Chapter 39: Milk, Mathematics and Magazines

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I was watching the News on TV last night and it appears that Chinese interests have bought (at least one) dairy in Victoria and have approached Council for approval to construct a shed to house 1,000 dairy cows to produce 10,000 litres of milk a day to export fresh to China. This is in the middle of a traditional dairy country with ‘rolling green paddocks as far as the eye can see’. The pictures of the type of shed showed that the cows stood in pens or ‘crates’ just large enough to hold each of them and ate hay placed outside the bars. The question behind this news segment was ‘do we want this type of development’ in Australia?

The contrast between the traditional grazing herds and the ‘imprisoned’ shedded herd was extreme. Why would someone want to use such a system, and the answer is, of course, to make money, but what of cruelty and quality of life to the animals, how good is the product that is produced, also, ultimately, should we be drinking milk at all?

Our genes are set for the hunter/gatherer era of 10,000 years ago and that is the body’s reality, but our modern reality is far different and this difference produces many problems that need to be answered to align these different realities. Epigenetics is presumably doing what it can, but modern diseases are showing that we are running into severe problems. In other words, we need to understand and choose our course of action and not be led by marketeers into buying things that may be harmful to us or to our longevity.

I am going to use the Mathematics of the Mind to look at this problem, which is basically a problem of self-interest of those involved and also as an example of how the mathematics should be used. Firstly, The Mathematics of the Mind is a general mathematics of concepts and the way that it was derived was by using an operator that I called Truth to ‘pull’ the appropriate ‘bits’ out of the indeterminate, and, to make sure that only the Truth was used, I used the logic of the Half-truth.

Truth is a measurement, and due to the logic of entanglement, which is a requirement of probability space (in which we probably exist), forces our view of the world to become determinant so that we can ‘see/sense’ the things in our field of view. However, the Mathematics of the Mind is a general mathematics, and as such must be iterative and more accurate as more factors are considered, but it can be seen that it needs Truth as a requirement, and this is what makes it so valuable in problems such as in this example. The aim of the mathematics is truth, not a solution, because there is no way that a decision can be made between the biased parts unless a method is defined, such at a 50:50 vote, or 75:25 vote. To reiterate, our aim is to clarify the situation so that a decision can be made and the more factors considered, the ‘better’ the solution that can be made. Truth is the underlying operator and every relationship must be visible and examinable.

So, back to the beginning to see why a company would want to use such an unusual system to obtain milk. ‘Industrial farming operations have largely replaced small farms, and the “pasture spring” and “little calf

… standing by the mother” that Robert Frost saw on his family farm a century ago are lost artefacts – relics of an obsolete way of life. In the decades since 1950, American farming has undergone a major transformation, and mom-and-pop farms are mostly gone – either acquired by large corporate operations or plowed under for new housing subdivisions. For instance, between 1954 and 2007,even as demand for dairy increased by 40 percent, the number of US dairy farms plummeted from 2.9 million to 65,000… today, 99 percent of the farm animals raised in the United States live in steel and concrete factories with no resemblance to a traditional farm.’ (Meatonomics, David Robinson Simon, p xxi)

We have to arrange these attractors or concepts so that we can judge them, but Truth (or God) requires that ALL relative attractors be considered. This latter requirement is fundamental to the Mathematics of the Mind, and it can be seen that the usual methods of decision-making pay ‘lip service’ to this requirement where the decision is taken between ‘interested’ parties, and as we have seen, interested parties should/must not have a vote. In other words, what I am saying is not much different to negotiations, but there are CRUCIAL differences that are fundamental and must be changed if the social sciences are to become a science. These precepts are the fundamentals of the mathematics that drive the social sciences.

Let us list some of the attractors, bearing in mind that there will be some that we miss, some more important than others and of course, who and how will the decision be made. That last point is inherent in the chapters on Eusociology and more will be considered later.

Australia has a reputation for producing ‘clean’ and healthy food because it is a developed law-abiding society and to allow the ‘modern’ developments of shedded milking cows, as described above, is a threat to our reputation. The Chinese are trying to use the lowest cost method and may be trading off our reputation, whether that is intentional or not. Should they be allowed to export, from a country with a high reputation something that will be shown to be, more than possibly, a very inferior product that would command a superior price if marketed as a Product of Australia?

