podcast audio
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Listen to the audio of my interview with Sue Grandys in January 2007: [47 minutes]
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The tau neutrino and the century of science
This is graviton ring. I wanted to talk for a while about the tau neutrino and its place within the century of science, the nineteen hundreds, about seven years ago, scientists found the tau neutrino, which is a fundamental building block of matter. It is the final building block, bbc news called the tau neutrino a ghostly particle, partly because it took six million tries to find the four events that proved the tau neutrino exists. The magic number of building blocks of matter appears to be six, that is, there are six quarks and six leptons, the tau neutrino, which is a lepton was the last of the dozen, the tau lepton, which is what the tau neutrino becomes after hitting an atomic nucleus, such as iron, quickly disappears. The only evidence the tau lepton leaves is a one-millimeter track.
Not to worry, though, that tiny one millimeter track probably has many billions of smaller superparticles enough to keep scientists busy for at least a hundred years of searching. These superstrings might be the defining line between hard physicists who do not think they exist, or at least can never be proven to exist, and a more imaginative set of scientists, this imaginative set of scientists, perhaps we could call them string theorists, may need a different name for their type of science. Physics seems to be taken by hard matter. Superstrings are probably not what any one would call matter. They may be pure energy. A term that Spock used in the original star trek series, in fact superstrings might be locked up for ever in a world of science fiction. The quantum world where everything that can happen does and even that which cannot happen happens. I think this might be what motivated me to write my movie script, or at least the story-line for the script, I needed a professional ghostwriter to actually produce a screenplay.
The first lepton discovered was our old friend the electron about 1897. It took forty years to find the second lepton, a muon, and another forty years to find the tau lepton in 1976, the tau neutrino showed up about twenty-four years later in 2000. The tau lepton is the only one that can decay into hadrons. This might be a good point at which to say I do not have any actual knowledge of this type of evidence, I only know what I am told so I have included the links to these ideas and discoveries for anyone to follow their own trail of particle physics and string theories. Happy hunting, oh I almost forgot, hadrons are a mixed bag of matter and energy, fermions named for my hero, Enrico Fermi, and bosons, which I think were named after Bose, Einstein's friend from India, Bose and Einstein thought up the bose-einstein condensates, which appeared seventy years later in the laboratory, bosons, are considered to be virtual particles, maybe just an idea of how any type of energy becomes involved with matter. However, there is so much solid evidence of bosons that no one doubts they exist.
Photons, for example, which humans use to see nearly everything that exists, are considered to be virtual bosons, meaning they are probably fundamental, made out of nothing but pure energy. However, there are some characteristics of photons which also seem to divide scientists. The photon wave has been shown to travel over three hundred times faster than the photon itself. c is the speed limit that Father Einstein declared to be the fastest that the photon will ever move, the photon wave, however, might not have a speed limit, which is where the scientists start to divide themselves. Some sticklers for photons being stuck at c can never imagine that the photon wave which does move faster than c will ever carry information that we humans can actually use to send messages faster than c, but what exactly is a message? Is the human imagination limited in any way at all, of course, I believe we do have the ability to understand anything. However, we do seem to be limited in our ability to explain how or why anything happens the way it does, we all drink from the same fountain of wisdom, I'm graviton ring.
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Simple spirituality
This is Graviton Ring. I call this podcast Free Thought the Simplicity of Life.
The Spirit, in my opinion, is very simple. Are you aware of yourself and of others?
That awareness is your spirit. It had no beginning, it has no ending. No one gave it to you,
no one can take it away. It has always existed exactly as it does now, and it always will
exist exactly as it is now. It never goes anywhere. There is no place to go. The Spirit
of Awareness simply is the way any sentient being observes reality. The Spirit is not
physical in any way. It observes the physical reality. The physical reality is completely
different than the Spirit. However, the Spirit and the physical reality cannot exist without
each other. The human body, or any aspect of the physical reality, obviously appears and
disappears while changing constantly. The Spirit simply observes these changes. There are an
infinite set of changes in the physical reality. There are also an infinite set of new ideas
in the spiritual reality. The only thing required to do is pay attention to reality. If there
is any need for a moral structure in religion or society, then the laws of such a structure
are always about the physical reality. How could any laws tell anyone how to think, or
how to see reality? The Spirit of Awareness does not need any laws. It does not do anything
except see the physical reality. The human body needs laws, moral values, maybe a structured
society when there is a large number of humans alive. However, that was not always the case.
