder ver la luz del sol,las oscuras sombras,las aguas brillantes y la tierna hoja.Pero ¡cuan pocos ven estas cosas¡La meditación no tiene nada que ofrecer;no podeis venir a suplicar con las manos juntas.Ella no os salva de ningun dolor.Torna las cosas ampliamente claras y sencillas;pero para percibir esta sencillez,la mente ha de librarse sin ninguna causa o motivo de todas las cosas que ha acumulado a través de causas y motivos.Esta es toda la cuestión en la meditación.La meditación es la depuración de lo conocido.Perseguir lo conocido en cualquier forma es un juego de autoengaño,y entonces el meditador es el maestro,no existe el simple acto de la meditación.El meditador solo puede actuar en el campo de lo conocido tiene que dejar de actuar para que lo desconocido sea.Lo incognoscible no os invita y tampoco podeis invitarlo.Es como el viento no podeis capturarlo o acumularlo para vuestro beneficio,para vuestro uso.No tiene valor utilitario pero sin él la vida es inmensamente vacía.La cuestión no es como se ha de meditar que sistema se ha de seguir,sino¿que és la meditación? el "como"solo produce lo que el método ofrece,pero la misma indagación sobre lo que es meditación abrirá la puerta a la meditación.La indagación no reside fuera de la mente,sino dentro del movimiento de la mente misma.Al proceder atal indagación lo que resulta importantisimo es comprender al buscador mismo y no lo que el busca.Lo que él busca es la proyección de su propio anhelo de sus propias compulsiones,deseos.Cuando se ve este hecho,toda búsqueda cesa lo cual es en sí enormemente importante.Entonces la mente ya no está procurando atrapar algo mas allá de si misma,no existe el movimiento externo,con su reacción interna;pero cuando la busqueda se ha detenido enteramente,hay un movimiento de la mente que no es interno ni externo.La búsqueda no termina por un acto de voluntad ni por un complejo proceso de conclusiones.Dejar de buscar requiere gran comprensión.El fin de la búsqueda es el comienzo de una mente quieta.Una mente que es capaz de concentración no es necesariamente apta para meditar.El interés en sí mismo produce concentracion,como cualquier otro interés,pero tal concentración implica un motivo una causa,consciente o inconscientemente;siempre hay una cosa que ganar o descartar,un esfuerzo para comprender para llegar ala otra orilla.La atención con una mira está relacionada con la acumulación.La atencion que viene con este movimiento hacia algo o apartandose de algo es la atracción del placer o la repulsión del dolor,pero la meditación es esa extraordinaria atención en la cual no existe el autor del esfuerzo ni un fin ni objeto que ganar.El esfuerzo es parte del proceso adquisitivo;es la acumulación de experiencia por el experimentador.El experimentador puede concentrarse,prestar atención,estar atento;pero el anhelo de experiencia por parte del experimentadorha de cesar enteramente,porqueel experimentador es meramenteuna acumulación de lo conocido.Hay una gran bienaventuranza en la meditación. More >
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7 Apr 2008 @ 10:59, by johnjoseph. Investigation, Intelligence
Dialectical analysis of the Sudoku puzzle
A sudoku is a puzzle composed of 81 individual squares or cells, which join together into 9 larger squares of nine cells each. It can be looked at also as an array of nine columns and nine rows, each composed of nine cells.
The rules are what defines a game or puzzle and they create the contradictions in it. The basic rule of sudoku is that all the numbers 1 to 9, in any order, have to be in every row, column and square. But the defining rule or characteristic is that no number can recur in any row, column or square. Thus the main opposites here are “Identity” and “Difference”
This puzzle is constructed as a logical deduction puzzle whereby it should be possible to deduce all the absent numbers from the ones that are given, one by one, serially and piecemeal.
Now, just as the logical deductive process focuses on the rule that the numbers must be different, and uses that fact to deduce the outstanding numbers in the grid, so contrariwise, the dialectical method uses the opposite fact that in some parts of the grid, not subject to the rules, the numbers will be the same, will recur. This will give rise to certain characteristic patterns which can be used to intuit, guess and deduce the complete picture, holistically.
