Contrary to idealism, which denies the possibility of knowing the world and its laws, which does not believe in the authenticity of our knowledge, does not recognize objective truth, and holds that the world is full of "things-in-themselves" that can never be known to science, Marxist philosophical materialism holds that the world and its laws are fully knowable, that our knowledge of the laws of nature, tested by experiment and practice, is authentic knowledge having the validity of objective truth, and that there are no things in the world which are unknowable, but only things which are as yet not known, but which will be disclosed and made known by the efforts of science and practice.Surprisingly, in what might be one of the greatest ironies of modern time, the best rebuke of Stalin's thesis was written by none other than George Soros in the Budapest Lectures on what he said Freud might describe as physics envy.
According to Popper, scientific laws are hypothetical in character; they cannot be verified, but they can be falsified by testing. The key to the success of scientific method is that it can test generalizations of universal validity with the help of singular observations. One failed test is sufficient to falsify a theory but no amount of confirming instances is sufficient to verify.....
Popper emphasizes the central role that testing plays in scientific method and establishes a strong case for critical thinking by asserting that scientific laws are only provisionally valid and remain open to reexamination.....
Popper’s scheme works well for the study of natural phenomena but the human uncertainty principle throws a monkey wrench into the supreme simplicity and elegance of Popper’s scheme. The symmetry between prediction and explanation is destroyed because of the element of uncertainty in predictions and the central role of testing is endangered. Should the initial and final conditions include or exclude the participant’s thinking? The question is important because testing requires replicating those conditions. If the participants’ thinking is included, it is difficult to observe what the initial and final conditions are, because the participants’ views can only be inferred from their statements or actions. If it is excluded, the initial and final conditions do not constitute singular observations because the same objective conditions may be associated with very different views held by the participants. In either case, generalizations cannot be properly tested.
This in turn leads Soros to his concept of reflexivity.
I can state the core idea in two relatively simple propositions. One is that in situations that have thinking participants, the participants’ view of the world is always partial and distorted. That is the principle of fallibility. The other is that these distorted views can influence the situation to which they relate because false views lead to inappropriate actions. That is the principle of reflexivity.
These concepts in turn form the basis of my studies into Information Theory. The thesis of Krzysztof Urbanowicz somehow finds itself in the nexus between total madness and pure genius. He is best characterized by the following premise.
Most of the people working on stock market are almost sure that the data are likely to be unpredictable, so that it is difficult to have universal in time and space method to collect money. We can say also, that there are the ways of making the profit for very simple reason, because there are people that do it and got rich on stock market investments. From Physics point of view the data, that we are dealing with, are likely to be stochastic, not linearly correlated on scales larger than an hour. Randomness is dominant in such data but we think that there are deterministic components, which can be reveal by some method but complex, nonlinear method
Ok, we are walking straight into the heart of chaos theory. Economics has that strange tie to human behavior, the uncertainty principle.
The uncertainty principle says that we cannot measure the position (x) and the momentum (p) of a particle with absolute precision. The more accurately we know one of these values, the less accurately we know the other.
We can never know the absolute mind of any given individual. Everybody is different, which makes it impossible to predict any behavior. What we can do is find common traits within humanity as a whole. This in turn takes us to the Hermeneutic Circle
“The foundational law of all understanding and knowledge”, Friedrich Schleiermacher claimed, is “to find the spirit of the whole through the individual, and through the whole to grasp the individual”.
I don't know how many others are fans of the Full Metal Alchemist, however that in turn forms the underlying foundation of Alchemy in the epic saga. All is one, and one is All.
At the very core of my studies I examine Carl Jung, and his conception of the universal consciousness. These are made up of several archetypes that embody humanity. He referred to them as animus and anima, the shadow, and the self. While these are the basis of his thought, we can add many others; the father, the mother, the brother, the sister, the employer, the employee, the commuter, the teacher, the student. These are roles we play everyday across all of society. These roles shape our common identity in every corner of the world.
Joseph Campbell takes us to the next level of our common mythos. In his series with Bill Moyer the Power of Myth he says;
One can say that the images of myth are reflections of spiritual and depth potentialities of every one of us. And that through contemplating those, we evoke those powers in our own lives to operate through ourselves...
He continues with the story of his mentor who recognized
there were certain motifs that appeared in all of the religions and all of the mythologies of the world. Such an idea, for example, as a spiritual power, that’s an archetypal image that appears everywhere. And he called these “elementary ideas.” But they appear in very different forms and different provinces and at different times, and those different forms are costumes he called ethnic or folk ideas. But within the ethnic idea is the elementary idea, and it is those elementary ideas that Carl Jung then began studying and called “archetypes of the unconscious.”
It is important to note at this juncture that much of our perception of the world around us begins with our basic understanding of the science of the day. Einstein laid out the basic understanding of the universe with his theory of relativity. One of his basic concepts was that time is a local phenomena, much is the same with our understanding of truth. This in turn led to his obstacle with the formation of a unified fields theorem. Looking at the discoveries of quantum physics, he realized that very large objects, such as the universe behaved very differently than very small items, such as the atom. That is a topic beyond the scope of the project at hand.
