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The Science, Logic, and Method

B. E. Curt Doolittle with Dr Bradley Werrell
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Table of Contents

 

Contents

  1. First Principles
  2. Demonstrated Interests
  3. Biases
  4. Reciprocity
  5. Truth
  6.  Logic
  7. Grammars
  8. Science
  9. The Method
  10. Summary

 

 

Acknowledgements

While this author is the principle architect, this project, of which this book is but a summary, is the work of many dozens if not hundreds of people who have contributed in ways both large and small to bring it to its current degree of completeness and precision, as well as standing the shoulders of those generations of thought leaders who have come before us. And it would not have come into existence without all of them. While we cannot possibly identify all the people who have added opinions and ideas to improve and expand the work, at least the following people should receive our thanks for their efforts on behalf of myself and the institute.

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I – First Principles

The Logic of the sciences

The Hierarchy of Evolutionary Computation

Given the sequence of premises used in reasoning, decision, and action:

Laws (Discovered, and mathematically reducible (sciences)) > First Principles  (Discovered and linguistically reduced (sciences, and applied sciences)) > Axioms (declared, logical) > Principles (Reasoning) >  Rules (Limits) >  Protocols (formal standards) > Procedures (instructions) > Guidelines (Counsel) > Habits (Practical)

First Principles: First principles consists of causally irreducible premises that cannot be deduced from other principles, that function as the fundamental starting point within a system of thought (Problem set within a discipline, discipline, set of disciplines, all disciplines, all knowledge).

The First Principle of Evolutionary Computation: The first principle of the universe, from which all existence emerges, consists of Evolutionary Computation by the continuous recursive disambiguation of disorder(entropy) into order (negative entropy) by the process of discovery of stable equilibria (agreement) between increasing volumes of energy (charge), matter (mass), information(persistence), and potential for further recombination, innovation, and adaptation.

Universal Constructability: All first principles of all scales (planes of causality) and all derivations (applications) are reducible to the first principle of evolutionary computation, and all observational phenomena are reducible to constructions from the hierarchy of first principles that emerge from evolutionary computation.

The Systems (Organizations) of Evolutionary Computation:

  • Physical Computation
    • Existence (persistence in time)
      • Entropy (expansion, unordered) (Discreteness, Identity) (-)
      • Disequilibrium (state) (Differentiation, Asymmetry) (=)
      • Negative Entropy (mass, ordered) (Relation, Symmetry) (+)
    • Evolutionary Computation (over time)
      • Dissipation (-)
      • Stable Relations (=)
      • Accumulation (+)
    • Emergence (after time)
      • Decay (-)
      • Entities and Components (=)
      • Assemblies and Assemblages (of Components) (+)
      • Ensembles and Configurations (of Assemblages) (++)
  • Biological Computation
    • Survival (Persistence in Time) (=)
      • Consumption – Energy Out (-)
      • Acquisition – Energy In (+)
      • Persistence – Energy Equilibrium (=)
    • Accumulation (Complexity) (Capitalization over time) (+)
      • Mutation (Innovation) (Supply) (+)
      • Environmental Selection (Survival) (Demand) (-)
      • Adaptation (Capitalization) (=)
    • Reproduction (Multiplication over time) (x)
      • Capitalization – Supply (+)
      • Threshold – Demand (-)
      • Division – Equilibrium (=) of Adaptation (^1)
    • Sexual Reproduction (Rate of Computation Over Time) (^n)
      • Variation by Mutation and Recombination – Supply (+)
      • Sexual Selection – Demand (-)
      • Adaptation –   – Equilibrium (=) of Adaptation (^n)
  • Behavioral Computation
    • Cooperation 
      • Incentive: Evasion(=) – Cooperation(+) – Conflict(-)
      • Action: Non-interaction(=) – cooperation(+) – predation(-)
      • Capital: boycott(=) – Reciprocal(+) – Irreciprocal (-)
    • Influence – Coercion
      • Defense(+) – (?,=) – Force(-)
      • Trade(+) – (?,=) – Boycott(-)
      • Inclusion(+) – (?,=) – Ostracization(-)
    • Scale of Influence – Coercion
      • Influence – informing others in their interests
      • Coercion – coercing others to follow your interests
      • Power – organized coercion of others for your or collective interests
  • Organizational Computation
    • Organization
      • Kin (Tribe) – Law (Law, Economic)
      • Polity (Nation) – Force (Military, Political)
      • Cult (Civilization – Ostracization (Mythology, Social)
    • Elites
      • Warriors by Force and Command – serving interests of upper classes
      • Producers by Remuneration and Commerce – serving interests of middle classes
      • Priests by Inclusion and Tradition – serving interests of lower classes
    • Institutions
      • States by Warriors and Bureaucracy
      • Law by Producers and Traders
      • Religion by Priests and Traditions
    • Rate of Evolutionary Innovation and Adaptation
      • State: Gradual (calcification) but stable (Medium)
      • Law: Continuous but fragile and chaotic (Fast)
      • Religion: Resistant but durable and simple (Slow)
    • Institutional Sequence
      • First(Strong) > Second(Supportive) > Third(Weak)
        • Religion > State > Law (Middle East)
        • Religion > Law > State (India)
        • State > Religion > Law (None)
        • State > Law > Religion (China)
        • Law > State > Religion (Europe)
        • Law > Religion > State (none)
        • Fail > Fail > Fail (Gypsies, Subsaharan Africa)
  • Civilizational Computation
    • Group Strategy
      • The Conditions
        • Climate
        • Resources
        • Demographics
        • Relationship between masses and elites
        • The Proximity to Competitors
        • The Institutional Sequence
      • Produces a Strategy
        • The Metaphysical Assumptions (Value Model)
        • The Mythologies (World Model)
        • The Paradigm, Vocabulary, Logic of communication negotiation and persuasion.
        • The Institutional means of Intergenerational Persistence
      • Produces a Competition
        • Evolutionary Computation by
          The Conflict of Civilizations

