American issues of Christianity, cosmology, politics, ecosphere, philosophy, contemporary history etc
7/22/20
Kant and the Noumenal
7/20/20
Covid 19 Homeless Issues Next Winter
Presidential leadership has been out of touch during much of the Covid crisis. The President cannot seemingingly cannot walk and chew gum at the same time, much like politicians of both parties, in failing to develop complete face protection masks including eyes that would allow actual defense against the virus. Covid 19 defense and school and business recovery should occur together rather than in opposition. American leadership actually seems fairly daft on the concern. The blatant incompetence I suppose, is an explanation for why the economy of the U.S.A. cannot transition to ecological sustainability and income security and quality of life standards for all Americans; walking and chewing gum simultaneously is multi-tasking beyond their comprehension.
An improved system would include the most poor Americans with a progressive charge for Plan B; it might be free for those that are the most poor and increase in cost as the size of the social security check increases in order to make it actually affordable.
Quantum Cloud Conjecture on Faster-Than-Light Travel version 4.1
There are a few reasons why it is believed that faster than light travel isn’t possible. Contrary experience in quantum teleportation regarding information travelling faster than light seems in conflict with the notion. Plainly information seems to travel faster than light in select quantum super-position experiments. One could regard time being locally changed or skipped as an equally probable candidate explanation for why some quanta would need to have travelled faster than light to explain the transfer of data from point A to point B.
Space and time are treated as a single field for purposes of
general relativity. All of the basic fields of the Universe seem to have some
speed limit that is at the high range equal to that of the speed of light.
Gravity for example travels at the speed of light. Would it be possible for a
mass object made up of matter with various field components bound to the light
speed limit to travel faster than light by skipping through space-time fields
as if it were not in a space-time field?
Perhaps like a super-cavitating torpedo that pushes a bubble ahead
if it to displace water in its path, quantum mechanical super-positioned
probability bubbles could be placed ahead of a mass object in order to displace
space-time fields that limit the mass within to light speed limits. As quantum
information can occur at a vast distance without passage of time, a space-ship
too might travel a great distance without a passage of time if it can be placed
with a quantum probability bubble detached entirely from space-time.
While it might not be possible to send conventional mass through
conventional space time and space-time fields faster than light it might be
possible to send conventional mass beyond conventional space-time and
space-time fields faster than light for a time and then return into
conventional space-time if it were possible to disrupt, alter or trick an area
of conventional space-time to let the mass of a space-ship pass outside the
normal space-time field and quantum logical structures.
Someday quantum
computers with detailed quantum mapping of local quantum structures might be
able to direct reconfiguration of quantum structures locally in real-time to
conform to complete detachment from the mass of a spaceship with different
quantum attachments for hyper-spatial quantum kedging of attachment and
detachment forward faster than light. Quantum modeling of present and future
structures might allow ‘pre-moves’ or instructions written in advance to kedge
a spaceship along faster than light near, yet outside the conventional
space-time from which it has detached itself.
Creating an absolute void without quantum content or time could be
feasible through a variety of theoretical methods, even if that non-field is
temporary and limited to an area around the spaceships mass. That kind of
approach might make it possible to remove vast concentrations of mass from the
gravitational field of space-time of a normal universe, placing it into limbo,
perhaps as nothing more than information to be given four-dimensional content
when returned to normal space-time and the Higgs Field.
Quantum probability super positions for information may occur
because some information may have no mass and can travel therefore with no time-mass
component to restrict it.
Mass Incarceration; a Repost
379) Mass Incarceration 2; Reasons for Racial Percent Differences
July 24, 2017
Cultural and historical differences may be largely responsible for
the variegated incarceration rate regarding race. White culture was a more or
less secure majority culture with established roles. Except for the affect of
increased national drug use, the percent of white people incarcerated should
have stabilized decades ago. It should not have increased because the percent
of non-whites of the U.S. population has increased, unless one thinks that
increasing non-whites should catalyze increased white crime.
Hispanics were an external proletariat illegally in millions of
cases entering the U.S.A. to form an internal proletariat. The cultural
differences of non-established, less sedentary populations in criminal behavior
compared to sedentary, established populations are notable. One might wonder
too, why Mexico has a lower incarceration rate and a far higher murder rate,
and if that may mean that the U.S.A. can afford to process more people through
the criminal corrections systems than Mexico, whereat direct eye for an eye
extra-judicial justice may be somewhat more frequent.
Black Americans had the social integration problems following the
end of the Jim Crowe era. Then problems developed for all American men during
the same period when the old-style industrial economy was outsourced overseas.
