Quantum Future?

 I would like to invite you to stop and try to imagine what life on Earth might be like if Science had actually fulfilled its mandate of explaining our reality, solving the problems of humanity, and teaching us how to best interact with our world and each other. If science was – today - actually a free exploration of Nature and drawing accurate conclusions, creating theories, testing those theories with no hidden agendas, what might it have accomplished up to now? Can you do it? Can you think of any area of life that could not be improved by having a truly scientific understanding and clearly described response that was supported and implemented by the social/power structure to the benefit of all of humanity, not just the enrichment of a few?

Oh, you think it has been done? Think again. Read the history of science and human social development. When you see how repeatedly the few individuals who had the right idea were marginalized and/or destroyed, if you have any firing neurons after being born into a humanity which has been genetically manipulated to less intelligence, you will immediately realize that the same conditions - only worse - prevail today: what the mainstream follows is almost always what is politically expedient to those in power, with only enough truth involved to patch over the obvious tears in the now disintegrating fabric of the mask of science.

If a true, free, intelligent science, supported and encouraged by all of society, had actually been the norm since its inception, not the exception, we would live in a world where our very existence was not a shame to the planet that gave us birth. We would have free, clean energy. We would not have a vast majority of human beings living in poverty or starving. We would have no over-population problems. Health issues that dominate Western society and are bringing it to its knees would not be a problem because there would be plenty of nourishing food for all. There would be no wars because scientific anthropology and social psychology would have figured out what is the best of all possible forms of social structure that allows for the widest expression of human types to flourish in harmony. Children would not be being medicated at ever younger ages because cognitive science would have established what is the best way to rear and educate them and couples would be able to attend classes on infant care and parenting that were actually effective. The best forms of education would be known so that the widest variety of options would be available to the varied human types and levels of intelligence and skill so that each individual would progress into a life of satisfaction doing what they really enjoy and which they are best at doing, and society would benefit by not wasting its most precious resource: human beings. Consciousness - and non-material spirit - would be understood and the proper reverence for Nature and the Cosmos would be a natural part of the lives of all and the well-known religious feelings in human beings would be directed toward compassion and empathy, not used by manipulative leaders to incite anger and aggression and death. In short, humankind would know how to live in harmony not only with each other, but with the world in which they are born.

Harmony

All of this COULD be the conditions of a world where true Science is a valued part of society. It could have been our world.

But that isn't what we have today. What we have today is the Chaos produced by pathological individuals that induces Consent from the Authoritarian Followers. As I noted above, Science took a wrong turn when it was co-opted by Power and diverted to the purposes of Imperialism and materialistic greed.

The really sad thing is that the authoritarian followers who 'believe in authority' could as easily follow an authority that actually does have their best interests at heart were such an authority to exist. I don't think it does anymore: the psychopaths have seen to that, co-opting and corrupting even science, to the core. As it is, the authoritarian sheep follow and support the very worst of humanity; pathological individuals who gain power by deception and manipulation. And in the end, as psychologist, Andrew Lobaczewski wrote:

Germs are not aware that they will be burned alive or buried deep in the ground along with the human body whose death they are causing.

A. Lobaczewski, “Political Ponerology: A Science of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes.”

The moment that Darwin published his Origin of Species in the nineteenth century, an event that marked the culmination of a gradual shift in society from being dominated by religion to what was called 'rational thinking' and science, the Authoritarians knew they had their Theory of Everything: Random processes of matter, no consciousness needed.

So, it has been the steady application of materialistic evolutionary thinking that is behind the explanation of the order of the universe that prevails today which underpins the chaos and disorder we see in a world devoid of information and organization. There are, undoubtedly, psychopaths in the woodpile here acting as the éminence grise behind science  - the thing that controls most of our social constructs and institutions - because we certainly can't say that all scientists, or even most of them, are psychopathic. The profession itself excludes most psychopaths by virtue of the requirement for superior intellect. However, it can certainly include a great many members that are authoritarian in personality type.

Looking back at the history - more particularly, the archaeology - we notice how much like the Roman Empire our present civilization actually is. The Romans were certainly rational and scientific in many respects. They had factories that produced tableware that has been found at the farthest reaches of the empire even in peasant homes. They had factories that manufactured roof tiles that covered the heads of even the poorest workers and their livestock. A cache of letters was found in Northern Britain where soldiers wrote home to have socks sent to them which were, apparently, mass produced. The Roman army was superior because it had standardized equipment, produced in mass quantities at factories located in hubs of the empire. Grain, olives, oil, foodstuffs of all kinds, luxury goods, were mass produced and distributed throughout the Roman world. Literacy was obviously very widespread, even to the working classes. There were roads, sanitation systems, haut cuisine; in short, everything that we take for granted as essential to civilization. The only difference seems to be that we have harnessed sources of power that the Romans did not have which enables our civilization to aspire to globalization. But in almost every other way, we are exactly like them. It is only science that has made us bigger and badder, so to say. And, as the saying goes, the bigger they are, the harder they fall. That fall may be the extinction of the human race.

The end of the Roman Empire witnessed horrors and dislocation of a kind I sincerely hope never to have to live through; and it destroyed a complex civilization, throwing the inhabitants of the West back to a standard of living typical of prehistoric times. Romans before the fall were as certain as we are today that their world would continue forever, substantially unchanged. They were wrong. We would be wise not to repeat their complacency. (Ward-Perkins, 2005)

 What was done to Science might spell the Doom of the Human Race.

Instead of doom, let us conceive of a Quantum Future for humanity where peace and prosperity are made available to all mankind through the practice of True Science: the Hope of Humanity.

