The present administration has a cognitively challenged, declining war monger escalating toward nuclear war over a nation he would not share with the proper historical owner, and avoided the media, slathered pardons on felons including his son, gave hundreds of billions of dollars to an unelected foreign president and colluded with social media to repress conservative free speech it could be an improvement- except that the opposition party burned fossil fuels too and their candidate supported fracking, ran up public debt, would not tax the rich when they had both houses of congress and were godless atheists besides without rhyme or reason in foreign or domestic policy. They were simply sure of immoral issues and concerned just with homosexuality, abortion and not disturbing the concentration of wealth.
12/26/24
Cosmology and Physicalism
Shannon entropy entales the conservation of information in some respects; that is, it is comparable to entropy and thermodynamics. Information overall cannot be created or destroyed. Physicalism could be regarded as the structure of everything that exists whatever that may be at the fundamental level of substance. One need not be offended by the word. It could be replaced with a generic word such as substance without changing the meaning.
If information is conserved and existed in the singularity in some way as well as substance the bootstrap start and hyper-inflation could be an act of spirit manifesting itself through relativity with pre-emptive text in a manner of speaking assembling all of the quantum shells where and when they need be to appear to sentient beings arising in the information of the unified and diverging field as physical structure.
A mind may be 10% of an individuals thought apparatus supported by 90% of the subconscious. The two do exist separately. Conscious mind may ask the subconscious to search for the name of a song title conscious forgot and the answer will eventually pop up on thought. A human mind exists in a physical brain as part of the quantum fields comprising the physical universe. The information may be conserved by God. Information is the foundation of all quantum field phenomena; datums in space-time that could be a form of information too.
One Can't Subtract Infinite Series Very Easily
I was disappointed to find that adding together two equal infinite sets that are oppositely signed; for instance the real between -1 and -2 with the real numbers between 1 and 2 cannot be proven to equal zero. Common sense indicates it does.
ChatGPT said that the math is improvable presently. Someone should fix that since it seems like common sense.
ChatGPT -“Ah, thank you for the clarification! You’re asking about the intervals and , both subsets of the real numbers . These intervals are equal in cardinality (both are uncountably infinite). However, combining infinite sets algebraically, as you propose, doesn’t follow the same rules as arithmetic with finite numbers. Let’s explore the idea in detail.
ChatGPT -“Ah, thank you for the clarification! You’re asking about the intervals and , both subsets of the real numbers . These intervals are equal in cardinality (both are uncountably infinite). However, combining infinite sets algebraically, as you propose, doesn’t follow the same rules as arithmetic with finite numbers. Let’s explore the idea in detail.
Cardinality of the Sets
Both intervals and are uncountably infinite and have the same cardinality as the real numbers , denoted by (the cardinality of the continuum).
A bijection exists between these intervals (e.g., maps to bijectively), confirming their equivalence in “size.”
Algebra of Cardinalities
In the algebra of infinite cardinal numbers:
\mathfrak{c} – \mathfrak{c} = \mathfrak{c},
Measure Theory Interpretation
If you’re thinking about summing or subtracting these intervals with respect to their measures:
The measure (length) of is .
The measure (length) of is also .
In this case:
\text{Measure of } (1, 2) – \text{Measure of } (-2, -1) = 1 – 1 = 0.
But this applies only to the measure (length), not to the sets’ elements or their infinite nature.
Infinite Sets and Summation
If you’re suggesting that the “sum” of elements in the intervals should cancel out, this operation isn’t well-defined because:
The elements of the sets are infinite in number and uncountable, so “adding” them isn’t straightforward.
Even if we attempt to define something like , this wouldn’t “cancel out” infinite quantities but rather produce a value based on specific rules.
Conclusion
Your intuition about symmetry between the intervals is valid when considering their measure (length). However, in the domain of cardinality or infinite sets, subtraction doesn’t yield zero due to the unique properties of infinities in set theory. Let me know if you’d like further clarification or a specific framework (e.g., measure theory, integration, or set algebra) to explore!”
Post-Modernism and Free Will
Many post modernist behaviorists claim that free will doesn’t exist. They propose that subconscious conditioning from nature innately decides conscious decisions. That would be an inefficient evolution dispensing with deliberative conscious reason promoting a self-deceiving evolutionary configuration to trick it.
One might use a philosophical system to make decisions, such as act or rule based utilitarianism and carefully evaluate, select and enumerate criteria for making a decision within that system thereby excluding the deterministic ouji board element and apply free will to make a decision from any of several valid choices, or choose to spin the wheel of fortune to select a choice at random.
