Chapter 54: The Determination Orgene, Selecting the ‘Best’ and a General Solution to ‘Struggle Street’ and the World’s Overpopulation.

May 14, 2015May 15, 2015 Darryl Penneychildren, mathematics, Survival of the Fittest2 Comments

Chapter 54: The Determination Orgene, Selecting the ‘Best’ and a General Solution to ‘Struggle Street’ and the World’s Overpopulation.

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Abstract: ‘Determination’ is an organisational necessity for there to be life, and is the driving force behind evolution and is the key requirement for business and life success and thus to limit population and improve quality of life for children. Social security and/or tax benefits should be paid to people without children, and this reversal of the current practice is a general solution to promote the ‘Best’ and reduce poverty by negative feedback.

I have said previously that ‘we evolved a reality out of the possibility of existence’, but ‘we’ is a little imprecise, and it occurred to me that as the ‘death gene’ was an organizational ‘something’, we might be able to clarify the ‘we’ as an organizational ‘something’ as well. The first step might be to replace the word ‘gene’ with something that is more apt and perhaps ‘orgene’ suggests organization and genetics, which is in line with what I am seeking.

‘Determination’ is an organisational necessity for there to be life, and I can say that because we are here and we are only here because we were determined to live and procreate, so perhaps we should say that ‘determination evolved a reality out of the possibility of existence’. As determination is organisational as well as genetically based, then determination must be an orgene and it is a fact that everyone alive today has an unbroken continuous line of ancestors, each of which had at least one offspring that successfully bred over 3,000 million years. That’s a lot of determination that has evolved!

The first Law of Life is iteration, conponentization and time passing (remembering that all three laws are inter-related) and the ‘death orgene’ is part of componentization, and the ‘determination orgene’ is part of iteration. It has been stated previously that iteration, componentization and time passing were the main attractors and it appears that the ‘death orgene’ and ‘determination orgene’ are also attractors and we should keep this in mind.

This ‘determination orgene’ might be considered a triviality, but as proverbs are simple general solutions of the Mathematics of the Mind, mathematicians say that the ‘more fundamental that something is, the more far reaching the effects’. So, I am using the Mathematics of the Mind to move from first principles, that is the statement of existence, to a logical outcome to see how that solution relates to our current handling of the situation that eventuates.

A digression might be helpful in that attractors in the three Laws of Life define our world and the life within it. However the Mathematics of the Mind says there are an infinite number of attractors of diminishing relativity applicable to a solution. In the previous chapter, we looked at the death orgene and found that we could turn it around for our benefit (and not evolution’s) and greatly extend our useful life, if we want to.

The determination orgene’s derivation below shows how stupid and wrong that we have been in trusting our judgement in setting up the framework of society and we have created a world-wide Extinction Event because of our compassion and lack of analysis. Contrast this with the government/judiciary/police that we found previously satisfied reality. The next chapter will explore the compassion orgene and its surprising and far-reaching effects through its association with the placeb/nocebo effect.

Just as the ‘death orgene’ was necessary for evolution to work efficiently, the ‘determination gene’ was/is essential for evolution to occur and the effect is all around us in every organism including bacteria that move when the acidity, temperature etc. changes. In other words, determination is provided by our body by inflicting pain on us, both to avoid injuring ourselves and to avoid being killed.

This is quite extraordinary! It was mentioned previously that reality needed to be established before Survival of the Fittest could exert its effects on evolution, and here is the driving force behind Survival of the Fittest. It appears that people that lack a pain response inadvertently cause themselves damage, but having evolved this device to teach us care, Survival of the Fittest uses pain to produce evolution and it did this to force us to perform at our best to measure our best performance by trying to survive. The death orgene is involved to make sure that we do do our best, but not as well as the younger! Survival of the Fittest and Survival of the Best are the same conceptually, and whilst both are measurement, there is a vast difference between the two in speed of implementation. If we wish to take control and speed up evolution, determination is the ‘key driver’ that we should use.

At this point a small digression might be in order to try to understand the above. There is the mathematics/logic of the logic machine (componentization) of the probability ‘something’ that we call matter/energy that makes up indeterminacy/chaos and that is ‘the probability of existence’. We ‘evolved reality’ as the first sense evolved and that was touch, pH, light, dryness etc. and that concept of measurement/comparison is only possible with a probability space because that space contains entanglement/measurement between all points so that they sum to 1 across the universe. I find ‘measurement’ a strange ‘dimension’, but what else, other than ‘measurement’ can be the relationship be between two points in a (general) probability field?

But, for a bacterium to split to make another bacterium was to produce a competitor for food, space etc., which is insane, logically. I have often found breeding to be illogical and now I realize that there must be an organisational necessity to do this illogical thing and there MUST be a physical ‘cause/gene’ because it occurs, but it MUST also be an organization with no physical ‘gene’ and it is, this, that I am calling an ‘orgene’.

The orgene is an organisational/non-logic that must be part of the system for the system to work and the Rule of Life says that it will be logically simple, but may be organisationally complex. For example, in a one-celled organism, an abundance of food raises the level of componentization and this forces a budding or splitting off of a new organism. In multi-celled organisms a more complex breeding takes place, again through componentization, and this forces the same illogical competition.

If we are to take over management of our evolution as we have done recently with the advent of world-wide communication, we have to look at Survival of the Best. The Mathematics of the Mind is a ‘tool’ that can be used to set-up the relevant attractors and then someone/something has to make a decision and we don’t want to make mistakes because the world is at the ‘tipping point’, especially through global warming. So, basically, what is ‘Selection of the Best’? We can answer this now because the body is composed of components with logic/chemistry that was laid down hundreds of millions of years ago and does not change, except for the mind/brain. Certain changes, such as height, skin colour, hair colour etc. change rapidly with the generations, whilst the mind/brain changes by the second.