What is the difference between the traditional method of grazing and shedded grazing. The cow is an animal that has had a long history and is not much different to us, but it has specialized as a grazing animal, and we have changed it (slightly) by genetic selection. Its brain is similar to ours because the brain has been a component for hundreds of millions of years and contains the 5 traditional senses (touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste) as well as balance and the seventh sense that changes the thinking process of the brain as the food supply changes and the eighth sense that seeks out food that contains needed compounds. The ninth sense is consciousness that produces choice/creativity. These senses are in our mind/brains and allow us to function in a changing world. We have needed these senses, otherwise they would have atrophied over time, to produce ‘normal/able-to-compete’ offspring. Shedded cows lose this ability and the milk becomes ‘deficient’ to some unknown extent because they have to eat what they are given.

Apparently it is more efficient to bale hay and transport it to shedded cows and feed them there so that they don’t use energy walking around grazing and so use this energy to produce more ‘milk’. I say ‘milk’ because the shedded cow has to eat what it is given, which negates the senses that our mind/brain has evolved since the Cambrian and is not what nature intended. If ‘mixed’ good quality pasture was used, there might be a chance that the cow would be adequately fed to produce top quality milk, but I doubt that ‘natural’ pasture exists. I have made the point that ‘milk’ will be exported as milk at the premium price that safe, clean Australian milk commands.

The question then becomes ‘is milk a real food for humans?’. ‘A study of elderly Australians found that those who consumed the most dairy had twice the risk of hip fracture compared to those who consumed the least.’ (p 195) ‘There are two reasons why consuming dairy can lead to problems with bone density like osteoporosis. First, dairy’s acidic pH causes the body to release calcium (an alkali) from bone to counter the acid’s effect and restore healthy pH. Second, high levels of calcium consumption over long periods of time impair the body’s ability to regulate production of the hormone calcitriol, which controls calcium absorption and excretion. Inappropriate calcitriol production can lead to excessive release of bone cells and reduction in bone mineral density.’ (p 195)

‘Doctor Benjamin Spock wrote the bestselling book Baby and Child Care and, a decade after his death, remains one of the most influential pediatricians on the planet. Spock staunchly opposed feeding cow’s milk or other animal foods to children of any age…. dairy products: Nondairy milk, particularly soy milk has real advantages over cow’s milk and other dairy products. These products are free of animal fat, animal protein, and lactose sugar, while still providing excellent nutrition.’ (p 197)

‘Because natural selection among prey animals like cattle favors those whose young grow quickly, bovine infant formula, or cow’s milk, has triple the protein content of human’s milk. This high protein content helps calves gain 2 pounds a day during the first nine months of their lives. It also helps human children who drink lots of cow’s milk grow faster than those who drink less. This rapid pace of growth might appeal to parents who associate fast growth with good health. However, clinical studies question this need for speed, finding that children who grow quickly are more likely than others to develop cancer later in life.’ (p 193)

These negative paragraphs show that milk is not very suitable as a food, and in fact it could be called a ‘convenience’ food along with meat. In the era of no refrigeration, herds of animals were a means of preserving food in the form of meat and milk as well as using marginal land that was not suitable for hunter/gathering. Hunter/gathering was the means of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of years as it is shown that ‘modern research suggests that people seeking to improve bone density should exercise more and eat plant-based calcium sources like kale and spinach (a plan that seems to work for herbivores like horses and elephants).’ (p 196) It would seem that this is our ‘natural’ food.

Given that milk and meat do not provide antioxidants and other phytochemicals, they must be considered as a second-class food and a ‘convenience’ food, even if we have been eating them for so long that about one third of the world’s population has evolved adults able to drink cow/goat/sheep’s milk. A clarification might be in order here, in that phytochemicals are used by the body for longevity, whereas milk is designed for growth and protection in the early years of life, and so lifelong use of milk makes it a second-class food, as well as the problems associated with children drinking it.

This idea of ‘convenience’ food can be extended to include all of the selected fruits and vegetables that have been genetically modified over the last ten thousand years. They have been selected to be larger etc. and contain less phytochemicals through size and the use of pesticides etc., contain more sugars for taste etc.

The third class of modern food could be called ‘fast’ food and I would characterize it as containing the three food groups that are difficult to find in the wild and we are (somewhat) ‘addicted to them. They are salt, fats and carbohydrates/sugars and are added to processed foods for a number of reasons that are generally not in the consumers’ best (health) interests. This labelling, if somewhat crude, allows insight into the role that meat and milk play in human evolution. Whilst there is not a lot wrong with a little grass-fed meat in the diet, the current feed-lotting and feeding corn to fatten-up animals changes the fats from omega-3 to omega-6, and that imbalance may lead to depression as seen in chapter 48: Depression, Fish-stocks, Fatty Acids and Anti Aging.

