The Will to Flower

Spinoza's god, the universe, contains all things.
The thinking things (res cognitans) and the unthinking. But our attraction to will, especially unfettered, unconstrained, untamed or unhingeded will appears perverse.

As I dig each Sunday to uncover the diamond the size of refrigerator buried in my back yard, I ponder my will - the motivator for or cause of my shoveling. God's dirt is on God's yard. God's dirt is in God's hole. The answer not only blows in the wind, it exists along with the wind. Wind, the movement of some but not all gas molecules in our sea of molecules, curls like the gnarly pipeline above.

The Flower Sermon captures the motivation for the kind of will we can use. The student yearning for the glimpse of non-self "in charge" of decisions "from our selves" or the color of the flower petal.

I cannot regret my past. I am the product of my past and exist because of a sum of possible histories that delivered me here.

I cannot rewind the tape - no spoon exists. I cannot bend the spoon - no tape exists.
a aaabcd deeeee eee iiin nn nnnnn ooooo o oopprs ssss stt ttttw xx

The Rough Beast: Respect Her Authoritaah

I was musing this weekend about the May 6, 2010 "flash crash" that drove the Dow down 1000 pts. in 10 minutes. What I believe but cannot prove - that the Rough Beast has flexed her slow thighs - has some confirming evidence here:

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2010/08/market-data-firm-spots-the-tracks-of-bizarre-robot-traders/60829/

Briefly, a small market analysis firm, Nanex, monitors bot trades that are short, sharp and meaningless. These trades are "nonsensical" with respect to buying and selling securites - they exist purely to plot frequency response of the global financial systems. As I commented on that link:

"These are testing the Z, the impedance of various networks. Once the frequency response is known, that information is itself a market commodity. Next algorithms that send signals over THAT channel to measure Z will start. It's turtles all the way up."

As Dan Dennett says - this is a substrate free Rough Beast. The conceit that we are waiting for a Singularity as a distinct machine with specific computational qualities ignores the obvious - the protists that eventually accommodated mitochondria did not have to wait to develop mitochondria own their own. Natural selection is not the college board.

I note with interest the R-christianist adulation of all forms of Authoritaah. Now "free enterprize" joins the canon of more god, more guns and lynched gays. This accommodation of the very engine of middle class financial ruin by the wage slave middle class confirms Marx better than all the failed projects of Lenin, Stalin and Castro.

The christianist ideal is substrate neutral. God IS the market. With CDO's and CDS's he is well pleased. Robot trades, his modern angels, make the straight the crooked paths.

The Book I Read is in Your Eyes

Regarding Spacial Disorientation (SD)

The Peripersonal [3.1416] is for reaching & direct manipulation of objects, your strike zone.

Focal Extrapersonal is for visual search & object recognition.

Action extrapersonal is for navigation & orientation within topographically defined space.

Ambient extrapersonal is for postural control and orientation in earth-fixed space.

I cannot see my face reflected in my eyeball in a mirror. My face would be inside my pupil but the pupil is a hole in the iris that does not reflect. If the book I read is in your eyes it does not have my face in the book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Buddhabrot_logistic_map_animation.gif

I can see that the lobes of the cartoid are a saddle and that the big circle is one in front of another. The brain actually contains the Mandelbrot set as the mind. The mind is the Mandelbrot surface in the brain.

Look at the top of the Blog - the spiral arms of the fractal are represented by the green ribs on the left. The car is at X(0) at T(0) with the vanishing perspective (VP) inside the Starfish arm. Lights in the dark are Starry Night































The horizon converges on the vanishing perspective. Imagine moving down the road at 70 mph such that the time to reach the horizon shrinks to a vanishingly small time. The encryption and compression on the holograms.




















[3.1416] Flight Motion Effects on Human Performance, F.H. Previc from International encyclopedia of ergonomics and human factors, edited by Waldemar Karwowski c 2006.