So, evolution requires determination ALWAYS, and genetic changes can be handled through preference/choice by the parents because the components of the body are set and have been for hundreds of millions of years. This basis allows us to look at how to solve the extinction crisis, but whilst the Mathematics of the Mind presents the data, a measurement has to be made to bring about a reality. As mentioned before, the world has problems because the world did not measure, make a decision and act on it and allowed indiscriminate mating with the expectation that this was acceptable. It was acceptable, but resources are limited and as populations increased, it is no longer tolerable to allow unrestrained breeding to continue into an extinction event. .

We need to measure people so that we can choose properly those that should breed and the herd system measures the male, but not the female. The male holds the property/feeding-area/roosting-spot and what these assets all have in common is security for the future and for the family. Security is very important because it leads to stable personalities because, as the brain is a component, it is influenced, in the main, by its upbringing and family life, as has been mentioned previously.

I am reminded of a science fiction story that I read long ago where scientists created a superior person, presumably by genetic manipulation, that did not want children, and we were told that this problem would be ‘fixed’ in the next generation. We have seen that determination is an orgene and we have to ask how fixing the problem could be done. The answer is that it must be done organisationally as well as genetically. We already do this by giving government support by the way of pensions to families with children, but unfortunately, this can be an inducement for the ‘wrong’ people to breed.

It has been mentioned before that the ‘best’/successful males need to be selected by showing determination and they can afford children because they are successful and determined. So, it is more logical that government money not be given to families with children, but to families that do not have children. In other words, pensions should go to people without children as an incentive not to have children unless they are successful and have the money and determination to pay for them themselves. This statement seems so logical, and yet we do the opposite. The answer to this inversion probably lies within politics and compassion etc.

This also means that the elderly and disadvantaged still receive full pensions providing that they don’t have more children and facilities for abortion should be available, if necessary. I don’t know much about this subject, but fathers of single mothers’ children could have their taxes increased as a disincentive to getting involved, unless they wish to father a child, in which case there is no problem. This is a general solution to the problems of ‘Struggle Street’ because, as we saw, they want money and the more children that they have, the more money from social security, so the sensible thing is to give them money for NOT having children. Huge savings will eventuate, I believe, as suggested before, in policing, jails, social security, schools etc. because stable, sensible home-lives produce stable sensible adults.

At this point, I need to reaffirm that the purpose of the Mathematics of the Mind is to show the concepts or attractors in such a way that everyone can honestly say that that course of action is sensible and the ‘best’ choice. Dissenters can move the attractors around any way they please but should not be able to find a ‘better’ solution, and if they find a better solution, that ‘better’ solution is one that everyone agrees with and is implemented. Notice that a decision has to be made and we are trying to lay the facts out so that no one will dare dispute the proposed method because it would be obvious that they are self-serving.

It was also previously pointed out that those receiving pensions should lose a proportion of their vote, simply because every one will agree that you shouldn’t be allowed to vote for your own benefit (chapter 22: Magic, Proverbs, Politics and the Voting System). This takes the vote (somewhat) back to the successful people, as it should. There are always a number of vocal people looking to benefit themselves, but do we want to share a planet with the animals that evolved with us, or, do we want to see humans over-run the planet. Surely 100 million, or, 1,000 million people should be enough, NOT 7,000 million!

I have made the point on numerous occasions that I believe the mind/brain is a component that increases in creativity with stimulation and if the initial conditions of each brain are the same why do we want seven billion of them? We are not looking for a genius because we know how to grow geniuses! The converse is true that poor people with little stimulation do not develop their mind/brain and one has to wonder what use they are to themselves and the world. The kindest way is to select breeders with the desired characteristics and reward those who don’t have the determination to be successful to not have children.

Some time ago, China reduced their population with the ‘one child policy’, and I believe that it was not well received, but nevertheless it was successful. Would the method that I have outlined above, have been a better choice? Furthermore, I have heard it said that families in poor countries tend to have large families to safeguard the parents’ wellbeing in their later years. The idea of paying a pension to childless families that can be used by the elderly sends a better message than having a large number of children. A decreasing scale of payments means fewer children, a higher standard of living and some support in old age. This seems to add control to the breeding process and I’m sure that there are more qualified people that might take this further.

Chapter 50: The ‘Death Gene’ and How to Re-set it, Alzheimer’s Disease and the ‘Placebo Connection’

April 29, 2015 Darryl PenneyAlzheimer’s Disease, Survival of the Fittest, Vascular DementiaLeave a comment

Chapter 50: The ‘Death Gene’ and How to Re-set it, Alzheimer’s Disease and the ‘Placebo Connection’

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Abstract: Alzheimer’s Disease and Vascular Dementia are considered to be a result of a ‘modern’ lifestyle and readily preventable through state of mind, nutrition and exercise, which leads to componentization that shows that the body is not programmed for death in a hardware sense, but is in a software sense. The Cambrian saw a major change in reality as animals evolved sight and improved consciousness (sufficiency) but death was needed to enable evolution (necessity), the ‘placebo/nocebo connection’ of the cells required submission to the (resultant) mind and the weakening of the old animals with time, however, a change in our reality may be able to over-ride this and could see our lifetimes greatly extended for those that make the effort, and that determination invokes Survival of the Best that is the ultimate result of evolution. Changing our reality could also be an answer to age discrimination in the workforce.

‘Dementia is therefore now one of society’s most pressing social and medical issues. In a historical context, it is clear why this has come to pass. In the United States at the turn of the nineteenth century, infection was the main killer of adults, whose average life span was just 47 years. Alzheimer’s Disease and Vascular Dementia are mainly late-onset diseases, manifesting usually after the age of 60. Thus, at the start of the twentieth century, there were simply too few people in the right age range for dementia to be a major problem.’ (Maintain Your Brain, Dr Michael J Valenzuela, p 23) I might also mention that food was different then.