There are many patterns that arise in this way, but I will only mention three to illustrate my point.
Firstly, numbers cannot recur on rows, columns or in larger squares because of the rules. But they can and do recur when counted along diagonal lines. Thus on a diagonal across the whole grid it is sometimes possible to count three or four recurrences of the same number for example 4 or 7. Every diagonal is of a different length and there are sub-patterns within them that will reward study.
Secondly, what I call knight’s-move pattern. In many cases this pattern, created directly by the rules as a natural consequence of them, follows exactly the move of a knight in chess, and the same number recurs in the next column or row in this position. However, the rule that no number can recur in a larger square sometimes affects this pattern, and the same number recurs in a slight variation of the true knight’s-move, in an extended version.
Thirdly, it is noticeable that when a number is in a small square within a larger square, as we move from one column to the next, or one row to the next, the position of the same number is usually different, relatively, but not always. Thus, for example, in the top large square a 3 may be in the top left-most small square. In the next large square underneath it may be in the middle small square, while in the bottom large square it may be that it is in the right-most small square.
These and other patterns can be observed and learnt. When doing a sudoku you can use knowledge of these patterns to intuit, guess and deduce the overall distribution of the numbers throughout the whole puzzle, rather than just using a mechanical, solely deductive process to solve the puzzle piecemeal. These are examples of the Taoist and Confucianist methods of solving problems that I have written about elsewhere. Of course, it is possible to combine the two methods to get the best result. More >
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24 Feb 2008 @ 09:25, by johnjoseph. Investigation, Intelligence
Two Conjectures concerning Fermat’s Last Theorem
For most of my life, I have been an amateur mathematician and interested in the problem called Fermat’s Last Theorem. Like most other people I was delighted when Prof. Wiles came up with his proof in 1994 and I only regretted that I was not able to understand the advanced mathematics which it contained. I have always believed that Fermat had a proof of his own and that it has to be based on the mathematics available in his time. So I continued to struggle with this problem.
My recent researches have led me to two interconnected hypotheses which, if proven, lead to a solution of this problem and which arguably could be the same approach which Fermat used.
My first conjecture concerns the equation:
X^3 + Y^3 = Z^3
If we assume that there are indeed two cubes which when added together equal a third cube then we realize that since a cube has six sides, each of which is a square, then we have the interesting fact that the first cube has a square equal to X^2, the second cube has a square equal to Y^2 and the third cube has a square equal to Z^2. This obvious fact leads me to a question which I believe is original, as I have never come across it in conversation with other mathematicians or seen it in the literature. Is it possible, I ask myself, that given the hypothetical existence of these sides x, y, and z and these squares X^2, Y^2 and Z^2, that there is a definite relationship between these three squares.
The surface area of the first cube is 6x^2, that of the second cube is 6y^2 and that of the third cube 6z^2.It is clear to me that since cubes are based on squares and squares are based on Pythagorean triangles, that it is the underlying Pythagorean triangles which make it impossible for two cubes to add to another cube or two fourth powers to add to another fourth power and so on. In fact I would say that here X^2 + Y^2 = Z^2 though this implies a contradiction.
This is paradoxical and clearly impossible. Prof. Wiles, whatever the merits or demerits of his proposed solution, does nothing to clarify the amazing contradiction at the heart of the Fermat problem.
If this is indeed so, the fact that X, Y and Z must be Pythagorean triples leads me to my next conjecture. I believe, though I cannot prove, that the same relationship between N=2 and N=3 in the Fermat equation
X^N + Y^N = Z^N
Exists between N=3 and N=4 and in general between any two consecutive powers. In other words, the values which satisfy the equation for any N must also satisfy the equation for N+1. So the solutions are like a set of Russian dolls or nested boxes in that each is contained in the previous one. Since we know that there are no solutions for N=3 then establishing these two conjectures would immediately prove Fermat’s Last Theorem. More >
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 16 Dec 2007 @ 23:23, by jhs. Investigation, Intelligence
ARA, From the land of Michelangelo, da Vinci, et alii, sent me the following expansion of EFT, translated and annotated by mememe.
