Super
Ikons
Andre Willers
12 May 2013
Synopsis :
Byzantine paintings of mosaics led to
subtle effects of chaotic Penrose tiling translated into Ikon
paradoxes . The impression of very high-density information . We can
make a Super-ikon .
Discussion :
2.An Ikon (ie a an attempted
continuous mapping of a discontinuous mosaic to a continuous
painting) led to some interesting ways in which humans perceive
things .
3. The paradoxical contradictions
flowing from the mosaic imbues the painting with a numinous sense of
deeper information . Unmistakable .
4.Brain formations try to resolve this
. Hence ikons as objects of meditation . It works , too . See
Appendix A.
5. How to make a Hyper-Ikon .
5.1Generate the tiling from
5.2 Then paint the above as an Ikon
using human hands and eyes .
5.3 The imperfections and fractal
tiling in the human painting hints at deeper meanings . The human
retina and brain shouts “Yes Sir!” and tries to make sense of it
.
In the process generating new levels of
meaning and paradox resolution . See Appendix A .
5.4 This is a Hyper-Ikon . Comparable
to Idoru’s . But much easier to make .
5.5 Just looking at a Hyper-Ikon is
enough to bring about major differences in mentation . This actually
works . Try it .
5.6 Advertising as general mental
hygiene and upliftment . Do you believe it ?
6. Augmented Reality (like Google
Glasses) .
The tiling bit is easy , but the artist
bit will be done by an AI franchise .
See Appendix B .
Interesting , but is it art ?
Andre
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Appendix
A
Paradox and Superhuman
Andre Willers
12 May 2013
Synopsis :
We use Paradox tools to uplift crippled
humans (like Aspergers) to normal . The same tools uplift normal
humans to superhumans .
Discussion :
1.Visual paradoxes
2.Just watch the images for about ten
minutes . No other effort required . You might get a bit hungry and
breathe faster . Cacchinnation might occur .
3.What is going on ?
The brain mechanisms do some grudging
repair forced by attempted paradox resolution .
4. You can read Zen , or philosophy ,
but it is slower .
5. New dimensions are forced open . See
all my old posts on the subject of dimensions . Boring and obvious .
6. Just watch the images for about ten
minutes a day .
That’s it .
Not even a single gorilla stomach
crunch .
Don’t worry . Your local guru will
soon complexify matters and charge for it .
All lunches are free at the Apoptosis
Spa .
But never fart while contemplating the
Infinite. Those two sideways bubbles can be a real pain in the
katochas .
Never , ever visit the friendly young
lady that stays up from the Escher-stairs .
As you can see the effect is noticeable
even after only ten minutes of looking .
Continue at your peril .
Andre Simplicius .
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Appendix B
Cure
for Gray Hair.
Andre Willers
8 May 2013
Synopsis:
Re pigmentation has been done using a
modified pseudocatalyse . Both for age-related graying and vitiligo .
Discussion :
1.This has been known for some time
.(1992) This is the first time a large-scale study peer-reviewed in a
mainstream journal has found for the effect .
See Appendix A and Appendix B
2.This means that big pharma’s and
cosmetic companies will be forced into a race .
3.The prize is a market of about 2 000
million people , with a constant incoming stream of agers .
4. Vested Interest Effect :
Big vested interests in cosmetics ,
hair dyes , etc actively discouraged development . (Nothing to patent
?)
Only the present media-storm (a
mini-hysterical focus) may be able prompt some development .
5.There has been something similar :
Viagra .
A proven remedy displaced all the
nostrums .
The same thing will happen with gray
hair . But this time the nostrum market is much larger . Think soaps
, hair dyes , shampoos , conditioners , shower gels , etc , etc .
6.Unintended effects :
Old-age markers . See Appendix C
6.1 Gray hair as a dominance marker
will disappear , unless it is dyed back in .
Sigh! The Chairman dyes his hair white
. Typically human .
6.2 Sexual cues will become even more
unclear than at present . “And Cougars will stalk the land”
6.3 Alopecia might very well reduce .
Reduction of hydrogen peroxide at the root follicle should reduce
hair-loss .
6.4 Skin-heads will become
unfashionable .
6.5 Tattooing (artificial
hair-patterns) will probably become unfashionable , too . But expect
dermal led-implants . A hide of many colours .
6.6 Nostril hairs :
The Rapunzel Syndrome (See Appendix C)
. This will lead to stronger sense of self , with a concomitant
reduction in demand for psychotropic drugs .
6.7 Moustaches will make a big
come-back .
6.8 Increase in demand for pheromone
scents or just deoderants . Old men will become more smelly .
6.9 Combs (see Appendix D)
Combine this with cheap 3D printing now
easily available and designer combs and brushes (even dispensing the
PC-KUS) can be personalized as fashion accessories .
This influences sexual selection . A
mate that can design and print comb accessories is fitter and will
attract better suitors .
I can see the excesses of this trend in
my mind’s eye . (Think hairstyles of the French aristocracy , only
now aided by computers , apps ,etc)
6.10 Hair Stylist Advisors will then
become a highly fashionable , highly skilled occupation , putting
hairs through hoops dreamt up in computers .
A poor hair will feel like crawling
back into the follicle .
Hair Psychologists already exist (new
to me too) . Google it . But these ones will treat the hair itself ,
not the owner .