‘Economic modelling by Access Economics has found that if current rates of dementia were to translate to the bulging baby-boomer cohort, then annual spending on health as a proportion of gross domestic product would increase from 0.5 per cent to 3 per cent within a generation. In short, the increased occurrence of dementia within the next 30 years entails the risk of bankrupting our governments.’ (p 25)

Clearly, dementia is a threat to anyone that wants to live a long time and little is known about its cause. As time passes, more and more research accumulates and we get a better idea of how to prevent it. I came across a book, Maintain Your Brain by Dr Michael J Valenzuela that explains dementia in a context that makes sense and allows us to (hopefully) feel more secure that we can avoid it.

I want to add enough quotations to show the line of thought, but not so many as to confuse the reader, but it should be borne in mind that this is a simplification in a very complex and poorly understood subject. The saving grace, and the reason that I am attempting this is because it is so important and the solution is so simple and fits so well into a lifestyle that is necessary for anti ageing. It will be seen that the problem is not dementia, but a problem of strength of mind, which brings us back to Survival of the Best.

‘Alzheimer’s disease … is a slow process of gradual loss and shrinkage of brain cells that almost always starts in the same place in the brain, deep near the base of the skull … Vascular dementia … begins with a stroke – a sudden loss of blood supply to a part of the brain, causing damage and death of brain cells.

It follows that the best way to avoid Vascular Dementia is to avoid having a stroke in the first place, which requires us to do our best to avoid vascular disease in general. And we already know how to do this! Even the most sanguine person when it comes to their own health will recognise some of the five most important vascular risk factors: smoking, obesity, bad cholesterol, diabetes and high blood pressure.’ (p 52)

It is now a well established finding that individuals with a greater number of cardiac risk factors (smoking, hypertension, diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, and so on) are also at increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s Disease (and Vascular Dementia, of course).’ (p 54) ‘The studies have shown that more amyloid protein begins to be secreted into the space around the cells that are ischemic (reduced blood supply). This is quite an exciting finding, because for the first time there was a clue that the dynamics of blood supply may be involved in the formation of amyloid plaques, the main pathological feature of Alzheimer’s Disease…. So-called pure cases of Alzheimer’s Disease are actually not all that common in real life. More common is the existence of both diseases at the same time, so-called mixed dementia.’ (p 55)

‘Microbleeds and AD plaques coincide in ‘brain space’ far more often than could be expected by chance alone … Very often, in fact, a microbleed was noted at a branch point of a capillary with an AD plaque sitting directly on top of it … Adding to the argument is the observation that microbleeds first begin to develop in the hippocampus, an area first affected in AD dementia…. I suspect that the hippocampus has the most tangled and complex vascular supply of any part of the brain …. is particularly susceptible to microbleeds and therefore the development of Alzheimer plaques.’ (p 57)

‘So finally, after almost 100 years of research into dementia, we have an effective medical weapon in our armoury – good old blood pressure tablets!’ (p 62) ‘Lesson #1. There is a strong probability that keeping blood pressure in the healthy range reduces your risk of dementia…. A healthy heart means a healthy brain. Therefore all the same recommendations for avoiding cardiovascular disease apply to the brain as well.’ (p 67)

The above tells a simplified story, and we are looking for a simple story of how this all fits together so that we can deal with it easily. The trillions of cells that have been part of our body at various times are (effectively) identical and were derived from one sperm/egg with each cell differentiating (probably) by covering parts of the DNA similar to the way methylation works. So, if each cell is (effectively) identical we could agree that ‘a healthy heart means a healthy brain’, but this is a simplification that has gone too far, and whilst it’s the heart’s job to pump blood, the brain is the major reason that the heart pumps blood because the cells have a ‘connection’ to produce a mind to change their reality. This will be made clearer later, but for now, the brain needs mental exercise to remain healthy.

‘While much attention is given to how we can modify and change risk factors for dementia such as hypertension, smoking, education, and so forth, the simple ageing process dwarfs these by a factor of more than 7:1 (p 72) Given, from above, that dementia could bankrupt the government, how many resources could be saved if people lived and worked longer and had less time ‘in care’ over the latter end of their life? I have come across the question of whether we have a ‘built-in’ lifespan and it does seem that this is true and that the limit is about 120 years. However, this may appear to be the case under the present circumstances of our thinking/reality, and as strange as it seems, I present the following means of (possibly) greatly extending our lifetimes.

As has been mentioned before that the body is a collection of cells that have created a reality that is unavailable to the individual cell and also, each cell is a component and able to handle whatever it is necessary to handle within normal limits. If any part of the body could not handle what was necessary, the animal would be unsuccessful and be eliminated by Survival of the Fittest. The problems of organs breaking down shows that we have moved outside of the normal limits imposed by the reality of the body, and that reality is, in the main, the hunter/gatherer mode. The task is to match the reality that the body requires with the reality of modern life.

Thus, we could say that (some of the) breakdowns in the body that are occurring have been caused by changes in our food supply. ‘Most of us are eating ourselves to death: only 10 percent of Americans eat the foods that would enable them to be free of chronic disease and premature death.’ (Super Foods Rx, Steven Pratt and Kathy Matthews, p 12) The food supply that our body evolved to use ensured that our body was composed of healthy components that included each cell, our organs (of cells) up to our body (of cells) itself. This sentence requires some explanations. The ‘body’ is a group of cells that have differentiated into organs that do the same job as the components in each cell. From the Rule of Life, the simplest organization of an entity whether a cell or a body must follow a set organization, as we have seen previously.

A ‘component’ is a concept such as an alternator in a car. It is designed to stand-alone, produce a current sufficient for normal usage and last a reasonably long time. The cells, organs and the whole body have evolved to satisfy similar criteria because that is the simplest in an organizational sense (Rule of Life). The cell is a living organism, and so is the body, whilst organs are similar but form part of a body and don’t exist on their own and still fit the description of a component. However, there are distinct differences with the example of the alternator and ‘life’ components, not in organizational form, but in the mechanics, as would be expected.

