The Apocalypse

The fact of the matter is that the interconnected dynamical system which is planet earth is going through a cycle of re-stabilization via collective extreme events, also known as chaotic phenomena, or just Chaos. It's a universal law governing the behaviour of all interconnected dynamical systems, which is essentially the known Universe. Systems achieve critical or partial stability, while they are also highly sensitive to initial conditions. In simple terms, even small changes to the state of the inputs to the system result in extreme fluctuations in the system output, and behaviour. These extreme fluctuations can render the state of the system as completely unstable, or in other words, chaotic. Systems can switch between partial stability and total disorder, or remain in perpetual chaos.

If the temperature does rise 0.5 or 1 degree, if the population does cross over the threshold, if the pollution does pass the mark, if the sea levels do rise by a foot or two... these all can result in catastrophic events, including mass extinctions. 

What we are experiencing is the beginning stages of such state for planet earth. We as humans have been the "wild card" factor in this dynamical system, and we have royally skewed the bias. The earth will heal itself through acts of extreme aggression, however, whether we will survive to heal with it remains to be seen.

We could, if we already have not advanced that far, try to become more and more in tune with the natural world around us. We could attempt to re-think and re-imagine our past lives and routines, and we could make changes accordingly to align with the universal law. This is nothing noble or new, it's has been discussed and practiced by many people over the ages. All the apocalyptic stories in the scriptures and different cultures, including the myths of civilizations long lost, point to this destruction of man-made societies and empires in consequence of destructive habits, behaviour and events. The flavours are varied, but the symbolism of the tales represent the same concepts.

What is different now is the fact that we are being presented by the Final Warning. It may already be extremely late. It may already be a lost cause, but we could still make a difference. We could see the Light.

And to those who choose to go against the natural law, and ignore the Warning by being distracted by anything other than complete alignment with the natural forces: enjoy the poison of your rotting ego, and may Kali Ma bring forth your just end.

Nuestra Madre, Nuestra Sangre

Your Ego & The Spiritual Con Artists

It appears that a new trend is flourishing in the contemporary world of Western Spirituality. This trend seems to revolve around the concept of loving and celebrating the ego in the spiritual process.
The birth and existence of this kind of trendy nonsense are, in some ways, the direct result of mindless inclusive New Age kitchen club ideology and the hopelessness of modern schools of bullshit spirituality.

If you have not come about destroying and dissolving your ego, you're on the path to Nowhere, not a spiritual path. You first have to become nothing, before you can even contemplate becoming anything. The current 'you' needs to die for you to embark on the journey. Sticking to the old comforts, even when they are dressed as something else, will result in an infinite loop of circling around the same dead-end road. Distractions and the various forms they come in only serve to hold back one from reaching that point of sweet Death. One needs to become humbled, reduced to ashes and dirt, crushed into non-existence... and only then, once they have been laid to waste, can they start becoming something. Only then, can they start planting foot on the first steps of the Ascension ladder.

There is no shortcuts or quick routes to the spiritual process. It is fighting tooth and nail for a lifetime to little by little scrub the orb and bring more and more shine to it, the unthinkable process of starting from "filth" and arriving at "gold".
It is also quite the solo endeavour. Spirituality of the purest kind has never been a social experiment. There is no need or requirement for group activities, and more often than not, the addition of other individuals to one's quest will result in deviations, distractions and other kinds of obstacles preventing the person from moving forward.

The process may take many many years, but no notable spiritual master has ever achieved the feats they have through loving their ego or celebrating it. Every single one, though, has excelled tremendously after silencing that voice.

Anyone who claims to be a spiritual guru, is anything but that. Spiritual gurus are made through years and decades of hard work, extensive studying, deep meditation, impeccable discipline and endless patience. And they are always known to be gurus by those around them, not through self-proclamation.

