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Words trigger programs in context.

Layers of meanings.
Program: all purpose-made rules of a symbolic system.
( exemplum: 'money' program: many rules of using 'money' and the quantitative evaluation rule of "How much?" )

Words use letter-symbols.
Language uses words.
Education uses language.

Laws are about rules everybody should follow.
Food becoming poisonous, machine refined, machine processed, globally distributed and genetically programmed.
Internet is where you read this.
Matrix layers: words, programs, language, education, money, laws, internet, machines.
Bodymind life programming networks - like water for the fish, can see them only getting out, become aware, rise above, sink below, transcend. Permeated by programs.
Label, measure, digitize a thing or being, put it in a box, put a price on it, barcode it and it is ready to enter the matrix. Commodification. Speak into the phone and your voice enters cyberspace.

The fully immersive virtual dreamworld of the Matrix movies, made of software which connects machines to alienated human minds, unaware of their bodies and environment: comfort, alienation, separation, dualism, polarization, competition, violence, war.
Software could be seen as solidified thinking. Fixed patterns of thinking. The invisible, accelerating change of the matrix layers, can be felt like in an accelerating vehicle. Where does the technological urge come from? Dukkha. Computer minds become smarter, human bodies become weaker. The more technologically advanced a civilisation is, the less able are its members to survive in nature, so they increasingly rely on human-machine symbiosis.

* technological question: "When will become possible to generate computer graphics which is practically indistinguishable for the human eye from real percieved images?" e.g.: IMAX experience: very hi-res moving images can induce visceral reactions. Computer screens today are far from this.
* It is said in Artificial Intelligence, as a joke, that as soon as computers become capable of carrying out an intelligent activity, that activity is no longer seen as truly intelligent.

Now emerging:

* CG movies
* money belief becoming global and electronically virtualised
* laws layer directs food layer
* vaccines
* species, languages, cultures go extinct; bio- eco- diversity decreasing
* nonhuman legal entities ~ corporations, governments
* chem- icals; chem- trails; chem- o therapy

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a most interesting stream of thought. too early in morning to know what i think about it but im sure it will trickle home during the day.  smile

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"...
The Timesaving Bank.
Life  holds one great but quite  commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, it seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.
Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem an eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.
Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.
The men in grey knew this better than anyone. Nobody knew the value of an hour or a minute, or even of a  single second, as well as they. They were experts on time just as leeches are experts on blood, and they acted accordingly.
They had designs on people's time -  long-term  and  well-laid plans of their own. What mattered most to them was that no one should become aware of their activities. They had surreptitiously installed themselves in the city. Now,  step by step and day by day, they  were secretly invading its inhabitants' lives and taking them over.
They knew the identity of  every person likely to further their plans long before that person had any inkling of it. They waited for the ideal moment to entrap him, and they saw to it that the ideal moment came.
One such person was Mr Figaro, the barber..." - Momo

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AB,

That was a link to one AWESOME story! (Momo)

Very lifechanging!

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en courage (heart)
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Digital tek, or binary if you will at one level is the absolute expression of polarity.
Within the realm of recorded music it was, and has been the latest craze, but it comes with a price in that it does not accurately render recorded music properly in time. In essence there is alot of subtle information that gets left out just by the nature of the technology. I know of at least one well recorded musician -  Jean Michelle Jarre, who refuses to record with it and for good reason.
Digital can fool the ears seemingly, but something is still definitely missing.

StarCat

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Digital tek, or binary if you will at one level is the absolute expression of polarity.
Within the realm of recorded music it was, and has been the latest craze, but it comes with a price in that it does not accurately render recorded music properly in time. In essence there is alot of subtle information that gets left out just by the nature of the technology.

Wow, StarCat! That rings true. It also brought to mind Preston Nichols' book "Music In Time". That really resonated with me and the situations in my life.

Upon what media does the gentleman to whom you refer record?

I wonder if there's a way to revert the digital "music" to its original concept . . . ?

