Motivation
A very interesting presentation!
httpvhd://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y
Truth
Under the assumption that reality is experienced, truth is can only be abstract. It’s a property that we assign to equalities between abstract constructions. Physical objects cannot be true nor false since the existence of information on its own is not a binary partition. Nothing is the non-existence of information and not comparable.
That is why it is possible for people to discard truth and truth seeking as being disconnected from or even unrelated to reality.
Patterns
We are notoriously good at pattern recognition and information filtering and they are vitals parts of our consciousness although we often use them subconsciously or implicitly. Details and discrepancies are silently ignored in order to comprehend the big picture.
Without them we would not be able to recognize a wall right in front of us because it would be a cacophony of colors, shadows, dirt and wallpaper canvas crevices and bumps. With them we can identify the wallpaper pattern while ignoring inconsistencies and deriving it’s size and shape from shadows cast on it.
Patterns emerges from repetition or loops as the repeating process becomes predictabe. We enjoy repetition and patterns throughout our entire life, from simple repetition at a very early age to predictability and routines when we grow older.
We are content with the predictability of our daily life but would frown upon admitting it because humans are supposed to be spontaneous and adventurous. Routines are considered mechanic and unhuman in an attempt to try to distance ourselves from the world we have constructed around us because it feels unnatural and alien to us.
Though we may try, we cannot escape from our mental constructions. When we look at the world we can only make sense of all the shapes, colors, sounds and sensations we experience by categorizing them with our models.
Consider the binary sequence { 0, 0, 0, 0, …, 0, ? }. What comes next? Most people would say “zero” because our brain is constructing or imagining a pattern where each number in the sequence is zero. We can do this with more complex sequences of course, such as { 0, 1, 0, 1, …, 0, ? } or { 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, …, 1, ? }.
The pattern construction process would be more or less useless without information filtering. If we were to work out the pattern in a modified version of the last sequence { 0, 0, 1,0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, ? } we need to ignore the “erroneous” one. We can in fact still quite easily deduce the probability pattern { 0, 0, 1 }.
It’s no accident that predictability is synonymous with safety and comfort, it is a product of the most prominent features of our brain. Yet it is a property that our mind assigns to the world around us. There are no such things as patterns in the real world.
Temporary Ambience
Remake of an old, old song I made in FastTracker II. I spent hours listening to that song over and over again during some long nights. I just love the sound.
The old one (you don’t have to listen for very long to get the picture, drums at about 1:40):
[audio:http://pelle.lindstrand.org/~pelle/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/tmp_amb.mp3]
The new (WIP) one:
[audio:http://pelle.lindstrand.org/~pelle/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/temporary_ambience.mp3]
Tar toast
httpvhd://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T37xVTchyM4
httpvhd://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewySJ923bZs