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II – Demonstrated Interests

The Logic of Human Behavior

Those interests which all people seek to both acquire, inventory, convert, exchange and to retaliate against the imposition of costs upon by otherse.

Definition of Demonstrated Interest

  • Want (Aware, even Unaware) – “A desire to obtain monopoly or partial control without having obtained possession or expended an effort to do so.”
  • Claimed Interest (Demand) – “A demand upon others to accept a claim of monopoly or partial control when it has not been brought into possession (control) or demonstrated expenditure to do so.”
  • Presumed Interest (For Granted) – “The presumption of an interest in something an individual has neither brought into possession and obtained a monopoly, share, or common interests in, by the cost of any action.
  • Controlling Interest (Possession) – “Interests an individual has obtained possession of regardless of means, including by deception, fraud, theft, corruption, and war.
  • Consensual Interest (Agreement) – “Interests two or more parties have agreed to grant exclusivity (monopoly) of control, and ensure against imposition of costs.”
  • Demonstrated Interest (Ethical and Moral) “Interests an individual has born a costs to obtain a Monopoly Of Control over the use of, by homesteading, exchange, or transformation of either.”
  • Legitimate Demonstrated Interest (Insured) – “Interests an individual or group has demonstrated an interest, and which a population has formed an insurer to defend and adjudicated disputes over.” 
    • Property Right: A legitimate interest consists of these interests and a prohibition against violating those interests, with insurance of restitution and punishment if violated. Those rights consist of the following:
      • Constituo – Homesteading. Bearing a cost of improvement. (land, water, resources)
      • Transitus – Transit through. (passage through 3d space) 
      • Usus – Use of. (setting up a stall)
      • Fructus – Fruits of. (blackberries, wood, profits)
      • Mancipio – Emancipation of. (sale, transfer)
      • Abusus – Abuse of. (Consumption or Destruction) The opposite of Constituo.

Categories of Demonstrated Interest

Those constant relations (entities) into which we have invested our forgone opportunities, our time, our efforts, our relationships, or our resources, in order to acquire, maintain, and produce energy faster than we must dissipate it in time. (Investment, not exclusivity/monopoly of control)

