From the Archive: Secret Knowledge

Cultagory Theory: Revectoring Psyons

This presentation continues to elaborate on themes here in my blogs. As early as the 1990s, I was emailing E. J. Applewhite, Fuller's sidekick on Synergetics, regarding my "word-meaning trajectories" lingo, which, as I point out starting from my first slide, is by now a more mathematically established concept given word2vec and natural language processing (NLP).

I'm wondering if my metaphor of "trains" as in "trains of thought" (but also literal trains), taking most predictable tracks through a Hilbert space, will catch on more, with respect to LLMs (large language models). The caboose, way in the back, represents "attention span" meaning one way to steer the train through its many locutions is "from the rear" in the sense one needs to revisit to sound cogent. A long train is more determinate in nature.

NLP more generally is serving high end culture as a kind of bridge over the C. P. Snow chasm, twixt the sciences (STEM) and the humanities (PATH). Only a tiny subcultural minority sees a tetrahedral crystal, a grain of sand, sparking the "solidification" of such bridging infrastructure. The activation of a "right brained" test pattern (we might call it), within the mind's eye of literature majors, is preparing the ground for more multi-media literacy, provided the osmosis process continues.

The "test pattern" of which I speak is of course the "concentric hierarchy" of Synergetics, and its BEAST or BASKET modules. STEM meets PATH in this purely geometric construction, with applications everywhere, including in humanities readings.

What gives us leverage on the humanities side is the window into what's weak in STEM, whereas STEM is rather used to intimidating its would-be detractors with a obfuscation. The track record is now open to view: inconvenient truths were bleeped over to keep us from backtracking to some wrong turns in our curriculum development efforts. We neglected to explore the Bucky stuff sufficiently, or some of us did. Some of us didn't, and we're enjoying our edge, our advantages. The normies are on the defensive. The challenge is to remain magnanimous in victory.

Flying to the Moon

:: Flying to the Moon by Russell Towle ::

Karl Marx: Rock Star

AI dashboard: 

Popular around the world, not just in UK/Europe! 

In my Graph Theory 2025, I admit to not being a Marxist, or even a fan, which simply means I haven't done enough homework to count myself within that inner circle. 

That doesn't make me unteachable, but on the other hand I'm pretty old (almost 67) so probably not really in need of yet another semantic framework, or dialectic or whatever we call it. 

I get by with these holes. I'm a fan of Wittgenstein's and Bucky's. Many more.  Storm Large...

Looping Through

I'm recycling a favorite recording, with permission from the original hosting channel, of a lecture-interview between myself and some math-savvy high dimension seekers and visualizers. A privilege. I'm using "hypertoon" lingo in "looping through" in the sense of revisiting one of the node-frames in our toon graph.

Operation Duckrabbit is about using Wittgenstein's later philo as a launching pad for another language, experientially based and informed by some of our greatest minds, such as Euler's. This language is somewhat meta to our knowledge base, metaphysics having somewhat given up the ghost by the time Fuller came along and breathed new meaning into that word. Ephemeralization is in the direction of the more metaphysical.

One of my themes is the peaceful coexistence of XYZ and IVM, two kingdoms never so conceived until recently, as no one had championed the IVM as a thing. XYZ defined the bottom rungs or steps of a ladder or stairway, toward a higher dimensional heaven, a game of ascension. The IVM arrowhead showed up proclaiming its 4Dness, which took attention, in the sense of limelight, away from the cube.

From the tetrahedron's point of view, or the 4eyes, the cube needed help anyway. This wasn't replacement theory, this was coming to the aid of an unstable fellow Platonic. This instability is usually not mentioned in polite company, where physical attributes, especially immutable ones, are unfair to use in any arguments. Bigotry has no place in Euclidean geometry.

The duo-tet cube, is still the cube, at which post most of the audience is relieved and moves on. However the die-hards want to examine the fineprint and they find a suggestion that their beloved cube, now stabilized, as an unseemly size, as anything other than unit would seem unseemly insofar as the cube is concerned. Dialing in a unit cube, volume-wise, takes the edges out of integer-ville and that's an unforgivable heresy in the die-hards' book.

I'd say the misapprehension of the blockhead group, the most cube-loyal, is our constant rejoinder that XYZ is one of Man's Wonders, using "Man" in that generic guy sense. Three basis vectors count as most elementary, with a secondary negative threesome comprising an omni-symmetrical beacon to any wayfaring spaceship. 

"Ahoy, XYZ octahedron ahead at 3 o'clock" meaning that familiar "jack" pattern has been detected, meaning an origin, a (0,0,0). We have the API for that, and can refuel in a jiffy.

Also floating in this same space: the occasional caltrop, a four basis vectors affair, with no twinning, not that negating is discouraged, just unneeded, to span all-space. These beacons will have a (0,0,0,0) origin, and we have the API for that too.

The story I'm telling here is meant to remind us of other readings we may have done, including in Python source code, wherein a Vector and Qvector contain (x, y, z) and (a, b, c, d) data structures respectively. Each has a way of turning into the other. A Vector turns into its corresponding Qvector and vice versa. The addressing flips back and forth between systems.

How much of all this decodes, and how much stays mumbo jumbo, as a lot to do with what the psychologists call gestalts, where literary critics might speak of heuristics. Wittgenstein talks a lot about aspect shifts, in the course of investigating the meaning of "meaning" (his core concern). That's where the duckrabbit in Operation Duckrabbit comes from.

Esoterica, Arcana, Americana (School of Tomorrow)

:: from two years ago ::

Uncanny Valley Productions

Synthetic Synergetics #001.1 ~ Welcome to Synergetics!

NotebookLM is an AI tool for generating NPR-like podcasts featuring two voices discussing a target text, in this case Bucky Fuller's Synergetics. 

The content of the dialog is no competition for a well-versed human teacher, yet succeeds in providing quite a bit of context and overview.

DAF orchestrated the process during the course of an online meeting of the Knowledge Engineering group, Math4Wisdom coven. 

NotebookLM only took a few minutes to come back with an audio file.