You're so Piaget.
Slept, after deciding I could not go to vet. And this was very much the right decision. Awoke with contorted brain, and all associated. But, I feel I am beginning to pull out of this long private nightmare. I was able to get some laundry going. Because, I was refreshing my couch-bed configuration. While it was stripped naked, I searched for my keys in the crevices, wearing rubber gloves. All I found was a PayPal card that expired in 2013. If it weren't for the gloves, I might have had more feelings.
While letting dog out back, I noticed that a limb from the big old tree, back there, had broken, and was pointing almost straight down. It covered a little of the garage of the narcissist next door. I popped out and tried to bring the limb down, manually, no luck. Damned barking dogs. So, I figured I'd see if I could take that down tomorrow. At about 7:pm, I looked out and the limb was gone. Narcissist had gone onto this property and removed it - even though it was entirely within the boundaries of this property. A few leaves barely touched this side of his garage.
So, this pissed me off. I do something, and then he has to retaliate, or try to do better, or more - usually with loud machines. Sicko. Last night - actually, very early morning, my dog was sleeping out front, and someone was producing this massive cranking sound. I never discovered who it was, but the lights were on in said jackasses' house, which is very rare, at that hour. And, earlier, his gf had walked by, looking at my dog and me. You can always see the nonsense starting to brew, because they start looking at you, with ideas in their heads, like they are sure you did something to them. Crazy. I will be glad when they finally move.
This affair riled my CFS and left me unable to sleep. If I cannot dream, can I at least go back in time, before all this ever began? I think the people next-door time-travel regularly, as narcissists must have some malfunction when it comes to processing entropy, and time, e..g., attributing causations where they lay not. They never graduated Piaget.
Scientists Break the Direction of Time Down To the Cellular Level In Mind-Bending Study
A new study looks at interactions between microscopic neurons in salamanders to understand how the "arrow of time" is biologically generated. Motherboard reports: The second law of thermodynamics says that everything tends to move from order to disorder, a process known as entropy that defines the arrow of time. A stronger arrow of time means it would be harder for a system to go back to a more ordered state. "Everything that we perceive as a difference between the past and the future stems fundamentally from that one principle about the universe," said Christopher Lynn, the lead author of the study. Lynn said that his motivation for the study was "to understand how the arrows of time we see in life" fit into this larger idea of entropy on the scale of the entire universe.
Using previously done research on salamanders, Lynne and colleagues at City University of New York and Princeton examined how the arrow of time is represented in interactions between the amphibians' neurons in response to watching a movie. Their research is soon to be published in the journal Physical Review Letters. On one hand, it's somewhat obvious that an arrow of time would be biologically produced. "To be alive, almost, you have to have an arrow of time because you develop from a baby to an adult, and you're constantly moving and taking in stimuli," Lynne said. Indeed, entropy here is irreversible -- you cannot go back. What the team found was anything but intuitive, however.
Lynne and colleagues looked at a separate 2015 study where researchers had salamanders watch two different movies. One depicted a scene of fish swimming around, similar to what a salamander might experience in everyday life. As in the real world, the video had a clear arrow of time -- that is, if you watched it in reverse, it would look different than if you played it forwards. The other video contained only a gray screen with a black, horizontal bar in the middle of the screen, which moved quickly up and down in a random, jittery way. This video didn't have an obvious arrow of time. A major question for the researchers was if they could pick out signs of "local irreversibility" in interactions between small groups of retinal neurons in response to this stimulus. Would interactions with irreversibility -- they would look different if played in reverse, having an "arrow of time" -- present in simpler or more complex interactions between neurons? "You can go look at a system and you can ask: are the more complicated interactions strongly producing the arrow of time, or is it the simpler dynamics?" said Lynn.
The researchers found that the interactions between simple pairs of neurons primarily determined the arrow of time, no matter which movie the salamanders watched. In fact, the authors found a stronger arrow of time for the neurons when salamanders watched the video with the gray screen and black bar -- in other words, the video without an arrow of time in its content elicited a greater arrow of time in the neurons. "We naively thought that if the stimulus has a stronger arrow of time, that would show up on your retina," said Lynn. "But it was the opposite. So that's why it was surprising to us." While the researchers can't say for sure why this is, Lynn said that it might be because salamanders are more used to seeing something like the fish movie, and processing the more artificial movie took greater energy. In a more disordered system, which would have a greater arrow of time, more energy is consumed. "Being alive will still define an arrow of time," Lynne said, no matter the stimulus.