This indicates similar forces at work in shedded dairy cows, and as mentioned above, the quest for money changes the lives of animals and the results affect us in our diet, usually for the worse.

Conclusion: the purpose of the Mathematics of the Mind is to ‘lay-out’ the relevant concepts without bias so that a decision can be made. Taking into account the animals’ suffering, the fact that milk is a ‘convenience’ food that should be consumed with caution, but is a major player in Australia’s reputation for clean and ‘real’ food that is produced in an ‘acceptable’ manner for all concerned, should this modern approach be allowed here?

I, personally, believe that, for the reasons above, feed-lots of all descriptions should be banned because they produce ‘hidden’ perversions into our food supply. The decision should be the consumers’ as to whether they purchase and eat these products, but that decision requires knowledge/ determination/reading. Two thirds of the population is overweight/obese and clearly this very significant proportion is costing the country dearly for their choice because of the associated medical problems.

Prediction: the Mathematics of the Mind requires a prediction because it is iterative and changes as more concepts are brought in, so continuing the paragraph above, the overweight/obese are not only raising medical costs to the community, they are ‘skewing/corrupting’ our evolution. The future resides in Survival of the Best and women’s’ choice of mate is crucial as outlined in the chapters on Eusociality, and knowledge/ determination/reading is one of the selectors, so a ‘rough’ guide to a woman’s choice is that the male be within the average of the Body Mass Index.

Overweight/obese people are not eating/exercising ‘properly’ and they feed/exercise their children in the same way so modern diseases increase in the community and in the light of this chapter, the magazines that cater for women must be considered as ‘dumbing down’ their readers. I appreciate that the magazines do not want to aggravate/alienate practically every sector of production, but clearly they have a duty to inform consumers properly and should devote a couple of pages to these real/undumbed issues.

Chapter 45: The Logic of Blogging

The last chapter did what I set out to do, and that was to describe a social problem and the way to fix it, but the result seemed to require extra explanation, so I want to re-examine the premises behind some of the points.

Mathematics is a special case of the Mathematics of the Mind that is built up from logical ‘proofs’ starting with a few basic assumptions. The Mathematics of the Mind has no basic assumptions other than that it relates to our mind and it is intended to be the most general form that we can appreciate, given our reality.

Chapters have been devoted to reality, but illustrating may best show a side of it that evolves. ‘Grazing animals generally have eyes mounted on the sides of their heads, to give them all round vision. Because their fields of view barely overlap, stereopsis plays no part in their depth perception. Instead, they use parallax to judge the approach of predators. Predators use parallax too. The praying mantis rocks its head from side to side to judge the distance of its prey.’ (The Eye, a Natural History, Simon Ings, p 38)

‘Compared to parallax, stereopsis is a relatively rare and unusual form of depth perception; as far as we can tell, only a handful of lucky primates enjoy it…. Since there is no camouflage in 3-D, stereopsis probably evolved first in our insectivorous lemur ancestors, enabling them to spot insects that freeze, blending into the foliage at the first sight of danger…. This would certainly explain why some insects have embarked on a hugely expensive counter-counter-tactic, remaking their bodies as twigs and leaves.’ (p 38) This aligns with the need for stereoscopic vision for life in the treetops and it shows that our reality is changing, and we are also changing our reality with the internet and phones as below, as well as the whole planet through global warming, extinction of species etc. In fact, a change in reality can have monumental consequences as we shall see in the next chapter.

So, taking our present reality, the Mathematics of the Mind is the most general form that we can use, and its use changes reality because the result is imprecise. The answer is ‘in the limit’ and can never be known exactly or ‘for sure’ except by some ‘all-knowing’ god, but the Mathematics of the Mind can turn the reality indicator into a forward indicator and that allows us to ‘look’ into the future. Mathematics is a special case of the Mathematics of the Mind and uses the ‘precise’ part and so its use leaves the result or solution as a ‘undefinable’ part of the overall problem. We don’t know what the ‘proper’ solution is unless we use a general method, and I believe that that method is through the Mathematics of the Mind.

Is the Mathematics of the Mind a general mathematics? The mind appears to be a ‘tree’ computer with each ‘tree’, or linking of dendrites giving a series of action potentials that depict that that was brought into the brain by our senses. Each ‘tree’ is a concept or attractor and is a ‘memory’ with some degree of veracity, also, quantum mechanical evanescent waves generate spurious parts of ‘trees’ to produce creativity in the same lobe of the brain. Needless to say, this is highly speculative.

