Saturday April 5th "Hands Off" protest at thousands of locations nationwide: Techno-Fascism exposed

 Dystopia playlist on the rise of Techno-Fascism

Netflix's How to Become a Tyrant series is another mirror image for today's dynamic.

 Or see my final paid Op-Ed for University of Minnesota Daily newspaper: Truth Repressed by Psychic Vampires 

in 2000.

 The largest money managers in the world, BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street – collectively known as “the Big Three” — have a total of $12.1 billion more invested in agribusiness producers and traders directly driving deforestation – yet they have no formal policies to address the deforestation crisis. Worse yet, since 2012, the Big Three have voted against or abstained from every single shareholder resolution that called for action on deforestation. This is not just inaction – it is willful neglect.

Peter Wadhams new interview - finally!! Methane increasing out of the polar regions

 Peter Wadhams out of both arctic and antarctica

 

Three Parts (tripartition) of the Soul in Pythagorean philosophy equals the Three Dantiens of alchemy as Harmony

 A distinct version of tripartition is also attested in a similar format by one of the best sources for Hellenistic Pythagoreanism, Alexander Polyhistor, in his Successions of the Philosophers, where he claims to have obtained
the information from a work known as the Pythagorean Notebooks (Pythagorika
Hypomnêmata), which also seem to date from the late 2nd-mid-1st Century BCE (D.L. 8.25,
8.30). The fragment of ps-Aresas/Aesara represents what is perhaps the most complete
surviving evidence for the psychological theory of the Hellenistic Pythagoreans. Indeed, ps-
Aresas/Aesara shows us a very original psychological theory, for he claims that three goods,
friendship, love, and kindness, sprout from all three parts of the soul. 

 intellect closely inspecting and tracking things; spirit conferring
impulse and might upon what is inspected; and desire, being akin to affection,
adapts to the intellect, exalting pleasure as its own and surrendering
circumspection to the circumspect part of the soul.

How does this happen?
According to ps-Aresas/Aesara, the three parts of the soul, when they have been
harmonized into eunomia, work quite effectively together. Each performs its own duties,
preserving the ‘justice’ so defined as ‘minding one’s own business’ in Plato’s Republic (433b-d).

The intellect performs preliminary inspections, and manages to persuade the other parts of the soul to act on its preliminary inspections; desire, persuaded to act, seeks to protect its own
interests by pursuing courage, which, properly persuaded by the intellect, acts to defend the
whole, and to attack the (external) enemy. How does the intellect accomplish this?

Interestingly, ps-Aresas/Aesara claims that it mixes together pleasure and pain and, by doing
so, effects the adjustment of the courageous part of the soul (called ‘tense and impetuous’),
where pain belongs, to the desirous part (called ‘light and dissolute’), where pleasure is
located. The consequence of this adjustment, which finally leads to total psychic
harmonization, is that the courageous and desirous parts of the soul obtain their own peculiar
types of reason, exemplified by their capacities for diverse types of ‘forethought’ (promatheia).
The intellect inspects and tracks objects it pursues; courage impels the soul towards things
being further inspected and endure what is to come; and desire discovers its own important
role in this process, which is to acquire pleasure and refer intellectual pleasures, which belong
not to itself, upwards to the intellect. Ps-Aresas/Aesara claims that humans are at their best
when they combine the objects of contemplation and enjoyment together in this psychic
system. This is no discourse of the intellect enslaving or controlling the lower parts of the soul
– the intellect’s primary role in ‘ruling’ the lower parts is to get the ball rolling in the process of
inquiry, rather than to supervise at all times each part of the soul’s activity, or to chastise the
other parts of the soul for being disobedient. There is no familiar moderation of emotions, nor
yet their extirpation, as one would find elsewhere in Hellenistic Philosophy: the Pythagoreans
of this period advocated a psychology of blending and harmonization of the parts, to achieve
maximal performance across the whole system.