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I would rather control myself, than someone else.

en courage (heart)
in spire (spirit)
en thuse (theos)

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from Capturing Music: The Impossible Task

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Music is a language of emotions expressed in sound. ( Note 1 ) The real piece of music is not the printed score, but the sound the composer heard in imagination. If the music's written down, the score is just a shadow of that sound; and the performer's job is to recreate the sound from the shadow; recreate it in the listener's ear as it existed in the composer's. An ordinary shadow that's a perfect disk might be the shadow of a beach ball or a wine bottle (if it were oriented just right). With a circular hole in the center, it couldn't be either one; but it could be a piece of pipe or a Compact Disk. Each detail of the shadow has implications for the higher dimensions that are getting projected onto the shadow. The details profoundly affect your guess about the shape of the object casting the shadow.

     In music, too, details in the score have implications for the sound you imagine. The importance of details is the deep reason that musicians are perfectionists.

     A performer's understanding of a score takes the form of comprehending the implications of the details and the web of their interconnections. An interpretation is what this understanding becomes on one occasion. The great pianist Artur Schnabel said that he wanted to play only "those works that can never be played well enough." I take this to mean works whose web of interconnections in the higher-dimensional space of imagination is so complex that it can't be fully represented in any one performance in our 4-dimensional space-time. This is the deep reason that it's difficult to play the great works.
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AB wrote:

I take this to mean works whose web of interconnections in the higher-dimensional space of imagination is so complex that it can't be fully represented in any one performance in our 4-dimensional space-time. This is the deep reason that it's difficult to play the great works.

I wonder if that's the reason that when we listen to the same song over and over we get different/additional things from it . . .

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en courage (heart)
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...
* chem- icals; chem- trails; chem- o therapy.

From http://www.etymonline.com/

chemical:
    1576, from chemic "of alchemy" (a worn-down derivative of M.L. alchimicus) + -al suffix forming adjectives (see alchemy). Chemist (1562) was originally "alchemist;" in scientific sense 1626; in Britain, the preferred term for "dealer in medicinal drugs," first recorded in this sense 1802.

Uhhoh, so, chemistry is degenerated alchemy...
... muggle alchemy ...

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In mathematics, a matrix is a rectangular grid of numb ers, having a number of rows and another number of columns.
Such grids are usually used in computing a linear transformation of a space into another.
The number of dimensions of the source space is same as the number of rows, the number of columns determining the number of dimensions of the destination space. ( see for instance http://www.mathreference.com/la,lxmat.html )

On the other hand, related to prime numbers - ( prime - indivisible - individual - one - whole ) - if a number of, let's say, particles, can be arranged in a grid having more than one rows and more than one columns, then the number is not prime.

If a number is prime, it does not fit in a usual grid, only in a one dimensional vector.

Now, given these possibly unrelated thoughts on mathematical elementary elements, here is a possibly further unrelated mathematical oddity having such an inconspicuous name...ehheh...

A Smith number is such that the sum of its digits is the sum of the digits of all its prime factors

Example: 666 = 2*3*3*37

6+6+6 = 2+3+3+(3+7 ).

1111 = 11 x 101 in base 10 and in base 2, where 11 and 101 are both prime in base 10 and base 2. [Shafer]

Therefore 1111 is also a Smith number in both base 10 and base 2.

Observation: 2 is written as 10 in base 2.

A day has been divided in 24 hours of 60 minutes of 60 seconds.
2 + 4 = 6
6 + 0 = 6
6 + 0 = 6

"Divide et impera"

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Square:
Same limit set along each dimension of an orthogonal coordinate system.

http://www.yourdictionary.com/images/ahd/jpg/A4pythag.jpg

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http://img489.imageshack.us/img489/664/gibsonneilmatrixac5.jpg

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http:\\... ...

( Here was a nice image of how cities viewed from above look like integrated circuits, but has disappeared from the hosting site... )

zooming in to 'block' level leads one to buildings, next level of zoomin leads to machines. Inside machines, city-like looking electroniks...

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http://www.cynove.com/images/system_inside.jpg

and inside those BlackBlocks, the brain-processor-grid-of-the-thinking-machine

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rcdavis/images/chip.gif