On 1/26/24 22:41, Archimedes Plutonium wrote:

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I have gone to a religious institution for
some while.

I have prayed for people, and they have passed away.

I have prayed for people, and they have passed away.

I have prayed for people, and they have passed away ...

Then I prayed a short while for my father, then he
passed away also. While doing this I have also grown
older.

Prior to that I read basic info about how the brain
might store or obtain information. It is similar
to the concept of the 'flip-flop' the electronic
coding of a 'bit' in a 'computer', but it is also
somewhat different in the human brain because the
nervous systems of animals are 'massively parallel'.

In other words each 'coding neuron' has an array of
'weights' that determine whether it will 'fire' based
upon connections with other 'coding neurons'. They
may be similar in shape to 'glial cells' which are
'non-coding' brain cells, but I only learned a year
or two ago that 'astrocytes', a type of 'glial cell'
can differentiate into 'coding neurons' under some
circumstances.

A long while earlier I had heard something like
(you never grow new (coding neurons) (wait brain
cells (wait what was that))).

It would seem to me that it would take advanced
microscopy to try to scan in the shape of brain
cells in a human when they pass away, then
differentiate between glial cells and coding
neurons.

Then try to distinguish between connections
between cells that stimulate and those that
suppress and what 'neurotransmitters' each
'synapse' might emit when a neuron 'fires'.

Then come up with a simulation of
brain operation when alive that might parallel
something like what happened when sill alive.

Nerve patterns in the nervous system may
very well form however throughout life
based upon input from the 'senses' or
the 'external environment'.

Back near to when my father was born,
the population of the Earth was about
two billion people.

Around the year 2000 the population of
the world was about six billion people.

I noticed a day or two ago that two billion
people have been added to the population of
the world from about 2000 until the present.

A little while ago I noticed from reading that much
of Einstein was cremated shortly after he died.

A while back I read something about microscopy
and how microscopic slides are formed for the
analysis of nervous tissue.

Generally the water in the tissue is exchanged
with an organic solvent. Then the organic
solvent is exchanged with wax. Then the wax is
cut so that there is a thin enough section that
light can shine through it in a microscope. Then
the cut is re-exchanged back to a liquid solvent
so the microscope can shine light through the
slide.

I read something very peripheral about death
and nervous tissue a while back.

It said that at some point the nerve cells die,
and then the neurons (might) disintegrate into
fragments (in what time frame?).

I remember a few rats over the past few years.

They fell into rat traps, and then were lost for
a while.

When they were found, some parts of their carcass
had already been converted into maggots, but there
was one where some of the maggots had crawled out
of the body to pupate into flies. I am thinking
that a significant part of the mass of the rat had
been converted into fly bodies by that time, leaving
mostly skin, hair, and defleshed bones. Then there
is also mold.

Then I read, a lot of types of embalming does not
even suppress maggots, it only allows for a
delayed funeral.

A lot of this however was very unclear. It was
not meant to deliver anything useful in terms of
microscopy of nervous tissue. It was only contrived
to make people less agitated when they think about
dying, and perhaps not made to serve any useful
purpose at all.

I could not find anything in a rapid internet search
that tells what time frames are involved with dissociated
nerve fragments for different types of embalming material
nor what types of embalming are better or worse for
mirco-preservation of nerve tissue after death.

Freezing of course can cause small fractures in the ice
with the formation of ice crystals, and it might require
energy for the maintenance of the freezer in warmer
environments. This might disintegrate the nerve patterns
upon death if nerve tissue is frozen afterward rather than
preserved in some other way.

I remember a little while ago reading that most of Einstein
was cremated. Most of Vincent Price was cremated also.

I did not read anything at the time however, about whether
either Einstein or Vincent Price specified anything about
this before they died. Perhaps it was their families that
mostly decided it. It is difficult to say. Maybe their
families did something opposite of that they wanted, who
knows. Nonetheless, I am thinking that most people do
not want to be eaten by maggots.

There is also something called excarnation and charnel houses
so there might be some people that have specified that they
do want that at various points in time in history and
civilization to have something like that done.

Anyway, when it comes to embalming versus cremation or
cremulation, if mind uploading were possible to be developed
in the future, from some types of embalmed remains, would
cremation be some type of suicide? Theorizing about mind
uploading from some types of embalmed remains is highly
speculative.

Then there are ideas about various types of time travel which
might be impossible based upon the laws of physics, or maybe
not who knows.

Some of your posts seem to show evidence that at certain
points in time you have interfaced with machines called
television sets or radios. They can often produce highly
distorted views of the world.

You should probably write out at some point what you want
done when you die. You really have no idea what they will
do even if you do that. Anyone can die later today or
tomorrow. It does not always happen in an easily
predictable manner.

I have never bothered with sci.math.

I am thinking that the usenet topology does not clearly
show what usenet groups are moderated and what ones are not.

I tend to get the idea that moderation is bad. You have
been on the receiving end of that, but if you dish it out
then you tend to never notice the destructive effects.

Once upon a time during the Roman Republic there were
'censors'. These 'censors' took a 'census', but the
census was not just a head count. It did determine
voting rights, but it also determined how much taxes
someone would pay. It is difficult to say if the
'censorship' or the taxes were abhorred more.

I should probably pull out a few old books on math
and do some problems in them just for practice.

The integral of x squared is x cubed over three. The
derivative of x squared is 2 times x. What parts of
the brain are that? If I do not remember how to do
that then what part of the brain has had a stroke?

Then there is that one math problem.

You breathe in, you breathe out.

On average, how many atoms or molecules in that breath
were in (Caesar's or Jesus's, or Einstein's) dying breath?
(Or you could go for water, calcium, carbon, or something
else.)

I am not sure if I ever did that one.

There is of course also that entropy or statistical
thermodynamics or probability problem. All of the molecules
in a leaf are bouncing around inside of the leaf due to its
internal heat intrinsic to not being at a temperature of
absolute zero. What are the odds of all of the random
movement intrinsic at something like room temperature, randomly
aligning in the same direction, making the leaf jump up to the
height of a tree?

It is very small or very 'improbable' (entropy decrease) but
it can be calculated. I do remember doing that a while back
for a class in college. Some times logarithms and exponents are
almost magical when it comes to the orders of magnitude of
calculation that they deal with. You can do math for a lot
of different types of problems. Some profound and some rather
mundane.

I once remembered the equation of a 'god' with 'summum bonum'
or 'absolute goodness'. ('There can be no true god other
than the general principle of goodness, all who believe anything
else are pagan idolaters'.) Then adding 'information theory' or
'entropy' to it you get 'god is equal to the limit of entropy
as the statistical normalized function approaches zero' (Low
entropy or true information.) People can have all sorts of
meanings, or lack of them, for all sorts of words or symbols.

I am not sure if 'Ein' means 'one' and 'stein' means 'stone'.

Perhaps this is the true stone. Or perhaps, nothing is true
anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Boltzmann#/media/File:Zentralfriedhof_Vienna_-_Boltzmann.JPG

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