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News or propaganda? /

It is a fine line traversed with care and great diligence not to cross by news people and the media to retain news News and propaganda what is. Even with care and all the effort paid to be and make the news objective, deep held partisan feelings often creep up often to render it more of a partisan propaganda than it is a news only to be rescued by a corroborative second and more reports. However divergent or opposing an interpretation of the news event, the events objective reality is maintained by a second and more corroborative accounts. The new as it serves both the newsmaker and news consumer it is imperative on both the news maker and the news consumer to impose a culture of objectivity and diversity of an interpretation by demanding from and giving to multiplicity of sources. A news media and report that claims exclusivity of a source and a newsmaker that only tells its story to an exclusive media out let and news reporter has their relationship made not as a newsmaker and reporter rather as an organ and a subservient and the reports questionable if not dismissible. I am prompted to jot this note by a relationship I found increasingly disturbing and may be worth examining in light of what is going on around the world. It was not long time ago that Algezira was proclaimed a phenomenon particularly in the Arab world rightfully so; It was believed it is going to give and it has given voice to the great descent that existed in the region and group of people who might have been misunderstood or even might have been mistreated. Often time and again due to in experience or too lopsided partisan allegiances they have turned themselves in to the mouse piece of the Arab underground and out of mainstream, by being the exclusive media outlet for the region’s outcasts and having the exclusive privilege of access to the group. It is widely known and understood that the news media and news reporters have the oath of profession to guard the privacy and security of their sources against a government or any other power that might jeopardize their safety. This is so for the purpose and sake of news’s objectivity, which serves both the newsmaker and consumer. Instead of making this global journalistic culture it’s imperative Algezira seems to have opted for a lesser partisan allegiance, which makes me skeptical or even dismissive of their report a feel many serious people would do likewise and have done.

Comments and suggestions are well come as long as they are civil and are not obscene.

cybernat@cybernatian.biz

Plagued By the Answers:

Often times we are caught up with greater and more questions in our efforts to answer questions of a sort or another or simply open up a door for an avalanche of questions to follow. Since it has always been the way of nature that in our examination of it in and in part of our growth and development, our answers to anything and everything has always been partial and incomplete or totally wrong, leaving us with the next set of efforts and trials to correct, to refine and to complete what we have done, began and are doing. Thus in my efforts or any one’s great trials and endeavors, I take no offense, but great pride and gratitude for having gone as far as they and I went and tried. It is incumbent upon me I thought, that I ask the next set of questions as I am entertained by a set of answers from those who had invested their time and energy in to answering and uncovering, the mysteries of our world and everything around us and in us. It is with these line of thought that I approach and ask of the questions that are to follow as I read Dr. Lawrence M. Krauss’s answers to Scientific American magazine of August issue. I shall make it clear and so vividly from the outset that I make no claim of authority on the subject matter, but just a layman’s puzzlement by some of his answers. As interesting, thought provoking, and entertaining as most of his answers and conjectures were to the questions raised, he, I though, was not short of making some over simplified statements that begged explanations and plagued my mind in the search for answers in the jungles of theories and ideas. In his statement about string and loop quantum gravity theories “ Both this theories are based on the idea that you can’t go down to zero in a point particle, and that’s one way to get rid of mathematical infinities.” It seems to me the concepts of zero are incompatible with reality of material existence. It is rather the essence of it than the reality of it which is none existence (the existence of none existence if you may wish to call it) that by definition is a reality beyond reach in time and in distance again which calls for the reality of infinity and asymptotes. This are not scapegoats as the Dr. seems to suggest, but realities that cannot be done away with both in mathematics and physics even it Cripps in other none scientific field as one wishes to make use of them. It is not the concept of, the existence and the none existence of zero and infinity, I wanted to discuss here, rather the suggestion that they are made scapegoats for an explanation and none explanation of a theory that seemed to me a little off line and somewhat un scientific and make my puzzlement even more. I have read a number of articles, news exposes recently, and it has even become fashionable to talk about layered Universe.  I myself I was one who had fallen for that theory early on. It is the increased number of paradigms that we find matter in that seems to justify the concept of multiple Universe in a lopsided logic that undermine the concept of the Universe as we know it and as defined, has left nothing that is not it, on it and in it. It was, as we know it, an all-encompassing entity. I wondered what we will be calling the set of all the parallel universes, and if matter’s existence in multiplicity of paradigms will warrant the multiplicity of universes? I for one have rescinded my earlier held thought about the parallel Universes. As much as I applauded his stance on religion in public schools, I found it somewhat troubling that he opposition to them being thought as science. He does not stop there but goes on to define the difference between what is science and what is not; it is with that part of his explanation that I really get a plague, a plague he may help me get rid of. “In science we prove things by empirical methods, and we toss out things that have been disproved as wrong. Period. This how we make progress.” I am afraid that statement does not fairly speak either about science or none science. What is conclusively proved wrong is always tossed out be it science or none, as to the method of proof of either science or non-science are relegated to empirical methods that is why I think we had the discussion about spring theory and loop quantum gravity theories. Mathematical and common logic are as much a part of scientific methods as they are a methods of none scientific fields. There were, are and there will always be times where science could not do all its works by empirical methods and non-science fields as well been, are and will to some extent borrow upon empirical methods of solving their problems dispelling the popular myth and them that the knowledge and methods of science are totally different from and totally incompatible with non-science. Human knowledge in its totality is compounded serving ultimately the same purpose; and generated and accumulated science in the per suet of non-scientific endeavors and non-scientific knowledge in the per suet of none science, opposed in methodology and approach, yet both in the greater service of human fulfillment. With due respect to Dr. Krauss opinion, it is rather clear it seems and feels that, neither science nor non-science has the monopoly of the truth, at least not thus far and not in the foreseeable future. If that has been true that one has the total monopoly of the truth, we wouldn’t be having all the controversies and struggles for hegemony, notwithstanding the fact that the truth about the ultimate and the most fundamental is still in contest, it would have been, I thought, ill advised to have come up with the criticism of non-creationist’s philanthropy of helping creationist education, like that of Bill and Melinda Gates, for it would give an impression of not only of prioritizing of one’s own ways and beliefs, it as well comes across as non- academic by not putting the search for the truth the priority. The truth about everything as with everyone and everywhere, we individually or as a group do and are capable of knowing only part of the whole and partial truth. Last if we open our ears, eyes and mind, evolution becomes 7 days of creation stretched to 7 billion years of evolution, and creation becomes 7billion years of evolution compressed to 7 days of creation, all but from the elements of earth.

