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What is Reality? - Part4 (Self Understanding and Reality)
Perhaps the most delicate and certainly the most important area of which the individual seeks an understanding to some extent, which may vary from person to person, is that of his/her psyche or mind in relation to his/her existence where the term mind is viewed as the capacity for thought or mental activity. Most people, if not all, at some time, seek to understand themselves or this mental activity through which they can define an identity of their own, with a view towards finding some meaning or purpose in their existence. Philosophy itself seeks an answer to this quest on a broader basis.
The method of approach used towards the attainment of such an understanding is generally the observation of one's thoughts, feelings, desires, etc., in addition to one's behaviour, and the subsequent attempt to find some logical interrelation between these factors on the basis of which a “sensible” deduction can be made. The above-stated factors may be considered to be subjective knowledge, i.e. knowledge of the effects of the mind. Perhaps the stated description of a general method of approach may not be very exact, seeing that each individual decides his/her method of approach. Yet it appears that in most cases, strong emphasis is placed on the use of logical reasoning applied to subjective knowledge. As is commonly stated, most people try to make sense, i.e. logical sense ,of it all. However, this raises the question: Is it possible for the human mind to arrive at a true and complete understanding of itself through the process of logical reasoning seeing it can only acquire subjective knowledge of itself, i.e. knowledge of its effects?
Through the process of logical reasoning, the human mind may try to arrive at an explanation of the causes that produce these effects, but it can never acquire objective knowledge of itself directly in order that it may validate the deductions it made about itself through logical reasoning. For to acquire objective knowledge of itself, i.e. direct knowledge of the causes responsible for its effects, mind would have to break itself into fragments and then make observations about these fragments thereby acquiring direct knowledge about the causes of its effects. This obviously would be impossible since mind would no longer exist, seeing that now there would only be fragments of mind and not mind as a whole to make the observations about its fragments.
The method of approach used towards the attainment of such an understanding is generally the observation of one's thoughts, feelings, desires, etc., in addition to one's behaviour, and the subsequent attempt to find some logical interrelation between these factors on the basis of which a “sensible” deduction can be made. The above-stated factors may be considered to be subjective knowledge, i.e. knowledge of the effects of the mind. Perhaps the stated description of a general method of approach may not be very exact, seeing that each individual decides his/her method of approach. Yet it appears that in most cases, strong emphasis is placed on the use of logical reasoning applied to subjective knowledge. As is commonly stated, most people try to make sense, i.e. logical sense ,of it all. However, this raises the question: Is it possible for the human mind to arrive at a true and complete understanding of itself through the process of logical reasoning seeing it can only acquire subjective knowledge of itself, i.e. knowledge of its effects?
Through the process of logical reasoning, the human mind may try to arrive at an explanation of the causes that produce these effects, but it can never acquire objective knowledge of itself directly in order that it may validate the deductions it made about itself through logical reasoning. For to acquire objective knowledge of itself, i.e. direct knowledge of the causes responsible for its effects, mind would have to break itself into fragments and then make observations about these fragments thereby acquiring direct knowledge about the causes of its effects. This obviously would be impossible since mind would no longer exist, seeing that now there would only be fragments of mind and not mind as a whole to make the observations about its fragments.
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What Is Reality?- Part 1 (The Question)
What is reality? Is it strictly the world based on sense-experience as perceived through the medium of the physical senses? How justified is this claim? Socially-accepted concepts of sense-experience reality arise when there is common agreement by society on the interpretation of sense-experience phenomena. Such interpretations may result in the postulation of the so-called scientific laws of nature. Yet, these interpretations are just “interpretations”. One never knows when some brilliant person will come along and show that some aspect of our present socially-accepted interpretation of sense-experience phenomena is no longer valid and propose some other interpretation in its place. This indeed is the history of science in which several scientific laws and theories have undergone modification or even rejection in some cases. When can we ever say that we know things as they are? Or perhaps more importantly, can we really know things as they are? What really is the criterion for reality?
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What is Reality? – Part3 (Logic and Physical Sense Experience)
A closer examination of the various aspects of socially-accepted concepts of sense-experience reality mentioned previously reveals the presence of two basic underlying factors: reliance upon the experience of the physical senses and the use of Aristotelian logic. This logic is used in an attempt to extend the range of physical sense-experience through speculation to areas where techniques are not yet available to enable actual physical sense experience. Essentially, therefore, the socially-accepted concepts of sense-experience reality mentioned may be considered to be based almost exclusively on physical sense-experience, either directly or indirectly.
