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Debriefing

Weaverville, January 10 – 15

The trip was well worth it

On return

Weaverville, May 4 – 8

The trip was well worth it

On return

Trinity Alps, June 16 – June 30 and Weaverville, June 30 – July 2

Return – life – maintained the entire trip

My life—the essence, minimal - t -> d

Immediate

Today

Singe vs multi-focus days

The idea

Single

Multi

On return

Meta

Daily attitude

The future

Priorities

iPhone

Med appt.

Next trips

Next

Future trips – to get

What I need to do – two fundamental questions – June 25

The trip

General

The singing

My reasons for backpacking and more – June 25

Today – June 17

The way of being

Site structure

The emergence of extension and duration – June 30, early, about 1:30 am

General

Edits

On religion—perhaps to to incorporate later—add to ‘open document’

Some points

Categories – June 19

Meta

Highest level: being

Intermediate – formation and form.

Our world

Argument – June 29

Meta

Argument

Direct argument

Indirect argument or inference

On categories – June 17

What are liberalism, conservatism, etc – perhaps to to incorporate later – add to open doc

On dialetheia

Topics to study – June 19 – also improve system of human knowledge

Meta

Science

Physics

Biology.

Society.

Psychology

Philosophy

Being and metaphysics

Symbols and signs.

Language

Logic, and sets.

Mathematics

Linguistics

Knowledge representation

Mereology

AI

SEP list of articles

Living the way of being - June 9 – perhaps to to incorporate later – to ‘open doc’

Shared realization—

Exploration—

Attitude—

Action—

Debriefing

Debriefing is working out the rough ideas, and absorbing them elsewhere or carrying them out or both.

The portions crossed out in the .docm version are debriefed (this is not shown in the web version).

Weaverville, January 10 – 15

The trip was well worth it

Good attitude

Good hiking – about 4 miles a day

Discovered I still have decent endurance, good walking balance, and strong ankles

Real and pristine winter weather, beautiful environment in the mountains

Good ideas and writing

Did not drink

Not too expensive

Met decent people

Watched some good movies

On return

The main thing – security (money, place, environment) and the real (realization)

Unpack, laundry, robin’s birthday, supplies, x, sleep early (minimal coffee), replenish coffee filters, mouthwash, mini-toothbrushes, floss, moisturizer, put Weaver Basin map back into ‘papers’

How to upload to Facebook from iPhone

Use loofah – how to

Get toothpick for Swiss Army Knife

Weaverville, May 4 – 8

The trip was well worth it

Enjoyed it

Excellent ideas for an axiomatic version of The way of being

On return

Write the axiomatic version

Prepare for June trip to the Trinities

Trinity Alps, June 16 – June 30 and Weaverville, June 30 – July 2

Return – life – maintained the entire trip

My life—the essence, minimal - t -> d

Immediate

Day minus one a night or two in Weaverville or Willow Creek / Day zero unpack have a bite launder prioritize walk sleep. The point is to get back into the home groove / Day one, a regular day, follow priorities, have discipline, no et etc,

Today

Order > import; redo a system of knowledge.html

Teeth

Yoga + x

Dinner, lunch

Relax, fun, sleep eary

Singe vs multi-focus days

The idea

Set single and multifunction days as a routine and or as a calendar.

Note – plan these days weekly, or some other period of time, or according to the calendar

Days for specific activities.

Days of multi- and evening-tasking. Import and re-order (per priorities, which are to be reset). Place journals in two places.

Single

Writing

Mega X

Trip prep

Meditation > confidence, character, and charisma building

Speech

Posture, presence, dress, and attitude

Writing (c > o)

Multi

Template

On return

Follow list, unpack, launder, place items ready to deal with on the schedule, doing only some simple items right away, bite, supplies, reflect– especially on how to minimize this list,…, decide single versus multifunction days according to a calendar, sleep.

