Thursday, November 08, 2018
Se-lu 30, bubbly Nature edition
Following on this item from yesterday.
Repeating the main part and then returning to my usual EXP/TANH shit:
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In fact, ABSTRACTION is the cause of EVERY SINGLE CRASH in business, government, and ordinary lives.
Abstraction has three Ds:
(1) Debt.
(2) Delusions.
(3) Drugs.
All three are unsustainable departures from real value and real work and real measurements. Sooner or later reality crashes you.
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What do the three D's have in common? EXPONENTIAL curves, or at least attempted exponentials. Debt is obvious. Compound interest IS exp by definition. Delusions and drugs both arise from a false anticipation of constant increase in pleasure or holiness or popularity or status.
We EXPect things to be EXPonential. Reality is TANH. The DELTAS between anticipation and reality grow larger as reality departs from our desires.
Happystar illustrates the process. First our EXPonential EXPectation:
Reality goes tanh. Up at first, then reaches saturation or maturity and holds steady. Our heads are in the clouds of EXPectation and our feet are on the ground of tanh.
Now the crucial point. Our anticipations feel like the constant standard, the point we measure from. Our EXPectations are the baseline, the goal for our error-correcting feedback. We are constantly TRYING to achieve the EXPected condition. Thus our perceived reality is DOWNWARD,
Because reality is increasingly disappointing, we have an increasing desire for SOMETHING that will restore us to standard. This is where the sellers of religion or drugs or politics or hair color come in. You're not misperceiving reality, you're just NOT TRYING HARD ENOUGH. You need more booze, more Eucharist, more voting, more makeup.
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New thought. Se-lu. Loosen the bonds and ask the inverse question.
Does Nature ever USE exponentials?
Well, life can't do an unending exp, because an unending exp is physically impossible. You can only get an unending exp in math. So the question narrows: Does life create AND POP bubbles intentionally?
Of course. All the time, in an infinite number of ways. Specifically, many types of neurons are pulse oscillators, repeating an exp rise followed by a natural pop. The most common neurons of all, the granule cells in the cerebellum, are pulse code handlers. Most of the action in hearing is done by pulse codes. Toward the output of each system, the pulses are smoothed into analog motions for muscles, or integrated into longer and more complex resonances for memory patterns.
In short, Nature uses all of the PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE combinations of exp and tanh. Nature rejects the only combination we believe in.
Happystar illustrates the process. First our EXPonential EXPectation:
Reality goes tanh. Up at first, then reaches saturation or maturity and holds steady. Our heads are in the clouds of EXPectation and our feet are on the ground of tanh.
Now the crucial point. Our anticipations feel like the constant standard, the point we measure from. Our EXPectations are the baseline, the goal for our error-correcting feedback. We are constantly TRYING to achieve the EXPected condition. Thus our perceived reality is DOWNWARD,
Because reality is increasingly disappointing, we have an increasing desire for SOMETHING that will restore us to standard. This is where the sellers of religion or drugs or politics or hair color come in. You're not misperceiving reality, you're just NOT TRYING HARD ENOUGH. You need more booze, more Eucharist, more voting, more makeup.
= = = = =
New thought. Se-lu. Loosen the bonds and ask the inverse question.
Does Nature ever USE exponentials?
Well, life can't do an unending exp, because an unending exp is physically impossible. You can only get an unending exp in math. So the question narrows: Does life create AND POP bubbles intentionally?
Of course. All the time, in an infinite number of ways. Specifically, many types of neurons are pulse oscillators, repeating an exp rise followed by a natural pop. The most common neurons of all, the granule cells in the cerebellum, are pulse code handlers. Most of the action in hearing is done by pulse codes. Toward the output of each system, the pulses are smoothed into analog motions for muscles, or integrated into longer and more complex resonances for memory patterns.
In short, Nature uses all of the PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE combinations of exp and tanh. Nature rejects the only combination we believe in.
Labels: Real World Math, se-lu
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