Anomolous Monism and Quantum Neurophysics

I thought I would write a comment on an entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Anomolous Monism. Its an interesting theory uniting psychological tokenism and physical causality within a monist paradigm without requiring a direct physical cause of mental events (i.e. ideas). perhaps I didn't express that very well. Here is the url for the entry...

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/anomalous-monism/

The absence of discussion about quantum mechanics and its role in comprising the neural network of the brain, its synapses and chemical memory and thought processing is notable. A a deeper level of discussion I suppose that some philosophers look in to that sort of thing.

It is interesting that the brain and its memory seems to work a little like a computer memory keeps its impressions and ideas on various subjects until they are updated or changed by new data. Not simply facts about things but ideas about facts about things tend to remain as they are until new information arrives-what else could one do with data if there isn't anything to replace it (write science fiction?)

The brain like everything else seems to be made of particle-waves in various atomic clusters of molecules-and all that based in force quanta in orbital, string,  loop or membrane increments permitted by force protocol. Each bit of quantum force seems as if it has mass in its energy equivalence. By the time force-energy-mass is ossified in stable structure cohering like knots in a string made in a Higgs Field it is named by some 'physical'. Mental and physical events  are made of the same particle-wave foundation in different structures, so it is there that one gets to the monism of anomolous monism I suppose-though the language is of a different protocol level of description.

Spirit is a more mysterious thing. It make be regarded as donated by God to human beings because they are conscious yet it is easy to find like Spinoza a kind of pantheism in monism.  That's simply a simpler, earlier philosophical understanding of matters though.

While God may be the ultimate spirit that provides energy and mass to occur in Universal deterministic temporality., that is the force energy may arise from His will and so in a deep level everything is of God, there is a difference between God and emergent phenomena in the same way that a photon is an emergent phenomenality of an electro-magnetic field and human beings are an emergent phenomenon of a different and more complex series of fields. Though the D.N.A. of a plethora of biologically living beings shares many common bases it is the subtle difference and structures that enable one to say convincingly that a seal is not an turtle or a crab a sparrow. One may have a finite group of numbers yet the organization of the numbers may not be the same say in 1 through 10. These differences are phenomenally meaningful though they are just temporal and emergent characteristics of deeper, transcending events, processes and forces.

Lebanon Bracing For Politically Destabilizing Erratics from Syrian Civil War

Since the assassination of Lebanese Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan- a security chief Friday sporadic violence has developed between pro and con elements. The chief was a Sunni while the Lebanese President is Shi'a and supported by Hezbollah and perhaps Syria or Iran indirectly. There are concerns that the sectarian civil war in Syria may reignite the long dormant Lebanese Civil strife that ended in 1990. The Lebanese civil war between 1975 and 1990 was a very unpleasant affair.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/lebanon.htm

A loose political balance has existed since then between the Syrian backed Hezbollah forces and the Lebanese Christians with Hezbollah the dominant party. If the Syrian regime becomes defunct it is not improbable that the political balance in Lebanon will alter substantially. There have reportedly been Salafist Sunni militants involved in the incipient Lebanese conflict.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2012/10/22/lebanon-erupts-in-fighting/1649839/

Six Scientists & A Bureaucrat Convicted of Manslaughter for Earthquake

Six earthquake scientists and a bureaucrat were convicted of failing to provide sufficient warning of an Earthquake that killed more than 300 people in 2009's L'Aquila earthquake. They were given six year sentences.

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/10/newsflash-laquila-earthquake-exp.html?rss=1

Professional malpractice may be a growing trend for the legal profession. Its lucky that politicians can't be convicted of that. At least the public will have the satisfaction of convicting scientists for failing to warn the public of global warming disaster and the end of most human life on Earth ahead should that occur in the next hundred years or two.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=climate-scientist-sues-for-defamation

The Innocence of the President's Flip Flop on 'The Innocence of Islam''