This Mathematics of the Mind is an ‘ordering’ of concepts, and then another process must be used. But first, the Rule of Life says that the chemical complexity grows, the logic is simplified and we can’t ‘go back’. Our mind must then be logically at its simplest and it follows that the Mathematics of the Mind must then be the most general form. This was also derived from first principles earlier in the book.

Somewhere in the brain must be a ‘comparator’ to determine how the action potentials in memory compare with those coming in from the senses. This is the basic reason for a head, which is the hindbrain in the simpler organisms and consists of a circuit where the ‘memory’ action potentials circle, waiting to be compared. This is why the memory takes so much energy because ATP is needed continuously to keep the action potentials ‘flowing’, and the cerebrum was a change that became necessary to reduce energy consumption through a different type of storage system.

This comparator in the brain is very simple, but more complex than the original decision-maker, which was the sense of smell that we still have within us today. A simple description of this comparator, which is necessary for an animal to decide to flee, fight or ignore, we call logic or perhaps better as logic/option. Is logic a dimension or a ‘derived’ dimension?

Einstein’s space-time is four dimensions (three space and one time interval), which follows the prey/predators use of three space and one time interval to produce the distance and velocity needed for hunting and avoidance and time-interval is a ‘derived’ dimension. However, is there a dimension of logic? Formal logic is well known as is mathematics, but what do they have to do with space-time? If we use logic/mathematics, there must be a dimension that allows them, and so there must be a fifth dimension. Indeed, a century ago it was proven that a fifth dimension must exist to allow light to propagate.

I derived that we probably don’t exist, but probably exist in a probability of existence space that has 5 dimensions (three space, one time passing and the sum of every point in the space adds up to one). This gives a world with conservation of energy, and that is a ‘logic’, and also allows entanglement. This means that logic is sustainable in this universe and we can use it as a ‘cause’ in logic and mathematics. Mathematics is just a logical arrangement of numbers and theorems are like pretty ‘seashells. So what is the real difference between mathematics, logic and the Mathematics of the Mind? All three use a mind to operate them and the Mathematics of the Mind is the most general. In fact, the mind is behind everything in the sciences, but no mention is made of it. Taking this further, the mind/brain ‘links’ into the ‘logic’ of the universe as seen in entanglement and the quantum mechanical experiment mentioned earlier.

This omission of the effect of the mind/brain causes problems because it tries to separate the mind from the body, and that can’t be done, although Descartes tried with his ‘ghost in a machine’. Just as the mind/body cannot be separated, it appears that mathematics and logic are linked as a combination of a ‘setting-up’ and a decision, so I should use the term mathematics/logic because both are required. This appears to be another case of scientific ‘convenience’ or simplification of description, as in the case of mind/brain.

Iteration is necessary for the progression of a system if there is no mind attached, as in the Survival of the Fittest, but the mind speeds things up, provided that the general mathematics (Mathematics of the Mind) is used. If a part of the general mathematics is used, the answer is not the same as if the whole general mathematics is used, and that is why the world has problems! It is very simple, use the full mathematics and the answer will come out because as I have said, all is connected and inter-related, and this can be seen if enough attractors are considered.

The previous chapter was also an example of how the internet and phones are changing and they are changing in accordance with the Mathematics of the Mind as development occurs over time. Originally, progress throughout the world accelerated when the creativity of the mind was applied to logic/mathematics and a distribution system was employed. The printing press has been superseded by the internet and the few scientists have been replaced by tens of thousands and hopefully, millions of bloggers making sense of the accumulated knowledge.

Mathematics is organization and logic is the decider and as the Mathematics of the Mind shows, both are needed. From above, we have shown how we have set out the concepts or attractors and we have to find the ‘best’ combination that we can as our solution. There is no ‘best’ combination because a selection must be made by an iterative process or a decision process. Iteration uses the three laws of Life, and the decision process uses the mathematics of the mind.

A simple example is 1+1=2, requires three space dimensions to write that equation, time passing to comprehend it and an over-arching acknowledgement/logic that it is correct and that comes from the additional property of a probability space, that the sum of something at all points must be one. This can lead to conservation of energy, entanglement or logic etc and each of these could be ‘lumped’ into the term ‘logic’. We can go even further and use social concepts such as justice, unconscionable, pretty etc.

