The White Room Complete

"My Own Quotes" - New quote.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:55:00 GMT

'Information should be free in the sense that it enables people to do good and only to this extent!' - TL
(This is a precision of Steven Levy's '3rd Commandment of the Personal Computer Revolution': 'All information should be free.')

Advise to the EU on Expansion - Writing on the blog.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:20:00 GMT

New posting: This relates especially to the question of granting Turkey membership or not.

Rather embarrassingly, in deep support of both the Norwegian EU-movement and the Euro, being a part of, more or less voluntarily, navel obsessed and closed Norway with its 66% opposition to membership of the EU (July, 2010), I write this.

It's my opinion that it can be just as respectable to offer a very good bilateral agreement between EU and Turkey to secure Turkey's progress to a better and more modern society, while also, hopefully, being religiously moderate to generate more fluent connections with the rest of the world. One should remember that EU still struggles with relatively high unemployment, especially in some countries, these being Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain and that we need to secure the Euro area and stabilise the countries outside of it for making possible Euro entries for these. All in all, differences in the EU implies further work for spreading knowledge, technology and engineering skills including standards of system and standards of industry for the whole EU area to rise to an acceptable level throughout! I hope the EU parliament makes the most wise decision on the matter by showing sensitivity to these issues over the others.

Samfunnet, Norge, 2010! - Writing on the blog.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:20:00 GMT

New posting (a little bit of Norwegian, excuse me): Jeg tror typiske uttalelser fra det "svarte"/"uoffisielle" Politiet er noe s�nt som disse:
"Her er alt avtalt, alt fra fritid til kriminalitet!"
"Samfunnet kunne ha v�rt bedre! Pr�v � stoppe oss!"

Fakta er, av min oppfatning, at Norge er blitt en forbannet klubb! Det gj�r ikke saken s�rlig bedre at sosialklientene pleier maktelitens underliv med sitt "exotica", tolk det som du vil!

The Pistoliere Title - Killing One Who Deserves It - Writing on the blog.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:41:00 GMT

New posting: I hereby suggest that successful killing of a horrible, perverse, deviant and cruel person should earn the killer the title of Pistoliere. In my case, when or if I get a kill with my registered pistol I become Mr. Pistoliere Terje Lea. Women likewise become Ms./Mrs. Pistoliere Jane Doe. This can accomodate situations where shots should have been fired yet haven't because people have been afraid that they would get unfairly punished when the will has been good! Now on the other hand, people may take the chance to fire if it turns out the person shot and killed is in fact a horrible, perverse, deviant and cruel person as qualified by ensuing trial. Like it? Cheers! :-)

"My Own Quotes" - New quote and change to it.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:41:00 GMT

I've reformulated a quote to this, being better English, 'Content is King, but being Ethical may be God!' - TL. It has first been added to the site 13th July this year. As such this is first reported by RSS now, by which I apologise. The old one has been 'Content is King, but Ethics may be God!'

Disclosure of Address - Changes.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:41:00 GMT

I've made some changes to the webpage. There's been some addition and some removal. The message is, although, the same and the intention is still a good one.

Disclosure of Address - New webpage.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:45:00 GMT

Disclosure of Address

This may be against my better judgment, but I do it still the same.

To the webpage, directly:
http://www.t-lea.net/disclosure.html

Rephrasing Ought in a Sentence - Ought-less Language - Addition.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:40:00 GMT

Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 1:28 am UTC + 1 hour; forum.philosophynow.org

Metadigital writes: "There ought to be less oughts in the world, ought there?"

Reiteration: An action is defined by a rule. This rule is in relation to a certain condition. This rule is followed so and so. This rule isn't necessarily fulfilled by the agent who is following this rule.
And so: (1)"An action is defined by a rule. This rule is in relation to a certain condition. This rule is followed so and so. This rule isn't necessarily fulfilled by the agent who is following this rule." and (2)such that there are less "actions that are defined by a rule. This rule is in relation to a certain condition. This rule is followed so and so. This rule isn't necessarily fulfilled by the agent who is following this rule." and (3)is this "an action is defined by a rule. This rule is in relation to a certain condition. This rule is followed so and so. This rule isn't necessarily fulfilled by the agent who is following this rule."?
So this is even more ought-less now, I guess!

A Challenge to Richard Dawkins and the Atheists - Addition.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:40:00 GMT

Without acknowledging it and without having the alleged positivity and love of human kind, there's one devious black strand of Atheism that goes the absolutely wrong way and it is basically and only this that I want to address! As opposed to logical, rational thinking, sane observation-making religious people, this kind of atheists don't care and have no implicit commitment toward human kind and this is the problem. Atheism lacks an inherent obligation toward human kind as opposed to the much better and normative Humanism!

You may object that a religious person needs no ethical code, but then again, this is a less honest/conman "religious" person!

If God is Truth (and the ontology of God turns out true as well) and you don't want God, then you have a problem, you!

The objection to the rant and crusade from the atheists is that they are blind to the fine sensitivities religious people have toward ethics as the way to God (that also is a foundation for meaning)! Thus, atheists and atheism may tear down very important institutions and intuitions in society that work cohesively and incredibly constructive humans to humans, in interpersonal relationships! The society may come down if one forces through this headless (to some extent) movement (by these atheists and atheism)! This is the very concern! Just because you, the atheist, need it "under your microscope" doesn't make the crusade against religions right!

The baseline of this challenge is:
You say you want logical, rational thinking, sane observation-making religious people to which I (deeply) agree!
AND
I say I want Humanists to which you (probably?) (deeply) agree!

On an end note, it may be that some of the Christian thinking isn't so bad afterall. Fx. a possible interpretation of the first commandment, "you shall not have any other God than me", may be "you shall worship truth"!

Thus, this is really done before it starts! Clear? To the best for all! Cheers!

The Transmission Argument - Addition.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:40:00 GMT

Educational note. It's implicit that "data" and indeed "fact p" are all data leading up to and including fact p! If you are to acquire fact p, you do indeed need to also know the necessary underlying factors. I think this is pointed out by examinations of Entailment in Epistemology. While Entailment should be logically valid and sound if properly set up in logical structure, it may be alluringly simple to consider Epistemology only as setting up some logical relations. Therefore, it must be clear that I see epistemology as hard work, most of the time, being thorough investigation and invention of right words to right contexts and design of apparatus and approach to closure of examination!

Internet Tips and Tricks - Making an RSS Feed on your site using an RSS xml file and a link on your index file

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:40:00 GMT

Addition of missing parts to the RSS Feed file.

Addition to the RSS Feed file:
rss - bla, bla
channel
...
atom:link rel="self" href="http://www.example.com/rss.xml" / !-- RSS "reference"! --"
atom:link rel="alternate" href="http://www.example.com/index.html" / !-- Index-page "reference"! --"
atom:link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.example.com/favicon.ico" / !-- Use of Favicon. Can be very nice to on your website! --"
image
title - Your special image! (It's recommended that this title is the title of the channel, above.) - /title
url - As before - /url
link - http://www.example.com - /link
width - 120 - /width
height - 120 - /height
/image

Metaphysics, The Establishment of Non-Dogmatic New Intelligent Design (NDNID) - Addition

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:40:00 GMT

Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 2:25 am UTC + 1 hour; forum.philosophynow.org

Just a remark on (the ontology) of Ethics in this:
If ◊[(∃x)(Ex) ⊃ (∃x)(Gx)] and you don't accept God, but you acknowledge that Ethics, if anything, can lead us to God then Ethics should be incredibly important in every case!
As it says in the above, this is important, I think!

Thu Jul 08, 2010 2:21 pm UTC + 1 hour; forum.philosophynow.org

Internet Tips and Tricks - Addition to the RSS Feed file and About the meta-tags

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:45:00 GMT

Addition to the RSS Feed file:
image
title - Your special image! - title
url - http://www.example.com/spec_image_120pixx60pix.gif - url
image

About the meta-tags

Created: 06.07.2010. Updated: 07.07.2010.

I've removed some code to get it displayed on this RSS.

"meta name="Keywords" content="Beauty,Nature,Art,Your Name,Title of the page,whatever else""
"meta name="Description" content="This is a sparetime presentation of mine. I'm just beginning to learn about webpages and other tips and tricks!""
"meta name="Author" content="Your Name""
"meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8""
"meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.0 (Win32)" !-- You should probably consult with a generator list! --"
"meta name="CREATED" content="20041010" !-- The date format is just this: yearmmdd - year, month, date. --"
"meta name="CHANGEDBY" content="Your Name""
"meta name="CHANGED" content="20100704""
"meta name="ProgId" content="Gedit" !-- You should probably consult with a ProgId list! --"
"meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-GB""
"link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="name_of_css_file.css" /"

"!-- The meta-tags are always placed within the head-tags! I've included the link-tag for the stylesheet so that you have a good idea of the whole thing. Please, don't forget the title-tag when you set out making the webpage. This is, of course, a suggested standard set for meta-tags, one that I advice you include on every webpage you make on your website. There is also no need to include this comment with your meta-tags! --"

The Transmission Argument - Addition.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:45:00 GMT

The transmission is, of course, that fact p enters your mind and that you are able to justify this notion of fact p entering your mind. Thus, the transmission should be very clear!

The Transmission Argument has been my line of thought ever since I've started to investigate epistemological circumstances and eyeing the possibility to express it in words as I've now done! This is the reason for this writing's title even today when it may just as well be "Epistemological Integrity as Decisive Property"!

Opinions on Science in Expression of Evolution and Other - Addition.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:45:00 GMT

New idea on Economy: Over the dependence theory of economy!

Let's assume Africa (or one of the other continents) gets "humped" on in an indecent way (fx. by decadent European and US American interests) then there shouldn't be a problem with it being self-sufficient/self-sustained, or if not, just in case Africa's deficiencies are compensated for by exports.

I'm thinking of deficiencies of technology, special resources (classically uranium, but now it's about other stuff, refined?) and finally knowledge! This writing is in fact the theory that every continent is more or less self-sufficient/self-sustained. Theoretically, there are no deficiencies on any continent by the assumption that resources are found equally everywhere on earth (by the same statistics)!

As one can expect resources to occur more or less statistically uniformally, being found in equal amounts everywhere, resources shouldn't be a problem either! So who supposes that there are deficiencies? It's however important not to be a "dreamer"/"have the head in the clouds" so that you go correctly by the steps! When you want something, you just find a way to offer something! One can start with natural resources, like agriculture, aquaculture, timber-industry, tourism, fishing industry, search for/mapping of resources for mining, offer "cheap"/cheap labour or labour whatsoever (with the commends of the people from this region to those who buy the labour-force, decently/worker-union-wise) and as one goes, funds accumulate, you probably use them to generate expertise by education to compensate for lack of technology intensive industry and the knowledge and culture industry (film, music, books (like fx. JK Rowling), theater). The knowledge industry is, of course, research and consulting and the making of proprietary hardware/software or whatever technology of proprietary kind! (End)

This is a recipe and I know it! I hope you like it!

(This is added at the bottom of the webpage until then.)

Wittgenstein's Beetle Box - Addition.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:45:00 GMT

Correction: ...two people stand close to a tree/are in a park with sculptures, they do... (and grammar.)

Clarification: ..., by narrative and of course without actually being there,...

The History Behind My Webpages/Website(s) - Writing on the blog.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:53:00 GMT

New posting: I have the sense that some people doubt the track record or dates on my websites so I present the history of internet hosts here.

The servers for White Room, running track for these webpages/website(s):

www.hio.no/oks/~terjelea/ (1998, autumn, early winter to 1999)

I believe there's been a break here of about a year.

www.c2i.net/~terjelea/ (2000/2001? to 2006?)

www.angelfire.com/realm/t_daemon_lea (2003 to now!)

www.b-one.com / www.one.com - www.t-lea.net (2006 to now!)

So today, as you probably know, there are two websites with basically the same content that runs in parallel, a kind of assurance of always having a host there to display my website! Cheers!

Is the War on Terrorism in fact the War on Drugs? - Writing on the blog.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:50:00 GMT

Addition: I believe the Taliban rule has been marked by chaos and sharia laws, that they simply proved destructive to any effective business life. Yes?

Personally, I've liked the Mujahedin in the past, presenting some of the finest Muslim character that I've ever sensed. I have no deep knowledge of them, but they have been defeated (by the Taliban?) or vanished to my surprise. Perhaps one can study them and convert their wisdom to modern (Arabic/Muslim) business life much like Sun Tzu of the Chinese in making up Chinese culture, being peaceful nowadays.

