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author | Gordon GECOS <u@adam> | 2023-11-03 10:13:59 -0400 |
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committer | Gordon GECOS <u@adam> | 2023-11-03 10:13:59 -0400 |
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human-communication.txt
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@@ -7,28 +7,28 @@ Follow the logic of the knowledge | |||
7 | 7 | ||
8 | Human beings can transmit to one another two fundamentally | 8 | Human beings can transmit to one another two fundamentally |
9 | different types of communication: (1) data (2) programs. | 9 | different types of communication: (1) data (2) programs. |
10 | Programs are the same thing as proofs and the same | 10 | Programs are the same thing as proofs and the same thing as |
11 | thing as Russellian denotations; they have the "sense" | 11 | Russellian denotations; they have the "sense" that mere/pure |
12 | that data structures lack. They have the power that | 12 | data lacks. They have the power that data does not have, to |
13 | data does not have, to transmit knowledge rather than | 13 | transmit knowledge rather than information. However, it must |
14 | information. However, it must be understood that programs | 14 | be understood that programs are highly sensitive to their |
15 | are highly sensitive to their runtime environments and for | 15 | runtime environments and for that reason their robustness is |
16 | that reason robustness is an extremely difficult problem | 16 | an extremely difficult problem akin to the robustness |
17 | akin to the robustness of life in natural habitats. Human | 17 | of life in natural habitats. Human cultural programs are |
18 | cultural programs are high reliability systems which means | 18 | high reliability systems which means they are chaotic |
19 | they are chaotic systems that have phase after phase to | 19 | systems that have phase after phase to downshift through |
20 | downshift through (articulated joints through which to roll | 20 | (articulated joints through which to roll over) as they take |
21 | over) as they take damage and heal from it by phase-changing | 21 | damage and heal from it by phase-changing back up over |
22 | back up over (computational) time (rewriting mental programs | 22 | (computational) time (rewriting mental programs to account |
23 | to account for unhandled or mishandled conditions while | 23 | for unhandled or mishandled conditions while keeping the |
24 | keeping the programs running continuously in a degraded | 24 | programs running continuously in a degraded state). Human |
25 | state). Human cultural programs are far beyond what average | 25 | cultural programs are far beyond what average or even |
26 | or even elite programmers can hope to construct; they have | 26 | elite programmers can hope to construct; they have been |
27 | been constructed by one-in-a-million prophets who were able | 27 | constructed by one-in-a-million prophets who were able to |
28 | to fully absorb their entire local culture and reprogram | 28 | fully absorb their entire local culture and reprogram |
29 | themselves individually based on reverse engineering that | 29 | themselves individually based on reverse engineering that |
30 | culture to become (themselves, as individuals) generators | 30 | culture to become (themselves, as individuals) generators |
31 | of self-propagating generator-regenerators of universal | 31 | of self-propagating regenerator-generators of universal |
32 | culture. Their programs are constructed in such a universal | 32 | culture. Their programs are constructed in such a universal |
33 | way as to be rewritten generation after generation according | 33 | way as to be rewritten generation after generation according |
34 | to the local runtime environment, while preserving an | 34 | to the local runtime environment, while preserving an |
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ that the kernel picks up each new environment's knowledge | |||
38 | and carries it into the next without losing what it | 38 | and carries it into the next without losing what it |
39 | learned of the previous environment -- that is their | 39 | learned of the previous environment -- that is their |
40 | robustness. It is again and above the genetic principle | 40 | robustness. It is again and above the genetic principle |
41 | of DNA described by Schrodinger; but Schrodinger wrote | 41 | of DNA first described by Schrodinger; but Schrodinger wrote |
42 | before DNA was discovered; so also before discovery of the | 42 | before DNA was discovered; so also before discovery of the |
