 
The Entangled Monkey Papers

By

Steve Merrick

Copyright Steve Merrick 2015

Smashwords edition

Introduction.

Time slips easily past us humans, sliding as it does effortlessly though our fingers as fine sand at the beach would, it is everywhere, but as to what it is? Well many would have you believe we are far from capable of comprehending the stuff of time. Which leaves scientists looking like small children playing in a sandpit at the aforementioned beach, and fortunately that image is very far from scientific reality, time is understandable for all of us, that much I am certain of. Yet the implications that time and its structures create are vast, in fact the potential still makes my head spin. If the concepts in the following papers are proven right or wrong, it matters little because ultimately we must question everything so we can understand everything, and the jurors of science will confirm or destroy what I am saying here, but these hypothesis have to become live, before we can move beyond the logic of animated stardust. Hopefully it will also make your head spin as I attempt to put many pieces of the puzzle together, and if you enjoy a challenge, you too can evolve these very basic ideas I am writing of and see a potential beyond any of our wildest dreams.

Steve Merrick, 14/06/15

THE ENTANGLED MONKEY PAPERS

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"DOES ABSURDITY HAVE MASS?"

Its an absurd question and I can answer it, but to understand the answer you have to take a journey through the mind and all of its interconnected neural architecture, so my answer is at the end of this voyage.

Throughout our lives our brains undergo changes, when we are born, we react to every stimulus thrown at us, a child's brain can be making 700-1000 new neural connections every minute, in that rush of childhood, children's brains even prune themselves, as useless connections are cut off and absorbed back into the grey matter of the overall structure. All of which results in an adult, and you would be mistaken to think that the adult is complete, because new neural pathways can be formed throughout your life or at any age. All that human potential before I look at basic's like the wear and tear that time can create as we get older, or the physical injuries that could happen at any point. The brains developmental dance, results in a conclusion or three, but the biggest thing to accept is that there is no such thing as a perfect brain, we are a successful and resourceful species, yet if we were all wired identically, that could not be the case, every one of us is a set of unique combinations, these reflect in our personalities, physiques, and humour. Yet how does it happen, how does a highly evolved upright walking monkey mammal reach this plateaux called humanity. How does the brain become this.

If it was simply different neurons giving us a greater acuity, then I could leave it at that but neurons alone wouldn't give this result. There are many different neurons too, the most common are pyramidal. Then in higher functioning mammals we find a newer addition to the neuronal set up, collectively called Spindle neurons, they are present in the brains of whales, dolphins, higher end primates, and elephants, every one of those species has reached a point where the brains size, creates a necessity for information to be relayed quicker, these obligatory neuronal adaptations have resulted in all of these species evolving their own uniques spindle neurons. If you look at humanities closest relative, the Bonobo monkey, they have an average of 2159 spindle neuron cells, whilst a Homo Sapien Sapien like me and you average about 82,855. Wow aren't we clever, but before you get carried away with our brilliance, some Cetacean (Toothed whale) species can have three times as many as we have, but spindle neurons alone are not capable of creating intelligence, they simply speed the signals up so a larger brain can relay data efficiently, we have even found primitive spindle neurons in Macaque monkeys, so the speeded up system helps but speed alone cannot become a human being.

The question left me stalled mainly because I didn't have enough of the science to get the overall picture of the question, what is a human being? I was vaguely aware of all of these factors before I researched this, but another frustrating question was where the hell does imagination come from? Seriously it does leave me even now wondering how something that sublime could fire through my neurons and create whole civilisations and concepts, or more playfully interact with information to draw its conclusions, so the correct question became. How the hell does animated stardust get this complex emotionally? If I look at my notepad at the beginning it states.

"A spark plug is not an engine, yet it fires up, starting the engine. Emotions work the same way a spark plug does in the human brain."

You see we have an often emotionless or emotionally suppressed view of our intelligence. I call it the Spock factor, and it is an impossibility. Everything about the human brain is emotional. The amygdala is an emotive control centre, which coordinates the speed that different information is relayed, call it an emotional scorecard that ranks the emotional by urgency, thus extreme fear will be a level ten and operate at a higher speed than a rumbling stomach would. This Cephalic Emotional Matrix works throughout the brain, as it prioritises emotional responses. Memories are recalled via the emotional context, and our actions hinge on them, imagine this scenario, you are in a cafe, and thinking about what to have, the stomach will be relaying its requirements, whilst you will also be having an emotional choice in front of you, your decision hinges between your needs and your desire, hence a cup of coffee and a muffin, versus a water and a pasta dish, is connected to your emotions combined with your nutritional needs. Yet this emotional processing is a vital biological imperative for our survival, it is key for our social and physical needs too, it even effects our perception of time. All of us have felt blue at some point in our lives, whilst hopefully we have all experienced happiness, when happy, time flies, when sad, its slow and yeuch.

The fact that the emotions can effect our own perception of time is amazing in itself, but our emotions do not stop there, even in the hippocampus and the thalamus is an emotional filtering, when you add memory to this mechanism, you begin to see a true gestalt forming, a gestalt is any system that cannot be summed up just by its parts, and believe me the brain much like the universe is a gestalt of complexities, yet at its core it is simple. The brain has many emotional impulses, that give many various combinations from those basic emotions, the variation of our emotions from satisfied to terrified, are combinations of many different emotions. Our emotions are very important tools of biological necessity.

One of my first surprises was how important a survival tool our emotions have become. Take disgust, most of us steer clear of stagnant or vile smells, but equally we will avoid poop, vomit, decomposing flesh and foods, in fact many of the things that disgust us can make us ill, we are hardwired to avoid them, yet that reaction can be altered. Take a poop, walk away from it, that is a rule from the more temperate climates, where flies and virus's can infest our waste bi products, however if you look to colder climates, say the Inuit indians, where the resources are scarce and the temperature more or less solidifies the poop and kills off the virus's and bacteria, then you can use your own poop as that important fuel for the fire, in fact a lot of the Inuit legends are about poop, suddenly the disgust meter has been reversed, by, necessity.

In reality that is a dissection of only one emotion, which has paid off for all of us, many of our emotions are simply biological imperatives and needs, take Steve (Me writing this) as an example. I love my son, he's great, our relationship has evolved because we are wired to need each other, yet as a divorced dad, my son has a step dad who also loves him,. We are hard wired to protect our kids, to look out for those smaller than us is the human norm. However having seen more than a few televised serial killers, that basic emotion can have reversals to it. People who are hard wired to do harm. Here one simple switch in the emotional matrix has flipped giving a different result, this indicates how basic needs and necessary protective tendencies can back fire, a pedophiles emotional wiring is sexually and realistically confused, but as the majority of us will defend the little ones, the pedophile is out of luck, and should be stopped. So our social norms reconfirm our emotional norms, and here is where human emotions have evolved to, we have grown solving complex social problems, using complex social emotions, suddenly within this structure, emotional manipulation can play a large role, which explains everything from the Nazi's, toxic religious interpretations and the advertising industries success.

Combine this emotional reality with spindle neurons, memory, and you get a unique picture forming of any individual you may care to think of. The duality of any person hinges upon the built in duality of the mechanics within any brains structure. For instance my old sheepdog was quite an emotional fella before he popped his clogs, yet putting aside my sadness that he has gone, which is an emotional response from within my mind, I also recognise that his emotional matrix was simpler than my human one. Dogs like humans are social mammals, living in packs, with their pecking orders, and logics, whilst foxes are not particularly social unless they are in season. Dissecting it, you see a mechanism of social necessity leading the brains within the pack to find solutions to some very basic problems, food, shelter, warmth and protection, these biological necessities forced evolutions hand. (Evolution is one of the main topics of the fourth Entangled Monkey paper, so it is brushed over here.) The simpler social structures evolved with different species, so by using basic emotional tools dogs have become another successful species. The wolf pack evolved this social logic to become something no monkey mammal wanted to bump into, but then when hominids organised the wolves themselves were not to happy to meet organised monkeys.

Putting aside the thrust, parry, riposte of our emotional sequencing, structures, and history, humans have evolved the emotional to an extreme that works, to deny the emotional fabric of human intellect and existence is ridiculous, in fact it is absurd, which leads to speed of thought. Yes the brain boffins have measured the speed of thought, I didn't have to hire an FRMI scanner or anything.

If you are reading these words and thinking, then your thoughts are travelling between 20 and 30 meters per second. Don't let your own ego go wow though, because light travels at 299.742.458 metres per second, yet what is impressive is the fact that we can measure both, but it means we in our present are wired to this speed, and speed of thought may become a vital measurement some point in the future of our sciences, one that can have an impact on almost all of our sciences, speed of our thoughts is taken rather for granted in the present that we all inhabit? (I will return to the present later in these lyric structures.) As you read these words, parts of your body are working on the Micron scale of measurement, a Neuron in your brain is only 0.000001 micron in length, now in any micron there are about a thousand atoms, whilst looking to the photon which is a light particle that doesn't seem to have a fixed size and can effectively disappear, or even inhabit any number of points in time simultaneously, but does have a flexibility that enables it to work in a number of ways, leads to a question of theory compatibility. Where our mechanism of thought is in a number of way blinded by its wiring and speeds. So it may even be proof that we do not actually live in the present at all, but lag slightly behind it.

Try the following test if you can, touch your nose and your toe at the same time, now what happens is surprising, because the toe is further from the brain, then you should feel the two impacts differently, but you don't, they are simultaneously translated into one joint sensation by your brain, every moment you experience is a result of your brain translating the reality around you, the billions of interactions that result in what could be labelled a cognitive reality translation, are automatic, yet when I look at time itself our brains actually translate it using the many and various clocks in our nervous system, a nervous system where different areas even measure time differently, so all of us have a slightly different subjective reality to play in, because all of us have a slightly different brain tool in our unique heads.

The delay itself may not be much, 80 milliseconds could be called insignificant, but how can it effect our interpretations of reality? Heres one experiment that has been done on this topic for you. Test subjects were given a button that would with a delay create a flash, after ten or so tries each subject began to see the flash at the same time they pushed the button, their brains had gotten used to the pointless delay, and decided to edit it out of the equation, now having a few exes I would love to edit from my memory I would enjoy exploring this trick further, but we are talking about how we interpret the very fabric of reality and time itself here, however that is not the "Spooky" part of this particular experiment. So in phase two the scientists removed the delay, and the subjects started to see the flash before they pressed the freaking button???? Seriously this is a trues story, but what it seems was happening was that the brain was trying to reconstruct the events and messed up the order, so the consequences were being seen before the cause. All this before I talk of the famous duck v rabbit reality picture, or any other of the classic experiments that come to mind.

So putting aside the reality that we lag behind the present slightly, and looking at pain, the signal for pain travels at a slower rate than our sense of touch does, pain signals travel at about two feet a second, in our responses to danger the speed increases, take a hot pan on the cooker accident, our responses are moving then at 300 metres per second plus. So when I look at the scholarly pursuit of thought, and considering that much I am writing of here has been a lifetime hobby of mine, and here those regular thoughts are found to move at a slower gentile rate of 20-30 metres per second. Comparing that to the speed of an electrical current, results in the maths that shows the human brain to be three million times slower than some generated currents. All of which depends on the nerve fibre being measured, some fibres slowly relay information at a sedate two miles an hour, whilst in myelinated fibres that can go to a ballistic 200 miles per hour, which as well as being slower than electricity is nothing in comparison to the speed of light. So the brain interprets the reality of time, and it does it fast, but we lag behind reality, and at the same time can interpret sequence of cause and effect incorrectly.

To further muddy the waters of reality and understanding, the human body is itself entwined with everything the brain does, but the brain itself has within its architecture many areas that perform multiple tasks, this duality of purpose clouds our overall understanding of the gestalt that a human brain has to be, this gets even murkier when we view the bilateral nature of the brain itself, everything seems to be twinned, mirrored and reflected between left and right hemispheres, frontal and anterior lobes, and performing different or multiple tasks. Just looking at the insula, which are about the size of your thumb tip, they are locked within the Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Gyrus, (ACC) (Which is just brain geography 101.) Heres what they do.

Interoception (sensing state of gut, heart, pain etc.) Body movement. Self-recognition. Vocalization and music. Emotional awareness. Risk, uncertainty and anticipation. Visual and auditory awareness of movement. Time perception. Attention. Perceptual decision-making. Cognitive control and performance monitoring

Apart from the fact that I was nearly reduced to using bullet points, both insulas are up to a lot. In fact this excess of information could have just overloaded your amygdala. ;-)

The smiley face was important, because we are all very emotional creatures, our emotions are more than controlling us, they are us, combining with some pretty solid wiring and our environment to create completely unique people, one off results of our experiences and our circumstances, in short each brain has an emotional fingerprint, that is structured to a biological norm, but clearly as we all can see from our social world, unique.

