tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post116040743631866555..comments2024-03-18T21:33:35.309-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Hey Hey, We're the Monkeys! Evolving and Adapting in CyberspaceGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1161220786162742632006-10-18T18:19:00.000-07:002006-10-18T18:19:00.000-07:00Oh so sorry.. I forgot a cool source of analytics....Oh so sorry.. I forgot a cool source of analytics. The LAMP method. Which is the "Lockwood Analytical Method of Prediction" -you can find it on lamp-method dot com. I had John as an instructor at some point and built it into an Excel sheet, and into a MySQL database system. -Hey, I -AM- an analyst / nerd!<BR/><BR/>More later...<BR/><BR/>-CONDORAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1161220503335513322006-10-18T18:15:00.000-07:002006-10-18T18:15:00.000-07:00Dear Bob,Love this site -a good friend pointed me ...Dear Bob,<BR/><BR/>Love this site -a good friend pointed me here. I had an idea just now as a pseudo model of mental issues. I have a meth using / drug selling neighbor who is more than a few fries short of a Happy Meal. Just now a motorcycle went by and he had to yell out that the bike had only one break light working.<BR/><BR/>I reflected on this concept.<BR/><BR/>Then I considered strings of Christmas lights. How in some cases (based upon parallel or series wiring) either the whole string fails, or one light is out -due to bulb failure. <BR/><BR/>Hence the mental Christmas Tree can appear rather well lit -yet has missing lights, or missing strings (chains / trains of good thinking) missing!<BR/><BR/>As for those wacky Romanians we all loved to hate, a good read is "Red Horizons" by Pacepa.<BR/><BR/>Also "Tower of Secrets" by Victor Sheymov has a great chapter where he discusses Communism's failures. <BR/><BR/>And for real thinkers, "Evidence and Inference for the Intelligence Analyst" David Schum (2 volumes) is a good one too, which applies in a cross disciplinary manner.<BR/><BR/>Okay, its late, and I need to stop posting now!<BR/><BR/>-CONDORAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160650735160912532006-10-12T03:58:00.000-07:002006-10-12T03:58:00.000-07:00Regarding comments from Major Mike,(a 'hooah!' to ...Regarding comments from Major Mike,(a 'hooah!' to you MM), it seems the Dinosaur Media is trapped in an echo chamber, or a feedback loop. From such a place, is change capable without hitting bottom? Like an alcoholic, can they only change when denial shatters? The Romanian dictators, the Ceaucescu's supposedly were in still denial even as the bullets struck the wall.Kerryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03436307862970155155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160515606600067352006-10-10T14:26:00.000-07:002006-10-10T14:26:00.000-07:00>>Rule One in evolution: if you want to evolve, id...>>Rule One in evolution: if you want to evolve, identify a new niche that no one else inhabits.<<<BR/><BR/>My example for this is the dot-com boom-and-crash. Besides the infamously stupid dot-com ideas, there was a secondary string dot-com failures that had workable ideas and a possible market niche. <BR/><BR/>But because of the "bandwagon effect", you'd get 100+ dot-com startups in a niche that could at most support two or three.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160507801600732182006-10-10T12:16:00.000-07:002006-10-10T12:16:00.000-07:00ed in texas'planned science will destroy science'....ed in texas<BR/><BR/>'planned science will destroy science'...<BR/>String theory, anyone?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160492036831964212006-10-10T07:53:00.000-07:002006-10-10T07:53:00.000-07:00No!For reasons I don't have time to explain, they ...No!<BR/><BR/>For reasons I don't have time to explain, they were opposites. Kuhn was a moonbat relativist.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160486556811415442006-10-10T06:22:00.000-07:002006-10-10T06:22:00.000-07:00Cool post! Some of what you said about Polyani rem...Cool post! Some of what you said about Polyani reminded me of Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions." Do you know if their insights are dependent on one another in any way?Tobyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06417006200595992615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160448160670990322006-10-09T19:42:00.000-07:002006-10-09T19:42:00.000-07:00Order spontaneously emerges out of chaos? Hmm!Bob...Order spontaneously emerges out of chaos? Hmm!<BR/><BR/>Bob and all this is somewhat tangential to your subject, or not; you might find it interesting.