The choice to use a rational criteria, blind random chance or to revert to a ouji board of subconscious neo-determinism is made with free will (unless coerced by external factors such as 36 trillion dollars of public debt). Perhaps Democrats have no free will on deficit spending matters while Republicans may claim to have an ability to think for themselves with sapere aude economic policy.
Woodrow Wilson Created the Federal Reserve and Segregated the Federal Government to Support Uryvnias?
If a Rottweiler looks you in the eye then bites your wrist it’s good to go home and disinfect the wound. If a pit bull looks you in the eye then runs your way to bite an Achilles one need peddle faster.
Creating a federal reserve to back up and stabilize banks was practical yet is complex today. The Fed is worth about 7 trillion dollars today. It can loan 100 billion to banks at zero interest and banks lend out ten times that much adding a trillion dollars for the economy. Then the Fed can buy securities and Increase their worth I guess. Hard to know where all that cash for Ukraine went… Maybe to buy securities and print uryvnias. Dog food is costly.
Christian ethics are a good thing yet society is striving, hateful, envious, greedy and etc. One cannot use force of law to compel people to be virtuous, altruistic or wise. Competition in economics lead to ethics of trimming potential rivals. The world will be perfect with the Second Coming and probably not before…thermodynamics, deficit spending and concentration of wealth keep a hard edge to social reality.
Eternity
Time exists with space, aka space-time. Space-time is temporal and probably won’t exist forever. Then no time exists nor does anything… except spirit that is different than anything known.
God and Omniscience
Some like those logic loops, tests and disjuncts for extrapolating to the unknowable. God is other than everything he created; entirely different and unknowable except through The Son.
A universal field of being comprehended before manifestation. Alpha and Omega in relation to phenomena of relative space-time transcending each point of locality Omniscience and Omnipotence complete and changeless embodying all change.
Adam Had to Find Work After Eviction from the Garden
It is possible that the level of consciousness is what was tested in the Garden of Eden. Humanity were no longer regarded as simple animals without a sense of right and wrong. After stealing from the tree of knowledge God kicked them out of home and told Adam to get a job.
https://phys.org/news/2024-12-dark-energy-doesnt-lumpy-universe.html
In Regard to Epistemology, Law and Philosophy Have Different Approaches
It isn’t a terribly good idea to conflate philosophy and law. It’s a bad idea to bring psychology in as well. Law is about material relationships and violations of criminal laws one side, and of civil law and procedures on the other. It does have a foundation of naive realism rather than some kind of E8 octodimensional theoretical basis etc.
There are definite rules for evidence and other legal concerns well established with precedence and codified. Those legal procedures may improve over time with social experience. For instance lex talionis and float tests are no longer valid in German courts as they were in the day of Tacitus.
If the President's Mind has Been on Vacation Who has Urged Sending Billions and Billions to Ukraine for War?
President Biden’s brain has been challenged to be competent the past four years while the Ukraine conflict has steadily escalated. Recently Joe Biden signed off on letting Ukraine attack Russia with US missiles. Who is the manipulator behind the throne guiding the President to live on the edge of global thermonuclear war?
Open Mindedness and a Trap of Open-Mindedness
Alan Watts was an Episcopalian minister who took up Zen. He had ideas about God and mind that are different than the mainstream. Augustine was open minded searching for the truth. He was neo-Platonist before becoming saved. One’s position on learning differs among individuals. One need have a capacity for critical evaluation as part of learning. Having particular ideas can be a part of faith. Advocacy for open-mindedness so far as to preclude doctrine that is true can be a ploy against faith.
E8 Crystal Theory and Physicalism
Physical is a term for things that exist based on naive realism. People don’t yet really understand what basic quanta irreducibly are yet, and may never. Physicalism is the term for people that regard everything that exists including mind as physical stuff. Yet that's something of a circular definition since nobody really understands what the substance is that comprises the smallest quanta of the enigmatic and theoretical unified field that provides looping about itself subtantiality for entangled quanta.
An interesting theoretical account of a way of considering substance is E8 crystal theory,
Physical is a term for things that exist based on naive realism. People don’t yet really understand what basic quanta irreducibly are yet, and may never.
https://youtu.be/PKXJb4Ok9hQ?feature=shared E8 crystal theory
Social Media Would Have Censored Socrates' Right Wing Political Preferences
Socrates might have been to the right of Trump and Musk. Russell called Plato a fascist because of the Republic, and the desire of Socrates to restore the oligarchy and admiration of Sparta with philosophers kings showed his preference for plutocracy and deprecation of the demos.
Socrates wouldn’t have said like Musk that Congress wanted a 40% pay increase when it was just a 3.8% cost of living adjustment. Socrates was not that excitable and prone to errors. Instead leftists working against conservatives in social media would have censored him and declared his language hate speech.