IMPORTANT EFT UPGRADE
For all: CONSULTANTS – SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS – END USERS
In this new version of EFT (valid in a generalized manner also for GIRAPOLI, DEPOLARIZATION, and QLFP) the affirmation procedure is applied directly to the spatial source area of the negative emotion, uneasiness, emotional charge, pain etc and specifying which part of the person's composite feels what sensation.
Advantages: even more rapid charge eliminations as well as a growing reality on the roles of spirit, soul, and mind in the creation of charges in general.
Procedure:
Step 1) Ask the person where it feels the negative emotion. This space can correspond to an area of the body, an inner point of the body, an area outside of the body, in general in the person's energetic space.
ATTENTION: there can be more than ONE such point.
Step 2) Prompt the person to put the hand (or both hands) over that area. In the case of a point inside the body, have it indicate the direction with a finger. (In other words, don't just put the hand on the 'I' or the 'heart' point)
Step 3) Ask the person WHO Or WHAT feels this unbalanced energy, annoying emotion, pain etc... Have the person proceed with caution and make sure it is always aware of the source, notices it's charge, uneasiness etc..
Step 4) Have the person clarify for itself WHICH part (SPIRIT Or SOUL Or MIND Or an EXTERNAL IDENTITY) is experiencing exactly WHAT sensation within emotional distress and verify that it is effectively "that part" that feels that emotion, irritation etc. For example. a despair of the soul, an impatience of the spirit, a confusion of the MIND.
Step 5) Continue with the usual affirmation, specifying the part that was located (spirit, soul, mind, or external identity). in the formula.
Note: don't forget itself to verify in a new unit of time the intensity of the charge, etc on the scale from "0" to "10" and get ALL the parties involved in the trauma.
It finally becomes fun to put some order in one's space :-)
Happy trauma hunting! More >
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5 Nov 2007 @ 00:07, by vaxen. Investigation, Intelligence
I'm putting tinfoil up on the windows
Lying down in the dark to dream
I don't want to see their faces
I don't want to hear them scream - Warren Zevon
An anonymous reader (of [link]) passed us a NetworkWorld link about an effort at DARPA to succeed in combat through networking. The idea is to keep soldiers in a position of informational superiority through a tactical radio network that would 'link' everyone together on the battlefield.
"Project WAND, for Wireless Adaptive Network Development, will exploit commercial radio components, rather than custom ones, and use a variety of software techniques and algorithms, many of them only just now emerging in mature form. These $500 walkie-talkie-size radios will form large-scale, peer-to-peer ad hoc nets, which can shift frequencies, sidestep interference, and handle a range of events that today completely disrupt wireless communications ... [right now] 'The average soldier on the ground doesn't have a radio,' says Jason Redi, principle scientist for BBN's network technologies group, and the man overseeing the software work. Radios are reserved for platoon and company commanders, in part because of their cost: typically $15,000 to $20,000 each, with vehicle-mounted radios reaching $80,000." More >
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11 Aug 2007 @ 04:46, by swanny. Investigation, Intelligence
THE MAGICAL DANCE OF EVOLUTION
June 11, 2004
I suppose, that we as humans, at some point, have to appreciate, accept, and understand, more, that we cannot control or dominate the natural order of things.
I suppose as well though, that we do, in some sense, have a collective "influence" upon it but even with our super computers, space stations, internet, particle accelerators, nao and bio technology and nuclear energies, we are and most likely will always be, to some degree, ever part of the natural order and never exactly equal to or above it.
Now this may seem dismaying and disquieting, that we are not the definitive masters of our destiny, yet the more we come to understand the nature of the natural order, the more we can begin to see how wonderously complex and miraculous it truly is.
