Once I heard of Mirror Neuron. It is a kind of nerve, perhaps in my understanding. Mirror neuron, as it bears a word “Mirror”, it seems having function of mirror. Mirror reflects, especially when something that has its own consciousness sees its “reflection” on the mirror, the presence of the “reflection” causing feedback effect over the formulation of consciousness.
So, mirror neuron needs objects to be reflected, literally saying. But the device is not necessarily a real mirror rather is an imaginary perception of reflection that is taking shape in human consciousness (I’d rather say consciousness than brain) on any stimulation by any outside object it regards. For instance, human’s mirror neuron needs such outside object as other humans.
Without others human cannot shape itself, it suggests, I think. The reflection that is formulated through mirror neuron feedback process will not always be of positive rather be sometimes hater, anger, sadness, missing feeling etc. It sounds like to me something what Yoda said to Luke Skywalker.
Nevertheless, as long as others exist, our mirror neuron continues functioning, regardless of positive or negative.
Then, think about war. That means terminating the feedback loop with others. Don’t you think? Of course, exchanging fires seems somehow exchanging feedbacks but the final destination of war is to exterminate others, means cutting feedback. There only remaining are mounting dead bodies.
OK, sorry, my imagination has just overrun.
Maybe everyone has own problem in seeing the self, sometimes negatively, sometimes positively everyone sees the self. I am always trying to see myself positively but sometimes I face a situation that the more forcing me to see myself positive the further I’m getting negative. Anyway, scientifically also it has been proven that thinking positive leads human to positive manner and enhances its capability.
Obi-Wan Kenobi, one of apprentice of Yoda said, “Use The Force”. I am not saying Mirror Neuron is The Force. It’s just kind of metaphor for me.
Mirror Neuron has been and will further be an issue for researchers for neuro science and then utilized by computer scientists, phycological study etc.
Here I built a tiny SCRATCH program for short video image on my impression on Mirror Neuron. (For just killing time.)
Maybe some places on Earth, it has already been 2024, others have not been yet. Anyway, let me send this message on WordPress just slightly earlier than the start of 2024 in my time.
Wars are still there, environmental issues persist, anything that makes our civilization unsophisticated loams around, but at least I can be positive by reading through those blogs in this small cyberworld.
My personal life in 2023 was not so glorious but rather somehow of clusters of lessons. I must say thank you for all the blogs that gave me opportunities to think about things in a positive and creative way.
And I look forward to reading everyone’s blogs in 2024.
Debussy’s rêverie, Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata & Für Elise and Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (Jazz Piano), I like their melody lines.
I have been long thinking of why I can identify those quite impressive and beautiful or “cool” melody lines. A melody is composed of multiple notes sequenced in a specific rhythm (length) to each. If I hear some of the notes arranged in a different rhythm, the melody will never be the one I can identify. Or if those notes are all changed to different pitch yet with the same length, then again, the melody will be different.
Maybe, the first note still reverberates in one’s consciousness or simply in one’s memory when the second has started ringing. Whenever a note starts ringing, relation between past notes crystalizes, a relation between fading past and emerging present that gives one an identification of the specific melody.
I just expressed it with a word “reverberates”. But that may not precisely convey what I am feeling with the mystery of melody.
Imagine hitting the piano keyboard of the first note and then 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, successively until the final note. You may identify or say, gain the slight impression of the specific scale if not being a well-trained musician. Then, the next is G major scale. As done with E minor, imagine doing the same practice.
The impression you have will be different from that of E minor although there are some notes that are the same from each other. Therefore, the relation between notes in a single scale might matter.
The first note then the second and the third follows, when you hit the 7th one, in your consciousness, all the past notes are still affecting the 7th in a degree and superimposing something over the 7th note that has just been heard thereby, 7th becomes something unique, as one of the notes in a specific scale.
OK then, what is the relation with physics? Yes, my crazy illusion says; the quantum particle with 4 dimensional theory of Einstein, 4 dimensional means 3 dimensions of space plus 1 time axis, might be like music notes. Because of time axis as one of 4 dimensions, any particle, its present appearance is affected by its pasts. So, I can’t help stopping an illusion that the time is successive single time points like clock pulse of digital system. (Oh sorry, this is a kind of mischievous.)
Why major and minor?
Major scales or chords express some kind of positive feeling. Minor scales or chords express some kind of negative feeling. For instance, let’s compare C and Cm.
C Major = C You can hear the sound at the site below.
You may feel some sort of feeling of upper tension with C while with Cm somewhat with lowered tension; negative or depression or sadness.
Chords and Scales will never disappear because they are just simply combinations of sound notes. And human can identify them as major or minor even if human achieve the life in which only happiness prevails. If such a negative of sadness is not necessary for human, then in a long-long future human will lose its capability of identifying minor scales and chords when human succeed to build civilization where only happiness rules. OK? Uuuuu, that sounds somehow wrong, isn’t it?
Happiness exists when Unhappiness exists. Oh it sounds somewhat like genuine proverb.
OK, I am not saying unhappiness is vital rather wondering if human can be in a state of infinite happiness, maybe the answer is NO. Even one is being in a state of happiness, the one can still identify the “beauty” of musical material that is composed of minor scales and chords. So, maybe we do not necessarily need to associate minor scales and chords with such negatives. They are just simply of beauty indeed and surely, although minor is sometimes applied to compose songs or music which are aimed at expressing some sorts of unhappiness.
Chords and Scales of Major and Minor
However, yes however, I have to say. I can’t eliminate a thought that the meaning of the fact that both Major and Minor exist would probably is happy history and sad history will continue happening especially such a thing like war and peace.
Major and Minor are categories of how human feel when they hear the music composed with those chords and scales. It is quite difficult to build a theory for feelings of human indeed and there are no such things like equation. Human behavior is often associated with evolution, “survival of the fittest”. And human consciousness is said to be crystalized in a way that the resulting consciousness leads the human to the fittest. Then, why does Minor remains as part of consciousness?
Probably, minor is used to express such things as sad love story, farewell, nostalgia etc. Or in a long future, will human be able to eliminate anything those sorts, completely thus minor will be no longer the fittest?
Only happiness exists. Is that possible? I think it means a devoid. Existence means contrast. Happiness can be contrasted with its opposite unhappiness. or maybe my wording is wrong. Happiness is ok but what should be its opposite. Happiness and ?????
OK, returning to the topic, Melody line and chord progression in a music – Time in physics -. In the sense of physics, negative and positive will be like plus and minus of electricity. There, any vector that makes thing directed to such things as happiness and sadness, is found or not, I wonder. But each specific series of notes in a specific combination like musical notes or melody will be like quantum particles acting throughout 4 dimensional time and space across the time expanse from past to present. But in physics, how to distinguish happiness and sadness. Is there any hint in survival of fittest? I mean, something that can lead things to the fittest means happiness? But I am quite sure “not”, though I can’t find any scientific or logical explanation. Anyway, ignorant confusion though.
Whatever. It surely is some kind of happiness, to be able to feel something through music whichever minor or major. So, please stop launching rockets and listen to music then happiness comes.
We are all exposed to so many negatives; criticized by others, be considered valueless by others, given a harsh downgraded in qualification by senior executive, failure of business, you name it. Or even sometimes you have to tell your once a lover goodbye. But you see in any of those there is no such things as killing people with rockets. And at least I can have just a short private time when I can listen to my favorite music, minor or major, that are beautiful to me.
By the way, is it a kind of hint to a breakthrough in modern physics which looks to me stacked that quantum put in Einstein’s world would be like musical melody? (Sorry, this is a monologue.)
Finally, if you like, listen to one of my favorites.
This time, herein is my science monologue featuring “Scratch” programing. If some kids around you have some interests about science, then maybe ——- the programing interests them. I think Scratch can be a kind of educational tool as introduced by the organizer.
Also, for me programing is like preparing food. When I am building “program”, my consciousness gets calm and tranquil but energetic at the same time, leading toward a feeling of creation. And the best of all, I can set aside negative sort of things that are haunting my daily life especially anything of my frustrating job, for a short period of time though.