High unemployment rates made a generation of black youth half unemployed or
underemployed, while illegal alien workers watered down the value of wage labor
in the U.S.A.
Real wages adjusted for inflation have not changed for white men
since the early 1970s while affirmative action has changed the employment and
social landscape in the U.S.A. There were far fewer good paying industrial or
men’s jobs as time rolled by for men of any race in the U.S.A. With a couple
generations of white male babies aborted while far fewer black or Hispanic
babies were aborted, there were social structural and composition differences
between populations of the three races as well. Smaller families can invest
more in education generally.
An unstable tends to settle down while the opposite case exists
with immigrants regarding crime. Immigrants can bring bad as well as good to
receiving nations. The modern influences of Islam, godless atheism and the
decrease of Christian values in addition to financial sophistry and the
over-concentration of wealth, as well as global stress on the ecosphere have
changed the way people think of people. The value of human life may be transitioning
to commoditization. Politicians cannot think much beyond Wall Street and class
electorate issues, much less comprehend corrections reform.
Families are an endangered item especially in a nation with legal
homosexual marriage. One would wish that healthy nuclear families in a good
community were the norm, yet that probably wouldn't be achieved by letting
violent criminals and dope sellers live on the corner.
Some of the children may be better off with the gangster away from
home ironically. With a better corrections systems it might be possible to
restore criminals to their families who may have already divorced (more than
50% of marriages end in divorce).
If the criminal is away from home, he is also away from his
victims (in his own family or down the block). That can be some comfort to the
victims.
Children should have better education in the U.S.A. An equivalent
of Coursera for kids might be useful. Even Google translator can translate
spoken words into any foreign language. How cool is that?
In my opinion voting rights should be restored seven years after
sentence is served if there are no more felony convictions. One should not lose
voting rights forever for a felony conviction, yet the right to vote should
fairly be suspended for seven years, as drunk driving can revoke driving rights
for some time after sentence is served for example.
If people cannot obey the laws, the state has no interest in
letting such individuals vote.
One in Ten Black Males are in Jail...consequences...
Maybe a reduction in crime happens when violent criminals and drug
sellers are taken off the streets, yet also great cost to the states as the
price for keeping one guy in jail costs $30,000 to $40,000 annually and what,
56 billion dollars per annum in total?
Obviously there should be a far better corrections system than
presently exists that is less time consuming and that has less than a 10%
recidivism rate.
Half of the federal prisoners are in for drug offenses. Those guys
not only poison the people and corrupt society spreading rot and incompetence
and even brain damage to their victims, they unfairly make a profit that mocks
those honest and poor free enterprise tradesmen already being bumped out by
illegal aliens.
Presumably half of the black males in jail are there for violent
crimes. People that perp violent crimes are often repeat offenders.
The last 40 years is more or less the period of desegregation and
affirmative action, increased and pervasive dope use and decline of quality
math scores...trouble in social change in river city. One could let them all
out to become Catholic priests and nuns of course, yet they might not.
Twenty million illegal aliens helped increase Hispanic crimes in
the U.S.A. Cell phone and computers helped gangs organize crime across the border
and in cities from Chicago to Mexico City. The Clinton and Obama
administrations had a spike in criminal activities.
The widespread use of illegal drug caused a lot of crime and
minorities were traffickers and victims of that at the same time. The degradation
of social values due to moral relativism changed the way people think and
behave, then a great deal of post Vietnam and post-Jim Crowe skepticism created
a vast counterculture that was disruptive of traditions and stability
domestically for reasons good and bad.
The lack of moral leadership (Al Gore- no presiding moral
authority) encouraged certain kinds of crime and gang activity. The Mexican
drug wars had some spillover into the U.S.A. as the U.S.A. is the primary buyer
of dope for decadent Democrats.
The post-Cold war era of globalism made those that enjoy free
e-dollars from the Federal Reserve more inclined to just lock up and forget the
incarcerated rather than correct them. Congress can't even get Obamacare to
reach the very poor and homeless interstate class of Americans while no
sedentary, middle class kind of American missed out.
Law enforcement and evidence gathering has more camera videos of
criminals that jurors are unsympathetic with. Hence long sentences and tough
get release (especially if they proclaimed innocence).
I think people discriminate as much or more against those labeled
with a mental diagnosis. If one pleads mea culpa as a 'mental' one may be
employed, yet then tracked and pre-destined to be treated as a mental 'psych
nigger' the remainder of one's life. Those unfortunate enough to be felons and
mental would be received by society as 'the criminally insane'...a tough label
to live with.
