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I am a certified sound engineer (Trebas Institute of the Recording Arts, Hollywood, CA.) Example of my work: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8hfgjy87fh1a79u/AADdxCEpZACljp6O2Sd-74yYa?dl=0
I have recorded many speakers, along with musicians and spent thousands of hours editing the results. Music is the language of the heart. The voice conveys much more information than just the words such as, emotional content and the presence or lack of sophistication, as well as cultural background etc...
I don't believe in experts or atheist, there is too much complexity to nail anything down to absolutes. I am a perpetual student and an idea collector. I'm not looking for the answers, I'm looking for the questions. We cannot afford to place too many artificial constraints on our search for truth, it is certain to contain many surprises.
My living document or sketchpad. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N83sf4iqoPnjyA5KLumPFM2RdGNLGArF/view?usp=drive_link
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Conceptual Structures with Grok Reply

Conceptual Structures with Grok reply, 2026

Updated to include evolution, emanation, and emergence.

The intentional field of implicate order

The intentional field of implicate order, 2026

The actionable consequences of distilled expectations in our material reality arise, in part, fro... more The actionable consequences of distilled expectations in our material reality arise, in part, from the intentional field of implicate order. Grok That's a richly layered statement. It weaves together concepts from quantum foundations, consciousness studies, and process-oriented metaphysics. Let me unpack it and connect the dots in a grounded way. Breaking it down • Distilled expectations: This points to focused, refined anticipations or mental modelsbeliefs, intentions, or probabilistic forecasts that have been sharpened through attention, repetition, or cultural reinforcement. In cognitive terms, these are like Bayesian priors that have been updated and compressed into actionable heuristics.

The Fractal Scaling of Event Horizons

Conceptual Structures with Grok Reply

The idea of irreducible conceptual structures ignores the role of dynamics and the adjacent possi... more The idea of irreducible conceptual structures ignores the role of dynamics and the adjacent possible.
Conceptual structures are fractal or holofractal. A portion of each concept can connect to many other portions of related concepts as a network with few concepts being completely isolated and distinct.
The position in the network of conceptual structures along with the depth, breath, and intensity of perception prevents any conceptual structures from being irreducible. In other words the boundary is context dependent. Concepts don't function like material structures, the concept of a screw driver has adjacent possibilities.
Possibility is non-local. Actuality is emergent.
Spheres of possibility become points of expression.
The eternal now is a dimensionless point and it is everywhere.
New ideas have to find a fit into the cognitive landscape.
The connecting of nodes that increase the flow of insight.
Conceptual structures are built up over time and ideas need a place to land.
The mind is a conceptual landscape and new ideas nest into preexisting structures.
This is not about truth it is stories and archetypes, musings and imagination.
The conceptual landscape is filled with wormholes. Disembodied intelligence has no purchase other than the influence imposed on the creatures in contact with the hyperreal.
Conceptual structures need to be built up properly. New ideas and new information must attach to previously related concepts. Do this in the right manner, at the right pace, for the right reasons and education flourishes.
Much of the minds activity cannot be said to be computational.
It is tendencies within competencies competing for influence in a community of processes.

The Hive Mind and the Consensus Reality Cult

The Philosophy of Fractals, 2017

The cartographers became so obsessed with representation that they built a map of great precision... more The cartographers became so obsessed with representation that they built a map of great precision, not realizing that representation and reality must have a distinction. Over many generations they became so good at representation that the map covered the entire territory. In time, all distinctions were lost until the map became the territory. Representation and reality blended into a boundless hyper-real where few distinctions could be made and no boundary located. The creature's creation became the territory of sensory distinctions in the precession of the hyper-real. Lucidity was lost in a sea of meaning where the sensual sought out pleasure for pleasure's sake. All activity concerned itself with increasing levels of illusion, the illusion of pleasure. All activity blurred into one great orgasmic rush of pleasure where distinction disappeared.