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BIZZAR

It is unbelievably bizarre to find oneself in the mist o organized gangsters in the name Christianity Islam or Judaism Hinduism Atheisms right here in the USA today and as we stand. I mean no offense to all the “isms” in whose names are great works done every minute, every second, day, month and year, but it is about those who have surpassed their limitations in an utter disregard for the individual liberty, individual rights and privacy. It is even more bizarre to seek police protection, cry for help and all you get is a verbal equivalent of no less than the abuses you suffer under the some organized group of tugs. I suppose it is the duty and a responsibility that the public entrusted to them and a privilege they vowed to honor when they became police officers to see to it that no crime occurs anywhere, to any one and at any time. I find it troubling to find out that the police would turn to be not only dismissive, but also outright hostile to one's reporting of a criminal act. To many people's surprise I am not only tired off reporting acts of unbelievable proportion of criminality I am left between the choices of turning a vigilante and a refugee. As much as both choices seem crazy, it is rather intentionally made to make it feel that both are choices of a crazy person. I wonder how many lives are lost and how many are endangered  by the make them crazy for the stupid horror movies of Stephen king’s creepy slimy mumbo jumbo that often are associated with it and the effort to enact them on some unsuspecting individuals of below average or average intellectual merits like myself. The Hollywood on the villages and local precincts by local unsuspecting actors and intellectually superior directors and crew has turned these societies and communities in to Oliver Twist’s animal farm or the National zoo and the Zoo keepers. Are some of our Law enforcement agencies and individual’s part to these? If nothing more I can at least complain of their guilt by complacency in light of the violations of the individual civil, privacy and property rights. I for one and many others alike would not like to take any of the roles of the actors as indicated.  For everyone else there is what is called plausible deniability for they have both the modern gadgets and the means to make it be and not be at the same time. Except for the likes of me, we know our limitations and if not we are made to know it. Unless of course one is associated with one or another of the known organized. Often will you know that Individuality and individual rights is a tasty sugar pill that will dissolve and dilute in the organized practical world of even of the Great USA as much as it ought have been sanctified and enshrined by the great constitution. These stupidity or quasi stupidity of the super intelligent as they portray themselves, is giving me the heart burn and the remedy seems to be found only in the naiveté of the stupid and I have become the worshiper of the wisdom of stupidity than the stupidity of the "wise.” Even with choice of no choice I have imposed on myself, the viciousness and relentless killing instinct of the stupidity of the wise seems to sharpen its teeth and enlarge its bite as the day progresses. It is like a winner cow that will not stop its per suet of its victim till it is absolutely sure of the vanquished never return, may be because it is not so sure of its win the next time around or simply it fights so rarely that it has no confidence that it will ever win again. Funny enough every time is the first time for it and acts no differently. Enlightenment should have the confidence I thought to win over ignorance and maintain its win, but my experience tells me otherwise and it is very unfortunate. One will have no better thing to do than admitting to a defeat to buy peace. O! How foolish and naïve I have been in not knowing that there can be nothing more that engenders ignorance than enlightenment itself with the arrogant belligerence that ensues along with it, never mind the sheer arrogance and superman like invincibility syndrome that often afflicts one during a time of win. It is often possible to sober out of every other intoxication, but a win added to power and means intoxicates way past soberness to the point of death. May be it was not to test any of it or enter in to a contest at all that might have guaranteed the peace, but if it could only be possible to buy or somehow possible to get or get to past times in place. The enlightenment that fails to liberate the other is not free itself nor is it enlightenment at all, thus, I willfully and consciously embrace the wisdom and liberty of ignorance than the tyrannical self-serving self-righteousness of enlightenment. If it is a choice! That too is a choice that infringes on nobody else’s property, privacy and other rights, and I demand it be respected.

Comments and suggestions are well come as long as they are civil and are not obscene.

cybernat@cybernatian.biz

 Literary flares

If anything history witnesses to the fact that when time is segmented in two centuries, decades, years, months and weeks it is often tagged with descriptive adjective that is particularly expository of the most notable accomplishments of the period in question. Often a phrase or word either crepes up from obscurity or a new one is coined to particularly fit and describe in audacious and vivid forms what is to be highlighted of the time segment. “Literary flares” was one phrase that one phrase that was at the tip of every person notable at many television notable syndicated shows in tribute may be to some literary candle that burn itself to give some illumination to the literary penumbra that we have come to cress-cross in our daily written and spoken language. I would have cared much if the truth about the subject matter was as glittery as the celebrated literary masterpiece produced, yet I have come out to celebrate the beauty of the language and rectify the truth to mach it, for it is often the elegance and refined beauty of the language that is a turn on to search for the truth than it is the contrary. The truth shall set you free, yet a beautiful literature is an enticement to walk the long walk in the trails of jungles of the written world in the search for the truth. To stretch the imaginations of the readers and take them to the stretched horizons of his work may be in order from any of the literary candles, yet if their light surpasses them it should understood that they wouldn’t have traveled at the speed of the light they helped to generate but others after them will walk the illuminated path. It has been that way since the times, Homer, Socrates and the rest of them all notables of the past and present, many has walked the path they help illuminate to get to the truth and untruth of their literary masterpieces, even to get to the untruth it took an enticement of a literary beauty. However far from the truth and however unrealistic an event and a reality it was, that generated such a response, it has generated an admiration and an acknowledgement of mastery of a language and capability of producing a respectable literary work in the very opposition and rejection that put the word “literary flares” in the mouth and on tip of the tongue of everyone who rose to speak about it. It may not have been science but thanks it sure is an art and as such it has achieved what so many could only dream, it has generated a criticism and an acknowledgement.

Comments and suggestions are well come so long as they are civil and are not

Obscene.

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Whose definition of what?

In the grand relativistic world of ours, everything is what it is relative to a reference point, condition and time; as such everything is in a dynamic state of change of its relative reference according to its own newly acquired relative position. If there exists any permanence it is the permanence of change itself against all drag and resistance that often works to resist change in any form, content and direction. Grand moments of human experience create grand fixation in the memories of great number of people that it remains the grand reference point regardless of the great strides made and great relativistic positional changes, because a grand moment held with great esteem for a long time tends to becomes a tradition and a culture than a rational principled position. A culture and a tradition is to be followed, adhered to and practiced by the generations of the offspring’s of the initial practitioners of the belief and experience of the grandiose moment. Some of us care to reason out and rationalize the meaning, symbolisms, essence and content of the observance and the practice and participate in love and in reverence to what it is and it stand for while an equal part of us careless for what it really is and for what it stands for, but do it any way for that is how it has been done by generations before us and we belong to that tradition and class of people. As traditions are fixated in our calendar, they get fixated in our biological clocks and get programmed In to our genetic makeup, after all what is in our genes is what is in the environment we are exposed to for a considerable time. I wonder though if what is programmed in our genes is always the rational thing with all the genetic engineering that goes on in the great labs of this nation and many others to remedy the runaway genes in us and the rest us living things. In restraining myself not to go amok, I shall limit myself to tradition not science otherwise I would have accomplished nothing, but grab and let it go off everything there is to grab that would have me as very untraditional. Traditions are stronger than reason and rational they persist even when the rational and conventional wisdom dictates otherwise because they tend to be part of once identity, a birthmark of a sort that can’t be washed away. Often for going against it or break away there is a price and a debt to be paid in kind and other forms that the gravitational pull keeps one in orbit. It is in adherence to tradition and cycles of recurrence some traditionalists and some not so traditionalists flock to a city to dethrone and enthrone, to condemn and adulate, if nothing else by their intent and wish what has been, what is and what is to come in a self assured boisterousness and confident audacity. Even in the absence of refreshments, the very presence of those who have gone the path and made success stories and those that are to follow in their footsteps and the exchanges of the formers experience with the aspirations of the latter is so intoxicating that most are elated to point of hysteria with emotional out pouring of love and commitment to a cause and a course of action to maintain the tradition and take it even to the next generation and the generation after. It would be more than safe to conclude that by in large the participants are following in the footsteps of their adoring parents and they in turn intend to pass the tradition and the truth as defined by the tradition to their adorable little ones, as that is what every tradition calls for. Will the little once leave the tradition when they grow up to take the banner? Only with a debt and a price to pay!!! For a distance, and me I have observed and continue to observe the spectacle from afar from where and when one could see its beauty and its shortcomings UN obscured by emotions of belonging. Even if I wanted to belong I could hardly crack the glass ceiling with 5 ft 6” height in a place where 6ft 8” and 9”s roam. Some and most of the answers to the questions I started out have been answered and I seem to have found by whose definition of what the world revolves counterclockwise and clockwise. It seems to spin as they spin it and it sure spun counterclockwise last night and only the truth remained stationary and in its original and permanent position. I have come to realize that politics is about the make belief, the masterful illusion, and the beauty of delivery than the dry narration of numerical, historical, statistical, political, and diplomatic or any fact anything to do with politics. I have seen some meander around all the afore mentioned facts with smoothness of a tone, beauty of linguistic art and mastery of oratory without bumping in to any curve of resistance or opposition to sheepishly lead the flock to the point and destination they have long determined they ought go. As all is readied and prepared to enhance the make belief and illusion of the master illusionist in an effort to shift the truth to a point and position of desired co-ordinate, so it will and it might have “ as the way you look at the truth changes so will the truth.“ So by their definition of what who and where we have been conned by some as it ought to have been and we remained unmoved by others in spite of their hard tried efforts.

