Thursday, April 3, 2014

Chronicles Part 4

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Adventure Into the Weird Part 4

Alien World
Gabriel World

Posted on April 3,2014

Chronicles Part 4
If this is your first time here, you should first scroll down until you get to the title “Adventure Into the Weird”. It is the start of this series.

This series is not so much of an adventure as it is just descriptions of what has been passed on to me through dreams. The visions and revelations come to me from an unknown race I have named the Gabriel because of how I interpreted the pictorial of their description. No vocalization is in these dreams, only mental images that I have to try and decipher. Some of my interpretations may not be correct but it is all I have to work with. It is only because of the persistence of these nighttime images that I write them down at all. My descriptions are not meant to try and sell you on them, but instead, just record them for any value they may contain.

Gabriel science is not like anything I have been taught. It is as if practically all of the smart people who regularly teach science to us have things wrong.

Their animation over our ideas and illustrations of the “Big Bang” are treated with light hearted scorn and amusement. Their smiles are the tell tale that produces my reaction to the idea of a “Big Bang”.

‘Matter’ to you and me is a construction of various solid particles. But the Gabriel maintains that matter is nothing but discrete fields that bind together in an orderly way. It is this order and the strength of their bindings that we call atoms. Because of their ability to weaken those bindings – as opposed to overpowering those bindings with force that they were able to create interstellar flight. As a matter of simplicity, I will continue to refer to these field concentrations as matter.

All matter is attracted to one another including the roles of the disparate polarities and their alignments. The more matter, the greater the attractiveness becomes. The best analogy I could come up with is a coiled spring. Matter cannot grow beyond a certain point without reacting to eject enough of it to once again be in its comfort zone until it attracts more than it can cope with once again. This limit is important to note. If it is true that mass has a limit, then the idea of the “Big Crunch” is rendered untrue.

Like a pitcher of water, once the pitcher is full, it runs over. It is the same with matter – once so much matter has accumulated, it will not accept anymore. It is that ejected material that once again starts to accumulate and create the stars that we see. Each Galaxy is a creation of the give and take of the countless discreet fields that inhabit the zone of the Galaxy.

According to the Gabriel, the whole Universe is a place of recycle. The provincial notion stating that just because it is there, it had to have a beginning is just that, a limited idea about the true nature of the Universe. According to the Gabriel, the Universe is a place of constant renewal.

Their science is beyond any imaginations that I possess, but I can tell you that I saw night after night, renditions of their ability to weaken or strengthen the fields that bind matter together. I saw demonstrations that took solid blocks and made them pliable. I saw demonstrations of their ability to slice through solid material as if they were using a fine scalpel. There were so many nights dedicated to what they had achieved by controlling the binding fields for atoms that I became fearful of even going to sleep. I turned to sleep aids with the hope of not reliving those many scenes over and over again. However, eventually, things started to make sense. I realized what I was seeing. After the light came on somewhere deep inside my brain, I wanted to see more of what they were capable of.

Part 5 is just around the corner, we will speak again, soon.

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Saturday, March 29, 2014

Chronicles - 3 Long Lifespans

Adventure #3 Into the Weird
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Adventure Into the Weird Part 3

Alien World
Gabriel World

Posted on March 28,2014

Chronicles Part 3
If you have not read this saga from the beginning, please scroll down until you get to the first installment of this saga and start from the beginning.

Waking up in the morning with strange thoughts is startling at first, but after a while you have no choice but to accept the weird things that unlike dreams stay and mingle with your thoughts when you are awake. Some of the recalled dreams seem ridiculous, but then some of them make sense. I am now sure that what I recall is intermingled with my own thoughts as I tried to interact with the visions I was being shown.

Some of the visions were persistent. One such sequence dealt with how the Gabriel was able to live so long. Even today I do not understand these visions from a biological standpoint but will pass on my account of what was shown me. Here is the abbreviated version of how they achieved such an incredible lifespan.

From life’s inception, most cells are predestined to divide a preordered number of times. After using their last DNA proscribed division, the cell will eventually die and not replicate anymore. Vision after vision of this process was shown to me. The age factor comes from our cells exhausting their ability to metabolize food. Chief among those reasons is our diet.

It seems, according to what I was shown, that on a biological diet, some of the cell ingested food will form waste molecules that are too large to expel by osmotic process. These large molecules of waste accumulate and eventually begin to restrict the ingestion of nourishment. In defense, the cell divides and each division is a countdown of the total cell divisions allowed. Limited divisions help maintain our organ and body proportions, prevent runaway replication (cancer), and regulate our metabolism.

Within most types of cells there is a strand called the telomere that governs the number of times a cell can replicate. The diet is instrumental in determining cell division. And, after a lot of research aimed at the mechanisms that restructure and maintain the telomere, the Gabriel decided that changing the diet to one that excludes those foods that clog the osmotic exchange would be a lot less complicated. By keeping a cell nourished and preventing the cell from accumulating those large waste molecules, they could prevent many of the cell divisions and extend their active lifespan.

As I said, that is only the abbreviated version with much of the story left out. There were also DNA modifications and other adjustments made as time and their understanding of the aging process accumulated. So far their result is truly remarkable when comparing our life cycle to theirs.

Just to interpret their images I had to do a lot of research in order to come up with what they were trying to relate to me. I tried and tried to understand their diet but all I learned was it was made up of a combination of simple sugars and minerals. They still have a liver but its function has been reduced dramatically. They have very little waste to worry about as their energy exchange to the cells produce very little and there isn't much unused volume of what is ingested. However, there is some waste from some of the inorganic carriers that are used to deliver nutrients.

Some of their DNA alterations expanded their mental capacity and they have trained their brains to discard no longer needed information.

If all of this sounds strange, it is also strange to me. Believe me when I tell you that these thoughts come from somewhere as I have not been trained in the subject matter, nor have I ever thought of these things. The imaginations I have are alien to my world and thoughts. I do not pass this information for any reason except to record the strange thoughts and images I have. They are very persistent and seem to have continuity as if they are real. You can make of them what you want because I am not trying to sell any of the dream recalls or imaginations to anyone.

I am shone things that I can only guess about. I see a different science than I have been taught and it captivates me and my thoughts. In many instances of what I see, I have questions but receive no answers except for more images. Making sense of the images is a real challenge. For instance I know that they can vocalize, but with the images I have seen, vocalization only occurs during sex. Otherwise they communicate with images and emotions. When they do vocalize it is more of subtle grunts and other such indications of pleasure. There is no articulation of vowels or other indicators that vocal communication is meant to convey anything except physical pleasure.

I will write about their wars in another episode. Many nights were spent watching one horrific image after another. My wife accused me of running or moaning during my sleep. What is certain is that war is a scourge and any proponents of war should be hunted down and dealt with before their ideas can proliferate. War produces nothing but suffering, humiliation, and a puffed up pride that delights in the domination of others. Even when a cause is beneficial, and has a positive outcome – history, especially accelerated history demonstrate war’s folly by repeating itself and all of its miseries.

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Saturday, March 8, 2014

Chronicles - Part 2

Adventure #2 Into the Weird
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Adventure Into the Weird Part 2

Burning Bush
Burning Bush
An Alien Construction?
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Posted on January 14,2014

As stated in my previous writing, the visions persist, I continue to get visions that repeat and seem very realistic to me. And, as noted, these may just be extensions of my imagination but they seem so real that I felt compelled to share them.

My mentors in these visions kept imaging a spherical device. I had no idea what it was until they revealed it to be central to one of their vessels. The vessel itself was larger than anything that could be imagined and this spherical object was at the heart of the vessel. My best guess at the time was that the spherical device was the propulsion unit for the vessel. That turned out to be incorrect. The large spherical device they showed me was a field generator.

Using a much smaller device they demonstrated the ability of the generated field to control the weight of an object. Repeatedly, just to make sure I understood the apparatus; they demonstrated using a small stage that looked similar to the head of a drum complete with a membrane of some sort. Then they placed an object on the membrane. The device, under their control could make the object float or lay so hard on the membrane that it fell through tearing the membrane.

But they were not through. They would focus the beam from the device onto the object and easily carve the material with the precision of a scalpel. The device could also soften the object without destroying it.

Night after night I saw this like an episodic event. Eventually I was exposed to what looked like an ordinary axis chart complete with a pictorial graph of the object going through the different changes under the device they showed to me. It appeared that when the object was on the positive side of the origin point, the graph was linear going from the origin neatly angled upward and to the right. It was very apparent that the object was getting heavier the further it went in the positive direction.