 https://philarchive.org/archive/HORPAS-3

 Thus ps-Aresas/Aesara, the Lucanian Pythagorean, espouses a tripartite structure of
the soul, without any reference to bipartition that would eventually come to be understood as
the ‘truer’ version of the Platonic soul in Plutarch (de Virt. Mor. 3.441d-442a), in the late 1st
Century CE, and that can be found in some parts of the corpus of Pythagorean
pseudepigrapha.26 The notion that Pythagoras initiated the claim that the soul is tripartite is
advanced by Poseidonius, writing sometime around 100 BCE, citing some writings of
Pythagoras’ pupils that cannot be identified with confidence.

 intellect that closely inspects persuades, desire loves, and the spirit is filled
with might:

https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/31607238/Rowelt-libre.pdf?1392465743=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DPhilosophys_numerical_turn_why_the_Pytha.pdf&Expires=1743306227&Signature=fjzToGHomCf~Wr7QM0tmz-XnAvTrKxcKvR014BPBaLkyaCV2Smud949IpCP1RYZZwnIgPveAJFuXGnOLmde3vxm-3DRyYjfr7SlDBAVHMsg70WghTxSNYf58I9ZGpSWBfG~Bj2OwvDmyd1R0hE4BWi1zidH2rWLarCB4uiupuPAj3hhx5fNs8a1qoX3F7Yun6I9w-1zGA2MP-SnUIWDAfVJg9bqTMldHTldQo0NoN6cJGwCCH3rwJn6HxulfaPJNd2PNo9XkUhrVD6M5MgLNo7N3eDwJgxIC5ChNiYckGPbk0CBeZY-5q6k9oANu3jWoF-1QXJGPLtyZ8wUlSe9A6g__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA 

 the links between the notion of logos and the notion of
“harmony” in Heraclitus’ thought. Harmony (as in the harmony of op-
posites) is also seen as a key concept in Heraclitus’ thought, as it is in
Pythagorean thought. So both Pythagorean thought and Heraclitean
thought are constantly playing with the twin notions of ratio and har-
mony, and using these as their main explanatory concepts in natural phi-
losophy. The Pythagorean resonances in Heraclitus would, of course, be 

Philosophy’s Numerical Turn: Why the
Pythagoreans’ Interest in Numbers is Truly
Awesome.
Catherine Rowett

 Simmias uses the illustration to argue that a soul of that kind does not and cannot outlast
the body, because the lyre’s tuned condition cannot survive damage to the body
and strings of the lyre

Simmias tenders the idea that the soul may be a
harmony or attunement of this kind, such that when the body has well balanced
tension between opposites pulling in divergent ways, such as hot and cold and
dry and wet, the soul supervenes on that condition like the tuning of an instru-
ment.¹⁵ A harmony is something incorporeal, so to that extent Socrates is right to
associate it with the invisible incorporeal class of things. But that is only because
it is an emergent property, which supervenes upon something corporeal, and is
metaphysically dependent upon the temporary fine-tuning of the physical sub-
strate. So as Simmias observes, a soul of that kind will be as temporary as the con-
dition of the body, or the tensed bodily structure, which is its underpinning phys-
ical basis. 

– he’d have to say that the harmonia itself must still exist somewhere, and
that the wooden parts and the strings must rot away first, before anything bad could happen
to that harmonia.

https://www.academia.edu/8297012/On_being_reminded_of_Heraclitus_by_the_motifs_in_Platos_Phaedo

 but about a tension of opposing forces
in the bodily structure – its dynamic functioning under tension. This seems Her-
aclitean in feel and content

 they do not understand how differing it agrees with itself: a harmonie that turns back, like
that of a bow and a lyre.
(Heraclitus DK 22 B 51 as quoted by Hippolytus Hear. IX.9

 The hidden harmony is stronger than the evident one.
(Heraclitus B 54 as quoted by Hippolytus Ref. IX.9)

 Simmias wants to say that the invisible incorpo-
real harmony or soul is not really stronger after all, because it cannot outlast or
survive the loss of harmony in the body. It is weaker and more quickly destroyed
than the body, contrary to what Socrates had claimed in his Affinity Argument.
Thus Simmias and Heraclitus both have the same image of the soul as an
invisible harmony supervening on its supporting instrument, but they draw
opposite conclusions: Heraclitus claims that the hidden harmony is stronger,
while Simmias claims that it is weaker. 

in Empedocles the daimon is eventually returned to the divine unity in the Sphere after many
incarnations). 

