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TWTS – The Universe as a Snowflake Among Infinite Snowflakes
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TWTS – Episode 23. The Universe as a Snowflake Among Infinite Snowflakes
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I share a bit of elegant writing about multiple universes from Charles Seife’s book Decoding the Universe, and then offer some commentary and new ways of thinking about it all.
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Links referenced in episode:
Maths is Fun Pascal’s Triangle page
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My other website: http://www.thewiseturtle.com
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TWTS – Consciousness is Contraction
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TWTS – Episode 22. – Conscious is Contraction
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What really matters?
If the two processes of the universe are contraction and expansion, and all smaller “things” that make up the universe are different combinations of infinitesimal instances of the contraction and expansion states, then we can describe all of the things we speak of in these terms of contraction (0) and expansion (1). In this case, I’m also going to suggest that the term “consciousness” can be described as expanded external reality being contracted into a more material state within an internal somethingorother (like our brains, or even a molecule). In other words, all individual things that take in energy (information) from outside themselves and turn that energy into matter are “conscious” in some way. And the more complex and multi-dimensional the representation gets, the more consciousness the thing has. Human brains, of course, are pretty complex. But is there something beyond this complexity? Is a whole planet able to be conscious, if it is turning energy into matter in some way?
“I’m not a genius, I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.” ~Buckminster Fuller
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Links referenced in episode:
Consciousness Development Pattern
(Similar) dimensions of consciousness (PDF download)
Radiolab’s podcast episode on consciousness
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TWTS – Biological Fourier Transform Peak Experiences!
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TWTS – Episode 21. – Biological Fourier Transform Peak Experiences!
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What matters?
Our more “metaphorical” and poetic language turns out to be an excellent clue as to the more scientific processes of what’s going on unconsciously with our more complex and interesting experiences as living beings in this universe. For example, the idea of “peak experiences” may well be a quite literal expression of how smaller, weirder waves of sensory inputs or communication outputs are overlapping in a way that produces an exponentially stronger and more powerful and more pointed wave in the story that is our life, in the same way that an expanded rainbow of colored light combines together to create an intense, focused burst of pure white light.
Sometimes, just sometimes, in our path through the universe, our bodies and minds come upon some collection of smaller, seemingly insignificant, or at least fairly mundane, elements of delight that are brought together in a way that overlaps their energy/information waves such that they produce an exceptionally overwhelming surge of power inside us.
I’m curious about how our more two dimensional science can bring it’s more quantified and detailed understanding of this process with philosophy’s (religion’s) more three dimensional illustrations of the big ideas of humanity, to help us better clarify how we might learn to explain and create more of our flow states so that we can help all of living beings, individually and as a whole, consciously find a whole lot more intense height and delightful breadth.
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Links referenced in episode:
Consciousness Development Pattern
Flow States: Csikszentmihalyi TED Talk
Rise of Superman – Book by Steven Kotler
(My review of the Rise of Superman on Reddit)
First ever picture of light as particles and waves at the same time
Science explains how music can give humans the equivalent of an orgasmic experience
And Reddit’s discussion of how music can give humans the equivalent of an orgasmic experience
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TWTS – What You Look For Is What You See Is What You Get
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TWTS – Episode 20. – What You Look For Is What You See Is What You Get
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All intelligent beings are pattern seekers, and since all possible combinations of patterns seem to be tried by the laws of nature, whatever pattern we decide to look for in our reality we will be able to find more often than we would if we weren’t looking to find it! That’s not just because all possible patterns are tried in reality, but also because patterns are fractal, and so if we start looking for a simple pattern, we’ll start recognizing it in all sorts of other patterns, both simple and complex, as we move our focus closer or further away.
So… consider what would you like to see more of in your life, then start consciously seeking it out, using the most appropriate measuring tools and tactics to find such a thing, and you’ll likely find more of it, naturally.
(For more about why it’s likely that all possible patterns get tried, see the previous two podcast episodes on Entropy, Randomness, Evolution, Free Will, Determinism, and What Life is All About (Pascal’s Triangle))
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This is what happens when Google’s Deep Dream process looks at my honey and my feet and the wedding sand sculpture I made! (Click on the image to open a larger version.)