The long term view must be a prosperous world altogether. "Hallelujah", void of any particular religious position!
Now that the war on terrorism is being limited to Afghanistan (with only 8 US American military casualties in Iraq in June), it should be noted that the war on drugs is a very serious business! Both in Mexico and Colombia where the main problem is exactly drugs (and drug culture?), the military is fighting alongside the police! Technically, that's a matter of state of emergency or civil unrest or civil war!

Mexico: Since 1989 - "...began in earnest after the 1989 arrest of Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo who ran the cocaine business in Mexico. There was a lull in the fighting during the late 1990s but the violence has steadily worsened since 2000."

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Drug_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Mexican_Drug_War

Colombia: Since 1964/1966 or possibly 1948 - "The direct origins of the current conflict are usually dated to 1964-1966, while the remote origins would at least go back as far as 1948."

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombian_armed_conflict_%281964%E2%80%93present%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_drug_trade_in_Colombia

I think people easily overlook this fact for some reason!

The Criticism and Approach to Scientology - Writing on the blog.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:35:00 GMT

New posting: There's not a single member of Scientology actually forcing you to read Scientology! It's clearly wholly voluntarily!
If there's fraud to it, logically, then it's certainly a self-fraud! I guess people are their own fools! Besides, to discredit people their own agency is typically to belittle people.
There's some interesting information from this place: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Xenu. At least, here it says: "...Earthly events, collectively described as space opera by Hubbard..."! Isn't space opera in fact space opera because it's fiction?! You should also take note of L. Ron Hubbard's scientific education of Engineering (but in which he has no degree)! I also take note of this: "Members of the Church of Scientology widely deny or try to hide the Xenu story." Since when did a protest or a claim become an evidence of falsehood? And why can't I equally well consider these obsessed people who write so stupidly about Scientology and are so unwilling to give it any credit whatsoever for fixated and mad? This for now!

Greece-bashing! End it now! - Writing on the blog.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:33:00 GMT

Addition: I've might been a bit harsh on Standard & Poor's, "junk level" rating meaning "BB rating" (as opposed to AA). Still, I think you should consider the defaults of Argentina in 2001/2002 (a significantly smaller economy than 327 mill. Euro-zone and the 175 mill. people who use currencies which are pegged to the euro). Not only that, but corruption has been a trade-mark of Argentina for quite some time, historically speaking, though is has improved greatly in recent times! The default before this is Russia in 1998. The same again with the comparison to the Euro. And this is Russia without the oil prices of 147 dollars/75 dollars! Corruption has also been rampant in Russia and is to some extent even yet (with bribes being very common). As it says from Wikip.: "The economic crisis that struck all post-Soviet countries in the 1990s was nearly twice as intense as the Great Depression in the countries of Western Europe and the United States in the 1930s.[195][196] Even before the financial crisis of 1998, Russia's GDP was half of what it had been in the early 1990s.[196] Since the turn of the century, rising oil prices, increased foreign investment, higher domestic consumption and greater political stability have bolstered economic growth in Russia.[197]"
There's also been quite some political turmoil in Russia during this period (around 1998) with the Chechnya conflict and the rule of alcoholic Boris Yeltsin who has been reported to be in such a state that it has been more probable that the Presidency has been run by the bodyguard for periods of time!
So conclusion: how in the world does this compare to the relative orderly Greece and the mountain of Euro states combined and economy? I'm still wondering and I'm in no doubt that EU will come through this in style!

Note: More recently, Paul Krugman is predicting the 3rd depression, but you should compare with the wise words of Jean-Claude Trichet which predicts a continued world growth before you let loose panic. I believe I recently have seen the World GDP and it has been positive for the last 10 years(?) with levels above 3% and sometimes being about 5%. The future should look good.

Check this: http://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=xx&v=66

Year GDP - real growth rate (%) and graphical from the same link!
2000 3
2001 4.8
2002 2.2
2003 2.7
2004 3.8
2005 4.9
2006 4.7
2007 5.3
2008 5.2
2009 3.1

Just check this run of the Euro: 6th January 1999 at 1.1743 against Dollar and yesterday, 5th July 2010 at 1.2531. From the ECB: Minimum (26 October 2000): 0.8252 - Maximum (15 July 2008): 1.5990 - Average: 1.1832 (note that the current rate is over this) The exchange has always run in the boundary of 1.51 and 0.82 in its existence! That's more worth than the Dollar! Now tell me, please, that there's no solid ground under the Euro, despite your accusations of these accountants and the chaos regime of finance within EU! Besides, the ECB and Euro/Dollar: http://www.ecb.int/stats/exchange/eurofxref/html/eurofxref-graph-usd.en.html and RSS too: http://www.ecb.int/rss/fxref-usd.html

1 Considerations of the Logic of David Hume in Metaphysics Philosophy - 2 The Problem of Evil and the Causation Theory to Make a New Theory of God and to Near St. Thomas on His Postulations - Addition.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:15:00 GMT

Now, to calm you down for this seemingly crazy comparison, my point is that the idea of God and the idea of Causality can't be contradictory (to eachother) because if they are, it becomes patently obvious that God is an untenable idea. Therefore, the logic of God must align with the logic of Causality and consequently the epistemological contiguity enters the picture! Further then, Hume must presume the inexistence of God by his presentation of God, even though his logic actually hits several religious thinkers and writers! To be honest, another target by Hume may be to attack these religious people's ill perceived views if I'm to be just to Hume. (Some words have also been removed by this update.)

Opinions on Science in Expression of Evolution and Other - Addition.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:15:00 GMT

A Possible Angle to Para-Normal Phenomenon of "Soul"

Just in case, every "soul" carries energy, this energy is detectable by infra-red imaging or something thereof when this is set in a very cold chamber/laboratory and finally the being that's loses its body and becomes a bare "soul" is a rat or an animal of lower denomination (I like elephants) then it may be possible to prove the "soul" as an alternative to Dr. Sam Parnia and Dr. Pim van Lommel!

What do you think? There's a clear logical structure to this procedure and it's no problem to set it up! Now, this probably shouldn't go into the science webpage on my site, but I'm such a daring person! Cheers!

(This is added at the bottom of the webpage.)

Neo-Kantian Ethics, The Ethics of Integrity - Addition

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:15:00 GMT

New to the page: Impact on integrity. An action of revenge? An action of immorality? I find it hard to believe that people commit an action of non-passion using their own bodily sexuality! If an action is global or is affecting only a sector like a group or a single person, insofar as this is possible, is an open question that may best be answered by psychology. I do, however, have the suspicion that integrity is always affected globally, all of your relations. This will become more clear with this writing. I have the sense that every action is "governed" by "the perfect ethical system" because I believe ethics matter more than just mere taste, whether it is known or not! So when action is committed, it is mediated or moderated by your own ethical system, very distinct from "the perfect ethical system" unless in perfect compliance, whether it complies with "the perfect ethical system" or not! Thus, an action of revenge comes across as better because a certain morality is attached to it as is opposed to a crime of passion. Revenge is also better in settling an issue with a group or a single person because it carries morality. Unreasonable revenge that's not proportional to what the revenge concerns, is a different issue! A crime of passion may thus affect you globally while an action of revenge, if anything, has the possibility of being contained to just this group or person and thereby only affecting a sector of your integrity. My sense is, however, that this revenge nevertheless must comply with this "perfect ethical system" and therefore doesn't affect your integrity at all. Thus a wrong action of unjustified revenge may affect your integrity globally just the same! We are therefore back where we've started! Wrong actions, whether this or that, probably affect your integrity globally one way or another! Now, behave!

The Transmission Argument - Addition.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:55:00 GMT

Various comments:
You only need one of the percentages to be 100% and the other two to be to the least degree to have this certified and irrefutable knowledge! But then again, I've not been wrong in writing 100% on all three of them and claim the same! That I'm writing this now can't be held against me in my opinion.

You should also note that the two sentences or lines, "2 person a has 100% hunch of fact p" and "4 person a has 100% data-material to what he is looking for", are redundant in the strict sense and that they are mostly added for extra sense, explanatory impact, that may enable people to have more use of this information. All this should be obvious!

Thus this kind of Epistemic Integrity is not a virtue in this context. It's a requirement.

While Frederick F. Schmitt writes about integrity as a kind of virtue, I think of it as kind of (natural) property about you and your relationship to your data (and to the end-point of investigation, being a kind of revelation of new data, possibly, a discovery). To formulate a "law" is rather a matter of aptitude to one's own skill in relation to what you have before you and thus not so much a kind of "Integrity" in my sense because the propositions, logics and knowledge base are already in your head. Thus I think it's absurd to speak of Integrity toward what is already in your head and mostly a matter of logics and mathematics to put together. If you however, become well acqainted with your data, have a great "Integrity", then you may generate this "law" more easily. Thus this "law"-making may be a kind of "Integrity"-issue in this sense.

Another remark on Schmitt's Epistemic Integrity which I find is used to tear away credibility from the Perspectivists who most people, I believe, see as unserious people in Epistemology. Therefore Epistemic Integrity destroys Perspectivism. In Schmitt's perception, by my interpretation, a charge is being made against unreasonable or dubious epistemologists claiming the Perspectivism position.

Epistemic Integrity then has to be decided among a larger community for it to be credited to a person or to a proposition that's held by this person. One should remember that Integrity in English most often equals Honesty and telling the truth. Thus from the ethical Integrity to epistemic Integrity, Integrity enters the meaning of honesty and reasonability concerning epistemological views/propositions/claims!

Therefore, as Schmitt's Integrity is designed to remove Perspectivism as a credible position, I design Integrity as a property of your own relation to research data that, in my opinion, leads to certified and irrefutable knowledge! Not that this is important to write, but it seems to me that Schmitt is using Integrity differently than I do, hence I cite Merleau-Ponty differently than he does in that same respect. My description is also significantly different from his and I think it's plausible that these 2 different interpretations can be given Epistemic Integrity. You can think about this for yourself... I leave it at that for now, possibly until the purchase of Kornblith's book (2001).

In the future, I may consider to add examples to this The Transmission Argument. We'll see!

Opinions on G�del's Theorems of Incompleteness and Possibly Tarski - Addition.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:55:00 GMT

This is just a notice for what follows. I've visited Wikip. on Tarski some time ago and then it says that Tarski has proved both geometry and algebra to be both complete and consistent. The page seems heavily edited today, 02.07.2010 and it doesn't say so anymore. So, this is a pause for me and an angle I need to investigate if I'm to get somewhere with my writing on this.

* Geometry - Complete and fulfills all descriptive tasks.
* Algebra - Complete and fulfills all descriptive tasks.
* Arithmetics - Incomplete and fulfills all descriptive tasks (yet missing its G�del "completeness" by Tarski).
Further:
* Language - Incomplete, I think, and fulfills all descriptive tasks (yet missing its G�del "completeness" by Tarski).
* HDM and science - Incomplete, I think, and fulfills all descriptive tasks (yet missing its G�del "completeness" by Tarski).

Also, in the light of all this, we have the issue of computability. Can everything be computed? Can one set up a complete computer system that replaces the human being as the scientist and what have you, except its functioning of consciousness? What is "completeness" or "incompleteness" in this regard?

This also goes for the semantic/syntactic divide. If we can replicate the human reasoning by computing, then what is left of this "semantic" ability?

It should be exciting to see how this develops, but it will demand quite a lot of effort and time.

Well, project is ongoing. Please, be patient. This is one of my weakest writings and I lack (a lot of) knowledge on the issue.

Comments on Arguments of Companions in Guilt - Addition of remark.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:30:00 GMT

The added remark follows: (1)Remark concerning abortion by The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG):

By The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG),

"Fetal Awareness - Review of Research and Recommendations for Practice".

From this link:
http://www.rcog.org.uk/fetal-awareness-review-research-and-recommendations-practice

Fetal Awareness

* The fetus cannot feel pain before 24 weeks because the connections in the fetal brain are not fully formed
* Evidence examined by the Working Party showed that the fetus, while in the chemical environment of the womb, is in a state of induced sleep and is unconscious
* The Working Party concluded that because the 24 week-old fetus has no awareness nor can it feel pain, the use of analgesia is of no benefit
* More research is needed into the short and long-term effects of the use of fetal analgesia post-24 weeks.

The full report: http://www.rcog.org.uk/files/rcog-corp/RCOGFetalAwarenessWPR0610.pdf

Article, this particular webpage, is published: 25/06/2010 (summary and more).

