The Sights
When we open our hearts: An engineered Universe appears.
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Henri
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This is our continuing project: The search for happiness, destiny and how to rescue souls. "A look at life". Enjoy.
Some of the following content will have a deeper context after reading Contemplate the Universe, Beyond the veil, The Touch, Destiny calls and Afterglow.
Our reminder again, just like someone looking at the last few pages of a book, we may catch the flame, but have missed the fireworks in between. So make sure to take a look at some of the previous content of this website, if you've jumped straight to this page. We've covered a bit of ground.
Henri
First new poem since Feb, this year.
Those two were an expansion of eight poems from "It's Cosmic", on the topic, "This world is cruel". Each poem was just five lines long, and I was just tinkering, to write a line that rhymed with a well-known Bible verse. I added some insights from John Calvin, to produce the fourteen lines. Henri.
That bubble was prompted by Stephen Hawking's book. He focused a lot on how humans moved from ignorance to light, to set the scene for his comments. I picked three, but he gave many examples. We've written about that many times in the past. Henri.
Rewritten from, "It's Cosmic"
Rewritten from, "It's Cosmic"
Rewritten from, "It's Cosmic"
I just remembered why I re-read Stephen Hawking's book. I wanted to see how much time he allocated to writing about the frames of reference, as in, space and time, and what time he spent writing about the stuff in the Universe, as in, mass. I'll check the notes I made. Also, I'll count up the number of times he writes, "the Universe is governed by laws", (Cart before the horse).
I underlined 12 times where Stephen Hawking writes some version of, "the Universe is governed by laws". Not that many. I also came across the page where he mentions organic chemistry (The study of carbon molecules), and in the very next sentence, he's writing about organisms. No wonder we have the urban myth, carbon-based lifeforms.
Maybe I shouldn't carry on too much about this, just search on the formulae of nucleotides and amino-acids to set perspective. There's a heap of carbon there. But hey, no one else is doing it, so someone has to have a go. And the other upside: It's so much fun. Page 13 puts the perspective on this topic.
Comms? As in, communications, telecommunications, where ET wants to chat.
Tutorial on transducers: Because transducers are a big part of life, we'll have a go at a more extensive description of these toys, used in industry, so we recognise them in biology. Short version again: They take a changing physical quantity and convert that to an electrical signal. When we say it like that, and we've broken free of standard evolution theory, a world opens up.
All our senses convert a physical quantity to an electrical quantity. For our technology, the electrical signal is generally a flow of electrons, or a varying voltage. For biology, that signal is associated with a flow of ions in a neuron, setting up voltages somehow, to prep for processing by the brain, in its extraordinary way. Sight: Detecting and processing all the mysteries of light, and quantum entanglement. Sound: Atmospheric pressure waves. Touch: Mechanical pressure. Etc. Mentioned in our thought bubbles before.
As our diagram shows, we will limit the transducer features to three blocks. In an oven, the thermostat detects the expansion of gas in a capillary tube. No other processing goes on, it just turns the oven element on and off. Let's take the detector for our hearing: The outer ear channels the sound waves onto the outer eardrum, a batch of levers connect the outer ear to the inner, fluid containing, ear, with the moving fluids to move the hairs sticking out into the fluid. That's the start of the hearing process.
We know the amplification takes place because of those little bones, levers, and also the physical change in the cell shape as the hair moves (Search on "Prestin" to check). And then for the signal conditioning for hearing, something happens, I don't know what, either chemical, physical or electrical to change the logarithmic quantities involved to the correct levels sent over the neurons, to the brain. The operation of neurons reads like semi-conductor theory in our technology.
In our vision systems, our eyes can detect one photon, so that will require a large gain in the amplifier section to be able to give a meaningful signal to send along a neuron. The amplifier for our vision relies on chemical amplification, called a cascade. I'm hoping anyone reading this knows that they can go straight to a search engine and these comments can be verified. If someone is saying that eyes are badly engineered, we know we're listening to an amateur talking.
Our diagram shows, probably, the minimum requirements to go from physical to the standard electrical nuances associated with signals being transmitted by neurons to the brain. Then, beyond the transducer, all the processing required to work all the inputs flooding into the brain, so we can see a Universe out there, and interact with it. We haven't put it in, but for our modern, computerized technology, analog to digital conversion is used when we process a continually changing input.
Signal conditioning would be used for all physical processes associated with all our senses, to live independent lives. That's a lot of processing power, and, incredibly, seems to work instantaneously. At the moment, that's well beyond human technology, so these aspects of biology can be an endless source of inspiration if we are in the control industry and are looking for tips on new directions.