It is not much of a surprise when one of the common elements running among all the contemporary self-proclaimed spiritual gurus is their deep love for the materialistic rewards of the advice and help they promise to give out and away. Being a spiritual master has become a profession.
As a rule of thumb, any person who offers one salvation, but at a monetary or non-monetary price, should be treated with grave skepticism. After all, isn't that what the churches, the mosques and other so-called holy places have offered the masses for centuries? You will be saved by the Saviour, however, you best pay the middlemen and the deal-makers of that great achievement.

There are massive libraries of sources and materials available to anyone who knows where to look for free. Considering the fact that every journey starts with the individual, with the help of what the individual carries inside, one should never have to seek the guidance of others, especially if it comes at a price.

Wetlands, Pt.I

Sol in Vere

The Misty Visions

Mind, Soul, Brain, Human Behaviour: So Below

Note: The points and propositions mentioned are considered to have strictly mathematical implications and are, therefore, textual descriptions of mathematical equations, formula and statements.

• Assumptions:

• Nervous system is a wholesome network where different components interact and work with each other, and when considering the bigger picture, a separate component cannot be studied independently of others.
• Human experience is a continuously-happening phenomenon within which the present and future states are very dependent on the past states.
• The structure of the information processing within the brain is hierarchical.
• All neural activities inside the brain are materialistic and possible to quantify and model. 
• The significance of thresholds: low-level networks characteristics, and the effect they have in the functioning of higher-level networks. 
  Individual networks and the smaller groups they form are at equilibrium state until a certain level of stimuli causes them to excite and produce a different output. In the bigger networks, these points where the networks change behaviour can collectively act as thresholds that determine the functionality of their higher-level networks. In other words, thresholds are the limits which define and determine the functioning of neural networks.
• Even though the circuitry inside the human brain has become optimized and evolved to fulfill certain goals and purposes, it still suffers from various materialistic limitations and functionality flaws. The latter is more evident in the higher level processing of information inside the brain. One could say that the circuitry is much more optimized and efficient for lower level information processing and the computation of motor skills related data.
• The principle of neural structures within the brain is to essentially process the information already stored in the memory (all the appropriate information, including sensory, cognitive, etc.) with respect to the information received through the senses, and save the new results.

  The bottom line: The functioning of the brain is, to a large part, very materialistic and possible to model and explain. Any presumption about other natures of the functionality of the brain is a by-product of the way it functions.

• A simple hierarchy:

• Lower levels:
• Motor activities and the corresponding information
• Low-level processing of the information collected and received by the senses (touch, taste, smell, vision, auditory, etc.)
• Bodily-related cognitive activities

• Higher levels:
• Emotions based on bodily reactions
• Medium level cognitive activities
• Emotions based on brain activities
• Higher level cognitive activities (usually resulting in manifestation of behaviour)

• The propositions:

• The activity and functionality of an individual brain cannot be properly understood without considering the social, cultural, temporal and historical contexts in which it is utilized.
• The individual brain’s general understanding of the world it perceives profoundly affects its general higher-level functionality.
• Formation of each concept (whether it has a direct materialistic correspondent in the outside world or not, i.e., whether it is the ‘taste of ice cream’ or the ‘fairness of a judge’) within the brain is accompanied by the formation of a bias towards that concept.
  The bias is a function of bodily reaction towards that concept. Bias alters the result of future concept evaluations in: constructive-neutral-destructive ways. Bias can be defined or determined as a function of the size of its corresponding neural network(s).After lower-level processing, information is processed in a conceptual state. Various initial information gathered that is related to the same category is 'associated' with a concept, and then further classified. In the end, a single concept can have many different lower-level information associated to it.These concepts are collections of one or many group(s) of neurons. The size and formations of these groups can determine the 'bias' of the individual towards the concept. 
• Emotions can be considered as functions of the feedback that is received from the organs by the brain. The bodily feedback is associated with a feeling or an emotion. The more the same stimuli invoke the same type of bodily response which eventually translates to the same type of emotion, the more refined and optimized body's response and the speed of the emotion's recognition and establishment and its subsequent effect back on the body.
• The nature of the processes is supervised and unsupervised manipulation of the memory. The supervised manipulation requires a certain level of awareness which translates into a certain level of consciousness.
  Down on the lower levels, the way the brain performs the supervision is by controlling the direction and amount of blood flow to various parts within the organ.
• The sequence in which the processed results of lower-level information processing in the brain are applied in higher-level information processing: Results from processing the information received by the senses, processed data related to motor behaviour, are combined in certain ways in the process of computing the higher-level states of the brain. 
• Extreme forms of thoughts and behaviour are much more crucial and useful in understanding the functioning of the brain than the normal and common thought and behavioural patterns, since they act as “points of extrema”.
• Human traits and characteristics are, in general, very universal. The differences are essentially the results of different local environments and habitual conditions.
• The case for the uniqueness of human behavior: Humans choose one outcome at the point of acting and engaging in behaviour, they may consider a few options, but generally and in most cases, one is preferably chosen. This fact would have interesting mathematical implications in modeling human behaviour.