The exact same remark has been added to "An Argument in Favour of Abortion" as a separate, full posting here: http://www.t-lea.net/issues_from_the_internet.html#AFA

Wittgenstein's Beetle Box - New addition to the page.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:30:00 GMT

Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 6:42 pm UTC + 1 hour; forum.philosophynow.org

From Wikip.:
Quote: "Wittgenstein's beetle [referring specifically to �293 of W.'s PI]
Another point that Wittgenstein makes against the possibility of a private language involves the beetle-in-a-box thought experiment.[21] He asks the reader to imagine that each person has a box, inside of which is something that everyone intends to refer to with the word "beetle". Further, suppose that no one can look inside another's box, and each claims to know what a "beetle" is only by examining their own box. Wittgenstein suggests that, in such a situation, the word "beetle" could not be the name of a thing, because supposing that each person has something completely different in their boxes (or nothing at all) does not change the meaning of the word; the beetle as a private object "drops out of consideration as irrelevant".[21] Thus, Wittgenstein argues, if we can talk about something, then it is not private, in the sense considered. And, conversely, if we consider something to be indeed private, it follows that we cannot talk about it." [The references pertain to the Wikip. page]

While this is true in some sense, we know that the parameters are known for this "Beetle Box"! How much out of life's parameters can you possibly go? How much can you fantasise and still keep meaning in place/communicate meaning? I believe there are limits to both meaningful reasoning and that there are unspecified limits to ideas in general too.

When we refer to people and their lives, we commonly think about their backgrounds to make it relevant. The conclusion must be that the "Beetle Box" is not so mysterious as one likes to think!

Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 12:04 am UTC + 1 hour; forum.philosophynow.org

Of course, the word "tree"/"park with sculptures" (fx. Vigelandsparken) can be different to everyone. Yet, when two people stand close to a tree/park with sculptures, they do share the reference, no matter how "private" the impression is. Besides, I think it's conceivable that both persons are able to re-share this experience of this tree/park with sculptures, if not drawing it!

Argument Against Stupidity or Ethical Ignorance - New addition to the page.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:30:00 GMT

Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 3:52 am UTC + 1 hour; forum.philosophynow.org

It's both feasible and plausible that human kind is or has been capable of destroying the possibility of human life on Earth (by nuclear weapons, first and foremost). Such an act must be seen as stupid as it will definitely cut short a future of more intelligent and brighter situation for all of human kind (extremely: for this evolution or strand of human kind if not the same evolves around again). Thus stupidity is what possibly brings an end to humanity if anything! You must therefore look to it that you act intelligently!

Implicitly, by this argument, it is indeed an ethical imperative to be pro-active, to mind for your intelligence and to stand up to mental challenges so that you rise above the stupid for sure!

Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 6:50 pm UTC + 1 hour; forum.philosophynow.org

Dictionary.com:
stu�pid�i�ty
* /stu'pIdIti, styu-/ [stoo-pid-i-tee, styoo-]
-noun, plural -ties
1. the state, quality, or fact of being stupid.
2. a stupid act, notion, speech, etc.

Stupidity is certainly not only the acting against one's own intentions! Stupidity is also, commonly to act against one's own good by some screwed up ideas!

Laws and Descriptions - New addition to the page.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:55:00 GMT

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 6:09 pm UTC + 1 hour; forum.philosophynow.org

The issue of laws and descriptions can be complicated. Sometimes you want the descriptions to have the same power as expressions (mathematical) of laws and other times, the laws are being used as mere descriptions for something, being less or more accurate.

So instead of being in conflict between laws and descriptions and statistical expressions, it's just to keep an open mind for everything you want to describe and how you want to do it. Just make certain it is sound work!

Approaches to Sets - New addition to the page.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:55:00 GMT

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 5:56 pm UTC + 1 hour; forum.philosophynow.org

Note: you should beware of the differences between statistics, probability and prediction and the possible sets of investigation, ie. infinite sets (fx. by Cantor), unknown sets and partially known sets, both being possibly finite or possibly infinite, and known, finite sets.

In economy, also, you may think broadly of two scopes of growth, sales and product improvement and the generation/development of new products. This is only within the existing corporate structure, so in addition...

So both economical analysis and the classical natural science analyses can or will be incredibly hard to get right because of the unknown factors that may contribute.

What are your philosophical positions? - Addition.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:55:00 GMT

Editing of post that's posted: Thu May 13, 2010 3:26 am UTC + 1; forum.philosophynow.org

It now says: "Philosophy of Science: Scientific Realist, Fallback strategy to heuristic Instrumentalism and Operationalism which both include Conventionalism".

Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:36 pm UTC + 1 hour; forum.philosophynow.org

I also have a fallback strategy in Philosophy of Science to heuristic Instrumentalism and Operationalism which both include Conventionalism, I think. While this fallback strategy doesn't touch upon my Scientific Realism, I fall back when I think I'm stuck and yet find there's important description to do that may have a role in future research! This description can also bring education to the general public and leave it to them to make up their minds.

The Fountain - Obliteration of controversy by functionalism. - Addition.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:15:00 GMT

This post is first written on PhilosophyNow forum, Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 10:04 am - UTC + 1 hour and it has been edited 18.06.2010 so that it now looks like this:
to finish this completely, title of the exhibition segment, "This is not art! Comment to art and The Fountain! - Obliteration of controversy by functionalism"

The additional actions should be carried out on my contrasting object: while "The Fountain" is thus titled and signed R. Mutt, I now call the sink "Sink to the Ground and Hello Major Tom" and I sign it with I. Bowtoyou!

This completes this thread, I think!

This post is first written on PhilosophyNow forum, posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 8:07 pm - UTC + 1 hour and later edited the same day so that it looks like this:
One can plausibly argue that the Mona Lisa by Da Vinci is always recognisable everywhere as art while this pissoir or this brick or my sink will certainly not at all pass as art eveywhere in its nakedness! Finishing line...?

It's worth paying attention to these "factors":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_art

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuckism

http://www.stuckism.com/stuckistmanifesto.html

You should pay special attention to the sentence,
"pt. 5. Art that has to be in a gallery to be art isn't art."

So there you are, on one point, I'm in agreement with the Stuckist movement!

Criticism of Kuhn's Paradigms - Building Babel's Tower - Addition

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:10:00 GMT

This part is first written on PhilosophyNow forum, posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 7:26 pm - UTC + 1 hour
I just like to add, having learnt of Ian Hacking's "Interactive Kinds", that it may be just as an effective term to describe the history of science as my "Interconnectedness, Complexity and Technology (ICT)". Also, "interactive kinds" reinforces "natural kinds" beautifully!

Therefore, you may already now want to begin to read Ian Hacking and make your own Cumulativist version of it! Good luck!

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This part is first written PhilosophyNow forum 21.06.2010.
I'm wondering about writing about the "paradigm" of the microscope to crush the notion of paradigm because the microscope (or the telescope) extends so beautifully from our natural observing capacity and through relatively plausible optics mechanisms. Eventually I hope this is to happen, the crushing of the notion of paradigm, nevertheless.

It can be worth noting the preceding history to the laboratory and why one has decided to use laboratories in the first place. Because Kuhn is explicitly unable or not willing to separate theory and necessary experiment apparatus for making the case of the theory. Thus, experiment apparatus is not some arbitrary "black magic" device, but maybe in the Kuhnian sense, charicaturely!

What other choice is there? There are indeed deep limitations to being a human being, thus we need the microscope, the LHC, the other particle accelerators, the SOHO satelite, the spectrometer and the rest!

It maybe unnecessary to say that this writing or outlining will be a total crash with "The Structure" even if his "Structure" in many senses is well told and expertly composed.

Neo-Kantian Ethics, The Ethics of Integrity - Addition

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:45:00 GMT

Intension, Attitude and Action (objective) are the objective determinants of Integrity. Be careful for what you do, please! As an alternative to the Good Will of I. Kant, you can think of labelling your propositions in your head with the appropriate value, ie. wrong, right, unknown and undecided. This makes you more safely founded in moving forwards in life with regards to ethical and moral decisions you make. Not that both Good Will and this Labelling go well together because I think they do!

Comments on Arguments of Companions in Guilt - Addition

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:45:00 GMT

I see the description of an Ethical Objective system as an (mathematical) intersection of the above 4 points. The Ethical Objective system should thus satisfy the most strict and strongest requirements for such a system. It's worth noting that it should be humanly possible to fit into it with a least one member, one human being, and that it should live up to general requirements of plausibility and reasonability.

Although I've written about rationality above I like to write the following to make it perfectly clear. There are (at least) two kinds of Rationality that it's fair to speak of. One is the rationality according to function, being the way you apply your mind to whatever problems, practical or intellectual. The other one is rationality as in being of good mental health, being well-developed. It should be clear that rationality is the top premise of this Ethically Objective system that I ascribe and develop from a Neo-Kantian position.

This is a writing for removing any religious notion to the word Rationality and thus the system of Rationality may seem reasonable to everyone. I'm in doubt whether I. Kant has meant any religiousness at all with his "kingdom of ideas". People have interpreted it this way, but I can't see that there's a single factual instance of this in his text. Quite the opposite, I think he thinks that the common person is able to make clever thoughts, to take part in the "kingdom of ideas". I find this a much more charitable reading of him and it makes him look better too!

What are your philosophical positions? - Addition

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:45:00 GMT

Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 1:46 pm UTC; forum.philosophynow.org

Added philosophical position, thus:
I'd like to add a position to Epistemology: Internalist Externalist Compatibilist!

I also continuously update the first post accordingly! I note that few replies deal with the traditional concepts of positions in philosophy. While I don't really care what position people like to have, I'd like to say that bracing oneself against the more established concepts can be more challenging than just to give a rhetoric account of one's view.

The Fountain - Obliteration of controversy by functionalism. - Addition.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:45:00 GMT

Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 10:04 am UTC; forum.philosophynow.org

To finish this completely:
Title of the exhibition segment: Comment to art and The Fountain! - Obliteration of controversy by functionalism

While "The Fountain" is thus titled and signed R. Mutt I now call the sink "Sink to the Ground and Hello Major Tom" and I sign it with I. Bowtoyou!

Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 1:44 pm UTC; forum.philosophynow.org

I try to envision the presentation of almost any bare metal sink. It should be no problem to imagine such a sink from your own home placed next to a pissoir at an art exhibition.

This is only a simple objection and an attempt to draw a line in encircling some good advice or norms on what can be considered art to any extent.

I don't deny people the right or promote such a denial of right for people to be absolutely free to regard or present whatever they like as art/aesthetics. As such, this view of mine is purely subjective, a view people may or may not agree with.

I don't want to or can make any more points to this thread. The further work here is actually the work on presenting this as a part of an art exhibition and I'll consider this depending on what contacts I make in that regard.

Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 1:55 pm UTC; forum.philosophynow.org

Regarding the Fountain by Duchamp, I wonder if it's a social comment on a muttonhead, making us associate the "art" that takes place when a muttonhead is assaulted for being a muttonhead and thus the whole ramble that follows of shit, concluded by the spilling of grained remains of this muttonhead down the drain to the sewer.

As such, the "fountain" of shit may be this "Fountain" from Duchamp! What do you think? Is he playing a point on social realism here, ironic or laconic or whatever?

New quote to "My Own Quotes"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:45:00 GMT

'To exercise the correct morals is to be triumphant as a human being!' - TL

The Turing Test - New writing.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:00:00 GMT

Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 4:22 pm UTC; forum.philosophynow.org

I'm curious as to what the Turing test is good for.

On the one hand you have this computer set-up that's programmed semantically by a number of programmers. On the other you have this semantic (naturally) one person. Between these two, the computer and the person, another person is asked if this person can separate the machine from the human, the person.

So if one considers this from the two year old to the hundred year old, being the span of the age of this person who is to determine the person from the computer, the older person naturally has a greater range of questions to ask than the younger person, usually, because age means greater reflection.
Naturally, the older person does this better than the younger (you may deduct the very oldest).

If you in addition to this give a time limit for making the question, like 10 minutes, I think it's reasonable to say that this gets severely much more difficult. So if one is combining the very young age with a relative short time-limit to ask the questions, I think it's fair to suggest that a considerable number of people will fail the test, being unable to separate the person from the semantically programmed computer if it's comprehensive enough.

So what is the Turing test supposed to prove? What is its significance? The person and the programmers are semantically indistinguishable. That is, the computer system may even prove more advanced than the person if one puts enough programming into it. Sure, one can point to the possibility for actually being able to present a computer system that can answer like a person can or even better, but this is already done and is surely matching the younger people in combination with the time-limit.

