March 07, 2012

Thought is Work



There is an enormous disconnect between the limits of our thinking and the limits of our beings. There seems to be a need to think that democracy is necessary for good governance. There seems to be a reliance on the perfection of the constitution, which does not currently control the unconstitutional behavior of all three branches of grubbermint at all three levels - country, state and local. It seems to think that we have to think collectively, with the idea that some of us know better than others. It doesn't matter - the change is apparent. However, life will be a whole lot more pleasant for everybody, if folks would chill when it comes to expecting other people to think the same way as we do. We need creative thought.

It is okay to think however you like to think. I use some tools to advance my personal thinking. I really like my flux box - because it makes me justify actions with different thought than the same old, same old. The flux box holds concepts that i question - while i can think about the depths to which they hold. The second law of thermodynamics - energy in equals energy out - was in the flux box for a while - it only works in closed systems. There is way more going on than we are aware of. Right now base ten math is in the flux box - with the caveat that i will not derive new mathematics that has to integrate back into base ten.

The radio has Joel Salazar talking about agriculture - natural systems versus CAFOs. He talks about carbon migration - i have already looked at metal migration. Part of the problem is dispersal, we both have the same conclusion - localization. It's nature's weigh. As the infrastructure unfolds and reduces in size - the ability to maintain a garden, a water system and a lifestyle depends on a balance of cooperative competition. It's thyme to look at how nature does things and use biomimicry whenever possible. The time to consider food will be here this spring - we are what we eat. I will place a plug here for Farm Wars - it brings me up to date on what the real situation is.

Now though - let's talk about a really tough subject - homework. We teach out kids at school and they bring home homework - which invades their private time with system thought. It wears out children, who then sit patiently in front of a screen being entertained - told how it is or how it should be. By the time the kids are done with school (forever getting more student loans to avoid real life and the need to pay back) - they hate the concept of doing any 'work' beyond what work they get paid to do, or benefits themselves direct. We have jobbed the learning systems and therefore don't get concepts that we really need to get. You are expected to do your own homework in thinking things through - intellectual laziness is perilous in tomorrows world.

Mass balance is a crucial issue, if life is a zero sum game. If life is growing, then matter has to be redistributed from somewhere else, because it is not created from a void in any of our models. There are some real deep questions in my field of chemistry that accost fundamental issues that cannot be addressed in the climate of current knowledge. Carbon is carbon - mobbing, moving and growing - concentration is highly important. Monitoring is the weigh - but with clear, precise protocols that allow apples to be compared to oranges in an equivalent exchange parameter. If we could address this - we might be able to progress beyond the point where we are stuck at now, the point at the break of the hyperbola - which is why math is in the flux box - we find infinity first hand - life may be discontinuous and that would freak people howdt.

So - just think. Identify places where we hold two opposite thoughts simultaneously and tease out the derivation of the thinking , such that we can integrate information from all perspectives. Separate the numbers used for measurement of quantity from the measurements used for quality - they are very different. The math will come after the observations are collected - we need to not look at the numbers at all while generating those numbers - to prevent bias. Our current system obsesses on the numbers to the point where trends are identified midstream and people jump on the bandwagon - which forces the direction of flow - which biases the measurement of the system. How much of historical science is actually self-fulfilling prophesy?

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