With several cosmological theories emitted today from scientific theorists into the popular realm of non-scientists it is easy to infer a premise or paradigm from which these various universes might originate. That is, there is an objective elephant that s many blind men and women are describing in their own way. I suppose it would be the for-itself, objective quantum equivalent of M-Theory. Image Credit: N.A.S.A. W.M.A.P.
Pre-big bang era models, hyper-dimensional universe models, cascades of bubble universes and etc. all have their aboriginal, most-primitive origin in the sometimes unmentioned, taken for granted, humble realm of the sweet super-positioning unmeasured, free and unbound cornucopia of all possible quantum waveforms in all possible states. We might cynically conclude that such a realm is just too difficult to understand. Maybe it has an internal logic in its own way.
Wheeler-Hawking retro-causality would be no problem with quantum mechanically approved violations of the speed of light enabling time travel to the past. Universes might manufacture their own history and origin from a non-temporal realm.
That realm of all-possible courses that the quantum world exists in as a kind of probability wave field might include even the phenomena of virtual particles emitted into empty space. An empty universe of empty space or even no space before the big bang or inflation, before a membrane existed or an information based hologram arose could be statistically aggregated from measurement or a single word spoken of God from the piƱata of all possible quantum waveforms that is the for-itself realm of the in-itself.
That is one of the apparent principles of modern cosmology that seems something like some modern food products made from a primordial high fructose corn syrup or equivalent artificial base from which all other qualities and appearances form.
Cosmological theories that require the pre-existence of a quantum realm of probability waves in order to have leakage into a steady-state of space-time in some way as virtual particles, a Higgs field or string segments and membranes etc. are not generating a creation theory so much as a causal, cosmological investigation of a portion of the history of this or potential universes. The philosophically minded may prefer a better explanation and mapping of the quantum probability field itself, and more knowledge about why and how that realm originated, what its structure is for-itself, and other data about the fertile realm that seems taken for granted as a donated basis for the generation of myriad methods of construction of universes in today’s cosmology.
Keep Metaphysics Researches Free!
Einstein's ideas were not the consequence of mathematical insight-in fact he needed help with the math to prove his theories-even Hilbert drove him toward to complete general relativity. Einstein's synthetic constructions of concepts about how the Universe appears emerged from his own experience, from scientific investigations previously made and intuitive, inductive reasoning. His 1935 paper on the philosophy of quantum mechanics and super-positioning or 'spooky action at a distance'; the E.P.R. paper is cited today far more than then by scientists investigating the locality vs. non-locality aspects of quantum mechanics. That paper shows that Einstein at age 56? was still thinking critically about the nature of things inductively-and inductive reason tends to be a little less mathematically constructed than one might expect in strict mathematical constructionism (whatever that is).
Plainly eleven dimension Calibi-Yau space math manifolds may have been formed with a little bit of intuition along with the math that does not necessarily proceed along the course of a logically extrapolatible finite or infinite series of numbers.
On the more general topic of greater physics vs physics, there is a place for each in critical thought. In a densely populated world bureaucracies and defense of economic position tend to become very important. Some have written about string theory theorists dominating the realm of academia's tenured positions in theoretical physics. M-Theory is brilliant math, yet one might yet hope to keep intellectual freedom alive to pursue alternative areas of cosmological investigation.
American issues of Christianity, cosmology, politics, ecosphere, philosophy, contemporary history etc
24 May 2011
Apparent Realism and Non-Locality (version 2.0)
Apparent Realism and Non-Locality
Popular physics books by experts let non-scientific fans follow the play by play efforts of cosmologists and quantum mechanical researchers in the sport of conquering ignorance. We watch a thoughtful new guard get a sudden insight on a new theory, steal the ball and race down the court with momentum for a polarized, spin, angled jump theory off the glass for three quarks just as time for teleportation runs out.
Philosophers and theologians too may regard developments in the field and offer their opinions of the game's meaning and progress, how it affects the weather and on the meaning of life for the saved.
We can enjoy learning about random numbers generated from quantum state measurements, or compare the rapture of God to quantum teleporation believing that God could get it done much better than the seemingly poor prospects of scientists for lifting fossil fuel burning vehicle voters to distant worlds and galaxies in a teleportation beam.
The topics of realism and non-locality in quantum mechanical experimental physics have practical consequences and apparent proofs. Entanglement and super-positioning of properties of quantum particles are subject to experiments developing along lines producing qubits useful for quantum computing.
Philosophical explanations for the deeper, underlying reasons why quantum mechanics has what seems to be Einstein's 'spooky action at a distance' tend to be secondary to applied physics research that allows investigation of how given particles may be made to be entangled and share their properties of spin angle or etc. through permutations of measurement and teleported to an entangled blank quantum far away faster than light speed.
Philosophically one wonders about the entire nature of the quantum field, yet of course as it is, the conjecture needs to develop fundamentally extrapolated from the data generated by the experimenters.
In reading 'Dance of the Photons' by Anton Zeigler, one discovers some of the methodology and developments of researchers in the field of what may lead to one-way quantum computers.