My conclusion is that the Turing test is of no significance (anymore) since the programming possibilities are so vast!

Metaphysics, The Establishment of Non-Dogmatic New Intelligent Design (NDNID) - Addition

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:00:00 GMT

Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 6:04 pm UTC; forum.philosophynow.org

I can't see how the atheist is more rational than the deist/theist.
Why should the bare view of today's science say anything about the complete human experience, from God possibly to earth and back to God again, that is including afterlife? I admit we don't have evidence of after-life or more than just the (mortal) birth, life and (mortal) death of a human, but still this is short of many other perspectives.
So while the atheist puts one's sensitivities on science and what can "be put under the microscope", the deist/theist has one's sensitivities on meaning, ethics, infinity and the ontology of intelligence, that all in all is far more rational than what any atheist can muster!

New quote to "My Own Quotes"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:15:00 GMT

Some black humour and reflection on philosophy. 'The celebration of philosophy: only the living are dead and the dead are the living!' - TL

The duplication of person - Personal Identity - New writing.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:15:00 GMT

Issues From the Internet, Thu May 20, 2010 6:15 am UTC + 1 hour; forum.philosophynow.org

I've come to think about something on the duplication of person:
A comment on being copied to another one of yourself. If you are indeed being copied into another then one can surely say that only one would have the real impression of being one in the world while the copy would only have a real impression of being two, no matter how you put it. So, being copied into another would of course fool the copy, but the one who's copied would always be oneself.

The stuff is hypothetical, yet it can be written this way, I think.

The Worth of Philosophy - New writing.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:15:00 GMT

Issues From the Internet, Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 1:14 am UTC + 1 hour; forum.philosophynow.org

If I'm to give you my best opinion on the worth of philosophy, it's this. As far those descriptions are good for something to you is up to you, but philosophy generally carries itself by its virtue of importance. If it's no longer, it becomes a matter of historical fact of human activity and reasoning. Cheers!

The Fountain - Obliteration of controversy by functionalism. - New writing.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Wed, 19 May 2010 23:10:00 GMT

Issues From the Internet, Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 12:18 am UTC + 1 hour; forum.philosophynow.org

Please think of an art exhibition where there are several art objects. Now, when you come to the Fountain you find this pissoir along with a sink by my idea and there are details/posters explaining the context and history of this.

So, I suggest that if you place this pissoir along with this bare metal sink made with only function in mind, you do indeed destroy the Fountain as a comment to the art world and I think this may be something to think about because it restores art as being art, the strenuous effort of artistic expression. Therefore, the sink obliterates the Fountain/pissoir as being a destructive comment to art.

Wikipedia information on "The Fountain" by Duchamp.

New quote to "My Own Quotes"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Tue, 18 May 2010 03:40:00 GMT

'If callousness toward these [horrible, perverse, deviant and cruel] people is what you see in me then you have touched my mind with yours!' TL

Reasons to die as an Optimist! Writing on the blog.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Mon, 17 May 2010 01:22:00 GMT

...and not the last breath "F*ck the World!"

Points (allegedly):
- legacy of your life. Your track record should be laid down so that you can draw your last breath with a smile.

- the next generation. Life is done with the aim to help the next generation on its feet!

- living memory. If you've conducted your life properly, people further down the family tree and others will remember you fondly.

- energies. If you've lived your life ethically, you'll float into after-life along with all sorts of happy energies by your side/intimate to you. (People are naturally skeptical about "energies", but you can think of it like the energies you get from loving relations and sex.)

- the after-life. If there's an after-life and you've conducted your life properly/ethically then you can face death with the most courage possible, being certain of your deeds in your mortal life.

This is first written on Philosophy Now forum here: http://forum.philosophynow.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=4272.

I hope you like the little writing! Enjoy!

Issues From the Internet - General notice!

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Thu, 13 May 2010 03:50:00 GMT

Note! These time-records may be inaccurate. They may be UTC, UTC +1 or other time-records, especially from Philosophyforums as they're presented there. You should therefore pay attention to this when you look for the posts on these two sites as I've been inconsistent on copying time-records of being logged in (usually CET) or not (default for the site).

What are your philosophical positions? - Addition

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Thu, 13 May 2010 03:50:00 GMT

Issues From the Internet, Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 3:26 am; forum.philosophynow.org

I've added today, along with these former positions, that I still hold, Free Will Philosopher and De Dicto - Propositional - Philosopher.
It may be unnecessary to say that I encourage people to find their own ways in the philosophical landscape as a way to keep track of one's own thinking. Cheers!

Addition to "An Attack on Indexicality"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Tue, 11 May 2010 02:40:00 GMT

Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 6:53 pm; forum.philosophynow.org

So, some "funny" thoughts:
I am John Perry -> John Perry is presenting John Perry to others.

I am John Perry -> John Perry is John Perry in John Perry's belief (reinforcing self-belief or just thinking about one's identity and name)

In my opinion, it may be possible to equalise the de re position with the de dicto position and thus making it quite indifferent of what kind of propositional belief you have. This means also that it all boils down to description again! A fundamental/necessary belief in Indexicals is futile in my opinion. They can be bypassed. Proper description may be richer too, as shown above.

[Edit, 11.05.2010:]
From Wikipedia, 11.05.2010, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_re :
Quote: "There are two possible interpretations of the sentence "Peter believes someone is out to get him". On one interpretation, 'someone' is unspecific and Peter suffers a general paranoia; he believes that it is true that a person is out to get him, but does not necessarily have any beliefs about who this person may be. What Peter believes is that the predicate 'is out to get Peter' is satisfied. This is the de dicto interpretation.

On the de re interpretation, 'someone' is specific, picking out some particular individual. There is some person Peter has in mind, and Peter believes that person is out to get him." End of quote from Wikipedia.

De re: As it focuses on the person, the "thing", one can plausibly write this:
Peter believes someone is out to get him because he's suffering from paranoia and thus his belief may/is not (be) true.
Peter believes someone is out to get him because he knows about this person who is out to get him.
I think these two explanations are better to clarify the situation. To simply assert that a shortcoming of information explains one position better than the other, is simply to be untruthful and dishonest.

De dicto: As it focuses on the words, the sentences, one can plausibly write this:
Peter believes someone is out to get him because he's suffering from paranoia and thus his belief may/is not (be) true.
Peter believes someone is out to get him because he knows about this person who is out to get him.
The sentences become the same because the care for information adheres to both positions regardless if you focus on the "thing" in question or the words/sentences.

I can't believe this proves my point on de re and de dicto, but it's at least a precursor of what I believe is to come on the distinction between de re and de dicto. I've also come across de se (of oneself) that may fall into the same batch as one should always take into account that the world is not in your head or anyone else's, thus one should accomodate one's views to fit objectivity or everything thereof or as close to it as one can get. [End of edit.]

Comments on Arguments of Companions in Guilt - Addition

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:50:00 GMT

Addition to "Philosophical Notes...": Rationality in this sense is nothing mysterious. It's just the capacity to score well/great on IQ-tests, having a fine, intelligent flow of thoughts and doing a good or great working performance, whatever this may be, being in the stream so to speak!

New quote to "My Own Quotes"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sun, 09 May 2010 20:40:00 GMT

'I want to live with my dreams because then I never get disappointed!' TL

New page on the website: Suggestion for a New Norwegian Flag!

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sat, 08 May 2010 02:20:00 GMT

Suggestion for a New Norwegian Flag!

The cross can be kept as the fine symbol for the lunatic's refuge of putting their sins on their (personal) Jesus Christ. Black is for corruption, red is for blood and torture and blue is for depths of the lunatics' mentality. Cheers! I hope it will become official really soon so that it better represents what Norway is and stands for.

Song: "Det Kriminelle Norge - Hyllest til Black Debbath"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sat, 08 May 2010 02:20:00 GMT

Tittel: Det Kriminelle Norge - Hyllest til Black Debbath
(Title: The Criminal Norway - Tribute to Black Debbath (transl. Black Debate, loosely, can also play on the dipping of children into the iron cauldron, a bath), a Norwegian band)
Notat: Det er meningen at denne sangen skal synges p� norsk slik som Black Debbaths vokalist synger sangene
(Note: It's the intention that this song is to be sung in Norwegian like the lead singer of Black Debbath sings the songs)

Det kriminelle Norge vil ha verden i dets hand
(The criminal Norway wants the world in its hand)

Og det gj�r vi ved tortur av barn og menneskehandel!
(And we do that by torturing our children and human trafficking)

V�res praksis er mer korrupsjon enn profesjon!
(Our practice is more corruption than profession!)

Det kriminelle Norge vil ha verden i dets hand
(The criminal Norway wants the world in its hand)

V�re lover og v�rt demokrati er bare formalitet!
(Our laws and our democracy is just formality!)

Det kriminelle Norge vil ha verden i dets hand
(The criminal Norway wants the world in its hand)

Og kj�per vi ikke verden, dere tullinger, med v�rt kriminalitetsfremmende oljefond?!!
(And don't we buy the world, you fools, with our crime promoting oil fund?!!)

Det kriminelle Norge vil ha verden i dets hand
(The criminal Norway wants the world in its hand)

Slutt (for n�)
End (for now)

(Det er mulig jeg skriver mer p� denne sangen!)
(It's possible I write more on this song!)

Two examples of Black Debbath performance:
Mongo Norway. Mongo in Norwegian is a scornful remark alluding to an idiot/dumbass and in the past also to people with Down's Sydrome because of their facial features in similarity to the people of Mongolia. Even though he's singing smuget means danger in Norwegian, it's actual meaning is back alley (assumably where dirty things take place). Mongo Norway (A Guide To Nightlife In Oslo) is the title of the song and Smuget is a former pub/nightclub in Oslo.
Det er problemer innad i H�yre!
(There are many more, just search for the band name.)

Searle's Chinese Room Argument on Its Head - Addition

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Wed, 05 May 2010 01:20:00 GMT

Issues From the Internet, Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:49 am; forum.philosophynow.org

It is funny, though, that if you turn Searle's [Chinese Room] argument on its head, it can be a nice qualia argument in so far as the person in the room learning Chinese in this occasion, can show the genuine character of a human distinctly apart from a computer. [One needs to hypothesise that this person has all the supplies necessary and as being hypothetical as Mary, the scientist in The Knowledge Argument.]

Comments on Arguments of Companions in Guilt - Addition

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Tue, 04 May 2010 18:50:00 GMT

Addition to "Philosophical Notes...": .../make a good case for it.

It should be a fundamental belief that morality/ethics is to respect rationality in others, also the potential of such in others, eg. children. This doesn't capture ecology very well, but I can think of it as intelligent/rational to allow nature and animals alike a natural life (for various reasons) incl. agricultural/aquacultural. Thus, as this is a facet of being rational as a person, every person should respect people with ecological views and the ecological view therefore becomes the only ethical view in this respect, a general starting point.

Repugnance and appeal to emotions/feelings/aestheticism are not any good way to get there even though I support every argument that makes a good foundation for Ethical Objectivity. (This has first been written, in parts, on the Philosophy Now forum, 26th April, 2010.)

The River Argument and The Resources Divide - Addition

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Tue, 04 May 2010 18:50:00 GMT

Addition to "Philosophical Notes...": Firstly, it seems that Deontological Ethics and Rule Utilitarianism converge into the same good ethical picture. Further, Rule Utilitarianism and Act Utilitarianism resemble the discussion of Universals and Particulars in Metaphysics in which case I just say both! I bow to this. I can't see any important differences.

Utilitarianism Ethics = Deontological Ethics (identity logical relation). (This has first been written on the Philosophyforums, 30th January, 2010.)

Addition to "Thoughts, Alzheimer, Parkinson, Dementia""

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Tue, 04 May 2010 17:15:00 GMT

There's no doubt that personality plays a role in determining the relationship to both yourself and your body. If you want to do it all away, just get yourself into a car-crash and then you know where you've taken yourself, into the very car-crash!
Here are some facts and reference for Parkinson's Disease:
Affects about 120,000 people in the UK
Most people who get Parkinson's are aged 50 or over
A loss of nerve cells in the brain causes the symptoms of Parkinson's to appear
From a BBC information page.

"Scientific Explanation of Person"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:30:00 GMT

Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 10:32 pm; forum.philosophynow.org

Besides, who I am may not be an accident at all, but follows beautifully down the family tree of life and genetics, from ancient ancestors to my parents (and to myself) today...