Coffee, less none or for a period of time and with food

Meta

Journals in two places (the non-standard will be temporary)

Do not defer what is fundamental for later, begin it right now here and now wherever you are, whatever you are doing

Review, re-list, rearrange, recombine; prioritize with principles - think next: zero -> life– > infinity

Get the essence of this procedure and the sequence and the priorities right

I dedicate myself to being. I want everything but need nothing speaking metaphorically. I will prioritize and not be compulsive. I will have a calendar of things to do. I will have single- focus days, multif-focus days, and days off and days to reflect.

Daily attitude

I am already that

My (bio) father shares his strength

The future

I need nothing but want everything (metaphorically)

Who am I?

What is my name?

How old am I?

For myself and my website?

The answer may be a secret!

Simulate the backpacking openness and flexibility of routine

Priorities

Zero – essentially; minimize all so as to be essential

I need ‘nothing’ but want ‘everything’

Drive

Vision—self, death, and beyond -> universe with beings (people)

Now—self, security, zero - and - the way

Discipline and routine.

Photo essay days with tripod and camera holder and other attachments and devices

Finance, health, place - community (iso?)

Relationships?

Site—simple, essential, with design, plan, and planning

Add to phone files - long essential version – the little manual – and what else?

Discipline—no et, routine, wait for flow, realization through anxiety - doubt - pain - beer daze

iPhone

To do – can iPhone batteries be replaced? How? How to use OCR on iPhone. Convert Apple Media and notes to Windows—directly or by upload to social media. Resolve battery use issues—eliminate or reset apps - in use or not - that consume battery (is it the new iOS?); virus? Voice commands for iPhone – punctuation.

Possible battery savings – airplane mode on, low energy mode, Wi-Fi off, Bluetooth off, keep phone off when not using, but one question is “does turning the phone off and on frequently deplete the battery”. These possible savings are for when I am away from Wi-Fi Internet cell reception and so on and wants to conserve my battery, but I should reset when I am back in civilization. Can iPhone be programmed?

How to transfer backup data from iPhone to Androids

Save songs

Med appt.

Med appt! Naltrexone? Toes. Diet consult. Mood and energy – thyroid, testosterone.

Next trips

Next

On return – clean, replenish all gear, work on next trip now not later where why when how minimize gear supplies before buying – on a short trip, minimize vitamins, meds, and shaving and brushing teeth

Two bins, one for things I did not use on the trip

A month or more – retreat – how to do it

Practice, pre-mixing and preparation of food

Dual written and phone notes till the battery problem resolved

Meta—streamline everything, appropriate minimalism done back

A new approach - what (beauty,immersion) - where- how - when - mode of travel (including driving)

If, when, where, how

Preparation

Modularize

Pre-trip for each season and each major trip after a long hiatus from backpacking

Practice pre-mixing of food

Post trip evaluation review of gear and supplies needs advance preparation for the next trips or coming season or both

Local climbs, adventures edge, map of forest, bus to forest, bike, Stephanie

At least for two weeks to a month in advance—endurance, weight-bearing, balance, strength, flexibility, posture - especially leg, core and back strength and flexibility (yoga.meditation.in.action) up and downhill, yoga, and stretching, diet, sleep, exercise, no alcohol, coffee

Is silver sneakers still valid – can I lock my bike there safely?

Minimal, grunge

Plan for dual paper plus phone (if I can’t solve the battery problem)

Pre-download plan and existing items, etc., to both phone and written documents

On the trip enter items to paper and then to phone a defined intervals

Simple list.XLSM

Develop the structure for a simple case with reference to food item calorie go

Iterative computation of daily amounts.

Measure amounts

Use calorie counts

Have more than one kind of day

Develop for minimal supplies with possible reserve

Some meals, that are easy and quick to eat on the go, that is easy to cook or needs no cooking at all

Solve battery problem

Plan with care

Backpacking food aim at simplicity plus variety, not too much variety. The idea is to reduce the time spent on stuff and still have food be enjoyable.

In the extreme, of course, there will be one (to four—breakfast - trail - dinner - drinks) mega mix of many things that will satisfy all nutrient requirements, including psychological.

