If you read the indepth biographies of Winston Churchill, you will discover that the man suffered from a mental illness called Bipolar Disorder. Yet despit a life of political defeats, he was able to win the Prime Ministership and successfully lead Britain in its time of greatest need against the Nazi war machine with the words, “Never, Never, Never Give Up.” Churchill’s strategic insight during the Battle of Britain and his compelling speeches are still studied by leaders around the world today.
Abraham Lincoln’s indepth biographies also reveal he suffered from a mental illness believed to be Bipolar Disorder. Yet despite repeated failures won the Presidency and even after the death of his wife, led the United States through the greatest national crisis it ever faced, The American Civil War. His memorial in Washington D.C. reveal a man of profound depth of thought and compassion for his countrymen. He is regarded as one of the greatest Presidents the United States has produced.
Differing orders of the brain are often hard to distinguish. Especially when studying accounts of historical figures. Often different brain order societies claim that the same historical figures had their particular brain order. An interesting truth is we all exhibit traits of every brain order. We just exhibit them to varying degrees.
My theory is that all mental orders are just that different orders. Some orders are more detrimental to one’s functioning than others.
I suggest we are all wired in a similar fashion, but we don’t understand the wiring yet or the inputs and outputs. We don’t understand the range of Mental Orders humanity has. Some orders are just more common than others. Maybe in the end Synesthesia will be found to simply be a different mental order. Time will tell.
Maybe, and more to the point I am saying we are confusing mental difference with illness. Bipolar Order, Schizo Order, Borderline Order, Autistic Order and so on .
What I am really wondering is what Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia and Autism are.
Bipolar Order is understood to be a chemical imbalance in the brain. However, every cell in the brain is composed of chemicals and scientists do not fully understand brain chemistry and do not fully understand why the range of medications for Bipolar Order are able to conteract the symptoms. Bipolar Order is a change in the affective aspect of the self.
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More information about Bipolar Disorder can be found here.
The list of prominent persons with Bipolar Mood Disorder is very long as the video below will show (10 mins). However, present day medicines are making it possible to manage the illness and lead a more stable life.
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Schizophrenia is not a split personality. Schizophrenia is not a disorder of mood.
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A more extensive explanation of Schizophrenia can be found here.
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Autism is not a lack of interaction with the world. It is a different way of perceiving and interacting with the world. Understanding autism is not a failure of the autistic, it is a failure of society to provide them with the tools to interact with us and apply their potential.
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However, that is not what this post is about. This post is about the stigma ignorance, prejudice and discrimination against the mentally different as well as the abuse of healthy people who choose to challenge authority or deviate from convention. I couldn’t find a term like sexism, racism or homophobia, so I decided to coin a new term, “psychism”. This is not the usage of psychism in its conventional sense, however I think the usage I propose is much more important to society. Other schools of thought use “mentalism” or “sanism”, but I think psychism has more punch. Psychism is mental discrimination and Psychophobia is fear of mental difference.
When a person presents an idea the hearer has many options.
Or you can attack all of them by questioning a person’s sanity. This is Psychism.
To label a person as mentally ill when they challenge authority, act in a deviant manner or simply attempt to be creative is a psychist act. It is an attempt to destroy a person’s credibility and self-esteem. It is a violation of trust and a violation of human rights. It does not matter whether that person is mentally ill or not. Psychism is a crime. It is a crime in religion, politics, the workplace, academically, in family and against oneself. The only time when it is acceptable to intervene in a person’s actions is when they are a physical danger to themselves or others. And in the case of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia this is rarely the case contrary to public and media sensationalism.
It is often forgotten that the mentally different were among the first victims of eugenics, Nazism and fascism. Is there going to be a place for them in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights?
It is predicted that Mental Health will be the dominant concern world wide this century. It will affect us or someone close to us if not now in the near future.
Here’s some interesting statistics regarding a country struggling to get its Mental Healthcare System into place in the face of modern societal stresses:
Australia will not grant immigration to anyone with a mental illness on the basis that they will burden the healthcare system.
Singapore built a new Mental Healthcare Hospital in the early 1990s to prepare to deal with this emerging issue. However job security is still an issue if you fall ill.
I am still researching.
I hope that this century will be the century when psychism will become extinct in society. When we learn compassion and help Synesthetes manage their health and recognize deviation by any person as a creative force. Let’s forget Mentally Ill. Let’s use the term Mentally Different.
Everyone has worth.
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In examining an Newton’s and Einstein’s equations an interesting result became apparent to me. According to Einstein’s equation
E = mc^2
If we consider my four dimensional equations in my previous related post
E = Mass * Light = M * C
or
E = ( ( T * T”’ ) / ( S’ * S” ) ) * ( ( S * S”’ ) / ( T’ * T” ) )
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If you listen carefully to what Jared Diamond is saying in the TED video above, he is describing not a five part, but a six part power curve into a systemic singularity. This has been one of the core themes of discussion of this blog. We all seem to be too close to our problems to see the commonality. The interrogatives come into play here:
Times and Distances being the basis on which the higher orders are built.
When we look at the recent economic “crisis” we see 300 trillion in currency circulating and roughly 1 trillion to 2 trillion shifting suddenly and unexpectedly. We witnessed a systemic collapse, a singularity, a tipping point, a power curve, an exponential change, a phase transition or whatever label you want to call it. These have been happening everywhere since Time and Distance began in different contexts and orders both in human and non-human systems.
What Jared Diamond and other alarmists are implying is that human society is now a system approaching its final singularity in this century on this planet. We are implying that today we are experiencing a less than one percent crisis on a power curve into a singularity. How many more iterations will the global system withstand? Will humanity make the step into space successfully before we experience a global dark age? How will the six or more factors in the power curve play out?
The truth to me appears to be that power curves whether they play out or not result in either a systemic climax or anti-climax followed by a systemic collapse. Would it not be better if we experienced a systemic climax that led to us expanding into the solar system?
Systemic collapse seems to be the fashion of this generation. Every generation looks with fascination at its own youth, maturition, reproduction and acceleration into mortality. Some die early, some die late, but all die. It is an irrevocable law of nature. It is not about self-interest. It is about what self-interest is defined as.
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This is the set of equations I find curious. As you can see (C)/(C) equals Energy. Consequently, what are the two higher forms that correlate with Gravity?
“To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” — Isaac Newton
A predominant issue arising from my work is the discovery of the difference between a node and a link. A node type represents a state type while a link type represents a transaction between state types. However I am finding there are a limited number of node types (self-ordered states) and link types (self-ordered state actions).
In the diagram below, each polyhedron is a first frequency geodesate and has a unique polytrope/polytype combination. A polytrope is the number of edges per polyhedron vertex. A polytype is the number of polyhedron vertexes. This is not the final version. I am still working to purify my geodesate concept.
What I am revealing here is that each of the seven Node Types on the Left has only one Link Type on the right. In the same way that an association is composed of a source node type and target node type, an association is composed of a source link type and target link type.
Here is an example of a homogenous Entity to Entity association:
Here is an example of a hetergeneous Entity to Positity association:
Having considered this it is now possible to conclude that there are a unique set of nodes each with a unique link which can be used to build homogeneous or heterogeneous associations. In otherwords, each node type can perform only one action type. It is the reaction type of the target node type that makes the action reaction combination unique in the system.
Let’s look at some examples of node type and link type associations:
Fourty-nine possible type combinations exist. I think there are even more types which I will explore with Archimedean Solids and higher frequency Geodesates in later posts.
Isaac Newton’s first law is fictional. There is never a case where the force acting on an object is zero. There is never a case where force = mass * acceleration. There is never a case where an action has an equal and opposite reaction. This is possible in mathematics (reason), but not in physics (reality). In fact, distance-space (D) and time-space (T) are both finite as is energy-space (E) and mass-space (M). This is one of the mistakes in Albert Einstein’s and many physicists understanding of the universe. Zero and infinity are fictional. This gives us the equation:
