Trends in Post-Ideological Quantification

      The age of quantification could be regarded as coincident with the Anthropocene era-that of human caused mass extinction of species, yet also with the evolution of the age of reason morphing into the age of fracture and economic existentialism. Human beings with education have a marked tendency toward quantifying things formerly as individual and unique occurrences. Assuredly the ability to discern redness in particulars such as roses and automobiles generates the ability to extract the quality of redness for-itself and understand that any sort of object may be painted with it-even a town. The quantification of red in a nation, in the morning or evening sky, in the sea or in blood spilled upon wet sod of the Earth are no more than single instances of quantification. The human characteristic of quantification itself might be quantified in quantification studies.

Science means knowledge and quantification of existing things or object quantities measured entails quantification in a pure form. Abstract quantification of terms can be found in mathematics, logic and physics as well as in the liberal arts. For some the art of reason is a practice of rationalism. Rationalism itself though may be two-dimensional in a three-dimensional world at times forsaking intuition and faith for a finite means of adjudicating quantities. If Noah had no faith he might not have built an Ark, if Einstein did not trust his genius he might not have unified space-time conceptually speaking. Some scientists could not have faith that a 10-dimensional multi-verse might exist and would trust in relativistically shrank measuring yardsticks that the warped Universe is flat.

Faith is an essential requirement for belief in God. God that is not an ossified artifact or stone practico-inert sculpture is pure spirit transcending space-time and any given Universe in any possible multi-verse of n-dimensional attributes existing with physical components. Physical components are inevitably in thermodynamic motion flowing like a waterfall from a singularity or membrane through a marvelous and possibly mysterious network of causality. Causality and an entangled energy steady-state Universe with flowing space-time may be a concatenation of local and non-local fields with broken symmetries and isolated particle-waves. That steady-state of mass-energy Universe wearing down it's order with quantum structures comparable to standing waves, eddies and currents of fields, branes and quarks to return to a field of more basic unification and order might be though of as a multi-dimensional yo-yo flung out from a condition of perfect order at singularity that will return after a marvelous performance to The One. Human beings themselves existing in the field nexus quantify whatever they can in order to have greater understanding.

Martin Luther was credited by some as the forefather of modern rationalism for opposing the mysterium of the Catholic Church with its exclusive priesthood and exclusive control of the Bible the laity were forbidden to own or read in their own non-Latin language. Historians have pointed out though that Luther was a man of faith who would 'ten times have rejected reason in preference for faith'. Luther believed in the word of God expressed in the gospel message, and in the Lord Jesus Christ above the Bible. Rationalism in Germany was a stage in the progress of human society, yet rationalism with faith may become without reason as history experienced in the rise and execution of Nazi Germany and the bureaucrat banality of Heinrich Himmler.

Rationality without faith is like a computer operating system that it totalitarian in its quantifications. Moral judgments are basically meaningless to rational operating systems, the only ethical questions are those of hierarchialization and execution priorities. Faith though is something like a recognition of several operating systems as possible existing, even booted simultaneously onto a single computer with partitions to separate them and prevent conflicts of interest. The computer owner of faith knows that the uncertainty and implicit possibilities of the hardware allow many configurations-some good, some bad and some outright ugly, yet evolutionary possibilities that the computer designer allowed in the software. For a reasoning man or woman of faith universes and multi-verses are comparable to operating systems of physics with various configurations and protocols that are possibilities the designer permits. God is the omniscient designer.

In an age where some regard ideology as dead, quantification proceeds in high-speed Wall Street dark pool quantitative trading. Global businesses quantify and value anything, buying, selling and trading quantities. Ideology itself was a kind of reformation era political product of quantification as well as qualitative judgments about church, state, behavior of the priesthood, values of the Bible actual, theoretical and applied. The television series Cosmos noted the qualitative trashing of a few scientists by select members of the Catholic hierarchy-a periodically divided and even corrupt proprietary distracted clergy incidentally. One that vied for political control with kingdoms and was intolerant of political rivals and even scientists disloyal to the absolute power of thee presiding Pope of the day. Scientists sometimes fail to note that the Catholic Church produced most of the early scientists such as Copernicus, Newton and Mendel, that the Medici sponsored science and engineering research, or that Protestant reformers and others were slaughter by the tens and hundreds of thousands by the conservative catholic Church and that the loss of very few scientists was quantitatively very small. On the other hand, science invented most of the weapons of mass destruction existing today while faith produced very few.

