a VERY informal proof on living mentally finitely

"axioms & disclaimers"

a person's memory and lives are finite.  Proven through biology, chemistry, other sciences.  I guess it depends on a person's belief as to whether you'll take this truth.  Some people may believe memories are intangibly separate from the brain and human consciousness like ideas just exist but may or may not be forever.  Also, some people may believe in eternal souls and maybe eternal memories attached to that idea.   Also assume that complete knowledge, "the truth", is only achieved by reading all books ever published no matter how stupid.


1) It takes 72 hours to read the bible straight through.
2) There are 774,746 words in the bible.
3) That is about 10760 words per hour.  (774746/72)
4) There is an average of 80,000 words in a book.
5)There are 129,864,880 books that have been published in all of modern history according to Google's algorithms. but there will always be more books published as we are still conscious- this future fact alone discounts ever knowing "the truth."
6)Let's say knowledge consists of the complete knowledge of all books (even though web opinion is very important, books are easier / sufficient to make a point).
7) That makes 120864880*80000 words to know "the truth" as of August 10, 2010 when this article: http://mashable.com/2010/08/05/number-of-books-in-the-world/ was published.

2. # 0f words:             1.038919e+13

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8)  divide this number by 10760 words per hour, and you will obtain how many hours you have to live.
                                     965538141.264 hours
9)  To make this number more digestible convert it to years.

*Also note, that these approximations/numbers are not taken as absolute.  There will always be an error approximation.     

Doing these set of calculations, the conclusion is that you'll have to live 110221.249 years. Even if you memory was limitless, your lifespan will cut you off from knowing "the truth" unless you were continually cryogenically regenerated every so often, so that you live for 110221.249 years.  But after that, and after reading the books published during the time you were asleep, you will still find something you don't know when you move to the internet pages.  

Oh yeah I forgot to take into account, the existence of other intelligent beings and the existence of their texts.

Semi-Philosophically proven:

I want to casually call our finiteness as our problem with infinite regression.
If we wanted to know everything about a given situation, we would have to know the depths and details of everything in that situation.  This is the problem about a detective's job: truth is impossible to achieve.  Because if it was achieved, every point in this system known as "the universe" would have to be known in all dimensions, and all these points must count for significant fluctuations that brought us here to this point (which makes me question truth in computer modeling).  In a sense the true goal of science is to know "the truth," but those of us in science take this "playfully" and "lightly" thinking realistically, that this will never happen (at least not within the lifetime of this author).  Most of us in science, are in it for the fun of grappling with the unknown.  (I digress, damn it).  A detective must know why the killer killed his victim, the psychology behind it, the probably of the killer's condition, the means that he took to kill the victim, illness that the victim might've had, the statistics of the victim's death being a freak accident, and the details behind it in order to know for sure who did it.  But in a sense, a detective job is to make inferences based on not knowing everything.  A detective's role comes with an error statistic because he doesn't have the universe in his head.

Skill vs Knowledge #1

For a while now, I've been at odds with some of my friends because of the fundamental difference in the way they think vs the way I think, and I have come to the conclusion that 1) they value different things as academics and 2) they are just interested in different things.  Due to my frustration at the way they think, I have lied about my feelings towards certain subjects (because everything is uninteresting when you are in a bad mood, then you act upon your feelings and say you hate it when you really don't).  In this sense, I am a little outspoken, I over think things, and I seriously need to chill.

For now, I see my only solution to be to meditate to chill, and to ignore them for sometime to focus on my own studies and talk to the people in my own major.


So What's brilliance?  I've always been called "smart,"  and I am (arrogantly) taking that as a defining quality of myself, but carefully! It is like a professor who is knows he is smarter than the rest of them, but who knows he is ignorant to the accumulation of his field of study.  Unfortunately, being called smart creates a hierarchy in a competitive college like mine.  So no one here calls each other smart. but I digress and I don't want to finish this paragraph.  Just think of brilliance as being as empty as thin air.

CONCLUSION:
This first part is my own meanderings and epiphany on what I just learned about myself that should've been so obvious to myself long ago.  It is what prompted the subject of the next post which will be my main points.  I put this separate because this part might not at all be relatable to the reader, yet I bothered to post it because this blog is in part a personal reflection.

