Close to a million have died of COVID-19 in the US, the news said.
That's more deaths than from the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Wikipedia).
Yet, there seems to be less importance placed on deaths caused by the coronavirus. Could be attributed to desensitization from over two years of news coverage and fear of accidental nuclear war.
One million lives needlessly lost because of opposition to wearing masks and vaccinations.
With math, it is possible to represent physical interactions and states with formulas.
With words, it is possible to transmit and store knowledge in sentences.
Need to think about this some more. Seems to be going somewhere?
Internet enables free access to information and knowledge.
Software programs, written with logic and words which are translated to assembly language and then to binary code before being sent into the chip via electric pulses, power artificial intelligence.
Store, access, utilize, understand or learn knowledge?
Create, uncover, or learn knowledge? All? Yes, that seems right.
For new situations, knowledge is created. For some common situations, it's general knowledge, so it is learned or uncovered.
Knowledge? Recognizing something, physical or metaphysical, enough to be able to perceive and react to any changes? Could be.
Seems we could be biological machines running on AI software programmed to survive but feel bad about killing? Could be.
So, why are governments encouraging and paying people to have more babies (South Korea, Japan, and others)? Economy (money) and Power (versus other countries; needed if one has neighbors like Russia and China).
Insane.
Maybe, I'm the insane one? Everyone is insane to a degree. We are all in some ways illogical, in some ways very logical.
The answers to many questions are not two-dimensional, most answers are at least four dimensional and are usually 'all', 'everyone', 'everything'.
And 'you' and 'me' are not the heart of the universe, though it seems so. There seems to be something else.
If humans survive and thrive with a smaller population, humans might say that they were behind it, human nature, it seems.
Are humans that smart? Some are smart in certain things, but...
Good jobs are hard to come by in Korea and Japan, believe it or not. Most employees are contractors or contracted employees, a popular global trend.
That's the main reason for not having children, I think. You dream of a better life for your kids, not hardship.
So, the rich have kids, the poor give up. Then, if the rich have too many kids, same problem again. If they have few kids, then a small but rich population. Just thinking things through, like many others before me.
Conservative think tanks and scholars have undoubtedly thought this through, you know?
Ethics and knowledge?
Survival of the fittest is an evolutionary explanation of development of organisms.
Among early humans, probably the physically strongest led. Up until recent times, royalty ruled over their kingdoms.
Although they credit the Greeks with democracy, they had slavery.
I tend not to believe history now. History taught in Russia, China, Japan, North Korea and other countries try to glorify their heritage and deny negative aspects.
Koreans invented the printing press before Gutenberg. The evidence is is our museums. But who knows, some other people could have invented it before Koreans.
Back to ethics and knowledge. It seems that with the rise of human rights, democracy, free speech, and such, technology also advanced accordingly.
Education used to be only for royalty and higher class. Free education as a right is a recent thing.
A belief or faith that "good" (or something like a good energy, entity, or dimension) will lead to a better world seems to have created the conditions for humans to develop technology rapidly?
It's hard for me to believe humans are inherently intelligent and solely responsible for all the technological and social advances. Humans were not so smart for around a million years (first human ancestors appeared two million years ago). Why now?
Took a long time to abandon animal instincts and snap out of that survival of the fittest loop.
A Good dimension where Good resonates and is amplified?
A few decades ago, I knew some policemen. Part of their jobs were to patrol major hotels and other places incognito.
Probably, the intelligence services did similar things.
Scary world?
Another thought. If you were an intelligent, happy and extremely conscientious worker, would you like to work remotely or at the office?
Some people can work independently, others cannot. Would it be better to have have intelligent, happy and extremely conscientious employees work remotely, rather than being annoyed by others who aren't?
Autonomous driving and drivers? Automation and workers? Artificial intelligence and translators, analysts, writers, teachers, etc.?
Maybe preparations are in order?
AI is being used now at large corporations to automate work processes (financial, logistics, transactions, payroll, etc.) for analytics, checking for duplication and abnormalities, and other stuff.
Business software with features utilizing AI have just started to come out in the past couple of years. The developers are getting more data and upgrading features. Should be the same in other sectors.
