A work in progress.
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I want to live forever and be happy forever.
@ 2008-09-20 – 17:00:35
Is that realistic?
A work in progress.
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Are my ideas my own?
@ 2008-09-20 – 16:59:12
Of course, anyone who has any idea can say it's their own, no matter which source it came from.
Are they original? I don't know.
Did I have any outside help in formulating my ideas, of course I did, my life experiences and conversations with friends.
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A quick not on experimental science.
@ 2008-09-20 – 16:56:24
I believe that if you want to practice rigorous experimental science you should have an understanding of Meta-analysis.
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Some interesting links.
@ 2008-09-20 – 16:00:15
Commercial quantum computers http://www.dwavesys.com/
Brain wave controllers http://www.emotiv.com/
Nice toys http://www.spookypop.com/
Nice steampunk props http://www.wetanz.com/collectibles/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=48
The most secure USB memory http://www.ironkey.com/
Topos theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topos_theory
Gödel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godel
Wardriving software http://www.kismetwireless.net/
Best book on memes http://www.amazon.co.uk/Virus-Mind-New-Science-Meme/dp/0963600117
Funky toys http://www.zolo.com/
Funky kitchen stuff http://www.alessi.co.uk/
DMT http://thespiritmolecule.com/
Singularity http://singularity.com/themovie/
Call of Cthulhu http://www.cthulhulives.org/toc.html
Time travel http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/New_Theoritical_Model_Eliminates_Barriers_To_Time_Travel_999.html
Good all round martial arts http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Body-Kick-Ass-Moves/dp/B0009VJY4I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1221920540&sr=8-1
TEMPEST http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEMPEST
Power and strategy compilation http://www.amazon.co.uk/Laws-Power-Joost-Elffers-production/dp/1861972784/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221920659&sr=1-1
Mr. SQUID http://www.starcryo.com/MrSQUID.pdf
Wonder Words http://www.wonderwizards.com/index.php?cPath=1
Our best hope for strong AI http://www.novamente.net/
Omega Point http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Point_(Tipler)
Chaos Magick http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_magic
Fractals http://www.btinternet.com/~ndesprez/
Piracetam http://www.qhi.co.uk/
RFID Implants http://www.verichipcorp.com/
Scaled Composites http://www.scaled.com/
Oakley http://oakley.com/
Wicked Lasers http://www.wickedlasers.com/
Holography kit http://litiholo.com/
Mental Gear http://www.mentalgear.com/
Vyrus http://www.vyrus.it/
Luminor Panerai http://www.panerai.com/s_page.xpd?id_lingua=2&id_sezione=1
Supperclub http://www.supperclub.com/
500 in one electronics set http://www.amazon.co.uk/500-Electronic-Project-Lab-Kit/dp/B000LR9E4A/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=kids&qid=1221922034&sr=1-2
Best books on programming http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Computer-Programming-Information-Processing/dp/0201485419/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221922396&sr=1-2
Best book on computers http://www.amazon.co.uk/Code-Language-DV-Undefined-Charles-Petzold/dp/0735611319/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221922432&sr=1-1
ZYVEX http://www.zyvex.com/
REPRAP http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome
Zeilinger http://www.quantum.at/zeilinger
William Gilbert http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_william_gilbert.htm
RFC-1 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0001.txt?number=1
and search on Sunny Cruz if you are over 18 (check country laws.) and like VERY attractive glamour models.
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Correlation/Coincidence and Causation.
@ 2008-09-20 – 13:30:29
I and many others have referred to a concept called causation.
And yet, in any scientific experiment I have performed, discussed or could imagine,
I don't believe I could ever empirically observe a causation, only corollation or coincidence.Correlation having the same meaning as coincidence. Coincidence being that one event coincides with another.
Even in reviewing the models of force interactions of sub atomic particles, I can only ever imagine the measurement of coincidence and not a presumed causative link.
To presume causation is to reduce a theory back down to a hypothesis, if you do not have empirical observation of a causative link, just correlation.
Even if you breakdown the measurement into lower scale or previous events, you will only find more correlation and not causation.
Correlation is observable, where as causation is imagined.
You could of course revise your semantics of "causation" to mean "Always coincides under specified conditions." but you could only test the validity of the application of the word "causation" by having access to empirical data for all occurrences.
The phrase "correlation does not imply causation." whilst not being an invalid statement, Is of no useful value, other than implying "Beware of the use of correlation as a tool until you have a trustworthy amount of it.", as to its trustworthiness, that can only be ascertained after repeated experiments. (or estimations thereof.)
Google use correlation without theory in their analysis of data to improve advertising revenue.