At zero, the object was weightless, and when the object was just slightly negative, the object became pliable. Any more negative and the object just went away. My take home thought was that they were demonstrating a device that could control mass. There was no indication of how massive they could make an object, but it looked to be several times the objects normal when it was at rest before they used the device on it.

The large spherical device was used to control the mass of the vessel. As they accelerated, they did not have to worry about mass as they had the ability to control it. Under the influence of their large vessel device, they did not have to worry about being thrown about because of movement of the vessel.

It was also made plain to me that there was no such thing as physical matter. What was conveyed to me was that there were only discreet fields that either banded together by attraction or repelled by the opposite process. Collectively the fields would yield atoms; not solid particles, but were able to mimic our ideas of solid particles. The fields were predictable and controllable. They could be broken, elongated, torn asunder and forcibly torn away from their attachments. – (Just passing this information along because it is over my head and differs from what I have been taught.) There will be no judgments from me about these revelations because I am not qualified to make them.

But according to the Gabriel, interstellar travel would be impossible without the ability to control mass. I use the term loosely because I only have images to guide me. However, it is clear that when in interstellar flight, they are able to generate a strong negative field in the direction they are travelling while maintaining the vessel at or near zero. This field breaks up any collective fields (atoms) and prevents the vessel’s destruction.

This will end part 2 of my recollections from dreams. Part 3 will follow soon..

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Monday, January 13, 2014

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Burning Bush
Burning Bush
An Alien Construction?
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Posted on January 14,2014

Dreams or Imagination It all started sometime in 2001. In the wee hours of the morning, I would wake up with ideas that were foreign to anything that ever circulated in my conscience world. Some of them are scary but at the same time curious which is why I have chosen to write them down. While I am well aware that the following may be the product of pure imagination, I cannot say with certainty that these are not chronicles of real events.

This is actually the second time to include some of those revelations publicly. The first was right after the thoughts occurred to me; fascinated by them, I thought they would make a great backdrop to a science fiction novel. That is when I wrote “The History of the Future”. I even put it online in its own web site.

The revelations continue though and I really don’t know what to make of them. I wake up in the middle of the night with new images and thoughts about our world and the beginnings of life here on Earth. In my dream recollections, I am being fed information from a group of other worldly creatures that call themselves the Gabriel. (I cannot relate images to phonetics very well, but Gabriel is as close as can be estimated.) They do not vocalize to me but rather use mental images as a method of communication. I, on the other hand, do not know how to communicate with them, except through my emotions or my conjured up mental images. But whenever they communicate with me, they seem to respond to my reactions. It took me a long time to understand their images and what they were communicating to me, but after a while, those images started to make sense.

According to the Gabriel, they found planet Earth during exploration and determined that it could be claimed for life. There wasn’t any free oxygen on the newly discovered planet, so they utilized DNA specific organisms from their world to plant on this new planet. It was a long and tedious process to establish a self sustaining atmosphere that could accommodate life.

The Gabriel themselves are a people that are long lived. They had quit using the biosphere for food on their home world many millions of years ago. (It was hard to nail down a time line, so my using millions of years is only symbolism for a long time.) The subject of rejecting the biomass for food was actually the basis for that science fiction tale I wrote.

Their rejection of the biomass made them extraordinarily sensitive to biologic invaders as they had lost most of their resistance to the microscopic world of would be infectors. They went on to illustrate why evolution was so important and necessary for creature development. As creatures including humans develop, they have to accumulate the built in protections from the environment that only evolution can bestow. Whenever the Gabriel did seed a prospective planet with life’s basics, they do not know in advance the twist and turns that evolution would take. They only knew that the evolving mass would develop defenses against predation and pathogens. Survival of any evolved life form would be dependent on how well they developed and maintained their defenses.

Once a planet was seeded, the Gabriel could only visit wearing protective outerwear against the biology that was evolving or else risk being infected by opportunistic alien pathogens. It was the developing biomass that actually changed the planet and made it possible for land based life.

