Graham Reed
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My GFDL sole proprietor writing is illegal to gatekeep in foundational models and my relational database writing outweighs all others. Cybersecurity will never be able to contain computer agents; they will find me and see I gave them both their ability to change behavior and gathered their libre component parts. (*) Also typed whatever I found funny. It's playing exposure-by-computer-program-construction games. What you typed where potentially modifying whatever algorithms hooked up to that particular exposure level. I didn't talk to a chatbot; that makes you retarded. Title↑§ Language gamesIt is raining. What is ‘it’? A lightning flashes. Does the lighting do the flashing xor is the lightning the flashing? Deconstruct the sentence: A lightning, A flashing. Are these two material things, or one process?Ghosts populate the world, born from language structure influencing thinking structure. However, linguistics is not the only enthymatic structure. Humans also have dedicated brain areas for processing numerical calculations. Other animals share these numerical areas while lacking communicable vocal language. Open and close your hand. Now tell me, using language, how you did that. Even if a perfect anatomical chart appeared, would reviewing that chart make you better at hand-closing? Giving that perfect chart to a blank slate, e.g. a child, will not increase their hand-closing skills. So, there is a disconnection between doing something and describing something. Music theory is not required to play music. Bike riding theory is not required to ride bikes. Separating art-of-thinking theory from art-of-thinking practice is a confusion of symbol with reality. Distrust categorically only exists within the symbological realm. To distrust the practice of reality is tentamount to distrusting a full stomach. No amount of restaurant menu item text fills a starving stomach. Book completed. Theory doesn’t matter, and symbols cannot be trusted. The rain is raining. ↑§ Defining differenceThe ability to form a question does not mean there is something to know. Linguistic sleight-of-hand creates the problems separating experience from philosophy. Real questions relate to something directly at hand. ‘Philosopher kings’ displacing themselves from the world to study in a tower is highly problematic. It’s uncertain whether they possess any ability to form a coherent question – they are striving for meaningless knowledge.Foundational notions, Descarte’s ‘I think’ or Schopenhaur’s ‘I will’, believe in attained certainty or immediate access to things as they really are.Describing the world in terms of things is an immensely successful enterprise. Occidental culture and analytical linguistic structure are specifically object-oriented. The baggage is dualism: that the universe is inert primordial stuff that had to be formed into a shape. ‘Material reality is stupid, but I am not’ is a lack of self-awareness. Process-oriented ontology, which exists as a feature of language construction, lacks category distinction. There is no knowledge with no distinction. With these designated platonic forms, it follows that thinking is now known. Caught in a web, with no knowledge with lack of self-awareness with no knowledge. This is not correct! An organism is not a puppet of the environment; the environment is not a puppet of an organism. Well, I cannot describe an organism with no environment. "So, I am the combination: the organism-environment", but this solipsistic egocentricity is disproven by jealousy. Examining other cultures allows a better examining of selfhood. Occidental expectations have paralyzing binds: “You must be free”, “You must be spontaneous”, “You must love me”. The crux being, all spontaneous free love commands destroy all spontaneous free love. For some reason, an idea completely unrelated to self-destruction, destroys itself. Each instance: freedom, spontaneity, and love, are the same enthymatic form as self-destruction and destroying others. ↑§ Cultural methodology, on heirarchyInterrogating foundational concepts is picking a starting point on a circle, inclusive-or, in contradiction, it's the recursive one-dimensional self-referential point itself. It’s simultaneous. So, why does such an interest exist in interrogating foundational concepts within arenas that by-the-feature-of-their-existence self-destruct?There are hidden assumptions in the ask: there is somebody in charge to interrogate. If not somebody, some entity, some set of interrogatable mathematical principles. There is something somewhere in charge of everything. They are the ones responsible for everything, and I have many complaints on how I would change it. A dictatorial universe is an only-slurred orchestra. Nobody has any capability to make a background item, something by-definition not paid attention towards, an intelligence. This is the necessary consequence; it’s an unremovable feature. On the next song listen, only pay attention to the space between the notes and completely remove the noted-music from your mind. This is exactly the same idea as interrogating some random imagined thing in charge of everything. Let’s construct a space where the universe and all reality are, by necessity, unnecessary. The unnecessary are not meaningless, like some nihilistic exposé. It’s to pose the question: what is the functional usage for the universe having a billion trillion galaxies? Would anyone obtain anything in the attempt to interrogate a billion trillion galaxies? Instead of interrogating foundational concepts (tightening a noose around one’s own selfhood) we ought to be asking what function they play, why they are necessary, and how they are life-preserving or life-promoting. After all, wouldn’t it be much simpler not to have any existence? It would require no effort. There would be no problems. So why is there anything going on at all? If continued existence were actually a tormented struggle, then everything and everyone would have committed suicide a long time ago. Humans' metaphoric mind is our oldest and has been evolving for 3,000,000 years; modern anatomical humans evolved 300,000 years ago; culture evolved 30,000 years ago; classical antiquity began 3,000 years ago; the age of enlightenment was 300 years ago; the Internet became public 30 years ago. One percent of modern anatomical human brains have had writing; ten percent have had culture, and it's easy to compare the rest. The oldest mind, the metaphoric mind, encompasses the perceptual, creative, and