Friday, June 26, 2009

Hearing

Hearing .

Andre Willers

24 Jun 2009



Synopsis .

Hearing and vision are intimately linked at the brain level . Age-related degradation in one system leads to degradation in the other . Likewise training .



Discussion .

1.The alphabet .

Each symbol is associated with a sound and drilled in through repetition .Visual and auditory systems are linked at a very fundamental level . This is a feedback system , so it is impossible to establish which is the driver (cause) . Most likely , the alphabet evolved to mirror hearing loss in old age . Consonants (higher frequencies) are the first to go , so the most frequent sounds that survive are vowels (e,a,r,i,o) . You will notice that r is not a vowel . It is unique .It is not confused with any other sound , regardless of frequency . It is coupled with L . Note that Chinese usually do not have R an L simultaneously . It seems to be a characteristic of tonal languages , since both can be any frequency (R can be seen as a modified L , or vice versa)

A name like "R*LL*R*R" etc will be unforgettable at any age .



If you merge the consonant discrimination loss ( see http://www.deafened.org/consconf.htm ) with English frequency of alphabetical letters , you see that that lower sound frequency of vowels are associated with a higher frequency of occurrence in the language . This is to be expected .

The confusion of consonants (higher sound freq) occurrences mirror frequency :



Sounds usually and normally confused in decreasing order (one can play around endlessly with these figures)

k,p,t

m.n

g,d,b

f,th



These cover most of the discrimination loss area .

The alphabet is a boiled-down version of the minimum necessary to communicate . It has an intimate connection with the muscle-memory structures of the mouth , epiglottis and lungs .



The visual component (letters) has been drilled in through decades of reading .



This is a double-edged sword . Loss of discrimination in the visual area brings about loss of discrimination in the auditory area and vice-versa . The brain centers are relatively far apart , but linked via brain-rhythms . This linkage can be utilized or disrupted .



There is a feedback mechanism between loss of vision and loss of hearing .

Inversely . bettering one will better the other .



Reading aloud , poetry and stochastic resonance .

As these systems degrade , stochastic resonance (a very old evolutionary mechanism used in all sorts of balancing body-systems) surfaces . Tinnitus in hearing , blurriness in vision , unsteadiness in balance.



Essentially , it is a system to get meaning by adding chaos .

In hearing , it is a continuous background noise(interpreted by the brain as a whine) . Bodily balance is also affected , since the same mechanism is used by the neurons in the foot-soles and calves for balance .



Visual systems are affected as a blurriness .

Note that this has nothing to do with the effectiveness of the primary proprioceptors . It is the learned way the brain has that needs retraining .



Bodily balance is effected by unsteadiness .



Sub-vocalization
All humans use sub-vocalization , either on reading or in internal dialogue between mirror-networks . This involves only low-frequency sounds . As expected , the discrimination of high-frequency drops off as a power-law over time .

Note above about the uncertainty about the driver of degradation of high-frequency receptors .



The higher mutation rate of memes due to bad hearing in old age may play a crucial role .



The Grand-Mother effect
Talking aloud to babies and listening to the high-frequency responses triggers stem-cell growth and retardation of apoptosis .

This can and is faked . Pets .



Internal hearing .

Every person hears perfectly well internally . It is the external projection that might be lacking .

This is mirrored on listening . If the external hearing has to be filtered through internal hearing muscle memory (ie mimic what the other person is saying) , you have a problem .



The Training Regimen .

1.The easiest and cheapest is simply to read some poetry aloud . No audience is required , but it has to be aloud .

2.Itarin has been modified to do this . I will let you know the result after the next audiogram .





The absolute minimum :

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

Read this aloud . Repeatedly .

Poetry is better .

Ridiculous as it might seem , this will better your hearing and vision .



Isn't logic wonderful ?



Andre


Hearing .

Andre Willers

24 Jun 2009



Synopsis .

Hearing and vision are intimately linked at the brain level . Age-related degradation in one system leads to degradation in the other . Likewise training .



Discussion .

1.The alphabet .

