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Chapter 43: The Dinky Di Lifestyle Planner Diet

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Chapter 43; The Dinky Di Lifestyle Planner Diet

 

The second Law of Life is one of three intertwining laws and concerns Life in the environment, and as such is basic and all-encompassing. We can use this fact to say that a solution will be found for any problem that we set, and that that will be a general solution. In particular, the second law defines a method, and gives a system for considering that solution, and as an example, let us look at a subject that has caused much controversy, and that is the ‘Diet’.

 

Hundreds of diets have been formulated and it appears that none of them work over the long-term, so here is the system that allows you to consider your favourite diet and measure the effects using a forward indicator. I believe that none of them work because they do not consider the three major factors (state of mind, nutrition and exercise) that are contained in the second Law of Life. These are major factors and, in the spirit of the Mathematics of the Mind, there will be other less important factors (such as stress etc.) that may be involved, however this level of complication should be sufficient to see how it works.

 

This is a very important point and I will re-phrase it. The Dinky Di Lifestyle Indicator Diet is mathematically derived and is ‘correct’ (given the statements above), and using my usual methods, the total is 100. Work several of the common diets that you may be contemplating using, through the figures and select the highest ranking. Of course, if you want to follow mine (100 points) feel free to do so.

 

Dinky di: Australian bush vernacular – to stress truth; true blue; for Real; speaking the truth (Urban dictionary)

 

I must mention some very important observations. Firstly, the Dinky Di Lifestyle Planner Diet is an ANTI AGEING diet that you should use if you want to live healthily for a long time, also it is an anti cancer and anti heart problems and anti the other ‘modern diseases’. It is designed to change your lifestyle into that of a hunter/gatherer as far as practical without giving up modern necessities. Secondly, by giving a numerical outcome, it allows you to PLAN a healthier lifestyle by imagining what you want to eat and it will tell you how healthy that lifestyle is.

 

Thirdly, it gives a means to COMMUNICATE your success by painting the number on your car, front door etc. or just telling your workmates, friends etc. Fourthly, it enables you to INVOLVE the whole family in it through planning meals etc. Fifthly, IT WILL WORK because you set the conditions that you want to live with and you know that it will work because the research is in this book. Sixthly, as above, the world is changing so rapidly that the parents’ food traditions have been overturned and this diet offers a means of UNIFYING and stabilizing diets worldwide.

 

Finally, anyone of any age can use this diet, by knowing how children are fed and exercised, to the aged in nursing homes. Whilst this diet can get you ‘back into shape’ it really is a LIFESTYLE PLANNER that can be used to measure how ‘well’ the family is living. It records, in a negative sense, the number of take-away meals, snacks, coffees, drinks etc. that are consumed and can be compared to a theoretical 100 points, or some chosen figure for comparison across the community. At the same time, by bringing attention, in a numerical sense, to snacks and meals, it allows families to make healthier choices and to structure meals more healthily.

 

Knowing that this diet will work sounds like we are invoking something extraordinary like the force of the placebo, and we are invoking it, but at the same time not invoking it. The Placebo is ‘believing’ that something will work, and that message travels to all the cells, but in this case the Dinky Di Lifestyle Planner Diet IS the ‘real’ thing. It is based on the research listed in this book and you are free to read the books that are the source of the quotations, just as I did. The more that you read and involve yourself the better, because you are ‘learning’ and thinking and the aim is to ‘better’ yourself through life, and this outcome of ‘betterment’ needs a healthy lifestyle and this is the way to get it.

 

The importance of this Lifestyle Planner is that it gives a basis of comparison with other people, whereas, at the moment most people think that they eat healthily, they simply do not know. Also, if it can decrease the number of the overweight, obese, heart/stroke patients and so on, the percentage decrease is reflected immediately in monetary cost of the medical/hospital system that is becoming unaffordable.

 

The government is trying to introduce a co-payment to fund the health system, and yet here is a costless system that is administered by the patients themselves that will decrease usage of hospitals, allow the elderly to function by themselves for longer and (possibly) reduce the modern diseases in children. The Dinky Di Lifestyle Planner Diet may be the answer, and an answer at a very low cost and a cost borne by the consumer and result in a saving to the community. The impetus is built-in because no one wants to be sick if they can knowingly avoid it, and here is the knowledge. Isn’t it time for the government to be proactive for very little cost instead of taxing the system with a co-payment?

 

From the previous chapter, the second Law of Life can be stated as:

(a) Nutrition. I consume over thirty varieties of nuts, seeds and fruit in the morning and over thirty varieties of vegetables, herbs and spices with fish, cheese etc. for dinner.

 

(b) Exercise. Each day I work FAST for about two hours, or dance FAST for the same time as well as walk for 45 minutes every second day. One hundred push ups (2×50) and four minutes standing on one leg with eyes CLOSED each day except for the mornings after I dance with my hyper-active dance partner.

 

© State of Mind. A positive state of mind and appropriate positive lifestyle is necessary with low levels of stress.

 

 

So the answer to a ‘health package’ is that it is part of a ‘whole’ and it behoves one to look to nutrition, exercise, mental attitude and stress levels in modern life, and trust to your body to do its job. Update the saying ‘let food be your medicine …’ to ‘let the second Law of Life be your medicine’.

 

This Lifestyle Planner is a way of returning our personal environment back to the Palaeolithic lifestyle, as far as we can, and to do it simply without causing the privations that occasionally came with the times and variability of food supplies etc. in the Palaeolithic.

 

The Dinky Di Lifestyle Indicator Diet.

 

Breakfast: add 2 points for each type of seed, nut or fruit eaten (add 3 Brazil nuts for selenium)          Add 1 point for each cup of tea, no milk or sugar or large glass of water. No points for wheat, corn, milk or rice.

maximum 20 points

 

Dinner: add 2 points for each vegetable eaten, plus 2 points for one or more of meat/fish/cheese (regardless of the size of the portion) and 1 point for each herb or spice added (as antioxidants) Add 1 point for each cup of tea, no milk or sugar or large glass of water. No points for potato, wheat (bread, spaghetti, cake etc.), corn, rice or sweet potato

 

maximum 20 points

 

Supplements: 2 points for multi B vitamin (including B12 and Folic acid), 2 points for multi vitamins and minerals (including Iodine), 2 points for vitamin D, 2 points for Fish oil (or other seafood oil) and 1 point for others such as vitamin C, E, etc

maximum 10 points

 

Exercise: Each day I work FAST for about two hours, or dance FAST for the same time 15 points, as well as walk for 45 minutes every second day 2 points per quarter hour

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One hundred push ups (2×50) 5 points, and standing on one leg with eyes CLOSED each day (4 minutes, 1 minute per leg) 10 points.

 

maximum 30 points

 

Mental health: from depressed to completely happy 0 to 5 points, and stress level 0 for high stress, 5 for very low stress, learning a musical instrument 5 points for ‘fine’ motor control, and mental learning, such as researching this book, 5 points. Notice that reading newspapers, listening to audiobooks or playing computer games is 0 points.

 

maximum 20 points

(a) Notice that it will come as no surprise that I get 100 points! Well, most days! Notice that there is no age relationship because I believe that ‘if you do something every day, you can do it forever’.

(b)The ‘balance’ exercises might be surprising, but falls are a source of broken bones which, as we saw previously can lead to death in a large proportion of cases, especially for hip breakages. It may take years of practice before you can do this balance exercise without having to put the other foot down (occasionally) to steady yourself.

© Speed of movement must be fast because slowing down is synonymous with ageing, as is lack of balance ability. ‘A third of the elderly fall, and because they fear falling, they stay home, don’t use their limbs, and become more physically frail’ (The Brain that Changes Itself, Norman Doidge, p 7)

(d) A useful tip to make life easier is to put the supplements into eight containers because you may not need some types every day, and the point count is immediately obvious. It has been said that you don’t need supplements, but the food has changed so much that I find it better to be careful, also the fact of taking supplements acts as a placebo.

(e) I use a mixture of green and black tea and leave the old tea-leaves in the pot (for half a dozen pots) for any slightly soluble chemicals to leach out. It is generally considered that green tea should ‘steep’ for at least 10 minutes, and this method accentuates this.

(f) The portion sizes of vegetables are not relevant, but should be half a serving of more, variety is sought and many small quantities of the more unusual nuts and seeds would be important. Some food sources have been quoted earlier as being the only source of certain food chemicals.

(g) Users of ‘addictive’ substances, such as smoking cigarettes are helped by the supplements and antioxidants (hopefully) reducing damage, and if they do give up the habit, it has been reported earlier that within five years of ceasing, the probability of problems occurring has returned to normal.

(h) The supplements are necessary because we no longer (inadvertently) put ash into our food, as we did using an open fireplace and skins for saucepans, and also, extra vitamin D and selenium were supplied by eating mushrooms, that also should be regularly eaten.

(i) I eat only two meals a day because I use the blender to make a coarse flour of the nuts and seeds that takes a long time to digest and I have no trouble resisting snacks. Modern milling methods grind flour very finely so that bread etc. rises nicely, but finely ground carbohydrate is also readily absorbed giving ‘blood sugar highs’.

(j) Adequate exercise is extremely important. A 2001 study published in The Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine found simply, “Decreased physical activity with ageing appears to be the key factor involved in producing sarcopenia.” (Meatonomics, David Robinson Simon, p 25)

(k) Large portion sizes of animal products are not healthy, ‘according to the National Academy, “available evidence does not support recommending a separate protein requirement for vegetarians.” (p27)

(l) Microwaves do not affect food (see earlier), and vegetables should be cooked in a microwave oven with little water or roasted. Cooking in water is acceptable only if ALL the water is eaten as nutrients move into the water.

(m) Again emphasis is placed on vegetables because ‘a flotilla of scientific papers shows that fish are routinely high in mercury, PCBs, and cholesterol, making them a distinctly unhealthy alternative to plant foods’. (p 140)

(n) ‘Almost every major illness that people acquire has been linked to chronic stress. (Segerstrom and Miller 2004; Kopp and Rethelyi 2004; McEwen and Lasky 2002; McEwen and Seeman 1999) (The Biology of Belief, Bruce H. Lipton, p 121)

(o) ‘The study also compared seventy-one-year-old subjects who used the auditory memory program with those of the same age who spent the same amount of time reading newspapers, listening to audiobooks, or playing computer games.’ (The Brain that Changes Itself, Norman Doidge, p 89)

(p) Loss of ‘fine’ motor control with ageing results in ‘many of us give up on tasks such as drawing, knitting, playing musical instruments, or woodworking because we can’t control the fine movements in our hands. (p 90) Regular practice preserves the ‘hand maps’ in the brain.

 

The above is not meant to be exact or exhaustive, but it should enable you to quickly run through what you would eat in any particular diet. However, any diet that does not include exercise, nutrition, supplements, mental stimulation and stress reduction is incomplete and won’t work in the long-run. Only a life-style change will be long-lasting and as you learn more, you will reduce snacks through mental thoughts/knowledge and read other chapters to understand what you are putting into your mouth.