The sales pitch is that it frees up staff to do more productive work, but the bottom line is reduction of labor costs. You need less staff to do more work.
Socialism and inflation?
If inflation rose 50%, I would lose a lot of money, but many more would lose tens of billions.
That's why inflation is so important to the establishment. Inflation at 10% a year for a lifetime plus socialist policies should wipe out most fortunes, unless the money was invested productively.
But if inflation rises, then food becomes too expensive for the poor? BS. If most people can't buy it, then according to capitalism, the price should fall (demand, supply, price). Did people starve in Argentina when inflation was like 1000%? Probably, but not so many as to make it newsworthy.
Both nightmares are coming soon! Hoping for anything to solve poverty which should not exist if people really were religious, or 'good at heart'.
Are there taxes on wealth? Just income, property, VAT, import, export, but no wealth tax. Wonder why?
People have a lot of wealth in art, collectibles, jewelry, stocks, and such which are not taxed if they do not sell or inherit it (supposedly). It is wealth that could be better put to use for other urgently needed social purposes.
Some may argue what about artists, artisans, and companies that issue stock? Will they be affected somewhat, excesses sort of reigned in?
Should wealth be taxed in order to have it flow towards other avenues, hopefully socially oriented ones?
If nothing is done, the trend towards assets that aren't taxed will only grow and problems will worsen. There needs to be policies to reverse this trend, but traditional media and establishment may never push for such actions.
Many rich Korean acquaintances buy stuff (art, collectibles, jewelry, gold, currency) and give it to their offspring without declaring it and other trickery. Certainly goes on elsewhere.
Kinda seems like sleight of hand on humans. Everyone focusing on getting richer, while something is happening that we should be aware of.
Another thought. People acquire excessive wealth to be different from, maybe even above, regular people? Wealthy people tend to brag and show off? Will they stand in line with or sit next to a regular person?
Should poor or even middle class people, cast their votes for the wealthy and their sycophants? Wonder if over 50% of the population will eventually vote to take from the rich and give to the poor?
BS
Does he do business with countries that suppress freedom of speech? Are employees allowed to speak freely at his companies?
Has Musk ever spoken out for free speech in North Korea, China, Russia, or anywhere, but the US and Twitter?
Pure capitalist. Doesn't even take a cash salary because of income tax.
The extremely wealthy control media, why not Twitter? I sometimes wonder how many companies the CIA, and South Korea's counterpart, controls.
Why can't people just chill? Always wanting and doing. Some always badmouthing someone or something.
Seemingly can't sit still and reflect on the past, inner thoughts, what is going on, their self, life's questions... In other words, face oneself.
Is it due to genes, instinct, evolution, or what?
Or is that people know that there something like a God in the silence and are afraid to look?
Probably due to cognitive dissonance and wanting to avoid conflicting thoughts.
hehe.
A human cultural definition of the effects of hormones related to mating and parenting?
As with everything else, it is a mixture of many things. It is the human cultural definition, description, concept, the ideal, and more.
A mixture of emotions.
According to Medical News Today, telomeres are “protective caps” located on the ends of our chromosomes that affect how quickly cells age and increased selenium intake is related to longer telomere length.
Selenium is also needed for other bodily functions.
Often forget to eat my daily Brazil nut. Probably remember better now. Seems to be over a decade since I started to eat Brazil nuts.
Exercise and eating small amounts of unprocessed food are also reportedly associated with living longer.
FYI, more interested in being well than living longer.
Two five-story studio apartment buildings were completed about six months ago. Blocking my view of downtown Seoul.
The one room studios are very small. Bathroom, kitchenette, enough space for a bed, desk.
Advertised as slightly under $2,000 a month with about a $20,000 deposit. ALL of the studio apartments are still empty.
Tons of commercial buildings with 'for rent' signs, but the rent prices have not come down at all.
Some have been vacant for a couple of years.
These Korean landlords are stubborn. Properties have been vacant for years, but they won't lower rent.
Probably waiting to see if business picks up after the coronavirus pandemic weakens.