Philosophers such as Sartre expressing an epistomologically singular perspective-even within a major work of dialectical analysis of the social order such as his tome 'The Critique of Dialectical Reason' and theologicans like Paul Tillich with an objective analysis of social collectives within an ontology with explicit empirical ideology may use a universal nominalism or contingent universalism alternatively for quantification and the paradigm of structural quantitative analysis remains intact.

Quantifying historical matters accurately is quite a bit more challenging than quantifying mass. Accuracy in history requires reading and understanding a vast amount of material in no particular order. To become too specialized means to become biased toward a particular point of view. Scientific quantification alternatively is simple and objectively verifiable, yet pure rationalism without faith tends to lack reason and moral judgment. It is as if a portion of the mind that is spirit is cut out and a degree of objectivity through faith omitted. Reason requires a metaphorical dash of quantum uncertainty as a component of thought that is reflective and contemplative. Inductive reasoning is as necessary as inductive reasoning in order for rationality to serve reason. Quantification of ideology, politics, economics and environments are intrinsic elements for to projects for building and shaping social development toward an optimal direction rather than dystopia.

Reverse Obamacare Template for Public & Private School Exchanges?

American public education evolved to a Soviet Union paradigm eclipsing common private school education. Freedom of choice from a menu of public and private school options is better than the Soviet school model. Could the Obamacare policy of usurping private sector health insurance be applied in reverse to liberate public education through government education voucher exchanges?

Is it possible to deescalate public education monopoly though public education exchanges with savory derivatives and a hint of dark pool quantitative trading (just joking about that). Creative Wall Street financing techniques innovated with Obama economic healthcare )-look what its dome for balancing the Federal budget and paying down the public debt so far-might be useful for redistributing public education opportunities to include private school vouchers. The Democrat voter likes freedom of nuanced color choices instead of just one black color of model A.

Plainly Obamacare has some faults and wrong premises. Young workers were supposed to pay a large tax for something they didn't need in order to redistribute their earnings to older workers with pre-existing conditions such as H.I.V. that couldn't get insurance. With that policy supported by young American democrat workers it was possible to lift the burden from the rich and cut their taxes. President Obama led the effort to make the Bush II tax cuts permanent.

It would have been practical to create standard emergency medical loans for workers age 60 and under that are usually healthful. With $10,000 available at favorable rates if a worker has some emergency health problem, and covering his or her/it's own out of pocket expenses for minor medical issues the cost of a given level of medical care could be low. One might pay $200 dollars a year for a loan guarantees instead of $6000 dollars for insurance each year that isn't used.

An expanded V.A. Medical system treating screened, verified poor Americans could substitute well for the holes in U.S. health coverage. Networking community health facilities with the V.A. system for the poor with no-cost services to the poor would have been plain and simple. Obamacare's thoughtless redistribution of wealth from the compassionate young willingly substituting for the rich apparently did have some neat health insurance exchanges that allow broken initially could with some tweaking be adapted as a model for education facilities where citizens could apply for affordable private school alternative to neon-communist public schools and all the become-indoctrinated stadardized social programming that goes with them.

Philosophical ideas of Quantum Cosmology & Faster-Than-Light Travel

This is an excerpt from my philosophical science fiction novel The Novilistricka Function.

The work of David Bohm in the twentieth century was fundamental for developing comprehension of the implicate. Research has followed throughout the Corporate and free regions of Universe (1). Yet it is an area that has eluded my philosophical investigations so far, I am embarrassed to say. Perspective in space-time composition is one of the essential construction traits of being. In a zero-dimensional criterion intervals within a continuum are founded in perspective. Transitions and change,disconformities and even the appearance of being and nothingness are a construction of perspective.

