Thursday 30 June 2011

n-Fascism x n-Ponzi => MANY Wars => ONE Empire Gets Desperate When Money Dies

1. How many de facto wars has Obama on his hands? Six. See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/national-security/us-drones-target-two-leaders-of-somali-group-allied-with-al-qaeda/2011/06/29/AGJFxZrH_story.html

2. Are the US Treasury and Fed actions part of a great Ponzi scheme? See Timothy Geithner's letter to Senator Demint in http://www.zerohedge.com/article/obama-redirects-broke-us-government-playing-class-warfare-card-focuses-millionaires-and-bill wherein he implies that the US taxpayer is the victim of a gigantic Ponzi. For a beautiful classic as an object of comparison, see Adam Ferguson's (1975) "When Money Dies - Nightmare of the Weimar Republic," see: http://university.unitedstatesliberty.org/654/textbooks/adam-fergusson-when-money-dies-nightmare-of-the-weimar-collapse/.

3. Our n-categorical analysis tells us to look for the morphisms between objects to find categories, and then the morphisms between categories (functors), and the morphisms between functors (naturality) leading us to adjunction, where the left adjoint is equivalent to the right adjoint. This procedure, while sounding mechanical, is entirely trackable and ensures us that our metaphors and analogies are not entirely baseless, and can be re-conceived as programmes in reality! At a terribly general and abstract level, what we perceive as an object A in reality is transformed in ourselves as an object B, and when the object A is conceived as an object in the mind as object C, this C comes into the mind from the object A. Let's call the morphism from A to B, f. And from B to C, g. And the morphism from A to C, h. The category is defined as the transit round the objects through the morphisms such that h:gf. This is an important result oriented relation. Note also the two steps g and f become in some sense 'equivalent' to h. This basic conjurer step of "2 into 1" replicates one of the greatest fundamental tensions in the deepest parts of philosophy about what do we mean by number, quantity, of quantity being the primus unus of quality, of set theory's fundamental assertion that a singular attribute (intensionality) is equivalent to an impossibly innumerable collection of elements (extensionality) and finally, to the fundamental logical principle that the assertion of a falsehood (the many lies) as premise and implicating a truth (a singular factual and verifiable truth) can imply as an entire statement the truth of such statement. Most of what we "know" is in the form of the latter statement -- whose classical name I forget but hereby name for convenience as "altum fuit," for "he went to the bottom", as opposed to "alta fuit", he went to the summit.

4. One of the practical points of these exceptionally simple abstractions on rhetoric is to see whether we can apply them to guide our actions in life. Can you see the categories, morphisms, isomorphisms, functors, naturalities and adjunctions in your life? The philosophy of the 21st century will be written in the code that programmes, and the programme beyond all programmes will need protection.

Agora - A Film about Philosophia

If you wonder what philosophy is about, this is it. Hypatia the woman philosopher says, "I cannot believe as you believe. I must question and doubt what I believe. I cannot do otherwise."

I use to think you could learn philosophy.

And then I thought you could become a philosopher.

Now I know philosophy is neither what you learn nor some image you can approach.

Rather philosophy is you when and where you are it.

Wednesday 29 June 2011

Why did US decide to release 60mill barrels of oil? Answer: Sweet Ain't Sour

The answer is that the loss of Lybian sweet oil cannot be made up with sour (hi sulfur) oil because European refineries can't process the sour stuff.
No conspiracy here. Just the result of bad European environmental policy.
See: http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/International-Energy-Agency-Strategic-Petroleum-Reserve/6/24/2011/id/35359

Tuesday 28 June 2011

Euro Crisis => n-Eurocrisis + Peak Oil

(1) The Euro Crisis is an n-Eurocrisis plus peak oil, that is, the Euro is in the process of being dismantled generally (the meaning of "n-" means in many dimensions)and appears strictly correlated to a country's expenditure to oil.