6.11 Hats will make a comeback .
. See Combs in Para 6.9 and 6.10
above . Use 3D printers to create personalized hats as fashion
statements .
A hat is also a useful platform for all
sorts of gadgets : cameras , cellphones , Google Glasses , health
monitors , Bluetooth , etc.
The Hatter Advisor , like the Hair
Stylist Advisor , will then become a highly fashionable , highly
skilled occupation .
6.12 Shoes .
A really unintended consequence . Once
3D printing becomes fashionable , it is but a short step to designer
shoes .
Cordwainer Advisors :
Shoes printed 3D from scans of your
feet , to your own design . No more pinching . Anatomically correct .
6.13 Handbags :
The same as for shoes .
Incredibly , there is no English word
for the maker of handbags !
Call them a Modiste : One
that produces, designs, or deals in women's fashions.
Call them a Modista : One
that produces, designs, or deals in men's fashions.
A
modiste will then advise on the whole ensemble : handbag , shoes ,
hairstyle , accessories , clothes , nails , etc .
A
really highly skilled artist , which must also be completely au-fait
with 3D printers , fashions and on-line patterns .
Will
cost you a pretty penny . But Artificial Intelligence Franchises will
help .
6.14
Nails :
See
Appendix E
Profession
: Nail Stylist (Manicurist)
Another
unintended consequence : nails are keratin . Their tactile
sensitivity can be maintained or even enhanced by using the same
technique .
Areas
affected would be sport , especially golf and tennis . All music .
Medical work . Any endeavour involving tactile sensitivity .
6.15
Artificial Intelligence Franchises :
The
demand for on-line skills for Modiste , Nail Stylist , Cordwainer ,
Hair Stylist Advisor will outstrip supply .
A
fashionista can print a new outfit for a few dollars . But they need
a personal design . An advisor will help . But personal , human
advice will be expensive .
An
advisor can franchise expertise via an AI .
6.16 “ Hair-the musical” will make
a big comeback .
6.17 Umbrella’s
You guessed it . All these fancy
accessories and hair will not be rain-proof . So add an Umbrella
advisor . There is not even an English word for umbrella maker .
Use Umbrellista for Umbrella Advisor .
The usual 3D printing .
6.18 Wigs . Perruquier Advisors .
A
perruquier is a wig maker.
One
would think that wigs would completely disappear . But the
combination of metamaterial technology and fashion will very probably
lead to hi-tech wigs that blend in with the normal hair . They will
have metamaterial EKG pickups on or in the scalp (like SQUIBS) , with
processors and antennae in the hairs .
6.19
Green Polar bears .
See
Appendix F
Algae
in the hollow tubes of polar bears’ hairs turn them green . This
leads to a loss of insulation . The bear will search for warmer
climes .
An
aerosol spray of PC-KUS and algae should motivate them to move to
prepared habitats . Same for wolves .
“She
asks me why
I'm just a hairy guy”
I’m
just another modista , being chased by a green polar bear .
Well
, that was fun !
Andre
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Appendix A
Gray
Hair And Vitiligo Reversed At The Root
Monday,
May 06, 2013
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Source
: Federation
of American Societies for Experimental Biology
New
research in The FASEB Journal suggests that loss of skin or hair
color can be corrected by a new compound -- a pseudocatalase -- that
reverses oxidative stress
Bethesda,
MD—Hair dye manufacturers are on notice: The cure for gray hair is
coming. That's right, the need to cover up one of the classic signs
of aging with chemical pigments will be a thing of the past thanks to
a team of European researchers. In a new research report published
online in The
FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org)
people who are going gray develop massive oxidative stress via
accumulation of hydrogen peroxide in the hair follicle, which causes
our hair to bleach itself from the inside out, and most importantly,
the report shows that this massive accumulation of hydrogen peroxide
can be remedied with a proprietary treatment developed by the
researchers described as a topical, UVB-activated compound called
PC-KUS (a modified pseudocatalase). What's more, the study also shows
that the same treatment works for the skin condition, vitiligo.
"To
date, it is beyond any doubt that the sudden loss of the inherited
skin and localized hair color can affect those individuals in many
fundamental ways," said Karin U. Schallreuter, M.D., study
author from the Institute for Pigmentary Disorders in association
with E.M. Arndt University of Greifswald, Germany and the Centre for
Skin Sciences, School of Life Sciences at the University of Bradford,
United Kingdom. "The improvement of quality of life after total
and even partial successful repigmentation has been documented."
To
achieve this breakthrough, Schallreuter and colleagues analyzed an
international group of 2,411 patients with vitiligo. Of that group,
57 or 2.4 percent were diagnosed with strictly segmental vitiligo
(SSV), and 76 or 3.2 percent were diagnosed with mixed vitiligo,
which is SSV plus non-segmental vitiligo (NSV). They found that for
the first time, patients who have SSV within a certain nerval
distribution involving skin and eyelashes show the same oxidative
stress as observed in the much more frequent general NSV, which is
associated with decreased antioxidant capacities including catalase,
thioredoxin reductase, and the repair mechanisms methionine sulfoxide
reductases. These findings are based on basic science and clinical
observations, which led to successful patient outcomes regarding
repigmentation of skin and eyelashes.
