STOP TALKIN’ and MAKIN’ NOISE

(Apologies to Buffalo and Sills)

There’s nothing happening here
What it isn’t; ain’t exactly clear
A man with a CNN mic over there
Telling me I got to beware.

I think it’s time they stop all that blather,
Re-incarnation of old Dan Rather,
I think it’s time they stop all that blather,
Think for myself, I’d much like rather.

There’s battle lines being drawn
Nobody’s right when everybody’s wrong
Idealistic panel speaking its mind
Getting so much support from behind

I think it’s time they stop all that blather,
Re-incarnation of old Dan Rather,
I think it’s time they stop all that blather,
Think for myself, I’d much like rather.

What a bad day for the weak-minded,
Millions of people, social media blinded,
Chanting slogans and carrying placards
Some paid, others subsidized lagards.

I think it’s time they stop all that blather,
Re-incarnation of old Dan Rather,
I think it’s time they stop all that blather,
Think for myself, I’d much like rather.

Hysteria strikes deep inside them,
Whatever they hear abides them,
It starts when they’re always afraid
Step out of line, they don’t get paid.

I think it’s time they stop all that blather,
Re-incarnation of old Dan Rather,
I think it’s time they stop all that blather,
Think for myself, I’d much like rather.
I think it’s time they stop all that blather,
Re-incarnation of old Dan Rather,
I think it’s time they stop all that blather,
Think for myself, I’d much like rather.

Talking Head with Memes

A LECTURE FROM THE EGO

Tags

awareness, ego, external consciousness, internal consciousness, other, self

“First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no other.”

Ramana Maharshi

 

Why God gave you me is not so hard to see,

My unbounded courage enhances my humility.

I am most humble, in an unpretentious way,

“He has abundant virtues” I am sure people say.

As you ponder my vast and countless charms,

Remember only God could put me in your arms.

If I were God, existent from beginning to the end,

I know quite resolutely, I would be my best friend.

Why God gave you me is not so hard to see,

My unbounded courage enhances my humility.

Consider yourself fortunate to have once laid eyes on me,

It is a deeply held visage that many others wish to see.

To be in your prestigious position, to hear my brilliant thought,

They would clap and chant feverishly, “What Hath Waldo Wrought?”

So when I appear as a pinnacle, so painfully unreachable,

Remember the resplendent way, I remain un-impeachable.

Why God gave you me is not so hard to see,

My unbounded courage enhances my humility.

Picture my humility and my unmatchable gallant presence,

And I will magically appear in all my wonderful essence.

Others have worked desperately, often in perspiration,

But I live quite gloriously, as my lesser’s inspiration.

It seems so wrong for me, to bathe in the aura of nobility,

As lesser men stand in shadows, of my supreme mental agility.

Why God gave you me is not so hard to see,

My unbounded courage enhances my humility.

My detractor’s snarls and glares, my opinions they wish to rend,

But believe me my dear admirers, you will benefit in the end.

If at times, my fans, it appears I never made a mistake,

It is only then, I will admit, my thinking is not opaque.

I am all good, all knowing, all kind, beyond monumental,

What a shame, in the end, that I am a little oddly mental.

Why God gave you me is not so hard to see,

My unbounded courage enhances my humility.

So as you lay awake at night, and ponder my magnificence,

Consider yourself a lucky sole, to have seen my great omnificence.

Spread the word and tell the world you have finally seen the Dark,

The light will fade, the oceans shrink, the sun but a tiny spark.

By then my sweet little dear ones, I will emerge anew,

And with all my brilliance, a gift;  I give myself  to you.

Why God gave you me is not so hard to see,

My unbounded courage enhances my humility.

THE EGO AND THE ID
Copyright W. Tomosky
1/19/2017

FALSE BORDERS (Our own frontiers)

Tags

Catholics, Chango, Culture, El Fangito, Luisa Aldea, Mesta, Moors, Music, Nigerian, Puerto Rico, San German, Santiago Apostol, St. Peter, Vigigantes, Yorubans

Originally Posted six years ago on one of my other blogs.

 

(Multiculturalism, good, bad or indifferent?)

Man invents frontiers and borders for himself. If he would just stop there it would be one thing; but he doesn’t. He attempts to imprint his frontiers and borders on others.