I should imagine Google use Bayesian networks or artificial neural networks in their analysis of data, Those networks would allow correlation information to inform action. Many spam filters rely on Bayesian analysis to accurately identify spam by building a probability network of words and their occurrence in messages. Beware, bayesian networks are open to bayesian poisoning. (look it up.)
It is very difficult if not on the verge of impossibility to extract Hypothesis or Theory from complex bayesian or neural networks (with the tools that I am aware of.). You just have to rely on it's measured usefulness.
Imagine this loose hypothetical situation, Every time you place your hand on an object that has very fast vibrations (hot), an undetected mischievous alien uses some sort of device to increase the vibrations of your hand (now your hand is hot), to elevate the correlation between the hot object and your hot hand to "the hot object CAUSES my hand to be hot." would be a mistake if you want to keep your theory as a theory. But we are still left with a causation, the alien, but how about NOTHING causes it, not even the alien, nothing can rule that out and that is to deny causation. (you will find it contradicts another of my hypothesis, but so what, I guess at least one is invalid. But as we can't guess which one is invalid without empirical observation, we have to assume positive probabilities for both.). My opinion is, that you could take a version of the alien hypothesis to the smallest scale and it would still apply.
You may want to try this experiment:
Download and install Thunderbird email client. (this has a built in bayesian filter.)
Get a free email account from goggle (or other) and setup Thunderbird to receive the email.
Sign up to as many newsletters (The more regular the better, daily ones are best.) on the most wide ranging of topics. (astrology, art, celebrity news, reuters, daily weather, etc.)
Choose a measurable concept such as Horses winning a race beginning with the letter S, or how many times attractive people look my in the eye.
Set a threshold on the measurable concept such as 3 or more horses.
At the end of each day, check if the number of horses beginning with the letter S reached 3 (your threshold.) and if they did, mark all the emails for that day as not spam, or if not then mark as spam. (this all relies on the basis that Thunderbird does not mark spam based upon sender, but on word probability.)
After training for a length of time (don't ask me.) you emails arriving automatically marked as spam or not will show weather there is a correlation between your data sources via email and the chosen measurable concept.
Remember to adjust timing for the teaching of the bayesian network, whether you looking for correlation before or after an event. (or something!

Viola, you have now setup your own data mining/ artificial intelligence experiment with no need of complex math or programming skills.
Good luck.
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A revised position on Freewill.
@ 2008-09-20 – 13:22:30
Could anyone seriously claim Nature is wrong?
Right are those things that happen, Wrong are those things that don't.
I don't believe in freewill as I have no evidence of freewill.
I believe I have experienced making choices (just like a computer makes
choices.) I believe I also had emotional feelings that influenced the
outcome of those choices, BUT the only evidence I could imagine of
having freewill would be to perform that choice again and again to see
if there is a different outcome AND only in the EXACT (every molecule
in nature, my memories and feelings all being the same. Obviously no
memory of making the choice previously.) same conditions as the
original choice. Also to believe in freewill would be deny causality or
at least repeatable correlation and that would mean the breakdown of
logic and science.No freewill just can't be, In the same way randomness just can't be
(and when I say random I mean RANDOM, not a level of complexity we
can't measure because of a lack of technology. as in a casino or a
subjective interpretation of a quantum event.)And if anyone suggested that Freewill relies on randomness. Well that
would imply a lack of any WILL at all being involved as it would be
RANDOM.Does this suggest we have no will? Not at all, I have experienced that
which I call will, I just don't believe it is free.My will is directed by my memories, my tastes, my values, the time, my
location, in fact the state of all of the universe which has any affect
on me. but it has never been free, only directed by the laws of nature,
which my very being, mind, emotions, experience are part of.I don't claim to know all things that have occurred, and I certainly
don't claim to know all things that haven't occurred, How could I know
that, THEY HAVEN'T OCCURRED?
I am not free as to the choice of walking down the road, The mugger is
not free as to the choice of mugging, the jury is not free as to the
choice of assigning guilt to the mugger and politicians, society, media
are not free as to the choices they make that affect society and it's
laws in the future.I do not try to impose my likes and dislikes on such absolute terms as
right and wrong, No, I leave that up to the absolute everything, that's
right, Nature as a whole. Any partition of nature that we use to define
right or wrong will be lacking. Right are those things that
happen/exist, Wrong are those things that don't.This also implies that there is no such thing as freedom, as freedom requires freewill.
Should you find yourself in a field, on a beach or in a jail cell. In each case your very movements are not free and the reason why you find yourself in such a location has not been free.