Prodigies Update I
Andre
Willers
25 Sep 2014
Synopsis:
Prodigies ,
Primitives and Cancers are utilized to learn Acquired Savantism . From Idiot to
Savant permanently .
Discussion
:
1.See
Appendix A below for the basics .
2.Acquired
Savantism is usually as result of some brain injury .
See
etc .
3.This is
simply the process analogous to aneuploid cancer (See “Cancer Cells” in
Appendix A below) .
The damage
removes certain protective inhibitory systems .
4.This can
be mimicked by inducing local temporary effects like damage (eg transcranial
stimulation) . This then led to Acquired Savant characteristics , but not
Prodigy . Once the interference is removed , the Acquired Savant characteristics
vanish .
5.Can Acquired
Savant characteristics be learned by the “normal” brain ?
The answer
is yes , because this is exactly why the system has evolved in the first place
.
6.The
mechanism is in the bio-hazard labs of the body (see Appendix A below)
7. Resources
for learning Savantism .
Present
resources are always fully used .
"work
expands so as to fill the time available for its completion"
“expenditure
rises to meet income”
Entropy .
How to
acquire needed resources :
This is
obtained by reorganizing previous processes into more efficient ones , freeing
up resources (better than mimicking damage for a similar effect) .
Once this
preliminary is done , then the Savant effect can be learned
(a fun
one!)
(how to
learn to play like Pele)
Etc
9.How the
Universe does it : Entropy sinks .
This can be
a molecule (heat-shock proteins , for example .)
10.A Smart
Pill is then theoretically possible .
Smartly now
!
Andre
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Appendix A
Prodigies , Primitives and Cancers.
Andre
Willers
9 May 2007
Synopsis :
Prodigies
do things we can all do (like
calculations , languages , music ) with little seeming effort or tuition , but
only much better , faster and at an earlier age .It is often confused with
intelligence .
Discussion :
Sources :
“Primitives”
(Appendix Alpha at end of article) or
General
sources on prodigies and mind-body interactions .
Dedicated Brain Centers
Two
dedicated hardwired neuron complexes are known from experimental evidence :
The language
center (usually above the left ear ) and the counting complex . A music complex
is very strongly suspected .
Various
other emotional centers (amygdala) and memory centers are known . Many others
are suspected . (Like eye-body co-ordination )
Please take
note of the Neuronal Mirror argument .
These
complexes above evolved from primal neuronal mirror set-ups .
A prodigy
happens when a hardwired primitive neuronal complex replicates into the
neuronal mirror arrangements . Because only non-simple encoding is used , this
means a degradation of the functions usually done by these usurped
mirror-neurons . This is at the cost of things like modeling other people (ie
social skills) . Hence the prevalence of the lower end of the autistic spectrum
in prodigies . ( Idiots savant )
As to be
expected , there is a link between prodigies in arithmetic , language and music
.
Prodigies
(like William Hamilton of mathematics fame , or Zerah Colburn )were good at
arithmetic and languages . The link between music and arithmetic is well known
. Mozart’s linguistic skills are overshadowed by other events .
The problem
is that well-known prodigies are the ones that were pushed by their parent(s)
into notoriety . The smarter ones like Gauss , Macauly ,Young , etc learned to
blend in .
Present
day prodigies .
Where
are they ?
Why , at
the top end of most human endeavours . Top-class tennis players , golfers ,
chess-players , etc would qualify in earlier times as prodigies . Today they
have to train hard 8 hours a day from early youth to be able to compete with
the other prodigies . “Ordinary” people do not even get a look in .
Raw
Talent .
A lightning
calculator , if he survived the school system , might be lucky to get a job as
a bookie’s runner or a croupier .
So you
learned Greek , Latin , Finnish , Serbo-Croat and Basque at the age of five ?
You have an interesting future as an interpreter at the UN .
You have a
better chance in music . There are numerous schools for musical prodigies.
Fractal
Identity Crises.
The
hardwired primitive neuronal complex has an internal coding that is not simple
.
It has to
compensate for a temporal identity problem .
The complex
assembles information very quickly ( some researchers say quantum effects are
used , in which case it is instantaneous or from different time-sources ) .
Regardless
, this information has to be presented to the rest of the brain in an usable
fashion , with sequential markers .
For example
, Mozart could comprehend an entire symphony in his overgrown musical complex .
This had to be passed to the normal brain with sequential markers , so that he
could scribble like mad from his simple memory to get a shadow of it in
reproducible form .
Another
example is a native speaker of a complicated language like Latin or Finnish .
The complicated grammar arrives as an entirety , not worked out piecemeal .
This
non-simple coding is very important , since it holds the key to identity
markers , not only temporally but over other parameters as well .
As all my
gentle readers will know , identity defineability is the key on how we know we
are us , how the immune system recognizes our cells , how chromosome clusters
are self-recognised , and all those other fractal identity crises .