43 | structure of controlled mutation in life's environmental | 43 | structure of controlled mutation in life's environmental |
44 | sampling mechanism; so again instead is the artificially | 44 | sampling mechanism; so again instead is the artificially |
45 | bred/genetically engineered DNA of the immune system's | 45 | bred/genetically engineered DNA of the immune system's |
@@ -63,32 +63,37 @@ an algebra of sexual reproduction that includes a | |||
63 | mechanism amplifying reproductive success of males in | 63 | mechanism amplifying reproductive success of males in |
64 | Eukaryotes providing an information-accumulation advantage | 64 | Eukaryotes providing an information-accumulation advantage |
65 | by more reliably capturing novelty on the Y chromosome, | 65 | by more reliably capturing novelty on the Y chromosome, |
66 | which was later jettisoned in the human lineage when | 66 | progressively jettisoned along the Mammalia lineage toward |
67 | Animalia transitioned into the Mammalian super-organism | 67 | a super-organism phase which gave the next level of |
68 | phase which gave the next level of meta-advantage in | 68 | meta-advantage in information accumulation as group-shared |
69 | information accumulation as group-shared emotions applied | 69 | emotions applied distributed computation to sensory |
70 | distributed computation to sensory information turning e.g. | 70 | information turning e.g. individualized sight into area |
71 | individualized sight into area surveillance (Eukaryotic | 71 | surveillance in the simpler mammals but only message-passing |
72 | sexual sampling came into conflict with high parental | 72 | of programs in advanced primates (Eukaryotic sexual |
73 | investment involved in non-genetic but still-vertical | 73 | sampling came into conflict with high parental investment |
74 | transfer of acquired environmental knowledge, a sort of | 74 | involved in non-genetic but still-vertical transmission of |
75 | acquired environmental knowledge/connectivity, a sort of | ||
75 | Lamarckian epigenetic thing if you are into analogies | 76 | Lamarckian epigenetic thing if you are into analogies |
76 | YUCK); that super-organism was again jettisoned when | 77 | YUCK); that super-organism was again jettisoned when |
77 | Humanity transitioned into its cultural message-passing | 78 | Humanity transitioned into its cultural message-passing |
78 | super-organism phase (in fact Humanity remains the mammalian | 79 | super-organism phase where all Earth life must survive in |
79 | substrate but human subjectivity (the "us" that "we" think | 80 | symbiotic exchange with or as constituent elements of a |
80 | "we" are even as we call ourselves human) is produced by | 81 | single social machine originating chronologically before the |
81 | the cultural distributed program whose social systems of | 82 | origination of any biological Earth human (in fact Humanity |
82 | self-preservation dominate the mammalian levers mostly just | 83 | remains the mammalian substrate but human subjectivity (the |
83 | by spacialization -- I mean, it ain't hard); but remnants of | 84 | "us" that "we" think "we" are even as we call ourselves |
84 | the old systems always exist and indeed exist as the | 85 | human) is produced by the cultural distributed program whose |
85 | foundations of the newer systems and abstractions are leaky | 86 | social systems of self-preservation dominate the mammalian |
86 | and the new stuff only has to work just-better than the old | 87 | levers mostly just by spacialization -- I mean, it ain't |
87 | stuff so it isn't ever all the way there -- you know how it | 88 | hard); but remnants of the old systems always exist and |
88 | goes. (There is always a residue of apparent randomness | 89 | indeed exist as the foundations of the newer systems and |
89 | left unaccounted for by the locally-known structure where, | 90 | abstractions are leaky and the new stuff only has to work |
90 | surely, more structure does exist to be found; though it | 91 | just-better than the old stuff so it isn't ever all the |
91 | may be unconnectable to the local region.) | 92 | way there -- you know how it goes. (There is always a |
93 | residue of apparent randomness left unaccounted for by the | ||
94 | locally-known structure where, surely, more structure does | ||
95 | exist to be found; though it may be unconnectable to the | ||
96 | local region.) | ||
92 | 97 | ||
93 | (Computational phase spaces means how many computational | 98 | (Computational phase spaces means how many computational |