They are the same because they all stand-alone, produce a product sufficient for normal usage and last a reasonably long time, so let’s look deeper. ‘Stand alone’: the components of a cell, the cell, the organs in the body and the body are all entities that ‘do a job’ just as the ‘bolt-on’ alternator does a job. ‘Produce a product’: is fairly obvious and in the case of the cell and body, it is to breed. However, more complex is the concept of ‘Componentization’, which is a ‘logic machine’ that was mentioned in the first Law of Life and is the ability for a component to increase an output in some way and an example is the atom and the ‘states’ of an atom produce light of different energies. Another example is Survival of the Fittest dovetailing with our success in breeding, in that the more successful that you are, the more progeny that you leave.

Componentization has to have limits of output that depends on the size and robustness of the component. For example, a 12 volt truck alternator would work in a car, if it physically fitted, but a car alternator would be too small (in output) for a truck. In life-systems, this ‘designer’s decision’ has to be handled differently because Survival of the Fittest demands that the minimum sized component be used (that will handle the job) and componentization demands that the component be adequate to ‘do the job’, plus some extra. The way that those two requirements evolved is the ‘use it or lose it’ principle, where the component, such as a muscle, is able to apply a range of forces, but can increase its range through necessity, which is produced by needing to use the muscle more, which is activated by exercise. Similarly, myelin sheath is laid down on nerves when the speed of the nerve needs to increase to decrease ‘reaction time’ in the face of persistent threats.

‘Last a reasonably long time’: is a trade-off of a number of attributes such as cost, amount of current output and length of life that a designer has to take into account. Living systems evolve, so, a ‘living’ component has to have a figure ‘set’ into it for how long it will last, and the answer is (practically) indefinitely because the component ‘renews’ itself regularly throughout its life. An exception to this statement is that brain cells, when adequately nourished, appear to last ‘forever’, as shown above, and that dementia results from a mismanagement brought about by modern living that causes a breakdown in one or more of the components (state of mind, nutrition and exercise). It is interesting that the necessity to retain the best and longest memories (heritable) requires that neurons don’t die (heritable) and as every cell in the body is identical, every cell (as a component) has an ‘infinite’ life which means that our body does not need to die!

This is a startling derivation! However, predation, accidents, infections and so forth will take their toll, but it appears that we are able to live ‘forever’, but then there are the internal problems of DNA ‘mistakes’, mutations etc. that also take their toll, so there is an upper limit to life. This upper limit would depend on the state of the three factors (state of mind, nutrition and exercise) throughout life. However, there is another reason why we should die, and that is logic/organization, but over the last 10,000 years we have changed the reality of the world to suit ourselves, so can we change our reality to extend our lives?

So, given that we are composed of components that don’t wear out and components that can produce more when required, we should be able to maintain our lifestyle/performance/abilities over the greater part of our life provided that we adhere to the second Law of Life (mental state, nutrition and exercise). In other words, the rectangularizing of the effectiveness versus age graph is our aim, so that our body performs well throughout life until the very end.

The question is ‘why do we die?’ We, and all the components of which we are made, do not have a time frame built in, but has evolution forced a time frame on us? If we continued to improve during life, the old animals know more and could survive better and superior old animals would be mating with old animals and clearly this could lead to problems if the theories of aging are correct and damage to DNA etc. occurs.

Old animals have the knowledge to find better nutrition and the experience to sight and flee predators, so how could evolution evolve a scheme to make old animals more likely to be caught in the light of these two factors. Clearly, there must be something that makes the old, a meal, and the young more nimble. I believe that the state of mind (out of state of mind, nutrition and exercise) is used along with the ‘use it or lose it’ principle (that is a part of componentization) and the Rule of Life to accomplish this turn-around.

We surmise that the old have the hardware to be superior to the young, but I have suggested a software solution to the problem. A software solution is necessary because there is only hardware and software solutions, and it can’t be hardware, as we have seen with nerve cells. So, this software solution has to be ‘strong’ enough to cause the old to die preferentially against the young in order that the animals survive as a group.

The present situation of old human females helping the younger fertile females shows how it is done, and it is the ‘best’ method, because that is the way that it is done (Rule of Life). This is the ‘grandmother effect’ that, in humans, has evolved to limit breeding to the younger females and could have evolved naturally because the number of birth defects rises sharply with age. From a family perspective, a family with less impaired children would be more successful than a family with more burdens to their survival, especially as human offspring require so much care, and this aligns with the ‘inbuilt’ necessity of tribe members moving to a new tribe to limit inbreeding. This termination of fertility would reduce the chance of passing on defects in DNA that occur with ageing of the mother, because there is no way to select the egg that is used. With males, the situation is different because the sperm is ‘selected’ by having to ‘race’ competitors and so, this could be the reason that males are always fertile.

Many references have been made that old people put on muscle easily when they exercise. On a personal note, I am over 70 years and I slowly built the number of ‘push-ups’ that I do each day to 100 (2×50) before breakfast. It was very much harder to get my balance (one leg, eyes closed) to 4 minutes (4×1 minute) probably because it required brain plasticity changes and nerve transmission speeds to increase, presumably by laying down more myelin. I should say that I have left formal exercise at that point only because I feel that it is sufficient with working, dancing etc. As mentioned previously, balance is one of the neglected senses and is crucial to prevent slowing down as we age. Good balance leads to confidence of movement, faster movement and that is state of mind and you ARE younger!