This
begs the question :
If we have
identity resolution paradigms good enough to resolve an ID interface between a
very fast (or multitemporal) complex , and the normal brain , why is it not
used in the immune system ?
The answer
is that it is used in this way , but sometimes the controls slip , or is
programmed to slip .
The brain
evolved from these systems , but we would expect some feedback .
Cancer
Cells .
We refer to
these bio-hazard labs as cancer cells . It is where evolution is put into
fast-forward . ( See Scientific American of May 2007 p35 “ Chromosomal Chaos
and Cancer”)
Have you
ever wondered how complex organisms can even exist , when there are trillions
of tons of bacteria , fungi , viruses ,etc
in the world . By sheer numbers and breeding rate , they must outperform
any organism’s defence system .
The
Trick :
Any
centurion will tell you this trick : discipline .
Aneuploidy
is the main mechanism . This is a fancy name for shuffling chromosomes (ie the
tried and trusted sexual mixer .) Only this mechanism is on steroids .
An unknown
molecule is encountered.
The body
does not know how it will affect the organism .
There are
two ways to test it :
- Live through it (potentially
disasterous)
- Test it in a fast-forward
evolutionary biolab .
The body
induces aneuploid cancer in a test cell
.
This cell
is nurtured by the body , deliberately bypassing all the evolutionary pressures
of the environment or the immune system .
The test
cell and its daughters have very rapid and semi-random chromosome shuffling .
(This is also where all those null codons come into play.)
This
cluster of cells forms a bio-hazard lab .
If they
find a solution , it is communicated to the immune system and the lab is
liquidated by apoptosis using the identity markers .
Can you see
how this is more advantageous than living through it ?
If they do
not , the cancer expands , resulting in the non-viability of the organism due
to resource constraints .
But surely
, an off-switch would have evolved ? If it could not find a solution to an
unknown after n tries , it stops . Yes , but if the immune system had not
recognised it the molecules will keep on arriving , triggering new explorations .
To
recognize an “END” codon to a particular try to resolve a “new” molecule
previously tried would require a memory of this molecule . Yet this is exactly
what the immune system does not have , since it passed this molecule on to the
cancer test lab . There does not seem to be a memory of previous cancer-lab
experiments (understandably , since the resource requirements would overwhelm
any finite system with simple coding .)
Is there a
general “END” codon ?
The answer
must be yes , since it appears in more evolved brain mechanisms . See also the
languages of bacteria . (There is an Ur language , and various dialects .)
The
particular information is stored epigenetically . The presence of the problem
molecules in the mother’s womb gets tagged with a methylization complex ,
marking it as solved . Each new generation must resolve it anew .
What a
horrible trap . Old age must be programmed in , since only by setting the “END”
codon in the mothers womb can rubbishy molecules be prevented from triggering
cancers . Mothers get partially reset , which is why they live longer .
Well , it
helps to know that there is a single switch
that will apoptise some cancer labs . It must be something simple , like
the methylization of a geneplex that backpropagates .
Classical
music:
Most people
who listen to classical music live longer and look younger . This is because of
the very recognizable “END” sequence to any symphony . The sequence entrains a
neural process in the brain , which generates chemicals which signal “END ALL” sequences to the internal cancer
labs .
This is one
of the much threatened feedback from more developed parts of the being .
The storm
of feedback from the brain creates a non-linear feedback system , with all that
it implies .
The Q Trick
For example
, Turing ( from Godel’s work ) proved way back in the 1930’s that a linear
logic(computing) process cannot know when to stop if it looks only at internal
logic . This is exactly what we said above . However , by using quantum
processes , the system can know when to
slam down an “END” .
This has to
be communicated to the cell-complexes concerned . It is not sufficient to have
a blanket “END” all the time , since the cancer-labs are vital to the health of
the organism . Once a week seems sufficient , judging from the religious
observances .
So what
does this have to do with prodigies ?
Prodigies
are the cancers of the body human .
They
pretest which behaviours and talents will be acceptable .
Spiderman ,
Batman , Superman , etc
The same
tired old lot :Hercules , Zeus , all the saints . I can’t remember all their
names , or want to .
Bah . Do
any of them even straddle the space-time crack ?
Ride t’em
,cowboy !
Andre
Prodigies II
Andre
Willers
11 May 2007
Please
reread “Prodigies,Primitives and Cancer” , “Primitives_0”, “Primitives_1”
Synopsis:
Powerful
analogies and tools are available to analyze human brains .
Discussion :
The
discussion in “Prodigies” left us with a model of a brain-body with very fast
processors embedded in a network of slow , low-bandwidth communications .
Sounds
familiar?
We can form
a very good and fruitful analogue here of a LAN or the Internet .
The
Primitives (neural complexes like Counting ) are the Pentiums/Parallel
chips/Quantum processors . The Neural and Hormonal system is the cabling .
Addressing
:
This is
vital . From an evolutionary viewpoint and in development order
- Dedicated lines . The brain is seen as like a
telephone exchange .