We have used the concept of existence and found that a probability space is appropriate and used the dimensions of that space to show that a reality is possible that aligns with our reality. Our reality leads into the three Laws of Life, and an examination of those laws shows that the reality that is appropriate for us is conspicuous throughout the three laws. The simplest form of reality that we use is: to ‘get on with your neighbour’ to the best of your ability is used all around us. It may be that a neighbour will eventually eat us, but we have the means to live together through camouflage, hiding, staying out of range etc.

So, what is the phrase ‘meaning of life’ that is often ‘bandied about’? The answer is that everything is seeking a more successful reality and we are no different. From a purely physical smell detector to consciousness to a mind/brain we have taken what we want from the environment in an iterative sense, and later, using a mind/brain we have used the environment in a more destructive sense. With the application of the Mathematics of the Mind, we can understand the effect of our actions on the environment and it immediately becomes apparent how destructive our presence can be to the environment as a whole when parts of the environment are not considered. Even more important is using the forward indicator to plan ahead so that we don’t cause near-extinctions of whales, rainforests etc. We don’t need environmental ‘warriors’ or ‘worriers’, we need environmental planners to do things in the correct way.

Our reality demands that everyone consider the Holy Spirit/environment otherwise they are a threat and must be isolated from civilization. We currently use jails for this purpose, but this is a solution that is not a total solution because there are means of moulding the mind/brains of children so that they are less likely to go to jail. It is called a ‘stable upbringing’ and is considered previously.

It has been said before in considering the voting system, that one practice that is universally acknowledged is that a benefit should not accrue to a voter. This is an attractor of the Mathematics of the Mind that is always there and must be considered, if appropriate. Another one is Occam’s Razor, that the simplest situation is the most likely. So, it is an ‘unforgivable sin’ to not use the whole Mathematics of the Mind because to do so will cause mis-allocation and mis-appropriation of social rights and justices, and civilization demands the proper allocation to stop unrest and fighting/stealing. This is the logic behind social security! Notice that business, in general is not compatible with the environment unless environmental and social issue are ranked highly, and we know that in spite of protestations that certain businesses are looking out for staff, environment, customers and shareholders, and it it is the latter two classes that are most keenly appreciated, followed by staff.

So, where are we going? Many people want to save the rainforests, save the whales, save the rainforest etc., and the planet needs saving, mainly because technology has taken over and has used a part of the Mathematics of the Mind for its own uses and has neglected the social aspects. The solution to the world’s woes is to use the Mathematics of the Mind that gives the total solution provided that enough attractors are considered. Everything falls into place if the general solution is found and the blog and internet should be used as the ‘great connector’.

A worldwide religion is in place at the moment through Law and Order and the Justice system, and the population controls the elected leaders. The religions need to recognize this fact, and perhaps they do because they work with government. Terrorists, criminals etc. can be readily identified because they don’t have the same reality as law-abiding citizens and there are ways to restrict aberrant personalities forming, by changing our society, as have been discussed.

Everything is in place to change the world, if people are prepared to go about it in the correct way. There are suggestions made in this book, and the foremost is to control the population of the third world and stabilize it. Do people have the right to inflict misery on their children in over-populated countries? Governments should control this. The people have control of their government and they must use that control sensibly according to the Mathematics of the Mind to plan the effects better.

Chapter 44: The Blog and Blogging

I have received a significant number of queries on the subject of starting a web-log/ website and also on the subject of how I find inspiration to write blogs, so the time has come to weave this theme into a chapter. Blogging is NEW, because Academia, books, journals etc are designed for, and cater for the specialist (in the main) and the time has come to put all that information together and send it out into the world in a new form by a new means of communication, and that is the World Wide Web.

There is a place for everyone to contribute: ‘the manner in which Berger discovered the EEG shows that the development of science, far from being an objective matter practised by groups of like-minded individuals, is often thrown forward dramatically by isolated, marginal and quite dysfunctional individuals nursing ideas, which on scrutiny, may not be scientific at all, but quite subjective and romantic.’ (The Exceptional Brain and how it changed the world, Robert M. Kaplan, p 180)

The invention of the printing press brought reading to the masses and our civilization blossomed out of books, journals that were peer reviewed etc. as people worked at specific problems and our fund of knowledge grew and grew until today we have such a vast amount of knowledge that we have become trapped. We need ‘generalists’ (or polymaths) to suggest linkages between the disciplines that cannot be done effectively by Academics (in the main), but like the old-time ‘naturalists’, they will probably come from ‘interested’ amateurs and the conditions are right for this to happen.

The world is ‘wired’ together by the web and practically everyone has access to it. The information is there, courtesy of the search engines and easily accessible. The ‘amateurs’ are there in the millions and the publishing availability is there through the blogs or web-sites. The proof of this statement is that I am getting questions asking how to set up and find material for setting up peoples’ own blogs. Reality has changed with the coming of the web and we must change with it or, if we don’t, we will risk losing relevance, which is equivalent to being ‘eaten’ (from previously on reality).

Many people have asked about ‘how to get started on a blog?’ and we can start with the formation of creativity that is the quantum mechanical induction in the brain of the ‘wires’ (dendrites) linking ‘facts’ together. We first need facts, which means learning from books etc. and ‘mental training or life in enriched environments increases brain weight by 5 percent in the cerebral cortex of animals and up to 9 percent in areas that the training directly stimulates. Trained or stimulated neurons develop 25 percent more branches and increase their size, the number of connections per neuron, and their blood supply. These changes can occur late in life, though they do not develop as rapidly in older animals as in younger ones. Similar effects of training and enrichment on brain anatomy have been seen in all types on animals tested to date.’ (The Brain that Changes Itself, Norman Doidge, p 43)

Creativity comes from learning ‘facts’ and the reading of the newspapers, novels or television will not do it. Facts have to be ‘linked’ into a network of knowledge and reading factual books creates a ‘factual’ story that fits in and can be remembered, as we have seen previously. The connections in the brain form a computer, but not an ordinary computer, but a computer with wiring that allows induction to occur in other circuits and this creates creativity/consciousness. Given the correct inputs (state of mind, nutrition and exercise) the mind/brain should get better and better as we age. I say this because new bloggers have to learn ‘across the board’ and that takes time and work. If you hope to talk to academics about their subject, that they have spent a lifetime working on, you will have to ‘know your stuff’.

The warning, above, does not stop you practicing the science of blogging if it is done appropriately, and I am trying to show you some methods that work for me. Authors present their work to the world in the form of books, peer reviewed articles etc. and they can’t change them. The blog is not ‘set in stone’. Books are like mathematics and are exact and unchangeable, whilst the blog is like the mathematics of concepts and cannot be exact because everything is linked together. This mathematics of concepts is the Mathematics of the Mind and we will see that the mind uses it in its construction, and also, like the brain, a blog can be changed. Of course, every effort should be made to make the blog accurate, but you can add to it at a later date or use ‘postscripts’ as I do.

So, there is no reason not to start, but realize that you will get better with time and knowledge. So, how do I do it? Every book that I read is factual and presents knowledge that fits with what I know and allows me to add attractors or concepts to other linked concepts. The Mathematics of the Mind is a means of moving among related concepts called attractors because Chaos theory is used as a concept as in the Logic of the Half-truth where Chaos/ indeterminacy is needed to make a reality (see earlier). Again, I stress that I am reasonably old, or I should say that because of mental state, nutrition and exercise, I am young, but have been around a long time!

So, there is no reason not to start, given the above, and we can use the ‘gems’, attractors, quotations from books, internet, journals etc. provided that we acknowledge the scholarship of the authors, as I did above. We are doing what the authors want us to do and increasingly, the authors provide web addresses for comment or the author’s websites can be found by putting their name into a search engine. They ‘stand behind’ their quotations in their books and this gives the blogger legitimacy, and is achieving the aim stated above of ‘fitting’ their book into a wider ‘scene’.

In effect, this will give a ‘book review’ by placing the book, not in comparison with other books as is often done by reviewers, but by placing and, hopefully augmenting the book by incorporating it into other disciplines which achieves the aim as stated above. I say augment the book because I will only use a small part of it and (hopefully) enhance the book’s value to the reader. To give an example, the book ‘The Brain that Changes Itself’ by Norman Doidge is about plasticity in the brain, where the areas assigned to various parts of the body are represented in the brain and these areas change depending on the use given to those parts of the body. For example, a lot of use of the fingers by a pianist means a larger amount of brain/mind allocated to the fingers.

The earliest organisms used smell and touch to guide them to food because two nostrils gave direction and receptors determined the motivation for pursuing that food. This was a purely physical decision making, and it is still with us today (Rule of Life). The notochord provided an opportunity for nerves to create consciousness/creativity, and the brain formed at the head. The purpose of the brain was to remember and this it did by using circulating action potentials that require comparatively much energy, so the cerebrum formed using static connections and an iterative means of storing the (somewhat) correct action potentials. This is highly speculative and mentioned in earlier chapters.

