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3-D Ideas

the shape of thoughts

simple ideas are like a point ... self-defined, self-referential 

straight forward ideas are an ordered collection of points (numeral, sequential)

logical ideas are 2-D network of Logic Paths

complex ideas are 3-D ... polygon "many faces" ... with ... one core central node ... AND ... one encompassing shell

 
good ideas ... are definable in 2-D terms
but
great ideas ... are definable ONLY in 3-D terms

(thesis) Nature v. Nurture

DEMONSTRATION of PROOF

Premise :: Nurture is fundamentally a human construct, and therefore abstract.  Either modeled after observation of the physical Natural world, or modeled after prescriptions of the abstracted ideal world of Ideas.  Nurture is similar to spiritual, religious, and/or ethical in that all are sets of principles that guide Action.  Nurture is a quality of the human Being.  Said exactly -- Nurture is the continuation of old Ideals or the pursuit of new Ideals.

Premise :: Nature is independent and not dependant on the Human animal.  The Human animal is a product of Nature, foremost.  Nature is fundamentally a pre-existing order.  Nature is governed by unwritten laws/codes by way of DNA, Physics,etc. Nature is NOT governed by our laws of Sciences, nor our edicts of Religion; but our understanding ought harmonize with the phenomena presented by Nature.   

Premise :: Nature is the result of millions upon millions of years of testing and development.  It is evolved from many possibilities and variations and contains within it the very best of design.  By virtue of survival thru the eons of constant changes. 

Thesis :: The models of Nature are most perfect.  The models created by Nature are superior to the models created by craft of Human invention, by claim of being older.  Human inventions come from abstract set of theories that explain the mechanics of Nature and then copy Nature.  Nature is only a pure replication of Nature.  Nature is Natural.   

(i.e. Scientific Law is inferior to Natural Law.  Nature can NOT be false. Science's models can be.)

Conclusion :: Although we have the power ... we ought NEVER forget that we might ultimately destroy the Natural Resources that we fundamentally depend upon.  Because :: Human Beings grasp a limited understanding of Nature. When manipulating Nature towards our advantage, we risk unseen consequences.

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ARGUMENT

We are tenets with leases, not sovereigns. We are granted  privilege to use Nature in order to provide sufficient means of living. 

When introducing:
artificial DNA
pharmacological chemicals
atmospheric pollutants and alterations

When eliminating:
species
biozones

When altering:
natural materials
ecologies

We do so at great risk, and do it without full knowledge of our subject, and without generational time-tested methods.

The argument is in favor of Conservation, and the argument is against Liberal augmentation of our environment and biology.  There is no need to consider the moral intention of interference/manipulation/modification/extraction, because we have no absolute knowledge of the outcome.

Posit :: Experimentation is for the laboratory, not the field.  Only Nature and Natural methods ought be employed to save Nature.  Engineering artifical solutions might only generate new problems.   

Internet turns 40 :: born Sept. 2, 1969

Few were paying attention back on Sept. 2, 1969, when about 20 people gathered in Kleinrock's lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, to watch as two bulky computers passed meaningless test data through a 15-foot gray cable.

That was the beginning of the fledgling Arpanet network. Stanford Research Institute joined a month later, and UC Santa Barbara and the University of Utah did by year's end.

The 1970s brought e-mail and the TCP/IP communications protocols, which allowed multiple networks to connect — and formed the Internet. The '80s gave birth to an addressing system with suffixes like ".com" and ".org" in widespread use today.

The Internet didn't become a household word until the '90s, though, after a British physicist, Tim Berners-Lee, invented the Web, a subset of the Internet that makes it easier to link resources across disparate locations. Meanwhile, service providers like America Online connected millions of people for the first time.


calls for the government to require "net neutrality," which essentially means that a service provider could not favor certain forms of data traffic over others. But that wouldn't be a new rule as much as a return to the principles that drove the network Kleinrock and his colleagues began building 40 years ago.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/08/30/financial/f102244D87.DTL#ixzz0PqPs5AW8


Path to Power

those seeking power display agreement with those they wish to have power over (path by deception)
power does not seek the virtuous (dark craft)
once power is obtained dissent can be silenced (censor & silence)
those who hold power will always educate the people (plebeians)
those without power can not have freedom 

so say,
Romans, Venetian Kings, Lenin, and Mao

Humans glow in the dark ... revealed by ultra-sensitive camera (light not heat)

It was revealed by ultra-sensitive cameras that our bodies emit tiny amounts of light that are too weak for the human eye to detect. Amazing pictures of "glittering" human bodies were released by Japanese scientists who have captured the first ever images of human "bioluminescence". Although it has been known for many years that all living creatures produce a small amount of light as a result of chemical reactions within their cells, this is the first time light produced by humans has been captured on camera. Strangely, the areas that produced the brightest light did not correspond with the brightest areas on thermal images of the volunteers' bodies. (Link)

Strangely, the areas that produced the brightest light did not correspond with the brightest areas on thermal images of the volunteers' bodies.

The light is a thousand times weaker than the human eye can perceive. At such a low level, it is unlikely to serve any evolutionary purpose in humans – though when emitted more strongly by animals such as fireflies, glow-worms and deep-sea fish, it can be used to attract mates and for illumination.