By its very nature, Aristotelian logic must necessarily view a unified whole as fragmentary parts, make observations about these parts and then attempt to link these observations, and thereby obtain an explanation of the whole. The accuracy of the explanation arrived at is dependent not only upon the accuracy of the observations, which are themselves limited in their accuracy due to physical sense limitations, but also upon whether or not all properties of the fragments have been observed. It may be impossible for us to ever know whether or not all properties of the fragments have been observed since it appears the more we widen the range of our physical sense-experience through scientific research, technology, etc., the more we realize how much there is yet unknown. Thus unless we can be 100% certain that we have accurately observed all the properties of all the fragmentary parts of a unified whole, and it seems unlikely that we can ever be, we can never really be certain that a conclusion based on the process of logical reasoning is accurate.
The past and the present illustrate the above-stated fact only too well. In many cases, our scientific experts deduced logically through the data available at that time, that certain chemicals and processes were harmless to humanity and assured us of their safety. Yet today, we are faced with the tragic effects of certain medically prescribed drugs which actually damaged the health of persons who used them, environmental pollution and other ugly monsters that humankind has created.
By its very nature, Aristotelian logic must necessarily view a unified whole as fragmentary parts, make observations about these parts and then attempt to link these observations, and thereby obtain an explanation of the whole. The accuracy of the explanation arrived at is dependent not only upon the accuracy of the observations, which are themselves limited in their accuracy due to physical sense limitations, but also upon whether or not all properties of the fragments have been observed. It may be impossible for us to ever know whether or not all properties of the fragments have been observed since it appears the more we widen the range of our physical sense-experience through scientific research, technology, etc., the more we realize how much there is yet unknown. Thus unless we can be 100% certain that we have accurately observed all the properties of all the fragmentary parts of a unified whole, and it seems unlikely that we can ever be, we can never really be certain that a conclusion based on the process of logical reasoning is accurate.
The past and the present illustrate the above-stated fact only too well. In many cases, our scientific experts deduced logically through the data available at that time, that certain chemicals and processes were harmless to humanity and assured us of their safety. Yet today, we are faced with the tragic effects of certain medically prescribed drugs which actually damaged the health of persons who used them, environmental pollution and other ugly monsters that humankind has created.
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What is Reality? – Part 2 (Measurement and Reality)
If something can be measured, whether directly or indirectly, is it real? According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, if energy has to be added to or taken from a system to implement the measuring process, as is generally the case, then this energy causes a change in the variable that is to be measured so that the value of the variable is no longer what it was before the attempt was made to measure it. In other words, the measuring process itself generally introduces an error into the measurement. For the measurement of macroscopic values, the energy change due to the measuring process is negligible and the error may be ignored. However, for the measurement of microscopic values, the Uncertainty Principle becomes critical and a substantial error may be introduced into the measurement.
For example, suppose we wish to measure the position of an electron. Consider a microscope powerful enough to make an electron detectable to the human eye. To perform the measurement, it is necessary to illuminate the electron with an intense source of light. Because of the extremely minute mass of the electron, the energy imparted by the source of light is of sufficient magnitude to cause a noticeable displacement in the electron's position, so that it would no longer be in the position in which it was prior to the illumination; nevertheless, such illumination is necessary for the measuring process. This same effect occurs in all measuring processes in which energy is added to or taken from a system as is generally the case.
Thus, it seems that even the ability of measurement to define reality is questionable since the very act of measurement itself generally introduces an error, human or otherwise, into the measurement to be made.
For example, suppose we wish to measure the position of an electron. Consider a microscope powerful enough to make an electron detectable to the human eye. To perform the measurement, it is necessary to illuminate the electron with an intense source of light. Because of the extremely minute mass of the electron, the energy imparted by the source of light is of sufficient magnitude to cause a noticeable displacement in the electron's position, so that it would no longer be in the position in which it was prior to the illumination; nevertheless, such illumination is necessary for the measuring process. This same effect occurs in all measuring processes in which energy is added to or taken from a system as is generally the case.