In a great tradition unheard in most countries the world over the acceptance and the reverence to the verdict of the ballot box was exhibited by the willingness of the vanquished to secede claims and endorse the winner and the winner’s willingness to accommodate the legitimate concerns raised and reiterated by those who lost. This American tradition to let the winner take all and accommodate and inculcate the issues of all the rivals and opponents on one side of the great divide have maintained above anything else the dual party system to the abetment of the formation of ineffective coalition governments that often break before their term is up. It is not, I feel, to be far from the truth to assume and assert that the dual party system and the stability and effectiveness in governance stems from the flexibility and malleability instilled in the two party system to be susceptible and embrace a wide range and spectrum of variant socio economic outlooks and interests un heard of anywhere else in the world. This attests to the fact that whether we move west ward or east ward whether we rotate clockwise or anti clockwise to get to a point established in a spherical universe there are but two and only two opposed ways and the 3^rd and forth or any other could not at least be the shortest paths and indeed we live in and on a spherical universe. The acceptance of the trophy of winning and cessation of it at a defeat with humility and knowledge of the availability and chance of a next time around makes both a defeat and a win so much of a sweet and sour event. In general and in conclusion these are the lessons I learned and these are the lessons I teach about this quadrennial event of the great American tradition.

cybernat@cybernatian.biz

What went wrong? &where are we headed? 

Since the beginning the formation of the modern national state and for some and for other since the beginning human social activity and social division of labor, nations and national states have been building and forming social institutions and mechanisms by which they co-ordinate, plan and execute their inter and intra national activities and interests that transcended generations and consecutive political governments that were and are subservient to varied ideological outlooks and forms in formal and informal ways. Partly or in most cases by far the biggest problem that plagues some of the most problem nations in the world seems to steam from the fact that at one point or another all and every remnants of their past social and political institutions have been destroyed by either a political turmoil social upheaval or foreign intervention and occupation. In any modern or semi-modern society however crude there are semblances and real differences between the government at any time and the rest of the social institutions and the bureaucracy the latter being subservient to the former. This relationship has been proved time and again by many governments that come and went on the scenes of political arenas of many of both the advanced worlds and developing countries. The institutions of social governance, political rule and social security and welfare are not things that could be manufactured with a specification, custom or otherwise they are rather works of years of deliberate design and evolutionary and incremental growth. Overwhelmingly today and in the yester years the difference with those countries and nation states that were spared of such disastrous destruction and the rest in managing and moving their society forward is and was as clear as a day and night. It would be rather foolish to assume that there is no real or minimal separation of purpose and duty between government and the national institutions of governance and social welfare in any modern and semi-modern nation or nation state and guide an attack or support with something equally punitive, destructive or helpful and supporting of both will have severed a country or nation from itself and the rest of the world. In every nation and nation state the national bureaucracy is both malleable to those who come to power and a grinding and refining machine to them as well that anyone who comes to power as much as he changes it will have been changed and refined at the end. In that it becomes the essence and measure of a nation and the best and the worst face of it. Within these duality lies from the national Ethos, culture, belief, know how, and the binding identity. These of coarse are not things that could be gained or shaped overnight or over decades, but are built over millennia and are custodians of all that is national and of a nation. It shall be born in mind that often all of them or part of them as they often are forced to serve political masters in manners and forms incompatible to all or some of the ideals of their formation and existence. Even when they are mastered and managed top to bottom by those who are at odds with the interest to whom they are endowed to serve they remain indispensable for they are the treads that hold the nation as an entity or the set will crumble to the elements, and often did we witness that. In the examination of the Iraq the much talked about winning the war and losing the peace might have its roots in the inability to have distinguished between the long standing institutions of state government and the government and the party that governed the country? The Iraqi state machine was the same state machine that served the kings and queens if there were any, that predated the Bazz party and its chieftain Saddam Hussein and it would have served who ever came to power after him with some fine tuning and some weeding of none malleable elements form amongst its ranks and files. There are ample examples that that malleability is in abundance among many of the state machines and institutions that were under brutal dictators in spite of the very hard efforts of the dictators to have shaped and filled its ranks with petit images of him or themselves. That being one grand opportunity lost to have weeded out from the top down and maintain a working state machine subservient to the new masters, it did not take long I feel to realize that members of the past state had the knowhow, wisdom and skill that was passed on down from generations before them that is important enough to be recalled in for duty in an effort to sew the past to the future. After all, all the efforts of the present are nothing more than and effort to bringing the past and the future to the present and live it. Every human stride forward to me is a stride to the past and to the future, to the beginning and to the end, a dual directed journey of a sort learning history, making history.

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These are as usual comments and observations of a layman subject to criticism, correction and rejection by those who are learned and non-alike.

