Bill Gates said recently that just three jobs will exist after AI replaces all others eventually; coder, energy analyst and philosopher (joking about that- it was something else). Already on blogspot AI exists to edit and improve posts. I suppose FB will use that too sooner rather than later. Everyone will have AI assisted writing. Illiterates will tell an AI what to write for them in the style of Hemingway or Shakespeare. AI will wait on hold for a government official or business to clarify some matter and then talk to the other AI in your voice when it answers so humans won't need to be bothered with trivial matters. Humans will oversleep and dream about being with elites on the Martian wilderness hot-tubbing under glass filtered from cosmic rays and other radiation.
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27 March 2025
Time as an Illusion of Quantum Entanglement
I'm not an expert on the theory. It's a tough new paradigm to think about. I will describe my point of view about it though.
It is a theory derived from quantum mechanics. You probably know about quantum entanglement and how entangled particles seem to be able to exchange information faster than light, even if they are dozens of miles or theoretically thousands or millions of miles apart. Einstein called that ‘spooky action at a distance’. He was a skeptic.
Quantum entanglement has been demonstrated numerous times experimentally. The explanation for that is that time does not exist in a deeper reality more fundamental than the one humans experience in the Universe of mass and space. It is an interesting paradigm to consider.
Plato thought about a timeless realm of forms apart from this Universe and its content of mass, He thought an original form or blueprint of the structure of everything that exists in this Universe existed originally in that metaphysical realm; everything is this Universe is an imperfect copy of a blueprint from that realm. Some of the copies are broken forms.
Plotinus- a neo-Platonist philosopher who St. Augustine followed before converting to Christianity, developed an entire book named The Enneads (it means 54 tracts) to describe the relationship of The One (aka. God), The Intelligence (comparable to the Word of God), the Realm of Forms and the world created. The realm of forms is timeless and The One is ineffable and unapproachable. Jesus Christ said that no one has seen The Father except himself, and that if you have seen him you have seen God.
The physics of the new theory are equally without time. There was a physicist named Hugh Everett who invented a Multiverse theory based on statistics I believe it was. He worked for a government military think tank and speculated that instead of a wave-function collapse when quantum particles are observed (one can determine position or speed yet not both simultaneously, logically) a new universe exists matching the new information of the particle. He thought there were an infinite number of Universes in existence, perhaps without time in any (they are fully developed from alpha to omega already (maybe God created or thinks them) and though just travels to an appropriate Universe matching his though development. Time doesn’t exist in that paradigm either, although mind-experience does.
https://suno.com/song/be7bdcca-445b-4b5c-a7b6-fab53f78dcb9?sh=Mu6pX3CNRRgb2hvr
One tends to regard time as a linear sequence experienced objectively. The new theory paradigm is that time is created by quantum entanglement and the human mind perceives that in its one-after-another-way as time. The quantum entanglement of all mass in the Higgs field is one where massless two-dimensional particles pick up an emergent third dimension borrowed from the Higgs field. A human mind observing that phenomena prefers to structure it as space-time ala Einstein and relativity.
N.A.S.A. made a video on that. Maybe there are fewer dimensions rather than higher dimensions below the apparent four dimensions of experience. Massless two-dimensional particles in a two dimensional framework that when entangled in some way double- the forumla 2 + 2 = 4 explains the theory. https://youtu.be/tc7LpJswIZU?si=r2pkto_FrKBoxm20
Obvious questions arise if time does not exist except as an emergent characteristic generated in a human mind by collapsing wave-functions or switching to matching, appropriate Universes (Max Tegmark elaborated n that as a level four universe in ‘The Mathematical Universe’. One cannot time travel forward if time is not real. If time is not real can humans travel about the mass entanglement universe layer faster than light via the static pre-exist Universe (or becoming massless two-dimensional information themselves)? If space-time is only an emergent and not an ultimate fact in the Universe as people exist in level two rather than level one, can spatial locations be any more real than time?
https://www.zmescience.com/science/researchers-create-a-new-type-of-time-crystal-inside-a-diamond/
26 March 2025
Socrates was the Gold Medal Winner in Ancient Philosophy (Christ is God)
Plato's realm of forms has similarities with the contemporary theory of time as an illusion since it is an emergent characteristic, locally, of quantum entanglement. A substrate, fundamental reality without time is thought to be actual. Human perceptions of the heterodox provide a time experience. This is comparable to Tegmark's level four Multiverse paradigm derived I suppose from Everett's many world hypothesis. Socrates is the crowd favorite for Gold; what other ancient philosopher seems so familiar? https://suno.com/.../1fbfcf61-ab8b-42da-9140-a2153daf0934...