Rinse and repeat.
While letting dog out back, I noticed that a limb from the big old tree, back there, had broken, and was pointing almost straight down. It covered a little of the garage of the narcissist next door. I popped out and tried to bring the limb down, manually, no luck. Damned barking dogs. So, I figured I'd see if I could take that down tomorrow. At about 7:pm, I looked out and the limb was gone. Narcissist had gone onto this property and removed it - even though it was entirely within the boundaries of this property. A few leaves barely touched this side of his garage.
So, this pissed me off. I do something, and then he has to retaliate, or try to do better, or more - usually with loud machines. Sicko. Last night - actually, very early morning, my dog was sleeping out front, and someone was producing this massive cranking sound. I never discovered who it was, but the lights were on in said jackasses' house, which is very rare, at that hour. And, earlier, his gf had walked by, looking at my dog and me. You can always see the nonsense starting to brew, because they start looking at you, with ideas in their heads, like they are sure you did something to them. Crazy. I will be glad when they finally move.
This affair riled my CFS and left me unable to sleep. If I cannot dream, can I at least go back in time, before all this ever began? I think the people next-door time-travel regularly, as narcissists must have some malfunction when it comes to processing entropy, and time, e..g., attributing causations where they lay not. They never graduated Piaget.
Scientists Break the Direction of Time Down To the Cellular Level In Mind-Bending Study
A new study looks at interactions between microscopic neurons in salamanders to understand how the "arrow of time" is biologically generated. Motherboard reports: The second law of thermodynamics says that everything tends to move from order to disorder, a process known as entropy that defines the arrow of time. A stronger arrow of time means it would be harder for a system to go back to a more ordered state. "Everything that we perceive as a difference between the past and the future stems fundamentally from that one principle about the universe," said Christopher Lynn, the lead author of the study. Lynn said that his motivation for the study was "to understand how the arrows of time we see in life" fit into this larger idea of entropy on the scale of the entire universe.
Using previously done research on salamanders, Lynne and colleagues at City University of New York and Princeton examined how the arrow of time is represented in interactions between the amphibians' neurons in response to watching a movie. Their research is soon to be published in the journal Physical Review Letters. On one hand, it's somewhat obvious that an arrow of time would be biologically produced. "To be alive, almost, you have to have an arrow of time because you develop from a baby to an adult, and you're constantly moving and taking in stimuli," Lynne said. Indeed, entropy here is irreversible -- you cannot go back. What the team found was anything but intuitive, however.
Lynne and colleagues looked at a separate 2015 study where researchers had salamanders watch two different movies. One depicted a scene of fish swimming around, similar to what a salamander might experience in everyday life. As in the real world, the video had a clear arrow of time -- that is, if you watched it in reverse, it would look different than if you played it forwards. The other video contained only a gray screen with a black, horizontal bar in the middle of the screen, which moved quickly up and down in a random, jittery way. This video didn't have an obvious arrow of time. A major question for the researchers was if they could pick out signs of "local irreversibility" in interactions between small groups of retinal neurons in response to this stimulus. Would interactions with irreversibility -- they would look different if played in reverse, having an "arrow of time" -- present in simpler or more complex interactions between neurons? "You can go look at a system and you can ask: are the more complicated interactions strongly producing the arrow of time, or is it the simpler dynamics?" said Lynn.
The researchers found that the interactions between simple pairs of neurons primarily determined the arrow of time, no matter which movie the salamanders watched. In fact, the authors found a stronger arrow of time for the neurons when salamanders watched the video with the gray screen and black bar -- in other words, the video without an arrow of time in its content elicited a greater arrow of time in the neurons. "We naively thought that if the stimulus has a stronger arrow of time, that would show up on your retina," said Lynn. "But it was the opposite. So that's why it was surprising to us." While the researchers can't say for sure why this is, Lynn said that it might be because salamanders are more used to seeing something like the fish movie, and processing the more artificial movie took greater energy. In a more disordered system, which would have a greater arrow of time, more energy is consumed. "Being alive will still define an arrow of time," Lynne said, no matter the stimulus.
Rinse and repeat.