Life was meant to be simple. The simplicity of life is that we consist of a Spirit of
Awareness. The physical reality seems to be a part of who we are. However, the Spirit,
in my opinion, is the actual way we are. The physical reality, including the human body,
appears and disappears and evolves over billions of years. The Spirit simply continues to do
what it does now. It observes these changes. There are no spiritual laws. Laws are about
humanity and physical reality. Spirit is simply infinite eternal awareness. There are additional
references in the text portion of this podcast. They may or may not agree with me. They are [the sites are no longer on the web]
This is Graviton Ring. We all drink from the
same fountain of wisdom.
Freedom of Thought:
This is Graviton Ring. I call this podcast Free Thought the Value
of Fear. Last week I was interviewed for another podcast. The interviewer finished the podcast
by asking me if there was anything that I was afraid of. As a writer, maybe I should
be afraid of ending a sentence with a preposition. Just kidding. My answer was that I could not
think of any reason to be afraid of anything. My secondary response was more of a surprise
than this lack of fear. At first I could only think of one thing that might worry me whether
my family would honor my body-donorship after I die. Even that is not really a problem. A
more difficult problem was my reaction to hearing my own answer to the question about fear. I
mentioned to the interviewer that there might be a possibility that I have structured my
philosophy of free thought in order to avoid social and religious fears. There is little
doubt in my mind that many people see traditional religions as a way of inducing fear in some
people who might decide to be amoral, abusive, or criminally violent unless they were frightened
by the future punishment from some God for their abuse. This seems to me to be the reason
why we have not solved the problem of violent behavior. Maybe we use this religious fear
to avoid facing the actual cause of violent human behavior, which may be genetic damage.
Humans have damaged our own genetics during many thousands of years of substance abuse.
40,000 years for alcohol abuse alone. The other common substance abuses obviously have
caused intense violence during this past century and will likely continue to cause criminal
violence in wars for many years in the future. There is no doubt in my mind that a single
person such as Pablo Escobar and his cocaine cartel were a primary cause of violent behavior
affecting millions of people. I also believe that people like Osama bin Laden and his heroin
trade are a primary cause of violence, resulting in the so-called war on terrorism.
Sorry, however, my interpretation of this problem of human violence is that 1% of the
people cause 100% of the criminal violence. 99% of humans seem to do little or no crime.
There is no marker for this criminal violence because all humans have the same basic genetic
identity now. The problem of criminal violence cannot be assigned to any religion, race,
or ethnic group nor any such silly labels. Humans have caused our own genetic damage
by many forms of abuse. Substance abuse may be the most obvious, however, I believe that
neglecting the problem is worse than the problem itself.
There is a fantasy in modern culture that we are deeply devoted to scientific and medical
research. Sadly, this fantasy allows us to neglect fundamental changes that we need
to make. One of these changes, in my opinion, is that we need to expand bona fide scientific
and medical research into the causes of violence. This is Graviton Ring. We all drink from the
same fountain of wisdom. This is Graviton Ring. I call this podcast
Free Thought, Information, or Stuff. I recently listened to an interview with Ann Durian,
the wife of Carl Sagan. She mentioned Carl Sagan's beliefs, saying that he would have
been very uncomfortable with the word atheist, and that she felt that he was sincerely an
agnostic. I have the link to that interview in the information section of this podcast,
along with other links mentioned in the podcast. Carl Sagan said, we are made out of star stuff.
