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Four Part Identity

grant czerepak — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:40:49 +0000

I have been reading for some time on both Sociology and Social Psychology and I have discovered one pattern in the research and theory that I have not seen drawn out of the material: A four part identity.

There are two primary components of Social Psychology, the self and the group. Both can be viewed in two ways:

In Self, how I see myself
Out Self, how others see myself
In Group, how I see my group
Out Group, how others see my group

These four perspectives compose knowledge and consequently identity.

Affordances : Patterns We Can Use

grant czerepak — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:38:43 +0000

I have been studying Soc Psych and am beginning to have a bit of an idea. What I’ve read so far is Soc Attitude and Soc Perception. In perception one thing is standing out: patterns. I mean patterns in the most general sense of the word. Soc Interaction is based on patterns and one theory for non-verbal patterns calls them “affordances“. A theory on impressions calls them “traits”. They are both the same thing, perceptual patterns we can use.

But I like the word affordance because in the theory related to it utility is mentioned.

I have seen the word affordance used in design. Simply put a design affordances are “patterns physical or virtual we can use.”

That makes my more general definition, affordances, “patterns we can use”.

Affordance is discussed in Wikipedia as well.

Objects : Personal, Social, Official

grant czerepak — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:45:48 +0000

There is a new term floating around : “Social Objects”. Apparently, it was coined about five years ago and is slowly gaining notariety.

The concept of a Social Object is discussed by Jaiku’s Jyri here : http://strange.corante.com/2007/06/13/nmkforum07-jyri-of-jaiku

Social Objects are basically internet media objects (text, audio, image, video) that are the message of the Social Network medium. For the longest time on the internet the message had to be sought out. You had to go to a website to get the social object you wanted. However, by utilizing your social network, people with similar interests send the social objects to you. They are gifts. For example, flickr used to be the place to goto for photos. Now flickr photos are sent to you by your social network. Blog posts used to be sought out and blogs subscribed to. Now blog posts are sent to you by your social network. News used to have news sites that you would go to and follow. Now news is sent to you by your social networks.

But that isn’t everything Social Objects come in different varieties:

Dumb Social Object : an object with no link to a source site.
Smart Social Object : an object with a link to a free source site.
Store Social Object : an object with a link to a store source site.
Cart Social Object : an object with a link to a store source site item.

The classification system can be more extensive, but the separation of object from link is worth noting.

So, the social network is simpler than surfing, it eliminates the cost of filtering, and it is pushed, you don’t have to pull. So why is it not possible to have a computer do it? I think a computer can, but not by examining the preferences of the individual. Instead the system must examine interpersonal and group preferences associated to the individual.

But even automating individual, interpersonal and group preferences is not enough. Members of social networks have status as Social Senders. Part of receiving a Social Object involves filtering who you accept a Social Object from. How would an advertising vector automate the status of a Social Sender? Facebook calls them “Pages”. It is like a Social Sender/Receiver, but it has a different character, a Social Organization, and it failed. It failed because Social Organizations are one trick ponies. They have a Mission. Mission’s kill diversity and consequently desensitize the Social Receiver.

Now let’s take a step back and rethink the Internet for a moment:

Interaction can be divided into Self, Personal, Social and World.

Stand Alone Computing was Self Computing. Your computer did not interact with any other computer.

Web 1.0 was Personal Computing. Suddenly messages were travelling. And a message could be sent to you without query, Push, or it could be sent to you with query, Pull. Your computer interacted with other’s computers in the following ways:

Email : Personal Push
Web Pages : Personal Pull
Message Boards : Social Pull

Basically, messages are Push or Pull. You have:

Self-Mediums,Self-Senders, Self-Messages, Self-Receivers;
you have Personal-Mediums, Personal-Senders, Personal-Messages, Personal-Receivers;
you have Social-Mediums, Social-Senders, Social-Messages, Social-Receivers;
you have Official-Mediums, Official-Senders, Official-Messages, Official-Receivers.