Let's see what happens after two years.
One vacancy was taken up by a cosmetic surgery clinic. Logical, they can certainly afford the rent.
China and Russia has and will keep supporting and trading with North Korea.
So?
China, Russia, North Korea, and other authoritarian states vs democratic countries?
Looks that way.
Already cut them off from semiconductors, advanced software, and other technologies.
People in power need to have yearly mental checkups and removed from power if they are not logical, do not keep their word, or lie blatantly
Why do people vote for liars (Trump)? Many seem to be disenfranchised, feed up with the system, and are expressing it by voting for people who appear to be rebellious.
Luckily, the liberal party holds a firm majority in the National Assembly.
Lost by less than one percent. A lot of people don't believe what most media tell them. LOL.
From what the media was saying, I thought the liberal party candidate would lose by a much larger margin of about 7-8%.
If the liberal party can maintain a majority in the coming elections for the National Assembly, there is no way the conservative party candidate will be able to fulfill many of his promises.
Roles could be reversed now. But the liberal party doesn't block almost all of the opposing party's legislation and policies.
The younger 20-30 age bracket apparently believed what most media fed them. Hopefully, they will get wiser.
Things are looking up. Almost all of the people above 60 years old are conservative. A small percentage die every year...
Hey, I am over 60.
North Korea, China, and Russia are well known for control of media.
Lesser known is the control of media in Japan, Korea, and other countries.
Though democratic, most media in many countries are controlled by conservatives or wealthy.
Many are owned outright by the wealthy, or are puppets to wealthy advertisers.
At least we have social media and the internet nowadays. Sort of counteracts the negative aspects of traditional media but has its faults.
China, Mongols, Japan, North Korea. Throughout history, many have tried to take over Korea, which is just a very small 3-hour drive wide and 5-hour drive long peninsula.
When North Korea (supported by Russia) invaded South Korea (vice-versa in North Korean media and schoolbooks), the US and UN stepped in at the last moment when only the southern port city of Pusan was left.
Thankfully, a lot of people from all over the world fought in the Korean War. Tragically, too many died.
The USA, Great Britain, Canada, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Colombia, Ethiopia, South Africa, New Zealand, Turkey, Greece, Thailand, Philippines and Luxembourg sent armed forces to fight in the war. Many other countries sent medical supplies and aid.
South Korea was extremely fortunate. Russia was boycotting the UN and China did not have any power in the UN. Otherwise, they definitely would have vetoed sending the UN forces to South Korea.
Koreans say that we succeeded because of hard work and stuff, but I think it is mainly due to the relations and trade we have had with the US (even through trade frictions, mainly due to unfair Korean practices and large trade surpluses for Korea).
Imagine if we were sanctioned...
Another perspective. Lots of Christians in South Korea. Lots of Christians in the US. Lots of Christians in the Philippines. Lots of Christians in China, Japan, Indonesia, all over the place.
Still, Christianity is less prevalent than before.
Company started a JustGiving page and is matching contributions, so I donated.
Have donated monthly to UNHCR for years. Barbaric wars have gone on for ages.
Imagine a world where everyone helps others, monetarily?
Charity has steadily grown over the years, yes?
Have an aversion to negative things, even things like "I don't think, isn't it? don't you think? no?"
Avoiding negative things helps to expand mental and imaginary horizons.
Imparts a slightly different mental perspective, which can lead to unexpected thoughts, insights, and will/desires.
"I don't think that..." is nonsensical. It is commonly used to mean "I think that something is not", or "I think that something does not". I can understand a phrase like "you don't know if he did it", but phrases like "I don't think that he is smart." could lead to cognitive dissonance.
Next time, someone says "I don't think that is so", might be just living without any deep meaningful reflection.
Nowadays, punctuation marks are put before the ending quotation mark. Fifty years ago, that was not so. I guess it's a matter of style.
"If the universe is only 14 billion years old, how can it be 92 billion light years wide?" is the title of a Youtube video. A widely accepted theory is that the universe suddenly expanded much faster than the speed of light at the very beginning and then slowed, but the expansion is continuing.
