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Topic:
Telepathy: the story of a synchronization, explained
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May 22, 2012 5:30 PM
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Telepathy: the story of a synchronization, explained
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Feb 18, 2012 3:19 PM
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I board the subway train and find in the car a meaningful character, not the first time it happens, this time she is who seems to be the stray daughter of MP and TA from primary school. Since we were applied Islam and the Qu ran so the outcome has to be no females left in the generation the encounter is meaningful but the girl already knows that maybe her mother or aunt or both were tortured. It seems a very miraculous event I ve been going through for a while but it is very easily explainable as just solving a system of differential equations. In this case, all that the mind that effected the synchronizations needs to output as outcome is very simple: the time at which to wake me up. All other variables are already known and standard, all _that_ mind has to know is the time the girl and her tutoress are boarding the train to calculate at what time to wake me up for me to arrive at the synchronization and all the control that mind has to have, very likely an old woman interested in the issue, is (basically) to wake me up in time. All other variables are known: the distance between the place I was asleep in the terminal and the train, the distance between the car and the subway entry, the pace at which I walk, the train speed, the moment the couple entered the subway and boarded the train, my route... All this forms a model of the world that is not completely or truly conscious but unconscious, that mind does not have to know the exact measurements in terms of meters or have measured the average speed of subway lines at every moment, which is unwieldy, but the brain is recording such facts as almost meaningless data constantly and storing them so they are available to make formal calculus of consistency and coherency that enable it to solve a differential equation system the way numerical methods do, and arrive at a simple quantity-control model it can effect.
It was already known, even obvious, that I had to be in the zone I was going to at the time I had to be there. I was awaken _just in time_ to decide it was not too late to move and be there in time. The control variable was in this case a man who sit in front of me in the table I had my head over my luggage and who pretended to make a phone call then went away. If he had remained in place for longer, I would have pretended I was still asleep and wait for him to leave, even fall into slumber again; the moment the man stands up there is time enough to see it is not to late but just in time, pick the luggage and leave, so that there is no implicit assumption of social interaction, but that is very basic and _automatic_ social understanding among Humans. If both had stayed longer in the same table, it would seem we are actually friends and sitting together when in fact he just took advantage of the free chair while I was a socially distant and disengaged figure. The mind that perform the operation just had to enact a simple control: *contact* the man at the right moment for him to engage in his conversation and wake me up. Such mind was most likely aware of the position of the girl-woman couple when they boarded and where they boarded the train, probably at a very nearby station in a line that has very near stations. Then since I woke _just in time_ to arrive to where I had planned, my next decision is to take the shortest path to the train. Some minutes earlier I would have taken a different path and even changed my plans; some minutes late and I would have missed it completely and stayed in the place to fall into slumber again. This calculus is also rather simple and very likely standard (average) among Humans, the relationship between time to travel, time of appointment, slack time to be late or early, the probability to change plans at the last moment, etc., so not much additional information is needed here.
I take the shortest path and am ready to go into the subway without wasting time in lines, but that is also a known fact at this time of the month, so in that respect I am quite predictable, all the differential equations system still has to produce is the moment to start my walking. The stairs down to the train are the closest to the entry and straight into the line direction I have to travel; I come off the stairs as the train is just arriving. At this point there is a fifty-fifty chance the synchronization will fail as I can choose to take either car, one leads to the girl, the other _might_ have produced a different meaningful encounter as there is a blonde female hairdo that calls my attention, but the girl s encounter is more meaningful overall than some possible flirting.
The same kind of simple control as the man making a fake call to wake me up just in time can be conceived for the train system, particularly, since conductors (there are actually live conductors) can receive telepathic signals. In fact, the train _was_ traveling rather slowly, but on that end it is conceivable necessary ONLY to have one person receiving the signal and **manipulating** the girl- woman system in a standard way. Particularly, assuming the couple entered the car next to the library, they naturally end in the car that has the closest path from subway entry to same car, but THAT is data that is also relatively simple for a mind that is implementing automatic, numerical calculus to produce two points of control and one one time variable, since in the end the subway system does have fixed distance-time relationships. Other assumptions on this freer (more degrees of freedom) end of the system to take into account when monitoring the schedule of the girl-woman couple, would have only led to a different time to wake me up... or to a total abandonement of the **plan** to synchronize _this time_ and begin immediately the next possible plan for synchronization. But it is assumed at the outset that the mind that is _dedicated_ to solve this problem of solving a system for minimum variable-minimum control under constraints and fixed relationship data does have the advantage of being dually (duplex) capturing the signal from at least two of the actors in the synchronization and most likely of more than two actors, which in this case instead of adding complexity to the computation can actually diminish its complexity in several ways, just by adding more fixed elements to control the situation.
The unconscious mind can then act in parallel in different subsystems to solve the different elements in the system, but in essence it can solve the problem just be RECEIVING and EMITTING a signal independently of its content to the different, in this case two points of control (or maybe three, the conductor), and in real time perform any adjustments necessary. All this effort can be done automatically in parallel by a massively connected computing process with very little conscious effort for a mind that is already obssessed (dedicated) to the problem of connecting people with me. I think it is an old woman s mind for whom additionally the problem of connecting people and *finding the girl* is already structural.
So it can be seen that it is not a big problem, as has been the possibilitating thesis since the beginning, to perform synchronization even among parties that are not directly connected, as stream of meaning, to the **central processor**, not even as signal reception, as long as there are enough points of control (direct schizophrenics) and monitoring capabilities (carrying fields) to provide information over a fixed set of structural relationships like a city and the subway offer. In other times in the fields it would have been simpler probably though instead of personal synchronizations the outcome was mobs, ordered mobs, **commercial** movements, sagas, cities... needing only a few carrying fields, their control points and dually connected central processors...
Danilo J Bonsignore
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