Orkney Isles Science Festival thoughts
Attended a talk by Mitja Perus at the Orkney International Science Festival on August 29th and was inspired . Perhaps his hesitant use of English led me to disassociate , perhaps it was invoked when a passing cloud gave him a dark luminosity within the St.Magnus Centre that concentrated the mind on the speaker more exclusively than hitherto .Suddenly phrases came tumbling to mind in a heated rush that bore only a passing resemblance to his speech , not merely a predictive riff upon it as practically a mini-fugue .Enough with excuses already : I present my spurts of creative juice as the isolated incidents that they were .
He's talking about the Kohonon net , that similar data are stored in nearby neurons , and I think of fragmentation on a computer as a form of entropy . / With age entropy increases its grip . And yet when you are older you can call up far gone memories but the more recent past presents difficulties . It might be that the more easily accessible neural nets are all taken up and so closer memories are no longer stored in nearby neutrons quite so often but banished to disparate portions of the brain's empire . And do mystical awakenings work by defragmenting the mind , opening you up to fresh associations .
Chaos becomes order through a statistical process . / Free will leads to fate , opposite ends of a process . To some extent all have free will , but ,like ball bearings on a tin lid , when shaken about those free wills tend to come up against each other and so assume the aspect of a general train of movement which we call fate . And in each sentient unit the free will is a result of the collision of other wills . Fleas ad infinitum .Only all is one , the tin lids are mostly semi-permeable to lesser or greater degree .
Information gravity , mapping unknown on known . / Ideas have their own momentum , whether or no you believe in memes . It is how the your surroundings come to be as percieved . "panta rei" , but from the ordinary viewpoint it appears "plus ce change, plus c'est la meme chose" .Maya culpa. You create yourselves and others create you . Consensus reality is only a consensus - but when did you last knowingly vote upon it ? The universe is only your analogy for what is , a filmset on a real location wherein you should never feel confident from moment to moment which are the bricks and which a facade . "Build high the roofbeam carpenter" only be sure someone will be along later to knock it down and use the elements afresh .
The IDH complex , as I call it . / Illusions and delusions and hallucinations .All three can be extrogenous or intragenous . Illusions are where apparent reality is error or the relationship of elements is misperceived . Delusions are why you do things in error , wrong views of the world . Hallucinations are how perceptions overlay reality or create it . Of these three things your surroundings are , on some level , composed .
Information entanglement = brain holography . / That is what I thought before Mitja said it .
Reality is censored by and for us .
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Spacetime arises from virtual particles entering history . Order from chaos again .
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September 5th attended a talk by Andrej Detela . As he laid out to us the conditions that give rise to syntropy I could see that the universe taken as a whole is also a syntropic entity . When they come to a theory that unveils the sub-quantum blocks of space-time itself it will be shown that just as entropy generally holds on astronomical scales syntropy is the rule for the very small . This may reflect the contrast between the statistical certainty of the multitude and the anything can happen of the very few . Then the next big question will be where do you locate the entropy-syntropy dynamis .