 

Notice that there are no limits to the amount that you can eat and it is up to you to replace the addictive elements of salt, carbohydrates and fats with non-starchy vegetables and coarse ground nuts and seeds. Fruit is supplied by the tree or bush for you to eat and thus to carry away the seeds and so the flesh/juice is high in carbohydrates to make you want to eat it (when it is ripe). In other words, fruit may not be as good for your health as vegetables because the plant wants you to eat the fruit, but not the stores of food that the plant is keeping for itself.

 

The above is an important PART of anti ageing and the relevant chapters should be read. Likewise, anti aging is only a PART of our living and the more that you learn, the more creative that you become and living longer gives you more opportunity to be even more creative. Out of the mass of data, the closest experiment to the above, quoted earlier, is about the people (with high blood pressure) eating fifty varieties of uncooked food and quickly had their blood pressure return to normal. There is plenty of information available, but you have to be motivated and this ‘diet’ might provide that stimulus.

Chapter 43: The Dinky Di Lifestyle Planner Diet

Chapter 42: The Second Law of Life with Stress and Placebo

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Chapter 42: The Second Law of Life with Stress and Placebo

 

‘According to Will Tuttle, author of The World Peace Diet, “until we are willing and able to make the connections between what we are eating and what was required to get it on our plate, and how it affects us to buy, serve, and eat it, we will be unable to make the connections that will allow us to live wisely and harmoniously on this earth.”’ (Meatonomics, David Robinson Simon, p xix) This is a statement similar to reality: ‘get along with your neighbours’, but ‘most of our beliefs about nutritional needs, consumption levels, and farming and lawmaking practices are based on traditions that have largely melted away – at a pace so slow and seductive, we’re barely aware of it. As the comic strip’s Calvin put it, “Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.”’ (p xxi)

 

The best that we can hope to be, in an evolutionary sense, is a person that is successful in the Survival of the Best and to do that, we have to know what we are doing, and that is, presumably, the reason for reading this book. We have seen that the more facts that you learn, the more creative that you become because there are more dendrites to interact within the brain, and in the Mathematics of the Mind it is the number of attractors considered, which is also the broadness of your learning. As an added bonus, the more that the brain is used, the less chance of dementia later in life and one of our aims must be to have a long and healthful life.

 

With an enquiring mind, you will no doubt have accumulated a significant number of assets and are financially comfortable and wish to enjoy that state for many years. If you are not financially comfortable, now might be the time to change your life by considering these simple steps, and they are simple because the Rule of Life indicates that whilst an organism or animal might increase in complexity, the organization simplifies (plus, it can’t restart, which we will see to be important later)).

 

It is the organization that concerns us because our genes are in the Palaeolithic, our epigenes have probably changed over one or two generations, our seventh sense thinks that we are in a drought, our eighth sense is uneducated and completely lost, and as the first paragraph says we don’t even realize that we have lost our way and are being played by marketeers and ‘big’ business. The result is the Obesity Epidemic, where 60% of the population are overweight or obese as well as the prevalence of ‘modern’ diseases of cancer, strokes etc.

 

‘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.’ (p xxii) Consequentially, they are fed inappropriate diets that produce weight gain, are bred to increase output with minimum inputs and ‘then there’s the fact that meat and dairy keep getting cheaper. This development is driven partly by subsidies, partly by efficient methods of factory farming, and partly by the industry’s practice of offloading its costs onto others.’ (p xxii)

 

The above paragraph was quoted in the context of the state of mind and the condition of the cells of the farm animals held and fed under these conditions as an illustration of the last two chapters and shows that our food has changed, as above, to make money for Big Business and we are the poorer in health for allowing it to happen, but there are ways to circumvent this degrading of the food supply and the first step is knowledge and the second is to act on it. Consequently, this chapter is about the logic of what to do about turning modern food to our advantage and not to Big Business’s advantage, taking control of our situation, lengthening a healthy life, and so on. In the next chapter, I present a means of allowing us to act on it.

 

Going back to the end of chapter 40, firstly we have not two effects in the placebo/nocebo, but a continuum of effects, and the act of measurement that this continuum opens up means that there are many possibilities in mental health that we can explore. Secondly this continuum ranges from the mind being able to repair knees etc. to killing the whole individual. This is a huge power that the cells have turned over to the mind and we should know more about it and be able to control it better than we do, and as we shall see, it is part of the second Law of Life, which is the state of mind, exercise and nutrition.

 

Firstly, I must re-visit the discussion of components, which are necessary, because, under the Rule of Life, the organization of the body should be in its ‘simplest’ state and that state is ‘componentization’, which is a logic machine used in atoms, reproduction and now we see it in the formation of our bodies. Every part of us must be a component that will cause the least impediment if it is little used, but can expand to do any job required of it. For example, a muscle gains strength if it needs to be stronger, and it does this through being used, myelin sheath is added to nerves to increase our reaction speed, if needed, in both cases, presumably by the emotion of close ‘calls’ with predation that cause the mind to instruct the cells which produce it. This communication can now be better understood in the light of the last two chapters where we looked at the signalling between cells in the body.

 

If I seem to be ‘jumping about’ it is because I need to bring attractors into the argument, so that the second law can be expanded to state that ‘state of mind’ is the placebo/nocebo continuum (downward acting), creativity/consciousness (downward acting) and the seventh sense (upward acting) and stress (up and down). Also, nutrition is a continuum from ‘take-aways’ to the Palaeolithic diet and exercise can be from the ‘couch potato’ to the athlete. I have replaced the individual terms with continua, which are measurements and enables us to use the fifth dimension in the same way that measuring the photon caused determinacy. This may sound strange, but the dimensions of our universe must encompass everything that we can do, and space-time is not enough to include measurement, that is logic and aligns with entanglement.

 

This measurement of these three continua allows a reality to be constructed as an orthogonal system and we can produce a simple Mathematical Model to measure a combination of the three factors. This is the first step in measuring our ‘fitness’, which is fitness in a health aspect, our usefulness to society, our fitness to pass on our genes, our fitness to be part of society and so on. Obviously more attractors would be needed, or more terms in the model would be needed for accuracy, but the principle is the same.

 

What is evolution passing on? Survival of the Fittest contains many factors, such as ability to fight, ability to hide, ability to procreate, ability to eat a range of foods and so on. The Survival of the Best must cover these also, in a forward not backward-looking sense, but at this point I want to restrict the discussion to personal fitness and a simple mathematical summation of the three factors should suffice. State of mind is a form of measuring ‘mental health’ and the placebo/nocebo continuum shows the power and dangers of thought to the functioning of the body. Exercise and nutrition are also necessary, but from above: “day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.”’ Our job is to rationalize the situation.

 

Traditionally in a ‘slower’ society, you ate what your parents ate and you knew that that food would give you adequate nutrition and you would have had to work physically for it. The modern world, from above, changes rapidly and we have ‘lost’ role models and people tend to eat what tastes good, which is those foods that are hard to find in the wild: carbohydrates, fats and salt. Likewise, exercise is not pleasant and we try to do as little as possible and muscle mass decreases and we become fat and so on. At the moment sixty percent of adults are overweight or obese, so the only sensible way is to go back to a regime that worked and that was the Palaeolithic way of life. Of course we can’t afford to emulate this way of life, but we can try to change it using the Survival of the Best, the forward looking reality and the Mathematics of the Mind using our minds as drivers, and what I am doing here is an example.

 

The subject of this chapter is to formulate the best medical plan, so we will have to restrict the discussion. Our bodies are composed of components that do everything we ask of them unless we abuse them, and that is precisely what we are doing when we eat the ‘incorrect’ food, think sloth and neglect exercise. One of the principal requirements of Survival of the Best is to look after ourselves in all ways, and that includes living as long as possible.

 

The result of our living is in our hands, and the life that we have lived, shows our capabilities of strength of mind, determination, willpower and any number of other positive and negative attributes, and these are factors that can be used to determine the Survival of the Best. But, not knowing is the same as not caring if we don’t learn, and this book is the opportunity to learn, and it is being made available to be used on the internet. Given that the answer is now available, sickness is to a large extent due to modern life and if we allow ourselves to get sick it is our fault. If we get sick, we turn to the medical profession that is largely based on the placebo effect, and expect a dramatic turn around! Surely, it is better to give our bodies the thoughtfulness, exercise and nutrition that it was designed for.

 

If you are worthy of passing on your genes, you should have the determination to do something that you think is worthwhile with your life and the basic inputs that you need to support that life are strength of mind, nutrition and exercise. Your body has evolved to do what the mind says is necessary to do to survive and pass on genes, and those social attributes are not genetic or epigenetic. In other words, we pass on genes (long-term), epigenes (short-term) and social attitudes (short-term), by means of DNA, some sort of blocking of DNA for organ differentiation, methylation of the DNA for epigenetics and the family life and teaching for social attitudes.

 

On the path of greater socialization, our cortex grew, but was restricted by body shape for birth, the cortex came into the world in a minimum ‘cut-down’ package, grew as a component and learnt about family life as soon as possible. This required a long nurturing period and the family (and extended family) evolved. This family-life brought problems of inbreeding that were solved hundreds of millions of years ago and show why the Rule of Life is so necessary in that there is no going back because any reduction might have unexpected consequences.

 

Somewhere hard-wired in the hindbrain is the solution to inbreeding, and that is that the young must move away to a new tribe or feeding ground to prevent inbreeding. Another piece of hard-wiring is that you must look after, feed, protect your progeny etc. Clearly, these are attributes of Survival of the Fittest, and are still with us today. However, the Mathematics of the Mind is imprecise and ranks the attractors, so if the above two attractors are still with us, what of less ‘important’ attractors.

 

Reality (‘getting along with your neighbours’) requires ‘quiet time’, a settled existence, but we have seen that a disrupted family life, even (in some cases) one-parent families increases the risk that children are more anti-social. Keeping this as brief as possible and considering the mental disruption as another attractor, modern life with stress at work, home, upbringing etc. may have changed the health outlook of modern civilization. ‘Almost every major illness that people acquire has been linked to chronic stress. (Segerstrom and Miller 2004; Kopp and Rethelyi 2004; McEwen and Lasky 2002; McEwen and Seeman 1999) (The Biology of Belief, Bruce H. Lipton, p 121)

 

As we have seen, the placebo/nocebo continuum directs a stress in the form of un-natural variations in hormones etc., in a ‘reverse’ seventh sense, to every cell in the body where it must cause ‘distress’ to the working of the cells. The seventh sense is the effect that a change in diet has on the mind, and poor nutrition has the same effect as a drought and causes a stress into the brain as the seventh sense.