"For
generations, numerous remedies have been concocted to hide gray
hair," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of The
FASEB Journal,
"but now, for the first time, an actual treatment that gets to
the root of the problem has been developed. While this is exciting
news, what's even more exciting is that this also works for vitiligo.
This condition, while technically cosmetic, can have serious
socio-emotional effects of people. Developing an effective treatment
for this condition has the potential to radically improve many
people's lives."
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Details: Karin
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Basic evidence for epidermal H2O2/ONOO−-mediated
oxidation/nitration in segmental vitiligo is supported by
repigmentation of skin and eyelashes after reduction of epidermal
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Appendix B
I
would suggest you get a little more educated on this vitiligo news.
The news source I mentioned was but one of dozens that picked up the
story.
Have you heard of these folks from Bradford
University or even the medical journal itself? It's been around since
1912. This is about as prestigious as you
get:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_of...imental_Biology
1)
the Bradbury people behind this are experts on pigmentation - world
class researchers
2) You don't get published in one of most
well-respected medical journals for being something that
the
medical community scoffs at. This discovery even illicted high
praise
from the journal's well-respected editor.
3) I
counted over 40 media outlets that covered the story - and that is
just from a 3-day span. Surely more to come.
Vitiligo forums
were buzzing about this over the weekend.
Upon request from
the journal, I have seen the before and after photo results from the
offical study and they are very impressive. No less impressive than
Clinuvel's.
Pretending it doesn't exist and scoffing at it
doesn't change the facts. You'll be hearing a lot more about this
research and very soon.
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Appendix
C
Old Age Markers
Andre Willers
23 Dec 2007
Why do men growing
older get grey hair and bald pates?
Why does their
ear-hairs , nostril-hairs , eyebrows and pubic hairs grow much longer
than younger men’s ?
Why are old men
smelly ?
Involuntary
Altruism .
We know that
evolutionary mechanisms operate even after the last child , because
we have evidence of the GrandMother effect . Older Females in a
family (ie with the same genes as their offspring) have evolved
menopause and an extended lifespan . More and healthier grandchildren
survive with a grandmother . The mechanism is part of general
evolutionary theory .
So what about old
men ?
They are sacrificial
old goats !
A family fleeing
predators would have a markedly better chance of its genes surviving
if the older males are marked for predators . The predators gain by
not having to expend too much energy . But the evolutionary kicker is
that predators on hominids are usually of the big cat family . Their
cubs have to be taught to hunt on easy prey . Older , slower , weaker
hominid males are recognized by their markers .
So , they learn from
early on what the markers are . A tacit bargain was struck .
The Leopard-class of
big cats specialized in hominids . A saber-toothed variety evolved
pari-passu with homonins . A desperate arms-race of survival ensued .
I refer you to the tooth-holes in the skulls of some unlucky homonins
found fossilized in Africa . The end-cat was a large black leopard
with widely spaced saber-teeth and a high intelligence . Black
because it was a night-hunter (when homonins nested) , widely-spaced
saber-teeth to fit the growing skulls of homonins , high intelligence
to keep up with the growing intelligence of their prey . But they did
not have hands . They were exterminated , probably by concerted human
effort . The last fossil record found was about 200 000 BCE , roughly
contemporaneous with MkI Humans . The development of weaving probably
had more to with their demise than anything else .
The present survivor
of this class (the spotted leopard) preferred baboons and monkeys ,
and thus survived .
This went on long
enough (estimated 7 million years) for a true instinctive fear to
have been programmed into the amygdala(like for spiders and snakes) .
Go to the Zoo and
look at a black leopard .
If he looks at you ,
you feel a frisson of fear . This is your amygdala kicking in . (You
don’t feel the same looking at a lion .)
Of course , the
black leopard is a pussy-cat compared to the previous terrors .
But , we can
create an ideal hyper-image (idoru) .
A Black cat-head ,
broad with very widely spaced reflecting golden eyes , widely spaced
saber-teeth . I suspect that saber-teeth wider than the eyes will
immediately kick in the amygdala responses . The same effect is
noticeable in horror-movies . The ratio of width-of –mouth to
width-of-eyes seems to play a critical role .
So , if you have
eyes close together and a wide mouth , do not show your teeth . The
response is not rational , but instinctive .
Psychopaths are
reputed to feel no fear . Is this true a for genetically programmed
response like this ? There might be some therapeutic benefit in
making psychopaths or extreme sociopaths feel terror . The
mirror-neuron structures of empathy that should have formed in
childhood can then be reconstructed .
To resume the
argument :
Ropes and nets woven
from plants by hands negated physical strength . Hence , MkI human
males and females were roughly the same size and strength .
Unfortunately , these fibres left no physical record until the
impressions left in ceramics circa 30 000BCE . But we know
that clothing became widespread as a result of the Toba-winter (72
000 BCE) . There was no time to invent new technologies , so old
weaving technology was adapted to provide insulation in the survivors
.
The
old-age markers .
The smelly bit first
(ie the evolutionary oldest)
The hairs around the
glands extruding smelly compound grow longer with age .
Normally , body hair
grows a certain length , then stops , dies and is replaced . Normal
body hair around glands are crinkled , twisted and convoluted to give
maximum surface-area to the scent-molecules . Pubic hair is the best
example .
Ears
: Tufts growing out of the ears broadcast the earwax scents. Also ,
hearing gets harder .
Nose :
Nose hairs are unique to humans and supposedly evolved due to the
smoke-filled environments after the usage of fire . The effect is to
capture molecules on exhalation , store them , then release them on
inhalation . In other words , a short term memory . The vomenerosal
organs in the upper palate and connected to the nose are also connect
to very ancient parts of the brain concerned with identity .
Pheromones and other chemicals (like antibodies) extruded by the body
are stored by the nostril hairs and fed back to the vomenerosal
sensors . The body is continually reminding itself of its identity .
This also happens to be the definition of self-awareness .
The intriguing
speculation is that this method of base-line identity setting extends
to the immune system . Evidence from yoga not only indicates
self-awareness shifting due to concentrations of “I am I”
pheromones by breathing through the nostrils , but that the immune
self-definition is affected as well .
The Rapunzel
Syndrome .
Too small a
concentration of nasal hairs causes insufficient self-definition .
Auto-immune diseases like arthritis , asthma , diabetes etc follow ,
as well as meme-diseases like low self-esteem , drug-abuse . Note the
effect of cocaine sniffing on personality coherence .
Too large a
concentration of nasal hairs like in old men , makes the person very
self-assured with “presence” , the presence being molecules
broadcast . “Charge! and damn the torpedoes .”
Notice that
breathing masks like worn in very cold or very hot climates have
similar concentrating effect , but weaker by an order of about 10 .
(Norse , burkas,etc)
Intervention !
Cheap and easy .
Noseplugs mimicking dense nosehairs will do the trick .
I am actually
embarrassed that nothing more complicated is needed .
Noseplugs made of
coarse organic wool should do the trick .
Even cottonwool will
work , though it is a bit too dense .
Moustaches.
The poor man’s
noseplug . Notice that individuals with moustaches always were always
self-assured ,even if they were completely wrong . Societies with
moustaches were losers . Celtic tribes had moustaches . So did
Hitler and Stalin . Breathing in their own definitions of I all the
time explains a lot .
Note the
law-enforcement fashion for moustaches .
It is not a fashion
, but a statement .
The Eyebrows.
Eyebrows have a long
and honorable history of enabling mammal survival , going back to the
dinosaur days . The eyebrow is dense with sebaceaous glands , pumped
out onto the eyebrows and spread onto the environment . For a
burrowing rodent , it was essential to know where it had been
(identity and location) , as well as who had been there before and
how long ago . Refer to muskrats ,beavers , etc . Humans do the same
. This is why dogs jump up and try to lick your face . They are not
trying to lick your face . They are trying to lick your eyebrows .
Your scent-identity is being broadcast all the time by the glands in
your eyebrows . Hence old men with bushy eyebrows .
But , while this
would have been fatal when lots of predators were around , in
“civilized” surroundings this gives the person a certain edge as
being wise .
The normal
heat-envelope around the body ensures that most of these pheromones
go upwards , but standing on your head a lot will change that . Sigh
. Another yoga shibboleth bites the pheromone . A full head covering
like middle-age armour would have exaggerated effects on self-esteem
.
Ice-hockey masks ? I
rest my case.
A Christmas
Present :
Millions of dollars
can be made by an Eyebrow Scent . You owe me 5% for the idea ,
whoever you are . I hereby claim intellectual property right on the
idea at Cape Town on 24 December 2007 AD .
The act of kissing
only exists to bring the nose and eyebrows into proximity . Lots of
compatibility signals ensues .
Applied scents are
lies . Will an Eyebrow Scent significantly change human society ?
No . But you can
make a shitload of money out of it , since nobody has thought of it
before .
Armpit hairs .
Not much to be said
here . Too fat , and they are worn away . Otherwise long and straggly
.
Pubic hairs .
Pubic hairs in men
grow long and straggly in old age . These capture more urine scented
molecules and sets him up for a predator .
Grey Top Hair
As you can see ,
changing the colour of
hair to grey is a
long range signal to a predator . This was sufficient at first .
Bald Pate .
Since females can
also go grey , albeit later than males , the bald pate evolved to
signal predators . Imagine a family running through the long grass
with the cats in pursuit . They see a flashing bald pate bobbing up
and down in the grass . They know that this is an old hominin male .
Note that females do not go bald .
Self-referencing
scents .
As you can gather
from the above , the very definition a person makes of itself down to
immune-level can be determined by scent-feedbacks .
Interventions:
As I promised ,
smelly old men .
Barber pubic hair
and underarm hair to about 2 cm .
Bad feedback
mechanisms are halted . Simple noseplugs restores some degree of
selfpride .
Always shave .
The same holds for
normal ages (20-40) . Variants of ice-hockey masks where the top
holes are blocked might be considered .
And so it goes .
Andre
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Appendix D
Combs
Andre Willers
24 April 2008
The
oldest profession
.
Hair Dressing and
Grooming .
The time-traveller
with hairdressing and grooming skills can get a job anytime back to
hominid days . Beats plumbing any day .
This partially
explains the queer gene : Faux-queer . A cunning stratagem to get
close to females without the usual male chest-beating .
Discussion:
Grooming is built-in
to the hair of mammals .
Hairs get tangled
and knotted ( see Theory of Knots) . Your personal experience is that
after day’s activity and a night’s sleep , your hair gets tangled
and knotted . The theory shows that it is nearly certain that this
will occur in any system with three degrees of freedom .
Tangled hair is a
bit of no-no to our homonin . It shows that it cannot get a grooming
partner . Parasites also have access to unprotected skin .
Chaos first did the
weaving with knots and tangles .
Un-weaving
was then invented .
Initially
fingernails , then a sharp , hard pointed stick ( a one-toothed comb)
to tease the knots apart ..
When a favourite
stick was kept , it became a tool .
A one-toothed comb .
Found all over in
old sites , but usually called something else .
Plaiting of hair
followed . Then some unsung woman genius inverted it and plaited
grasses and other fibrous growths . Ropes and nets were invented .
Physical strength
became unnecessary .
Mk I humans
followed .
MkII humans followed
after Toba , when weaving was invented as insulation (clothes) . So
was fashion , and the world was never the same .
From the evidence ,
fashion seems to be a more powerful driver than anything . I would
like to put an “except” here , but from the Greenland evidence
where people starved to death because eating abundant fish around
them was “out of fashion” with some old bishop I cannot .
What is of interest
is that un-weaving was invented first , then weaving .
Note the correlation
of Peace being invented before War .
Multiple-tooth
combs .
An invention so
ubiquitous that every human on the planet today has one and uses it
at least once a day .
It enables an
individual to self-groom . You can comb out the tangles in your hair
or pelt by your own , without help .
This had an enormous
effect on the development of civilization . The very concept of
individualism is predicated on the existence of combs .
It frees the
individual from the tyranny of the group .
An unkempt
individual is excluded . No ifs or buts . Look around you at the
homeless people . Once grooming is lost , so is social acceptance and
survival . Hence the large number of spaza-hairdressers . It is not
an affectation , but sheer survival .
Note the insistence
of disciplined groups like the military or police to hair grooming .
Or the inverse , the trust civilians have for anybody with a taut
haircut .
Note the hairstyles
of the Mandarin class in China : shaven in front , denoting wisdom
from survival , and extravagant hair (plaits) at the back , denoting
humanity .
Hence , a monk will
shave his head denoting a divorce from human concerns .
If someone obviously
not in a religious order shaves his head (like bouncers , etc) they
signal an indifference to the grooming order . They are essentially
doomed . An extremely interesting feedback cycle is initiated that
ends in the marginalization of such individual . They tend not to
have children .
It must be noted
that these are universal hominin markers , operating at well below
conscious perception .
Andre
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Appedix E
Human
Nails .
Andre Willers
23 August 2007
Synopsis
:
Human fingernails
are intimately linked to rhythm and pattern recognition neural
systems . It is also the third most important element in human sexual
selection .
Discussion:
Evolutionary
roots:
Hominid bipedalism
evolved quite early .
Moropithecus (16 to
25 MY ago) showed adaptations to upright posture .
They walked on
branches and clutched other breast-high branches for stability .
(See
Science DOI : 10.112
/ science.1140779
New Scientist of 9
June 2007 p18 “Four legs new ,two legs much older”
This adaptation was
lost in some streams of homonids , but retained in the homonin (ie
our) ancestors . This means that for significant evolutionary time
our ancestors clung to thin branches with their fingers curled around
the branch and their fingertips pressed against the wood ..
The branch is not
only a mechanical support , but also transmits information . The
branches are elastically resilient , so waves caused by any large
organism walking and stalking about can be picked up by suitably
sensitive sensors and the type of organism identified by a
neural-network .
The canopy-network
is an information-rich network because of it’s resilience . Similar
type of signals can be carried by the ground (cf elephant feet ) ,
but the damping and bandwidth is totally different .
Small wonder that
homonins have recreated the canopy in the Internet .
An Internet created
by elephants or whales would look completely different .
The finger :
The sensor-network
is the pressure-receptors below the nail . The finger part in touch
with branch is liable to tissue destruction , abrasion and calluses .
Any sensors here are degraded by wear-and-tear .
But , hydraulic
pressure transmits around the finger bone to compress the pressure
receptors in the nail-bed against the unyielding nail , giving quite
fine detail to a neural-network .
Some
Corollaries:
1. IFF
(Identification Friend or Foe)
This evolved
literally at the start of the dinosaur/mammal split , derived from
reptiles and has been refined ever since .
Any predator has a
particular rhythm caused by putting it’s feet down in particular
sequence (gait) .
If the predator is
on a branch (or any resilient surface) , the rhythm is transmitted .
Soil can also be a
medium , but less efficient (cf elephants)
This neural-network
for IFF evolved under the fingernails .
In other words , a
lot of rhythm recognition (ie pattern-recognition) takes place in the
nerve-plexus under the fingernail .
The survival
advantages are obvious .
The primary
advantage is in recognizing non-hostiles . False alarms are extremely
wasteful , especially in hard times . A trinary classification at
neural level of hostile , neutral and friendly would evolve as an
optimal solution .
There are circuits
directly stimulating flight-or-fight mechanisms . There is a direct
tie to the hippocampus and amygdala through stress proteins . There
is a direct neural tie to muscles in the arm (from fingernails) and
the legs (from toenails) .
This enabled the
prey to identify a predator creeping or galloping up to it and take
immediate reflex action .
Hyper-length neurons
is the latest fashionable term to denote really long nervous
connections without synapses .