Each symbol is associated with a sound and drilled in through repetition .Visual and auditory systems are linked at a very fundamental level . This is a feedback system , so it is impossible to establish which is the driver (cause) . Most likely , the alphabet evolved to mirror hearing loss in old age . Consonants (higher frequencies) are the first to go , so the most frequent sounds that survive are vowels (e,a,r,i,o) . You will notice that r is not a vowel . It is unique .It is not confused with any other sound , regardless of frequency . It is coupled with L . Note that Chinese usually do not have R an L simultaneously . It seems to be a characteristic of tonal languages , since both can be any frequency (R can be seen as a modified L , or vice versa)

A name like "R*LL*R*R" etc will be unforgettable at any age .



If you merge the consonant discrimination loss ( see http://www.deafened.org/consconf.htm ) with English frequency of alphabetical letters , you see that that lower sound frequency of vowels are associated with a higher frequency of occurrence in the language . This is to be expected .

The confusion of consonants (higher sound freq) occurrences mirror frequency :



Sounds usually and normally confused in decreasing order (one can play around endlessly with these figures)

k,p,t

m.n

g,d,b

f,th



These cover most of the discrimination loss area .

The alphabet is a boiled-down version of the minimum necessary to communicate . It has an intimate connection with the muscle-memory structures of the mouth , epiglottis and lungs .



The visual component (letters) has been drilled in through decades of reading .



This is a double-edged sword . Loss of discrimination in the visual area brings about loss of discrimination in the auditory area and vice-versa . The brain centers are relatively far apart , but linked via brain-rhythms . This linkage can be utilized or disrupted .



There is a feedback mechanism between loss of vision and loss of hearing .

Inversely . bettering one will better the other .



Reading aloud , poetry and stochastic resonance .

As these systems degrade , stochastic resonance (a very old evolutionary mechanism used in all sorts of balancing body-systems) surfaces . Tinnitus in hearing , blurriness in vision , unsteadiness in balance.



Essentially , it is a system to get meaning by adding chaos .

In hearing , it is a continuous background noise(interpreted by the brain as a whine) . Bodily balance is also affected , since the same mechanism is used by the neurons in the foot-soles and calves for balance .



Visual systems are affected as a blurriness .

Note that this has nothing to do with the effectiveness of the primary proprioceptors . It is the learned way the brain has that needs retraining .



Bodily balance is effected by unsteadiness .



Sub-vocalization
All humans use sub-vocalization , either on reading or in internal dialogue between mirror-networks . This involves only low-frequency sounds . As expected , the discrimination of high-frequency drops off as a power-law over time .

Note above about the uncertainty about the driver of degradation of high-frequency receptors .



The higher mutation rate of memes due to bad hearing in old age may play a crucial role .



The Grand-Mother effect
Talking aloud to babies and listening to the high-frequency responses triggers stem-cell growth and retardation of apoptosis .

This can and is faked . Pets .



Internal hearing .

Every person hears perfectly well internally . It is the external projection that might be lacking .

This is mirrored on listening . If the external hearing has to be filtered through internal hearing muscle memory (ie mimic what the other person is saying) , you have a problem .



The Training Regimen .

1.The easiest and cheapest is simply to read some poetry aloud . No audience is required , but it has to be aloud .

2.Itarin has been modified to do this . I will let you know the result after the next audiogram .





The absolute minimum :

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

Read this aloud . Repeatedly .

Poetry is better .

Ridiculous as it might seem , this will better your hearing and vision .



Isn't logic wonderful ?



Andre

Friday, June 05, 2009

Chixilub , Gaia and Chickenfat .

Chixilub , Gaia and Chickenfat .
Andre Willers
5 Jun 2009.

Synopsis:
This is very speculative .
See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com "AI Update" dated 3/6/2009 , "Asteroid Guard" dated 23/5/2009 .
The Chixilub explosion was not caused by a meteor , but by a fusion-fission-fusion reaction .