I don't know anything about how the sense of touch works, but the abilities of hair and skin can feel a feather's touch to intense pain. If that's associated with single devices, that has to be initiated by a transducer of some kind. Then, incredibly, some input, that we don't think of as physical, gets the heart racing, the neurons firing, and fluid flowing from the eyes. And then there's dreams, from somewhere inside who we are. The above comments are a bottomless topic, covered, to some extent, in "Destiny calls". Henri.
I tried to weave a bit of natural selection into the above. No, I'm not dropping my guard.
A couple of days ago, I decided to hit the second hand book shop for something on philosophy for the first time in my life. I bought "Leibniz's Philosophy of Logic and Language", second edition, by Hidé Ishiguro. So me, a Dutch Aussie, is reading a book by a Japanese lady, written in English, who is analysing the works of a German bloke, who wrote something in Latin. Most of it is over my head, but I've resolved to read most of it.
The book's level assumes a lot of knowledge, heaps of big words, but I have slogged through the first two chapters. I think chapter one was on what makes A equivalent to B. Don't quote me. That's fun for me because, pinned up at my desk at work, I have six lines of algebra showing the proof for how 1 equals 2, the first line being A = B. Me reading two chapters on philosophy? Will that make me dangerous? Oh yes.
Looks like we're revisiting the past again, again. CTU means from our book, "Contemplate the Universe".
I remember where I had been when I wrote the first version of the above. The Melbourne aquarium, on a holiday. I sat there, in front of the big glass wall, and watched life's underwater diversity parade itself. Mesmerized, as in, the Zen state. I could have sat there all day.
Jaws? The original version of the above was in the CTU section on, Dinosaurs. So, as in, huge jaws and all the excitement that goes with them.
The above was a peek into our first online book. I enjoyed watching them transform into our new format. Henri.
For us, that topic is a good laugh because, if a web search is conducted, immediately, articles are into the, no, no, no, giant isopods are not trilobites. And then, unfortunately, it's into the name calling. Who cares about the designations, those confrontations are telling.
I just had a good, extended belly laugh, because I just searched on, 'are giant isopods trilobites?', and clicked on the second result down, from the "American Museum of Natural History". They have a short article, and one image. Someone over there must be in on the gag, because they jumped straight into some taxonomy, giving assurances, oh, no, no, no, no way, and then they wrote, giant isopods have compound eyes.
Whether intentional or unintentional, that was very funny, because the one thing that trilobites are famous for is, wait for it,,, compound eyes. That is just fantastic. Have a look at their one picture, I defy any amateur to tell the difference from old bug and new bug, whatever we call them.
On the name calling, we've touched on this before, I've been in this game, let's say, for about forty years, and the ultimate insult, these days, is to call someone a creationist. And for us, it's telling when an evolutionist calls another evolutionist, a creationist, and then sinks the boot in with a chuckle. You'll see the insult used, if you search on the above topic. 'Origins' is a minefield.
Gain? For an amplifier, the ratio of output over input is called the gain, with symbol A. so, lets say for an alternating signal, if the input is 5 millivolts, 0.005V, and the output is 5 volts, 5V, then the gain, A equals 5/0.005, which equals, 1000, A = 1000.
Three phase? Proton-motive force? Hit the search engines. Our electrical system, in Australia, is called a three phase supply. It's obtained by having three sets of coils at 120 degrees to each other, and for ATP synthase, the actuator, connected by the shaft to the turbine part, has three bits, at 120 degrees, to energize the ATP.
With the coils, in our alternators, for our supply, when they are excited by the magnetic field, produce a voltage across the coils, called an electromotive force. Voltage, for short. For ATP, its turbines are pushed by a proton-motive force, produced by the electron transport chain in the mitochondria. That force is the potential energy used to turn the turbines, exactly like in our hydro power stations today. Remember, a proton is a hydrogen atom, with its electron stripped away.
Rewritten from, "It's Cosmic", and from where "Plus X Museum" gets its name. Its title then was, 3DI2 + X, from my maths background.
When I wrote the original version of the above, I had been marvelling at the colours on the new shoots of a lily pilly. White, silvery, red, purple, metallic, etc, and I didn't resist the temptation to touch.
That's the second time I've rewritten that one.
Check out all the web chatter on, "Patrick Matthew", (1790 - 1874) for all the excitement and drama with the origins debate.
Modern evidence? On his first page of, 'The Grand Design, Stephen Hawking writes, 'Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, ... '. The rest of the book is based on, 'Young's double slit experiment'. If you search on that, the experiment was first conducted by Thomas Young in 1801. That, to me, doesn't seem modern. "a wow"? Short for, "and then a miracle occurred".
But for us, modern evidence, starts in 1953, when Crick and Watson worked together to set a structure for DNA. Evolutionists should have tweaked then, when information was identified, but eventually they doubled down on their theory, then the scientific mandates, with just allowing the physical, and then today, with the name calling. That's the short version, without getting into their religious opinions.
Fiddle factors covered, to some extent, in our book, "The Touch".
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