With this in mind, we have deviations in culture that are very distinct. Perhaps the most common cultural difference is found within language itself. In this regard Lera Boroditsky asked the question How does language shape the way we think? She writes
Follow me to Pormpuraaw, a small Aboriginal community on the western edge of Cape York, in northern Australia. I came here because of the way the locals, the Kuuk Thaayorre, talk about space. Instead of words like "right," "left," "forward," and "back," which, as commonly used in English, define space relative to an observer, the Kuuk Thaayorre, like many other Aboriginal groups, use cardinal-direction terms — north, south, east, and west — to define space.1 This is done at all scales, which means you have to say things like "There's an ant on your southeast leg" or "Move the cup to the north northwest a little bit."
With this she began an experiment to see how this would shape their understanding of the universe.
we gave people sets of pictures that showed some kind of temporal progression (e.g., pictures of a man aging, or a crocodile growing, or a banana being eaten). Their job was to arrange the shuffled photos on the ground to show the correct temporal order. We tested each person in two separate sittings, each time facing in a different cardinal direction. If you ask English speakers to do this, they'll arrange the cards so that time proceeds from left to right. Hebrew speakers will tend to lay out the cards from right to left, showing that writing direction in a language plays a role.3 So what about folks like the Kuuk Thaayorre, who don't use words like "left" and "right"? What will they do?
The Kuuk Thaayorre did not arrange the cards more often from left to right than from right to left, nor more toward or away from the body. But their arrangements were not random: there was a pattern, just a different one from that of English speakers. Instead of arranging time from left to right, they arranged it from east to west. That is, when they were seated facing south, the cards went left to right. When they faced north, the cards went from right to left. When they faced east, the cards came toward the body and so on. This was true even though we never told any of our subjects which direction they faced. The Kuuk Thaayorre not only knew that already (usually much better than I did), but they also spontaneously used this spatial orientation to construct their representations of time.
To this she concluded
SINCE THERE IS NO EVIDENCE that any language forbids its speakers to think anything, we must look in an entirely different direction to discover how our mother tongue really does shape our experience of the world. Some 50 years ago, the renowned linguist Roman Jakobson pointed out a crucial fact about differences between languages in a pithy maxim: “Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.” This maxim offers us the key to unlocking the real force of the mother tongue: if different languages influence our minds in different ways, this is not because of what our language allows us to think but rather because of what it habitually obliges us to think about.
In turn this leads to the conclusion that seems obvious, our cultural upbringing shapes our conception of the universe. We are products of our environment. Now I should state that is not an exclusive rule, in fact much of our views are based in our biological makeup.
At this moment, I need to go into my own background. Its not an accident that I have spent so much time studying behavioral science. It was out of survival. As a child I was a survivor of a very violent sexual assault. As a result I have developed a dissociative personality disorder. The most common reference to this is PTSD. The most lavish cases are referred to as Multiple Personality Disorder. This takes on many forms, one that really interested me was a woman I met on a survivor site, many years ago. She was surrounded by a cast a characters, one was the villain, another the hero. The closer I got to her, she started screaming about how her villain was threatening her, and she was scared. Her imagination was fantastic, she told the most brilliant stories. While she was an extreme case, it is not so uncommon amongst survivors. This is disassociation. It is an environmental mental illness.
In truth, I had a way out. My father was a specialist in mental illness. He never understood what was in front of his eyes, he saw it, he just couldn't see what was really there. he just saw a hostile youth lashing out at any authority. My power had been taken from me, I was so angry. Yet he gave me the tools to survive. I picked his experience in a way no one else ever could. I remember when he retired, he spent over 10 years running a prison block for the mentally ill. He had tears in his eyes. He said I just wanted to help, and there was nothing I could do. I know the pain in his heart, I lived through it with him. His effort was not in vain, he saved me. And I pass his experiences on,
When I was a junior in high school, I took a remarkable class. It was advanced reading, or what we called Krinology. One of the topics we discussed was schizophrenia. I was fascinated, he gave us an essay as an assignment, and I went straight to dad. He pulled out his DSMR2A and gave it to me. That was the field guide at the time for mental health diagnosis. He asked me to present the material to the class, and then his other classes. I went into schizophrenia, the neurons in the brain overloading, shooting past their mark. Schizophreniforms, which is a temporary condition with much the same symptoms. Talked about the mental illness which is a biological condition. We talked about that. according to the science of the day, mental illness was classified as a biological condition. He had some hesitation with that. He thought to many mental illness was passed off as biological, because that made it easy. Diagnose and medicate, he said. That was pop phycology. Even today, a kid is acting up, give them drugs. To many kids are being hyped up with drugs for any little quirk. That is a big problem in the field.
Of course what made Krinology so fascinating was his emphasis on speed reading. If you see all these quotes, that is because of that class. Our final test, 1000 word roots. For instance, in and stance in: to indicate a set; stance: a stated opinion, so instance to indicate a set of a stated opinion. To this he gave us key words to trigger a memory response. In: to___ ; Stance: a___ This was my first introduction into meta memory.