380) On Mass Incarceration post 1
July 24, 2017
First of all, I think there is no social contract amongst citizens
in the U.S,A,. That's a more French, Rousseauian notion. The U.S.A. has a
constitution and laws that one should obey. As a free citizen they may choose
not to, and then should expect correction rather than punishment for violating
those laws.
Mass incarceration is simply a concatenation of all of the
individuals that have broken laws and should be undergoing correction rather
than punishment. Those that cannot obey the laws of the United States, such as
illegal entry, ought to expect correction and swiftly.
Justice is really a matter of accurate determination of the guilt
or innocence of an individual in breaking a particular law. Injustice obviously
would be to convict someone innocent and vice versa... Justice is not about politics
and quantification of race or gender regarding those convicted so long as the
laws are just. If it were not so women could be regarded as unfairly advantaged
since they have such a low incarceration number in comparison to men.
If the correction system has failed and costs society a tremendous
amount of money and needless human suffering, and I think it has, then it
should be changed. Putting criminals into a concentration facility together
plainly is a silly way to go about training people not to be criminals. It is
more of a filing and security approach for disposing of inconvenient items
(people).
In a godless atheist society that scoffs at Christian values, and
with the black prison population having a large number of Muslims it is likely
that the religious criterion should be restrained and applied only moderately.
Christianity itself is under attack and slow takeover by secular values. If
mercy for the incarcerated means to not provide correction, that is consistent
with a corrupt society.
What about Racial Disparities in Incarceration Rates?
Maybe the evidence gathering technology progress allows more
accurate determination of guilt or innocence. It is possible that with the
extreme mobility of people in America today incarceration is regarded as a way
to assure that perpetrators don't just travel somewhere else to find new
opportunity for crime.
With more female judges they may want to send more males to jail.
Statistics would determine if that speculation has validity.
Maybe a disposable consumer-oriented society wants to dispose of
criminals quickly and take them out of circulation, as one might remove
counterfeit currency. Of course the Federal Reserve issues a lot of free money
to big banks, and some regard that as a moral equivalent of counterfeiting for
the benefit of the 1%. So that line of speculation may be inaccurate.
Some might think that whites have lower crime rates because they
are more established and sedentary than immigrants from Latin America, many of
whom are illegal aliens or first-generation native born with dual citizenship.
Also, white women aborted a couple generations of healthy white male boys, so
the white population is older and less wild than Hispanics whom have more
new-culture socialization issues.
Whites just don't have the gangs that they used to many decades
ago while Hispanics have a rich gang culture, and blacks invented modern
gangsta rap culture (I don't know about the socialization relationship of that
to criminal behavior, yet it isn't a bar mitzvah sort of approach to things).
If there are racial disparities in incarceration rates one might
wonder why. One might ask if the temporal rate of incarceration should be the
same among any races normally, when the cultural origins of the races differ
historically.
Should an established race in a given society that comprises a
majority historically that has worked through its social structure evolution
reasonably well have a higher or lower incarceration or social disconformity
rate than an emergent race that was previously not established in the majority
culture?
One might wonder about abstract explanations for historical and
cultural evolution and the phenomenon of mass incarceration without considering
the geographic and population density factors.
Since Rowe vs. Wade white women have aborted two or three
generations; tens of millions, of young white males (and females) whom might
have committed more crimes while Hispanics-especially immigrants, and blacks,
have had far fewer abortions. New white female judges may not be so reluctant
to sentence males of any race before the bench to prison.
One might wonder, if in a different social configuration, if women
might not have equal incarceration rates as males such that there was no
disparity. If the U.S. Supreme Court has three justices that are female, while
incarcerated females are 123 per 100,000 and males 1352 per 100,000 can that be
regarded as efficient judicial gender representation?
Incarceration rates may more or less parallel high school
graduation rates as well as actual learning, I don't know. Culture matters, and
a less intellectual culture in an era where good non-college educated jobs not
designed for more passive, sedentary female workers are in decline creates a
possibility of more idle and unemployed time for young males who may perpetrate
crimes. Dope use also affects people in inner cities and they may more readily
commit crimes because of the high population density that they could avoid if
they were living in a less populous society and could be degenerate without
troubling anyone.
Blacks in the post-Jim Crowe era had more challenges for evolving
into new and independent economic ventures for a variety of reason, while
immigrant Hispanics also shared the characteristic I am considering here; the
lack of social stability.
In the Vietnam conflict there was a great difference in the
performance and unit cohesiveness to discipline under stress among various
units during different periods of the conflict.
The mostly volunteer army that existed during the early 1960s had
entered service during the Eisenhower era of the 50s and were highly
disciplined and performed well. The later conscript army that followed their
discharge had more discipline and performance problems, the worst being the
Americal division formed just for the war.