cybernat@cybernatian.biz

sep7,2002

It has more than any time in our written and spoken history we are directly confronted with real equivalencies and none equivalencies in none equivalent trends principles and practices in our effort to remedy the ills and short comings that has necessitated the very acts, practices forms and entities that we hold so sacred and intend to protect with our deer life to save our soul and our body. The struggle here is a struggle to preserve continuity. What is held in high esteem and regard no matter how and in how many ways and terms said, is nothing more than continuity itself? The Irony is that continuity has never been a product of continuity or even maintained by it, but by discontinuity. It has always been perpetrated by the mere fact and realty of discontinuity. It was the inability to do away with terminality that imposed on us and everything else the sacred act and ability to initiate. It is it seems that rather this convergence of termination and initiation causes for the big bang in our thought and in what we are accustomed to and have lived with the entire known human and any other living forms history. A truth that have shaped and perpetrated our entire universe of living beings seems under treat by this unlikely convergence of what has otherwise been and believed to be always divergent a process. It is the confusion that has emerged and is emerging out of the ability to prolong a life indefinitely and recycling of what is, independently of the changing conditions and the always forward moving dreadful time and the need of course to renew the genetic pool by the combination and recombination of what is at hand and of what is to be to cop with the changing times and conditions,  and yet still the need to curb and limit the total number as to sufficiently allocate the ever dwindling resources on the third front. These are the balances that cry to be kept and that seems to be offset by the efforts as described in the heading. Every living being and not limited to humans, have thus far reproduced and regenerated it self to cop up with changing times and conditions and resources available to it. The essence of life to any living being is and always been the continuation of its survival and ever survival in its present form or in different, yet the guarantee of its survival has been the ever driving engine of reproduction and self multiplication with mutations when the need arises. Morality is nothing more than the justification for the survival and ever survival of human being and other species as they are and as they will come to be. It is the convergence of how they have known to preserve their survival and how they will continue this tradition, obligation and duty that is at the “X” roads as we discuss cloning stem cell research and morality. None of the afore mentioned process and acquired knowledge negate the other in intent rather are all attempts to better serve or compliment what have ever been true of human, animal and plant reproduction and regeneration except that some have only equated self duplication to self regeneration or self reproduction. It is important to note that the equivalencies are rather discrepancies and big ones too. Self-duplication is too linear to be equated to self-reproduction. In parallel it has been a while now since the merits and demerits of stem cell research has been on the minds of many and most who tried in the past and present to make sense and justification of the ethics of medical and other scientific advances. The issue of stem cell research has been revolving wrongly or rightly around the time of the beginning of life than the beginning the human being. If we were to discuss the beginning of life it is to take us and everything else a long way to an unreachable distance. Yet for our practical, and if we even wish theoretical purposes, life exists in descript forms and time segments. Thus I feel it is rather appropriate to discus when did a human become a human being than discus when did a human being’s life began and start an endless journey of a sort. A human being became human when he break away from his ancestral primate and assumed the rudimentary functions of a modern human being according to the evolutionist theory and a human being became in to existence when Adam was first made by God and let us not forget that Adam was created alone and first according to the scriptures. What is important here is not whether the first human was made of an already existent living creature or whether he was made out of clay for both can’t escape the fact that they ultimately are earthen organic and inorganic materials, but what made him human and different from every other living thing and animal. It is my firm belief that resolving this issue helps pave the way for resolving the dilemma whether stem cells are humans and whether stem cells should enjoy the legal protection of the state and whether doctors should be burdened with the moral dilemma of experimenting with stem cells. It seems rather clear that a human being is so because he has specialized organs the work in coordination with each other, a brain as a coordinating organ and above all a mind, a cognitive ability, a feeling and an emotion that comes about from a joint and combined function and interaction of these specialized organs and parts. Contrary to the scriptures assertion that Adam was created alone the first man a full man, proponents of the preservation of life tend to argue that human life began when an egg and sperm fused or a dipole cell is infused to an inoculated egg. Until such time that the stem cells divide and form the specialized functions and coordinate their function to create an emotional and cognitive ability they remain to me ‘would be humans’, but till then just life forms deserving of may be the protection of any and all life forms, but not of humans. After all that cord, that bind us to life forms is endlessly long if we were in pursuit, it will take us to the egg, the sperm and the proteins, the chromosomes, the genes  and compounds that led to their formation and the food eaten etc. etc. each stage with its own descript form and content in its life. It is there fore important to take in to account the time it assumed its form and content to the time it looses its form and content by virtue of growth, association, assimilation, integration disintegration and decay, it was not what is before then and it will not be what it is after.

It is time again to take a note draw some conclusions and ask questions of what we have heard, seen and witnessed of our political leadership from the right isle as we have don when it was time for the political world and Universe rotated counterclockwise and to the left some time back collectively and individually. We have been presented with choices and the differences of the choices and what brought them about with such mastery of oratory and principled content delivery to the point almost where it made our choices as difficult and hard whether to revolve clockwise or counterclockwise with party of the left or the right, for there was no ill intent on either side as we were able to learn from many distinguished speakers of the week time and again as to what our final product ought be, but differences only in the production methodology. Though we know that both GM and Ford produce cars, one produces Lincolns and the other Cadillacs, it is a choice we can live with and be proud that we have, We more than any time in the past were able to see the fundamental contrasts of the methodologies and beliefs of getting to a point and place in time for a better end product with a more efficient and expedient ways. We were able to witness the motives and intentions of the other party not questioned, but its beliefs and the methodology it employees in its attempt to attain our well being a common objective deeply held at heart. Politics have been refined, fine tuned and polished to clearly reflect the choices and the differences between the choices not empirically as it was customary, but as a formulated unified theory that encompass every venue of political life according to which every stride forward, sideways and back has to be measured against and conformed to. It has been made more than ever that we can hold the theory and the formula and insert the variables and write our elected officials right and wrong on everything one of their move every step of the way from election day to convention day, for they have given us the rules they play by not where they stand on what and when. Suffice it to say that there were and there will be special circumstances that override the formula and the theory, as exceptions and aberrations are part of nature that we all are tolerant of limited deviance from the norm in the interest of accommodation and greater common good. That politics was not the same classical Darwinian game of survival of the fittest in the acknowledgment of the not only of the importance of the opposite, but the intertwining entanglements them for the viability one for the other and the overall intricate thread that bind the different elements of this entity and many others near and far by destiny, essence and purpose. That there is no island of ill or righteous intent anywhere that will remain un affected or without effect on others by its mere reality of existence, actions and deeds, that the age of reason and rational has put a damper on the harsh reality of evolutionary and revolutionary Darwinism by way of human ingenuity discovery and environmental consciousness both to alter it and preserve it. We were able to determine and learn, Yes, like then now again we were conned and spun to the right and clockwise out of which we have become real stable and symmetrical and say we are indeed standing on our two feet, unmovable and unshakable with out our intent and consent. As we are standing on our two feet on issues of war and peace prosperity and freedom both our left and right feet have been hurting over the war in Iraqi the necessity and legitimacy of it at all. As much as we have heard from able and knowledgeable people of the justifications and the counter agreements that ensue, we wondered if all the questions were asked and if all the explanations were given, it could have been asked and it could also have been answered, but since our knowledge is limited as to what has been and hasn’t been asked and answered, we would ask one rhetorical question and conclude this note. Knowing that the Iraqi has been in a state of war since the Gulf war and bombs were falling in the streets of Baghdad periodically in response to the on going defiance of the inhibitions and sanctions imposed on the then dictator, would there be and should there be any doubt at all that in the world of, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” and “the friend of my enemy is my enemy” that enemy you are at war with, will not broadly smile at the offensive the other enemy and would not want to coordinate his efforts with the new friend in action ? Would it have been prudent to disengage from the battle at hand and go on a sporadic chase of the emergent enemy? Or finish up with the job at hand in co-ordination with the new? Or perhaps it would have been better wait till we have seen the inevitable marriage of the two known enemies consummate and act? We have no answers, but question, and question we ask, so we did and we will; only hopping that we will find the answers some where in the archives, soon in some one’s work or in the long run .