New quote to "My Own Quotes"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Tue, 04 May 2010 13:57:00 GMT

'Do you have a big ego? Not in particular, it's within my brain and not bigger than my intelligence, being a kind of function of the two, thank you!' TL

Addition to "An Attack on Indexicality"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Mon, 03 May 2010 19:40:00 GMT

Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 5:46 pm; forum.philosophynow.org

It says in the paper by Perry, following from above, that:

"In these three cases [you can investigate the paper for yourselves] the subjects in explaining their actions, would use indexicals to characterize certain beliefs they came to have. These indexicals are essential, in that replacement of them by other terms destroys the force of the explanation, or at least requires certain assumptions to be made to preserve it."
My emphasis.
By essential in the meaning of necessary, this doesn't walk, I say. I'm against this notion of essential, but in exactly this quote, I'm uncertain to what definite opposition I bother to have other than I can make equally good objective (without the use of indexicals, especially "I") descriptions. It's also uncertain if using indexicals takes away any objectivity at all as the utterers are always in the given context. Much of this has its responsibility upon the one who is making the description where I adhere to the possibility of making as accurate a description as information and context allow, not necessarily without indexicals, but always possibly (as good). This should therefore be an incredibly minor issue and it may be one that has been exaggerated by the publishers and editor of The Philosophy of Language by A. P. Martinich, 5 ed., not really playing any important classic role at all.

On the other side, I've gained quite some consciousness of description by pursuing (more difficult) indexical-free descriptions and it may represent fine training and insight in going through this yourself (possibly mostly in one's scientific pursuit).

Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 2:02 pm; forum.philosophynow.org

There's no dogma in it for all I care. I use the indexicals all the time yet it strikes me that scientific papers demand more rigour. There's no program to get rid of the indexicals! There's no holocaust of the indexicals (perhaps this is rather distasteful...).

Getting rid of them, dogmatically or systematically would require major efforts in a wide number of people and it would probably go against people's logic (of what language is supposed to yield or provide).

In line with writing of present tense as the indexical now, I can present these two sentences:
Should we have a cup of tea? Perhaps we can have a cup of tea later, if not? It can also be nice to think about this solution where the 2nd sentence takes out everything later than "now", implied by the 1st, a kind of "locking nut" to the first nut on the bolt.

Long live the indexicals and also the possibility of doing without them. Cheers!

Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 5:07 pm; forum.philosophynow.org

This is the start of these examples I'm going to present indexical-free, equivalent to the indexical versions:

The Careless Shopper
I once followed a trail of sugar on a supermarket floor, pushing my cart down the aisle on one side of a tall counter and back the aisle on the other, seeking the shopper with a torn sack to tell him he was making a mess. With each trip around the counter, the trail became thicker. But I seemed unable to catch up. Finally it dawned on me. I was the shopper I was trying to catch.
I believed at the outset that the shopper with a torn sack was making a mess And I was right. But I didn't believe that I was making a mess. That seems to be something I came to believe. And when I came to believe that, I stopped following the trail around around the counter, and rearranged the torn sack in my cart. My change in beliefs seems to explain my change in behaviour.
I am making a mess.

Indexical free (IF):
John Perry once followed a trail of sugar on a supermarket floor, pushing John Perry's cart down the aisle on one side of a tall counter and back the aisle on the other, seeking the shopper with a torn sack to tell the shopper with a torn sack that the shopper with a torn sack was making a mess. With each trip around the counter, the trail became thicker. But John Perry seemed unable to catch up. Finally it dawned on John Perry. John Perry was the shopper John Perry was trying to catch.
John Perry believed at the outset that the shopper with a torn sack was making a mess. And John Perry was right. But John Perry didn't believe that John Perry was making a mess. That seems to be something John Perry came to believe. And when John Perry came to believe that, John Perry stopped following the trail around around the counter, and rearranged the torn sack in John Perry's cart. John Perry's change in beliefs seems to explain John Perry's change in behaviour.
John Perry is making a mess.

(It's presumed that John Perry's name stand to John Perry's own perceptions in this example. The shopper with a torn sack is equally unique in John Perry's belief, that is, it is the same person John Perry is following.)

The Tardy Professor
In the first a professor, who desires to attend the department meeting on time, and believes correctly that it begins at noon, sits motionless in his office at that time. Suddenly he begins to move. What explains his action? A change in belief. He believed all along that the department meeting starts at noon; he came to believe, as he would have put it, that it starts now.

IF:
In the first a professor, who desires to attend the department meeting on time, and believes correctly that the department meeting begins at noon, sits motionless in the professor's office at the moment of time. Suddenly the professor begins to move. What explains the professor's action? A change in belief. The professor believed all along that the department meeting starts at noon; the professor came to believe, as the professor would have put the words, that the meeting starts at the moment the professor realises the time, noon.

The Lost Hiker
The author of the book, Hiker's Guide to the Desolation Wilderness, stands in the wilderness beside Gilmore Lake, looking at the Mt. Tallac trail as it leaves the lake and climbs the mountain. He desires to leave the wilderness. He believes that the best way out from Gilmore Lake is to follow the Mt. Tallac trail up the mountain to Cathedral Peaks trail, on to the Floating Island trail, emerging at Spring Creek Tract Road. But he does not move. He is lost. He isn't sure whether he is standing beside Gilmore Lake, looking at Mt. Tallac, or beside Clyde Lake looking at Jack's peak, or beside Eagle Lake looking at one of the Maggie peaks. Then he begins to move along the Mt. Tallac trail. If asked, he would have explained the crucial change in his beliefs this way: "I came to believe that this is the Mt. Tallac trail and that is Gilmore Lake."

IF:
The author of the book, Hiker's Guide to the Desolation Wilderness, stands in the wilderness beside Gilmore Lake, looking at the Mt. Tallac trail as the Mt. Tallac trail leaves the lake and climbs the mountain. The author desires to leave the wilderness. The author believes that the best way out from Gilmore Lake is to follow the Mt. Tallac trail up the mountain to Cathedral Peaks trail, on to the Floating Island trail, emerging at Spring Creek Tract Road. But the author does not move. The author is lost. The author isn't sure whether the author is standing beside Gilmore Lake, looking at Mt. Tallac, or beside Clyde Lake looking at Jack's peak, or beside Eagle Lake looking at one of the Maggie peaks. Then the author begins to move along the Mt. Tallac trail. If asked, the author would have explained the crucial change in the author's beliefs in the following way: "The author came to believe that the trail the author is perceiving is the Mt. Tallac trail and the lake the author is perceiving is Gilmore Lake."

(The author of the book, Hiker's Guide to the Desolation Wilderness is the author throughout the text above.)

Except for the three headers that I've taken from a paper, these texts under these three headers are all the perfect reproduction of the paper of John Perry.

My argument/attack against indexicality is from a propositional, de dicto position. This written, it's in support of the possibility (concerning even those entities that are not) of a good/exhaustive description that's context-specific. Description is thus a matter of precision and applies where it should.

I've now added the indexical-free versions. They are finished.

Addition to "What are your philosophical positions?"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Mon, 03 May 2010 19:40:00 GMT

Posted Sep 20, 2009 - 10:59 AM; forums.philosophyforums.com

I've been looking at Philosophy of Mathematics and I find that Mathematical Realism suits me nicely.
It may be that it follows PoM, but so be it. In Logics, I'm a Logical Realist. Remark: These positions are the initial ones and I don't have any comprehensive knowledge of these two fields. This may make these choices seem irrational, but I've made an attempt to solve the Problem of Induction and this attempt propels me into these positions. The "Solution" is here: http://forums.philosophyforums.com...ew-on-induction-36894.html.

Edit: I've been thinking some of "Moral Realism". Is it possible that morality is expressed in physics? That morality has an inner foundation in physical realities. I'm just wondering about and it may seem stupid to a lot of people. If there is a physical foundation for morality, I'm just speculating here, then I'm a Moral Realist, whatever it means in the literature.

Edit: Metaphysics: Solipsist.
(Edited by Aetixintro on Feb 21, 2010 - 2:54 AM. Reason: added information)

The Psychiatric Medicines are a State and Insurance driven Medical Syndicate. Writing on the blog.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sun, 02 May 2010 23:32:00 GMT

A suggestion for financial instruments to European economies belonging to the Euro system: all debt to the Euro countries are controlled by the EU Commission. As the EU Commission respond to the requirement of additional resources (money), it oversees the repayment of the loans back into the ECB/Euro/EU treasury. So I don't see the problem why any economy in the Euro-zone should have to pay expensive rates on their loans unless it's in the interest of the Euro-zone. Therefore, in a sense, the EU Commission can control the levels of debt, economic sanctions of each Euro member state and the inflation of the Euro itself, parallel to ECB's interest rate control! Cheers to Europe! (I see no reason why this can't be applied to all EU states, just slightly differently.)

Economy: A Suggestion for Financial Instruments to European Economies Belonging to the Euro System

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:00:00 GMT

This is the same that has been written on the Philosophy Now forum and my blog, see right below.

Suggestion for Financial Instruments for Euro Members. Writing on the blog.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:46:00 GMT

Greece-bashing! End it now! Writing on the blog.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:18:00 GMT

I'm irritated over this bashing of Greece like if it's supposed to be the Achilles' heel of both Europe and the Euro despite its relatively little population of approx. 12 Million people of the total Euro population of approx. 327 Million people and the EU population of some 450 Million people. I'd say Greece is more like a drop in the ocean, which in turn makes me think that Standard & Poor's gets bribes or has interests for being so incredibly negative about the Euro-zone, coming from the island of the (selfish) Pound.
Think of Greece as being California that asks the central government of Washington for help! It's just the same! Of course, we should be able to handle this in the most gentle way, allowing Greece to take support from both the EU Commission and the IMF, primarily. In this way, Greece can also sidestep expensive private loans as it's now rated as junk level in terms of its (private) loans. There is no crisis here! The Euro is still a very large mountain based on the aggregate bottom line of products and services generated by its 327/450 Million people, representing potentially a far greater economy than that of the Dollar and USA. It's also funny how a (USA) conglomerate seems to talk down on the Euro and Europe while Europe has been very eager to support the Dollar when USA has been in need of support! Hmmm...

Business in Europe! Writing on the blog.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:53:00 GMT

Europe should be conscious about floating university projects and other state managed activities like big library projects into profitable, successful companies, dominating at least the European scene!

Europeana can thus become a nice Amazon/Google by offering payment solution to some of its registered items where this is relevant. One should remember that Altavista has once upon time been a state managed activity of USA and that its search technology has helped the IT students of the founders of Google to set their enterprise into action! Bill Gates has also been a student of technology benefitting from university research into the computing processor technology. It's well known that the business life in USA is well entwined with university activities and we in Europe should duplicate and assimilate! Cheers!

Amnesty International is a Disservice to the Justice System in Europe! Writing on the blog.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:40:00 GMT

Amnesty International is a disservice to the justice system in Europe! My investigations into the mental health industry make it evident that Amnesty International is nothing more than a political tool for prejudices to the developing world and doing minimally for ensuring the well-being of Europeans at large (Amnesty International is indeed comparable to Human Rights Watch in USA). I sense Europe's justice system is cringing by its incredible naivity and sympathy to criminal lunatics, effectively forcing the common European to make "gang deals" on "the street".

I hereby call for new investigations into what this overt and naive sympathy implies to the justice system, people's sense of security and the preventive effect the actual punishment of today has on crime! One may also look into capital punishment versus life-long imprisonment while one is at it! It's also worth noting lethal needle injection versus shooting and the guillotine versus the electric chair, the shooting and the guillotine being the better options in my opinion! Heartily yours!

USA "Energy" Business of Devotion, Benevolence and Respect. Writing on the blog.

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:21:00 GMT

I think USA is in a kind of conscious stream where it's generating activities being companies and all other efforts that draw devotion, benevolence and respect worldwide. USA is using this, I suspect, to further spurt activities with, sustaining their dominion of the world more cynically than the rest of the world thinks.

I don't support shitty people and I choose to favour European science and enterprises when this is relevant. Are they, U.S. citizens, supposed to rightfully claim our (all other worldly citizens) devotion, benevolence and respect because USA has made the PC, Microsoft and Google some years ago? Not only that, but claiming goodness to be a property of USA only is arrogant at best!

The answer and conclusion to this is that the rest of the world (apart from USA) needs to care for its "energy" business for attracting (for itself) the devotion, benevolence and respect of at least its territorial citizens! Implicitly, this means cutting corruption to effectuate better/best competing enterprises, letting people turn their "energies"/love and devotion to their work! Cheers!