Listening not to me but to the logos it is wise to agree that all is one.
(DK 22 B 50

Heraclitus meant that this kind of exchange of things and of opposites was
indeed a kind of life after death, and does also apply to mortal souls – a connec-
tion exactly like that made by Socrates in the Cyclical Argument in the Phaedo.

https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/54204233/Immortality_in_the_Phaedo_revised_August_2017-libre.pdf?1503386825=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DPre_existence_life_after_death_and_atemp.pdf&Expires=1743308230&Signature=Of3UwRk034bKx5Y6AvctepwuvT1pvZB8ShTY1ih74Z0O8MeT5QAsjRpWar~kkIxAosg36fAsaQlDGil3rhs0PplZ-V1JcjR2ENNuOco89384NIOy-O0zaCAl72ydGoWZMoOCP~I2elTRiO7ViutTHvjYhmzv-7gL1dRbddGttSiARUgV2Ak47Bg8itcmi55cQMKyrFJoa5hbF-AK~WNRW8Kj0~-mcZRzszTOkeKtxlRzhYcrowLugB2MHiZBMjnKVi6Vx~qfHBBb~sxMqGF9z2waiyLqFbb1zwPiuHK0~uRehJdqnjLr1nvBCMMRlSEkiLtxhNU5qyG5aD9IGOjhQQ__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA

  These ‘opposites’ which come and go are now abstract properties
or tropes, considered as incorporeal and existing in themselves, and they are then
alternately admitted by the entities that are periodically hosting them.

 But since the limit is the outermost one, it is complete
From all sides, like the bulk of a well-rounded sphere
Equal in every direction from the centre.
Parmenides B8.42–44.

 

1 great whale=30,000 trees in terms of carbon sequestration via whale poop, algae growth

 https://energyindemand.com/2019/11/30/a-single-whale-could-capture-the-same-amount-of-carbon-dioxide-as-30000-trees/

So 2 trillion trees planted would cancel out the  yearly CO2 emissions but we need to reverse the stored up CO2 in the oceans....So we need the below number of whales as population for another 2 trillion trees planted equivalent:

 66,666,666

 Between 1900 and 1999, the whaling industry killed an estimated 2.9 million whales for commercial purposes,

So we could not do that but anyway....

if we restore the 3 million lost whales that would equal 90 billion trees planted on Earth. Pretty wild.

There's only 30,000 whales globally! Wow.

So we need to increase the whale population by 1000 times.... 

 

"Order of the Overtone": Heisenberg's noncommutative transistional frequencies as nonlocality discovery

 Translation as heuristics: Heisenberg׳s turn to matrix mechanics
Alexander Blum*, Martin J€ahnert, Christoph Lehner, Jürgen Renn
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, German

2017

 As we will show, this transformation emerged from the attempt
to solve a specific problem (the spectroscopic intensity problem)
using the tools of the old quantum theory (the correspondence
principle). In the course of this transformation a toy model (the
anharmonic oscillator) came to play a central role by connecting the
specific problem with a generalizable framework (classical me-
chanics). The elaboration of the implications of this constellation
guided the transformation of this framework into the new theory
(matrix mechanics).

 the anharmonic oscillator,
which, unlike the purely harmonic motions occurring in the spe-
cific physical problems they had investigated earlier, showed the
decisive feature of allowing transitions between all possible states.
This facilitated the integration of the theoretical resources of clas-
sical mechanics (Fourier analysis of motion, perturbative con-
struction of equations of motion) with the already existing partial
structures of quantum theory.