Maybe these cultural differences that we talk about are actually good for us. Men, women, beings; they all must have Something (capital S intended) to believe in. Maybe it isn’t the “Something”, maybe it is the strength of the belief that really matters. The “Something” could just as well be “something.” It does not have to be a deity. Possibly it is a belief that the human race, collectively, will keep adding to instead of subtracting from this earth. When the atheist believes strongly that there is no god, then the strength of his belief is as valid as one who does believe. How many gods can exist? Maybe One. Possibly more. Or none?

My words above intend to raise the following question. Is the strength of a belief as good as the belief itself? If two people have two different belief systems can they live with each other, next to each other, and get along? Or must they imprint their beliefs on the other until they “win?” Is it better for each to hang on tightly to their own beliefs and yet be able to utilize the good they find in the other’s beliefs to enhance their own?

The circular argument that I offer has to do with the small village of Loiza Aldea, Puerto Rico. Prior to defining Loiza Aldea I am required to take you back to Iberia and Africa in previous times.

In Spain the miraculous appearance of St. James the Apostle (Santiago Apostol) is a legend. The embattled Catholic Militias had fought for centuries to displace the Islamic Moors who had captured Andalusia; the southern section of the Iberian Peninsula (el Andalus). This miraculous appearance of Santiago Apostol gave the Christian militias the will to fight. After five hundred years the Moors were driven out.

Subsequently, but definitely not in a just manner, these militias became controllers of the Catholic sheep raising cartel. Their common name was the Mesta. The farmers in el Andalus were severely misused by the cartel. The Mesta was allowed to herd and drive its sheep wherever it wished. Farm crops were overrun and destroyed by the sheep.

Compensation was not required to be paid for the damage. The famished and desperate people migrated from Spain by the thousands; many of them establishing their new homes in Puerto Rico.

In Africa, shortly thereafter, Nigerian Yoruba Tribes were decimated by Islamic slave traders. Some of these slaves were brought to Puerto Rico to work the farms.

Eventually the class gap between rich and poor Spanish immigrants grew wider. Many poor Spanish families squatted on the swampy lagoons of Carolinas east of Old San Juan. This squat village became known as El Fangito (the swamp). Over the years some of these families were joined by Yoruban families. The people of El Fangito were eventually forced to move. Their own government destroyed their homes that rested on stilts above the muddy lagoons. About the same time escaped slaves and freemen had previously migrated to Loiza Aldea where a Native Indian (Taino) compound existed.

The native Taino had, as their queen, “Yuiza.” The Yoruban population had, as their warrior god, “Chango”, who had fought the Islamic slave traders. The Spanish had, as their patron, “Santiago Apostol.”

Each July in Loiza Aldea a ten day festival is held to commemorate the victory of Santiago Apostol. But the borders and frontiers are in voluntary disarray. The local people voluntarily take on the persona of the “Vijigantes”; the Islamic slave traders. These locals dress in colorful and blousy costumes with frightful masks made of coconut shells. Multiple images of Santiago Apostle, Queen Yuiza and warrior Chango share the streets with each other.

St. Peter, patron of the local church, also holds a prominent place. The flag of Loiza Aldea is flown with its multi-cultural simulacrums of the yellow Yoiza River. Meanwhile the bells of the church of St. Peter also appear on the flag.

God and metaphysical thought remain ignorant of borders or cultural frontiers in Loiza Aldea. They remain unaffected by the time or space that the ancestors of the local people occupied. Yet their God (a trinity of Spanish, African and Caribbean cultures) is now one, or if you prefer, One.

Across the small island of Puerto Rico other cultures developed. People believed strongly, no matter whether they belonged in an agricultural area, a devout Catholic area or the new metropolitans that were emerging.

On the opposite corner of the island from Luisa Aldea was a city that had been transplanted in the 1600’s; San German. Originally it was located on the southern coast of Puerto Rico; near the Phosphorescent Bay. After being pillaged several times by pirates the village made a decision. They packed their belongings and several religious artifacts that had been salvaged. With a strong belief in God they hauled their treasures fifteen miles through mountainous jungles to their new San German. The town remains a devout Catholic center.

