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Symbolic Maps, Managed Feedback, and Deception

Any time there is displacement in a system, it causes pressure to build on another component in the system. When a drop of water falls in a pond, the ripples spread out causing more displacement. Eventually the ripples reach the boundary of the pond and the waves crash on some shore. If society were managed in a way where every ripple would play out its natural course, it would lead to a lot of friction and violence. Perhaps this is the best way, since every witness of violence leaves a lasting impression and is a reminder as to the heavy price of mismanagement. Perhaps it is not, and it could be more effective to preemptively make space for such displacement, and things move in harmony all at once or not at all. This would require dual structures, or perhaps more than dual, where a movement on one side is mirrored in the other, such that any displacement that would ultimately reach the other side is taken into account in a way that there are no crashing waves. I think people who try t
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Virtual Reality and Control Displacement

Virtual reality allows memories to be reused in new contexts. In specific, virtual reality allows repurposing of familiarity with sophisticated control systems. So long as the interface for the control system is kept the same, one can use it to control a remote device. Ideally, the device being controlled has the same interface for the control system, so that the device can control itself (e.g. a steering wheel for a car). If the controlling device and the controlled device share the same interface, then virtual reality enables a displacement of control that requires no further training. If someone knows how to use the device standalone, they know how to use the device to control another device. Control displacement allows a natural way to remotely control devices. For example, a person wearing a virtual reality headset in a Tesla car could control another Tesla car if the sensor data from the target vehicle is fused in the virtual world. While control displacement in the physical worl
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Logical operators on complex values

Traditionally, computers define logical operators on real values: AND 0 0 | 0 1 0 | 0 0 1 | 0 1 1 | 1 OR 0 0 | 0 1 0 | 1 0 1 | 1 1 1 | 1 XOR 0 0 | 0 1 0 | 1 0 1 | 1 1 1 | 0 I believe a similar construct can be made for complex values except that logical equivalency could maybe have two interpretations: either the magnitude is the core comparison value or the frequency (radian representation of the complex value in the unit circle) is the core comparison value. From a magnitude perspective, we could say that X AND Y for two complex values X and Y is itself if and only if both X and Y lie on the same circle.  In a sense, this is establishing a primitive group structure because the value of the operator depends on whether or not an item belongs in a set. Likewise, we could define an XOR operator the same way, just in the inverse, that both X and Y do not belong to the same circle. From a frequency perspective, we could say that X AND Y for two complex values X and Y is itself if and only
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Time, partitioning, and synchronization

Any time measuring method inevitably runs into the issues of partitioning and synchronization. Partitioning deals with the issue of dividing a larger measure into smaller measures, and combining smaller measures into a larger measure. Synchronization deals with the problem of how a set of devices can self-correct if some of them are corrupted. The two are fundamentally related because often a choice in one determines a choice in the other. A measure is often defined by a set of synchronization points, such as the radioactive decay of an element or the frequency of a crystal oscillator. Synchronization points can often be defined as a measure of a change in space, such as the revolution of a planet around a star, or the change in energy state of an oscillating structure. Fundamental to both is the notion of change. A synchronization event can only be defined if there is a unit of space in which a change is observed. And either the magnitude of the space is large (such as the movement of
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Individuality, creativity, and trust

Trust is an individual experience and a personal feeling. In a sense, trust only exists as a subjective experience. Objectively, the behaviors that manifest from trust are more akin to chemical reactions, where one's feelings of certainty in regard to one event trigger another event. The source of all trust is individual perception, and if one cannot trust their own senses, they can trust nothing. Fundamentally, the observation of natural events allows the mind to create an ordering. Such an ordering is often a direct reflection of the mechanical nature of the world. A feather falls when it is dropped. A pool of water evaporates in the sun. These certainties leave an impression on the human mind, and also set an expectation for human constructions. Subconsciously, individuals expect society to operate in a manner similar to nature. Just as a feather falls when it is dropped, they expect good deeds to be rewarded and bad deeds to be punished. One only has to observe a feather fallin
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Awareness, power, and morality

There are few things as intoxicating as knowing something that other people do not know. Exclusive information is perhaps the oldest and most original binding force for cults and radical organizations. Is there anything that can more tightly hold a group together than an absolute certainty of their own conviction? The interpretation of right and wrong often takes dangerous turns and dives under the light of new information. Knowing becomes an addiction for the morally sensitive because the thrill of seeing the cards turned over has left a scar on their psyche. And perhaps cults are metaphorically like a den of addicts all seeking the same high. Society is like an onion, with many layers, and with each layer watching the layers below. It is only the certainty of an exclusive information that allows the formation of a meta-awareness, the formation of a new outer layer. Power structures can only be replaced if they are comprehensively understood, and power structures often employ their in
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Availability, partition tolerance, and self-organizing maps

To construct a map, there must be an expectation of the environment. The CAP theorem lays out an abstract view of how agents can interact in an environment. The common utilization of a semantic interpretation of a response is what enables a map to be built. As an example, if the expectation of a response is that the responding entity must respond if it is non-failing, then a map can be built whereby the atomic expansion of the map happens all at once or not at all. Similarly, if the expectation of a response is that the responding entity may never reply at all, then a map can be built whereby the shrinking of the map happens partially all the time. In a sense, the semantic interpretation that is used to construct the map depends on the probability of error. If the probability of error is very low, then it is a reasonable expectation that every entity must respond if it is non-failing. If the probability of error is very high, then it is not a reasonable expectation that every entity mu
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