 The old quantum theory was based on Bohr׳s two
fundamental postulates: the stability condition, which demanded
that quantum states were stable non-radiating states defined by
additional quantum constraints on classical mechanics, and the
frequency condition, which postulated that transitions between
quantum states were accompanied by the emission or absorption of
electromagnetic radiation with a frequency given by the Planck
relation between the frequency and the energy difference between
the stable orbits; neither the transition from one orbit to another
nor the emission/absorption process could be described by classical
radiation theory. The frequency condition alone, however, did not
give a complete description of the process either, most importantly
because it did not specify the intensity and polarization of the
emitted radiation.

 looked very much like the later noncommutative product of
matrix mechanics, was not interpreted by Heisenberg in quantum
mechanical terms as a “matrix product” or “even a commutator.”
Nonetheless, it offered important insights to Heisenberg:

he would keep in mind two essential characteristics of the
extended theory of dispersion: quantum theoretical amplitudes
appeared to play a fundamental role, and they combined only
through products of the type [aik bkj], where the stationary states
corresponding to the middle indices are identical (Darrigol,
1992a, 230).

This implies that dispersion theory led to the insight that transition probabilities had to be multiplied in a specific manner that would later be recognized as matrix multiplication.

that results from dispersion theory played in Heisenberg׳s construction of the quantum condition is his use of Born׳s principle of turning differential into difference equations, as we will discuss in Section 6.

 He specified that the system be an anharmonic oscillator and thus returned to the paradigmatic example for which he (together with Kronig and Pauli) had derived a quantum expression

 This expression again only contains frequencies which are multiples of the fundamental frequency (overtones)....In the quantum case, however, the transition frequencies of the
system are not multiples of some fundamental frequency (except for the simple case of the harmonic oscillator), and consequently the sums of transition frequencies are not in general transition frequencies of the system. The quantum calculational rule for constructing x2 [squared] thus had to be different from the classical rule, in order to ensure that x2 only contain transition frequencies...all the frequencies appearing in the Fourier expansion of the square were again transition frequencies. To fulfill this requirement, Heisenberg invoked,
as he had in the case of dispersion, the combination principle of Ritz, i.e., the idea that each radiation frequency could be written as a difference of two terms, interpreted as the energies of quantum levels in the old quantum theory. ...this implied that the frequency of a radiative transition was equal to the sum of the frequencies occurring in a two-step transition via an intermediate state.

 This was entirely in keeping with the original correspondence principle according to which the Fourier coefficient belonging to the function cosaut corresponded to the transition amplitude aðn; n  aÞ. It is, however, in contrast to matrix mechanics in the Born-Jordan formulation, where one cannot say that the system is in a particular state: The matrix always represents the totality of transitions between all possible states.

 the next step for Heisenberg was to insert the classical Fourier series into the equation
of motion. Heisenberg thus obtained recursive relations between
the Fourier coefficients: To understand the solution it is helpful to
go through this calculation in detail.41 From the ansatz 14, Hei-
senberg could write down the second derivative €x:..The x2 -term is obviously a lot more complicated, containing an infinite series for each individual overtone. Heisenberg limited
himself to leading order in perturbation theory for each overtone.

 This result would have been trivial using complex Fourier series; using Heisenberg׳s real Fourier series it relied on the physical insight that the transition from n to n  3 can
be split up in two distinct ways.

Directly written in terms of the (complex) Fourier coefficients at of the coordinate x of a simply periodic system, the usual quantum condition reads:

This equation defied Heisenberg׳s translation scheme from the Kronig letter, because only the frequency tu could be translated into the transition frequency ..., while the “order of the overtone” by itself had no obvious quantum counterpart.

(the transition from differentials to differences) in empirical evidence from dispersion
theory, i.e. independent of the spectroscopic context from which his scheme had emerged.
In any case, with the inclusion of the new quantum conditions, Heisenberg׳s calculational scheme for transition amplitudes was essentially complete.

the coefficients multiplying the negative frequency terms. Consequently, Heisenberg started to move away from the real Fourier representations (using only cosine terms and transitions from n to a lower state)

The transition from a still classical conception of the system being in a state, where, as discussed in the previous section, x is given by the set of all possible transitions starting from that state, to the full abandonment of the state concept in matrix mechanics, where x involved all transitions possible for the system, was only completed by Born and Jordan.

  It is only at this point that the orbits of the Bohr model were replaced by an alternative method of determining energies that relied only on the transition amplitudes and made no more reference to the actual coordinates.
Nevertheless, Heisenberg was still skeptical about the viability of the scheme, as he wrote to Pauli. Both the physical interpretation and the ultimate consistency of his new scheme remained open questions. Concerning the latter point, an essential question was
whether the energies would be constant in time.