 

It is my opinion, though I will continue to use the term, the mind is a concept, not a ‘thing’ because it is a ‘bonus’ of leaving off or reducing the insulation on a computer. The brain is a computer in the normal sense of the term, but it uses a tree structure to hold the memories and varying levels of neurotransmitters to ‘age’ memories into the subconscious. The long dendrites serve two purposes, firstly to connect and secondly to create consciousness when the myelin sheath is lacking. ‘There is no tissue that is not “body,” and no response that is not “mind,” and any analytical terminology which tends to divert one’s attention from these irreducible facts must be used with extreme care.’ (Job’s Body, Deane Juhan, p 148)

 

I want to accentuate that ‘There is no tissue that is not “body,”’ means that every part of the body is a cell, even the myelin. ‘Specialized glial cells, oligodendrocytes and Schwann cells sheath nerve axons with myelin, an insulating fatty substance which improves the transmission of neural impulses.’ (p 146) ‘And no response that is not “mind,”’ means to me, that every response is due to the ‘mind’. The mind, by this definition is not just in the brain, but throughout the body, because that ‘this significance is considerable is strongly hinted at by the sheer size of the “hidden” gamma system: As it turns out, fully one third of the motor neurons in the human body are gamma.’ (p 197)

 

I am trying to condense this as much as possible so, to generate a better understanding of the second Law of Life, I have inserted some figures to add perspective, bearing in mind that I am over 70 years old. I consider myself to be young, but have been around a long time!

 

The second Law of Life can be stated as:

 

  1.   Nutrition. I consume over thirty varieties of nuts, seeds and fruit in the morning and over thirty varieties of vegetables, herbs and spices with fish, cheese etc.
  2.    Exercise. Each day I work FAST for about two hours, or dance FAST for the same time as well as walk for 45 minutes every second day. One hundred push-ups (2×50) and four minutes standing on one leg (alternately, one minute each time) with eyes CLOSED.
  3.    State of Mind.
    1. (a)  placebo/nocebo continuum (downward acting from the mind) The placebo/nocebo pathway is the effect of being told something, whereas
    2. (b) creativity/consciousness (downward acting from the mind) is the generation of thought by your mind, and
    3. (c) the seventh sense (upward acting from the body) is the changing of the minds thinking through the type of food eaten.
    4. (d) Stress is very important (upward and downward) as the seventh and anti-seventh sense.So the answer to a ‘health package’ is that it is part of a ‘whole’ and it behoves one to look to nutrition, exercise, mental attitude and stress levels in modern life, and trust to your body to stay healthy, as it should. While modern medicine has many good points, it might be best to consider that much of it depends on the placebo effect and we can update the saying ‘let food be your medicine …’ to ‘let the second Law of Life be your medicine’.Predictions, comments etc.: the subject above is complicated and intertwined and that is why the Mathematics of the Mind works so well, but it requires predictions and I will use them to illustrate where we are going. The second Law of Life is one of three intertwining laws and concerns Life in the environment, and as such is basic and all-encompassing. We can use this fact to say that a solution will be found for any problem that we set, and that will be a general solution.In particular, the second law defines a method, and gives a system for considering that solution, and a subject that has caused much controversy is the ‘Diet’. Hundreds of diets have been formulated and it is considered that none of them work, so here is the system that allows you to use your favourite diet and measure the effects using a forward indicator. In other words, measure the effect before you start the diet, and if the results are not good enough, try looking at another diet. I have my favourite and I will give it as an example in the next chapter.
Chapter 42: The Second Law of Life with Stress and Placebo

Chapter 41: The Cell to the Placebo Effect

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Chapter 41: The Cell to the Placebo Effect

 

It is clear that the placebo effect is an effect of the mind, but the mind is linked to the rest of the body, so, in this chapter, I will approach the subject by looking primarily at the cell. ‘Single-celled organisms were the first life forms on this planet. Fossil evidence reveals they were here within 600 million years after the earth was first formed. For the next 2.75 billion years of the earth’s history, only free-living, single-celled organisms – bacteria, algae, amoeba-like protozoans – populated the world.’ (The Biology of Belief, Bruce H. Lipton, p 9)

 

This is a very long time for development, but these organisms needed time because from the Rule of life, they grew in complexity whilst simplifying logically, without being able to go back logically. Mitochondria were ‘absorbed’ as mentioned previously and the organelles developed over time. ‘So what stopped their growth? ‘Through evolution, the cell membrane’s surface expanded, but there was a physical limit to that expansion. There was a point at which the thin cell membrane was not strong enough to contain a larger mass of cytoplasm. (p 58) The answer had to be multi-cellular organisms if they were to become larger.

 

The question is, why do the cellular organisms want to become larger? Over a very long period of time the cellular organisms became efficient at measuring the environment in which they lived, and developed simple, but efficient means of diversifying their genetic base and that is ‘swapping’ DNA. So efficient is this system of combining (mathematical) integration and iteration that they have (practically) wiped out the effects of the discovery of antibiotics by our mind/brain. We used Survival of the Best on antibiotics and Survival of the Fittest wiped out the concept in just over 50 years. Thus, it could be said that they have evolved a wonderful ‘reality’, but this reality is limited in some respects.

 

As mentioned in chapter 12, Why the Brain has Two Hemispheres, the earliest fish used two nostrils to determine the direction of a food source by smell. ‘The point is that single-celled organisms actually live in a community when they share their “awareness” and coordinate their behaviours by releasing “signal” molecules into the environment. Cyclic AMP was one of evolution’s earliest forms of secreted regulatory signals that controls cell behaviour. The fundamental human signal molecules (e.g., hormones, neuropeptides, cytokines, growth factors) that regulate our own cellular communities were once thought to have arisen with the appearance of complex multi-cellular life forms. However, recent research has revealed that primitive single-celled organisms were already using these “human” signal molecules in the earliest stages of evolution.’ (p 99) Thus, it is no great step to using these in a multi-celled organism.

 

One of the points from the above paragraph is the mechanistic method of decision making and the importance of ‘smell’ in guiding organisms to sexual partners, food as well as awareness of temperature gradients, toxicity etc. These signal molecules guided the organism within their reality, and that was as far as they could go within that reality. As mentioned before, ‘they got along with everyone else’, but their size was limited by the strength of the cell membrane, so they formed multicellular organisms and cells differentiated and communication evolved with the use of nerves.

 

The notochord was the means of ‘segments’ to join together with nerves running along the backbone to a simple brain in the head. Nerves carry action potentials that can interact with other nerves and generate ‘spurious’ signals through quantum mechanical effects. Quantum mechanics is an indeterminacy that cannot be handled within a reality, because every organism must operate within that reality. The body puts myelin sheath on nerves that transmit precise information (white matter) and leaves it off if imprecision (or creativity/consciousness) is required.

 

Imprecision and the generation of spurious (but related) signals invites choice, and our universe, which is a probability space allows logic to be used (along with entanglement), and that has been dealt with previously. However, as seem in the case of fish and higher animals, a cerebrum arose, but, due to the Rule of Life and the requirements of reality, the hindbrain continued to be used and that contains both white and grey matter, so the hindbrain was a ‘creating/conscious’ brain that developed from the notochord. Needless to say, all of this is my opinion.

 

‘I taught my students that the biochemical mechanisms employed by cellular organelle systems are essentially the same mechanisms employed by our human organ systems. Even though humans are made up of trillions of cells, I stressed that there is not one “new” function in our bodies that is not already expressed in the single cell. Each eukaryote (nucleus-containing cell) possesses the functional equivalent of our nervous system, digestive system, respiratory system, excretory system, endocrine system, muscle and skeletal systems, circulatory system, integument (skin), reproductive system, and even a primitive immune system, which utilizes a family of antibody-like “ubiquitin” proteins.’ (p 7)

 

This is not unsurprising, because the Rule of Life dictates that bacteria and humans must have the most logically simple mechanism, so it is hardly surprising that they have the same components. This is a good time to reaffirm that a ‘component’ is the lightest weight, smallest object that can be expanded, as needed, to do the job, when required. This is also a good time to reaffirm that we are composed of components that will do any job that is required of it, and we, as individuals are components of a group.

 

It has been mentioned before that an organism, such as the tape-worm will ‘simplify’ its body if its niche does not require them. Contrast this assertion to the quotation; ‘I also made it clear to my students that each cell is an intelligent being that can survive on its own, as scientists demonstrate when they remove individual cells from the body and grow them in a culture.’ (p 7)

 

This could only happen if the cell was in its simplest state and couldn’t afford to lose any functions, or all the functions were being used. ‘There are lots of IMPs (Integral Membrane Proteins) with lots of different names, but they can be subdivided into two functional classes: receptor proteins and effector proteins. Receptor IMPs are the cell’s sense organs, the equivalent of our eyes, ears, nose, taste buds, etc. Receptors function as molecular “nano-antennas” tuned to respond to specific environmental signals Some receptors extend inward from the membrane surface to monitor the internal milieu of the cell. Other receptor proteins extend from the cells outer surface, monitoring external signals.’ (p 53)

 

Effector IMPs: ‘every revolution of sodium-potassium ATPase throws more positive charges out than it lets into the cell, and there are thousands of these proteins in each cell. As these proteins go through hundreds of cycles per second, the inside of the cell becomes negatively charged while the outside of the cell becomes positively charged. The negative charge below the membrane is referred to as the membrane potential.’ (p 55) This sets the scene for action potentials to be propagated along greatly elongated nerve cells.

 

‘Another variety of effector proteins, cytoskeletal proteins, regulates the shape and motility of cells. A third variety, called enzymes, breaks down or synthesizes molecules, which is why enzymes are sold in your local health food store as a digestive aid.’ (p 55)

 

The answer to the question posed above, that every cell is complete in all its ‘senses’ comes from the fact that every cell in the body is ‘identical’ because they grew out of one cell, which is a combination of the egg and sperm. The simplest differentiation of cells is minimum differentiation and ‘adult’ cells can revert back to ‘stem cells’ in the laboratory. This leads to the means of differentiation and cells use the simple expedient of covering up that part of the DNA that produces the proteins that it does not want produced in that organ.

 

From above, the cell simply uses its receptor IMPs, which monitor the environment and make changes to the cell in response to the environment by restricting the reading of DNA and thus the proteins encoded there. ‘In the chromosome, the DNA forms the core, and the proteins cover the DNA like a sleeve. When the genes are covered, their information cannot be “read”’. (p 37) This has the effect of providing a long-term genetic base and a short-term epigenetic base and this allows us to change and regulate our body as we please, within limits, and thus shows how to deal with the underlying problems in the population in modern times with respect to diet. This ‘broad’ statement is supported by the following experiment.

 

‘A landmark Duke University study published in the August 1, 2003 issue of Molecular and Cellular Biology found that an enriched environment can even override genetic mutations in mice. (Waterland and Jirtle 2003) In the study, scientists looked at the effect of dietary supplements on pregnant mice with the abnormal “agouti” gene. Agouti mice have yellow coats and are extremely obese, which predisposes them to cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer. In the experiment, one group of yellow, obese, agouti mothers received methyl-group-rich supplements available in health food stores: folic acid, vitamin B12, betaine, and choline. Methyl-rich supplements were chosen because a number of studies have shown that the methyl chemical group is involved with epigenetic modifications. (p 40)

 

The first comment must be ‘found that an enriched environment can even override genetic mutations in mice’ should read ‘epigenetic changes in mice’ because a true genetic mutation requires an operator such as Survival of the Fittest to ‘bring it back’. So, the “agouti” gene is epigenetic and ‘methyl-group-rich supplements returned the new generation of “agouti” mice into ‘normal’ mice. But, if methyl-group-rich supplements work, surely a diet rich in all supplements should work better.

