{"id":1572,"date":"2024-09-11T11:47:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T11:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cftheater.info\/blog\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2024-10-21T12:44:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T12:44:21","slug":"meditations-cartesian-and-andresalovichean-ruminations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cftheater.info\/blog\/meditations-cartesian-and-andresalovichean-ruminations\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditations &#8211; Cartesian and Andresalovichean Ruminations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"644\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cftheater.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/81La5YcdeuL._SL1500_-644x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1573\" style=\"width:460px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cftheater.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/81La5YcdeuL._SL1500_-644x1024.jpg 644w, https:\/\/cftheater.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/81La5YcdeuL._SL1500_-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/cftheater.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/81La5YcdeuL._SL1500_-768x1222.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cftheater.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/81La5YcdeuL._SL1500_.jpg 943w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frank W. Andres<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a9 Copyright Frank W. Andres 2024. All right Reserved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fire Mountain Publishing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4075 Vineyard Ave. Pleasanton, CA 9566<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please visit our website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cftheater.info\">www.CFTheater. Info<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please communicate with us via the following Email<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"mailto:frankandres@MyYahoo.com\">frankandres@MyYahoo.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Introduction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are \u2018letters\u2019 from both sides of the Brain. Well, Descartes as everybody knows &#8211; wrote his thoughts centuries ago. Well, he left one side of the Brain out. So we will attempt to correct that omission here. We have a Creative Cluster and I and my son, Will, are a part of a small but swarthy band. Well, swart to the extent that we be \u2018heavy\u2019 dudes and dudes \u2013 thought-wise. Well, Will and I within that proud group are known affectionately as: \u2018The Flying Andresaloviches\u2019. This fact might satisfactorily address any questions that might reside at this point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1641 &#8211; one of the smartest of all left hemispheric persons in the history of the world (Rene Descartes) wrote a book. It was one in a series of books he wrote during this period \u2013 but it is the one which most philosophers think of today \u2013 when they consider the work of this great man. At the time that it was written : <strong>It &#8211;<\/strong> was simply one of the most important books ever written. It led ultimately to Industrial Revolution. But in one respect &#8211; it failed. As we say: One half of the human Brain &#8211; is missing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Descartes first discards all belief in things that are not certain. He then turns to establish what can be known \u2013 for sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His first consideration is: That the existence of God \u2013 must be demonstrated. Actually God is not required here \u2013 at all. \u2018God\u2019 \u2013 the one with a beard \u2013 has been Created by something that is a precursor \u2013 to \u2018God\u2019: That something is &#8211; Consciousness \u2013 well, human Consciousness. Quite simply: There is the <em>I.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is the<em> I: <\/em>That always warrants &#8211; first and primary consideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <em>I<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Descartes began with what he felt was one unassailable fact: I think \u2013 therefore I am. As we have pointed out in previous minibooks \u2013 this statement is not a tautology as many have maintained. The two words: \u2018I think\u2019 \u2013 point to one concretely proven fact: <strong>The fact?: The existence of \u2013 the <\/strong><em><strong>I.<\/strong><\/em>Consciousness in this case &#8211; is an empirically proven fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What does it take \u2013 for a fact to be proven experimentally?