Parabolic quantum fractal. This is my first animation of one of my quantum fractals. 100 mln of points produced using "Chaos game" for 24 Mobius transformations Number crunching with Gfortran.

P.S.1 I dedicate this beautiful song  to my wife. She likes it:

Crystal Gayle - When I dream - Lyrics

P.S.2. 12:40 . New version of my notes on the conformal group. The last part (now Sec. 8.2) is continuously being changed - until I am satisfied. I am writing an rewriting it. Again and again...

P.S.3. 07-07-23 13:56

Help the poor while the poor are with thee; but study also & strive that there may be no poor for thy assistance.

Sri Aurobindo

P.S.4. 15:12 Success! 

Finished the paragraph on null geodesics in general relativity. Derived Proposition 9. Another take on this subject can be found here. 
Now back to the the projective null cone in 6D - our 4D compact Universe.  We are now ready to study the light paths there - including their path through the conformal infinity cap.  Coming next:

Sheaf of totally isotropic planes

P.S.5. 08-07-23 8:15 I do not understand. Need to sort all this in my head

P.S.6. 9:31 

Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice always, but for the sake of God and humanity, not for the sake of sacrifice.

Sri Aurobindo

Dark Ages and Inquisitions

 Here I would like to present a summary of some things that my wife has written on the topic; she has a much clearer and complete picture of the history than I do. She spends all her time researching it, while I spend most of my time doing equations. We actively collaborate with each other: she looks at history as a quantum system writ very large, thanks to my input; I learn a great deal about science, and possible clues to where solutions may be hidden thanks to her input.

Science took a serious wrong turn in the middle of the nineteenth century, about the time Darwin published his Origin of Species and that is why we do, indeed, live in a Dark Age as a consequence. It wasn't that Natural Selection was wrong, per se, but the way the principles have been applied has been disastrous. Natural Selection was seized upon as the one and only underlying law of the Universe - and this seizing was done by individuals with a very particular psychological make-up¹ … The same kinds of people that become fanatically religious and kill people in the name of their god, can - and often do - become adherents of the religion of science.

In the nineteenth century, certain discoveries that enhanced technology led to economic and political considerations, and that is when Science took the wrong turn because the Authoritarian type of individual also has other character traits that include a need to dominate others, as well as a strong tendency to greed. The pursuit of science thus was taken over by politics and an army of scientific workers was sought to serve the agendas of what was to become known as the Military-Industrial Complex.

We know from our review above that the authoritarian follower is quite capable of holding entirely contradictory beliefs. And this is how they are easily controlled by those in positions of power who desire that Science serve only their interests. Over and over again it is seen, in retrospect, of course, that irrational beliefs that are promulgated by authorities who desire to maintain control, and which are believed by the followers who want to be 'good', trump True Science; and here I mean the mode of Scientific Cognition, not just 'science' since the so-called Enlightenment.

Over and over again, throughout history, going back even to ancient times, you can note that there were a number of really intelligent free thinkers who made observations, drew useful inferences from those observations, and suggested solutions that were ignored, ridiculed, reviled, buried; and often, the thinker who dared to voice his ideas was destroyed by one means or another because Authoritarian Followers are also aggressive against anything that is not pronounced to be 'okay' by their leaders. Most often this destruction was - and is even today - due to power considerations: the individual has an idea that, in some way, threatens the political/social power structure.

The fact is, if you read enough history, you will discover that in war, killing the intelligentsia first is the aim of all invaders and conquerors because it is through the elimination or suppression of competent thinkers that any oppressive regime takes hold. This has been done so regularly and extensively throughout history that it staggers the mind to consider it. What it means, essentially, is that over and over and over again, Authoritarians have systematically eliminated from the human population, the best and brightest minds, removing their DNA from the human gene pool, and it is ALL of humanity that is suffering. It could very well be that this single strategy is the reason that humanity may be on the verge of extinction right now, as is proposed by a number of eminent thinkers.

The Malthusian Darwinists, of course, will say that it is just 'survival of the fittest'. I guess that depends on what you understand the 'fittest' to be. In the animal kingdom, where fitness is measured by strength and power, the ability to wallop the heck out of all rivals to your possession of food and sexual partners, selection of this type might be useful. But in the human species, where fitness and progress and even survival, depend on brain power, killing off all the brainiest people in any given culture can only lead to degradation and devolution of the species as a whole. And when that species holds in its hands the ability to destroy all life on the planet, well, I think you can see where that kind of selection will lead: a lot of power and not enough brains to know that it ought never to be used.

1To quote from “The Cambrige Companion to Darwin”: “… only in Germany would Darwin come to be widely read as vindicating an active programme of extermination of the physically and racially ‘unfit’”

And as today is the anniversary of our first meeting, here is the song that brought us together. I dedicate it to my wife.

P.S.1.

 

The Yoga of Works is perhaps the first and most important aspect of yoga for seekers in the West to take up. It deals with the problem of life-- energy, action and direction, which confronts us all whenever we try to integrate our spiritual aspirations with the daily life around us and the need to ""work"" in the society and play a role in the vast undertakings of the Western world.

Those who are deficient in the free, full and intelligent observation of a self-imposed law, must be placed in subjection to the will of others. This is one principal cause of the subjection of nations. After their disturbing egoism has been trampled under the feet of a master, they are given or, if they have force in them, attain a fresh chance of deserving liberty by liberty.

Sri Aurobindo

P.S.4. 17:42 . New version of my notes on the conformal group.  Added Proposition 7 with a proof.

P.S.2 17:49  July 4th: