Re: JSH: Something wrong in your brains

On Sep 5, 7:57 pm, JSH <jst...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 5, 6:31 pm, michael michalchik <michalc...@xxxxxxx> wrote:



On Sep 5, 3:52 pm, JSH <jst...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The nice thing about mathematics is you can determine truth,
absolutely, and what I've found is that the world has responded oddly
to various mathematical truths I've found.  What's weird is that some
people have claimed those are not true (and some have been very
insulting) while the world has mostly appeared to ignore them, but
also seems to be slyly using the research as revealed by Google web
search results.

That's all remarkably strange.

The answer to the mystery I've concluded is that evolution designed
into the human brain some peculiar circuitry designed to allow people
to do all of the above and more in a quest to keep the species viable..

If my theory is correct then built into human beings is an ability to
think illogically for a purpose, which requires strife, war and
religion (where that can be flexible as to what constitutes a
religion) in order to prevent the dominance of middle class societies
as middle class societies tend to have too low birth-rates.  For
example, consider modern day Japan and its quest to stay alive, as
make no mistake, if that country's birthrate stays low, it will cease
to exist.

But human beings can also be quite logical!  Physics is a dominant
force today because of things that work!  Theories that work
wonderfully.  Technology that allows human beings to do quite well for
themselves--yet war and strife still continue!

My point is that is deliberately built into the human animal.

Put there by evolutionary forces that are keeping the human species
from dying out from low birthrates associated with too much success.

Your are built to think non-rationally in highly particular ways in
very specific areas, and you have no idea when you are doing it.

James Harris

This is an idea that I have heard bounced around among evolutionary
biologists for at least the last 20 years and probably goes back
before that.Our brains are not evolved for "truth" but for survival in
a particular set of circumstances. Evolution itself is rejected by a
large portion of humanity not just because of their cognitive
limitations but also because such rejection confers at least a short
term advantage in their practical functioning, whether it is to get
along with their peers or to maintain their self-concept. War and
other forms of strife are the products of cognitive functions that
were evolutionarily advantageous during a significant part of our
genetic history and may still be so in many cases.

That's in line with what I'm saying but I went beyond the bare bones
you mention to consider 'why' and concluded that middle class
societies with their lower birthrates are disliked by evolution which
tries to destroy them.

Of course human intellect tries to create them.

So there is an endless conflict.

Note, my point is that middle class societies tend to have birthrates
too low for sustainability.  Evolution then is trying to preserve the
species by squashing out middle class when it emerges.  That explains
religion, strife and war.

Evolution is keeping the human species alive at the expense of
individual humans.


Actually you misunderstand evolution if you think this. I was going to
address this point specifically but i did not want to confuse my basic
message. Evolution does not ever work at the levels of the species in
the sense of favoring the species over the individual, it only rarely
works at the level of groups (It is controversial if it works this way
at all), it usually works at the level of organisms, but will often
work at the level of cells at the expense of organisms (cancer) or
genes at the expense of cells (transposons) or genes at the expense of
organisms, parental behavior.

Anything that reproduced, competes for survival, mutates and shows
heritability of traits is subject to evolution, but the strength of
that evolution (rate of change of traits through adaptation by natural
selection) is proportional to the rate of reproduction and the
fidelity of inheritance. Species reproduce (speciation) very slowly
and rarely so a trait that improves individual survival at the expense
of the species will quickly spread through the species unless there is
some other individual factor holding it back. For example xenophobia
hurts our species but helps eliminate competition from unrelated
individual and so is selected by evolution. Most pro-social traits
that humans have can be traced back to advantages conferred on
individuals or genes though various mechanisms like kin selection,
symbiosis, etc...

Nevertheless, the fact that human minds are far from perfect does not
vindicate your ideas. It is, as general principle, more likely that a
group of individuals will be right than any one individual. Science is
based in large part on this principle, peer review, consensually
observability, replicability are all derivative of the idea that many
individuals working in parallel are less likely to make a mistake than
one individual alone. Any individual, including you, is subject to
these same evolutionarily created limitations and is more likely to be
impaired by them than a group of individuals. Your own personal
certainty in your ability to think clearly is of little value as many
if not most people will adhere tenaciously and confidently to
ridiculous ideas even to the point of death.