Addition to "Time"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:42:00 GMT

In responding to Charles Taylor, Metaphysics, 4th ed., this fleeting moment, referring in particular to The Elusive Present, pp. 85-87, of the present can only float in one direction, forward!
Time is also stuck to the time-track. 1980/01/01 CE will always be 1980/01/01 CE even if you consider it as 1980 CE + 13,7 x 10^9 CE years. This will always yield present time point, X CE + 13,7 x 10^9 CE where 13,7 x 10^9 CE is the most precise scientific estimate of the universe relevant to time and X is current date by year or date. I can write it like this: X + S being the X years from 0 CE and the scientific estimate from 0 CE to the beginning of the universe according to the Big Bang theory and scientific community's consensus.

The time of relativity/absurdism is slashed in the Metaphysical sense of Time theory.

New quote to "My Own Quotes"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:36:00 GMT

'The respect I give when I'm being threatened is equal to the biological reaction of letting go of a fart. Clearly, you must see me now, Asshole!' TL

Addition to "Philosophical Notes..."

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:00:00 GMT

Comments on Arguments of Companions in Guilt: ...possibly effecting one's own salvation.

Consequently, let's look at abortion again. What if two parties agree on the fact that guilt may not apply for abortion because there are factors that speak strongly for and against as well as the indeterminate status of the fetus to be removed, both on brain function and emotional function when the procedure is carried out? Thus, abortion for these two parties remains a private, informed and "esoteric" decision, yet respected by either party in companionship without guilt!

Addition to "Anti-hacking of wi-fi routers, designation of IP-address to existing and pre-approved/designated clients only"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:26:00 GMT

You can also open a time frame for logging on new users for authentication and then close this frame by ticking off the box for existing users in a TTL - time to live, manner. Fx. you allow a 1/one hour window for a new user to log on to this wi-fi router. In this time frame, everyone can attempt to log on, but this window will only primarily be known to the administrator and the new user. Not only will a potential intruder have to be in physical range to this wi-fi router, but the intruder will also have to use the correct user-name and password and I believe that all these options combined will make this virtually impossible to hack/make illegal entrance to.
In essence therefore, I'd like there to be four/4 box options:
1. Allow only pre-approved users.
2. Allow only 3 (or more) attempts for log-in.
3. Allow only existing users to log on in addition to new users within a time frame.
4. Once new users have logged on, close the appropriate number of IP-addresses for log-in possibility/authentication. Fx. 1 new user is opened for to the wi-fi router. Once this user has logged on/been identified as user the wi-fi router closes for all other detected wi-fi unknown/unwanted users. A possible intruder will either then be presented with a false log-in possibility or a page announcing no log on possibility/closed wi-fi router. You find this addition to suggested design still at the bottom of the page.

Computing: "Anti-hacking of wi-fi routers, designation of IP-address to existing and pre-approved/designated clients only"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:59:00 GMT

I've seen a report of hacking of a wi-fi network that has been made by a Danish producer. I think in large parts this can be avoided by setting log-in attempts to 3, perhaps a few more, and to designate/send IP-address by the wi-fi router wirelessly to existing and pre-approved/designated clients only. Possibly, if the administrator somehow fails the log-in attempts, then one can set the system to require physical access to ensure physical security. By this, you deny any incidental hook-ups to the network even by chance, making the system very safe. You should be able to design this system this way, optionally or as default to ensure security. You find this suggested design at the bottom of the page.

Addition to "God"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 05:13:00 GMT

One remark on the side. In order to use necessity of God, you'll have to write something like this:
[(∃x)(K) ⊃ (∃x)(G)] ⊃ □(∃x)(G)
That is, if God is affirmed, knowledge contains an existing God, then an existing God is necessarily an existing God.
This should be in line with Kripke-modality as it's explained in his Naming and Necessity.
But the best one can do, IMO, is ◊(∃x)(G), possibly there's an existing God! I guess, all we believers are waiting for "Heaven".

Addition to "Philosophical Notes..."

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 05:13:00 GMT

You can hold your hands in a 45 deg. arc with one straight hand pointing downward and the other straight hand pointing upward to give a very fine, simple picture of this Cumulativist version above and it probably goes well with the young in being a story of Philosophy of Science you can tell them.

Addition to "Philosophical Notes..."

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 05:13:00 GMT

Comments on Arguments of Companions in Guilt: Through the arsenal of diagnostics like various lie-detectors, (f)MRI-scans, interviews, somatic examinations and what have you it should be possible to make good judgment on the status of these 3 factors, Integrity, Mental Health and Physical Health. Any reasonable doubt can therefore be removed for what kind of companion one is socialising with. Any person with substantial deviation in either Integrity, Mental Health and Physical Health from the characteristics that are condoned by exactly this Ethical Objectivity can thus be excluded from the desirable group of people that comply with Ethical Objectivity. The days of the Arguments of Companions in Guilt are consequently numbered!

Addition to "On Metaphysics of Time"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:13:00 GMT

Just let me clarify:
Time is, of course, a physical requirement, being at least, 1 of 4 dimensions. This is not the question. The question is how we as human beings have come to know time, both as concept and our cognition of it. Historically, I believe one has addressed "a day's worth of work, but the revolve of the Earth making the days has been essential of this formation. I believe the timing of motion is quite recent (1400 CE or so, just as a guess, especially in referring to the feather and stone experiment in testing gravity and at the same time having the perception of time in this regard). One can perhaps check out the invention of the first time-taking pieces or clocks on Wikipedia.

Clearly then, there's no questioning of time as such, but it's worth noting that we all live under the sun and it remains our compass of time until then! This may change if we settle in a new star system, but this is not some time soon, I can predict.

Note. Don't pay too much attention to "rationalist's approach". It's simply put this way for suggesting the special place consciousness may have in regarding events of time and especially the consciousness of other "agents" in this perspective.

Addition to "Thoughts, Alzheimer, Parkinson, Dementia"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:13:00 GMT

Thoughts concerning Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and Dementia: Dementia is classified along with Alzheimer's, I've seen recently. I think this is a good step. Dementia is, along these former lines, the beginning of the descent to death, the onset of a dying brain. Discipline on one's mindset, possibly being also one's morality, and mindful activities should take away the possibility for Dementia to occur. Yet, it's my sense that there are incentives in the patient for Dementia to occur in the first place so perhaps Dementia is a matter of personality traits and as such, is difficult to handle. I'm wondering a little bit if Dementia can occur as a result of inactivity by deep resentment. If you have the idea that the society or whatever your environment is, isn't worth your efforts, inactivity is an option, but I think it's a poorer choice than suicide, even though seeking unhealthy living style in combination with decadence/inactivity may be a possibility to this end. Be healthy!

Addition to "Opinions on Science in Expression of Evolution and Other"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:13:00 GMT

Opinions on Astrophysics, Possible Explanation of the Paradox of the Corona of the Sun and its Temperature Differences: It may be that this layer represents new insights to emittance of photons and the production of this kind of layer as a result of reduction-physics/chemistry of the substances on the Sun.

This layer is created between the physics of more heavy substances drawn more closely to the center of the Sun and the possibility for escaping the gravity of the Sun like the photons (, through the form of photons, being a matter of particles nature) and possibly other particles blown out from the Sun by fusion reactions.

Addition to "Psychiatric views and findings"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:13:00 GMT

Small additions and the following. There may be some concern that this represents pseudo-science and quackery. I detest having any views that can be categorised as pseudo-science and quackery. I will therefore make it perfectly clear:
My hypothesis: when people are blind to ethical/moral concerns of the type "it's important to follow the laws and be a morally decent person", they can fall victim to conditions that result in schizophrenia and that this path in life in self-reinforcing, f.x. inflicting violence become less and less a concern to you as a person. Consequently, the other side of it is the people who fall prey to these morally ignorant people.
The scientific procedure: I can confirm or defeat this by 2 possible ways. One is to be precise in getting knowledge about people's backgrounds and correlate this with their diagnosis, schizophrenia and depression being the interesting, correlation value of .5 being a total defeat.
The next possibility is this. One can study either societies that are strict on moral code and check with the insanity rate of schizophrenia and depression, these being the only factors of this or I can somehow urge and get people to behave more morally (extremely unlikely, but may be possible) and check for improvements on reported mental health statistics, again, schizophrenia and depression being the interesting.

Not only that, but you also deny future generations to get to know how great an ethical/moral life can be in avoiding schizophrenia/psychopathy. Is this really something you want? What if I'm right, proven by the research, wouldn't it be incredibly nice to know that this ethical/moral life by the general public can eradicate the insanity of schizophrenia and depression and possibly more? If one is to subdue to this possible confirmation, one might/may be unscientific in providing truth of the causes to schizophrenia and depression. I think my writing carries a deeply ethical/moral message and I have only the good intentions by coming forward with this.

Obviously, the uneducated have little use in this, except as instilling good ethics/morals in their children and urging the society at large to also conduct according to good ethics/morals.
It's sincerely meant as a just that: the hypothesis/theory. One has to conduct more research into this and apply at the same time greater rigour to procedure, including great care of one's integrity to what one's doing.
It doesn't help you to research rape by raping someone and by raping someone you put yourself in an awkward position to other rape victims you're supposed to help and understand. This is just a notice regarding the practice.
It is enough to have the angle of immorality (by action and/or attitude) toward mental illness, especially schizophrenia. Besides, as schizophrenics "might" be the immoral group, you deny the group of depressed, mentally ill any right to know what is going on in case my hypothesis/theory turns out to be right.

Addition to "Philosophical Notes..."

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:30:00 GMT

As much as Paul Bloomfield makes the argument of having and maintaining good physical health, I'd like to add the following:
It should be possible to determine Integrity, Mental Health and Physical Health by keeping one's ethics. People may fool themselves, but I think that the most sensitive factor of these three, being Integrity, is very much affected by both bad attitude/mindset and bad actions, altogether being bad morals and possibly bad ethics.

Small addition to "Psychiatric views and findings"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:30:00 GMT

There may be a good and fast solution as part of diagnostication in correlating with measuring metabolism (by blood sample). (This is only by assertion and is yet to be confirmed.)

Addition to "Time"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:30:00 GMT

McTaggart is wrong in presenting his A and B bands/tracks dichotomy. I believe the origin of time historically has its roots in the seasons, the Sun and possibly the life span of human kind by every single person. The clock is thus determined by the 24 hrs cycle of the Sun (on Earth), essentially giving the time when the Sun is highest through the day. Later, one has divided the Earth into 24 time zones with few exceptions. McTaggart comes out weak in his academic life of presenting time as he does. Let me guess he has lived an incredibly relaxed life with few necessary daily routines. This is from the reason that everyone, historically, has their primary activities during the day and catches the sleep during the night. This is undeniable if one goes back to the medieval times, at least. It is eventually the objective time, given by the Sun and the passing of years, historically, that trumphs the notion of time whether you sense time in this way or that or have funny thoughts about time.

Writing on the blog. UN map of the world and the respect for nations' territories!

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:51:00 GMT

There should be a non-contended territory description and security affirmation of this territory for each nation in the world in agreement by all other states by resolution in the UN, possibly by a deal brokered by exactly UN. To certify long-term efforts by the people in these respective territories with the commitment by their ends to safely sustainable development such as natural population reduction (on a 200 year plan) and ecological conservatism and reconstruction should be very much worthwhile. My best wishes to such initiatives!

Writing on the blog. Is the War on Terrorism in fact the War on Drugs?

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:41:00 GMT

This is about the factors of the Afghanistan and Pakistan efforts. What else is there in these conflicts than some Mountain-Druglords that are underpinned by deep poverty in these regions, usually in the outskirts of the population centers? It seems to me that "Taliban/Extreme Radicalists" are now comprised of people mainly dealing in the drug traffic. It may be unnecessary to point out the dangers of drug addiction to both the mentality and the personality of people. What else can they be doing? Who are they really, these people living in harsh conditions in the mountains and on the fringes of these two countries? There can only be one solution: the drug traffic itself must be attacked by military power until it's gone!

Writing on the blog. Condolences to Poland

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:34:00 GMT

I'm sad to register, although this is rather late, the awful accident that has killed the Polish president and his wife and senior members of the Polish society. My condolences go out to the people of Poland. I think one can honour the memory of these fine people by continuing the excellent progression of Poland that has been achieved this far! To the future!

Addition to "More Quotes!"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 08:09:00 GMT

New quote: "If I have seen further, it is only because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton.

