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METAPHORS AND MODELS: Why does Dawkins seat his metaphor of selfishness (or "behavioral tendencies") in genes, as opposed to organisms, niches, cosmos, or programmers? Dawkins wants to conceptualize genes as replicators, organisms as their vehicles, and cosmic environments as their niches. Yet, he recognizes that MEMES also can be replicators. Presumably, he recognizes that memes can lie dormant in books, until such time as they find suitable minds to serve as vehicles for propagating them. So, what about memes of memes, patterns of patterns, and contexts of contexts? Can an existentially fundamental and clear line really be drawn between a replicator and its vehicle, or between a programmer and its program?
MEASURABLE BEHAVIOR: Dawkins explains how GENES seem to behave mathematically in reinforcing kin selection, AS IF they were purposively selfish. He recognizes that genes are not in themselves conscious, yet they seem to function AS IF they were driven or pre-programmed to exhibit comparative selfishness, based on capacity to preserve survival-machined organisms for paying their genes forward, almost as immortals. He wants to call the language of purposefulness, selfishness, and drivenness as if they were mere metaphors, because he does not consider genes in themselves as "really" being conscious. However, this kicks the can down the road of regress.
SEAT OF CAUSATION: If the gene is unconscious, and the organism does not have free will, and the future is not predetermined, then what does "cause" mean, and where does causation come from? Where do purpose, direction, determination, drive, selfishness, indifference, and altruism come from?
WHY do genes behave in pre-programmed ways? How are the programs preset? How are the programs changed or mutated? If the environment or the context (encompassing and including the program of the gene) affects, programs, and changes the programs of the genes, then is it the environment that is purposive? Is energy emanating from a Big Bang purposive for programming patterns, which in turn program more complex patterns (notwithstanding entropy)? However, if the quantifiable environment is entirely constrained to unconscious math and statistics, then how can it make sense to conceptualize the environmental context as the purposive programmer? Does originating energy plus entropic expansion necessarily, dumbly, and naturally select for more and more complex replicators of patterns?
METAPHYSICS: Insofar as patterns are manifestations of programs, may there abide some spiritual aspect behind the physical environment, which functions akin to purposively programming consciousness? Is the Big Bang a physical reality, or a derivative of a spiritually emanating binary code that continuously programs itself in respect of feedback? If the binary code system of programming is all there is, then how is it continuously programmed and re-programmed -- unless there abides a program self-programmer?
SELF PROGRAMMER OF BINARY CODE: May there abide a spiritual, immeasurable, qualitative, source-essence, i.e., a self programming pre-programmer of constantly-changing programs? May the building block of the apparent cosmos best be conceptualized as a system of self-programming, that "meta-vibrates" and fluxes to exhibit variously relating, resonating, reinforcing, replacing, renormalizing, reconciling, conserving layers and levels of programs -- all based in binary code?
CAUSE OF BINARY CODE: What could be the "cause" of the binary code that propagates pre-programs, generally? Must the programming be that of a self-programmer? If such an existent is reasonable to intuit, its existentiality abides as a spiritual immeasurable. The self-programming programmer of the cosmic program would be like a spiritually conscious, resonating, guiding God.
CIVILIZING OUGHTS: Dawkins believes human organisms should exercise their capacity to overrule some of the diktat of their "selfish" genes. But why does he believe they SHOULD do so? In respect of what values does he believe they should do so? And to what, if not from pre-programmed diktat, does he believe they should look in order to derive or establish such values? Despite protestations, does not Dawkins, as surely as every other militant scientist, take a leap of spiritual faith, not into science, but scientism?
BUILDING BLOCK: Ultimately, the building block for our apparent reality seems better conceptualized not as a material particle, but as an immaterial program. A no-thing. Not a nature-based gene-meme of natural selection. Rather, a participatory, feedback-based program of self-programming, artificial selection. Like a mind that changes itself, a program that programs itself.
CONSEQUENCES:
- GOD: God, as the meta source-essence whose meta-vibrations resonate to define, delimit, and drive us, continues to guide us (has not left the building).
- BUILDING BLOCKS: The ultimate building blocks for all that we experience are programs derivative of binary code --- not any system of material particles-in-themselves.
- SELF WILL: We express localized functions of participatory self-programming (participatory will).
- CIVILIZATION: We carry innate capacity to phase into civilized, empathetic, moral beings that can become aware of self and service to God.
- TRINITY: The upshot of the system of self-programming of programs is to avail expression of self-aware purposefulness (consciousness), measurably physical relations (substance), and rules and equations and sequences for limiting and programming the ranges of their interfunctionings (information). The trinitarian upshot is Consciousness, Substance, and Information.
