Thoughts And Ideas
For those readers interested in the process of writing or rather what goes on inside an author's brain, I thought I would offer a peak into the notorious if not infamous pages of the notebook. Often left to be revealed posthumously, I found looking back now, over these often forgotten notes, makes for interesting reading.
Here is a collection of ideas and thoughts, some by other inspiring writers, and philosophers, that can lead to a new storyline or become part of one. These are completely random notes and where there appears to be some correlation between them, it has more than likely occurred by accident rather than design. Of course, it goes without saying, some of these musings have made it to the pages of Once Upon a Time in Catatonia.
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The Butterfly Syndrome:
Micro events, including ideas, often cause an existential mutagen of unintended macro consequences.
A macro consequence would form, given the circumstances, an uncontrollable Memetic Wave that could sweep through a civilisation like an air born virus, leaving in its wake a collective mistrust, breakdown, or destruction of otherwise stable institutions responsible for maintaining, and more importantly, perpetuating a civil society.
A Memetic Wave can come in many forms and be triggered by many events
The Memetic Wave: That which, if left untethered, has the unintentional ability to change public opinion away from a positive truth to a negative one. Vaccines have allowed mankind to advance, all vaccines are bad.
NB. This note has become the basis for the essay entitled - The theory of almost everything - making sense of the chaos.
02
What is it about reality that makes it real?
03
If we accept the notion that the process of consciousness involves sensory input of an incredible amount, it is reasonable to conclude that A.I. could never be considered conscious because of its limited, finite amount of sensory input.
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Knowledge determines language not the other way around. Science confirms that knowledge.
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There are two ways of describing reality: inner reality and outer reality. Both are independent but made compatible through language.
06
Consciousness is a description of an emergent process of evolution. We may well have reached our evolutionary peak.
07
Humanism is an attitude.
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The realness of reality is the conscious mind forever updating variables of multi-sensory input.
09
Taboo: A contagion of strategic silence.
10
Data is in the dock, charged with crimes against Truth. Key witnesses are confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance.
Having just read "Viral" (the search for the origin of cover 19), by Dr.Alina Chan & Matt Ridley, I felt compelled, sadly, to change the word, 'data', from the line above, 'Data is in the dock', to 'Science is in the dock.'
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There are two ways of describing reality. Inner reality and outer reality. Both are independent but made compatible through language.
12
Is not consciousness an experience?
Could not consciousness be the descriptive term for the sum of the totality of experiences through the senses?
Consciousness, given its complexity cannot be reduced or rendered into linear codes for so called artificially intelligent machines. Not withstanding the notion of quantum mechanics, it would appear here, also, that an attempt at making such a machine would require an extremely big computer or from a biological point of view, creating a brain which we could control. This would be both amoral and abhorrent. Would it not?
13 Polyocracy
The Future evolution of Domocracy
"You cannot please all of the people all of the time."
"One must be aware of not cutting off the branch one is sitting on."
Let me be clear from the outset, a Polyocracy is the unashamed cherry picking of all that is good from Democracy, Theocracy, Meritocracy, and most controversially, Autocracy.
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Polylinguistic Forms and their Formations
Polylinguistic forms and their formations are used as a descriptive language to reduce, if not eliminate, confusion of complex, subtle, or abstract concepts:
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Language
It is thus, that the twenty five letters of the alphabet has to build bridges to withstand the weight of humanity.
"Sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you."
A broken bone will hurt for a while and will heal, but names can hurt you and many of them for life.