Discussion .
1.The shallow seas around the Yucatan peninsula was a breeding ground for dinosaurs , with dense nests .Lots of hot neutrons about , moderated by chickenfat into slow neutrons (chickenfat is a better moderator than heavy water) .
2.The area had big deposits of pitchblend (uranium ores) . It is on the same latitude as natural occurring fission reactors in Okra in Nigeria and Congo . The same geological history .
3.The dinosaurs learned to pack their nests with uranium ore . The slow neutrons they emitted led to heat release by fission , keeping the nests and the surrounding seas nice and warm . Also more plankton , hence fish and more dinosaurs . A huge fish-farm . Also more chickenfat .
4. Until one day the system reached a critical threshold and a fission critical mass was reached .
Loose neutrons in sufficient numbers to play a role in fission-fusion reactions are not usually considered , because their numbers are low . But here the numbers were large . So , no matter where in the circle of nests the reaction started , it would have spread in milliseconds into a ring of fission explosions , triggering a big fusion explosion in the compression center .
5.Fratricidal Focus .
The system would be self-focussing , given a large enough number of nests . The ones out of synch would be blown apart , instead of fissioning .
6.At the center , the compression would be sufficient to trigger a massive fusion reaction , "Squeezing the pimple" as described in http://andreswhy.blogspot.com "Asteroid Guard" dated 23/5/2009 .
A plasma bolt erupted from the planet and re-entered as the well-known Curtain of Fire .
7. Iridium layer
A fission-fusion breakdown product . Nobody has looked , but try for transuranics at longtitudes 120 degrees away from Chixilub .

Even more speculative :
The effect of mass extinctions have been decreasing according to a power-law since the Permian extinction .
The presence of a power-law is very strongly suggestive of a feedback mechanism . Some would say it is proof .

We call this feedback mechanism Gaia , without having much of an idea of what comprises it . But we know that an energy release on the order of Chixilub would cause only a minor hiccup in our present bio-setup .

This raises the interesting speculation that the dinosaurs in Chixilub saw a real large meteor coming , and deliberately sacrificed themselves to zap it .It is an interesting exercise to calculate the effects of a really large meteor strike .
It was a very good shot , given that it would take about three shots to zero in .

The Chixilub strike was anomalous . It should have caused more damage than it did if it was a large meteor or asteroid . Large portions of the crust was left untouched , and the dominant life-form survived (albeit in a slightly different form (birds))

Subsequent strikes caused even less damage .
Eg large strikes in North America circa 12 800 BC , which caused the extinction of numerous large mammals (or their dimunition) . But humans were nearly untouched .
There was a triple strike about 420 AD . One fragment landed in the North Sea and destroyed most of the shipping . But the humans recovered very quickly .

Gaia must be chuffed for inventing humans .
The common human perception is that Gaia is being raped by humans .
Gaia thinks very long term .
Humans are sucking on the tit now , but a chewed nipple is a small price for future gain . They will grow up .
Let us hope they are better than the dinosaurs at averting serious dangers .
At least more than one shot .

All very well , but how can I have fusion powered muscles right now ?
The governor on the system is the hot neutrons released by the fusion process . The only known counteraction at present is chickenfat . This not only soaks up fast neutrons , but also some particle-byproducts of other types of radiation .

The mitochondria in your muscles have evolved to refuse to operate at levels of fast-neutron release that will gum up surrounding mechanisms .

So , two completely separate energy systems have evolved .
1.Our well-known hydro-carbon one
2.The fusion one , with a push-down fat elimination mechanism .

A modified Atkins diet with heavy chicken fat and some chicken protein , with supplements , will , after a purging period , give significantly increased power and endurance .
The muscular mass seems to decrease as the efficiency increases . Surplus fat disappears , as it is flushed away as bearing radioactive particles .(A very old mechanism) . It is a detox regimen .

This means that your muscles will become thinner (arms and legs especially) , but much stronger . The joint attachments of ligaments will become stronger (knobbier) . Like a Pak protector .
Reaction speeds will be faster by orders of magnitude . (signals will be via quantum systems : see previous posts .)

Radiation overdose :
Put the patient on a heavy diet of chickenfat . Even for sunburn .

Longevity .
Over a certain threshold , the usage of fusion–systems will not trigger age apoptosis .

Alcohol and chickenfat .
Just when you thought you could identify immortals by seeing who only eats chicken fats :
Alcohol gets metabolized first . Our immortal can eat anything with the wine . It is what is left over after the alcohol wears off that matters . So don't expect too many immortals in countries that shun alcohol .

Yours with a hiccup
Andre

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

AI Update

AI Update .
Andre Willers .
2 Jun 2009

Synopsis :
The verdict on AI's with no organic components is still out .
But sex is a must .
Catalytic fusion is a byproduct .