Yes I have no soul

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx8obpx4844&feature=player_embedded

Why? because I grew up thinking that everything should be shared and that the media has too much power anyways.  The one who loses her job is a member of the working class.  The working class more directly suffers from the stealing of movies than do people in power.  aka.  the people in power esp. in the media redirected their suffering to workers in their company giving the message that you hurt a number of your own if you steal.  Therefore, this video is effective in instigating sympathy in the "stealer."   I don't steal movies because they are major works that took many years.  I have respect for movies.  But for t.v. shows and music, I stream.  I don't steal necessarily, but I don't buy either, and I don't have less respect or contempt for those who do.  Our generation (10-30 years (huge range) grew up in a culture learning that listening to music is free and so paying for it is not worth it).  Because otherwise,  people should no longer go to shopping malls, inside stores, or any institution without feeling the need to pay (this would be better for society anyways).  People shouldn't club without having to pay for the appearance of "free" music.  Also, there should be no showing of any outdoor movies or free showings without having the people feel the need to pay.  The existing fan basis for hundreds of movies and T.V. shows should also be 10x smaller.  but these things are free from time to time and because we were raised to think music is free due to listening on the radio, mall music and etc, the higher institutions should not punish us for how (we are raised)/ (they raised us) to think.  Stealing doesn't benefit anyone.  It hurts, and anyone who has been stolen from should know, but (directed to CEOs and etc. making millions/billions), paying less tax than the general population can also be considered as good as stealing (and also as dishonest as stealing).

the amazing spider man (huh) and the dark knight rises (huh again)

Where's the originality? Why do something that's already there?---oh yeah duh. to profit from.  The first spider man must've been lucrative enough to continue recreating the spider man series.  but fucking hell (i've been saying that a lot).  It's only been like 5 years since spider man 3 came out.  Where's the originality these days in creating a new superhero and not just re-doing the old one? Are production companies not willing to take the risk? and put their fate into the hands of (at least) a new super hero?  (instead of rely upon the pre-existing fan base of old American comic based heroes).  Compare this to Japan: a new super hero every season.  Their was Guilty Crown and Tiger and Bunny recently and then there was Astroboy and Sailor moon in the past.  Gundam is constantly being recreated, but that's seriously OLD! Naruto and Bleach are also super OLD.  Generally long running manga lose their fan base after a while, but unlike spiderman, neither of them are done yet. (bleach soon though).  There will hopefully be NO Bleach 2.    I am sick and tired of Spiderman this and spiderman that.  The previous spiderman as a whole was an okay-pretty good work and recreation already.   Batman is also doing the same thing.  Shame on Christopher Nolan for the Batman series and Marc Webb for the Spiderman series.  Give the new age a new hero and let the old ones stand as legends!

2002

2012

Spiderman vs "The Amazing

Too soon to be recreated.  And it seems as though the filming style changed just by looking at the posters.  I personally don't like the newer style of filming because it is more action, less story.  Or that the action and the effects are given so much attention (bling-bling) that the story is very much secondary. I must admit that I haven't watched it though.  The movie itself may be good, but I'm blogging about lack of character originality in this day and age and recreating too early after the spider man 3 release in 2007.  

Hunter X Hunter (Japan)

1999

2012

Hunter x Hunter is being recreated in Japan but for better purpose.  The manga is not finished, but has progressed some after the finish of Hunter x Hunter  1999.  The new Hunter x Hunter is noticeably different in quality.  It has created a fan base for the new age and is released while other superhero like characters are being created. 

Guilty Crown

Tiger and Bunny

Something about writing in a blog...

I like a billion other people have hundreds of things to say, but for some  reason, I just can't say it.  I wrote out all my notes and details on my iphone.  I have all my thoughts planned out in my mind, but nothing.  I think it is like camera shyness except its really posting shyness. even though I realize there are a million other blogs out there.. Oh well.  I need  an outlet for my thoughts anyways, and my friends do lack the pathos/ patience to hear them, so I will have to develop some confidence in my writing.  So.. my posts will come out slow. 

Pouring my soul onto empty pages

I'm nothing but a college student and a voice among billions.  Why should you listen to me?  --i don't know why and you don't have to honestly. Honestly! but it would be nice to lend an appreciating ear.   It would be out of my selfish desire for communication, that interpersonal imperative that I haven't successfully followed through on, to want you to listen to me.

I'm starting this blog because I'm bored as heck, its the middle of a break, and I find my mind wandering aimlessly without a willing outlet around.  I know you've probably felt that way at least once in your life when you tell yourself: NOBODY UNDERSTANDS ME! and while riled up in that emotional state, bashed your head on the next nearest hard surface (maybe a nice hot kettle or a metal bat), or hold in that mental stress of yours to release upon the next unsuspecting person that you just happened to come by and that stays to listen.  But I'm willing appeal to you emotionally (plead) that while this lack of understanding on other's parts seem to apply, my situation is slightly different.