User:Dagelf/sandbox

=About Me= Conversations about knowledge is just a synchronization of words and relationships; a mapping of networks of concepts if you will.

Current View
1) The world is the best version of itself. Think the world should be better? Want to know why it's not? B ecause it is the result of everyone's doings to date, and the fact that whatever you think should be better, is not better yet, is simply a statement of the fact that nobody has done the "better thing" you think should have been done, yet. Or, more often than usual - they have actually done/tried it, and it didn't work - either because they didn't keep it up, or because someone else worked to undo it, or because it wasn't time and their "better thing" was not mandated or viewed as better by "the world". 2) Money is the best way to measure trust that we have been able to come up with. It's far from perfect... but I have yet to see something more practical... Perhaps sad, yes, but true. The world is not yet as advanced as you'd like it to be... or perhaps it is, but you just don't see it yet. 3) Your brain learns on it own. Simply feed it the right information and it will figure out everything you throw at it, just give it time. 4) Evil is thinking you know something completely. You will never know anything completely: there's always a bigger picture that you may not be aware of. Good people know this, even if it's all they know. Thinking that there is no bigger authority than yourself on some topic, leads to you putting yourself above others, even when its not mandated, which is wrong.

Observation
How much you see around you was not crafted by human hands? Can human hands craft anything without a perception of what they are doing? Without it existing as an idea in the mind of the crafter? What is an idea other than a fantasy? In light of this, what is more real: Ideas or reality? One observation that I would love to have someone refute: "Everything is possible. The impossible just takes a little longer." In some kind of curious dimensional algebra: Fantasy + Time = Reality. What if the world of forms, of ideas, is in fact a higher dimensional reality that can only be translated to our 4-th dimensional reality though a length of time that is inversely proportional to the sophistication of our technology?

Ultimate Questions
Does chaos exist? Or is it merely a bigger picture? Does Gödel's incompleteness Theorems give commentary on God, or perhaps even prove His existence? Or is it perhaps a definition of God? Do either of these give commentary on free choice or free will?

Newest Question
Did Jesus ultimately preach the scientific method? Granted, it's a long shot at first - but he was ultimately crucified because the Jews believed him claiming that all the laws can be distilled into two is blasphemy in their superficial interpretation that it effectively gives everyone a license to do do as they please. Upon careful examination, however, it becomes clear that neither of these two "rules" can be followed blindly - and that they require a lot of wisdom to follow: "Love your neighbor as yourself and God above all". (Some more long shots here... mediate on it and I'll be surprised if you don't land on the same...) - This casually translates to "Love your enemies", the main distinguishing factor characterizing Christianity - which casually translates to "Do not fear the unknown" - which casually translates to "stay curious" - by which the scientific method is the only guaranteed way of execution. Sin by definition being to "miss your mark" as in archery, ie. to fail at something, which is why we are all sinners because of the nature of knowledge and the fact that living is a state of perpetual learning, our first really smart intuition being that we will never ever be able to know everything as we can only be aware of so much at a time.

Epiphany
Everything's a network. Rivers. Roads. Bloodflow. Currency exchange. Probability. Molecular Structure. Gravity. Cause and effect. Dimensions. Wikipedia articles. Intelligence. Looking at Lightning in slow motion[] reveals an archetypal template to many things, such as perhaps: a race condition (yet, curiously, each path is the result of the same amount of energy), multiple paths, communication, a fundamental sort of action, the essence of time... I'll add more on this later.

Ideas
Probability is time compression, a "dimension" or "layers" are simply the number of divergent paths between each node in a graph - thus, perhaps probability is a projection of 4-dimensionality on 3 dimensions, just as intelligence is funnel from 5-th dimensionality to 4 dimensions. Studying this, perhaps economics can learn from computer science by just studying the correlations between, as an example, the gold standard and a page file, or the analogies between variable declaration and seat reservations - or taking it to a finer level, comparing this process with the act of ordering food, or of removing individual food-items from your plate, or at a higher level, hiring employees, or renting property - if this was modeled by a recursive algorithm, what would the variables be and can any knowledge be obtained from the process of deducing this?

Peeve
Teachings that try to achieve a certain goal by means of lies. Take the Rainbow Body for example. At its core lies the idea that you can alter the physical 4-dimensional reality that we share, simply with your mind. I believe this to be no more than a vision of science: Yes, you can alter the world with your mind, but it takes a lot of time and effort and the study of this is called the scientific method. No amount of mediation is going to change anything in the physical world, save for your own perception - which may in turn influence others to do things. Did dragons really exist because people believed them to exist? Yes, in the mental plane, not in the physical. Okay, maybe gigantic flying lizards that could breathe fire did exist (unlikely), or maybe its just a remnant vision of dinosaurs and the mini apocalypse that wiped them out, and only the mammals who stuck around to witness it ate left today, this remnant still encoded in our mammalian DNA. The fact remains, just because everyone in the world can be duped into believing that it's real, is not going to somehow instantaneously manifest it in this reality. We might however be able to do that through genetic engineering. Fact remains, the traditional notion of "fantasy" all too eagerly omits time and effort from the equation that makes reality from fantasy. Perhaps the mental plane is a tangible higher dimensional space than the physical world that we are most familiar with. That's my view anyways. So what is hell really? Who is the devil? My opinion: It is nothingness. Or perhaps complete isolation. Fantasy is only real in the sense by which it may be realized with sufficiently advanced technology. Curiously, everything only exists in relation to something else. If you could simulate a blank world with only one particle, there would be no space or time, because there would be no change. Once you have two particles, you have a relationship between them by which you can make measurements. Similarly, a shared idea is real. But at the core of our current existence, is the fact that we are in a "real" place which has certain tangible characteristics - which we can observe, model and share. But in a way, the past and the future is wound up in an infinite moment that you are inhabiting. Whatever we do perceive of it is in fact just a perception, but at its core is something universal. Anything that detracts from finding this, is in my opinion fake and a detraction from our purpose and will ultimately lead to hell - or perhaps this state is hell, and we are yearning for an exodus to some heaven. (Through ever-shrinking technology, miniturizing our consciousness so we can escape there through black holes (which surely must be the largest objects in the universe, being the heaviest!) Sure, making people believe that you've done the indian rope trick may inspire them to find more, but if it leads them to ultimately refute science, it's evil. Science is not a religion but it is a tradition and a language with which we can find certainty - and it is even more fragile, rarer and more persecuted in our society than the mainstream of supposed Christians believe themselves and their faith to be. I dream of the day when the majority shall see that they follow one and the same basic rules and all are mere different angles of looking at the same thing.

How to count in base... reality
1 Everything or nothing, Everything and nothing, I, The simplest mark you can make. 2 Duality. Opposition. Good and bad. Light and dark. Up and down. Serial or parralel. CPU or GPU. Left or right. 3 Balance. Good. Neutral. bad. White. Grey. Black. 4 The origin of complexity?... How many things that consist of 4 components, takes on a life of its own? A wiring standard with 4 wires made the internet possible. USB. Most tables have 4 legs. So do mammals. Coincidence? Four is a very stable shape. A cube has four sides. What if the fact that there are four nucleotides in DNA had something to do with the fact that there are four seasons in a year? What if each nucleotide was woven in place by the movements of the planets in a different season? Mystics are fond of dividing things into four groups: Physical, Emotional, Intellectual and Spiritual. Most informative talks I attend also like dividing things into quadrants, so as to unpack an issue or a topic. 5 Your body is a fractal of 5. But a little more complex than that... it's fractals of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 all wrapped into each other. Evolution is God's scalpel. Everything is a metaphor. ...