<BR/><BR/>I will just quote from a source if you don't mind. If I tried to paraphrase I would just screw it up:<BR/><BR/>A little long, but hey, paper is cheap. URL at the end. Here:<BR/><BR/>"In physics, there is a present that is identical to eternity, and that is at the velocity of light. This is why massless particles do not decay. Massless particles, like photons or gravitons, instantaneously travel at the velocity of light, and time does not pass for them. This is an extraordinary feature of Relativity. If we could exist at the velocity of light, the entire history of the universe, however long, even eternal, would pass in less than the blink of an eye. This sounds like one of Socrates' reflections on death, that "...all eternity would then seem to be no more than a single night" -- if death is like a dreamless sleep. It is definitely noteworthy that there is a place in nature where time doesn't exist. This also happens to be the place where we find the field quanta of energy, like photons and gravitions. The universe may have started as a simple flux of such energy, which then had its symmetry "broken" into matter and the various different forces of nature (as a deeper symmetry was "broken" into perfect and imperfect, past and future?). Energy itself, which began as (perfect) substance in Aristotle and then seems to become its (imperfect) opposite in physics, actually seems more like a union of perfect and imperfect. It cannot be created or destroyed, though it can be diverted into matter, where mass itself cannot be created or destroyed -- unless back into energy. This is still very hard to fathom. Energy is essentially the life of the universe. And the low entropy energy reactions on the earth are, indeed, life itself. Us. Photons stream from the sun, hit me, and then cease to exist, but give up their energy to my skin. I warm up. Maybe get sunburned. This is like nothing imagined by Plato or Aristotle, or even Descartes or Newton.<BR/><BR/>Energy in its elusive and paradoxical nature, making all change and life possible, but often carried in the form of particles for which time does not pass, is rather like a living fossil of a union of perfect and imperfect in the transcendent. It is pregnant with all the laws of nature and the history of the universe. The light in the darkness. The warmth of the hearth, or the heart. A strange business, and very far from the "atoms and the void" of the Greek Atomists. Not much of the atoms left, to be sure, but space, fields, and energy. As a union of perfect and imperfect, energy has structure and form, but also unlimited potential. Only energy makes things happen. What goes along with the question, then, why the universe exists, is the question why energy exists. In it we have neither a Perfect nor an Imperfect Fallacy, but we also have the metaphysical question without an answer, an answer that would resolve the antinomy of possible and actual, past and future, free will and determinism, existence and non-existence. Energy is pregnant with all those things. It does not speak to us, but then again it does. For energy can be high entropy or low entropy. Low entropy is the beginning of the universe -- the Big Bang, as a "white hole," was a very low entropy event -- and the beginning of life. As entropy among life gets lower and lower, we have consciousness and knowledge, religion, philosophy, and science, art and ethics, etc. Out of our own energy, then, come our thoughts about it. Stuff like this."<BR/>http://www.friesian.com/perfect.htmnJohn Hindshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05654010029465940318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160446703195723592006-10-09T19:18:00.000-07:002006-10-09T19:18:00.000-07:00Very good.I would only add that each of the four c...Very good.<BR/><BR/>I would only add that each of the four cardinal virtues--prudence, courage, justice and temperance--becomes warped in the absence of the others. For example Bill Mahar famously said that the terrorists were "brave," which is neither here nor there in the absence of justice, temperence, etc. Courage easily becomes the opposite of a virtue in such circumstances.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160446293574768162006-10-09T19:11:00.000-07:002006-10-09T19:11:00.000-07:00tugboatcapn--Bob is wrong about many things. You ...tugboatcapn--<BR/><BR/>Bob is wrong about many things. You just don't know about them, because I intervene before he applies his fingers to the keyboard and makes an ass of himself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160446130096172742006-10-09T19:08:00.000-07:002006-10-09T19:08:00.000-07:00Bob - this AT article on "Honor"struck me as a top...Bob - <BR/><BR/>this AT article on "Honor"<BR/>struck me as a topic you might consider.<BR/><BR/>"The Foley Flap and the Honor Wars"<BR/> - Christopher Chantrill <BR/>October 9th, 2006<BR/><BR/>http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5930gumshoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10567181585153569751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160445440181398302006-10-09T18:57:00.000-07:002006-10-09T18:57:00.000-07:00I totally agree, although I do not have time to hu...I totally agree, although I do not have time to hunt up my thesauraus in order to attempt to correspond with you on your own level.<BR/><BR/>Suffice it to say that I have added you to my Blog Roll, and have been reading your blog regularly for the past two weeks or so.<BR/><BR/>From my limited exposure to your thoughts as posted here,(and my admitted lack of education with which to understand them,) you have yet to be wrong, about anything, Bob.<BR/><BR/>You are a brilliant man, and this is a brilliant post.<BR/><BR/>Keep it up!<BR/><BR/>When I grow up, I want to be smart like you guys!tugboatcapnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14751281215697965077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160442288716915232006-10-09T18:04:00.000-07:002006-10-09T18:04:00.000-07:00Complexity theory is also why the Algorian global ...Complexity theory is also why the Algorian global warming scared-mongers are dead wrong.