So, what is the ‘form’ of this cortex? The Rule of Life says that the chemistry will be complex, but the logic simple, and there is no going back. The logic of the brain/mind is the simplest possible and is the mathematics/logic of concepts, that I have called it the Mathematics of the Mind and have mentioned it throughout the book. The concepts are attractors and they must be assembled into lobes so that creativity/consciousness is induced in the same subject area as the thought. A moment’s reflection will show that the creation of random thoughts is not creativity, it is noise!

‘The experiment demonstrated that if the median nerve was cut, other nerves, still brimming with electrical input, would take over the unused map space to process their input. When it came to allocating brain-processing power, brain maps were governed by competition for precious resources and the principle of use it or lose it.’ (p 59) This is an example of componentization, that all resources are used as much as possible to achieve the highest state with minimum input for breeding etc. (contained in the first and second Laws of Life, as stated earlier).

This quotation indicates that the mind/brain is a storage area that is continually changing its use of the scarce resources of neurons and by necessity, forms a ‘subconscious’ as it decreases the importance of past memories by decreasing the strength of neurotransmitters, also, the circuitry generates new action potentials in other memory circuits leading to creativity/consciousness. The subconscious is important to organisms because it provides a half-forgotton ‘memory’ that can be ‘reinstated’ with use, if needed, and thus could be considered similar to the seventh sense, see earlier.

Reiterating, the simple nose evolved to become creativity/consciousness and then on to the mathematics of concepts in the brain. This Mathematics of the Mind is a general and simple form and the mind/brain is built on its form as would be expected from the Rule of Life, but our mind/brain can apply the Mathematics of the Mind to problems that we wish to solve. This is a point that needs to be stressed, that our mind/brain is built upon, and at the same time becomes part of an operator, that I will call ‘progress’.

I think that everyone would agree that the success of technology/mathematics/innovation has fuelled ‘progress’ throughout the world and especially over the last few hundred years, but in chapter 2, it was shown that this ‘corner-stone’ of progress was a special case of a more general form: Logic of the Half-truth/Mathematics of the Mind/ prediction. The Logic of the Half-truth is a reality and continuous and includes technology. Note that ‘reality’ is our reality and does not , in my opinion (see earlier) exist. Mathematics is a special case of the Mathematics of the Mind – the ‘exact’ part, and innovation is a result of prediction. What this paragraph is saying is, if technology is so successful, how much more successful will the general formulation be?

I maintain that the ‘progress’ operator (Logic of the Half-truth/Mathematics of the Mind/ prediction) can solve anything we wish and especially social problems in the same way that the special case has boosted the technology that we all enjoy. In fact, we are investigating a ‘social’ derivation at the moment as you read this, as promised above, and I am setting up attractors that need consideration to produce a prediction.

The subject of this book is to consider the situation that the operator, Survival of the Fittest is an iteration, whereas the Survival of the Best uses the Mathematics of the Mind directed by a mind to speed up and target evolution. This ‘targeted’ evolution will accomplish the result very much faster because the search is guided by the application of a mind/brain, and this is in effect the ‘progress’ operator mentioned above. This is similar to the example given above that the application of a mind/brain to technology plus printing caused both to ‘explode’ in the past.

The internet uses a ‘tree’ structure with many computers connected together and it is a communication device, but with the application of a mind/brain, it becomes a ‘computer’ by using the Mathematics of the Mind. Thus, by using the blog, we have a ‘plastic’ view that changes as knowledge changes, directed by the minds of people and with books and journals providing the facts. This array moves a computer into a higher state, as mentioned previously, by introducing the creativity of the mind/brain. The idea has always been, in scientific thinking, that the mind is separate to the problem and this seems to have caused the refusal to consider that logic is a fifth dimension along with space-time and this has caused the (apparent) problem with quantum mechanics, as seen previously.

The communication scene, throughout the world, is following the Rule of Life and is simplifying, and this is indicated by the state of the modern computer. The original computers were used for word processing and spreadsheets, whereas the modern computer tends to have a multitude of files for photos, apps, emails etc. This transition in use shows the Rule of Life in action as the original computer has become more complicated machinery-wise, but simpler in logic, heading towards the Mathematics of the Mind. Note that new models still allow older technology to be used, for a while, at least. This paragraph has ‘laid to rest’ the question that I have asked myself many times as I wonder where all the strange technology is coming from and taking us. The answer is surely to follow the Rule of Life and assume that communication will tend to the Mathematics of the Mind where all these strange computer/phone files form attractors, and it is they that we are moving around as we use them.