More granola, less rice and beans, freeze dried noodles/ pasta

Also simplify food preparation gear and food transportation gear you know stuff sacks, the bear canister, and so forth. And its integration with all gear, which also will be simplified.

Dual use—smart and flip phones, flip with spare batteries- for trips

If hike, then shoes—or insoles &or thick socks. Sandals only?

How to use dromlite

Ibuprofen—4 x 200mg a day, all days

Future trips – to get

Songs to iPhone with translations.

Replace map?

Air mattress?

Instant coffee with cream and sugar, Starbucks, Nescafé, Mexican.

Bottle with filter, quilt

Lightweight glasses with frame

Air dryer for lightweight food Wilderness apps

Air mattress—rugged, half body, online - or alternative

Needle nose pliers

Warm top and bottoms

Mosquito netting

Insect repellent

Bring heavy s’bag liner

Swimming trunks with pockets

Free standing tent

Rugged hiking tight-ish pants

If camping, bring paper towels

Dick Taylor’s hot chocolate

Granola with coffee the coffee will be filtered

Anti-biotic and cortico-steroid packets

Tea in tea bags and empty tea bags

Phone charger

What I need to do – two fundamental questions – June 25

What am I doing in life—answer I am already doing it, but I have to do it intelligently and better taking into account finite amount of time left in my life.

What am I doing here today in the Trinity Alps? That is today and the rest of the trip. It is hike, think, and get back home intelligently and on time.

The trip

General

I accomplished more than I expected – hiking, experience of being, beauty, thoughts on my life, the way of being, and more.

I also accomplished less – my strength, balance, and endurance are becoming challenged. I shall have to keep fit and pare pack weight.

Return - life

The singing

Most nights – and days – not as exciting as last year but pervasive.

My reasons for backpacking and more – June 25

My reasons for trips to the mountains are I enjoy their beauty in so many ways on so many fronts. Though hiking is often hard, it often transs transforms into something magical as though I am present to the earth and in the earth. The backpacking, the day hikes, even sleeping on the hard ground, are all healthy, good exercise, and improve my general physical and mental well-being. I am told that when I get back to society, I seem radiant. In brackets, of course, that’s slightly unfortunate in that I am not, perhaps not radiant, under normal circumstances, or at least less radiant.

Then—nature. I find nature inspiration to what is real. It’s not the only inspiration, but it is an important and a containing one, in that it’s the cradle also of society and culture. And it’s’s not only a source of insight, but also a gateway, a portal to a realm. It’s a place to get into contact with part of myself, part of my real self, that I am not always in contact with when I am in society. Combining the contact with myself and the contact with the real, which are ultimately one and the same thing, results and has resulted in my best thoughts regarding science and philosophy and other topics. It is where I have had some of my best insights, some of my best integrated thought, which I review and process when I get back to culture and society.

Getting into the groove of being with nature, being able to hike well, being able to sleep well, it’s always a relearning process and a good one, and it feels wonderful to get into that groove. Meeting people is mixed. I almost always enjoy it, and sometimes I have some really nice interactions. On the other hand, it does take me away from the other purposes.. And once we part company, I miss it—depending on the duration and appeal of the interaction, it may take up to a day to get back into the groove. So, for the main reasons, I generally prefer times and places of wild isolation. Even in society, interaction with others detracts from my aims—in terms of time and truth.

On this trip, I am having some good ideas on future backpacking what to do with the rest of my life, how to integrate the two, because sometimes backpacking takes me away from the other things I want to do. I’ve also had good insights into what I want to do for the rest of my life. which is a complex scan of worms. One of the things is becoming my true self.

I met a young Chinese woman in the evening, yesterday. She drove in early in the evening and ran around frantically looking for a campsite. None were available. She scoped the scene, and I guess she must have somehow decided that since I was alone and for other reasons, I might have looked approachable and possibly friendly. She asked if she could share my bare safe vault, and I said, "Of course, yes." And then she asked where she could camp, and I pointed to a place which is not a regular campsite, but where I have seen people camping and where it is probably okay to camp. And she decided to take up take me up on that. She calls herself Luna, but her real name is something like Liu, and I was unable to pronounce it, and she says she calls herself Luna because Americans cannot pronounce her name properly. She was probably in her early 30s, very intelligent, speaks English well, grew up in in China (not speaking English) in a town in southern China, a town that is called the Frontier to Taiwan and that if a war ever breaks out between China and Taiwan, that will be the place where conflict begins (it is a port town across from Taiwan’s ‘Frontier Island’—I must look up the names) he has traveled the world, including Sweden and other places in Europe. She finds that China and the US have many similarities, including the Great Wealth disparity. Unlike Sweden, whether disparity is nowhere near is great, and where everybody seems to get a reasonable income and even educated people do ordinary jobs because most people are educated. She She has a degree in international relationships from UC San Diego, and she is very well informed. She focused on Asia, so she’s especially well informed on Asia. We spoke about the politics of China, the politics of India and India versus Pakistan, and the issue of Kashmir. and she’s very eloquent and insightful. We ate two meals together. She ate her food, I ate mine, and we had nice, fun conversations. over the meals. This morning, she left, and when she left, I said, I enjoyed talking to you. I hope you have a great rest of the trip. And she said something similar to me.

Today – June 17

Alertness and presence

Review

Life (self-world, universe-eternity)

Return

Next trip?

Trip equals and diet

Comfort and cleanliness

What do I do?

The way of being

Site structure

The emergence of extension and duration – June 30, early, about 1:30 am

This is to be worked out, the following is a first try – emergence itself is the emergence of duration but emergence also implies that something has emerged, and therefore sameness, difference, and identity. But how do we get the uniformity of extension and duration that is our space and time(in general relativity it is, of course, not true uniformity, but in terms of the distribution of matter, it is a kind of uniformity because the space time metric depends only on the distribution of matter, so in the absence of local matter space and time are in fact uniform, and in the presence of matter the different measures of space time at different locations are related so that standard measures can indeed be set up)? The answer is in the sameness of sameness and difference. Furthermore, it has already been seen, and relativity lies in the incomplete distinction between the different modes of sameness the identity. And that the quantum lies already in the void, and it’s signature, therefore marks extension and duration, that is – the objects whose identity constitutes extension, and duration, whose is measure is space and time or rather spacetime.

General

Define manifest being

Website structure, and design

General—Essential metaphysics of being – action – realization brackets becoming

Edits

Page 2 – add to definition 1: in brackets - in this world and beyond and their mesh

Page 2 - second paragraph under the heading about the way of being second sentence, if the method of the development is accepted, the system is certain, change system to framework and add the fill in and consequences are probable to highly probable replace the final sentence of that paragraph by “To properly address the issue of certainty we also take up the issue of doubt”.

Page 2 - Second paragraph under the heading sources after the phrase on par with there is a missing word that word is knowledge.

Page 3 – “ all beings inherit this limitless Ness” - add in brackets - “they already have it because of being is the being and the void”

Page 13 – modern canons allow but do not generally admit or even recognize being beyond their canonical boundaries and they certainly do not admit or imagine all possibility and it consequences

On religion—perhaps to to incorporate later—add to ‘open document’

On religion, there will be four possible sections.

One will be an intrinsic and comparative analysis of Eastern and Western law. religions, not to find their essences or to judge, or to be complete, but to learn some lessons for how to to live daily life in relationship to being in the entire world.

The second will be some aspect of Eastern and Western religions useful in living. For example, the eight-fold way and the four noble truths of Buddhism, but the eightfold way of both Buddhism and yoga. Some practical aspects of Christian daily living, the spiritual and real meaning of the ultimate in these religions and symbolic meaning also look at otherwise religions for similar inspiration, that is sources for daily living or living in general.