With the advent of Web 2.0 and Social Networks something new came about : Social Push. Through Social Network connections you could push a Social Object (Social-Message) to a broad audience of generally like minded individuals. This is based on the Social Psychological “Law of Attraction” where it is highly likely that individuals of common interests form connections.

But Companies fail in the Social Network model. Why? Perhaps because companies have entered at the wrong end. Perhaps because we are looking at the next stage, Web 3.0, cold and hard in the face. Contrary to what many in the industry claim, perhaps Social Objects are not the future for advertising. Instead of using coercion to get Social Users to share Ad Social Objects, perhaps Objects are the future for Customer Service. But not in a Social Network. Perhaps in an Official Network.

Now to think what the nature of an Official Network would be.

Timeline : Cities, Temples, Cairns

grant czerepak — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 04:00:06 +0000

6 000 years ago

6.0 ka(4000 BC)

Arch : Harappa City Built : India

Faith : Creation and Adam and Eve : Genesis 1:1

Arch : Temple Platforms Built : Mesopotamia

Agro : Peas, Sesame seeds, Dates, and Cotton Domesticated : Mehrgarh
Agro : Bread Using Yeast : Egyptians
Agro : Duck Domesticated : China
Agro : Water buffalo Domesticated : India, China
Agro : Horse Domesticated : Eurasian Steppes
Agro : Dromedary Camel Domesticated : Arabia
Agro : Honey bee Domesticated : Several Places

Soc : Culture : Naqada : Nile

5.9 ka

Clima : Global Drought : 5.9 kiloyear event

5.7 ka

Soc : Kingdom : Uruk : Mesopotamia

5.5 ka

Arch : Irrigation : Mesopotamia

Agro : Agriculture : Central Amazonia or Ecuador : Americas

5.3 ka

Soc : First Dynastic Pharaoh : Egypt

Tech : Bronze Tools : Bronze Age

5 000 years ago

5.0 ka (3000 BC)

Soc : Civilization : Elam : to the east of Mesopotamia

Soc :Three_Sovereigns_and_Five_Emperors : China

Agro : Turmeric, cardamom, pepper and mustard are harvested : Indus Valley Civilization.
Agro : Fermentation of dough, grain, and fruit juices is in practice.
Agro : Sugar produced in India

Soc : Culture : Longsha : China.

Agro : Horse Domesticated Ukraine

4.9 ka

Soc : Protodynastic Era : Mesopotamia

4.8 ka-

Soc : Dynasty : Old Kingdom Period : Egypt

Arch : Pyramid of Djoser : Egypt

4.7 ka-

Arch : City : Mohenjo-daro : India
Arch : Great Pyramid of Giza : Egypt

4.6ka

Agro : Large scale commercial timbering of cedars in Phoenicia (Lebanon) for export to Egypt and Sumeria. Similar commercial timbering in South India.

4.5 ka -
4.4 ka

Soc : Kingdoms : Amorite : Mesopotamia

4.35 ka

Faith : Noah’s Ark

Soc : Empire : Akkadian : Mesopotamia

4.3 ka
4.2 ka

Clima : Global Drought : 4.2 kiloyear event

Tech : Spoked Wheel : Wheel

Soc : Dynasty : Gutian : Mesopotamia
Soc : Dynasty : First Intermediate Period : Nile

4 100 ya

Soc : Dynasty : Ur 3 : Mesopotamia
Soc : Dynasty : Xia : China

4.0 ka (2000 BC)

World Population : 27 Meg

Faith : The Tower of Babel destroyed : Genesis 10:25

Soc : Amorite Kingdoms : Mesopotamia

Agro : Asian Elephant Domesticated : Indus Valley civilization

Soc : Dynasty : Middle Kingdom Period : Nile

3.95 ka

Faith : Abram and Sarai are renamed Abraham and Sarah by God. Abraham is circumcised. Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed. Genesis 17:10

