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Moral matrices bind people together and blind them to the coherence, or even existence, of other matrices. This makes it very difficult for people to consider the possibility that there might really be more than one form of moral truth, or more than one valid framework for judging people or running a society.

The level of intelligence has been tremendously increased, because people are thinking and communicating in terms of screens, and not in lettered books. Much of the real action is taking place in what is called cyberspace. People have learned how to boot up, activate, and transmit their brains. Essentially, there’s a universe inside your brain. The number of connections possible inside your brain is limitless. And as people have learned to have more managerial and direct creative access to their brains, they have also developed matrices or networks of people that communicate electronically. There are direct brain/computer link-ups. You can just jack yourself in and pilot your brain around in cyberspace-electronic space.

The fact of the matter is that all apparent forms of matter and body are momentary clusters of energy. We are little more than flickers on a multidimensional television screen. This realization directly experienced can be delightful. You suddenly wake up from the delusion of separate form and hook up to the cosmic dance. Consciousness slides along the wave matrices, silently at the speed of light

Matrices act. They don't just sit there.

Religions are moral exoskeletons. If you live in a religious community, you are enmeshed in a set of norms, relationships, and institutions that work primarily on the elephant to influence your behavior. But if you are an atheist living in a looser community with a less binding moral matrix, you might have to rely somewhat more on an internal moral compass, read by the rider. That might sound appealing to rationalists, but it is also a recipe for anomie—Durkheim’s word for what happens to a society that no longer has a shared moral order.63 (It means, literally, “normlessness.”) We evolved to live, trade, and trust within shared moral matrices. When societies lose their grip on individuals, allowing all to do as they please, the result is often a decrease in happiness and an increase in suicide, as Durkheim showed more than a hundred years ago.

Shweder’s writings were my red pill. I began to see that many moral matrices coexist within each nation. Each matrix provides a complete, unified, and emotionally compelling worldview, easily justified by observable evidence and nearly impregnable to attack by arguments from outsiders.

Certainly not! I didn't build a machine to solve ridiculous crossword puzzles! That's hack work, not Great Art! Just give it a topic, any topic, as difficult as you like..." Klapaucius thought, and thought some more. Finally he nodded and said: "Very well. Let's have a love poem, lyrical, pastoral, and expressed in the language of pure mathematics. Tensor algebra mainly, with a little topology and higher calculus, if need be. But with feeling, you understand, and in the cybernetic spirit." "Love and tensor algebra?" Have you taken leave of your senses?" Trurl began, but stopped, for his electronic bard was already declaiming: Come, let us hasten to a higher plane, Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one to n, Commingled in an endless Markov chain! Come, every frustum longs to be a cone, And every vector dreams of matrices. Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze: It whispers of a more ergodic zone. In Reimann, Hilbert or in Banach space Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways. Our asymptotes no longer out of phase, We shall encounter, counting, face to face. I'll grant thee random access to my heart, Thou'lt tell me all the constants of thy love; And so we two shall all love's lemmas prove, And in bound partition never part. For what did Cauchy know, or Christoffel, Or Fourier, or any Boole or Euler, Wielding their compasses, their pens and rulers, Of thy supernal sinusoidal spell? Cancel me not--for what then shall remain? Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a node: The inverse of my verse, a null domain. Ellipse of bliss, converge, O lips divine! The product of our scalars is defined! Cyberiad draws nigh, and the skew mind Cuts capers like a happy haversine. I see the eigenvalue in thine eye, I hear the tender tensor in thy sigh. Bernoulli would have been content to die, Had he but known such a^2 cos 2 phi!

many moral matrices coexist within each nation. Each matrix provides a complete, unified, and emotionally compelling worldview, easily justified by observable evidence and nearly impregnable to attack by arguments from outsiders.

Todd was neuter, it seemed, except for the near-orgasmic pleasure he took from his formulas. Cono guessed that only a person who didn't really care for people could find personalities in equations, and friends in matrices. Todd spoke of data sets as if they were current or future lovers. Cono admired him for his ability to find joy beyond the secretory impulses that controlled most humans.

For it was now like walking among matrices of a great digital computer, the zeroes and ones twinned above, hanging like balanced mobiles right and left, ahead, thick, maybe endless. Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth

An average teenager today, if he or she could time-travel back to 1950, would have had an IQ of 118. If the teenager went back to 1910, he or she would have had an IQ of 130, besting 98 percent of his or her contemporaries. Yes, you read that right: if we take the Flynn Effect at face value, a typical person today is smarter than 98 percent of the people in the good old days of 1910. To state it in an even more jarring way, a typical person of 1910, if time-transported forward to the present, would have a mean IQ of 70, which is at the border of mental retardation. With the Raven’s Progressive Matrices, a test that is sometimes considered the purest measure of general intelligence, the rise is even steeper. An ordinary person of 1910 would have an IQ of 50 today, which is smack in the middle of mentally retarded territory, between “moderate” and “mild” retardation.