- Domain addresses . Hormones are a good example
. (As Nelson said to Emma Hamilton : “England expects every gland to do
its duty .” )
- Brain waves . The above processes are
asynchronous , but certain assemblies of information (like vision) are
dependant on synchronization with previously carried-out processes . This
co-ordination is analogeous to clock-speed processes . But beware , as the
brain can carry on different processes at different frequencies . This is
a method of reducing the redundancy overload in the information packages .
Remember that the brain is not designed , but evolved for speed .
- Anticipation : eventually some parts of the
brain learn to anticipate what other parts will do . This is analogeous to
caching and forward-caching . Different sheafs of mirror-neurons have pre-
prepared positions . (Cf Socratic internal dialogues) This enables the
organism to react very rapidly .This is the origin of the phenomenon of
fMRI detecting action decisions before the consciousness is aware of this
decision (about 0.5 seconds) . Consciousness can be seen as a mirror-neuron
network monitoring the other networks . The degree of feedback is not
sufficient to change the decision from the top down (ie the decision is a
simple vector summation of forces.) . But information constraints prevents
this monitoring network from mirroring every datum . Thus excluding of
some data is necessary . This is the definition of concentration .
Concentration : the feedback from the monitoring network(ie
consciousness) channels resources into whatever is chosen to be important .
Sadly , super-consciousness is not possible , since exclusion (concentration)
is the fundamental basis of the system . (See below)
- Self-consciousness : eventually the system learns
to do the same thing to the consciousness as in para 4 above . The system
loops .
Self-consciousness is the termination of this
process , since the concentration exclusion process means that only one
self-consciousness at a time can exist . Being conscious of being conscious of
being conscious etc will just loop you back to para 4 . Note that in Multiple
Personalities Disorders there can be many consciousnesses , but they are
constrained (ie are subsets) and there is only one in “control” .
Self-consciousness also inhibits optimum
resource allocation : an effect well known to anybody on stage or athletes .
Hence the unending yak of mystics about letting go of the self .
Yet self-consciousness can override the simple
voting system of the conscious systems . This is the basis of human morality .
You can always say no , and damn the consequences . Free will does exist .
The
End Codon.
From
previous arguments we already know that the standard ending of classical
symphonies has an actual physiological effect . It tends to force an “All End”
on the internal cancer labs in the body . The small ones (responsible for a lot
of the ageing processes ) are affected in a major way .
A way to
enhance this effect is to engage as many primitives as possible . Music ,
Mathematics , Language ,Visual , Dancing , etc .
Remember ,
the ending has to be entrained , but inherent (no fake crashes.) . (The
mathematical talent is monitoring .)
I can
recommend a sexy soprano singing the 1929 shareprice index , while watching a screen with the graph and
doing freeform dancing .
Not more
than once a week .
An unlikely
bestseller , but try it .
Is
there any way out of this Superconsciousness impasse?
We have to
go back to the primary nodes (also called primitives) . As noted , the coding
for these cannot be simple . They are twisted , quantal and non-local .
Twisted : screw-shaped electromagnetc waves
resonates at specific points on another helical molecule (like ,
surprise,surprise ,DNA) . Limited to lightspeed , but enormous bandwidth .
Quantal : very close molecules transfers
information very rapidly via quantum tunneling .
Non-Local : the joker . Since the whole
organism evolved out of a few molecules , and every new molecule incorporated
had to be in close proximity of these , it is theoretically possible that they
are all entangled . But , as Nelson said to Emma Hamilton , “Some are more
entangled than others .”
Can you
transcend this way ?
Of course .
But do you
really want to?
Flip a
mental coin , and when you can hear it ringing on the pavement , then decide .
Ho-Ho-Ho
!
Homeopathy.
I can’t
resist this .
The
attentive reader will have noticed from the above that water can retain a
memory and an influence in at least three different ways .
Yet they
discard amniotic fluid .
Typically
human .
They throw
the water away and keep the baby .
Andre
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Prodigies III
Andre
Willers
26 May 2007
Hierarchies and Fame .
Synopsis:
Hierarchies
self-assemble out of scale-free networks .
Scale-free
networks imply resource constraints , which imply a network-deconstructor
(apoptosis) . This implies non-smooth switching between optimization
sub-systems .
Discussion :
The discussion
in previous “Prodigies” left us with a model of a brain-body with very fast
processors embedded in a network of slow , low-bandwidth communications and
mirror neuron layers .
The
important point is that these elements are not connected in every possible way
. Local elements have a large number of local
connections . Distant elements have a few , but they exist . This gives
a Scale-Free network (cf Wikkipedia) .
The brain
does not have the resources to maintain every possible linkage , so apoptosis
removes linkages which are not used . This is a well-documented mechanism .
This means
that the communication between Fast Processors , Mirror Layers , the Body , etc
, is not unlimited . In other words , they develop degrees of autonomy ,
especially in the Mirror Layers with feedback mechanisms to give anticipation .