"The Morning Star"

The playful breeze

Dragged the silky veil of blackness,

Slowly;

Across the sky.

Rivers,

Flowing in

The silver serenity of moonlight;

Trees,

Waving in precious harmony,

As land’s dancers

In the sabbat of night;

The unspoken truth has left

The silence

Shattered.

The cloaked souls,

Restless spirits of ancient chaos,

Arise.

Eyes open, lips whisper…

Secrets are yet to be kept within.

The cast spells, across the waters,

The blood-soaked sins, inside the fires…

“Summon the wolves of immortality,

The ones of madness and ecstasy;

Summon them up,

Off the unknown deep.”

The flames of the birth,

Burning the veil away;

A future to behold,

A fate to be lived;

The Son Of The Morning Star,

Descending at the moment of dawn…

F.FIRE July 17, 2003

Order, Universal Unity, Optimization, Determinism, Randomness: As Above

Note: The points and propositions mentioned are considered to have strictly mathematical implications and are, therefore, textual descriptions of mathematical equations, formula and statements.

Propositions:

• Structural complexity helps create order, or reinforces the existing order.
• Similar patterns exhibited by different natural systems are indications of similar universal principles in system behaviour. Example: The exponential nature of many phenomena. After a certain point (threshold), the increase in the intensity and volume of the inputs to a system results in an exponential increase in its output; or a type of saturation effect where no matter how much the input grows, the system’s response stays relatively constant after a certain point is reached.
• One of the above principles is the optimization of received, stored and consumed energy by natural systems (read more on the point on survival).
• Some or all of the patterns of behaviour are possible to be statistically modeled.
• The essence of natural behaviour is fundamentally random. The order created through complex structure formation is only partially stable, and capable of changing state and behaviour when the appropriate conditions and factors are present.

What is survival?

The process of managing the organism's energy resources and optimizing the utility of the available energy to assure its proper functionality, and subsequently, prolonging its existence.

Propositions:

• The more complex an organism, the more complicated the above process.
• The unsupervised or semi-supervised functioning of smaller groups of systems within an organism to manage their energy resources: automated, an inevitable result of growing complexity, and dependent on small-scale interaction of building materials and components.
• The supervised energy management of the system as a whole: becomes possible as the system becomes more developed and contains more parts and subsystems that perform more variable functions. Formation and introduction of a control (nervous) system that is capable of becoming advanced and increasingly complicated is part of this process.
• The increasing complexity of the nervous systems among species makes it possible for the organisms with different structural complexities to be able to manage their energy resources more efficiently, in unconscious and unsupervised ways. In the case of humans, the nervous system (and mainly the brain) has advanced to such a degree and level that it has gone beyond its original purpose of simply managing the available energy resources, and has become a powerful tool which can be utilized for applications that have little to no relevance to energy resource management.