That is a fascinating idea; quantum computers with every possible answer already existing- that a librarian must somehow elicit an answer from through measurements that determine an answer.
Philosophically one wonders if the logic of randomly generated qubits may disregard an equally extended generation of definition of randomicity and order produced by experimenters in sending quanta into one of two equally accessible conditions.
What is random in one number system may seem orderly within others. Order can appear within one set and disappear within other simultaneously.
There may be more powerful energy as a kind of micro unified field perhaps wrapping up extra, smaller dimensions, or as a non-specific field of super-positioning with or without innate intelligence that is a meta-criterion supporting the reduction into the particles-wave probability packets of the standard model of quantum mechanics, who can say?
These generated series of random numbers, or apparent random numbers, may be a kind of window into the super-positioned structure of the realm of all-possible wave-states from which the measured quanta collapsed to become a qubit. One would expect that all-possible potential wave-packet states realm has a far more subtle internal coherence than its external, decohered states might indicate. Perhaps in generating apparently random series of qubits one can discern structures of flux and echoes of influence shaping subtly that sublime universe-for-itself.
There may be a balance or 50-50 split of individual photons to equal channels for physical experiments entangling and superpositioning quanta when measured in some cases of each collapsed state of measurement, or channel equally valid for the disposition of momentum of the photon. Of course over time the statistics balance out the equal validity of the channels. Given an infinite series of numbers that are 0's or 1's produced by the qubit state measured one must assume that some distribution patterns emerge. Like the cosmic microwave background obsrvation data, the random number generations of collapsed quntum states may provide data about deeper structures.
In an infinite series the first trillion bits could be 0's, for one has infinity to balance the account, yet one must more reasonably assume that there must be some sort of locality in the distribution of the qubit so at any given time, or in any given section of the series the total allocation is not to lop-sided or out of balance. A pattern of unpatterned allocation of distribution of quantum location measurement may indicate balanced forces acting upon quantum that must then select a course with more subtly determination criteria.
One might wonder if there is some cause for that statistical balance based upon distribution of a qubit to one of two equally valid channels. A prior or meta-causal criteria for distribution of quanta or anything else is fairly basic. In attributing quantum allocations to random distribution it seems that one may simply lack the knowledge of what patterns or causes exist that let quanta assume various states.
A cloud of quanta in super-positions probably has a physics and physical causal order mostly unknown today in this era where discovery of how to affect, entangle and measure individual quanta is the standard. It seems apparent that the cloud of super-positioned, all-possible worldlines quantum uncertainty from which measurements of individual quanta are made and determined has a kind of memory or regulatory function for itself that coordinates, balances or selects the quantum states that appear to observers to occur with information exchanged faster than light.
One get the notion that like the 'Library of Babel' Zeigler mentions (Jorge Luis Borges' short story) the realm of non-collapsed all possible locations of quanta is a field unmeasurable by present observer tools that has its own accounting system. Maybe some of the unused potential wave-states shared by an entangled particle collapse withdraw support from an entangled particle compelling it to use the only one remaining for it, and that is the same state as that occupied by the collapsed, entangled particle.The withdrawl of an extended pre-observation wave from the realm of all possible wave locations cancels the potential for all entangled particles sharing that wave momentum to develop alternate characteristics if measured in a similar way.
Zeilgler summarized The Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics made by Neils Bohr in his book. He also provided a quote from Bohr by way of Aage Petersen. "There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature."
That opinion would seem to summarize a pragmatic approach to the methods of quantum mechanics. Theory, observation and experiment move along together. What works is a basic criteria for physical theorists.
Philosophical inquiries into the nature of the Universe and the quantum realm of all possible forms in metaphysics should continue so long as people think; on occasion stimulated by data from scientific, logical investigations.
Popular physics books by experts let non-scientific fans follow the play by play efforts of cosmologists and quantum mechanical researchers in the sport of conquering ignorance. We watch a thoughtful new guard get a sudden insight on a new theory, steal the ball and race down the court with momentum for a polarized, spin, angled jump theory off the glass for three quarks just as time for teleportation runs out.
Philosophers and theologians too may regard developments in the field and offer their opinions of the game's meaning and progress, how it affects the weather and on the meaning of life for the saved.
We can enjoy learning about random numbers generated from quantum state measurements, or compare the rapture of God to quantum teleporation believing that God could get it done much better than the seemingly poor prospects of scientists for lifting fossil fuel burning vehicle voters to distant worlds and galaxies in a teleportation beam.
The topics of realism and non-locality in quantum mechanical experimental physics have practical consequences and apparent proofs. Entanglement and super-positioning of properties of quantum particles are subject to experiments developing along lines producing qubits useful for quantum computing.
Philosophical explanations for the deeper, underlying reasons why quantum mechanics has what seems to be Einstein's 'spooky action at a distance' tend to be secondary to applied physics research that allows investigation of how given particles may be made to be entangled and share their properties of spin angle or etc. through permutations of measurement and teleported to an entangled blank quantum far away faster than light speed.
Philosophically one wonders about the entire nature of the quantum field, yet of course as it is, the conjecture needs to develop fundamentally extrapolated from the data generated by the experimenters.