The rich nexus of
nerves under the fingernails have long been a target of human torture
. But notice the aversion to nail-less humans or nail-biting . Notice
how your attention is drawn to a nail-malformation (like a blue-nail)
2. Grooming.
Unarguably a
defining social element in homonins .
But every human is
complex of pressure waves .
Heartbeat ,
breathing , peritalsis are only a few of the passive pressure-waves
that can be sensed by fingertips . More active palpations enables
joint-crackling , lung and abdominal spaces to be felt by fingertips
. Ask any doctor .
By definition , some
females would be better at fingertip sensitivity than others . Since
most infant mortality involves the gastro-intestinal system , which
can be felt , sick babies allowed to be handled by the more sensitive
woman are much more likely to survive . No language for this is
needed initially .
Nursing and handling
babies need sensitive touch .
Those females better
at it ( ie well-shaped fingernails) evolve into midwives , since
they reduce infant mortality for the group .
The midwife is the
first professional .
Indeed , the medical
round has not changed much in about 70 000 years .
The dominant female
shaman , surrounded by a cloud of students , stalks from infant to
infant , subjecting them to tactile examination . Easily remedified
complaints (like blockages) or tried and true herbal plants are used
to reduce infant mortality . This information is transmitted to the
students .
Note self-medication
by chimps and gorillas .
3. What drives
this language development ?
The problem with
previous language-development models was that there is no really ,
really compelling evolutionary reason why language should evolve .
Hunters do not need
it . Noise is contra-indicated . Modern warriors like the SEALs use
sign language in combat .
Small-woman groups
might have the tendencies , but how does being top-woman of a small ,
isolated group translate into a planetwide meme-and-gene dominance ?
We have to have a
mechanism whereby local dominance is transmitted .
The Answer :
Old-Fashioned Darwin
.
The reduction in
infant-mortality is the driver .
The transmission of
information (ie language) then has an extremely direct relevance not
only for a small tribe , but larger groups .
A tactile sensitive
female with some language skill creates a positive feedback
environment for higher infant survival rates . The language element
enables her to teach students that scatter and repeat the process .
The tribes that accept or send students to the college outbreed those
that that don’t .
There is a
crux point here relevant today :
Matriarchs (ie
doctors) who tried to keep this advance in-tribe got overwhelmed by
those that made it freely available .
Females , following
an ancient imperative , would bring sick infants to the friendly
neighborhood clinic .
The
Matriarchal-Medical societal group outbred all others . And language
was essential to the information transmission .
Argh!!
A bunch of doctors
huddling together and exchanging jargon is the origin of language.
The jargon was expanded to include terms for social competition for
resources and status . Language was born in all its glory .
Note that the
invention of Peace
is a logical
consequence of the above scenario during a stress episode like Toba .
Not to mention the
College / University idea . Which morphed into Organised Religion .
The Dark Side .
The Rite of Passage
(ie to qualify to be seen as human and worthy of procreation ) was an
invention simultaneous with the invention of Peace . Youths who could
not subordinate their impulses (to fairness , pain , boredom ) to the
society , were expelled from the procreational pool , or even killed
.
This mechanism
(meme-structure) is still active today . (Flunked Varsity ? You’re
drafted.) Can’t stand the fraternity initiation ? You are not human
. Go flip burgers .
This works fine as
long as the governing society is in charge . But by expelling it’s
mutants , the society builds up a pool resentful beings of various
degrees of humanity.
A sudden change
(climate , plague , technology , etc) reduces the defenses of the
original system sufficiently to bring about a revolution
Ie the climatic
stabilization about 12 900 years ago that made profitable agriculture
possible .
4. Snakes .
The alert reader
would have noticed that a reliable , sensitive temperature sensor is
lacking in the human sensorium . The most sensitive ones are in the
elbows and the back of the knees , and these hardly lend themselves
to easy usage .
So they bred snakes
. Remember , these are the people that domesticated through selective
breeding all our present domesticated species .
Snakes then would
have been the very first domesticated species .
A living thermometer
.
The infra-red
sensors of snakes are more sensitive than present thermometers used
in hospitals .
The specially bred
snakes would have been bred not only for thermo-sensitivity , but for
chemo-sensitivity as well .
The forked-tongue
could detect not only breakdown products of illnesses exuded through
the skin or breath , but location as well . (That’s why it’s
forked.)
A basket of
specialized snakes would enable a medical practitioner of the era
70 000 – 12 900 BC
to give first level medical care equivalent to that of country clinic
in our era . Diagnostics would have been superior , since specialized
snakes would be doing this . Think programmed bio-chips .
Problem cases would
be referred to the local College center .
Poisonous snakes was
bred for medicinal aspects of their poisons (still being done today)
.
So where are
these snakes today ?
Traces of their
genetic material should be found in garden snakes in Western Europe .
Obviously , nobody
has looked for genetic bottlenecks from this viewpoint .
So this is a
verifiable test .
Evidence of
deliberate breeding (especially in mitochondrial snake DNA ) should
be found . It is doubtful that really highly specialized snakes
could survive in the wild (think feral Jersey cow or Merino) , but
some would have gotten lucky . Their genetic traces should be
traceable .
Cultural remnants
:
The Caduceus is a
cultural remnant . (Intertwined snakes is still the Western symbol of
medicine .) Not bad for a symbol about 30 000 years old .
