Assembled for Coast to Coast AM, August 5-6 2007

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• Materials Posted for Coast to Coast AM, Roundtable discussion on Intelligent Design, Dec. 2005
• What is Quantum Computing?
• Sorting for Information - Ancient Mathematics -I.D. Updates
• Gestures and Language - Humans and Other Primates
• The Shape of Information
• Genesis 1:1 - Letter by Letter
• Published Materials
• An Autocorrelation Of Genesis 1:1 - Meru Foundation Research
• Woven Patterns in the Hebrew Letter-Text of Genesis
• The Many Words of Genesis 1:1
• The Hebrew Letters as Gestures
• The Three Abrahamic Faiths

MATERIALS POSTED FOR COAST TO COAST AM
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON INTELLIGENT DESIGN
DECEMBER 2005

INTELLIGENT DESIGN: INTELLIGENCE vs. INFORMATION
Read the Complete Essay ©2005 Stan Tenen -- Reprinted from Meru Foundation eTORUS Newsletter #30

• Behe's statistical arguments for Intelligent Design ("irreducible complexity") are "paper tigers". The following is quoted from Falling Over the Edge by Brown University Prof. of Biology Kenneth R. Miller (Nature Vol. 447 #7148), a review of "irreducible complexity" advocate Michael Behe's most rent book. (The complete review is available online to Nature subscribers.)

"Behe cites the malaria literature to note that two amino-acid changes in the digestive-vacuole membrane protein PfCRT (at positions 76 and 220) of Plasmodium are required to confer chloroquine resistance. From a report that spontaneous resistance to the drug can be found in roughly 1 parasite in 1020, he asserts that these are the odds of both mutations arising in a single organism, and uses them to make this sweeping assertion:

"On average, for humans to achieve a mutation like this by chance, we would need to wait a hundred million times ten million years. Since that is many times the age of the universe, it's reasonable to conclude the following: No mutation that is of the same complexity as chloroquine resistance in malaria arose by Darwinian evolution in the line leading to humans in the past ten million years.

"Behe, incredibly, thinks he has determined the odds of a mutation "of the same complexity" occurring in the human line. He hasn't. What he has actually done is to determine the odds of these two exact mutations occurring simultaneously at precisely the same position in exactly the same gene in a single individual. He then leads his unsuspecting readers to believe that this spurious calculation is a hard and fast statistical barrier to the accumulation of enough variation to drive darwinian evolution."

• On Statistics vs. Probability --  Vinay Ambegaokar, Goldwyn Smith Prof. of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

• Excerpted Articles on Intelligent Design from American Scientist and New Scientist

• Biologist Bruce Lipton on stress and cell differentiation (link to complete essay,  New Biology,  on Dr. Lipton's website)
  

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WHAT IS QUANTUM COMPUTING?

• From Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computing:
  

"A quantum computer is any device for computation that makes direct use of distinctively quantum mechanical phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement, to perform operations on data. In a classical (or conventional) computer, information is stored as bits; in a quantum computer, is stored as qubits (quantum bits). The basic principle of quantum computation is that the quantum properties can be used to represent and structure data, and that quantum mechanisms can be devised and built to perform operations with this data. . . ."
     —The Wikipedia entry continues with a somewhat technical outline of the basis of quantum computing, and the current state of research.

• A readable presentation of the basics is The Quantum Computer, an introduction by Prof. Jacob West, of Cal. Tech (April 2000).
  