The moral matrix of liberals, in America and elsewhere, rests more heavily on the Care foundation than do the matrices of conservatives

Dreaming could be described as a de-differentiation of reasoning-matrices and even, up to a point, of personal identity.

Taking us by and large, we're a queer lot We women who write poetry. And when you think How few of us there've been, it's queerer still. I wonder what it is that makes us do it, Singles us out to scribble down, man-wise, The fragments of ourselves. Why are we Already mother-creatures, double-bearing, With matrices in body and in brain? I rather think that there is just the reason We are so sparse a kind of human being; The strength of forty thousand Atlases Is needed for our every-day concerns. There's Sapho, now I wonder what was Sapho. I know a single slender thing about her: That, loving, she was like a burning birch-tree All tall and glittering fire, and that she wrote Like the same fire caught up to Heaven and held there, A frozen blaze before it broke and fell. Ah, me! I wish I could have talked to Sapho, Surprised her reticences by flinging mine Into the wind. This tossing off of garments Which cloud the soul is none too easy doing With us to-day. But still I think with Sapho One might accomplish it, were she in the mood to bare her loveliness of words and tell The reasons, as she possibly conceived them of why they are so lovely. Just to know How she came at them, just watch The crisp sea sunshine playing on her hair, And listen, thinking all the while 'twas she Who spoke and that we two were sisters Of a strange, isolated little family. And she is Sapho -- Sapho -- not Miss or Mrs., A leaping fire we call so for convenience....

A lightbulb does not emit continuous light, it emits a hail of evanescent photons. At small scale, there is no continuity, or fixity, in the real world: there are discrete events, interactions, gapped and discrete. Schrödinger had fought tooth and nail against quantum discontinuity, against Bohr’s quantum leaps, against Heisenberg’s world of matrices: he wanted to defend the image of continuous reality provided by classical intuition.

Il passato è un grande spazio buio, colmo di echi. Le voci che ci raggiungono da lì sono intrise dell’oscurità della matrice da cui provengono e, per quanto ci si provi, non sempre possiamo decifrarle con esattezza alla luce più chiara del nostro tempo.

Liberal moral matrices rest on the Care/harm, Liberty/oppression, and Fairness/cheating foundations, although liberals are often willing to trade away fairness (as proportionality) when it conflicts with compassion or with their desire to fight oppression.

Nash’s equilibrium, when it exists, is that point where neither player can do any better, or have no regrets, given what the opponent has done. Neither can have regrets because of how the other person played the game. It may not be the best option for either player, but it’s the best under the circumstances. There isn’t always an equilibrium in a game, or a Nash equilibrium in a game theory matrix. However, if it exists, in many cases the Nash equilibrium is a far better outcome for both players than the von Neumann saddle point. In the Kelley apartment cleaning game-theory matrices above, the Nash equilibrium is for them both to clean. Consider his payoffs. He does much better if he cleans no matter what she decides to do (because 5.7 is much greater than -2.2). Now consider her payoffs. She also does better if she cleans no matter what he does (because 8.5 is much greater than -6.6). So they have a stable Nash equilibrium at the joint strategy = (Male Cleans, Female Cleans). Then neither of them can have regrets about that choice because with that choice neither of them can do any better, regardless of what the partner does. With the Nash equilibrium their strategy is to maximize one’s own gains even if it means maximizing the partner’s gains (as well as one’s own).

The Chinese sage Mencius made the analogy between morality and food 2,300 years ago when he wrote that “moral principles please our minds as beef and mutton and pork please our mouths.”4 In this chapter and the next two, I’ll develop the analogy that the righteous mind is like a tongue with six taste receptors. In this analogy, morality is like cuisine: it’s a cultural construction, influenced by accidents of environment and history, but it’s not so flexible that anything goes. You can’t have a cuisine based on tree bark, nor can you have one based primarily on bitter tastes. Cuisines vary, but they all must please tongues equipped with the same five taste receptors.5 Moral matrices vary, but they all must please righteous minds equipped with the same six social receptors.

Persinger and Lafreniere: We, as a species, exist in a world in which exist a myriad of data points. Upon these matrices of points we superimpose a structure and the world makes sense to us. The pattern of the structure originates within our biological and sociological properties.

When {Born and Heisenberg and the Göttingen theoretical physicists} first discovered matrix mechanics they were having, of course, the same kind of trouble that everybody else had in trying to solve problems and to manipulate and to really do things with matrices. So they had gone to Hilbert for help and Hilbert said the only time he had ever had anything to do with matrices was when they came up as a sort of by-product of the eigenvalues of the boundary-value problem of a differential equation. So if you look for the differential equation which has these matrices you can probably do more with that. They had thought it was a goofy idea and that Hilbert didn't know what he was talking about. So he was having a lot of fun pointing out to them that they could have discovered Schrödinger’s wave mechanics six month earlier if they had paid a little more attention to him.