<BR/>It is often described as unforeseen or unintended consequences.<BR/>When the rigid left attempt to tattoo their problematic paradigm on reality to make it theirs, <BR/>all hell breaks loose. <BR/>They cannot see, comprehend or adapt.<BR/>When reality fails to follow their script, they are lost.<BR/>The left's solution? More money, more indoctrination, more regulation, more emotion, all the while stifling liberty, freedom and creativity.<BR/>They will dash themselves against cold hard reality and break.<BR/>There is no complexity in the left. They are all too predictable in their methods and outcome.<BR/>All they have to offer is misery and death.<BR/>Super post, Bob!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160433835359107232006-10-09T15:43:00.000-07:002006-10-09T15:43:00.000-07:00I'll not Argghh-U with what Joan said - accomplish...I'll not Argghh-U with what Joan said - accomplishes three compliments in one, my invisible hand is clapping.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160423083018224682006-10-09T12:44:00.000-07:002006-10-09T12:44:00.000-07:00The trap that has ensnared both the print wing of ...The trap that has ensnared both the print wing of the MSM and the broadcast wing of the MSM, is that of formula.<BR/><BR/>Both editors and producers believe they know the "formula" for selling their media. Both, because of the mass appeal of the blogosphere and the un-formulamatic nature of talk radio, are dead wrong.<BR/><BR/>Nearly all sitcoms mimic each other, until there is a "breakout hit," then all, as a comet trail, follow the "new" formula. Producers flood the market with the same "new" product, until the market is bogged down in look-alike shows of inferior quality. There is little risk taking, and as a result, very little innovation or change. <BR/><BR/>TV news is not exempted. They have a heavy formulamatic approach, which the seem unable to adjust, let alone abandon...blood, scandal, war, fluff.<BR/><BR/>The paper media is the same...layout formulas, story formulas, sectional divisions (Frontpage/business/sports/leisure/etc.) are all formulamatic and boring. <BR/><BR/>The MSM is dying because its formulas are boring, and the internet and blogoshpere offer a wider choice of input, and a much larger choice of talent. <BR/><BR/>Who wants Katie C, when Victor Davis Hansen or Gagdad Bob are "on the air"? <BR/><BR/>If they want to resusitate the MSM, they need to drop their reliance on formulas, personalities, and fluff...true insight, variation, uniqueness, interaction, and challenging dialog are driving the MSM out of business...as well as the MSM's failure to recognize this and adapt.Major Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13672097330797736028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160415087162428892006-10-09T10:31:00.000-07:002006-10-09T10:31:00.000-07:00Thanks, Joan.You'll note that it's a red/purplish ...Thanks, Joan.<BR/><BR/>You'll note that it's a red/purplish bow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160413431641180992006-10-09T10:03:00.000-07:002006-10-09T10:03:00.000-07:00Will, your comment is the bow on the gift of Bob's...Will, your comment is the bow on the gift of Bob's post!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160413211518953202006-10-09T10:00:00.000-07:002006-10-09T10:00:00.000-07:00"That is, just like science--and unlike the libera..."That is, just like science--and unlike the liberal media--the blogosphere is polycentric, made up of hundreds and thousands of individual minds, each with its own view of reality. However, a spontaneous order emerges due to the constant horizontal feedback between individual practitioners."<BR/><BR/>By George, Gagdad, you've just described Adam Smith's invisible hand at work in free markets as it applies to the dessemination of information. Yes, onward and upward with the free market of information on the blogosphere.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160411155351958542006-10-09T09:25:00.000-07:002006-10-09T09:25:00.000-07:00>>Rule One in evolution: if you want to evolve, id...>>Rule One in evolution: if you want to evolve, identify a new niche that no one else inhabits.<<<BR/><BR/>And that should come naturally enough to the spiritually cognizant individual. Our true natures decree that each of us *is* a new niche with unique capacities and capabilities, with a uniquely creative way of adding to Creation. I think that applies to the most "lofty" of endeavors such as philosophy/science, etc., right down to waitressing, horse smithing, door to door sales, whatever. <BR/><BR/>I think that "naturally unique niche-ness" also applies to nations, countries, geo-regions. That's one thing that's so disheartening about the proposed European Union - each Euro country has its own unique culture, and, in the larger sense, unique spiritual meaning and significance. This process of stripping Europe of its spiritual identity, ie. its Judeo-Christian heritage, is tantamount to stripping its countries/regions of their individual uniqueness.<BR/><BR/>Here in the USA where there's a vestige of the Judeo-Christian ethic still functioning, our regions, South, Midwest, Pac NW, etc., are still relatively unique and vibrant as they should be.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com