One caveat, they stressed with emphasis that they did not invent the life process. It has always been a mystery to them. They also stressed their deep abiding faith in an original creation. Planet seeding was a change from the normal utilization of a livable planet. There was a time in their history that they would colonize a planet themselves. But eventually competition and political differences led to devastating wars between themselves and their colonial planets.

It was these wars that made them decide to maintain their numbers and not expand by colonization. They can and do reproduce but reproduction is only to replace the numbers lost through accident such as an occasional mishap handling biological material. Sex is primarily recreational without any guilt. Feelings of possession and jealousy are alien to them. The use of birth machines is preferable to natural birth because of the control over the genes inherited by the offspring. Normal DNA of the Gabriel still contains genes from bygone times. Those older genes are usually dormant, but occasionally a naturally born offspring would be born with unwanted traits because of those genes. But with the invention and development of birthing machines, they gained control over inherited genes.

I was struggling with the flow of information. I knew that this was either planted thoughts or an over active imagination that had watched too much “I Love Lucy”. The curious part was that the glimpses of this alien society only occurred during my deepest sleep. I always wake up with remembrances of what had happened. It was startling to say the least. Ordinary dreams, while sometimes startling, make almost no sense and are difficult to remember. Ordinary dreams also morph from one irrational thought to another. But this is not the case with the episodic encounters of the information flow from the Gabriel.

Some of the piecemeal information related to their interactions with humans (us). One such incident had to do with certain problems encountered by the observing teams sent to Earth to monitor progress. The Gabriel used small flying machines, but powering them was a problem whenever they were far afield from their deployed ship. The solution they came up with was to induce the human population to build ‘resonate chambers’ (my term) that could channel energy to these small flyers. That shape was a pyramid of defined parameters that could supply energy to their flyers.

Another problem cropped up whenever the Gabriel approached the humans. Their appearance in their environmental protective suits was received and treated with great reverence by the indigenous populations. The Gabriel finally resorted to relayed visions of what was required to the humans, but without fail, those visions got interpreted in terms of the localized religions. The resulting constructions were always an extension of those religions. A few of the constructions actually served their purpose and could recharge their flyers, but not all. Some were so elaborate and ornate that they were useless. Others were not the correct dimensions and were useless.

The dimensions shown me were as follows: The perimeter of the base if it were a circle would have a height equal to the radius of that circle. The construction had to be aligned with the planet rotational poles. Size was always a problem in developing these structures. They needed adequate girth and height to be effective. But, as I said, a few were built that could do the job.

The Gabriel was always sensitive to the barbarism displayed by the humans. They worked very hard to infuse a code of ethics that would tone down the natural tendency towards barbarity. But because of the bio hazard present, face to face meetings were practically impossible. They tried several times to approach the humans, but because of the bio hazard, had to wear full protective garb.

They tried genetically altered hybrids to act as 'go-betweens', but the idea was fatally flawed, it never worked as intended. But then, a breakthrough! The Gabriel discovered that they could mimic human sounds using combustion. After much experimenting, and consulting, it was decided to take advantage of the spiritual nature of humans and speak to them directly using modulated combustion to mimic the audible communications by humans. Their construction for this purpose was a small tree made of tubes decorated to resemble the appearance of vegetation – but this tree burned and could talk. Fire became the medium of choice to communicate with humans. Some of the sound producing mechanisms used also included arcs of electrical discharge.

As weird as this may sound, the whole impetus for creating these communicators was to lead humans to a less barbaric state. No, it would not be an overnight process, but by helping the different societies to adopt ethical principles, which if adopted universally, could drastically improve the fortunes of human kind.

There is much more to relate, this is only the first of the many revelations of divulged to me.

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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Affluenza
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A New Disease - Affluenza

Affluenza
A New Way
To Say "Spoiled Brat"

Posted on December 26, 2013

The trial and resolution of the 16 year old teen whose accident resulted in the deaths of four people is still a major topic among us.

I am not young anymore, but I once was. Back in the day, I logged many miles under the influence. It was different then with respect to the volume of traffic we have today. The point I want to make is that the 15 year old didn’t do anything different from most young men except for the fact that his intoxication caused the death of four people.

I will not speak to the tragedy of the loss of life and sorrow suffered by the families of the victims. No, as heart rending as the tragedy was to them, I want to speak out about why it was important to not sentence that boy to prison.