The third will be a ground up analysis of religion. Here, unlike in the previous two points, we will try to find some essences of religion in its various symbolic, cultural, real, and social aspects. and not rejecting the political and economic and not pretending that religion ought not to be political and economic. After all, if religion is about the real, should it not in fact be about the political and economic?

And the fourth will be an analysis of all the previous three in terms of the real metaphysics of the way of being.

Some points

Though I have already written this elsewhere, it is in our higher forms that we see across the multitude of forms that do not seem to communicate with one another.

Sources – a brief list of both authors works.

Motivation – my ignorance, doubt,(external) faith, the limits of the paradigm, the void, the limit of physics is logic, the conservative (police– Freeman Dyson) view of logic

Addiction to ‘correctness’ limits, progress and growth

Cool, culture, appropriate pen name

Categories – June 19

Meta

Integrate with essential version.

Read Internet on categories.

Levels are to be appropriate.

Categories ought to be functional. Paradigms and means will become methods and tools of action and realization.

Use Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy article on categories

Download Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy articles, systematically to both phone and computer

Incorporate a hierarchy of being(s)

Human being as a category (‘my being’) that subsumes other modes (of realized potential) even in its limits

Highest level: being

It is really experiential being because experience is essential to the being – and knowledge – of being

Method (paradigm): necessity, possibility, general logic

Method (paradigm): subject – relation – object (“experience – of “—“experience “—“the experienced “)

Method (paradigm): beings (“person “”, animal)

Method (paradigm): general cosmology

Method (paradigm): whole - part –null(meteorology with atomism = (1) element, entity (2) societies of entities (beings, persons, dasein)

Message (paradigm): sameness – identity – difference

Intermediate – formation and form.

Formation: increment, saltation

Form (with robustness).

Process, transient.

Static: symmetry, stable.

Actual: process, near static.

Robust form.

Increment

Experiential.

Coding (genetics)

Mechanism (origin of): determinism, indeterminism, extension – cause – duration = cosmology of formation and form.

Our world

Complete this later.

Referred to topics to study.

Physical cosmology with levels of form from Cosmosis down to solar system down to planetary systems down to geology

… And life

Argument – June 29

To ARGUE is to establish a fact (we consider only argumentation in itself rather than mutual argument or rhetoric).

Some thinking and writing – argument, including analogy, and more; categories and Aristotle

Meta

Some thinking and writing – argument, including analogy, and more; categories and Aristotle

Argument

To ARGUE is to establish a fact (we consider only argumentation in itself rather than mutual argument or rhetoric).

Direct argument

Observed fact, versus intrinsic fact

Likely versus certain fact,

Indirect argument or inference

In indirect establishment of facts, from given facts, further facts are inferred.

The given facts are often called PREMISES because the characteristic of INFERENCE is that independently of their truth (facticity), if the premises are true, the further facts or CONCLUSIONS are true

Necessary inference

In NECESSARY inference: if the premises are true, the conclusions are certainly true. In necessary inference, given logic, the conclusions are implicit in the premises

In DEDUCTION, inference is from premises to conclusion via laws of logic.

In INTRINSIC inference, the conclusion is established without recourse to premises (this is related and, at least in some cases, maybe identical to intrinsic fact). Though the inference of “something“ from “nothing“ may seem absurd, we will find that it is not— and an example will be given.

Likely inference

LIKELY or reasonable inference: if the premises are true, or likely to be true, the conclusions are also likely to be true. This kind of inference is ‘ampliative’, i.e., the conclusions contain some information not present in the premises.

Some kinds of likely inference are INDUCTION, ABDUCTION, and ANALOGY.

Consider the possibility of intrinsic likely inference.

On categories – June 17

In the essential version, the categories of being do not just derive from real metaphysical knowledge. They also feed back into real metaphysical knowledge. And they are part of it, but they clarify it and enhance it.

What are liberalism, conservatism, etc – perhaps to to incorporate later – add to open doc

The main point is that it is not enough to just define or even explain; all this must fit into a metaphysics of political economics!

These are open ended at least until a full metaphysics of politics is available. 2000 years of philosophy do not define what is real until a full metaphysics is available.