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Links referenced in episode:
Google’s Deep Dream Introduction
Pauli Exclusion Principle – XKCD version (explained)
Speaking Up – Elevate Your Conversation Worksheet podcast
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TWTS – Entropy, Randomness, Evolution, Free Will, Determinism, and What Life is All About (Pascal’s Triangle) Part 2
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TWTS – Episode 19. Entropy, Randomness, Evolution, Free Will, Determinism, and What Life is All About (Pascal’s Triangle) Part 2
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Even more not purely random discussion of randomness and all that, and how it relates to the big questions of how the universe works, or at least might work. This second part covers how entropy and evolution are the same basic process, which is, probably, an ever expanding, ever complexifying fractal collection of things that continually divide and recombine into novel and more diverse individuals of all manner. Also, I point out why dinosaurs are from the past!
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How about some images for your consideration?
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Links referenced in episode:
Maths is Fun Pascal’s Triangle page
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them.” ~ Neil Gaiman xkcd comic
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My other website: http://www.thewiseturtle.com
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TWTS – Entropy, Randomness, Evolution, Free Will, Determinism, and What Life is All About (Pascal’s Triangle) Part 1
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TWTS – Episode 18. Entropy, Randomness, Evolution, Free Will, Determinism, and What Life is All About (Pascal’s Triangle) Part 1
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A not purely random discussion of randomness and all that, and how it relates to the big questions of how the universe works, or at least might work. This first part includes another intro to Pascal’s triangle, a bit about entropy, and how both free will and determinism co-exist in reality.
Enjoy!
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How about some images for your consideration?
(Click on the last two images to open larger versions in a new window.)
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Links referenced in episode:
Maths is Fun Pascal’s Triangle page
More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil
My other website: http://www.thewiseturtle.com
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You can subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application (including iTunes) by putting the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/ – into the “subscribe to podcast” link field (under the file menu in my iTunes).
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TWTS – The Word
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TWTS – Episode 17. The Word
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A Sunday Physics Sermon, perhaps. Or a meditation on what an etch-a-sketch can teach us about humanity and what God/Nature is telling us about life. When we listen, deeply, to what the universe is saying, on so many fractal levels, we hear something that is so very, very pure…
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Links referenced in episode:
More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil
My other website: http://www.thewiseturtle.com
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TWTS – Why? Because.
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TWTS – Episode 16. Why? Because.
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Next time you wonder why something happened, consider that if the universe is purely random, in the mathematical sense, in which us limited beings only experience a small part, then why something happened is simply because it was possible. Everything that possibly can happen does, so everything that does happen does so because it could.
Ultimately there is no more accurate and scientific answer to the question of “Why?” than “Because.” Though that answer might not win you any accolades, and I suggest another option or two if you find yourself feeling the need to keep it simple, but others want more complexity!
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Links referenced in episode:
Pascal’s Triangle on Mathsisfun.com
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TWTS – I Think Therefore I Am In Context
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TWTS – Episode 13. I Think Therefore I Am In Context
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“Je pense, donc je suis.” as René Descartes originally wrote, might not mean what some people think it means, out of context. I bring it back into context — which involves doubt and certainty and illusion and existence— for a fun little exploration.
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Links referenced in episode:
Wikipedia article on Cogito Ergo Sum
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TWTS – A Small and Furry Government
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TWTS – Episode 12. A Small and Furry, Pro-social, Evolved, Emergent, Four Dimensional Government
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Micro-governments are going to expand and take over most of the organization of resource generation, allocation, storage, and recycling for most of us humans on Earth, and they are going to do so in a positive, non-forceful, and simultaneous way, while the most wasteful and anti-social parts of the unwieldy centralized dinosaur governments mostly die off, leaving just the more contracted, sustainable elements of the large system that are the global infrastructures that we pretty much all agree are useful: a global transportation/shipping system and a global communication system.
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Links referenced in episode:
Four Dimensions of Government diagram
Four Dimensions of Government Personality Test
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TWTS – Basic Income – what do we need?
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TWTS – Episode 12. Basic Income
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What happens when we decide to start all the players in the global Monopoly game off with at least a minimum number of points each month? And how can we make this little game changing rule work fairly effectively, so that we don’t waste too much time getting it up and running as we test it out on a large scale? I suggest two points to pay attention to: removing the motivation to hoard, and identifying unique individuals in some highly verifiable way.
(Apologies for the not so awesome audio quality on this one. It was recorded on a smartish phone sort of thing, rather than on my computer.)
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Links referenced in episode:
Basic Income community on Reddit
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