I would say that means stuff changes a lot. Science says information is not stuff, yet
information cannot be destroyed. But maybe nothing can be destroyed, only changed into
some other form of stuff. There are some other web links and information
in the written portion of the podcast. The references inspired me to try to understand
my own thoughts about information and stuff. At
Perry Marshall
quoted Norbert Weiner, MIT mathematician and father of cybernetics, saying that information
is neither matter nor energy. Eternal inflation and self-reproduction of the universe is a
phrase that I learned from Andrei Linde. You can find his homepage
https://profiles.stanford.edu/andrei-linde
in an article discussing
eternal inflation in my text area. I agree with the idea that information is only an observation
of stuff, an explanation of what stuff has already changed into. So for me, science is
simply a template for measuring the outcome of chaos. On the website called What is Chaos,
Chaos refers to whether or not it is possible to make predictions about the results of events
happening in the physical world. If information is not stuff that is not matter nor energy,
then I think my free thoughts are information. My brain is stuff. My free thoughts are pure
information. I believe that the sentient mind has no locality nor physicality of any kind.
It is an observer. The human body or any aspect of the physical world has no preconceived
definition in my opinion. So the problem for me is not whether to believe in creationism
or evolution. The problem is how do we explain an eternal universe, which has no beginning
or ending, and how could the infinite mind, which is pure information and observation,
be split into billions of brains or owned by one God or any number of gods? I think Alan
Watts had one great idea. We cannot separate ourselves in any way from the whole eternal
infinite universe. Nothing was ever created nor will anything ever be destroyed. It always
evolves, meaning simply that stuff changes its form from time to time.
Are we the information or the stuff? Maybe we are both information and stuff, and a whole
lot of other possible and impossible thingies. The word thingy is in the Cambridge Dictionary
online. Thingy means something for which we forgot or never knew the name. I'm betting
there are billions and billions of unnamed thingies out there. I got those odds from
a very good source.
This is Graviton Ring. I call this podcast free thought consistent or inconsistent. I
would like to thank Rohit Mehra for the ideas in this podcast. If my idea of free thought
was consistent with all other points of view, that might be a great accomplishment. However,
I believe that it is not possible to have consistent points of view. This is because I really believe
anyone is free to define their own point of view as anything they wish. Although I expect
that there are an infinite set of points of view, mine is always the best. However, my
point of view can never coincide with anyone else's POV. This is fundamental to my concept
of free will and freedom of choice, that there is an infinite set of POVs. My definition
of my own POV is that my infinite mind observes the physical cosmos from outside of all physicality.
There is no way that I would limit anyone else to this point of view. I consider my infinite
intangible mind to be absolutely free from all dogma. I have always felt that my infinite
mind was able to see physicality from outside of the physical cosmos. The history of the
physical cosmos seems to be a closed system within its own limits. For example, the physical
cosmos is not known to exist outside of 13 or so billion light-years, which is enough
to call it an infinite set, but only one set of reality. The physical cosmos seems to me
to be expanding into an infinity. Currently, I see the concept of my physical body within
the visible cosmos and subject to all physical laws in the cosmos. However, I see my infinite
intangible mind as outside of the physical cosmos. For me to accept that free will or
even a limited free choice exists within the physical cosmos is probably impossible. However,
there is no reason for me to limit anyone else's free will to choose their own point of view,
such as within the physical cosmos or by any definition. This is not a rhetorical comment.
Rather, I really believe anyone is free to define their own point of view as anything
they wish. We all drink from the same fountain of wisdom. I am Graviton Ring.
This is Graviton Ring. I call this podcast Free Thought How to Define Originality. My
given name may be the name of many different people. However, I might be able to think
an original free thought in my mind. Of course, there are 60,000 random thoughts in my brain
every 24 hours, yet I easily ignore these chemically driven thoughts. I innovate the
free thought. I will record an audio podcast, during which I alone speak about ideas, which
may or may not be original ideas. However, once the free thought is expressed in words,
it is doomed to lose its originality, partly because any language is inadequate for original
expression, and partly because the audio is now locked in time. Earth time, in the physical
sense, is artificial, a dimension between any two observers of the same event. In real
time, everything is original. An infinite set of new physical events, for example, happens
every second within the visible cosmos. An infinite set of free thoughts might result
from observing the new physical events, or simply from innovation by thought experiments.
