India

I've always wanted to go India. I think it's the most beautiful place in this world. Although, I must recognize that today, the ideas associated with this country are the child famine, the VIH, poor distribution of wealth and the growing empire of technology. But, I'm talking of another India. My India begins in my childhood, when secretly I read Arabian Nights, full version. It has scenes about wonderful landscapes when the caravans were able to leave the desert. There were luscious fruits, delicious delicacies and very special women.

Then, in my adolescence India was a place where had been planned the noblest of religions, Hinduism. Searching in the human task, looking the things that really exist and we used to ignore. There are images in my mind, of a rest in a thick vegetation, with incense-scented, sweaty skin and flies everywhere. I think there must be many kind of teas and that the odors of their boils permeate places.

If I go to India, I would not return. I would be isolated in a monastery and live this culture for ever.

Schadenfreude

If you think about some TV series whose plot are doctors or lawyers, there must be a time when the medicine cases or law cases are exhausted and the plot of the TV series is heading for the private lives of the characters or a kind of philosophy of human behavior. I prefer the second option. For example, "Doctor House" was a very popular TV serie meanwhile its protagonist was a surly old man, who had not life of his own. It was very exciting seen how Dr. House used to destroy the life of his patients, from the premise "Everybody lies". Of course, one would say the whole truth of its most   shameful things if you are about to die by hiding them.

By the other hand, I really enjoy TV series about law firms with political intrigues, like Boston Legal or The Good Wife. Human behavior facing morals complexities, it’s fascinating. I always remember a chapter of the serie Boston Legal, which developed the theme about the Schadenfreude. It’s a German word that means, the feeling of joy to other's suffering. I never believed before that when one laughs at the misfortune of someone is by, one has chosen the right path. It’s a feeling that arises from natural selection.

New and Strange Semester

Hello. It is a relief to have English classes, even in midsummer. Of course go to classes with precious days knowing that I could be on the beach partying is a sacrifice, but I need to enlarge my curriculum. And I should be happy becasue my faculty almost didn't give me this class.

In addition, all national politics, the student strike has merit on its own, and I must live up to my ideals. That is to say, if I have political opinion, I must be up to them and not be miserable for my own convenience, what would be if I vote against students strike. The other hand, I must be picky about my aspirations and I set out from last year, learn English. Therefore, the consequence is that I have to attend classes in summer by my own principles.

In general, I actually do a full semester, so I have six subjects of the law career. I am also swimming in the selection of my faculty. It takes me a lot of time of training.

Regards.

ENGLISH3FALL2011

I really enjoyed making a blog and I think that I will continue. Because, first I have learned a lot of English like vocabulary and grammar. Second I have seized the opportunity to put in order ideas that I have and I can not work in it, understanding that I have not much time and  I have the bad habit of only pay attention to evaluate things. So, this way I could do two things at the same time around the topics that you used say us. 

This method helped me to think in English. Write about open topics makes you utilize the language in your own form. The things I always think are now in English too in my mind. This is useful to me to read technical literature of the topics that interest me, like How Nature works by Per Bak that it is not translated to Spanish. (I have exhausted the scant literature in Spanish about fractals and systems theory).

I do not think that write a blog have disadvantages. The advantages are evident; you can do this anywhere and at any time. You just have to sort your time. Also, the open topics make you can do this wherever you want, to personalized learning. Additionally you correct us online, so we can learn of our mistakes.

It only remains to say I thank you. 

Theory of Systems

I do not understand the reality since a positive paradigm. This paradigm has one premise to support all its knowledge: there is an only reality that can be observed. The mankind development has shown that it is impossible build a single reality.  This necessarily depends on the observer. But how we live in a community the reality depends on all participants in this community. Deep down I just repeat the conclusions reached by Maturana & Varela, Chilean authors that applied the theory of systems at the epistemological problem. Being consistent, the theory of systems should be applied to the form we know the reality. So that a worldview base on this paradigm can not be biased in particular subjects. The theory of systems started with Ludwig Von Bertalanffy in an effort for an interdisciplinary research trying to find common properties to entities called systems. These systems observe the reality at different levels where interconnect various areas of knowledge. 

Fractal is describing the motion of a pendulum

The actual big problem is that it does not exist pure systems. This are called closed systems. The classical physics describes mathematically the events from closed systems in that have not stranger elements. But the dominant view understands that all systems in reality are open. That is to say, in there are stranger elements. The elements that interfere in open systems further complicate things, because they become less predictable. Here is where to play the theories of chaos. Indeed scientists have discovered something, where there is more chaos there is an implicit order. The fractal theory works in these cases like metaphorical rides to describe this order, like the butterfly effect. I appreciate the theory of systems because it is valuable like epistemological paradigm and it explain all the reality as one whole objective.

Fractal Cake

Today I am going to talk about de best place to go eat. From a little town in my country, called “Worst is nothing” a woman of great effort and perseverant emerged from poverty. Her name is Rose. She is now an old woman that remembers her past with great joy, but it is not funny. Without education and with a lot of injustice, she only counted with her excellent ability to cook. First she worked in a truckers stop cooking fast food. Then, a restaurant owner in the region asked her to job in his business. It was there where she learned many recipes most of all international recipes. Her grandmother thought her cook traditional food of the Mapuche culture, so that she could to create and do many dishes. After that she had became independent and many stories occurred, she chose to retire in a little house in the beach. She yet stills cooking but only for the people of our village. I can not say the precise place to go with her because our village does not have a formal address. I just can tell you that her dishes are the best in the world.

I always go to my beach house, often alone to rest or study and she is very maternal with me. Sometimes she looks me like a foreign who brings news of civilization. Once I said her that her cake seemed like a fractal, and she genuinely laughed not understands me at all. 

Conscience

I believe that human conscience is not determined by the time, the body that contains it is. It get old and conscience is extinguished. But while the body lives, conscience remains an independent existence but in symbiosis with it. This independence is possible because we are always ourselves throughout our stay in the world, although all cells of our bodies are different every year. The conscience outside of time and space apprehends the experiences that happen to their environment, it is full of knowledge but to follow being the same. 

In this picture I was about fourteen years, it is a picture of my school course, I cut out and it was took by the school photographer. At that time I cut my hair like a boy, I loved it, but the reviews were not the best. Today I admire myself; I had to have a lot of courage to choose to be different. If I had been able to count on who I am now, at this time, things would have been much better. So, it is that I now to count on who will be, because it may know many things in the future that it  will expand my dimensionality such as tree rings or turns of a snail, but myself will be always the same. The conscience                                                    is not more than a recursion on itself like a spiral fractal.

                     

The Chilean Coast

Once, with a friend in my beach house observe the sun hiding in the distance and he told me that the perimeter of the Chilean coast is infinite. I could not believe it. But how it might be possible I answered; If we consider only the region of Chiloe and if its perimeter must be infinite, how is it possible that I have traveled the entire island from end to end, on the main road? The big island of Chiloé and the entire Juan Fernandez archipelago has an area of land measurable and finite. However, its perimeter still being infinite, said me my dear friend. How can that be possible?

When Benoit Mendelbrot used to work for IBM, he would devote, among others things, to investigate the length of the coast of Britain. He understood that the measure depends on the accuracy and precision of the ruler used. For every ruler that is used, there will be twists and turns that must be ignored and we realize that measured obtained is always an approximation of the actual length. No matter how small the ruler, the results will be always approximations. If we use an infinitesimal measure it will give as result that the length of the coast of Brittany and the Chilean coast are infinite (¥). Because of this, he had to resort to fractal geometry which measures the degree of ruggedness and discontinuity of an object presenting a constant state of irregularity at different scales.

I must admit that I felt ashamed of my giant selfishness to understand an infinity so small.

                    

Binary Language

We cannot imagine a world today without computers and they use to run the binary language. This language just can be created with two elements, positive and negative. It is logical, if we think that the computers have only two resources, entrance or not of energy. 

The binary digits make up of the binary language, are codes formed with the power of two. Here what matters is the position. The first number of the serie is two raised to the power of cero, making it one. If one is included in the digit to set, the first position in the series is positive. The second and third number of the serie are two raised to one and two, making it two and four respectively. Then, you have to add the all the positive positions. If you want to create the number three in binary code, you must put positive the first and second position and add one and two which is equal to three. In binary language, positive is one and negative is cero, so three is 110. Of course the series of numbers that computers use are astronomical. 

In binary language, positive can also be white and black negative. If you think about it, understanding that each position in the series corresponds to a time N, where N is the exponent of two, thus has the most primitive fractal which can create any positive number since zero.