The Rule of Life says that the organization of this mechanism of making the old die before the young will be simple, and I believe that this is so, as in the following. One could say that gradual aging is natural as mutations etc. build-up, but accelerated ageing is not, because it is the mechanism that kills off the old and leaves the young. The method used is, I believe, componentization working in reverse and we call it sarcopenia, which is the loss of muscle caused by lack of exercise. We see its effect around us all the time: children run, adults walk and the elderly hobble. I said that it was simple, so simple that I had better point it out again, and emphasise that ‘use it, AND gain it’ is fundamental to Survival of the Fittest and the reason that we evolved. Actually, it is componentization where ‘use it’ leads to a higher level and more success at leaving offspring. The reverse is also the reason that we evolved and is ‘don’t use it AND lose it’ as a means of weakening the old to preserve the young. This continuum is contained within the concept of componentization.

We think that it is natural that old people slow down and retire and they look forward to slowing down because no one wants to work. But, if we look at the phrase ‘children run, adults walk and the elderly hobble’, we could say the young run, the middle aged walk and old hobble, but if we turn it around, is a person that runs, young, middle aged or old? This is ‘state of mind’ and it is one of a triumvirate of interlocking parts, together with nutrition and exercise and they have been discussed previously, and such is their importance, they form the second Law of Life.

At this point, it would be sensible to ask the question ‘is state of mind strong enough to bring about such a bizarre turn around to make the strongest into the weakest through sacopenia?’ I would say ‘yes’, because it happened, and it had to happen if we were to evolve, however, put another way, this process evolved, and it had to evolve because it has evolved and strength of mind plays no part, only success in producing superior offspring. In other words, ‘don’t use it and lose it’ is an iterative process, whereas strength of mind is a function of the mind and is not applicable in this case. It might make more sense to say that iteration is a Truth and the mind/brain uses iteration and takes it to a higher level.

So, let’s start from the beginning, that cells evolved into multicellular animals in order to take their cellular organization and evolve it into the organs of the animal and so making the animal large enough for a brain to evolve so as to attain a new reality which required a mind and lensed eyes. This has been discussed before, that every cell is linked together so as to form a brain and there is a two-way conversation between the cells and the mind that is produced. This communication is called the placebo/nocebo effect and it is so powerful that it can cure or kill an individual animal. This ability to kill is shown in humans as ‘pointing the bone’, and reflects the power handed to the new reality (the creation of a mind) by the cells that were bound by the restriction (in size) brought about by the thickness of the cell walls.

After this description, this might be the best place to define a ‘placebo/nocebo connection’ purely to put things into perspective and repeat a complicated process. Cells could only progress by joining together, differentiating to again set-up the organizational parts of the cell to form larger components (in a multicellular body), but a point was reached where a new reality came into being called the mind. Every cell contributed to the mind and every cell obeyed the mind, but componentization led to survival of the fittest and also to protecting the breeders, the youngest females have less age defects, at the expense of the older females. Notice that this contains the placebo/nocebo effect, but adds a lot more, and the organizational ‘strength’ of the placebo/nocebo ‘connection’ is reflected in the ‘strength’ of the herd formation that is almost universal.

If we want to turn off this software, that is an integral part of our evolution, to extend our lives, we must work within the second Law of Life and turn evolution on its head, another example of how powerful is the existing practice that we have to undo is to consider that old animals fall behind and are killed by predators, and that is the way that it has to be for Survival of the Fittest that has brought us to the Palaeolithic, 10,000 years ago. It is not altruism, it is not natural, but it is necessary organizationally for evolution to work because the best breeders MUST survive, preferentially, especially for humans that require years to bring up children. Now, if we succeed in making the old supreme, we need to create a new reality and that reality is Survival of the Best.

In fact, our reality has changed as we have over-run the planet in modern times by using the mind/brain on a part of the Mathematics of the Mind, and that is mathematics, and that led to technology. However, our body’s reality remains in the Palaeolithic and the problem is to reconcile the two, and to do that we need Survival of the Best, which has been discussed before. It is not surprising that people suitable to be included in the Best would have the qualities needed to extend life, namely determination, knowledge, be successful etc. and NOT have the negative qualities of drug and alcohol addiction, mental and personality problems etc. because they have to turn around their state of mind so that they do not slow down, must eat nutritiously and exercise. Also, their state of mind should be to move fast, work hard for a few hours a day and socialize to a reasonable extent. I should point out that the brain also requires exercise by learning (relatable) facts, and as we have seen, intelligence/creativity depends on this for continued growth.

Finally, it is said that old people do not absorb nutrients well, but if old people were rejuvenated, as above, would this still be the case? ‘Scientists don’t even fully understand exactly why our bodies need sleep, but they know that we do. Sleep generates hormones, such as human growth hormone, the ultimate anti-aging hormone (released only in the deep stages of sleep)’. (The Most Effective Ways to Live Longer, Jonny Bowden, p 78) ‘You can raise growth hormone levels (IGF-1 levels) on your own … its released during deep sleep, so anything that helps you sleep more deeply and restfully may have an effect … And very strenuous exercise will also raise it.’ (p 214)

The above paragraph shows that many biological factors are involved and my idea is to work with evolution and leave the body to sort things out as it has done over 3,000 million years. Sleep is important, as is exercise in the production of this hormone, but the quotation stresses the restful method of sleep more than strenuous exercise. This is the point that I made above, that our modern reality is STILL to exercise minimally, and thereby lead ourselves into sarcopenia and an early death. By turning it around and stressing exercise, the body will spend more time in deep sleep for repair, dreaming etc. and that aligns with what I am advocating.

The fact that the older female animals should not breed is shown in the genes of humans and that older animals in general should slow to protect the breeding stock is a necessary requirement that would be, I believe, genetic if it could be done, but failing that, evolution has handled the problem by natural selection. The term ‘death gene’ is not strictly correct, but is an apt description for a necessary condition of such importance that it can be appreciated easily. It is a condition that became important in mammals especially as the nurturing time increased as with humans, and as the Rule of Life dictates, we can’t go back for fear of reality problems.