In reading 'Dance of the Photons' by Anton Zeigler, one discovers some of the methodology and developments of researchers in the field of what may lead to one-way quantum computers.
That is a fascinating idea; quantum computers with every possible answer already existing- that a librarian must somehow elicit an answer from through measurements that determine an answer.
Philosophically one wonders if the logic of randomly generated qubits may disregard an equally extended generation of definition of randomicity and order produced by experimenters in sending quanta into one of two equally accessible conditions.
What is random in one number system may seem orderly within others. Order can appear within one set and disappear within other simultaneously.
There may be more powerful energy as a kind of micro unified field perhaps wrapping up extra, smaller dimensions, or as a non-specific field of super-positioning with or without innate intelligence that is a meta-criterion supporting the reduction into the particles-wave probability packets of the standard model of quantum mechanics, who can say?
These generated series of random numbers, or apparent random numbers, may be a kind of window into the super-positioned structure of the realm of all-possible wave-states from which the measured quanta collapsed to become a qubit. One would expect that all-possible potential wave-packet states realm has a far more subtle internal coherence than its external, decohered states might indicate. Perhaps in generating apparently random series of qubits one can discern structures of flux and echoes of influence shaping subtly that sublime universe-for-itself.
There may be a balance or 50-50 split of individual photons to equal channels for physical experiments entangling and superpositioning quanta when measured in some cases of each collapsed state of measurement, or channel equally valid for the disposition of momentum of the photon. Of course over time the statistics balance out the equal validity of the channels. Given an infinite series of numbers that are 0's or 1's produced by the qubit state measured one must assume that some distribution patterns emerge. Like the cosmic microwave background obsrvation data, the random number generations of collapsed quntum states may provide data about deeper structures.
In an infinite series the first trillion bits could be 0's, for one has infinity to balance the account, yet one must more reasonably assume that there must be some sort of locality in the distribution of the qubit so at any given time, or in any given section of the series the total allocation is not to lop-sided or out of balance. A pattern of unpatterned allocation of distribution of quantum location measurement may indicate balanced forces acting upon quantum that must then select a course with more subtly determination criteria.
One might wonder if there is some cause for that statistical balance based upon distribution of a qubit to one of two equally valid channels. A prior or meta-causal criteria for distribution of quanta or anything else is fairly basic. In attributing quantum allocations to random distribution it seems that one may simply lack the knowledge of what patterns or causes exist that let quanta assume various states.
A cloud of quanta in super-positions probably has a physics and physical causal order mostly unknown today in this era where discovery of how to affect, entangle and measure individual quanta is the standard. It seems apparent that the cloud of super-positioned, all-possible worldlines quantum uncertainty from which measurements of individual quanta are made and determined has a kind of memory or regulatory function for itself that coordinates, balances or selects the quantum states that appear to observers to occur with information exchanged faster than light.
One get the notion that like the 'Library of Babel' Zeigler mentions (Jorge Luis Borges' short story) the realm of non-collapsed all possible locations of quanta is a field unmeasurable by present observer tools that has its own accounting system. Maybe some of the unused potential wave-states shared by an entangled particle collapse withdraw support from an entangled particle compelling it to use the only one remaining for it, and that is the same state as that occupied by the collapsed, entangled particle.The withdrawl of an extended pre-observation wave from the realm of all possible wave locations cancels the potential for all entangled particles sharing that wave momentum to develop alternate characteristics if measured in a similar way.
Zeilgler summarized The Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics made by Neils Bohr in his book. He also provided a quote from Bohr by way of Aage Petersen. "There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature."
That opinion would seem to summarize a pragmatic approach to the methods of quantum mechanics. Theory, observation and experiment move along together. What works is a basic criteria for physical theorists.
Philosophical inquiries into the nature of the Universe and the quantum realm of all possible forms in metaphysics should continue so long as people think; on occasion stimulated by data from scientific, logical investigations.
On President Obama's Effort to Destabilize North Africa, the Middle East & Israel-Palestinian Borders
President Obama's recent Israeli-Palestinian policy speech with unhelpful references to pre-67 Arab-Israeli war borders was billed as a way to get negotiations going again. That sumptuous table politicians are always referring to about which they sit to swap land and get Nobel prizes is more realistic for people in Washington D.C. sometimes than for those living within the lands affected. The middle-east today is as unstable as it has been since before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, and President Obama has encouraged that instability since making his speech in Cairo shortly after taking office.
Mr. Obama may be indoctrinated in a corporate and Internet version of demographic and sales region based corporatism instead of land and rights based democracy. A half billion Facebook users logged into cyberspace data bit packets own by a private corporation may present an appearance of democracy, yet its maximum potential is to exchange information rather like teleporting information on the polarization state of a photon to a distant entangled photon rather than the photon itself.
In the ersatz corporate mirage democracy the signed in may express opinions equally until the benevolent corporate dictator decides it useful to declare martial law and close them down or at least send the user into exile while confiscating use of data.
North Africa and the Moslem world has greater natural resources and potential worker and sales demographics than Israel to the corporate mind investing in a popular Moslem twitterizing era of change.