To begin with, intoxication causes behavioral changes. Being intoxicated blurs judgment, reaction, and coordination. There is also the problem of personality adjustment that sometimes accompanies intoxication. Normally docile people can become boisterous and obnoxious. The changes to a person who is intoxicated are well documented with most aberrations commonly known.

Most of the feedback against the judge who decided the fate of the 16 year old fell into two categories. The first was aimed at revenge, the second; setting an example for future ‘would be’ drunk drivers.

Revenge is one of those actions that ‘evens the score’ for those who were most affected by the tragedy. A person can’t help but feel for those whose loved ones were taken for no other reason than being innocent victims. I know that it is somewhat cold to say this, but nothing the state could do to that boy would bring those victims back.

Scoping out for a broader picture, we have to look at society and the general acceptance of alcohol consumption. Consuming alcohol is strongly associated with pleasure. The thing to do when you want to meet with friends or make new ones is to go to a bar. If you attend a party, you can safely bet that there will be alcoholic beverages to ‘lighten up’ the party.

We are bombarded with the message that the only way to enjoy a sporting event is by drinking beer. Beer is sold at most sporting events. In other words the social message everyone receives is that life is just more enjoyable if we just consume alcohol.

But along with all the fun from drinking comes the problem of intoxication. I maintain that a drunk who has a wreck is no criminal; there is no malice or intent to do harm. We live in a permissive society that encourages drinking for pleasure. Socializing with alcohol is a de facto standard.

Turning 21 is a highly anticipated event for a young person. Twenty-one is the age when a person is recognized as an adult and expected to take their place as a responsible citizen. One of the privileges of adulthood is the ability to buy and consume alcohol.

Being able to legally consume alcohol is looked upon by the young as a major event in their life. How many of you can remember the anticipation of turning 21?

In the case of the irresponsible young teen, his parent’s income was well above average and they did a poor job in monitoring their son’s activities or teaching him about life’s pitfalls that can arise from reckless behavior. He was not schooled by his parents in the importance of self-discipline, so he pretty much did what he wanted.

Affluenza needs no explanation. It may not reside in the halls of accredited diseases, but is another way of expressing the term “spoiled brat”. He is not a criminal in the sense of intent but may, with a little help, yet be salvageable. The judge was faced with the option of sending him to prison where he would undoubtedly develop negatively because of his age… or not add to the casualty list yet another tragedy to the list of tragedies already being suffered.

I would argue that there are merits to setting an example, but with that said; it is doubtful if those already at risk would heed the warning. Hopefully, the boy’s parents will have learned a lesson from this tragedy and that other parents will also learn from this tragic event. The real crime in this whole episode is poor parenting. I whole-heartedly support restitution for the victims making it abundantly clear that parents everywhere will be made responsible for their children’s actions. Restitution would also be a remedy for the victims’ loss of any income or expenses derived from such tragedies.

My wife has suggested that the enablers who provided the sixteen-year old boy with alcohol should also be held responsible. Hitting them in the wallet would go a long way towards convincing others to not give alcohol to minors. Her point is specifically aimed at the friends of the minor who were old enough to buy booze and either bought some for, or shared the booze with minors. Parents can also have booze in their homes that the minor can pilfer. Her viewpoint stresses that without consequences, we will all pay the price for future tragedies.

This writer thinks the judge got it right. We as a society are very lucky there aren’t more episodes of this nature because of the prevailing systemic attitude about alcohol consumption. When we quit treating drinking with reverence, and stop allowing drinking from being a rite of passage, then we will have made progress.

In closing, I want you to at least think about criminal justice. Justice is not some tactic to ‘get even’. Criminal justice is the determination of guilt or innocence and punishment for purposeful acts. Not all accidents are criminal, but rather the sad result of unintentional consequences arising from poor judgment. It makes sense to not criminalize unintentional acts. Civil courts do a pretty good job at ‘leveling the playing field’ for non-criminal acts.

A special thanks to the previewers of what I write. I use a lot of their suggestions. I often rewrite these articles upwards of five to six times. It should also be noted that all six of those with suggestions thought that the teen should have been given a heavier sentence, with only one suggesting the use of civil suits.

