Baddogma's Other Meta Cafe- Polite Discussions About Scientific Mysticism and General Weirdness

a reply to: Peeple

I never thought to ask my family about that time or just after.

I left Alaska in 1990 vowing to never come back. Spent the winter in Arizona being a miscreant. Saw Stevie Ray Vaughn and PIL, so that was cool.

Watched Communion as well. Kinda freaked out in one part. Then, money spent, drove my POS car back to Alaska... defeated by the real world.

Got a good enough job in Anchorage and moved here. She is my mistress! Something maddening about her that I like. Maybe, because, from time to time, she tries to kill me!! LOL!

Not a lot of family talk until my dad died. Just got everybody’s numbers this year!

That is why too late. Shoulda happened sooner.

The older I get the more I realize that these damn years are going by too fast!



(Jesus juice, cab sav)!

a reply to: TEOT

And Reverbs....

Found a can of beer at the bottom of the fridge!!!

It shall be a prosperous New Year!!

PS - Dr Who rocks!! Luv Ms. Whiticker!!

a reply to: TEOTWAWKIAIFF

Happy 2019 teot.
Every time I look up its a new month.
Temporal perception is a funny thing.
I realized the other day... we are from before the turn of the century.. people born this century already in college.. He was born Before the internet!

Got a good enough job in Anchorage and moved here. She is my mistress! Something maddening about her that I like. Maybe, because, from time to time, she tries to kill me!! LOL!

Ahahaha.. I said the same thing just not about alaska.

Oh and you know the rules.
No beer left behind!


Glad you broke your silence.
And we still don't know what any of it means.

a reply to: Reverbs


It has been long enough. Dad's dead. Not much reason to hide anything.

I will try to not just ramp everything up to such a frenzied state!

Here is some general weirdness that is my life...

New Year's Eve. Grab my ID, a bus pass (it warmed up and turned all the snow to a sheet of ice), and my debit card. Check again, all three, shirt pocket, keys, phone. Ready! Closing my door, the bus rolls by. OK. So, maybe a 30 minute walk. Crazy traffic downtown. Get to the bar. Sit down. Drink beers. Talked. Fist bumps, hugs, and hand shakes. Go to the bathroom. Repeat a couple more times. Earthquake! "Guess the magnitude" is our new favorite game. 5.0 M was the winner. Buddies leave, I have another beer. Getting late. Stand up to pay my bill and I no longer have my debit card! Check all my pockets, everything except my debit card. Wth?!! I am PO'd because that was like my third card in 4 months! That is why I counted before I left!! All else fails, have a few, hop on the bus and go home. Easy.

Restaurant was cool and comped my drinks. I walked home on the ice wondering where I left it. Not at home! Ripped my place apart NYD and could not find it. I know the drill. Cancel card by phone and wait. I liked my PIN number!

That was my New Year's Eve! lol! Magician and didn't even know it!

a reply to: TEOTWAWKIAIFF

Applause *standing up* great job! You made your card disappear!? Amazing. I bet you're famous inside your bank by now. Maybe the earthquake shook it out of your pocket? There's this crazy new invention they call it "wallet". It keeps your cards and money in it and makes it much harder to loose them. I got one it's great.

Aww poor baby sorry for making fun of you.

Did your dad die recently? Sorry baby, how are you dealing with that?

a reply to: Peeple


Dad? Last year in the spring. I stopped talking to him in 2000. It is what it is.

That is also kind of why I don't really talk to the family. We're all over the place geographically (let alone politically!)

Anyway, I will be around a bit more (I hope).

PS - Last wallet (and last back pack) I had were stolen!

a reply to: TEOTWAWKIAIFF

Lol teot you're worse than me.
At least I have a wallet even if it is like 7 years old hahaha. Ive got a backpack even! And a keychain. Thas where I put all da keys, believe it or not.

Hey so this article is pretty interesting.
It seems to be on the way to making the universe be made the way it feels like its made to me.
Less solid..

I only read part but its about quantum gravity and error correcting code (based on models dont get too excited).. how it might create spacetime..

Im at the bar being psychic again weirdly for the first time in a while and it was funny because the bar tender was talking about how things she says keep happening. Then i was thinking about pizza and she showed me pizza haha..

Later I made a dumb joke about my life and she looked shocked, she just thought to ask it, and I guess I answered without her asking.

But..
My card is in my wallet
So no free beers for me.. ha!


a reply to: Peeple

Dont ever stop being funny peeps.



Almost forgot...

How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code

a reply to: Reverbs

I am at (debit card) and watching the Big Bang Theory. They say that it is new but I swear I have seen it before!!

Everyone gets all jelly, the go out to have fun and shoot each other with paint balls!!

Stuart moves with girlfriend. They make up. Show!

Is that weird or what?! Maybe you flipped a woo switch!!



Back to Mac and cheese and this silly show!!

Keep up the good work!!

a reply to: Reverbs

I think this

made it for the first time possible for me to understand what they mean when talking about holographic universe. The small things on the outskirts get entangled in the middle to form the big things.
Is that right? Plus it's pretty.
Thanks for the article BB.


The weirdest thing that happened to me yesterday was: I bought radicchio for the first time in my life. Intuitive food shopping, I cooked it (without recipe) slowly & slightly with mushrooms, tomatoes, onion and olive oil and a spoon mustard. (It was #ing awesome btw) afterwards I read a little about what I just ate and that convinced me that intuition is really the body talking. It wanted vitamin k and potassium etc (that stuff deserves the name super food!) and it has the most benefits when mixed with mushrooms.
Now my only question is: how did my body know that?
So naturally I decided from now I'll never write a shopping list again and do that intuitive shopping for a while. Let the body decide what it needs.
Crazy right?

a reply to: TEOTWAWKIAIFF

Stolen in Anchorage? Somehow my brain can't compute that. You have thieves up there? Crazy. And I thought it's a nice peaceful place...
A backpack and a wallet cost up from 10€ each, you said you're poor but that's basically maximum 2 beers less and you could afford it.

Big Bang deja vu... I'm kind of jealous it's been years since I watched that show the last time and I really loved it. My FritzBox! arrives today and in a week the technician comes to make my internet work again! I am so happy and excited by that it's so amazing, I will have a party that day with me and the internet and the laptop gets its updates and things... awesome simply pure awesomeness!
You said you feel musical, silly me thought that means you'll soon show off a little. You won't?

a reply to: Peeple

I dont think its so crazy.
In fact I think part of intuition is the fact your conscious observer mode has a lot less bandwidth than needed to focus on everything to be perceived.
Subconsciously though the information is there.

Maybe your body starts pulling calcium from your bones each individual cell asking for more. Like a thousand tiny voices eventually "god" thats you answers the "prayer" after it bubles up perneating your subconscious and into your conscious mind.

The cells don't know that god exists or ever heard their prayers in the first place. God doesnt realize anything exists besides herself and her own cravings. To extend an analogy the original meaning of my name choice is cravings.. LOL!

I only eat what I crave myself. Two types of cravings though.. alcohol cravings i dont think heal my body, but the body asks for it anyway.


And yes peeps each part of a hologram contains the entire hologram. Pretty trippy to think about but the image does give a nice mental clue to just stare at as you think about what holographic universe would mean. A hologram doesnt mean all matter is in one spot and spread out necessarily though it could.. its more that the information is all there no matter what.




To me the image looks like an experience Ive had a few times where I was the fabric of reality made up of infinite reverbses holding hands and feet like paperdolls attached trillions of me i am one of me and all the me's at once.. and this me or that me..

I think holographic universe or even "holographic information" based universe is where my eggs are basketed. All my weird inbetween hard to grasp experiences just sort of feel like that.. its frustrating im not smart enough to articulate it in any real way.


Congrats on the internet coming back soon peeps!
Im guessing a fritzbox is a modem/router or something?

a reply to: Peeple


Some things were wrong though.

Sheldon ran out and did the Platoon scene (arms held out, taking round after round, dying the hero) but that didn't happen in the show.

And Stuart did not move in with his GF, he gave her a key as a promise (??).

So not everything was spot on but over 95% was!

Thieves everywhere Peeps. This place is no different. Add smack into the mix and people are shooting each other and breaking into house all over the place.

PS - Grilled radicchio salad is the bomb! Heck, even grilled Romaine works. You need some black, charred parts, but not completely wilted through. Glad your food choice worked! I ended up making mac and cheese from what I had on hand! I even cooked it in frying pan because it was the only thing I had clean! Then, used a flat cheese grater to help drain the water out! Some spices, a half jar of alfredo sauce, and a sprinkle of parmesan cheese and it killed the yellow stuff in the box! Not bad for an off-the-cuff and improvised meal!

to food intuition! @Reverbs too! (The error correcting code article took me some time to read too! lol)

a reply to: TEOTWAWKIAIFF

Grilled romaine is how we make our caesar salad.
Just as you say char some leave the rest unwilted.
Its better than it should be.

What did you think about the article?
Whatever you say may help me think about it more clearly.

Its not a "frying pan"
Its a pan.
Im sure you mostly saute in it anyway..

a reply to: Reverbs

That's pretty much exactly what I was thinking. For my cells I'm god. Muahaha. Isn't it possible the universe forms a bigger being and we are the cells?

Fritzbox is a router. I have a list of all the music I want to listen to and all the vids I want to watch. Like the gravity one in your link. Glorious two days off too, so it will be a true party.

a reply to: Reverbs

Should have said “sauté” just to differentiate between other types. It was not what you are supposed to use (made rice in it ala pilaf style! Dang rebel!)

I have been thinking about that article... @Peeps, you being god to your cells is very similar to what I am thinking...

The whole thing is nested like Russian dolls. Our little universe is contained inside another, which is probably inside another. The error correcting code are for the next level to not lose their information down one of their black holes. (Oh crap! What if universe is a chakra of a larger being?? Each nested one leads to the next! Weird thought)

Light somehow carries information. We are loosely associated with both a higher and lower realm through entanglement. Probably why all we see is chaos. Time is our coping mechanism. Make it one way and we can deal with universe. But that makes trying to explain it more difficult. Correction codes are not some way of explaining the universe but a handshake to know which universe you are in.

Toy universes, holograms, etc. are was to describe something from within. Like Peeps cells trying to explain her body... probably not even speaking the same language. Which is where entanglement comes in (like BD’s thread about bacteria). It may also explain whycome some UFO encounters appear projected into your mind.

This discussion may take some time!!

I don’t have answers but do have more questions!

Nice way to start the year!!

originally posted by: TEOTWAWKIAIFF


Toy universes, holograms, etc. are was to describe something from within. Like Peeps cells trying to explain her body... probably not even speaking the same language. Which is where entanglement comes in (like BD’s thread about bacteria). It may also explain whycome some UFO encounters appear projected into your mind.

I can dig that.
Its one of my reverbsisms..

"Its all in my head."

Its actually an INSIDE joke.
Bahaha..

Things can mean the same thing but sound opposite when talking of an extradimensional structure of cause and effect..

Human language is 4d so i may sound koy with my jokes or stubbornly poetic but its just how it must be for me.

a reply to: Reverbs


The "error correction code" and qubits as approached by "conventional" thinking seems off to me. I will try and explain.

Error-correction in comp. sci. is a typical problem. From what I can recall a method of detection and another for correction are required. Typically, this involves the notion of “parity” which you can see when you divide a number by 2: either you have a remainder of 0, or, a remainder of 1. Usually used in communication, the binary digits in the set length of the word are added up (sum doesn't matter), if it sums to odd, the parity bit is set to 1, otherwise, 0; if the received parity bit does not match the message it is sent again. In the article they give the example of using 3-qubits to track a qubit flip also using parity.

This method uses a crap load of your difficult to generate qubits (and what if your guardian qubits get flipped??). And thing is, most people forget, that this is a 3D object, not a binary digit. Which means it is rotated! The point on a sphere, like a city on globe, moves when rotated; but you can also flip it upside down! That is what Hamilton came to the conclusion when he defaced the bridge with his equation: I = j = k. Means, you need to take 2 steps to get back to the original orientation (what they are talking about is limiting the quantum state to up-down so they just want to get back to the previous state). Why?!! Let chaos rule is say!

The 3-qubits are encoding 3D space by keeping track of all 3 possibilities at once, which, to me, is a waste of space! Why not encode the changes in a non-quantum manner (it would just be a scalar matrix) since you know how the quantum vector can change (i=j=k)? Save you a bunch of steps of trying to keep homeostasis (??? whateverz it is called in QM), then just keep track of how many times you flipped. Then when you reach a limit (unknown), then you put the effort back to creating the original QM entangled qubit state?

To me, seems a bit over thought out. Surely universe doesn’t need 3 times the amount of matter and energy to keep everything from happening (or maybe that is what “dark energy” actually is! The non-dimensional error buckets keeping the universal constants recorded while entangled matter flies all over the place until it encounters more matter and needs to “know” what to do [i.e., the QM state is ‘read’ at that point and the wave does the collapse], then the visible becomes manifest. Consciousness is not a “being” but a “QM state of being” which is maybe why everything is connected! Heavy neutron star thoughts on a Monday morning!)

I really hate "reading about math" and would rather see the real deal. But that has meant that to read quantum mechanics I have had to learn the language that it is spoken in: Bra-ket. That is what they show in the article:

| 0 > α

Which is shorthand for performing matrix math with real numbers. The above is zeroing out a matrix, α, by assigning it the value "0". That is the easy part. Realizing that you are cross multiplying matrices and going from single row and single column to a 2D matrix, is the hard part.

I found this paper by one Todd Brunn at USC that shows the math (pdf): Quantum Error Correction and Quantum Error Correction Codes.

Not saying I can sling this around at a glance but thinking about what is being said begins to make sense to me. And why I think it is "over engineered" a qubit (groan! I could not help myself! )

I hope this helps with the "technical" side of what is being discussed and sorry if I went too technical too. I am learning all this as I read articles like one in Quanta magazine. The nice thing about explaining it is that it helps me understand things better. You can learn by doing, or, you can learn by teaching. Rare is the individual who gets to get plugged into the Matrix and have knowledge downloaded to their brains!

Class dismissed!!

a reply to: TEOTWAWKIAIFF

Yea.

The extra quibits to get one error corrected qubit is a huge waste of energy. Is it up or down? Or twisted or twirled?

The math I understand it as relations. Or not as well as you haha. I do appreciate your explanation

There was another article I looked at and probably posted about quantum entanglements spreading through infinity almost instantly and that made reality physical, real.

a reply to: Reverbs

Remember, i’m weird think differently!

And am occasionally wrong in trying to explain things to others!!

a reply to: TEOTWAWKIAIFF

Thank you Mr Teacher.
I bet the fact one can't measure it is a huge pain in the heini. That's why it seems so complicated? On thursday I start to look deeper into it, it's nice to know I can come with the questions I'll surely have to you.
Fascinating stuff. Before we can really formulate a theory on what consciousness is and how it works one has to learn quantum physics I think.
And those Idiots study medicine before psychology. Haha. No. Well biochemistry might be important too.
Give me a few days. Is Quantum Magazine something you'd recommend?
You so smart.