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, first &#8211; it must be pointed out here \u2013 in this paragraph &#8211; that this author (Andresalovich) is utilizing only half of a Brain. Descartes is supplying the other half. It is this author\u2019s hope that by using both sides of the Brain in one exercise \u2013 some one proof of something \u2013 anything \u2013 might result. Thus: We are attempting to prove that any one thing is experimentally proved to be True. Like Descartes \u2013 we are not fussy. We simply will take anything. Once we have that one certainty \u2013 everything else in the world &#8211; must necessarily follow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Experiment. Laboratory Bench. All deduction must begin with experimentally proven \u2018fact\u2019. Deduction is simply equations. Descartes\u2019 world &#8211; is a world of equivalences. It is a world of mathematics: There is never any \u2018new\u2019 information involved here \u2013 at least not &#8211; from an equation. New information must come from somewhere else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We assert: All \u2018proven\u2019 fact must come from the right side of the Brain. First there must be hypothesis. First: there was Theee Idea! In the following pages we shall consider &#8211; how the right side of the Brain accomplishes this amazing \u2013 and most necessary step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Second: Hypotheses are extended to experiments &#8211; to see if these Ideas work in the real world \u2013 in four dimensions \u2013 well, five dimensions when one includes \u2018Energy\u2019. We need to receive the same desired results time and again. It is worthy of note \u2013 right here \u2013 that even repeated with results from experiments \u2013 nothing is ever proven to be True &#8211; with absolute certainty. This is ultimately because: All breakthroughs must begin with the right side of the Brain \u2013 which works in accordance with a process of thought that can never yield \u2013 absolute certainty. One can see right here: Descartes search for absolute clarity and distinctness \u2013 is in trouble \u2013 right to start with. All conclusions \u2013 right or left Brain must begin with inductive thought \u2013 which can never yield Absolute Certainty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Decartes believed that that one experimentally proved \u2018fact\u2019 was obvious<strong>: I think.<\/strong> Well, he \u2013 was convinced that something inside of his head \u2013 was thinking. As all existentialist thinkers have pointed out: There is always one step before this statement. What we are saying is: The second step \u2013 the \u2018I\u2019 in this statement \u2013 always possesses a first step \u2013 this first step is &#8211; an <em><strong>I.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This first <em>I <\/em>is &#8211; usually overlooked. This first <em>I &#8211; w<\/em>hoever whatever this might be \u2013 possesses: Consciousness. This first <em>I &#8211; i<\/em>s simply \u2018looking out\u2019. This is an empirical observation \u2013 which is the only observation we may make concerning this subject. This observation is \u2018empirical\u2019 \u2013 in what sense? Well, my Consciousness is satisfied that it \u2013 itself \u2013 exists. Well, beyond this: Such Consciousness &#8211; <strong>must <\/strong>exist. Because there are always two steps involved: First, it is established that \u2013 something is \u2018looking out\u2019. That is &#8211; first we note that there is indeed an <em>I &#8211; <\/em>\u2019looking out\u2019. Then second we just merely pause and enjoy \u2013 concentrate our intense examination upon \u2013 the fact \u2013 that I am \u2013 actually \u2013 empirically \u2013 \u2018looking out\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let us pause here for a second. This last statement may seem \u2013 trivial. How many have simply noted this fact \u2013 and not recognized an obvious underlying fact: When we undertake this intense thorough examine of our \u2018looking out\u2019 \u2013 we are actually undertaking an empirical examination \u2013 a genuine experiment of sorts. Such empirical examination must actually prove that our assertion that our Consciousness exists \u2013 is True. Consciousness exists \u2013 because I just happen to notice that my existence must necessarily be True. Otherwise my <em>I &#8211; <\/em>must be extinguished!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I ultimately do not know what this <em>I<\/em> is. I shall never know. I can only experience what this <em>I <\/em>does. It is \u2018looking out\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If we are right hemispheric dominant \u2013 we may use induction to obtain additional Truth concerning our Consciousness. We can utilize 12 disciplines and Create a synthesis \u2013 a web of thought &#8211; including ideas from all disciplines and make an educated guess as to what this Consciousness may be made of. In the following pages we shall be calling upon the breakthroughs we have made &#8211; all of our previous books and minibooks. From all that we know in our inductive manner &#8211; we can conjecture that this phenomenon of Consciousness must be related to Energy. Energy is a thing. It is also an experience. There is a part of us that <strong>is <\/strong>Energy. We cannot physically inspect our Consciousness itself to understand what it is. We can only write down what we are experiencing &#8211; as we \u2018look out\u2019 from the center of this Consciousness. The experience of being Energy thus &#8211; <strong>is<\/strong>: The experience of \u2018looking