- CHRISTIANITY AND RECONCILIATION: In spiritual and moral effect, the consequences seem to mirror most of those of Christianity. The potential worth of the human form, in terms of its participatory freedom and dignity, is respected. Thus, spirituality and science are reconcilable.
- PROPHECY: Feedback will continue to be reconciled in the binary code. The new stabilizing shapes of things to come and when they are to come are beyond the clear knowledge or foresight of any mortal. At best, we can continue in good faith to try to be receptive to intuitionally available guidance from the Reconciler. We can temper good faith in good will among ourselves, i.e., empathy grounded in service to the Lord. In that way, we can seek to continue to establish, communicate, and preserve decent civilization.
NOTES REGARDING CONCEPTUAL RATIONALIZATION:
Regardless of whatever flux may crystalize out of chaos and into a system of stable complexity, anti-God people would rationalize that such temporal stability was a consequence of an evolutionary stable strategy (ESS), i.e., an "unconscious strategy" that just happened to happen "because" of the "selfish behavior" of unconscious building blocks.
The accessibility of math to easy rationalization is a wonder. Indeed, if all that we experience is derivative of vibrations of a source-essence, then such vibratons would by definition broadcast binary code, such that the expression of every program would conform to a kind of inherent math. Thus, an anti-God person may ratonalize that "dumb math" is the father of the cosmos. However, such a rationalization would ignore that the math is mysteriously self-reflective, self-responsive, and self-programming.
Since physical matter does not really exist in itself, space, time, matter, and energy do not really exist in themselves. What seems to exist in itself is a paradoxically changeless-changer, i.e., a self-programming programmer, i.e., a source-essence that vibrates. All that appears and seems to be material is ultimately no-thing really physical, nothing more than binary code, programmed to express simulations that are normalized to local interpretations. Such a self -programming, ongoing, unfolding system of programs seems inherently and qualitatively godlike, rather than "dumb."
POLYTHEISM: What if there happened to abide more than one vibrating source-essence? If so, to be relevant to one another, they would have to share a potentially commonizing context. Suppose there are two. That would implicate that a unifying programmer-program were the Author of both. In other words, that the two subservient source-essences were, from another perspective, the programs of an encompassing programmer. Thus, the implication remains: A singular unifying reconciling source-essence. Moreover, binary code is binary code. If the singular Author split into several sub-authors, each would still express itself in code that was ultimately reducible to binary code. Such code would still give expression to C, S, and I. The expression of C, S, and I is still the expression of C, S, and I. Consciousness is Consciousness. Identity is Identity. Perspective is Perspective.
REPRESENTATION: The meta vibrations that inherently express the binary code from which all experience is derived are connected to their source-essence in a self-referential, self-normalizing, self-reconciling, self-programming way. A binary code of vibrations can represent a form for representing an original idealization of an apparent and measurable thing, but it cannot by itself be the original thing, nor can it by itself be the originating idealizer of the idealized thing. Math does not exist by itself, apart from a source-essence of beingness. Indeed, there is no representative conception that can, by and in itself, be a measurable thing. It can only be a representation that can be conceptually attributed to an idealizer. The Idealizer itself is a singularity: a self programming programmer; a self-reconciling reconciler of its perspectives of idealization; a source-essence of meta vibrations. It may be intuited or implicated, as the implicated orderer. Its purposes may be empathetically interpreted. But it cannot beyond itself be objectively known or measured.
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What Progs mean by "empathy" is that they lack both courage and convictions. For a Prog, one man's convictions are as good as any other's -- provided Progs are kept safe in their basements by American soldiers and police. Progs have conviction envy, which is why they hate Conservatives, including the soldiers and police who protect them. Slick, Shrillery, DeBlameo, and Empty Suit all hate the troops, and the troops know it. Progs are for the pretense of convictions, provided they are safely sheltered and fed. To collect welfare and food stamps -- while posing as being committed to world peace, diversity, and tolerance in the mere abstract -- is to be for infantile noise, not principles. Puck Frogs.
Patton "empathized" with Rommel by reading his book, so he could learn how to defeat his tactics. Likewise, Conservatives "empathize" with Alinskyites by reading their Rules, so they can learn how to take away their power. Same with Mohammedans, Marxists, and Militant Materialists -- all collectivists. Empathize with (understand) the methods and purposes of people farmers in order to defeat people farmers. Know the devil is the devil in order to avoid the depraved agenda of the devil. Not to adopt the depravities of the devil.
There abides awareness of environment (simple awareness), awareness of self (self awareness), awareness of moral relationship of self to others (moral self awareness), and awareness of principles for reconciling moral purposes (Reconciler awareness). The purpose of empathizing in order to understand others is not to adopt their depravities, but to reduce them in order to serve the Reconciler.