If you have taken in half of what is scribbled here, then you will now know the answer to the question at the beginning. Yes. Absurdity, is measurable, the speed of a neurons electrical pulse would have mass, but then so would any emotional reaction singing in your mind, all of them are measurable, all of them are a part of the gestalt that is you. Hate, impotence, lust, hunger, jealousy, fear, longing, anger, happiness, curiosity, and above all else, love. Think about that next time you look in a mirror because through you the universe has an emotional construct.

THE ENTANGLED MONKEY PAPERS

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PERCEPTION PRESENT

"I have zero respect for knowledge, that's what computers are for. Imagination is the kicker because imagination can extrapolate, create and solve. Knowledge is just facts and shit. Mostly irrelevant."

Kego O'Grady in The Navigator (Awash In Starlight) By Steve Merrick"

Kego was one of my first literary creations, a genius with a broken mind who was singularly out to save humanity from a very real extinction. As a physicist pantheist he saw himself as nought more than animated stardust, a very real walking and talking bit of the universe, forged as it were in the fires of the big bang and all the fun and games that have followed it. I agree with my creation about that, humanity is at one level a gestalt of the universe itself, yet the gestalt itself goes further than I ever anticipated, and Kego even though I created him, didn't make the connections I have many years after writing him onto the book. Space and time, are very different from space-time, so different that you can almost see another pesky gestalt forming can't you.

Now since the universe hides most of its goodies in plain sight then time itself is the real conundrum. Think about it for a second, we can all experience its proclivities, we can all grasp the pleasures and pains of our temporal lives, but time is an elusive little bugger to pin down with the tools we have, and yes time is relative, time is mobile, and time is a lot more than that ticking clock on your mobile phone or your wrist watch. Gravity can slow or speed time, dependent upon the forces exerted, acceleration can alter it too, time itself would probably bend the same way the universe does, light can, so time could to, so much is known and theorised about time, but for you to understand it we need to get specific and both become more accurate in our linguistic descriptions. Its here that the English language can come into its own, as a description of this phenomenon called time. Think about the words as you read them, each one is connected to the previous the same way it is connected to the consequent words, the word you are reading is the present word, and any sentence or paragraphical word string becomes an emergent process. Now apply that very same logic to time, and we see three separate states, the past, the present and the future. Simple?

One of the things that has had science pseudo boggled is a principle called the Arrow Of Time (AOT.) The fact that we simply go one way in time, equates to a single direction in time, so the why of the AOT is a riddle, especially when you consider the fact that gravity and other forces work perfectly well either way the clock would be spinning. So much so is this the case that a theorisation called Retro Causality is proffered up and its principles are pretty simple to grasp, for every action there is a reaction, time could work in the same way, so that it flows backwards and forwards from the present. When I first encountered the idea, I went off like any good thought rocket should, my ex wife casually tossed me a magazine article knowing full well the chaos that would ensue. Seriously I could glimpse a process where the present is a process that leeches the energies of the past and future to create itself. Yet this still doesn't account for the ever present AOT, like why only forwards, and if Time itself doesn't have reverse gearing then what is it? I could laughably add that a universe without groundhog days would be no fun at all, and getting to the nuts and bolts of time is my idea of fun, so any solution has to allow for direction, forwards, possibly back, but what if time has no direction, what if its dimensionless? (wt)

I am going to give you a birds eye view of one of my early mistakes here, its a mistake that can be forgiven, because it was a stepping stone to the potential solution. In my own head I saw a mechanism, where the wiring of the brain was blindly editing out everything but the present, simply so we could function, so that everything could evolve, we by dint of our organic wiring are blinded. Before you poo poo this idea, can you see in infra red, or hear ultra low frequencies that a dog can receive? Dolphins as an example have in effect an FRMI scanner in their beaks, they can hear you in a different way, in fact their hearing is more like vision, we call it echo location, but its an aquatic acoustic replacement of the eyeball. Although some blind people and many blind dogs can effectively develop their hearing to an impressive degree, all of us are blinded by our wiring already. Ultimately we can see gamma radiation and infra red through our often impressive mechanical machinery, organically we cannot, so the brains wiring and our sensory abilities could be editing out the relentless flow in favour of a now, but as I said this was wrong, incomplete, yet it was a stepping stone of sorts, so it is relevant, its a bit like showing your working in a maths exam. ;-)

You see time itself is as emergent as this sentence is.

Its not some crazy massed collision of particles, its shares similarity to thermo dynamic exchanges (In some ways) whilst having no recognisable link to them in others. Here the important word is emergent, emergent time. The present moment or the now, becomes an emergent property, this process of emergence is pretty elegant, simple, and easy to grasp. Take a particle any particle and it can get entangled with another particle, Quantum entanglement is a physical phenomenon that occurs when pairs or groups of particles are generated, or interact in ways such that the quantum state of each particle cannot be described independently which translates into the fact that the quantum state may be given for the system as a whole. This effectively means that the particles are working like a reflection to each other, spinning in opposite directions, yet between the particles could be the window of opportunity that is emergent time, a bubble of energies, where excited particle create the emergent. The emergent nature of time itself is the hardest part to grasp, not because of its complexities but because of its simplicities. First off it implies that the universe exists in two forms, excited and static, on a very good day I could even propose that we are walking through a completed process. (More about that idea in the future tense of these papers.)

So a whole system of entangled particles appear to create the emergent now, and it will slip through your fingers like sand does, this emergent process is only one part of time, like the potential of past and future combined time emerges, but what of the future and the past? You see understanding the nature of emergence realistically means they would have changed in there state, the future and the past would not be as energised as the emergent is, and in many ways neither exists anymore, as the emergent would be energised and quantum whilst the past and future could even be wavelike, and flowing from that bubble. This has some massive implications for most of our sciences, you see everything is focused on that emergent bubble, to the point where I will say that emergent time is quantum physics and quantum physics is emergent time.

Or.

The brain is an emergent gestalt. The gestalt between emergent time and the brain, is a complete relationship, a combined effort of translation, a point of focus. What our brain does is gives us a perception present, translating as it does an emergent bubble of emergent time, so if you can embrace the scale of it all, then lets take a walk on the wild side and visit the world from the viewpoint of a hypothetical extreme. Consider this a as yet unprovable conceptual brain storming theory. The lag-time between the present and our minds perception of it is about eighty milliseconds, heres the ultimate what if of it. As the bubble emerges is the brain surfing at two points of the emergent time bubble, is it on the emergent horizons measuring two points to create a perception present, a present that would lie at the midline of an emergent now. This perception present theorisation, would imply that emergent time itself is a continuous process that is a 160-200 millisecond window of opportunity, and if any of that is correct, then the entangled system is creating an emergent bubble from the inherent oppositional forces within its particle structure. That sounds pretty complex so lets put it in simpler language.

A Spanish bolo is two heavy rocks or balls tied together, throw them and they are attached, entangled particles are working in a similar way, using quantum and physical forces instead of rope, the particles en-masse create a system that can only be emergent time, to measure this the brain is working a bit like a rifle site, taking two points of reference to measure the emergent reality to give you a mid line measurement of the perception present. In short many of the bilateral functions of the brain fuse together to achieve this, and if I had to hazard a guess, I would say the insulas are surfing oppositionally, one behind one ahead, to give us a view of that emergent now. A perception present.

The emergent nature of everything, is simple to understand but the scale of it is hard to grasp, everything is effected by this emergence, because without it there would in all likelihood be nothing. So lets look at this emergent bubble one more time, imagine the reality, there is past, there is future, then in the middle of this is a highly energised and dimensionless bubble of time, flowing forwards, but this bubble could conceivably go backwards, if it encountered a strong enough force it could even stop locally, yet since the vast majority of the universe is nothing but muted force energies, in the vacuum of space would the bubble function where there is nothing? Would it matter? This is important because of the many theorisations that surround the human mind and its quantum impact on experiments, the observer factor of quantum physics points at this emergent fabric, (Altered results if viewed consciously by an observer.) Whilst at the same time the emergent nature of everything is another proof of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, relativity, thermo dynamics, and even human political sciences.

You could choose to believe it is all a trick of the lights but in reality emergent time, even if it will stop or flow backwards is everything, but where does it come from? Theres the rub of it. Yet since I have nothing to lose lets throw some ideas out, they may or may not have any foundation in any reality but wheres the fun in not playing with it all. You see if emergent time is dimensionless, then we have already encountered that phenomenon in and around black holes, it even has an equational value, wt, so as black holes collapse we now know they emit Hawkings radiation, what if they emit a dimensionless bubble of energised emergent time when they collapse? The shear gravitational mass of a black hole could be pushing the bubble away, which could explain the AOT and many other issues. Or. Lets go back to that BIG BANG that started it all, picture a reaction of dimensionless energised emergent time, flowing excited particles pulling and pushing each other as the blast propels them, that in itself is as close as I have gotten to the why of it, but the how, that is an emergent reality, its in front of all of our noses. As much fun as those theories are, as yet it would be mathematically disharmonious to prove them and there are many other potential explanations for it too.

You see what is hard to accept is that to an entangled upright walking monkey mammal, emergent time is everything............

THE ENTANGLED MONKEY PAPERS

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BIOLOGICAL QUANTUM INTERACTIONS

Have you ever utilised your woman's birth canal, or if you are a woman have you ever had your birth canal utilised. My son is now 17, and I was thrashing about at that moment of conceptual climax, feeling his mother in every pore of my body, and I hope that all children are created from the lust of passion and love, (It does make the bestest kids and adults.) Not having any real sexual hangups why not mention it, because without DNA exchanges we would have no humans about, putting aside our species wide mammalian obsession with shagging, and those happy memories of coitus's past, it is now time to talk DNA. (Women have the best DNA in my humble opinion ;-) ) I mean lets face it the history of the human race is one sexual encounter after another or there would be no human race at all, but what is the brain and the universe up to? Although I will shout out a hallelujah for the bonds of love, lust and procreation that bind all of us, I still have to ask, what is going on here?

Lets get the long and scary word out of the way before we go further though, DNA = Deoxyribonucleic Acid, Its a molecule that forms a molecular structure, which is in this case the famous double helix. Until this year it was thought that DNA only encoded proteins that was until a few months ago when a scientific team from the University of Washington found another code hidden within the 64 pieces of data, effectively the genomes use the coding to create two different languages, to instruct cells how genes are controlled. I could argue for multiple languages doing multiple tasks within DNA but that would be a bit premature, because it could work its an intoxicating concept but at the time of writing this we know of two different controlling codes. This may sound incredible but the fact that any group of atoms when driven by an external energy source. ( The sun for example,) and if surrounded by a heat bath (an atmosphere or ocean,) will casually restructure themselves to dissipate more energy automatically, making the offshoot of that atomic oddity the fact that matter will inexorably acquire the key attributes associated with life itself. Spooky to think isn't it, you dear reader are inexorably driven by an atomic furnace of heat dissipation, from that viewpoint you are a kind of cosmic inevitable.

The other potential mind blower is the liquid crystalline structure of DNA, yeppa its also a liquid crystal, and it is in every cell in your body, a crystal is perfect for emitting heat and other potential signals, it is within you, it is very quantum, very chemical, and ultimately very biological, yet it also makes sense in the transfer of energy, it is even believed by some (including me) that this is the basis for coherent biological organisation, known as quantum coherence, and that is a physical process, one that potentially unites everything alive. You see the reality is that DNA is able to pack even more potential than a lego brick has, and thats before I get onto the subject of genetics and making little people, or geraniums, or little birdy birds etc etc. DNA is a building block that has come from a previous building block, RNA, (Ribonucleic Acid.) (Which is all in the next chapter.) So DNA is a very flexible tool.

So flexible in fact, you share about fifty percent of your own DNA with a Banana. You see its all about those combinations of proteins, making the difference, but as humbling as the banana argument is, it is as nothing when you look at the vast diversity DNA has created, if it slithers, walks, swims, flies, or puts down roots, it is (on this planet at least,) composed of DNA. I could pick on any species to get this across, but I will pick on you instead. First off unless dogs or dolphins can read English I will assume you are human, (I know I should never assume, but its very unlikely you are a super intelligent Orchid isn't it? QED; you are probably human? ;-) ) Now are you male or female, tall, short, do you have a big head or are you in possession of a small head, you probably have a nose, is it a huge one that we can point at the predators or a little stubby thing. (Like mine is.) In between all of the determinate factors that have made you, the genetic markers that create colour have divided us all more than any other factor, and this is totally a negative psychology, racism when you look at it from the point of view of DNA is futile, the percentage difference for colour is minute in comparison to the genes that determine your foot size, DNA which should unite us all as one species, has by dint of our visible differences stripped us of that unity. Its an important one to tackle, and I will endeavour to explain what I think head on, before I do I have no intention of insulting anyone, with the exception of any Nazi party members or racists, lets face it I love insulting that mindset, so if you are not a Nazi read on, but if you are avoid the rest of these papers.