See:
www.zerohedge.com
by blindman
on Tue, 06/28/2011 - 20:59
#1410447

"Here are a few things to keep in mind when you are reading articles about the European Debt Crisis:
– The flow of funds — euros — overseas toward energy producers in the Middle East and elsewhere represents a great portion of insolvent countries’ cash flow.
– That the flow of funds between one European country and others in foreign currency — euros — represents another great portion of insolvent countries’ cash flow. These are the funds swapped for automobiles, auto- related ‘development’ and fuel- guzzling military hardware.
– The funds to energy producers is simply money borrowed then lost. There is no return other than that gained on the purchase/sale of the energy products. Money borrowed from the European establishment likewise produced no lasting effect. Borrowing was for waste- enablers such as luxury cars, new highways, shopping centers, and American- style suburbs rather than capital for productive enterprises. In this light, the euro is a predatory instrument like a sub-prime mortgage.
– The Euro- nations with greater finance access are using this leverage to buy a small amount of time at the expense of their dependent trading partners. Meanwhile, the time- buying
process destroys whatever goodwill the euro experiment earned since the currency union idea
was bruited. Instead of accord, it is devil take the hindmost. What trust citizens had in
their institutions is now a ruin in Syntagma Square crushed by an insensitive and
counterproductive ‘Troika’.
– Ironically, the same countries’ workforces are now accused of being ‘uncompetitive’ by the
same entities that rendered them uncompetitive. If there is a more perverse and diabolical
dynamic it is hard to see what it is.
– The European countries at the edge of default cannot afford to do so. The Eurozone debtors
cannot be compared to Argentina or Iceland as neither countries are energy debtors."
....
Europe’s fuel- driven waste- based lifestyle is kaput, the goods bought and borrowed against
for purchase are useless, the fuel used once then gone: all borrowed to gain this is
noncollectable. The money has been spent and gone, it is ‘Dead Money’."

And see: http://www.economic-undertow.com/2011/06/27/dead-money/
VZCS

2. In May 2010 approximately €100bn was thrown at Greece, and another €120bn is expected to be thrown at it in July 2011. No one expects the Greeks can export, privatise or tax themselves enough to pay for their entire indebtedness which will be somewhere near €900bn.

3. With de facto defaults, how far are we from war? A determined creditor will force the hand of occupation. From embarrassment to insult in non-payment, we see an excuse of confiscating accounts in Switzerland and Luxembourg. How quickly a country descends will be dependent on whether there are bank runs. When letters of credit are no longer honoured from Greek banks, then the local system will freeze, ATMs will stop, and when the salary isn't withdrawable by the third week of the month, and people realise they cannot buy any food or water, and that the electricity has stopped, and most importantly, a bare trickle of petrol is at the pumps, then only the rurals will be able to survive and the major cities will become deserted after the angry fires. This stark vision will be replicated in other energy hungry and debt poor countries. With a failure of money credibility, no energy comes into the country, and a much simpler existence ensues. Nobody wants this to happen so more moral hazard and adverse selection will be thrown into the brew until the system goes pop. More misery, pain and possibly war are coming to Greece unless it opts out of the Euro.

Monday 27 June 2011

Systemic Risk Solutions under Hohfeld

1. Do you ever get the feeling that the problems of government are just too big to ponder? And that no solutions are forthcoming because the problems themselves are so hard to define? Really? Imagine belonging to a group where you either have to follow or lead. The fact there is a follower or leader does not mean anything at all because of the necessity of the situation. Power is given by one and used by the other with the object that both can survive. This scenario is a semblance of the Prisoner's Dilemma. But should the leader be any richer or wealthier; or that there be any presumption that the power he or she commands makes him or her any better than the other then we have the beginning of fascism. The Prisonner's Dilemma turns into a closed system of self-justifying privileges and immunities for the few, and concomitantly, increased disabilities and negative liabilities for the many. Simple as that. In legal theory, we call this Hohfeldian.

2. Now what is the problem with the US government? It is run mainly by de facto fascists who have translated the power given temporarily by the people into permanent features of privileges and entitlements, de facto immunity from prosecution, and increasing the disability of the people.