out\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What we learn from all of this when it comes to Consciousness is: There must be two things \u2013 there is the observer and the observed. The observer can only be observed in the act of observing \u2013 what is actually observing can never be ascertained. Also its behavior in the act of observing also can never be intensely inspected. In the end \u2013 as a result of inductive synthesis: We are only able to subsequently step back and state what this Consciousness must actually be consisted of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After years of work \u2013 the right side of our Brain can finally say with 99.99 percent certainty: Our Consciousness must be the workings of Energy that is confined within a Hydrogen ion \u2013 that is located in our Brain \u2013 and is in control of our body..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Einstein said that E = mc^2. We say that E = <em>I <\/em>!!! That is &#8211; from the basis of our experience \u2013 we can go on and hypothesize with less certainty that: All Energy &#8211; must possess Consciousness! All particles are packets of Energy \u2013 thus, all particles also must possess Consciousness. Such Consciousness must be either compacted and Powerful or to different degrees dilute \u2013 and less Powerful. The most powerful packets of Power &#8211; which are Hydrogen atoms &#8211; are able to perceive, think, and act \u2013 think with the aid of memory \u2013 and enact Change upon the world about them. Other particles and fields possess lower rankings of Power. Other atoms are soldiers and can react to orders and implement them &#8211; and nothing else. Fields \u2013 well, they are so dilute in Energy \u2013 that they are able to do only one thing \u2013 move information and instructions \u2013 from A \u2013 to &#8211; B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Descartes says that the left side of the Brain says: I think therefore I am. The right side of the Brain retorts \u2013 no this should be: <em>I <\/em>think \u2013 therefore I write. This written record is Proof of the <em>I<\/em> \u2018s existence. I think therefore I am \u2013 well, this statement shows that something has happened. The second establishes that a thing called Consciousness has come up with ideas and has made a concrete record of such ideas. This record is Proof of the existence of same Consciousness \u2013 but as we have said elsewhere: The right side of the Brain can never achieve absolute certainty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So Decartes: We shall examine his mode of thinking and then contrast that with a right hemispheric approach. A good place to start is with Descartes\u2019 \u2018Meditations\u2019. That will be followed by Franky\u2019s \u2018Meditations\u2019 wherein concerns of the right side of the Brain are addressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Descartes\u2019 Meditations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mediation #1. Descartes is utilizing deduction to seek Truth as he is obviously left hemispheric dominant in his Brain. He is filling the page with equivalences as all deductive people do. As a consequence &#8211; to obtain any substance to work with: Decartes requires \u2018real\u2019 facts, data to work with &#8211; from which all deductions may be made. He has obviously decided to obtain such facts from an examination of his own mind. As many philosophers have always done \u2013 he has decided to gain facts by means of examining the operations of his Brain &#8211; from the inside out! Descartes is not aware but: He is like all humans &#8211; he possesses a Hydrogen ion in charge of his Brain and his entire body. This Hydrogen ion is able to perceive, think, and act \u2013 its thought is supplemented by memory located both within the Brain and an innate memory located within the ion itself. He shall utilize this ion to obtain knowledge from investigation of his Brain. As the ion investigates this Brain: It moves from data which is most clear and distinct to data that is less so. He realizes that a place that we really need to start is: With his ideas concerning God. As we have said: Actually this step is not really necessary. A better place to begin is with a perons\u2019s own Consciousness \u2013 with his or her &#8211; own <em>I.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mediation #2. Well, Descartes inspects his Brain and comes to the conclusion that it is easier to ascertain the nature of his mind than any other part of his body. He may be fooling himself here. One really needs to be right hemispheric dominant to take 12 disciplines and realize that what is \u2018looking out\u2019 of his eyes \u2013 is a Hydrogen ion. So: Using this mind that he really has little knowledge of at all \u2013 he notices that his Brain is attached to a body. This body has face, hands, arms, and whole frame of parts. He establishes a fact that seems to be a \u2018clear\u2019 and \u2018distinct\u2019 idea: He establishes that he is indeed \u2013 a thinking \u2018thing\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He must at this point establish that he is not dreaming. So at the end of the meditation: He realizes that he must assume that he is awake