The hero wasn’t me, any more than the villain was Harry McLauglin, forty-year-old forest ranger and father of two. We were just the matrices that held the pattern, the straw and clay from which myth was built. And now that we are only straw and clay again, the world does not know what to do with us.

For groups that made this political transition to egalitarianism, there was a quantum leap in the development of moral matrices. People now lived in much denser webs of norms, informal sanctions, and occasionally violent punishments. Those who could navigate this new world skillfully and maintain good reputations were rewarded by gaining the trust, cooperation, and political support of others. Those who could not respect group norms, or who acted like bullies, were removed from the gene pool by being shunned, expelled, or killed. Genes and cultural practices (such as the collective killing of deviants) coevolved. The end result, says Boehm, was a process sometimes called “self-domestication.” Just as animal breeders can create tamer, gentler creatures by selectively breeding for those traits, our ancestors began to selectively breed themselves (unintentionally) for the ability to construct shared moral matrices and then live cooperatively within them.

Jack Thornton expected Jacob to be a math savant when that's not always part of Asperger's in spite of what Hollywood seems to think. Instead, he's been frustrated by a student whose handwriting is messy, who transposes numbers when doing calculations and who is far too literal to understand some of the theoretical concepts of math like imaginary numbers and matrices.

Furious, the beast writhed and wriggled its iterated integrals beneath the King’s polynomial blows, collapsed into an infinite series of indeterminate terms, then got back up by raising itself to the nth power, but the King so belabored it with differentials and partial derivatives that its Fourier coefficients all canceled out (see Riemann’s Lemma), and in the ensuing confusion the constructors completely lost sight of both King and beast. So they took a break, stretched their legs, had a swig from the Leyden jug to bolster their strength, then went back to work and tried it again from the beginning, this time unleashing their entire arsenal of tensor matrices and grand canonical ensembles, attacking the problem with such fervor that the very paper began to smoke. The King rushed forward with all his cruel coordinates and mean values, stumbled into a dark forest of roots and logarithms, had to backtrack, then encountered the beast on a field of irrational numbers (F1) and smote it so grievously that it fell two decimal places and lost an epsilon, but the beast slid around an asymptote and hid in an n-dimensional orthogonal phase space, underwent expansion and came out, fuming factorially, and fell upon the King and hurt him passing sore. But the King, nothing daunted, put on his Markov chain mail and all his impervious parameters, took his increment Δk to infinity and dealt the beast a truly Boolean blow, sent it reeling through an x-axis and several brackets—but the beast, prepared for this, lowered its horns and—wham!!—the pencils flew like mad through transcendental functions and double eigentransformations, and when at last the beast closed in and the King was down and out for the count, the constructors jumped up, danced a jig, laughed and sang as they tore all their papers to shreds, much to the amazement of the spies perched in the chandelier-—perched in vain, for they were uninitiated into the niceties of higher mathematics and consequently had no idea why Trurl and Klapaucius were now shouting, over and over, “Hurrah! Victory!!

Perinatal phenomena occur in four distinct experiential patterns, which I call the Basic Perinatal Matrices (BPMs). Each of the four matrices is closely related to one of the four consecutive periods of biological delivery. At each of these stages, the baby undergoes experiences that are characterized by specific emotions and physical feelings; each of these stages also seems to be associated with specific symbolic images. These come to represent highly individualized pyschospiritual blueprints that guide the way we experience our lives. They may be reflected in individual and social psychopathology or in religion, art, philosophy, politics, and other areas of life. And, or course, we can gain access to these psychospiritual blueprints through non-ordinary states of consciousness, which allow us to see the guiding forces of our lives much more clearly.

Psychoanalysis overturned. Instead of the dream being the fulfilment of desires unsatisfied in real life, real life would be the site where desires born of dreams were fulfilled. Instead of being the dumping-ground of the unconscious, dreams would be the matrices of real events - thus becoming like the 'dream' of the Aborigines, for whom a child has to be dreamt before he can be begotten, 'real' paternity being merely the fulfilment of the dream.

Plus tard, j'écrirai sur le manque. Sur la privation insupportable de l'autre. Sur le dénuement provoqué par cette privation  ; une pauvreté qui s'abat. J'écrirai sur la tristesse qui ronge, la folie qui menace. Cela deviendra la matrice de mes livres, presque malgré moi. Je me demande quelquefois si j'ai même jamais écrit sur autre chose. Comme si je ne m'étais jamais remis de ça  : l'autre devenu inaccessible. Comme si ça occupait tout l'espace mental. La mort de beaucoup de mes amis, dans le plus jeune âge, aggravera ce travers, cette douleur. Leur disparition prématurée me plongera dans des abîmes de chagrin et de perplexité. Je devrai apprendre à leur survivre. Et l'écriture peut être un bon moyen pour survivre. Et pour ne pas oublier les disparus. Pour continuer le dialogue avec eux. Mais le manque prend probablement sa source dans cette première défection, dans une imbécile brûlure amoureuse.

......the integration of matrices is not a simple operation of adding together. It is a process of mutual interference and cross-fertilization, in the course of which both matrices are transformed in various ways and degrees. Hidden axioms, implied in the old codes, suddenly stand revealed and are subsequently dropped; the rules of the game are revised before they enter as sub-rules into the composite game. When Einstein bisociated energy and matter, both acquired a new look in the process.

Trees evolved to grow together in a forest. They intertwine their roots, forming a root matrix that is nearly impossible to uproot. Forest trees with interlocked roots may snap off in big winds, but they typically don’t uproot. Because aesthetics have trumped function for so long, we have planted large, isolated specimen trees ready to blow over nearly everywhere. If we change our goal from creating majestic specimen trees to picturesque groves of trees, the interlocking effect of root matrices will be strongest.

Liberals have a three-foundation morality, whereas conservatives use all six. Liberal moral matrices rest on the Care/harm, Liberty/oppression, and Fairness/cheating foundations, although liberals are often willing to trade away fairness (as proportionality) when it conflicts with compassion or with their desire to fight oppression. Conservative morality rests on all six foundations, although conservatives are more willing than liberals to sacrifice Care and let some people get hurt in order to achieve their many other moral objectives.

It is the dull and elementary parts of applied mathematics, as it is the dull and elementary parts of pure mathematics, that work for good or ill. Time may change all this. No one foresaw the applications of matrices and groups and other purely mathematical theories to modern physics, and it may be that some of the 'highbrow' applied mathematics will become 'useful' in as unexpected a way; but the evidence so far points to the conclusion that, in one subject as in the other, it is what is commonplace and dull that counts for practical life.

Germany had been united in empire for only eight years when Einstein was born in Ulm on March 14, 1879. He grew up in Munich. He was slow to speak, but he was not, as legend has it, slow in his studies; he consistently earned the highest or next-highest marks in mathematics and Latin in school and Gymnasium. At four or five the “miracle” of a compass his father showed him excited him so much, he remembered, that he “trembled and grew cold.” It seemed to him then that “there had to be something behind objects that lay deeply hidden.”624 He would look for the something which objects hid, though his particular genius was to discover that there was nothing behind them to hide; that objects, as matter and as energy, were all; that even space and time were not the invisible matrices of the material world but its attributes. “If you will not take the answer too seriously,” he told a clamorous crowd of reporters in New York in 1921 who asked him for a short explanation of relativity, “and consider it only as a kind of joke, then I can explain it as follows. It was formerly believed that if all material things disappeared out of the universe, time and space would be left. According to the relativity theory, however, time and space disappear together with the things.

Matrices vary from fully automatized skills to those with a high degree of plasticity; but even the latter are controlled by rules of the game which function below the level of awareness. These silent codes can be regarded as condensations of learning into habit. Habits are the indispensable core of stability and ordered behaviour; they also have a tendency to become mechanized and to reduce man to the status of a conditioned automaton. The creative act, by connecting previously unrelated dimensions of experience, enables him to attain to a higher level of mental evolution. It is an act of liberation-the defeat of habit by originality.

We evolved to live, trade, and trust within shared moral matrices. When societies lose their grip on individuals, allowing all to do as they please, the result is often a decrease in happiness and an increase in suicide, as Durkheim showed more than a hundred years ago.64 Societies that forgo the exoskeleton of religion should reflect carefully on what will happen to them over several generations. We don’t really know, because the first atheistic societies have only emerged in Europe in the last few decades. They are the least efficient societies ever known at turning resources (of which they have a lot) into offspring (of which they have few).

Can partisans even understand the story told by the other side? The obstacles to empathy are not symmetrical. If the left builds its moral matrices on a smaller number of moral foundations, then there is no foundation used by the left that is not also used by the right. Even though conservatives score slightly lower on measures of empathy31 and may therefore be less moved by a story about suffering and oppression, they can still recognize that it is awful to be kept in chains. And even though many conservatives opposed some of the great liberations of the twentieth century—of women, sweatshop workers, African Americans, and gay people—they have applauded others, such as the liberation of Eastern Europe from communist oppression.