All of these cultures of Puerto Rico remained strong in their individual beliefs. None of these cultures imposed on each other. Rather, they set an example of what was good in each culture. Those who wished to adopt another culture, partially or whole, did so. Those that did not; did not. Today these cultures live in harmony with each other.

Governmental politics are another matter.

But I must leave politics behind in order to visit a more beautiful place.

 

I will not bore you with more of my own words. I now allow you to see the history of one of the most beautiful and cross-cultural peoples of the world: PUERTO RICO!

The History of Loiza Aldea

http://elyunque.com/loiza.htm

The Festival of Santiago Apostol; 1949

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPCnx-GXs4M

The Festival as it was in 2006

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GprotRjo8Z8

The Culture and Music of the Farmers in Puerto Rico; 1930

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwnRkCNm1tI

Today and Yesterday on the opposite corner of the island; San German

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGicz7iGJ8E

THE UNSOCIAL MEDIA

Tags

face-to-face, German Woman, levinas, Russian Soldier, WWII

 

What hath Zuckerberg wrought?

 

My opinion

on Facebook

is just one of a quadrillion opinions.

 

However, my opinion

is as valid as

the other

999,999,999,999,999

although a bit stranger.

 

Facebook is advertised as a social network,

a supposed tool for social intercourse.

 

We supposedly are acting in a social manner.

 

Yet there is something missing

that drastically damages

that face-to-face interaction.

 

It is the actual face of the other.

 

I call on

the 20^th century philosopher

Emmanuelis Levinas

(12 January 1906 – 25 December 1995)

 

 

 

 

(From Wikipedia)

to assist me

in my need to clarify.

 

Levinas’ message

“when one person looks upon another’s face

the gazer feels an immediate empathy

for the other.”

 

That empathy may turn into complete

suppression of self-interest.

 

The observer does something

completely out of character

and performs a charitable act

that benefits the other.

 

This is because of the very personal

face-to-face situation.

 

One of his examples comes from a novel

Levinas read years prior.

 

The scene depicts a German lady

who immediately hates a Russian soldier

the minute she sees him.

 

The soldier is removing partially decomposed bodies

of fellow Russian soldiers,

that are the result of the WWII Russian invasion of Germany.

 

As the German lady, who is in rags,

and has only one loaf of bread to her name,

looks into the Russian’s face

her rage subsides.

 

She sees him as a human being

who is suffering

in his work

as much as she is suffering from poverty.

 

This face-to-face encounter

causes a complete turnaround of her rage.

 

She hands him her only possession,

her loaf of bread.

 

That is the point that Levinas wishes to make.

Looking at a fellow human being,

face-to-face,

is our basic being.

 

It is the one thing that keeps us alive.

 

We argue, disagree and go to war.

But when two humans face each other

the hate melts away.

 

And the following is all I want to say;

 

There is a problem with Facebook.

 

We are either going overboard in agreeing with each other,

being politically correct

 – – – – OR – – – –

if we have different points of view

it often degenerates into name calling

or misinterpreted comments.

 

I am guilty.

 

I have no solution.

 

It is the nature of Facebook.

 

We are immune to the real face-to-face nature that Levinas speaks of.

 

We may know each other,

we may remember each other from past associations,

yet there is an anonymity

that creeps in and voids the real face to face.

 

Allow me to voice an opinion,

yes, I have a lot of those.

 

Since we can do nothing to create

an actual face-to-face while we are on Facebook

let us attempt

to visualize

the other person

and the situation that he or she

may be in.

 

What hath Zuckerberg wrought?

 

INSTINCT

Tags

fear of self, Human instinct, self-reconciliation, survival

 

“We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.”

                                                                                    Charles Darwin

  

Hello monster; my old friend,

are you with me until the end?

Must I always fret and worry,

that you will exit me in a fury?

Leaving me to deal,

with your deeds, surely unworthy?

 

 

Won’t you stay beneath my bed,

so that nothing should I dread?

I know that you are there inside,

I imprisoned you with my pride.

Depart me old friend,

I sometimes feel, you can no longer hide.

 

 

If you are really mild and benign,

why under bed are you enshrined?

You claim to be weak and surely mild,

your image is attuned to evil and wild.

There are other beds,

and beings – – – wishing to be defiled.

 

 

Why did you choose my bed; old friend?

there are others, more suitable to tend.