To ever think, that we, even at our very best, could ever fathom its total depth, length, breath and time, is, well most presumptuous to say that least, yet even in its majestic and unfathomable scope and diversity we do still, at times, hold a cherished and dear place and harmony within its scheme.
Take heart too, for it would seem that this world, this galaxy, this creation is evolving and that perhaps such is the new frontier of which we now face. To evolve in harmony and grace with this evolving natural order. To fit in, as it were, with this dance of evolution as it progresses on its way, in time and its continuum of existence. It is truly both frightening and exciting simultaneously
Now, there are new steps to learn, new songs to sing, new feeling to master,
new dreams to construct and new love to experience.
Can we muster the courage and resolve needed to master the challenges of this dance. This wonderous and tricky dance of evolution. Not our evolution per sae but the evolution of this, the natural order.
Is the Natural order changing then? and is change the same as evolution?
Is change the same as evolution? an interesting question and one which we will
have to study and give more thought too in the days and years to come as we find our new footing and rhythm in this, the Magical Dance of Evolution.
A. G. Jonas
Alberta
Canada
Earth More >
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29 Jul 2007 @ 09:04, by johnjoseph. Investigation, Intelligence
Get out of the Eternal Recurrence
Stuck in a Groove
If you’ve ever had vinyl records you’ll know when you get a scratch on the surface of one, the needle will keep going back and forth repeatedly. And everyone knows what the phrase “stuck in a groove” means.
The philosopher Nietzsche had his theory of the “ Eternal Recurrence” which states that the same events occur again and again in our lives and history generally. This is just another version of the Buddhist idea of rebirth and reincarnation. There’s even been a Hollywood film about it called “Groundhog Day” where a misanthropic weatherman played by Bill Murray has to continually relive the same day over and over again. Even killing himself does not liberate himself from this situation. He wakes up everyday to the same reality and in the end he is only redeemed from this time-prison by learning to love and serve others.
Why do these stories and theories resonate with us? It is, I believe, because they are telling the same truth. That we are, in fact, stuck in a labyrinth of grooves.
In an earlier work I wrote about what I termed the “Law of Analogy” whereby because all reality comes from the same source, and is split into distinct levels, such as social, economic, political etc. it is possible to discern the same phenomenon at each different level and make analogous statements about them. I will now attempt to demonstrate what I have described above as “being stuck in a groove” by reference to these different levels.
Psychological Level
Jung invented the term “complex” for a knot of associated ideas, feelings, attitudes which he saw as the kernel of a neurosis. He invented also the word-association test to verify this idea and to uncover the complexes involved. He noticed that whatever word he gave as input to the client the latter would invariably respond with a word associated with the repressed material connected with his/her neurosis. Freud took up both the idea of a complex and also the word-association test and they termed this and similar aspects of neuroses and dreams as “repetition-compulsion” which is evidently connected with being in a groove; repeating the same thing over and over again.
Spiritual Level
The Buddhists and Hindus generally believe in rebirth, which if we take it literally, means that someone who does not achieve liberation (enlightenment) in one lifetime will be reborn into another lifetime after their death. Some Buddhists have a less literal interpretation of this belief and state that we all are reborn into every succeeding moment until we achieve liberation. Clearly, both of these are referring to repetition and being stuck in a certain state or experience.
Social Level
Eric Berne, in his book “ Games People Play” shows that many of us are stuck in the continual performance of what he terms “games”. These are alienated psycho-social activities based on what he calls their “life-scripts” but which we can clearly see are connected with their respective individual complexes and neuroses, referred to earlier. Volumes have been written on Berne’s concept of “games” but it is worth drawing attention to two points which he makes. The first is that “games” are an avoidance of intimacy. Also that they are repeated over and over again throughout a person’s life, until that person gains some self-awareness or even some sort of liberation and acceptance of intimacy.
