Pilachi_Sketch [ BLOG ]

In a previous post, I wrote about the use of magnets, in describing the potential for artificial awareness / pseudo intelligence. This morning, quite by accident I came across a simulation on BBC, where a complex copper alloy, cooled by liquid nitrate, was used to describe how a super-conductor could be used to induce “magnetic levitation.” The beauty of the simulation is that the magnetic levitation also worked upside down… and therefore defied gravity, while levitating and conveying the object above the magnetically induced surface.

Magnetic levitation is used in super-high-speed trains in China, but currently require vast quantities of electricity to induce magnetic levitation, so are too expensive to find worldwide applications. The mag-lev simulation was used to demonstrate that if a practical and inexpensive solution is found, Magnetic Levitation could be a sustainable answer to the increasingly urban challenge of mass transit.

Magnetic Levitation trains do not have wheels nor engines, but are incredibly fast, and incredibly safe.

I will look for some useful sources to site.

The longer I watch the series of Nova documentaries on String Theory, the more annoyed I become. It seems that facing the same challenges I have, of describing what we do not understand, in terms of what we already do [or have been told we do]… the ever vacuuous nothingness of the unknown, grows increasingly “other-like” and therefore dismissable. I do not understand you, therefore you are not valid, is never the path to discovery. Read more

A very good friend –whose life is characterized by a frozen moment– upon reading about the significance of a frozen moment documented from a distant fortune cookie that called for us all to exclaim… exclaim… don’t you just love the impropriety of that fragment. So sexy.

The headline read… “It was a hot and passionate night, the intensity was building and then… I… we… all… ah… exclaim.”

That was an aside [to emphasize the importance of passion, even when describing punctuation]. Pregnant Pause. Back to the point.

In commenting on a post written about fractals and fortune cookies, she said that the whole “logic of fractals” stuff probably had useful applications to thought processes and behavior. She is right.

I did not know it at the time… but [Norbert Weiner eat your heart out] I believe with instinct and certainty, that the models of chaotic attractors, when scripted to reveal their truest intrinsic nature, can adapt to changing situations and produce instinctive responses based on the premises of avoidance and collision; those premises [without hypothecary] would give rise to behavioral patterns that are naturally dynamic, mimic thought and choice, but are so simple in their representation and manifestation, that they could give rise to artificial intelligence in the truest sense. Not the robotics that just present themselves as really fancy calculators.

I mean a simple logical sequence… a running iterative function that responds to changing conditions, projects possible outcome, is aware of and prepares for anticipated collisions (logical or tangible) and based simply on the nature of that simple function, corrects for the collision by avoiding it, or embraces the collision in an attempt to redirect its original trajectory.

It would in isolation, look like a thinking, reasoning entity… but it really would be a simple mechanical operation performed by something as simple as a stone.

It is not as complex as it sounds.

Opposing magnets [that in some instances look like stones] when in a confined space do the very same things… and they do not have the capacity for thought… despite their propensity for action.

When I graduated from undergrad architecture, and met the angel i[n]c. arnate otherwise called “SIR,” she asked me a question that I never really fully answered, because I had not started to recognize, much less emerge from my shell.

She asked me at that time… “If money was not an issue, and you could do anything in the world that you wanted to, what would you do?”

What would you do?

[ For me, this is it. ]

I was just watching a video on YouTube, produced by Nova, about the 11th Dimension… wherein they described String Theory on the premise that in quantum mechanics, space is chaotic and random and gives rise to tears in the topological landscape at sub atomic levels.

I disagree.

From the moment the narrator used the words “chaotic” and “random” in the same sentence, I began not only to question his investment in the topic, but also the notion of tearing.

Fractals organize logic at both the micro and the macro scales, without changing their topology. For this reason, chaotic fractals give useful explanations for the otherwise ambiguous scientific hypothecary. Read more

Similar to the descriptions about a juggler describing the bridge between Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, Chaos Theory, the Butterfly Effect, String Theory and the models of strange attractors proposed by Clifford Pickover and Peter De Jong. There is magic and therefore misdirection in the understanding of relative significance.

It is the same with Salsa. The magic of the dance lies not in the dramatic stying, but in the gentle transitions and collisions between the two dancers HANDS. These are the moments where great changes take place… not in the eyes, not in the feet, not in all the fancy twists and swirls.

The answer lies in the collisions between the hands… not in the fancy footwork.

Earlier today, I began to hint at a major breakthrough that happened last night while documenting the significance of spiderman… in understanding the logic of the deterministic chaos models I have been working on (for the past three years this month). You see, there are a bunch of guys who focus on string theory… which until today, I knew very little about… other than hearing about it over a hamburger one Wednesday night, a few weeks ago.

Now, I think I have stumbled on a more appropriate way to come to terms with the disparities between quantum mechanics and Einstein’s theory of Relativity; some of the things that String theory begins to suggest.

Personally, I love Star Trek and the whole bit, but I do not buy into the whole worm-hole bit.

I recognize from the fractal models, that there are specific points in the model [which roughly translate to moments in space and time... even though technically it is a topological model and the concept of space and time are irrelevant], where major change can potentially occur. I call these moments easter eggs… I will tell you more on that later.

The way that I was able to clearly explain it today, was based on a few analogies: (a) the path of the sun and the moon (b) a juggler (c) and the trusty old web slinger… spiderman Read more

One of the reasons I am so drawn to the concept and expression of blogging, is that it so closesly maps my cognitive functions.

If on any particular day I decide to think about the world in terms of the visual or picturesque… I can express myself as an artist. Should I see an element of ugliness exuding that intrinsic billowing quality of impact, then I can relate to the world as a photographer. And the bouncing back and forth between poetry, prose, narrative experiments and serious theoretical discourse on complex organizational systems… can be easily traced as common threads in an interwoven narrative.

Much like the endlessly rising [or falling, depending on your interpretation] themes in a canon… examples include the impossible sketches of Escher, or the rose windows in cathedrals. All unique, all differentiated, all connected to the common goal of understanding notions of the infinite.

The sacred glue that keeps us all from spiraling out into space. Einstein had a theory about that (It was relative to something else, I saw recently but I cant remember.)
I have to go on the road… so more later.

When I return, there will be an interesting development to the descriptions of the world [specifically the constructs of time and logic] that people find ways over time, to string together. It will focus on my increasing understanding of the logic of nth dimensional space.

Fractals baby. The fractals are back… and spiderman [the cartoon character] helped me to figure it out.

Deterministic chaos is the key to instinct… the thought without cognitive thought.

more later.

Behind all of the fractals being conjured in the background of the computer desktop where fractals were previously conjured in the background… are… you guessed it: fractals that were previously conjured in the background… as the background of the desktop used to conjure the fractals (in the background). This is becoming fun again. Read more

Douglas Hofstadter wrote in Godel, Escher, Bach (GEB) an eternal golden braid, that “self referencing systems destroy them selves.”

This he described using the infinite images created by pointing a video camera at a television that are connected to each other. The result is an image of the camera on the television which shows another image of a camera on a television.. ad infinitum. So you get the picture.

The Wachowski brothers did the same thing in the movie the Matrix… where Keanu Reeves’ character Neo meets “the architect” who you can begin to understand as the self, referencing self, through all the images of Neo, surrounding himself, as seen through the eyes of the architect.

This is the whole idea behind fractals… feedback loops. Read more