The universe could be larger than 92 billion light years wide, no one knows.
Recently changed mind about the brain, it could be responsible for consciousness, empathy, and more.
Still uncertain about why 'good' and 'truth' are associated with mental wellness, wisdom, will/desire, and other things. Still think it has something to do with a dimension, force, metaphysical energy, or cause.
Bought a spin bike with an 18kg flywheel. Fantastic for easing into exercise right after waking up.
Definitely helps to lose/maintain weight with the least effort when combined with some leg lifts and other exercises.
Hurt back and got out of shape. Took about three weeks to regain fitness.
Signs point to a win by the conservative party candidate in the Korean presidential elections next week.
Just FYI, most of the presidents from the conservative party have been served jail time or are in jail for corruption. The conservative party changes its name for almost every election. Erasing associations with past scandals, maybe?
Amazing what money can buy these days...
Hoping the signs are wrong. Praying doesn't seem to be very effective. Wish it was.
Canada, Korea and other countries that handled the coronavirus pandemic relatively well have national health insurance and, for some reason, much lower medical costs than the US.
Wonder if the uninsured population resent the "establishment" and take unenlightened actions, such as refusing to wear masks and the like? Could be. Could it be statistically proven?
Will the US ever solve its health insurance problem? Have to find a way to include existing US health insurance companies. Close to impossible? Government buyout or partnership?
Life saving medical care should be free, if possible?
Climate change? Very pessimistic. Probably more intense weather related disasters coming up? Definitely.
Companies are trying to create their own version of a metaverse.
Shouldn't metaverses be interconnected? Avatars being able to enter all metaverses is definitely better than being able to be used on only one meteaverse? Same with items? What about an open-source metaverse?
Should metaverses be infinite? Why do companies need to make money on metaverses, avatars, and items? Why not let the people make money and run businesses inside a "real" metaverse?
Just things I think about?
According to an article in Scientific American: What Is Spacetime Really Made Of?
It could emerge from "entanglement", says the article. I agree that spacetime is an emergent phenomena.
Light, theoretically, doesn't experience "space" or "time". Spacetime seems to emerge from light, in my thinking, in the transitional phase between light and matter. I think I read something to that effect a couple of decades ago.
Good starting point.
If the rich lent all their money to the poor, then there would be fewer problems?
Maybe, the money could be used to start non-profits that would pay good wages and educate the poor?
The rich would still "own" the money lent and non-profits but would make less return on their money.
Just thinking...
In terms of wealth amounts.
On the other hand, inflation affects the poor due to higher prices for necessities, health and such.
A decade of high inflation should erase most of the wealth held by the rich?
How to protect the poor during inflation?
Might be good to think about further.
With automation and AI, these things will probably be resolved in 50 or so years, maybe.
A progressive tax for people with over $50m in assets and, let's say, paying under $100,000 a year in income tax? Same for corporations that somehow avoid paying much in taxes.
Maybe starting at 0.1% annually for over $50 million and under $100 million, 0.2% for over $200m, 1.0% of $1 billion, up to a maximum 10% for over $10 billion. Maybe, a little break for those leaving their riches to charity and such.
That money is being hoarded and put into funds, equity, real estate, art, jewelry, cars, and such. Give it to the poor to spend on necessities, health, education? Much more productive?
Use the proceeds to help fund universal basic income?
Korean presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung proposes to start giving $250 a year with the aim of establishing a foundation for a universal basic income system.
With automation and AI, soon there will be very little paid work for humans. No work, no income.
I read that in an article. Dogs have similar regions.
It appears that two regions generate a positive or negative emotion to words or sounds.
Brain is really complex...
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose's model for a cyclical universe is becoming mainstream. Theory explained in article below.
BBC: What Existed Before The Big Bang
Presidential elections in early March 2022.
The mostly conservative Korean media is trying to frame negative and sensational accusations against the ruling liberal party candidate as newsworthy and relevant. Also, the conservative party candidate, Yoon Seok-youl, has taken to slandering and insulting the current President and ruling party candidate, Lee Jae-myung.
I think it's not wise to call for Yoon to call people fools and idiots, and say that Lee is a felon.
Yoon used to be the leading candidate with around 47% selecting him in polls. Now, the percentage of people voting for Yoon in polls is around 29% and people voting for Lee is around 37%.
Apparently the change in the polls has moved Yoon to act and talk even more like Trump. LOL. Out of touch with the times.
Yoon also has a lot of other problems with his mother-in-law being recently jailed, wife falsifying resumes in the past, and allegations of personal wrongdoing.
Due to the elections, the liberal party is now sending spokespeople to news shows to counter conservative speakers. I don't normally watch the news, but nowadays it's just so enjoyable to hear logical arguments to conservative nonsense.
Yonhap News: Lee leads Yoon 37.4 pct to 29.3 pct: poll
Scientists found a section of the brain that is responsible for self-related matters.
That could be how "self" is created...
Scientific American: How Our Brain Preserves Our Sense Of Self
If the Big Bang and Inflation theory is correct, light in the cosmic microwave background should be polarized in two ways: B-modes, which are swirly patterns, and E-modes, which are more of a straight-line pattern. They could only find E-modes.
Scientists say the detection instruments might need to be more sensitive to find the B-modes, but I count this as a strike.
CNN: The problem with the Big Bang theory
According to CNN's Gupta, in some tests that were conducted, absolutely yes. This could be a game changer. Medical studies proving the effectiveness of pot for certain illnesses where other medications have serious side effects.
I could be a little autistic. Definitely not sociable. Pot should be legalized in Korea. I might be in need of medication for my illness.
Read that Germany and many other countries are legalizing recreational weed. Thailand allows medicinal marijuana. Canada, Georgia, Malta, Mexico, South Africa, Uruguay, part of the US and Australia have legalized cannabis. Portugal has decriminalized drugs for decades, I think.
A lot of progress over the last decade. Wonder if it will accelerate? Corporations, equity funds, and other entities seeking profits are involved in the cannabis business now. So much wealth has been accumulated by the wealthy, if society had progressed at the same pace, the world would have been a much better place.
Property, equity, intellectual property rights. The system has to change, but won't? Are all people created equal? Definitely not. Some are wealthy at birth, some are orphans at birth.
How cognition in cells could evolve into higher order cognition in animals explained in Scientific American - New Clues about the Origins of Biological Intelligence.
Still a little dubious about how it could lead to self-awareness and a self-learning collective consciousness of cells and such.
Deep reflection on major concepts (death, life, beginning, end, good, bad) seems to inevitably lead to questions on consciousness.
What about a collective conscious of living things (bacteria, plants, animals, cells)? What about viruses and inanimate objects? I read that viruses are more inanimate than "alive". Anyway, I am leaning towards a collective conscious of "live" things. What drives this life? Probably a "field", "energy", or "dimension".
Some are more "conscious" than others, naturally. What is being more "conscious"?
More awareness of words, meanings, concepts, environment, smells, taste, rhythms, etc.
More intelligence? I was taught that everyone is equal. Some things that I was taught have turned out to be wrong...
Many seem to be limited in their awareness, or consciousness. Too centered on enjoyment, envying wealth and power, avoiding certain thoughts (death, meaning of life, pain, mistakes, sins, ethics)...?
Meditation? If you fall into deep thought, I believe that is meditation. Really easy and natural.
Only about a third of the world population seem to be "enlightened", while another third seem to be cognitively dissonant (illogical) and the remaining third somewhere in between.
Problem is that during elections, misinformation from the cognitively dissonant is prevalent in the media due to several factors.
Welcome to my world. Three months away from Korean presidential elections. Conservative candidate (former prosecutor who praised former dictator Chun Doo-hwan stating that apart from the Gwangju massacre, he did many good things) is way in the lead in some polls, believe it or not.
Gallup has the race neck and neck between the conservative party candidate and the ruling party candidate. Many Korean polls have the conservative party candidate leading by a wide margin. They say it's due to different methods used in polling. They are a mixture of land lines, regular mobile phones, base rate mobile phones, ARS.