and that he must begin his exploration of himself and the world around him with the one thing he knows \u2018for sure\u2019 \u2013 he thinks that he at least knows that he possesses a mind &#8211; well, as we say, in the end it appears that he knows very little about even that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notice that we use the word: \u2018So\u2019 \u2013 a lot. There may be objection that we are not really proving things \u2013 when we deliberately use such a vague word to advance our thought. Of course our reply is: The right of the Brain &#8211; is not utilizing deduction at all \u2013 it actually is physiologically incapable of doing do. Instead the right side of the Brain uses another technique to record its discoveries: That of the Story. Well, one discipline that displays the ultimate Power of the right side of the Brain of course is: History. Which is \u2013 the story of Life on Earth. History contains all the Content of Life\u2019s activities \u2013 whereas mathematics displays all the Forms of thought. These disciplines thus are representative of polar extremes in thought. They utilize the ultimate tools of each side of the Brain. It must be stressed that these abilities are physiological abilities. A person is either right or left hemispheric dominant in his or her Brain. One cannot be both. Each Brain has one alpha charge or the other. One can never possess more than half \u2013 of the Truth of things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meditation #3. So: Descartes realizes that he cannot really trust his perceptions of stars, earth, sky \u2013 his only certainty is 2 + 3 = 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He seems to be left (pun alert!) with a Brain full of mathematics. There is not real content here at all! As we say &#8211; the right side of the Brain seems to be required to fill the Forms in his mind \u2013 required to fill his Forms with what we would call: History. As we say: Mathematics is a world of all the forms that may be used by the left side of the Brain in making deductions \u2013 creating Truth by means of analysis. History is the world of induction &#8211; of synthesis \u2013 of theses &#8211; a world that is able to fill the Forms of the mind with Content of Life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Descartes has \u2018clear\u2019 and \u2018distinct\u2019 ideas concerning God. His God seems to be: Eternal, infinite, unchangeable, omniscient, omnipotent, the Creator of everything save himself. But as we know: The left side of the Brain has a criminal history of conjuring fantastic palaces of imaginative Forms that in the end have no relation to reality. They work by themselves &#8211; and their hubris often leaves us with little \u2013 usually after we have spent much precious time and money. We can expect no more than what that sordid history promises &#8211; from fantastic ideas concerning God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for parts of the body and objects outside of the body \u2013 at some point Descartes needs to realize that the Universities require different disciplines which can study all objects and animals external to us in detail and then the right side of the Brain may work with the left side to Create great syntheses of understanding about Everything!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meditation #4. So: It is now apparent that Descartes is staying away from his senses. He finds certainty only in his thoughts \u2013 which are filled with mathematics and Form. We have already seen that any ideas he might have about God &#8211; are probably bogus. He is left with a Brain full of mathematics. Descartes concludes that this Meditation is his most important and most Powerful. He believes that all of his left hemispheric Powers are consistent with his ideas of God and probably come from God. Well, they do come from Consciousness. But from only one side of the Brain. Q.E.D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meditation #5. Do objects exist without \u2013 in both senses \u2013 Descartes\u2019 mind. Things have an increased probability of existing and yielding Truth if they are measured:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018In this volume I have deduced the causes \u2013 which I believe to be quite evident \u2013 of \u2026 many phenomena from principles which are known to all and admitted by all, namely the shape, size, position and motion of particles of matter. And anyone who considers all this will readily be convinced that there are no powers in stones and plants that are so mysterious, and no marvels attributed to \u2018sympathetic\u2019 and \u2018antipathetic\u2019 influences that are so astonishing, that they cannot be explained in this way. In short there is nothing in the whole of nature\u2026which is incapable of being deductively explained on the basis of these self-same principles.