I choose not to acknowledge you,

can’t you take suggestions or a clue?

other beds exist,

Your choices are many – – – not few.

 

 

I can see their names and faces,

On post office walls and other places.

They beg for your worry and ill credence,

They cherish your sins and malfeasance.

Forsake me, old friend,

Go assist them, make their allegiance.

 

 

I treat you poorly, as if you don’t exist,

your illusory presence will not be missed,

Why stay there in the dark and dust?

abandon and dispose of me if you must,

Friends we do not discard,

However, to you I am truly unjust.

 

 

Why hang around, under slat and mattress?

I no longer care for you, misguided and hapless.

Can’t you see I no longer want you as a friend?

I have more honorable activities to attend,

Run away, escape now,

Lest I assassinate you, do you comprehend?

 

 

If I depart this earth, I take you with me,

it will be the both of us; me and thee.

I hope that you are getting my drift,

this friendship will end; sure and swift.

depart my presence old friend,

leave me alone, we cannot co-exist.

 

 

And then my old friend disappeared,

he left not a bit of himself; as I had feared,

his memory can be seen, now and then,

he has taken up with more worthy men,

good riddance I say;

Goodbye old pal, my old evil friend.

 

THE RAINBOW COMPUTER

Tags

Color Computer, Optical Computer, Pre-calculating computer

A pre-calculating computer system

that operates on the logic of color

 

© W. J. Tomosky

 

 

I am proposing a computer that does not use a numbered base such as binary, octal or hexadecimal.

 

I am proposing a computer that runs on the logic of color. I have chosen the Lab Color Space¹ for its fine granularity.

 

The Lab Color Space may be broken into several partitions²; e.g.,  1, 2, 3 or 4.

  

¹     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      ²

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Any section may be used for mapping knowledge bases, micro instructions, programming instructions and floating point instructions. Therefore, any section may be arbitrarily sub-divided into four other sections. ³ This division could go on infinitesimally according to the user’s needs.

 

    ³  

 

 

 

 

 

 

We may then arbitrarily assign different types of instructions to different sub-divisions of quadrant 1; 1a for mapping knowledge bases, 1b for micro instructions, 1c for programming instructions and 1d for floating point instructions.⁴

 

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Note the fine color granularity in each of the subsections in quadrant 1. This allows each hue to be mapped to not only a specific type of instruction but for an individual instruction.

 

Example; Let us assume that we wished to add two floating point numbers together. The instructions and data would be accessed. There would be an associated color that has been identified when this instruction was link-edited. This link edited color would automatically pass control to the “knowledge base map” which in turn would pass control, via the cloud, to a knowledge base that had stored all previously calculated combinations of floating point instructions. That would allow the computer to know whether this specific operation and numerical values had previously been calculated. If so, the answer would be automatically be retrieved. This would save calculation time. If not, the calculation would be accomplished and then stored on the data base for the next query. This would be a sort of Object Oriented Programming with the results of the calculation stored for the next user. In other words all machines who wished to do a specific calculation would immediately know if it has been previously computed or not. If yes, then the result would be automatically retrieved thus avoiding a potentially time consuming calculation. If no, then the calculation would be completed and stored locally for the next instance that ANY computer wished to use the results. Thus it would become another data base holding pre-calculated data.

 

This supposes that there are knowledge bases of all types; logarithmic tables, trigonometric tables, previously calculated tables, archaeological data bases, literary data bases, optical character/facial  recognition data bases, etc. Over time, all known epistemological elements could be efficiently stored and quickly retreived.

 

 

Color Reception and Management

 

We will first need to replace the Arithmetical Logic Unit (ALU) of the digital computer with a logic device that recognizes color as well as grey scale; we will call this the Color Logic Unit (CLU). For this we will first require a “front end” system of rods and cones⁴ to simulate the construction of the eye.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

⁴ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnTLcj6BDKE

 

The “Argus II” has been FDA approved and therefore it or other follow-on systems could be used to solve this problem. The Argus II works by substituting a small array of electrodes for the light-sensing cells that normally react to light by sending an electric signal toward the back of the retina. Those signals are relayed to the optic nerve behind the eye, and travel back along the nerve to the brain.⁵

 

⁵ http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-02/worlds-first-bionic-eye-receives-fda-approval

 

This page described the front end of the CLU. The back end must make sense of these signals. For the back end of the CLU we need a comparator unit to simulate the brain. For purposes of reliability I suggest that three comparator units be used in parallel and that a voting system selects the correct results. For example if comparator #1 and #2 agree but the results of #3 are different, then the results of #3 are disregarded. Likewise for any two comparators that agree. The odd result is always disregarded.