3. The only open legal relation, that is, the only legal relation left open for determination is who will be liable for this mess? Liability strikes both ways. It means who will be liable for any munificence if there is any left, and similarly, who will pay for the debt when it comes due. Liability is the way the law talks about the determination of risk. In legal terms where complete order is determined asa form of translational symmetry through time by judicial decisions and the processes thereof or rites, rituals, signs and symbols thereof, corruption is held at bay because the law's structure itself as a whole is invariant. Theoretically, what is invariant allows us to measure, compare, predict with precision and realise with accuracy that which is within the ambit of our consciousness.

4. And what can we see across the governmental landscape of the US? First and foremost, nearly 14.5 trillion in national debt. And a giant military engaged in three wars. And a Medicaid system where the future expected costs are three times more than future expected income of the people. So these are the "problems" which the government must fix to get its house ("oikos") in order ("nomia"--law and order).

5. to fix these problems by legislation, we might listen to:
by Madhouse
on Sun, 06/26/2011 - 16:20
#1403524

6 year one time terms with random confidence votes for the Pres, Sen, Congress. Constitutional ammendment to balance budget and turn the 16 trillion into a 30 year note with a 1/30th sink each year. Cut the defense budget to 2002 levels, taxes back to 2002 levels, get govt completely out of healthcare (i.e. phase out medicare over 10 years) and stop the [expletive deletion] mongering...

All of these goal changes would be very much against the interests of major corporations in the US. So, they would not be readily feasible.

6. Another strategy, long ago conceived by Plato, is to educate the people. Funny that after 2,400 years, the nation state that is currently living well beyond its means is Greece and is the focal point for systemic collapse. As Michala Marcusen (quoted from Zerohedge) od Societe Generale writes:

"Can Greece ultimately avoid default? The sustainability of Greek public finances depends critically on the snowball effect, i.e. the difference between nominal GDP growth and the funding rate and the level of the primary surplus. Greece’s public debt today stands at almost 160% of GDP, with a primary balance forecast at -2.8% in 2011 and nominal GDP forecast at -3.1%. Even with the attractive funding rates provided by the EU and IMF (just under 4% at present), the situation is clearly not sustainable. 

Making a back of the envelope calculation, we find that if Greece can sustain a primary budget balance and enjoy nominal GDP growth that exceeds the implicit interest rate on its debt by 1pp, it would take Greece 100 years to reach a debt-to-GDP ratio of 100%. If Greece in addition could sustain a primary budget surplus of 1% of GDP every year, it would take 50 years.

Theoretically, Greece can avoid default, but it depends critically on the ability to achieve growth, run a primary surplus and achieve a cheap rate of funding. If the rest of Europe wants to avoid Greek default, it seems it may be funding the country for many years to come."

7. So what should we do?

We should teach that Freedom is Responsibility and that Knowledge is earned through constant Discipline (unlike the Foucaultians' views of discipline which for them is really about pernicious stimulus-response conditioning, discipline comes from the concept of one who is capable of learning).

The first implementation of these principles should be in grade school so that balanced budgets become features of the good society. Just so we understand ourselves completely, no one should learn how to do financial derivatives unless they are first tested and cleared of any and all socio-pathologies. Rigorous methods of mass financial creation become weapons of mass social destruction in the hands of determined fraudsters who dress their justifications for such with idiotic solipsistic arguments of regulatory arbitrage.

Saturday 25 June 2011

Quantum Time Reversal Is Normal at Neuronal Level

1. For a long time, I have been looking for an explanation of some "future viewings" I have had in the past.

2. The best explanation I can find after a 30 year search is the quantum brain hypothesis. See, http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/~sreinis/quantum.html for a partial answer although the authors in this article think "time reversal" is just too weird, it cannot be denied at the neuronal level.