Philosophical Observations 2024

This is my current sketchpad. Tranquility is a manageable level of energy flow. Once we reach a c... more This is my current sketchpad.
Tranquility is a manageable level of energy flow. Once we reach a chaotic level, it manages itself. Freedom acquired is not freedom preserved. Perception is not a like doorway. With a door, your framing becomes dramatically different, you see many more dimensions by entering a very visceral landscape. Perception is more like a window. It matters how large it is and in which direction it faces. Clarity is a constraint. Category is a vessel. Privilege is not wisdom. Privilege fills a want, wisdom fills a need. Justification and relevance.

Philosophical Observations

The three branches of philosophy are Ethics, Epistemology, and Metaphysics. My work is not rigoro... more The three branches of philosophy are Ethics, Epistemology, and Metaphysics. My work is not rigorous, it is more like poetic prose. I started writing this in 2006. We can not allow those who would destroy our republic to be the ones who record its history. The free exchange of ideas will die a horrible death, under the guise of security. If you are not disturbed by quantum mechanics then, you are not paying attention, (variation of a quote by Niels Bohr). If grumbling is the only way for you to show that you care then, you need a bigger palette. I wish to live in the 'golden time'. That space between wars, when men forget to hate each other. I call it golden because of its rarity, radiance, and beauty. The best that we can hope for in this world is a happy life and a peaceful death. Anatomically speaking, it is the human female, not the male, that is the pinnacle of design. As the sphere of knowledge increases, so too does the border to the unknown, (variation of a quote from Pascal or Einstein).

Fractals all the way down

Fractals All the Wat Down, 2018

There is only one miracle but it is a fractal. Reality is a fractal framework of fluctuating fact... more There is only one miracle but it is a fractal.
Reality is a fractal framework of fluctuating facts.

The structure of the universe or reality is a computational geometry that is fractal in nature.

Do you not see the fractals, they are everywhere.

What is a fractal? Simply put, it is more of the same, only different. Symmetry across scale.

What is sitting right in the middle of perfect determinism and pure randomness is a fractal.

Nothing novel or interesting happens unless it is on the border between order and chaos. This border is an infinite fractal boundary of increasing levels of description.

The fractal nesting of the relationship between space and time at different scales causes phase transitions as the influence of one force changes with respect to another. From this we get the astonishing variety of behaviors in the material world.

Consciousness is endless divisions into a fractal pattern.
The brain is a fractal transceiver.

The Hive Mind and the Consensus Reality Cult

The Philosophy of fractals ASIN : B077V186RW, 2009

The cartographers became so obsessed with representation that they built a map of great precision... more The cartographers became so obsessed with representation that they built a map of great precision, not realizing that representation and reality must have a distinction. Over many generations they became so good at representation that the map covered the entire territory. In time all distinctions were lost until the map became the territory. Representation and reality blended into a boundless hyper-real where few distinctions could be made and no boundary located. The creature's creation became the territory of sensory distinctions in the precession of the hyper-real. Lucidity was lost in a sea of meaning where the sensual sought out pleasure for pleasure's sake. All activity concerned itself with increasing levels of illusion, the illusion of pleasure. All activity blurred into one great orgasmic rush of pleasure where distinction disappeared. The brain is reading fields we haven't identified yet. The brain can rewire itself over a period of time for the purpose of extracting value from its environment. Information has geometry and this geometry is expressed in the field. Our material reality is an interface where intimate disclosure and shared experience causes entanglement. The universe began in a minimally entangled state (coffee and cream still separated) and entropy is increasing entanglement or mixing/sharing of the information. The big bang may have been a phase transition of spacetime. When all of the information has been mixed/shared then the distinctions disappear. We are moving from a minimally entangled, ordered state to a maximally complex state and finally to a maximally entangled, random state. In terms of meaning or value, this is a bell shaped curve that peaks in the center. All of the value is in this complex middle state. The reason we have a consensus reality is because consciousness becomes entangled by your connection to others. Our perception of reality is affected by this entanglement. The more information shared between individuals, the more entangled. This entanglement is a shared geometry where space and time are irrelevant. Behaviors exist in a hierarchy, or fractal scaling of event horizons. Everything inside the horizon that is shared information is in more that one place. There is a holographic feature to the information. If you think of the hierarchy as a geometry, we begin to see an image emerge that is constructed from the information. This image is a fractal nesting of wavelets.