Arch : Pyramid : Amenemhat 3 : Last Pyramid : Nile

Timeline : Town Humanity

grant czerepak — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:35:28 +0000

10 000 years ago

World Population 1 Meg

10.0 ka (8000 BC)

Clima : Last Glacial Period : Ends

Agro : Goat Domesticated: Iran
Agro : Cattle Domesticated : India, Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa
Agro : Zebu Domesticated : India

Arch : Earliest town sites with simple residential neighbourhoods in Jarmo,
Arch : Jericho, and Ain Ghazal on the Levant
Arch : Early Mehrgarh settlement sites in Indian subcontinent.
Arch : Lahuradewa architecture in Ganges plains of India

Agro : Fermentation : Caucasus : Georgia

9.5 ka

Soc : Farming Cultures

Agro : Cat Domesticated : Cyprus and Near East

9 000 years ago (7000 BC)

9.0 ka

Arch : Catal Huyuk in Anatolia constructed without streets.

Agro : Emmer, einkorn wheat, barley, sheep, goats, and pigs : southern Europe
Agro : Cultivation of wheat, sesame, barley, and eggplant in Mehrgarh
Agro : Cattle and Chicken Domesticated in Mehrgarh, Pakistan.

8.8 ka

Agro : Rice domesticated : southeast Asia

8.6 ka

Tech : Tortoise Shell Writing : may be the earliest written words

8.2 ka

Clima : Global Cooling : 8.2 kiloyear event

8 000 years ago (6000 BC)

8.0 ka

Arch : wooden frames : Chinese architecture
Arch : mortise and tenon : Chinese architecture

Agro : domestication of plants and animals : Iberian peninsula

Soc : Culture : Ubaid : Mesopotamia

Agro : Chicken Domesticated : India and Southeast Asia

Tech : Granary : built in Mehrgarh for storage of excess food
Tech : Ard (plough) : Mesopotamia

7.7 ka

Geo : Deluge : Mediterranean Sea floods Black Sea

7.5 ka

Agro : Field Systems : Céide Fields in Ireland

Soc : Culture : Badari : Nile

Tech : Calendar : Babylonian : Creation

7.0 ka(5000 BC)

World Population : 5 Meg

Tech : Copper Tools : Chalcolithic

Soc : Culture : Yangshao : China.

Agro : Guinea pig Domesticated : Peru
Agro : Donkey Domesticated : Egypt

6.5 ka

Tech : Wheeled Vehicle : Wheel

Timeline : Nomadic Humanity

grant czerepak — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:36:38 +0000

500,000 years ago

500 ka

Evo : Homo sapiens : Humans

Tech : Spears : Horse Speared

Soc : Culture : Soanian : Homo Erectus

455 ka

Clima : Glacial Period : Begins

400 ka

Tech : Controlled Fire : Homo Erectus
Tech : Handle Axe : Clactorian : Homo Erectus
Tech : Pigment Use

340 ka

Clima : Glacial Period : Ends

300 ka

Tech : Flint Flakes : Mousterian : Neanderthal

200 000 years ago

200 ka

Evo : Mitochondrial Eve

Evo : Homo sapiens sapiens : Modern humans

Clima : Glacial Period : Begins

130 ka

Tech : Asymmetrical Bifaces : Micoquien : Human
Tech : Picks : Sangoan : Human
Tech : Sea Voyages

Clima : Glacial Period : Ends

125 ka

Tech : Controlled Fire Comon : Humans

110 ka

Clima : Last Glacial Period : Begins

Evo : Migration : Out of Africa

75 ka

Geo : Supervolcanic Winter : Toba Catastrophe

Evo : Homo Erectus : Extinct

Tech : Carved Data Pattern

38 ka

Art : Figurative Art

Tech : Sturdy Shoes

35 ka

Tech : “Toothed” Tools : Chatelperronian : Human
Tech : Mathematics : Tally Stick : Lebombo Bone

33 ka

Tech : Musical Instrument : Bone Flute

32 ka

Tech : Textile : Wild Flax Fibre

30 000 years ago

30 ka

Evo : Neanderthal : Extinct

Art : Painting : Chauvet Cave
Art : Sculpture : Zoomorphic/Anthropomorphic : Lionhead Figurine

Agro : Dog Domesticated : East Asia and Africa

29 ka

Tech : Ceramics : Venus of Dolní Věstonice

28 ka

Tech : Needles : Bone and Ivory : China
Tech : Carving Tool : Gravettian

25 ka

Tech : Calendar : Ishango Bone
Tech : Spun Thread : Venus of Lespugue

Art : Sculpture : Anthropic Face : Venus of Brassempouy

22 ka

Geo : Bering Land Bridge : Beringia : Forms

20 ka

Clima : Last Glacial Period Maximum

18 ka

Clima : stadial (Cold Period) : Oldest Dryas : Begins

Soc : Nomadic Cultures : Eastern Mediterranean (Levant)

16 ka

Evo : Migration : Into Americas : Beringia Crossing

Tech : Pottery : Jomon Pot

15 ka

Clima : Cold Period (stadial) : Oldest Dryas : Ends

14 ka

Soc : Human Combat Dead : Cemetery 117

Art : Shamanistic Cave Painting : The Sorcerer

Agro : Wild Grasses Harvested : Natufians in the Levant

13.5 ka

Agro : Rice Domesticated : China.

12.8 ka

Astro : Suspected Comet Imact

Clima : Cold Period : Younger_Dryas : Begins

12 ka (10 000 BC)

Evo : Human Impact Extinctions : Start

Tech : Mapping : Mammoth Bone Map

Agro : Sheep Domesticated : Southwest Asia

11.8 ka

Agro : Wheat Domesticated : Levant.

11.5 ka

Clima : Cold Period : Younger_Dryas : Ends

Arch : Temple : Göbekli Tepe : Turkey

11.0 ka (9000 BC)

Soc : Sedentary Cultures : Levant

Agro : Pig Domesticated : Near East, China, Germany

10.5 ka

Agro : Pre-pottery sites across the Fertile Crescent growing domestic wheat, barley, chickpeas, peas, beans, flax and bitter vetch.

10 000 years ago

World Population 1 Meg

Timeline : Before Humanity

grant czerepak — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:49:52 +0000

14 000 000 000 years ago

13.9 Ga

Astro : Very early universe

0 seconds

Astro : One Fundamental Force : Planck epoch

10 ^ -43 s

Astro : Gravitation separates : Grand unification epoch

10 ^ -36 s

Astro : Electroweak Force separates : Electroweak epoch

10 ^ -36 s

Astro : Cosmic Inflation and Flattening : Inflationary epoch

10 ^ – 32 s

Astro : End Inflationary Epoch

10 ^ -12 s

Astro : Hot Relativistic Particle Plasma : plasma

10 ^ -12 s

Astro : Gravity,electromagnetism, Strong Force; Weak Force : Quark epoch

10 ^ -6 s

Astro : protons and neutrons form : Hadron epoch

14 Ga + 1 Second

1 s

Astro : annihilation reactions : Lepton epoch

10 s

Astro : photon dominance : Photon epoch

180 s

Astro : nuclear fusion into nuclei : Big Bang nucleosynthesis

1200 s

Astro : Nucleosythesis Ends

13.8 Ga

Astro : Matter domination :

13.6 Ga

Astro : Hydrogen and helium atoms form : Recombination

13.5 Ga

Astro : Universe becomes transparent : Hydrogen line

13.0 Ga

Astro : First Stars and Quasars : Reionization

Astro : Metal-Free Stars form : Star formation

12.7 Ga

Astro : Metal-Poor Stars : Form
Astro : Metal-Rich Stars : Form
Astro : Galaxies : Form

