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13 May. meta-expression — the language of life.
24 May.*NEW* semiosis — the universal language.
13 May.*IN DRAFT* ontogeny — the development of self.
13 May. scientism — the belief in science.
2 May.2024,*NEW* the self — mind, soul, ego, and body.
9 Apr.2024, choice — snooker balls v. butterflies.
Einstein's gestalt — the delusion of consciousness.

misc.

speakers corner — Burke's internet.
algorithms of cupidity — the mother of AI.
inclosure — of new towns and mass eviction.
awoken — the revisionist history of Whigs.
our kingdom — in a world of domains.
copy left — on new cabals and subtle designs.

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scientism

open quotation markRacism (also called racialism) is the belief that humans can be divided into separate and exclusive biological entities called races; that there is a causal link between inherited physical traits and traits of personality, intellect, morality, and other cultural and behavioral features; and that some races are innately superior to others.    Encyclopaedia Britannica, rtvd 14/3/2024.

All psychological constructs must have biological correlates and all biological constructs must have psychological correlates, but neither of these relationships is mechanically fixed. Only by adapting during ontogeny to physical and cultural feedback from the environment can the primordial and individual inheritance of a being meet its drive to survive. By providing a 'plastic' substrate, biological structures enable experience to be iteratively processed and recursively stored — mutatis mutandis.

A society, in the language of it's culture, encodes assumptions fundamental to its reasoning. When ideas and actions align with these they then appear self-evident and reasonable to its citizens; when they do not they appear false, inconsequential or amateurish. This elementary mechanism hides fallacies of circular, self-supporting logic, insisting instead that any alternative is not merely reasonable but beyond doubt — whether or not that doubt reasonable.By hiding such fallacies racism seems reasoned, particularly within cultures built on racist assumptions. A racist social analysis cannot be used as to prove racist beliefs.

open quotation markThe whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.    Albert Einstein.

Science is an elementary practice; the cycle of: observe; theorize; test. Eugenics is only an expression of racism, promoting itself as a science. It is the demand of: theorize, enact; an expression of scientism, a fundamentalist faith.




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from: Physics and Reality, published in the Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 221, Issue 3, March 1936, pp. 349-382.

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open quotation markmutatis mutandis — with things changed that should be changed.

Through genetic and epigenetic media, primordial and individual experience is inherited at conception. This then provides the 'base case' for the recursive function that drives the ontogeny of beings, during which, biological structures, such as the brain, process the individual's lived experience mutatis mutandis, storing it, through a validation process that amends, corrects, integrates, expands and overwrites prior experience as necessary.



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Societies follow an ad hoc route, yet by demanding a fully detailed map before altering their path alternatives are sterilized and their populations increasingly march in step.

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Consider, for example, the 'doubts' broadcast about climate change science. Exon/Mobil, for instance, was able to successfully dispute the findings of climate science for years, despite its own scientists having modeled and predicted global warming with 'shocking skill and accuracy' since the 1970s.