It was around 40 years ago, when I read that legendary book (to me though) “Entropy”. The author is Jeremy Rifkin.
In the book being argued is, I slightly remember, that if solar power is to be the fundamental basis of our energy system, the system of social and economy should be changed to something of decentralized because solar power, as it is toward natural flora and fauna, is a type of decentralized system.
Sunlight over the mother earth is not the sort of laser beam nor burning fire in furnace. It is always providing sufficient amount but not being in a manner of concentrated for any life forms, well equally distributed to anything that need to thrive.
Plants need it, for photosynthesis in order to gain starch that is the energy reserve. Then animals can collect it by eating plants. Plants, there are a lot of types in a woods or forest well dispersed through extended area, where sunlight is falling over like drizzling rain.
By contrast, some kinds of power system like thermal power plant or nuclear are the system of centralization and therefore it can well fit capitalism and inclination of population to concentrate in urban area.
Everything has its own limit is quantity and therefore that way of concentration has almost reached to the limit in an accelerating manner causing issues of environment and sustainability, say, issues of Carbone-Free, SDG, etc.
One of the solution, some specialists are suggesting, is solar power but then those contexts in the above implicates that as well as energy source the economical and social system should also be “adapted” to the nature of solar energy.
So, does anyone know such approach of changing economy and social formation into something that could well fit renewable energy like solar? Or if the present solutions being offered are just an extension to the present “rudimentary” one, maybe we will be easy prey to entropy.
Thinking of modern network technology, integration or concentration of people’s knowledge, consciousness, communication whatsoever can be established without a sort of physical system while each single value can also be respected like plants in forest. If the identification of what is to be concentrated and what is to be decentralized is done in a sophisticated manner, then solar power can well be fit into our life.
Honestly saying, the direction of SDG etc. currently being observed looks not toward that way.
War in Ukraine alike was caused by, to some extent, the negative effect of entropy. After the WWII, the world, it looked so at that time, established well organized minimum entropy state in the world order. Then it has recently been found that the world have not kept the entropy low so far, allowing Russians to start such devastating and stupide war.
So, energy and environment system could also plunge into such increase of entropy because, as we see in that war, human still placing the priority on conserving the rudimentary system rather than leaping toward minimizing entropy.
Anyway, this is just an opinion of ignorance who is pretending to be a scientist.
Is it possible? Such a thing, to have scientific view on the dictator.
What is happening in Ukraine now is apparently bad thing in many ways. The issue is not of science though how can we avoid putting our eyes on it rather we definitely are thinking of it. Thus, on this edition, the thought over the issue of that war is being liberated while the objective of this blog is somehow maintained. So, for you who just has happened to start reading this, my apologize, if you don’t mind, please be patient with this one sided context for a while.
Russian people who know the truth, Ukraine people and people of any other countries seem to think of “What a stupide thing those recent events are!”. And maybe many people want to say “Stop him!”.
My colleague who is Polish said “He is crazy”. And he said that his farther is thinking of providing houses for Ukrainian refugees.
In any case, that person, “He” must not be anything other than a dictator.
However, why a single person who is being dictator, and/or his inner circle cannot be stopped? What does allow such a members to exist?
There has been a news article on TV that an institute in USA has started analyzing his psychological state. Probably, some kind of so called criminal profiling is now underway. I understand that criminal profiling is a process of characterizing the criminal with methods of psychology and other several scientific approaches. (Psychology is one of the areas of science, I think.)
In addition to the above, being considered is mass psychology. I mean, this time, the psychological state of people who are ruled by a dictator.
In case that just a few people are doing something wrong, it seems to be enough for us all to ignore the people or to hold them with nelson hold while saying “What you are doing is wrong!” and “We will never do such a thing!”. But in reality, it is not realistic. If I were a Russian, I would be silent even though I knew the truth somehow. Dictator is something of fearful indeed.
It is expected probably that mass psychology is ruled by exponential and therefore once it enters into a loop of proliferation it will be hard to stop it. One’s thought affects other two persons then each of the two persons have an effect on another two persons respectively in the mean time the initial person who started spreading the thought will find the spread of the thought and be encouraged to spread it further again. You see, this is a kind of feedback effect. Once that effect starts, mass psychological state explodes, formulating it firmly.
Long time ago, in Russia (at that time was Soviet), When Gorbachev was still the top leader and Yeltsin had started having been as prominent political figure, in my memory there was an attempt of military coup. (1991.Aug. 19) At that time, Russian people strongly rose opposition and Yeltsin responded. And finally the coup attempt failed.
They say, the dictator now is putting his people under information control. It has been reportedly stated that soldiers were deprived of their smart phones before the military invasion. (Nonetheless, it could also be considered for avoiding leaking of such information as the position of the soldiers etc. through their smart phones.) It somehow possibly looks like he had been contemplating it, before the operation, to eliminate the possibility of the similar event as 1991.Aug. That event which might have been possibly caused by mass psychological phenomena.
A report has been broadcasted that Russians attacked nuclear power plant though the manner of the attack looks avoiding damages on nuclear reactor itself. Anyway, it maybe because of the rational commander chief.
He has recently implied use of nuclear weapon, which suggests that he may think bluntly that “Why not? Using it gives it a status of deterrence”. I have heard of Stalin that there was an episode in which he might have been putting priority on military power than human personality That dictator who is now rampaging over Ukraine may possibly be the same.
Majorities of specialists say; He has been losing his temper thereby stating of nuclear weapon so the state of his mind is dangerous. But, is that really true? It possibly be regarded as carrying out things based on a calculation somehow. It appears that he has known long before that international public opinion will never support his position. So, because of that he has been stating something illogical or inconsistent thing intentionally well, with that other countries have been bewildered while the military operation continues. And then he has been well aware of the importance of taking control over the thought of his own people. He then deprived them of correct information, driving them in a state of neutral by having both sides, opposition and support, coexisted in balance.
Here at this point, if it is possible for us to analyze his psychological state in scientific manner, the above concern can be eased to some extend. For instance, simply considered though, by having AI studied a listing of facts and logical grouping of the facts like the table below (conceptual) may possibly his present state of mind be deeply studied.
If anything that is obtained from this profiling reveals his present state of mind, it may be understood how he can be terminated.
Facts and references
Group
Information control over people
Intended Plot
Seize nuclear power plant without causing any serious damages
Intended Plot
Removing Russia from SWIFT
Expected
He stated, initially, the purpose was to protect Russians in eastern Ukraine
Flexibility
He said that the purpose of the attack on nuclear power plant is to prevent Ukraine from developing nuclear weapon.
Flexibility
Coup in 1991/8/19 was put an end by Russian people
Psychological trauma
He once was in KGB, lived in east Germany and at Fall of the Berlin Wall, he experienced a feeling of humiliation.
Psychological trauma
Typical feature of the voice a person who tells a lie in a speech
Unhidden Psychological Factor
Feature of his voice in his resent speech.
Unhidden Psychological Factor
WWII; events flow from Munich Agreement to Invasion of Poland
History Repeats
Minsk Protocol – Annexation of Crimea – This time of military invasion to Ukraine
History Repeats
Or not that way, rather even if his state of mind is understood, it may not be reached an idea of how to terminate him. Anyhow, he may be considering that he is being formulated on the very presence of his own people and therefore he is concerned about a state in which opposition against him turns to exponential. This assumption could be supported by taking into consideration the points raised in the above table “Coup in 1991/8/19 was failure by Russian people” and “Information control over people”. Having been considered the above, using AI may give us an idea about how to terminate him. instead of seeking his state of mind.
However clearly AI concludes that Power of People in Russia is necessary, it may not be certain to be able to find, for AI, the way of how to proliferate exponentially the power of people to the extent that can corner the war to stop. Simply AI would say, “Spread it on SNS”. No matter how clearly it is stated, people are under information control and it is uncertain of how to. Even if there is no such thing as SNS, there may or may not be a method of inducing the power of spirits of human, I wonder. And I wonder if it is possible or not to create a society where such things as dictator never emerges fundamentally.
Finally today, having written those miscellaneous things in untidy manner, after all, what matters most extremely is the fact that children in Ukraine have been killed. This should absolutely be stopped immediately, however we are too powerless. How would William Blake who criticized Scientific Materialism say at this situation?
That kid has been idled around human since Mesopotamia Civilization.
But so long has past until its true appearance gets revealed. They say ancient Egyptians was seeing it as 3.16. Anyway in modern days it is being described as 3.14 as its true appearance.