"Behold your computer.  Your computer represents the culmination of years of technological advancements beginning with the early ideas of Charles Babbage (1791-1871) and eventual creation of the first computer by German engineer Konrad Zuse in 1941.  Surprisingly however, the high speed modern computer sitting in front of you is fundamentally no different from its gargantuan 30 ton ancestors, which were equipped with some 18000 vacuum tubes and 500 miles of wiring!  Although computers have become more compact and considerably faster in performing their task, the task remains the same: to manipulate and interpret an encoding of binary bits into a useful computational result.  A bit is a fundamental unit of information, classically represented as a 0 or 1 in your digital computer.  Each classical bit is physically realized through a macroscopic physical system, such as the magnetization on a hard disk or the charge on a capacitor.  A document, for example, comprised of n-characters stored on the hard drive of a typical computer is accordingly described by a string of 8n zeros and ones.  Herein lies a key difference between your classical computer and a quantum computer.  Where a classical computer obeys the well understood laws of classical physics, a quantum computer is a device that harnesses physical phenomenon unique to quantum mechanics (especially quantum interference) to realize a fundamentally new mode of information processing. . . "

• Here is "The Father of Quantum Computing," a February 2007 interview of physicist David Deutsch from Wired magazine. It was published shortly after a commercial venture, D-Wave, demonstrated a prototype of a quantum computer for the press.  From the interview:

"Deutsch invented the idea of the quantum computer in the 1970s as a way to experimentally test the "Many Universes Theory" of quantum physics -- the idea that when a particle changes, it changes into all possible forms, across multiple universes.

"Deutsch is a leading proponent of the theory, so, while he wasn't in attendance at the D-Wave announcement, perhaps it's safe to say as well that he was. Wired News pulled him away from dinner to talk about what a quantum computer really is, what it's good for and what D-Wave's announcement might mean for the future. . . "     —Read the entire interview in Wired

SORTING FOR INFORMATION — ANCIENT MATHEMATICS

• Look for natural universal constants. In Looking for a Creator's Signature in Space (New Scientist, 23 December 2005) Hazel Muir quotes particle physicist Stephen Hsu (U. Oregon in Eugene). (Complete article is available to New Scientist subscribers.)
  

"'I sometimes wonder what's the most mind-boggling thing that could happen during my lifetime," says Hsu. . . 'One of them would be to come into conact with an alien civilisation. But it would be more exciting to find some message from a creator - the implications would be even more profound' . . .

"Hsu draws a parallel with the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. SETI researchers assume that aliens would reveal their existence by sending a signal that is obviously not random and encodes some natural sequence, like the digits of the number pi. The message would essentially be: "We're here, and we've figured out what you've figured out." Similarly, the creator of the universe might hallmark His handiwork with a message about universal laws. Hsu speculates that the first part of the message could be a kind of key - a simple statement that is easy to decode. That might be the simplest matrices of the algebra that describes nature's fundamental forces. 'They could give out very specific information that all the physicists of all the advanced civilisations would immediately recognise,' says Hsu. There would still be room for plenty more information - maybe even telling us something we didn't know, like the route to a "theory of everything".'"

• Ancient mathematicians had no decimal point. Significant digits were all that mattered. Seth Lloyd, in his recent book Programming the Universe, notes:
  

By 1700 BC the Babylonians had a well-established “Arabic” number system, but zero was inferred from context, not written (i.e., 210 and 21 were written the same way). The oldest known “proto-abacus”, the Salamis counting tablet, dates to 300 BC. The use of 0 for zero was introduced by Ptolemy in AD 130 and was well established in India by AD 650.
     —From Programming the Universe, ©2006 Seth Lloyd. Knopf; ISBN 1-4000-4092-2, footnote p. 29.  

GESTURES AND LANGUAGE — HUMANS AND OTHER PRIMATES

• Orangutan communication resembles "charades". A newsnote on www.world-science.net summarizes a paper by psychologists Erica A. Cartmill and Richard W. Byrne, published in the Aug. 2, 2007 issue of Current Biology:

"When orangutans use gestures to communicate, they use the same basic strategy that people follow in playing the game charades. . . Captive orangutans intentionally modify or repeat hand or other signals based on the success or failure of a first attempt. . ."
     —Read a pre-print abstract of the Current Biology article. (Complete article available by subscription).

Also see earlier basic research on the primacy of gesture in the development of language:

• Excerpts from Why People Gesture When they Speak, ©1998 by Iverson and Goldin-Meadow. Research shows that persons blind from birth gesture while speaking in the same manner and using the same range of gestures as do sighted persons -- even when speaking with another blind person. (Reprinted with authors' permission. Complete article published in Nature, Nov. 19, 1998.)
  