Initially President Obama blamed the comic video 'Innocence of Islam' for the killing of four Americans andincluding Ambassador Stevens in Libya September 11, 2012. In the second Presidential debate the President denied that his administration had blamed the video rather than terrorists. That was a flip flop on the administration's explanation as well as its actual history. The President's dissimulation was reinforced by the debate moderator who has since recanted her point. The Innocence of President Obama of his own recent administration positions leaves a few people incredulous. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E55rwmKSyg Innocence of Islam (the video) The President condemned all acts of terrorism or violence yet for nearly two weeks his administration misled the public advocating that wrong premise that 'The Innocence of Islam' drove a Libyan mob to a frenzy of violence that took the life of Ambassador Stevens instead of an organized criminal conspiracy of terrorists. For nearly two weeks a Coptic ex-pat video maker endured the blame of administration mouthpieces for stimulating the mob of Libya to rage against all tings American. The poor video producer struggling simultaneously to find some way to speak out against the cruelty in Egypt given to Coptic Christians by Moslem members of the only major religion in the world that explicitly supports the notion that they have a right to rule the world and to use death and deception upon resistors and perhaps to make a buck became a felon in the video production by over-extending charges on credit cards. Following in the Wall Street banking bad debt tradition is no excuse for building up vast public debt of course. It is understandable if not excusable. The poor man from Egypt was arrested in the middle of the night in Los Angeles, interrogated and made an object of government and media abuse. So much for free speech when it runs afoul of the leftist narrative. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/election-2012/romney-romping-key-poll-article-1.1187121 http://times247.com/articles/obama-again-pins-libya-blame-on-video-at-u-n The Obama team seemed to have lost some support with comments on the issue of the killing of U.S. Ambassador Stevens in Libya September 12th. The President now maintains that he did not blame a video for stimulating the assassination, but terrorists instead from the start. The C.I.A. reported the fact that organized terrorists perpetrated the event within 24 hours through official channels. Vice-President Biden blamed the intelligence community as well as the President. There is no question that the public was made by the administration to believe that a 15 minute comedy video on the life of Mohammed that few Moslems had seen was the reason for the violence. Instead, a planned Al Qaeda assault made because of the opportunity to organize terror in the vacuum of Libyan law enforcement transpired. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/09/us-ambassador-killed-libya.html http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/17/review-obama-hasnt-implicitly-acknowledged-terrori/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_

Romney Surges to 7 Point Lead in New Gallup Poll

Mitt Romney has taken the lead in the Presidential preference poll among likely voters by seven points. The electorate may yet take direct action against the Obama plan to add another five trillion dollars of public debt if he is re-elected.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/election-2012/romney-romping-key-poll-article-1.1187121

The Obama team seemed to  have lost some support with comments on the issue of the killing of  U.S. Ambassador Stevens in Libya September 12th. The President now maintains that he did not blame a video for stimulating the assassination, but terrorists instead from the start. The C.I.A. reported the fact that organized terrorists perpetrated the event within 24 hours through official channels. Vice-President Biden blamed the intelligence community as well as the President. There is no question that the public was made by the administration to believe that a 15 minute comedy video on the life of Mohammed that few Moslems had seen was the reason for the violence. Instead, a planned Al Qaeda assault made because of the opportunity to organize terror in the vacuum of Libyan law enforcement  transpired.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/09/us-ambassador-killed-libya.html

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/17/review-obama-hasnt-implicitly-acknowledged-terrori/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_

http://m.startribune.com/politics/?id=174996631&c=y An administration friendly timeline

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/19/us-usa-campaign-idUSBRE89F07J20121019?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburn

The President has taken to general smears against the rising Romney with yippish 'witticisms'  (i.e. 'Romnesia' )that may backfire since there are so many voters of Romney's generation offended by the age bigotry of Mr. Obama. If the Romney-Ryan team cannot reform the problems of inefficient government retirement and disability support structures for the poor and middle class its unlikely that a better chance will appear before the U.S.A. piles of 30 trillion dollars of public debt within the next decade.

Why President Obama Doesn't 'Get It' About the Unemployed

President Obama and Mitt Romney each may hold foreign citizenship. Mitt Romney and Barrack Obama's father are foreign born (George Romney in Mexico to U.S. citizens) so the children likely inherit citizenship. Does the U.S. electorate care that jobs are being outsourced, free trade agreements to prosper cheap foreign labor are advocated equally by each candidate or that the 23 million out of work are about equal to the number of illegal aliens in the United States?

I wanted to write something a little bit counter-cyclical to the politically correct 'We are a nation of immigrants' theme commonly dumped as a justification for failure to secure the Mexican border against illegal entry by cheap foreign migrant workers and terrorists. Everyone has a right to exist and have a good way of life, yet the citizens of a nation should be first rather than long-term incidental casualties of political correct indifference.

Is America a nation of immigrants or instead the soft underbelly of nature that naturally predacious human beings swelled in to because of the natural repulsiveness of the tribe in the old world? In Europe, Asia and Africa human beings exterminated rival species and they still do including their own kind so a certain extent. Traveling to the frontiers to escape the oppression of tribes, nations and primitive bureaucrats ordering the infidels into the stew pot is not a new thing at all. America may be a nation of immigrants from its earliest days yet that is no commendation. Instead it is a proof that mankind cannot live within its environmental means.

The world today is over-populated regarding demographics and resource base. It is headed for mass social die off from one or more of a variety of causes. It also has the possibility of encountering mass economic collapse and a Soviet style state developing in the United States down the road as a dictatorship of the proletariat allocates scares remaining resources. The United States like all nations should live within its boundaries, secure those boundaries and make sure that all citizens have a job and adequate shelter plus productive and meaningful research prospects.

President Obama has unrealistically declared that all Americans should have highly skilled, high paying jobs and that is just a pie in the sky platitude satisfactory to CEO's that enjoy having an excuse to hire people from around the globe and to outsource jobs in order to find 'highly skilled workers'.  My college education was never worth a dime financially speaking, and the years and expense of college for today's youth is quite impractical as half are already out of work and they start life with vast personal debt to match up the vast public debt.

The majority of Americans are C students. Many have neither aptitude for nor interest in 'highly skilled' job training requiring years of education at large personal cost and years wasted without personal earnings. Sending a nation of C students to college for several years may train a generation for jobs that become obsolete before they graduate. The dark side of high skills training is the general uselessness of aforementioned skills for anything besides highly specialized work-those workers is the easiest for management to manipulate as the workers depend upon that corporate structure.

The future administration should lock out the illegal unskilled and semi-skilled workers and not undermine the millions of Americans that hope to be able to earn enough to earn a living wage at simple work. They are not all naturally feminist government bureaucrats expecting a cinched career of middle class privilege-many simply want the ability to get at least some work when they need it without needing to find a state where there are not so many thousands of Mexican workers standing around on the corner ready to hop into a truck to go work for the middle class for 2 dollars an hour.

Both parties should not write-off the unemployed and the need to provide real work and not simply foist unrealistic high-skills training. Though the middle class and rich may be accustomed to a certain standard of living so they cannot understand the interests of the poor at all for a minimum annual income even with part-time work-and providing incentives to the private sector to  hire the unemployed triaging those out of work longest first is the better approach in comparison to government programs-the aloof comfortable quantitative consumer pursuing their quantitative high-consumption and entropy lifestyles is not an acceptable excuse for the political incompetence of both parties in this election.

The next administration should be aware that the world population is 7 billion and that intelligent global planning for continuity of the ecosphere and all life on Earth at present levels needs to continue with a purposes rather than waiting for disaster to accomplish too little, too late. The United States and the world no longer needs immigration to exploitable soft underbellies of nature-it needs to realistically improve the quality of life where the people live. 

A Comment on Space-Time Expansion

I wanted to write a few words about space-time expansion, or the philosophy of. There is much description of various models for it, and paradigm criteria about what it is. It is a field with much prospect for conjecture and construction of hypothetical models as well as plain astrophysical observation and strict inference.

Time expands rather than passes. Time is a way of describing the relative positions of mass rather than of energy. Energy is always in motion whereas mass is not. When time changes because of the conversion of mass into energy partially it is the relationship of mass that has shifted with motion-even through radiation.

It is  said that the space of the Universe is expanding however it is possible to differ even with observations based on astrophysics. Most likely space is simply nothing at all and it is more correctly a field within space that is expanding for some reason.

The Higgs field is a candidate for such a space-field that gives mass and energy particles an opportunity to exist phenomenally. As photons are emergent characteristics of electro-magnetic fields, mass and energy are emergent, entangled quantum characteristics of a Higgs field. The Higgs field is another ponderable field of unknown constitution.

So what are the potential shapes for fields within the nothingness of space that may be regarded as a Universe-field? It is conventional to use the bubble or empty sphere arising with an inflation from an infinitesimal point as the model universal field. As that field expands it is like a bubble membrane in 360 degrees. On the surface of that membrane the field energy allows entanglements because of original anisotropy or uneven distribution of the field and that leads to entangled clumps of energy accumulating as mass in the field. The field has clumps of mass drawing in other mass through characteristic force protocols such as the nuclear force and gravity. Stars, galaxies and Mitchellian objects (black holes) arise and draw together in clumps as the field membrane Bubble Universe expands.

The Membrane Universe could have four dimensions and more small ones yet still be finite in area in real space (nothingness). One bubble Universe after another could be issued to arise and expand within the others preceding that have expanded outward.

A transcending bubble universe from within or without slowing down to contract or increasing speed to expand could create intra-Universal collisions or mergers. Yet there could as easily be transcending forces that pass through all of the bubble Universes in every dimensions like neutrino-Universes.

It seems that because a Universe-field is a continuum that the speed of light is limited to the field that allows it to appear sustaining the existence of all phenomenal particles. Quantum entangled particles seem to convey information faster than light because they are not part of a direct continuum. Their instant motion is not measured by the relational position change of subluminal mass.

It is good to consider a little how God might issue consecutive Universes with expansion characteristics within a space-nothingness without mass-time necessarily. I find it useful to regard absolute spirit as the intelligent creator of substance.