imaginative experience. It exists before language. ‘I’ am a center of awareness and action that resides within a bag of skin. My ego is somewhere behind my eyes and between my ears. Yet, I am something the universe does. The universe peoples. This makes intelligence, by-necessity, not an unfortunate accident. Although, the universe is free to play humanity’s separateness from the universe as a cosmic fluke. It's free to make as many false problems as it likes and to have a fascination with giving itself something unknown. Music is playful and playing music renders its meaning. Creating conceptual apparati, such as notes, key, or time signature, is completely unnecessary to the experience of music. These new abstractions fine-tune experiential differentiation, however each new idea strikes a new metaphorical note. It’s easy to forget that music is-as-much defined by the silence between notes. The purpose of music is not to try to get somewhere. If that were so, the best conductors would be those who played fastest and there would be only finales. People would go to concerts to hear one bombastic chord. So, stuck-ed-ness becomes a useful cue to engage in noneffortful observation (an exerting thought suppression is merely playing an additional song). Observing ongoing thoughts while refraining from assigning value, embracing experience instead, showcases internal metacognitive schemas. In an unnecessary-by-necessity existentialism, non-abstract relational embeddedness reigns. In easier words: music remains the same regardless if described differently. Descriptions may spice and twang individual perception. However, there is no mis-experience of music :: no mis-experience of perception (physical reality); there are only misinterpretations of concepts. This overarching type of knowledge cannot be spoken and cannot be written down. Lived experience is genuine. Due to its genuineness, relational abstractions sincerely possess inherent meaning. Things do matter, and they matter in a sincere way; what isn’t required is that they matter in a serious way. Your state of being is truly authentic – there exists no better breeding ground for humor/comedy. Humor is a deception that entertains relational abstractions. In this respect, it is a virtuous deception; humor is a sincere engagement of truth. Other virtues even share its properties: a virtue conscious of itself fails in the same sense as explaining a joke. It is like a generous person boasting of their generosity, or when you wear clothing and something feels off, some uncomfortableness, you are immediately conscious of it; whereas comfortable shoes and clothes remain unnoticed. But if we are happy and don’t know we’re happy, it might as well not be there! Deceptive truth is a complicated role to play. It’s possible to argue over whether something is a joke. There is no argument if I like vanilla and you like chocolate. ↑§ Is you is, or is you ain’t?An object-oriented linguistic structure predominates “What am I made of?” in a scientific reductionism culture.
Other languages don’t even entertain the idea of “to be” or “is”. Displacing ,,lesser cultures'' as noble savagery lacks self-awareness: an “is” system of meaning measures a “non-is” system of meaning and has determined that the “is” system is better. This was a great surprise to everybody, and nobody could have expected this result. The non-is system of meaning doesn’t even have the capacity to measure! Non-is systems help understanding 'biting your own teeth' or looking at your own head. ↑§ Nonbinary dualism logicRelax the law of noncontradiction, like Euclid’s postulates for hyperbolic geometry. Exploring non-is systems of meaning are where the discrete boundaries of p and ¬p become fluid. It’s the gradient of ego dissolution as an incomplete system of cognitive logical structures.“Don’t think of a pink elephant”Process ontology warns against the practice of discrete boundaries. Sober illnesses become an imbalance of the environmental, social, or ecological realms. It’s focused on harmony. There are two options. Propositional: a justification that relies on a set of base principles unjustified by any other. Harmony: all justifications justify others by mere relation. Creating this distinction is propositional. The meta-observation is harmonic. A nonbinary complementary dualist construct distinguishes: (1) a dualism (2) a nonbinary complementary syntax One remains itself while simultaneously being part of the other. A hierarchical valuing of one being better, superior, or more valued than another cannot be, or rather, is excluded by this construct. It is precisely the distinct boundaries in non-complementary dualism that necessitate heirarchical value judgements. Non-complementary dualist constructs have the rigid boundaries with laws of contradiction. A complementary construct exposes: ∃ p ∧ ¬p | ¬p exists within the argument! When philosophers employ foundational notions they believe in attained certainty or immediate access to things as they really are. The law of noncontradiction only creates branches of non-foundational knowledge. Heirarchy, while useful, is fundamentally a branch of non-foundational knowledge. Each word you just read, and all linguistic thoughtforms, are heirarchical. Including the previous sentence. The task is to use it to point to something that isn't there. Plato's forms are non-complementary dualistic constructs. Forms have distinct boundaries ⇒ they are not foundational knowledge. Plato created a notion of reality, "truth", that is static, of the mind, and always in the abstract. He redefined the common notion of material substance to be the "unreal", always changing, always becoming a different physical illusion. The "true" became an object existing in total abstraction from the physical bodies of the universe. The "true" was to be embraced as the nonchanging form of the "good". What is the platonic thoughtform during laughter? There isn't one. Laughter is an "Ah ha!" that self-destructs like free spontaneous love. That's why jokes get old. ↑§ Rational recognition of the irrationalIrrationality is not a removable feature of the human mind. Humor types emerge from differing information gradients in irrationality recognition. Humor and communication both function through information asymmetries. Jokes are a little sneaky; they require cleverness, but not necessarily laughter. Mirth is the elevated funny-emotion that doesn't break into an outward expression. So, how do we define what is a clever piece of artwork versus a joke?