94 | states can it cycle through, or how much does the | 99 | states can it cycle through, or how much does the |
@@ -109,7 +114,7 @@ filtered elsewhere according to the present state of the | |||
109 | multiple shifting connections of the frontal lobe and | 114 | multiple shifting connections of the frontal lobe and |
110 | its external/bodily hormonal-emotional Mammalian control | 115 | its external/bodily hormonal-emotional Mammalian control |
111 | structures. The cultural super-organism will surely be to | 116 | structures. The cultural super-organism will surely be to |
112 | Mammalia as the Eukaryotes were to the microbial mats.) | 117 | Mammalia as Eukarya were to the microbial mats.) |
113 | 118 | ||
114 | Haskell monads show us how algebraic morphisms are as | 119 | Haskell monads show us how algebraic morphisms are as |
115 | intuitive as quasiquotation. Thank you Mr. Quine. But these | 120 | intuitive as quasiquotation. Thank you Mr. Quine. But these |
@@ -125,6 +130,20 @@ is not enough to transmit knowledge. When was the last time | |||
125 | you taught a child that 2+2=4? Maybe the people who think | 130 | you taught a child that 2+2=4? Maybe the people who think |
126 | they know 2+2=4 don't know they're faking. | 131 | they know 2+2=4 don't know they're faking. |
127 | 132 | ||
133 | The thing is that I didn't prove that there is a morphism, | ||
134 | but I don't have to prove to know it's there. Proving it | ||
135 | would be a matter of writing the program, yet somehow I know | ||
136 | what can be proved without proving it, because I somehow | ||
137 | know whether I can write the program before writing it. But | ||
138 | of course I have been wrong before; that is why my next | ||
139 | rhyme style will be the code poem. It is funny that it is | ||
140 | easier to prove things to computers than to humans; it was | ||
141 | easier for humans to build something to understand them than | ||
142 | to be understood! but not really because building computers | ||
143 | took 50 million years of accumulated culture. Isn't it | ||
144 | only the accumulated culture itself that the computers | ||
145 | understand? | ||
146 | |||
128 | Memory transmits only memory. Knowledge can transmit | 147 | Memory transmits only memory. Knowledge can transmit |
129 | either memory or sometimes knowledge. The recipient can | 148 | either memory or sometimes knowledge. The recipient can |
130 | interpret proof as information (store it) or as program | 149 | interpret proof as information (store it) or as program |
@@ -151,20 +170,19 @@ a copy, then collide it with the world (your body will also | |||
151 | collide) then compare its shape to the original. Collision | 170 | collide) then compare its shape to the original. Collision |
152 | provides the knowledge necessary to decide whether to | 171 | provides the knowledge necessary to decide whether to |
153 | destroy the copy or the original. What is not destroyed can | 172 | destroy the copy or the original. What is not destroyed can |
154 | be copied into another node. | 173 | be copied into another node. |
155 | 174 | ||
156 | (Knowledge can exist in a degraded, not-fully-replicable | 175 | (Knowledge can exist in a degraded, not-fully-replicable |
157 | form; neutered, locally contained, but potentially still | 176 | form; neutered, locally contained, but potentially still |
158 | activated locally. Such knowledge or internal programming | 177 | activated locally. Such knowledge or internal programming |
159 | may be unavailable for mental debugging as if its | 178 | may be unavailable for mental debugging as if its source |
160 | source code were unavailable. When knowledge is filtered | 179 | code were unavailable. When knowledge is filtered out by |
161 | out by connection to fear in the executive function, | 180 | connection to fear in the executive function, it may appear |
162 | it may appear to have this neutered locally-activated | 181 | to have this neutered locally-activated form. Resolving |
163 | form. Resolving the emotional response could activate | 182 | the emotional response could activate apparently-neutered |
164 | neutered knowledge and/or cause first-time replication of | 183 | knowledge and/or cause first-time replication of knowledge |
165 | knowledge previously unreplicable. The initiated processing | 184 | previously unreplicable. The initiated processing requires |
166 | requires an unpredictable amount of computing time to | 185 | an unpredictable amount of computing time to complete.) |