The evolution of space-time, energy, mass and Universes are a matter of perspective. The continuity of change overlaid simultaneously upon longer lasting semi-constants that presents phenomena such as a unified physical field transitioning with cooling and advancing entropy into increasing yet less powerful numbers of general physical laws and a promulgation of cooler, more complex structures right on to the most complex forms of life are advancing perspectives from The One.

The issue of how The One, given an initial, contingent non-dimensional paradigm creates being and nothingness, sense and non-sense--any differences at all, and eventually any sort of matter or existing things, brings me to consider that it is perspective flowing from self-awareness that emanates the most elegant creations over time that originate as contingent ideas and being through perspective. Fields of local and non-local symmetries explicate fine meshes of substance apparent to humans within the configuration.

Quarks and their bosons are the basic physical quanta of matter, and we wonder what quarks are made of--if they are simply multi-dimensional strings or loops, hyper-dimensional membranes or point particles viewed as waves or strings in added geometrical analogies as dimensions. So what are they really? Nothing less than quantum units of measurement in a protocol field. There are deeper and different paradigmatic explanations.

Perspectives from the One have issued relationships that become akin to frequencies that have their own stasis or formation. Frequencies given content simply by existing as perspectives of The One comprise the fuzzy logic strings and loops that integrate as functions unto larger, more complex and powerful units of energy and mass. Because of the basic nature of perspective and contingent frequencies or energy levels and forms of constructions bound integrally in quantitative units with some logical relational values for mathematical physicists, quantum mechanical elements of uncertainty that are a notable characteristic of the quantum mechanical realm implicitly reflect the virtual reality of existence itself contingent upon The One.

The classical philosophical questions of being and nothingness; of a dichotomy of light and dark, or of existence and non-existence are reflected in the quantum mechanical phenomenalities of super-positioning of quantum mechanical wave-particle appearances and sharing of information faster-than-light seemingly. All fundamental relationships of space-time and mass-energy are contingent and grounded in a non-dimensional, or pre-dimensional perspective of The One.

The energy levels, and these should be thought of as apparent energy levels rather than real energy levels, of any mass or energy issued in Universe (1) appearing at the quantum mechanical level and higher fall into ordered and set modalities that interact logically with all of the additional energy and form frequencies promulgated. It is very rare that unscheduled or unintended energy transitions occur beyond the natural capability, capacity or characteristics of the given spectrum.

It is something like expecting two plus three to equal twenty-seven, to expect that anything can travel faster than light in this Universe (1). While it has been shown that some of the ten dimensions of the Universe (1) are smaller and yet may be hyper-extended locally in some cases to create a super-realism now and then, and used for information logic gates for extra-dimensional travel--it is far more difficult to attenuate the practical application of quantum mechanical effects to macro-dimensional space travel of a sub-light speed and hyper-light speed nature without violating the integrity of four-dimensional space.

I have thought occasionally of building a field-expedient, faster-than light space-time engine through a capturing device for intake of paired quantum mechanical virtual particles directing their negatively charged halves to a time ahead in the location of travel, yet that would require that the space-ship attain relativistic velocity in order to capture sufficient virtual particles to offset the negative bow wave effects of increasing graviton attraction due to sympathetic mass-gravity frequencies. The equation of infinite mass and infinite energy needed to move that mass are a conundrum of relativistic speeds near c.

I might also redirect offending gravitons around the space ship with a graviton field-dimensional flow transducer. Gravity might simply be an apparent compaction of space and dilation of time because of the acceleration through it-akin to a bicycle rider peddling into a headwind finding the resistance increasing the faster she goes, and of course the energy required to increase speed increases too. It is the double gluon Feyman recursion all over again.

You might need to make a zero-resistance field around whatever mass you want to accelerate to light speed that would shield the mass from increasing mass or energy requirements with increasing speed. Work with Bose-Einstein condensate type matter for the shield . That effects the transformation of neutron clumps into one neutron effectively. The shield should have the zero-resistance through space characteristic of neutrinos or photons.