Thus, it seems that even the ability of measurement to define reality is questionable since the very act of measurement itself generally introduces an error, human or otherwise, into the measurement to be made.
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Airliners DO NOT Fly! They Levitate! PROOF -
Passengers are ripped off for $BILLIONS by being told 1/2 the price of a ticket covers the cost of fuel.
THAT'S A LIE!!
Because airliners DO NOT use fuel. They LEVITATE!!
Like bees.
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Climate Change Is NOT The Problem.
The Problem Is Global Industrial Civilization...
Changing Climate Is The SOLUTION.
All hail Canada - we have a new kingdom of life - make way for the Hemimastigotes
Apparently these very early forms of life, are eukaryotes.
This means that unlike bacteria, they have complex cells that contain specialized organelles.
However, hemimastigotes lack mitochondria.
For a fuller story and electron microscopic images of the beasts go to the following link;
This means that unlike bacteria, they have complex cells that contain specialized organelles.
However, hemimastigotes lack mitochondria.
In response to: Rare microbes lead scientists to discover new branch on the tree of life.
Hemimastigotes are more different from all other living things than animals are from fungi
Emily Chung · CBC News · Posted: Nov 15, 2018 3:40 PM ET | Last Updated: November 16
Canadian researchers have discovered a new kind of organism that's so different from other living things that it doesn't fit into the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom, or any other kingdom used to classify known organisms.
Two species of the microscopic organisms, called hemimastigotes, were found in dirt collected on a whim during a hike in Nova Scotia by Dalhousie University graduate student Yana Eglit.
A genetic analysis shows they're more different from other organisms than animals and fungi (which are in different kingdoms) are from each other, representing a completely new part of the tree of life, Eglit and her colleagues report this week in the journal Nature.
"They represent a major branch… that we didn't know we were missing," said Dalhousie biology professor Alastair Simpson, Eglit's supervisor and co-author of the new study.
"There's nothing we know that's closely related to them."
In fact, he estimates you'd have to go back a billion years — about 500 million years before the first animals arose — before you could find a common ancestor of hemimastigotes and any other known living things.
The hemimastigotes analyzed by the Dalhousie team were found by Eglit during a spring hike with some other students along the Bluff Wilderness Trail outside Halifax a couple of years ago. She often has empty sample vials in her pockets or bags, and scooped a few tablespoons of dirt into one of them from the side of the trail.
Back at the lab, she soaked the soil in water, which often revives microbes that have gone dormant, waiting for the next big rainstorm. Over the next few weeks, she checked on the dish through a microscope to see what might be swimming around.
Then, one day, about three weeks later, she saw something that caught her eye — something shaped like the partially opened shell of a pistachio. It had lots of hairs, called flagella, sticking out. Most knomicrobes with lots of flagella move them in co-ordinated waves, but not this one, which waved them in a more random fashion.
"It's as if these cells never really learned that they have many flagella," Eglit said with a laugh. She had seen something with that strange motion once before, a few years ago, and recognized it as a rare hemimastigote.
Hemimastigotes were first seen and described in the 19th century. But at that time, no one could figure out how they fit into the evolutionary tree of life. Consequently, they've been "a tantalizing mystery" to microbiologists for quite a long time, Eglit said.
Like animals, plants, fungi and ameobas — but unlike bacteria — hemimastigotes have complex cells with mini-organs called organelles, making them part of the "domain" of organisms called eukaryotes rather than bacteria or archaea.
About 10 species of hemimastigotes have been described over more than 100 years. But up until now, no one had been able to do a genetic analysis to see how they were related to other living things.......
Hemimastigotes are more different from all other living things than animals are from fungi
Emily Chung · CBC News · Posted: Nov 15, 2018 3:40 PM ET | Last Updated: November 16
Canadian researchers have discovered a new kind of organism that's so different from other living things that it doesn't fit into the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom, or any other kingdom used to classify known organisms.
Two species of the microscopic organisms, called hemimastigotes, were found in dirt collected on a whim during a hike in Nova Scotia by Dalhousie University graduate student Yana Eglit.
A genetic analysis shows they're more different from other organisms than animals and fungi (which are in different kingdoms) are from each other, representing a completely new part of the tree of life, Eglit and her colleagues report this week in the journal Nature.
"They represent a major branch… that we didn't know we were missing," said Dalhousie biology professor Alastair Simpson, Eglit's supervisor and co-author of the new study.
"There's nothing we know that's closely related to them."
In fact, he estimates you'd have to go back a billion years — about 500 million years before the first animals arose — before you could find a common ancestor of hemimastigotes and any other known living things.
The hemimastigotes analyzed by the Dalhousie team were found by Eglit during a spring hike with some other students along the Bluff Wilderness Trail outside Halifax a couple of years ago. She often has empty sample vials in her pockets or bags, and scooped a few tablespoons of dirt into one of them from the side of the trail.
Back at the lab, she soaked the soil in water, which often revives microbes that have gone dormant, waiting for the next big rainstorm. Over the next few weeks, she checked on the dish through a microscope to see what might be swimming around.
Then, one day, about three weeks later, she saw something that caught her eye — something shaped like the partially opened shell of a pistachio. It had lots of hairs, called flagella, sticking out. Most knomicrobes with lots of flagella move them in co-ordinated waves, but not this one, which waved them in a more random fashion.
"It's as if these cells never really learned that they have many flagella," Eglit said with a laugh. She had seen something with that strange motion once before, a few years ago, and recognized it as a rare hemimastigote.
Hemimastigotes were first seen and described in the 19th century. But at that time, no one could figure out how they fit into the evolutionary tree of life. Consequently, they've been "a tantalizing mystery" to microbiologists for quite a long time, Eglit said.
Like animals, plants, fungi and ameobas — but unlike bacteria — hemimastigotes have complex cells with mini-organs called organelles, making them part of the "domain" of organisms called eukaryotes rather than bacteria or archaea.
About 10 species of hemimastigotes have been described over more than 100 years. But up until now, no one had been able to do a genetic analysis to see how they were related to other living things.......
For a fuller story and electron microscopic images of the beasts go to the following link;
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There was a wicked intense wind storm cross over my province a few days ago. Apparently, this happened.
The purpose of the Ephod
One of the most interesting stories of the Bible is the story of the Tabernacle. We begin seeing it in the book of Exodus and it keeps popping up in the Old Testament almost to the end. We know it was powered by an energy source which made the face of Moses shine at night. We know that later when accidents happened and people were exposed to the energies contained in the Tabernacle, they burned and died. On one such occasion when the Tabernacle was accidentally cracked and people nearby burned and died a lead candelabra was hammered into the crack and the device became safe again. It can, be presumed the core power source of the Tabernacle device was radioactive.
Back in the 1920s the US Mason brotherhood realized the description of the Tabernacle's construction and it's use were those of a two way voice radio. Adjustment or tuning of the frequency was done by adjustment of the golden curtain threads. Whatever, today we will talk about the garments used by the Levite priests charged with maintaining the device for Moses.
Their garment is called an Ephod. The book of Exodus provides specifics as to the manufacture of the Ephod. Gold is used extensively in the manufacture of an Ephod. Gold is a very efficient shielding against radioactive materials. Today we use lead, but if you have it, Gold is just as good.
You will see below a picture of what we think an Ephod looked like and also a picture of a modern lead apron as used by technicians who work around radio-actives.
Modern technicians working around radioactivity wear devices called dosimeters to measure the amount of radiation they are exposed to. Exodus 28 describes a breast plate of gem stones used by the early Levite priests. Specific gemstones and minerals are described and to be placed in a specific order upon the breast piece.
For the first two thousand years of Christianity an unusual feature of these gem stones was not known.
Specifically, each of the stones reacts in a visually noticeable fashion to the presence of radioactivity. Further the amount of reaction varies as the intensity of the radiation exposure changes.
Exodus 28:17 - 20
And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row. And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond. And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst. And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.
Here is some of what we know about some of those stones today and how they behave in the presence of increasing amounts of radioactivity.
Topaz - Turns blue, then brown as the radiation exposure intensifies
Emerald - Turns deep green, but under fast neutron bombardment it turns clear.
Sapphire - Turns gold colored with a significant decrease in electrical resistance.
Diamond - Becomes yellow then green in color.
Agate - Turns magnetic and glows blue in the dark
Beryl - Turns golden yellow.