Legends , statues
and inscriptions of dragons
.
Bible : Eden . The
snake got the starring role as the baddie , since the victors wrote
the history books .
Also note Isis ,
purging of Ireland of snakes , Feng Shui , etc
Spirals :
in rock engravings , etc . Which way does a snake coil up ?
Midwives .
The memes for this
civilization is coiled up inside the one set of humans that had to
survive : the midwives .
Remember , they
thought biologically . The concepts of seeds inside reproducing
systems came naturally to them .
The Matriarchs had
thousands of years to see their demise coming and to plant seeds
Ho-ho-ho !
The New World Order
is guaranteed to be completely different from the Bilderbirger vision
.
So , there were
some good ones matriarchs and some bad ones .
The good ones tried
to ensure the survival of what was good in their civilization .
The bad ones tried
to ensure their dominance .
The ensuing civil
wars destroyed almost everything .
Most of the good got
thrown out with the bad .
The planet is
littered with the ruins of their buildings , bioforms and
still-active
bio- weapon systems
.
Some meme markers
that have survived the wars :
Bio-warfare vs
numbers . Fear the disease-ridden stranger . If you are not for us ,
you are against us . Any writing or symbol is dangerous , since it
can contaminated with mind-altering vectors by touching it .
Some remnants of
these have survived in central-europe : psychotic and schizophrenic
inducing chemicals in basic foodstuffs like rye (ergot fungi) . Some
very localized near the original labs .
(One particular
variant of psychosis inducing behavioural change organisms was
localized within about 50 km radius in central Europe : symptoms :
fear of persecution : paranoia with very definite cut-off points . A
weapon .)
Your attention is
drawn to plasmodium induced behaviour changes where the carriers are
cats (and dogs as well) .
This would be a
civilizing influence in a mild form ( taking risks by trusting ) ,
but a mind-control form in a strong form (trust unconditionally) .
(Oxytocin stimulation)
A horrible thought
is that the sites of the Nazi extermination camps (and the very idea)
came from people picking up extermination bio-weapon contamination
from old weapon sites . Note that the Nazi camps are on a line that
would be a natural defensive line about 9 000 years ago .
Old weapons that
kill and kill again .
Why the sudden
sanity in the late twentieth century ?
Acid rain .
The vectors of
madness were in the fungi (forest rhizomes) in the ground .
The weaponized
mind-altering fungi , bacteria and viruses were obviously spread as
widely as possible over the defensive lines . The ones that could
survive thousands of years would be in the old fungi structures
underground . These (because they were carrying a non-survival
payload) were the first to die in acid-rain .
Remember , they
thought like biologists .
They would not pick
up a rock and bash you on the head . They would breed some organism
that makes you vulnerable to their memes . You then would pick up a
rock and bash their enemies ‘ heads in .
Can these organisms
recover ?
Of course . They
doing so now . See the latest history .
Why did this
civilization nearly vanish ?
Your attention is
drawn to the putative small comet impact on North America about 12
900 years ago . See New Scientist 26 May 2007 “Firestorm from
space wiped out prehistoric Americans.”
This resulted in a
short-term planetary climatic stability
(alas , now coming
to an end ).
The resulting
climatic stability led to usable , profitable , large-scale
agriculture .
This led to an
explosion in human numbers .
The Matriarchy tried
to keep the lid on . Things got ugly on both sides .
The sub-human
mutants (partially our ancestors ) won and extirpated their enemies .
The late bronze-age cataclysm was but the end stages of a 7 000 year
old clash of memes , and was correspondingly bitter.
Think Paris Hilton
vs Bill Gates .
5 .Rhythm .
Rhythm is then a
very ancient IFF mechanism .
Music is used as a
cultural defining mechanism . Era’s and societies are defined by
ephemeral harmonies .
If you like my
rhythms , we are pals .
6. Musical
instruments:
Nearly all human
instruments are characterized by causing compression waves around
fingertips in sequences and cadences .
Guitar , piano ,
flute , etc .The reason why they popular is that they are easy to
play . The reason why they are easy to play is that
pattern-recognition takes place in the fingertips .
A hardwired threat
is a cat stalking along slender bough . The cadence of a four-footed
stalk is known . The damping of vibrations along a bough of
decreasing diameter is known . The speed of the approach of the
predator can then be calculated .
In music this
translates as impending threat or doom . Can you see how it goes ?
Now you too can
design threatening music that operates at instinctive level .
Finger tapping
.
This is a variant of
“Counting to ten” .
The pressure impacts
on the nail-beds causes interrupts in the amygdale , hippocampus and
lower stem . Hence the success of some stress therapies using
fingerclicking .
You got rhythm if
you fingertap and foot/toe tap with the music .
Fingertip
to forearm tapping .
You will not find
this little item anywhere else .
Endorphin release is
proportional to fingertip-to-forearm cadences .
Instead of tapping
your fingers on the table , tap them on and around your forearms
instead in time to the music . Notice you will automatically start
waving your forearms about .
Endorphin release is
increased by orders of magnitude .
Why ?
Your forearm is like
a branch . You are tapping your fingertips and moving your hands and
forearms in a way that signals “ Only friendlies and non-hostiles”
about .
Monkey’s joy .
Listen to some music
that has a beat . Put your right hand on your left forearm and vice
versa . Tap your fingers on the forearms as if you are conducting
like mad . Go mad .