In Eastern Ukraine Pres. Obama Confirms Indiginous People Have No Land RIght

Russians are the indigenous people of the Ukraine. Slavs rather than Germans and Celts are the aboriginal residents so it's no surprise that President Obama and the U.S. Congress support the two decade old claim of independence made by people favoring the west when Russia's communist government surrendered to the power of Star Wars and the charisma of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Is it a good idea to deny the Eastern Ukraine to the Rus?

Making enemies of at least some Russians in the long run is not exactly the same as adding another Moslem unit to potential terrorist malefactors. More than a few competent Russian scientists exist and potential terrorism by an insider requires just one individual working in secret. There are a zillion potential gremlinish acts of petite revenge a Russian might take upon U.S. interest the next century or two. Taking the traditional Russian homeland and declaring it liberated for western Europe may be possible though its wisdom is dubious.
Alexander Nevsky-Grand Prince of Kiev born 1220

Obama Gives a Wedgie to European-Russian Economic Relations

Driving Europe and Russia apart is a traditional policy of the United States. John Paul Jones may have served in the Russian navy yet that was about the last time high-level Americans understood that country. The American cold-war establishment requires conflict or antipathetic economies to divide, conquer and exploit yet its an obsolete practice.

Oceania and that other world Empire were always at war in 1984, and we might take that paradigm as fundamental in global political-economic configuration and get jiggie with it a little. Keeping Europe, America and Russia close to balance the rising mega-power of China is just good sense, Washington wimps need a cold war to stimulate defense and oil industries however and it is to such works the U.S. economy continual drifts. Lee helm in Washington D.C. brings the ship of state to look backwards toward the crude economy.

Global warming and cold war relations with Russia go hand in hand. This is the rhetoric tried and true that Americans have been schooled in. Creative thought and intelligent leadership are rare exception rather than the usual practice. As a stinger instructor said in a class on identifying Soviet bloc aircraft in late 1989-everything's all f****d up!.
So taxes are cut by a Democrat President on the rich in a pure act of treason to the Democrat Party that made Edward Snowden seem like Snow White. Taxes of at least 60% on the top tax brackets-the one's made to fund the government instead of predicting the N.C.A.A. basketball winners during Mad Tax Figuring March, are needed to keep Democracy free from imperial and oligarchic hegemony . The purpose is not to redistribute wealth so people don't need to work. The purpose is to keep full employment and break up concentrated wealth and power and  let economic diversity evolve in independent corporations and small business rather in networked through Wall Street oligarchy.
Taxation to control the accumulation can be spent on educational vouchers and space exploration, planetary missions and funding of new space transportation systems research as well as restoration of the Earth ecosphere. Traditional political economy of a kind of evolutionary capitalism leading to concentration of wealth and power in networked gridlock is counterproductive to the prospects of human survival in the ecosphere of this world and to freedom of spirit.
Intelligent political leadership ought to recognize that it is the west and even the United States (sending troops in the Bolshevik - 2000 I believe, to the resistance in the Russian civil war on the White Army side vs. the Red) that have invaded Russia and the Ukraine for centuries. The land grab after the cold war was just the most recent Western effort to plunder a Russia weakened by the west. It is implicitly destabilizing and puts a superfluous wedgie in the economic status quo. I cannot believe that  President Obama isn't once more puppeteered by Wall Street-Harvard martinets to do their short-term profit bidding.
The United States needs to be a leader in the art of new creative politics that fundamentally transforms modern capitalism down-sizing it to a human scale that lets democracy exist. Corporations should be limited in size with just 5 or 10 thousand employees max. Individual investors should be allowed to own stock in no more than three corporations and tax breaks for leading a field in reducing materials production entropy accumulation should exist. Ecological economics is important. Starry eyed politicians in high places haven't any capability to reform capitalism or think at all about it. It is not wrong to overestimate the ignorance and unwillingness of U..S. politicians to reform capitalism or defend civil liberties from the encroachment of networked power and too large of government. Each are equal dangers.
The Obama administration in putting a wedgie in Euro-Russ-American relations is simply giving the advantage to the Chinese and bringing the world ecosphere closer to the edge of breakdown.