  • Existential (or Natural) Interests: Interests inherent in physical existence, self-determination, mindfulness, reproduction, and exit of and insulation from the commons.
    • Self
      • Life, Body, Genes,
      • Mind, Attention, Memories,
      • Time, and Action, Stimulation,  Experience, Knowledge,
      • Stimulation, Novelty, Satisfaction
      • Self Determination
    • Privacy
      • Sexual Preference and Activity
      • Letters and Records
      • Home (nest, rest)
    • Kin and Interpersonal (Relationship) Interests
      • Mates (access to sex/reproduction), and Marriage
      • Children (genetic reproduction)
      • Consanguineous Relations (family, kin, clan, tribal and national relations)
  • Obtained Interests:  That which we have obtained by our actions.
    • Several (Personal) Interests: Personal property: 
    • Shareholder (Fractional) Interests: Shares in property: Recorded And Quantified Shareholder Property (claims for partial ownership)
    • Title Interests (Weights and Measures) Trademarks and Brands (prohibitions on fraudulent transfers within a geography).
    • Artificial Interests (Privileges) Letters of Marque, Patents, Copyrights, Grants of License.
  • Cooperative Interests: That which we have obtained by our efforts to cooperate with others.
    • Status and Class (reputation, honor)
      • Self-Image, Status, Reputation
      • Social, Sexual, Economic, Political, and Military Market Value
    • Sustainable Patterns of Association, Cooperation, Insurance, Reproduction,  Production, Distribution and Trade
      • Friends, Acquaintances, Neighbors,
      • Cooperative Relations, Commercial Relations
      • Political Relations, and Military Relations.
    • Interests in the Markets for Voluntary Cooperation: That which emerges in all populations to facilitate cooperation at all scales.
      • Association: Organization of opportunity for information and cooperation: Friends, neighbors, and others with common interests. (Social interactions, community building)
      • Cooperation: People who I can help or ask for help in getting something done. (Mutual aid, collaboration, non commercial cooperation)
      • Insurance: Organization of Defense of one another’s life, family, property, etc. (Risk sharing, mutual aid)
      • Reproduction: Organization of intergenerational persistence: Courtship, mating, marriage, family. (Sex, Care, Family formation, Parenting)
      • Production: Organization of production and trade: Investment, entrepreneurship, research, invention, production, distribution, and trade. (Economic activity, resource allocation)
      • Commons: Organization of social influence: Norms, traditions, values, myths, religions, institutions, territory, infrastructure, monuments, markets, and arts. (Shared resources, cultural heritage)
      • Polities: Organization of people, economy, capital, institutions, force for the production of commons: Governance structures and systems for collective decision-making. (Civil society, rules, law, governance, military)
  • Common Interests, or “Commons” (Community Property): Those objects into which we have invested our forgone opportunities, our efforts, or our material assets, in order to aggregate capital from multiple individuals for mutual gain.
    • Informal Commons: The shared, non-physical resources, non-codified and systems of informal rules and norms that assist in cooperation, voluntary social organization, and collective condition within a community that unconsciously and naturally develop in all human groups.
      • (ii) Informational commons: The quality and quantity of the information we depend upon for cooperation and avoidance of conflict, as well as knowledge necessary for survival and production, and Information necessary for decision making in the face of opportunities and risk.
      • (iii) Informal (Normative) Institutions: Our norms: behavioral rules, weights, and measures: habits, manners, ethics and morals traditions values and metaphysical value judgements of our group evolutionary strategies. Informal institutional property is nearly impossible to quantify and price.  The costs are subjective and consist of forgone opportunities.
      • (vii) Common Opportunity Interests: When people come together in proximity, and suppress impositions of costs upon the interests of others through the incremental evolution of the law of reciprocity, they decrease the time and effort required to produce voluntary association, cooperation and exchange. As such polities decrease opportunity costs, and generate opportunities. These opportunities are un-homesteaded (opportunities) until invested in by individuals either by expenditure of time effort and resources, or by forgoing opportunities for consumption. As such the proximity of people and the institution of reciprocity under law produce a commons of opportunities that we seize (homestead) by competition. As such no one may claim interest in an opportunity without conducting and exchange by which to seize it.
      • (viii) Human Capital: the capability and performance of individuals in cooperative activities that directly or indirectly produce common benefits or constraints.
        • Physical: Genetics, Health, Intelligence
        • Demographic: Homogeneity, Population, Class distribution
        • Culture: Manners, Ethics, Social Capital
        • Competitiveness: Work Ethic, Adaptability, Innovation
        • Knowledge: Education, Codified (Explicit) Knowledge, Tacit Knowledge
    • Formal Commons:  The shared resources, infrastructure, and institutions that are organized, maintained, and regulated through formal procedures and governance structures, that populations consciously capture or create, and develop in all human groups.
      • (v) Formal (Procedural) Institutions: The formal and durable intergenerational institutions that populations develop to encourage, facilitate, coerce, or limit the behavior of the population to satisfy their interests and the interests of the elites who manage them.
        • ( ? ) Educational: Religion, Education, Propaganda 
        • ( ? ) Economic: Treasury, Money, Banking,
        • ( ? ) Treasury, Military, Government, Laws, Courts.
      • ( ? ) Physical Commons: 
        • (??) Territorial Interests: the territory, its waterways,
        • (iv) Formal (Physical) Commons: parks, buildings, improvements and infrastructure.
        • (vi) Monuments (art and artifacts). Monuments claim territory, demonstrate wealth, and provide one of the longest most invariable normative and economic returns that any culture can construct as a demonstration of conspicuous production (wealth), and as such, conspicuous excellence. (hence why competing monuments represent an invasion. Temples, Churches, Museums, Sculptures being the most obvious examples of cultural claim or conquest. 

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III – Biases

The Logic of Human Variation in Behavior

All demonstrated behavior is the result of constraints of the physical body, biological processes, instincts, intuitions, abilities, health, fitness, age, experience, education, and training.

  • Universal Incentives: Instincts. ( … )
  • Personality Differences in Incentives: Variations. ( … )
  • Sex Differences in Incentives: Oppositions. ( … )
  • Moral and Political Differences in Incentives: Biases. ( … )
  • Demographic Distribution of Incentives: Expressions. ( … )
  • Civilizational Differences in Incentives: Constraints. ( … )