(Ie local optimization sub-systems : mini-personalities ).
Mini-Personalities
.
This gives
rise competing ways of viewing “What must be done” .
This is
equivalent to partial personalities .(Mini-personalities)
But
survival of the whole organism requires a single response . Hence there are
various mechanisms for resolving disputes between mini-personalities .
Regardless
of the mechanism used , a certain mini-personality and it’s coterie of close
support structures gets control . The Consciousness mirrors this after the fact
.
Self-consciousness
may be able to modify this .
Sleep
and Apoptosis .
You can see
the problem if a certain mini-personality is in control for too long . It is simply
a connected cluster of mirror-neurons . The mirror-layers not being used for a
certain time get marked and apoptised . This impoverishes the total personality
.
Connections
between mini-personalities get apoptised , leading to psychological problems
(ref repression , amygdale programming , PTSD , etc)
Not to
mention sleep-deprivation schizophrenia .
Sleep is
the protocol for removing the mini-personality in charge .
Note that
this is not only a function of complexity , but also of resources . This means
that sleep will be necessary for even organisms with relatively few neurons .
Caution
:
Drugs are now available that seems to do away with
sleep with few short term effects . The long term effects will get you , unless
they can inhibit the apoptosis . Which will cause a new form of schizophrenia .
Continuity
: (Putting a new mini-personality in charge)
So your
consciousness and dependant self-consciousness vanishes when you go to sleep .
The various (thousands , literally uncountable for quantally super-posed
mini-personalities ) jockey for top-post .
We would
expect a mechanism for continuity in
this succession struggle to have evolved , and so it has . The so-called
God-center .
This is normally operative in the waking
stage (ie when consciousness is self-assembling from the winner of the
mini-personalities ) , but experimental evidence indicates that strong magnetic
fields focussed on the relevant brain locus can force switches between
mini-personalities even in an awake system . (It is the same mechanism)
Internal
Fame .
At last !
Fame !
All the
above arguments sound suspiciously like human politics . And with good reason .
The
basic model is of a brain-body with very
fast processors embedded in a network of slow , low-bandwidth communications
and mirror neuron layers is just as applicable to humans in a society .
Allowances can be made for some cellular and quantal processes .
A powerful
analog can be made for various processes:
Going to
sleep : voting or
removing the ruler from power .
Waking
up : establishing a
new ruler .
Note that
these are two separate processes .
Internal
Fame : being known
often . This translates to intensity of traffic of signals between various
mini-personalities . A simple repeat mechanism , which ties in with the basic
neural mechanism of frequency-firing.
This
differs from the societal analog in a very important way : Internal Fame can be
under the complete control of the self-consciousness . Simply repeating certain
thoughts and actions (like Mass in Roman Catholicism , or Muslim Prayer) biases
the succession of mini-personalities .
But of
course , by equal measure , we can create unbounded equivalents (all the time
hoping that we know what we are doing) . The system will process it ,
regardless .
Dominant
societies have evolved two mechanisms :
1.The
mini-personalities are correlated with the individual’s value to society (ie a
fractal system ) .
2. Resource
allocation is done on this basis . This used to be no big problem if there is a
big surplus , but human civilizations have evolved a nasty method of allocating
negative surpluses . (Ie even if there is more than enough to go around , some
groups still starve . ) Hence Communism
, Marxism and all the -ism’s to come .
Negative surplus allocation is a pathology .
The analog
in human space is sleeplessness . Not enough resources are allocated to mirror
networks (ie humans) , so apoptosis happens . Artists , scientists , etc don’t
happen .
Do not
confuse this with simple allocation of not-enough existing positive resources
(ie middle ages) .
Negative
surplus allocation is a pathology that targets specific layers in communication
networks . This drastically lowers the capability of the system to meet new
shocks .
It always
ends in tears . It used to end in total destruction of the system , but this
has happened so often that ameliorating mechanisms have evolved (mainly
organized religions). The equivalent of time-distant communication links .
The
question is : why does this pathology recur ?
The sad
truth is that it has to do with relative rates of change .
The new
generation allocates resources in a different way . The older generation tries
to keep it the old way . The relative distortion appears as too much resources
to the old way , and too little to the new way . Ie a negative surplus
allocation .
Some
remedies:
For
individuals :
Rapid
mini-personality switches . Ie frequent sleeps .
Catnaps .
Note that this has been the mechanism used by high-information throughput
individuals like Napoleon , Stalin , Churchill , Hitler , business leaders ,etc
.
They
tailored their personality to the exigencies of the job .
For
Societies :
More
frequent elections for the top job . Once a year seems ok . This will force a
decrease in election cost , as well as greater participation by the Civil
Service .
Oops : the
Romans tried this , and ended up with emperors . But the problem was the power
change .
To switch
the analogue back , individuals who are uncomfortable with their personal
extinction and successor personalities , would not get much benefit from
catnaps .
If you have
problems with this , remember how it works : simply an increase in the
frequency of nerve-pulses between mirror layers .