Citoyen suisse né à... Kaboul (un roman en soi), j’ai l’outrecuidance d’écrire dans cette langue qui depuis ma vie de lycéen jusque l’âge certain de la retraite a constitué une de mes véritables passions. Ma matrice intellectuelle était forgée par des Français. Mon premier livre "Au-delà des mers salées... Un désir de liberté" est une autobiographie romancée. Mes propres pérégrinations servant de fil conducteur à l’odyssée d’un jeune Afghan sorti de la «caverne de Platon» de Kaboul pour affronter les réalités occidentales (un peu «Lettres persanes» à l’envers. Avec, en toile de fond, la face jamais dévoilée de l’Afghanistan «d’avant». L’histoire de l’obsolète royaume ne commençant pas, dans mon optique, avec l’invasion du pays par les armées soviétiques.

the streets. So now everyone is afraid of it. Petr GINZ Today it’s clear to everyone who is a Jew and who’s an Aryan, because you’ll know Jews near and far by their black and yellow star. And Jews who are so demarcated must live according to the rules dictated: Always, after eight o’clock, be at home and click the lock; work only labouring with pick or hoe, and do not listen to the radio. You’re not allowed to own a mutt; barbers can’t give your hair a cut; a female Jew who once was rich can’t have a dog, even a bitch, she cannot send her kids to school must shop from three to five since that’s the rule. She can’t have bracelets, garlic, wine, or go to the theatre, out to dine; she can’t have cars or a gramophone, fur coats or skis or a telephone; she can’t eat onions, pork, or cheese, have instruments, or matrices; she cannot own a clarinet or keep a canary for a pet, rent bicycles or barometers, have woollen socks or warm sweaters. And especially the outcast Jew must give up all habits he knew: he can’t buy clothes, can’t buy a shoe, since dressing well is not his due; he can’t have poultry, shaving soap, or jam or anything to smoke; can’t get a license, buy some gin, read magazines, a news bulletin, buy sweets or a machine to sew; to fields or shops he cannot go even to buy a single pair of winter woollen underwear, or a sardine or a ripe pear. And if this list is not complete there’s more, so you should be discreet; don’t buy a thing; accept defeat. Walk everywhere you want to go in rain or sleet or hail or snow. Don’t leave your house, don’t push a pram, don’t take a bus or train or tram; you’re not allowed on a fast train; don’t hail a taxi, or complain; no matter how thirsty you are you must not enter any bar; the riverbank is not for you, or a museum or park or zoo or swimming pool or stadium or post office or department store, or church, casino, or cathedral or any public urinal. And you be careful not to use main streets, and keep off avenues! And if you want to breathe some air go to God’s garden and walk there among the graves in the cemetery because no park to you is free. And if you are a clever Jew you’ll close off bank accounts and you will give up other habits too like meeting Aryans you knew. He used to be allowed a swag, suitcase, rucksack, or carpetbag. Now he has lost even those rights but every Jew lowers his sights and follows all the rules he’s got and doesn’t care one little jot.

The implications are stunning. An average teenager today, if he or she could time-travel back to 1950, would have had an IQ of 118. If the teenager went back to 1910, he or she would have had an IQ of 130, besting 98 percent of his or her contemporaries. Yes, you read that right: if we take the Flynn Effect at face value, a typical person today is smarter than 98 percent of the people in the good old days of 1910. To state it in an even more jarring way, a typical person of 1910, if time-transported forward to the present, would have a mean IQ of 70, which is at the border of mental retardation. With the Raven’s Progressive Matrices, a test that is sometimes considered the purest measure of general intelligence, the rise is even steeper. An ordinary person of 1910 would have an IQ of 50 today, which is smack in the middle of mentally retarded territory, between “moderate” and “mild” retardation.233

The data that drives algorithms isn't just a few numbers now. It's monstrous tables of millions of numbers, thousands upon thousands of rows and columns of numbers....Matrices are created and refined by computers endlessly churning through Big Data's records on everyone, and everything they've done. No human can read those matrices, even with computers helping you interpret them they are simply too large and complex to fully comprehend. But the computers can use them, applying the appropriate matrix to show us the appropriate video that will eventually lead us to make an appropriate purchase. We are not living in "The Matrix," but there's still a matrix controlling us. What does this have to do with the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories? It has everything to do with it. These algorithms are quickly becoming the primary route down the rabbit hole. To a large extent this has already happened, but it's going to get far, far worse. Tufekci described what happened when she tried watching different types of content on YouTube. She started watching videos of Donald Trump rallies. 'I wanted to write about one of [Donald Trump]'s rallies, so I watched it a few times on YouTube. YouTube started recommending to me, and autoplaying to me, white supremacist videos, in increasing order of extremism. If I watched one, it served up one even more extreme. If you watch Hilary Clinton or Bernie Sanders content, YouTube recommends and autoplays [left-wing] conspiracy videos, and it goes downhill from there." Downhill, into the rabbit hole....Without human intervention the algorithm has evolved to a perfect a method of gently stepping up the intensity of the conspiracy videos that it shows you so that you don't get turned off, and so you continue to watch. They get more intense because the algorithm has found (not in any human sense, but found nonetheless) that the deeper it can guide people down the rabbit hole, the more revenue it can make.