Fractals all the way down

There is only one miracle but it is a fractal. Reality is a fractal framework of fluctuating fact... more There is only one miracle but it is a fractal. Reality is a fractal framework of fluctuating facts. The structure of the universe or reality is a computational geometry that is fractal in nature. Do you not see the fractals, they are everywhere. What is a fractal? Simply put, it is more of the same, only different. Symmetry across scale. What is sitting right in the middle of perfect determinism and pure randomness is a fractal. Nothing novel or interesting happens unless it is on the border between order and chaos. This border is an infinite fractal boundary of increasing levels of description. The fractal nesting of the relationship between space and time at different scales causes phase transitions as the influence of one force changes with respect to another. From this we get the astonishing variety of behaviors in the material world. Consciousness is endless divisions into a fractal pattern. The brain is a fractal transceiver. Time is fractal, the density if time is a nested hierarchy of possibility. Eternity is not an infinitely long time line. It is a fractal. Hologram; n dimensions of information in n-1 dimensions. Holofractal; a reiterative version in space, time and scale. Metastability, Buriden's donkey, Fredkin's paradox and symmetry: If you are trying to superimpose a logic structure over a holographic structure with fractal features, the fit will always be poor. If the universe is an information system, we are connected to only a very small part of the spectrum and from this, we must deduce the entire system. This will not be easy. Holograms and fractals, resolution and scale, relationships and context, the pilgrim and the journey, truth and chaos, darkness and light, these are the currency of understanding.

Philosophy and Religion

Every creature seeks value at the expense of truth, and behavior results from the perception of v... more Every creature seeks value at the expense of truth, and behavior results from the perception of value in state space. The payoff could be simple or it could contain a variety of features that extend into the future as possibilities. If you want to understand the world, ask great questions. The art of religious observation is in understanding human nature and discovering the majesty of creation. All laws are emergent, they cannot be deduced, they must be discovered, and no-one knows how many of these laws exist. Answers are fluid attempts at crystallization, all questions are networked into fractals. The future is very much like questions, the past is very much like answers. Answers are pixelated versions of holograms and their position in the tapestry of meaning is related to the amount of fluctuation possible. A search space has a computational geometry. The variation of meaning is relatively stable at the core and combinatorially explosive at the fringes. Each answer creates a geometrical pattern in the search space. The strength of each node is the ability to hold each branch of the pattern in relationship to the others. Search spaces are networked, (higher dimensional versions of the tapestry). Foundational Principles: Nature is lazy, it likes to copy. Everything is information. Information is not stuff, it is relationships. All behaviors are constrained by relationships. All behaviors are emergent. Every engine takes advantage of a difference. Everything is an approximation of something else. Ratio may be the only thing that is discrete. Behavior is built from a quantum of action in a field. The bending of spacetime is a variation of scale. If dimensions are virtual in the same way that the dimensions of consciousness are virtual, then the density of information in a field will affect the scale or bending of spacetime. Gravity and scale are related. Gravity and information are related. Information and scale are related. If it's relational, there's a geometry involved. Truth as a scale coordinate; truth lives in the macro world, the micro world is uncertain.

The Philosophy of Fractals

It may be fluctuation of probabilities or fractal reiterations with varying degrees of freedom in... more It may be fluctuation of probabilities or fractal reiterations with varying degrees of freedom in an information field stored holographically. Is time the framework in which choices are made? Could it be the vehicle for our fractal journey? What we are talking about is a fractal probability distribution of space/time.