Created by Ayele Teklemariam

9/16/2004

. Thus it becomes very important to seek and find an absolute reference point instead of our individual relative positions, though that itself an object of contention and consternation, very much less varied that it helps form larger chunks out of the individuals, sets out of individual elements and grand sets out smaller sub sets, like the pyramids and cones that disperse down wards and build up wards, from the single to the many and from the many to the single, in a bi-directional flow of material, ideas and deeds, forming a truly representative democracy and transparent one, Centralized and democratic, and democratic and centralized. If in any case, it is centralized and not democratic, it forms no cone or pyramid and there fore it is fragile. If it is democratic and not centralized, it forms no cone or pyramid there fore not stable again. Particularly the obsession with the pyramid both in the ancients and relative recent past ancestors could have been both in the stability of the structure and the symbolism it gave to centralism and democracy. From many to one and from one to many, from the infinitely small and simple (infinite singularity & simplicity) to the infinitely large and complex. (Infinite complexity and multiplicity) and vise versa. From the appearance out of smallness of nowhere to the disappearance in to the vastness of everywhere such is the tip and such is the base of a pyramid, a diamond and a cone, unshakeable and un moveable, That is very much in line with the emergence growth and final disintegration of the universal matter as observed in the four common and other paradigms, may be this synchrony has by enlarge to do with stability realized by these structures or may it is simply what mimics nature as it emerged and as it will self destruct. I leave it to any and everyone’s imagination and intuition to figure out and see how the same structure have been very much applied in politics, sports, economics, business and money other organizations and institutions to create stability and strength, centralism and democracy

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“The shortest path to the heart is through the stomach”.

Created by

Ayele Teklemariam

9/17/2004

Many have tried to approach it through the head and often had little or no success; unlike many it was too late a realization for me, but a realization important enough to take a note and a notice nonetheless. I was naïve enough not to have known that the energy that drives both the head and the heart has to be first and foremost fed in to the stomach and off course the lubricants that oil the joints for a smooth movement as a by product wouldn’t have come from any other source. One might as well call it the gateway to the heart, mind and body. Thus over the years what has gone in through the stomach has swayed thoughts changed minds and smoothened movements and even made friends out of enemies and enemies out of friends. The rich and the rich, the poor and the poor, the rich and the poor often dined and wined literally and figuratively together to find compromise and accommodation and smoothen the tensions between and amongst them. What coronation was a coronation with out a lavish party, what wedding was a wedding party that does not culminate in an extravagance of drinks and eatery, what party is and was a party of social, political or religious significance that did not and does not satisfy the human appetite for drinks and delicatessen to bring about happiness, jubilation harmony and celebration all at once by the power of the consumption through the stomach. As it is often a culmination of an upward movement in the social ladder, a change of status in an individuals or group political, social, economic or religious standing or an accomplishment of significance that instigates a party as an occasion to assert and get the acknowledgement from the others and smoothen the relation ship there off, that could have been roughened on the path to the climax, by reaching to the heart and mind of each other through the stomach. It has always been and it still remains the most direct path to the minds of many and all. If there remains to exist causes to accomplish and celebrate parties would be inevitable, and at parties while dining and winning the plasticity of the arms would change in to flexibility and the rigidity of the mind changes to elasticity and could stretch beyond what it normally reaches. What is discussed over dinner or lunch makes it to the heart and mind while what is discussed in the office or conference room often remains at the ears unless it is of particular importance and significance not to the narrator but to the audience. May be some body wise have said it long ago and the ‘shortest path to the heart is through the stomach “ may be then the heart will pump it to the head whatever it is that has to get there. To be candid enough about it, formally and informally, overtly and covertly, with intent and with out intent, deliberately and inadvertently that has been how business is done over centuries and that is and remains how for a foreseeable future. Call me a late bloomer, I just got the realization if it could do me any good and hope it serves as a lesson to some who needed an early awakening. .

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The past that was and the future that will be.

It is one of those incidents of mix-up where the old new becomes new and the new news really is an old new. Not only the story is upside down time is reversed, logic is inverted even the low seems out of place and a little bit out of time. Is it lagging or is it ahead? It seems to be moving in a circular motion and it can some times be difficult to know what is in front and what is behind in a race around a circle if one does not keep the proper perspective. Year 2000 have been a year around a circle where the looser is the winner and the winner is the looser, the one at the back is affront and the one affront is at the back. American electoral democracy which has been leading the way in democratization of the world particularly since the end of the cold war have been tested to its limits, Yet passed the test with some questions of its imperfection lingering in the minds and hearts of many. Those questions raised during those times and the ones that are being raised again and again are questions that are going to come up repetitively as long as they remain fully un answered not to change the outcomes of what has been decided wrongly or rightly, but for the satisfaction of intellectual curiosity and academic discourse and finally settle and correct the discrepancies that may come of our investigation. Though it is expected to raise questions and lament and regret about how the world treated us and we treated the world in the past, when the intent of the raised issue is to undo what has been an irreversible process may be the effort is wasted and should be re directed to prevent it from happening all over again and pay our dues where and if it is owed.  We can not possibly ask and try to undo what Newtonian mechanics have done to our civilization to have failed to comply and satisfy the laws of quantum mechanics, but only make an effort and adjustment to our understanding of Newtonian physics and update it to comply with what is known and acquired of Quantum mechanics, like wise should it not be an absurdity in logic to try to undo an event that has been accomplished in accordance and compliance with the knowledge and law on the ground at the time? Yes if only we had the know how and the understanding we have today I wonder how many yesterdays we would have liked to eras and how many we would like to have repeated many rounds over? But that dreadful thing called time that have given us yesterday and took it back never to give us back yesterday again, but only and only tomorrow.