It was many years later I continued my studies on meta memory. By that time I had many years under my belt. I had graduated from a community college many years past. In the meantime I explored The big city. Seattle in the 90's was an incredible experience. We were at the height of the music scene, the Clinton economy was fantastic. Every night a different club, or the same, I could walk to many of them. I got bored, hitchhiked across the US, landed in Memphis to celebrate the millennia on Beale Street. I enjoyed jamming with the band there many years later. BB King put on a great show as the destined hour arrived. I journeyed on, spent a year on the continental divide, and then came home to enroll at the University a month after 911.
I was fascinated by meta memory, the study of memory. I think one of the big take away was in declarative memory and the subdivisions of episodic and semantic memory. These can otherwise be characterized as first and third person memories. As a class project, I chose the topic of memory repression. That might have been a mistake, I went in way to deep. I wanted to understand what was happening to me. I found my answer, three months later I had a total memory breakdown.
One of the fundamental truths of mental health is we determine what is normal by studying what is abnormal. At the time of my study I had been through years of memory repression. In the study it found that repression was a natural occurrence, and it generally leads to a more positive outlook. Except it wasn't truly memory repression in my experience, It was a process of disassociation.
Lets go back to declarative memory, the clinical terms are episodic and semantic, I call them 1st and 3rd person memories, because they are more descriptive of the process. In a 1st person memory the person recalls the memory in 1st person. They are the player on the field. This is the first process of memory encoding. The memories show the event in detail. A 3rd person memory is like watching events from the stadium. They are watching the event take place. This memory is an emotive memory, how one felt about the event. It is the most common experience someone might have of an event like 911. We all remember watching the buildings collapse on TV. We all remember how we felt. (At least those of us old enough to remember.) Now remember where you were? That's a first person memory. I was feeding a blast furnace under the airport. I remember watching the planes land. I remember feeding the flames. remember your own experiences, the first, of the tv, the second of where you were. The emotive response is different.
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Disassociation occurs in the grey spot between the two. A survivor of sexual abuse remembers the third person. They remember that their father loved them. They black out the assault, this is not happening, no, no, my father loves me, this is love. Abuse turns to love, it wasn't abuse, it was love, love is abuse.
Therein lies the art of propaganda.
In a technical sense the propagandist uses Freges theorem of Unrestricted Comprehension which was proven false with Russells Paradox. I will demonstrate by magically turning apples into oranges.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away, because fruit is good for you, so you should eat an orange everyday.
Russells Paradox would tell you a green apple is not the same thing as a red apple. They have three properties, both share in common apple, however one set is green, the other red. a green apple is not a red apple because it is green. That quality makes it a separate set, even though an apple is an apple so the same set. So a thing can be a member of a set, and not a member of a set. Hence the paradox.
In such a clinically sterile form the sleight of hand is easily spotted. In my prior example involving sexual abuse it becomes much more difficult, not for the observer, for the child who is trying to reconcile such powerful contradictions of emotion.
The true secret of propaganda is in creating a mythos. People don't vote on policy, that's not how people think. It is in images the battle of ideas is thought, it is in touching that part of the soul that reaches deep within to an inner truth. That truth can never be an illusion in itself, it must be a real conviction, a justice that must be righted. People fight for a heroic cause, they fight for a deeply held conviction.
At this time I would like to introduce my arch nemesis. Steve R. Pieczenik, MD, PhD. he started his career as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under Henry Kissinger.a Harvard University-trained psychiatrist His expertise includes foreign policy, international crisis management and psychological warfare. This guy is the best. he knows what I'm talking about. I know, I'm nobody, just working a 9-5 job. So unnoticeable, not an elite by any means. I abandoned that long ago. I wanted to be real, just the man on the street.
You should look at his mythos. The US takeover may be near, right up their with the enquirer. Murder, Rape, Larceny. He is the brains behind Alex jones and the Alt Right.
The New World Order is such a powerful mythos, it challenges the depth of human betrayal.
Joseph Campbell writes,
"THE TRUTHS contained in religious doctrines are after all so distorted and systematically disguised," writes Sigmund Freud , "that the mass of humanity cannot recognize them as truth. The case is similar to what happens when we tell a child that newborn babies are brought by the stork . Here , too, we are telling the truth in symbolic clothing , for we know what the large bird signifies. But the child does not know it. He hears only the distorted part of what we say , and feels that he has been deceived; and we know how often his distrust of the grown-ups and his refractoriness actually take their start from this impression . We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguising's of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold from them a knowledge of the true state of affairs commensurate with their intellectual level."
Herein lies the crisis of illusion so carefully crafted.
Many years ago, I was in a complete state of mental collapse. I had opened all of my painful memories. I used my anchors to bring me in as the doctors swarmed me. I had told someone of my past, it was so shocking I was placed under arrest. I told them this day would come, I told them they would know my name, it was given to me for my dissociative behavior.
So I accept the challenge to arms, I bring with me a mythos from the dawn of time. I ride with the spirit of Artemis, the mighty huntress, proud and carefree in spirit. It is a symbol of strength That of the rising quarter moon, her symbol that fly's proud in the sky on the storm of tomorrows eve..
