Friday, October 18, 2024

New R. Brian Ferguson interview posted to youtube: on Chimpanzees and the lack of any real war

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80ndbAHpaUo

 That book is out now. ...is written by Fry’s long-time collaborator, R. Brian Ferguson. It goes through every chimpanzee killing on the record. And it argues that chimpanzee violence has been deeply misunderstood. The book was detailed, dense, and important. It was an eye-opener for me. So it was a pleasure to have Professor Ferguson come on the show to talk about it.

We touched upon questions such as:

  1. How often do chimpanzees kill others? 
  2. Why do chimpanzees kill others (when they do)?
  3. Is human impact the only reason for chimpanzee wars?
  4. Do chimpanzees and humans enjoy violence?
  5. Does war go forever back?

 @OnHumansPodcast  I finished my master's degree at U of Minnesota by doing intensive nonwestern meditation via qigong master Chunyi Lin, to test out my philosophy hypothesis (that I later realized was noncommutativity). Please check out the "radical anthropology" research group of Chris Knight and Camilla Power and Jerome Lewis and Ian Watts - they challenge Richard Wrangham. Ironically Ferguson challenges a University of Minnesota research and the U of MN didn't get Ferguson's book! Maybe they have it now. You can catch the "radical anthropology" research group lectures on vimeo. Some are reloaded up to youtube also. My own qigong meditation research directly corroborate the claims of our original human culture - the San Bushmen. Specifically I experienced this same quote that I discovered some five years after my training: “You see spirits killing people. You smell burning, rotten flesh. Then you heal, you pull sickness out. You heal, heal, heal. Then you live.” from the book "Healing Makes the Heart Happy" - the latest DNA science shows the "pygmies" and San Bushmen split 225,000 years ago yet they have a very similar healing music culture! thanks

 we now have massive malnutrition in Africa - five south African countries just declared "unprecedented disaster" due to drought. West-Central AFrica just has flooding - so tens of millions of people are displaced and in acute food insecurity. The UN funding can only cover 20% of the needs currently. It's barely being mentioned in the news.

The "green revolution" yes requires a big increase in resource use while a poor African uses 30 times less energy than a typical person in the U.S. Poor people who don't drive use a lot less energy but cell phone use was the biggest increase in electricity use.
Our CO2 emissions are 100 times the background rate of 12 gigatons per 200 years - so at least 1000 gigatons but more likely 5000 gigatons, especially co2-equivalent emissions.
Originally agriculture relied on humanure composting and this "ecological sanitation" is making a comeback as it is natural fertilizer and does not require water for flushing as sewage. Urine-diverting dry toilets are the ecological solution yet the Roman empire had to build aqueducts since shallow street sewers polluted the drinking water. The Berbers still used humanure composting to grow food in the desert when I visited there in 1997 but now Morocco is in dire straights from five years of drought.

So our ecological crisis is definitely hitting the poor countries the hardest but it will accelerate to reach everyone via the meltdown of nuclear power plants after the collapse of the "breadbaskets" - we were one rainfall from total crop loss in Iowa just one year ago. 

 actually Algae can sequester 100 gigatons of CO2 per year - tragic that you have not mentioned this. Just shows how our high-tech focus is disconnected from the truth. Sir David King and Raffael Jovine both promote algae as the only real solution. I did an algae talk on environmental coffeehouse.

Dear Samuel A. Mehr and Manvir Singh: Thanks for your new article inferring song function from form. I grew up in Minneapolis with a strong music study focus. By 16 years old I noticed a logical error in music theory and I developed this into my master's thesis research for a 2000 master's degree at University of Minnesota. To test out my music as nonwestern healing philosophy thesis, I did intensive qigong (Chinese) meditation training with a spiritual yoga healer who works with Mayo Clinic doctors. I had a very profound experience that caused a permanent psychophysiological change - what qigong master Chunyi Lin called my "enlightenment experience." A few years later I was reading a book on the San Bushmen music healing and I encountered a quote that precisely described what I had experienced (or part of it):
“You see spirits killing people. You smell burning, rotten flesh. Then you heal, you pull sickness out. You heal, heal, heal. Then you live.” 
from the book "Healing Makes the Heart Happy"
So then I was determined to translate my experience back into science after I had realized an error in my master's thesis. A physics major who published music philosophy books had contacted me, offering to publish my master's thesis, only he confessed he couldn't understand it. So I then studied his "Fractals and Music" book - Charles Madden - and he explained that the 'yin-yang" symbol was not a fractal since it was not symmetric commutative geometry. Soon after this I discovered Fields Medal math professor Alain Connes new book "Triangles of Thought" wherein he describes the precise same music theory secret I had discovered on my own when I was 16 years old - only he called it noncommutativity.
I was not sure if Connes was being metaphorical so I kept doing more science research, reading one scholarly book a day, and compiling my initial research into a 2012 book. Then in 2017 I noticed that Connes had a talk uploaded to youtube called "Music of Shapes" and this corroborated precisely that indeed it was the same music theory secret I had discovered on my own at age 16.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z52ZAPrRbqE
Alain Connes is the only scientist to have figured out this truth of music but I had realized it was also the truth of nonwestern meditation healing! So then I figured since I am just researching on my own someone else must have made this same discovery about noncommutativity being the truth of nonwestern meditation healing. I kept digging and digging online and I finally discovered Eddie Oshins who worked at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center while he also taught Wing Chun (the lineage of Bruce Lee). Oshins argued that "neidan" or Chinese internal martial arts and also other nonwestern meditation standing healing forms were based on noncommutativity! He called this "quantum psychology" as the secret of "mind-body integration" as the Tao of physics. Eddie Oshins got upset when other colleagues were not able to understand noncommutativity - for example he worked in Karl Pribram's lab to try to explain noncommutativity to Pribram to no avail.
So then I discovered that the collaborator of David Bohm, Professor Basil J. Hiley, now also emphasized noncommutativity as the secret truth of the Bohmian nonlocal quantum potential. I have since written articles and a book on this - all my research is free on my academia site.
https://independent.academia.edu/hempeldrew
I recommend my "Ancient Advanced Acoustic Alchemy" book for a start and then my "There Is No Spoon" book as a follow-up.
thanks,
drew hempel, MA

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