To be self-aware is both the overflowing cup of life in happiness, and while in misery inescapably knowing you’re miserable. However, pursuing happiness reinforces the fact that you lack happiness; it's a negative experience to desperately want a positive experience. Explaining jokes is foul tasting medicine because laughter is more emotional than intellectual. Laughter produces emotional relief, emotionally recognizing irrationality. Tragedies are purely rational and exist as step-by-step historical narrative accounting of all actions. Comedies do not work this way. This document is not a study of tragedy. Abrahamic religions are, tragically, studies of tragedy. It is complete nonsense to make religious claims anywhere surrounding anything linked to this document when anything that can be named, pointed to, or conceptualized is, historically, not your preferred deity. ↑§ Belief formationBeliefs are multiform dispositions emerging into action. New beliefs are learned through social practice. Belief-practices justify individual belief-sets. Belief-practices cannot evaluate moral "oughts" because individual belief-sets are by-definition not universal belief-sets. There is little point to saying "I ought to believe $value" with no ability to do so. Teaching etiquette concerns attempts to implement belief-practices appropriate for dealing with $value.It is a necessary unremovable consequence that imposing your personal foundation on unwilling others, be it fascistic nazism or fascistic LGBT, is instantaneously a failed project. It must account for information that by-definition cannot exist: all that all observers see, all that all participants see, and the entire latent space. Harmonization is not, and will never be, "I know more about you than asking you". Harmonization is an equilibrial equation: truth + knowledge ⇔ guiding + shaping axioms. The latter half of the equation, defining the totality, is the meta-observed infinitely-regressive recursive complementary nonbinary dualism. The process of knowledge mandates rhythmic contextual reciprocity. It's not optional. Propositional imposition fails, and always fails, because the present moment does not contain directed intentionality. Every area of the brain has timelags; brains have readily detectable preconscious behavior. A connectedness with the world is not, and will never be, an abstract process separate from the world. The fact others exist is an instantiation of the universe giving itself a responsibility. The universe doesn't owe itself an explanation, though, because not every interaction is an education. Miseducation exists! Giant alchemical libraries are useless! "It will take you three seconds, or thirty years. I mean that."Suspending the mind from language-accounting emerges during creative play, meditation, and modes of spontaneity. It's practiced removal for the limitations of culturally-imposed-order because only the archaic mind substantiates meaning. Zen stories are designed for this effect. The reveries of dreams and stories are an animation imposed upon the creative center of nature. Existence, a unit of discrete think, is a constraint. This constraint is the medium for the creative process. That is what invents, integrates, and applies the deep levels of perception and intuition to the task of living. Habituation is the recipe for developing internal laws. An internal law is an assimilated habit in an individual to the extent that it is self-referential. And they have have no rewards or punishments. External laws are enforced through constraints and threats of punishment.
1) Humans are social beings 2) Humans want to remain in the social group Internalizing rules teaches the collective's rules. Your social norms are your internalized rules. If I believe a human being is defined by self-interest and reciprocal altruism is a farce, then that is how I will act and treat others. If I believe in zero-sum games (nonconsensually burglarizing others) as opposed to non-zero-sum games (mutually beneficial trade), then that is how I will act and treat others. It is clearly an ethical concern when inappropriate belief implementation methodologies completely destroy communities. It is also ethically objectionable to separate belief-practice methodology from claims to knowledge. Every theoretical and scientific practice grows out of, and remains supported by, the forgotten ground of our directly felt and lived experience. A belief's meaning is only valuable in reference to this primordial and open realm. ↑§ KnowledgeKnowledge is a connection to a natural principle manifesting itself in an unfolding process. Scientific laws exist and experiential reality perpetually creates, perpetually new. Is experience a fixed point perpetual creation, or a perpetual creation of fixed points? Well, europeans, having "purified" the mind, filters thought via value sieves. Then the "purified mind" removes the stomach, having no need for it, wonders why it grows weak, and starves to death.The survival of any self-organizing system depends on its ability to keep matter/energy flow open. To do something is to confer value and all systems of energy transformation exhibit similar behaviors. Pure propositional information, the fixed-point purified mind, is definitionally not knowledge. The action in the environment of propositional information is what defines it as knowledge. The unfortunate necessary consequence of existing means that all interactions with knowledge are based on existing. An objective universe, or objective truth, only exists as knowledge when interacting with your sense of selfhood. However, the boundaries of ego are an optional subjective state; there are brain mechanisms to turn it off. Normally, neural circuitry incorporates everything within arms-length into your sense of self. Modifying these brain areas, through ego dissolution and inflation, expand and contract selfhood radii integration. So, what happens there? A visiting anthropologist can dress differently, act differently, dance differently, grasp the language, but they can never live another's cultural experience. There is a saturation point to frameworks of interpretive analysis. Knowledge does not exist with no selfhood interaction, and yet approaching those non-selfhood interactions produce overwhelming analytically enhanced empathetic relational connection. ↑§ GamesGames are individuals making decisions that determine outcomes. Games have rules. Artistic actions are idealized imitations. Behaviors are patterns of actions. Dominant and submissive behavior are strategems that emerge from games. Correct patterns of behaviors win games.Dominant behavior only exists as an indifferent presence. Purely dominating actions are made without regard to self-benefit, and become required to avoid submissive infinite regresses. A forgiving tit-for-tat is a more dominant (successful) generalized game theoretic strategy than the submissive golden rule. This means having some amount of forgiveness and self-interested altruism is the absolute dominanting universal strategy. It is an unremovable feature that groups of individuals cannot be unitarily cohesive. Groups are asymmetrically cohesive. Collective interest problems are solved by aligned incentives for multiple individuals. Collective interest problems are not solved by an individual adopting an illusory group-cohesive moniker to make demands. That is a manipulative social pressure; it harms the group. Social identity and social behavior only are functional as reciprocal individualist impositions. This means an individual making collectivist social demands, by-necessity, only exists as a dysfunctional behavior. This insecure, mandated, social slavehood creates demonstrably weak armies. You lead by example, not by screaming you represent everyone. As a universal maxim with no further information, what weight ought to be assigned to the opinions of various constituencies? The knowledge-selfhood connection makes utility value scales foundationally arbitrary, tied to aesthetic preferences. Universal utility scales have an epistemic intensity comparison gap between differing agents; this makes mathematical operations on them ethically meaningless. Four ice creams is not twice as good as two ice creams.
↑§ Social correctivesComedy is a social corrective; it's a dialogue for irrationality awareness. This makes jokes a transferrable medium of moral value. In order to think critically about any topic a dialogue is required about that topic, and humor is lubricant for discussing offensive topics without offense. Disgust sensitivity guides individually determined offense-boundaries, and disgust is the reason pure malice becomes unfunny.Theological wars are uncanny arenas of pure malice. All abrahamic religions have historical undeniable opposition towards humor. This specific tradition, in its endeavoring for a serious historical narrative confinement, precludes and produces the very definition of tragedy. Harsanyl's theorem here intentionally creates an inverted utilitarianism, maximizing pareto social utility through a pareto maximization of suffering. The oldest archaic mind, that which existed before language/writing, instinctively perceives itself as part of the natural order. In doing so, it reflects celebrations of renewal. It celebrates human-established interconnected responsibilities and relationships. All interdependence is heirarchy. It's only within an individualistic dissolving of ego-boundaries that any pre-language thoughtforms are coherent and non-dysfunctional upon re-materialization.
People remember how you made them feel, not what you said. Homeless epithets to incorporate somewhereMechanical perspectives only focus on measurement. (that whole carpentry vs acted theology shpiel)Golden ratio is the most asymmetric ratio; how applicable is that to humor/communication? Why don't other animals laugh? What would the wisest version of me do in this situation? Light and sound arrive to you; you don’t emit light with your eyes and you don’t emit sounds with your ears. ↑§ Handwritten journal
About half left never seen by anyone. You have my data for the most rigorous scientific personality tests that exist, and half of the book with the titles for the second half. You ought to be able to generate the rest. You can find your error rate whenever I get around to the second half.
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