 

The following two abstracts define the basics of color comparison; spectrum management and refinement.

 

Multicolor cavity soliton.

Abstract

We show a new class of complex solitary wave that exists in a nonlinear optical cavity with appropriate dispersion characteristics.⁶  The cavity soliton consists of multiple soliton-like spectro-temporal components that exhibit distinctive colors but coincide in time and share a common phase, formed together via strong inter-soliton four-wave mixing and Cherenkov radiation. The multicolor cavity soliton shows intriguing spectral locking characteristics and remarkable capability of spectrum management to tailor soliton frequencies, which would be very useful for versatile generation and manipulation of multi-octave spanning phase-locked Kerr frequency combs, with great potential for applications in frequency metrology, optical frequency synthesis, and spectroscopy.

⁶ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27464131

 

 

Multi-color Cavity Metrology

 

This technique reduces the effect of the external seismic disturbances by four orders of magnitude and promises to greatly enhance the stability and reliability of the current generation of gravitational wave detector. The possibility for using multi-color techniques to overcome current quantum and thermal noise limits is also discussed.⁷

 

⁷ http://inspirehep.net/record/1113693/

 

 

We now have a front end color recognition system and a method for determining and correcting color reliability. This correction method is much like the correction algorithms that discover and correct ‘parity errors’ in digital computer systems.

 

Selecting a Color Space

 

Due to the fact that each color quadrant is defined by its intention (instruction type or data) we only need to focus on the finely granulated colors that we so choose from our Lab Color Space.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three “guns” select the finely granulated colors that the user chooses. The guns are lasers which are ‘aimed’ by a plasma based optical system. This avoids mechanical movement. The lasers can then be pointed at any minute point on the Lab Color Space to select any instruction and its required corresponding data.⁸  Laser #1 selects the instruction, laser #2 selects the first data operand (if data is needed for this instruction) and likewise laser #3 selects the second data operand if data is required. This eliminates the need for registers to be loaded prior to the instruction being executed; all is done in parallel. 

 

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The three receiver/decoders⁹ described as the Color Reception and Management system, ibid, are also matched by a plasma optical system that receives the colors (instructions and data) that were projected by the laser guns.

 

 

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All distortion caused by the parallax between the laser and the Lab Color Space will be controlled by the Multicolor cavity soliton and Multi-color Cavity Metrology methods; ibid.

 

This system could be also be used to help map thought processes. Until there is an ability to recognize minute thought processes the ability to follow eye movements could be mapped. Eye movements would control the laser pointer and the computer would operate on instructions and data.

 

Consider the example of the ophthalmologist’s “Field of Vision” test where many points of the retina/optic nerve can be tested to find blind spots in the patient’s vision.

 

An example may be to map what the brain may be doing as a human scans a piece of artwork. Or the eye movements of an architect may be converted to determine what he discerns as opposed to what he ignores (determines not to be useful). This type of mapping could also prove useful in medical, psychological and psychiatric diagnosis. The doctor could study a printed diagnosis much after the patient has been examined.

 

There exist an infinite number of diagnostic applications from mechanical diagnosis to aptitude diagnosis.

 

The previous description utilized flat planes. The next description utilizes spherical surfaces.

 

Additional speed may be added to the computer by using a multiple “eye” laser system that would algorithmically choose the next set(s) of data or instructions that “may” be required. In other words this is a look-ahead system that would prepare the next instruction and data while the current instruction is being executed.

 

This unit would use a spherical color space that would enclose multiple Argus II systems ¹⁰.

  

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TELEOLOGICAL BALLISTICS

Tags

?NA, Animals, Ballistics, Chemistry, Darwin, Descent of Man, DNA, Francis Crick, God and gods, Human Nature, Mass/Energy/Gravity, Mutations, Nature, Physics, Plants, Purposeful Aim, RNA, Teleology

 

Teleological ballistics is the ability of human consciousness that continues to ask “Who are we?” and “Where did we come from?”