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IV – Reciprocity 

The Logic of Cooperation
  • Reciprocity: The set of tests necessary to claim a transfer of a demonstrated interest does not provoke retaliation for a harm to others demonstrated interests.
    • The requirements for non-retaliation between individuals and groups.
    • The mutual exchange of actions and benefits (reciprocity) between individuals is based on rational decision-making.
    • This rationality is bounded not only by individual constraints (information, cognition, time) but also by the shared, intersubjective understanding between the parties involved.
    • Criteria (Facts): 
      • Productive: The capital consisting of the portfolio of demonstrated interests of all parties is increased by the action.
        • (See Part II – Demonstrated Interests)
      • Exhaustively Informed:
        • Truthful (See Part IV –  Testimonial Truth)
        • Free of Hazards (Baitings into Hazard)
        • Regardless of Cost
      • Voluntary Transfer:
        • Non-Coercive transfer or exchange.
      • Of Demonstrated Interests
        • Free of Imposition of costs upon the Demonstrated Interests of Others;
          • (See Part II Demonstrated Interests)
        • Either Directly or indirectly by Externality
    • Qualified by:
      • Responsibility for Costs:
        • Altruistic punishment (cost of correction, bearing responsibility for the commons), vs,
        • Forbearance (investment, bearing responsibility for the individual) vs,
        • Tolerance (losses) Due to: Suffering < Endured < Capitulated < Reconciled < Yielded to < Evasion of Responsibility (irresponsibility).
      • Warrantable and Warrantied: Willing to pay restitution if not exhaustively informed, and fit for purpose.
        •  Within the limits of one’s knowledge and due diligence.
      • Restitutable: Within the limits of resitutability: the capacity to restore the demonstrated interests of all affected parties in the event of failure of due diligence and fitness for purpose.

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V – Truth

The Logic of Testimony and Decidability
  • Truth – The truth that man is capable of- The limit of truth. In the Context of a Truth Claim, Truth consists of the promise of testimony of infallibility that has survived sufficient due diligence to avoid the imposition of involuntary costs of any form of capital (demonstrated interest) from temporal or informational to normative, to institutional, to material, for the self or others. (promissory, performative, warrantied(due diligence), satisfying demand for infallibility that would impose involuntary costs upon the demonstrated interests of one’s self or others in the context in question.)
    • Contingency: All premises are contingent and dependent upon the variability of the constant relations given the causal density of the context in question.
    • Fallibility – Given the contingency of a truth claim the degree of certainty is greater for false statements than for potentially true statements.
    • Survivability – Given contingency and fallibility, the remaining uncertainty is dependent upon the adversarial competition with competing claims by tests of parsimony. 
    • Infallibility – A decision upon which the resulting display word and deed impose no involuntary costs upon the demonstrated interests of one’s self or others in the context in question.
    • Decidability – Sufficient information exists such that alternatives are sufficiently improbable to impossible to satisfy the demand for infallibility in the context in question.
    • Demand for Decidability  
      • Decidable enough to imagine a conceptual relationship
      • Decidable enough for me to feel good about myself.
      • Decidable enough for me to take actions that produce positive results.
      • Decidable enough for me to not cause others to react negatively to me.
      • Decidable enough to resolve a conflict without subjective opinion among my fellow people with similar values.
      • Decidable enough to resolve a conflict without subjective opinion across different peoples with different values.
      • Decidable regardless of all opinions or perspectives.
    • Truthfulness – Testimony sufficient for the satisfaction of demand for infallibility in the context in question.
      • Tautological Truth: That testimony you give when promising the equality of two statements using different terms: A circular definition, a statement of equality or a statement of identity.
      • Analytic Truth: The testimony you give promising the internal consistency of one or more statements used in the construction of a proof in an axiomatic(declarative) system. (a Logical Truth).
      • Ideal Truth: That testimony (description) you would give, if your knowledge (information) was complete, your language was sufficient, stated without error, cleansed of bias, and absent deceit, within the scope of precision limited to the context of the question you wish to answer; and the promise that another possessed of the same knowledge (information), performing the same due diligence, having the same experiences, would provide the same testimony. (Ideal Truth = Perfect Parsimony.)
      • Truthfulness: that testimony (description) you give if your knowledge (information) is incomplete, your language is insufficient, you have performed due diligence in the elimination of error, imaginary content, wishful thinking, bias, fictionalism, and deceit; within the scope of precision limited to the question you wish to answer; and which you warranty to be so; and the promise that another possessed of the knowledge, performing the same due diligence, having the same experiences, would provide the same testimony.
      • Honesty: that testimony (description) you give with full knowledge that knowledge is incomplete, your language is insufficient, but you have not performed due diligence in the elimination of error and bias, but which you warranty is free of deceit; within the scope of precision limited to the question you wish to answer; and the promise that another possess of the same knowledge (information), performing the same due diligence, having the same experiences, would provide the same testimony.
      • Demonstrated Preference: That behavior you demonstrate by your display word and deed, regardless of your prediction, perception, recollection or claims of honesty, preference, intent, due diligence, and warranty in the context of the question at hand.
    • Testifiability – The limited list of dimensions to which humans are capable of testifying, and if satisfied, constitute the possibility of a truth claim. Given some Conditions or Circumstance (Before):

Testimonial Truth Consists of satisfying demand for tests of consistency and correspondence with existential reality (During):