It had no unit military history and had great discipline problems including the Me Lai massacre of Lt. Calley's unit. Units with military tradition have more discipline, new units, especially guerilla units and new militias like those of Serbia and ISIS tend toward war crimes.
7/13/20
Summary Evaluation of Condition of U.S. Electorate 2020
7/12/20
Algorithms of Moral Philosophy
Moral philosophy isn’t too well advanced in some
respects or as equally advanced as other areas of philosophy; the philosophy of
logic for example. The modern world tends to prefer simple formulae or rules
with a virtual algorithmic simplicity, structure and logic for making moral
decisions, and that is improbable and maybe illusory in light of the broad
variety of potential situations to which anyone might wish to apply a moral
template for making a morally correct (or incorrect if from a negative and
malevolent alternative reality) decision.
It has been said that morality is what people and
society actually do. Moral relativism is something of a pejorative fact of mass
social behavior without any sort of transcendent foundation. Many there are
that take the broad road leading to nothingness or worse in eternity. Others
simply believe scripture as inspired and correct thought from God about proper
human behavior and follow that as best they can.
There have been a few simple moral expressions of
genius. One considers the Golden Rule
and Kant’s Categorical Imperative as
tow examples. That kind of moral paradigm for making a moral decision is the
exception; the field might be compared to primitive, pre-electronic sailing in
which dead reckoning was as valuable as sailing maxims and general guideline
and no simple formula for determining what sails to put on, directions to
travel, vector for a heading and so forth could serve as a unified tool.
Building a moral system with technical rigor in the modern era was perhaps
started by British empiricists such as Bentham and Mill who invented the philosophical
method of utilitarianism.
Utilitarianism follows the basic principle of
finding the greatest good for the greatest number of people. In that regard it
is more or less a sort of expansion of the Golden Rule, though it has added in
the problem of sometimes choosing evil to be allowed if the harm to a minority
is far less than the great good done to a majority. An example would be saving
a metropolis of millions from a nuclear blast by destroying the citizens living
in a comparatively small town in order to stop a nuclear missile there from
being launched at the metropolis from a terrorist missile launch truck that had
parked and set up in a Wal-mart parking lot with the launch sequence already
under way. What to do in the circumstance might need to be determined by a
Commander in Chief that had a B-52 loaded with high explosive bombs flying over
the small, sleepy town. Her utilitarian criterion for making a morally valid
choice would probably bring her to order the annihilation of the sleepy little
town for the greater good.
If utilitarianism was the first modern system for
moral philosophy that provided a more detailed technical paradigm for
evaluating moral challenges and responses, the criticisms of utilitarianism
have been of equal value in finding numerous ways wrong moral choices or no
valid moral correct choice could be made with utilitarian criteria.
One derivative of utilitarianism is the currently
popular field of consequentialism whereby one may determine if a choice is
morally correct depending upon the outcome of the moral choice. Obviously there
are innumerable problems with consequentialism that might be found not the
least of which is the somewhat familiar legal problem of determining proximal
causes for events and assigning responsibility to them; the consequences of
moral choices cannot easily be found if the consequences of the moral choice intervention
aren’t the direct cause of subsequent events or if development of circumstances
through causal interactions external to the moral choice have brought a good
outcome. No credit to the maker of a moral decision should be given if a good
outcome was not a consequence of her choice. The Commander that chose to drop
the bomb on the sleepy little town would have made a valid moral choice in
consequentialist criteria if the launch on the metropolis millions was
prevented, yet a bad choice if the missile was not a real missile threat but
some kind of promotion by a radio station for a newd sexy dating service, or if
the B-52’s bombs landed on an oil pipeline that caught fire and sped along
flames and gas explosions to a dozen metropolitan areas down the line. It is
difficult to determine the moral validity of an act by the consequences for the
moral choice is then contingent upon the consequents with retro-causal
responsibility given along the temporal line of time. In effect no moral choice
is made at all and circumstances determine the morality as if it were like the
end-justifies-the-means moral choice system.
Consequentialism has a dark side to it that could
usefully be considered anti-utilitarian as every quantum particle has an
anti-particle. Moral choices that wreak the most evil to the greatest number of
people could be evaluated by the consequent harm. For example; if sending kids
of the U.S.A. back to public school in September causes a third wave of Corona
19 virus in October resulting in deaths of older parents and those with
weakened conditions, that consequence of ordering kids back to school could be
considered a bad moral choice if a moral criterion was used for making the bad
decision, and otherwise just a dumb decision.