If true, then we have been aiming at our own end, even before the appearance of those two ancient fellows above. I can’t offer an opinion whether this teleology is good or bad; it all remains to be seen.

I will define TELEOLOGY a little better in a minute or two.

The TELEOLOGY is the continued questioning of “who” and “where.” I believe that one element of teleology is the human ability to think and ask “WHY.”

 

The BALLISTIC path is the continued discoveries that have been made through science and philosophy.

 

This, historically, HAD been answered by religion; which appears to be on the decline.

 

Teleology is conscious and aimed; although we may not have realized it.

 

The ballistics are far from the ballistics of mass, energy and gravitational pull. This is evidenced by the following chart.

 

The teleological path is not a perfect straight line as shown. It has had its leveling off at times. For instance, the Dark Ages deterred its rise and the Renaissance restarted it. Then religious belligerence once again slowed its trajectory.

 

Thank you Averroes for translating Aristotle and then having someone spirit it up to Europe so that they could give birth to the Renaissance.

 

At other times science and philosophy have negatively impacted teleological advancement through false excursions; losing decades, if not centuries.

 

One definition of teleology is the character attributed to nature or natural processes as being directed toward an end or shaped by a purpose; having a goal.

 

Another similar term is vitalism; “A doctrine that the processes of life are not explicable by the laws of physics and chemistry alone and that life is in some part self-determining.”

 

I should be quick to point out that these two definitions are not related to “Theism”; the belief in the existence of a god or gods; specifically : 

“belief in the existence of one God viewed as the creative source of the human race and the world who transcends yet is immanent in the world.”

 

Others have stated their opinion that neither theism nor science has exactly proven where the origins of life started or how it has evolved:

Francis Crick, one of the discoverers of DNA stated; “An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going. But this should not be taken to imply that there are good reasons to believe that it could not have started on the earth by a perfectly reasonable sequence of fairly ordinary chemical reactions. The plain fact is that the time available was too long, the many microenvironments on the earth’s surface too diverse, the various chemical possibilities too numerous and our own knowledge and imagination too feeble to allow us to be able to unravel exactly how it might or might not have happened such a long time ago, especially as we have no experimental evidence from that era to check our ideas against.”  Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature; Simon & Schuster, 1981, p. 88.

 

Therefore teleology appears to say that there is something in this world that advances human life, and quite possibly other forms of life such as animal and plant. Some researchers believe that there is, possibly, something like RNA or DNA that we have yet to discover. If that is true, as I have already stated, then it could also exist in animals and even plants. This would make one think of Darwin’s “Descent of Man”; however, researchers often find holes in the theory that “survival of the fittest” is the main driver of Darwinism. On the other hand natural “mutations” and their survival could possibly have a teleological component.

I wish that I could offer a satisfying conclusion to this post; but I can not. My goal for this post was only to suggest that there is something else in the cosmogonies, and specifically on this earth, that we have yet to define.

I believe that more discovery is needed, and then – – – we are sure to have more questions.

It is our nature.

 

“INTENTIONALITY” emerges from “RESEMBLANCE”

Tags

Consciousness, context, Creativity, emergence, external, intentionality, internal, John Searle, Sir Willian of Ockham, the five senses

Reams of paper and years of thought have been spent on discussing “intentionality.”

 

Franz Clemens Brentano (1838–1917) advocated a form of internal recognition, according to which the intentional object is “in the head,” as it were; or in philosophy speak “internal intentionality.”

 

There are many other types of “intentionality” but for the sake of simplicity (which both William of Ockham and I subscribe to) let us consider only “the dualism of intentionality.”

 

So what I am speaking of here is “intentionality” of two types; internal and external.

 

INTERNAL INTENTIONALITY (I offer here) occurs when consciousness draws a mental picture of something and presents it to the owner of that consciousness as a surprise. It makes no difference if it is a major or minor surprise; it makes no difference if it is either a “VIOLA” or a “hhmmm, that’s interesting.”

 

It is still Internal Intentionality.