Pres Trump Gets Phase 1 of Containing the Ukraine Conflict Signed
President Trump has accomplished getting Ukraine and Russia to agree to terms that reduce the scale of the war somewhat. It is called a partial cease fire. That is comparable to a partial silence; an oxymoron yet meaningful in comparison to a reduction of noise level from a higher level.
Ukraine and Russia agree to keep their ships in neutral corners east and west of the Black Sea although Russia will have access to the Mediterranean via the middle and southern parts of that body of water through Turkey. Russia needs merchant ship access to the world to trade food commodities since the U.S.A. is lifting several sanctions on Russian agriculture and food related trade. Ukraine agreed not to use ships to bring weapons to Odessa and the south shore of Ukraine.
Each side won't attack energy facilities for thirty days, although since Russia began its cease fire on Ukraine energy sites a few days earlier the 30 days for each art occur on a slightly different schedule/
This is all good news. Maybe hungry Africans will get some food relief and American farmers may have better export markets indirectly lowering the cost of bread in the U.S.A. if farmers won't under-plant worried about poor export markets for surplus grain (a theory of mine).
https://suno.com/song/376fb6f0-d4c0-4011-ab97-b194e982e9e5?sh=BbnVld1rke5ws2ie
Drones Will Help Extirpate Endangered Species
A globe with ten billion people (two billion rural residents weren't counted reportedly) saturated with silent small drones useful to poachers for hunting endangered yet valuable species will accelerate the demise of wild animals. Poachers will exploit the cost effectiveness of drones as sentinels to protect pouching operations from game wardens. Even night vision capable drones will be used to find hidden human law enforcement agents lurking in the bush. I would guess human traffickers are upgrading their scouting missions to locate border security personnel in the field as well.
Virtue Signaling the Attack on Houthi Mob
SecDef Hegseth spilled the beans on Signal providing timing of his well-designed retaliatory attack on Yemen. Like Babe Ruth pointing out where he was going to hit the ball out of the park the Secretary of Defense described for his party conference on Signal the timing and location of the impending successful American strike to degrade the capacity of Houthi terrorists to attack free shipping in the approach to the Suez canal/Red Sea, Israel and other locations with missiles and drones. Yemen launched a hypersonic missile to attack Israel June 19, 2024 and a day or two ago. https://trt.global/world/article/3edeb1dfef9c
Such advanced weapons were supplied manufactured by the Houthis themselves, perhaps with support from Iran. A website says the Palestine-2 missile travels at Mach 16 speed. That seems a bit fast. Mach 6 is more probable. https://armyrecognition.com/military-products/army/missiles/hypersonic-missiles/palestine-2-hypersonic-missile
Any use of social media tools for secure defense purposes is a bad idea unless one wants to leak information. Even Starlink if it chose to do so might be able to monitor Ukraine’s military communications on its system and provide that content to the Russian military if Ukraine continued to be non-compliant with following President Trump’s peace initiative criterion. Using signal and including an Atlantic reporter on the list of people sharing the data was surreptitious bragging or an example of why not to trust the internet with defense secrets; even encrypted open-source sites like Signal. https://signal.org/
Time in Everett-Tegmark's Level Four Multiverse is an Illusion
Contemporary theory is that time may not exist and is simply a contingent effect of quantum entanglement 'locally'. With relativity as a continuing operating premise, it is just physical change that occurs without time being an item apart in-itself. If time is an emergent phenomenon of quantum entanglement it may be possible to learn and duplicate various relevant quantum structures to relocate or reconstruct 'time'.
Current theories of time as an emergent characteristic created by quantum entanglement interacting for a temporal order with a human mind suggest that the Universe may already be fully, temporally existent such that it has not time. Neither is there causality. Further; nothing is an accident. A recent N.A.S.A. video explains what is in effect the Everett many worlds criteria developed to Tegmark's level four Multiverse. The point is made at the end of the video. https://youtu.be/tc7LpJswIZU
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