Semiotics and Prerogative

Given signs and their denotations, a language represents relations between signs and also perhaps between signs and niches of the real world.

Gödel has proven that any fixed formal system is incomplete.  A successful formal system requires an organic nexus to assess and introduce new signs.

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Victoria University of Wellington has successfully proven the failure of the Victorian headless system.

Rugby

Given the nature of quantum mechanics, how does a puny geek seal a point?

How would one prevent the impossible?

Purely positive republics.      15 July 2009

Intelligent Design

The recent fad of ‘intelligent design,’ a dressed up rehash of the creationist fallacy, is nothing but a curse on the developing and evolving world of post-enlightenment man. Through logical, energetic, and social arguments, I shall attempt to convince that I personally do not hold intelligent design one shred of respect.

The Semantic Universe

Through deed, word, then thought, entities can establish communication. No matter what words are used, there is a difference between the letter and the spirit.

Though we all have but one life, our children may work towards keeping us in their existence.

In the spirit of openness, the attached proposal is here to sketch a concept, however, the implementation requires dedication and time.  The bona in fidele agreement of course would allow academic competition, but for any party to either acquire the source illegally or illicitly, or to use the document in a manner that would result in loss of income to OM Consulting Limited is, de natura, fidele in non bona.

Korero

[Addendum 25 05 2009]

After having been recommended to UBS NZ Limited by UBS AG in Basel, I, as Executive Director of OM Consulting Limited, approached their office in Auckland.  A month after not receiving a reply to my mail I went to their office, where the receptionist informed me that the proposal had been looked at and they would probably not be interested.

Alas, I shall have to establish the company in New York or Edinburgh.  Hopefully UBS AG has an office in Scotland or the willingness to appoint someone to run the company from Scotland or New York.  Unfortunately, with the standard of language and care in the United States Armed Services [read friendly fire incidents] I am currently unable to hire anyone not in the RNZAF or RAF.

Zen and the Student

Last millenium, my interest in meditation and zen reached a point at which I decided to approach a legitimate source of information.  I approached an Order.  The first stage was to watch a video describing the technique of zazen.

Programming and Communication

Communication is the mutually recognised end to end transfer of information.  Programming requires a source and a sink.  When the sink is unaware or unwilling or when the source has any negative motive, then the programming is a violation.

Zen and the Art of Communication

Integrity is complete honesty in thought, word, and deed.  Once one has established integrity, true communication with others is possible.  In order for communication with others to be achieved, the parties must first establish understanding in action.  First, understanding in action requires corroborating evidence between the senses.  Then, understanding through word, be it sound or action or another form of symbolic trade can be attempted.

Through an application of the second Incompleteness Theorem of Gödel, one can readily understand that communication requires complete trust and cooperation, otherwise, since there are infinitely many interpretations for a sequence of symbols, there is no communication, merely assault.  In the case of war, Sun Tzu has ably demonstrated the need for etiquette.

Honour, (i) never lying, cheating, or stealing, and other such lacks of quality, (ii) reporting oneself if such has occured, and (iii) the care of others, is vital when maintaining integrity.  One sees oneself clearly in a perfect mirror more readily than a sullied mirror.

Through integrity, when honour is not at stake, various qualities can be expressed.  Every individual can achieve their own personal preference with respect to qualities.

Church of Life

Godel’s Incompleteness Theora

Dharma and Personality

Wisdom is not consciousness.

Flickering and Meditation

A brief record of a working hypothesis.

On Mad Pain and Martian Pain: My Experienced Pain is Concrete — Even more trouble with Functionalism

David Lewis (1980) talks about two sorts of non-standard pain. Mad pain has a type-identity relationship with normal pain without the normal human behavioural (functional) outputs. Martian pain has a functional relationship with normal human behaviour, but is implemented differently. By trying to account for these different situations, both of which we want to call pain, he tries to define pain as something which happens to normal members of a natural kind.