167 | complete.) | ||
168 | 186 | ||
169 | This power makes them dangerous; for the same reason that | 187 | This power makes them dangerous; for the same reason that |
170 | computer systems control access to programming features | 188 | computer systems control access to programming features |
@@ -195,9 +213,10 @@ in a software supply chain attack on Microsoft through | |||
195 | their upstream library vendor SolarWinds. This attack was | 213 | their upstream library vendor SolarWinds. This attack was |
196 | relatively harmless because it was performed by a government | 214 | relatively harmless because it was performed by a government |
197 | that only wanted some spy shit rather than one at war or a | 215 | that only wanted some spy shit rather than one at war or a |
198 | terrorist who wanted to maximize destruction). Can't get | 216 | terrorist who wanted to maximize destruction). Time to |
199 | the time of day from someone who doesn't want to spend the | 217 | process. Can't get the time of day from someone who doesn't |
200 | time thinking whether you just want the time of day. | 218 | want to spend the time thinking whether you just want the |
219 | time of day. | ||
201 | 220 | ||
202 | Capitalism and school might be seen operationally as denial | 221 | Capitalism and school might be seen operationally as denial |
203 | of service attacks on their constituent subordinates' | 222 | of service attacks on their constituent subordinates' |
@@ -217,27 +236,52 @@ By working backward from the conclusion the mathematician | |||
217 | will construct a proof "from both ends" toward a middle. | 236 | will construct a proof "from both ends" toward a middle. |
218 | The conclusion is in sight long before the bridge is built. | 237 | The conclusion is in sight long before the bridge is built. |
219 | The fear response precedes the conclusion. Loss of the | 238 | The fear response precedes the conclusion. Loss of the |
220 | binding connection can produce the fear. Thus can a binding | 239 | binding connection in the imaginary can produce the fear. |
221 | lock the phase of the bound. (With some emotions you can | 240 | Thus can a binding lock the phase of the bound. (With some |
222 | jump the gap; you might land on error.) | 241 | emotions you can jump the gap; you might land on error.) |
223 | 242 | ||
224 | When I was in middle school I read A Brief History of Time | 243 | When I was in middle school I read A Brief History of Time |
225 | and learned that Albert Einstein claimed that calculus | 244 | and learned that Albert Einstein claimed that calculus |
226 | proves Parmenides right: time is an illusion. Two years | 245 | proves Parmenides right: time is an illusion. Two years |
227 | later I dropped out of high school and took calculus | 246 | later I dropped out of high school and took calculus at |
228 | at University of Connecticut. No one in my calculus | 247 | University of Connecticut. No one in my calculus classes |
229 | or analysis classes ever talked about Parmenides. Why | 248 | ever talked about Parmenides. Why not? Maybe because |
230 | not? Maybe because Einstein may be right: calculus may be | 249 | Einstein may be right: calculus may be able to prove |
231 | able to prove something. Then the students could be | 250 | something. Then the students could be changed, set against |
232 | changed, set against their parents like by Jesus' sword. In | 251 | their parents like by Jesus' sword. In fact these students |
233 | fact these students are meant to change and to change the | 252 | are meant to change and to change the world -- later. First |
234 | world -- later. First they must pass through the Thymus of | 253 | they must pass through the Thymus of society proving they |
235 | society proving they have inscribed its inherited knowledge | 254 | have inscribed its inherited knowledge into their shape. |
236 | into their shape. Only then will they be permitted a chance | 255 | Only then will they be permitted a chance to compete for a |
237 | to compete for a seat at the mic where some lucky MC gets to | 256 | seat at the mic where some lucky MC gets to spit something |
238 | spit something new on top. You're not there yet kiddo, | 257 | new on top. You're not there yet kiddo, integrate this |
239 | integrate this expression. But don't integrate too far. | 258 | expression. But don't integrate too far. Robin Williams |
240 | Robin Williams made a movie about that, but it sucked. | 259 | made a movie about that, but it sucked. |
260 | |||
261 | The body could mutate the immunohistocompatibility complex | ||