\u2019 <em>(Principles of Philosophy, Pt IV, art. 187<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once objects are measured: Mathematics may be applied and conclusions reached which may have a high level of certainty. It worries Descartes that he can conceive of a figure like a triangle that may not ever exist on Earth. It is right that he should worry. He is as bad as an ecclesiastical personage \u2013 when he encounters problems: He seems to immediately look to a faith in God for distinctness and clarity. This presumably is a God that is ensconced somewhere in some mathematical multiverse of 10 dimensions! Descartes does possess a modesty that many of his successors have not. He acknowledges that most of the Truth in the World about him \u2013 is shrouded in doubts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of this seems to leave Descartes in some sort of limbo: His strategy to deductively attack upon the world seems is on one hand destined to pay great dividends. On the other hand: So much is in the hands of the senses \u2013 whose contribution to Truth and Knowledge \u2013 must always be suspect.<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meditation #6. So: We have thought about things a lot. There is only one thing left to do. We need only to ask one final question: Does any of this \u2013 exist? (For us peering at the World from the right side of the Brain &#8211; this is received to mean &#8211; that if we of the \u2018right side; might be allowed expression at this point \u2013 we will do so \u2013 with howls of hilarity! We are sorry but we mean: All this work and even at this point \u2013 after having cleared the shrubbery of all confusion and doubt \u2013 we are left with one certainty: We don\u2019t even know \u2013 for certain &#8211; that we exist! Thjs is \u2013 a sad state of affairs! ) When it some to existence: We have eliminated dreams. How about imagination? How about the green genie in the corner?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, it seems that Nature has attempted to teach Descartes what is real and not. Well, he concludes that even with this help we are left in a land of: Maybe Yes &#8211; maybe No. This applies to objects outside of his body and even his body itself. Everything outside of his mind \u2013 is once removed. There is always doubt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The number of cells in the human body vary from between ten and one hundred trillion \u2013 related to different ages of human bodies, we suppose &#8211; each cell has two Hydrogen ions in charge of the activities within. Every atom in each cell possesses Consciousness although many have their Consciousness completely or partially blocked by electrons and by molecular combination. Also Hydrogen atoms possess 50 times the Power in their consciousness as the carbon and other atoms created by the Higgs field. But what a responsibility it is &#8211; maybe even what an immense Power it must be &#8211; to be in charge of so much. Perhaps one day it will be a relief to be relieved of such responsibility and worry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Descartes and Existentialism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Descartes seems to be more of an Existentialist than has been thought: After all &#8211; he is &#8211; examining the workings \u2013 of the <em>I. B<\/em>ut he did not take the final step necessary to be a Nietzsche or a Kierkegaard &#8211; to be on that slippery slope desperately hanging on to keep from falling forever into a type of insanity or becoming a God himself. Descartes goes to the point that he is aware that he possesses a genius deductive ability: He is proud of it &#8211; he has confidence in it. As long as he possesses that ability he is certain that he is alive &#8211; that he does in fact exist. He is not like Nietzsche \u2013 he does not stop to consider that <strong>he<\/strong> is looking out!!!! <strong>He <\/strong>is the center of the world &#8211; the Cosmos. He does not stop to think: Does everyone else feel this way but somehow does not notice it? How can everyone in this room believe that they are the center of the universe? If they just stopped and really thought &#8211; they would realize that each person is like a small God!!!!! What one person is experiencing \u2013 all humans in the world \u2013 are experiencing!!!! This is Crazy!!!! Descartes doesn\u2019t go that far. He simply stops \u2013 he simply makes a God &#8211; out of the deductive process!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two Sides of the Brain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So &#8211; we can state two things that Descartes does not: First he does not state that his Consciousness is able to perceive, think, and act \u2013 with the assistance of memory. Second he does not state as Plato does \u2013 that his Consciousness has innate abilities and preoccupations: Will, Love, Truth, Beauty, and Justice. He simply is not enamored of the fact that he is in fact \u2018looking out\u2019. He is too much infatuated by the fact that he is a genius and is able to deduce things that other people are not. Well, we are grateful that he started the Enlightenment which relatively quickly led to, allowed, stirred many minds to action \u2013 Powering the world to Industrial Revolution. Thank you Mr. Descartes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two sides of the Brain.. Patterns of similarity are first discerned by the right side of the Brain. The right side existed first in humans. Then the left was added only 60,000 years ago in the frozen