Have I convinced you that this is a complete turnaround of evolution and will lead to a longer life and that the older people can be superior? I hope so, because there is no future in the alternative for older people! I have said previously that I believe that the mind/brain increases in creativity with age, if treated properly, and for that, ‘proper’ nutrition and exercise (for body and brain) are paramount. For hundreds of millions of years, we have been constrained by a system that demands that older members slow down to protect the young breeders and now we can change our reality and show that the older people are better than the younger. Age discrimination should be reversed! Youth unemployment is high, and older workers need re-training, but active older workers are probably the best because they have extensive experience and shouldn’t be retired!

How did we lose our way and let evolution manipulate us? Because it was necessary for the success of evolution! Now that we have a mind/brain that is a huge ‘step up’ from Survival of the Fittest (iteration), we can use Survival of the Best (mind/brain). Our reality requires measurement and evolution stopped measurement and we ‘lost our way’, so we have to take ‘control’ and use our mind/brain to do it. Existence, reality and measurement are discussed in earlier chapters and are kept to a minimum here.

So, how do we extend our lives? The first step is to regain reality by measurement. People gradually slow down because they don’t measure, and the first step is to set-up an easy way to measure. A simple way is that the mind uses concepts (see the Mathematics of the Mind in earlier chapters) and gives answers in daily life that we call ‘proverbs’ that are solutions in a general sense, so I’m going to use proverbs to make it easier. To measure, we have to ‘draw a line in the sand’ and not cross it because ‘something that we do every day, we can do forever’. Problem solved! Because we have to exercise the same every day then we can do it forever! In other words, every day we measure and keep up our level of fitness and continue doing this for as long as possible. If we decide to decrease it, we again measure and that equates to the length of our remaining life The second step is what type of exercise, and for a description of exercise as well as everything else, I suggest the Dinky Di Lifestyle Planner Diet (chapter 43).

A second way, is to think that to regain reality, we must measure our exercise because reality only occurs when we measure. Measurement produces reality because everything that you see/measure becomes real to you and that that you don’t see/sense is not part of your reality. So set an amount of exercise to do each day and do it every day. If it becomes too much to do, admit it and reduce the amount of exercise and accept that you will age, or have aged, with that decision.

This brings you to the reality of the Palaeolithic because we are assuming that the food that you consume is varied and nutritious as eaten by the hunter/gathers. However, the second Law of Life cites a relationship between state of mind, nutrition and exercise, and so nutrition has to be brought into the discussion to change our reality from the Palaeolithic to the present and that is shown in chapter 43.

In conclusion, I can imagine the reader saying ‘surely measurement is not that important’, and I would retort that technology is only possible with measurement, and furthermore, I believe that ‘we evolved reality out of the possibility of existence’ and probability space contains space-time and a fifth dimension of measurement/entanglement, and that is the relationship between reality and measurement and they don’t get more related and fundamental than that!

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

February 17, 2015 Darryl Penneymental health, nutrition, Placebo Effect, Survival of the FittestLeave a comment

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:

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.
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.
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 35: The Matthew Principle

January 18, 2015 Darryl Penneyreality shows, Survival of the FittestLeave a comment

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 32: Reality and the Mathematics of the Social Sciences

January 6, 2015January 6, 2015 Darryl PenneyLaw of Conservation, probability space, Survival of the Fittest2 Comments

Chapter 32: Reality and the Mathematics of the Social Sciences

‘Existence’ and ‘reality’ are two subjects that have fascinated people for thousands of years. If you ask the person in the street about those two words, they invariably say that ‘I am real therefore I must exist’ and that is the same as Descartes said in ‘I think, therefore I am’. Unfortunately, I believe this statement to be wrong and it should be ‘we evolved reality from the possibility of existence’. Two proofs are given at the end of the chapter and are quite simple, but they would only disturb the flow if presented here.

Whether we exist or not is a debate that doesn’t immediately concern us, but that we do NOT exist is the simplest answer, but we DO exist in probability of (existence) space. The question of reality should concern us because it can have very important ramifications because I believe that we evolved reality and so have an intimate relationship with it. It will be shown that there is a link between Reality, Survival of the Fittest and Survival of the Best that forms one ‘pillar’ or solution for the future that is put forward by this book. These three concepts (Reality, Survival of the Fittest and Survival of the Best) are the over-arching story of Mankind (including the future) and have often been mentioned in this book, but not brought together before, as they deserve.

Why has existence and reality been such a difficult problem to solve for thousands of years? I suggest that it is difficult to handle because it contains logic, time and life, which are not amenable to mathematics and formal logic. I am using the Mathematics of the Mind to investigate existence and especially reality because it deals with time dependent concepts relative to ourselves. It will be shown that reality is actually one of the family of Half-truths and it needs to be considered as a ‘set’: real, not real, real some of the time and not real the rest of the time and chaos or indeterminacy (real and not real at the same time).

Reality is basic to all organisms and also, between all organisms simply because ALL organisms have to be able to coexist in a reality situation, and that is heritable. The simplicity of this statement belies its importance. Similar to that which I said about entanglement of particles, I believe, not only between two particles, but EVERY particle is inter-linked logically through the Law of Conservation of Energy/mass.

If the reality was not complete, a predator could attack a prey without being seen/heard/felt etc. and that prey would be wiped out quickly as it would be a new untapped readily available food source, so, reality is a precursor to the conditions that operate under Survival of the Fittest. Before Survival of the Fittest has a chance to work, reality has to ‘clear the decks’ of those animals with incomplete realities and this purging brings the system to a steady state when Survival of the Fittest (in its accepted form) takes over. Notice that we have an immune system for the very small, that it is to the parasites’ advantage to not un-necessarily burden the host, fish that live within (isolated) caves are blind etc.

