A continuation of a previous story – The Entropy Engine.

Dr H Trismagnus examined the charts and graphs in front of him. He could see what was happening, and he knew the signs as well as anyone. Still, he didn’t want to believe it. But he couldn’t deny it either. All of this on top of the vicious and relentless attacks from certain neighboring star systems, those with Entropy Engines. So, with the background noise of massive detonations in the distance, he gathered his notes and walked to see his friend Prof. Dadeleus Metan.

His labyrinthine workshop defied any kind of order, with half finished projects everywhere, biological, mechanical, artistic. Stepping over what appeared to be a pepper plant set in a helmet with neural implants attached, he called to Dadeleus. His son Icarious lay underneath a heavy piece of equipment, with the sound of loud music playing in his headphones.

Dadeleus looked up and waved him over. “How goes the war?”, he inquired.

“Our shields are holding. For now.”

“Is this really about the energy flow? They have expended far, far more energy attacking us, than has flowed from them to us.”

“And yet”, Hermes replied, as he handed the plots and charts to Dadeleus, “that is the least of our problems. Our problem is Geometry.”

Dadeleus studied the charts and quickly came to the unavoidable conclusion, “The Big Bang, or rather a Big Bang. Grim.”

“What?! What am I missing? What do you mean, a Big Bang?”, called Icarious from underneath what appeared to be a combination warp drive and overgrown aquarium. Terraforming equipment perhaps? His music continued to blare.

“Son, you know, from elementary geometry, that there are as many points in a 4-D hyper-volume, as there is in a 3-D volume.”

“Obviously, because both have an infinite number of points, and those infinities are the same size. Infinity is funny that way.”

“Exactly. You can also see that both can be made from a Space-filling curve. But that also means that a very little 4-D space makes a lot of hot dense 3-D space.”

Icarious

in the Big Bang, our universe was born from the, shall I say, the corpse of an earlier 4 dimensional universe. That universe had expanded it was so sparse

The important thing to understand the concept from Old Earth, called, It from Bit. Reality, our entire universe, all matter and energy, is fundamentally, information. That is all it is, not that that is a minor thing!

That is why we call Christ the Truth of the World.

Entropy is information. The Entropy Engine appears to be removing, (or even destroying, if such a thing is possible) information, while the Creation Engines, are creating information.

But information isn’t just matter, it is the fabric of space-time. And if the amount of information becomes spread out enough…

Have you heard of the Holographic Principle? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/information-in-the-holographic-univ/

We thought we had a few million years before the Big Rip, where

I. Danger War

II. Creation Engine Problems, energy flow

III. Big Bang, 4D – 3D

IV. Cantor Cardinality of points

V. It from Bit

VI. God’s law is light & life

V. Entropy is Information

IV. Holographic Principle, fractal dimension

III. Big Bang 3D – 2D -1D

II. Entropy Engine problems, information flow

I. Danger Big Rip

I. It from Bit, information is fundamental

II. Entropy is information

III. How to Create information, Classical Computing, Quantum Computing, etc

IV. Reservior Computing / physical computing

V. All Matter Can Obey

VI. In the Beginning was the Word

V. Pan-psychism

IV. Bodies full of Light

III. How to create – Telestial, Terrestrial, Celestial

II. Creation creates truths

I. Eternal Truth is fundamental

The young Quaker maid approached their minister. This surprised him greatly, because of all members of their town she was the most rebellious. An outright atheist! But she looked terrified, white as a ghost.

‘Father’, she said, ‘I have seen a horrible vision, a vision of HELL! and I don’t know what to do’.

This shocked him so much he was nearly speechless. But he had her sit down and he inquired about what she saw.

‘There were several of them. They dressed strangely and said they were from the FUTURE!’

The Wizard succeeded. He had finally done it. He had overcome every obstacle mortal or eternal, hellish to celestial. He had a way to get what he wanted. He wanted into heaven.

Now it is true, that he hadn’t wanted it enough to

https://rattibha.com/thread/1574448552637505538?lang=en

As I said recently, we need to better understand and explain the doctrine of Gender and Family. This, by way of rebuke, clarifies Righteous Masculinity, to me.