 

This result is in line with previously quoted experiments that indicated that high quality food may work wonders with the “modern” diseases, such as in this experiment where agouti mice had epigenetic changes to their genes ‘which predisposes them to cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer’.

 

However, people are loath to give up favoured foods and habits that they know that they should give up, such as smoking, ‘fast food’ etc., and so, in line with the expressed aim to make the situation so ‘plain’ that the reasons cannot be rejected, in the next chapter, I am going to define a ‘new’ type of ‘medicine’ that brings together other factors to go with the fact that the body and mind are ‘one’ that has been the subject of this and the last chapter.

 

Chapter 41: The Cell to the Placebo Effect

Chapter 40: The Placebo – Nocebo Continuum

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Chapter 40: The Placebo – Nocebo Continuum

 

This chapter looks at the body in relation to the ‘Placebo Effect’, the next chapter at the role of the cell, and the chapter after that will show how to optimise the choice of ‘medicine’ to be used. We all know the proverbs ‘a stitch in time saves nine’ and ‘prevention is better than a cure’, so, I will try to show that prevention of sickness might be a better option than what is happening now.

 

‘The fact that most doctors are not trained to consider the impact of the placebo effect is ironic because some historians make a strong case that the history of medicine is largely the history of the placebo effect. For most of medical history, doctors did not have effective means to fight disease. Some of the more notorious treatments once prescribed by mainstream medicine include bloodletting, treating wounds with arsenic, and the proverbial cure-all, rattlesnake oil. No doubt some patients, the conservatively estimated one third of the population who are particularly susceptible to the healing power of the placebo effect, got better with those treatments.’ (The Biology of Belief, Bruce H. Lipton, p 108)

 

This quotation contains several important points, but one ‘error’ that shows an interesting side to medicine that is not generally known and I don’t have a reference at hand. ‘The Black Death in England was a bubonic plague pandemic, which reached England in1348, and killed perhaps half the population. It was the first and most severe manifestation of the Second Pandemic, caused by the Yersinia pestis bacteria.’ (Wikipedia, Black Death). So many people died in Europe during, I believe, three pandemics, that the population ‘evolved’ a short-term defence to the plague by the body accumulating excess iron in the blood at the expense of the ‘disease’ of haemochromatosis (unknown at that time) in later years, and bloodletting prevented this affliction by removing iron from the body and excess accumulations of iron were used up in producing new haemoglobin. I believe that enough elderly patients made a remarkable recovery after bloodletting, because they had haemochromatosis that bloodletting became general medical practice. At least it was a treatment that worked for the ‘unknown disease’ and for the placebo effect.

 

I enjoy telling that story because it makes sense of the bizarre, in the same way that I like ‘solving’ the problems in this book, at least to my satisfaction, bearing in mind that I am seeking a ‘useable’ solution (until a better one comes along). No one seems to know why the placebo effect works, but it often works as well as ‘modern medicine’s sophisticated technology, including the most “concrete” of medical tools, surgery.’ (p 108) ‘Despite the fact that there are 650,000 surgeries yearly for arthritic knees, at a cost of about $5,000 each, the results were clear to Moseley: “My skill as a surgeon had no benefit on these patients. The entire benefit of surgery for osteoarthritis of the knee was the placebo effect.”’ (p 109)

 

I feel that a small digression at this point is warranted to ‘point’ the way into the problem of the placebo effect. Behind all this discussion is the Mathematics of the Mind and the attractors (which are the quotations) and the discussion is a means of ‘integration’ of the attractors. Mathematics uses the word ‘integration’ as a ‘summing’ and I am doing the same with the attractors, but in a different sense in that the wider the summation, the better is the result, whereas, in mathematics, we are summing to a ‘limit’. Another point that I want to stress is that a subject such as the placebo effect needs to be ‘put in its place’ in the ‘order of things’, and that is the power of the Mathematics of the Mind to enable us to (possibly) redesign the practice of medicine by bringing it into a ‘part of a whole’, or, in other words, reduce our reliance on it.

 

Whilst the use of placebos could have a beneficial effect on patients: ‘studies have shown the placebo effect to be powerful in treating other diseases, including asthma and Parkinson’s. In the treatment of depression, placebos are stars. So much so that psychiatrist Walter Brown of the Brown University School of Medicine has proposed placebo pills as the first treatment for patients with mild or moderate depression. (Brown 1998) Patients would be told that they’re getting a remedy with no active ingredient, but that shouldn’t dampen the pill’s effectiveness. Studies show that even when people know that they are not getting a drug, the placebo pills still work.’ (p 109)

 

This corresponds to the Hawthorne effect where worker that were being studied performed better because of the interest shown in their work. The medical profession have always used a ‘white coat’ approach to enhance their status and this seems to work, along with the attention, to produce a placebo effect even when patients are told that it is a sugar pill, as described above.

 

Just how good is the medical profession? ‘Last year a new study, based on the results of a ten-year survey of government statistics, came up with even more dismal figures. (Null, et al, 2003) That study concludes that iatrogenic (illness resulting from medical treatment) illness is actually the leading cause of death in the United States and that adverse reactions to prescription drugs are responsible for more than 300,000 deaths a year.’ (p 77)

 

This might sound like a lot of deaths, but the life expectancy in the developed world is longer than most of the world that use traditional remedies and this means that medical care in the developing world is probably inferior. However, going back to the quotation, above that: ‘some historians make a strong case that the history of medicine is largely the history of the placebo effect’, that does seem to be the case except for modern antibiotics which, unfortunately, seem to be reaching the end of their useful life because bacteria are so versatile.

 

The problem with medicines in general is that they appear to cause side-effects and that this problem is a result of the body using chemicals in different locations in the body for different purposes and a ‘medicinal dose’ is applied throughout the body which causes disruptions. ‘Complicating the drug side-effect issue is also the fact that biological systems are redundant. The same signals or protein molecules may be simultaneously used in different organs and tissues where they provide for completely different behavioural functions. For example, when a drug is prescribed to correct a dysfunction in a signalling pathway of the heart, that drug is delivered by the blood to the entire body. This “cardiac” medicine can unintentionally disturb the function of the nervous system if the brain also uses components of the targeted signalling pathway. While this redundancy complicates the effects of prescription drugs, it is another remarkably efficient result of evolution. Multicellular organisms can survive with far fewer genes than scientists one thought because the same gene products (protein) are used for a variety of functions.’ (p 75)

 

Apart from antibiotics, no form of medicine used throughout the world offers ‘real’ confidence in their use, and I would be content to agree that ‘some historians make a strong case that the history of medicine is largely the history of the placebo effect’. Herb based and animal parts ‘remedies’ are not spectacularly successful, nor the ‘energy’ based ‘needle sticking’ acupuncture and neither does homeopathic dilution convince that the results are anything more than the placebo effect.

 

It has to be mentioned somewhere that, whilst the placebo effect is for the good, the opposite effect, called the nocebo effect can be bad for us. ‘While many in the medical profession are aware of the placebo effect, few have considered its implications for self-healing. If positive thinking can pull you out of depression and heal a damaged knee, consider what negative thinking can do in your life…. Our positive and negative beliefs not only impact our health but also every aspect of our life. Henry Ford was right about the efficiency of assembly lines, and he was right about the power of the mind: “if you believe you can or if you believe you can’t … you’re right.”’ (p 111)

 

This statement sounds like ‘free-will’ and it is very powerful, given that the placebo effect can ‘fix’ knees, stop pain, promote happiness etc., whereas the nocebo effect can cause ‘bad’ thoughts, depression and even kill healthy individuals as in ‘pointing the bone’. The development of a head, and thus a ‘free-will’ or mind, enabled the organism to make the best decisions for the cells of the multi-celled organism. It is apparent that it is difficult to separate the mind from all of the cells that contributed to its making, and that is the point of the two chapters and the top down (this chapter) to the bottom up (next chapter), that there is no difference!

 

From the cells perspective, the cells are static unchanging differentiated into ‘organs’ reliant on the will of the mind/brain, but by pulling together they create nerves which allows creativity (the ninth sense) because action potentials in the nerves induce new action potentials due to quantum mechanical effects and these ‘spurious’ thoughts are creativity. The mind/brain is ‘different’ to the way cells function because it can create and give the organism more choice than the traditional five senses. That discussion is also part of the next chapter.

 

Keeping to the macroscopic, ‘free-will’ means freedom to make choices and that is the (evolved) purpose of the mind/brain, to confabulate the surroundings to recognise predators as soon as possible and choose to ignore, fight or flee. This decision-making can be as simple as two nostrils for smell as we saw in the simpler organisms prior to fish, and then fish and more advanced animals used a better method that we call logic. We evolved a reality from the possibility of existence and a probability space contains five dimensions, namely: three space, time passing and conservation/entanglement overall.

 

Conservation/entanglement is a logical dimension and has been fully discussed earlier, so moving on with the thought that those cells that banded together reaped the benefits of a new dimension and a new reality, and that is the world we live in today. Someone might discover how to use entanglement to instantaneously, at every point in the universe know/sense energy use or other factors and create a new reality.

 

I’m trying to say that the mind/brain evolved so that the cells could enter a new reality and they ‘own’ the mind/brain and keep track of it through their sensors that every cell must have (next chapter). Conversely, the mind/brain owes allegiance to the cells because the mind/brain only exist because the cells are prepared to die for the brain (apoptosis). In other words, especially when the next chapter is read, it is/will be obvious that every cell and the mind in the organism are ‘one’. On the scale placebo to nocebo, so the cells respond through their sensors, the hormone system, and sick cells will affect the mind/brain through the seventh and eighth senses.

 

Finally, putting it another way, the creativity/consciousness of the mind results from the cells banding together to form a mind (and a new reality) and the cells TRUST the mind and do what the mind tells them, through the cells’ senses, even to kill themselves (apoptosis), get better or get worse. That is the placebo/nocebo effect.

 

I would like to leave it there, but the ramifications are immense in that firstly we have not two effects in the placebo/nocebo, but a continuum, and the act of measurement that this continuum opens up links our mind to a wider plane as we seen in previous chapters. Secondly this continuum ranges from the mind repairing knees etc. to killing the whole individual. This is a huge power that the cells have turned over to the mind and is part of the second Law of Life, state of mind, exercise and nutrition, and this will be discussed later.

 

Chapter 40: The Placebo – Nocebo Continuum

Chapter 38: Stopping Terrorism – a General Solution

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Chapter 38: Stopping Terrorism – a General Solution

 

Disclaimer: I thought that this solution was so important that I sent it to the Prime Minister’s Department because I thought that he could use it to improve his standing and popularity around the world and at home. I also sent it to the hotline@nationalsecurity and as I have not received any notification for two days, I assume that this solution is not particularly important, so, I will put it up here for general interest.

