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4 files changed, 102 insertions, 54 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index c8ab9fd..c5a63d9 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ pages += bitcoin.txt space monad-tutorial.txt break
 pages += why.txt space con-job.txt break
 pages += argument.txt space medium.txt break
 pages += introduction.txt $(if $(FINALE),finale.txt) break
+pages += human-communication.txt
 
 output_name = poetrybook
 pdf_viewer = evince
diff --git a/freedom.txt b/freedom.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index f115292..0000000
--- a/freedom.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Slaves are happy to have their lives; the dead are happy to have their freedom.
-
-Few distinguish appearing from being crazy.
-
diff --git a/human-communication.txt b/human-communication.txt
index cea0e63..41fd1b3 100644
--- a/human-communication.txt
+++ b/human-communication.txt
@@ -23,36 +23,36 @@ Follow the logic of the knowledge.
 
 
 Human beings can transmit to one another two fundamentally different
-types of communication: (1) data structures; (2) programs.  Programs are
-the same thing as proofs and the same thing as Russellian denotations;
+types of communication: (1) data (2) programs.  Programs are the
+same thing as proofs and the same thing as Russellian denotations;
 they have the "sense" that data structures lack.  They have the
 power that data does not have, to transmit knowledge rather than
 information. However, it must be understood that programs are highly
 sensitive to their runtime environments and for that reason robustness
-is an extremely difficult problem akin to the robustness of life
-in natural habitats. Human cultural programs are high reliability
-systems which means they are chaotic systems that have phase after
-phase to downshift through (articulated joints through which to roll
-over) as they take damage and heal from it by phase-changing back
-up over (computational) time (rewriting mental programs to account
-for unhandled or mishandled conditions while keeping the programs
-running continuously in a degraded state). Human cultural programs
-are far beyond what average or even elite programmers can hope to
-construct; they have been constructed by one-in-a-million prophets who
-were able to fully absorb their entire local culture and reprogram
-themselves individually based on reverse engineering that culture to
-become (themselves, as individuals) generators of self-propagating
-generator-regenerators. Their programs are constructed in such a way
-as to be rewritten generation after generation according to the local
+is an extremely difficult problem akin to the robustness of life in
+natural habitats. Human cultural programs are high reliability systems
+which means they are chaotic systems that have phase after phase to
+downshift through (articulated joints through which to roll over)
+as they take damage and heal from it by phase-changing back up over
+(computational) time (rewriting mental programs to account for unhandled
+or mishandled conditions while keeping the programs running continuously
+in a degraded state). Human cultural programs are far beyond what
+average or even elite programmers can hope to construct; they have
+been constructed by one-in-a-million prophets who were able to fully
+absorb their entire local culture and reprogram themselves individually
+based on reverse engineering that culture to become (themselves, as
+individuals) generators of self-propagating generator-regenerators of
+universal culture. Their programs are constructed in such a universal way as
+to be rewritten generation after generation according to the local
 runtime environment, while preserving an evolving kernel to re-generate
 slightly adapted kernels again and again in new environments -- in
-such a way that the kernel picks up each new environment and carries
-it into the next without losing what it learned of the previous
-environment -- that is their robustness. It is the same as the genetic
-principle of DNA described by Schrodinger but most especially like the
-artificially bred/genetically engineered DNA of the immune system's
-antibody-generating cells. These have mechanisms that control the
-production of novelty, localizing it to one part of the DNA strand,
+such a way that the kernel picks up each new environment's knowledge
+and carries it into the next without losing what it learned of the
+previous environment -- that is their robustness. It is the same as the
+genetic principle of DNA described by Schrodinger but most especially
+like the artificially bred/genetically engineered DNA of the immune
+system's antibody-generating cells. These have mechanisms that control
+the production of novelty, localizing it to one part of the DNA strand,
 while circumscribing every novelty with proof of provenance used to
 protect the system against foreign novelty (a single recognizable
 DNA strand that is the same for every antibody; that is, its coded
@@ -61,26 +61,29 @@ immunohistocompatibility complex providing the filter mechanism of
 auto-immune tolerance). The word kernel is to be interpreted as in the
 algebraic structure: preserved across a morphism.
 
-In a literal kernel, the DNA sequence in the seed's nucleus is a literal
-algebraic kernel, in an algebra of sexual reproduction that includes
-a mechanism amplifying reproductive success of males in Eukaryotes
-providing an information-accumulation advantage, which was later
-jettisoned when Animalia transitioned into the Mammalian super-organism
+In a literal kernel, the DNA information sequence in the seed's nucleus
+is a literal algebraic kernel, in an algebra of sexual reproduction
+that includes a mechanism amplifying reproductive success of males in
+Eukaryotes providing an information-accumulation advantage by more
+reliably capturing novelty, which was later jettisoned in the human
+lineage when Animalia transitioned into the Mammalian super-organism
 phase which gave the next level of meta-advantage in information
 accumulation as group-shared emotions applied distributed computation
 to sensory information turning e.g. individualized sight into area
-surveillance; that super-organism was again jettisoned when Humanity
-transitioned into its cultural message-passing super-organism phase;
-but remnants of the old system always exist and indeed exist as the
-foundations of the newer systems and abstractions are leaky and the new
-stuff only has to work just-better than the old stuff so it isn't ever
-all the way there -- you know how it goes. So capitalism was founded on
-the conceptually very different property relations of feudalism, which
-only slowly shifted to match the needs of the capitalists, without
-necessarily losing their old-timey words and old white men with robes,
-or even the fact that some people get to force other people to fight
-in front of them and a spot in the back is the foundation of political
-power.
+surveillance (Eukaryotic sexual sampling came into conflict with high
+parental investment involved in non-genetic but still vertical transfer
+of acquired environmental knowledge, a sort of Lamarckian epigenetic
+thing if you are into analogies YUCK); that super-organism was again
+jettisoned when Humanity transitioned into its cultural message-passing
+super-organism phase (in fact Humanity remains the mammalian substrate
+but human subjectivity (the "us" that "we" think "we" are even as we
+call ourselves human) is produced by the cultural distributed program
+whose social systems of self-preservation dominate the mammalian levers
+mostly just by spacialization -- I mean, it ain't hard); but remnants of
+the old systems always exist and indeed exist as the foundations of the
+newer systems and abstractions are leaky and the new stuff only has to
+work just-better than the old stuff so it isn't ever all the way there
+-- you know how it goes.
 
 Haskell monads show us how algebraic morphisms are as intuitive as
 quasiquotation. Thank you Mr. Quine. But these are all just simple
@@ -89,7 +92,29 @@ how much more complicated to understand them than the far more complex
 2+2=4, which even people who are not simple believe to be more simple!
 People who think 2+2=4 is simple may be remembering the answer rather
 than computing it. People who are computing it may not be deriving from
-foundations; they may be remembering rather than proving a lemma.
+foundations; they may be remembering rather than proving a lemma. But to
+remember without proving is not enough to transmit knowledge.  
+
+Memory transmits only memory.  Knowledge can transmit either memory
+or sometimes knowledge.  The recipient can interpret proof as
+information (store it) or as program (run it).  Running the program
+initiates a mental process whose outcome cannot be predicted by the
+person running it.  The frontal lobe executive function will connect the
+ongoing computational process to all stored life memories through the
+salience network, a search engine for emotional resonance; the frontal
+lobe can detect fear of thought; mental flight from fear will prevent
+the process from computing to completion.
+
+(Knowledge can exist in a degraded, not-fully-replicable form; neutered,
+locally contained, but potentially still fully-activated locally.
+Such knowledge or internal programming may be unavailable for mental
+debugging as if its source code were unavailable. When knowledge is
+filtered out by the executive function, it may appear to have this
+neutered locally-activated form, or else be deactivated. Resolving
+the emotional response could activate neutered knowledge and/or cause
+first-time replication of knowledge previously unreplicated. The
+initiated processing requires an unpredictable amount of computing time
+to complete.)
 
 This power makes them dangerous; for the same reason that computer
 systems control access to programming features (and generally even when
@@ -105,17 +130,19 @@ reason why these systems are unavailable: they do not make available
 sufficient time to process.  Time is even the MOTIVATION for restricting
 access in modern computer systems, denial of service being far more
 common than privilege escalation; this commonality is true of human
-systems as well (older computer systems were highly vulnerable but
+systems as well. (Older computer systems were highly vulnerable but
 modern systems are vastly more secure to trivial escalation attacks,
 though their complexity may lead to spectacularly immense failures as
 breaches of gargantuan executive control structures or even breaches
 of software distribution centralization points whose impact could span
 multiple national executive control structures in multiple nations
-simultaneously, as indeed have several recent software supply chain
-compromises e.g. Microsoft through their upstream library vendor
-SolarWinds. This attack was relatively harmless because it was performed
-by a government that only wanted some spy shit rather than one at war or
-a terrorist who wanted to maximize destruction).
+simultaneously, as indeed happened in a software supply chain attack on
+Microsoft through their upstream library vendor SolarWinds. This attack
+was relatively harmless because it was performed by a government that
+only wanted some spy shit rather than one at war or a terrorist who
+wanted to maximize destruction).  Can't get the time of day from someone
+who doesn't want to spend the time thinking whether you just want the
+time of day.
 
 Capitalism and school might be seen operationally as denial of
 service attacks on their constituent subordinates' ability to process
@@ -126,6 +153,22 @@ of the big picture to change their phase thereby destabilizing their
 binding connection to you (creating a renegotiation, reconfiguration, or
 break).
 
+When I was 13 years old I read A Brief History of Time and learned
+that Albert Einstein claimed that calculus proves Parmenides right:
+time is an illusion.  Two years later I dropped out of high school and
+took calculus at University of Connecticut to find out for myself.  No
+one in my calculus or analysis classes ever talked about Parmenides.
+Why not?  Maybe because Einstein may be right: calculus may be able
+to prove something.  Then the students could be changed, set against
+their parents like by Jesus' sword.  In fact these students are meant
+to change and to change the world -- later.  First they must pass
+through the Thymus of society proving they have inscribed its inherited
+knowledge into their shape.  Only then will they be permitted a chance
+to compete for the seat at the mic where some lucky MC gets to spit
+something new on top.  You're not there yet kiddo, integrate this
+expression.  But don't integrate too far.  Robin Williams made a movie
+about it, but it sucked.
+
 (Schools follow the corporate hierarchy style proof-of-work knowledge
 distribution system of transferring knowledge about subordinate worker
 performance up to non-local, locally-inaccessible standard-setters
@@ -133,8 +176,8 @@ performance up to non-local, locally-inaccessible standard-setters
 of global information in the local context becomes a liability as
 either denial of service or maybe baby a nucleation engine for
 crystalization of solidarity with snowflakes dropping through the air in
-a horizontal barrage since no single nucleation point could crystalize
-a horizontally-segregated group.  There is a systemic filter to remove
+a horizontal barrage (since no single nucleation point could crystalize
+a horizontally-segregated group).  There is a systemic filter to remove
 global knowledge from inputs supplied to the local system as well as
 mechanisms to prevent horizontal information flow within local activity;
 you are educated stupid in your timecubicle! and by the way it doesn't
diff --git a/tweets.txt b/tweets.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..db61567
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tweets.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+Unsent Tweets
+
+
+Slaves are happy to have their lives.
+The dead are happy to have their freedom.
+
+Few distinguish appearing from being crazy.
+