Imagine the
different states of what you desire as
images in mirror layers . (Do not do small time differences.You need quantal
changes , not small creeps . )
Regarding
them forces an increased signal traffic between the layers . An Interrupt (like
1,2,3,…,10, 10.5 ) will then force a quietus .
Andre
---
Prodigies IV : Interrupts .
Andre
Willers
30 May 2007
Discussion :
The
discussion in previous “Prodigies” left us with a model of a brain-body with
very fast processors embedded in a network of slow , low-bandwidth
communications and mirror neuron layers .
Resultant
mini-personalities compete for dominance . Dominance competes better .
The
fast-processors evolved out of positive feedback mechanisms .
Positive
feedback mechanisms .
A simple Positive
feedback mechanism (say A) increases without limit . It can only be kept in check by another
positive feedback system (say B) . The
various systems interact at various levels . The very nature of non-linear
feedback systems means that certain nodes in the interaction between A and B
are more important than others .
A node like
this has a large amplification factor (it is essentially an amplifier in the
collision of A and B ) . With the large
number of factors , sooner or later a
Fourier series with sharp boundaries happens . (Cf radar waveforms) . This
forms a node with delineated characteristics . In other words , an Interrupt .
What
does an Interrupt do ?
As it
prevents runaway positive feedback systems , it makes all of what we describe
as life possible .
Indeed ,
the Human species can be seen as a specific Interrupt in Gaia .
Speciation
is a form of Interrupt formation . ( When Species A can only breed with species
A , an interrupt is formed . )
Bacteria do
not worry about speciation , and consider it déclassé .
Yet the
Interrupts keep forming ( courtesy of Fourier) , leading to multicellular
organisms and other monstrosities . A bacterium views the body like you view
the Civil Service .
Interrupt
Formation .
As can be
seen from the above , all Interrupts are formed from dynamic systems .
Either from
inherited systems (genetics) , epigenetics or culture .
This also
means that you can change it .
Let us
give some examples :
- Amygdala Interrupt .
Count aloud or subliminally 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10, 10.5
The sequence 1- 10 entrains the calculating nexus . The next
term 10.5 forces the nexus to use more of the
mirror-neurons to do inverse calculations . This causes an interrupt (a
discontinuity ) . You can feel it . Just
count .
Why can the counting mechanism have interrupts
into the amygdala , which is the mechanism for assigning threat/promise to the
organism ?
Because any threat assessment involves counting
.
One wolf , two wolves , etc . One bad molecule
, two etc .
At the start of the counting process a marker
molecule (probably sulfur derived – see
sulfur hibernation) puts the amygdala into an inactive state . It cannot
form an opinion until all the counting data is in . It needs an End Codon . End Codons are
perceived as the end of sequences . Start Codons likewise . At least three
terms of sequences for each are needed .
There are two fundamentally different ways of
counting .
1.
Sequential
independent of the term before last (ie 1,2.3,4., etc)
2.
Sequential
dependant on the last two terms (Fibonacci) (1,1,2,3,5,8,13 , etc)
3.
Counting
in more than the sum of two terms can be written as a two term Fibonacci series (ie a Fibonacci series is
sufficient . (Ref Arith I and Arith II))
This sequence incorporates both .
1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 , 10.5, 20.5 , 31.0, 51.5 , 82.5
Sequence
Fibonacci
This forces your brain to do all sorts of fancy
tricks .
Andre
Prodigies V : Speed and Paradoxes .
Andre
Willers
31 May 2007
See previous
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com “Prodigies” I to IV , “Dehydration” ,
Itarin2” , “The Religious Experience and Proximal
rewards “etc .
Discussion :
The
discussion in previous “Prodigies” left us with a model of a brain-body with
very fast processors embedded in a network of slow , low-bandwidth
communications and mirror neuron layers .
Resultant
mini-personalities compete for dominance . Dominance competes better .
The
fast-processors evolved out of positive feedback mechanisms .
Interrupt
mechanisms evolved to keep positive feedback mechanisms under control .
Speed .
“Ask anything of me except time” Napoleon .
Why is speed so important ? The obvious
answer is that it is important to physical survival .
Yet humans are faster than a striking mamba
.
Thousands of humans routinely catch
striking snakes by the neck for a few rupees . Scientific measurements of
trained martial arts experts give their response times as between 3 to 5 as
fast as snakes or crocodiles .
There is a perception that martial arts
training only enables the human mind to tap into the reptilian brain reflexes .
But if the human (or weasel) responses are
better by a significant margin , this argument does not hold . How can they be
faster than the basal reptilian reflexes ?
Why has this speed evolved ?
Answer:
Fast processor-nodes send information via
scale-free neural-networks to close mirror-networks , as well as to distant
fast-processor complexes .
The speed of the transmission of signals in
the scale-free network is much , much lower than transmission speeds inside the
fast processors .
Thus , a
later processing result in a nearby mirror-network ( or inside the fast
processor) can be sent via the long-neuron of the scale-free network and arrive
at the target before the initial signal from the nearby-mirror network .
This appears as an inversion of
cause-effect to the target .
This appears as a Paradox .
(The alert leader will notice the analogue
with light-speed and non-locality)
There is a mechanism to resolve the paradox
.
It surfaces as a sense of humour . But is
very old and basic . All organisms with more than one neuron will have such a
mechanism (ie a sense of humour) . (Given the complexity of neurons , even one
might be sufficient.)
- Obviously the simplest way simply is that the latest signal is
it . The time-marker must then correspond to 1/ (the alpha-wave frequency)
~ 0.1 to 0.05 of a second . The observed normal mammalian reaction . Yet
faster reactions are observed.
- A faster way is phase differences between various brain waves .
- Another way of seeing it is that one entangled particle (or
system of particles) is isolated by a glove of proteins and water , while
the other is non-local . Something like the immune system . Note that a
lot of quantum computation can take place inside such an enclosure .
It is amusing to note that a quantum life-form
will see immune systems and the effects of nervous systems as the major
life-forms on the planet . They will have to deduce the existence of the
creature from second and third order effects .
In other words , life is essentially the immune
system and paradox resolution in the brain-body .
The essential point is that assembling a
meaningful output from many different inputs with different time-sources
requires non-simple coding .
This coding exists , but needs some work to
understand or use .
Existing coding structures can be
used .
Language .
The language center assembles sentences faster than can be processed by the
slower centers . Hence Puns or grammar .
Reading a book of puns should boost your
immune system . Any humour as well . This is at basic quantum and physiological
level , not just psychological .
If reading a book of grammar generates
risibility , you are indeed an advanced lifeform .
Music :
Ending Codons have been discussed .
Counting:
Most basic . The easiest .
Ho-ho-ho!
Mathematics cannot be described unless
language is used !
Ho-ho-ho again !
The two most basic elements of any
mathematical system is that
- Something is delineated (ie an entity apart from anything else)
- Repetition (ie some operator)
Yet even the definition of number (the set
of all sets that is similar to the given set) requires a language , that is
meta to the underlying concepts . This surfaces as quantum systems in the real
world . The observer is part of the system , in other words.
Primitive counting has been discussed ,
even the iterative cascade . An iterative cascade must generate the concept of
number , but the interface between the fast computation complex and the rest of
the personality evolves .
If you can look at a graph of a Fourier
series showing a square waveform , and feel a risibility impulse , then you are
getting there .
In other words , why are not all our brains
super?
Why do we have slower mirror-networks , and
scale-free-neural networks ?
Answer :
It will end that way . The teensy , weensy
problem is any evolutionary system has to grow . Present human brains are on
the cusp of expanding into totally fast-processors .
The greatest number of humans will exist
just before the system enfolds into a few hyper-personalities .
Can this be done without hardware
rewiring ?
Yes . There is a complex feedback system
between simple and non-simple coding . Mirror neurons can be converted to fast
processors (there is evolutionary predecessors) . Stem cells are available .
Only the coding is needed .
Ho-ho-ho!
The End is Nigh!
Andre
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Appendix
Alpha
Primitives _0
Dated 7/06/2006
Quantity has a quality of its own (Stalin)
Background:
An example illustrates :
The visual system works well by having multiple
small , very rapid recognition centers that recognise edges , corners , curves
, etc . These are then assembled into further complex images further up the
line to the brain .
A single neuron one or two layers away from
this first primitive can handle surprisingly sophisticated pattern recognition
( eg bees trained to recognise human faces , only one neuron activating on fMRI
scan on recognising a face)
The Advantages:
- Speed
. This is all-important in a survival driven organism .
It is more important to have a 80% picture
of the environment in half a second than a 98% picture in 2 seconds . By moving
the eye , the recognition system is also tweaked . In other words , you get as
good or even better picture of the environment by the assembly of rapid
exposures at a lower definition at different viewpoints than a long exposure at
a single viewpoint .
Note that the latest findings
indicate that the only difference between animals and humans is the speed and
capacity at which we perform tasks like planning , memory , tool usage , etc .
Also note that there is a
fundamental correlation on neural-network level between speed and capacity . (
Hence the time-constraints in exams , IQ tests , sports ,ets)
- Reduction
in complexity . You need fewer neurons to do the same task . Most of the
number of input data are used in the first primitive layer , which is
usually hardwired (ie retina) to be very fast . The subsequent
neural-network layers need orders of magnitude fewer nodes . The assembly
over time of different viewpoints in these primitive snapshots ( ie the
differences) will pick up the elements missing in each snapshot due to
poor resolution .
Since we know that the minimum
necessary sufficient number of dimensions in an Euclidean space is three , we
can say that any visual system would work which has three layers . The more
data is processed in each succeeding layer , the better , as long as there is a
time-difference between viewpoints .