 

The previous chapter and this one are short but (I believe) change our view of the subjects examined because I am using (arguably) the most basic and fundamental operator that we have, and that is ‘reality’. Reality is appropriate for a mathematics of concepts that is specific for our world, and I am including all organisms because, as shown previously we are all linked through our reality.

 

So, looking at terrorists from the aspect of reality, it is apparent that their reality is different to ours. The current situation is that they are part of the population and we have no defence from them, so, looking at the previous chapter, the way is simple and effective, and that is isolate ourselves or them into a different reality. Looking at evolution, organisms isolate themselves because they don’t have a consensus or joining together. With our consensus, firstly, we could invade the terrorists ‘home’ territory until a stalemate occurs, but that approach doesn’t solve much in the long-term. Secondly, the problem of isolating ourselves from the terrorist can be approached through two suggestions.

 

Firstly, terrorists have antisocial leanings that have arisen through the state of our civilization. Many references in this book have been made to the poor upbringing of many children from disadvantaged homes and families. This situation could be ameliorated by Survival of the Best and is covered elsewhere.

 

Secondly, as mentioned previously, religions have regions that were fought over for converts and this is in line with reality. The problem occurs when religions occupy the same area, and it would be nice if there were tolerance, but, often there is not and warfare, ethnic cleansing etc. breaks out. The answer is to keep the areas separate with separate realities, and it can be done. If law and order and universal education is the State religion, the Religions must accept that, and they cannot countenance any moves outside of law and order, and if they will not align themselves with that, they should be banned from practising in that country. This is forced separation, which we have found is the only tried and ‘true’ way! Any terrorist would be excluded or ex-communicated by their Church, and would thus not achieve their objective of gaining followers, being granted martyrdom, eternal life etc. This solution is simple and is a logical solution.

 

The paragraph above, is the logical solution and I would like to go through it more slowly. Terrorists have their own reality and the area in which they operate has a different reality. This must be resolved because the State Religion contains law and order and no religion can be under the State Religion’s umbrella unless it preaches law and order, and that means that it is actively preaching against the terrorists.

 

Any religious or organizational group that seeks a different reality that is against law and order must be banned no matter the cost. The banning of religions and the idea of a State Religion has been used many times in the past. The government is committed to providing a safe environment to its people, and if this safe environment supports religious freedom, well and good, but if it does not, those religions and organizations that cause trouble must be banned. Reality demands that they be kept isolated in certain areas of the world and isolated until they change their way of teaching and embrace law and order.

 

This is a workable solution and only needs the threat to close a Religion to bring the members to the realization that they must support law and order and the onus is on them and not on the rest of the country to ‘clean-up’ their Religion. Simple!

 

Afterword: this book is designed to bring solutions to the world’s problems that a large majority can agree upon the answer and implement the solution. This is true of the above problem of terrorism and the vast majority should support the solution given. A new mathematics of concepts was used as well as the newly defined operator (reality) and whilst the solution may not be unique, in this case there is little leeway. The Mathematics of the Mind requires prediction, and this solution, for example, provides a bartering ‘point’ for the Japanese government in the current refusal to negotiate about hostages in the Middle East. A strong leader might say that efforts will be made to ban the religion concerned in Japan if the killings go ahead, and I, for one. think that that course of action is justified.

 

Chapter 38: Stopping Terrorism – a General Solution

Chapter 37: ‘Hark, the Herald Angels Sing’

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Chapter 37: ‘Hark, the Herald Angels Sing’

 

The idea behind this book is to present solutions to today’s problems of global warming, excess population etc. in a manner that most will agree are logical and practical as an aid to getting them implemented. To accomplish this, I am using reality, which is a forward-looking indicator and a fundamental operator and so, its use may contain some surprises.

 

The first surprise, and it was a surprise to me when I realized it, that having said that we need a single religion by amalgamating the common bits of the existing religions, it appears that we already have a global religion, and it is already functioning and in place. Furthermore, this religion uses the operator of reality in the required form of ‘get on with your neighbour’ with the added bonus of ‘otherwise we will make it our business to see that you do’.

 

What a marvellous invention and shows the Rule of Life to perfection. Over time, we have gone from the Old Testament’s Ten Commandments, which were a ‘bit rough around the edges’, the New Testament’s ‘love your neighbour” seems a bit excessive when compared to reality, which is to ‘get on with your neighbour’. The rules of this new ‘religion’ have become complicated, but the idea (which is reality) behind it has simplified to the extent that this new religion has been unrecognised. The third condition is fulfilled by the fact that very few would want to go back to the past, and those that do, are labelled terrorists.

 

The modern ‘religion’ is law and order AND universal education! Access to universal education to help us survive, is, as shown in the last chapter, a religion that has always been with us. The addition of Law and Order brings the reality operator into play where we have to “‘get on with your neighbour’ otherwise we will make it our business to see that you do” with fines or jail.

 

Every country in the world has taken these two responsibilities to heart and every citizen supports them except terrorists that appear to want something different. Reality says the ‘we should get along with our neighbours’, which terrorists clearly do not wish to do. This is a problem that will be left till the next chapter because it is so important.

 

I mentioned previously that reality strives for one religion and I suggested that the common core of all the religions be acknowledged, and the remainder of each religion be a ‘flavour’ for each religion. However, I realize that it would be like ‘herding cats’, but in using reality, a new scenario has presented itself that provide a much more simple solution. If law and order and universal education is considered to be a religion, then Religions become their own ‘flavours’ and the problem is solved, and, evoking reality, the solution becomes, let them fight it out between themselves! This simplicity has come about because we now understand the problem and we understand it because we are using the correct operator for this type of social problem, which is reality.

 

The resistance to change of the current Religions to modernization is to be expected, and would cause much trouble, but now the ‘onus’ has been thrown on the Religions, because if they don’t change, they will be ‘side-lined’. They need to amalgamate, as I have suggested, or reality will see them atrophy. Governments don’t really need Religion, but Religions needs government and a much more modern and positive outlook for Religions is to get behind governments to limit population, global warming etc. The state needs to ‘absorb’ the religions into their reality, which is what they have effectively done, and now that this is recognised, we can PLAN ahead (as reality is a forward-looking operator).

 

This again shows the need to move from ‘iteration’ to the much more powerful application of the Mathematics of the Mind coupled with the operator reality. This scenario of forward planning looks far more likely to occur, especially as it has the ‘force’ of reality in the derivation. I have done all that I can, and, by applying reality, I am confident that more ‘interested and competent’ people will move ‘things’ in the correct direction.

 

Chapter 37: ‘Hark, the Herald Angels Sing’

Chapter 36: Reality Defined

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Chapter 36: Reality Defined

Reality is a very important subject because it affects everyone, much like entanglement, in that reality is necessarily inter-linking all living creatures and that means an inherent complexity, so, are there any simple laws that might help us understand reality better.

 

(1) Reality should be continuous and complete at all times, otherwise magic (non-reality) could occur.

 

Magic is by definition, something strange and not understood, and is of course, a ‘lack’ of reality. If the cause of unusual events happening or appearing is known, it becomes part of our reality and is not magic.

 

(2) Reality is a necessary and sufficient condition for a steady state of Survival of the Fittest to exist in a population.

 

Firstly, reality is necessary for a steady state of Survival of the Fittest because every organism in a community has to have an adequate ability to sense another organism otherwise it is an untapped food source at some time which will lead to its extinction. If a prey animal cannot sense the approach of a predator until it is too late, it becomes an easy meal.

 

Both the predator and prey have to be able to compute the logical chance of the success of an attack, to manage their energy, and the body of each has to, within its capability (componentization) change the body’s nerve speed, defences and physical attributes to ensure that the breeding stock remain reasonably safe. The old, the young and the unwanted males are sacrificed, by different methods, to the predators before the breeders.

 

Secondly, reality is sufficient for a steady state of Survival of the Fittest because each organism is sufficiently aware of the steady state around it, and through predation and evolution, each organism will evolve to enable a steady state to continue.

 

(3) Organisms have the same type of brain and senses.

 

The brain is a ‘component’ because it has to be able to generate ‘brain-power’ when needed for the organism to survive in a hostile world. If the brain cannot produce what is needed, the organism is eaten and removed from the gene pool. In other words, the formation of the brain has to be such that there is excess capacity if it is needed, but not add weight or other cost if it is not needed, and thus the architecture of the brain contributes to survival of the fittest brain. The body is composed of many components that fit together in the same way, such as hips, knees, livers and so on and have been honed to ‘do the job’ without breaking down and also have the minimum weight.

 

A quotation was given earlier that the features that determine the organisms success in a changing environment, such as height, weight, skin colour, hair colour etc can change easily to accommodate changes in climate, hunting methods, sexual selection, tree cover etc. At this point a digression becomes necessary, in the light of the above. If we look at the physical form of passers-by, they come in all shapes and sizes and reflect ‘genetic diversity’. If we look at those same people, each as a ‘sack’ of components, the ‘sacks’ are all the same! So, why are these components breaking down, when the definition of a component is something that doesn’t break down. The answer is, if you mistreat it! And people are mistreating their bodies with lack of exercise and ‘poor’ food. Just as cigarettes and alcoholic drinks attract a hight tax because of the damage that they do and the resultant burden on the medical system, isn’t it logical that there should be medical co-payment on ‘lifestyle’ diseases?

 

In the light of the above, predators will rid us of these people with ‘lifestyle’ diseases, but we have exterminated the predators and are spending huge amounts of resources to keep these people alive! This is another example of reality being stressed by human consumption and population. Survival of the Best incorporates ‘built-in’ predators that work as ‘forward indicators’ to suppress the desire for these people to be born. Think of the social security expense, the medical expense, the prison, police and courtroom expenses that could be turned to better use.

 

Species have evolved and kept the same brain and senses from those that they evolved from, as well as the fact that the brain is a component, and, as has been mentioned earlier, the basic brain stayed the same, but the cerebrum increased in a progression from fish to humans. Also, the hindbrain and cerebellum were the ‘type’ of brain used in the ‘lower’ animals, and further back to the hindbrain as we move back in time.

 

Looking at this statement from a logical perspective that reality initially caused all brains to be the same, and as evolution progressed the ‘original’ brain was still there. The Rule of Life says that there is ‘no going back’ and it is necessary that we can’t go back! The ‘first’ brain, in some form, is still buried within our hindbrain, and with evolution, ‘new’ brains or components were added to it, such as cerebellum, cerebrum etc.

 

This is the ‘logic’ that binds us all together, that our brains can ‘communicate’ (logically, at least) with every other organism on the planet. It is interesting that bacteria can be considered one species as they ‘swap’ DNA. The first sentence of this paragraph, in my opinion, bears re-reading, as we are looking at quantum entanglement from a different perspective. Quantum entanglement inter-locks EVERY particle in the universe, and reality interlocks every living organism into the logic of reality. Truly, life has evolved a reality!

