Does that explain why, in the blink of an eye, it's now Thursday again?
You may be busy, but are you forming new, unique memories like you did practically every day when you were younger?
I must google once more for the source of my information as it may include alternative explanations.
You may be busy, but are you forming new, unique memories like you did practically every day when you were younger?
I must google once more for the source of my information as it may include alternative explanations.
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Most of those “unique memories” just go in one ear and out the other when you get older. Most of your daily life is just routine and filtered out as unwanted background noise. What matters to you takes up a smaller and smaller fraction of the day.
You people do wander around the topic!
The latest thinking is that Cosmic Inflation goes on forever. Look up Alan Guth if interested.
I am off to see "Oppenheimer" tonight. This should have some solid Physics in it. 😎
Einstein, Feynman, Von Neumann, Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller.... Matt Damon as General Leslie Groves...
My Feynman Lectures on Gravitation is difficult. He was working (unsuccessfully) towards Quantum Gravity in 1972. Assumes a knowledge of Relativistic Quantum Mechanics.
Now Sidney Coleman is the man for that lecture course. Always packed:
Lot to do here at system7 labs.
This is good too. Always been a fan of Mathematician Paul Erdos:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001jc68
You can look up Graph Theory (In which I have a course credit), and Ramsey Theory, which was new to me:
This obscure looking subject can be used to model the spread of Covid-19 for instance. Our then PM Boris didn't get it at all apparently. 🙁
The latest thinking is that Cosmic Inflation goes on forever. Look up Alan Guth if interested.
I am off to see "Oppenheimer" tonight. This should have some solid Physics in it. 😎
Einstein, Feynman, Von Neumann, Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller.... Matt Damon as General Leslie Groves...
My Feynman Lectures on Gravitation is difficult. He was working (unsuccessfully) towards Quantum Gravity in 1972. Assumes a knowledge of Relativistic Quantum Mechanics.
Now Sidney Coleman is the man for that lecture course. Always packed:
Lot to do here at system7 labs.
This is good too. Always been a fan of Mathematician Paul Erdos:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001jc68
You can look up Graph Theory (In which I have a course credit), and Ramsey Theory, which was new to me:
This obscure looking subject can be used to model the spread of Covid-19 for instance. Our then PM Boris didn't get it at all apparently. 🙁
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. That book has some solid Physics in it. And the personalities and intrigue, too. Pulitzer, baby! 🤗 Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb is rather good in terms of solid Physics. The hydrogen bomb development was very tricky.
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Hypothesis: memories are time stamped with date and time coordinates. That’s why if someone asks you what did Friday night you can rapidly search the files, so to speak, and retrieve the answer. Sometimes you may not remember what the hell you did Friday night and that’s OK. Scenes from favorite movies are stored the same way but it’s more complicated because you must store colors, video and dialog, all in the right sequence. 😲
I'm spending my retirement doing the new & different. I learned to play Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition on piano. Next may be Revel's Jeux d'Eau. Bach organ works on the Hammond organ require 4 limbs at once, a new skill.
I've always admired singers who play the piano like Nat King Cole, Marcia Ball, Billy Joel, & Diane Krall. My voice is too soft. I learned to set a microphone in front of my mouth on a console piano this summer (SM58 won't fit) and sang & played Annie Herring's Mansion Builder in church last month. Sang & played Joy Joy Joy Joy Down in my Heart the month before that. Who says you cannot learn new tricks in your seventies?
I'm building a bicycle seat that will not cause pain, derived from a sofa cushion. I'm packaging a 40 AH 36 v battery for my cargo bike. With that I hope to ride the bike 60 miles over to Cincinnati Amtrak depot, catch the train, ride to Pittsburg, and ride the bike trails from there to D.C. Then back on Amtrak.
What takes a lot more time these days is muscle maintenance. If I don't use them, they melt away. 40 minutes a day plus all the yardwork, house repairs, and new for 23/24, a running auto without a computer to plug up a catalytic converter. Just bought a house 8 miles away from all apartments. The burglar that in 2020 stole 2500 LP's, all sound equipment, guitar, banjo, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, autoharp, US made keyboard, $30000 in tools, lives in an apartment 6 blocks away. Tools will go in a locked overseas container which is legal out there.
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Brain does not got no rom. It's all stored in ram. And the system only shut once. And it shut down for good.
Excerpt from Sheldrake paper,
Classic Sheldrake!
You might get still more subtle and propose that the little people on the screen actually arise through "complex interactions among the parts of the set which are not yet fully understood." You might think this theory was proved if you chopped out a few transistors from the set. The people would disappear. If you put the transistors back, they would reappear. This might provide convincing evidence that they arose from within the set entirely on the basis of internal interaction.
Suppose that someone suggested that the pictures of little people come from outside the set, and the set picks up the pictures as a result of invisible vibrations to which the set is attuned. This would probably sound like a very occult and mystical explanation. You might deny that anything is coming into the set. You could even "prove it" by weighing the set switched off and switched on; it would weigh the same. Therefore, you could conclude that nothing is coming into the set.