Housing prices have stabilized over the past week in Korea. Increasing property taxes has been the solution to rising prices for the past half century, but the rich had blocked all property tax increase proposals since they had the majority in the National Assembly.
The ruling Democratic party obtained a majority in the last parliamentary elections and passed the increases.
According to polls, over half of Koreans are against the tax increases. Most of them believe that they hear on the mostly conservative news media, and in the angry outbursts of the rich.
I know a lot of people with more than two homes. One for living and the others to make money. People with more than two homes all hate the ruling Democratic party and it seems to be affecting the people who like to hang around rich people.
From my observation, many of the Korean rich seem to be Scrooges and have an aversion to paying any tax.
Property taxes are still VERY low in Korea, as long as you only own one that is worth less than a million dollars. If you own more than one, then the property taxes are similar to what one would pay in the US, I think. Maybe a little more, if you have several really expensive apartments or houses.
Many news announcers on TV have more than two homes. LOL!!!
Korea is still trying to implement a five day, 40-hour work week. Things take time, I guess.
Scientists have made extensive new measurements and found out that there is no dark energy.
In order to combat rising prices of residences in Korea, the Moon administration and ruling party raised property taxes and the base rate that properties are appraised for tax purposes, gradually.
This is the second year of the gradual property tax increases. The rich people and companies owning two or more residences, or one multi million dollar residence, were warned in advance of the tax increases and had many chances to sell their properties (some own hundreds of apartments).
The tax notices will be sent out, or have already been sent out. Now, there are a lot of rich people really pissed! The news media has significantly intensified efforts to blame everything on the Moon administration and ruling party, or try to frame them as inept and corrupt.
I can imagine my rich real estate speculating acquaintances reaction to their tax bills. They now have to pay about three times more than in the past. They can afford to pay, but they must be screaming bloody murder, calling people commies, and mumbling obscenities at the Moon administration and the ruling progressive party.
Most didn't sell their multiple residences. If they could, they gifted some residences to their children. Most are waiting for the conservative party to win the National Assembly or Presidential elections and rescind the tax increases.
My property taxes have not gone up, I still pay about six hundred dollars a year on a supposedly million dollar cramped old apartment.
A lot of Koreans are worried about the rising real estate prices. A lot of commercial space is for rent nowadays, but commercial real estate prices will not fall. The rich have a monopoly on the real estate market, from my perspective.
The government says the tax increases affect only the top 2% of residence owners.
Yet, about 44% of Koreans are support the conservative party's presidential candidate (party of the rich, former prosecutors, and powerful), while only 37% support the ruling party's candidate (tax the rich, need to start discussions on changing labor environment and concepts like universal basic income, LOL).
A lot of people still apparently trust the mostly conservative, and definitely lopsided opinion polls and reporting by the news media. Hopefully, they won't bother to vote. hehe.
Lavish use of subliminal messaging with the subtitles. Misleading wording, conservative party candidate's face smiling in background with positive subtitles, and such.
Last week, the poll numbers were even worse, I think it was 47% for the conservative party candidate and 30% for the ruling party candidate.
I think the stress from the coronavirus pandemic makes it hard people to recognize the good efforts of many governments.
Didn't think about that, but thank goodness this guy did. Always thought about things within the visible universe.
That is what the Standard Model of Particle Physics theorizes.
Or they might start protesting those laws too...
Microtubules, quantum computing, 40Hz, anesthetics and consciousness, and more discussed in the following video. Rather long but makes sense.
If cognitive dissonance led to dementia or Alzheimer's disease, people would probably stop lying.
Cognitive dissonance hinders logical thought. Could lead to dementia and other mental illnesses?
Cruel thing to say, but in some ways, I wish it did. Does the punishment fit the crime? Varying degrees of mental illness.
They did a study and found out that "Where Gun Stores Open, Gun Homicides Increase". Naturally.
Scientific American article - Where Gun Stores Open, Gun Homicides Increase
In factories, standing below any heavy load that is being moved or supported by cranes and such is prohibited. Minimize any danger as much as possible to reduce accidents, injury, and deaths.
Shouldn't streets be safer than factories?
