Monday, August 31, 2015

Before after and spatiality

When we say event A happened after event B, we usually forget spatiality of the occurrence of  A and B. To have meaning in before and after both events should happen at same location. If it occurs in two locations we need to rely on an agent that moves from one location to other. In special relativity this agent is a light signal or set of photons.Even in special relativity it is vague, it don't use a single photon but Einstein used a set of photons and called the agent a light signal. There are lots of problems with this association for example quantum theory and uncertainty principal.

Simultaneous actions practically do not exist. Both actions should take place in the same location. Two actions cannot take place in the same point in space.If it happens, then it is one action.

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Time and Casualty

Time and Casualty are inseparable. They goes hand in hand. One cannot exist without the other. Take the example of a child growing to a man. Man exists live in. because child existed. Man was caused by the child. Child came first then came man. Child was before and man was after. Before and after signifies time. Time and Casualty are not attributes of the universe but they are pseudo attributes created by man to interpret the environment they live in. They are not attributes of environment.
Man is unable to interpret his environment without time and space. And also casualty. Space is more near to environment than time. But without rigid bodies man is unable to comprehend space. Space may be there but you need rigid bodies to measure it. However, with the sense organs of man, he is able to comprehend it. With the help of Reid bodies he even measure it. Time measuring is more complex. It need multiple type of data to measure it. It needs two things. It needs an oscillator and a counter. The oscillator can be earth moving around sun or an vibrating atom. But the counter is complex, it is an observer. Can it be performed other than a human being? A man made machine like a Computer can do it. It is very difficult to answer whether the counting process can exist without a man.
A mountain eroding with whether can be a time measure!
Language is the culprit. The principal of causation is built into language. Most sentences of language depicts causation. The base of our thinking and knowledge is language.
The logical conclusion that can be arrived is, time and causation is part of the language created by us to communicate our knowledge.

Consider these sentences. I kicked the dog. Then it howled.
The howling was caused by the kicking. The kicking was before and howling was after. Time consists of two attributes Before and After is one measuring time is the other. Time and measuring of time are two things. The confusion created by thinking both are same makes us imagine things like time reversal, time machines and what happens few seconds after big bang. Language created time, then used physical phenomena to measure it.

Measuring time needs a cyclic event, a counter and before & after concept. Without before & after the cyclic event is not possible. cyclic event needs at least two specific events that occurs alternatively. Then casualty is needed to link this to the counter - the counter increments at the occurrence of the same event.

Measuring time is a higher concept than the basic concept of before and after. Small children first do not understand the concept of before & after. You need to teach it. This alone is evidence that it is a concept created by humans. This can be contrasted with space, without any teaching, inputs by our sense organs is sufficient for us to understand space. Concept of time is not related to our senses. So is the concept of before & after. Time cannot be comprehended by our senses. We need an external tool like a watch to do it.

Monday, August 24, 2015

Bribes and tips

Tip is a form of bribe, giving something expecting a better service. What is given, being, after the service, will not change its form. In case of tips it is the general understanding that it should be given in the end of the service. There is a general understanding even how much should be given. But this is a pressure for most people who are unfamiliar of the process. They will always start to think whether they overpaid or underpaid. It is really comfortable to live in a country like Japan. There no-one gives tips nor expects a tip.
I feel all countries that promotes foreigners in their countries should aim to phase out giving tips.Because they will be the ones who are unfamiliar in giving tips. Not bold enough to offend locals, usually they over pay, living in unfamiliar circumstances.
This is a pressure on foreigners, so if you want to promote tourism tips are not a good attribute. It will be difficult to do away of it immediately because it will affect directly livelihood of some people.
So take action to discourage it and have alternative forms like adding it to the cost and give a commission to the servers.

Sunday, August 16, 2015

Instinct and empathy

Morality sympathy
Emotion
make People happy
Sensory inputs
Thought

Life a constant struggle sympathy and instinct.

Sympathy I mean, to do good others to help others etc. This is part of the survival of the species process. Looking after your sick parents superficially may not help survival of yourself. But you do it so that your children seeing your actions may in turn look after you. It is part of the insurance scheme you employ to look after yourself when you are old. In other words investment done for your old age.

Friday, August 14, 2015

God in a Computer

It is very difficult to fit all qualities of god or all just qualities humans in general believe in, to a single being like king or persistent. They will be good sometimes and bad other times. The world is full of bad dictators where we can't get rid.

Solution may lie in a Computer. Everyone will get together and program it (it needs artificial intelligence). In future not only it will be possible it may become necessary. Strange! we giving our control to a machine.

Well doing it with individuals have failed. We get together and appoint a president, but most of the time that individual is not acting as he should. Whatnot give this responsibility to a machine?.

Someday it may, or rather will happen. This may be a disturbing thought. But we will be unable to do anything about it.

Humans are not capable of acting in a godlike manner. Certain necessary qualities of humans like jealousy, love, etc go against becoming god. Therefore we need to import a god.

Religion is an attempt of doing it. But it being closely connected with humans, their qualities creep in. This is evident by all the bad things we hear about priests of all religions. priests are curators of religion but being also humans they fault.

So, why not give it to something that do not fault. If it is not human it will have to be a machine.

Currently, since these machines are nonexistent we try to emulate them by using multiple humans. Expecting each others bad traits will cancel out. Parliament is one form of such experiment. But we always find it being erred.

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Consciousness and a Computer program

Consider the computer program with the algorithm: start, do something, goto start. This program will iterate for ever if there is no external interruption.Consciousness is a program that iterate like this.

Even when we become unconscious this will not stop. Because we are able to recall events before.It stops only when we die, then we reach the state of cannot recall.

Our brain is active even when we are unconscious. It gives signals to breadth etc.

The activity of being conscious has one to one relation to a iterating computer program. We will be able to understand about what is consciousness by analogousing it to an iterating computer program.

A computer can be made a conscious being if it can run sufficiently complicated program that takes into account all its inputs and run a iterating program.

Casualty and arrow of time

I feel there is a direct link between casualty and arrow of time. One thing both can be phenomena of the human brain.If human didn't exist both these may not be useful concepts.

Casualty and arrow of time are both same concept or children of some other concept.

Arrow of time is the relation between some event B happens after event A. The other way round will definitely never happens. This does have a direct relation to event A causes event B.

Consider there exists an event A that causes event B - this is casualty. Then definitely event A precedes event B. This is arrow of time.

If casualty do not exist then there does not exist some event A that causes event B. Then we are unable to find happening of some event A that precedes event B. And no arrow of time.