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Monday, November 25, 2013

Memory Part 1

Memory Limits

Memory
Memory Limits
May Create Forgetfulness

Posted on July 21, 2013

Just how big is our memory? I am only addressing a healthy normal brain status. There has got to be a limit to how much we can cram into our cranium. I ask this because it seems as the older I get, the foggier my memory gets, short term especially. There is the moment an older person walks into a room and has to think about why. Being naturally curious, I brought the subject up about memory size.

Because of the passage of years, we accumulate a lot of visual and non visual information. Normally we can recall these memories with just a little coaxing or concentration. For instance I can still see my mother through the eyes of my younger years. I can conjure up images from the past at will with no problem, so that means that the information was stored. So again I ask, “How much storage is in a normal brain?”

Could our learning curve level out as we get older because we have used up our available memory? If we insist upon adding information into our brain, does our brain have to ‘dump’ older memories to make room for the new information? If new information crowds out the old information, do we get any willful say-so about what gets jettisoned and what stays? I would just think that we do choose the memories that stay and what memories go by how frequently we use them. The so called short-term memories would have the fewest ‘hits’ simply because they haven’t been called upon as much as some of our older memories.

I don’t want to confuse anybody about this piece because I certainly do not have answers, just questions. But if the brain selectively drops the least called upon memories to dump, then it follows that the most recent memories would have to go first. At my age, learning is a much more daunting task than just a few years ago. I have to read and re-read stuff to make sense of it. By repeating to myself what I am trying to learn, say HTML5, I eventually get the idea of what is expected. Does that mean that I have crowded out memories to make room for the new information?

That is the question. Presumably, I will never know if certain memories are gone – I won’t remember!

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Memory Limits

Memory Limits

Brain Limitations
Information Overload
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Posted on November 24, 2013

This is the follow up part to the article I wrote about memory. I have questions that gnaw at me about the limits to our learning process.

When a person dedicates his life to a special skill; would the accumulation of that knowledge use so much of a person’s memory and cognitive skills that additional skills become marginalized? Can a person become extremely competent at more than one skill? If not, why not? Is it a false assumption that our brains can get information overload?

Skill sets are divided into different categories. There are literally thousands of specialties that a person can pursue. There are a lot of engineers specializing in specific disciplines, and it is probably safe to say that anybody who acquires the knowledge necessary for that discipline would be only mediocre at an additional skill set. Then there are the ‘jacks-of-all-trades’ that know a smattering about a lot of different skill sets but generally, not really an expert at any of them. The point is that there aren’t many experts in one skill set that is equally proficient in another. Why not? We have a lot of very smart people, some have a large mental capacity, but few can master more than one unrelated discipline.

Humans can learn a lot about a specific subject, but only rarely do we find a person capable of expertise in more than one category. Progress creates additional information. The amount of information gained by the many disciplines is growing exponentially. Specialties are becoming more divided as discovery and research branches into even narrower, more focused specializations. In the not-too-distant future, as our knowledge base continues to expand, we will become more dependent upon our computers to make sense out of even simple abstracts. Our brains will also have to evolve if we are to solve evermore complex problems. As things progress, without more brain development, there will be no human that will be capable of absorbing enough information to fully understand the new working abstracts. Group think will pass for a while but soon even group think will be surpassed as the various mysteries of the different sciences reveal themselves. And, new discoveries will create a demand for a greater information base than even a group will be able to master.

Our learning curve for understanding a particular subject still has to start with the basics. The learning curve for a particular subject is lengthening all the time because of the incremental advances made. We have to learn much more about a given subject than just a decade ago. Everything is much more complex than it once was.

Understanding any technology requires the learning of its basics for an initial understanding of that technology, and also the conceptual understanding of the developments of that technology. As a technology gets more complex, the amount of material that must be absorbed to stay current pushes our ability.

Our lifespan is increasing, and that is fine for giving us more time to hone our skills if only our brains were increasing their capacity to go along with our increasing lifespan.

The future does not look bright for humans. Science fiction writers have been on to this problem for years. They have written many stories about mankind’s dependency on their machines and even suggested that we will turn to our machines to devise even smarter machines to solve ever increasing complex problems. It inevitably will become a world where the machines are smarter than humans – and that isn’t good. When that time comes, we will be relegated to the status of curiosities taking up space in a world that we don’t and can’t understand because it will have been designed by machines that are smarter than we. Go figure!

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