Covid 19 challenges have given a lot of politicians
and others the opportunity to make bad decisions. Political managers experience
challenges to innovate ways of keeping business and public health safety
environments healthy simultaneously. Politicians may be unable to meet the
challenges. From some moral viewpoints taking jobs for which one isn’t well
qualified is immoral.
The public
would have benefited from smarter politicians finding more intelligent ways to
keep the economy working and citizens safe from infection in 2020. There was a
profound lack of cleverness and inventiveness in addressing the challenges.
Recently full face masks that cover the eyes as well as filter nose and mouth
been introduced to the market- even small producer-manufacturers in the U.S.A.
and of course Chinese manufacturers via ebay have slowly started sales. Full
face coverings including eyes can be made weatherproof and work in a variety of
business and urban areas with population densities unsuitable for the
undefended. Full face masks fairly effectively defend against covid infection
in public places.
A challenge for creating and building up
functioning moral philosophy to reach an algorithm status of formalization that
can be mass-produced and made into a computer app is necessary reductionism
that must occur in defining/describing the complete complex of compresent
conditions and events. Language and human understanding may have inadequate
comprehension of what was involved in creating a situation asking for moral
intervention; the moral premises may be wrong and a moral choice for an
intervention may bring a wrong conclusion. Faulty or incomplete input processed
with a moral determination algorithm engine can output junk Just as in a
syllogism, if the premises are incorrect the conclusion will be incorrect.
One may of course simplify moral engines in
processing certain data (regarding people as external empirical data) such as
the famous Hell’s Angel’s maxim; ‘Kill
them all and let God sort them out’. Intentionally overly simplistic moral
engine processing criteria can result in undesirable output consequences.
Formulating valid moral questions concerning race
are quite challenging to make exclusive of all races. Race is a physical
characteristic rather than a thought or idea. If one makes the premise that
1) all white people are human
and
2) all black
people are human
then it follows that premise 1 and 2 are equivalent
regarding humanity from a question of morality concerning humans. That is it
would be difficult to make a moral proposition concerning either black or white
people as a questions for humans that wouldn’t mean each group. It is easier to
construct moral questions regarding ideas that lead to actions regardless of
race.
For example, if it is said to be morally wrong for
a black woman to have an abortion then it should be equally valid for women of
any race. The paradigm has something of Kant’s categorical imperative about it.
The same principle should be applicable to race and political economy.
Kant’s
categorical imperative of creating laws that would apply if it were a universal
law is consistent with the idea that it would be more effective to concern
oneself with economic changes to relieve the poor of any race in the United
States as humans instead of searching for ways to change or better the
conditions for particular races that leading to a pursuit of non-rational or
racist legislative remedies.
There is a long way to go in the construction or
even exploration of potential systems of moral philosophy just as there are in
exploring philosophical paradigms for cosmology and in relating physical
cosmological and quantum construction systems to theological points of view
concerning the potential for divine capacity to contain systems of physical
cosmology.
The Lord Jesus Christ provided a moral system
through the example of his own life conduct, the things he said, and in
prophecies of future events concerning the end of the age of mankind instead of
giving a moral formula to calculate the right or wrong of a moral choice made
by a content-less agent existing within an empirical commune of
cipher-individuals. Not just anyone can provide and ontological and
deontological reference system that changes the nature of believers so they can
respond to moral challenges on the basis of character rather than calculation
thus abbreviated empirical algorithms used to justify perhaps innately
conditions moral choices are valued by some.
7/8/20
Media with Chinese Bat Sith vs. the Trump Virus
pendemic pandemic that are sloppy,
costly and great patriotic soul-searching for through the barn for a horse with
the door open in the wind.
7/6/20
Can NPR Mob Rule Leadership Put Democrats Over in November?
7/5/20
Demo Troubles with Economic Assumptions
Neither Republicans nor Democrats inspire much confidence in people this year as they seem unconcerned with fundamental economic matters. Democrat leaders seem to regard race as an issue that can solve fundamental economic inequalities objectively. That error concerns itself with social history instead of economic facts that have always affected all people equally regardless of race. That is, poverty is poverty regardless of race.
https://www.amazon.com/Ecological-Economics-Applications-Herman-Daly/dp/1559633123
7/3/20
Monism Doesn’t Preclude Mind-Body Duality
Can the Universe be said to be monistic because it is made of energy with mass as a secondary quality? If so, a Universe made of energy does not mean that pluralism of forms of energy such as exist for quantum structures cannot exist, for manifestly they do. Mind too may arise from energy yet may be said to have a different form than either plain energy or other forms of energy such as gluons or the color force may be said to have.
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