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I have long understood that the maths in calculations were reversible.
When it was implied if not stated out loud that the physics the maths represent was also reversible, my intuition rebelled against this notion but I could never account for a reason it could not be so.
NOW I understand why it cannot be. Entropy, It must increase.
We might reverse Time itself, but Entropy will still have to increase.
Locally entropy may be reversed, but universally entropy will still increase.

as I lovingly admire the reflection in my mirror.... But seriously, folks, here in the US northeast, so close ooooouuuuut there to OH Canada, EH?...even our evergreens shed a bit in the Autumn wind and storms. But it's the fall of the leaves, after the brilliant shows of color change, that hint, once agoin, how perfectly timed these changes seem. All entirely so that I can rake in more comfortable weather. However, our ecologist friends remind us that, what we see as beauty, beautifully choreographed hand in glove interrelatedness between, say weather and the well timed fall of leaves, has a brutal story as well. Countless generations of apparent mismatches, in these regards, with the demise of individuals, that finally yield so many links, on a species level. And, finally is the wrong word, as it continues. Sure, some groups can have enormously long runs, as with the angiosperms, many insects, and the dinosaurs. But in time, the ecological grim reaper calls us all. Mammals, also here for eons, take note.

You should see the philosophers and neuroscientists fret over trying to understand how it could possibly have come about. I think it's a no brainer, no pun intended. Given so many trillions of adaptable neuronal connections in us (and squid/octopi, just while we are on the subject,), so much evolutionary time, strong natural selection for adaptive survival by environments---It's likely that MANY consciousnesses evolved---not just for humans. Next easy task?

The fearsome VIERK/Swedish Political Pathology King Olaf/Nobel Memorial Research Institutet may have stumbled onto a partial cure for severe types of Trump Derangement-Hilary Deficit Syndromes. (TD-HDS). Quite painful, and costly in time, money and possible harmful side effects, but so far, 92 out of 100 hithertoo hopeless clinical trial cases have had their scores on the proprietary political GOM (grounded open mindedness meter) raised by a full 75%. I would give details, oh my most deserving CS comrades, but we may be wired in for the next Nobel Prize in Physiology. However, for those who pay close attention to my astute blogs, I hinted at a number of hypotheses on target to the cures. All well within the past fortnight, cherubim. But for private paying patients, we do make exceptions, if the price is right. Why change the usual approach to private pay health care? Please call the Institutet at 044-69-NIXCLUBCOUP, for special offer details on our generous payment plans. Live operators are standing by. Ever onward, through the fog, for science, and the green back, is our motto.

Ya just have to notice things, then form hypotheses, and sometimes to experiment to test them, and thereby developed better theories. The scientific method, over rated, but still of merit. Now and again, usually when nature calls him, sorely delayed by my chasing the hotties here on CS, Bravo won't instantly devour one of the disgusting bone like treats I give him most mornings. Instead, he marches about the house, sneakily, Mr. R., looking for places to hide the treat. Mind you, hide from whom, as I'm the only other being here in the VIERK mansion, apart from the rare field mouse? Or reduvid bug. Why hide it from me, when the hiding places are never very cryptic, and I am the one who gave it to him? The main hypothesis is that what we see here is a minor retreat to former wild pack behaviors. Even though these may be thousands of generations old, and no longer of much value. If you get the first tasty bone from the kill, better make you and it scarce, especially if the big dog is nearby. But how to test this hypothesis? A theory, a theory, ..... my kingdom for a theory.

Fully 25 % estimates of all known species (metazoan), and 40% of their kin in the class Insecta. Sure, those colorful hard protective second retractable wings (elytra) may have played a part. And possessing the miracle of metamorphosis can't hurt. Those larval stages can bore through even the toughest tree barks. Protection then through the harsher seasons, and from most clever predators, only to emerge as adults in prolific reproductive/migratory life stages. But so what? Other orders of Insecta enjoy similar evolutionary adaptations. No, oh my brilliant CS friends, these Coleopteran marvels somehow have figured out much more in the struggle for life. Several threads of evidence now converge to show how, as with some ruminant mammals, these insects can digest all sorts of plant based very tough items, many based on the strongest cellulose polymers. But ready for the kickers here? Seems as though this huge survival trick was borrowed from bacteria, and "lower" plants, such as fungi. And accomplished, again somehow, by incorporating the DNA of these other life forms, into their own genomes. But more amazing, is that these little friends, again somehow, may have done so 100 large, VERY large, years before even the dinosaurs shuffled onto the scene. And they are still here, in strong numbers, VERY strong, some 60 million years after the dinosaurs sauntered OFF the scene. Sure, bacteria, using quasi " mating" techniques, can swap genetic material. One factor behind the growth of resistance to most commercial antibiotics. And deep shite for us all. But how the heck can the beetles have done so? Let's hear from the marginally educated ignoramuses here who will complain that a post like this, as with religion, and politics, so important to many, and definitely revealing in the great search for mates, is out of place. Pathetic. Revealing. Not unexpected. Pretty soon these mini minds will begin to call for a ban on flirting-on a dating site-of all places----can't make this stuff up folks.