My belief is irrelevant.  Notice that one of the crucial clues I'm
relying on is from emergent technology: Google searches.

Searches on my own name get pages insulting me, not listed very
highly.

Searches on *specific* research topics bring up highly specific
research of mine, in the top 10.

For instance: solving quadratic residues

The effect appears to be global, as in worldwide.  Across the entire
freaking planet where Google is available.

That is not just my imagination!

I am not sure what your point is here. I don't know enough about your
history to know why people are insulting you and I don't know enough
about quadratic residues to evaluate whether you Google hist indicate
something. If they are a very obscure topic that you wrote a lot about
you may rank high on Google even if what you say is not important.
Either-way, Google ranking and webpages are not the main mode of
communication. Your best best is to go to a conference and present a
paper. It is difficult but possible for a layman to do this. You can
also submit to peer reviewed journals provided you carefully follow
their guidelines.




This is why science and math have developed systematic approaches that
minimize the effect of personal conviction on the process of
discovery, experiment and formal proof. If you cannot convince other
people of the truth of your claims, it is very likely that you are not
using one or both of those systems correctly. Used correctly, ideas
are very hard to refute erroneously. If you have discovered something
radical that people find implausible and reject fallaciously, the onus
is on you to improve the quality of your proofs or experiments so that
all the steps are clear and irrefutable and lead inevitably to your
conclusion. This is what every revolutionary scientist and
mathematician has to go through. In other words, if you are right, but
being rejected by the scientific or mathematical communities, the
problem is NOT in the brains of everyone else; it is in your ability
to communicate effectively in the ways that people have developed for
these matters. That is where you need to apply you effort and it has
the fortunate side-effect of forcing you to think more clearly and
broadly about your insight.

I got a paper published.  Google: SWJPAM

Some Usenet people conspired online, did an email campaign against the
paper and spooked the editors who withdrew my paper.  They managed one
more edition and then quietly shut down the journal.

Its hosting university scrubbed all mention of the 10 year old now
dead journal from its site.

Ok, you really have to ask yourself. Who would stand to gain from such
a conspiracy. That is a lot of trouble and difficulty that could
easily backfire. I have been in the university system and i would not
know how to get a paper buried and all record of it scrubbed. I could
maybe get a paper dropped by pointing out major flaws, plagiarism or
fraud in it. That is about it.


The American journal would have just disappeared but for EMIS, a
European agency, which is what you get if you do that search!  They
have archived the now dead journals prior publications.

When I tell that story, people rationalize it in highly specific ways.

So why would evolutionary forces fight proper recognition of my
mathematical finds?

Because if part of that body of research is a solution to the
factoring problem which most people refuse to acknowledge while SOME
people and governments DO acknowledge it, what might happen?

The knowledge can become a weapon BECAUSE it's not properly
acknowledged.


Well, start cracking PGP encryption and that will prove you are right.
Personally I think it is likely that if your idea/algorithm has merit,
the NSA will be quite happy to employ you. Factoring large numbers is
half of what they do.

A few last notes:

Mathematics is only as correct as its assumptions.
Nature is never bound by the assumptions of mathematics. It is a
system apart from our conceptions. Any mathematical theory needs to be
connected to science via experiment.
The steps of proof in mathematics are always subject to subdivision ad-
infinitum.

If my research is being used as we speak by people who are hacking
into world systems and keeping that secret then the impact will be the
kind of revolution that evolution may wish for, and the end of the
world order as it exists today.

Top to bottom the entire world order can change.

Quadratic residues can be used for factoring, as it's generally
accepted that a method for finding quadratic residues mod N, where N
can be a composite is also a solution to the factoring problem.

Internet security is based on the assumption that factoring is a hard
problem.

If evolutionary forces in your brains are blocking recognition of the
mathematics it may be for the purpose of destroying middle class
societies around the world--in one fell swoop.

Your brain will tell you otherwise as you rationalize your way into
the desired behavior--as you tell yourself you wish to live, while
your actions may mean that you may soon die violently, instead.

Your own brain is your enemy.

James Harris

Naw, you are adding intention to evolution and species level
organization that does not exist. There may be a conspiracy against
you but that is not it. Anyway, why are you discussing this on a
physics group anyway. This is math and evopsyche.
.

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