2/8/25

Never Cry Wolf


Taking a boat along the shore in Alaska I saw a wolf and went ashore to look at it. It ran inside an old box trap with the gate missing and was frantically trying to escape. I got to within ten feet of the wolf and wondered at its size, strength and why it didn’t just turn about and leave. It was pushing at the steel wires making up the box, snarling and frightened. I was somewhat concerned too and returned to the skiff and left.

Save the Green

Since wolves are fairly smart I wondered if it was trying to communicate something about life in general like wildlife hasn’t a way to escape human encroachment.

Wolves might perform in a circus if they were asked politely and well fed.

2/7/25

Something or Nothing

Christians at least believe God always is, and many scientific cosmology theories assume something always is as well; even if reduced in size.

Nothingness is explained by Sartre as the absence of something that was; for instance Sartre in a restaurant having coffee perceiving the nothingness in the place were the waiter stood moments before.

One wonders about the emptiness of space and considers that nothingness is the vacuum. Yet people point out that a human body made of atoms has huge spaces of nothingness or emptiness amidst the atoms. If nothingness does not really existing it may be fields that occupy the space. The question is the viscosity of space fields in comparison. Two dimensional particles haven’t made. If mass just seems to exist entangled in the Highs field one might say that something does not exist analogous to the way nothingness does not exist.

If mass is apparent yet not actual and masslessness is the norm then some primordial field may be what is real. Fields that occur in a context that lead to the existence of mass could all be contingent and phases of some initial thought.

Parmenides and Heraclitus updated might argue about the existence of something or nothing instead of perpetual change or never changing.

Meaning of Non-Contingent Being and Necessity for Cosmology Chat

  In regard to cosmology and propositional logic the meanings of contingent and necessity may be accounted for with simplicity. Non-contingent being is used to refer to God. His being is in no way conditional or dependent on anything at all. All other being is conditional.

 Necessity means that A...Z need exist for X to exist. In other words or letters; if no A...Z then not X. Transcendence means to surpass the ordinary, to look far beyond the cubicle, to boldly go where no one has gone before... traveling or being beyond laws of the Universe (eg God or space-time faster than light beings made of tachyons). One may construct other definitions obviously.

 https://www.udio.com/songs/sh625uPWfD9D62ALyABpmH"

2/6/25

Philosophy and Deterministic Psychology

A theoria for determinism isn’t contingent on Freudian psychology; a deterministic universe isn’t found with a brain. If the Universe has determinism within its physics, science may posit a criterion, yet that account would be explaining what occurs within a brain. Freud’s work is probably not used much these days. Psychoanalysis is too labor intensive and costly for Americans. Psychiatrists instead prescribe chemicals to dope brain cells.

Pop deterministic psychology is a practical device broadly applied to address interpersonal relations that are dis-functional. Philosophy doesn’t work with drug addiction, substance abuse, spousal abuse, marriage difficulties etc. Psychology is a practical application of the tribal witch doctor role that philosophy never sought.

https://www.udio.com/songs/gaPChaZJnAUUTLADe1qAvg

There are elements of social determinism present externally such as growing up in a slum or barrio that an individual would not have if they grew up in Pacific Palisades. The development of various theories of determinism place the determinist forces at sundry levels. I believe they probably are not too well researched, in that as incorrect syllogisms the form may be valid yet the parameters for the premises may be incomplete or inapplicable.

It is a bizarre peculiar notion that neurons and synapses can be fundamentally deconstructed by someone listening to what one says about what they have to say of what they think. Jung and Freud’s descriptions of psychological landscapes that are common are more relevant in they are taken as descriptions of common reactions to common human experience. For example everyone ages and becomes aware that their life biological structure is slowly disintegrating and their temporal experience will conclude. Some people react to that experience differently than others. That individual experience may appear as a common archetype, yet it isn’t a necessity.

The concept that psychological experiences occur beyond an individual’s control could be considered from several points of view. The simplest is a Cartesian paradigm of why one originates thought, and is one the author of their own thought or are just tricked into believing it is. There are social and economic circumstances beyond the control of an individual. An example is being a conscript in the Ukraine war. Some soldiers were forced to participate and the circumstance is largely beyond their control.

Pop psychology is a practical device broadly applied to address interpersonal relations that are dis-functional. Philosophy doesn’t work with drug addiction, substance abuse, spousal abuse, marriage difficulties etc. Psychology is a practical application of the tribal witch doctor role that philosophy never sought. A lot of people have wrong ideas about society that aren’t ever corrected and civilization clunks along like a bumper car anyway.

Make California Great Again with Ukraine War Pork

Instead of sending another dime’s worth of federal deficit adding dollars and weapons to Ukraine that Pork should be diverted to make California great again with fireproof and energy independent homes for the homeless. Pacific Palisades could be a shining city on a hill or beach instead of one smoldering because it’s federal lifeline went to reduce Ukraine to smoldering ruins.

Stop the war and make California a place rebuilt by Americans instead of illegal aliens. Elect a governor that secures borders and isn’t detached from good sense. Modern governors should should have good environmental economic ideas that are economically progressive. California rebuild should have great leading eco infrastructure that are good examples for the nation. At a minimum L.A. should desalinate salt water using clean energy and keep its fire hydrant perennially full.

Governors and parties that lead with acrimony and litigation to national division on the attempt to enrich themselves and pack government expansively with partisan voters while deficit spending are a devastating waste of time providing no concept completion to the other major party.

Another Side of Forever (a poem)

 

Another side of forever
is never; a nothing that becomes
something that always is
changing form

Tunnels of time
focused like shadows
field lattices spacing particular waves
relate directions to impact

Knights of non-locality
control select probability squares
entangled hyper-dimensional places to move
determined freedom shaped pairs

Perceptions of ideal materialism
substances with baskets of words
structured changes of uncertainty
disappearing like Shannon entropy.

2/5/25

Will DOGE AI Reduce Government Cost?

 President Trump’s department of government efficiency is looking for ways to increase efficiency with AI. That may save on spending or give Skynet a boost toward the final solution. The pressing issue is will Elon Musk issue an opinion on Walmart’s left door entry; is that a woke policy to reverse common sense?

https://www.udio.com/songs/pimEyUAzVTCe5MzoPyDR5z


Electric cars can be made with lighter weight because they needn’t support a heavy fossil fuel engine. With solid state batteries built in the shape of a chassis very light electric engines will make cars low cost. Billions of poor people driving electric vehicles is a probable political economy of the future. Even boat and air cars powered with solid state batteries made in China may arise. The competition to dominate the global market for lightweight, ultra low cost electric vehicles may be fierce. Shoppers entering Walmart showrooms may have collisions with traffic volume and uncertainty about entry through the left or right side.


I would like an attachment for 12 volt batteries with an inverter to AC and USB ports for low cost. One can buy a complete unit and they work fin yet the battery can’t be replaced and tends to be small. A universal adjustable power accessibility attachment for $20 bucks would be an improvement.

2/4/25

Growin Drones of War



Watts of horsepower move the brute

fossil fuel things givin the planet a toot

electric engines quick off the mark

don’t wanta be left standin 

at the startin line

in the dark 


Growin Drones of War 

without an extra  30 odd  clip

a bear might laugh

before it bites me calf

and maybe kick a hip


dust in the distance  those four wheeler hogs

drive through darkness

headlights off and green night vision

cash transfer wars in the fog


west where the cities

seem fit for the dead

because life out there

saturated by drones

kilt wild living greens


they can take 100 billion

onomatopoetic bucks for war

lose it like water running through the floor





President-Dictator Zelenski and Democrats Lose $100 Billion U.S. Dollars?

Ukraine President-Dictator Zelensky said that of the $183 billion dollars the Biden administration sent him for weapons only $77 billion is accounted for. Apparently know one knows presently what the Biden administration did with the money. That’s more than a third of a billion dollars for each of the elected Democrats in the House and Senate so it’s easy to understand why they kept approving funding the idiotic war that could have easily been settled by recognizing Russian land claims on the Crime, Donbass and not expanding N.A.T.O. right up to the Russian border after peace was made at the end of the Cold War version 1

100 Billion Dollar Fog of War

That’s lot of money. With the 10% Trump tariff on China in effect a 10% downward cost of living adjustment for poor people living on social security and Wal-mart the vaporized 100 billion that could instead have been a stimulus payment for poor elderly Americans has gone with so much other cash not reported on taxes to offshore Martian financial ecosystem of the rich beyond worldly accountability. It could have helped reduce poverty. It is understandable that former President Biden gave relatives and possible accomplices a priori pardons- they might need it if it turns out that the money went to them.

I watched a Netflix series named The Stranger

https://www.yahoo.com/news/zelenskyy-ukraine-received-us-76-184337849.html

about corruption in Korea. Maybe the corruption of Ukraine is global with the corrupt sharing U.S. deficit spending with several global leaders.

2/3/25

Green Green Echoes (poem)


Islands and the times for green

green echoes far from the Rhine

as if to say war ain’t divine

free free echoes far from the Rhine


In the verdant consumer’s plate

every future is financed date

nothing gained with something lost

public deficits follow a money’d boss


Bear and eagle's forever shore

places to range mammalian core

clean boat's journey to forest lore

green green echoes flow in the brine


Cohokian diamonds on the pitch of fate

games today are state of state

billions of bucks to wars dissipate

accountability in fogs of war.


https://www.udio.com/songs/bEsHnA7SdNuGA9FocXKwn5   

Should Amer-Indians Select a New Name for The Race?

 American Indians aren't from India. Calling themselves first peoples, aboriginals or whatever tends to be obscurantist. Historically most nations and peoples were named for their tribe/race or place. There were actual Brits, Germans and so forth. Even Russians and Chinese.  Sure there are Tlingits and Seminole yet St. Louis is right in the middle of things- where the national capital would have been located if they were looking a couple hundred years ahead. Maybe Indians should call themselves Cohokians or something similar. Cohokia might have been the greatest race/civilization of North America.