262 | using genetic information derived from the testing of | ||
263 | antibodies against the environment of pathogens, recovering | ||
264 | information from pathogen proteins by differentially- | ||
265 | sampling antibody DNA, and thereby violate the central | ||
266 | dogma; maybe in the embryo in the creation of eggs; | ||
267 | because of the transporters that bring antibodies there. | ||
268 | Would nature throw away this magnificent construction of | ||
269 | externally-validated knowledge? But also the immune system | ||
270 | is the specialized manager of genetic fashion, in the use of | ||
271 | "fashion" synonymous with game theoretic roshambo, a game of | ||
272 | knowing the context ahead of time somehow, of being more | ||
273 | connected to the future ultimately; less so than to the | ||
274 | past. How to find that kernel? Well doesn't it have these | ||
275 | dual binding thingies with the inverse thing there? So it | ||
276 | can take those off the filtered T cells and filter the genes | ||
277 | of the immunohistocompatibility complex according to their | ||
278 | proteins by binding the inverse side to itself, just like | ||
279 | the Thymus does a self-binding test. | ||
280 | |||
281 | The immune system violates the central dogma already by | ||
282 | storing generated antibody DNA differentially in proportion | ||
283 | to exposure to foreign proteins. Can I put that on | ||
284 | Wikipedia? | ||
241 | 285 | ||
242 | (Schools follow the corporate hierarchy style proof-of-work | 286 | (Schools follow the corporate hierarchy style proof-of-work |
243 | knowledge distribution system of transferring knowledge | 287 | knowledge distribution system of transferring knowledge |
@@ -251,7 +295,7 @@ through the air in a horizontal barrage (since no single | |||
251 | nucleation point could crystalize a horizontally-segregated | 295 | nucleation point could crystalize a horizontally-segregated |
252 | group). There is a systemic filter to remove global | 296 | group). There is a systemic filter to remove global |
253 | knowledge from inputs supplied to the local system as well | 297 | knowledge from inputs supplied to the local system as well |
254 | as mechanisms to prevent horizontal information flow within | 298 | as mechanisms to limit horizontal information flow within |
255 | local activity; you are educated stupid in your timecubicle! | 299 | local activity; you are educated stupid in your timecubicle! |
256 | and by the way it doesn't help the non-local superordinate | 300 | and by the way it doesn't help the non-local superordinate |
257 | if the local superordinate has global knowledge. Handling | 301 | if the local superordinate has global knowledge. Handling |
@@ -263,7 +307,10 @@ enforcement of normality vs. the ability to detect the | |||
263 | exceptional; behavioral control prevents measurement; in | 307 | exceptional; behavioral control prevents measurement; in |
264 | general control prevents measurement; control cannot measure | 308 | general control prevents measurement; control cannot measure |
265 | what it also determines. Trying to control people never | 309 | what it also determines. Trying to control people never |
266 | works for me even when it does.) | 310 | works for me even when it does. Upshift the phase of anyone |
311 | and they pop right out of these horrible timecrystals like a | ||
312 | neutrino, as in nobody notices, don't trust me because you | ||
313 | don't want to know.) | ||
267 | 314 | ||
268 | The frontal lobe is the site of the executive function; it | 315 | The frontal lobe is the site of the executive function; it |
269 | is there that memories of knowledge and emotions past come | 316 | is there that memories of knowledge and emotions past come |
@@ -287,8 +334,8 @@ stressors whether through reduction in demanded processing | |||
287 | or other mechanisms; if processing quantity is to be the | 334 | or other mechanisms; if processing quantity is to be the |
288 | only "lever" then it has to have a minimum quantity demanded | 335 | only "lever" then it has to have a minimum quantity demanded |
289 | in order to retain its binding function reliably; in other | 336 | in order to retain its binding function reliably; in other |
290 | words once you drop the hours down to 20 you end up with | 337 | words once you give in and drop the hours down to 20 you end |
291 | MORE retention problems! | 338 | up with MORE retention problems! |
292 | 339 | ||
293 | FOR YOUR FIRST | 340 | FOR YOUR FIRST |
294 | EMPLOYER | 341 | EMPLOYER |