Look around you, one of the biggest things about human success is our diversity, specialised niche organisms are not as successful as the generalists are, but humans can be both, that diversity has people living at altitude in the high Andes mountain ranges and many successful human tribes exploiting everything from the deserts to the snow bound plains, in the Pacific people free dive for their dinner, picking it up from the coastal floor, whilst here in London I run around with a camera and a keyboard to make ends meet. The social complexities of our species are equally as impressive as our ability to explore and thrive in diverse environments. People have explored everywhere they can, and we are even making vast progress in exploring the sea beds of the deepest parts of the oceans. Sciences enlighten us, whilst we are driven by our very basic biological imperatives to thrive wherever possible. We spread out as a species, flowing almost like water to every accessible corner of the Earth, over time we adapted to each of these unique environments, we created geographically isolated cultures. This was about sixty thousand years ago, we evolved tools to our use, the spear thrower, the axe, but we also controlled fire, and at some point wheels, and farming evolved. About a hundred thousand years ago or sixty thousand we evolved our spindle neurons, then slowly spread them throughout our species, the speed of thought gave us an edge, but then so did our generalisation, and our diversity. If we lost a population somehow, the isolation guaranteed the species would thrive.

Like a shining light we had emerged from the trees, and over a pretty short timescale we had dominated our planet, a planet that is now besieged by our climactic mistakes and mass extinctions, but the fact that a relatively harmless upright walking monkey mammal could do this, is evidence of the success, despite our potential climate downfall. All that until today, where I could be mistaken for seeing 21st century Homo Sapiens Sapiens as the sum of their own modernised fears. Yet racism is not built in, I believe it is a learned process, one that you can unlearn too, you just have to want to. If I look at the diverse populations that were present in Genghis Khans kingdoms, mixing and merging, then that ancient historical example, shows humans fighting for resources and gain, not because of race, yet if I look at the European crusades, you see racism being whipped up, nationalistic tendencies pushed beyond any rationality other than greed, the powerful seeing the "Holy Lands" as a potential gold mine and pushing a racial agenda upon the peoples that wasn't there before that manipulation. Even the bloodthirsty Vikings with their many atrocities were composed of diverse tribes, and not averse to taking wives from other cultures, the violent element was over the riches that they were raiding. Whereas the people of Tahiti welcomed the Western sailors with open arms, unaware of the danger because they had never faced it before and had no reason to fear their fellow men and women.

The cultural differences are more obvious, as I pointed out the Inuit's developed a society in a resource starved environment, whilst where resources were plentiful different cultures evolved, these differences are mass psychology though, all of the different expressions of god were initially harmless localised faiths, but even there the religious angle can be played to engender an irrational but manipulable fear of the differences. Which if I look at the tragedies that are unfolding all over our planet, explains much, you see whether its a radical padre, mullah, monk, or a corrupted mind with a very profitable or political agenda, the reality of racism is that it is a manipulated force, and the reality of DNA is that your colour is a tiny factor amongst millions of other combinations. In fact and here I am possibly going to far, racism may be nothing more than a mass social tool to help us fight over resources, sadly history has proven that fact time and time again. At the end of the day we are all human, and instead of being one tribe, we are divided by social profits and manipulations, class, colour, religion, these are in many ways the base tools of religion, economic and political power, luckily I lack an piety, otherwise I couldn't point that out.

With DNA is nothing more than potential, which is the same as anything else in this universe, the potential person you become is not completely DNA's fault, your experiences in your environment also shape you, the stimuli, DNA does create the template and you dear reader fill it. Yet the brain and the person that arrives is not a completely blank sheet, yes the repeated stimulus plays a role here, but the DNA of the mind cannot create a complete person without the experiences throughout life that shape it, we arrive here on Earth with the basics, the direction that they travel in is a Gestalt between the individual and the rest of the tribe. Time plays a role in making any person, but socially we do penalise many harmless people for the way they are wired, not because they are a threat either, but because you have been manipulated to see them as a problem. Look at the problems, these are psychological reflex reactions, every single variation of human both good and bad has a biological imperative attached, put bluntly even a psychopath can come in handy if they are on your side. The exception to the rule are the people who go against our natural instincts to protect our children, here we see a group wired negatively and in an opposite direction to our animal instincts, pedophiles are going against every instinct in the book, and that is itself why we react so strongly against them, its our basic nature, held in a memory crystal of our DNA maybe.

At the beginning of this piece I made it clear of my preference for women, but as I type gay marriage is a massive issue for a minority of humans, (I don't get it as its just human rights but?) and here is the thing that I have noticed in my 49 years on this planet. I am a polarised straight sexuality type. (Also not into bondage etc.) To me men don't smell right, look right or attract, now as I am at that end of the scale, I am comfortable, there are no doubts, it is what it is and futile to worry about it, now many of my friends are comfy too, being at one end of the normal, so super straight or super gay becomes little more than a zone, and many of my mates walk the other side of the street, male or female. There is no conflict other than who raided the refrigerator. The problem of gay marriage is one of human psychology, its not caused by the people at the sexual poles, but by social conformity to a model that could be considered wrong for most people I know, if five percent of people are wired one way or another, the rest are wired in between, denying an attraction or preference in favour of social conformation, and as we all know denying yourself of something you want is never too healthy, and results in greater confusion in the mind, self loathing and disgust of yourself is an appalling thing to do to yourself, isn't it? Then suddenly the reason so many people are opposed to gays getting married, has nothing to do with the couple in question and everything to do with that denial and self loathing of something you want. Putting aside our inner need to conform socially you see a psychological mechanism acting en mass, and one that is not to productive.

Yet the biological advantages of having gay people in your tribe are abundantly clear. Picture a hunter gather camp forty thousand years ago, picture the wild animals and threats, and then know that the children come first, instinct. Having men and women who are not encumbered by breeding means you have more lookouts, hunters, builders, and above all a safer tribal unit. So while hunter gatherer super straight Steve is juggling kids with his women, he knows uncle super gay Simon can baby sit or pull guard duty or or or. Thats the advantage, the biological imperatives tend to be right, and worrying about your biological wiring unless you are a danger is pointless. So most people are sexually wired in between, and with social and religious pressures they try to conform to something that is not right for them, is it bad for a super straight guy to be pointing this out, well that depends if you are in denial or not. Besides as long as humans aren't bonking in the streets and scaring the horses who really cares.

If you look at human societies, with there trends, advertising, and often conflicting needs, you see an explanation of many of our behaviours. Yet in our cities we cannot see the stars properly due to light pollution or smog, in our economic structures we have created a uniquely unfair reality for the majority, and in our fantasies we see our fears, monster movies, aliens, dystopias, in books and films the world ending, the zombie apocalypses as the dead walk, the earth quakes, crikey if the movies are to be believed we should even be fearing water, but I think what scares us most, is the clawing reality that this may be all there is, and in our gods and creations we are filling a void with our fears. Fear is a psychological reaction, and where once our fairy tales were warnings about wolves and crocodiles, we now look to our demises with less to truly fear, look at our inaction on global warming, it is in our failure as a species to accept we are one human race united by DNA, it is in our divisive economic structures that our downfall lies, in the greed and aspirations we all harbour, that is DNA and is it any surprise that even today we see our fellow humans being scapegoated and slaughtered, because at the end of the day, to be human is to be one dangerous mammal. Fear is in our DNA.

You are probably wondering what any of this psychology has to do with DNA?

You see DNA is an inorganic animate, it provides a template that we evolve and then as people, fill, DNA is you, the person on the bus, the actors on the telly, even me, the man writing these words. DNA is ultimately psychology, the human tendencies towards self awareness, and vanity, are a bi product of DNA, each and every one of us is something unique, all of the potential human variables, have been created using this flexible tool, a tool that time helped to evolve, it is capable of signalling every cell in you body, and maybe beyond, stretching into the quantum world of emergent time, working duplicitously with that emergent window, my old dog was DNA, we worked well together, he got fed and walked and I got an extra set of teeth in the house if I was burgled and when upset someone I could hug. DNA is life itself, the tree and bees, the eggs that hatch and become breathless flying machines like the swallows. It is inorganic, a cosmic component of the universe that can walk and talk, and above all else think and imagine. A planet where life has even exploited the extremes, where Van Goch painted luminously, and DNA is one expression of that. Every conceivable human thought, is a product of DNA, a composite of the universe itself, and that shows you just how flexible a building block it is...........

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QUANTUM ENTANGLED EMERGENT EVOLUTION

If you are reading these papers all together, then you may feel like your head is going to explode, and talking of explosions then lets mention one of them. The BIG BANG. First off, I would love to take credit for it, you know Steve and a truckload of ACME TNT went back in time and BADABOOMSKI, but that would be ridiculous, and if there was a way to, I could work it out eventually, but since I haven't done it, yet, we have to stick to the more mundane models of physics. There are too many schools of thought about the BIG BANG, (BB.) Some people favour it being a one off event that created everything, which would indicate that nothing has entropy and as such could be a force on its own-some, while opening the potential possibility that there was something before it. Or, there are those that favour it being one of many huge bangs, as the universe could collapse on itself in a cycle of birth and death. There are many other theories, up to and including an Ancient Greek guy god with a lightning bolt and another god guy who was at loose end, and had nothing to do in one particular week of god time. (You gotta love social and religious psychology?) Whichever school of thought you belong too though, doesn't matter too much in this paper, the BB happened, we are all walking through its aftershocks, and just to be sociable, about 3% of all of the background static interference we experience is a result of its afterglow. Sweet. All that matters is that we as a species will figure out the why of it one day. So how come I am talking about the BB at all?

Well this paper is all about evolution, and I am arguing that as a process it started with the BIG BANG. Look at it this way, it only took Charles Darwin about 13.5-37 billion years to solve the mystery, but how do I reach such a figure? Well Darwin had to evolve, you see planets had to form, using their own weight and gravitic attractions from the dust clouds, whilst at the same time forming complex amino acids and other life essential organics, the little marble we all live on had to get shape, and tectonics and everything, then life had to start the long road to reach Darwin, until one man on a sailing ship called the Beagle, managed to pull a eureka moment out of his head. As you can appreciate it has been a pretty busy 4.34 billion years for planet Earth, and now the local upright walking monkey mammals have smart phones and all that technical jazz. Yet one of the commonest of denominators that evolution had to compete with is emergent time. Oh if only Darwin had had a laptop full of physics and all the information we do now, he may have formed an equally inevitable picture to mine, but then again human thought processes although helped occasionally by the tech, tend to do a good job on their own without its interference.

So after the BB dust clouds were propelled away from the epicentre, gravity even when weak causes attractions, and the stardust that makes everything we know, collided impacting and contracting upon itself, ever wonder why most planets are circular balls, its because of gravity, the dust formed into rocks, pulling and pushing itself into and away from each other, in this dance of dust, the planets mass got larger until it too may have been absorbed by other bigger masses. The suns were formed by the forces of gravity, as their masses were so great they started chain reactions within themselves, adding radiated heat to these forming equations of stardust. Yet at the moment of the BB we know that time began, (Or rebooted, depending upon the school you belong too.) The very particles began to get entangled and the fluidity of time began, the Arrow Of Time radiated away from that blast maybe, as a system wide bubble of excited particles took off, time itself may have been quicker or slower back then, but if anything concious had been about it would have been measurable. Picture a swirling mass of matter flowing away from the centre, picture the dust colliding, the periodic table started then, but had to wait for something to evolve that recognised it. Nothing but time, gravity and ingredients was needed for this to happen. Nothing.

If life is a dance of passion, then back then the universe was a dance of its building blocks, randomly combining the successful to create itself, and if that sounds familiar then its because evolution mirrors the universe it is a part of, as the building blocks of life randomly combine the successful to create everything alive. Effectively you dear reader are walking talking stardust. The worst part is that I can prove it. Heres a quote from Prof Jeremy England.