3. here's an anecdotal piece:


[2] by DeadFred
on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 00:48
#1400617
www.zero hedge.com

There's a pretty far out factor to consider relating to speed. When I used to work in neuro-science research I came across a very hard-to-comprehend but highly reproducible phenomenon, time is fuzzy at the nano-second level these algos are working at. Imagine a test subject with probes measuring the firing of some individual neurons. Show the subjects one of three types of photos and measure the neurons firing in response to the photos. The first type of photo is pleasant (fuzzy kitten, rainbow or such). The second type is startling (snake or tarantula for example) the third type is arousing (girl in bikini or the like). Different neurons respond to the different types of photos. The really bizarre thing is that the correct neurons will start to fire BEFORE the photo is shown, even when neither the subject and researcher know what type of photo will be shown. This effect is at the nano-second level, it's real, it incomprehesible, and it's so common I've seen it occur in several neural training research presentations where no one even bothers to comment on it. The best explanation I've heard suggests that time behaves similar to a quantum wave so there is a fuzziness that allows leakage of the future into the past. If you want to boggle your mind let Mr. Google lead you
down this rabbit hole."

3. My technical argument pro-time-reversal has to do with an improvement of a calculation made by Eugene Wigner, who applied the Shrodinger equation to a two state world populated by "nutrient" and "beings". Of course this is very crude, and he managed to show that the survival of beings for most scenarios were improbable to the extreme. He also mentioned that what was lacking in quantum calculations was taking account of "consciousness" since the quantum event obviously affected consciousness, could consciousness affect the event? Anyway, he had no way but to indicate that no complete answer was available unless or until quantum theory could include consciousness.

4. What makes sense to me now is that the neuronal-brain-body complex is a quantum calculator. I prefer to call it a calculator rather than computer because the quantum phenomena is really not at all in any mystical software or esoteric learning, but just simply the result of well reproducible processes. The entanglement of the self-replicator's on-board quantum processes allows for time reversal and thus, greatly increases the chance of its successful replication. Put another way which is the isomorphism of the previous statement, the future leaks to the present.

Wednesday 22 June 2011

n-Risk

1. When you put an "n" in front of a word, you are giving it infinite dimensionality.

2. Risk by itself is merely 'change'.

3. But n-Risk (and notice the capital R) is to take risk in it's infinite variegations. You will not or need not stop, and may arbitrarily go on and on.

4. Consider putting an n- in front of every word in the next sentence you say.

5. Where will go then Charlie?

6. Will you be able to breathe?

7. Or, will all those infinities crush you in your bed before you can grab a cup of coffee?

Monday 20 June 2011

n-Biokiatsu - What art thou?

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After having been unintentionally excluded from my FB identity--it felt old, decrepit, constraining like old bark and snake skin--I decided to resurrect a freer identity where James Joyce's Molly Bloom meets Parmenides, Zeno, Plato, Aristotle, Osho, the Aikido Masters, my anthropological stories, and specific razor sharp comments on law and finance (my main disciplines) so that I can lay bare the raw and the cooked provisions of an ever entangled mind beloved of spirit. At the same time, I want to form a cahier--exercise books--in my own signs, songs, rites, meditations, rituals, business quotidian non-seeker, and indecipherable codes--currently it is transforming the monstrous beauty of Lisi's 248 exceptionally simple theory of everything into an even more salubriously simple n-categorical algebra. My job would be complete and I would evaporate to Heaven's gate if I could translate the 248 to a specific smaller number preceding the Categorical. I want to be free to express what pinches my skin without having to calculate whether the Reader's anatomy has been contumed.

Why and what the hell is n-Biokiatsu?

It is the mind-body-spirit of Biokiatsu which focuses on the monadic and dyadic to the many into the one. The Many into the One is exactly the conceptual of n-Biokiatsu. n-Biokiatsu is generalised Biokiatsu, which in itself requires a lifetime to master in glorious detail. Imagine tutor and tutee practising ethereal qualia of incremental infinities of eternal learning. That would be the dyadic supreme. n-Biokiatsu generalises so that any life occurrence in normal coordinates of social-hierarchical construction may be translated into n-Categoric nonsense, and realised as action in n-Biokiatsu determination, certainty, elegance and gracefulness.