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Synoptic Abstracts for Swinton's Essays

universe.htm
... Universe Papers ... Software is inherently subjective, abstract, and intelligent ... Hardware is inherently object oriented, physical, and law abiding ... Compression-expansion codec, bridge from quantum to macro ... now will be on elementary process and evolution ... Compression-expansion codec, bridge from quantum to macro ... bridge from quantum to macro ... expansion of these software encodings into individual hardware represent ... reassessment of limits of physical reality required ... The encoding may be in a physical substrate, an electrical field, or eve

dcosmolo.htm
... context and we require that systems have distinguishable sub-divisions o ... to apparently continue this process ad infinitum, we have established 'p ... all systems as having explicate-order because we expressly order the pa ... Pattern, matter, space, time etc ... We call failure of this ordering-process 'a-periodicity' ... Spacetime IS a function of logistics as energy transfer ... Implicate-order corresponds to ORGANIZING-PRINCIPLE ... to make small distinctions between initial 'parameters' ... of this process yields some information about the system under considera ... experience beyond distinctions

ergonomi.htm
... Deviations or protrusions of interface wear first until ultimately inter ... interface being inherently fractal will in general evolve into a fractal ... between natural systems has a minimal dimensionality of one less than th ... between natural systems has a minimal dimensionality of one less than th ... two interacting systems or subsystems i ... a glove between interacting systems ... of the two interacting systems or subsystems i ... rotational symmetry, and scaling symmetry, but it is scaling symmetry th ... is invariant in this process, and the scaling factor is invariant locall ... itself playing either a dynamic role or a static role on a moment by mom

evolutio.htm
... - Essay Question ... debate what the operational mechanism(s) might be for producing such a c ... to the idea that all species might have originated from earlier forms ... I believe 'natural selection' is indisputable, except I do object to the ... continue to debate what the operational mechanism(s) might be for produc ... Natural selection, acting over time, removes less fit variations, and th ... main sources of empirical evidence for studying this question - the foss ... As above, however, the problem again is that the operational mechanism(s ... Also, the process has to have special conditions for development so the ... for studying this question - the fossil record, genetic (DNA) studies, a

fracman.htm
... as regards to the sensory interface ... the light which transforms information from uncertainty into knowledge ... whereby the distinctions between implicate and explicate information mer ... maximize and minimize? Well, fractals are key to unlock the interfacial ... to structure maximal interface ... to produce what we call sensory input ... on, Deric said that this fractal recursion leads to the emergence of 'so ... of information and that 'logistics' generates entropy in and of itself ... minimum information to structure maximal interface ... Our senses are a boundary or interface with the unknown

gecko.htm
... of human/tech/culture interface and all it implies in terms of meta-leve ... between humans, between humans and nature, between humans and society et ... will explore is interface as fractal ... a very simple scheme or process repeated over and over again can achieve ... It is our technology that to a very large degree determines our culture ... perfect example of absolute scaling invariance ... The above example of function (osmosis, respiration, filtration etc ... 'symbolic' interface to the functionality of multiplying 'x' times 3 and ... Foremost I regard language as the first human technology ... of familiarity with the concept of 'fractal' but maybe not its implicati

gunas.htm
... face= ... The middle term is the neutralizing factor that unifies, shapes, mediate ... The transaction is always threefold ... face= ... face= ... face= ... face= ... face= ... face= ... face=

hardsoft.htm
... Thoughts About Where Software Meets the Hardware ... Where Software Meets the Hardware ... flip/flops and the whole process cascades into a silicon clock regulated ... be seen as an assemblage of physical voltage switches deterministically ... is used to represent the identity of the named entity ... some propertities common to computer hardware, will not be considered ha ... units of information are encoded into the hardware ... (another machine or program) ... a statement has to do something (even if it is just a < ... Instantiation is the process whereby something abstract and intangible b