Certainly Meso-Americans can call themselves by race or tribe; Aztecs, Incas, Mayans etc. yet that does not apply for North America where their are countless tribes and in a sense races, with the exception being that they aren't not too different at all. So why not name themselves after their greatest civilization? That might be useful to people that don't understand the meanings and political correctnesses that attend the issue.

The Kansas City Cohokians has a nice sound to it.

2/2/25

Canadian Tariffs Bring Opportunity for Zinc Ore Processing to Alaska

 The Red Dog mine is America's largest zinc and germanium producer. The ore is processed in Canada travelling hundreds of miles. The new tariffs have unintentionally made an opportunity for a new source of good jobs in Wrangell, Anchorage or Fairbanks should mine owners decide to build.

Creating new quality jobs in Alaska isn't easy. Besides tourism the employment numbers don't change a lot. The opportunity to create a new heavy industry employer doesn't arise every day. The state could pursue bring ore processing to diversify the economy.

https://alaskabeacon.com/2025/01/31/a-major-alaska-mine-could-end-up-in-the-crossfire-of-trumps-trade-war-with-canada/

Dallas Trades Doncic to Lakers for A.D. Before Kyrie Irving Gets Old

The Mavs get a Dirk Nowitzki replacement and the Lakers get a younger superstar that needs fitness training from LeBron James who is now cleared to play another three years mentoring Doncic in fitness conditioning.

The Lakers have Christian Koloko on the bench as a 7 foot rim protect who can share the center position with Jackson Hayes and two other Lakers centers.

  The Lakers also got 6′-9″  245 lb Markief Morris to spot Hachimura a similar sized forward. Morris is 35.

  Finney-Smirh, Austin Reeves and Gabe Vincent, along with future shooter Dalton Knecht can fill the  guard position. James and Doncic on the court at the same time can be a challenge to defend against. James has the basketball IQ to optimize player opportunities. Dallas has a great guard to work with Anthony Davis and can optimize Kyrie Irving’s final best years (he is 32) before the familiar rapid aging upon reaching age 34.

'Individuals' and 'Word and Object'

Strawson and Quine’s books in the analytic philosophy tradition did not, as I recall, venture into logicism. Each were about propositions and the subject-object distinction, intentional and extensional thought, about the relationship of propositions to perceptions. They struck me as very intense psychological-analytical applications of Kant’s categories of thought; not as just categories within mind, and not the same categories, instead as very subtle descriptions of what propositional thought is and how it relates to the ’empirical’.

It's just reason and work. Subtle yet plain. . I.M.O. the works I mentioned are simply rationalism continuing the investigation of thought started by Descartes. It was a natural development and a period in the history of philosophy they moved through. Quine held the Edgar Pierce Chair of Philosophy at Harvard a quarter century. What Strawson and Quine developed was a major contribution to western thought.

2/1/25

The Pishon River of Eden ( a video)

An informative, entertaining video from Expedition Bible.
https://youtu.be/jwCdZ4CbA-E?feature=sharedSearching for the Pishon River of Eden

PTSD- Experience and Memory

If PTSD was easy to delete the technique might have been mass produced. Memory of past traumatic events doesn’t disappear, nor should it. It is worthwhile discovering some way of detachment without memory loss.

I guess time fades or dilutes traumatic events. Some traumatic events do recur in reality and not just memory. Being at sea isn’t traumatic yet the waviness experience recurs on solid ground, in the brain. Empirical signals trigger memories good and bad.

Memory of challenges regarded as trauma inform experience and is a survival mechanism. If people forgot that a traumatic event was bad they might repeat the ‘trauma’.

Trevor-Roper's Comment About African History as Darkness from 1965

 Trevor-Roper said; “There is only the history of the Europeans in Africa, The rest is largely darkness." Unfortunately history books of Africa, besides obvious Biblical and other historical materials, as well as histories of Greeks and Romans in Africa of which there is an abundance, and other materials from civilizations that ventured into Africa, such as China's Zheng He, the Assyrian etc and Babylonian trade, didn't begin to be published in quantity until the mid-20th century. The problem isn't one of did history occur; instead it is one of the paucity of written materials for historians to read. 

Some historians base works on archival materials while others venture farther to find data. Primary sources are important as are critical analysis, interpretation and fields as diverse as archeology, anthropology and hydrology (fascinating research into a verdant Sahara with a lot of water exists). Trevor-Roper was an Oxford historian who probably didn't venture much into the field. Maybe for Trevor-Roper if there were no African history books written that he knew about in 1965 about Africans, African history was darkness.. A very reflective New York Times article of the 1970s provided politically correct criticism of Roper and the topic of the history of African history writing. https://www.nytimes.com/.../the-history-the-slaveholders...

Ditty of War (a poem)

  In the clouds and mist of the alps poetics rise sounds of salvation and Julie’s kiss a fantasy verse of fertile skies The ice-man cometh w...