Empathy ought not mean unqualified tolerance of every depravity. It ought to include understanding evil for the purpose of standing up to it. To be so tolerant as to fail to see through the manipulative deceits of destroyers of human liberty is to be morally blind, not empathetic. Imagine if parents were reduced to the control of their children every time their children bleated, You're not being empathetic (or "fair"). The moral injunction ought not be, Be ye empathetic. It ought to be, Be ye empathetic in the service of the Lord. Statist materialist infantile collectivists hate that!
What a proposed law may say and what its enforcers intend and will do with it are different things. Law in itself accomplishes very little, except insofar as it is supported by political will. What is intended by our political rulers has been made very clear. They want to consolidate rule by weakening ordinary Americans. Any law they pass will be used to the harm of ordinary Americans.
Law making by our corrupt elites would best be stopped. But beyond that, the will of decent people needs to be aroused to run the establishmentarians out. Once that is done, maybe we can have a constructive conversation about law.
Concerning the border, I am not interested in any law written by establishmentarians to be enforced by establishmentarians. I simply want the border enforced. I am not interested in excuses like, Well, we would, if only we had comprehensive legal reform. Take their legal reform and break it over their heads as they are tossed out for not enforcing the border laws that are already on the books! To hell with the comprehensive law making by establishmentarians!
America is in the grip of forces that are unfit to promote freedom at home, much less to be trusted to promote freedom abroad. Whatever America's establishmentarians are promoting, it's not freedom. A system that actively promotes the political and financial neutering of the productive middle class cannot reasonably be called a system that promotes freedom. To considerable extent, it is the willingness of America's establishmentarians to enrich the depraved Mohammedans, Marxists, and Progressives (Big Crony Gov Collectivists, all) of the world that is the source of funding for the depravities that are emerging throughout the world. Our establishmentarians create these hot spots, then claim we need to sacrifice American troops to cool them down. Our hedgers have learned how to divide in order to rule, and they are using this model to fuel crisis all over. We are being had.
There seems to be a meme that only certain entitled people and the avid followers they bless should rule, and that all others should subjugate themselves under such rule. This meme comes in flavors of Islam, Communism, and Progressivism. Apparently, this underlying meme can jump the shark and become represented in the gene pool. So long as no meme or gene develops to detect and counter the sucker tactics of the entitled-ruler meme-gene, it will run amuck. If it is ruthless and fast enough, it may wipe out most others. That is, until nature presents challenges that necessitate new insights, which collectivist-minded people often seem clueless to find.
An insightful society that believed a Reconciler guides us to individual liberty would see such an inherently conspiratorial and collectivizing meme brooding and breeding. It would block such a parasitical meme from its borders. It would recognize that a meme that is hateful to liberty and bad to the bone, right down to the genes, cannot be reformed or civilized by mere talk. It would not hand over riches to camel j o c k e y s merely because they happened to be in possession of oil sands.
Progs say they were "born that way." More and more, I suspect many are tilted that way. Then, the tilt seems to get reinforced and hard wired by a pliant, plastic culture. Rewiring the tilt of a culture is probably more challenging than Moses finding his way out of the desert. Better would be to be receptive to vision to avoid the bad wiring in the first place. There is a book out concerning The Brain That Changes Itself. With deference to the Self Programming Programmer, a culture that is receptive to human decency can likewise change itself.
The Left feels it does not need the debate of free speech to find truth because the Left feels it already has all the truth we need. This is part of the ruling class act of pulling up the ladders.
Without a middle class, free speech is imperiled. Without free speech, a middle class is imperiled. Without a middle class and free speech, there would devolve a two class society, and it would be stagnant, uninspired, fearful and inhuman. Who wants a two class society? Those who hold wealth and power and want not to have to compete to keep them. And, those who are unwilling or incompetent to work for themselves, who hire out as votaries and enforcers on behalf of the rulers in order to take from the producers. Morloch Rinos and Eloi Dinos. The allied party of anti-Americans in thrall to the anti-Christ.
Among Americans, I suspect the ones who are attracted to Islam tend to be the sexual misfits. It's probablly more about the chemical urges than the rationality of the dogma.
How about: Think human, politicize liberty, economize dignity, cook decently. Why set oneself off in some racial category to be exploited by opportunizing lawyers, and then whine about the inevitable blowback? "Gee, I set myself and my homies apart in some elaborate race-based club of signs, dress, false history, and attitude, and then all these whites see me mainly in terms of race." Duh.
In the neuroplastic brain, synapses that fire together wire together. As a society made wealthy on fiat money comes to tolerate more and more depravity, more and more depravity gets reinforced and hard-wired. There is no easy way back from this sickness, much of which is self-made and greased by depraved society. The way out of this hole is not in the direction in which rino-dinos are digging us.