South Korea allows guns, but you have to be licensed, keep the gun at a police station for storage, and only allowed to check it out for a limited time for hunting or other declared purposes. Definitely contributes to a less violent society, in my opinion. Much still needs to be done with regards to violence and hate in the media, speech, books...
Of course, the military has guns and sometimes there are incidents involving soldiers killing soldiers or civilians. Incidents involving crossbows, bows and arrows, knives, bats...
What happens when chimps are given loaded guns and shown movies of chimps shooting chimps?
What about humans? Less likely but...
What if gun and murder scenes in movies were illegal?
À la Facebook, movies with violence and rage make profits.
I think religions also do it when they incite hate against sinners, abortions, and so on.
Advanced civilizations probably are not attracted to violent movies or making profit.
Meta space/time? All other dimensions or fields that coexist with the physical space/time/energy/mass that we recognize.
Is consciousness life? Is life a field and/or dimension?
Seems to be driven by organized "signals" to certain molecules? Interesting. Signals from where?
Or is life a bunch of infinitely evolving positive feedback systems that arose/arise by chance?
Have a headache? Some people can think, some people get headaches? Wonder why?
Maybe knowledge is power and is not readily accessible by people who would abuse it.
Who made that decision and made the world that way? That is a human-centered question. There is no who and something made? Maybe like dimensions, forces, or fields?
Knowledge vs Consciousness? Is knowledge a dimension, force, or field?
A force like gravity, energy? Or something else?
Animal consciousness can move physical objects, solve problems?
Is it a dimension? Like space-time, energy-mass? Energy is related to Mass which is related to Space/Time which is related to Consciousness?
Self-consciousness? Conscience?
Maybe another 'force' or 'dimension' is needed? Something which we probably are not able to conceptualize fully but related to Good, Better? A force in the process of moving evolution and knowledge towards better? Got a better idea?
If there was a big bang, there would be a hollow center somewhere in the universe as all matter would have been pushed out, according to newer explanations of the universe.
Renown physicists now say that there was almost instantaneous "expansion" of space when time started (this time around?) and then the rate of expansion was reduced to what it is now. Could the expanding space have always existed?
The other unknown?
Consciousness? Response to internal/external information?
Self-consciousness? Social consciousness? Materialistic consciousness? Subconscious actions?
Needs much more study.
South Korea -
Ruling progressive party presidential candidate Lee said that the problem of too many restaurants and too many failing restaurants should be addressed. Lee added that maybe it was time to discuss having a limit on the total number of restaurants.
80% of restaurants close within 5 years. There is also a lot of unfair and illegal treatment of franchisees by restaurant franchise chains (many owned by business conglomerates). They also pay exorbitant rents.
Most the news media and guest commentators stated that Lee wanted to restrict the freedom of the people had advocated for a new law to limit the number of restaurants.
Most reported Lee's statements with false assumptions and negative insinuations.
Despite all the negative media, Lee is still neck and neck with the conservative party's candidates who claim that Lee is a criminal and should be in jail.
There must be a lot of Koreans who still don't believe the version of news that conservative media outlets are presenting.
The conservative party is focusing on personal attacks to Lee's integrity and intelligence. I think the conservative party knows they will lose on debates regarding policies and plans for the country. Also, it's the "call the other guy a crook to deflect attention from one's own corruption" ploy used so much in the past by the conservative party and also Trump.
TV Chosun is one of the most conservatively lopsided news broadcast channels in Korea.
They usually say things like "the liberal party claims..." and "the conservative party pointed out...". And insinuate the liberal party as having done something wrong or illegal on false rumors.
Well, this morning, it started being objective in its reporting and commentary. Had a former liberal party member as a guest commentator, and a frequent conservative commentator, who usually expresses anger at anything related to the liberal party, was reserved.
Somewhat like Fox becoming like CNN overnight. LOL!!!
Hope the change is permanent.
(couple hours later) Nope. Still conservatively lopsided. Guest commentator states the current Moon administration is restricting freedom and increasing regulation needlessly, and everyone nods their heads.