And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. Rev. 9:6

You can not learn what it means to be human, after 20, 40, 80 or even 120 years. You are not fully grown or developed in your 30’s, in your 300’s, or even in your 3000’s.

It began when we become immortal. We were promised unending life and perpetual health. We were given machines that provided food, or whatever we could imagine. We rejoiced in our good fortune. Earth was full so we left. We sought a home among the stars.

Our two ships were both a great O’Neill Cylinder, a spacious rotating cylinder with enough room for a thousand NYC, LA, Paris, Rome and Babylon’s packed inside and with room to spare. We lived on the inside of the cylinder and our inverted sky was lit by the metropolises we prided ourselves on.

We joined in bands and tribes of like-minded open-minded people bound only by love. Perpetual youth, perfect bodies, endless time and the hormones to fill it. And fill it we did. The first ship was the more hedonistic. They loved any they pleased. But the second had committed relationships of every kind, Gay, Lesbian, Trans and things presently unimagined.

We slipped the surly bonds of Earth, and of the Sun. We ventured beyond the Milky Way, and Andromeda galaxies and then out of the Local Group. Further we left the Virgo Supercluster of galaxies. And then the larger Laniakea Supercluster. We crossed vast stretches of space, great galaxies and enormous voids. We saw black holes, and super red giants. White dwarfs and blue supergiants.

That is the first thing you learn about navigating the stars. It is rarely where you are at that is the problem. It is where you are headed.

Tachyon field collapse means distance is easy. Too easy. A billion light years in a matter of a day. And we spent years in travel. But finding your way back can be tricky, if not impossible. Not that we cared.

The other thing is,

We did not understand, that if sex is the most important thing, the greatest good, that that leads to some dark places. If pleasure is what is important, a great many other things are not. A lake that only receives but never sacrifices its own water, quickly becomes a dead sea.

We did not so much underestimate our sins, as we did their consequences. The problem was not so much our sins themselves. It was the direction they set us on.

“a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare… Immortal horrors”

Write as a chiasmus, lost in space, lost morally

I once read that we were eggs. And that we must hatch or go bad. We truly had no conception of what bad meant.

Isaiah ch. 52:13-15

https://knowhy.bookofmormoncentral.org/knowhy/who-is-the-servant-spoken-of-by-christ

Times and Seasons 5:635 identifies the servant as Joseph Smith

Unity of Authorship of Isaiah

Hebrew authors balance the number of blessing and cursings, so that there are equal numbers of both. Half the book of Isaiah (1-39) is primarily curses and condemnations while (40-66) is blessings and comfort. This is not proof of different authorship, but a single author giving different sections different stylistic choices.

Likewise, the practice of temporal/spiritual chiasmi and temporal/spiritual/synthesis chiasmi is something that both happens throughout the text, and divides the text itself into three sections, sometimes  attributed to different authors, misses the point of the structural arrangement.

See Donald W. Parry, “The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa)—Catalogue of Textual Variants,” in “To Seek the Law of the Lord”: Essays in Honor of John W. Welch, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson and Daniel C. Peterson (Orem, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, 2017), 247–65. Further information at https://interpreterfoundation.org/books/to-seek-the-law-of-the-lord-essays-in-honor-of-john-w-welch-2/.]

“A Mystery to the World”: A New Proposal for Isaiah 22:20-25

On reading Isaiah as Latter-day Saints

Social media careerism is the worse kind of careerism.

The path of ascent and desire is spiritually dangerous.  Nonetheless, if there is anything virtuous, lovely, of good report, or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.

Many years ago I had a dream.  I suppose I must have read Folk of the Fringe at the time.

In the dream Deseret was an Empire in the inner mountain west.  It was a vaguely post apocalyptic setting.  At least, there was no hint that anything else existed besides us fading off into wastelands and wilderness.

The empire was pretty loose but it did use access to temple rites as a means of keeping the periphery tied in.  A hydraulic despotism but with living water.

When Moses gathered his people together at the edge of the promised land, he was astounded by their numbers.

