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Power, an instrument with two faces

Power, an instrument with two faces

[Last Update: 31st October 2018]

Power can be interpreted as an instrument for the common good or as an instrument for the preservation of egocentric fire in one respectively i.e. the ego which seeks to preserve its own interests.

[It can sometimes make sense to be clear about terminology before going into depth. Because terminology sometimes can create space for interpretations that the author may or may not want to have. The associations which is not intended by the author can cause damage. This is for general and not only for this post]

The word power can be interpreted in different ways. One can equate power e.g. with money and wealth, knowledge can be power or the combination of this and that. It becomes dangerous with power, if it is the combination or the union of many or all, that the interests of one or a limited number of people of this world should serve. Here the instrument “power” misses the welfare of all, that is, the common good.

An interesting example from the current time is e.g. the Brexit topic or the elections in the United States of America. I can take more recent examples from (world) politics, but we will limit to these two issues, not to lose the track.

Was and will the people be sufficiently informed about the consequences of their decision? I am well aware that the complexity of (world) politics cannot be summed up in a few sentences – for that reason, the parties choose topics or election promises that can sometimes be polarizing, with which they attract their voters, although the topics later in the real politics may only be one of many or only a side topic. Also, the fact that the voters’ sympathy for a politician or a particular party or the combinations of this can blind the voter without his or her noticing.

Of course, the politicians know this and make use of it. This usage can, as suggested in my headline, come from two motives: the common good, or it should only serve a handful of people.

If I had to properly discuss the two topics, I would not come around without exposing an individual or a small group of individuals behind it – above all, I do not want it if I feel that the individual is unaware about the consequences of its action (Brexit).

The fact of the Brexit issue is that British law does not require or be binding on the vote, as this would limit the sovereignty of the parliament, which, however, must be guaranteed under British law – in simple words, one do not have to implement the vote, the parliament can also ignore it.

[A German proverb says: Whoever says “A” must also say “B” – I say that this does not necessarily have to be. This should be an allusion to my chosen topics that I do not really want to deepen, not out of laziness, but primarily out of didactic reasons]

Further sources about Brexit

The glassy man, a devil’s work

The glassy man, a devil’s work?

[Last Update: 15th July 2017]

Most people are not aware that the profiling of a human being is very simple in our digital era. Although it is sometimes thought that the data is decentralized and are not associable, but there are ways to get access. Anyone who has been paying attention in math lectures knows the meaning of a transitive relation, which says that if a = b and b = c, the information a = c can be extracted without have been given explicit. I have chosen this example for better understanding. The instruments of data mining are much more complex, which of course can be misused for profiling and other damaging purposes.

The principle of chaos theory says that small changes in the starting parameters have a great impact on its result. If you want to kick a system into chaos, profiling is very helpful. As I mentioned in my article “Brain-To-Brain Interface,” people tend to use the data and new technologies almost first for destructive things rather than for meaningful things.

If one have ever thought about how tailback / jam occurs and how engineers try to disarm these then you ‘ll understand how one can use the same Know-how to get the opposite effect. For example, substitute the word jam with the word war in the previous sentence, then the same sentence get into a new informational dimension. If we pair this knowhow / information with the stupidity of some, then we have a powerful instrument such as terror. Looking at the terror of past decades, perhaps one has noticed that the mankind was not freed from this on any days. Is it a coincidence? Are there really different faces and names? The best arrangement is to make people to thing that they are willed at their own. I can easily fill a whole book only with topics like manipulation (techniques), see also my article: “The world’s oldest war weapon” or “The Amygdala – part of the limbic system: do we really decide?”.

It should also be clear for everyone that in my articles sentences (Wortspielerei [DE] = word gaming ? [EN]; I’m not sure what the right expression is for the German word “Wortspielerei” is in English) such as “When God enters the marriage with devil” have deep meanings. This sentence contains a lot of information in it, so one can easily fill several pages for the interpretation of it. It has primarily didactic reasons when I briefly summarize the texts.

Mathematics, only a language (Part 1)

Mathematics, only a language? (Part 1)

[Last update: 22nd July 2017]

There are mathematicians who would not want to see and accept mathematics as a language or a formal language. The reduction of mathematics to a formal language is important to understand the math behind the mathematics and perhaps to be able to internalize the underlying philosophy – especially for non-mathematicians.