Ayele Teklemariam

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 ON THE LANGUAGE INSTICT
BY

Ayele Teklemariam

Page 1 9/13/2004
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 “Finally since language is the product of a well engineered biological instinct, we shall see that it is not the nutty barrel of monkeys that entertainer-columnists make it out to be." (I) I looked at languages and communications between human beings and it rather seemed that language emerged out of the need to give and take from the other. As the number of the items and the number of the individuals that needed to take and give increases and the paths the items to be given and taken increases, there arose the need to sophisticate the language in manners and ways to transverse the same distance and through the same intricate paths. As evolutionarily as evolution itself at each stage and at every encounter consciously and rationally coined and agreed on. As such it seems rather a conscious act than it is a biological instinct. The ability to generate a sound of frequencies, pitches, wavelengths and amplitudes of the known ranges, sings and gestures and the need to communicate may be smart biological engineering, but language itself is a conscious effort of the use of these capabilities.” The conception of language as a kind of instinct was first articulated in 1871 by Darwin himself. In THE DESCENT OF MAN he had to contend with language because of its confinement to humans seemed to present a challenge to his theory". (II) It is rather the reference to the confinement of language to humans that throw me a little off balance and made me look at the issue from a different angle. It would be rather a bit naive it seems that other animals do not communicate African killer bees when touched spreading the new and run to kill with hurray specific to a war cry and dispatch in a kamikaze army of fighters. Or the Hyenas cry of summons for a mill upon finding a Caracas of a kill. Or the love songs of different birds and insects and flies, have no language may be a little farfetched May be rudimentary yet language enough with its own rules and specificity of usage as grammar is to us to communicate an event, a need from and a need to dependent on the level of social and mental development relative to that of ours (humans). " As no child has an instinctive tendency to brew, bake or write. More over no philologist now supposes that any language has been deliberately invented" (III) It is important to bear in mind that our eyes may have been exposed to light days after we were born at about seven days, but were we exposed to sound after or before we were born? Could we have been hearing sound and particularly conversations of our mothers and any and every one that she had conversed with after our ears and all our bodily audio mechanism were formed? Is it possible that our ears got exposed to audio sound and audio conversation ahead of videos communication? We might have been susceptible to audio sound than we are of visible light even while we were in our mother’s wombs. Having said that would it be then possible that children are more inclined to verbalize more efficiently than may show the "instinctive " tendency to cook or bake and brew, for they are visually acquired learning processes and skills. Lastly what we rule out as instinctive may not be as instinctive as we believe it to be. It was a day after I had jotted down this note that I met a PhD. from Ghana on the bus home from an outing who teaches English in one of the US high schools and ask him how he was able to teach as a foreigner with such a heavy wall cracking accent children their own native language, The answer was not so complicated to him as it sounded to me. He simply told me it is the rules of the language that I teach, with out the rules they might communicate, but they might as well communicate with a sign which would have been inept to explain and cognize the cultural, social, economic and technical sophistication of the past, present and the future. The implications are clear that I need no further explanations. Though the distinction between what is instinctive and rational or conscious is yet for me not clearly defined and demarcated, every trained body tends to execute what he or she is trained to do as instinctively as instinctive response can be, while others that are not so trained will have to think and think twice before acting on the same issue, act, or an activity. Are instinctive responses that need no rationalization because their truth has been established in the mind of the actor that rationalizing would be unimportant and the response is clear and uncompromisingly predetermined while a conscious responses is pretty dynamic, flexible and variable dependent. A conscious act that is repeated and repeated over many a times becomes an act that is acted on with out being thought about as though it is ingrained in the genes of the actor. After all what is ingrained in our genes are repetitious resistive and adaptive acts forced upon them, you and us by the needs and demands of our surrounding or environment. If I do not get carried away from the question I wanted to ask when do we begin to react and be stimulated by sound? Would that have some thing to do for children’s instinctive tendency to “deliberately create language”? Verbalize prior to visualize. "Therefore a language cannot be a repertoire of responses: the brain must contain a recipe of program that can build an unlimited set of sentences out of a finite list of words.” (IV) If I may say that seems suggestive that language is learned and gradually developed out of the needs to and from than it is a deliberate invention devoid of need. While deliberate invention predates need and use, language does not seem to predate use and need but to fulfill it. There does not seem that there is a chicken and egg argument here, but an A to B straight-line relationship. “And Chomsky’s arguments about the nature of the language faculty are based on technical analyses of word and sentence structure, often couched in abstruse formalisms.” (V) Language is a result of a need to give and take to the other, self, and from as such it is a result of a constant negotiation and agreement which has to be kept and observed, and to that end it has to be told and retold, read and re-read to generations. It is to me this repetitious propagation of the agreements reached and the negotiations conducted that what Chomsky referred to as abstruse formalist couching. If that is he wouldn’t have been far from the truth I see in my untrained layman’s views.” The great majority of sentences were grammatical, especially in working class speech, with higher percentage of grammatical sentences in working-class speech. The higher percentage of ungrammatical sentences was found in the proceedings of learned academic conferences.” (VI) The acknowledgement of the existence of a language difference between those that are learned and not so considered among the elite may be in order considering the sentences made about Plato walking Among Macedonian herdsmen as far as language is concerned. “There are Stone Age societies, but there is no such thing as Stone Age language. When it comes to linguistic form, Plato walks with the Macedonian swineherd, Confucius with the headhunter savages of Assam.” Thou it is clear from the outset that language carries a badge of class distinction the psychology that contributed to the grammatical discrepancy between the workingman and the academic will not pass with out grabbing a due attention and beg for an explanation. Technicality and logicality, adherence and experiment, instinct and rational, seem to be in conflict at or at least at odds here than it is enlightenment and ignorance or wealth and poverty that are on opposing sides of the presumed or real issue. The working man is engaged in a rigorous repetitive work in his day-to-day activity, for him mistakes are costly that could throw him in to the darkness that he is not prepared to deal with, his sphere and peripheral vision may be is limited to the known and long been established, contrary to the academic who is in constant search and who is an adventurer in the wilderness of the unknown in search of answers and new findings, whose sphere is not limited to what is known and established, and is often in constant touch with new and the unknown and yet to be established. He is not more technical, but logical, and grammar is not logical than it is technical, it is by enlarge to be learned than it is to be deduced or rationalized. Is it any wonder then that our work and the environment we find ourselves in manifests itself in many ways including in our grammatical usage. “Necessity being the mother of invention, language could have been invented by resourceful people a number of times long ago, ----- Universal grammar would simply reflect the Universal limitations on human information processing. All languages words for “water” and “foot” because all people need to refer to water and feet. No language has word a million syllables long for no person would have the time to say it.” (VII) It is the word and the essence of invention of a language that is of importance and may be worth the energy and discussion time here. It is rather a similar and like the on going discussion between evolution and creation, natural language seems to evolve over time in response to the human development and the division of labor that the complexity and enormity of human development brought about. It might have been helped and enhanced by the deep need to complain, but complaints would have done much in a society devoid of division of labor, in which case the complainer and the complaint addressee would be the same. Division of labor did not only help develop language it indeed helped develop languages with in languages, sub cultures within cultures, like the technical terminologies of the medical doctor to the engineer, the pharmacist to the lawyer and other variances the convergence of languages in divergence of technical languages as specializations continue to divide and subdivide disciplines in to sub-disciplines in direct proportion to our growth in number and still making every one of equally important in the lives of others and others in our lives The point here is to note that as our journey forward in the universe in our forward developmental path the path seems to narrow like a light that projects forward and in for the depth we gain we give in width. Unlike the inventions language need coinage and convention and agreement, often inventions are real objective existences that need no conventional agreement but introduction of its reality and convincing of its reality, its naming may be conventional, but its reality an alterable fact that makes the naming a language and the creation an invention. Excuse me if I am wrong, but I see a clear dichotomy between the two. As much as language as a creation of human ingenuity as Esperanto and computer languages are unlike them it evolved over time that enables it to shape and reshape instantaneously in response to dynamic needs of society and propagate generating acceptance contrary to the invented languages which are total packages all at once. “The crux of the argument is that complex language is universal, because children actually invent it, generation after generation –not because they are taught, not because they are generally smart, not because it is useful to them, just because they can’t help it.” (VIII) If there is any thing at all they can not help is, that they have to express all and everything, any every new idea and new relation that comes about in their time as it feels, sounds and looks relative to their time. As they progress forward in time they are often and always are expected to come head on with ever emerging new social relationships, human discoveries and natural emergences often in the back alleys by the lower end of society and in the institutions of higher learning, research and experimentations on the higher end of the social spectrum and come up with new linguistic expressions for them. It is more than any thing the emergence of new reality and the need to express and exchange this new reality that literally engenders the rejuvenation of language. If there is any thing innate here is the universal human urge to express and exchange any and every new thing, both for the purposes of self-fulfillment and acknowledgement through the thrilling medium of language. “Bickerton notes that if the grammar of Creole is largely the product of the minds of children, unadulterated by complex language input from their parents, it should provide a particularly clear window on the innate grammatical machinery of the brain.” (IX). One thing that shouts out for a notice seems that linguistic complexity arises out of the need to express complex relationships and complex realities, yet deep in the human psyche rests the effort to simplify the complex and economize time and energy that more than any thing seems the reason for any language not having a million syllable word as described earlier. “Extraordinary acts of creation by children do not require the extra ordinary circumstances of deafness or plantation babbles the same kind of linguistic genius is involved every time a child learns his or her mother tongue.” (X). I wondered why it is often “Mom” or “Dad”, “Ma” or “Pa” that are the first words that a child learns and are often the most common of any word in any human language and may be more. It is more than likely it is the result of the first encounter, interaction and first exchanges with unparalleled linearity and simplicity. The child’s world of learning starts with such simplicity and linearity that the learning effort seems and may be is simpler, but as the child grows and enters in to a complex relationships and the need for him/her and from him/her to express and understand more complex scenarios arise and grow, he/she would have already grown out of his/her childhood that the attributes will no more hold true for him/her, that I feel there may be an over emphasis in the ability to learn and under emphasis in the complexity of what is being learned. It is as though our ability to learn has never gotten up to speed with our relationships and exposure that needed to cognized, rationalized, understood, committed to memory and expressed. We grow but we do not seem to grow faster or nearly as fast as the our individual universe we find ourselves in and as we age the enormity of the universe that encompass us seems to grow exponentially that our progress pales in comparison. ”By the age of three and half or earlier children use the –s agreement suffix in more than