It is possible to repeat this analysis at the economic and political levels and show that the economy produces and reproduces itself (with very little change) on a daily basis. As does the political situation despite the appearances to the contrary of parties gaining and losing power, revolutions and coups etc. These areas of human life are also “stuck in a groove” and there is very little new under the sun of this civilization.
What is to be done
To every stuck situation there is something that unsticks it. The antithesis to “games” is intimacy. The antithesis to rebirth is union or intimacy with the Source (God). The antithesis of economics is the abolition of money and the instituting of free supply based on the maxim “from each according to her talents, to each according to her needs” which is based on universal love. The antithesis of politics is the withering away or abolition of the State and the return of society to a situation based on networks instead of hierarchies, and mutual love and respect based on kinship (both of blood and spirit) and family.
Just as the problem is analogous at the different levels, so is the solution. Sexual reproduction is, or should be, based on love. Intimacy, which is another form of love, is the answer to games. Union with God, mystical love, is the answer to our spiritual problems. Wherever we look and see that we are stuck the answer to it is the same; Love.
I do not know whether all or any of this be possible, but I do know that “womanity” and “humanity” ever since we left that paradise garden which is our collective memory of the pre-civilised state, have dreamt of such things. The desperate situation the world is in now, with destruction following from our alienation from nature, women, men and God getting ever closer, brings with it the hope that love will prevail over egotism and selfishness and manage to save us all.
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  28 Jul 2007 @ 15:01, by feecor. Investigation, Intelligence
I was intrigued by the recent article about computability of games - how homoludens is outmastered by the computer, when playing Chess, Backgammon, ... but not Go !
Why ? and what that means for cognition, imagination, and pattern-languages, but also to the Braille-Alphabet for us blind people in modern media and globalisation, and what I think can be done to add human capabilities to keep "in check" advanced full-text research research like from Google, and add the big picture of the context, the broader orientation or big picture. See Panopticon. More >
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10 Jun 2006 @ 15:12, by oasiian. Investigation, Intelligence
Psychic phenomena come in a great many forms, such as Telekinesis, Astral Projections, Telepathy...but can it actually be used as a sense? Like, a semi-instinctual foresight? More >
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 5 Apr 2006 @ 22:59, by ming. Investigation, Intelligence
"Hello, I was wondering how I can buy one of the mind control devices on your website. I can't see how to put them in the shopping cart."
It was a lady calling me from England this afternoon. I was a little puzzled. Which website might that be? "Ming.tv" she said. Hmmm, I frantically search through my postings.... Aha, it turned out to be this article. A list of patents for rather horribly sounding devices for remote control of brainwaves, ultrasonic weapons, subliminal nervous system manipulators, and other goodies.
The lady wanted to put a couple of these in her shopping cart and check out with her visa card.
Which of these items might she specifically be interested in, I inquired. Well, she seemed to think the whole batch of them sounded rather nifty. Clearly a very motivated shopper.
Maybe she has a boyfriend who isn't quite behaving right? I didn't really succeed in figuring out what the driver was. I mean, you don't exactly pull out an ultrasonic brain wave modulator at a party, to start a fun conversation. Or do you? Is it something to have in your handbag, in case a little crowd control suddenly becomes necessary? You know, when a horde of flesh-eating zombies are charging you in the mall.
I patiently tried to explain that this was a list of patents on file at the U.S. Patent Office. Maybe somebody has made these, maybe not. If they have, it would be the kind of thing used by the military, to drive Iraqis crazy, or maybe by the police, for crowd control. Or maybe secret government agencies are using them on all of us, to make us Conform, Consume and Obey. But you wouldn't be likely to find them for sale to just anybody online.
She was a bit incredulous, and I had to explain it several times. She thought it was such a lovely idea, and she had a hard time wrapping her mind around the concept that there was no shopping cart and possibly no products. I didn't even bother to try to explain what a blog is.
I wished for a moment I did have some of these for sale. Maybe I could have thrown in a positronic deathray machine, and a few cannisters of nerve gas. I don't know how it is to be a housewife in West Sussex, but I'm always willing to help. More >
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