However, attempts to prove the conservation of energy in general were unsuccessful. Here, the problem of the noncommutativity of Heisenberg׳s scheme first showed itself: A term of the form ẋ x, which he probably encountered in the energy expression of the Zeeman effect, did not have a unique quantum mechanical counterpart, calling into question not just the physical but the mathematical consistency of the scheme.

This observation also invalidates the widely held notion that introducing noncommutativity was the seminal insight that brought Heisenberg to the new theory.

 Heisenberg׳s own positivistic reading of his new theory as merely establishing
relations between observable quantities, and Born and Jordan׳s interpretation of the theory as a full mechanical theory (to be discussed below)

 The question of how to calculate the energy in cases where non-commutativity came into play still remained unresolved.

 Using the concomitant phase space formulation,
the quantum condition now appeared as a commutation relation
between canonically conjugate dynamical variables, a universal
addition to the Hamiltonian equations of motion. Born and Jordan
referred to this new quantum condition as the “sharpened quan-
tum condition,” taking up Born׳s idea from 1924 that the corre-
spondence principle was to be sharpened by a discretization of
continuous quantities.
In this way, the matrix mechanics of Born and Jordan represents
in a much stronger sense a new, independent dynamical theory
that actually replaces classical mechanics. Consequently, Born and
Jordan identified their new framework as a “quantum mechanics,”
and thereby as a realization of Born׳s own pre-Umdeutung program,
formulated in 1924. Heisenberg on the other hand, had not used the term quantum mechanics up to this point.

By bringing the equations of motion into his frame-work, he went beyond pure kinematics, introducing what would eventually be seen as dynamical quantum equations of motion. It is, however, quite clear that this interpretation was not fully performed by Heisenberg himself and is really due to Born and Jordan.
In his letter to Pauli, Heisenberg had posed precisely this question: What do the equations of motion mean, once they are reinterpreted as relations between transition amplitudes?

The reinterpreted equations of motion serve the function of giving relations between directly observable quantities. This is a far cry from seeing them as the (quantum) dynamical equations of motion of the system in question;

the initial translation from classical quantities to quantum matrices (quantization, in modern parlance) was to be all the correspondence one needed. From this perspec-
tive, the fact that the quantum mechanical equations of motion
were equations relating transition amplitudes became something
that was in need of a demonstration within the new formalism. In
the final section of their paper, Born and Jordan thus developed a
tentative argument from a yet to be formulated quantum theory of
electrodynamics to show that the classical relation between the
Fourier coefficients of motion and the radiation intensities would
survive in the quantum theory.
The Born-Jordan formulation departed even further from
Heisenberg׳s positivist interpretation of his equations. The
attempt to construct a fully autonomous quantum mechanics
involved taking over as much of the complex structure of Hamil-
tonian classical mechanics as possible. In order to replicate the
canonical phase-space structure of Hamiltonian mechanics, Born
and Jordan introduced the momentum matrix. This is the canonical conjugate of the position matrix in an abstract sense; as
Born and Jordan explicitly stated, it need not always coincide with the time derivative of the position matrix. Consequently, the momentum matrix did not have an immediate interpretation in
terms of observables.

 Most importantly, partial differentiation proved to be incredibly cumbersome in the matrix
formalism, a problem only alleviated by Dirac׳s insight that the
easiest way to translate partial differentiation into matrix me-
chanics is via Poisson brackets. Nevertheless, Born and Jordan׳s
work presented a major breakthrough on the way to an autono-
mous quantum mechanics and definitely switched the agenda for
good, back to Born׳s program of constructing a quantum mechanics.
Heisenberg׳s notion of quantum kinematics faded.

First, it originated from a different physical problem than is usually assumed,
not from the context of dispersion, but rather from the context of
the intensity of (multiplet) spectral lines.

the reconstruction offered here
shows how the search for a multiplication rule grew out of Heisen-
berg׳s work on the intensity problem, how the formulation of the
rule was a natural consequence of physical considerations (Ritz׳s
combination principle), and how its application to the equations of
motion was a direct continuation of his earlier work on the transition
intensities of the anharmonic oscillator.