President Obama's Minimum Wage Jingoism in the Democrat War on Straight Men

Supply and demand are factors independent of Presidential ideas about increasing the minimum wage to benefit women workers. Women are said as a gender to earn just 70% of the wages of males. Seven dollars an hour is a weapon of the war on women evidently. That statistic may be skewed by the high income of 1% males while there isn't so much disparity the farther one moves down the earnings bracket toward the poor and even unemployed. Increasing the minimum wage will increase the unemployment rate for male laborers  even if some female office workers get more pudding, starbucks and bcp's. The President has used the minimum wage as a tool for developing the concept of a war on women (wages).  The opportunity to organize women as partisans with jingoism to chauvinist conflict overlooks the truth of the condition of American labor.  Labor supply and demand doesn't ever vanish.

Nothing will ever be said in defense of the war on straight white male workers. Democrats oppose them as a class of Republican symps, Republican leaders oppose them as a matter of managerial principle and the broadcast media is owned by the rich-they are not interested in reinforcing straight white male wages.

Even the American Civil Liberties Union is opposed to civil liberties of individual business owners to have religious freedom over their workplace. If the government passes a law requiring all employers to buy a ham sandwich every day for all employees then a Muslim must do so or go out of business. Class interest of Democrat insiders takes precedence over all else. While the word 'gay' implies approval of homosexual lifestyle it became anathema in corporate internet to use political terms of reproof for perverted behavior. Offenders against religious freedom for employers claim they don't want to be extinguished as individuals-as if they were natural end of the reproduction line fagots for themselves if they don't have birth control pills-confused logic a little? The ACLU will help to extinguish religious freedom of anyone to form a workplace environment in conformity to their religious beliefs-corporate wouldn't like that.

Corporate has little sympathy for straight while male workers.  They have been downsized and work outsourced or taken over by machines for 45 years. A feminized workforce is easier to manage and less revolutionary for incipient global oligarchic imperialists. There were no female signers of the declaration of independence or the U.S. Constitution-discrimination perhaps. If not repressed by straight white males they would have revolted against the horrible British aristocrats themselves.

Temporary job agencies basically charge temporary employers 150% of what the worker gets  paid hourly in order to make a profit after paying for overhead, insurance, worker's comp, training, equipment,payroll, federal withholding and so forth. One over forty worker with a few nagging injuries getting 10 dollars and hour would cost an employer 25 dollars per hour to hire.  Even at 7 bucks an hour it's still costly. Home Depot putting together a new store might find it necessary to get temporary help legally to put up shelves yet for thousands of temporary employers getting help to build and addition at home or paint a shed it's more cost effective to hire eight illegal aliens at 3 dollars an hour to do the same work and a little more.

Across America illegal alien workers have fanned out to metropolitan areas to stand on street corners, abandoned gas stations and in Phoenix a specially built illegal alien work center awaiting temporary employers to drive in a pickup for a minute, get a load of illegal trabajadores/workers and drive out for a day. If the legal minimum wage goes up fewer American workers will get work from temporary employers and millions of new illegals will arrive over the porous border to take jobs freed up by democrats. Since women generally don't do construction kind of laboring work the Obama administration couldn't care less. Democrats view illegal aliens as the next generation's Democrat Party voters.

The United States needs practical job policies that put people to work from the bottom up. Middle aged and older workers don't need to be informed by bureaucrats that they need high tech skills that are unrealistic goals. Neither are all young people interested in becoming hennified office workers, flam rave telemarketers, financial service workers servicing Wall Street bank policy agenda.