I think that is the position of modern biology, trying to explain everything in terms of what happens inside. The more explanations for form are looked for inside, the more elusive the explanations prove to be, and the more they are ascribed to ever more subtle and complex interactions, which always elude investigation. As I am suggesting, the forms and patterns of behavior are actually being tuned into by invisible connections arising outside the organism. The development of form is a result of both the internal organization of the organism and the interaction of the morphic fields to which it is tuned.”
Part I - Mind, Memory, and Archetype: Morphic Resonance and the Collective Unconscious
Classic Sheldrake!
I quote,
The Allegory of the Television Set
The differences and connections between these two forms of heredity become easier to understand if we consider an analogy to television. Think of the pictures on the screen as the form that we are interested in. If you didn't know how the form arose, the most obvious explanation would be that there were little people inside the set whose shadows you were seeing on the screen. Children sometimes think in this manner. If you take the back off the set, however, and look inside, you find that there are no little people. Then you might get more subtle and speculate that the little people are microscopic and are actually inside the wires of the TV set. But if you look at the wires through a microscope, you can't find any little people there either.You might get still more subtle and propose that the little people on the screen actually arise through "complex interactions among the parts of the set which are not yet fully understood." You might think this theory was proved if you chopped out a few transistors from the set. The people would disappear. If you put the transistors back, they would reappear. This might provide convincing evidence that they arose from within the set entirely on the basis of internal interaction.
Suppose that someone suggested that the pictures of little people come from outside the set, and the set picks up the pictures as a result of invisible vibrations to which the set is attuned. This would probably sound like a very occult and mystical explanation. You might deny that anything is coming into the set. You could even "prove it" by weighing the set switched off and switched on; it would weigh the same. Therefore, you could conclude that nothing is coming into the set.
I think that is the position of modern biology, trying to explain everything in terms of what happens inside. The more explanations for form are looked for inside, the more elusive the explanations prove to be, and the more they are ascribed to ever more subtle and complex interactions, which always elude investigation. As I am suggesting, the forms and patterns of behavior are actually being tuned into by invisible connections arising outside the organism. The development of form is a result of both the internal organization of the organism and the interaction of the morphic fields to which it is tuned.”
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True about the muscles. It's hard to build strength and easy to lose. If I slack up for just a few days they start fading fast.
But I have a question. What is a burglar doing living in an apartment? Why aren't they in prison? Who in the world would even rent an apartment to someone like that?
Yeah - how did that happen? For me - it's because I'm busy and behind on deadlines! And yes - still learning new stuff - yet still noticing stuff I learned that seems to have been forgotten..!
Perp left a housepainter tool in the yard. Wore housepainter pants to court hearing. Suspect he was a housepainter working for cash. Covid hits, no declared income on tax forms, he got no unemployment payments. Suspect he used his folding ladder to force the upstairs window to the house. Nobody would answer the door to get a great bargain in housepainting in the early days of Covid.
Government houses numbers of released convicts in public housing. Section 8 concentrates unemployed and badly paid people in certain apartment projects.
An article from Psychology Today includes the above mentioned, and other, hypotheses on why time speeds up with advancing age.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/think-well/202011/why-time-goes-faster-we-age
The article states that there is no consensus on the cause, and that to understand the complex workings of the brain may require a quantum theory of consciousness!
My hypothesis may have originally come from this Scientific American article which refers to the "holiday paradox".
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-does-time-seem-to-speed-up-with-age/
The good news from the above article is that "we can also slow time down later in life. We can alter our perceptions by keeping our brain active, continually learning skills and ideas, and exploring new places."
That quote describes precisely what @indianajo is doing. It seems I will need to do something about my sedentary lifestyle!
Guth hypothesises that a rapid period of cosmic inflation occurred prior to the Big Bang and the creation of the Universe as we know it.
He postulates that an 'inflation field' caused an exponential expansion of the energy inherent in 'empty' space that set up the conditions for the Big Bang.
The early period of cosmic inflation ended when all of the energy was transformed into matter, antimatter, and radiation.
Ethan mentions Alan Guth, his hypothesis of cosmic inflation and the origin of the Big Bang here:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/starts...ang/?msclkid=b92631acb4f011ecbe9517926b2a9b59
In another article, Ethan says that there are very likely regions of space, unobservable to us, that are undergoing cosmic inflation today.
External factors have limited effect. External factors only effect if you can survive or not. Then again dead man tell no tales.
Like when the field builds up around a cable before the the current starts flowing... maybe there IS sorting in the "electrical universe" ;-)
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Yeah, there's a neighborhood in my community that has a lot of section 8 housing. It's filthy and high crime - completely out of character with the rest of the community, which is almost 100% middle class homeowners.
I still say that a convicted burglar belongs in prison - and shouldn't be allowed to live in an area with working people, children, and families.