Monday, September 19, 2016
Constants allow variables, variables enforce constants 2
Another half-baked idea branching from the notion that constant rules enable variable thoughts while variable rules force orthodox constant thoughts.
When you scan over the "science" articles in an aggregator like RCS, or in the "science" department of a big website like BBC, there is very little Shannon information.
Information in the strict sense = an observation or analysis that is NEW AND TRUE.
Gives your nerves a delta all the way up to the cortex. Not repeated, not seen before, not tautologically obvious, and not demonstrably false.
Everything we see in the "science" news is either old and true or new and false.
I'm always riled by the new and false; for some reason this article linked at RCS made me focus on old and true. A nicely done exposition of why Mercator misrepresents the world. Good heavens. This is one of the FEW things I actually learned in 7th grade science class. It was known in the time of Mercator, and better map projections have always been available. 400-year-old facts.
Science has become a fast-moving frame of reference, where nominal novelty is all that counts. You don't get tenure points for disproving the orthodoxy; you only get points and grants for extending the orthodoxy in vanishingly small increments. Zeno's postdox.
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On the other side of the constant/variable equation: When I read a religion aggregator like Crisis, nearly every article has some NEW AND TRUE INFORMATION.
True observations and valid analyses that I've never read before, based on the FIRM AND PERMANENT ground of scripture and Natural Law.
Labels: Constants and Variables
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