"You start with a random clump of atoms, and if you shine light on it for long enough, it should not be so surprising that you get a plant,"

Ooooh? Curiouser and curiouser, and if you are curious, fasten your brains seatbelts because here comes the explanation. Firstly you have to get your head around the second law of thermodynamics, also known as the law of increasing entropy, (which is also often used to define the arrow of time,) basically its how hot things cool down, or how gasses dissipate, and if you look at it atomically, the rate of dissipation becomes inevitably a building block of all living things. Entropy becomes a measure of this cosmic tendency, quantifying the dispersal of particles in any system and how diffuse those particles are throughout space. This then increases as a simple matter of probability maths when we are viewing the evolution of life, because there are simply put, many more ways for energy to be spread out than there are for it to be concentrated.

These everyday event experiments have been carried out by all of us in our kitchens, now some of you may insist on calling it cooking or brewing, but these culinary exploits all show that a system of particles, in this particular recipe, confined in a viscous fluid and then having an oscillating force applied to them, (Posh talk for stirring,) and what we al know happens over time is that those particles will create more bonds, triggered by the forces acting upon them. So as particles in any system move about and interact then they will through sheer chance, have a tendency to adopt the configurations in which the energy is spread out, until eventually, the overall system will arrive at a state of maximum entropy, which is called a thermodynamic equilibrium, and the energy within is uniformly distributed. Believe it or not, that is what happens in every cup of coffee on the planet, and as a lover of the stuff I have gotta smile at the physics of it. (Oscillating forces aside.)

Now lets increase the scale beyond the coffee cup, and instead of caffeine lets look at the universe as she formed. (I know the universe is sexless but all monkey mammals come from a deal between men and women and the women tend to do the heavier lifting, so I will call the universe a her.) Picture all the ingredients spinning and flowing about, think of the tugs of war that occur as the larger gravities attracted all that was smaller, add time to the equation and the word random, every possible combination of particles, atoms and molecules was played with, and slowly the planets formed, heat and other energies were flowing between them all, in a dance of actions and reactions the formations would have come and gone, until something resembling order began to take shape, randomly, with little more than gravity, thermodynamics and Newtons favourite third law of motion, (action and reaction.) The universe would have formed and taken shape. Take our solar system, as the planets formed, then their relative masses in relation to the mass of the sun, using little more than gravity, began to get into their now accepted orbits, and randomly one of those planets, with all of its various ingredients rolled between its other bodies, to land in a pretty good position to evolve life.

Yes the Earth's orbit and distance from our sun, is in the position we now identify as a Goldilocks zone, an area where a planet can provide the right temperatures and ingredients to become a nursery for the animated stardust that we call life. Randomly. Here on Earth a couple of billion years were wiled away in volcanic instability and asteroid strikes, the moon was captured (possibly after an impact or three.) The system began to stabilise, the temperatures changed, and in this early mass of it all, Procaryote and eucaryote formations began, (Procaryotes are the complex molecules that we know as viruses and bacteria(Lacking membranes and cell nuclei). Eucaryotes are everything else. (Single cells and upwards) Recently we found a mixture species of both families, this common ancestors ancestor may have been the first animated building blocks of life on Earth, yet Procaryotes are not life as we scientifically accept it, in fact the organic and animated mineral combinations share that trait with DNA. If I look at these guys I know they are not living things per se, they are in the simplest terms animated minerals, think of the planet back then, extremes of temperature, rocks melting in lava flows, and in amongst that mineralogical maelstrom the earliest building blocks of life formed, now think of your spoon and coffee cup, think of an earthquake or impact doing the same thing, forces getting applied quite randomly, and then on one rock, the earliest blocks formed, blocks that are still with us today, even allowing for all of evolutions proclivities they still exist alongside us today. Still dissipating the heat and energies, and replicating and retailing all over the planet.

Adding water to the combination brings an almost inevitable twist to the whole thing, in clusters these animated minerals would have grouped together, and in conforming to thermodynamics would have again played its hand, randomly they would have reached a point of thermodynamic equilibrium, yet it wouldn't have halted there, in a boisterous environment different shapes and clusters would have formed, as the circumstantial geography would change, creating different scenarios that resulted in more random alterations, and over time they formed the earliest identifiable organisms, a single cell, formed as it were by little more than extremes of temperature and the potential to dissipate it. Then from one cell came two, then four and the rest is simple maths, despite the hectic realities of it all. As I have said the environment was extreme, and we have today found life in the most toxic of places, extremophile organism can and do live at the extremes of the planets temperature ranges. Personally I wouldn't be surprised to find them in the ever volatile core of our planet, but that is only because I was shocked by where they have shown up and may be giving life more credit than its due because of my own shock. As an illustration of how jump sturdy these early life forms are, an amoeba virus was recently found in the melting Siberian permafrost, it had been frozen about sixty thousand years ago, back then we were hunter gathering and doing human stuff, but what is amazing is the fact that once it was defrosted, the amoeba virus went back to work seeking an amoeba. I don't know if the scientists fed it or not, but it shows you how tough many of these organisms are. Even the ISS (International Space Station) has found these fellas clinging to its surfaces, so draw your own conclusions from that fact, but also acknowledge that somewhere in that early environment, life took its first faltering footsteps towards today.

Now everyone has probably heard of Schroedinger's cat, but in his monograph of 1944, "What is life?" Erwin Schroedinger argued that all living things must as an open system keep entropy levels low, by dividing its energy unevenly amongst its atoms, and at the same time greatly increase the levels of entropy in its surrounding. It may make sense to you, (or you may be thinking it sounds daft) but lets take plants as an example, (Schroedinger example not mine.) A geranium absorbs extremely energetic sunlight, it uses it to build sugars and also ejects infrared light, a much less concentrated form of energy, while the plant prevents itself from decaying by maintaining an orderly internal structure. This also increases the overall entropy of the entire system during photosynthesis dissipating the sunlight. All it actually adds up to is an exchange of energy, taking one form to create a lesser form.

Again the physics is mimicked by life, self replication is normal in biological terms we say reproduction, but in these early building blocks of life we see pure self replication, in single cellular organisms we see it too, as the cell will divide, but lets face it a great way of dissipating more energy is to make copies of yourself. All of the sciences combine here, but the process of thermodynamics creates quite randomly the ingredients that lead to more complex organisms. In fact its all rather quantum. (Finally one of my favourite words arrives here.) Living things are actually one of the more quantum entangled environments, as the systems themselves seem to embrace a quantum superposition, in fact it looks as if quantum entangled biological systems accelerated the evolution of photosynthetic life forms, because of the addition of absorbed light energy, leading to a faster self replication within these minimal living cells. All living things are self assembled and self replicating, mobile supramolecular systems where quantum entanglement can be continuously generated and destroyed, by non-equilibrium effects where no static entanglement can exist. You see the entanglement could involve a biomolecule inside one living organism, or even between it and others. If that sounds confusing enough, it gets worse when I look at evolution itself, because what is emerging time, its a dance of entangled particles across the entire system, so any organism that evolves would have to evolve within that window of opportunity, the framework of evolution and emerging time is as inextricably intertwined as any child's DNA combination is to its parents.

Picture the earliest building block of life, these are already quantum inevitabilities, although not living they are in an animated way quantum events with their own quantum signatures, mobility and time go hand in hand, and although they may have been oblivious to time because of a lack of concious awareness, these building blocks conform to the framework of emergent time. DNA itself is another complex molecule, but does it have a quantum signature? The jury is still out on that one but I would be shocked out of my boots if it didn't, because DNA conforms to quantum coherence, we also know that with quantum vibrations being measured in the micro tubules of the neurons of all of our brains, whilst entangled supramolecules that can determine our sense of smell etc etc, that the crystal liquid structure of DNA itself must be of a quantum nature. Yet although that is as yet unprovable, what of evolution, to present evolution without the physics is to produce Hamlet without the Prince himself in it. (If only Schroedinger had met Shakespeare? It would give new meaning to the "To be or not to be?" lines) To present physics to evolution without looking at this window of opportunity of emergent time is ridiculous.

Think of time itself, think of that brief window, that we call the present, now if there is better way of measuring it than the organic brain, we haven't imagined it, and heres where it all gets a bit weird from a traditional point of view. Think of the early building blocks of life, watch as simple physics and chemistry slowly mobilise as the circumstances change, thing begin to get more complex, shapes come and go, then cells form, think briefly about the earliest plants, complex beyond everything else existing back then, but dissipating and exploiting the energy of light itself, heat and water, until the earliest mobile animals form, using shapes like the through gut, which is naturally occurring in atoms. Then brains come along, simple machines that coordinate the biomechanics of the animals, watch as the first eyes form simply, registering dark and light, then needing to see more, the complexities naturally and randomly increase, and all the while this is happening there is emergent time.

Entangled organisms in an entangled environment, chemistry, animated stardust, physics. So the brains evolved further and further, all the while navigating times emergent stream because they are evolved from and in part to be a part of that stream. Until one day many millions of years ago, an entangled monkey glanced around and maybe left the safety of the trees. (We can call him Steve.) You see its all very slow as things evolve, we are all evolving but really can any of us outside of the asylums claim to be aware of it, little tweaks here and there along the way, that are then replicated slowly as we breed, throughout the rest of our bio system. Slowly but randomly with evolution becoming a physics experiment, yet that little monkey that left the trees was entangled, of time and with it, an emerging being like all living things are, his mind measured the distances between trees, it searched for safety and warmth, and as it flowed with time itself the mind evolved. This process continued until and descendent of that Monkey sits at keyboard, this Steve knows that the journey of evolution, is a journey of entanglement, that the brain is emergent time the same way that emergent time is everything. He knows that the quantum interference that any observer has on any quantum experiment, proves how quantum his mind is, and the common denominator for this modern entangled monkey is that the mind evolved to exploit that simple little window of emergent time, because it was the only window available to all of us, and as we all are emergent beings, we are by that very definition, an evolution of the universe and the animated stardust of emergent time itself.

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THE ENTANGLED BRAIN

Thinking and thought, are universally mystifying, thats why a lot of money is being spent on mapping the brain, brain mapping as the term implies is just that, yet the power behind the brain has eluded scientific explorations quite stubbornly, the funding agencies could be getting nervous, but science actually has a history of failure correction, one theory that is proven wrong could be a part of the overall solution. This stepping stone approach works very well, without error we wouldn't be where we are, and maybe every word I am writing in these papers could also be proven wronger than a wrong thing could be, but they are equally valid as a part of the potential solutions. Babies learn to walk by falling over (a lot) and science is doing the same thing in our efforts to fully comprehend everything about us and our universe. However the brain is eluding all modelling and explanations at certain levels, its not the brains fault, it is as if something we have yet to imagine could be the solution, and before you laugh, remember imagination is the one thing that I have as yet failed to pin down. Ideas have come and gone, but the latest fad is to describe the brain as a computer, and personally it sounds a bit like a scientific "I Surrender" to me.

So we are using computers to prove the brain is a computer and so far that is not working very well. All over the world different projects are furiously looking at this idea, and if I look at the Human Brain Project in Europe, it is vital to our understanding that we map everything we can, but the compasses may be wrong in this particular area of science. Take a brain any brain, and the complexities amount to a pure gestalt of potentials. One example is the modelling done of the simple 302 neuron brain of the C Elegans. Now this little biological worm is a particularly active critter, nimble and a good swimmer it is busy generally doing worm related stuff, so far so good. Now a world wide consortium of different scientists have created accurate computer models of C Elegans 302 neuron brain, and what has happened is this, the simulation of the worm just lies there doing nothing, the worm related activity is not present, the fact that something is missing is pretty obvious to all of us, but a mobile critter is not present in the simulation. Now if the computerised analogy of the human brain is correct, I would have expected to see examples of evolution within the computerised fabric of our internet, in fact I wrote one short story called the Pixelised Child about it, the reality is that the computers are not evolving beyond what human designers have created and imagined for them, the brain although computer ish, is not a computer per se. As a computer can't so far break the barrier between function and conciousness, then something else is up. Or. If it isn't a computer, then what is it?

Another element in the overall studies of the brain is the concept of a holograph, now many in neuroscience are in favour of this idea, holograms can encode distributed information as a kind of multi scaler interference of coherent vibrations, there is even evidence from the microtubule structures within brain neurons as a potential source for this, creating a laser like coherence for the brains hierarchies. The brain itself is beginning to look like some kind of orchestra, (or a multi-scaler vibrational resonance system. ;-) ) The brains information patterns repeat over spatio-temporal scales in fractal-like nested hierarchies of neuronal networks, complete with resonance and interference beats. Don't blame me as I didn't design it, besides if you feel like shooting the messenger thats probably the psychology of your own DNA raising its head. Think google maps, as you zoom in on your rooftop, what the brain does is not that different, because grid cells (Hexagonal representations of spatial location) are arrayed in the layers of the entorhinal cortex and work in the same way, so the brain may be using emotional memory triggers to simply zoom in and out of the memories you have.