 

(4) All organisms can be eaten and recycled.

 

I have read that all organisms evolved from one individual and that is why everything can (effectively) eat everything else. This may be true, but then it may not, so according to Occam’s razor (the Mathematics of the Mind) it would be simpler to use a method that does not produce a probability of being wrong. I believe that another answer is more logical and that is simply that life would be moribund or unworkable if resources were unavailable. Back to the multiverse.

 

As with the multiverse, we are only here because ‘things’ work so that we are here. In other words, we wouldn’t be here if the elements weren’t recycled. Everything is ultimately recycled through movement of the continental plates and the continental crust being melted and recycled through volcanic eruptions etc.

 

If there were two ‘strains’ of organisms that were unable to be eaten by the other, there would still occur organisms in each strain that would reduce their remains to individual elements, so it could be said that the two strains are logically, edible!

 

(5) The brain needs to be in contact logically with the universe and ‘measure’ something, otherwise it is nothing more than a piece of matter subject to the ‘logic’ of ‘completion’ (un-measurement).

 

I believe that consciousness started with (say) the first smell receptor, that ‘said’ that food is available, and the mind/brain had to make a decision ‘am I hungry enough to leave this safe place to feed where there may be predators’? To make this decision requires the fifth dimension, which is logic.

 

Looking at this last sentence a little closer, whether the animal is hungry is a logic, and if it is not a logic, it is an iteration of success, according to survival of the Fittest in the past, and both are mathematical and True. I believe that there is no cross-over point because logic and iteration produce the same result. This is not a paradox, but an evolution, like the chicken and the egg. I mentioned this before as a mind behind the Mathematics of the Mind versus iteration.

 

Space-time has no ‘decision’ or logic dimension, and as has been stated repeatedly, ‘measurement’ is a logical act and puts our mind into contact with the fifth dimension. This is the experiment where the distribution of photons hitting a screen changes when the detectors are turned on and a mind knows or ‘can determine pre-knowledge of an event’. Notice that this ‘links in’ with the property of a probability space that ‘time passes’ or ‘time evolves’ (not a ‘time interval’) and allows logical causation to be retained.

 

I think that the easiest way to absorb/remember/consider this question of ‘measurement’ is as previously stated. If matter changes from one potential to another without intervention, there is no measurement and logic is not involved. In other words, the universe acts in a ‘mechanical’ way. If a measurement is involved, a ‘logic event’ occurs, a measuring ‘stick’ has to be used and a ‘potential event’ occurs. Measurement can be mechanistic, but it can be logical because I can say 1+1=2,which is true. Again, the mechanistic shades into logic through iteration.

 

Just as the concept of componantization was considered before (for example, the atom or the concept of the fittest to breed) to be a logic machine, can we comprehend measurement as a combination of the mechanistic and logic, that is, a logic machine? I think that we can because every (real) experiment must have a mind and a procedure (that is possible to construct), and we could call it a ‘logic machine’ that produces a result.

 

(6) Why do we all see the same things?

 

The obvious answer is that ‘that is what is there’, which implies that what we are seeing has an existence, but I proved earlier that ‘we evolved a reality out of the probability of existence’. Two proofs are given in chapter 32 that our universe is a probability (of existence) space and doesn’t exist. That doesn’t mean that we don’t have a reality, because ‘we evolved a reality!

 

Again, the obvious answer is that it is simpler to assume that we exist by Occam’s razor, but if we exist, where do we exist in, who made us and so on into more complexity. Clearly that is not the way to go, unless you wish to believe in a Deity. If you do not believe in a Deity, the answer is quite simple, and has been examined, above. Firstly, consciousness/measurement links us to the universe and determines the state that we see, and secondly, we all have a mind/brain that is linked to every other organism and that allows us all to sense the presence of other organisms, to a certain extent. The exceptions are the very small, and we have evolved an immune system to deal with them, the isolated, parasites etc.

 

The short answer is that if we didn’t see the same things we wouldn’t have a reality, which has been discussed above.

 

  1. (7)  Artificial Intelligence and robots.Why do robots and artificial intelligence see our reality? I suggest that we have ‘created’ a reality for the robot, and the case becomes, as above, firstly, consciousness/measurement links us to the universe and determines the state that we see, and secondly, we have made the robot ‘in our image’, in the same way that it is believed by a large number of people that God made us ‘in his image’. In other words, the robot ‘sees’ the same range of frequencies that we do, ‘hears’ the same range as we do etc. simply because we would not know if the robot was reacting to something that we couldn’t see or hear etc. and that would be (potentially) disastrous! But, surely, that is where we started the chapter, that reality must be complete for all concerned, otherwise magic happens!

(8) Reality is one of three operators, Truth, Existence and Reality that I have used to turn the indeterminate into the determinate.

 

Existence is the simplest, but also the most stubbornly held view. Everyone from Descartes to the person in the street says ‘I think, therefore I exist’, but I believe that this is not true and what they are thinking is ‘that I am real’. This shows how good a job our body has done over 3 thousand million years, in making us believe that we ‘exist’, when we are ‘real’. I believe, and have previously proven, that we do not exist, but do exist in the probability (of existence) space. This probability space is the only space that gives us the dimensions that we need.

 

I have shown that the Mathematics of the Mind needs an operator to turn the indeterminate into the determinate, and that operator is the Logic of the Half-truth, which is: true, false, true some of the time and false the rest of the time and both true and false at the same time. This statement is a little ‘tricky’, in that it is more than it seems. Looking at the words in (8), above: reality, truth, indeterminate and determinate, how are they linked together?

 

Truth: is true/false

Indeterminate: is both true and false at the same time

Determinate: is true, false, true some of the time and false the rest of the time

Reality: true, false, true some of the time and false the rest of the time and both true and false at the same time. That is, that the logic of the Half-truth is complete and projects reality.

 

In other words, the Logic of the Half-truth is a reality operator because it is complete and contains ALL of the possibilities and so produces a reality, and that reality is OUR reality because the Mathematics of the Mind is the general mathematics of concepts as seem by OUR mind. This is comforting because it means that there is an ‘integrity’ in what we are doing.

 

(9) Reality is ‘getting along with everyone else’.

 

In all of the above, no mention was made of a ‘working’ relationship that we can use and say that I know what reality is. ‘Getting along with everyone else’ seems to me to sum up our reality. The ‘everyone else’ might include predators, but you know that if you are one of the ‘fittest’ you will have a lifetime (of an unknown length) and pass on your genes before being eaten.

 

‘Getting along with everyone else’ is the operator that evolution requires for a ‘steady state’, and should be applicable to whatever we examine with it, because of the Rule of Life. This simple statement should be the ‘key’ to unlocking the social sciences because it links each person with every other person and creature on the planet, as we would expect, because the statement is a reality.

 

(10) Reality and religion.

 

‘Religion’ has evolved over a long period of time. Firstly the ‘hard-wiring’ in the first organisms that evolved from Survival of the Fittest could be called ‘religion’ because it helps the organism survive. Over time, this hardwiring has progressed to learning from a parent whilst being protected and learning to survive. Over billions of years, something, that I am calling ‘religion’ was passed to the offspring to help them survive, whether hardwired or taught by the parents. Obviously, soft-wiring or ‘programming’ is better and more versatile.

 

This shows that it is necessary that every creature have a ‘creation myth’, and a quotation to that effect was given earlier. Creation myths of each tribe became ‘organized’ religion, and as has been quoted before, with a lot of bloodshed and the result is that only a few religions still exist. In spite of all the bloodshed, which is the opposite to the religions’ messages, why did it happen?

 

The answer, of course, is reality, or more precisely because there is more than one reality. The fighting is to find ‘one reality’! Reality is the reason that we need one religion, one colour, one dress code, one people and is the ultimate aim of this book, to limit human population, preserve the flora and fauna, manage global warming etc. Of course, as we have seen, realities can be separate in different populations. It is when they mix that fighting occurs.

 

The creation myths take in the second and third Laws of Life and, as mentioned above, reality is forcing a decrease in the number of religions. The Old Testament had its Ten Commandments, the New Testament said ‘love your neighbour’ and reality says ‘get along with your neighbour. Reality is fundamental and wide-reaching and its use might produce some surprises, which will be looked at in the next chapter.

 

postscript: ‘but what great and marvellous advances in biomedical sciences can we attribute to the quantum revolution? Let’s list them in order of their importance: It is a very short list – there haven’t been any.’ (The Biology of Belief, Bruce H. Lipton, p 79)

 

This quotation asks a pertinent question, which we can answer simply because quantum mechanics does not have a place in reality, and is the enemy of life and the reality that life has evolved. In fact, the indeterminacy of quantum mechanics equates to magic, which is what reality has got rid of through evolution as a basic requirement to survival.

 

The cell in all life must have a reality to survive and the cell is like a computer in that it must give the same result every time because it is an element that the body depends on. Remember that the mind/brain is a step above a computer because randomness or creativity/consciousness is ‘built-in’ due to the architecture that uses quantum mechanical induction to induce new action potentials (thoughts).

Chapter 36: Reality Defined

Chapter 35: The Matthew Principle

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Chapter 35: The Matthew Principle

 

There has been a ‘progression’ through evolution due to the effects of reality, that brought all organisms into the steady state that we call Survival of the Fittest, and this has evolved a brain that reality ‘locked’ into a pattern that allowed all organisms to live together (somewhat) harmoniously.

 

However, ‘somewhat harmoniously’ is a viewpoint not shared by the participants who actively specialize to isolate themselves within their own specific reality. ‘The same thing that happened to tapeworms has also happened to all other parasites. To begin with they used their brains in a particularly cunning fashion to create a comfortable lifestyle for themselves, and when they finally achieved this, they began to turn into zombies.’ (The Compassionate Brain: How empathy creates intelligence, Gerald Huther, p 30)

 

This seeking of a ‘limited’ reality is an easy means of defence in a real world, but success is tied to the success of another species and is usually an evolutionary ‘dead end’. Another example of ‘isolationism’ is that of the mole that ‘ran the risk of being eaten by bigger animals, it was definitely beneficial for them from time to time simply to bury themselves. If it turned out that they also found enough to eat under the ground, these primordial moles soon no longer had any reasonable motive for ever coming to the surface again.’ (p 30)

 

So, it seems that all organisms seek a ‘niche’ where there is less competition, except one organism that in hindsight could be called a ‘generalist’, and it is that organism that can be followed throughout evolution and is currently called Humans. To continue this thread, in hindsight, it will be seen that certain humans will contribute to the evolving humanity and the vast majority of genetic combinations (in the other humans) will be ‘lost’, and it would seem more efficient if we could ‘concentrate’ the genes into those that are more likely to be of use and this would allow us to reduce the population and its effects on the world. This is seeking Survival of the Best and needs a forward-looking operator.

 

Humans achieved dominance over all other forms of life through changing reality and using an evolving brain to outwit other organisms through the use of technology to breed, fish, farm etc.. Resistance to antibiotics shows that bacteria are fighting back and are doing so, successfully, because of their means of ‘swapping’ genetic material and their short generation periods. The other animals are having problems. However, our reality says that we should get along with everyone else, and the question is does that include the other animals? Do we need billions of humans at the expense of the world’s flora and fauna, when the vast majority will not contributing to our evolution?

 

Consider the following quotation: ‘humanity is a magnificent but fragile achievement. Our species is still more impressive because we are the culmination of an evolutionary epic that was continuously played out in great peril. Most of the time our ancestral populations were very small, of a size that in the course of mammalian history typically carried a probability of early extinction. All the prehuman bands taken together made up a population of at most a few tens of thousands of individuals.’ (The Social Conquest of Earth, Edward O. Wilson, p 13)

 

Again, I ask, do we need the billions of people on this planet, consuming resources, proliferating as they please and pressuring the animals that have evolved with us? I believe that the vast majority of people are consuming resources and contributing little, not even themselves as food for other creatures, and that the planet is large enough that animals and a reasonable number of people can maintain the reality of life, by leaving the animals to Survival of the Fittest and we can use Survival of the Best without exerting too much pressure on them. But, to do this, we have to rid the world of ‘population pressure’ and that means becoming one united people using Survival of the Best because, as shown below, the time has come.

 

To expand a little: ‘in birds, marsupials, and animals, we find many examples of such initial programming that look like genetically determined, inborn behaviours, but when looked at more closely reveal themselves as cases of imprinting occurring early in life.’ (p48) Further, an overcrowded world changes people for the worse. ‘Rats raised by bad mothers, even if some of their siblings are devoured as babies, turn out as adult animals to be more simply structured and more strongly instinct driven than those raised by good mothers. They are more belligerent and brutal and for that reason, primarily in the case of male animals, more successful sexually. The circuitry in their brain is more “primitive”, less complex, and not so densely networked. When the need is for fast, unequivocal, and uncompromising reactions, a rat with such a simply constructed brain has the advantage.’ (p 53)

 

This is similar to the situation seen in chapter 17: Race and Intelligence, and supports the idea that civilization is not helped by over-crowding and especially the importance of a good and stable upbringing of children. ‘If you redistribute the female offspring immediately after birth in such a way that half the young raised by a “good” mother are her own and half those of a “bad” mother, all of them will later turn out to be mothers who take scrupulously good care of their young. Conversely, all the female offspring raised by a negligent mother, even if biologically from a “good” mother, will grow up to be “bad” mothers.’ (p 52)

 

The Rule of Life implies that all animals have a simple physical mind/brain that supports our reality and the evidence is still there because there can be no ‘going back’. The original mind/brain comprised the hindbrain and the cerebellum. The ‘social’ brain that later developed in the fish and through to us, was the formation of the cortex, which grew in size and importance as we evolved.

 

To add weight to the supposition that the cortex is primarily for social interactions, ‘given that play fighting can be a very complex behavior, we might expect, at least for some species, that its generation requires some cortical input. This is not the case. As we mentioned earlier, rats and hamsters that have had their cortex removed surgically (are decorticated) at birth play in a seemingly normal fashion as juveniles and young adults.’ (The Playful Brain, Sergio Pellis and Vivien Pellis, p 46)

 

So the ‘earlier’ mind/brain was advanced enough to allow play-fighting and, presumably true fighting and predation. This is the mind/brain that fosters Survival of the Fittest and the evolution of the cortex is driving Survival of the Fittest in a different direction to that commonly acknowledged. Since the advent of farming, we have moved in a different direction, and I think of animals and humans as ‘flowers’ that present ourselves to the world to spread the genes that make us what we are.

 

‘However, the evolutionary selection process involved here was not the one that has been known since Darwin’s time as the “survival of the fittest”, but rather more particularly a second mechanism that Darwin also recognized but that has hitherto received insufficient attention. This second evolutionary selective mechanism is known as sexual selection.’ (p 55)

 

Sexual selection prompts some of us to paint our faces, wear rings and ear-rings, walk on ‘high heels’ that make us appear taller etc. Others use wealth, prestige, rank etc as substitutes to fighting ability to attract mates, and in fact, monetary success in the modern world equates with success at fighting in the world at large. Thus the best fighting genes were carried on in Survival of the Fittest, whereas business ‘acumen’ is the winner in the modern world. Sexual selection is the fore-runner to being content with your partner, so that after all the competitive partnering, ‘bonding’ leads to a ‘permanent’ relationship.

 

‘Close emotional bonding between the two parents is the prerequisite for the development of the family and thus for bonding between the parents and their children. As this kind of bonding took place, hand in hand with it there occurred a breathtaking increase in the mental, emotional, and social capabilities of the clans that were able to develop this kind of bonding to the greatest extent.’ (p 56)

 

We are heading towards Survival of the Best in the ‘best’ way that we can and that is a form of Survival of the Fittest and Sexual Selection, but there is no limit to the population numbers as technology supplies ‘cheap’ food and no application of an authority to restrict population. We can achieve Survival of the Best in a more optimal way, but first, we have to digress and consider, what is the state of the mind/brain.

 

Computing is a form of mathematics that uses iteration to reach an answer (in the limit). Mathematics does also, but it hides it as differentiation and integration. Computing uses Mathematical Models and I use a simple form of a mathematical model in a share portfolio investment program that I developed. Each accounting variable for the company is assigned an importance, the high and low of a number of companies ‘normalizes’ the figure for a particular company and the sum is compared between the companies to find the highest number and that company with the highest summation is considered to be the ‘best’. That is quite straight-forward and simple, but someone has to determine the method of measurement, or it has to be left to an iteration, which requires an operator. The operator in Survival of the Fittest is simply survival of the fittest.

 

Reality leads to Survival of the Fittest (and Sexual Selection) in humans, and that concept lasted till farming changed the world. Now, as was seen with the growth of the cortex, it is no longer relevant and corresponded to the hindbrain/cerebellum, which worked well using stored senses as memories that probably circulated within the hindbrain (as a means of retaining and comparing sensory information). The cortex uses a different (somewhat) fixed memory that used a lot less energy as well as ‘moulding’ memories in a more subtle fashion to guide future actions.

 

The Rule of Life suggests that the mind/brain is complicated in chemistry and simple in form and can’t ‘go back’. The ‘old brain’ is there for us to see, above, and the form is the Mathematics of the Mind, and as I have said before, it is almost ‘not there’ because it is so simple. The cortex makes this clearer by being larger and showing the ‘lobes’ where speech, hearing etc. are stored for context and mimic the attractors of the Mathematics of the Mind.

 

To repeat, Survival of the Fittest has been moving to Survival of the Best for hundreds of millions of years, but it is doing so by iteration, which is a Truth, but mindless and follows a direction by trial and error. Our mind/brain is built on the Mathematics of the Mind and uses ‘induction’ for creative thinking, which also is ‘mindless’! How much more powerful is the Mathematics of the Mind with one or more minds directing it! This is the Survival of the Best that the mind/brain has been trying to accomplish for hundreds of millions of years, and it now becomes possible, literally overnight! The reason that we can speed-up the process is because we now understand the processes that underlie such concepts and we can use the Mathematics of the Mind to compare instead of iterate.

 

There seems to be a relationship between the fact that measurement influences the universe, probably because logic is one of the dimensions of the universe, and the ability to see our way clearly through the problems of the social sciences, and that could be due to the same effect. The logic of the mind/brain, the logic of the universe, entanglement, the logic of organisms’ behaviour, reality (and the interaction between animals) appear to be related, and the relationship is starting to appear, but, of course, the answer is that they are related through the three Laws of Life! A top down and bottom up relationship or symmetry that we saw in the previous chapter.

 

The example of the mathematical model, given above, needs a direction and a method for it to be of use, and I had to supply that direction. Now, we can direct evolution because we have the means, and the means that we have are the fundamental building blocks of ‘everything’. Existence shows that we live in a probability space which supports logic and Occam’s razor has a fundamental role as is shown in the derivation.

 

Truth and reality define everything through the three Laws of Life, and reality shows that we have to get along together if we are to have a stable system. The converse appears to be occurring that if we don’t get together, reality forces an ‘extinction event’. Some may have occurred in the past when a ‘new’ facet of reality appeared, and I have mentioned the latest caused by us changing reality with breeding and technology. Using the Mathematics of the Mind, we can ‘track’ ourselves into the future by taking over the ‘mindless’ mathematical methods. I believe that we have the theoretical knowledge to forge ahead with Survival of the Best, but are we ‘ready’ for it! This book is trying to make us ready for it. There will be those people that can handle it and move forward and those that can’t. That is part of Survival of the Best, that the ‘best’ people are selected and encouraged to breed and the not so successful, discouraged.

 

This could be a good point to finish, but there is no finish, and everything keeps going around and is intertwined. ‘Under the right conditions, their cortex becomes thicker, it contains more synaptic contacts, its nerve cells have longer extensions with more branches, there are more glial cells, and the cortex even has more blood vessels with more branches to supply blood to these more complex neuronal circuits. As adults, “winged” rats can handle more difficult tasks in a more skilful fashion. They are more competent and have less fear of new things than their cousins who have grown up under “normal” conditions, in the usual kind of cage, and did not have the chance to experience extended family groups, to enter into many-sided contacts with other group members, to dig burrows, and in general to discover a more colourful rodent world with all kinds of different challenges and stimuli.’ (p 76)

 

‘But the most important thing of all does not become visible until these animals have become old, that is, until after two years have gone by. Then we find in the brains of the “normally” raised rats a considerable number of degenerative changes; whereas the brains of the “winged rats” still look quite normal. Some brain researchers call this “the Matthew principle”’ based on the phrase from the gospel, “For whosoever hath, to him shall be given” (Matthew 13:21)’ (p 76)

 

These two paragraphs are suggestive in that, if the stimulated rats are identified with successful people in society and compared with the run-of-the-mill citizen, the stimulated, successful person will produce more, live longer and should, given other criteria, form the basis of the Selection of the Best. The question of the ‘other criteria’ is considered in other chapters, and the quotation might be better remembered as: “for whosoever hath earned, to him shall be given” all manner of things that we strive for, but in moderation.

 

Chapter 35: The Matthew Principle

Chapter 34: Religion from First Principles

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Chapter 34: Religion from First Principles

 

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Religion from First Principles

 

The ‘splitters’ split religions, but we need to build one religion, and it can be done, so I am going to outline a religion from first principles and show that the Rule of Life has brought the religions to where they should be, but with too much ‘baggage’. This is the result of Survival of the Fittest being used on the Churches instead of Reality (getting along with others). Once the ‘bare bones’ of ‘first principles’ are pointed out, it becomes obvious what is necessary, and what is ‘baggage’ that can be got rid of, over time.