Adding conclusion to "The square circle? Alternation like Riemann!"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:59:00 GMT

Addition. "Conclusion: I, by this, can hold two views to the best of the possibility of creating square circles, in my view, that are, of course, the 3-D object of the sphere and the 2-D object by the circle, both representing squares in their own right as far as I can envision such squares. These are contrary to traditional views, perhaps, but I still find it cool to have drawn such "crazy" objects."

Writing on the blog. Geography: Perfect Representation of Planet Earth

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:41:00 GMT

Perfect representation of the body of planet Earth is done by taking pictures of the actual curved Earth or something representing such. These pictures will be in 2-D and therefore giving the perfect view in 2-D of the 3-D curvature of this object. Perhaps the recommendation will be f.x. 8 pictures, being 4 pictures of focus on each 360 deg/4 part of the northern hemisphere and the same for the southern hemisphere. This will solve the problem of comparing areas on 2-D view by allowing the brain that perceives it, to correlate the curvature and reduction in area that's interesting. You therefore eliminate the classical diminishing of the African continent so often depicted in older maps. You can add numbers complementing the map so that one can check the actual size of the area in question. Cheers! :-)

Addition of quotes to "My Own Quotes"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:08:00 GMT

Addition of quotes to "My Own Quotes"! I've added a few new quotes to the webpage, written on earlier occasions elsewhere.

New page on the website: More Quotes!

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:08:00 GMT

New page on the website: More Quotes! It has quotes from Thomas Paine and others. Check it out! The link to this page can be found on the Ident and Comfy Ident pages.

Writing on the blog. Suggestion for Syndication of All Primary Industry

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 09:00:00 GMT

Syndication of all primary industry, modelling OPEC in setting prices that benefits the countries, companies with reasonable profits and gives the industry's workers decent lives, growing eventually to developed world's standards. It's worth considering the rather bad conditions of the tea, coffee, chocolate and rice industries to mention some of the members of the group of this. There are fine contemporary tendencies in Norway for rewarding farmers of certain standard-sized farms a fair factory-worker's salary, putting this person in the middle range of income. This should be the end-target for those contributing to primary industries. Cheers!

The renaming of "Philosophical Notes". It's now "Philosophical Notes of Intellectual Music"!

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 18:55:00 GMT

The renaming of "Philosophical Notes". It's now "Philosophical Notes of Intellectual Music"! Do you like it? Cheers!

Small addition to "Opinions on Physics"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:43:00 GMT

I'd also like to point out that the "mystery" of Schr�dinger's cat comes down to the Copenhagen Interpretation, that I follow strictly on the observation point only, of having to be observed for something to exist. Schrodinger's cat goes clearly against this, even as an indirect observation. I therefore think that the whole of this line of thinking (Schr�dinger's cat etc.) is flawed. It's almost embarrassing how mistaken it seems in regard to the huge interest.

Addition of statement of belief in Scientology

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 02:18:00 GMT

Addition of statement of belief in Scientology under Deism.

Addition of statement of belief in Scientology

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 02:18:00 GMT

Addition of statement of belief in Scientology under Deism. This is the recommended page to read as this is the Comfy option.

Addition of "Search TV Ad by Scientology"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 02:18:00 GMT

Addition of "Search TV Ad by Scientology" to my website. This is only a simple html-page that has the TV ad embedded from YouTube on it. See it!

Small addition to "Opinions on Physics"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 23:22:00 GMT

Small addition to "Opinions on Physics" - New on photons.

The writing of "The square circle? Alternation like Riemann!"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:23:00 GMT

Apropos a square circle:
Hypothetically and "crazy", if a square could be a round object, its four corners would meet at a point on this round object!
You can view this in the vein of Riemann who defines a curved surface triangle to have a total of 270 degrees combined angle as opposed to the usual 180 degrees of a flat triangle! Likewise, it should be possible to define a whole square to be round like that. Although, you don't get the bent square, you get the impression of a flat surface with a point in the center and the meeting four edges that line in towards it. This circle then hides a sphere that's a Riemann-bent square. Cool?

Small addition to "Comment on Zombies"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:43:00 GMT

I've been hesitant to what position I'd take on the metaphysical conceivability of zombies. It's now more clear while at the same time coming from a Realist metaphysical position. I've also been feeling wrong about denying the metaphysical conceivability of zombies and simultaneously admitting a kind of "limited" mind. I come to this conclusion, upholding a decent, open mind and liking the challenges: one thing is to conceive a zombie metaphysically, another isssue is whether this is serious or not. I think it's not serious hence the metaphysical conceivability of zombies is unserious!

Addition to "Comment on Arguments of Companions in Guilt"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:42:00 GMT

It must be admitted by myself, whether or not Dr. Sam Harris agrees, however, that flourishing and happiness are still normative, unscientific, ethical objectives. One can indeed be relatively poor and still be generally happy and one can work too much and thus flourish beyond one's happiness. It's also a question to what ends we are supposed to be flourishing and happy. Where does this flourishing and happiness lead to if there's no destination in sight? Isn't then life only a matter of taste and artistry in life? What about doing extreme sports and other activities where one does risk one's own life? The question is not so much a matter of this risk-taking person's life, but this person's social connections, possibly causing grief in these people by the risk-taking. Thus, it's yet to see to what extent one can fully argue that the objectives of flourishing and happiness can be scientific. Indeed, this scientific notion has implicitly some kind of normative destiny to it that Dr. Sam Harris is in debt to answer.

It's admirable of Dr. Sam Harris of denoting this "scientific", given the normative objectives, and at the same time quenching the lunatics who promote death and destruction. It's certainly worth a thorough scientific study of what underlying causes there are for people's misfortunes when it's so commonly known that most or all people like to be happy, flourishing or both.

Small addition to "Time"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:07:00 GMT

...present even though the future consists in only one course, becoming both the present and the past.

Addition to "Time"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:06:00 GMT

We can surely say that the past of time has generated the course for the present moment and equally surely we can say the future lies in the scope of the present. Therefore, it's not irrelevant what has taken place in the past and the future has to come out of what is our present moment! We can look at everything in our present moment and conclude with certainty that a number of things must have led up to this. At least, this must be the nature of reality, otherwise we wouldn't be alive in exactly this scope of reality as it is. I think this supports block theory of time. This may be plain and is thus probably more pedagogical than informative. My view, however, is now more deeply explained and should be impossible to retreat from unless I trash the whole block theory of time.

Note of claim. Addition to "The Dr. Mengele Club-project and others. Scripts for film."

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:25:00 GMT

"The Dr. Mengele Club", "Untitled (Leap!)", "The Long March - Papyruses in the Hidden - Empire Unification", "The King of France", "We Are Immortal" and "Cults and Types of the Hidden Leaders in the World and Some of the Not So Hidden Ones" are written by Terje Lea, 2002-2010.

Claim: I claim to be the creator/author of these ideas that are meant to be films. These ideas are mine. They've been made between 2003 and now, March, 2010. The oldest idea is the first one listed, each idea being conceived as you move down the list. The reason I haven't dated them is because they've been meant to be worked on to make up manuscripts and as such the starting date of the particular manuscript would be its first date, of course, giving the credit of being the ideas of mine before any list of authors of manuscripts.

Addition to "A Solution to the Problem of Evil - A Theodicy"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:38:00 GMT

I see no logical necessity for humans to be both good and evil. They can be, I think, very good and little evil. They can also be, I think, extremely good and very little evil. Possibly, humans should have the ability to be all good and not evil, but this is up to you!

Addition to "Comment on Arguments of Companions in Guilt"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:02:00 GMT

I'm with Dr. Sam Harris when he argue by objectivity of flourishness and happiness, potentially by and in everyone, on TED Talks that some/all moral questions or some/all outside spectrums of some/all moral spectrums can be answered by science. Now, I don't know if this is consensus within a group of scientists and philosophers alike and if this is documented by scientific articles. He does mention psychology and neuro-science as two (obvious) angles to answer this scientifically.

Writing on the blog. USA, listen to Fareed Zakaria, please!

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:13:00 GMT

I agree with Fareed Zakaria, in the wake of approving the Healthcare Reform, that USA also incorporates VAT of 15-25%. This will reinforce USA as a fine cross-cultural, cross-religious, humanistic and socially aware nation! Best wishes to U.S. American future!

(Note: Obviously, I'm not a U. S. American citizen and as such this writing is meant as encouragement for USA to be the best. I think it also represents safety to the rest of the world if USA makes the right choices. This is such a choice!)

Addition to "The River Argument and The Resources Divide"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:20:00 GMT

This is a note for the Bentham utilitarianism above. You can basically disregard the above comment on utilitarianism. It's now some teaching of the history of ethics more than an argument. Today, in contemporary ethics, it's considered obsolete.

I only choose deontology of the (Neo-) Kantian type because I think it reflects ethical values on a deeper basis. I no longer, in the modern, contemporary sense, separate between rule-utilitarianism, act-utilitarianism and deontology because I'm of the firm belief they can be given an expression that make the three systems equate one another. On top of that, virtue ethics is a very strong contender for my personal belief in a type of ethics, but I consider it too loose for now and it seems incredibly difficult to pin down those virtues you consider virtues in a precise and univocal way.

Addition to "Possible Explanation of the Paradox of the Corona..."

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:50:00 GMT

A hypothetical analogy: if you consider gaseous water that covers the surface of boiling liquid water, up against the vacuum represented by outer space. It's also fact that steam of water rises from the hottest place of the boiling water, at the bottom of the pot, from the most heated part.

Note added, corrections made, pedagogical clarification made to "Solution to the Descriptive Problem of Superman versus Clark Kent"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:46:00 GMT

Note added, corrections made, pedagogical clarification made to "Solution to the Descriptive Problem of Superman versus Clark Kent".

Addition to the "Solution to the Descriptive Problem of Superman versus Clark Kent"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:35:00 GMT

To enter the point of numerical identity is indeed to say that Superman and Clark Kent is one and the same person and constitutes, of course, a logical identification of these two appearances being the same person. The issue with Lois Lane is that she fails to address a modality of possibility of Superman being Clark Kent, possibly due to Clark Kent acting like a frail person at crucial moments. This failure of hers in the cartoon series of this identification is causing her to believe that there are two logically separate identities, Superman and Clark Kent being two different people.

It is about Identity, but it enters the larger context on the question of Dualism. How so? Because, if the Superman/Clark Kent question would remain, we could argue there are questions that are insoluble in nature. Now, as this is thoroughly resolved by this writing, it has no use anymore. Even then, the historical record of the indescriptive-attack can prove useful in the future as to how we are supposed to describe the soul in any good manner. At least, this is my angle to it. This may be put lousily and I'll see if I can get to formulate it better later.

The writing of "Solution to the Descriptive Problem of Superman versus Clark Kent"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:47:00 GMT

I first encountered this notion of distinction in a class of Philosophy of Mind in the spring of 2008. Since then the question has been raised as posing a problem to description by a member of Philosophyforums.com that I've answered to.

My answer is: I agree that a simple switch of disguise-identities doesn't work. In this description we should compensate Lois Lane's belief by writing this: �Lois Lane believes that Superman can fly.� is equal to, in Lois Lane's eyes, �Lois Lane believes that Clark Kent in disguise can fly". This is true! We can indeed write "Superman" is identical with "Clark Kent in disguise" and vice versa to accommodate Lois Lane's view. Just a note: for Lois Lane, the two names are not interchangeable, in fact they are logically separate entities to her, much as the Morning Star and the Evening Star has been in the past, as is presented by Gottlob Frege in one of his papers, but for us on the outside of the situation, they are both interchangeable and represent the same logical entity. You can question the issue of logical identity, but if you fail to make proper logical identification, these terms remain logically separate to you.

Note: This has first been essentially written on Philosophyforums.com under "An Attack on Indexicality", hence the first date, but I've edited it here considerably.

Addition to the "Remark on Truth - Plain Realist View"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:47:00 GMT

I have really told this story, being a kind of Cumulativist version, in a Philosophy in Science class in Spring 2008. The story is that astronomy represents the biggest facts and physics, biochemistry and medicine to mention some, represent the smallest facts. Everybody knows by now that knowledge in astronomy has grown enormously since ancient times and that the cattle on the fields are now consisting of molecules and DNA where they've been representing meat before, perhaps in 2000 BCE.

The writing of "Remark on Truth - Plain Realist View"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:50:00 GMT

I'm not a skeptic to truth! There are many truths out there and I'm saying this.