Einstein and Bose waited 70 years for their thought experiment to show up in the laboratory
as Bose Einstein Condensates. The BEC thought experiment was original in real time, however,
new physical events and new thoughts get stuck in artificial time within the physical cosmos,
when they are expressed openly and then again when they are reified as stuff. Then the events
become history and may be reviewed. By reification of stuff, I mean that matter and energy are
manipulated in an experimental or experiential event. For example, the creators of the BEC
manipulated physical stuff by experiment. I experienced their publication by reviewing
an article about BEC on the web. Both the original idea of BEC and the experiment are
new to me when I become aware of their existence. However, that newness would probably not be
original in any way, unless perhaps I innovate some new free thought after reviewing the information.
By now, of course, anyone listening to my podcast knows that hardly anything I say is
original in any way, except maybe we all drink from the same fountain of wisdom. I'm Graviton Ring.
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My definition of science
This is Graviton Ring. I wanted to say a little more about my definition of science.
Many of my professors at the many universities which I attended from 1956 to 1980 were great
scientists. They lived in the century of science, the 1900s, the age of Albert Einstein,
Niels Bohr, and countless geniuses whose legacy we have inherited. I hope I can carry the same
respect for scientific method and the realization that reality is always different than the math
and math is always different from reality. Reality and math both have elements that are real and unreal.
An unreal element in science today might be a string of energy or quark. Whatever happens to be defined
as the current building block of information, matter, or energy. One mystery from my point of view is
that many people who claim to be an authority on science have a more obsessive set of ideas
than many fundamentalists, religionists. Dogma simply does not exist in my idea of reality or
science. There is nothing absolutely true nor absolutely perfect. These are concepts that I think
we humans use to prevent having to say that we just do not know why. Why anything exists at all
or why anything happens the way it happens. We just do not know the cause of existence.
Of course my opinion is that there is no cause because everything has existed forever and will
continue to exist forever. Stuff simply changes its form from time to time. This is obvious to me.
There is nothing that I have ever experienced which could prove that any preconceived dogma exists,
whether it is called science, religion, or whatever. There seems to be only one predictable aspect of
life. Everything changes. Whether these changes are called scientific evolution, biblical prophecy,
or simply historical development, the facts seem to be obvious. Change happens everywhere to everything.
What stays the same in my opinion is the awareness that we all have of an infinite universe and the
awareness of every detail within that universe. There is such a bias in western culture to either
or thinking that we seem to be unable to understand that both infinitely large and infinitely small
aspects of life can be contemplated and taken care of at the same time. Science and religion
are not really different in that aspect. Both of these ways of thinking often include infinitely
large and infinitely small ideas. No particular way of thinking has a complete and final proof of
anything. In my opinion there are always unanswered questions within any discipline.
This is why I admire Michel Martin and her idea that the enemy of faith is not doubt,
but the enemy of faith is certainty. The fact is we do not know the cause of existence, nor do we
know what will happen in the next nanosecond. Hopefully we have faith in wellness. Wellness,
in my opinion, is a spiritual aspect of life. Our awareness of existence is the same as our
spiritual existence. There are no mysteries to spiritual awareness. It simply is what it seems to be.
The understanding that an infinite universe exists. We are that universe in every aspect of it
and in every aspect of ourselves. As Alan Watts said, we cannot separate ourselves from it in any
way. Where else would we go? We are woven into the tangible and intangible reality. Our thoughts
may be free, however I think we are physically anchored in some ways. The physical aspects of
life simply allow us to focus on the local experiences of everyday life. There is no reason to ignore
the infinite universe in order to pay attention to everyday life, nor any reason to ignore everyday
life to pay attention to the infinite universe. They are woven together as well. As humans, or
whatever you believe yourself to be, a spiritual entity or a soul created by your particular idea
of a creator God, we are integrated into the entire experience of the infinite mind. I have no
idea what the infinite mind is exactly. The experience and knowledge that we all gather and share
from our everyday life might be our infinite mind. Many of my professors experienced and shared
first-hand knowledge about their lives. One particular adventure, which one of my professors saw in
East Africa, was a swarm of locusts, one mile wide, one half mile high at the center and tapering off
for about three or four miles in length. The swarm was moving through the rift valley. My professor
remarked that there was nothing left in the trail of the swarm except tiny grains of sand.