 

The Rule of Life states that for organisms over time, chemistry becomes more complicated to better compete, and form becomes simpler to better compete, given that no regression is possible. Thus, our mind/brains must be based on the Mathematics of the Mind, which I derived from first principles. I used the Mathematics of the Mind and the operators truth/existence/reality to determine the three Laws of Life: firstly, componentization, iteration and time passing which align with creation (God); secondly, state of mind, exercise and nutrition which aligns with our living within the world (the Holy Spirit); thirdly, the young must be taught to ‘fit’ into the family and the world in general, (the Son).

 

The three laws generally align with the operators truth/existence/living with others (reality shows this form when applied to life) and these could be classed as one God, or three parts of God to help the understanding. That is, One God, or the Trinity, depending on your choice. Combining this with existence (in a probability of existence space) as determined from first principles defines that we evolved a reality that, by necessity evolved a religion because all tribes use a creation myth, which is logically necessary to specify the tribe’s laws and the family’s requirements and responsibilities.

Notice that I have used two different methods in this derivation, firstly that God needs three words to describe God’s essence (operators from top down) and three laws to describe God’s works (bottom up)!

 

It is important that the Holy Spirit has been found and recognized, because It has been ‘lost’ for thousands of years, and relates to the second Law. A religion derived from first principles contains ONLY the essentials, and that is, as both Christianity and Islam were, in the beginning, before religion was ‘organised’. The Rule of Life has brought out (of the Old Testament and a multitude of writings) the core religion that was necessary to explain creation, how to live in and care for your environment and people around you, and thirdly, what to teach the young and instil a family life (the three Laws of Life). Notice that the Churches have nothing to fear from science, as shown here, because they are within different laws.

 

It has been mentioned in Chapter 18: Finding God Through One Religion, that Muhammad believed that he was in agreement with both the New and Old Testament. Further, I suggested that each Religion use a core that all religions can agree upon, and keep the extra stories, miracles, parables etc. that give their particulate Religion ‘flavour’, separate, until they can be incorporated into a ‘whole’ single religion.

 

The Churches has been functioning for thousands of years and will continue in the same tradition because the churches are using Survival of the Fittest, which is a backwards-looking indicator. The use of reality (getting on with everybody) is a forward-looking indicator and along with the Mathematics of the Mind produces predictions, and those predictions form the future of the Churches and the planet.

 

Everyone knows that we are heading for Armageddon with Global Warming, over-population, lack of food production etc. Everyone knows what must be done, and that is control the population, control carbon dioxide and a few other things like one religion. I have mentioned how this could be done, but, without leadership, it might have to be a popular movement through the Forever Club (as religions started).

 

This is a short chapter, concise and to the point. Religions are necessary and they are on the correct path, but it is obvious what is needed to bring the different religions together in the future, and it is NOT the basics, it is the organization! Literally, the future of the world is at stake, and that is the Holy Spirit! ‘The sacredness of the Holy Spirit is affirmed in all three Synoptic Gospels which proclaim blasphemy against the Holy Spirit as the unforgivable sin.’ (Wikipedia, Holy Spirit (Christianity) That makes sense, in that it is the unforgivable sin to destroy the environment around you, that your very life depends on, and yet, that is what we are doing!

 

 

Chapter 34: Religion from First Principles

Chapter 33: Reality and Religion

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Chapter 33: Reality and Religion

 

From the previous chapter, I would like to state that I think that reality, in the light of the above, is a ‘co-existing’ with those around us. Not so much a predator/prey situation, but a ‘getting on with the neighbours’, which is basically the same. This is the basic problem of the world today –‘getting on with the neighbours’, that encompasses all of the family, the townspeople, countywide and internationally.

 

I would also like to point out that the Mathematics of the Mind has a trinity of operators: truth/existence/reality that act on chaos/indeterminacy to ‘pull down’ ‘patterns’ that turn out to be ourselves and our world. That is, the worlds that are suitable for us, and have the conditions that we can survive in, must come out of the multiverse.

 

From chapter 2, it was stated that the left hand side of the concept of the Philosophers’ stone was the region of mathematics, the centre column where the Mathematics of the Mind takes over from mathematics and the right hand column for the ‘softer’ sciences. This third column can now be examined through the operator ‘reality’ that is “a ‘co-existing’ with those around us”.

 

This is substantially different to what ‘reality’ means to most people until they think about it. A reality doesn’t mean that it is real, which is existence, but that we can consider on-going life to be ‘workable’ or ‘liveable’ and immerse ourselves in life without being conscious of imminent disaster, and being conscious that threats and opportunities exist, but that we are comfortable with and adjusted to deal with them.

 

Reality is the operator that makes sense of the right hand column of the Philosophers’ stone concept. In particular, as has been said before, that the Laws of Life are only the more important attractors and others can be added as necessary to ‘tighten’ the ‘picture’. Reality is part of all the Laws of Life, since as stated above, “a ‘co-existing’ with those around us” is certainly true of the family, townspeople etc., as well as the precursor of Survival of the Fittest. This operator is in line with the life of the animals (and us) and is logical and a Truth.

 

In fact, I have mentioned previously that Survival of the Fittest is an iteration and a Truth, but this iteration is not as ‘powerful’ as a mind capable of logic. Firstly, it is ‘backward looking’ and secondly, Survival of the Fittest is a mathematical/mechanical system and does not have the ‘flair’ of a logic-based system. The purpose of the Mathematics of the Mind is to present a form of mathematics that can handle logic, using the mind, and project predictions into the future. Our mind/brain uses the form of the Mathematics of the Mind, but instead of using a mind/brain for creativity, creativity is built–in through the architecture of the brain.

 

As soon as reality is mentioned, the question must be asked, ‘if I can see the tiger, the tiger must be able to see me’. It is a logical necessary that the brain of animals can’t change, as shown in chapter 12, where the eyes rewired themselves in moving into stereoscopic forward vision and not the brain, to preserve reality, and further, it is logically necessary that in the limit, organisms must be able to consume each other. So much logic is necessary for the world to function that it shows clearly that space-time is not sufficient for the ‘softer’ sciences, just as I showed that space-time in fundamental physics lead to magic and misunderstanding.

 

To restate the ideas above, the Mathematics of the Mind was derived from first principles, and, with the Rule of Life that everything becomes simpler over time, the mind/brain (of all animals, at least) appears to function in the form of the Mathematics of the Mind, which is to be expected, whilst the mind/brain provides a built-in creativity, we use the mind/brain in handling creativity in the Mathematics of the Mind. The mind/brain uses quantum mechanical induction to generate thoughts with primary context from the lobes of speech, hearing etc. that correspond to the attractors.

 

It might seem to be stretching belief, but a mind capable of measurement (and invokes the logic of measurement) can ‘access’ the universe and cause the universe to respond, probably affecting the logic of entanglement in some way. I am referring to the experiment of the photon and the two detectors that were being turned off and on. This is an indication of the ‘power’ of the mind, especially when aided by the Mathematics of the Mind to direct outcomes.

 

If we seek a ‘point’ of ‘consciousness’, I believe that consciousness is the addition of ‘partial’ related memories caused by quantum mechanical ‘induction’ of action potentials of nearby dendrites leading to cascades of ‘bits’ of past memories and this can occur with very few nerves. Perhaps people should be looking for the size or type of mind that can cause the universe to react with it. That would not be a consciousness, but a connectivity, a ‘growing up’ or ‘maturity’, but, we can answer that question. It has to be an animal that uses a tool, and quite a number of animals and birds do use tools in feeding, but these are macroscopic, and so the answer is possibly only those people doing quantum mechanical experiments. But this can be taken further, that the brains of all animals are using quantum mechanics in their consciousness and thus must be part of entanglement and interconnected, but then we have previously said the EVERY particle contributes to the entanglement, and that must be the final answer.

 

This leads to the question of the ‘extra-normal’! It seems from the above that all matter is interconnected. There are reports that people experience extra-normal messages etc., but whilst these might be possible, the logic of reality tells us that if it became ‘sufficiently powerful’ and ‘sufficiently widespread’, a change in reality could occur and the ‘extra-normal’ would become the ‘normal’. The Rule of Life is an ‘in the limit’ Rule, and the ‘extra-normal’ may come to pass! If it does, it would cause massive extinctions, as animals adjusted to new competitive pressures. On the other hand, humans are farmers and do not hunt, and so would not ‘force’ changes to prey’s mind to counteract our ‘second sight’.

 

“A ‘co-existing’ with those around us” is powerful because it is fundamental! What more could one ask for! It contains the seeds of contentment. It means working with people to be the colour that they want to work towards, to have children brought up in stable environments, and so on. ‘As a general rule – with lots and lots of exceptions, including Bill Clinton and Barack Obama – children raised by single parents tend not to do as well in life as children who grow up with two parents. Even after researchers control for socio-economic factors and other variables, it turns out that children from two-parent homes get better grades in school. They’re healthier and better-adjusted emotionally. They have more satisfying social lives and engage in less antisocial behavior. They’re more likely to attend an elite university and less likely to go to prison.’ (Willpower: rediscovering the greatest human strength, Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney, p 208)

 

If “ ‘co-existing’ with those around us” is so powerful, can we turn it into a new religion? I have read that the Golden Rule, which states to ‘do unto others as you would have them do unto you’ is a ‘religion’ for some people. The Golden Rule is an action plan based on the simpler and more fundamental statement “ ‘co-existing’ with those around us! Looking at chapter 18 (Finding God through One Religion), I suggested that the religions could be ‘condensed’ to a core that all religions can agree is applicable to their particular religion and the areas in dispute would be clearly marked. This would be a first step in amalgamating religions.

 

The inference made in that chapter was that the basics of the major religions were effectively the same for Jews,Christian and Islam. As an example, the 10 Commandments ALL have at their core the message: “‘co-existing’ with those around us”. There is even a place for the God of Truth/Existence/Reality, although the idea of a Trinity might have to be accepted, because we don’t have a suitable wide-reaching word. The only thing missing is the ‘will to change’ but change is being forced on us by Global Warming, over-population etc. If no politician or statesman is equal to the task, there is the Forever Club that could occur through popular pressure.

 

A quotation was given earlier that stated that all tribes have a ‘creation myth’ that tells from where they arose as a people, and this requirement suggests that some sort of religion is necessary, especially as it states what is required of members in the way of behaviour within the tribe. In fact, this is saying that a ‘religion’, or ‘set of laws’ is logically necessary to every group because it tells how the group is to function. Every family and group must have a set of ‘relationship’ laws to be able to function together and that relationship is none other than reality, or “a ‘co-existing’ with those around us”. This shows how ‘powerful’ that this operator is! Coexisting with those around us operates at ALL levels!

 

The Rule of Life applies to all things and in particular to religions and what is surprising is how easily the derivation of a ‘religion’ is when derived from first principles, but also, how the world’s religions ‘match’ this derived religion. It should be remembered that as reality is a forward-looking indicator and Survival of the Fittest is backward-looking, these two concepts apply to the established religions with some surprising results. This will be the subject of the next chapter.

 

There is not much to be said that hasn’t already been said, but, whilst the churches do a good job, they could do better. It is a question of leadership, as many of the problems have been addressed (to some extent) here, in this book.

Chapter 33: Reality and Religion