Blog archives for November, 2009

November 28, 2009

Benoit Mandelbrot

Link to Fractal Posts

MITWorld Fractals in Science, Engineering and Finance (Roughness and Beauty)
“Roughness is ubiquitous and a major sensory input of Man. The first step to measure and simulate it was provided by fractal geometry. Illustrative examples will be drawn from the sciences, engineering (the internet) and (more extensively) the variation of financial prices. The beauty of fractals, an unanticipated “premium,” helps in teaching and bridges some chasms between different aspects of knowing and feeling.”

November 26, 2009

Relativity and Objectivity

collecting semi-related articles

The Relativity of Fact and the Objectivity of Value -
Elgin, Catherine Z.

http://www.questia.com/library/book/substance-and-function-and-einsteins-theory-of-relativity-by-ernst-cassirer-marie-collins-swabey-william-curtis-swabey.jsp

Relativity of the Ego

God as the Absolute

Link to Dangerous Knowledge Post
Link to Return to the Source Matrix Docu

The One
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_(Gnosticism)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Absolute

Aeon – Wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleroma

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_(Greek_philosophy)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monadology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantial_form

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entelechy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souls

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http://testweb.wpunj.edu/cohss/philosophy/COURSES/PHIL312/LEIBNIZ/DEFAULT.HTP

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS325&q=idealism+mathematical+objects+dimensionality&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_Infinite

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actual_infinity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ultimate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Basic_concepts_in_infinite_set_theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_logic

http://www.helium.com/knowledge/61962-explaining-the-different-dimensions

http://philmat.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/10/2/97

Monadology – Gottfried Leibniz
This theory leads to:

1. Idealism
Idealism

Idealism is the philosophical theory which maintains that the ultimate nature of reality is based on mind or ideas. It holds that the so-called external or “real world” is inseparable from mind, consciousness, or perception….
, since it denies things in themselves (besides monads) and multiplies them in different points of view. Monads are “perpetual living mirrors of the universe.”

2. Metaphysical optimism, through the principle of sufficient reason
Principle of sufficient reason

The principle of sufficient reason states that anything that happens does so for a definite reason. In virtue of which no fact can be real or no statement true unless it has sufficient reason why it should not be otherwise….
, developed as follows:

a) Everything exists according to a reason (by the axiom “Nothing arises from nothing”);

b) Everything which exists has a sufficient reason to exist;

c) Everything which exists is better than anything non-existent (by the first point: since it is more rational, it also has more reality), and, consequently, it is the best possible being in the best of all possible worlds
Best of all possible worlds

The phrase “the best of all possible worlds” was coined by the German people philosopher Gottfried Leibniz in his 1710 work Essais de Th?odic?e sur la bont? de Dieu, la libert? de l’homme et l’origine du mal ….
(by the axiom “That which contains more reality is better than that which contains less reality”).

The “best of possible worlds,” then, is that “containing the greatest variety of phenomena from the smallest amount of principles.”

Axiology

Axiology is the study of quality or value . It is often taken to include ethics and aesthetics — philosophical fields that depend crucially on notions of value — and sometimes it is held to lay the groundwork for these fields, and thus to be similar to value theory and meta-ethics..

November 23, 2009

Uncle Sam is on Mars

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alien i am
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rush limbaugh mars

November 22, 2009

Food Inc. and Physically Addictive Foods

Link to other corporation posts
Link to Globalization posts

Post Whole Food Inc. Documentary

America’s Farmers Economy Commercial – Monsanto

Monsanto Segment from Food Inc.

Food Inc. Documentary
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Story on Food Inc. By PBS

Chocolate, Cheese, Meat, and Sugar — Physically Addictive Foods
The World According to Monsanto – Controlling our Food!

November 17, 2009

Infinity “Dangerous Knowledge” BBC Documentary

Philosophy, Physics, Mathematics – “Dangerous Knowledge” BBC

Holism, Visual Metaphor, and the Fractal Hologram

The Holographic View of Argument

http://www.springerlink.com/content/v4g2227p2806384p/

Look up Perelman’s Work on metaphor

http://www.sebastianburch.es/page6.php

Visual Metaphor, Cultural Knowledge, and the New Rhetoric

http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/LIB/LIB8.html

November 10, 2009

Flowing Balance and the Zone of Effortless Effort

The concept of Flow in Psychology – Wiki
quote some contexts from here
link to some of the references
Look up some of the books, journal articles

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Creativity, fulfillment and flow

Hunter, Jeremy, and Csikszentmihalyi (2000)”The Phenomenology of Body-Mind: The Contrasting Cases of Flow in Sports and Contemplation. Anthropology of Consciousness, Vol. 11 No. 3-4 p. 15.

Sansonese, J. Nigro (1994). The Body of Myth: Mythology, Shamanic Trance, and the Sacred Geography of the Body. Inner Traditions. ISBN 9780892814091. Source: [1] (accessed: Friday March 6, 2009), p.26.

Janet A Young, Michelle D Pain. “The Zone: Evidence of a Universal Phenomenon for Athletes Across Sports”. Athletic Insight

http://www.butler-bowdon.com/flow.html

Increasing Creativity: The Right-Brain/Left-Brain Myth and Flow
by Carolyn Kaufman

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# Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Creativity, fulfillment and flow at YouTube (requires Adobe Flash); presentation at the February, 2004 TED conference
# flOw A flash based implementation of flow theory and immersion in a game format
# “In the zone”: enjoyment, creativity, and the nine elements of “flow”
# Finding Flow in Writing by Tracy Steen, Ph.D.

Link to Creativity Posts
Link to yoga, balance, effortless effort posts
Link to Martial Arts and Tai Chi posts
Link to Paradox post
Link to Meditation Post

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