Democracies are fairly new in history. They really only got going much in the late 18th century besides the ancient world and a few other brief ventures in Holland and Firenza. Democracies closely defend the real interests of citizens to land and security-items that tend to disappear under the assaults of mob rule, concentrated wealth and power directing both.
The Obama administration has encouraged change in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Iran, Yemen and obviously Iraq and Lebanon too have instabilities internally as well. During this unresolved political era in which new balances amongst nations and sects have not formed or finalized it seems essentially unrealistic to expect a final Israeli-Palestinian boundary status. Not even the Palestinian polity has achieved a final status with the issue of the Hamas terror organization arisen to evolve beyond the agreements signed off on by the P.L.O. and Palestinian Authority.
The relationship of any future potential Palestinian state to its neighbors is entirely theoretical rather than realistic. In Syria for instance, an eventual change to a Sunni Moslem Brotherhood government would create synergy with the Sunni Palestinians and Moslem Brotherhood Egypt presenting grave national security threats for Israel regardless of whatever sort of land swapping the Israelis may have done with Palestinians in the past. A young, aggressive, envious Sunni entity surrounding Israel and financed by Sunni oil wealth from Saudi Arabia, Libya and Iraq would obviously once again seek to flex its muscles against the 67 borders of Israel just as it once had and swap a Jewish Israel for a Sunni Palestine.
Finding stable political structures in the Moslem middle east is the challenge ahead. If the youthful middle east (its just a billion years old and humanity only reached it about 150,000 years ago) ever evolves smart democratic politics with implicit political stability and strong individual rights instead of dumb mob rule via instant Internet action there might develop some form of social ethic and trust that allows Christians and Jews to live in the region without their churches being burned or tour busses machine gunned. Maybe Moslem radicals won't even send suicide bombers to church or synagogue picnics in Israel if given the chance. When such a peaceful social environment arises many of the real social problems in the middle east may naturally wither away.
Finding a realistic way to discontinue Palestinian terrorism and Moslem war upon Israel means that the United States must support Israel's present land positions and advocate internal change in Palestinian socialization and social institutions that bring a change in the way Palestinians think about Israel. Perhaps some sort of permanent Christian evangelization crusade could help them to learn the ways of the Lord Jesus Christ who walked the land of Judah two-thousand years ago. His answers the to the problems of the region are the same, correct answer to the problems now.
President Obama's belief that adding chaos to the already moderately chaotic North African and middle east boundaries status asking for change when change into national instability is already pervasive seems an unrealistic way to work for peace and prosperity. In my opinion his December 2010 decision to become a cheerleader for opposition party tax cuts for the rich extending for two years was also an unrealistic policy leading to very weak negotiating positions for his own Democratic Party. Israel now my need to strengthen its status and wait five years for the confusion amongst middle east neighbors to settle down and form new balances before it tries to sign ephemeral agreements with temporary parties and leaders in the Moslem world that may present the Kowabunga dude visage of unreliability for each agreement signed that gives up land for 'peace' before the next round of terror arises to demand more land for 'peace'.
Mr. Obama may be indoctrinated in a corporate and Internet version of demographic and sales region based corporatism instead of land and rights based democracy. A half billion Facebook users logged into cyberspace data bit packets own by a private corporation may present an appearance of democracy, yet its maximum potential is to exchange information rather like teleporting information on the polarization state of a photon to a distant entangled photon rather than the photon itself.
In the ersatz corporate mirage democracy the signed in may express opinions equally until the benevolent corporate dictator decides it useful to declare martial law and close them down or at least send the user into exile while confiscating use of data.
North Africa and the Moslem world has greater natural resources and potential worker and sales demographics than Israel to the corporate mind investing in a popular Moslem twitterizing era of change.
Democracies are fairly new in history. They really only got going much in the late 18th century besides the ancient world and a few other brief ventures in Holland and Firenza. Democracies closely defend the real interests of citizens to land and security-items that tend to disappear under the assaults of mob rule, concentrated wealth and power directing both.
The Obama administration has encouraged change in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Iran, Yemen and obviously Iraq and Lebanon too have instabilities internally as well. During this unresolved political era in which new balances amongst nations and sects have not formed or finalized it seems essentially unrealistic to expect a final Israeli-Palestinian boundary status. Not even the Palestinian polity has achieved a final status with the issue of the Hamas terror organization arisen to evolve beyond the agreements signed off on by the P.L.O. and Palestinian Authority.
The relationship of any future potential Palestinian state to its neighbors is entirely theoretical rather than realistic. In Syria for instance, an eventual change to a Sunni Moslem Brotherhood government would create synergy with the Sunni Palestinians and Moslem Brotherhood Egypt presenting grave national security threats for Israel regardless of whatever sort of land swapping the Israelis may have done with Palestinians in the past. A young, aggressive, envious Sunni entity surrounding Israel and financed by Sunni oil wealth from Saudi Arabia, Libya and Iraq would obviously once again seek to flex its muscles against the 67 borders of Israel just as it once had and swap a Jewish Israel for a Sunni Palestine.
Finding stable political structures in the Moslem middle east is the challenge ahead. If the youthful middle east (its just a billion years old and humanity only reached it about 150,000 years ago) ever evolves smart democratic politics with implicit political stability and strong individual rights instead of dumb mob rule via instant Internet action there might develop some form of social ethic and trust that allows Christians and Jews to live in the region without their churches being burned or tour busses machine gunned. Maybe Moslem radicals won't even send suicide bombers to church or synagogue picnics in Israel if given the chance. When such a peaceful social environment arises many of the real social problems in the middle east may naturally wither away.
Finding a realistic way to discontinue Palestinian terrorism and Moslem war upon Israel means that the United States must support Israel's present land positions and advocate internal change in Palestinian socialization and social institutions that bring a change in the way Palestinians think about Israel. Perhaps some sort of permanent Christian evangelization crusade could help them to learn the ways of the Lord Jesus Christ who walked the land of Judah two-thousand years ago. His answers the to the problems of the region are the same, correct answer to the problems now.
President Obama's belief that adding chaos to the already moderately chaotic North African and middle east boundaries status asking for change when change into national instability is already pervasive seems an unrealistic way to work for peace and prosperity. In my opinion his December 2010 decision to become a cheerleader for opposition party tax cuts for the rich extending for two years was also an unrealistic policy leading to very weak negotiating positions for his own Democratic Party. Israel now my need to strengthen its status and wait five years for the confusion amongst middle east neighbors to settle down and form new balances before it tries to sign ephemeral agreements with temporary parties and leaders in the Moslem world that may present the Kowabunga dude visage of unreliability for each agreement signed that gives up land for 'peace' before the next round of terror arises to demand more land for 'peace'.
23 May 2011
Alaska Cultural Pioneer, Dr. Walter Soboleff Dies at 102
Dr. Walter Soboleff died in Alaska at the age of 102. His life in Alaska spanned much of the history of the territory and the state. An influential Tlingit, Presbyterian minister, Dr. Soboleff was much respected and highly regarded.
His passing takes with it something of the end of an era of Alaska cultural synthetic pioneering through the period leading up to and through statehood.
Dr. Soboleff's Russian name continued some of the Russian heritage in the state from the pre-territorial days when the capital was at Sitka and relations between Tlingits, Russians and later British and American settlers was occasionally fractious. Much of Alaska's early western era development was along its rich in natural resources coastal areas; Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian lands historically. With traditional land titles fogged with the new legal systems; Russian and British based prevalently on force of occupation, the next, the U.S. legal system, arose to present conflicting native and federal land claims were not settled until the Nixon administration's A.N.I.L.C.A. legislation passed congress and was signed into law.
Continuing into the American era the Alaska coastal region was the core area for natural resource extraction industries such as timber products, minerals, ice and also fish (not an extraction industry).
In entering the ministry Dr. Soboleff became a unifying interpreter of culture in addition to being a minister of the word of God. He remained active asserting a positive influence throughout his life.
http://www.adn.com/2011/05/23/1877936/tlingit-leader-soboleff-dead-at.html
His passing takes with it something of the end of an era of Alaska cultural synthetic pioneering through the period leading up to and through statehood.
Dr. Soboleff's Russian name continued some of the Russian heritage in the state from the pre-territorial days when the capital was at Sitka and relations between Tlingits, Russians and later British and American settlers was occasionally fractious. Much of Alaska's early western era development was along its rich in natural resources coastal areas; Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian lands historically. With traditional land titles fogged with the new legal systems; Russian and British based prevalently on force of occupation, the next, the U.S. legal system, arose to present conflicting native and federal land claims were not settled until the Nixon administration's A.N.I.L.C.A. legislation passed congress and was signed into law.
Continuing into the American era the Alaska coastal region was the core area for natural resource extraction industries such as timber products, minerals, ice and also fish (not an extraction industry).
In entering the ministry Dr. Soboleff became a unifying interpreter of culture in addition to being a minister of the word of God. He remained active asserting a positive influence throughout his life.
http://www.adn.com/2011/05/23/1877936/tlingit-leader-soboleff-dead-at.html
The Green Mountain in Fog ©2011GaryCGibson (poem)
Green mountains running through politics
like clovers of construction
spun like photons entangling for teleportation
measured as myriad meanings of legislation
of financial theories of distribution
over a depleted Earth.
like clovers of construction
spun like photons entangling for teleportation
measured as myriad meanings of legislation
of financial theories of distribution
over a depleted Earth.
Transforming California's State Prisons Into Low-Cost Green Construction Projects
When the U.S. Supreme Court ordered California to reduce its over crowed prisons from 140,000 to 80,000 the state was presented with another challenge to government planning logic that has increasingly tended to fail to comprehend the complex social complex of compresence of environmental and economic use. California prisons are money pits, yet if a surplus of criminals are not to be reallocated to society to structure organized crime networks the state of California should develop a new theory of prison construction and function.
It may be possible for California to catch and release criminals in the future with better electronic monitoring, or better armed citizens with more liberal gun laws may better be able to defend themselves against criminal assault. If the U.S. Government ever creates an efficient border control zone with Mexico stopping all illegal aliens from entering California it may be reasonable to just ship convicted criminals from Mexico back home if they have minor sentences. Certainly California politics has created an inefficient penal system that is expensive and fails to serve the people effectively. The state goals should include low-cost prevention of crime, swift arrest and correction of criminals, and a prison methodology that functions with ecological efficiency on a sustainable basis.
Plainly a fully employed, well adjusted and happy society with few criminals is better than an indebted, economically and ecologically dysfunctioning society blundering along on a non-sustainable basis.
Because the topic is rich with points to consider I shall write about just a few salient features of how to structure purposeful new prisons at much lower social cost. As it is, the very construction technology of prisons and theory of the use of prisons creates an inverse efficiency contracting phenomena providing least service at highest cost. So rewriting the script for processing convicts through a few years of rehabilitation is in order. Yet society is itself in need of ecological economic rehabilitation.
With 60,000 surplus prisoners the state may need to build 60 new prisons. Convict labor to build these prisons is available, and the prisons when complete would be sold to the private sector as completed artificial mountain shaped low-entropy condominium or business spaces. The convicts would be guaranteed a five year occupancy (if they have a five year sentence left) in the new prison before it was sold, in order that they are not just being exploited. They must have something to work for as they move from the tents to the individual room with a view of the desert.
New California convicts should be treated as new work hires set to construct prisons shaped like small, artificial mountain ranges with ecological economic methods and values. Ecological value ought to be added to the desert lot on which they labor. New habitat for wildlife on the exteriors should arise as the prisons goes up. Empty moats and berms would be constructed to contain convicts from escaping, yet like the naval academy graduates, the prisoners would be trained to be on a contractual schedule of advance, and they might be motivated to complete the course of incarceration.
Low-entropy renewable ecological economics could be a slid basis for prisoner rehabilitation. It would at least be better than training them to lift weights before going to auto shop. Training a prison culture to be chop shopping car thieves an enforcers in a stupid auto-culture isn't very bright ultimately and presents significant social costs reinforcing wrong ecological and economic values.
California prisons might also use a principle of gunnite concrete monolithic dome construction of super-insulated, low cost individual domes to isolate inmates yet provide them with continuing computer delivered education in fundamental as well as solar panel maintenance. Prisoners should never be permitted to congregate or share meals except after church, yet they should have daily opportunities for long distance jogging on a track individually.
Some prisons might be built with new low cost fabrication techniques that provide an immediate infrastructure for mass solar power private sector power production. Prisoners might be trained to be solar panel facility operators. The might be trained to move solar collecting devices toward the sun, keep them clean, wire them correctly and perhaps install wiring circuits to deliver power to the grid.
The traditional vocational training efforts and physical structure of California prisons should abolished in the new prison projects. Recidivism rates are high as it is, so transforming into a new project at lower cost with far higher potential direct public return is a reasonable change to make.
Prison food should not be cooked. Fresh vegetables and fruits-grown on the new prison grounds when possible, along with bread and very basic, plain yet healthy fare should be provided. if monolithic micro-domes are selected then prisoners would sleep on the floor with a mat and fiber optic video surveillance would be ubiquitous. prisoners should learn a non-aggressive, secure, ecologically rational, renewable lifestyle while incarcerated. Perhaps they could actually be helpful to society when they 'graduated', even if they are not qualified to work in traditional occupations directly. If they are generally better people than they were, their addition to society would be a plus rather than more usual corruption in the usual environmental deficit producing economy.
It may be possible for California to catch and release criminals in the future with better electronic monitoring, or better armed citizens with more liberal gun laws may better be able to defend themselves against criminal assault. If the U.S. Government ever creates an efficient border control zone with Mexico stopping all illegal aliens from entering California it may be reasonable to just ship convicted criminals from Mexico back home if they have minor sentences. Certainly California politics has created an inefficient penal system that is expensive and fails to serve the people effectively. The state goals should include low-cost prevention of crime, swift arrest and correction of criminals, and a prison methodology that functions with ecological efficiency on a sustainable basis.
Plainly a fully employed, well adjusted and happy society with few criminals is better than an indebted, economically and ecologically dysfunctioning society blundering along on a non-sustainable basis.
Because the topic is rich with points to consider I shall write about just a few salient features of how to structure purposeful new prisons at much lower social cost. As it is, the very construction technology of prisons and theory of the use of prisons creates an inverse efficiency contracting phenomena providing least service at highest cost. So rewriting the script for processing convicts through a few years of rehabilitation is in order. Yet society is itself in need of ecological economic rehabilitation.
With 60,000 surplus prisoners the state may need to build 60 new prisons. Convict labor to build these prisons is available, and the prisons when complete would be sold to the private sector as completed artificial mountain shaped low-entropy condominium or business spaces. The convicts would be guaranteed a five year occupancy (if they have a five year sentence left) in the new prison before it was sold, in order that they are not just being exploited. They must have something to work for as they move from the tents to the individual room with a view of the desert.
New California convicts should be treated as new work hires set to construct prisons shaped like small, artificial mountain ranges with ecological economic methods and values. Ecological value ought to be added to the desert lot on which they labor. New habitat for wildlife on the exteriors should arise as the prisons goes up. Empty moats and berms would be constructed to contain convicts from escaping, yet like the naval academy graduates, the prisoners would be trained to be on a contractual schedule of advance, and they might be motivated to complete the course of incarceration.
Low-entropy renewable ecological economics could be a slid basis for prisoner rehabilitation. It would at least be better than training them to lift weights before going to auto shop. Training a prison culture to be chop shopping car thieves an enforcers in a stupid auto-culture isn't very bright ultimately and presents significant social costs reinforcing wrong ecological and economic values.
California prisons might also use a principle of gunnite concrete monolithic dome construction of super-insulated, low cost individual domes to isolate inmates yet provide them with continuing computer delivered education in fundamental as well as solar panel maintenance. Prisoners should never be permitted to congregate or share meals except after church, yet they should have daily opportunities for long distance jogging on a track individually.
Some prisons might be built with new low cost fabrication techniques that provide an immediate infrastructure for mass solar power private sector power production. Prisoners might be trained to be solar panel facility operators. The might be trained to move solar collecting devices toward the sun, keep them clean, wire them correctly and perhaps install wiring circuits to deliver power to the grid.
The traditional vocational training efforts and physical structure of California prisons should abolished in the new prison projects. Recidivism rates are high as it is, so transforming into a new project at lower cost with far higher potential direct public return is a reasonable change to make.
Prison food should not be cooked. Fresh vegetables and fruits-grown on the new prison grounds when possible, along with bread and very basic, plain yet healthy fare should be provided. if monolithic micro-domes are selected then prisoners would sleep on the floor with a mat and fiber optic video surveillance would be ubiquitous. prisoners should learn a non-aggressive, secure, ecologically rational, renewable lifestyle while incarcerated. Perhaps they could actually be helpful to society when they 'graduated', even if they are not qualified to work in traditional occupations directly. If they are generally better people than they were, their addition to society would be a plus rather than more usual corruption in the usual environmental deficit producing economy.
What About Sartre and Hemingway's Characterization?
I wish I knew. If Hemingway's characters lived in a mobius strip twisted to resemble a world shaped like a pretzel they would just deal with it maybe with determination and compressed meaning, possibly even aware of the strangeness of it's shape. The characters would accept it as natural though. With short, intentional strides progress would be made. beyond a stream ford tent poles would go up, face paint come off and rifles reloaded. Perimeter guards might listen for the distant drone of an approaching plane or the hoot of an owl stalking the darkness.
Hemingway's Robert Jordan just dies meaninglessly at the end of For Whom the Bell Tolls getting shot trying to cross a road cut across a mountain slope. Nothing more than why did the chicken cross the road to it. In a way Hemingway is more existential than Sartre. In that sense of meaninglessness can the government ever fairly say that anything is an existential threat?
Sartre's characters would probably reflect a more about the nature and relationships of what they see and experience; even if they were about to die. They might die thinking otherwise as they disappeared into a mind whirlpool of toxic chocolate neuron connection dissolution.
The more reflective, existentially immersed character is more popular in some ways now than the Hemmingway guy-at least for some bureaucratic fiction and/or non-fiction writers. They may comment on existential threats importing Sartre's philosophical term of subjective rationalism into the vocabulary of political realism.
Osama Bin Laden was an existential terrorist in such a contextual lexicon. Reality intruding into political subjectivism is sometimes regarded as an existential invasion of collective personal space. We might prefer that objective, implicit terminology be used in government instead of making even the federal deficit a subjective cognitive experience.
Sartre's fiction characters such as in the Age of Reason or The Condemned of Altoona had at least a narrator to reflect upon the objectivity of the circumstance they found themselves in. In political existentialism one can be placed into circumstances not of one's choosing.
Sartre's characters always retained their ability to say no to a situation's demands for conformal behavior, yet of course they could lose their existence for doing so, or alternatively, they might have little room for choice (as when the condemned were waiting their turn to be taken to a firing squad and shot they could just say no to their fear about it).
Political and environmental circumstances that impose the will of others or of nature upon one's personal experience adversely become existential adversities for politicians only when the adversity is generated from a class rival. That brings us to awareness of the politically proprietary nature of the designation of existential adversary in contemporary non-fiction political narrative writing.
In my opinion Sartre would have placed politcally common social constructions with a Critique of Dialectical Reason context rather than that of existentialism. In Being and Nothingness existentialism is developed as a rational investigation of the subjective and objective nature of personal experience. It is a kind of ontology of mind. When used for a collective experience it tends to break down, or have its meaning replaced by a different meaning.
If existentialism is a subjective criterion, fiction writing and character development is not quite so much subjective. Characters are developed with objective words, terms and labels to provide a reason understandable to any reader for their actions. Even so we may like the philosophically minded character's objective view of his own circumstances as if it were subjective. The mob that has taken over the public square and become a revolutionary government is an exciting, swirling sea of humanity taking him along in the currents. Perhaps he will become a new political figure himself or become a destitute, starving and unpopular class outcast. It is exciting to consider the complete complex of compresent possibilities without too much effort as a subjective encounter in life.