mcsquare.htm
... 't' and measured at distance 'x' from where the particle was first obser ... Classical speed or average velocity as measured over time 't' is given b ... Classical speed or average velocity as measured over time 't' is given b ... speed or average velocity as measured over time 't' is given by v = x/t ... we have acceleration a = c/t ... is defined similarily as the average time rate of change in velocity ... The classical equation for work is W = fx ... computed force f, we can compute the amount of theoretical work produced ... The total energy exchange from rest mass to free kinetic energy 'E' is g ... distance 'x' from where the particle was first observed

memestoc.htm
... we got to get ourselves back to the cardioid garden ... emerged from Mandelbrot Snowman ... are fractal dust, we are golden ... emerged from Mandelbrot Snowman ... to get ourselves back to the cardioid garden ... everywhere was a self-organized criticality ... was a self-organized criticality ... emerged from Mandelbrot Snowman ... into butterfly effects above our percolation ... align=

mumu.htm
... A causality syllogism occurs whenever bed and flow are at odds with each ... a causality syllogism - deterministic yet unpredictable change in flow a ... is proximity of time lines in phase space ... creates impressions which persist yet change ... bed represents causality syllogisms entrained to attractors by synchrony ... creates impressions which persist yet change ... The flow represents the energy of change ... in flow wear out the riverbed of present moments in space and time unpre ... flow and part of the flow becomes sedimentary bed ... causality syllogisms entrained to attractors by synchrony

nanotech.htm
... controlled by either molecular or electronic information systems ... The problem with current techniques lies in their gross manipulation of ... programmable by humans and capable of independant action and reproductio ... Eric Drexler calls nano-machines, " ... form hover at sizes somewhat smaller than one micron ... Small molecules, like the ones you learn about in chemistry, compose the ... concerned carry all the information necessary to carry out a structural ... Molecular systems have connection rules similar to tinker-toys ... primarily on newtonian dynamics of charged bodies in electrostatic field ... not attempt to compress objects into smaller spaces, nor does it attemp

ozmic.htm
... I am an autopoietic process born of DNA strands replicating their own p ... nature herself is 'time binding' ... part of the very same recursive process it is embedded in ... emerged as temporal process ... The scale is immense because the territory is immense ... of the territory ... metaphor for the abstract universal processes at work from mathematical ... during migration have evolved entrainment behaviour ... (gravity well) has emerged, other masses are attracted and move toward i ... drawings are another part of this ozmic process

quandiar.htm
... the multiverse view of quantum physics and focuses on Feyman's path int ... from buddhism to quantum physics ... The deflected tangible photon would have to end up somewhere else on th ... Fabric of Reality" ... Eldon New (Earthlink) < ... absolute unique difference between those two photon trajectories (shadow ... represent virtual universes, whereas the one we experience is ... Virtual Universes ... of the implicate and the explicate ... are ever detected is when an electron is disturbed by a photon and jumps

semiotic.htm
... relationships formulated by awareness ... Symbols form the great underpinning for this branching out from Ground-Z ... Information theory forms the basis of our Second Level of awareness ... Level 1) deals with 'symbolic' objects ... across time can transform objects because symbols themselves are rooted ... Any pattern may be translated as binary number, given a large enough num ... on Semiotics ... physical sciences treat Universe as being sub-symbolic, i ... This process of higher-level-awareness objectifies a symbol-object pair ... are in a sense self- referential

span.htm
... example of a weighted graph would be a road map with each path between c ... Thus we have a measure of the spatio-temporal relatedness between two w ... and proximity relations between words as they occur ... is the intersection of two pair sets? given two pairs ... ENTITY ASSIGNMENT - VERTICES & ... we can define the counting measure of ... structures at each level of analysis ... methods and variations of cluster analysis are many and generally start ... attempt to get a weighted connection between stars with any real utility ... The inverted graph

binryvec.htm
... that all representations of information take up space ... be so defined, then the maximum and minimum values that each component ... some binary representation of a number 'N' ... let 'm' = bitmass, where bitmass is the total number of one or 'on' bits ... In between there is a whole world of possible ways of vectoring ... into reduced but salient content ... condition is for the interpretation where the bit-string is a B-dimensio ... of representing scalars and vectors ( note ... pure magnitude info we can maximize directional info ... that each component can represent is given by