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I just read a nice random quotation from David Berlinsky, author of _The Advent of the Algorithm_:

Every computer divides itself into its hardware and its software, the machine host to its algorithm, the human being to his mind. It is hardly surprising that men and women have done what computers now do long before computers could do anything at all. The dissociation between mind and matter in men and machines is very striking; it suggests that almost any stable and reliable organization of material objects can execute an algorithm and so come to command some form of intelligence.

Asking what algorithm(s) the organization of material executes and where those algorithms execute opens up some of the more interesting questions in static pattern engineering. For instance, a motion sensing light that turns on when someone approaches is executing a simple yet effective algorithm that hopefully produces an intended result in a would-be intruder; however, so may a wooden sign that reads ‘Beware of Dog’.

(Will be expanded on a later edit – just a quick publish)

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Static Pattern Engineering was originally called Knowledge Engineering — fortuitously, there was already a field with a similar title that seeked to be a strict discipline that took Knowledge Management further and dealt in classifying the exact domains [NOTE: This is going off of recollection -- I never became an expert in the field and that is the point]. Nonetheless, SPE has always centered around the core aspect of knowledge as the main structure of all SPE operations. The cognitive operations on that knowledge are the primary providers of energy for all further operations.

At the time, we were investigating an interesting aspect of human cognition which has many analogues in the physical world: Resonance. I intend to discuss resonance at length in future posts, but for now let’s just qualify it by saying in a resonant state of consciousness an amplified amount of energy is available for present operations. Every human mind is an idiosynchrasy, or private mixture, of knowledge components; however, even if every single human mind had a completely identical mixture of knowledge components (analogous to an identical computer deployment in a corporate environment before a user personalizes it with their own data), I propose that the energetic landscape in relation to that identical mixture would vary from individual to individual. Measuring the energy induced as chunks of knowledge were held in the attentional space of each individual would provide the degree of resonance with those combinations of knowledge.

Central to SPE theory is the assertion that once truly resonant knowledge is discovered, interesting system effects arise in consciousness. One interesting system effect is that a new synthesis created with resonant knowledge will continue to resonate with the creator even though it is in a new, transformed form.

[NOTE TO READERS: I'm playing with a new format for the blogs for a few weeks -- as mentioned in the first post, I am going to sometimes give out complete and coherent monologues on entire topics, while other times I am going to publish cryptic chunks of material. Over the next few weeks, I am going to publish more rapid chunks of information and build them together into larger synthetic posts as I go along. Feedback, as always, is appreciated - privately or publicly.]

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