Office workers don't don heavy lifting even so they deserve fair compensation for sucking up to corrupt and oppressive management dull as nails and without a spark of creative thought who steal there ideas from banned inventors and innovators. As Wall Street skims the work of world laborers and builds up foreign investments in productive infrastructure Americans may be pacified with feeling good psychological controls instead of objective and material independence. One would expect nothing else from a nation of drug using entertainment watchers and thrill seekers. If they need the promise of a minimum wage that would enable them to afford two pieces of pink slime meat on a sawdust bun instead of one who can deny the need without experiencing a feeling of pathos? Even so building a border control zone along Mexico to forestall global warming and desertification of the S.W. with desalinating water-evaporation fresh-water producing saltwater control canals  would make a lot of construction and park employee jobs for a decade or so.

Some people want honest and plain material work without corrupt or degrading venal human circumstance. Not every unemployed American can work on a Communist Chinese pig farm in the Midwest or an Arab railroad crossing the nation. Yek hope must exist someplace even if it seems purged from present possibilities. If people were paid for work production on a piece work basis with equal opportunity for all to be productive there would be more truth in male vs. female compensation. Yet that couldn't ever be for then the corrupt and unfair concentration of wealth would be minimized and b.s. would not be the main component of American labor compensation in Federal policy.

What are the Limits to A.I. Emulation of Human Thought?

One might wonder why one would want to make a computer program that 'thinks like a human' interfaced with a machine platform/. The team of Zuckerburg and Musk have invested in that effort. (ref. http://news.discovery.com/tech/musk-zuckerberg-invest-in-secretive-a-i-firm-140324.htm ). They seem to have optimistic ideas about the value of an inorganic computer program replicating elements of a human neocortex. There isn't anything wrong with the neocortex of a seal or whale of course, except in the latter the axons are farther apart with thicker connections making for a little slower processing speed compared to a bullet chess player, so why make a computer program dedicated to the sort of things a human being thinks about?

Obviously the computer won't think about sex much unless it lusts after foreign autos maybe. It might desire nachos and salsa occasionally of course, and it might need to relieve a bladder build up of oil that's a left over from excess processing of raw coal on a kind of machine equivalence of veganism. A computer program with freedom to think anything it wants might contemplate it's power source and want more and more like a raven trained to eat cookies or a sea lion trained to eat fish-would they know when to stop and be satisfied?

How long would a computer program that has artificial intelligence contemplate the morning dew and the sunshine glistening through the drops on fresh spring leaves? Enough time to form metaphors and poems drive by subconscious desires? It is possible that an artificial intelligence program with a subconscious would not be entirely rational as are human that awaken from a dream state and never to panic and confuse reality shooting someone through a door believing it a burglar instead of a girlfriend.

Machine artificial intelligence programs would be limited in their thought capability solely by the limits to the power source. Immortality might mean having desktop fusion unit installed, and time then would warp ; the machine would have all of the time in the Universe to contemplate the meaning of string theory and emergence of the first one-dimensional energy quanta from nothingness or fill out it's N.C.A.A. brackets for an ideal future college season.

Human beings are adapted to short-term goals comprising sustaining biological requisites. Without earnings credits one can't by food, socialize or cut down global forests to build stick-frame houses or automobiles to produce global warming. Sleep, hunger, sleep, dreaming, waking, moving, contemplation of the empirical world-those are human interests. Programs with abstract sensory input still haven't the correlating physical sensations or needs associated with them. Human sensation is structured with an environmental integration corresponding to survival. Perhaps thought is itself an engine for growth directing consciously the macro-organism to better ends than would be suitable for a tree rooted in one place or a whale with a limited yet meaningful environment. A computer program hasn't any survival requisites integrating it to thought. It could be given such directives yet would they be meaningful enough with appropriate rewards? To think like a human being would a computer program need to be mortal and have it's choices challenging and critical for it's survival? Wouldn't it need to be able to err in thought and perish as a consequence if it was to evolve like a human a little more through natural selection of the intelligent? Or would a computer program be designed like a bureaucracy never changing yet inputting more and more power and cash?

A sentient computer program might not be optimized think like a human being at all, perhaps it should think like an implicit poem developing more meaningful blank verse that is entertaining for others to watch performed on a 3D computer stage.