climes of the Arctic where humans had migrated up up up from Africa and the middle East up into the north north northern parts of Asia. It is here that the left side of the Brain which always was present in minuscle amounts when it began &#8211; to increase in numbers until today it accounts for two-thirds of the human population. The left side existed in certain species of predecessors to apes such as the Macaab monkey \u2013 which has been identified as being able to use both sides of the Brain in different individuals. Also in humans when there is a pair of identical twins \u2013 there is one of each side of the Brain. This is an obvious source for the first left hemispheric dominant person. Being such \u2013 would enable one to be of exceptional stature and worth in a frozen environment in which the right side was severely hampered. The first Warrior chiefs and shamans may have been such individuals. Subsequently the abilities of the right side of the Brain have been is neglected, unnoticed except as being identified as being stupid.. Yet the abilities of this side of the Brain are crucial to the progress of intellectual thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andresalovichean Meditations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meditation #1, We are not entirely certain which meditations belong where &#8211; but here are some ideas: We are aware of an entity \u2018looking out\u2019. It is in charge of a lumbering mass of atoms called a human body. The right side of the Brain detects similarity. It also Creates Syntheses. It comes up with concepts. Which become verbal words. It comes up with ideas of causal relationships among objects. We see one thing happening \u2013 we automatically expect another things to happen. This leads to hypothesis. Whenever we see this one thing happening \u2013 we come to automatically expect that \u2013 something will happen &#8211; After. This is all part of a physiological ability \u2013 that we right hemispheric dominant people innately possess These espyings of patterns of similarity &#8211; in the dynamic interactions of objects external to our minds &#8211; lead to chains of visual sightings and subsequent visual expectations. This leads to extended hypotheses \u2013 theses \u2013 stories &#8211; if you prefer \u2013 as to what has happened, why these things have happened and thence onward into expectations as to what may occur in the Future. All of this comes from a neglected side of the human Brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So the right side of the Brain: One of us has received a 235 I.Q. on the only test that measures abilities of the right side of the Brain \u2013 it is a performance test \u2013 the Wechsler-Bellevue Block Test. Thus Everything in this minibook &#8211; is based on personal experience. The left side of the Brain does one thing: State equivalences. The right side does one thing: Notice similarities. All concepts in thought concerning the World &#8211; come from the right side of the Brain. All concepts concerning the physiological construction of the left side of the Brain \u2013 are contributed by left hemispheric dominant individuals. These physiological constructions result in thought patterns that somehow have proved to be of worth \u2013 in the human striving \u2013 to seek and find Truth! As we say: Right and left hemispheric dominance is in different individuals. One person can never possess both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Witness how the different sides of the Brain \u2013 work individually \u2013 and then work together. For example: Just look at words \u2013 each is based on a concept \u2013 which first emerged from a right side of a Brain. We see a chair \u2013 immediately we remember another chair we have already seen. Two things looking the same. Out of billion different things \u2013 our minds automatically discern similarity among two things. Instantly automatically. When we see a third thing that is similar &#8211; we are inclined to attach a \u2018name\u2019 to it. This first meditation is devoted to the Creation of objects of note. These objects receive an importance do to similarity \u2013 to the extent \u2013 to the end \u2013 that they become endowed with \u2013 a <strong>name.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meditation #2. But there has to be another step before an entire village will adopt our proposal for denomination of a object in our lives. There is similarity among shapes of objects in our vision. There must be also a similarity in: Function \u2013 before a name for an object will be adopted. What do we mean by this word \u2018function\u2019 ? Well, the essence here is: Cause and effect. Chains of causation. Again similarity is the key ability \u2013 that innate ability &#8211; which bequeathed us \u2018chairs\u2019. But the first step has yielded : \u2018Chairs\u2019 &#8211; with no function. We notice that we see \u2018chair\u2019 \u2013 then we see one sitting on such a structure. We see another chair and another person sitting on it. When we see chair \u2013 we then begin to anticipate. We begin to expect! Expect a second visual image. That of a person coming to sit on this chair. Boom then Boom. Similarities in patterns of occurrences