The Lord your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

-Deut. 1:10.

His reaction?  More!

(The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)

-Deut. 1:11.

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As happens from generation to generation, a child was born with all of the physical markers that characterized a Child of Destiny.  The child would grow with the extraordinary gifts that would allow it to drive out the dark and corruption that had snuck in since the last Child.  Just like in every tale, there would be quests, prophecies, and strange daring adventures! The child would be able to change the world and usher in a transformed era of creation, innocence, and growth.

The child’s parents promptly bought it destiny-neutral clothing toys and books so that it would not be biased in favor of becoming a world changing hero.

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I found this very intriguing sampling of the Overfitted Brain Hypothesis for why we dream.

In effect, the hypothesis is that dreams are supposed to prevent us from being too overly adapted to our specific waking workaday world.

The “overfitting” is by analogy to machine learning.  When an AI is being trained on a training data set, one danger is “overfitting”–the algorithm might get so good at parsing the training data set that it can’t handle the actual new data it was meant for.

This is a secular hypothesis, but it caught my eye because it fits with my own speculation about why mortality includes sleeping.  I think that God may have given us sleep as a way of interrupting our mortal experience so we don’t get stuck in a rut–so we get lots and lots of bites at the apple, as it were.  In other words, the scriptural wisdom of “sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof” or the consolatory folk wisdom of “tomorrow is another day.”

Ditto our hypothesis about why mortality is so richly complicated.  A straightforward test of one’s agency could probably be much simpler than this.  But all this immense variety keeps us from limiting ourselves.  God wants us to be good and great, not good and reduced.

Yet ofttimes a secret something whispered, “you are a stranger here.”  It whispered, “this is just a training data set.  Don’t overadapt.”

I believe our taste for novelty and adventure is at bottom our subconscious awareness that we are really much bigger than this.

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The corruptions of bullying are too well known to all of use from media and personal experience to need elaborating.  Yet bullying as we know it seems first to be a product of the grade-segregated public schools, which many have suggested have highly artificial social characteristics, and second to be a product of social media, which we also know well to be unnaturally distorted social environments.

Is bullying merely a product of damaged environments as with hens in too confined spaces?  Or is there a natural form of bullying that potentially has a genuine social role?  The second option, as foreign as it is to our own experience and preconception, deserves consideration.

History has too many examples of of hostility to outsiders to excite our wonder, and when bullying is just hostility to outsiders it would not be unusual.  More interesting is bullying within the group. Bullying within the group could sometimes be a competition for resources internally, just as bullying outside the group can probably be explained as driven at some psychological level as a competition for resources.  Within the group, the competition could be directly over actual resources or over social status.

Against that form of bullying we can contrast bullying that is meant to strengthen the group.  Let us continue to call it bullying though a better term should exist.  In conditions of competition, a weak member of the group weakens the group.   Bullying would then either strengthen the group in a ruthless way by driving the weak member out or strengthen the group in a positive way by spurring the weak member on to self improvement.  Historically Anglo literature had a trope where eventually the bullied person turns on the bully and either earns either the respect of the bully himself or of the larger group of whom the bully is a lower-status member.  This trope appears to be a form of group-strengthening bullying.

This illustration comes from the book Farmer Boy, where the teacher has to prove himself against bullies.

What does it mean to take responsibility for your own learning? Look for possible answers in Elder Bednar’s statement and in the following scriptures: John 7:17; 1 Thessalonians 5:21; James 1:5–6, 22; 2:17; 1 Nephi 10:17–19; 2 Nephi 4:15; Alma 32:27; and Doctrine and Covenants 18:18; 58:26–28; 88:118. What do you feel inspired to do to be more active in learning the gospel?

–Come Follow Me manual.

We had our best family scripture study of the year yesterday (haha, but also the best family scripture study of the last 365 days).  It was wide ranging, heartfelt, had contributions from everyone, and had the presence of the Holy Ghost.

One thing that impressed me was 2 Nephi 4:15, from the section above.

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I reckon them Jareedites and mebbe that feller Nephi too were typos and shadders for space explorashun.