 By first stepping back and reinterpreting merely the kinematics, Heisenberg
had provided the essential element lacking in Born׳s program, i.e., a
reinterpretation of the quantities appearing in the mechanical
equations, which, in hindsight, was a necessary first step towards the
reinterpretation of those equations themselves.
The present reassessment of Heisenberg׳s work and his
pathway puts us in a position to better understand the intrinsic
weirdness of matrix mechanics. It can be traced to the unsettled tension between foundational pillars of his Umdeutung: the
operational basis in spectroscopic experiments (Heisenberg׳s new
semantics), on the one hand, and the strong structural connection
to classical mechanics, on the other. 

 They could not yet, however, provide a new semantics for the theory that might replace Heisenberg׳s operational basis in spectroscopic intensities. Indeed, the
semantics of the new quantum mechanics was the essential
element in the ensuing interpretational debates of 1926/1927, and
we can now clearly see how and why this was an essential issue
already within matrix mechanics itself, independently of the rise of
wave mechanics. As is well known, the emerging Copenhagen
interpretation of quantum theory, and most importantly Bohr׳s
notion of complementarity implied a return to a semantics based
on classical mechanics, albeit involving epistemological restrictions. This completed the shift from Heisenberg׳s spectroscopic theory to a quantum mechanics that deserved that name on all accounts.

 In this regard, Heisenberg׳s statement in the Kronig letter that “everything can be calculated from the amplitudes” (a rather trivial truth in classical mechanics) plays a similar role of an Archimedean point for theory transformation as Einstein׳s principle of equivalence does in the development of general relativity.

 

 

 

God: An Anatomy - the original UK book edition arrives in the mail!

 Doc inspired by her book

I just got the UK original release version of the book "God: An Anatomy" - by Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou. She proves that "God" was originally considered a supernatural male warrior. hahahaha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsUz2NS-J8g

In Loo (not lieu) of the accelerating shutdown of Canadian toilet paper access

 we get 100% recycled T.P. - from The Field Day brand owned by our supplier, United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI) - sells at cooperatives! Their website doesn't even work. hahaha. It's the distributor brand. Probably made in Vernon California at one of the paper mills...

 

our original agriculture was all based on humanure composting. I visited the most traditional Berber village in Morocco in 1997 and for probably 8,000 years they lived from humanure composting to grow food in the desert mountains. Ecological sanitation is actually promoted by the U.N. but it goes against sanitation since Roman Imperial times of shallow street sewers. People are vastly impressed by Roman architecture with the aqueducts but they had to be built since Rome polluted its drinking water. So an ecologist ph.d. went to Haiti to set up SOIL - based on the John Jenkins thermophilic humanure composting - as a community business. They collect the 5 gallon buckets - no water is used. As far as the toilet paper - you need 20 times more carbon than nitrogen for composting. But if you do humanure composting you are saving gallons of ground water needed for flushing.

The problem is the international building code does not allow composting of humanure. So there's been a few exceptions in the U.S. - an ecovillage in Portland Oregon was given a waiver to do humanure composting. I think a county or township in California also allows it. Most of these places require that you already have a septic system installed though - which requires having the plumbing for "facilities" as a "residence" as per international building code - or hooked up to the sewer system.

Some cities then create fertilizer from the sewage - and if you do a thermophilic process - actually they basically just cook the stuff and power the cooking from biogas produced by the sewage. My own city of 300,000 does that and offers it as free compost for farmers south of the metro area - and it's EPA class A biosolids - meaning it is not mixed with industrial waste and also the PFAS are destroyed by the cooking process - it creates pellets of humanure. There's a slight smell when they compost into the soil again. hahaha.

Actual compost does not smell though. My secret is to NOT use structures in the first place. Based on code you can compost if you are in a shelter as a tent campsite. So just live in a tent - and ironically the people who lived here tens of thousands of years - the indigenous people - are not considered "sovereign" since they did not "improve" the land with structures.