Saturday, 1 December 2012

They ruined my world

A reductionist leaning. Taking complex concepts and entangling them with those which encompass them in a smaller 'area', as if trying to match a seed with a tree. For example, that the vast majority of what I have posted previously could be reduced to "my back was damaged". You can imagine this as an attempt to predict that which encompasses the result of a chaotic dynamical system from a subset of information in abstract space -  the fields of potential in information space of the original and the reduction often do not overlap accurately, leading to perhaps vastly different outcomes depending on the ability and previous knowledge of the observer. While this is somewhat of a necessity in communication, it is perhaps not such a necessity in terms of internal abstraction.

A set of instructions, attached to a belief system, whose intended outcome confirms the validity of a persons or groups attachment to them. The problem occurs when the above hypothesis is considered - social bonds that form around these concepts which reduce the complexity which emerges from a fundamental to some encompassing vector, coupled with the strength of attachment to a system which social bonds often validate non-empirically, have an untold but potentially catastrophic effect on the connections between underlying systems and the systems which emerge from these instructions. On the one hand, it is an extra layer from which beautiful complexity can arise - on the other, the disparity between different systems which emerge from differing methods of reduction can lead to conflict, and if there is a singular system, the reduction in possibility due to the unquestioned inaccuracies can lock the observer into a set of potentially undesirable outcomes.

And now, some hypocrisy - I believe that whatever has inhabited my head can be essentially reduced to a 'fuzzy' system which quantises based on some unquestionable principles. Thus causing a cascade of something like wave-function collapse, if that could be applied to the outcome of thought, reducing the overall potential of my system, closing off certain desirable outcomes or making them much more difficult to achieve. I should mention that to reach this conclusion, as opposed to simply reading it and using it as a tool, required the application of certain principles and a framework of understanding which reduced the potential of my system to cause intentional harm. I should also note the desire for a non-competetive state between organisms and instead competition between projected potential outcomes. Perhaps this desire has some link with the overall entropy of t he system


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