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Y-combinators, Q-combinators, Sleight of hand, and Magic

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein The truth is the best adventure. - Jordan Peterson Atheists are right. Just not fully right. - Unknown Introduction The sub-title of this blog is "Ontological Mathematics for Engineers". Usually, I don't emphasize the engineering side of this equation too much, since I assume most of my readers are non-engineers interested in Ontological Math (OM). However, in this post we're going to get a little technical, so it's probably going to mostly appeal to people with an engineering/technical background. Per usual however, if you're not technical, hang in there -- I think you'll still find some useful ideas. The only thing in this article that might scare off some people is the concept of a y-combinator , which comes from fundamental computer Science. But we will only deal with the essence of what it represents, and I promise, you won't have to know ...

The State of the (Collective) Monad

If we want a rational and logical world, we cannot expect to achieve that goal by presenting rational and logical arguments. These will always be rejected. So, we must use a different type of reason and logic. The reason and logic of force. Some people, most people, must be forced to be free, as Rousseau put it. In the end, that was an unavoidable rational and logical conclusion. Plato’s Republic was never implanted not because it wasn’t rational and logical enough, but because Plato didn’t have an army to impose the Republic on the people. Plato wanted to create an intellectual Sparta. The Spartans themselves wanted to have the best army in the world, not the best intellectuals. They understood that force, not reason and logic, was what would keep them safe, make them powerful, and turn them into a people of glory. Newman, Dr. Cody. The Ontological Self: The Ontological Mathematics of Consciousness (p. 261). Kindle Edition. Introduction A while back I wrote a post called "Th...

Ontological Math Snigglets #2

Ontological Math Snigglets # 2 More snigglets . They're relatively easy to write, and don't require a big investment to read. And just to be clear, except as noted, these are ideas I came up with on my own independently of the OM books. Once again, most do not directly have anything to do with OM. However, I would make two points about this. First, I did try to select ideas that I think will be appealing to other OM'ers (believe me, I could have added a bunch of computer science entries as well). Second, since OM is a true Theory of Everything, then technically speaking, anything you talk about is a part of OM. Anyways, I hope you enjoy. p.s. Snigglets #1 are here Subtle But Big There should be a word in the English language for the concept of something that is small -- a minor insight say, but yet at the same time imparts a surprisingly large impact. I think a good example of this is the crossing of the event horizon in a black hole. Let's assume you hav...