The media environment... has changed in ways that foster [social and cultural] division. Long gone is the time when everybody watched one of three national television networks. By the 1990s there was a cable news channel for most points on the political spectrum, and by the early 2000s there was a website or discussion group for every conceivable interest group and grievance. By the 2010s most Americans were using social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, which make it easy to encase oneself within an echo-chamber. And then there's the "filter bubble," in which search engines and YouTube algorithms are designed to give you more of what you seem to be interested in, leading conservatives and progressives into disconnected moral matrices backed up by mutually contradictory informational worlds. Both the physical and the electronic isolation from people we disagree with allow the forces of confirmation bias, groupthink, and tribalism to push us still further apart.

When one thinks of 'matrices' and 'codes' it is sometimes helpful to bear these figures in mind. The matrix is the pattern before you, representing the ensemble of permissible moves. The code which governs the matrix can be put into simple mathematical equations which contain the essence of the pattern in a compressed, 'coded' form; or it can be expressed by the word 'diagonals'. The code is the fixed, invariable factor in a skill or habit; the matrix its variable aspect. The two words do not refer to different entities, they refer to different aspects of the same activity. When you sit in front of the chessboard your code is the rule of the game determining which moves are permitted, your matrix is the total of possible choices before you. Lastly, the choice of the actual move among the variety of permissible moves is a matter of strategy, guided by the lie of the land-the 'environment' of other chessmen on the board. We have seen that comic effects are produced by the sudden clash of incompatible matrices: to the experienced chess player a rook moving bishopwise is decidedly 'funny'.

So they rolled up their sleeves and sat down to experiment -- by simulation, that is mathematically and all on paper. And the mathematical models of King Krool and the beast did such fierce battle across the equation-covered table, that the constructors' pencils kept snapping. Furious, the beast writhed and wriggled its iterated integrals beneath the King's polynomial blows, collapsed into an infinite series of indeterminate terms, then got back up by raising itself to the nth power, but the King so belabored it with differentials and partial derivatives that its Fourier coefficients all canceled out (see Riemann's Lemma), and in the ensuing confusion the constructors completely lost sight of both King and beast. So they took a break, stretched their legs, had a swig from the Leyden jug to bolster their strength, then went back to work and tried it again from the beginning, this time unleashing their entire arsenal of tensor matrices and grand canonical ensembles, attacking the problem with such fervor that the very paper began to smoke. The King rushed forward with all his cruel coordinates and mean values, stumbled into a dark forest of roots and logarithms, had to backtrack, then encountered the beast on a field of irrational numbers (F_1) and smote it so grievously that it fell two decimal places and lost an epsilon, but the beast slid around an asymptote and hid in an n-dimensional orthogonal phase space, underwent expansion and came out fuming factorially, and fell upon the King and hurt him passing sore. But the King, nothing daunted, put on his Markov chain mail and all his impervious parameters, took his increment Δk to infinity and dealt the beast a truly Boolean blow, sent it reeling through an x-axis and several brackets—but the beast, prepared for this, lowered its horns and—wham!!—the pencils flew like mad through transcendental functions and double eigentransformations, and when at last the beast closed in and the King was down and out for the count, the constructors jumped up, danced a jig, laughed and sang as they tore all their papers to shreds, much to the amazement of the spies perched in the chandelier—perched in vain, for they were uninitiated into the niceties of higher mathematics and consequently had no idea why Trurl and Klapaucius were now shouting, over and over, "Hurrah! Victory!!

We have seen how laughter is sparked off by the collision of matrices; discovery, by their integration; aesthetic experience by their juxtaposition. Snobbery follows neither of these patterns; it is a hotchpotch of matrices, the application of the rules of one game to another game. It uses a clock to measure weight, and a thermometer to to measure distance. The creative mind perceives things in a new light, the snob in a borrowed light; his pursuits are sterile, and his satisfactions of a vicarious nature. He does not aim at power; he merely wants to rub shoulders with those who wield power, and bask in their reflected glory. He would rather be a tolerated hanger-on of an envied set than a popular member of one to which by nature he belongs. What he admires in public would bore him when alone, but he is unaware of it. When he reads Kirkegaard, he is not moved by what he reads, he is moved by himself reading Kirkegaard-but he is blissfully unaware of it. His emotions do not derive from the object, but from extraneous sources associated with it; his satisfactions are pseudo-satisfactions, his triumphs self-delusions. He has never travelled in the belly of the whale; he has opted for the comforts of sterility against the pangs of creativity.