Other frequent conservative guest commentator criticizing the progressive ruling party's presidential candidate and stating many people think that he is a criminal.
All other guest commentators are also cognitively dissonant conservatives.
But they are good at twisting words to avoid legal problems!
Conservatives and most media in Korea are against the phase out of nuclear energy in Korea. They state that it will result in higher energy costs, make it harder to become carbon neutral, and that advanced countries are pursuing nuclear energy.
And they are getting a significant portion of the population to agree with them. A lot of cognitively dissonant people.
You can drive across Korea in 4-5 hours. If there is a nuclear accident, then 10-20% of Korea might become uninhabitable.
Also, when a nuclear plant or waste disposal site is proposed, EVERYONE is vehemently 'not in my neighborhood'.
There are many accounts and Youtube channels in Korean that spread false narratives and attack people, mostly conservatives mimicking Trump, in Korea.
That should be illegal. Freedom of speech should not apply to lies that attack and harm people. That is as bad as a physical assault, in my opinion.
Problems in India as per BBC News report - India: Facebook struggles in its battle against fake news
There are scammers on Craiglist - Seoul, who place posts purporting to sell pot, meth, cocaine and other drugs. I flagged them daily for over three years and wrote to Craiglist but they don't do anything to stop it.
The cops are watching the posts, but no drugs are being sent. Only gullible people being scammed by people overseas.
I still flag the posts. Nowadays, the scammers stop for a month or so and start up again.
I can't find posts by scammers on Craiglist in the USA or other countries. Why? Craiglist polices those countries, or there are more people like me flagging such posts.
In Craiglist-Seoul, you can find posts by "sugar daddies", perverts, and other dangerous people in the "Jobs" section. I flag them also. These are easier to stop than drug scammers. The drug scammers are very persistent.
On a bright note, 70% of Koreans have received two injections of coronavirus vaccines as of 23 October. We still wear masks and stuff. Some do not obey the rules.
Starting November, the government will ease restrictions. Forecast is for an 80% vaccination rate by December, if I remember correctly. The daily average of new coronavirus infections is around 1,300, down from over 2,000 a couple weeks ago, if I remember correctly.
Why do people refuse to be vaccinated? Brainwashed with lies, in many cases.
Bad things don't upset me like they used to. Slightly annoyed, nowadays. They don't affect my enjoyment of life as in the past. That's a good thing. Optimistically, probably only have a decade or two to live.
Yoon Seok-yul, a former prosecutor who was suspended for wrongdoing. The person appealed and the court found that the suspension (two months, if I remember correctly) was too lax for the crimes.
He was suspended for failure to maintain political neutrality as the top prosecutor, ordering others to draw up documents containing judges’ personal information with the intent to conduct unauthorized surveillance, and obstructing an investigation into a case related to local cable television network Channel A, which was embroiled in a collusion scandal involving the prosecution.
The speed of light is constant, and the speeds of objects with mass are relative?
Why was he thinking about this? Was it to solve a problem? The thought just popped into his head?
Probably to solve a problem in physics. But that's how he started working on the theory of relativity.
I wonder if when there is mass, there is space and time. Without mass, no space or time?
But then where does light exist, if it doesn't experience time or space? In dimension(s) without space-time and as radiation in the world as we know it.
Also energy is related to mass.
Maybe, there are dimensions that haven't been recognized as of yet, in addition to space-time, mass-energy?
Another question?
energy+algorithms+atoms+feedback+billions of years + unseen dimensions = life?
The meaning of "dimension" is unclear.
They say that there are three dimensions of space and one of time.
Maybe, dimensions of space, should be called space sub-dimensions, or the like.
Space and time are intertwined and so are mass and energy.
What do you call space-time and mass-energy? The meaning of "dimension" is somewhat limited.
A wave of energy, or whatever, moving at the speed of light doesn't experience time, according to present physics. If it doesn't experience time, then it most likely doesn't experience space.
Space-time? Mass-energy? Information-Consciousness (knowledge)?
Constructive-destructive? Seems like a subset of something.
Kinda feel that society is productive enough so there is enough for everyone, as long as no one hoards.
