[Fis] Sections in FIS

[Karl Javorszky]

Sections in FIS – IS4SI
            2019 nov 16



Let me come forward, once more, with some suggestions. They are presented
with great respect for the academic and social achievements of the right
honourable learned friends in this Scientific Society, to which I have the
honour of belonging for 24 years.



1. Excuses for causing irritation

The style of the proposals that follow may, however, appear at first glance
to be lacking in neutral, academic courtesy. A focused, pointed perspective
is used to highlight the semi-swamp that connects to and delineates the Id
from the rational working of the Super-Ego. If we were all as we should be,
we would end up domesticated, therefore dumber, by the rules spelled out by
the Super-Ego. The more successful and acceptable the Teachings of the
social powers that are incorporated into the Super-Ego, the more ossified
and mummified the social system becomes. The etiquette requires that
something that is accepted as common sense true, part of the general
agreement fundamental to the societal order, is being talked about and
being referred to with the utmost respect and in acknowledgement of the
fact, that the speaker shall be dead since long, while the eternal truths
shall remain valid, inalterable and followed.

Such was the case, e.g. with the God-likeness of the Pharaoh. Many other
examples will come to the mind of the learned friends: the main point is
that the concept of *lèse-majesté *exists. It is irritating in such a deep
fashion, that punishment is administered, if one shows disrespect towards
established norms, and representants of the norms. The irritation comes
from the confusion caused by the cognitive dissonance generated by bringing
well-ordered concepts into such an order that is different to the one to
which one is accustomed to. The little girl, who cries out: *The emperor is
naked! *is in fact a social irritant. To come up with a radically new
perspective disturbs the established order; even more so, if the new way of
looking at the mental furniture does have a credibility and is presented in
a frappant manner. Had the message that the emperor is naked come from a
habitual drunkard, lazy bum, the procession could have proceeded, ignoring
the idiot, who does not recognise the elegant refinements of the masterful
creation, done to perfection by the rightly adored high priests of dressing
up a simple idea.

Enough people have lost their head along the centuries for having vocalised
something that everybody felt needed to be said, but everybody knew at the
same time, that saying it the first time aloud would probably not end to be
a pleasant social success.



2. My Lords, pure necessity forces me to address you in this manner

Unfortunately for science, commerce and industry do also employ clever
people. These have come up with observations, the explanations for which
are alien to our conventional way of thinking. We may keep wanting to go on
congratulating each other on the elegance of the new clothes, but the
applied boys are making clothes, from the same material, which have
pockets, hoodies, backpacks and many other very practical and useful
applications. If we do not pay attention, the competition will take over
our core business, namely the weaving of mental tissues. The
interconnectedness of the strands of their thoughts will turn out to be
much more complex and resistant to tear and wear, and useful in more
demanding environments. Our single-layer, evenly spaced standard cloth gets
ripped off in shreds when applied over thorny concepts; theirs is doubly
woven, with two cross-shots further reinforcing the cloth, and their cloth
folds perfectly into 4 on each of 3 sides of the bundle. They can drape
this mental web over that what we factually agree is the governing rule of
theoretical genetics: their cloth is woven such that it appears to be made
explicitly to serve the purpose (like we find the skin of an animal the
existence of which we were already certain of). Either Your Lordships
address this uncomfortable situation of technological progress overtaking
us, who pontificate to be the clever among the clever, or Your Lordships
will share the image of the High Priests of the Pharaoh, who were
doubtlessly refined, clever and highly advanced, but could not cut the
mustard against the Romans.

3. Proposed Sections:

Name

Multiplicators

Circumscription negative

No thoughts of his own. Talks only about what X wrote, as opposed to what Y
wrote.

Advantages

Good knowledge of literature, well connected

Useful if

understands that there is a lot to talk about what a great many of
researchers will write

Helpful as

influencer, trend-setter, marketing, PR, make it viral (be the first to
talk about)



Name

Fundamentals

Circumscription negative

Keepers of the faith. Guardians of the scripture. Maintainers of consistent
didactics. Infallible in orthodoxy. Preventers of schisms. Rejecters of
alternatives.