ninety percent of the sentences that require it, and virtually never use it in the sentences that forbid it. This mastery is part of their grammar explosion, a period of several months in the third year of life during which children suddenly begin to speak in fluent, sentences, respecting most of the fine points of their community’s spoken language. For example, a pre-schooled with a pseudonym Sarah, whose parents had only a high school education can be seen obeying the English agreement rule unless though it is in complex sentences like……………………………………………Just as interestingly, Sarah could not have been imitating her parents, memorizing verbs with –s’ pre-attached. Sarah some times uttered word forms she could not possibly have heard it from her parents.” (XI). Like all machines it is fundamentally important to be reminded and not forget the fact that the human body is an input-process-output machine, though a biological machine, and among parts of the human body the brain is by for vividly adherent to this truth. The brain may be thinking, cognitive and re-cognitive organ, yet could only act on what is fed in to it through the five sense organs and more if there are any. This truth is also asserted by the mere fact that Sarah did not speak in any other languages that are not with in the environmental constraints of hers, but her community’s language. It might have been far fetched that Sarah could not have mimicked any one else, but here parents during her three and half years of life and nine months prior as though she and her parents lived in total seclusion. It is rather clear that Little Sarah has always been immersed in a sea of words, phrases and sentences right from the moment of her inception to the day she spoke that first word and the rest of her grammatical sentences of her last at the dawn her life in the far future. Often adherence and respect for the law entails through formal and informal ways learning and knowing the law like every lay man like myself who had not been to Harvard or Yale law school, but to the greatest university of all, living in legal environment and among law abiding people. It seems to me respect for the law and living by it presupposes knowledge of the law. Little Sara might have not received formal training of the grammatical rules, but have lived it however brief to know what it is like and how it ought be respected. If there is any difference between some one who speaks the language with in the grammatically acceptable range with out having to receive a formal training is the length of exposure to the language. The conclusion that she could not have been imitating her parents or the speakers of the community is as puzzling to me as to why she did not speak in tongue, and if she did we wouldn’t have called it a speech, or grammatical any way. It is a puzzle like Langston Hues church experience. “ She must, then, have created these forms herself, using an unconscious version of the English agreement rule. The very concept of imitation is suspect to begin with (if children are general imitators, why don’t they imitate their parents’ habit of sitting quietly in airplanes?). There are laws that are learned and others that are followed as a course of nature for they are hard written in to our body. Some that are mimicked and others that are rationalized and followed, never mind, that their parents were not as hyper as they are when they were at the age, may be they are not mimicking the current behavior of their parents, but they could be mimicking their parent’s whole life and they are just beginning. As they are hyper now as their parents were then, they would definitely calm and act if not exactly as them but as close when they get to their present parents age. As to the hyper activity of the children now there are other biological factors at work more than mimicking and not of their parents that makes them clearly and distinctively defining of their age, like stimulating growth, burning energy, availability of space, flexibility of body etc. As much as children are like their parents I admit they are not photocopies of their parents nor do I say they are parrot like mimickers, but learners and learning is not as we all agree mimicking. It has a growth and developmental factor in it. They might be slightly or completely differently than their parents, yet, I see no doubt that their basis remain learning and learning from their parents and most of all from their environment, whether or not, they are consciously thought by their parents, which will be to their advantage tremendously believe if they are, they have proved over and again that they will learn from their environment no matter what. Broca’s aphasia syndrome a handicap rather that was described non-handicap and given credit in ways where credit is not due seemed to me a sympathy may be no less than an insult to the injury that those patients suffer from. It is a Mr. Ford who had suffered a stroke the subject of the study and described as “Gardner notes” He was alert, attentive, and fully aware of what he was and why he was there. Intellectual functions not closely tied to language, such as knowledge of right and left, ability to draw with left (unpracticed) hand, to calculate, read maps, set clocks make construction or carry out commands, were all preserved. His intelligence quotient in none verbal areas was in the high average range” Indeed, the dialog shows that Mr. Ford, like many Broca’s aphasics, showed an acute understanding of his handicap.” (XII) There are indeed a number of intellectual handicaps that Mr. Ford and his Broca’s aphasic collogues suffer from as described, from analytical skills to verbal communication impairments, yet Mr. Ford and his likes are as is stated acquire and posses a great deal of raw empirical data besides being able to in ways and manners that are similar to instinctive responses that may not tax greatly on their analytical mind. How is it then this acquisition of raw empirical data and instinctive responses did not tax on their intelligence quotient? Or is it even possible to conceive intellect with out analytical mind devoid of coherent verbalization or speech? If so how different could we be from the rest of our down line relatives? Or perhaps incoherence does not undermine the very essence of integrity, viability and predictability, which are attributes of intelligence as opposed to amorphism and randomness. It is rather eye catching to read the comments about the grammatical fluency of the children with William’s syndrome and not think about the causes of our diversity as humans and living species. It is rather in our deficiencies as much as our special gifts that our diversity rests its cause. I find it hard that grammatical fluency not attributed to intellectual depth and width than simple construction of very common words in a repetitive common everyday acts.” Your parents need not bathe you in language withal to function in society, the skills to keep house and home together or a particularly firm grip on reality. Indeed you can posses all these advantages and still not be a competent language user, if you lack just the right genes or the right bit s of brain. (XIII)” It is the assertion that not all of us lack those right genes or in their right combination for some of the needed skills and abilities, but some few classified as handicapped that do underscores the fact that we all are not equally proficient in all fields for the same reason. While the severity of our deficiency puts us in categories under average, average and over average, it seems worth noting the specific and relativistic nature of any and all handicap under consideration. It would be unfair it seems to pass this opportunity with out amplifying the fact that in its uneven distribution in the universal space matter and life has in it to compensate where it is missing, that there is not an all out idiot nor an all out smart for a reason and by a cause. For and by reason of dynamism for and by division of labor by diversity for total interdependence so we are un even, evenly gifted and un equal equally talented. XIV ”—a concept is unimaginable and therefore nameless; at the end of the second, a concept is nameless and therefore unimaginable. Is thought dependent on words? Do people think literally think in English, Cherokee, Kivunjo, or, by 2050 Newspeak?” A concept is so named because a reality of interacting material entities and a relationship between and among them is conceived and cognized. The interacting entities and the relationship they establish may not be verbalized or given names yet if conceived and cognized they therefore are represented in space and time in a condition and it seems they are imagined and they are named concepts and concepts are named therefore are imaginable and represented. At the end thinking may seem possible with out words but not with out representation of some sort or another. Mr. Joe dog often communicates to his master what his intents and needs are by some action and gestures and even sounds and Mr. Joe does like wise, can we here imagine the concept of Dog and man communication? And give it a name or we can’t imagine it and can’t name it? If anything at all we can only entertain the thought of nonexistence in nonexistence not the existence none existence, thus we cannot imagine what we cannot represent and we cannot represent what we can’t imagine. It is rather the need to communicate that will necessitate the naming of the entities and the relationships imagined in an already existing language than the conceptualization and thinking it. XIV “The insult relies on the fact that a sentence is the smallest thing that can be either true or false: a single word cannot be either. A sentence, then, must express some kind of meaning that does not clearly reside in its nouns and verbs but that embraces the entire combination and turns it into proposition that can be true or false. Take, for example, the optimistic sentence The Red Sox will win the World Series. The word will does not apply to the Red Sox alone, nor to the World Series alone nor to winning alone. It applies to a whole concept, The Red Sox winning the World Series. That concept is timeless and there fore truth less. There are two fundamental seeming flows in the statement quoted above. The fact that a single word is either true or false and the parallels timeless to truth less ness are worth some expletory examinations To me a word and any word represents a reality that is, was or an assumed and agreed on will be fact. There, fore that that was. That is and will be cannot be anything but the truth. Even that that will be remains till such time it is and proven otherwise. The fact that The Red Sox’s winning of the World Series for one sounds and feels somewhat prop estrous for that concept came to existence only after the inception at most or formation of the Red Sox at least and not only the timeless claim baseless but one end bounded that as it is the equation of timeless to truth less is a denial of the existence of an absolute truth. That that defies the change in time or a change that happens at the speed of change of time, and the ultimate speed at which time changes is at the speed of light. A change that exceeds the speed of light there fore ceases to exist and cannot be conceptualized. XV “The workings of syntax are important for another reason. Grammar offers a clear refutation of the empiricist doctrine that there is nothing in the mind that was not in first in the senses. Traces, cases, X-bars, and the other paraphernalia of syntax are colorless, odorless, and tasteless, but they or something like them, must be a part of our subconscious mental life.” It was early in the discussion of that I tried to establish the fact that the human mind is a biological input, process output machine, and the empiricist view seems to conform to that not with out a reason, but rather for a profound reason. It would be rather important to acknowledge and recognize all that which was in the senses dowels in the senses for long enough time to be cognized, yet its realty cannot be denied. Our conscious mind recognizes events and happening that last at least 1/10 of a second on the fastest cognitive sense of ours our eye, any thing faster than that threshold simply slips our conscious cognitive mind the firs time, and may be the second and the third time. As enough time passes a chunk of the information would have been accumulated in our mind that the source and path seemed to be unknown. It seems it is these pieces of information that are happening at the speeds below and above the normal threshold of our senses cognitive power that we are awash with, which are by our senses and through our senses, in parallel with the empiricism refuted in this article, that are often relegated to the subconscious. Our subconscious mind’s life is more than likely a life of instantaneous happenings much faster than our conscious minds’ life. Our subconscious mind has to accumulate a number of instantaneous pieces of information before it manifests it as a conscious “objective “reality. The subconscious mind is material reality happening at speeds above and below the threshold of the senses cognitive ability. As some times referred to as the Sixth sense, that doesn’t see yet sees, that doesn’t hear yet hears, that doesn’t smell yet smells, that doesn’t taste yet tastes and that doesn’t feel yet feels in summation it is subconscious yet it is conscious and it is by the senses and through the senses, if it isn’t I am afraid there isn’t. XVI “The details of syntax have figured prominently in the history of psychology, because they are case where complexity in the mind is not caused by learning; learning is caused by complexity in the mind. That was real news.” In spite of the strong assertion that complexity of the mind preceded learning, I wondered what it would be like to have a complex mind that did not come about by learning and a learning that did not result in a complex mind. To me as a layman learning appeals to me as a process of untangling the naturally entangled, easing what is otherwise hard and difficult to understand, discovering the unknown and simplifying what is otherwise complex. But learning has never been the key to simplicity rather to more complexity. Simplifying complexity does not lead to simplicity but greater complexity of the mind. Thus complexity of the mind stayed some what ahead of learning and learning get locked up in a catch up game with its own effect on the mind, and that is why learning was, is, and will be a ceaseless open ended endeavor. (To be continued...) 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Seek you shall find and observe you shall see.

