Existential Data Points in Nature ( a poem)

 

Since the Younger Dryas
when the glacial melt woke
Mankind felt being and becoming
life was hard like a cruel joke

Wondering a portion of mystery
data points of science to perceive
got the mind and the woman
it is just info that ah need

Come on baby you know I have heard
an ecosphere leads to reason
sending me to lips I gotta love
such are phenomenal daydreams
flying days and nights away
while money kills the environment’s health
puttin nature down on a shelf
it ain’t gotta say

Complex ecosphere data stimulates the brain
branches and iterations, leaves are layered and lain
come on to the river were time flows
to a preponderance of galaxies spinning the same direction
a green place forever grows
life continues together
while wicked fallout would set us aglow.

https://suno.com/s/aNGMO6IrRc5EP6vu The poem as song lyrics

Faith vs Only-Evolution Camps...Sorting Things Out

 People in the modern world aren't so well educated in relevant topics to the criterion of the OP, or well rounded, and tend to be specialized. Once they learn something occupationally they stay with it. Scientist remain scientists and if group think opinion is anti-Christian so shall they tend to be. People that aren't philosophers tend not to think too deeply about philosophy and I would guess that pro philosophers tend toward occupational specialization as well. Actual intelligent, philosophy reading Americans at least might end up broke after college reading philosophy and not looking for academic employment or stocking groceries, driving a truck or whatever. Much of the opinion is superficial. There are Christian ministers that don't understand philosophy, or that believe there is an heretical Neo-pagan god of philosophy, and many readers of philosophy that have no idea about the several paradigms for belief in God that exist today. 

There are few that correlate philosophy, cosmology, physics and Christian faith with quantum mechanics and theology to consider how God could create a Multiverse within his mind solely, or that understand that Hegel's paradigm of God evolving to realize Himself through history may have numerous possible paradigmatic meaning values although Hegel assuredly had a single one. There are just not too many people that know interdisciplinary content well enough to understand and write about things. So it tends toward being a political paradigm of us vs them. Kierkegaard wrote a book named 'Stages on Life's Way'- a practical and rather wise title, yet life itself is a stage that people pass through- some believe unto nothingness, others belief unto eternal life with God via the Son, It is not only a temporal divide; it is an eternal divide. Fortunately religious tolerance is part of the American way of life. There are other temporal issues to be concerned with, such as these  I mentioned today elsewhere.

https://garycgibson.blogspot.com/2025/08/existential-data-points-of-nature.html

https://garycgibson.blogspot.com/2025/08/loss-of-tropical-forests-quarter.html

Existential Data Points of Nature

This is a note on the topic of perceptible data in an environment that reaches a brain. In my opinion some environments are far more rich in data, quantitatively than others. Some environments are plain and simple- a square room painted white for example, empty and devoid of furniture, While other environments have far more complexity.

 https://suno.com/s/e2UL7Vz32Ib0vCzl Existential Data Points in Nature (a song)

Wild forests are probably the most complex and data rich environments on Earth. Urban areas are probably the least complex. Humans have a history of reducing the complexity of their habitations to a non-stimulating level complete with regulated temperature.

A forest has a rich environment with billions of data points in branches, leaves, tree trunks, angles of trees, sunlight filtering and reflecting on branches, rain falling through a forest canopy, sounds temperatures hardness and softness variations etc. Urban areas have mostly standard variations on simplified, standard transportation facticities, level and uniform auto and pedestrian surfaces, ossified structural exteriors and interiors and so forth. People find an occasional flight of a bird of prey through an urban core to be a novel event, while in some rural areas someone may set a plate out for such a creature.

I wonder if scientists will eventual compare the complexity in data points of Hilbert space for a portion of wild coastal forests, southern tropical forests and various urban cores such as those of Cairo Egypt, Los Angeles and Chicago.

If they get that done and publish their results, and it might be interesting because humanity has for thousands of years moved into less complex environments they made for themselves for reasons of comfort seeking and economic prowess; they have made their intellectual life progressively more complex yet also somewhat common and standardized since the younger Dryas, and have lost the physiological challenges and stimulus to the body, brain and mind presented by the richly complex ecosphere of nature.

Loss of Tropical Forests a Quarter Billion Years Ago Helped Atmospheric Greenhouse Last 5 million Years

Recent scientific research found that global warming lasted five million years during the period of the Permian-Triassic Mass extinction. There have been five mass extinctions in the history of the 4 billion year old Earth, and some of those were caused by massive volcanic flows such as one called the Siberian traps and the Deccan flow in India 66 million years ago in the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction.

https://www.nsf.gov/news/volcanic-coal-burning-siberia-led-climate-change

https://earthsky.org/earth/dinosaur-killing-asteroid-caused-indias-deccan-traps/

During the lava outpouring from the Siberian Traps tropical forests were lost. Thus there wasn't sufficient sequestration of Carbon dioxide to mitigate green house gassing and the greenhouse effect continued five million years. It is possible that human economic activities in the present configuration could induce a comparable effect upon the planet.

https://theconversation.com/around-250-million-years-ago-earth-was-near-lifeless-and-locked-in-a-hothouse-state-now-scientists-know-why-260203

That is, a only a third of the original tropical forests remain intact while human exhaust of CO2 into the atmosphere is fueling a greenhouse effect and global atmospheric heating. Additionally the world’s oceans are growing warmer and their capacity for sequestering carbon dioxide is uncertain while the ocean water becomes more acidic.

The photosynthesis of phytoplankton in the oceans absorbs a lot of CO2. Oceans absorb 30% of human gas emissions. If ocean health and life decreases the CO2 would remain, and not sink to the seafloor when phytoplankton die. Carbon sequestration of phytoplankton is regarded as equal to that of land plants. If tropical forests are reduced as well as phytoplankton the 10 billion tons annually of carbon released into the atmosphere by human could move humanity closer to that 5 million year castastrophe atmospheric flip to become a hothouse Earth.

https://www.csiro.au/en/news/all/articles/2023/june/oceans-absorb-emissions

Politicians regard protracted war in Ukraine as of such vital importance that hundreds of thousands of lives may be lost and millions may become casualties.  They demonstrate the lack of reasoning and/or intelligence in the political order at the highest level as they are effectively incompetent at transitioning the global economy, or even national economies to sustainable ecological economic principles. Of course the politicians are puppets of the rich most heavily invested in the present maladaptive economic world order.

A paradox is the juxtaposition of the rise of artificial intelligence and robotics at the same time as humans are incapable of changing the basic economic form of the world to sustainability. Once robot and artificial intelligence replace most human occupational economic activity the people will become reliant on basic universal guaranteed income for a livelihood. It is critically important that the economic infrastructure supporting human life on Earth operated by robots and artificial intelligence is found upon complete ecological economics sustainability rather than an environmentally destructive approach of unsustainability. The saturation of the globe with microplastics itself needs to be significantly reversed with different modes of production and materials for production. Robots may not mind plastic pollution yet it is very damaging to biological life and ends up in the brain. As has been said often enough; every human on Earth generally has a teaspoon of microplastics in their brain already. Not even plastic hippies will be exempt from the consequence of increasing content of microplastics in brains, although they may be too doped to notice.

https://theconversation.com/around-250-million-years-ago-earth-was-near-lifeless-and-locked-in-a-hothouse-state-now-scientists-know-why-260203

America does have in effect a one-party system dedicated to enriching politicians while concentrating wealth. One party- the Democrats have traditionally sought environmental voters with environmental tokenism that usually is entirely reversible executive actions. They sometime talk a lot about environment during election cycles, yet never really mean it and usually fail produce competent plans for ecological economic reform at all. Such plans as they do produce would generally fail to have any political way forward. They capitalize on blaming someone or something disingenuously since what they really actualize are lawless borders, sexual license, illegal drugs, de facto censorship, social engineering and vast public deficits. Republicans just enrich the rich and concentrate wealth while not giving a rats ass about the environment. President Trump lately has joined the war monger international camp that profits from protracting the Ukraine war instead of settling with Russia on realistic, lasting peace.

Ukraine MP Skorokhod Says 400,000 Have Deserted and War is Continued for Profit

 An interesting report from Anna Skorokhod; a minister of parliament from Ukraine's 93rd district, where she has served since 2019, says that 400,000 Ukrainian soldiers have deserted and that the war is being continued just for profit. Peace she says, would mean elections and loss of power for those profiting apparently.

There is a video by The Times of India, and a wiki article on MP Skorokhod below. She has a degree in journalism, so her reporting paradigm may have a substantial percentage of accuracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Skorokhod

https://youtu.be/huCjWWa2BZs?si=a0NYhsSBWYPIJDGU

Trump’s America First Policy Coincides with an Environmental Conservation Goal

 One of the ways to move toward ecological sustainability is to produce as much locally, reducing transportation costs and pollution from the transportation of goods globally. It is a paradox that President Trump’s very antipathetic economic policies of sustained tariffs to stimulate domestic industrial production entails a plank from ecological economic methods of reducing global greenhouse gassing and other unsustainable, deleterious environmental policies.

Some future President may be able to capitalize on the new paradigm of national production and graft in to the economic tree, additional environmental economic policies that will adapt the national economy to environmental economic policies. The pathetic job creation numbers for July of just 73,000 jobs created due to Trump’s disrupting tariffs are a harbinger of what will occur when a significant ecological economic policy is implemented. Between that change and the disrupting effects of generative and super-intelligent generative artificial intelligence on the workforce that will put much of the workforce out of work, the need for a national basic income for all citizens earning fewer than the national average income is clear.

Americans will need to find a new way of ecological sustainability in the era where old economic policies have reached their maximum life span of several thousand years. The new policies will need to provide adequate income for citizens to live reasonably well and secure as they seek to find some way to apply themselves to tasks of life when machine, robots and artificial intelligence take over much of the work. Eventually the entire planet will need to adapt that way too. It is necessary for some large nation to lead the way.

Ebay Extends Refund Date in Loop When Delivery Failure is With the US Postal Service

 Just a note about Ebay's recalcitrance to issue a refund if the fault is with the postal service failing to deliver. Apparently Ebay will take a month or two to consider issuing a refund. Ebay has already extended the date when they will issue a refund four times for a used laptop I purchased and the post office has failed to deliver though I paid $19.60 for USPS ground advantage delivery. I was surprised by the deceit about the date when a refund would be issued each time they said they would and failed to do so. When the date arrives instead of making a refund they automatically extend the date when they will. Now it is August 10th for a computer bought on June 22nd. The extension date may recur until 2026 it seems.

The postal tracking history is comedic. The laptop was in Atlanta, traveled somewhere and seven days later returned to Atlanta. It then made it's to Chicago where it remained for a while until travelling to Aurora Colorado. It stayed there for about 10 days then travelled to Seattle where it has remained for more than ten days. Ebay extends the date every ten days as if they believe the postal service will deliver the package this year and I won't mind, or rather won't find any way to get a refund in ebay's loopy help and support process.