Whatever then, as you know, this loony is so called infinite decimals indeed. I think that somewhere in the world a super-computer is performing a calculation to determine the value of its last digit ever found by human.
Nevertheless, loony is overwhelmingly mysterious existence.
Basically, loony stands there not only in seeking the area of circle or its radius but also, extending to burst area, in theory of probability, physics, or others or etc, appears everywhere. But then any attempt to realize its true meaning always leads to failure. So, that’s the reason for being called loony.
Also, loony is always gaining popularity and if you search the loony through internet of course innumerable hits surely be on the search engine, being described in an infinite ways by young, girls, aged, ladies, aged guy, —– not that much, sorry?
In such things as Einstein equation, Gaussian distribution and Euler’s formula. By the way, in Gaussian distribution, there is another loony. Loony the Napier’s constant. Ok, let’s put it aside anyway. But also one more loony in Euler’s formula. Imaginary Number.
So, in any case, Pi the loony is such a funny and pleasant member of loonies then perhaps spending good time with the members.
Hello, Dr. Einstein, you put the loony in that equation without any doubt though, is it OK? Loony is infinite decimals, isn’t it?
Oh, today, in Japanese text version I have written this in quite a colloquial way. And I attempted to express it with English as above maybe I have to say thank you for your patience in reading it.
From the left, Einstein Equation, Gaussian distribution, Euler’s formula
I will never be defeated by AI. It’s just something of nothing! May I say so but actually I don’t know at all what AI is and how its principle of functioning is.
Anyway, it is like, I guess, by just putting known knowledge in it, it starts seeking the best parameters in a way that the given proposition converges to a significant and meaningful logic, like an infinite series converges.
So, I think AI cannot leave the region of known knowledge.
Assuming putting knowledge at that time of Newton into AI, could the AI reach the conclusion that gravity exists?
From an experimental fact that speed of light is constant regardless of the movement of the system, would AI introduce the idea of theory of relativity and then argue that the universe is composed of not only 3 dimensions of space but also one more dimension of time added thereby it is 4 dimensional?
Not that difficult maybe, rather I say why ones bother to apply AI where other method is available though there may be cases that AI has a degree of advantage.
Probably, the usage of AI will be for weather forecast or for something in which there are too many factors relating to the proposition to establish simulation or even mathematical model. “Let’s just simply input the things human have into AI and see what comes out then”, the start of AI would be like that.
Conclusion: Person who is working on the development and operation of AI is a genius! In this regards, human will never be defeated by AI. So, Human is the only existence that can turn an unknown to a known, I say it loud! (Ok I have to be relaxed, calm down——–)
They say Covid-19 is known as a type of virus that affects the respiratory system of any lifeforms. Typically, virus intrudes into lifeform and utilize the function which the cell of the lifeform provides so that it produces the copy of itself.
Hundreds of this kind of stories can easily be found with just a few clicks on web search, badly affecting the competition over the number of views. And obviously, the issue of variants has been gaining popularity about Covid-19.
Variant is a virus that is different from its original. Throughout its reproduction process in which large number of copies are produced, slight variation in the copies occurs for some reasons sometimes at unknown timing. This virus that has a degree of variation is the variant though, it can still be considered belonging to its original and therefore it is still called Covid-19.
By contrast, because of the variation, always being concerned are; The variant may have capability of escaping from the effectiveness of vaccine or it may get further poisonous.
Now, omicron shows rapid surge but anyhow it seems that fatality rate will not be such a surge, many say.
Nevertheless, simply saying of the developments so far of Covid-19, an ignorant question arises. Will the appearance of variant continue intermittently or sporadically? Or will the possibility of new dangerous variant never be neglectable? Why variant of flu virus has never been of controversial issue in ordinary society, I wonder. Anyway, OK, probably variant of flu is being discussed among specialists.
Thus, somehow concerning is that; what if the next variant that follows omicron is a terrible one? Though this is just too much extreme idea of ignorant.
To ease this kind of ignorance, is there any ways to determine a border line as limitation for possibility of variation. Assuming that after certain occasions of variants and due to a kind of saturation or cause of entropy, and then it is confirmed that virus will never vary any more, that point, after certain variants means the border line.
Although, I could not stop writing such a pathetic talk owing to a sort of momentum coming from frustration caused by my work in office, if someone who visits this web site and is specialist of this kind posts a web message about that, it would be grateful of you.
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