All the math and science in the world could not count the number of locusts in that swarm,
nor the number of grains of sand in the desert. Reality cannot be measured with absolute perfection
in math, science, or with any perfect answers. Science is a template which can be used to estimate
reality. However, in my opinion, reality never repeats itself nor pauses for anything. This idea
is simply my own observation. Reality happens right here, right now. Science, religion, or any
set of knowledge is about past events which do not even exist anymore. The past is a fantasy,
an illusion, which I think allows us humans to feel some comfort and connection to each other
and to the whole reality. I'm not saying that fantasy and illusion are evil or even useless. On
the contrary, I believe that fantasy and illusion are simply ways that we entertain ourselves.
I am a Star Trek fan and a Gene Roddenberry wannabe. My movie script is pure fantasy, an idea that I
have had for a long time that we are stuck in our physical existence. Our spiritual experiences
are integrated into our physical existence. However, for some reason we seem to think that we can only
experience one or the other at different times. I think we experience both our spiritual and physical
existence at the same time all the time.
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After death communication
My real life experience during a rain ritual. My grandchildren, Dakota Jones and Mizuko Star, who had died, seemed to be communicating with me. My grandson Dakota had died at birth several years ago. His sibling had died a few years before his death in a miscarriage. I was not there when they died.
An After Death Communication or just some clouds?
On the day, and at the exact time, of the ADC I was performing a Lakota ritual alone in the front yard of my deceased parent's home, at 2111 Leishman Avenue, Arnold, PA 15068. There had been a drought in the area for at least a week. The ritual was to address the drought and I had no expectation at all about the children being involved in an ADC. The ADC was completely unexpected. During the ritual and about the same time as the ADC, a strong smell of fresh rainwater seemed to rise from the dried out lawn where I was standing and go up into the sky where the ADC appeared a few seconds later.
I had no active thoughts of the children at the time of the ADC, other than the memory of their deaths of course. However I was completely focused on the Lakota ritual I was performing alone in the front lawn. The ritual required a willing sacrifice of a treasured object of mine. I chose a cassette tape which actually had Rain in its title. It was a white noise meditation audio which I often used to relax and block out distracting sounds.
The ritual required me to stand on open ground, the lawn of my deceased parent's home in this case, facing west with feet spread about shoulder width. I ended the ritual by leaning backwards so my upper body was almost parallel to the ground, my head facing upward and toward the east. Then the ADC happened. The entire sky appeared like a thick pink and blue blanket of cloud cover. One bright star appeared in its normal place in the sky directly above me. I took this to be Dakota. Then as I gazed backwards toward the eastern horizon a less bright twinkling star appeared in a usual place in the sky except it seemed to be hiding behind a tall tree across the street from my parent's home. I took this to be my grandchild who had died in the miscarriage.
I was completely shocked by the appearance of the sky, the entire sky in all directions was covered by the pink and blue cloud cover and no other stars nor any break in the cloud cover appeared anywhere except for the two stars I described. The ADC was completely sudden except there appeared to be a quality of eternity within the few seconds of the ADC, even though the ADC would certainly end in a few seconds, the actual relationship of the two children and every aspect and being in the true reality would always be there in love and compassion.