Advantages

Give the *nihil obstat.* Proclaim the truth. Lay down the laws. Declare
legitimacy. Rule over taxonomy. Create facts in epistemology.

Useful if

understands following dialogue: *He*: this not possible in numbering
system. Even if objects, represented by numbers, are individuals, numbers
do not wander around on their own. *We*: ok, so numbering system is
incorporated into more general system (like Newton concepts of movement
into Einstein concepts of movement), making it a special case. Let us call
the system based on *mo*bile nu*mbers* the* mombering system.*

Helpful as

Fountains of legitimacy, acceptability, respectability.



Name

Practicals

Circumscription negative

Have given up hope to do something useful. (Statistical artefact of IQ
being > 3 *sigma*: it is not economical to talk to people expecting them to
be reasonable, because they are not.). A team of salvaged Robinson Crusoes
may not be workable. Complicated to motivate.

Advantages

Competent and rational. Creates own ideas, too. Can have connections to
industry and commerce. Can shepherd a project from *a *to* z.*

Useful if

needs money. Remembers that EU will throw tons of funds to a setup of
universities from 7 member states. Knows a half a dozen already.

Helpful as

Lead scientist, central organiser, coordinator, collaborator. (This is in
size/extent/complexity a Manhattan project!) Name giver. Congress
initiator. Prize winner.



Name

Neo-Sumerians

Circumscription negative

Dreamers. Incomprehensible poets. Unprofessional dilettantes. Extreme
hair-splitters. Boringly repetitive monoideists. Bringing in unconnected
ideas. Not really fit for public display.

Advantages

Reinvent the numbering system, making it a *mombering system, *by dreaming
up, looking at a bunch of things, more details than only their number and
place. Imagine *n* ladies of the harem, lined up on their diverse
advantageous properties. Do not leave the scene of the psychodrama, while
the contradictions coming from diverse rivalries have not yet consolidated.
(Learned friends of the female persuasion may imagine courtship display
/mating dance/ among males, instead.)

Useful if

checks that the most neutral pecking order is a succession of triplets,
where on each of the three consecutive places one of 4 objects is
preferred. This, in fact, is the actual structure of space. Then, the
mechanism is in neutral gear and nothing specific happens.

Helpful as

Catcher of a concept by its hairs and dragging it to the assembly, to check
how it fits in, and what name could be given to the new detail of the
colossal Tenguely-machine that is the working mombering system, based on
sorting around the elements of the numbering system.



4. Summary

We have something to sell. We will have to resign to the fateful fact, that
the *mombering *system is more complicated – but more versatile and
practical – than the *numbering* system. If it is true, that the Emperor
needs more and better clothes, then one can ask the Emperor to pay a lot
for a new way of weaving relations among facts. We invent following
alterations to the numbering system: we use two logical systems that
interact. One refers to the sequenced way of reading the elements of a
collection, one refers to the overview way of reading the collection. To
solve the differing requirements posed on the elements, we individuate the
first few of the elements, by expressing them as tuplets *{a,b}. *We then
sort and order the tuplets. The resulting cycles assign places to elements:
places that differ in dependence of time, space and other aspects. These
aspects we read out of a declination table of *a+b=c. *We arrive at the
concept of elements that *move* while the system undergoes periodic,
rhythmic, cyclic changes. The movement patterns connect elements to each
other, thereby producing a more resilient and versatile web of relations
among facts.



This is a polite, acceptable, neutral, courteous suggestion. The Emperor,
as we know, is passionate about wanting to have the best of woven cloths,
so given a little vitality, the learned friends could profitably suggest to
the courtiers of the Emperor, that an appropriate grant could bring forth
marvellous creations of artistry to adore the Emperor with.



It would be nice to see a self-combusting density causing engagement,
pleasure and industry among the learned friends.
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