among activities occurring around among objects that have previously been given names on the basis of similarity among objects. We are able to generalize. We are able to make a hypothesis: A chair raises the floor. It allows a person to sit and reflect or eat. Chains of cause and effect lead to the naming of objects. This leads to a verbal language. This is a first step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Written language is a second step: It is a left hemispheric invention. But it necessarily was preceded by the verbal language which was the invention of the right side of the Brain and as seen above \u2013 with its genius ability when it is present to discern similarity \u2013 among objects \u2013 and movements among between objects. When this happens \u2013 we see one thing- we see one action \u2013 we then automatically look for something to come \u2013 After!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mediation #3. When the left side of the Brain works: It is the opposite \u2013 one sees a movement among objects and instinctively with the aid of genius looks for &#8211; Before. Aristotle called this the search for: First Cause. We Look for the Cause of patterns. The right side of the Brain as we have seen with Aristotle \u2013 who seems to have been right hemispheric dominant in his Brain \u2013 he is able to conduct a very primitive and largely ineffectual way of \u2018deduction\u2019 of its own. Aristotle simply asked \u2013 what is the first cause in a given chain of causation? As we just said above \u2013 one just simply starts with one part of the chain and asks: What came Before \u2013 then what came &#8211; Before that? These questions continue until there are no more questions to be asked. When a first cause has been detected one realizes as Aristotle did: One has the entire sequence of interaction by the testicles so to speak. One has a hypothesis &#8211; a thesis as it were &#8211; for why certain things happen. This sort of examination is the essence of historical writing. This is how theses \u2013 are born. This sort of thinking simply prepares the way for the entrance of the second side of the Brain \u2013 it is right here that both sides of the Brain may start working feverishly and most productively \u2013 together!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meditation #4. Well, it is up to the right side of the Brain to Create syntheses &#8211; so we shall take on that responsibility right here right now \u2013 since we are the only ones to properly do so. We have seen how the left side of the Brain works. Then the right side. Let us use our Powers of synthesis and lay out a plan \u2013 a story \u2013 for how both sides of the Brain might \u2013 work together. The Beatles. Stanley Laural and Oliver Hardy. Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell. Too often people with right and left hemispheric dominance in their Brains &#8211; have working separately &#8211; isolated from each other in space and time. This has delayed progress immensely. Once in a while this isolation is breached and breathtaking results ensue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meditation #5. Emotions, passions, a primal language. Uniification of mind and body. Temporary state. Solitary partilcles. The hope for dual unification of two individuals for an eternity. Individuals with different neural physiological abilities \u2013 may now work together to confront and conquer the world\u2019 most pressing problems!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meditation #6. Indictment. Criminal Irresponsibility. So much Progress lost. So much ability neglected. So much ability wasted. So much time and money misspent. Children\u2019s lives squandered. We draw a line in the sand here \u2013 now. No more criminal behavior on the part of those who should know better \u2013 should act better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instauratio Magna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are convinced that we would not be able to do anything of worth without a person equipped physiologically from us &#8211; as you are. And you left hemispheric dominant people &#8211; are not just mere some type of muses or something. Somehow your Great Brain leads the way. Combines with our abilities such that the final products are all ours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was one man \u2013 Sir Francis Bacon &#8211; who understood that in his time and in science in general &#8211; there was a whole side of things that was missing. In the end all must be included in one great work \u2013 one great Synthesis. One Instauratio Magna. This work was begun in his <em>Novum Organum. <\/em>His Great Work then added to his many of his other ideas would result in the following important ingredients:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, he called for a survey of all the sciences &#8211; that is, an integration of all the disciplines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Second, he called for a new scientific method based upon the strategy of analogy \u2013 that is, upon the perception of similarity in all things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Third, he asserted that all disciplines needed to be