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Thursday, July 15, 2021

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    “It is an under acknowledged truism that, just as you are what you eat, how and what you think depends on what information you are exposed to.”, p.13, Tim Wu, The Master Switch, 2010.
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     That selection process is perception. “I am a very big believer”, Hofstadter told me, “that the core processes of cognition are very, very tightly related to perception.”
            ── Kevin Kelly, 1994,
               from the book, Out of Control,
               p.18, filename: ooc-mf.pdf
p.18
The act of perceiving and the act of remembering are the same. ([ not [exactly] the same [at each layers], however they are highly similar; we believe they are so similar - as if they are the same - because they ~~use~~ [share] common brain neural circuit (the neurons and the interconnections) ]) Both assemble an emergent whole from many distributed pieces.
    “Memory”, says cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter, “is highly reconstructive. Retrieval from memory involves selecting out of a vast field of things what's important and what is not important, emphasizing the important stuff, downplaying the unimportant.” That selection process is perception.   “I am a very big believer”, Hofstadter told me, “that the core processes of cognition are very, very tightly related to perception.”
(p.18, Out of Control, Kevin Kelly, 1984)
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Michael Lewis, The undoing project, 2017                                    [ ]
p.153
Avishai Margalit
“I'm waiting in this corridor,” said Margalit. “And Amos comes to me, agitated, really. He started by dragging me into a room. He said, You won't believe what happened to me. He tells me that he had given this talk and Danny had said, Brilliant talk, but I don't believe a word of it. Something was really bothering him, and so I pressed him. He said, ‘It cannot be that judgement does not connect with perception. Thinking is not a separate act.’”

p.153
He said, ‘It cannot be that judgement does not connect with perception. Thinking is not a separate act.’

p.343
People didn't choose between things, they chose between descriptions of things.

p.343
“choice architecture”
The decisions people made were driven by the way they were presented. People didn't simply know what they wanted; they took cues from their environment. They constructed their preferences. And they followed paths of least resistance, even when they paid a heavy price for it.

   (Michael Lewis, The undoing project, 2017, p.153, p.343 )
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         Taking cues from the environment has a big picture relationship to social referencing. “... showing off his social referencing skills. Social referencing, which is what we are doing when we look to another's emotional reaction to help us assess a novel object or situation, is an important milestone that kicks in during the first year of life, and it is one of the most fundamental ways that humans connect to each other.” (p.167, Frank Moss, The sorcerers and their apprentices, 2011)
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         People do not make judgement between things, they make decision based on the explanation of things. It is in the description and explanation that you can influence and shape perception, and through perception, people make cognitive judgement. What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think ‘they are’.

   Harold Innis (Harold Adams Innis)
     ◇ The shift in perception redefines “knowledge.”

       (a.) Acting involves       changing our behavior,
       (b.) Reframing involves    changing our thinking, and
       (c.) Transforming involves changing our perceptions.
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Thom Hartmann, Cracking the Code, 2007, 2008                                [ ]

A Note to the Reader
This book is written in a new language. Every word mean precisely what it says. The tools of communication revealed herein are also used in its writing. You man spot many of these on your first read through, although they will probably be most visible, most clearly heard, and most easily picked out on a subsequent reading.

p.53
I discovered that once you decode the way that human beings make decisions――how our neurons fire――you can shape your language to take advantage of that code. The National Security Agency (NSA) knows this code. So does Madison Avenue. (I've done training for both.) And no one has cracked the communication code more effectively than modern Republicans.
([ many years ago, this book was borrow without asking from inside the bedroom -- to the people who took it -- please return the same book in the original condition minus wear, tear, usage, and depreciation (I fully understand that material, things, and money inside my home is like a library -- strangers come over and borrow things -- at some stage you should return them, pass them forward, and pay ... .) ])

   ( Cracking the Code: How to win hearts, change minds, and restore America's original vision, by Thom Hartmann, © 2007, 2008; )
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• Knowledge has an implication of validity, of truth; the IMAGE is what I believe to be true ― my subjective knowledge of the world; It is this Image that governs my behavior. (Boulding 1956: 5―6) (p.238, Gerald M. Weinberg and Daniela Weinberg, General principles of systems design, 1988)