Metaphorical Rides

A professor once taught me about the "metaphorical rides", as he used to say. For him, the metaphors were cognitive tools to grasp, uplift and concretize mathematics, specially permutations and probabilities. His metaphors sometimes consisted of one or many fleas jumping by the vertex of geometrical figures one, two or tri dimensional. This is based on our personal experiences are capable of being abstracted to self-sufficient mathematics concepts. While my professor used to teach us, he would study our behavior to learn for his researches about the cognition.
Were those metaphorical rides, which led me to understand that all empirical domains can be abstracted to patterns and therefore, extrapolating this idea, the great domain that is the human experience can be also described in only one metaphor. This is how I discovered new interpretations and I met a new world in the same world. My professor appointed it "dimensional rides through the worlds". Therefore, without a doubt is the most wonderful place I have never gone. The best is that I can return whenever I want, and I always want when I need a systematic explication. Because once you found the metaphor from your experiences, vice versa, the metaphor can explain and predict your experiences. And this metaphor for me is a fractal.

Fear of fractal

A film that should not be missed if you love fractals like me, is The Cube. This film is a 1997 Canadian psychological thriller directed by Vincenzo Natali. Some people believe that this film is great because lies in a plot kafkaesque, where nothing explain why the characters are there or why was built that machine. Its prequel Cube Zero explains a little of an organization dedicated to this type of research of human behavior.

Whatever, the characters do not matter in their individuality only in their different abilities, are about six or seven people that appear in a cubic room with six doors, one is in each face of the cube.  Each of these doors leads into another room identical to the previous, that is to say, into a cubic room with six doors one is in each face of the cube. Some cubic rooms have death traps, so the characters must take care with the numbers inscribed on the edge of each door; when none of these numbers are primes, the room is safe and their can pass. Obviously, throughout the movie, some people die dramatically and only saved those with highest integrity and intelligence. The great thing about this movie is the metaphor for the men in a fractal complex, and how they can decrypt it with prime numbers and permutations.

Its sequel, the Hypercube, show how the characters face a dimensioned of a fractal complex in constant development, a fractal given by the recursion of the one cube exponentiated to infinity. I reckon that its resemblance to a kafkaesque paradigm is by the fractal recursion and helplessness of man to get out of this logical problem.

Before the Law

“Before the law sits a gatekeeper”. First sentence with that Kafka begins the parable inserted in his novel The Trial. Frantz Kafka is one of the most admirable writers because he studied law but was faithful to a coherence very difficult to achieve when you believe in law. That coherence was find the “reductio ad absurdum” of understand the problem that means the existence from a deontic paradigm. “To this gatekeeper comes a man from the country who asks to gain entry into the law. But the gatekeeper says that he cannot grant him entry at the moment. The man thinks about it and then asks if he will be allowed to come in sometime later on. “It is possible,” says the gatekeeper, but not now.” The same reality that the right to rejects and which is approaching prophylactically with latex gloves, is that which gives it the possibility to be. But the possibility to be, is distorted because it enters to the procedural system through “procedural truth”. The big fallacy is deontic conversion of reality by the proof which is the foundation of this truth. Then, is by the “procedural truth” that in real trials is builds a virtual reality with the items that meet the requirements of a proof. Justice for this man or who do not travel the deontic halls is presented as an impossible, because the “procedural truth” is not necessary equal to the real truth. “I am powerful.-says the gatekeeper to the man- And I am only the most lowly gatekeeper. But from room to room stand gatekeepers, each more powerful than the other. I cannot endure even one glimpse of the third.”  Achieve justice through the law creates a recursion on itself, like a fractal. Thus a pure deontic logic is a fallacy as a mechanism for justice. “The gatekeeper sees that the man is already dying and, in order to reach his diminishing sense of hearing, he shouts at him, Here no one else can gain entry, since this entrance was assigned only to you. I’m going now to close it.” The problem is that justice can only exist in the world of what must be, because it is never, therefore it is always sought and returns to the man at the gates law, and before the law sits a gatekeeper…

Why fractal problem?

My blog calls fractal problem because if I want talk you about me I must to start with the beginning of the problem.  I think life is a repetition of itself over and over again in any time and any places, as in huge scales like the universe and the formation of its stars as in very tiny scales like the human life and the events that compose it. Thus, if I exist and you exist to is by we going to exist again and because we already existed.  I recognize that sounds very unreal and significantly improbable, but let me explain you that, in other post…