From chapter 12, starting with the generalized schematic of a bony fish (which is more evolved in that they have (from our point of view) control of buoyancy) shows two olfactory lobes connected to the two-lobed telencephalon (concerned mostly with olfaction) (these are the forebrain) then to the two optic lobes (the midbrain) to the single cerebellum (the hindbrain) and the brain stem. Sharks and catfish that hunt by smell have large olfactory lobes and trout, which hunt by sight have large optic lobes.(Wikipedia, Fish, Central nervous system)

It is apparent that the previous brain, prior to the one described in fish was a ‘single cerebellum (the hindbrain) and the brain stem’. The brainstem keeps the body functioning autonomously and the cerebellum is an enhancer of movement but we see a growth of a ‘new’ addition to the brain with evolution in fish and the higher animals. I believe that the basic processes are to be found in the hindbrain, but the growth of this new style of brain was probably due to increased ‘schooling’ of fish and inter-relationships between members for mating etc.

Books tend to say that we evolved life only once, and that is why ALL organisms are able to use other organisms for food, and this occurred because of the difficulty of starting life. In other words, it was so difficult to start Life that it only happened once, but there are many instances of extremophiles existing in extreme situations. Or, is it that a ‘product’ of reality has given us one (apparent) form of life that can (eventually) be eaten by all organisms?

Considering the number and varieties of extremophiles, this is strange! There are many ‘fringe’ extremophiles, but the mainstream apparently either occurred once, or reality decreed one mainstream organism that was edible to all. A quick ‘thought’ experiment suggests that logic dictates that everything should be recycled because otherwise, life would grind to a halt. Everything eats everything else, apart from toxins, which slows predation until seeds are set or the animal dies. In the same way that logic produces entanglement, does logic demand that everything eat every other creature? In effect, yes!

Let’s formalize this thinking. The Law of Conservation of Energy/Matter dictates that the sum of the energy of every particle in the universe must always be 1 and requires logic entanglement to do this. In the same way, the Law of Conservation of Resources (and resources are energy/matter) dictates that the sum of the resources of every organism in the universe is 1,which requires that resources must be recycled and be always available to life-forms. Where there are no resources locally, the organism dies. This indicates that life itself is a consequence of the Law of Conservation of Resources (or Mass/Energy) AND reality. This means that even if the organisms live completely separate lives, upon death, there have to exist organisms or some other method to return the chemicals to atoms for reuse.

I believe that mass and energy are two states of probability (and dark energy/dark matter might be another state) that produce our system. These two states move backwards and forwards (frictionlessly) between themselves and create the heavier elements in suns, eventually cause planets to form, continental drift recycles the continents through volcanoes. In fact, I can’t think of anything that is not recycled through suns or volcanoes. Why not use the phrase Conservation of Resources?

This is a serious question. The experimental fact of entanglement between two particles shows that logically, every particle in the universe must be linked together. If this logic did not apply, we would have ‘spooky’ action at a distance or in a volume. We know that every particle varies its energy as it moves through potential wells, so is there an over arching logic that does the accounting or is there a mechanistic accounting by each particle?

In formulating the three Laws of Life, I used the ‘logic machine’ componentization in the first Law and the second Law. An example of the concept, which is basic to life is, in the first Law, the atom, and in the second Law, the ability to breed. Neither of these examples could be called ‘simple’, and yet they exist in what I maintain is a universe that is a probability space with five dimensions, but one ‘dimension’ is not (currently) recognised, and that is logic. Is a logic ‘machine’ merely a ‘string’ of logic or a mixture?

This paragraph answers the question posed in the paragraph above that it MUST be logic doing the accounting, because measurement is a product of intelligence and affects the universe. Why would measurement affect quantum mechanics? Because our mind/brain uses logic (iteration is logic) and that interacts with the logic of the universe (entanglement).

Take as an example, the dinosaurs that were wiped out by a meteor 65 million years ago, though I have heard that some researchers think that the dinosaurs were under stress before that date. Our ancestors, the mammals comprised shrew-like insectivores living underground and hunting at night. Looking at the following quotation: ‘the corpus callosum is found only in placental mammals (the eutherians), while it is absent in monotremes and marsupials, as well as other vertebrates such as birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish (other groups do have other brain structures that allow for communication between the two hemispheres ….). (Wikipedia, Corpus callosum, Species differences)

The question is, how good was the reptile brain compared to the mammalian brain 65 million years ago. Could one of the mammals have conceived the idea of rolling away a dinosaur egg to eat it in safety and taught others to do similar? This example of an innovation could have had the same impact as the impact of a huge meteor or asteroid, in killing off the dinosaurs, so what is the difference between Survival of the Fittest and reality.

Survival of the Fittest describes evolution, but it is a ‘backwards looking’ indicator and explains after the action is completed. The tiny shrew-like mammals (could have) killed off the huge dinosaurs! Who would have anticipated it! The concept of reality is a forward-looking indicator and can be used as an attractor and become part of the computation in the Mathematics of the Mind and form the prediction. Is this important?

From above, the ‘three concepts (Reality, Survival of the Fittest and Survival of the Best) are the over-arching story of Mankind’ and humanity has been stuck in a ‘rut’ for the last nine thousand years since the advent of agriculture. Our genes change slowly, epigenetics faster, but not as fast as our society. This book is basically about anti ageing and bringing our food, exercise and state of mind to align with our genes and at the same time, carrying this into a logical future using Survival of the Best.

Survival of the Best is a prediction that will solve humanity’s problems by applying the Mathematics of the Mind, but a ‘backward looking’ indicator needs to be replaced by a ‘forward looking’ indicator and possibly reality might join Occam’s razor as an attractor that should always be kept in mind to influence specific solutions.