Those meanie conservatives! They don't like pervs grooming their kids with strange drugs and sex. It's not enough that adults can do pretty much whatever they want in their bedrooms. No, Progs want to normalize everything in the streets and the schoolrooms. They know their "equal rights," by Gaia! And for this, Conservatives are "mean" and Progs are not militant. Lol.
The people who are trying to fundamentally change America from a representative republic, wherein people are generally free to express themselves, into a politically correct, repressed and collectivist despotism are militant in every meaningful sense. To despise what is needed to avail a culture based on freedom of faith, loyalty to family, and fidelity to republic, in order to replace it with rule under knowitall secular elites, leads to militant despotism. To evade what is obvious is to degrade oneself towards meaninglessness. The strident, militant pace of infantile and degrading change is obvious to all who have eyes to see.
I am not a fundie, and I have not felt the persecution of which militant atheists seem to complain. I suspect the trouble of persecution tends not to find people who are not looking for it.
Lawyers are the redistributive bloodhounds of other people's money. As productive jobs decrease, redistributive jobs increase. This is not about fairness. It is about survival of the most cynical, corrupt, and crisis-mongering. Of course, this is not an evolutionary stable strategy (ESS).
The brain is plastic. Bad predilictions and fetishes get hardwired together with repetition. Some people's brains are more susceptible to strange hard wiring. So, they get foot fetishes, etc. It turns out, predilections may be less set by genes than by plastic conditioning. Read The Brain That Changes Itself. The scary thing is how our youth are being conditioned to hate responsible adult conservers of liberty. We say, "Put yourself in responsible contexts." They say, "We were born that way, the way of howling." America is sowing for a a bitter harvest.
Think of all the starry eyed youth who make Obama their model hero. They will exchange high fives as they "Get Conservative Whitey." The model they are learning teaches them to cheer the burndown of America. We must redistribute all wealth to takers, so all labor will be equally poor and ignorant and depraved, in perpetuity. Poortopia.
The target is not the establishment. The useful idiots are only led to believe the target is the establishment. This is because the establishment consists of godless internationalist corporatists and their metro-caged armies of divided and ruled useful idiots. The target is the free thinking middle class. The armed and independent yeomen. The game is to destroy the middle class before it wakes up and organizes itself against rampaging treason and godforsaking corruption.
America elected a spiteful, hateful child. The child has now said that he can do whatever he wants. In doing so, his popularity among childish metrosexuals of America will go soaring. Obama has learned that his infantile base of idiot sloganeers will celebrate him every time he spits on America, YT, and decent society. His base of idiots is much to be feared. As well as the establishmentarians who keep telling us what a smart and swell guy he is.
Obama knows a big bubble will soon be bursting (or made to burst). He knows what sort of childish sloganeers and basement pleasure addicts will start out celebrating. They are the ones he has been waiting to consolidate and commission. Some switch will be turned. Currency, satellites, internet, infrastructure, foreign dependence. Thereafter, there will likely be at least a couple of weeks of dire straits. Stock up on provisions and defenses that are adequate for at least two weeks. During that time, the Regime will consolidate amuck.
Like nature, money has no conscience and never sleeps. You cannot have decent or moral civilization without inculcating checks and balances, not just to shape forms but also to assimilate civic empathies. Do bankers subvert pols, or do pols subvert bankers? Do rulers enserf idiots, or do idiots seek rulers? Without moral and civic inculcation, the world runs on flattery and betrayal. Geneticists often speak of a game called prisoner's dilemma. If the game is to be played only once or for a pre-known and preset number of iterations, then betrayal is the default strategy. If the game is to be played for an indefinite number of iterations, then the winning strategy tends to be tit for tat. But if the game, its board, pieces, cards, dice, and rules comes to be owned in certain corporate territories by well trained gangsters, then the house that owns the game will tend more likely to win the longer the game is played. Psychologically, most gamers become addicts who cannot quit while ahead.
What does America produce in abundance? Financial services and instruments. Some people are duped to believe the people who operate such businesses sell financial wisdom for a fee. I guess that is so, if you call insider-cronyism "wisdom." How invested are congress people? What do they pay to get their investment "wisdom?" A congress person who plays ball will know what earmarks will be added to bills, what conflicts will be entered, and what industries will be incented. He will be paid for his cooperative ball playing in "financial wisdom." If you own the game, all you have to do to make money is preset your hedges, then shake people up with crises, control how the game will be tilted, then make your "investments" just before the tilt.
The establishment consists of those who own territories of corporate gamesmanship and their media shills, academic deceivers, violent enforcers and young and senile useful idiots. Is the payoff for the house that runs the game huge? Ask Vegas. Or watch Eddie Murphy in "The Distinguished Gentleman." The money in farming addicts and useful idiots is indeed huge.
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