The Disadvantage
Definition :
A system lacking a primitive needed
to recognise a new factor in the environment might not pick it up . Most
primitives are learned in very early childhood and fixated by paring of neural
connections on a hardware level . Eg Chinese “r” and “l” problems .
In other words , it is difficult for
an adult to learn new languages , accents or to correct faulty visual systems .
Examples of Human Primitives:
Existing primitives:
1.Visual ( Retina-brain)
1.1 Pattern recognition (lines , edges
curves,etc)
1.2 Peripheral movement (snapshot
differences )
1.3 Linear Trajectory (integration of
eye and body movement in snapshot differences. Very high speed required . )
This is the ur time-binding primitive . How the past and the projected future
connect .
This ability would normally evolve
into intelligent planning capability if there is sufficient number of neurons .
Birds were first , but are constrained by a terrible evolutionary trap : in a
low density atmosphere like Earth , their maximum weight ,and hence cranial
capacity , is limited . They have a ceiling . If they go flightless , without
hands they will lose the trajectory primitive , since the ability to compute
trajectories will have no survival value . They optimise (like smart crows ) ,
but generalization is constrained by cranial size .
Start Speculation
The KT impact would have made no
difference in Terran civilization , except that the civilized species would
have descended from tree-dwelling dinosaurs . (See argument about insolation
fibrillations and Gaia driving intelligence development. ) . Alien intelligent
avians would possible if the atmospheric density is high enough to support
birds with big brains . An estimate would be 6 to 8 times Terran densities at
the moment . A planet like Venus would always have a denser atmosphere ( no
large moon) . If there is life in a solar system , it would be seeded on all
the planets by meteor impacts . Hence we can speculate that intelligent life on
Venus evolved first from an avian base . Since the insolation fibrillations
would have hit Venus first (because of its thicker atmosphere) , intelligence
would have evolved there first in the solar system . Estimated time about 600 –
1000 million years before present . So where are they now ?
They are either extinct (most
likely) , or the planet-bound ones are on Saturn . The clouds of Saturn would
be very attractive to an avian species .
End Speculation
Apes coming out of the trees already
had hands that could throw projectiles and had to have the trajectory primitive
.
Hence , the evolution of upright
stance ( to keep the hands free for throwing stones ) and stone using ( leading
to neolithic technology ) came first and then led to further time-binding
developments like planning , language and intelligence .
Notice that any human society ,
present and historical , spent an inordinate percentage of resources on
trajectory games ( basically ball games) . It is pure Darwinnian statistics :
good ballplayers have better time-binding primitives and are better at
estimating future effects .
A good ball-player is not more
successful because he is a team-player . He is a better team-player because he
binds time better . Competition within
co-operative boundaries .
Arrghh!
See Itarin for the nerd’s revenge .
2.Language : the primitives ( Broca’s area) are
well established .
3.Fairness : Hardwired even into monkeys .
4.Math : count to 3 , rapidly and iteratively .
5.Threat avoidance : Hippocampus (Stress
syndromes)
6.Balance (walking . ref vibrating soles.)
7.Creativity (not just LH/RH brain : it is a
true primitive)
8.Music (inherent)
9.Risk/Reward : Profit . Making money (there
has been heavy selection for this since the invention of agriculture ( ie
surpluses)
10.Shapes (female hip , breast .Male buttocks ,
legs)
11. Pheromones
12. Immune system.
13. Religion
I’m sure there are more , but we know that
these true primitives . Small , fast ,
multiple (mostly hardwired) data-handling nodes feeding into more sophisticated
feedback systems.
2. Primitives we would like to have .
A wish list.
Note that we might have the sensors for the
desired characteristic , but not the primitive . The primitive would only
evolve if there was an evolutionary pressure for it .
2.1 Spin
Computing the flight of a ball due
to aerodynamic factors . Trainable (See Itarin)
2.2 Controlling the potentiating of hippocampus
, immune system or any other primitive . A meta-primitive .
2.3 Recognising and controlling quantum
events .
2.4 Recognising and controlling
disequilibrium events
2.5 Recognise and predict chaotic
attractors.
2.6 Sense and manipulate magnetic fields
.
2.7 Sense and manipulate nuclear fields
.
2.8 Sense and manipulate gravitational
fields .
The general principle is that , if a primitive
has not evolved , it can be created by using some existing structure and
building on that .
Andre
Appendix Beta
Metamaterials in human beings.
Andre
Willers
4 Mar 2007
Background
:
Metamaterials
are groups of atoms or molecules that act like single atoms or molecules with
properties which are novel . (Google , wikipedia , Scientific American , etc)
The best
known are the microwave metamaterials which have a negative refractive index
(the first ones theorized and constructed) .
This
enables definition at a measure smaller than the wavelength of the infalling
radiation . This was long considered theoretically impossible . Now they are
demonstrating invisibility suits (at least at the microwave level ) , and other
goodies based on this principle .
In other
words , its hot and sexy !
But
needless to say , mother Nature got there first .