Below is a program which I tried to visualize something of Entropy with, although it is not really of anything sophisticated. First of all, click the graphic image or web link below. Then, the web page of the “Scratch” programing which I built will appear on your screen. By clicking the green flag at the center of the graphic image or at the left upper in the web page, the program starts. (By clicking the red button next to the green flag, the program stops) After clicking the green flag, just wait for a while (around 5 seconds) until balls start moving. Then, the balls randomly move anywhere causing disorder (Entropy increases) in their geometrical arrangement, then by putting the mouse (or your finger in case of touch panel) on each ball, it returns to the starting point so that you can recover the initial orderly manner but then after a period of time disorder will start again. Your effort to regain the orderly manner is increasing the total entropy of space (universe) in a form of heat radiation from your body, the heat that is generated by your mouse-clicking-muscle and brain activity, although on the screen the order regains again and again. ……… Follow the instruction described in a text box at the right side.
Next one is a program that represents basic matter of physics. It represents how a ball (mass) moves when it is thrown vertically under the earth gravity and how it bounces on the ground then how the movement gets weakening because of energy loss due to bouncing. In the program, follow the instructions that will appear on the screen. If you for instance choose “not applying Gravity”, the ball will never return to the ground. If you do not apply Energy Loss, then the movement will last until you stop the program. (By clicking the red button, the program stops)
Next time, —– I don’t know when, anyway, I want to challenge parabola movement.
Scratch programing provides a platform in which ones can visually and intuitively build a program. Below is the graphical image of the platform. For kids, it will be good entry to practicing something of logical-thinking or constructing algorism.
Programming, to think about controversial issue of AI
Then, the prominent issue now is AI. I am not the sort that considers it as “intelligence”, it should rather be considered as just simply big data processor. Experiencing what “programming” is all about could possibly provide an opportunity of thinking about how the border line between human and machine should be defined, I think, though in an amateur way.
I am thinking of “Combinatorial Explosion”. The term is used in mathematics or computer science, it seems to me. So, I just freely trying to expand my ignorant imagination with this word.
1 Heart and 1000000 spades
When human predicts future or unexperienced, combinations are to be set. Nature will never simulate (predict) things rather it just built the world as it should be along with the progress of time whether or not it is favor to human. Or does have nature certain Algorism? If that is the case, combinatorial explosion will never happen. Only an absolute single combination should always be obtained. But that’s not true. Because our knowledge is not perfect while maybe nature is. Boltzmann once said nature always shifts toward the highest probability state. Let’s just think about picking up a card from a single bag where 1000000 of ace of spades and just 1 ace of hearts are put in. And then consider the probability of picking up the ace of heart. Once you miraculously have picked it up, the probability doesn’t matter. As long as any degree of probability exists do we have to consider it will anyway happen no matter how small the probability is.
Combinations continuously change along with the events happened.
Pi, its infinite lower digits or similar, such random may cause unpredictable and therefore be the source of combinatorial explosion. An event has happened. The next will follow. Then the cycle continues. So, each single event determines the ultimate destination of the whole.
It’s like that nostalgic talk of Murphy’s law.
If the time is infinite (putting aside Law of Entropy) any small possibilities should surely be existing anywhere in its infinite time span, like that ace of hearts, then because of its lowest entropy it always be the beginning for everything.
And as the time is infinite (if so) nobody can identify when a beginning begins like uncertainty principle. Then, the movement of nature should always be in orderly manner which graduate from the lowest probability to the highest. In this regard, no matter how small the probability is, it should happen anyway.
The point is combination should be as much elemental level as possible say elementary particle. The story of the ace of hearts does not contain any perception of time and sequence of events. Each single event affect any of succussing events.
Oh, I am losing my composure. Is there any probability that he gives up the idea of the war by the end of June 2023 saying that “I was badly wrong”? Even if he does, the world will never forgive him perhaps therefore the probability is calculated as Impossible. Anyway, this problem can never be solved by science.
It’s just the very Combinatorial Explosion, isn’t it?
Is the world entering a state of Combinatorial Explosion as there are lots of conflicts Energy, Environment, Food Supply, Demography, you name it, emerge? As the probability is within the time-space of elementary particle, our world and life will be of absolutely unique yet there are infinite numbers of another time-space set, I think with infinitely little confidence. (Oops I said it!)
I tried this subject “Combinatorial Explosion” this time. The result is the combinatorial explosion in my thought therefore at this point I better to stop thinking about it, it seems.
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