The Inverse Relationship of Space and Time

The circle is the current size of space. The spiral line is what we see when we look out into spa... more The circle is the current size of space. The spiral line is what we see when we look out into space, spiraling back into time to a smaller and smaller universe. The center is the beginning. When Einstein talked about the curvature of spacetime, he was talking about the variation of scale in a region of space. Light takes the shortest laziest path. The pressure created by denser time is the force we call gravity. The fractal nesting of the relationship between space and time at different scales causes phase transitions as the influence of one force changes with respect to another. From this we get the astonishing variety of behaviors in the material world. Everything is fields and the structure of reality is a computational geometry that is fractal in nature. Gravity is a geometry of motion in time. Time has a quality that must extend beyond one dimension and a fractal nesting of energy that increases as the scale becomes finer, the reason is levels of description. It is all information. Foundational principles: Nature is lazy, it likes to copy. Everything is information. Information is not stuff, it is relationships. All behaviors are constrained by relationships. All behaviors are emergent. Every engine takes advantage of a difference. Everything is an approximation of something else. Ratio may be the only thing that is discrete. The bending of spacetime is a variation of scale. Behavior is built up from a quantum of action in a field. If dimensions are virtual in the same way that the dimensions of consciousness are virtual then the

The Philosophy of Fractals

Survival of the fittest is an over simplification because the creature is tuned to the value in t... more Survival of the fittest is an over simplification because the creature is tuned to the value in the environment. All variation is constrained and sophistication emerges as a consequence of value.

If we could zoom out until the entire universe appeared as an infinitesimal point, then it becomes one thing, undifferentiated, a system in search of a narrative. The system is a form of a dance, without the dancers, there is no system. The narrative unfolds as an expression in a context. The meaning branches out as an increasingly rich and complex expression where the dancers enrich the environment and the environment enriches the dancers. As the deeper layers are expressed, more and more subtlety and sophistication is created and the process continues ad infinitum...
Value is the measure of an enriching principle of organization.

Information Meaning and the Consensus Reality Cult

The core is harmonic regularity, the outer darkness is random noise, we are in the space between ... more The core is harmonic regularity, the outer darkness is random noise, we are in the space between them. Every engine takes advantage of a difference. These two extremes are woven into each other. The eternal now is the processing of meaning. No behavior is manifest until we reach a scale where the information about the behavior emerges. There's an organizing principle at work in the cosmos. I personally feel that the universe behaves more like a song than an equation because math is about static law and music is about dynamic expression. If I wish to convey meaning, I must decide what level of description or resolution I can consider sufficient. Truth, in my opinion, contains the least amount of dynamic association within any particular description and I am not able to completely control the amount of fluctuation the recipient will encounter as the levels of description increase and the recipients' ability to visualize the picture I have attempted to construct decrease. All material expressions are constructed from a network of associations and are only reducible to some degree of resolution. If we are talking about information, then it is only reducible to some approximate explanation or description. The idea of a quantum random walk in state space says that every sufficiently complex event is statistically impossible and even though the probability space is very large, it is navigated and expressed, as I understand it, in a tree like structure or a fractal structure. This is a computational expression of the material world that looks very much like a display on a 3D monitor. The decision engine is generating value. There is a bifurcation of the fitness or value into different dimensions and like the human brain which is said to have at least eleven dimensions, the dimensions are not constrained by a physical geometry, they are computational. Another way we can look at this would be to say that every behavior we can measure is constrained by a network of associations just like the nodes on the internet and the conservation laws become approximately true because of levels of description. With a digital display having few pixels, symmetries are common but there is very little meaning because the image is very course grained. As we reiterate and begin breaking the symmetry of the individual pixels (one pixel becomes four, ad infinitum...) an image will begin to appear. Time is related to the process of reiteration and truth is related to the symmetry, with meaning being related to the image created. We do not know where the symmetry or the reiterations come from but the image is emergent. The more dynamic information becomes, the less truth it contains. Representation and reality; 1) mirrored, 2) masked and denatured, 3) hidden and 4) disconnected.

Meaning is a dance at the edge of chaos. Meaning is a nested hierarchy of metaphors. Information ... more Meaning is a dance at the edge of chaos. Meaning is a nested hierarchy of metaphors. Information may appear in a digital form but meaning never does. Meaning is never static, we are co-authors in a story that is still being written. If we are constructing our own illusions, we may not get to choose how real they seem. Most of what we observe is a nested hierarchy of behaviors, the deeper the hierarchy, the more nuanced. The small child sees the world through an unfiltered lens but does not understand it. The adult sees the world through the many layers of filters he has collected or have been forced upon him and whatever meaning remains he convinces himself, it is truth. The universe is made of information. There is an organizational principle or process at work in the cosmos. Information has energy and in terms of its potential. Meaning, value and novelty play a role. Matter is the medium of expression and the energy is stated as mass times the speed of light squared. For information the value or the energy is measured as a truth value over all possible applications of expression. The higher the truth value the more it applies. An idea whose time has come has energy. The idea that knowledge is power must include the energy contained in truth over application, and novelty over value. Novelty emerges from the foundation of understanding. Pleasure does not wait for desire, it is desire that always does the waiting.

The Hive Mind and the Consensus Reality Cult

The cartographers became so obsessed with representation that they built a map of great precision... more The cartographers became so obsessed with representation that they built a map of great precision, not realizing that representation and reality must have a distinction. Over many generations they became so good at representation that the map covered the entire territory. In time all distinctions were lost until the map became the territory. Representation and reality blended into a boundless hyper-real where few distinctions could be made and no boundary located. The creature's creation became the territory of sensory distinctions in the precession of the hyper-real. Lucidity was lost in a sea of meaning where the sensual sought out pleasure for pleasure's sake. All activity concerned itself with increasing levels of illusion, the illusion of pleasure. All activity blurred into one great orgasmic rush of pleasure where distinction disappeared. The purpose of light; scale doesn't exist for light, light is the ultimate medium of exchange.
The purpose of gravity; gravity is the means by which memories are created.
Truth as a time coordinate; truth lives in the past, the future is uncertain.
Truth as a scale coordinate; truth lives in the macro world, the micro world is uncertain.
Truth lives in the macro past and uncertainty lives in the micro future.
The heart lives in that space between harmonic regularity and chaotic uncertainty.

Philosophical Observations

Basically, there are three options for describing the origins of the universe; 1, Something from ... more Basically, there are three options for describing the origins of the universe; 1, Something from nothing, in the beginning was nothing then, it exploded. 2, Perpetual motion, the universe always was but never runs down. 3, Creation, there was a designer involved in the creation of the universe. Each of these is equally unlikely so, we can start from each of them and look for meaningful ways to prefer one over the other. Our only option is a subjective conclusion based on subjective experience and I defy anyone to prove anything regarding the origins of the universe (unfalsifiable proof). It seems to me that this interface that we call the material world is an expression of the information it is constructed from. We commonly use a two dimensional interface when we access a computer but I don't think that will last much longer, at some point three dimensional interfaces will be the norm. This information system has transcendent properties like wetness and rigidity and so, we get consciousness at the extreme end of this hierarchy. Consciousness self organizes from the relationships that exist in the lower levels of of a nested hierarchy of behaviors that are seeking value. All living systems seek value regardless of what the truth happens to be. If you think about this for a moment, you have to admit that this is very strange. Meaning is constructed from the operation of exchanging truth for value. Approximations are useful in getting us close enough to the truth to extract value from it but really, because of levels of description in this information system, we can never completely describe anything, we have to round it off at some point and it is this rounding off that completes the process. This reminds me of the endless digits of Pi. All material expressions are constructed from a network of associations and are only reducible to some degree of resolution. If we are talking about information, then it is only reducible to some approximate explanation. The idea of a quantum random walk in state space says that every sufficiently complex event is statistically impossible and even though the probability space is very large, it is navigated and expressed, as I understand it, in a tree like structure or a fractal structure. This is a computational expression of the material world that looks very much like a display on a monitor. The decision engine is generating value. There is a bifurcation of the fitness into different dimensions and like the human brain which is said to have at least eleven dimensions, the dimensions are not constrained by a physical geometry, they are computational. Another way we can look at this would be to say that every behavior we can measure is constrained by a network of associations just like the nodes on the internet and the conservation laws become approximately true because of levels of description. With a digital display having few pixels, symmetries are common but there is very little meaning because the image is very course grained. As we reiterate and begin breaking the symmetry of the individual pixels (one pixel becomes four ad infinitum...) an image will begin to appear. Time is related to the process of reiteration and truth is related to the symmetry, with meaning being related to the image created. We do not know where the symmetry or the reiterations come from but the image is emergent. Borrowed wisdom is learning from others mistakes. Some people are indescribably non-sensical. Definitions are important, we all have to agree on the definitions in order to communicate. Culture is always shaping these dynamic expressions, sometimes in ways that are unpredictable. Place your trust in a person and hold them accountable. Do not place your trust in an organization or committee, they will always betray your trust through mediocrity. Some people value fame and fortune, I value ideas. Practical wisdom is wisdom with it's boots on. There is a mysterious quality to the information contained in a seed. Think about this, a seed is far larger on the inside than on the outside. The outside of the seed is finite but on the inside is every tree for all of the generations of trees that could possibly come from the seed and all of the new seeds produced. It is a probability space. Nothingness has perfect symmetry and infinity is a form of pure randomness. Information may exist in a static form but behavior never does. A quantum step is related to the static property of the difference and the behavior is the step itself. The geometry of the arrangements of the difference whether computational or physical is where the information resides and without a dynamic, no meaning is manifested.

