Significantly irrelevant happiness

In the blue corn questions, I find

Does our system work for the greatest happiness of the greatest number?

Will Wilkinson wrote in “The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number“

Suppose the population is evenly divided between blue people and green people. Green people are usually just a little bit happy (say, averaging 3 on a scale of +10 to -10. [I'm going to use averages here, for convenience sake. The example doesn't create a difference between average and total utility.]) But blue people are either extremely happy (+10) or almost not happy at all (1), depending on how happy green people are. If green people are not happy at all (< +1), then blue people are elated (+10), otherwise, barely happy (1). The “greatest happiness” principle then says that we want a world in which green people are not at all happy. That’s a world with an average of 5 on our scale. The “greatest number” principle seems to say we want a world in which everyone is at least a little happy. That’s the world with an average of 2 on our scale.

Will Wilkinson seems to suggest we can apply statistical research for this purpose?

If, on the basis of statistical data, we want to draw conclusions about sizes of impact of happiness differences in population groups, we can perhaps use a significance test to be more relevant. What are the p-values in this mind experiment?

Also, I’m wondering if “happiness” is really a zero-sum game?

My beloved tensors

I often find myself wondering about a seemingly supposed “war” between secularisation (transfer of property from ecclesiastical to civil possession) and religion (to resolve to end one’s immoral behavior) when I explore for example hate mail sent to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti monster. and rational and intuitive mind embracing a single reality.

Reflected sounds of underground spirits?

“Reflected-sound-of-underground-spirits?”
Economics explained (Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic)

After having spent three days together Renee asked me, “You work from the inside out?”. My reply was “Yes”.

And that’s not the only direction. My motivation is internal. I have my own passions and motivations that are aligned with my inner child, or else I have to re-balance myself again. No problem! It all begins with feeling out of sync …

Not scientific at all!

In reference to the youtube clip “32 – Is Time a Direction?”

Rob Bryanton, its creator, and by association me too (forwarding it to some colleagues) have been called “unscientific”. True, very true. His ideas are not revolutionary tho. They are unscientific. I have some similar yet not same ideas. And I not only admit they are unscientific, I am very okay with that.

I reserve the right, as a scientist, to occupy myself with and to discuss philosophical subjects, and to write or forward unfounded hypothesis if and when they seem interesting for understanding the human mind better. As far as my own unfounded hypotheses about banana’s, I actually believe in those. They may not be scientific, but they are response-able, and give me greater pleasure, fun and joy.

It isn’t symmetrical

Ah yes, I was looking to understand the Pipes decision of 2003 and for a long time now, the Unfolding Self.

Seeing is not looking. Dreamtime saw more …

Plastic Shamans and Carpetbaggers

From New Age Fraud and Plastic Shamans:
“Native people DO NOT believe it is ethical to charge money for any ceremony or teaching. Any who charge you even a penny are NOT authentic.”

Likewise druidry. If it is coaching for spiritual healing. It is impossible to ask for money if all you do is set up a safe open space for them to heal themselves in. And I specifically use the word “coaching” because real healing works on several levels, depending on the person.

For instance, I am hesitant at using “psychic handhealing” as such practices heavily rely on the placebo effect and may actually make matters worse because having quickly self-healed the illness, people are unlikely to change any patterns that cocreated the illness. Even when using a direct rewiring, a person can easily drop back to old patterns if the new patterns aren’t practiced and integrated afterwards.

We are in full agreement. Not only would it not be ethical, it wouldn’t work either.

Intention to be really, really hungry

I wrote about the Geeky party I enjoyed last saturday on wyrdweb. One of our discussions was about male energy projections:

In terms of universal emotions, the three major (collective unconscious) projections of male energy on female energy: practical mother, “liberated” woman a la Emmanuelle, Saint, … and is there some space left for the being projected on, to just be herself in the eyes of the beholder. Nope! None! This is all dreamscapes …

From THE ARCHETYPAL FEMALE IN MYTHOLOGY AND RELIGION: THE ANIMA AND THE MOTHER
It seems that Jung recognised, although he gives little time to it, that the anima in women does not function entirely like the anima in men, that is, as a complement or balance to the conscious nature. He implies that in men, the anima functions on both personal and archetypal levels. On the personal level, it is projected onto wives and lovers and functions as a balance to the masculine ego. In women, it functions more on the archetypal than personal level. It is a soul force, and hence finds expression in artistic and mythological projections.

Note Nynke: And designs … the greatest hungers are the drivers of our souls!

And we have a lift-off …

The launch of a revamped website: http://www.satirworkshops.com, where we can park Spooo key! stuff. Exciting! I love it! Let’s play and fool around!