Bioluminescence is a side-effect of metabolic reactions within all creatures, the result of highly reactive free radicals produced through cell respiration interacting with free-floating lipids and proteins. The "excited" molecules that result can react with chemicals called fluorophores to emit photons.

Atomic_force_microscope ... reads the surface like a recorde neeedle

~ 100 micrometers needle


File:AFM view of sodium chloride.gif

sodium cloride

File:AFMimageRoughGlass20x20.JPG

glass surface

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The atomic force microscope (AFM) or scanning force microscope (SFM) is a very high-resolution type of scanning probe microscopy, with demonstrated resolution of fractions of a nanometer, more than 1000 times better than the optical diffraction limit. The precursor to the AFM, the scanning tunneling microscope, was developed by Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer in the early 1980s, a development that earned them the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1986. Binnig, Quate and Gerber invented the first AFM in 1986. The AFM is one of the foremost tools for imaging, measuring and manipulating matter at the nanoscale. The information is gathered by "feeling" the surface with a mechanical probe. Piezoelectric elements that facilitate tiny but accurate and precise movements on (electronic) command enable the very precise scanning.

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AFM cantilever (after use) viewed in the scanning electron microscope, magnification 1,000 x (top, image width ~ 100 micrometers) and 3,000 x (bottom, image width ~ 30 micrometers)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_force_microscope

plant, animal, mineral :: The World accornding to Linnaeus


  • Classis 1. MONANDRIA
  • Classis 2. DIANDRIA
  • Classis 3. TRIANDRIA
  • Classis 4. TETRANDRIA
  • Classis 5. PENTANDRIA
  • Classis 6. HEXANDRIA
  • Classis 7. HEPTANDRIA
  • Classis 8. OCTANDRIA
  • Classis 9. ENNEANDRIA
  • Classis 10. DECANDRIA
  • Classis 11. DODECANDRIA
  • Classis 12. ICOSANDRIA
  • Classis 13. POLYANDRIA
  • Classis 14. DIDYNAMIA
  • Classis 15. TETRADYNAMIA
  • Classis 16. MONADELPHIA
  • Classis 17. DIADELPHIA
  • Classis 18. POLYADELPHIA
  • Classis 19. SYNGENESIA
  • Classis 20. GYNANDRIA
  • Classis 21. MONOECIA
  • Classis 22. DIOECIA
  • Classis 23. POLYGAMIA
  • Classis 24. CRYPTOGAMIA

  • Classis 1. PETRÆ
  • Classis 2. MINERÆ
  • Classis 3. FOSSILIA

Carl von Linné :: the father of modern taxonomy / botany/ ecology

Linnaeus is credited with establishing the idea of a hierarchical structure of classification which is based upon observable characteristics.

Class subclass ~ Dog red

subDomain.Domain.URL ~ red.Dog.Mam

Homo sapient / Homo sentient / Homo troglodytes, Homo anthropmorpha 


Carl Linnaeus (Latinized as Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as sv-Carl_von_Linné.ogg Carl von Linné (help·info), May 23 [O.S. May 12] 1707 – January 10, 1778) was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology.

Linnaeus was born in the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden.

Latin Speaker

The Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau sent him the message: "Tell him I know no greater man on earth."

The German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote: "With the exception of Shakespeare and Spinoza, I know no one among the no longer living who has influenced me more strongly."

Swedish author August Strindberg wrote: "Linnaeus was in reality a poet who happened to become a naturalist".

In botany, the author abbreviation used to indicate Linnaeus as the authority for species names is simply L.

Linnaean taxonomy

the work of Linnaeus represents the starting point of binomial nomenclature. In addition Linnaeus developed, during the great 18th century expansion of natural history knowledge, what became known as the Linnaean taxonomy; the system of scientific classification now widely used in the biological sciences.


Mankind

Within Homo sapiens he proposed five taxa of a lower (unnamed) rank. These categories were Africanus, Americanus, Asiaticus, Europeanus, and Monstrosus.

Human beings are Homo sapiens (see sapience). He also briefly described a second human species, Homo troglodytes ("cave-dwelling man").

Each race had certain characteristics that he considered endemic to individuals belonging to it. Native Americans were choleric, red, straightforward, eager and combative. Africans were phlegmatic, black, slow, relaxed and negligent. Asians were melancholic, yellow, inflexible, severe and avaricious. Europeans were sanguine and pale, muscular, swift, clever and inventive. The "monstrous" humans included such entities as the "agile and fainthearted" dwarf of the Alps, the Patagonian giant, and the monorchid Hottentot.[19]

In addition, in Amoenitates academicae (1763), he defined Homo anthropomorpha as a catch-all term for a variety of human-like mythological creatures, including the troglodyte, satyr, hydra, and phoenix. He claimed that these creatures not only actually existed but were in reality inaccurate descriptions of real-world ape-like creatures.

Non placet, quod Hominem inter antropomorpha collocaverim, sed homo noscit se ipsum.

Not please (you) - Man among the Anthropomorpha, but man learns to know himself.


File:Carl Linnaeus dressed as a Laplander.jpg File:LinnaeusWeddingPortrait.jpg


quod erat demonstrandum =  "which to be(was) demonstrated" = QED
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