'Junk' DNA conjectures

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• DNA is the memory molecule
  
• some 'silent' DNA is race-memory/collective unconscious [Wiki]
  
• this quantity increases slowly via evolution
  
• it starts with the highest-priority 'knowledge'
  
• it must be profoundly universal
  
• the coding system has to allow generalisations
  
• generalisations are behavioral 'puns'
  
• Joyce's Finnegans Wake was his attempt for a universal inventory of the highest-priority behavioral puns
  

 
 
 
 
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Toward a unified model of information

[thoughtmesh edition w/extra links]

my whole life since
maybe 1969
i've been struggling to write
a single book

with an evershifting shape but always
a psychology text
that at least sketches an outline
of human motivation
viewed thru a literary lens

like 'the sims XVI'
in textbook form

like solace perhaps
a composition of extracts
of nuances

like brainfeathers or finnegans wake
everyman's everyhistory

like laws of form or antimath
built up elegantly
from a single bit

like a pattern language for literary patterns

like polti or roget
a classification of plots
of story skeletons

like knuth a catalog
of data structures and algorithms

like cyc
a knowledgebase of common sense

like adler's syntopicon
an inventory of philosophies
wisdom marked up for robots
like the semantic web

a hierarchy of metadata
most urgent first

a constitution
for some possible utopia

and now centered on
colored lines in spacetime

x normally longitude-space
y simply ordinary time

with one line per
true human lifestory

and now with a suggested
simple first coloring

white for happy familymembers
all alike

blue for sad
red for bad

yellow for sickly
or better
for enslaved?

 
 
 
 
 
 
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50+ Joycean conjectures annotated

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Joyce's unfinished tetralogy

given joyce's attachment to symmetry
a portrait/ulysses/wake trilogy
would have seemed lopsided

    _ _________ _________ .
   | |         |         | :
   |P|         |         |S:
   |o|         |         | :
   |r| Ulysses |Finnegans|S:
   |t|         |  Wake   | :
   |r|         |         |A:
   |a|         |         | :
   |i|         |         |T:
   |t|         |         | :
   | |         |         |S:
   | |         |         | :
    ~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ .

unless he hoped to append
"something simple about the sea"

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Joyce's Odyssean trilogy

we know joyce determined in 1907
to rewrite 'stephen hero' as the prequel to ulysses
because he needed stephen dedalus
to reach the end of that book
in just the right shape
to serve as bloom's telemachus

and in fact
joyce couldn't finish 'portrait' in 1914
until he'd drafted the opening of ulysses
so the intervening gap would be minimal

(if scylla and charybdis really was conceived
as chapter two
and not relocated until after 'portrait'
had gone to press
that original plan may have left
discernible footprints
in the last chapters of the earlier book)

but if, now, finnegans wake
is really the key to ulysses
with bloom the dreaming everyman

then these three works
are a true trilogy

 
 
 
 
 
 
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The key to Ulysses... is Finnegans Wake?

in designing
the riddles of ulysses
i think joyce relied on
a fiendish corollary
to conan doyle's 1890 dictum

only those who've studied ulysses
closely enough to eliminate the impossible
will dare to acknowledge
its improbable truths

so take the following
with a grain of saltpeter:

16 june 1904 was the historical date
of the general slocum disaster
termed in ulysses a beanfeast
at which 1021 attendees died in a fire

so when
on 10 march 1923
joyce drafted the first vignette of fw
dating it internally as
"after that same barbecue beanfeast was all over"
we may suspect we're still
at #7 eccles
with ROC = Bloom-the-dreamer
and Boylan and Stephen the "all of them gone"
and ROC's heeltapping perambulation
equated to Bloom's own
in the last half of Ithaca

but if ROC is Bloom
then Tristan and Isolde
can only be Bannon and Milly
putting Bloom's condom to use
the following day

so then
could Patrick's eventual socking
of Berkeley
be a hidden explanation
of Stephen's wounded hand
after the altercation with Mulligan
between Oxen and Circe?

Mulligan might naturally have told Stephen
about Milly and the condom
or about Bloom's gluepot

but could Stephen have been so offended
as to strike Mulligan in Bloom's defense?

and if Berkeley is Mulligan
and Patrick is Stephen
then is holy St Kevin
Stephen as well
rather than the awol-in-ulysses Stannie/Shaun?

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The filetype storycycle

in robotwisdomese translation
the 'mirror neurons' meme
looks like:

robot views (external) video of robot action

robot refers to
reflects on
subjective (internal) knowledge
of how and why
any robot might act that way

but while aristotelian
euclidean newtonian
hierarchies of features
work smoothly for external views

they don't
for internal
subjective reflexive views
of actions-in-action

every opcode or function call
in whatever context
changing some particular values
among all possibilities

so instead of aristotelian hierarchies
we need instead
joycean storycycles
like finnegans wake (or solace)
tracking an everyman's
usual universal
branching storypath

and unexpectedly
this can be neatly illustrated
using the aristotelian 'filetype' category

filetype: text
filetype: image
filetype: audio
filetype: video
filetype: data
filetype: code

and a filetype storycycle

file-consumer
bored curious ignorant interested

knows repertoire of search strategies
(peculiar to each filetype)
engines archives indexes blogs forums fringes
searchpatterns query-etiquette

accessing textlists of file urls
(with brief descriptions)

using file-viewing tools peculiar to filetypes
formats metadata compression bundling
internal structures and sequencing

winnowing useful from useless
identifying masters and wastedumps
retracing others' search skills
comparing their ratings
sharing one's own skills and ratings in forums

identifying gaps among useful files
of a given filetype
and choosing to author a new file
to fill that gap

using file-authoring tools also peculiar to filetype
skills standards practices masters
structures objects sequences

and finally file publication
injecting into others' searchstreams
for free, or not
maximising visibility
monitoring feedback channels...

[fill in the blanks]

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ToE vs ToL

edward o wilson's
elegant autobiography
"Naturalist"

sketches an epochal
Shem/Shaun brotherbattle
in Harvard's biology department
of the 50s and 60s
between wilson
representing the classical tradition
of evolutionary macrobiology

and james 'double helix' watson
as the insufferable young turk
of molecular biology
dismissing wilson's classical tradition

until the introduction of mathematical models
for sociobiology
and island biogeography
rehabilitated that tradition




and i see a parallel
with the classical approach to the
unification of the sciences

versus the physicists' megalomaniacal
ten-dimensional Theories of Everything

rehabilitatable via
the Tree of Life
approach?

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