Of course there are other points of view in the socially dialectical world of reason that we might visit with an omniscient narrator peering into the minds of the primary protagonists of our experience. Yet as non-omniscient citizens we might be limited to describing the social dialectic of political interaction as a phenomenality with causal mechanics in itself. Then we find our characterization of the commons and its events as personally existential still, yet for others and in-itself entirely other. The bureaucratic application of existentialism to mean 'existing things' annihilates the subjective element of existentialism and replaces it with the commons and its political lexicon. The sadistic nature of government expresses itself in the annihilation of the value or primacy of citizen subjectivity.
Not to say that government is invariably sadistic. It is only occasionally sadistic as it actualizes its collective otherness as a for-itself through wars, revolutions and setting of tax policy up and down. Then the lexicon of power becomes too familiar arising to negate individual privacy.
Making the commons a transcending lexical social reality for-itself may stimulate citizen efforts to keep the invasive government communications remote-beyond the border of decency implicitly a civil and human right. We find Sartre's characterization of his personal subjective experience in 'Being and Nothingness' quite a bit different from the description of the collective commons dialectical 'narrating' itself as a political agent in history for-itself.
Hemingway's Robert Jordan just dies meaninglessly at the end of For Whom the Bell Tolls getting shot trying to cross a road cut across a mountain slope. Nothing more than why did the chicken cross the road to it. In a way Hemingway is more existential than Sartre. In that sense of meaninglessness can the government ever fairly say that anything is an existential threat?
Sartre's characters would probably reflect a more about the nature and relationships of what they see and experience; even if they were about to die. They might die thinking otherwise as they disappeared into a mind whirlpool of toxic chocolate neuron connection dissolution.
The more reflective, existentially immersed character is more popular in some ways now than the Hemmingway guy-at least for some bureaucratic fiction and/or non-fiction writers. They may comment on existential threats importing Sartre's philosophical term of subjective rationalism into the vocabulary of political realism.
Osama Bin Laden was an existential terrorist in such a contextual lexicon. Reality intruding into political subjectivism is sometimes regarded as an existential invasion of collective personal space. We might prefer that objective, implicit terminology be used in government instead of making even the federal deficit a subjective cognitive experience.
Sartre's fiction characters such as in the Age of Reason or The Condemned of Altoona had at least a narrator to reflect upon the objectivity of the circumstance they found themselves in. In political existentialism one can be placed into circumstances not of one's choosing.
Sartre's characters always retained their ability to say no to a situation's demands for conformal behavior, yet of course they could lose their existence for doing so, or alternatively, they might have little room for choice (as when the condemned were waiting their turn to be taken to a firing squad and shot they could just say no to their fear about it).
Political and environmental circumstances that impose the will of others or of nature upon one's personal experience adversely become existential adversities for politicians only when the adversity is generated from a class rival. That brings us to awareness of the politically proprietary nature of the designation of existential adversary in contemporary non-fiction political narrative writing.
In my opinion Sartre would have placed politcally common social constructions with a Critique of Dialectical Reason context rather than that of existentialism. In Being and Nothingness existentialism is developed as a rational investigation of the subjective and objective nature of personal experience. It is a kind of ontology of mind. When used for a collective experience it tends to break down, or have its meaning replaced by a different meaning.
If existentialism is a subjective criterion, fiction writing and character development is not quite so much subjective. Characters are developed with objective words, terms and labels to provide a reason understandable to any reader for their actions. Even so we may like the philosophically minded character's objective view of his own circumstances as if it were subjective. The mob that has taken over the public square and become a revolutionary government is an exciting, swirling sea of humanity taking him along in the currents. Perhaps he will become a new political figure himself or become a destitute, starving and unpopular class outcast. It is exciting to consider the complete complex of compresent possibilities without too much effort as a subjective encounter in life.
Of course there are other points of view in the socially dialectical world of reason that we might visit with an omniscient narrator peering into the minds of the primary protagonists of our experience. Yet as non-omniscient citizens we might be limited to describing the social dialectic of political interaction as a phenomenality with causal mechanics in itself. Then we find our characterization of the commons and its events as personally existential still, yet for others and in-itself entirely other. The bureaucratic application of existentialism to mean 'existing things' annihilates the subjective element of existentialism and replaces it with the commons and its political lexicon. The sadistic nature of government expresses itself in the annihilation of the value or primacy of citizen subjectivity.
Not to say that government is invariably sadistic. It is only occasionally sadistic as it actualizes its collective otherness as a for-itself through wars, revolutions and setting of tax policy up and down. Then the lexicon of power becomes too familiar arising to negate individual privacy.
Making the commons a transcending lexical social reality for-itself may stimulate citizen efforts to keep the invasive government communications remote-beyond the border of decency implicitly a civil and human right. We find Sartre's characterization of his personal subjective experience in 'Being and Nothingness' quite a bit different from the description of the collective commons dialectical 'narrating' itself as a political agent in history for-itself.
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