Saturday, December 13, 2014
Go here to find full listing of my blogs. some are of spurious and over spontaneous thought. But I have left them as they are.
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Friday, December 12, 2014
Updating my own amnesiac state and pushing to reform my own knowledge has resulted in changes: To whit I will illucidate
I have left this blog in sort of disarray and hope to correct that. I have been lately in a state of depression and this has left deficits, and I am in the process of mental renovation. Here are a few topics that have attracted my interest.
In the world of academia and its processes that have resulted in a tradition that is fixed. Dispute and controversy go through channels. Scientific progress and the review of methodologies has its detractors and its defects that have been noted by some objective observers. Thomas S. Kuhn in his introduction of the very familiar (to many book), "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" Said "History , if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed. [The aim of text written by those in their time is persuasive and pedagogic ] a concept drawn from them is more likely to fit the enterprise that produced them than the image of a national culture drawn from a tourist brochure or a language text." (paraphrase here) 'The result has been an image of science with profound implications about its nature and development where in upon overturning some long accepted iconography often beggars belief in the mind of many how the previously accepted facts stood firmly as virtual fact in the face of the new paradigm.' To many, today it seems almost inconceivable that many of the theories, some relatively new, some now so long standing and well supported that it appears impossible that they could fall, ( for example darwinian natural selection ). But do not forget that newtonian mechanics held sway for 250 years until a man named Albert Einstein upset the apple cart. I concede that newton's prinkipia matematica still holds for much of the smaller range theater ( for example the forces played out in a football game need little refinement from general and special relativity.) But quantum mechanics was difficult for Einstein to accept. But egos grow large...(imagine 5 revolutionary papers in one year) 1. the photo-electric effect (noble prize) 2. Brownian motion and proof of the existence of atoms. 3. General Relativity. 4. Special Relativity. 5. Mass energy equivalence that included the E = m(c squared). So the pace of science and its acceptance is personal. That is, it has personal effects and responses. Also the scientific method has certain tenants that are considered a prerequisite for scientific research and progress to take place.
What is phenomenal is that application of the last 50 to 75 years of science has lead to an avalanche of dazzle among the public without a commiserate evaluation of the what best applications in a post 80's (no growth for middle to lower income persons) would have been best for investment if anyone had been analyzing the cornucopia of novel discoveries that should have delivered an at least notable improvement in living standards universally as well as taxable income if not for those on the lower rungs if we accept that the wealth went to to 20% peoples. (Why hasn't the deficit been eroded significantly during the period say 92- 2006?)
Lets add the fact that it takes no presupposition "personal dazzle in the form of incredulity" to reach such a conclusion ( by that I mean personal incredulity being subjective) economics 101 should bare this out.
We can see that also there was no palpable outrage at the obvious gain by the wealthy through their betting against a market that they obviously set up to fail and that this clear no brainer was made unnecessarily complex by the media as well as the congressional hearings. Ok maybe I have covered a little too much in this post. But there is more to say that does not fall in the category conspiracy theory. It is just corruption plain and clear. There are more, many more, topics to cover that question where, we as a nation, are being lead, and why no one seems to notice.
In the world of academia and its processes that have resulted in a tradition that is fixed. Dispute and controversy go through channels. Scientific progress and the review of methodologies has its detractors and its defects that have been noted by some objective observers. Thomas S. Kuhn in his introduction of the very familiar (to many book), "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" Said "History , if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed. [The aim of text written by those in their time is persuasive and pedagogic ] a concept drawn from them is more likely to fit the enterprise that produced them than the image of a national culture drawn from a tourist brochure or a language text." (paraphrase here) 'The result has been an image of science with profound implications about its nature and development where in upon overturning some long accepted iconography often beggars belief in the mind of many how the previously accepted facts stood firmly as virtual fact in the face of the new paradigm.' To many, today it seems almost inconceivable that many of the theories, some relatively new, some now so long standing and well supported that it appears impossible that they could fall, ( for example darwinian natural selection ). But do not forget that newtonian mechanics held sway for 250 years until a man named Albert Einstein upset the apple cart. I concede that newton's prinkipia matematica still holds for much of the smaller range theater ( for example the forces played out in a football game need little refinement from general and special relativity.) But quantum mechanics was difficult for Einstein to accept. But egos grow large...(imagine 5 revolutionary papers in one year) 1. the photo-electric effect (noble prize) 2. Brownian motion and proof of the existence of atoms. 3. General Relativity. 4. Special Relativity. 5. Mass energy equivalence that included the E = m(c squared). So the pace of science and its acceptance is personal. That is, it has personal effects and responses. Also the scientific method has certain tenants that are considered a prerequisite for scientific research and progress to take place.