      • Realism – All existence consists of the persistence of constant relations independent of human perception, mind, belief, or preference, yet categorizable human sense and perception, entities(references, states, nouns), processes(verbs), and consequences (state changes, nouns).
      • Naturalism  – All phenomena within existence have natural causes that can be observed, measured, described, understood as consistent and coherent with all other phenomena, and reduced to irreducible causes (first principles), using sense, perception, and logical and physical instrumentation. 
        • Materialism (Persistence): Reality consists of physical or material entities and processes that persist over time.
        • Determinism (Lawfulness): Existence operates according to consistent laws and regularities that can be discovered and described by reproducibility of observations collected through sensory experience, experimentation, and measurement.
        • Reductionism (Reducibility): Complex phenomena can be explained by reducing them to their simpler, more fundamental components and processes.
        • Opportunism (Emergence): The interaction of simple elements can lead to the emergence of complex systems and opportunities for combination, recombination, innovation, adaptation, and evolution.
        • Scarcity (Constraint): All existence consists of limited availability of resources, which drives competition, adaptation, and evolution, influencing the behavior and interaction of organisms, shaping life and ecosystems through constraints.
        • Continuity (Consistency): There exists continuity between humans and the rest of the natural world, with all entities and phenomena being subject to the same natural laws and principles.
      • Identity – Unambiguous and categorically consistent  
        • Unambiguous – Sufficiently defined by its properties and the constant relations of and between those properties such that the category may not be conflated with other categories.
        • Categorically Consistent – Measured by the properties and the constant relations of and between those properties that preserve commensurability with the other categories in the context at hand, prohibiting conflation with other categories.
      • Logical – Internally Consistent (constant relations, verbal and mental)
        • (See Part V – Logic)
      • Empirical – Externally Correspondent (observable)
        • Observable (Defense against imagination, bias, falsehoods, errors)
        • Observed (Existential and Repeatable)
        • Measured (Compensating for limits to sense perception intuition and reason)
        • Commensurability (Commensurable and therefore coherent with other observations and other observers).
        • Potential (Insight by Deduction, Inference, and Abduction(Guessing))
      • Causally Possible – Operationally Possible (operational)
        • State a set of constant(persistent) relations(properties) – Identity.
        • Sequence (Time) of states – changes in state
        • Operations to change states (constructable)
          • Instrumentable (tools and methods)
            • Physically (with instrumentation) 
              • Operationally Feasible (Constraints)
                • Technology
                • Resources 
                • Time
                • Externalities
            • Behaviorally (with the human sense perception and body)
            • Cognitively perceivable and reducible (reason)
              • Verbally reducible
              • Within Limits: “Variation between reduction and completeness” (contingency: (satisfaction of demand for infallibility in the context in question)
        • Repeatable and Predictable (Stable Relations: Consistency between inputs, operations, and outputs)
      • Rational – Subjectively Bounded Rationality – Constraints (Limits of Rationality) for any decision maker:
        • Incentives:
          • Acquisition demand to acquire, inventory, transform, consume, or trade resources (demonstrated interests).
          • Capital in Toto 
            • (See Part II – Demonstrated Interests)
          • Competitive Field of Opportunities
            • Competitive Returns:
              • Criteria: Greatest Reward, Shortest Time, Least Effort, Lowest Cost, Greatest Certainty, Lowest Risk.
            • Competitive Choice given the field of Preferences to Necessities.
            • Competitive Feasibility of Alternatives
        • Information:
          • Availability of Information
          • Accuracy of Information
        • Cognitive:
          • Limits of One’s Abilities
          • Cognitive and Moral Biases
          • Social and Cultural Biases
        • Environmental:
          • Complexity of Conditions (Possibility of Overloading) 
          • Urgency (Time Pressure) available for decision-making.
        • Practical Feasibility for the Actor
          • Resource Availability
          • Operational Constraints
        • Behavioral Consistency:
          • Demonstrated Behavior (correspondence)
          • Consistency with Stated Goals or Intentions
      • Reciprocal – InterSubjectively Bounded Rationality
        • (See Part III – Reciprocity)

AND Consisting of Coherence and Completeness of the Scope and Limits of one’s Testimony (After):

        • Fully accounted: “(full accounting of all costs: opportunity, real, normative, institutional, genetic and ‘godly’- in the sense of man’s achievement of godhood).”
          • Performance of Due Diligence, including:
            • Costs, opportunity costs, the seen and unseen costs, gains and losses, internal and external
            • All Capital Present and Future (Capital of the past is preserved in the present or has been consumed).
          • Within Stated Limits:
            • Including the first principles
            • Stated limits of the scope you’re relying upon
            • Using limits based reasoning (prevent arbitrary disregard for consequences and externalities especially over population and scale)
            • and prohibit fallacious premises and assumptions – If there are no straight lines (einstein) then what is the limit of a line?
        • Surviving adversarial causal parsimony against competing alternatives. (Occam’s Razor)
        • Within the Limits of Warrantability (is warranty within the scope of possibility)
          • Responsibility(Duty) 
            • Consistent with Stated Claims, Fitness for Stated Purpose, Within what limits of Stress (Durability), and within what Temporal Limit. (“Satisfies the demand for infallibility in the context in question”)
            • Refund, repair, or replace if not.
        • Within the limits of liability (Restitutability)
          • Accountability(Consequences)
            • Capacity to pay restitution if false (or wrong).
    • Result: When someone gives testimony we judge:
      • The Testimony itself (Testifiability as True or False)
      • The Motives to give it (Reciprocity or Not)
      • And the Ability of those that produced it. (Ability or Not: Underlying Neurology, ability, maturity, experience, knowledge, responsibility)