...all things must come to an end
Time to move over. Or on.
Whatever.

What difference, at this point, does it make?

YouTube Guy McPherson - Human Extinction Within 10 years

He's has a place in Belize, Central America.
Perhaps he figures he'll get a few extra months there.
Or maybe he just likes Belize & wants to enjoy the time left.

Whatever.

We'll get ringside seats for the ringing down of life on Earth

YouTube Guy McPherson - We Get To Be Here At The End

Should be quite a show, I reckon.

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That killer white pine, leaning toward some bedrooms, is now in burnable pieces. Got a fat insurance Co. check to replace the roof damage she, her branches and the ocean wind did. Before spliting large trunk pieces into morsels, it was surprising how many Mainers the "free wood" sign attracted. Put a "free" sign on a dead cat on the lawn here, and some bearded crusty north woods character will take it, feeling happy to be getting a deal. People said they used the stuff to make all sort of items..... bowls, spoons, lake dock walkover platforms, table legs, and so on. Burning the rest in the yard in controlled fashion, rather than pay to take it to the dump. Break from the usual summer coastal boat trip. Not the best wood for stoves. But how the mind wonders in the fire induced warmth, flickering consuming flames, and attendant near induced trance. As in driving long distances, where autopilot miles pass, without awareness of driving functions, tossing needed branch pieces into the flames just seems to happen, while the thoughts flow. How to rewrite the draft of memoirs, what has been my role in lifes's woes, plusses/minuses of a next partner, new riffs for another song. Or, are the numerical repetitions seen near universally when applying chaos theory to examine observations in everything from heart palpitations to weather more than mere quirks of math? Yikes! Aa.

Anyone still have old photo's of themselves ? Or has the digital age ,my cloud etc removed the need for physical prints ...
We can now scan and store everything electronically.

So in 50 years
Money
Books
And much more will become obscure odities much like LP's
8 track tapes
And sending letters through the post...

What do remember from your youth that was cutting edge technology but is now gathering dust in a corner of your storage unit ?

Lol

It is 5 videos here. The concepts..

These are video excerpts of the recent Breakthrough symposium in connection with Project SETI (Search for Extra Terrestial Intelligence). As human technology has advanced since the 1960s, so too has the way the SETI program works.


Lineage of a bio-sphere. Looking in directions SETI hasn't done yet. Atmospheric traces of molecules produced by the manufacture of plastics for instance. Organic life vs inorganic life. Would we recognize life? How long does a civilization last? What is life? Do we truly want to create a self aware AI and droids to do our exploring for us? Do true AIs go through the Darwinian process and evolve away from the original design? Is the Darwinian process unique to Earth? How unique is Earth's bio-sphere? Are there other similar bio-spheres on other Earth like worlds or are their chemical processes unique to that world? The more extensive and expansion our search for other life in the Universe becomes, the more noticeable we become to other life searching. Is that a good thing? Etc.

1 Stephen Hawking in a presentation made for this summit, shortly before he passed on.


2 Martin Reese discusses the odds of SETI detecting organic or electronis intelligence?


3 What is life?


4 Inorganic life. Complex molecules are techno signatures..


5 Evolutionary traces in nonorganic computer programs (i.e., Artificial Intelligence programs) in response to changes in environment.


Question to ponder.. If we design self aware AI robot droids to do space exploration for us and build structures for us, then send them off into deep space, for how long will a self aware robot droid happily work for us, versus seek an independence from us and come up with a way of accomplishing that new goal?