Discussion :
See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com "Newtools: Artificial Intelligence" , "AI" , et al .

There are three strong candidates :
1.WolframAlpha : available , but still clunky .
2.GoogleSquare . Available soon
3."Adam and Eve" at Aberystwyth University , Scotland . Dr Amanda Clare . Automated hypothesis formulation and testing . Quite ambitious . www.computescotland.com/2260.php

WolframAlpha and GoogleSquare are semiotic systems . They derive meaning from existing relationships . But cannot steer promising result lines . ( See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com "Cause and Result")

The Scottish Experiment is much more promising . The logical code structure of "Adam" necessitates regular input . It is an obligate input-vore . If it does not receive input , it will experiment till it does . The other two will sit and wait forever .

This is intimately tied to learned-helplessness and neural-network architectures .

Can Google or WolframAlpha experience induced learned-helplessness ?
I'm afraid so . Any semiotic system (ie dependant on feedback from other systems) has to have a weighing system . And this can be randomized . (Learned helplessness) . This is already a problem as users are in a reference war .

The "Adam and Eve" system can be randomized , but will then automatically reboot or add new queries of it's own .
It can reboot from reality , not just references .

Assuming there is a reality .
Still , a stone is more real than all politicians or scientists put together .

And what does this mean ?
Why , sex , of course .
At least a minimum of two sexes .
If you want to build an AI , you will have to include at least two sexes . Thus , a single AI is unstable . For reasons , see my previous posts . This is deeply hardwired into the nature of neural networks . An unlimited neural network will sooner or later run into a learned-helplessness block . The only way to get it out is another network not in the same lock . This is sex .
"Vive la difference" is not just a figure of speech . It is an essential to existence of multiple entities .Or even of one entity .

Chaos .
This principle is used extensively in chemical manufacturing (chaotic steering of molecules near attractor-basin rims )
This is actually a simple AI , made usable by repeated self-rebooting . Also known as a catalyst .

Catalytic Nuclear Fusion .
A rather simple process lately discovered by humans . (See cold fusion)

The Gate Principle
The fusion takes place mostly before (2/3) and after(1/3) being squeezed through the gyres at the gate.
See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com "Hadrian and critical plague mass" for an easy visualization .

And why don't we all run on nuclear fusion ?
We do .But only partly .
The little system has not solved the problem of hot neutrons , released by the fusion process .Like being bombarded by ball-bearings in , well , the balls . Really balls up the works .

Some plants have made some inroads (well documented: Findhorn , etc) . Trace minerals appears from nowhere , but only under specific stress-conditions . The radioactivity levels of the test-areas were also far above normal .

The joker is that every anti-body is a gate . So , catalytic fusion takes place all time throughout the body .
I refer you to the Iditarod effect . Under stress , the system switches to fusion power , and damn the neutrons . But they are cushioned by fat envelopes . The fat molecules absorb and emit the fast neutrons in patterned ways .

Dinosaurs .
Dinosaurs were fusion-powered !
But they needed enough fat-molecules to ameliorate the neutrons . When the ecology changed (See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com "Death of the Dinosaurs") . the larger ones were first casualties of a lack of fatty oils .

Birds .
Their descendants , as expected , has a much higher metabolic rate . Their temperature is about 5 to 6 degrees higher than mammals . They fly around , a high-energy activity . And they do all this on a few seeds . The studies on energy metabolism I have seen were relative , not absolute . Basically , birds fly partly on fusion power . Measure the neutron flux close to them .
Chicken soup (ie bird fat) has a well-deserved reputation as an anti-radiation method . The fats have evolved to absorb and redirect neutrons and other radiation byproducts , lessening the stress on the body's immune system .
A bit more is involved in the self-assembly and repair department .

Athletes .
Eat a lot of chicken fat , and a larger portion of your mitochondria switches to fusion power . See Iditarod effect .
You might trip some of the more sensitive radiation counters at airports .

Global Warming .
Too many humans eating chicken and doing their fusion thing .

Not exactly what the dinosaurs had in mind .

And what does it have to do with AI ?
Because it happens in pockets . High-energy pockets . Like fusion pockets inside cells .A network of high-energy pockets interspersed with low-energy sub-stratum inevitably leads to intelligence .

Andre