By Ayele Teklemariam

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It is often in the unlikely places that one finds the greatest of one’s lessons in life, but only if one is in search, patient and willing to observe what one encounter. As usual I am not drawing my conclusions from the labs, libraries, whole ways or even campuses, great or learning not so great schools of, but from everywhere and nowhere encounters of everyday experiences. Spring comes and goes and it has some habitual aficionados that come out of hibernation and fill the public parks and places where spring stages its spectacular natural exhibits and shows. To these places and stages I too had formed a habit of annual attendance and I am a regular spectator. It is often ironic that at what we all see we look at differently and we find different meanings appeals, because what we seek in whatever we encounter is as different as our own selves. As is said one can create what he desires by the devotion of his desire, though I disagree with the word create I would definitely settle for the word one can see. For creation is only once in science as decreed by the law of conservation and only for God for the believers. If I have sounded biting about the bush, it is my intent to make you work somewhat before I let you know the nonsense I am about to say. After all why should you get anything without working and why should I give you my nonsense for nothing. Though I was out as them and us aficionados to celebrate spring and its colorful bloom I had in my mind the plight of so many who are incarcerated in and around the world for speaking up their mind and believing in a cause the felt right. I had worn my amnesty international T shirt that was given me as gratitude for my membership and menial contribution to the cause. As I was strolling along the river basin and basking in the glow of spring red, pink and white flowers, there I see swan couple sharing in spring fervor with the rest us humans. Though I was initially the swans that attracted my attention it was the inanimate wooden object that drifted towards me that gave meaning, a real sense what I was declaring by wearing my T shirt. As it drifted closer to me I looked at my shirt and looked to the floating object a number of times. It had its head severed its right arm and right leg cut off. It had its left feet, left arm and the rest of its body intact, I picked up from the water and looked at it and hang it for everyone to look at it and wondered if everybody saw what I saw in it. Every time I look at it reminds me of yet different scene. One time it appeals to as someone whose conscience is free and he does not even feel the pain but who is tormenting his tormentors and I the complacent’s conscience by its mere presence of its mutilated body and at other times it comes to me as a headless tyrannical regimes who are only standing on their left legs and left arms and a veracious body that lack a right arm and leg  to balance and keep their equilibrium and are about to tip over with a little push.

Gmail’s cyber country club.

Ayele Teklemariam

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For some time now I have been wondering as to why we were often asked to give personal references on job applications. It had appealed to me only may be as a reminder of the past glorious days when people say what they believe in the indeed believed and when they said some thing they know they really did and when they said they know not they indeed not. May be those days are gone but their heritage and the culture they left behind that are manifested in the likes of personal references. I would have no hard time understanding the need for objective references, but personal references are to me a call and an affirmation of nepotism at the least and subjectivism at the most for no full will give a personal reference that will not paint him in the best lights he knows. If that is what is sought, the man himself would by much do a better job than any. As kept wondering about the obsolescence of personal references in the old traditional job applications it bothered me to find the same kind of nepotistic, clan like, country club mentality and practice on the cyber space as practiced by Gmail. Gmail has become the equivalent of the old boy’s country club practice of by referral alone and member only service is no less obsolete as a practice and principle. If you are in the inside your privileges are honored and if you have some one in the inside y