  
• The Gestural Origins of Language, ©1999 by Michael Corballis This excellent and comprehensive article presents a wide range of research, including that of Iverson and Golden-Meadow (above). Published in American Scientist: The Sigma Xi Journal, March-April 1999.
  
  
• The Role of the Hand in the Evolution of Language, by Prof. Ullin T. Place This important article by Prof. Place was published shortly after his death in January 2000 in Psycoloquy, an online referred journal sponsored by the American Psychological Association. From the Abstract:
  

"Section III sets out eleven pieces of evidence for the view that vocal language must have been preceded by an earlier language of gesture. Based on those principles and evidence, Section IV sets out seven proposed stages in the process whereby language evolved: (1) the use of mimed movement to indicate an action to be performed, (2) the development of referential pointing which, when combined with mimed movement, leads to a language of gesture, ..."

THE SHAPE OF INFORMATION
Essays and graphics in this section are by Stan Tenen.

The Shape of Information.As published in the Noetic Journal, vol. 3 #2. From the Abstract: "The natural geometry of the cosmological, quantum-mechanical, and personal information gradients of all information systems follows the same topology, and can take the same geometric form."  Note that this vortex shape is based on the reciprocal spiral, not the log spirals. For more on the ways this vortex can be created, see  by Stan Tenen.

The Arm of God The First Hand(tm) vortex "shape of information" pictured above is based on the reciprocal spiral, not the log spirals. For more on the ways this vortex can be created, see the Meru archive essay The Arm of God. Also, for a craftsman's construction version, go to the Squaring the Circle section.

GENESIS 1:1 – LETTER BY LETTER

The Genesis of Mind and World.Graphic poem: A letter-by-letter translation of Genesis 1:1– the world comes from flow-space.

Man Bites Dog, as published by B'Or HaTorah, Issue 15E, Winter 2002 (pdf)

Roger Penrose and R. Shneur Zalman of Lyady on the Negentropic Gradient (see complete quotes)

Homer Wilson Smith's "The Cell and the Womb"
     How geometry initiates differentiation.  (Link goes to Smith's "Artmatrix" website)


Arthur M. Young on the the purposive nature of light: quotations from The Reflexive Universe.
     More on mathematical philosopher Arthur Young's work and life is posted on www.arthuryoung.com. Many of Meru Foundation's DVD and videotape lectures were recorded live at Arthur Young's Institute for the Study of Consciousness in Berkeley CA during the 1990's.

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MERU FOUNDATION RESEARCH:
AN AUTOCORRELATION OF GENESIS 1:1

WOVEN PATTERNS IN THE HEBREW LETTER-TEXT OF GENESIS

THE MANY WORDS OF GENESIS 1:1

"DJFMAMJJASON -- What Do These Letters Mean?"
   ©2001 Stan Tenen, from Meru Foundation eTORUS #8, March 2001

Four quotations from traditional Jewish sources stating the impossibility of truly translating the text

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg (Orthodox) on the meaning of Genesis in Hebrew

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Rabbi Yisroel of Rubin (1796-1850) on the hierarchical structure of the Genesis text

THE HEBREW LETTERS AS GESTURES
For an analysis of the meanings of each Hebrew letter, see
http://www.meru.org/letteressays/letterindex.html on the main Meru Foundation website.

Zohar, Parashat B'reshit (Genesis): Six versions of the opening for comparison (pdf)

THE THREE ABRAHAMIC FAITHS
The Three Pillars of Love
©2001 Stan Tenen

It is easy to say "all you need is love."  But real love has three important aspects -- exemplified by the three Abrahamic faiths.
Loving action must include each of these aspects to be effective in making peace.

An Organic Model of Western Civilization

The Three Abrahamic Covenants and the Car-Passing Trick
How the "manifesting principle" is comprised of the primary qualities of the three Abrahamic covenants