What is phenomenal is that application of the last 50 to 75 years of science has lead to an avalanche of dazzle among the public without a commiserate evaluation of the what best applications in a post 80's (no growth for middle to lower income persons) would have been best for investment if anyone had been analyzing the cornucopia of novel discoveries that should have delivered an at least notable improvement in living standards universally as well as taxable income if not for those on the lower rungs if we accept that the wealth went to to 20% peoples. (Why hasn't the deficit been eroded significantly during the period say 92- 2006?)
Lets add the fact that it takes no presupposition "personal dazzle in the form of incredulity" to reach such a conclusion ( by that I mean personal incredulity being subjective) economics 101 should bare this out.
We can see that also there was no palpable outrage at the obvious gain by the wealthy through their betting against a market that they obviously set up to fail and that this clear no brainer was made unnecessarily complex by the media as well as the congressional hearings. Ok maybe I have covered a little too much in this post. But there is more to say that does not fall in the category conspiracy theory. It is just corruption plain and clear. There are more, many more, topics to cover that question where, we as a nation, are being lead, and why no one seems to notice.
Monday, May 5, 2014
Our public schools, our curricula, and even our home-life (via generational exposure to the proto-curricula of the of the same sort of which I will explicate following) degenerates and has degenerated our capacity to remember. I taught middle school and high school Spanish and French beginning in 1985 through 1992. Significantly, I began to observe these deficits and subsequently I began to use my own form of curriculum unimpeded (due to an unusual freedom because of a principal who was very pro teacher, defending the good as well as the bad in some cases.) Almost immediately I began to see a prominent correlation between dramatic and novel presentations of new material and memory. For example I would try all sorts strange connections to other disciplines like biology history mathematics, and alphabetical comparisons to Greek Russian and Arabic. I started teaching entirely in Spanish and French after the first week i.e. before I was familiar with the names of the students, I spoke only in the language I was teaching.
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Contextual mathematics of direct contact with nature, emotion, explanatory grace, poetry and prose......
Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
by Michael J. Behe
by Michael J. Behe
Stephen Andrew's review
Aug 01, 08
Recommended to Stephen by:
found it myself
Recommended for:
anyone interested
Read in May, 2005
I have noticed that all the reviews of this book that are
negative or refer to it as well debunked and (every scientist already
knows this is crap). Not one can give a specific simple example of how
behe can be challenged. simply stated they have no such answer. They
can't. Because Behe is right. no matter whether you believe in
creationism or design or evolution or what ever your stance, there
simply is no well articulated answer to his argument. when someone
points one out. not with some footnote, but a real explanation for how
complexity of this order of magnitude can arise by darwinian mechanisms
then ,...hooray but i havent seen it anywhere in any review or any
analysis by some great scientist such as dawkins, wilson, dennet or any
other. Because they simply dont have a rebuttal that makes sense in
the darwinian mechanism. maybe there is some other mechanism that can
be at work. I dont claim to be a creationist but scientists ought to
look at their shortcomings with some guts, instead of just poo pooing
what they've read. come on give us a real response that can really
challenge what Behe has come up with. be brave. where are you???
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You're right. Behe IS right, that when you look at certain
biochemical processes, some things don't make sense. There are some
things we don't know. There are some glaring things that science has
not yet figured out. BUT, where Behe makes his mistake is when he jumps
from "we don't know how this happens" to "it MUST BE Design." Sorry,
that's not how science works. If we threw up our hands every time we
didn't have an answer to something and said, "Oop, it must be God," we'd
never figure ANYTHING out. As I pointed out in my own review of this book, Behe does make some interesting points about certain gaps in the natural selection theory. If he had left it at that, I could have gone with him. It's when he says, "well we don't know what it is, but it LOOKS like this so it must be that," that he lost me.