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VI – Logic

Operational Definition of Logic as Neuronal Logic.
  • Logical: The automatic neurological processes that test for survival of specific consistency and collective coherence of stimuli by adversarial competition against previously surviving memories of the same to similar stimuli and resulting relations between states.
  • Verbal Expression Logic: Given that all language consists of measurements subjectively testable by human sense, perception, intuition, logical facility, and reasoning, and given that the paradigm and vocabulary of language may deviate from first principles, then the limit of logic and subsequent testimony is determined by the measurements available in the language, which in turn is limited by the knowledge of the individual and group.
    • |Consistency|: Sensory(concurrent) > Perceptual(coherent) >  Associative (predictive, imaginary, hypothetical) > Verbal (theoretical)> Operational (action) > Observable (result).
  • Dimensions of Human Testable Relations (Testifiable)
    • (Before) First Principles (premise one, observer)
    • (Before) Contextual Relations (Episode): Rain in a flood-prone area leading to a wet ground. (premise two, referent)
      • Constructable from first principles?
    • (During) Transformational Relations: Rain transforms dry ground into wet ground. (premise three, referent)
      • Tests:
        • Temporal Relation: Rain precedes the ground becoming wet.
        • Spatial Relation: Rain in a garden leads to wet soil in that garden.
        • Causal Relation: Rain causes the ground to become wet.
        • Dependency Relation: Wet ground depends on rain.
        • Contingent Relation: Wet ground contingent on the intensity of rain.
        • Associative Relation: Rain and wet ground are commonly associated.
      • Values
        • Quantitative Relation: 10 mm of rain resulting in a 5 cm water level on the ground.
        • Qualitative Relation: Heavy rain leading to very muddy ground.
    • (After) Result  (conclusion) The internal consistency of the first principles, contextual relations, and transformational relations.
      • Undecidable: Insufficiently Consistent
      • Contingent: Sufficiently Consistent
      • Certainly False: Inconsistent

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VII – Grammars

The Logic of Language

The combination of existence, causality, and determinism produce consistent universal laws. Just as existence (before), causality(during), and determinism (after) describe before, during and after states, we humans, in describing those laws, divide the universe into before, during, and after sciences: They are the physical, behavioral, and evolutionary laws, then the linguistic (formal, logical) means by which we describe them with language and symbols. As such, both the presumptions in our language and our expressions with our languages, can correspond to or deviate from those laws. As such our actions and consequences will reduce frictions by correspondence, or increase them by non-correspondence.