Onyx - Glows brightly after exposure to strong radiation sources.
There are 12 different gemstones used in a Levite priest's breastplate. I have not googled the effects of radiation on all of them, but from the 7 I name above it is obvious the priest's breastplate made a very simple, yet amazingly accurate and sophisticated multi colored dosimeter capable of revealing with just a quick glance how 'hot' an environment the wearer had been exposed to.. <It is worth noting that Turkish and Brazilian Onyx stones are used today in fashioning some forms of modern high exposure dosimeter devices.>
Knowledge of how the Tabernacle worked, and why the Levite priests dressed as they did and what they did was shared only by a few.
Ephod
Modern Radiation worker's uniform
Back in the 1920s the US Mason brotherhood realized the description of the Tabernacle's construction and it's use were those of a two way voice radio. Adjustment or tuning of the frequency was done by adjustment of the golden curtain threads. Whatever, today we will talk about the garments used by the Levite priests charged with maintaining the device for Moses.
Their garment is called an Ephod. The book of Exodus provides specifics as to the manufacture of the Ephod. Gold is used extensively in the manufacture of an Ephod. Gold is a very efficient shielding against radioactive materials. Today we use lead, but if you have it, Gold is just as good.
You will see below a picture of what we think an Ephod looked like and also a picture of a modern lead apron as used by technicians who work around radio-actives.
Modern technicians working around radioactivity wear devices called dosimeters to measure the amount of radiation they are exposed to. Exodus 28 describes a breast plate of gem stones used by the early Levite priests. Specific gemstones and minerals are described and to be placed in a specific order upon the breast piece.
For the first two thousand years of Christianity an unusual feature of these gem stones was not known.
Specifically, each of the stones reacts in a visually noticeable fashion to the presence of radioactivity. Further the amount of reaction varies as the intensity of the radiation exposure changes.
Exodus 28:17 - 20
And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row. And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond. And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst. And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.
Here is some of what we know about some of those stones today and how they behave in the presence of increasing amounts of radioactivity.
Topaz - Turns blue, then brown as the radiation exposure intensifies
Emerald - Turns deep green, but under fast neutron bombardment it turns clear.
Sapphire - Turns gold colored with a significant decrease in electrical resistance.
Diamond - Becomes yellow then green in color.
Agate - Turns magnetic and glows blue in the dark
Beryl - Turns golden yellow.
Onyx - Glows brightly after exposure to strong radiation sources.
There are 12 different gemstones used in a Levite priest's breastplate. I have not googled the effects of radiation on all of them, but from the 7 I name above it is obvious the priest's breastplate made a very simple, yet amazingly accurate and sophisticated multi colored dosimeter capable of revealing with just a quick glance how 'hot' an environment the wearer had been exposed to.. <It is worth noting that Turkish and Brazilian Onyx stones are used today in fashioning some forms of modern high exposure dosimeter devices.>
Knowledge of how the Tabernacle worked, and why the Levite priests dressed as they did and what they did was shared only by a few.
Ephod
Modern Radiation worker's uniform
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SPUTNIK...
On October 4th, 1957 Russia launched a satellite into Earth's orbit. Named Sputnik, this satellite transmitted beeping radio signals that could be detected on 2 bands of amateur radio equipment 20.005 and 40.002 megahertz frequencies as it traveled around the planet approximately 18,000 miles per hour. Sputnik was a metal ball 23 inches in diameter with antennas sticking out that completed 1440 orbits around the earth. Each orbit was just over 96 minutes.
The batteries lasted for 21 days and Sputnik continued it's decaying orbit around earth until it reentered the atmosphere and burned up on January 4th 1958.
The photo below is a replica of Sputnik that is on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Missile & Space Gallery in Dayton, Ohio.
Sputnik kicked off space exploration that started a rivalry between Russia (the former Soviet Union) and the United States.
Sputnik is the Russian word for satellite.
The batteries lasted for 21 days and Sputnik continued it's decaying orbit around earth until it reentered the atmosphere and burned up on January 4th 1958.
The photo below is a replica of Sputnik that is on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Missile & Space Gallery in Dayton, Ohio.
Sputnik kicked off space exploration that started a rivalry between Russia (the former Soviet Union) and the United States.
Sputnik is the Russian word for satellite.
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