What is this Blog about?

I am currently exploring the value of developing the concept the Bridge and other related sites as a free public resource, and writing a series of ebooks on the subject .. while exploring/researching it as a Post Grad and designing various complimentary software tools...
In this blog I explore techniques I have collected and developed for a social network space for people to Explore the bridge between Creative flow and Rational Thought".

"From the point of view of the larger planet, we proceed with an awareness that the whole system is far too complex or us to actually manage or control ....remember its a system that gave birth to us, so how then are we to interact in a way that is fruitfull?"

"Many of us have been trained perceive randomness as nothing but entropy, background 'noise' to be ignored, much as we are taught to treat the commons, yet the commons is the shared foundation of life...


The capacity to solve our problems is available , we are not goods in the hands of politicians and bankers...

Randomness

"Randomness" is, in our culture, commonly defined as the opposite of information/meaning, and hence being "meaningless". This distinction of meaning/meaningless, information/noise is a simplification  imposed on a complex phenomena.


The method proposed in this blog is based on the premise that randomness and meaning may be related 

There may be some information found in randomness (dependent on a number of factors which I will attempt to identify and outline*)



Although there is a danger of random signals being  used without criticism as source of prejudice and supersition, randomness can have a value...

Historically it has from time to time been considered worthy of attention......

* Possible Factors affecting value of information in "random expressive flow"?!
(I am assuming there is the possibility of some intelligence emerging in random flow)



  • Integrative/Environmental Factor: Mutual evolutionary relevance of flow
  • Setting: Environmental Context
  • Set:   Focus of Conciousness at moment of expression (capacity to concentrate)
  • Concentration/distraction:    Habitual attention/focus effects
  • Physical factors: ? -Subjects Brain state
  • Noise: Random noise not affected by previous factors





Random selection is an official method to resolve tied elections in some jurisdictions[2] and is even an ancient method of divination, as in tarot, the I Ching, and bibliomancy. Its use in politics is very old, as office holders in Ancient Athens were chosen by lot, there being no voting. Wikipedia
Applications and use of randomness







Main article: Applications of randomness
In most of its mathematical, political, social and religious use, randomness is used for its innate "fairness" and lack of bias.
Political: Greek Democracy was based on the concept of isonomia (equality of political rights) and used complex allotment machines to ensure that the positions on the ruling committees that ran Athens were fairly allocated. Allotment is now restricted to selecting jurors in Anglo-Saxon legal systems and in situations where "fairness" is approximated by randomization, such as selecting jurors and military draft lotteries.
Social: Random numbers were first investigated in the context of gambling, and many randomizing devices, such as dice, shuffling playing cards, and roulette wheels, were first developed for use in gambling. The ability to produce random numbers fairly is vital to electronic gambling, and, as such, the methods used to create them are usually regulated by government Gaming Control Boards. Throughout history, randomness has been used for games of chance and to select out individuals for an unwanted task in a fair way (see drawing straws).
Mathematical: Random numbers are also used where their use is mathematically important, such as sampling for opinion polls and for statistical sampling in quality control systems. Computational solutions for some types of problems use random numbers extensively, such as in the Monte Carlo method and in genetic algorithms.
Medicine: Random allocation of a clinical intervention is used to reduce bias in controlled trials (e.g., randomized controlled trials).
Religious: Although not intended to be random, various forms of divination such as cleromancy see what appears to be a random event as a means for a divine being to communicate their will. (See also Free will and Determinism).


An Academic study of Intuition and Rationality 

author Hogarth R.


Global Conciousness Project


A video lecture  on Pattern, Randomness, and Information.


author: Gregory Chaitin, University of Auckland


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