Even if we don't know the neither the biggest facts nor the smallest facts, we should affirm our existence and its whole journey up to today, 20.03.2010, and assert that we pretty much know all that's between these levels/frontiers in the boundary, being between these biggest and smallest facts. That is: our language is precise when it's applied within this boundary and consequently it expresses truth!

I think I'm very much aligned with both Tarski's theory of truth and the Logical Positivists' protocol sentences.

Additions to "On the Goodman's New Riddle of Induction"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:42:00 GMT

Small additions of clarification to my writing "On the Goodman's New Riddle of Induction".There's nothing new to the argument by this.

Writing on the blog. Declaration - "Open Sewer"

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:17:00 GMT

I hereby name the horrible, perverse, deviant people "open sewer". The "open sewer" problem has to be defeated in order for Europe to have the best people and to create (more) large, successful enterprises so that we can SUCCEED in everything! We shouldn't fail to address unemployment and a number of social problems in this relation as well! The obvious recommendation is: "no open sewer!" The closing of sewer represents a major public health improvement, historically speaking! Good luck and live life!

Writing on the blog. Toyota cars and how I can miss it, moving from the speed pedal to the brake pedal!

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:26:00 GMT

The Blog. The Toyota bosses must be cracking up at the stories they get in, like this one: "the car just took over and I, the driver, became its passenger on a crazy ride". Heck, I've just sent an email to Toyota in Norway, suggesting they call their next model "Christine", being inspired by the Stephen King story of exactly a car with this name.

It's also funny how conveniently you can make up entertaining conspiracy theories once a Toyota is involved!

The next invention in cars will be the "go crazy"-mode that's operated via a radio transmitter by a (Toyota) employee standing on the corner, hiding, somewhere near you!

Live life, people, crazy things are over us, with Toyota, of course! :-)

Further on Opinions on G�del's Theorems of Incompleteness and Possibly Tarski

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:24:00 GMT

Further work: Following in the vein of Raymond Smullyan I like to add that G�del's "incompleteness" can possibly be combined with Tarski to be Tarski-G�del "incompleteness"-"undefinability"! I've gotten to this point thanks to the reading of Raymond Smullyan on Wikipedia where Smullyan refers readers on to Tarski from being fascinated by G�del! Although being uncertain about both, I'm now on some material of G�del, at least, and work will continue. This means in no way that I withdraw from the G�del "incompleteness". It's rather a possible addition to this.

I also find these 2 possible interpretations of Hilbert's 2nd Problem. The first is the one that is answered by G�del that axioms can't be proved by the system they establish, but the 2nd one is that the scope in some future may be proven to be inconsistent by the very application of these axioms. I've gotten the word that one of Euclid's axioms has been either proven to be false or to be excessive and it's in this line of thought I'm thinking of the 2nd interpretation of Hilbert's Problem and it's possible resurrection.

Writing on the blog. About threatening people's lives and health and/or keep people as virtual hostages (translation)

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:01:00 GMT

The Blog. Dear English users this is for you!
This is initially a writing, "Om � true folk p� liv og helse og/eller holde folk som virtuelle gisler", if you check below, in Norwegian, by email to the biggest Norwegian newspaper in being a recommendation of either making an article or just publish it as opinion by name [mine] or not. I find it so incredibly important, I therefore publish here as well in English.
Dear you people of the world, first and foremost, the English speaking, but please, spread the word!
People who commit deeply immoral actions by threatening others on life and health or to keep some people as virtual hostages, risk losing everything they own and have, becoming incapable of dealing with money, throwing career and job on the garbage dump and losing sanity in the same instance as one goes to hang oneself by what is the utter bottom in life, that one has totally destroyed oneself.
Also, after this introductory text, there should follow, of course, an expert judgment from a psychologist/"psychologist" or someone thereof about how deeply seriously bad and unhealthy it is to dick around by purely insane, immoral actions. This can be mixed by large pictures and emotional appeals of the 1. person type of different kinds and characters.
Ending conclusion of the article will be that the newspaper/author/others (possibly) supports a better society-/social recipe, a more progressive society, fewer lunatics and victims of these and lastly, more optimists.
This blog's last words in this regard are: there's only one method of remedy to avoid this madness and to achieve a fine life and this is the sum of these three parts: ethics, discipline and attitude!
You are hereby WARNED by this information!
(This has first been published on the Philosophy Now Forum website yesterday.)

Writing on the blog. Business as function of moral and minimum corruption

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:52:00 GMT

The Blog. A business note, in devotion to Europe of which I can only wish the best in regard of deep traditions and philosophical heritage, I say this: I've been comparing various countries over their performance in business life (a little also as a function of science and scientific achievements) and I've come to the conclusion that USA and Japan are the two best. At least, for USA, I think I can say that their best trick through all times has been to keep an incredibly moral and optimistic discipline and attitude (also read: little corruption)! You can be cocky and say this is bullshit, but then I want to know you're European and that you've done your homework! If you consider that 65 years have gone since the 2nd WW ended and USA has had a headstart of being essentially without war on its territory since its civil war, it should still look funny. Mostly because Germany has had an incredibly quick recovery between 1st WW and 2nd WW, being only 30 years (or less). Considering this span of 65 years and especially including the hardworking, virtuous Japanese (despite their suicide culture), we should have caught up with them in the '70s or '80s, but I find this to be not the case. You can study the Forbes' Fortune 500 list or biggest companies ratings or best universities or almost anything of this you like, USA kicks it. So I naturally fall back to viewing the moral virtue (incl. optimism) and corruption factors as being the crucial points where USA scores the best, Japan is second, but is kept down by ominous suicide numbers possibly caused by rather unvirtuous/corrupt factors in their society (and even then they perform...). It's my hope that Europe (and the rest of the world) follow up on these two incredibly important factors and I can almost gurantee by patience and hard work, Nobel prizes will come down the string! I deeply warn you about being ignorant of this, even if you are Atheist or don't give a shit in morals... In the end, it's going to be you who suffer the defeat!!!

Dagens skriving p� bloggen (Writing on the blog). Om � true folk p� liv og helse og/eller holde folk som virtuelle gisler

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:12:00 GMT

Bloggen (The Blog). (Gjengivelse av epost til VG, sendt idag.)
Kj�re dere som bor i Norge!

Folk som beg�r dypt umoralske handlinger ved � true andre p� liv og helse eller � holde noen som virtuelle gisler, risikerer � miste alt de eier og har, ute av stand til � behandle penger, kaste karriere og jobb p� s�ppelhaugen og miste forstanden i samme slengen idet man g�r og henger seg selv ved det som er den ytterste bunnen i livet, at man har fullstendig �delagt seg selv!

Ogs�, etter denne innledende tekst s� f�lger selvf�lgelig ekspertuttalelse fra "psykolog"/psykolog eller noen derav om hvor dypt alvorlig og usunt det er � bedrive rent ut sinnsykt umoralske handlinger. Dette kan blandes med store bilder og emosjonelle appeller av typen "jeg"-fortellinger av ulik art og karakter.

Avsluttende konklusjon vil v�re at avisen/forfatteren/andre (muligens) st�tter en bedre samfunns-/sosial oppskrift, et mer progressivt samfunn, f�rre galninger og ofre for disse og til sist, flere optimister!

Denne bloggens siste ord er i denne sammenheng: det finnes bare et botemiddel for � unng� denne galskap og oppn� et fint liv og det er summen av disse tre deler: etikk, disiplin og holdning!

Dere er herved ADVART ved denne informasjon!

Writing on the blog. Stunning of the Opposition of the Data Storage Directive

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:26:00 GMT

The Blog. There is one sentence that stuns the opponent to the Data Storage Directive (Datalagringsdirektivet) more than most other arguments and it is this: "hasn't your information gone through the time of storage?" It suggests, of course, that the opponent may have a criminal motive when this person is opposed to the Data Storage Directive. This is very obvious and should speak for the advantages of the Data Storage Directive in keeping a tidy society.

Opinions on Astrophysics, Explanation of the Paradox of the Corona of the Sun and its Temperature Differences

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:21:00 GMT

Explantion: optimal temperature happens a little outside the surface of the corona because the atoms/particles have greater space for temperature vibrations there according to this optimal temperature of these circumstances, the atoms/particles being held to the Sun, a little outside the corona in this fashion. Temperature should indicate something about the space between atoms/particles because temperature corresponds to the (propositional) excitation/vibration of the atoms/particles.

If one would have the same temperature farther in toward the Sun's core then it has necessarily the same, relatively thin composition there as well, you know, this being a smaller Sun, even if the mass in this case either has to differently organised relatively to the substances of the Sun's composition or that it's just lighter.

The conclusion is that the heat (or superheat) is optimal a little farther out for these atoms'/particles' vibrations to produce this heat than where atoms'/particles' become more dense as one moves in toward the core of the Sun. I'm uncertain to what degree this may hold, describing the variations of the temperature of the star at all levels, but this explanation/theory is, of course, meant to hold for conditions of hot surfaces on all instances of the kind our Sun is displaying. So it's first and foremost an explanation/theory of description that applies to this surface and its more transparent, gaseous outer layer, but it may also extend to, in a variable manner, a host of conditions of (astro-)physics.

Update on Psychiatric Views and Findings

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:40:00 GMT

Addition of info: I think there are blatant holes in procedures such as non-existence of watermarked logging files and lack of logging procedures.
There's a general lack of possibility for having one's therapy sessions properly documented by video, possibly making this a quality criterium. The whole psychiatric practices should be certified by some kind of ISO-standard what concerns document flows and quality criteria of these, possibly also quality-certifying other aspects of the psychiatry.
There should be a possibility of having common spaces monitored by video in cases of rumbles and ensuring security for both staff and patients, possibly making any police work far easier.
It's assumed psychiatry complies with best practices, that it's strictly legal and that this is reflected in the psychiatric hospital departments and institutions. This should include qualified transparency and the possibility to retrace history of treatment.

Internet Tips and Tricks - Making an RSS Feed on your site using an RSS xml file and a link on your index file

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:40:00 GMT

This is the easiest method of producing RSS Feeds. There are far more complicated ways to do it. It consists of 2 steps. The first is to include a link in your initiation file to the browser in the top/initial folder of your domain. This file is typically named index.html, welcome.html or index.cgi or something thereof. You place this link within the body-tags of your file along with the other content. It's unknown to me what link rel="alternate" does, but I'm in the belief it's required, possibly for telling the browser to look for a file other than the initiation/index.html file. This continues down on the page, below the stuff on sitemap.xml.

Update on M/S Scandinavian Star

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:40:00 GMT

A little information of the tragedy: The disaster of this is the ship catching fire in 1990, killing 158 people. -From Wikipedia.org here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Star.

Writing on the blog. Competition or possibly syndication over Operating Systems and PC processors

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:37:00 GMT

The Blog. It should be possible to work out industry standards concerning the interaction between the processor system and any operating system so that the competition for making both processors and operating systems becomes more transparent and fair. It should be noted that Microsoft controls 91.60% of the total OS market (according to Wikipedia, Feb. 2010. You can check out marketshare.hitslink.com yourself) leaving out the number of the market for operating systems, but you get the idea, and that AMD and Intel control 19.4% and 80.5%, respectively, of the processor market for home/personal computers (PCs, Jan. 25th 2010, Computerworld). This is in the face of the entire population of 6.8 billion increasingly educated people, possibly deducting the U.S. American population, and these companies are only U.S. American. What is going on? This picture should definitely change to the extent of including four major players on the world stage in each of the two markets of operating systems and home/personal computers. It should be unnecessary to point out that every continent on the planet should have the fair chance and freedom to develop these crucial technologies. The syndication can be just like OPEC, optionally, to provide room and resources for this to happen in the pattern of Open Source/Free Software.

Small things have been added to Criticism of Kuhn's Paradigms - Building Babel's Tower

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Addition of structure. Nothing to bother with really.

Further work on Comment on Arguments of Companions in Guilt

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:00:00 GMT

Addition: It should be noted that people of good moral attitude and behaviour seem better able to create and maintain, by keeping the duties, social relationships both in symmetric and asymmetric terms.

Update on M/S Scandinavian Star

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:00:00 GMT

Addition of conclusion: I think a more correct sentence by the judge would be to grant a certain sum of insurance money well below or somewhat below the cost of both a new ship and a make-over, that the owner(s) get neither. If it could be proven that deep recklessness has been part of the tragedy, the owner(s) should have had nothing.

New on the website

t.lea@t-lea.net (Terje Lea) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:00:00 GMT

These are internet tips and tricks that I've used. This page will become more elaborate in the near future.