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Freedom of thought
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either/or thinking
This is Graviton Ring. I call this podcast either or thinking both and
thinking and maybe another way of thinking. Whatever number this podcast
is, it is both free thought and whatever the current topic of this podcast is. So
I would say it is both and then again it might or might not be perfectly true so
maybe it is either or as well. However if it is free thought then it might be
something else as well as both and and either or. For example it might be
inclusive or it might be exclusive of any number of ideas. Formal logic of
philosophy was a talent and desire of mine which was rewarded when I was a
30 year old undergraduate. My counselor in 1968 Mr. Krotek offered me an
honors course in which I would be the representative member for about 10,000
other students most of whom were adults or commuters not the under the age of
21 students living on campus and attending right out of high school. The
students living on campus had a representative of their own in the class
and finally the graduate students as well. Three enrolled members with a
professor who taught the class after he earned his his doctorate in philosophy
at City College of New York completely free of charge. His skills and his ability
to teach those skills defied the common idea that you get what you pay for or as
I am likely to say at any time information wants to be free. So I learned
from my military career and Master Sergeant Rock a huge Croatian man who
introduced me in 1962 to the term free tinker that was how he pronounced free
thinker. However when I looked at Sergeant Rock's huge waistline which was about
equal to his height of over six feet I thought to myself there is no way he is
free. Now 44 years later I realize that physical freedom and free thought may be
exclusive. You can have one without the other which brings me to the motivation
for this podcast. While listening to another podcast just now I realized that
the podmaster was using either or as the primary way to talk about many
different topics. One of the topics of course the constant debate about
evolution versus creation. It seemed to me that the preconceived idea of the whole
podcast was to deny evolution while proposing the idea that a creator or at
least some preconceived plan of creation was the whole reason to deny
evolution. This whole idea of selling against an existing concept mystifies
me. In my opinion the proof of evolution by simple observation and proof by
scientific method could be seen as a plan of creation as well. This
evolutionary plan of creation could simply be what it appears to be the way
human and other life forms developed over millions of years. Why couldn't a
creation plan exist with evolution as its cause? There is no reason to insist on
choosing either evolution or a plan of creation nor is there a reason to think
that human evolution denies the existence of a God or any number of gods.
Another preconceived idea of the podcast I mentioned was that modern
civilization was bent on denying the existence of a creator or any plan of
creation by promoting evolution. Okay maybe I have fallen into my own trap here.
I would rather not sell against the other podcast so let me say what I think
spawned life as we know it. Everything that exists now in the physical cosmos
developed from the Big Bang. Once again I can easily imagine a creator or a plan
of creation for our cosmos which is simply the Big Bang. Why would any
creator be limited to some biblical or dogmatic creation process or why would
any such creator need a preconceived plan at all? Since I had no preconceived
script for this podcast I think I will just end it here. Hopefully then some of
your own thoughts will be set free. This is Graviton Ring. I call this podcast
Free Thought a Brief Summary of Time. This podcast is a summary of my entire
podcast up to now. I am recording each session with a new noise cancelling
microphone. I am editing the text to clarify my ideas. Everything in the
podcast is my own opinion. I consider myself to be an absolutely free thinker.
I believe there is nothing preconceived nor dogmatic anywhere at all in the
infinite universe. The physical reality is bound by a type of dogma however I
define that dogma as chaos within the irreversibility of time. Any dogma in the
physical cosmos is a record of the past. I believe there are no real-time events
in the physical cosmos only a history of past events. Real-time events happen in
every instant, an entire infinite set of new experiences without pausing nor
repeating. Any God in my opinion would have to be exactly the same as any other
sentient being, an observer of this infinite set of new experiences. The
observer by my definition cannot ever be observed. The physical cosmos may have
existed forever in what cosmologists now call the eternal universe. It seems that
the observers must have existed forever as well. Eternal inflation and self-
reproduction of the universe is a phrase that I learned from Andre Lindy, a well
known and honored cosmologist. This brings me to my new motto. Let's all
agree to disagree. In other words, every observer has the ability to think freely
from their own point of view about anything and everything. From my point of
view we can improve the physical reality, however we cannot make it perfect. There
is perfection in the real-time events because they happen without repeating
themselves. Improving the physical reality is possible only by correcting
our misconceptions about real-time events. We all drink from the same
fountain of wisdom. I'm graviton ring. This is graviton ring. I wanted to take a
few minutes to explain some of my answers and new ideas that I got from
the interview by Sue Grandes on her podcast Uncomfortable Questions. The
first idea that came to mind is that Sue used the title gravitation ring
instead of graviton ring in describing my pen name. So I was wondering how do we
look at new ideas. It's something that sounds like for those of us who can hear
or looks like for those of us who can see. Oddly enough, the next person
interviewed after me was Deann who has been blind since birth. The second idea
that came to mind is that either or thinking seemed to really be a factor in
the interview. I started off answering Sue's question that I think evil is not
what most people think of it. And in a few minutes after the question and
answers, Sue said what you think that evil does not exist at all, which is not
what I said of course and thanks to Sue's good humor and persistent questioning,
we cleared that up. Also, I think we tend to see a dogma even if there is no
dogma available at all. It's sort of a refusal to accept a tabula rasa, a total
blank page in the other person's idea or whatever it is we're considering. I
think we try to make a dogma or a stereotypical idea so that we can sort
of shoot down that new idea. Our resistance to new ideas seems to come
about because we persist and even reinforce our own original point of view.