With regard to change vs custom, obviously

We want to keep what is good,

Change what is not good,

To seek what is better.

But what is the good and what is good or not good. There are differences here which, absent full metaphysics, can be ‘real’ and ‘valid’ but also about agenda.

On dialetheia

It is proposed that all seeming dialetheia are either resolvable or mistaken.

Example of a resolvable dialetheia – It is raining and not raining! Resolution – It is raining in Kolkata but not in Shanghai.

Example of a mistaken dialetheia – application to the liar paradox (for the paradox assumes that the liar sentence as a truth value, which is not the case, just as it is not the case for ‘the tenth planet of the solar system is green’

Yet dialetheia and logics for dialetheia are useful

As logics, e.g., in which truth has more than two values (can such logics be reduced to two-valued logics?)

In absence of sufficient discrimination – either because knowledge is incomplete or because they express something of significance, especially as in—

Vehicles for apparent contradictions but which express truth at different levels (of description of the real)

Topics to study – June 19 – also improve system of human knowledge

Meta

To be systematized and integrated with “a system of human knowledge“, which will be rewritten.

The topics will be arranged in logical and functional groups and prioritized.

Continue to think of and scan for topics.

Needs for this to be functional.

Online sources.

Have this be part of the simple, emerging site.

The topics follow – current priorities are highlighted

Science

Physics

Fundamental physics – classical, quantum (including the quantum vacuum) relativistic.

Cosmology, and astronomy.

Theories of the cosmos– singularity (big – bang), multi verse, mathematical universe (Max Tegmark), logical universe (me – discrete versus continuum representation)

Astronomy, observed universe, solar system, planetary theory, earth

Atomic theory, and atomism; statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, condensed matter physics

Biology.

Functional – ecology, genetics and genetic code, species theory, life cycle – birth to death, form and formation – genetics plus environment, human form

Origins.

Abiogenesis

Evolution.

History of life.

Homo – Homo sapiens

Society.

Organisms and societies (group intelligence)

Human society.

Structure

Politics and economics; essential politics and economics for local to global decision making.

Technology (especially exploration and artificial intelligence)

Culture, knowledge – generation, dissemination and horizontal, transmission (print, electronic, networked); vertical transmission – education

Art, meaning, ‘ higher pursuit’

Value

Psychology

Philosophy

The major branches, which may be in other topics here

Philosophy of mind and consciousness

Being and metaphysics

Being and abstraction.

Experience and experiential being

Categories, methods, and tools of action

Which begins with being as experiential being, which is its own paradigm – put alternatively, being has no paradigm

Possibility and necessity.

Possible worlds and beings, and the issue of their conceptual generation

Probable, effective, and robust worlds and beings

Cause – Aristotle

Symbols and signs.

Language

Discrete and linear versus continuum, multidimensional, and intuitive, roughly in the sense of Immanuel Kant

Are discreet language and logic epiphenomenal to being?

Representational versus evocative

Logic, and sets.

At least through predicate calculi

Other logics and dialetheia

ZFC and alternatives

Syntax and semantics

Mathematics

Linguistics

Knowledge representation

Mereology

Atomism.

The void (issue: contradiction)

What makes a whole a whole?

Are there objective wholes– or is wholeness a matter of object, perception, and of function?

AI

General

For the way of being – especially to tailor documents to particular reader needs

SEP list of articles

Living the way of being - June 9 – perhaps to to incorporate later – to ‘open doc’

An earlier entry

Shared realization—

Ideational—reflection, thought

Experiential—receptive, active

Subject (self) / Object (world)

Exploration—

Being—one, peak

Beings

Subject-meditative varieties

Object-identity

Society, technology

Cosmos

Attitude—

Limitlessness and limits

Pain, doubt, and process

Wait - with open awareness

Discipline, health, positive relations

Action—

Begin: zero = all

The way: ground.realization

Money - place

Nature - society - artifact

Mind - universe

Immerse.travel