Astro : Cosmic Large-scale Structures : Form

4 560 000 000 years ago

4.56 Ga

Plano : Solar system : Forms

4.54 Ga

Geo : Earth : Forms

4.53 Ga

Luna : Moon : Forms

4.2 Ga

Geo : Oceans : Forms

3.8 Ga

Evo : simple cells (prokaryotes)

3.6 Ga

Geo : Vaalbara Supercontinent

3.0 Ga

Evo : photosynthetic cells

Geo : Ur Supercontinent

2.7 Ga

Geo : Start : Kenorland Supercontinent

2.4 Ga

Evo : Atmostphere Oxygenation Event

Clima : Ice Age : Huronian : Begins

2.1 Ga

Clima : Ice Age : Huronian : Ends

Geo : End : Kenorland Supercontinent

2 000 000 000 years ago

2 Ga

Evo : Complex cell (eukaryotes) Evolves

1.8 Ga

Geo : Nena Supercontinent : Forms

1.5 Ga

Geo : Columbia Supercontinent : Forms

1 000 000 000 years ago

1 Ga

Evo : Multicellular life : Evolves

1.1 Ga

Geo : Rodinia Supercontinent : Forms

800 Ma

Clima: Ice Age : Cryogenian : Begins

750 Ma

Geo : Rodinia Supercontinent : Splits

650 Ma

Clima : Snowball Earth

635 Ma

Clima : Ice Age : Cryogenian : Ends

600 000 000 years ago

600 Ma

Geo : Pannotia Supercontinent : Forms

540 Ma

Geo : Pannotia Supercontinent : Splits

590 Ma

Evo : Animals : Animalia

530 Ma

Evo : Chordata : Proto-Vertebrates

505 Ma

Evo : : Vertebrates : Vertebrata

500 Ma

Evo : Fish and proto-amphibians

475 Ma

Evo : Land plants

450 Ma

Clima : Ice Age : Andean-Saharan : Begins

420 Ma

Clima : Ice Age : Andean-Saharan : Ends

418 Ma

Oldredia (~418–~380 million years ago)

360 Ma

Evo : Amphibians

Clima : Ice Age : Karoo : Begins

300 000 000 years ago

300 Ma

Evo : Reptiles

Geo : Euramerica Supercontinent

Geo : Pangaea Supercontinent (~300–~180 million years ago)
Geo : Gondwana Supercontinent (~300–~30 million years ago)
Geo : Laurasia Supercontinent (~ 300–~60 million years ago)

260 Ma

Clima : Ice Age : Karoo : Ends

220 Ma

Evo : Mammalia : Mammals
Evo : Theriiformes : Mammals that birth live young (i.e. non-egg-laying)

150 Ma

Evo : Birds

130 Ma

Evo : Flowers

125 Ma

Evo : Placental mammals : Eutheria
Evo : Forest Mammals : Boreoeutheria

100 Ma

Evo : Euarchontoglires : Supraprimates (primates, rodents, rabbits, treeshrews, and colugos)

75 000 000 years ago

75 Ma

Evo : Primates : Primates

Geo : Eurasia Continent : Forms

65.5 Ma

Evo : Non-Avian Dinosaur Extinction Event

63 Ga

Evo : Haplorrhini : Dry-nosed primates

56 Ma

Clima : Heating Period : Thermal_Maximum Event

40 Ma

Evo : Simiiformes : Higher primates

30 Ma

Evo : Catarrhini : Narrow nosed primates

28 Ma

Evo : Hominoidea : Apes

15 000 000 years ago

15 Ma

Evo : Hominidae : Great apes (Humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans)

Geo : America Continent

8.0 Ma

Evo : Homininae : Humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas

5.8 Ma

Evo : Hominini : Humans, chimpanzees, and bonobos

5.0 Ma

Geo : Afro-Eurasia Continent : Forms

3.0 Ma

Evo : Hominina : Bipedal apes (australopithecus and descendants)

2 500 000 years ago

2.5 Ma

Clima : Ice Age : Quaternary : Begins

Evo : Homo : Humans, neanderthals, homo erectus, and direct ancestors

Tech : Chopper : Olduwan : Mode 1 Industry : Homonins

1.650 Ma

Tech : Handaxe : Acheulean Mode 2 Industry : Homo Erectus

1.5 Ma

Tech : Bone Tools

1.3 Ma

Clima : Glacial Period : Begins

800 ka

Clima : Glacial Period : Ends

790 ka

Tech : Hearths : hearths shelters

680 ka

Clima : Glacial Period : Begins

620 ka

Clima : Glacial Period : Ends

Medium, Message, Meaning and Measure

grant czerepak — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:13:32 +0000

This is a bit of a rambling thought.

Marshall McLuhan in his studies divided all Media (tools), including art into Medium and Message. In working on this essay, I have come to find another division for McLuhan’s Model:

Medium
contains Message
contains Meaning

I was thinking about how to represent this and turned toward the interrogatives to look for guidance. As I worked with the interrogatives I realized that the interrogative “What?” was the bridge between one level of the new media structure and another. I found I could nest Meaning in Message in Medium using What as the doorway.

Dealing with it this way brings out the Semiotic trio of Semantics, Syntactics and Pragmatics. However, it does not fit cleanly. Medium is not semantics, for example, for it involves the physical carrier. Semantics is more part of the message. Yet Semantics itself can be called a Medium for Syntactics and Sytactics a Medium for Pragmatics. As you can see it is really a pain, because the term Medium has been over generalized.

Another way to think about it may be Medium as Form and Medium as Function, Message as Form and Message as Function, Meaning as Form and Meaning as Function. I had to come up with new language to handle the scope of my thinking.

What – What as Form – Medium as Form
Where – What as Function – Medium as Function – Semiotic Semantics
How – How as Form – Message as Form – Semiotic Sytactics
When – How as Function – Message as Function – Semiotic Pragmatics
Why – Why as Form – Meaning as Form
Who – Why as Function – Meaning as Function
How Much – How Much as Form – Measure as Form
How Many – How Much as Function – Measure as Function

Notice I added two interrogatives at the end. I realized message has a size and a quantity.

What this reveals is the interrogatives are paired. What is a point but Where is What occupying space. How is a point, but When is How occupying time. Why is a point, but Who is Why occupying a person. How Much is a point, but How Many is How Much occupying a quantity. Form and Function.

I am going to think about this more, but it’s out there for you to think about as well.

X Time, Y Time and Z Time

grant czerepak — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 02:12:57 +0000

An idea I have been playing with recently is wondering if time could be viewed in an alternate fashion than is now.

One of the traditional ways of viewing time is conically:

I have been wondering if time could be viewed spatially as x, y, z coordinates. I don’t know if the time of physics and the time of perception are different.

Let’s call them x time, y time and z time. What if x were past, y were present and z was future.

One of the reasons I wonder about this is because the present seems more dynamic than a point in time. One of Einstein’s insights was that objects were not points in space, but complex volumes. Why can’t the same be said for the present and the observer?

I am going to think more about this, but I will leave you with this question. How could time have a positive and negative past, a positive and negative present and a positive and negative future?

I think the answer lies in realizing the observer is not a point. TimeSpace as opposed to SpaceTime.

Time and Distance. Or is it Distance and Distance.

grant czerepak — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:58:51 +0000

When you look at a clock it is measuring time. Or is it?

Look at the clock again. It is measuring distance. Distance. Not events. Change in distance.

If you look at the rotation of the earth. A rotation is a distance.

If you look at the revolution of the earth around the sun. A revolution is distance.

If you look at an atomic clock. It is measuring a distance.

Velocity is Distance / Relative Distance.

Events are artificial cuts in the distances. We invented events. Motion does not stop in the big scheme.

All we have are intersections of relative distances.