Regardless of the point of view, mathematics is mostly used as a tool / instrument in natural sciences and other disciplines.

Sometimes the reality of mathematics is often deformed* by persons or group of interests, mostly with statistics and its related statements. This is not a fault of mathematics or intended by mathematics, it’s only the cognition or the suggestion intended by the initiator.

Back to our assumption: Mathematics is just a formal language! To understand this, one should internalize what is a formal language. A formal language is a construct over a given alphabet and production rules. One can also regard the rules of production as axioms or grammars. Attention, I’m using the terms here as synonyms, although they are well-defined and circumscribable – but as synonyms it’ll help you to understand it better!

Now back to mathematics. Mathematics also has well-defined signs and axioms. Based on this, the whole mathematics is built up. The axioms are non-contradictory. If they should contradict each other, then the whole mathematics would collapse like a house of cards.

Appeal to the linguistic genes who feel that they can’t do anything with mathematics. It is also just a language 😊.

Footnote

* This is not only the case in mathematics, it is also in many other disciplines too – from simple test reports to scientific reports. Here is a case that has lasted for almost a century:

This can have happened accidentally, but it has been swept under the carpet, so that one does not sit on the overproduction. Another example is the works of Shakespeare. What if the works are not from Shakespeare, everyone can make his or her own picture. There was even a good show. I think it was on ZDF (Das Shakespeare-Rätsel, Terra X, DE), but I’m not sure about it at this juncture. Please note: Just because I recommend a tv program or show, one should not conclude that all parts of this program must always fulfill the consensus of the truth. I have noticed in the last ten years that some TV shows or channels (no matter which channel or show), after I have classified it as good, are no longer good or only partial good. Coincidence? My criticism or statement here does not refer to the TV show: TerraX or the channel ZDF. Please do not misinterpret it, but – for current cause – this applies generally to all my links. All channels of the Germany’s public broadcasting are recommendable, regardless of whose hands they were or are still now (partially).

I have completely switched to the Germany‘s public broadcasting channels as I was a teenager. The quality of the content is unbeatable in those channels. The few channels, which I possibly look besides the public broadcasting channels, are sometimes the news channels.

Some of the elder generations still knows the difference of the first-row channels and the second-row channels, as well as day and week newspapers like FAZ or ZEIT, magazines like Spiegel or the Stern, at least the parent houses of my German friends knew that, how these channels, newspapers and magazines mentioned here were politically oriented – of course, it was not talked officially about that. The interests were associated with political parties. Maybe you can understand it better today that the association with political parties will not bring the absolute truth into the daylight. This dualism can also be found in foreign news channels, magazines, etc.

Because I overstrain the freedom granted by the definition for the footnote, I will proceed the continuation in the future under a separate heading.

Another example from everyday life. I’m buying already over several years a special cheese for my pizza and other dishes. I could see that the cheese was not as good as before. After optical examination, I could conclude that the color was lighter – this can only be attributed to the fact that the ripening process has not been properly observed. Whether they leave a product ripening for four weeks or ripening for only two weeks is reflected in the profits of the company. This is one of the way to increase the prices without the customer noticing this. To hell with them. There are some cheeses which are defined in the cheese regulation (Käseverordnung). The German Lebensmittelbuch (Food Book & Labelling) has a similar function, which is not necessarily legally binding.

It is important to know that many competing theories exist in science, which may even contradict one another. An example from the astrophysics of the beginnings of the last century is that one has thought that the universe is static. It has been proven that the universe is not static. It is expanding constantly and the universe has an end, in the sense of existing. The entire science, of course, build on each other. If a theory has been disproved, it has consequences for the whole theories which have been built from it.

If certain theories and things are the result of conscious or unconscious actions, that is not the subject here. My primary goal is to enlighten, not only the science.

The most important message at all – God given sign in the science of nature and other disciplines (cover or overlap the sign, so that people thing that the signs are coincidence or unnatural):

Wealth, an analogy with the human body

Wealth, an analogy with the human body

[Last update: 22nd March 2018]

What has the economy to do with the human body, would someone ask. One should know that the nature is better in many aspects than the human mind will ever be able to perform the works, especially if mankind have not grown out as primates and still behave like them. 