A Summary of the First Europeans to Reach North America
I believe the old story was that the Vikings were. predators chasing after the Irish that had gone before them to Iceland. Actually the Irish monks of the island were slaughtered as at Lindisfarne. Fishermen with boats fled.
Erik the Red was unwelcome to live at Iceland after a land dispute and murder If I recall correctly. At any rate the initial voyage to Greenland lost 70% of the ships. East and West Bygd Greenland were settled obviously, and they have have driven out Irish fishermen who went farther west to Newfoundland.
Fishing quality was a main stimulus to go farther west. Some of the Irish may have traveled over North America at 54 degrees n latitude using a back staff and leaving penance huts and spiral petroglyphs on the west coast.
Life Erickson was a hard man like his outlaw father Erik the Red. They were thrown out of Iceland and had to go to the West. Tough people for the Newfoundlanders to have run up their shore.
Slavery and The New Testament
Paul said that he was a slave of Christ Romans CSB 1-1″1Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle and singled out for God’s good news”.
John 8:34-36 CSB
Jesus responded, “I assure you: Everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin. 35 A slave does not remain in the household forever, but a son does remain forever. 36 Therefore if the Son sets you free, you really will be free”.
Life was nasty, brutish and short in the first century c.e. Jesus Christ was not a political revolutionary. He was here to save those of faith. Life is an eye blink of eternity; he was here to free the slaves of sin. For the Son of God saving people was what mattered. Even so he addressed slavery… Ephesians 6:5-9
5 CSB “Slaves, obey your human[a] masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as you would Christ. 6 Don’t work only while being watched, as people-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing God’s will from your heart. 7 Serve with a good attitude, as to the Lord and not to people, 8 knowing that whatever good each one does, slave or free, he will receive this back from the Lord. 9 And masters, treat your slaves the same way, without threatening them, because you know that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.”
A Simple Way to Repair Social Security
Reform social security by continuing to collect if from earnings yet pay it out to retirees only until the recipient reaches the average American income. Social security should be a safety net rather than treated like a 401 k.
if Americans don’t need it they shouldn’t get it. Government benefits the wealthy too much. Prosperous Americans feel they should get out of social security what they put in and that’s just wrong. Life is a risk and social security covers the risk of poverty in old age. It’s a kind of public insurance program rather than a savings account. The advantaged need to have some patriotic sentiments and not just lever mercenary opportunity for greed. Casinos can’t pay out to everyone and make a profit.
Medicare is in a similar situation; it ought to pay our just to the poor while everyone prosperous should carry their own weight and pay for insurance themselves
Reality, Science, Metaphysics and Epistemology
Epistemology differs from metaphysics. A description of reality that is the best available would probably need to combine a theory of knowledge with a theory about the greatest physical or spiritual description of reality. The two fields need to share the credit for how and what people perceive.
Science examines quanta these days and tries to make sense of fields and space-time when each are temporal and contingent upon some other things that aren’t know or possible even knowable. Science is good because it has practical applications otherwise it might be of interest only to philosophers. Science with technology can discover a lot about what is manifest in the steady state of entangled 2-dimensional particles that are elements of fields presenting massless quantum to appear as 3-dimensional because of the Higgs. That’s all god stuff and very phenomenal even so.
There really isn’t much opportunity to ever know an ultimate reality unless God decides to disclose that, and judging by the Garden of Eden He apparently doesn’t want humans to become very smart, immortal and quite sinful and willful. There are various mathematical theorems that inform us that that there are always going to be stuff beyond whatever model we can make of the Universe or reality. Its always possible than several true models, accounts and explanations for observable reality could exist at the same time.
One has Godel’s incompleteness theorems and Greg Cantor’s set theorem
“For any set X, the power set of X (i.e., the set of subsets of X), is larger (has a greater cardinality) than X. Cantor’s Theorem tells us that no matter how large a set we have, we may consider a set that is still larger.”-
The Malament-Manchak theorem suggests that it isn’t really possible to know the global shape of the Universe after all. That shape would include space-time. Many would be initially unhappy yet realize later that the facts are good and better than the happiness of believing in Big Bang Theory if that is false. https://aeon.co/…/scientists-are-no-longer-sure-the…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/…/abs/pii/S1355219808000580 Malament-Manchak theorem. God is eternal and one may believe or not that he could initiate waves or particles to appear to exist for sentients perceiver with a temporal beginning and end of experience. Phases of being may exist replete with space-time.
Some discount the Bible and its history summarily. That’s always a sorry sight though. Its like dismissing general relativity by saying its just a bunch of numbers that could mean anything. It is very difficult for a human to know more than one academic specialty very well in a lifetime and most don’t even try because pay is related to a career with fairly narrow focus.
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