Which is probably a good thing as long as we're open to new ideas. But the
opening of new ideas is often resisted or ignored and seen as an attempt to
change the listeners' ideas rather than simply accepting the explanation of the
speaker's ideas. The other final thing that I wanted to mention is by no
censorship in talking about the films that I saw as a child of World War II,
I simply meant that nothing was prevented from being reported in some
way. Obviously not everything was filmed in World War II and many of the things
that were filmed were destroyed or just not shown to the public. But my
uncles and friends who survived the combat freely told me what happened
including their own desperate actions that they had to do in order to survive.
We all drink from the same fountain of wisdom. I'm Graviton Ring.
This is Graviton Ring. I call this podcast Free Thought the Sense of Humor.
There are several sources on the web which talk about the reasons behind the
human sense of humor. One key factor is the ability to suspend one's concept of
reality temporarily. Amazingly as many as half of the people hearing a joke
cannot see the humor because they see the imaginary conditions in the joke as
real. Especially if there are some gory details in the joke, the sticklers for
reality may actually be offended by the attempt to make them laugh. During my
first attempt to write a science fiction movie script I consulted many different
sources about the story and the proper form for screenplays. One very credible
source with a good track record offered to evaluate my story and possibly offer
some of the accepted standards of writing as a service in which they might
actually go straight the story and script. In the evaluation the reviewer
stated that one key aspect in my science fiction story was unbelievable. My first
thought was that the reviewer was joking or perhaps testing my resolve to defend
the story under critical analysis. Whatever the reviewer's reason was for
the incredible analysis fortunately my instructor in screenwriting offered to
do the ghost writing and to make sure the industry standards of structuring a
professional screenplay were followed. The reviewer of the incredible analysis
charged me about $150. The ghost writing service arranged by my instructor
received $1,500. My instructor received another $1,500 to review the ghost writing.
The management service which my instructor arranged received an additional
fee of $6,000. Simply believing in my story as it was intended to be a work of
fiction was worth about 60 times the unbelief. My opinion about this phenomena
of suspending or not suspending reality temporarily in order to consider
something as humorous or fictional is that humans in Western culture are
often polarized into right or left-brain thinking. In addition Western culture
seems to favor either or thinking in any circumstance. Some documentaries
displayed the right brain state which was confirmed by brain scans as one in
which the person experiencing right-brain thinking often rejected any changes in
the testing situation. This seems unusual to me because right-brain thinking is
often associated with artistic abilities such as music and art. However jazz music
and abstract art were often criticized during their introduction into the
mainstream. Left-brain thinking is often associated with science and logic.
Recently in my experience while communicating with members of the
scientific community I have often encountered a similar disparity. Some
scientists who refuse to think about new theories or changes in accepted theories
seem to be expressing the same right-brain need to resist changes. Perhaps when
part of our time in right-brain thinking such as during a brainstorming session
to think about new ideas and then use logic and science to refine the results
of the brainstorming. Whatever happens in general with our thought processes we
also seem to have considerable control over our three thoughts. Even though
there are many similarities such as predictable dumb creatures in pulp
science fiction there are always new ideas that fascinate fans. In particular
for me the real science of understanding how many different ways there might be
for sentient creatures to gather intelligence many of which were portrayed
on the science channel is enlightening and may even provide clues to the past
or future developments by nature or nurture in human ways of thinking. We all
drink from the same fountain of wisdom. I'm Graviton Ring.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S3SFeyucgCSzioqmAVeDfE1_3DF8I7gG/view?usp=sharing
Android, Age One science fiction
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ygPujCt02R7u6B9eUdnrng90DQr3HIGZ/view?usp=sharing
The illusion of time
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-X2VVEfQGm4ovwFdYv6FS-wU-1uTGdwx/view?usp=sharing