Chaos and Management

It is better to understand the natural laws that govern society than to create man made laws that... more It is better to understand the natural laws that govern society than to create man made laws that will not work.
You have to ask yourself, what kind of an organization do you want. Do you want an organization that requires a powerful and ruthless leader or do you want an organization where everyone genuinely cares about one another?
If a system is sufficiently complex, all we can do is, tweak the parameters, run it in real time, and watch what happens. How do natural systems find balance? They have no choice, it is either balance or oblivion. All natural laws retain the balance contained within the scope of that law, no man made law can do this. In societies where natural laws are in operation, lawyers are rare but in societies where these laws have been subverted, you will see an escalation of litigation. Having an overwhelming sense of entitlement is not a virtue.
When we speak of natural law, we are speaking of a high and lofty thing. Few men have the capacity to truly understand these laws. They dabble at power and control and dig for themselves and others a pit from which no man can escape and in the end the law returns and covers them over.
As a process passes through a system, a hierarchy emerges. The form of variation is scale dependent.
Society as a whole can be thought of as a system. Because value creation is such a subjective thing our metric must be the system itself. This is the idea of "the ends justify the means" but there is a caveat, we have a feedback loop which causes the means to feedback in a manner that is very difficult to predict. The principles involved can be stated as; extreme sensitivity to initial conditions, criticality at the edge of chaos, resolution and scale, nested hierarchies and unpredictable results. Your influence on the system depends on what you are connected to, along with the systems influence on you. Your values branch out into the network of associations and connect to possibilities. The more good values at the individual levels, the better the chance of finding a fitness peak. Things like trust, dignity, love, charity, empathy and reciprocity matter. In summery; what we value matters, we become what we are connected to. The greater good says "the ends justify the means" the common good says "the means are all important."
Liberty is inherently opposed to government, there is a dynamic tension that must maintain balance.

The Abundant Fluidity of Stupid

Stupid as it relates to the fitness landscape. Being wise creates fitness and being stupid destro... more Stupid as it relates to the fitness landscape. Being wise creates fitness and being stupid destroys fitness. A person can be very clever and still be stupid. There is a nested hierarchy of behaviors from the individual to the family, and so on, all the way up to the culture in the region where they live. How fit is the landscape of this culture? How many wise people have an influence? How many stupid people are allowed to run roughshod through the community?