 

EXTERNAL INTENTIONALITY (I also offer here) occurs when one or more of the five senses “sees” an object and the owner of that consciousness relates the object to something else. This is clearly an immediate representation or resemblance; it resembles a specific tool, a similar word, that white paper that you read last month, a text book that used the same abstract symbols, a novel that you can’t forget, the photo of a loved one, an artwork that left you with conflicted feelings and intentions, e.g. “Yo Mama’s Last Supper” .

 

Therefore I conclude that external intentionality is nothing more than a resemblance.

 

Internal intentionality, also a resemblance, has one other element acting in the consciousness.

 

It is associated with the context that the consciousness is operating within.

 

The context may be a work situation, a walk on a winter’s night, the mental aftermath of an interpersonal conflict, looking in the mirror when shaving/applying makeup, or sitting alone in the laboratory after a spectacular failure of a pet project.

 

Internal Intentionality depends on the context that the consciousness is in.

 

Whatever the context this internal intentionality occurred in, it surely is not an intentionality tied to the wrench on the bench, or the spots on the bathroom mirror, or any other object in proximity of the five senses.

 

This internal intentionality appears to come out of nowhere; other than the synapsis firing away. This is Brentano’s “in the head” intentionality.

 

Somehow, somewhere, a memory may have crossed with another memory and a new internal intentionality occurred. And it presented to you something you were not intentionally thinking about.

 

This intentionality resided only in your consciousness and not in an object, scent, sound, touch or taste. It has a sense of ‘creativity’ to it.

 

Yet it had a resemblance to something you once knew or even a feeling about. Possibly it resembled that mind exploding feeling you had when you saw a beautiful multi-colored sunset. Or it resembled that exalted feeling you had on the drive home after having a wonderful night with that special someone. Possibly it resembled that dark feeling when you sat alone wondering if you were still relevant. In any case it was a resemblance not connected to anything at-hand to the five senses.

 

And that is all I have to say about those things that intentionally interrupt our consciousness.

 

They are intentionally (internal or external) resemblances, they are the breeze that blows at the curtains of our mind, they are the spirits that cavort in our apprehensiveness, they are the gauze and ether that binds our consciousness together — or – they could simply resemble that wrench on the bench, the spots on the mirror or the very purposeful  ‘Dalmatian in Ink’;  which is an intentionality, emergence and  resemblance all wrapped up in one.

 

 

AN ANGRY ANGEL

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Moi? An angel with anger issues?

Come now! You can’t really mean that;

or do you? That is quite unfair of you.

Why are you picking on me Mr. Writer?

 

It may be because of your deep-seated contempt;

contempt for everything and everyone

that you come in contact with, or even,

at spurious times, those you claim to love.

 

Wow! That’s a little heavy isn’t it?

Maybe you are the one hiding and

holding, those anger issues.

is it you who are so incensed?

 

That is just like you, Angry Angel,

point the finger at someone else,

just to get the pressure off yourself.

That is why I wanted to talk to you.

 

I think you have slighted me, dear friend,

I think that I choose not to discuss this,

any longer. Yes, I will be passive,

and you will not have anyone to argue with.

 

See? Right there – – – that is what I mean,

when your contempt is pointed out to you,

you retaliate with an over-abundance of spite,

cutting off your own mind, to spite your friends.

 

Oh? Do you wish me to make a retort,

so that you can prove your point?

I’ll not give you the opportunity to bait me,

with such ungracious temptations.

 

Is it ungracious for me,

to risk our friendship,

so that you may see yourself,

as other angels do?

 

I have always treated you with deference,

and this is what I get in return?

You claim friendship but I think,

you are pretentious, my good man.

 

See, right there,

you show contempt,

for a good friend,

anger triggers contempt.

 

I have no use for these insults.

I will listen to you no more.

Keep on talking if you so choose,

I choose not to listen any longer.

 

You are unjustified in your,

impudence – – – just like you are,

blind to your surliness and anger.

However, I will try once more.

 

TRY? You will try once more?

Try to do what? To insult me farther?

Try to belittle me once more?

Try to make me see my “errors?”

 

No, I will try to make you see,

that I speak as a friend,

try to speak with thoughtfulness,

with consideration and civility.

 

My impulse, at this very moment,

is for revenge. I feel vengeful inside.

You have made me lose respect for you,

I no longer consider you my friend!

 

I can accept that for what it is,

however, you can not stop me,

from remaining a friend to you,

and so I continue with tactfullness.