p.238
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I know that when I get into my car there are some things I must do to start it; some things I must do to back out of the parking lot; some things I must do to drive home. I know that if I jump off a high place I will probably hurt myself. I know that there are some things that would probably not be good for me to eat or to drink. I know certain precautions that are advisable to take to maintain good health. I know that if I lean to far backward in my chair as I sit here at my desk, I will probably fall over. I live, in other words, in a world of reasonably stable relationships, a world of “ifs” and “thens,” of “if I do this, then that will happen . . .”
   What I have been talking about is knowledge. Knowledge, perhaps, is not a good word for this. Perhaps one would rather say my IMAGE of the world. Knowledge has an implication of validity, of truth. What I am talking about is what I believe to be true; my subjective knowledge. It is this Image that largely governs my behavior. (Boulding 1956: 5―6)
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     (Weinberg, Gerald M.; General principles of systems design, Originally published as: On the design of stable system. 1979, 1. system analysis, QA402.W43   1988, copyright © 1988 by Gerald M. Weinberg and Daniela Weinberg, portions of this book appear in Becoming a technical leader, The secret of consulting, and Rethinking systems analysis & design, p.238)
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   Kenneth Boulding (1956)
    from chapter I, The Image. Kenneth E. Boulding, Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor paperback). 1956.
    https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/20885.pdf
    https://wedgeblade.net/

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Mark Stefik and Barbara Stefik, Breakthrough, 2004       [ ]

p.92
John Seely Brown
The search for a voice is empowering. And that is something that you don't learn in graduate school, by and large. Talk helps a great deal, but there is a sense of not saying too much and a sense of asking the right questions.
There is also a sense of trying to draw out a distinction because we learn to see differently Around Distinctions. So if you launch a distinction, that distinction helps somebody see something about themselves or others that they can't see otherwise. How do you grind new eyeglasses for seeing things differently? You grind new eyeglasses by creating distinctions actually. So you reflect on a situation that they are a part of, and that then starts to shape their sight, and their ability to see, and to see differently.
In some sense, mentoring is a lot like therapy. You help people to discover their own voice by launching distinctions in situ [in position; in its original place] that enable them to see themselves and others differently. You create a very safe and encouraging context for that to happen. And in that safety and willingness to suspend your own disbelief, you enter their space as best as you can. Then in the right moment, you see if there is something very simple to say that suddenly turns their perspective.

   (Stefik, Mark., Breakthrough : stories and strategies of radical innovation / Mark Stefik and Barbara Stefik., 1. technological innovation., 2. inventions., 2004, pp.183-184)
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Why [The search for a voice] is an adventure?

Because "you leave the safety of the world you know and enter the unknown.";
"In the Departure stage, you leave the safety of the world you know and enter the unknown.";
if you want (young or old) people to learn, you MUST provide a sense of safety;
they might want a psychological safe room, a secure home base, ....

https://scottjeffrey.com/heros-journey-steps/
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• That selection process is perception.
• The core processes of cognition are very tightly related to perception.
• ‘It cannot be that judgement does not connect with perception. Thinking is not a separate act’.
• People chose between the descriptions of things.
• People make decision based on the explanation of things. What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think ‘they are’.
• The shift in perception redefines “knowledge”, and to expand on that, the shift in perception disables “knowledge”.
• If all reality is mediated by perception (sensory interaction, interactive exploration), and perception and thinking is a not a separate act (Look, Jane, Look), and if all perception is a construction (a make-believe, an illusion), then choice is an illusion (a construct, a make believe, a Matrix). Therefore we live in a Dream - not the same kind of dream that we [get] ~~dream~~ when you are asleep and sleeping. No, we live in a ~~kind of~~ waking Dream (a ~~mental~~ model of reality, a mirror image of how ~~we believe~~ the world works (a working model)). And the questions that are worth asking are these: Are we a co-creator of this waking Dream, or, are we merely a consumer, the end-user of this waking Dream? Qui bono (who benefit), who are the beneficiaries of this waking Dream if we are not a co-creator of the Dream.
• Stop, Look, and Listen
• the spaces between the words are invisible; there are even smaller spaces between each letters; there are spacing between the lines; these empty invisible spaces enable us to read. That which is invisible is the most important enabler in the reading process. How do you know the spaces are there? You know the spaces are there by the very existence of the non-spaces. A ‘Shift in perception’ enables the rediscovery of ~~the~~ “knowledge”.

• the silences between the melody are invisible; there are even shorter pauses between each notes; there are spacing between the lines; these empty invisible spaces enable us to read. That which is invisible is the most important enabler in the musical process. How do you know the silences, the spaces, the pauses are there? You know they are there by the very existence of the Everything else. A ‘Shift in perception’ enables the rediscovery of ~~the~~ “knowledge”.

• the spaces is the background. Everything else is the foreground.

Thur 15 Jul 2021 PST (door handle)

unusual American (USA) ghost [gremlin] activity for today (Thur, 15 Jul 2021, PST)
the door handle to the slide door was securedly screwed in place, with two screws, one on top and, a second on the bottom
I left the house to run errand(s)
when I came home the top screw to the sliding door handle was completely striped, at first I thought it was merely loose
has that ever happened to you?

pocket knife on keychain replaced by an worn out knife of the same type (same pattern as the new glove replace with a worn out glove of the same type) [9/23/2021; 4:33 PM PST; Earth]

you left the house, and when you come back, the handle to water facet kitchen sink came loose, like literally, it was secure before, and then later it came loose

or maybe you left the house, and then when you came back, you notice ...

or maybe ....
or maybe in the morning, when you got out of the house, one of your tire is suddenly flat
or maybe you went in shopping at place and then you come to the car, the tire is suddenly flat
or maybe your the tire to the car developed a slow leak - specifically three tiny pin hole leaks, one pin hole leak all by itself, about 180 degree from that leak on the same tire, there is two pin holes leak, right next to each other
or maybe some one attack the car, like ....
or maybe [and I am making this up] when you turn on the switch the light bulb is not working ...
or maybe like attack the sink to the bathroom upstair on the 2nd floor
or maybe loosen the screws to the door knob ...
or maybe things become missing from the house ...
or maybe a perfectly new gloves is replaced with a somewhat worn out gloves ...
or maybe a Bible that you had become missing when you go looking for it ...

or maybe an object that you had is replaced with some thing like it, but it is a cheaper imitation ...

or ....

5/29/2024 6:19 PM PSD

door handle to the refrigerator came loosed, (some one or some thing loosen the screw to the bottom refrigerator door handle); today the handle came loose.

5/29/2024 6:20 PM PSD

copied a bunch of files from laptop to flashdrive. For some reason, I didn't do it right. Nothing was really copied over. This is on me, more likely.

the things that you used everyday - so normal and routine that it became invisible, until one day those things that used to be the same, suddenly changed
the patterns that you engaged in everyday (ritual, routine, like maybe attending the temple service) - so normal that it became invisible [you no longer have to give any thought to it], until one day those things that used to be the same, suddenly changed

• Do not believe in every thing you read
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“Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.”

   ― Fred Rogers
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Yes, American (USA) can be good neighbor, however, they are sensitive bully and covert [overt] harassment specialist

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/bullying-suicide-translation-final-a.pdf

yes, the American (USA) would like you to engage in a national suicide
or maybe a corporate suicide (clearly, I do not know what I am try to say)
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
    ――Eric Hoffer
    - More quotations on: [Enemies] [Fear]

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to [annoy][pester][harrass] you.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to [sabotage] you.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to [blackmail] you.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to [attack] you.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to [...] you.
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synthetic terror

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http://www.american-buddha.com/911.syntheticterrorch1.htm

In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, “just to keep the people frightened.” Orwell, 1984, 127.
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the phones have been cloned

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www.gstatic.com

ssl.gstatic.com

~~([ do not Chinese copy Western capitalism - do it better ])~~

([ do not Chinese copy Western capitalism - be holistic (整体) (整體) ])

(整体) (整體)

整体 <=> overall <=> 全体 <=> Insgesamt <=> altogether
   整 <=> whole   <=> 全体 <=> Ganze
   体 <=> body    <=> 体   <=> Körper
全体 (whole)
   体 (body)

Chinese copy
noun
an exact imitation or duplicate that includes defects as well as desired qualities

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Chinese%20copy

First Known Use of Chinese copy

1920, in the meaning defined above

source:
      p.121
should be Chinese copies (p.121, Leslie R. Groves, Now it can be told : the story of the manhattan project, 1983 )
   (Now it can be told : the story of the manhattan project / Leslie R. Groves, 1. united states. army. corps of engineers. manhattan district ─ history., 2. atomic bomb ─ united states ─ history., Reprint. Originally published: New York: Harper, 1962., QC773.A1G7 1983, 623.4'5119'0973, 623.4511 GROVES, 1962, 1983, )

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    Robert Finlayson Cook (28 February 1946 – 6 August 2005)

In a column for the Guardian four weeks before his death, Cook caused a stir when he described Al-Qaeda as a product of a western intelligence:

    Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by Western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians.[23]
    https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/jul/08/july7.development

    https://rasica.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/robin-cook-2.jpg

    "The truth is there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaeda. Any any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the devil only in order to drive TV watchers to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the U.S...."
     --- Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook

    ([ within 31 days after these words became public, Robin Cook would died from a heart attack ])
    ([ he was going to die from a heart attack anyway ...])

       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Cook

• Do not believe in every thing you read

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John Gans., white house warriors : how the national security council transformed the American way of war, 2019

p.117
Greek poet Constantine Cavafy
“Why this sudden bewilderment? ... Because night has fallen, and the Barbarians have not come! ... What's going to happent to us without the Barbarians?”8

     (White house warriors : how the national security council transformed the American way of war / John Gans., subjects: LCSH: national security council (u.s.)──history. | national security──united states──decision making. | united states──military policy──decision making. | strategic culture──united states. | civil-military relations──united states. | united states──foreign relations──1945─, classification: LCC UA23.G356 2019 | DDC 355/.033573─dc23, https://lccn.loc.gov/2018054255, 2019, )
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness, 2nd edition, paperback, 2004   [ ]

[p.64]
The wise man listens to meaning; the fool only gets the noise. The modern Greek poet C. P. Cavafy wrote a piece in 1915 after Philostratus's adage "For the gods perceive things in the future, ordinary people things in the present, but the wise perceive things about to happen." Cavafy wrote:

     In their intense mediation the hidden sound of things
     approaching reaches them and they listen reverently
     while in the street outside people hear nothing at all.

     (Taleb, Nassim (2004)., Fooled by Randomness, 2nd edition, paperback)
(Fooled by Randomness: the hidden role of chance in life and in the markets / Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 1. investments, 2. chance, 3. random variables, 123.3 Taleb, p.64)
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Patrick Sensburg, who led the German parliamentary committee to investigate the NSA spying scandal, was not surprised by the news. For the lawmaker from Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), it is important to understand what drives secret services.
"It's not about friendships. It's not about moral-ethical aspirations. It's about pursuing interests,"

https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/19/how-the-us-helped-create-al-qaeda-and-isis/
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30.05.2021
Danish intelligence service helped NSA spy on EU politicians

Danish intelligence service [Danish Defense Intelligence Service (FE)] helped NSA (US surveillance agency) spy on leading politicians in Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and France, as well as Germany

Danish secret service helped US spy on Germany's Angela Merkel: report | DW |
30.05.2021

Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com)

Denmark's secret service helped the US National Security Agency (NSA) spy on EU leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, a European media investigation published on Sunday revealed.

►   https://www.dw.com/en/german-prosecutors-close-case-on-nsa-spying-scandal/a-40814387

The disclosure that the US had been spying on its allies first came to light in 2013, but it is only now that journalists have gained access to reports detailing the support given to the NSA by the Danish Defense Intelligence Service (FE).

The report showed that Germany's close ally and neighbor cooperated with US spying operations that targeted the chancellor and president.

The then chancellor candidate for the German center-left socialist party (SPD), Peer Steinbrück, was also a target, the new report disclosed.

Secret service sources passed on the information to a team including Danish, Swedish and Norwegian broadcasters (DR, SVT and NRK respectively), as well as the French newspaper Le Monde, German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and German public broadcasters NDR and WDR.

How did German officials react?

Steinbrück spoke to the German members of the research team upon finding out about the spying operations against him.

"Politically, I consider this a scandal," he said. While he accepted that western states require functioning intelligence services, the fact that Danish authorities had been spying on their partners showed "that they are rather doing things on their own."

Neither Merkel nor Steinmeier had "any knowledge" of the spying operations carried out by leading Danish government officials. A spokesperson said that the chancellor had been informed of the revelations.

How was the Danish government involved?

The Danish government knew of the involvement of their country's secret service in the NSA scandal by 2015 at the latest.

They began to collect information on the FE's cooperation with the NSA between 2012 and 2014 in the secret Dunhammer report following the disclosures by the former NSA employee and whistleblower Edward Snowden, NDR reported.

The information they gathered made it clear that the FE had helped the NSA to spy on leading politicians in Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and France, as well as Germany.

Danish intelligence also helped the US agency to spy on the Danish foreign and finance ministries as well as a Danish weapons manufacturer. The FE also cooperated with the NSA on spying operations against the US government itself.

Upon discovering exactly how far the cooperation between the two countries' intelligence services went, the Danish government forced the entire leadership of the FE to step down in 2020.

What drove Danish spies to help the NSA?

A Danish expert in secret service operations Thomas Wegener Friis believes that the FE was faced with a choice about which global partners to work more closely with.

"They made a clear decision to work with the Americans and against their European partners," he told NDR.

Patrick Sensburg, who led the German parliamentary committee to investigate the NSA spying scandal, was not surprised by the news. For the lawmaker from Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), it is important to understand what drives secret services.

"It's not about friendships. It's not about moral-ethical aspirations. It's about pursuing interests," he told NDR.

The NSA, FE and Danish defense ministry did not respond to requests for comment on the research, however, a general statement from the defense ministry said that "a systematic bugging of close allies is unacceptable."

source:
https://www.textise.net/showText.aspx?strURL=https://www.dw.com/en/danish-secret-service-helped-us-spy-on-germanys-angela-merkel-report/a-57721901

https://www.dw.com/en/danish-secret-service-helped-us-spy-on-germanys-angela-merkel-report/a-57721901
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Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Wed, 14 Jul 2021, PST (device A)

first notice able change?

device behave in an odd manner

when pressed button there was slight delay in the device screen display powering up (this is break in device behavior pattern); before today (Wed, 14 July 2021, pacific standard time), the device screen display turn on rather promptly with imperceptible delay; this is the first time the delay is notice able

Examine the outer casing of the device

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