La «cultura di massa», per esempio, non può essere una cultura ecclesiastica, moralistica e patriottica: essa è infatti direttamente legata al consumo, che ha delle sue leggi interne e una sua autosufficienza ideologica, tali da creare automaticamente un Potere che non sa più che farsene di Chiesa, Patria, Famiglia e altre ubbìe affini. L’omologazione «culturale» che ne è derivata riguarda tutti: popolo e borghesia, operai e sottoproletari. Il contesto sociale è mutato nel senso che si è estremamente unificato. La matrice che genera tutti gli italiani è ormai la stessa. Non c’è più dunque differenza apprezzabile – al di fuori di una scelta politica come schema morto da riempire gesticolando – tra un qualsiasi cittadino italiano fascista e un qualsiasi cittadino italiano antifascista. Essi sono culturalmente, psicologicamente e, quel che è più impressionante, fisicamente, interscambiabili. Nel comportamento quotidiano, mimico, somatico non c’è niente che distingua – ripeto, al di fuori di un comizio o di un’azione politica – un fascista da un antifascista (di mezza età o giovane: i vecchi, in tal senso possono ancora esser distinti tra loro). Questo per quel che riguarda i fascisti e gli antifascisti medi. Per quel che riguarda gli estremisti, l’omologazione è ancor più radicale.

Donne non si nasce, lo si diventa. Nessun destino biologico, psichico, economico definisce l’aspetto che riveste in seno alla società la femmina dell’uomo; è l’insieme della storia e della civiltà a elaborare quel prodotto intermedio tra il maschio e il castrato che chiamiamo donna. Ma cos'e' la donna? E' semplicissimo – dice chi ama le formule semplici: è una matrice, un’ovaia; è una femmina: ciò basta a definirla. In bocca all’uomo, la parola “femmina” suona come un insulto; eppure l’uomo non si vergogna della propria animalità, anzi è orgoglioso se si dice di lui: “E’ un maschio!” Ora la donna è sempre stata, se non la schiava, la suddita dell’uomo; i due sessi non si sono mai divisi il mondo in parti uguali e ancora oggi, nonostante che la condizione della donna si sia evoluta, la donna è gravemente handicappata. Economicamente gli uomini e le donne costituiscono quasi due caste (due gabbie salariali si direbbe oggi); a parità di condizioni i primi hanno situazioni più favorevoli, salari più elevati, maggiori probabilità di riuscita. Nulla di nuovo si dice quando si afferma che gli uomini occupano nell’industria, nella politica, nell’economia, un numero assai più grande di posti e detengono le cariche più importanti. L’uomo può pensarsi senza la donna: lei non può pensarsi senza l’uomo. Lei è soltanto ciò che l’uomo decide che sia; così viene qualificata “il sesso”, intendendo che la donna appare essenzialmente al maschio un essere sessuato: la donna per lui è sesso, dunque lo è in senso assoluto. La donna si determina e si differenzia in relazione all’uomo, non l’uomo in relazione a lei; è l’inessenziale di fronte all’essenziale. L'uomo è definito come un essere umano e una donna come una femmina - ogni volta che si comporta come un essere umano si dice che imiti il ​​maschio. Le donne vivono disperse in mezzo agli uomini, legate ad alcuni uomini – padre o marito – più strettamente che alle altre donne; e ciò per i vincoli creati dalla casa, dal lavoro, dagli interessi economici, dalla condizione sociale. C’è una strana malafede nel conciliare il disprezzo per le donne con il rispetto di cui si circondano le madri. È un paradosso criminale negare alla donna ogni attività pubblica, precluderle la carriera maschile, proclamare la sua incapacità in tutti i campi, e affidarle l’impresa più delicata e più grave: la formazione di un essere umano. Finché la famiglia e il mito della famiglia e il mito della maternità e l'istinto materno non saranno soppressi, le donne saranno oppresse.