Try it .
Notice the flatness
if you stop . This is endorphin production being stopped .
(Especially with semi-classical music)
Notice that you move
your fingers about 3 times as frequently as your thumbs . To be more
exact , e=2.718… more frequently . The reason is obvious .
Notice that all
musicians move their instruments if they can . The pianist moves his
head and torso as he moves through the virtual canopy . Notice the
contortions of a violinist . What does the virtual monkey-mind
cluster of a violinist see as she contorts and gyrates ?
7. Counting .
The relationship
between mathematics and music is well known .
But why ten fingers?
Many different variations have been tried .
The answer is simple
: 4 fingers + 1 thumb on each hand .
The thumb gives a
better grasp on the branch . The 4 fingers at roughly equal distances
split the harmonics of the wave on the branch . This is a physical
optimization , inherent in the nature of vibrations . A physical and
mathematical law of vibrations .
4=2^2 , 8 = 2^4 .
Can you see it ?
A little prediction
: the spread of thickness of 4 fingers in homonids will optimize
natural harmonies in branches of varying taper .
This means that the
thumb is not strictly necessary for rhythm recognition . Notice that
most instruments do not require the thumb except for grasping . (Eg
the guitar : the right thumb is usually replaced by a plectrum.)
This also means that
the thumb could be used for something else , and that is what
evolutionary systems did . Thumb systems specialized in acting as
reference point for the other fingers . A weight-lifter ,
javelin-thrower , tennis-player , golf-player , violin-player , etc
all do the same thing : their hands analyze the
vibration-characteristics of their instrument to find the sweet-spot
relative to the other fingers .
8. Golf:
The monkey swings
through the air and grips a branch .
The 4x2 fingers hook
over to top . Immediately , IFF is done in the fingertips . If no
enemy is detected , the thumbs hook underneath . By this time , the
branch has deformed under the weight and vibrations set up . Using
the positions of the thumbs as reference points , the vibrational
characteristics of the branch is analyzed . If the monkey wants to
stay and have a firm grip , it must move to a vibrational node of
the branch (ie where the standing wave caused by it’s weight
cancels out . Usually called the Sweet Spot .) . notice that one hand
must get there first , usually overshooting . The overshooting hand
is adjusted closer to the sweet spot , then the other hand . This
approximation process is repeated until the monkey is satisfied
(inside the parameter.)
It moves its hands ,
the fingers frequently and the thumbs less frequently (ratio of about
3 to 1) until it feels happy .
Now do the same to
the golf club .
If right-handed ,
cradle the club lightly at balance point in the left hand with the
fingers underneath and the thumb over the top , the handle to the
right . The right hand has a light overhand grip .
Hold the club
horizontal (like a branch ) , waggle it gently up and down . With the
fingertips on the club , shift your hand alternately to the right
until it feels correct . Jiggle the right hand back to correct for
overshoot .
Then lock the right
thumb in . (Note , locking the thumb is characteristic of all
golf-grips . Now you know why .)
This is the
interesting bit . While locking the right thumb in place , wriggle
the left fingers and thumb until they feel ok . The right fingers can
be wriggled as well , but not the right thumb . Do not wriggle the
fingers more than 3 times the thumbs at this stage .
9. Piano
An interesting
corollary is that you will learn the piano better and faster if you
tape the thumbs out of the way .
10 .Birds .
So why doesn’t
birds have ten toes ? They have 8 = 3x2 + 2.
Birds can fly , so
they don’t have to stick around and develop enhanced harmonic
analysis .
11. Stochastic
resonance .
The Stochastic
resonance mechanisms which evolved in the brain and hands to deal
with random branch movements due to weather was essential to the
development of language .
Lying and an honest
error cannot be distinguished from each other . And it does not
matter in the long term .
12 .Sexual
Selection.
Men look at
women and see at a subconscious level :
1. Her middle/hip
ratio is about 0.75 . Enough room for babies head
2.High , conical
breasts . They will not smother baby while suckling and running .
3. Well-kept nails .
Tactile sensitivity for baby care and nursing .
Women look at
men and see at a subconscious level :
1. A taut bum . Good
runner . Essential for good hunter .
2.Muscled arms .
Good hunter and protector .
3. Symmetric face .
Behaviour not too weird .
That’s it . The systems can only
count to three .
If you want to overcome any negative
impression on any one of these factors , you will have to work hard
at it .
I was surprised to see nails pop out as
an important sexual selection criterion . Females are always buffing
, colouring , shaping , hardening , etc nails .
Shaped nails .
Refer to magnetrons . Shaped guides to
various wave-forms can magnify the effect million-fold . Women with
wave-guide shaped nails are remnants of the old order . Good or bad ?
Unfortunately , nobody can tell . But if you run into one , run like
hell .
The groove is only quantum deep , but
it is coupled across all time .
So much for this space-time .
Andre
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Appendix F
Scientists
in the late 1970’s discovered another interesting tidbit about
polar bears. A number of polar bears in zoos from around the world
were turning green! These scientists discovered that the algae
responsible for making the bears green were not on the SURFACE of the
hairs, as originally supposed, but were INSIDE the hairs (Lewin &
Robinson, 1979). The algae more than likely came from the pond waters
in the bears’ enclosures.
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