primum movens the thing in itself the mother of all causations

"there are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."

-Donald Rumsfeld

adjusting parameters
benjamin harubin 2015
(digital manipulation)

what if one of the unknown unknowns turns out to be that one of the known unknowns isn't really unknown?   

or
you don't really know how much unknown there is in this known area of unknown,
so much so that it affects all the known knowns, unknown unknowns, and the other known unknowns.

what if
one of the unknown unknowns is the degree to which our table of known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns is a useful categorization that reflects some kind of workable reality?

hmmm?

thank you rum for meme pie in face.

but now you got me all dissonanced about the word known.  
known known known known? 
klown?
klone?
knoun?

alright back to the serious.

so we have the search for what determines all this stuff,  
the quest for the theory of everything.  
ultimately it's the Big Bang 
(is the Big Bang one of the known knowns or known unknowns?)

or is everything just is?  (and everything causes everything else).

does it violate the Second Law to have everything cause everything else?

like,
the energy has to come from somewhere and go in one direction in time and get progressively more diffuse.

brain in vat says any given sensation or "thing" is connected by a trilliondyplex web of interactions- 
what gives with this question?-  
although it concedes that there are some processes that appear to operate at a higher frequency than others.

but then, 
what of the Anthropic Paradox?  
why is everything from Planck's Constant to the molecular structure of water ice just right to enable the existence of critters that can ask these questions?

one is tempted to invoke a creator, a Primum Movens, a mother of all causations.

others just shrug and watch the show.  
shut up and watch the show.  

throw that beat in the garbage can.  drop it in the oubliette.  
too bad Screamin' Hawking ruined the infinity of the cosmic Black Hole by making them leaky.  
it's bad enough the BB started from infinity without having an infinitely sucky suck hole to worry about.   
no help for it but to ask the aliens, i guess.  

brain in vat says there's NOTHING in the blind spot.  
you're pointing at that ONE seam?!  
it's evidence of computational processes at work.  
what do we want?
we want information… information… information.

i ask brain in vat what how it scratches when it gets an itch. 























  

the growing concern about death

Like an individual, society also ages, and as it (all connected earth human society) ages; as the civilization process continues, greater resources are directed at improving and extending human life and preventing death. 

Crazy City
benjamin harubin 2015
digital media

...and more vocal become the civilized voices that deplore violence and preventable injuries. also warfare becomes surreal.  the first world increasingly recognizes the value of trained human soldiers and so is more reluctant to lose them.  such reality was used against the USA by the Vietnamese.  and the actual killing is increasingly done by employing devices that operate at a safe distance.  this society is like a baby waking up and realizing its existence and thence its mortality.   all the tantrums won't do no good except for the fear-porno mongers.  we are the world humans.  the osmotic pressure is too high- all humans are in the same room now.  all your walls are porous as fuck, or will come down.  
cheer up little space egg, the Space Sperms are coming!