Nature shows us how to make things better. For example, facade paints, where the effect has been imitated from the lotus flower which repel dirt; Sonar* of dolphins for locating –  e. g. this is used in submarines. Eels release electricity comparable with batteries, which converts chemical energy into electrical energy etc.

As everyone knows, blood must be pumped through the entire body so that every organ can maintain its functions. In certain situations, the blood will be mainly pumped only to necessary organs, e. g. when we eat and the food must be digested, then the blood sinks into the stomach. We are in danger and we must flee, then the muscles are better soaked through blood. An extreme case: we are exposed to the cold and we freeze, the blood is systematically switched off from external body sets, such as toe, fingers etc. and the blood circulates only through the necessary internal organs such as heart, lungs etc.

It is the same with economics. The flow of money is equated with the flow of blood. It is possible to systematically and controllably circulate the flow of money in upper floors, so that the labor force, which mainly generates the money, is leached. This has no longer to do with wealth. Wealth is when the money flows through the whole stages equally, just as the blood in the human body which provides all organs with nutrients. If wealth prevails, then the people have a basis for life, otherwise it is only a survival struggle. If wealth decrease, then crime will increase at the same time. People then become beasts and there is nothing left of the civilized culture. All these are already known in the upper floors; It is only consciously instrumentalized. Another tactic is to keep the people fool, so that they do not ask questions and do not interfere with one’s own interests in the upper floor. This is comparable with a crying baby which gets a soother/dummy. This tactic is also recognizable in a time of wealth. Replace the soother/dummy with cars, pleasure houses, drugs, alcohol etc., then you’ll understand what I’m trying to explain. Of course, there is nothing wrong with great cars, I myself love cars, but what I want to say is that they try to shift the focus. The whole industries, from pharmaceutical industry, the weapon industry to the banks, are interwoven with one another, or it is a devilish marriage. Therefore, lot of things are hidden until the day of judgement. The term judgement in the previous sentence can be interpreted in classical, as well as in religious sense.

Footnote

* Difference between sonar and radar:
The sonar is about acoustic waves, just as when breaking the sonic barrier with a jet. Radar is based on electromagnetic waves (EM waves). This should not be mixed or interchanged. Acoustic waves need a medium such as air. EM waves, on the other hand, need no medium to be transmitted, otherwise the satellites in space would not work either. Since there is almost vacuum in interstellar space – the temperature is almost at the absolute zero point. The absolute zero point is defined as zero Kelvin, which is -273 °C in our unit. The temperature in the interstellar space is about 2 Kelvin that is -271 °C degree. Zero Kelvin or -273 °C degree is the coldest temperature, there is nothing below. The absolute zero point: zero Kelvin or -273 °C degree, can never be reached practically. The light, which is an EM-wave in the classical physics (see also the topic of wave-particle duality), reaches its maximum velocity of 299,792,458 m/s in vacuum. This is also the maximum speed to be achieved in theory at all. There is nothing faster than the light in physics.

Further sources and literature

The Amygdala – part of the limbic system do we really decide

The Amygdala – part of the limbic system: do we really decide?

[Last Update: 11th September 2017]

The Amygdala is an area in our brain, which is important for survival. It is responsible for emotions such as anxiety, aggression, etc. Living beings like the humans or a monkey as an experiment object, one can external stimulate this area so that test object can suffer under fear or provoke an aggressive behavior.

From an evolutionary point of view, it is one of the first developed areas of our brain. The area such as the prefrontal cortex have only developed in the course of evolution. This area is decisive for the character of a person. Even by humans where the prefrontal cortex is well developed, the stimulation of the amygdala can lead to abnormal reactions and actions, of course the stimulation of other areas is necessary too. But what will happen to people where the prefrontal cortex is not well developed like e.g. criminals in the jail?

In an experiment with leeches, it has been found that a change of direction can be induced in a controlled manner by stimulating the synapses of the nervous system of the leech. Analogously, this can also be done with humans, by stimulating the motor cortex.

The philosophical question now arises:
Do we still decide and act or are we like a marionette? For the law, it can and must be decided clearly.

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