So, what have we done? Conservation of Energy/mass is the same as Conservation of Resources and there exists a logical entanglement of each particle in the universe to their potential energy. Reality is what we have created out of the possibility of existence. I believe that we used a probability space (of existence) that had 5 dimensions that allowed us to create our space-time reality and not realize that logic is the fifth dimension. The statement 1+1=2 is not space-time, it is a logic dimension (true) and the number of dimensions MUST include everything if it is to be complete. Reality has to be complete otherwise magic appears and that is apparent when we look at the very small (quantum mechanics) and the very large (relativity, existence) and find that they cannot be adequately described by space-time.

How can we solve humanity’s problems unless we use a mathematics of concepts and logic to plan ahead for the future and we will need concepts like Survival of the Best, and for that, we need a forward indicator, such as reality, instead of a backward indicator, such as Survival of the Fittest. The Mathematics of the Mind turns indeterminate patterns into awareness through the Logic of the Half-truth then into predictions, but, from above, that is what reality is doing! Reality is taking life and forming it into a composite that runs smoothly in the aggregate (as Survival of the Fittest) and when using the Mathematics of the Mind, reality produces a prediction.

So, it appears that our mind can influence the universe through logic and that logic operator is some mix of truth/existence/reality. I used the Half-truth in the Mathematics of the Mind for the parts of the book on fundamental physics, existence in the proof below and reality in this investigation. It isn’t a big step to realizing that this can be generalized to include any group that functions under Law and Order, and this indicates that the Mathematics of the Mind is suitable for the Social Sciences because they operate under natural laws and man-made laws. This is another way of determining, as asserted in chapter 2, that the Mathematics of the Mind IS a mathematics that is able to ‘handle’ the softer sciences.

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.

PROOF 1: Descartes was both right and wrong in stating that ‘I think,

therefore I am’, which makes his remark a half-truth, and perhaps he should have said, that ‘we evolved reality out of the possibility of existence’. That we evolved reality is simple (until we delve into it), but the ‘possibility of existence’ needs explaining.

Occam’s Razor states that the simplest explanation is probably the correct one and has been around for centuries. It is not logic because it is imprecise, but it has staying power and must be true to a certain extent. It is actually a solution in the style of the Mathematics of the Mind and is a half-truth and not precise, useful most of the time, but not to be relied upon but should form one pillar of a solution. In other words, ‘that

we do not exist’ is the simplest proposition, but we are real, as we know, but we are real in ‘the possibility of existence’! In other words, probability space! To simplify, existence is a half-truth (we may or may not exist), but the probability of existence is a truth because it is continuous and all-embracing.

The Multiverse has been suggested to hold the infinity of universes with all the different combination of ‘natural constants’, and it is considered that ours is one of them because all of the constants are ‘right’ for our existence (in probability space). Whilst this is un-provable, a moment’s reflection suggests that this is possible, and likely, because all of these universes are in probability space and do not exist! But, Life (on earth) has evolved a reality out of this probability space.

PROOF 2: Previously, it was derived that ‘we evolved reality from the probability of existence’ by using the Mathematics of the Mind. The derivation of the probability of existence, is strengthened by approaching it from another direction. The more directions from which something can be derived, the larger the number of predictions that can be made from it and the ‘better’ the theory.

Our universe is a closed system and we would consider that the Law of Conservation of Energy, would apply and indeed it probably does, but what is this law? ‘In physics, the law of conservation of energy states that the total energy in an isolated system cannot change – it is said to be conserved over time’. (Wikipedia, Conservation of energy) Also, it has one dimension, which is time. (Wikipedia, Conservation law)

It is strange that under this law, our universe would have one dimension (time) and this presumably reflects the logic that we cannot ‘see’ inside that universe and that it is, thus, indeterminate to us because any sampling would change the system (compare quantum mechanics). Current thinking is that our reality operates under space-time and we have to logically live in a ‘conserved’ universe, else it would run out of something eventually. So, where do we find a theoretical model for a conserved space that has the dimensions of space and time?

On the other hand, ‘in quantum mechanics, the probability current (sometimes called probability flux) is a mathematical quantity describing the flow of probability… It is a real vector’. (Wikipedia, Probability current) This isn’t very helpful, but shows that it is used and the dimensions of the Conservation of Probability are ‘total probability always = 1, in whole x, y, z space, during time evolution’ (Wikipedia, Conservation law, conservation of probability, number of dimensions)

This Conservation of Probability aligns with our universe in that we have ‘in whole x, y, z space, during time evolution’. Its not quite space-time because ‘time evolution’ is the same as the ‘time passing’ that I have used previously, and it is not an interval of time. Time interval is man-made, as is space interval in ‘whole x, y, z space’. I want to point out here that we have found a ‘complete’ mathematical ‘statement’, and our world appears to satisfy part of it, but I maintain that by Occam’s razor the simplest and most logical system will probably apply ‘best’, and that is the mathematical system, and is a Truth. So, how does our view of the universe (world O) compare with the mathematical form, and if it differs, why have we complicated things?

The ‘total probability always = 1’ aligns with Conservation of Energy, plus has the logic that every point in the space contributes to the sum and it must do so instantly to avoid local violations. So, every point is ‘entangled’ with every other point in the space constantly and instantly to provide a constant sum of energy. How can this be? The answer is, as we derived previously, what we call gravity, which affects EVERY particle-particle, particle-energy and energy-energy reaction in the universe according to the Law of Conservation of Energy because of a simple attraction that must exist for us to exist (out of the multiverse).

To logically satisfy the law, instantaneous accounting must be kept, and that is done automatically because there is only a constant amount of energy/matter, and photons and matter continually change their energy, as we have seen (Pound-Rebka experiment) to keep the total energy at 1 to satisfy the Law of Conservation of Energy.

So, gravity is the mechanism to provide a universe that we can live in, and that attraction of gravity (between matter, energy etc.) provides a source of energy which is part of the limit 1, Conservation of Energy sets the Conservation of Probability limit of 1, and a set limit of 1 requires instantaneous velocities to be attainable, so that the limit equals 1 at all times. This effect is ‘entanglement’.