01 10 00 11 That gibberish is called a binary code, all of the computers you may have used or your mobile phones run on this coding arrangement, I have even met people who can read it, which is handy because people write it too. Now look at the complexities of the programming world around you, we have reached a point in photography where no digitised picture would work without the binary code, the computer that I am writing these words on is doing the same thing. If you are taking money from the hole in the wall you will find a binary coding attached to that and every other transaction that takes place. Think about all the youtube kitten videos you may have watched, none of them would be available without the application of zero and one. Now if a simple code of two numerics can get this crazy, what do you think a 64 bit code like DNA is capable of. Think about that liquid crystal, the latticed structure is quite elegant, but the coding of it can be re-applied, DNA can message itself (At pretty cosmic speeds too.) and as a self replicating molecule that has evolved through the lens of emergent time, it has also developed biological systems to level even crazier than the binary code can.

You see a part of the problem is that the brain although it controls the body, is also a part of the body, the same way a pilot flies a plane, no pilot no flight, the plane will just sit there, and until we develop pilotless planes completely that will be the case, but those pilotless planes will crash if the computer that pilots them breaks, so even if we replace the pilot inevitably with a glorified ipad, no brain no go, alone the drone will just shut down and sit, without impetus to move, that is by the by of it machine logic, the human element or organic reality is mobile, the machine is not. Which is why I think the C Elegans worm 302 neuron brain simulator is failing, there is no need or stimulus for it to move, so like a pilotless plane it sits. The body and the brain are in many ways a gestalt of the whole, one without the other doesn't work beyond a fifties sci fi B movie. To look at the brain singularly, without the body is essential, but the whole picture is the body that the brain is a part of, the environment it interacts in too, you see any machine although it will move through time, is not a part of time, the emergent nature of conciousness is not hard to imagine, its why a robotic monkey will repeat, banging its symbols together until the power runs out, whereas an entangled monkey is a part of that emergent stream of emergent time, and to navigate that it has to have the skills of conciousness and evolve more and more awareness. Necessity is a harsh mistress, and the computerised simulation won't work because it lacks any necessity to. Some would call it a divine spark, but it is much more than that, the engines of infinity run on emergent times fuel, and the organic brain is a part of that because it has evolved with only that window of opportunity to exploit. If the brain and body contain entangled particles, than that process of entanglement is lacking in the simulation, so if you want to get a simulated C Elegans to move, you will have to figure out how to simulate that particle entanglement, and if you do and the worm starts moving, then you have proven one point I am making here.

Within the brains Microtubules, ( Microtubules are cylindrical lattice polymers of the protein "Tubulin" that is also a major component of the structural cytoskeleton inside cells, and the brains most common protein, the microtubules are present in brain neurons.) we have found that they have quantum resonances that are measurable in gigahertz, megahertz and kilohertz frequency ranges. That discovery was made by the National Institute Of Material Science in Tsukuba Japan. So we find the quantum "Vibrations" present in the brain itself, I won't drag you down with the many potentials this raises, but the point is that the brain is a quantum organ. Take the example of the pyramidal neurons in what is called cortical layer 5, the dendritic-somatic microtubules are uniquely layered and arrayed in a mixed polarity network, this mixture is optimal for information processing, resonance and interference, but very unsuitable for structural support within the brain itself, I would argue the mixture of polarities mimics entanglement but the nature of the entangled mechanism is apparent. This quantum evolution within the brains hierarchies is not hard to imagine, in fact the why is the easiest part of the problem solving, if emergent time is what the brain has evolved to live in, then is it any surprise that emergent quantum interventions are seen in the brain?

Lets reverse the question of the brain now, asking if the brain is a quantum tool is not as enlightening, as asking, how could the brain be anything but a quantum tool? Put you reader down and think about it for a moment. Please. Pretty please. I bet you are still reading aren't you?

Cheat.

Since the processes of evolution are as interconnected to emergent time as I am to my cameras, how could an emergent tool not evolve? If I look at the mobility within minerals or molecules, or the mobile and quantum world of particles, how could anything that is mobile not become an expression of that quantum reality of emergent time? If life by its very nature rearranges energy, why would the brain be any different? We already understand the quantum interactions present in any electrical current, and the brains neuronal structures ferry electric signals to and fro, so how could that not have a quantum emergent element to it, it sounds silly but when I reverse the question and look at it, I could not even begin to see what the mechanism would be, that is until I met the C Elegans simulation, it sits doing nothing, that is what life would possibly be without the quantum realities of emergent time to play with. What seems like a mistake has had an impact elsewhere.

So that leads to the duality of use that the brain makes of its many and varied components, the bilateral nature of it also means they may like entangled particles, work oppositionally to create a gestalt of awareness. You see what if the brain is a quantum, holographic, and computerised organic process, that is in conjunction with its environments a little bit of everything? What if much of the science is a small part of the puzzle but that puzzle uses all of the various pieces differently, or even together. Picture a cryptographic code within a code that is coded by a random primer. Picture the liquid crystal of DNA processing it in every cell, picture the brains multiple functioning's combined. The body as a whole, the entirety of the organism, and the environment combined. I thought one time that the brain was the purest of gestalts, a system that cannot be quantified by the sum of its parts, yet now the body and the brain become one, a gestalt, but where does that gestalt end? Picture that entangled monkey common ancestor of all of us, as it took its first faltering steps on two legs, what was in its mind, or was he or she simply emergent. Of time and part of it?

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THE EMERGENT NOW

"Zoom Zoom." Said Mr Photon oblivious to the mere mortal problems of math.

Think of the excited and zany world of particles, these petite speed freaks make nonsense look like a politicians version of sanity. First off if you are a particle its all mobile, radiations and doppelgängers, every point in space-time available, as you zing about said space-time doing particle stuff along the way, all this before I play my hunch that emergent time is actually dimensionless time, and particles randomly occupy this space, I mean really asking a photon to navigate will get you nowhere, thats if a dimensionless model of emergent time adds up, because there would be nothing to navigate, hence the often precocious question of what is the fabric of reality itself crops up. Looking again to the photon which is a light particle that doesn't seem to have a fixed size and can effectively disappear, or even inhabit any number of points in time simultaneously, but does have a flexibility that enables it to work in a number of ways. Well that gives you a pretty good glimpse of the emergent reality they inhabit and touches the potentially dimensionless nature of it all. I know what I am about to write is obvious but it has to be written here. The universe is MASSIVE. Its like really really BIG. A photon isn't, or is it? As we encounter them, no, they are tiny weeny little speedy Gonzales, not huge at all, however the scale of this emergent phenomena is enormous.

Picture the universe, if you have difficulty imagining something that enormous, then scale it down in your mind and picture the Solar system. Wrap a bubble around it all, now in that bubble excited particles flow in their often entangled dance, at different times to each other, creating the tug of war that is emergent dimensionless time. Imagine one group of entangled particles, where one of them may be caught in the gravity traps we call black holes. That ensnared static particle could increase the excitations of the others in its group. Separated by space, they could be at the other side of the universe it wouldn't matter, the bolo like dance would rage in its needs to flow, that is only one possibility of how time happens, just one of many, and they could all be right, and work together, the point is the scale of this bubble is everything, if particle entanglement is one of the mechanisms of emergent time, then it would have to be in everything. The bubble would be everything. The quantum emergent world would be in every cell in your body and all that is around you.

Emergent time is everything to an upright walking monkey mammal.

Emergent time is possibly everything. Full stop.

I will scale this down even further, so it can be understood, I will pick on the sleepy English village of Midwich, the setting for John Wyndham's epic science fiction book the Midwich Cuckoo's. Now lets make Midwich the entire universe, everything is this tiny weeny sleepy village. Somehow you are now a 9 year old on a bicycle delivering the mornings newspaper, the Midwich Gazette. There is only the now in Midwich, the past doesn't exist except in your memory, and the future doesn't exist except as a potential, because your 9 year old brain has evolved to navigate a mobile environment of emergent dimensionless time. Lets add to this, you are in a bad mood because you dropped your chocolate cake in the mud, and that emotion will linger as all emotions do. Its raining. Your plan is to deliver the 22 copies on your route, half way through it all you get a flat tyre. Your perception of time slows down as your mood gets darker. Now your brain is surfing the localised Midwich event horizon of emerging time, its using two points of the horizon of this event to give you a perception present, because of an entangled system wide bubble of a dimensionless nature. So you get to school ten minutes late, then spend the rest of the day dodging those weird telepathic albino alien kids that John Wyndham dreamed up from his imagination. Unaware of that bubble of emerging time that is one of the basic mechanisms of the universe itself. Yet your future plan of getting another chocolate cake has been blown out the window, leaving you realising that the future is nothing but the potential of the past, yet also knowing that your ability to plot any future could be problematic because all you wanted was a chocolate cake in the first place, and you can't get one because the cake shop is shut before the school day is over. Now apart from proving that capitalism is heartless, I hope this sorry tale makes sense of what I am saying here. Now is everything. My genius is of a nature that it is an insult to other geniuses.

Apart from being beloved by cheap sci fi movies, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle comes to mind here, its a pretty straightforward observation of quantum mechanics, Basically put, it is the reality that we cannot measure the position or momentum of a particle accurately, the more accurately we measure one of those values the less accurately we know the other value. Effectively you can hear the tick or the tock of the clock but not both. (I know we can all hear both but imagine you can't and you have grasped the basics of the uncertainty principle.) Although this implies there is a certain fuzziness in nature, and also that there may be a limit to what we can learn about the universe, the thing is that it makes sense in a model of dimensionless emergent time, in fact it was one of the principles that started me on this beaten pathway of quantum physical realities. So what I am arguing here is for an emergent window of opportunity, that is a dimensionless event, a rolling and continuous event that happens faster than a blink of the eyes can.

Its not hard to see it, but the scale of it is frightening, the other element of this is that we as a species dislike being pigeon holed, and this is one big hole that our evolved minds cannot dig us from. It is effectively everything. If the brain and the person can be likened to parts of an orchestra, then the harmonies are quantum in nature, emergent rhythms of an emergent universe. For instance there are those who seem to think the universe destroys and reconstructs itself quantumly for the human mind, this sounds like little more than misplaced vanity to me, less to do with the scientific reality of masses and energy exchanges, yet the past is gone, and the future is its potential reflection, we are a part of all of this, but the emergent dimensionless window is for all human effects and purposes, everything.............

THE ENTANGLED MONKEY PAPERS

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THE ENTANGLED MONKEY

All life is a dance of passion, the basic building blocks of everything were present in the growing universe after the big bang, this stardust is the heart of all that we know. Stardust. Little more than the forces of physics acted upon it, it flowed, it collected, it grew mass, planets, suns, formations of gas giants, dust clouds, a dance of action and reaction ploughed onwards. Moons, liquid frozen planets, gaseous clouds, compounds, all of it like you were formed by stardust from the big bang. Protein and amino acid chains formed up, collecting in ribbon like structures that danced randomly and combined in an extreme of experimental randomness. Exponentially the actions and reactions occurred, happening almost simultaneously as the number of interactions multiplied, on a scale of the googolplex squared. Gravity the big daddy of all forces, played its role with the glee of any thespian, crushing stardust further, as those planets and asteroids gravitated to and from one and other. Time. Emergent time was there, without anyone to measure it it doesn't matter, but as this chaos grew it reached a crescendo, and slowly the order of orbital decay got less and less, until in one small solar system, the planets arranged themselves, using nothing but their masses and gravities to reach the arrangement. This was the stage for stardust, but it had not finished, and possibly never will.

Stardust made the very planet we walk upon, the skies back then were not blue. The atmosphere was very different, it would have been toxic to us. Yet over time the systems on this volatile planet settled down, and physics and stardust collided again. Time passes almost casually a billion years or two are thrown aside and wiled away as the rock settles, rock that was once stardust. The atomic level of physics create the procaryote minimal that almost mimics life. Almost. The procaryotes dance and change there shapes randomly, as the temperatures and environments change time and time again. Until a single one grows a skin, a membrane, it replicates, while absorbing the heat from the light from a distant sun that is also composed of stardust, and there is its evolutionary path. The plants form, getting more and more complex in the dance of light and energy exchanges, as the sugars they create as a bi-product fuel more complexity, yet the scale of it, even here at the dawn of all that lives on our planet the Earth, is breathtaking, as the plants take hold, the atmosphere is changed by their excretion of oxygen. At some point the sky above them turns blue, the atmosphere forms, and in its eternal conflict with the vacuum of space, a conflict that causes friction to burn the oxygen, it burns blue above those plants, a furnace of stardust, a struggle of life, that is our sky. A blazing glorious inferno of oxygen. Stardust did that randomly. Any beauty in it is a simple bi-product of our conciousness.

The plants began to alter, the mosses became more complex, and finally began to populate the rivers and oceans. Plants evolved being the only true living things around for a very long time, yet stardust was animate, that much is clear, gravity and time collided to create this potential, until. A single cell left the plant, probably in the water, it was pulled to and fro by the tidal realities, forming colonies, then in the depths of the water where little light would reach it, it changed, replicated until it combined itself for different tasks, until a small blind brainless organism became mobile, undulating about it had gotten mobile. This dance of evolution continued onwards, using every window of opportunity that it could. One window was emergent time. Particles entangled in the organisms, possibly speeding them up, yet back then the trigger was light, that leads to eyes, eyes see the plants with all of their sugars, the eyes have an edge and they feed on the others around them, replicating the simple structures they were. Action and reaction combine with time to create this world. Things slowly but inexorably get more and more complex.

Barb like objects puncture skins, causing skins to thicken, teeth form to exploit the through gut of these primitive organisms, organisms escalated by physics and stardust, plants grow thorns and defences, to protect the precious sugars that enable them to replicate, jelly fish develop, brainless, drifting and random predators, yet others develop senses for this environment, senses that need to be coordinated, brains simpler the the 302 neuron of C Elegans form, registering light, touch, and above all food sources. The defences get better in this dance of evolution, fish, primitive at first begin to develop, the brains get more complex with the stimulus, at some point fear or what we would translate as fear becomes a mechanism to coordinate the information. It gets exponentially faster and faster, until one small fish becomes able to exploit the food on the land, it may have only had a brief time from the water, but it was a bounty for that species. The oceans become a hive of all conceivable shapes and sizes of life, emotions begin to coordinate the information, the brains may even have begun to split from concious and autonomic processes back then, but then one with legs works out how to leave the water for longer, dealing with fresh complexities it slowly changes, and from there the land was finally reached by animals. Animated stardust.

The plants on the land develop their defences, more thorns, but also trees begin. Flashing forwards the dinosaurs come and as they go, the first of the mammals arrives, our common ancestor hid in those forests, its neural emotions were simple expressions of need, but in that dance of tooth and claw those emotions got more and more complex. Throughout all of this the organisms share that one window of opportunity of emergent time. Survival hinged on it, and the mammals were no different, the mammoths evolved larger brains, whilst the tigers teeth got longer in the ice ages, until in Africa, a small monkey mammal stood upright, bright with emergent time, it viewed its world. Eyes watched, they formed family groups, alpha males and all that jazz, and in that nest of social survival things got more complex, tools began to be used, and this generalist mammal thrived somehow. Sizes increased, different species came and went. The Neanderthals and another grouping called Denisovian's spread through the world, yet in Africa the first anatomically modern humans formed, smaller but probably smarter than the other species of hominids out there, they flowed like water to evolve and exploit every part of the planet they possibly could. Yet even though they are extinct the Neanderthal and Denisovian genes are still within our species, absorbed as they have been. Yet the emotional triggers of humans got more complex.

Then about the same time the neanderthals started their path to extinction, we know that humans had possibly developed spindle neurons, Homo Sapiens, became Homo Sapiens Sapiens, this was approximately 60 thousand years ago properly modern humans arrived on the scene. Their brains though smaller got more efficient, the emotional triggers became more complex, the wiring of the brains architecture was fitter, until we arrive at today. All that is your lineage, that is your strength, you are a part of the cosmic furnaces of our universe, a universe that has randomly created thought and emotions through you, all of us share this. As we are emergent beings of this now, we have evolved in a universe of action and reaction, pretty much everything about us confirms this. You are by default in possession of one of the most efficient brains ever to evolve here, you are animated stardust, stardust that plays in the reality of emergent time. Until today when our planets ecologies lie effectively in ruins at our feet, our climate is changed and the level of species extinctions is so far from the biological norm that we may have to rename our age.

Contrary to what the deluded amongst us may believe, there is and has only ever been one species of modern human, all of us are one species, we should be united but are not. We have evolved a system of economics, its not real, its a massed psychology, we place value in it, and money is seemingly our downfall, something that doesn't exist beyond our collective minds is fuelling global warming and poverties economic miseries, why? Is it gravity? Is it Emergent time? Is it actually real? Or is it just another way to exchange energies? You see we can evolve and alter our ways, but even if we go extinct life will have another bash at life, long after we have gone, but we don't have to leave yet, we can change the way we work and in doing so save ourselves and all life on Earth. Thats if we start saying we instead of them, and finally become one tribe, and even though it would be in an argument prone way, we should all embrace the fact that we are all one human species, and take action according to that reality.

So heres the rub of these papers.

As a child I was running for no real reason through an Australian forrest, light bouncing energetically around me, and animals of all shapes and sizes were walking, flying and even bouncing about. I remember it very clearly, I can almost touch one of the Cicadas chirruping out their insect tunes when I think of that moment, but I remember the image I saw in my minds eye, a system where all living things were unified, doing different stuff, and I was a part of that system. I remember the wow of that moment, a moment when one little upright walking monkey mammal saw everything on Earth as one and the same. So being poor I went on my way, studying as a hobby, yet somehow that childish belief survived, and yes I was probably a weird child but the conclusion of that thought is a vital one. You see from that day on I belonged here, I was a part of everything around me, my science has arrived late for me because of the seas of economics, but the real conclusions are simpler than anything I can think of. We are emergent beings that are a part of time itself in more than a few real ways, we are all a part of a greater system that is life on Earth, you reading this are a part of everything around us all, and if I, Steve Merrick see myself as an entangled monkey, what does that make you. Even if you disagree with me, and even if every word I have written here is one day proven wrong, you should smile, because after all is said and done, you belong here in this now on this planet, its your home. Your another entangled monkey, that is one of many entangled organisms on our planet.

"Stardust forever."

Steve Merrick

14-07-2015

BEYOND THE ENTANGLED MONKEY PAPERS.

Theres something about simplifying the language of science, the process of making it comprehensible to most ears, that is an awakening of sorts, not only because some crazies actually read it, but because the act of simplifying it all, results in a greater understanding of it all. My personal obsession with emergent time is not one shared by everybody, but where it leads is to a wonderland of sorts, a cosmic playground for all of us monkey mammals to play in. Consider these additional notes an effort to clean up the mess of the theories and extrapolations I have begun to play with and create, perhaps they are just clarifications of the un-clarifiable. I could have been clever and edited the newer into one structure, but do feel its more honest to place these as following the overall structure. Or it may just be that I am never destined to write something perfect, whatever perfect may be. ;-) More for funs sake it all ends with a modern fairytale about the developing mind and how negatives and positives can effect the adult. If fairy tales are not your thing just avoid the end article.

Steve Merrick

28th 7th 2015

PAPER ONE

MEMORY CURVES.

One of the anomalies of emergent time is the fact that there is a past and there is a future. I know you get that, you may even think its silly to point it out at all, but think about it this way, is there? If as I am beginning to believe the Universe is nothing more than an emergent now, built on gravity and momentum, and measurable and quantifiable by thermodynamic exchanges, how does that effect our perception of time itself. The answer is memory. We as a species have an uncanny ability to learn and dream up new tricks, is it simply because of memory? No! The unique combos in every brain unleash various potentials, but because we can remember it, we see the past. Think of an event in your life, (I advise you to choose something pleasant, as a Post Traumatic trip wouldn't be productive here.) Concentrate on it. For me many years ago at an environmental protest in Twyford Down, I saw an amazing transparent dragon fly, it saw me too, hovering curious and investigative in front of my face for more than a few seconds, now I know that particular dragonfly is long gone, they don't live very long, but I can from memory picture its pulsing veins and heart, its eyes, and the blurring of its wings, then you can see what memory does. It doesn't matter what you choose but focus on that memory now. You may be feeling happy or sad or like me just thinking wow about the coolness of dragon flies, the point is that the event you have in your head is gone, finito, done and dusted, you cannot get that moment back.

Memory is one of our greatest assets, we can store almost anything in our head boxes, and alone memory would be a useless lump but in conjunction with the emotional gestalt of the human brain, it becomes a massive and advantageous tool, but it isn't perfect, the emotional can effect the way our memories are translated, not all of them are happy ones, and think of a paranoid schizophrenics interpretation of memory, it would be a personal hell, not because the reactions to the condition are insane, they aren't but the stimulus that creates them is a graphic malfunction of memory, they don't exist, but to the person afflicted by this it is very real, suddenly people smiling on a sunny day make for problems of translation and if your own mind has turned against you, then what can you think or conclude about your fellow mammals? So memory like pretty much everything else is interpretive, try summoning a happy memory when you are not happy, or better yet think of an ex lover, picture a happy moment with them, and if it ended badly, the memory will become bitter, even though you were probably happier than your wildest dreams at the time, you will perceive it through your future perceptions. So your memory links to the overall emotional picture, that effects your ability to remember that the rat that dumped you was someone that at one point made you very happy. Simple.

So with the passing of time, we see a stumbling block in our ability to understand it, we know the past is gone, but we cannot see the emergent nature of it all because of that inner momentum that our own memory systems have. This is an important point to make, you see the past simply existed, as it was an emergent now, but once it has passed it has gone, it in a very real and physical way, it no longer exists beyond our memory. So how can we see beyond our memory, if you can catch a moment, and hold it to your heart, why would you choose not to? Only if you are focussed on understanding the emergent processing of our own brains would you want to. The storage is vital to us, much like a warm coat in a blizzard is, facts, figures past lessons and experiences we can re apply and evolve, but to get the now, to feel it, you simply have to forget everything briefly, empty your head like any reasonable buddhist can, and there you will feel a pulse of it all. The moment of emergence is nothing, dimensionless, and we are not effective when we stay there, we are connected to our own past, and see the future potentials of our lives as probabilities, its a bit like a horse race, you pick a pony and watch, but if you pick right, you get a bag of smarties, pick wrong and you lose them. Memory is that tool that enables us to predict, it also enables imagination, (Somehow, I am confused about the origin of that single human quality.) Memory is an enabler.

Yet to live without it would be an irrelevance, so we cannot. Yet to understand this emergent devastation of the past, the mobility, and to embrace the truth that time travel may never be possible (As one example.) We have to look at emergent time as a unique habitat, an emergent habitat we have evolved to exploit. Blink and you miss it, blink and it is gone, those light particles are continuing upon their emergent journey, you only have the memory of them, a memory that enables you to navigate to the future. Time and space may not be as solid as we believe, if emergent time is a bubble of dimensionless nature, then the only reason we see dimensions may be because of our memory, as the process is too fast for us to pin down to a moment as it occurs, which is why memory is vital, but almost like an organic living variation on the uncertainty principle, a principle that could explain the vitality of memory and the anchor that the past actually is........

PAPER TWO

IS IT ALL JUST AN ENTANGLED NOW.

Take a brain any brain and throw information at it, because of all of the individual differences, each brain will draw different conclusions on that information. I guess a little knowledge is truly a dangerous thing, as to the conclusions and brainstorming it creates, well thats just the fun part. With that in mind I look at the visual mechanisms my brain uses, the models it creates that I see, are not always immediately obvious, it may take much more thought to understand these creations of my mind and thought than you could appreciate. Either that or I am unique kind of idiot, your guess is as good as mine is really. Now as I type here I am sat in my local cafe, music that is in a language I cannot yet speak plays, the rhythm though is obvious to my monkey mammal hips, and yes my feet are tapping too, but is it a love song? Is it a protest tune, a ballad, or an art house piece of music? I don't know, I could not tell you without some kind of subtitling or explanation what the lyrics are saying, the woman's voice is gorgeous though, but for all I know she could be singing the "How to use toilet paper properly" tune. Strangely this is the same case with the universe, the science behind it is often in a language fewer people understand, seriously its possible that Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs are more well understood by most of us because of the often bloody Stargate SG1 franchise, less is generally known about basics like momentum mathematics or why the sky is blue. Seriously every time we move we are using momentum, but can many of us claim to get the explanations of it? Whilst the sky is always above your head. The reality is that at some point in our near future, we are going to have to move to a universal language, construct one that works for all of us, this is important, yet in all of these papers I have vowed to keep the explanations as simple as plain language can get, so you and anyone can understand them. Which is where we are going to now get weird. As I theorise and almost playfully throw out ideas, can't help it, won't apologise for it, but lets go into a Steve theoretical structure, lets try and explain it simply for you, it may not even be right but here goes, enjoy.

Steve's Theoretical Dimensionless Now Theory.

The first hurdle we all have to jump to understand this insanity of a theory is dimensionless time, try and picture what it is briefly, and because you have memory it is hard to understand, it is one of the very few times that memory has a negative impact in theory. Humans although we live in a construct of time and space, are living more accurately in a time-space, where our brains construct a workable solution for us to move through, if we hit a nail with a hammer then the nail should stick into the wood we are whacking, this is causal, cause and effect, the way we are used to things happening. Now take the word CAUSALITY, and jumble it up, STACAYULI, the order is blown and even though the new version has all of the alphabetic symptoms of the the original, and may mean something language wise somewhere else that is completely different, it doesn't make a lot of sense. So the biggest problem of understanding dimensionless environments is in the breakdown of cause and effect, the order of events would be of no importance to the overall structures as well. As the overall energies would not be encumbered by what we could inaccurately call linear time. It wouldn't be a reversal either, the order of the entire system is measurable only by its energy overall, the rate of dissipation could be a barrier but the causal element would be jumbled. So a particle could be entangled and radiating, it could end, but the event that caused the entanglement or birth has yet to happen, and the particle therefore goes through all of its potential states, within a dimensionless reality without boundaries. This is what I think is happening in the quantum foam environment. The rates of decay are uniquely irrelevant here, thermodynamics would apply but only be quantifiable over the whole of the system, in short measurable only by the overall results.

So what is quantum foam? Its a theoretical place for now, because we cannot measure anything that small due to us not having evolved the tools yet, but this tiny space is within everything, tap something near you, whatever it was is surrounded by theoretical quantum foam, it is in you too. Yet it would have to be a very boisterous environment, complete with micro wormholes coming and going within the structure, in fact the only force that I can see really impacting upon this type of space-time would be gravity, but as to how gravity would behave in a non causal environment, your guess is as good as anybodies, until we have a decent model for quantum gravity come along, well its just a crazy place, navigation would be fun too, but the quantum foams dimensionless-ness would explain a lot about particle behaviours, but this is the environment that underpins everything else, consider it realities little helper, and it is everywhere, which is pretty amazing.

Now if emergent time is as it seems related to particle entanglement, then this subatomic sub everything layer, is probably best described as its home, now for descriptive ease I will refer to it as a bubble, it isn't, the emergent is in everything, but it makes the concept easier to grasp than if I said this everything space place, or more accurately, called it a dimensionless environment in and around everything. Or just everything. Seriously most human minds can cope with bubbles, we have all blown them, but picture a bubble that is filled with everything, this is the easiest way of grasping it all, but you have picture in your mind now. So add some spin to it, make it mobile, watch it flowing, and you have an idea of what I am putting across to you, this highly boisterous space-time is all about mobility, but it encompasses everything, and I mean absolutely everything. Its like a non causal asylum has entrapped everything. ;-)

First be glad it has, you wouldn't be around like you are without it.

Second. What are the implications of this.

This sentence I am now writing is as emergent as time and the universe itself is. Now look at the causal universe we inhabit, its mobility is a big clue, take any planet, lets say the Earth, where it was in space and time it wasn't a minute ago, things flow, orbit and move through space, there is destruction though, a planet that was around a billion years ago, may have been destroyed but its energy will have changed. I am sat in a chair as I write, but by the planets motion, I am still moving, and thats before I look at my beating heart. Its all mass, momentum and thermodynamic related time, those motions are all flowing causally through an event called emergent time, an event I think is dimensionless, and an event we measure on a quantum scale. This is in effect a dimensionless bubble that particles inhabit, but the real universe that we all walk through everyday, is flowing through this brief window of opportunity that emergent time is. Now look at the overall environment of quantum foam again, visualise it, dark matter becomes obvious, it would have to evolve because of the gravity impact, meanwhile what of our concept of causality?

In space, a body that is in motion will probably stay in motion until it interacts with another force, this is because of momentum etc, now picture Steve's space ship, I power down the engine, it will coast continuously, because of a lack of friction and any other force, until it gets captured by the gravity of another mass. This momentum of mass is what keeps things here causal, the conservation of this momentum is an act of gravity, but it is all underpinned by a non causal environment that is using those same forces to flow through everything. Now we know that the light from the big bang is still doing the rounds out there somewhere, its journey is still going, this speed of light is a barrier, but a very real one, we know that the universe forms black holes, where matter is condensed and crushed, particles are contracted to destruction in these environments. Everything is flowing, but here is where I may lose most of you. You see this model is an idea of mine, my imagination will push it to an extreme that may be too big an abyss for anyone but a visual brainer to cross, and even then that may not be possible. Up to this point the overall theorisation has legs, its possible, but I may be about to cut those legs off with my over imaginative axe. In fact what I am thinking could just be as wrong as some of our teenage fashion choices were, but here goes nothing.

Steve's Theory phase two.

"Lets throw the chicken and egg argument out of the window, and play a game of particle radiation ping pong in an entangled system squared instead."

We can all accept that there is a direct momentum-mass-thermodynamic connectivity from today to the big bang. Seemingly everything roles out from that point, including the dimensionless environment of quantum foam. So what if the black holes formed first, what if the causality that we associate with reality is yet to happen? What if there is nothing but a now founded upon a dimensionless reality? It could even have a retro causal connectivity with the big bang, meaning it could have been formed by the potential of the universes causal-future energies and little more. It may have not happened yet in reality? Picture an entangled mass emanating from black holes, the connectivity would be there, the impact? It gets worse if I take another look at it from a different direction, what if its a generator type of deal, simultaneous, the mass and the mass entangled together between the big bang and the black holes fuelling and anchoring a reaction that is prolonged? Both of those possibilities are on the table, along with many others, but if I push further along this line, then my little thought experiment opens a set of other doors, Potentials. I can even imagine a system where the event horizon of the big bang is touching and fuelling the quantum foam and that foam could be anchored by black holes everywhere within the overall structure, because the absence of causality could create the reaction that is our reality, whilst at the same time only being a part of the blast from that huge explosion. Implying that the universe is somehow caught up in part of a chain reaction. Leaving the big bang looking like a retro causal inevitability from thermodynamic future mass that is moving through a dimensionless moment.

However just because I can imagine it, doesn't make it so. What the idea does do is illustrate the loss of causality that is present in a dimensionless environment and the fluidity that the momentum mass of our reality, creating causal time. I have to warn everyone that this could be wrong, and let you all know that I once thought digital cameras would never catch on, but I am beginning to believe that there is nothing but an entangled now, an emergent present that we inhabit. So if I am as wrong as I was about digital cameras, only time will tell, yet again I have to wait to find out, and you gotta love thermodynamics at that level.

PAPER THREE

WHAT IS THE SQUARE ROOT OF AN ELEPHANT (PART ONE)

I was sat having a natter with a friend of mine when she asked me. "What the religious implications of all this emergent time lark are?"

Now I have a visual brain but that doesn't mean I understand my own head any more than I could understand yours, basic biology aside I can't, so my reply came via some automated setting in my head and I said. "You may as well ask me what the square root of an elephant is?" In fact my Cockney religious mate and myself were both silenced for a while, until she said.

"What are you like?"

Now the conversation technically ended there and we changed subject and chatted about just how crappy the british government is, the small b is deliberate as I cannot attach a capital B when I am mentioning our political's and their immortal establish-mental institutions, but as usual her question has resulted in more than a bit of thought on my part. Its actually a reasonable question from a good friend, so its no surprise that I did give it a bit more thought than I had beforehand. Although it depends on your own point of view on the god issue, it is a theory that has implications for all of us, so let me just say that I start with us all being human beings first, and all faiths, ideologies or lifestyle world views naturally follow from there. So at the root of it please accept that we are all human.

Like a tree with too many potential argument prone branches is pretty much how I see our human species.

Now personally I am an atheist, I don't get it or see it, I guess the easiest way to say it is, "Hi, I'm Steve Merrick and I don't have a soul but I do have a lot of human spirit, and I am willing to bet you have a lot of human spirit too." So I am not Stephen Dawkins or (My fave) Hitchin's, and forgive me when I say, there are too many manipulated arguments about the religious process and faith, from both sides of the table, that have me too bored to tears to mention them here. I guess its a believe or not quid pro quo process for me, I have my way you inevitably have yours, and really considering the area 51 alien faithers etc etc etc wheres the problem really? So I fail to see the point dicking around in coffee table arguments, especially when we are up against the wall with Global Warming, Ocean Acidification, whilst at the same time using an economic system that could make Caligula weep, personally I would do a deal with the devil if he existed, if it could solve those issues. So I have prioritised that side of it, and lacking the confrontational element of Dawkins and Hitchin's step back and focus on what I believe is far more important. The argument is Vaudevillian, and also a waste of time, but for myself I don't believe in god. Sorted.

The issues that science creates are what you choose to make them.

Consider this point, scientific results like religious documents, are interpretive, the messy results of that fact are abundantly clear if you open any newspaper, as toxic religious views are retailing everywhere right now, whilst at the same time many are choosing to interpret the global warming sciences as false, despite all of the negative connotations and insanity of that truth, we are in the poop, but too many have their head in the sands, and the religious dilemmas about violent and mental religious offshoot groups, really don't cancel out or even come close to the scientific woes that point to a potential human extinction. Both are horrific but one is species wide, one is more personal. For the record my favourite religious book is the Holy Quran, but how the hell you reach the conclusions some people have from it is, truly beyond my meagre minds skills to figure out. Yet the fact that governments and industry can choose to ignore their own science advisors repeatedly about everything from pesticides to emissions is also, so far above my sanity meter that I may as well not mention either problem. Basically its nuts because a percentage of our species is nuts, but as usual I can prove that.

Now since this is being written in English I will use the Bible here, its the book most of you will have at least seen a movie or three about it. So having read it I can say its a human book, but I can say that about any book on the planet, even Mien Kampf. (Which was written by a true nutjob and is not recommended for reading.) However lets start at the beginning of the Bible.

The book of Genesis says. "Let there be light." Well lets face it the big bang was effectively a bright ball of explosive light, (even if it may not have actually happened yet. ;-) ) So if I interpret that correctly then yes there was light. Now in the same book it says. "God created the world in six days." Which many atheists see as a bit of stumbling block, whilst the whackier religionists see it as evidence that all scientific discoveries are wrong, and also proclaim it as a test of their faith? In fact everyone gets in a pretty tizzy and irritated state when this 6 day gig comes up, and personally I don't see what the fuss is all about. Really. The bible doesn't specify what kind of day measurement its using. It doesn't say a 24 hour cycle of the earth, it equally is a bit vague on how said God Guy measures time. It also doesn't say whether the aforementioned God Guy created the universe hand in hand with the Earth, or if, as is more practical, saw Earth as a side project to create his own image? Now the Earth is about 4.34 billion years old, (I am going from memory with that figure.) So divide it by six and you have figured out how the Biblical God Guy measures a day, and also breaking it down you could create a god time argument and go from there. The fun and games don't end there as the Bible is as interpretive as anything else is, so if I look at the Adam and Eve section. "God created Adam from the clay." Well pardon my freaking French here but where the heck did life start, in the minerals, the minimal life that started the ball rolling could have started out in a clay like environment, add the God time argument to it all, and woosh, the whole evolutionary process could have materialised like a puff of smoke to Adam. So can I get a "Hell Yeah" please. As thats how interpretive any document or theory or belief is, so we should all get our heads out of the collective sun don't shine place and all move on.

Except we can't.

If you believe in God then he, she or it must be particularly clever to have made all this, but there are a large number of people who like their gods stupid, capricious and down right nasty, you see its a reflection of their own inner selves, look at it this way, could an ever effluent moron like Donald Trump create a universe? What about Katie Hopkins, or dare I mention the Dyno Rod of Faith David Cameron? Subjectively people want a god they can understand, and believe me any god that could have created all of this is working at a level way beyond any of us, nobody could work him out yet, we need to evolve further. Think about the argument some throw at this, God created us all flawed, (I actually agree that we are all flawed.) Yet there are people who want us to switch our curiosity off, our passion or any of our human merits. Seriously its an old story. So old that we should now take a journey to ancient Greece.

Archimedes wrote in the Sand Reckoner, the following paragraph.

You (King Gelon) are aware the 'universe' is the name given by most astronomers to the sphere the center of which is the center of the Earth, while its radius is equal to the straight line between the center of the Sun and the center of the Earth. This is the common account as you have heard from astronomers. But Aristarchus has brought out a book consisting of certain hypotheses, wherein it appears, as a consequence of the assumptions made, that the universe is many times greater than the 'universe' just mentioned. His hypotheses are that the fixed stars and the Sun remain unmoved, that the Earth revolves about the Sun on the circumference of a circle, the Sun lying in the middle of the Floor, and that the sphere of the fixed stars, situated about the same center as the Sun, is so great that the circle in which he supposes the Earth to revolve bears such a proportion to the distance of the fixed stars as the center of the sphere bears to its surface.

So here is an earlier scientific breakthrough for you to digest. Sometime in the second century BC a Greek scientist called Aristarchus of Samos, figured out how the solar system worked, actually got it right, he did it with his eyes, some rudimentary tools, a ball of string, some sticks and a sandpit, he then wrote about it. None of his works survive today but I would love to read them. Now you may be mistaken in thinking, wow I bet he got rich, but he didn't, he became a laughing stock and nearly ended up on trial for impiety. Now I know with hindsight that Aristarchus had gotten in the way of the local god squad of his time, or more importantly their egos, and the ego is one part of the human mind nobody in their right minds would tangle with, so Aristarchus had interrupted the social mass ego of his people. Flash forward a few centuries, and lets look at another scientist, Ptolemy. We now know that he falsified many of his results about optics, to make his own theorisations work, but I can say he was no fool. Confronted by the same level of theory failure when he was working out how the sun and everything else orbited the Earth, Ptolemy invented strange little mini orbits called epicycles, in fact he must have been aware of the reality, but he pandered to the egos of the beliefs of his time, milked them like you would a cow, and got rich and worshipped as a scientist for 15 centuries. Copernicus came and went. Until Galileo came along, seeing the heliocentric model worked he worked out the same thing Aristarchus had a millennium or more before him, the Earth revolved around the sun and that the universe was a lot bigger than anyone thought. Did Galileo get rich? Nope he died under house arrest as a heretic. Still many couldn't accept the truth.

Look at it this way, we are talking about the big stuff here, planets, orbits, and all that cosmic jazz, and for over two thousand years, the science was ignored and tossed aside by choice, because of human ego insisting that we were the centre of everything. Even though our eyeballs said otherwise, that was the case. Not none of the Inquisitions interrogators or holy men of Galileo's time ever thought. "Wow, isn't our god clever because we would be crushed as flat as pancakes if we were the centre of everything." Or. "Wow our god did all this." Nope what they thought was. "God is mine and god is as dumb as I am and he has to work my way or the highway." Now flash forwards to other theories. Take evolution. I won't explain it because my eyes show me it exists whenever I go for a walk and see everything else around me. If it takes 2000 plus freaking years to get the planets orbits accepted, then how long could it take to get the theory of evolution accepted (Lets face it, shouldn't even be a theory anymore, but like everybody else I don't want to be burned alive at the stake, so it is.) So because there are people out there, who won't accept that evolution if you believe in a god is a tool of god, we are here. Because there are people who know how god does everything, because of people who know how "He" thinks we have a problem, people who also do not know how god measures freaking time are in control of other people and thats all just ego talking, because if I believed in god I wouldn't claim to know how he works or even what his, her or its motivation is.

You see science from a religious viewpoint should be viewed as gods bread crumbs of knowledge left behind for us to work out, simple. Even simpler is the truth that if you believe in god, then god created you, and the tools in your head like curiosity and my ever beloved best friend imagination are there for you to use, to understand how brilliant your god is if you like that kind of thing. Yet amongst us are too many people who believe the polarised opposite, in fact if they had their way we would all be living in caves, because they can't accept that any god who could create all of this has got to be really unbelievably smart. In short many of the fundamental extremes of religion and any belief, lack any respect for the creator or core part of their beliefs.

Meanwhile on the other side of the coin I have met too many rationalising atheists who do not see the humanity and psychology behind our species faith mechanisms. Blindly demanding that people let go of something that comforts them is pretty dumb too. Its like stealing a teddy bear off a toddler. While in reality our species success and potential climate suicide is because of our emotional and physical diversity. The polarities of the entire argument are enough evidence of our mutual humanity, but until we get rid of those who believe they are the way, the divine, the beloved leader, and all that other cobblers, we may never embrace our unbridled humanity that is in the core of each of us and at the centre of all of our diverse beliefs. You see if you believe in god then it created you, if you don't, then you, like me, are a random variable in an organic brilliance of life, but no matter which side you are on, surely you are human first? God didn't create sexism, capitalism, war, cruelty, hate or any of the other human negatives we embrace, evolution didn't create them either, human stupidity did, and we have gotten used to being all of those things, and it may have been good enough for our grandparents but, they weren't facing a potential extinction event.

The implications of emergent time are no different in this context, no different to orbits or evolution. You either believe or you don't but that choice is a choice of translation, and you don't have to follow a dumb god when it couldn't exist, anymore than you have to create a dumb hypothesis life model, when everything around you is actually a revelation on a good day. So the choice about god is an individual translation, the choice for an atheist is an individual translation, at the end of the day that really is the only implication that matters because all of us should see it differently. You see I know that I could never agree with Pope Francis about condoms, but if I look at what he is trying to achieve, about finance, economics, global warming, greed, and even the sexual weirdness in his own organisation, I can see a man trying to solve human problems as a human being, and I can respect that, I may not see any god but we both share the same enemies, enemies hidden within the human condition, and lets say there is a god, then that god made us this way, and it may be a test of sorts, a test to see if we can overcome our many short fallings, a test to see if we can evolve ourselves and our minds so that we do look out for each other. I may not see god, or believe, but I don't look at someone of faith as "them." They are like me, and the new Pope is a vivid expression of something that I can respect, it's called humanity.

I shall pass a future glimpse to you here. Look at our world, we all know its dangerously messed up, our climate, our emissions, our wars, our poverties, our famines. We are seriously facing an potential extinction for our species. The only solution to global warming starts with a global acceptance, and then a global unity, when you want to unite peoples, then we need to evolve beyond every argument, and see ourselves as one species, the very mechanism that many despise that is behind our religions with their millions and billions of followers, is the same one that we could learn to exploit, for our own benefit, somehow we have to bring these many diverse groups together under one banner, the religious, the atheists, the agnostics, and yeah even the entangled monkey man called Steve, together, simply to bring about a C change in human behaviour and practices. Simply for our own physical salvation we have to look at the things that we all share, first.

So acknowledging we are all human is a pretty good start.

And.

If the human race was a tree, then yes, the different branches will always be argumentative, but we can soften those differences against one common threat, and if the theories on these pages help that goal in a small way, then that is one huge implication for all of us.

PAPER FOUR

A SHORT STORY

THE CINDERELLA FACTOR.

Once upon a time in fairy tale land, there was a little girl called Cinderella. Now Cinders was in a pretty bad position for a little girl, she had a very wicked step mother, and as if that wasn't enough three rather spoiled, bullying and slobbish step sisters, none of them liked her, and she was reduced to being the manual labour in the cluttered house, and regularly beaten. In fact Cinderella's only real friend was Reginald the house mouse, who lived in the same barn outside of the house that she slept in. Cinderella would regularly steal cheese from the larder for him. Now as she grew she was deprived of many positive stimulus, but she was exposed to every negative stimulus a kid can face. Cinderella did not know that her kiddie brain was forming pathways at a rate between 700-1000 every minute, nor that they were all negative results, because of getting beaten and picked on all the time, her brain kept on making a stress hormone group called cortocorticoid's, they contain cortisols, in small doses they are beneficial, but as the mighty wizard Steve knows, long exposure can harm the developing brain, but in Cinderellas case she knew nothing but stress, and at such toxic levels, she grew up, unaware that her entire world view had been effected by these hormones. In fact Cinderellas brain was a mass of negative and often broken connections. Until she couldn't see anything positive at all. Except Reginald.

This was the complete opposite of Prince Squirrel, the son of the local king, Squirrel had never had a negative experience in his life, even when he had fallen off his pony he saw it a funny, in fact he had everything he ever wanted, loving parents, health, wealth and plenty of servants to do the boring stuff, he was also loved by his people because he was always smiling, and had a very positive and bright outlook on life, he was generous too, showering the poor he met with gold, and gaining more and more friends on his journey through life. Now the Princes brain had never even heard of cortisol, he saw nothing but good ahead of him and was open to all that life would throw his way. Even when the local Trolls attacked the castle, he saw it as a chance for everyone to get together and prove themselves. So the mighty wizard Steve shrugged to himself at the dis-balance between the two of them, then after thinking about it, he sent a small fairy to whisper in the young princes ear whilst he slept.

"The only thing you haven't got is a princess my liege, and to find her, you should invite all the girls of the land to your grand castle for a grand and splendid ball."

The next morning Squirrel excitedly told his parents about the idea, both of them beamed lovingly with pride that they had such a clever son, the scribes were ordered to write the invites to every girl in the small kingdom. When the invites arrived Cinderella found hers thrown in the mud, she had been trying to clean the chimney of the plush cottage and was covered in soot. She was walking past the window when she overheard her Step Sisters laughter, as they each plotted to catch the young Princes heart, then one of them saw her by the window and scowled at her. "What would something like you ever do at a ball? Look at yourself." The sister turned a mirror towards Cinderella as she stood holding a broom in her dirty and dishevelled clothes, unable to shed a single tear anymore Cinderella walked away to the barn, she threw the invite away as she walked. Now the wizard Steve threw his hands in the air in exasperation when he saw that in his favourite crystal ball, he briefly thought of turning the sisters into hedgehogs or wiggly worms or worse, but after thinking it through he summoned his biggest gun, the often mischievous and meddling Fairy God Mother. The two talked for an hour, and then she set off to visit Cinderella at the barn.

She arrived as the sisters and their mother were clattering away in the family carriage, and found Cinderella talking to Reginald as she washed horse muck from her hands, the fairy godmother looked at her entangled hair, sooty face, and torn clothes but could see her physical beauty was hidden beneath the dirt of her life. The two talked for quite a while, Cinderella wasn't buying it, suddenly in a whoosh of magic she found herself wearing a beautiful ball gown and glass slippers. She immediately thought it was rather impractical, and tried to take it off. Now knowing the most powerful wizard in the land was watching her every move the Fairy God Mother got desperate, she could also see herself getting another lecture about missing the wizards universal happy targets, and being low on the happy board already could not afford to fall any lower. So finally she said. "There will be lots and lots of cheese at the ball, you could come home with a lot of it for Reginald." The wizard smiled, Cinderella looked at Reg, he squeaked, in fact cheese theft was something Cinderella understood, she was good at it too, so she nodded, and the fairy godmother turned Reginald into a pony and a watermelon into a carriage, and off they went to the castle.

When she arrived Prince Squirrel was happily dancing with one of the sisters, but he was immediately blown of his feet by this cracking and beautiful woman who walked with an energetic speed into the room, a paige announced her name, "Cinderella." He let go of the shocked sister and watched as this beautiful girl walked straight for the cheese board. He stalked her like he would a bunny as she sniffed and selected the cheeses, smiled with an intoxicated lust filled glee as she daintily put them into her large purse. The Prince loved cheese and she did too, whilst Cinderella knew that to succeed at cheese theft one had to be in and out of the larder quickly, so she turned to leave and found him smiling and beckoning her to dance with him. Oh they spun and they danced, but they both had very different expectations of the evening to each other, the Prince was in love, but Cinders couldn't have fathomed what the heck he was talking about. Finally the two ended up in bed together, even the wizard was impressed by the relative speed of true love, and yes the two had an eventful night, but in the morning, Cinders crept from the royal chambers clutching her purse and only one of her glass slippers, she left.

The Prince awakened alone, he found a single slipper, he searched the land, rode from end to end and even fought of a troll solo, which is not easy, finally he arrived at the cottage where the sisters lived, they each tried the slipper on, it didn't fit, yet the Prince walked past the shabbily dressed girl, as if he didn't see her, then went on his way searching for his one true love. The wizard punched the table, unaware that the Fairy God Mother was hiding under it, then he left for the cottage. As he was travelling there the Prince met a girl called Abigail, and she had the same shoe size as Cinderella, although she had auburn hair and a different eye colour, the wizard slapped his own forehead when he saw the couple running away. "Oh if shoe size is the food of love play on." So as the wizard went to see Cinderella, he knew that expectations could become everything, he knew that people can be blinded from them too, as their brains would be caught in negative loops that makes expectations smaller and smaller, he knew that poverty and abuse as a child could do this, and he knew that Cinderella couldn't have fathomed the chances she had thrown away.

"You turned happy ever after into a fairy tale one night stand babe." The wizard said to her when they finally met, she glanced over her shoulder to watch three hedgehogs chasing a worm down the lane, and tried to smile at this stranger. "Look I am a mighty wizard, so what if I turn Reginald into a man, and the two of you can marry and make this place a cheese farm, just think about it will you." She sat for a while then smiled, and nodded.

And with that Cinderella lived happily ever after.

The End