The statistical distribution of a phenomenon, event or outcome:

By knowing the statistical distribution of variables in a level or scale, it can be possible to examine the ways in which the states and variables of the previous level could project into the variables in the scale under investigation. Of course, the states and variables of the previous scale need to be known, as well.

Making decisions

On some level or scale in the hierarchy of the brain, the processes of decision-making (or in other words, fully-supervised control of the general processing of the brain) project a group of possible outcomes, from the available (both receiving and stored) input information. They essentially attempt to predict the near or distant future and come up with a group of results.

The end focus is on a smaller group of the outcomes, and eventually one particular one. The chosen outcome evaluates the direction and magnitude of the nature of the next step’s system and network which are used to obtain that step’s outcome.

These processes are still partially influenced by the unsupervised networks processing the received and stored information.

Schopenhauer

We know that our consciousness inhabits a physical body, similar to other physical objects only known as phenomena. Yet our consciousness is not commensurate with our body. Most of us possess the power of voluntary motion. We usually are not aware of our lungs' breath, or our heartbeat, unless our attention is called to it. Our ability to control either is limited. Our kidneys command our attention on their schedule rather than one we choose. Few of us have any idea what our livers are doing right now, though this organ is as needful as lungs, heart, or kidneys. The conscious mind is the servant, not the master, of these and other organs. These organs have an agenda which the conscious mind did not choose, and has limited power over.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer

Of course!

I do not agree with the idea of sex having become pleasant to humans, in order to encourage us to reproduce, and help the process of survival. I believe finding, and seeking, gratification in sexual scenarios and practices, and being passionate about the other possibilities of mating activities, are the inevitable fruit of another evolving phenomenon: the human brain.

It is, indeed, interesting that the pleasurable act of reproduction among humans could have played a role in our survival, as a type of species, on this planet, but I definitely do not see any relation between a coincidental fact and the way humans perceive, understand and experience sexuality as an enjoyable matter, because there have been many people who have found close to zero appeal in sex for various different reasons, but have still managed to reproduce fairly well, throughout our history.
At the same time, many sides of human sexuality have almost nothing to do with breeding and survival.

Religious texts are good sources for studying the perspective of a group of individuals, which usually happens to be a dominant force in their society, in regards to this subject at certain points in our intellectual evolution, which is directly related to the evolution of the brain as a computational organ at our service.


There can never be any certainty about the past history, since not everything has been documented, and not all that have been, have survived up to an age when they could be known to a wider group of people, and analyzed by more experts.
It would be a good idea to model the different historical facts known to us. After an exhaustive analysis, assign a different term, of a different weight, to each fact, and use predicting algorithms to verify the past (which would not be difficult to test on the past few hundred years since more information about the different states of the planet and humans has been documented), and foresee the future.

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I tend to see the violence inflicted by different political powers around the world, for unjust reasons, and useless purpose, as childish stunts of sheer stupidity.
So I ignore them, and charge to declare a greater war... on ignorance which can manifest in countless shapes and forms.

Only acquiring knowledge, and drawing "educated" and testable conclusions, can counter ignorance.
It is best for people taking this path to be detatched from any type of bias towards any subject matter, so that the process of analysis produces less erroneous results.

Brief

The networks on each level are made up of groups of smaller networks which create results of different strength, with one or more (up to n-1) dominant terms.
Points of importance: The voltages created by different networks, the different types of connection between the networks, the geometrical characteristics of the networks and connections...


The error, created by the dynamic nature of the systems, which in turn is caused by the existing uncertainties on smaller scales, introduces the instability, and uncertainties, of the larger scale.

More

Different principles, facts and realities cannot all be true, but they can all point to a true direction.

The sum (combination) of terms of different power, with varying coefficients. Introduce an approptiate error detection, and management, method and guide the direction of change.

XXX

Memories do die, in fact, cells die. Or go through such a drastic change, that they lose their previous functionality, and take on a new one.

Where are the limits? Where are the points of importance? How are they defined, and calculated? How do they relate to each other?

Now Playing: Boards Of Canada - Oirectine

Computational Elements

The rate of change of the chemicals building the brain, which cause the generation, and transmission, of the electrical signals within the organ, guides the flow of the signals, and forms the structure of the neural networks that are responsible for the computational power of the brain.

The computations result in one absolute conclusion, and many relative ones. The absolute conclusion is the more, or most, global conclusion(s) computed, after the process of the data, on each group level.

Groups: Different sets of (received or stored) information, and the respective networks responsible for processing them.

Stronger conclusions are made on more global scales. The different groups of data, the different networks which process them, and the relationships among the networks, determine the nature of these more global conclusions.

Hypothesis

There maybe a 1000 reasons why people believe in anything they believe in, or have believed in throughtout the history. The distinctiveness of the reasons does not have relevance to the fact that they are causes which map future effects, and outcomes, based on real-time past and present data.

The beliefs give birth to actions, decisions, and new beliefs. The results are stored in the live matter inside the brain in forms of groups of networks which together help compute and process the data it stores and receives on a continuous basis. The networks are governed by electro-chemical reactions, therefore, the level of the chemicals constructing these reactions, their rate of change, becomes of significant computational value. The reactions are enforced and executed on molecular, and even atomic levels. The true nature of the rules of these levels is not of importance to the study of human life and behavior.

Neural Processes:

If the focus of the process is to achieve a certain state, to cycle around a certain point of importance, choosing weights which would result in values close to the target value would be desirable in designing the process algorithm.
Could the effect of these assigned weights be considered "neutral" in the sense that their values do not end up causing too much fluctuations to the either end of the spectrum in the final results?

They are still actively engaged factors even if they are essentially neutral.

A: In the practical continuous analysis of such a system, that definition of neutral essentially depends on the assumed range of the weights. The ranges which cause drastic changes in the behaviour of the system can never be considered "neutral" unless, of course, neutral is defined completely different in another language.

The last sentence remains valid.

Employing neutral decision-making processes will result in better target achievements in most cases if one considers their true origins in cellular structure and behaviour, bio-chemical interactions and the available networks, and how they connect to each other.

... The way the brain can dynamically, but not efficiently at all, grow and change through simple repeating algorithms, to fulfill certain purposes, and to communicate with the outside world.

Blocks

In order to understand how humans behave on an individual or social level, it is necessary to examine the ways in which their body reacts to the reception of information through the human senses. One might say, the key is hidden in understanding how the human body regulates its functional process in response to the data it receives through the senses of vision, audition, gustation, olfaction and tactition [1].

But that is not enough. It is also essential to take into account the information stored inside the brain as a result of the reception of data, because it can be used as previous data in the process of analysis of the outcome of future actions, decisions, etc., and it is also helpful in formulating the methods through which thoughts that result from the "thinking" process being performed by the brain (or in other words, the process of the interaction of the existing stored groups of data inside the brain with themselves, or the outcomes of the reception of data through senses) are formed.

Physical reactions in the body are caused by the changes in the conditions of the chemicals inside it. Many of these are associated with certain feelings by the brain. The roots of all feelings known to mankind are more than likely easily traced through these processes down to the molecular, or even atomic, level.

Comprehending how our brains work, or how humans behave and act, is only possible through studying the subject on different levels of different nature, looking at the system through different lenses of different magnitude and texture... more than one view is needed.
Every phenomenon related to the subject needs to be broken down into basic steps which are preferably significant on different scales.

[1] Feelings like heat (or lack thereof) and pain are directly controlled by the brain in a sense that the information received by the brain through the sense of touch is almost simultaneously translated into data related to the said feelings, or in other words, subconsciously interpreted by the brain. (Obviously, the feeling of pain in the internal organs follows a different procedure as the sense of touch is not involved. Though, it is still directly, and subconsciously, controlled by the brain.)