This is the reason that technology is so successful, because mind/brains are directing its progress, and as mentioned previously, the Mathematics of the Mind does for social problems what mathematics does for technology and will give solutions that are long over-due. To restate this, the success of technology/mathematics/innovation is well-known, and the printing of books brought these methods to the world. Now the Mathematics of the Mind, the internet and a large number of participants can do the same for social problems, bearing in mind that the aim is to provide a solution that everyone can agree on. This is illustrated in chapter 38: Stopping Terrorism – a General Solution.

In conclusion, this analysis has shown that specialists are necessary, but so are generalists and that different skills are needed and this is a gap that ‘naturalists’ can fill better than academics. There are safeguards for bloggers to quote published material and the internet is particularly suited to rapidly disseminate information with variability (plasticity) to handle a mathematics of concept.

A computer is formed from the internet with one or more mind/brains, increasing in creativity with time, as they learn facts. The blog is necessary and extremely valuable as an adjunct to Academia and there is the possibility of consultant fees or the writing of articles. There appear to be no downside, and contributes significantly to continual study which is in line with the Survival of the Best.

In other words, mathematics (which is exact), the rise in printing and distribution, and peer reviewing (to set one theory above others) has been with us for hundreds of years and started the world on a path of accelerated innovation through the progress operator (technology/mathematics/innovation). The mind/brain seems to stand outside of the system and not affect it, but his leads to the problems associated with quantum mechanics that are solved by the ‘measurement’ process (see earlier) that involves the mind/brain (and the fifth dimension).

The blog is different in that it is modelled on the brain and uses the mind/brain in the solution and like the mind/brain, is plastic (changeable) and recognises that everything is linked and anything that we use, is an approximation. The process operator (Logic of the Half-truth/Mathematics of the Mind/ prediction) is more general and changes the focus from the exact/specific to the linked/general. It could be construed that the value of the blog etc. is (perhaps) an order of magnitude ‘better’ than the book etc. in understanding and ‘coning to terms’ with the world, if for no other reason than it opens up the social sciences to solutions of the world’s problems.

The existing system has set the world back when it is considered that peer reviewing and the large cost of printing and distributing books has produced a ‘voting system’ to promote popular scientific theories, whereas blogs are small, easily distributed and quickly give the author’s thoughts and make alternative theories available, in line with the requirements of a general mathematics of concepts. A well-known example of the limitations of the present system is, that it was considered ‘appropriate’ for millennia that the sun rotated around the earth. In the ‘light’ of the above, it is not difficult to see what should have been done.

This chapter has tried to show the way that I blog and why, but it also tells why we need to blog. It illustrates that this chapter is ‘out there’ in three days, not three years if it were in a book and feeds will direct this chapter to people’s emails as soon as it ‘goes up’. Just as important as speed is content and I am continually being surprised by what turns up. A good example is chapter 37 ‘Hark the Herald Angels Sing’ that makes the realization that there is a single world-wide ‘religion’ already in place that satisfies the reality operator and that is government and the judiciary.

In this chapter, we have seen that the communication devices are evolving to computers with a creative mind behind them along with rapid communication, and this is the ‘highest’ state that humankind has reached at this time and parallels the working of our mind/brain. This is a logical progression, but a prediction becomes apparent from this derivation that again shows the power of this type of investigation. I suddenly realized that quietly and unrecognised (at least by me) the communication industry is creating a ‘machine’ that is orders of magnitude better than anything that existed in the middle ages. This combination of mind/brain/phone/computer/internet/emails appears to tick ALL the boxes, except the addictions that are occurring with ‘unlimited’ calls and text loads.

Finally, mathematics has its theorems that are like pretty seashells on the beach, interesting and sought for themselves, but the Mathematics of the Mind demands a prediction, otherwise there is no reason to use it because it is incomplete and could change tomorrow. So, if we consider that mathematics, that is a small part of the Mathematics of the Mind, has been so successful in promoting technology, it could be that that small part unbalances the derivation that the whole Mathematics of the Mind would give and so lead the world into problems. I believe that this has happened and the world has global warming, depleted rainforests, over-population etc. as a direct result of technology.

I must admit that the general mathematics, that I have called the Mathematics of the Mind is new and presented in this book, but, if the FULL mathematics is not used, the prediction is that global warming, depleted rainforests, over-population etc. will worsen and we will not be able to control it! The FULL mathematics CAN handle it, if we want it, and the internet and blog is the key to ‘having your voice heard’.