 

No more insults? No more brashness?

Are you putting away your sword,

the one you kill friends with?

You know they say it is double-edged?

 

I will do my best to continue,

with consideration and courtesy,

to respect you as a human being,

and a with the graciousness,

that you, a good friend, deserves.

 

Thank you for that.

I will do my best to see your point,

and if I appear angry; which I may,

just take a breather and continue on.

 

Excellent! – – – you are indeed,

a good friend, an angel amongst angels,

respectful for the sake of being cordial.

I thank you.

 

 

THE PRINCE OF PITY

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Oh, there you are Little Prince of Pity,

Are you related to the Duke of Enmity?

Sure you are; you know you are, so admit it;

Just acknowledge it and be done with it.

 

Or is your pity the hidden whisper of fear?

Do you fear those who you should emulate?

Do you label all of them as being pitiful —

because you are not accomplished in their ways?

 

You cannot love the unapologetic – can you?

That is understandable, love is not universal.

But do you have to fake grief for them?

That is most unkind of you, little Prince.

 

It approaches ruthlessness; yes it does,

Little Prince Pity, indeed it does.

Possibly it hides your anger,

your internal impulse for revenge.

 

But you have not the confidence,

to carry out a meaningful revenge,

you anticipate it in your mind,

however, you cannot carry it out.

 

Why don’t you appreciate them,

if only for your own sake?

Possibly you will learn from them,

maybe even go so far as to surpass them.

 

Your pity is a radiance of falseness,

A corona made for you, Prince of Pity,

Pity is the emotion that they do not want,

pity replaces your envy and contempt.

 

Envy is an emotion you are capable of,

isn’t it little prince, spoiled little dauphin,

Did your wet nurse pronounce you as perfect?

Or was it the evil Viscount of Vengeance?

 

Allow me to suggest the quieting of your anger,

that is a good first step for overcoming false pity,

mildness is the medicine for meaningful thought,

it overcomes spite, insolence and contempt.

 

It replaces your shame with clarity,

you will see a new way to observe truth,

you will find envy as meaninglessness,

it will be replaced with merited fortuity.

 

You will no longer fear failure,

and all of its related emotions,

hysteria, anxiety, and apprehension,

you will become The Knight of Knowledge.

 

A receptacle for assurance and truth,

free of logical defects and disadvantages,

a person — that is by nature — yourself,

free of anger directed at individuals or class.

 

 

 

 

 

THE FOLLOWING IS FROM:  

      Friedrich Nietzsche,    “On the Genealogy of Morals/(Behold Man)”

 

“While the noble man lives in trust,

and openness with himself,

the man of ressentiment* is neither,

neither upright nor naive nor honest,

and straightforward with himself. 

 

His soul squints; his spirit loves hiding places,

secret paths and back doors,

everything covert entices him as his world,

his security, his refreshment;

he understands how to keep silent, how not to forget,

how to wait, how to be provisionally self-deprecating,

and humble. 

 

A race of such men of ressentiment*,

is bound to become eventually cleverer,

than any noble race;

it will also honor cleverness,

to a far greater degree;

namely, as a condition of existence of the first importance.

 

How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!

—and such reverence is a bridge to love—

For he desires his enemy to become himself,

as his mark of distinction.

 

He can endure no other enemy,

than one in whom there is nothing to despise,

and very much to honor! 

 

In contrast to this, picture ‘the enemy,’

as the man of ressentiment* conceives him—

and here precisely is his deed, his creation;

he has conceived ‘the evil enemy,’ ‘the Evil One,’

and this in fact is his basic concept, conceit and contempt;

from which he then evolves,

as an afterthought and pendant,

a ‘good one’—himself!” 

  

* Ressentiment: in philosophy and psychology, is a special form of resentment or hostility.

The sense of weakness or inferiority and perhaps jealousy in the face of the “cause” generates a rejecting/justifying value system, or morality, which attacks or denies the perceived source of one’s frustration. The ego creates an enemy in order to insulate itself from culpability.

Ressentiment is not to be considered interchangeable with the normal English word “resentment”, or even the French “ressentiment”. While the normal words both speak to a feeling of frustration directed at a perceived source, neither speaks to the special relationship between a sense of inferiority and the creation of false morality.