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Stephen Andrew's Reviews > Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
by Michael J. Behe
Stephen Andrew's review
Aug 01, 08
Recommended to Stephen by:
found it myself
Recommended for:
anyone interested
Read in May, 2005
I have noticed that all the reviews of this book that are
negative or refer to it as well debunked and (every scientist already
knows this is crap). Not one can give a specific simple example of how
behe can be challenged. simply stated they have no such answer. They
can't. Because Behe is right. no matter whether you believe in
creationism or design or evolution or what ever your stance, there
simply is no well articulated answer to his argument. when someone
points one out. not with some footnote, but a real explanation for how
complexity of this order of magnitude can arise by darwinian mechanisms
then ,...hooray but i havent seen it anywhere in any review or any
analysis by some great scientist such as dawkins, wilson, dennet or any
other. Because they simply dont have a rebuttal that makes sense in
the darwinian mechanism. maybe there is some other mechanism that can
be at work. I dont claim to be a creationist but scientists ought to
look at their shortcomings with some guts, instead of just poo pooing
what they've read. come on give us a real response that can really
challenge what Behe has come up with. be brave. where are you???
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Stephen Andrew's Reviews > Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
There is a very simple challenge to what Behe has come up with: it's a fallacy.Consider the logic of claiming that designed objects exhibit irreducible complexity, and we see irreducible complexity in biological organisms, therefore biological organisms are designed. It's like claiming that rain makes things wet, therefore when we see something that's wet we know it was rained on. Given the fallacy at the heart of Behe's logic, it doesn't matter how many examples of "IC systems" he comes up with, because they can never warrant the conclusion of design.
The following link is to a blog with a fair amount of ideological congruency with my own, but has much more density of information and more visually useful in its impact.
http://integralpraxis.blogspot.com/
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
All cartigraphers be warned. Decarte's demon may have been real
THE OPERATIVE PARAMETERS:
1. THE NORMALCY BIAS.
2. LOST HISTORICAL EPOCHS AND HISTORICAL INACCURACY.
3. CHANGE TOO RAPID FOR USEFUL ASSIMILATION BY HUMAN BEINGS.
4. DISTRACTION, SUGGESTIBILITY, CONSUMERISM.
5. THE PREFABRICATED WORLD.
6. CAN ANY OF THE ABOVE BE ALTERED?
1. THE NORMALCY BIAS.
2. LOST HISTORICAL EPOCHS AND HISTORICAL INACCURACY.
3. CHANGE TOO RAPID FOR USEFUL ASSIMILATION BY HUMAN BEINGS.
4. DISTRACTION, SUGGESTIBILITY, CONSUMERISM.
5. THE PREFABRICATED WORLD.
6. CAN ANY OF THE ABOVE BE ALTERED?
My Coma
In May of 2007 I created this blog off the fly. All I did was give it a name. "Amnesiac America". Seven years later, I happened to be looking at the (usually dismal) stats on my blogs. It was then that I noticed the amazing fact that this blog ( the only one where I never wrote a single post ) had more page views by far than all my others combined many times over. I have a hypothesis as to why this happened. Nevertheless, I wondered what kind of stats might be attained if there were actual posts with content congruent with the title. This is the start of that trial.
No amnesia is identical. It usually appears as a constellation of broad areas of no memory together with some idiosyncratic deficits. This syndrome is unique in each case. I use here the medical analogy; each person presenting a syndrome unique to the circumstances under which it occurred. It's cause is physical, psychological, or both. An analogy of course is always limited. I probably will be unable to relate any physical parallel. No literary device, that I know of, can be useful here, and if there were, I believe it would distract rather than clarify. Also, there remains the question of refering to the whole of America or to a typical American, a distinction would appear to serve no purpose. I would point out, however, that Americans are at this point in history more similar as a group than ever before. Some may disagree with this of course, yet this perspective facilitates my argument without removing any important individual character that we may possess. Individuality may be an American ideal we cherish, but I believe we have forgotten its function, moreover, whether we know it or not it has become more a liability than a virtue.
No amnesia is identical. It usually appears as a constellation of broad areas of no memory together with some idiosyncratic deficits. This syndrome is unique in each case. I use here the medical analogy; each person presenting a syndrome unique to the circumstances under which it occurred. It's cause is physical, psychological, or both. An analogy of course is always limited. I probably will be unable to relate any physical parallel. No literary device, that I know of, can be useful here, and if there were, I believe it would distract rather than clarify. Also, there remains the question of refering to the whole of America or to a typical American, a distinction would appear to serve no purpose. I would point out, however, that Americans are at this point in history more similar as a group than ever before. Some may disagree with this of course, yet this perspective facilitates my argument without removing any important individual character that we may possess. Individuality may be an American ideal we cherish, but I believe we have forgotten its function, moreover, whether we know it or not it has become more a liability than a virtue.
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