  • Laws
    • Existence
      • Physical Laws (Before, Supply (+))
      • Behavioral Laws (During, Demand (-))
      • Evolutionary Laws (After, Equilibrium (=))
    • Experience
      • Dreaming to Daydreaming (Randomness)
      • Imagination (Play, Rest)
      • Prediction (Observation)
      • Reasoning (Solving, Thinking)
    • Reference (language)
      • Definitions
        • Speaker: The person articulating the term or expression.
        • Reference: The act or process of mentioning something.
        • Referrer: The specific term or expression used to denote something.
        • Referent: The actual entity that the referrer denotes. 
      • Measurements
        • Dimensions consist of a set of constant, to variable, to contingent relations that refer to senses, perceptions, associations and their derivations while retaining the necessary and sufficient properties of the identity of the referent.
        • Dimensions of Sense and Perception (Referent)
          • The actual entity or concept being described, consisting of its inherent properties as experienced or observed.
        • Dimensions of Terms (Referrer)
          • The specific linguistic or symbolic expressions that describe the states of the referent.
            Dimensions:
            • Name(Noun, Adjective, Code-Word)
            • Action( Verb, Adverb)
            • Relations (Prepositions, Conjuctions)
            • Agreement(or(Noise Words) (4 Dimensions)
          • Noun Dimensions
            • Name, State, Person, Gender, Possession, Number, Perception or Experience (6 dimensions)
          • Verb Dimensions
            • Action, Knowledge, Decidability, Possibility, Ownership, Permissibility, Temporality, Gain-or-Loss (7 dimensions)
          • Relation Dimensions
            • Relation, Link (2 dimensions)
          • Consent Dimension
            • Agreement/Disagreement – Yes/No (1 dimension)
        • Semantic Dimensions (Reference Class)
          • A dimension consists of a series of all possible states sharing a common set of one or more constant relations.
          • Terms refer to specific states or ranges of states on a dimension.
      • Language in general (cont, rec, dis) A language consists of: 
        • Metaphysical Presumptions: Unconscious presumptions about man, nature, the world and the universe.
        • Logical Constraints: The criteria and tests used to ensure statements within a language maintain identity, consistency, correspondence with reality, possibility, and rationality, all within the boundaries set by the language’s metaphysical presumptions.
        • Terms: A set of references consisting of auditory, visual, or other symbols accessible to human sense perception.
        • Grammar: The set of rules that govern the continuous recursive disambiguation of expressions within a language, ensuring unambiguity and coherence within the limits of a given paradigm.
        • Paradigms: A limited set of dimensions permissible for inclusion in a logically consistent expression within a grammar.
      • The Grammars (Specific to each Paradigm)
        • Deflationary: Permissible dimensions of terms are limited to those necessary for the internal consistency of the logic in that paradigm. Especially the academic disciplines, methods, procedures, protocols. 
          • A deflationary grammar evolved to serve the interests of a context-specific audience and their purpose. It is marked by its reducibility to a system of measurement and commensurability within that audience and purpose.encompasses fields such as mathematics, academic disciplines, technical disciplines, commercial disciplines like accounting, legal disciplines including legal writing and argumentation, and the various methods, procedures, and protocols of professional disciplines. It extends to formal language, which is characterized by use in writing as opposed to speaking. 
        • Ordinary: Unconstrained, casual, pragmatic, and functional human expression from the simplest forms of non-verbal communication to the most complex forms of verbal discourse:
          • Including: informal speech, contractions, colloquial terms, idioms, expressions of empathy or emotion, and depends upon context, inference, suggestion and interpretation by the audience.
        • Inflationary: Narratives used to construct and convey stories or accounts, whether factual or fictional, designed to engage, inform, entertain, persuade, deceive, defraud, discredit, or ostracize. Including:
          • Narratives: Language used to construct and convey explanations or descriptions of real or hypothetical events, designed to inform, engage, or persuade the audience.
          • Fictions: Language used for storytelling that involves imaginary events and characters, created for entertainment, artistic expression, or moral lessons.
          • Fictionalisms: The use of language to claim or assert knowledge that one does not have, often through constructs or concepts that are not literally true but are presented as if they are. This can be for explanatory power, practical utility, or manipulation.
          • Deceptions: Language intentionally used to mislead, misinform, or create false impressions for the purpose of manipulation or gain.
          • Undermining: Language used to attack, discredit, or diminish others, often through personal attacks, gossip, shaming, rallying against someone, moralizing, psychologizing, canceling, and other similar tactics.

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VIII – Science

Note: “This section defines science, and includes epistemology”

( … ) ( The ( … ) (“method of producing testimony within … BY … For the purpose of compensating for  (sense perception reason ) and the tendency of human beings to construct justificationary narratives… etc”))

Whereas;
( … )

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IX – The Method

The Methodology of Continuous Recursive Disambiguation

Whereas;

  • Humans differ in their capacity to produce behaviors that facilitate the acquisition of demonstrated interests(resources).
  • Cooperation evolved to increase the capacity of humans to acquire demonstrated interests in the division of labor.
  • Language evolved to facilitate human cooperation (negotiation, contracts).
  • Terms evolved with increasing specificity or generality in competition with human differences in ability and experience (contracts).
  • We can only think with the precision of the terms available to us. (measures)
  • We can only test the truth or falsehood of statements by competition against the demand for the satisfaction of infallibility in any context in question (survival).
  • We can only understand, deduce, infer, and predict from premises that have satisfied the demand for infallibility in the context in question. (limits)
  • Therefore we use our reason and observation to improve decidability (satisfaction of the demand for infallibility in the context in question):
    • Eliminate ignorance error, bias, and deceit.
    • Improve our ability to incrementally evolve behavior, knowledge, and truth.
    • And to benefit us (acquisition, transformation, consumption, innovation, adaptation, evolution, and expansion).
    • And to prevent us from harms (losses to ourselves and others).

The Method of using Reason and Observation to employ language as a system of measurement for describing, understanding, discovering, and making use of knowledge of ourselves, the world, and the universe consists of: 

Disambiguation: The reduction of references to an unambiguous irreducible identity consisting of a set of consistent, correspondent, coherent, and contingent relations, usable as an unambiguous measurement by the elimination of conflation and inflation. 

Producing a system of measurement:  By disambiguation by enumeration, adversarial serialization, operationalization, producing universal commensurability and testifiability, by empirical (observable, measurable, perceptible, and testifiable) means, using these three techniques together:

1 – Operational Terms (Words):

Whereas all terms are reducible to analogy of human sense, perception, imagination, reasoning, and action:

    • Enumeration: Name and list all referrers (names of entities, states, properties, processes, or laws), whether Associations(+), Synonyms(~=), or Antonyms(-) that share some set of one or more constant relations but whose inconstant relations vary the scale of those constant relations.
    • Serialization (Horizontal): Organize the enumerated referrers into a scale (linear (>), bi-directional(<>), ternary(/\), hierarchy (tree), but not a graph).
    • Operationalization: Given most definitions (even in the dictionary) are derived from ordinary usage, those definitions are often inarticulate and conflationary. Therefore, convert the definition of each referrer to operational prose, exposing the operational differences between each term used.
      • Operational Prose (Sentences): Deflation (constraint upon) ordinary language grammar, by using
        • Complete sentences (completeness),
        • Limited to a single point of view (observer),
        • In Promissory form (warranty),
        • Absent the Verb to Be (claim of existence ex nihilo),
        • Describing a series of observable operations (actions),
        • Resulting in testable transformations of state (sentences),
        • And if required, of sets of such transactions (stories).
        • And if necessary, further disambiguated in context by:
          • parenthetical prose ( use of parentheses),
          • enumerative prose (lists),
          • and algorithmic prose (sequences of logical operations in programmatic form).
    • Recursive Adversarial Competition (to an identity): Reduce the definitions of, or redefine the definitions of each referrer (and if absolutely necessary(‘almost never’) create a neologism), such that each definition is provides an identity that unambiguously represents a unique position on the serialized spectrum: an ordinal or natural measurement.

2 – First Principles (Causality):

Whereas;

    • All first principles of all scales (planes of causality) and all derivations (application) are reducible to the first principle of evolutionary computation.
    • Action coherent, consistent, and correspondent with first principles decreases the possibility of variation between human behavior and the natural world, and therefore decreases the costs of action in the natural world, and therefore reduces the cost of acquisition, preservation, transformation, and exchange of demonstrated interests in the natural world.
    • Terms assist in human cooperation, terms are a human construct, and first principles must also be a human construction, because not only must first principles be constructed from terms, but both must be reducible to analogies to experience – measurements accessible by humans.
    • Therefore All first principles (observed phenom) are equivalent to terms: collections of constant to contingent relations serving as references to phenomena that is reducible to human sense perception and experience by instrumental, natural, or rational means.
    • First principles are distinguished by the emergence of novel operations of more complex resources from simpler operations on less complex resources. As such, each set of emergence constitutes a new, emergent, plane of causality demonstrating new first principles of operational possibility. We traditionally refer to these planes of causality as ‘academic disciplines’, but even within a discipline causal hierarchies may be disambiguated into a hierarchy of dependencies.
    • Disambiguating observations into first principles requires the same process as for terms.

The Method applied to first principles consists of:

    • Enumeration: List all of the observable behaviors at the scale (plane of causality) of your inquiry, whose causality you wish to discover.
    • Operationalization: Operationalize those behaviors.
    • Serialization (Vertical): Just as with terms, we seek consistency with the terms before and after, with first principles, we seek to construct them from the first principles of the scales prior to the scale (decreasing complexity) of your inquiry and consistent with the emergent scales (increasing complexity) that follow.
    • Recursive Adversarial Competition (to an identity):
      • Seek causal parsimony: reducibility to first principles of construction from evolutionary computation.) 
      • Start with the lowest scale (plane) of first principles you have confidence in. It may require a hierarchy of scales (planes) to connect your observations your starting point. 
      • Attempt to find a route (wayfinding) via first principles from that lowest plane to your plane of inquiry.
      • Recursively falsify your causal route (proposed causal hierarchy) until you cannot discover a more parsimonious solution.
      • The causal simplicity will generally surprise you as some variation on the ternary logic of evolutionary computation emergent from the previous layer of causes.

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X – Summary

  1. By Continuous Recursive Disambiguation, Enumeration, Serialization, and Operationalization, into first causes by Adversarial Competition. (Terms, Statements, Sentences, Stories)
  2. At every scale of Stable Relations (symmetries) (First Causes);
  3. Producing Exhaustive Reduction to First Causes(first principles).
  4. Then Reconstructing all domains from first causes in consistent, coherent, correspondent, and operational terms.
  5. Disambiguated by the Paradigm of permissible dimensions, possible operations, logic, and vocabulary, at each scale of stable relations.
  6. Producing a single consistent, coherent, correspondent, hierarchy of Grammars (logics);
  7. Creating a universally commensurable value-neutral language of testimony across domains.
  8. Creating universal decidability across all human domains
  9. Yielding a constructive logic of testing for the testifiability of identity, consistency, operational possibility, correspondence, coherence, rational choice, reciprocity, limits, completeness, and parsimony, of those relations across all scales of stable relations.
  10. Permitting the falsification of ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, loading, framing, suggestion, obscurantism, and the fictionalisms of sophistry, pseudoscience, and supernaturalism.
  11. Resulting in Speech, Story, Argument by Strict Construction of Transactions, in a Contract for Meaning (Statements) and;
  12. Due Diligence Against Ignorance, Error, Bias, Deceit, Fraud, Theft, Violence, War, and Conquest
  13. Where due diligence requires tests of existence, identity, consistency, possibility, correspondence, rationality, reciprocity, completeness, and coherence).

And As A Consequence:

  1. Thereby eradicating Irreciprocity and falsehood from the informational commons, and as a consequence from institution, knowledge, norm, and tradition
  2. Restoring continuous adaptability by continuous innovation, adaptation, and application of the laws of the universe, allowing greater organization (anti-entropy) producing greater conditions, opportunity, choice, species survival – and peace.

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[Fin]

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