integrated, utilizing the examination of cause and effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These three steps would then result in a fourth step \u2013 which would be a new philosophy \u2013 the commencement of a work for future generations to do &#8211; which would integrate all disciplines, all knowledge into one final complete Synthesis of everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What Bacon was missing in all of this was: The why, the who, in all of this. What he did not realize was: In the generation, Creation of all of this knowledge &#8211; there actually would be different physiologies involved. That is, before there could be an integration of all knowledge &#8211; there had to be the inclusion &#8211; the integration of all abilities. This integration was begun by the works of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Hegel discerned that there must be two different types of thought involved. There was an analytical type of thought and an inductive type. Hegel\u2019s abstract ideas had to be transformed into physiology. Mental activity was translated into physiological abilities \u2013- by the work of Roger Sperry at Cal Tech who examined the Brains of schizophrenics whose Brains had been severed into two parts He established that each hemisphere of the Brain possesses its own abilities, what those abilities are, and which intelligence tests measured the abilities of each. What remains to be done is to determine how these different abilities might be able to work together to Create intellectual thought, how individuals with different abilities might be identifiesd, then educated each in its own way, and then how instruction might continue with the integration of individuals of both types as they learn to work together to attack the great challenges of a modern world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conclusion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OK &#8211; so we get it: Consciousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the outset we stated our objective to be one thing. We needed to discover one thing \u2013 that is undoubtedly True. Well, there is the <em>I . <\/em>And yes &#8211; that is it! There is the fact for certain: That I possess a Consciousnesss &#8211; which if it did not exist \u2013 this minibook would never have been written.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Consciousness. This is a word that is just simply not allowed In the conversations of polite society right now. Yet we maintain with all the vigor at our disposal &#8211; that this topic must be addressed in its whole form right here &#8211; right now \u2013 even if is only in complete secrecy. Meanwhile other things might progress in the open \u2013 in schools &#8211; without controversy: Identification of different intellectual abilities, each ability possessing its own educational strategies and treatments, and finally, individuals each with different abilities learning to work to together. This must begin now &#8211; starting at kindergarten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So much scientific and economic progress has been made in just three hundred years. Things are so perfect right now. But three hundred years ago &#8211; even 150 years ago \u2013 this world did not exist! But now we must acknowledge that this speed has abruptly bought us to: <strong>The Future<\/strong>. We are there. Right here. Right now. We must go directly to the next steps: Stop world population explosion, find new sources of Energy, cure Cancer, develop automated cities, all \u2013 everyone &#8211; working in Creative Clusters of Innovation and thought. All people in the world &#8211; must be integrated into one supreme intellectual and economic effort. Together \u2013 we all \u2013 must work together \u2013 to build \u2013 the Future!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">THE END<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-amazon wp-block-embed-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Meditations - Cartesian and Andresalovichean Ruminations\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"317\" height=\"476\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_akLK3uG3R6eoSW&#038;asin=B0DGGT7Y64&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-amazon wp-block-embed-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Meditations - Cartesian and Andresalovichean Ruminations\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"317\" height=\"476\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_akLK3uG3R6eoSW&#038;asin=B0DGGT7Y64&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bibliogrpahy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cottingham, John, <em>Descartes<\/em>. Part of the Great Philosophers Series,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ray Monk and Frederic Raphael, Consulting Editors (New York:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Routledge, 1997), 58 pp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Frank W. Andres \u00a9 Copyright Frank W. Andres 2024. All right Reserved. Fire Mountain Publishing 4075 Vineyard Ave. Pleasanton, CA 9566 Please visit our website at www.CFTheater. 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