The
economy of fine definition at minimum cost is an extremely strong attractor to
evolutionary systems .
All
metamaterials are virtual by definition .
ie Ten
atoms of carbon in a specific configuration act like one atom of imaginium .
The
information being processed is real , the rest is virtual . Of course , if the
imaginium’s components are real , then speeds are much higher , and quantum
effects are possible .
But the
essence is:
Ordered
groups of information processors can give results literally impossible to their
components . This is not theory , but hardware .
Visual
systems are the easiest for us to understand .
The visual
system forms layers of metamaterials . Even if the distance between retina
cells are (say ) 10 000 angstroms , the metamaterial processing can make the
definition as if only (say) 10 angstroms
separate the cells .
The same
trick is used throughout the body .
Skin
sensitivity is another example . The brain does not extrapolate . It uses an
gestalt of nearby impressions to form a remarkably accurate virtual impression
.
Acidity in
the stomach , sugar levels , hormone levels , immune system etc . The body gets
by with remarkably few sensors .
It has a
price , though .
The
price is training .
A virtual
metamaterial (like the human visual system , immune system) can only be
partially hardwired . There is not enough information capacity in the
bio-system to handle all permutations . The efficiency of the metamaterial
might be improved ( eg language centers , counting centers , mirror neurons ,
etc) .
Integration
and generation of proximal reward systems remain a major problem .
Advantageous
development of trained metamaterial centers might be incorporated into the DNA
quicker than normal evolutionary pressures ( a form of epigenesis) , but I know
of no such evidence . Culture will inhibit such developments . Except of course
, for non-cultural or anti-cultural pressures .
The selection for mild Aspergers
indicate that there is a tendency for at least a bifurcate split in the
species .
Training
metamaterials:
The
plasticity of the brain/body means that you can train groups of cells to act as
metamaterial atoms/molecules , with properties that the individual elements do
not have .
We have
already seen that this is used extensively by the body .
Now , we
must see how we can extend on it .
Itarin
Itarin is a
visual trainer that creates metamaterial effects .
Itarin is
an adequate neural network visual trainer , because it works better at older
ages as it trains metamaterial “atoms” in the visual field by the fluctuating balls . I originally put them
in to draw attention to the flash of the character in their center , but their
effect has been to create metamaterial neurons .
I was
puzzled why Itarin worked better for me when training while wearing glasses .
The answer , of course , is that the metamaterial effect overshadows the
ordinary neural training effect .
Sports
and Varsity .
Practise
creates metamaterial effects by definition , whether the practise is real or
virtual . A variant of Itarin will have you playing like a pro and praying like
a Christian .
Health.
Most of the
body’s sensory systems work via metamaterial effects . We have known
intervention systems like Itarin . Training metamaterial effects for various
body systems have ranged from too broad (Coue) to too narrow (begone , damned
bug!)
Intelligence.
This
capability is normally defined as the ability to “see” patterns (ie delineated
differences , for which a fine definition is required) . Note that metamaterial
effects gives the brain a finer definition with the same number of neurons .
While
Itarin was not designed for this , it could be adapted . It should have some
effect , in any case , due to the metamaterial effects in the cortical and
immediate sub-cortical areas .
Unused
capability.
Most humans
have the conceit that they only us about 10 % of their brain capacity . Extra ,
unused capacity in the brain (which consumes about 25 % of the body’s energy) ,
simply did not happen . (Evolutionary reasons)
What did
happen , if you understood the above argument , is that inefficient utilization
of the brain’s resources ( even using hardwired metamaterial effects ) uses up
nearly all of it’s capability .
It is like
driving a Ferrari in first gear at full throttle . With a broken steering wheel
.
Everything
is going at full blast . There is nothing unused.
From an
evolutionary viewpoint , it is easy to see why . Some few hardwired systems
like elementary vision , speech , counting ,etc at a most elementary level
evolve . (The primitive elements) . The rest is catch-as-catch can . Now and
then , the cultural component evolves a more efficient utilization . This frees
up some neurons for keeping up with the Jones’. And so it goes .
The
glitterati wonders what Jones wore , the literati wonders what he said or wrote
, and the priesthood wonders why they care .
The amusing
thing is that while there is no unused capacity in the present westerner’s
brain , a slight rearrangement of the organization of the brain brought about
by cultural elements can cascade into a
significantly more efficient use of their neurons . It is like an oversaturated
solution . It crystalises very , very quickly , releasing a lot of energy .
The
cascade:
This is
usually known as a religious experience . It has happened before in history .
When the
system is overstretched (like now) , a sudden release of resources in the brain
due to a more efficient utilization (ie metamaterial effects) does not release
the stress . Instead , it goes “boing” into the neighbouring brain areas ,
stimulating similar similar eruptions throughout the system .
Cultural
laser , anyone ?
It is a
major source of disappointment to the Author that the last thousand years has
led to a massive population increase without any change in hierarchical
dispositions .
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