Au reste, l’artifice paraissait à des Esseintes la marque distinctive du génie de l’homme. Comme il le disait, la nature a fait son temps ; elle a définitivement lassé, par la dégoûtante uniformité de ses paysages et de ses ciels, l’attentive patience des raffinés. Au fond, quelle platitude de spécialiste confinée dans sa partie, quelle petitesse de boutiquière tenant tel article à l’exclusion de tout autre, quel monotone magasin de prairies et d’arbres, quelle banale agence de montagnes et de mers ! Il n’est, d’ailleurs, aucune de ses inventions réputée si subtile ou si grandiose que le génie humain ne puisse créer ; aucune forêt de Fontainebleau, aucun clair de lune que des décors inondés de jets électriques ne produisent ; aucune cascade que l’hydraulique n’imite à s’y méprendre ; aucun roc que le carton-pâte ne s’assimile ; aucune fleur que de spécieux taffetas et de délicats papiers peints n’égalent ! À n’en pas douter, cette sempiternelle radoteuse a maintenant usé la débonnaire admiration des vrais artistes, et le moment est venu où il s’agit de la remplacer, autant que faire se pourra, par l’artifice. Et puis, à bien discerner celle de ses œuvres considérée comme la plus exquise, celle de ses créations dont la beauté est, de l’avis de tous, la plus originale et la plus parfaite : la femme ; est-ce que l’homme n’a pas, de son côté, fabriqué, à lui tout seul, un être animé et factice qui la vaut amplement, au point de vue de la beauté plastique ? est-ce qu’il existe, ici-bas, un être conçu dans les joies d’une fornication et sorti des douleurs d’une matrice dont le modèle, dont le type soit plus éblouissant, plus splendide que celui de ces deux locomotives adoptées sur la ligne du chemin de fer du Nord ? L’une, la Crampton, une adorable blonde, à la voix aiguë, à la grande taille frêle, emprisonnée dans un étincelant corset de cuivre, au souple et nerveux allongement de chatte, une blonde pimpante et dorée, dont l’extraordinaire grâce épouvante lorsque, raidissant ses muscles d’acier, activant la sueur de ses flancs tièdes, elle met en branle l’immense rosace de sa fine roue et s’élance toute vivante, en tête des rapides et des marées ! L’autre, l’Engerth, une monumentale et sombre brune aux cris sourds et rauques, aux reins trapus, étranglés dans une cuirasse en fonte, une monstrueuse bête, à la crinière échevelée de fumée noire, aux six roues basses et accouplées ; quelle écrasante puissance lorsque, faisant trembler la terre, elle remorque pesamment, lentement, la lourde queue de ses marchandises !

Au reste, l’artifice paraissait à des Esseintes la marque distinctive du génie de l’homme. Comme il le disait, la nature a fait son temps ; elle a définitivement lassé, par la dégoûtante uniformité de ses paysages et de ses ciels, l’attentive patience des raffinés. Au fond, quelle platitude de spécialiste confinée dans sa partie, quelle petitesse de boutiquière tenant tel article à l’exclusion de tout autre, quel monotone magasin de prairies et d’arbres, quelle banale agence de montagnes et de mers ! Il n’est, d’ailleurs, aucune de ses inventions réputée si subtile ou si grandiose que le génie humain ne puisse créer ; aucune forêt de Fontainebleau, aucun clair de lune que des décors inondés de jets électriques ne produisent ; aucune cascade que l’hydraulique n’imite à s’y méprendre ; aucun roc que le carton-pâte ne s’assimile ; aucune fleur que de spécieux taffetas et de délicats papiers peints n’égalent ! À n’en pas douter, cette sempiternelle radoteuse a maintenant usé la débonnaire admiration des vrais artistes, et le moment est venu où il s’agit de la remplacer, autant que faire se pourra, par l’artifice. Et puis, à bien discerner celle de ses œuvres considérée comme la plus exquise, celle de ses créations dont la beauté est, de l’avis de tous, la plus originale et la plus parfaite : la femme ; est-ce que l’homme n’a pas, de son côté, fabriqué, à lui tout seul, un être animé et factice qui la vaut amplement, au point de vue de la beauté plastique ? est-ce qu’il existe, ici-bas, un être conçu dans les joies d’une fornication et sorti des douleurs d’une matrice dont le modèle, dont le type soit plus éblouissant, plus splendide que celui de ces deux locomotives adoptées sur la ligne du chemin de fer du Nord ? L’une, la Crampton, une adorable blonde, à la voix aiguë, à la grande taille frêle, emprisonnée dans un étincelant corset de cuivre, au souple et nerveux allongement de chatte, une blonde pimpante et dorée, dont l’extraordinaire grâce épouvante lorsque, raidissant ses muscles d’acier, activant la sueur de ses flancs tièdes, elle met en branle l’immense rosace de sa fine roue et s’élance toute vivante, en tête des rapides et des marées ! L’autre, l’Engerth, une monumentale et sombre brune aux cris sourds et rauques, aux reins trapus, étranglés dans une cuirasse en fonte, une monstrueuse bête, à la crinière échevelée de fumée noire, aux six roues basses et accouplées ; quelle écrasante puissance lorsque, faisant trembler la terre, elle remorque pesamment, lentement, la lourde queue de ses marchandises ! Il n’est certainement pas, parmi les frêles beautés blondes et les majestueuses beautés brunes, de pareils types de sveltesse délicate et de terrifiante force ; à coup sûr, on peut le dire : l’homme a fait, dans son genre, aussi bien que le Dieu auquel il croit.

In the next three chapters I’ll catalogue the moral intuitions, showing exactly what else there is beyond harm and fairness. I’ll show how a small set of innate and universal moral foundations can be used to construct a great variety of moral matrices. I’ll offer tools you can use to understand moral arguments emanating from matrices that are not your own.

Religions are moral exoskeletons. If you live in a religious community, you are enmeshed in a set of norms, relationships, and institutions that work primarily on the elephant to influence your behavior. But if you are an atheist living in a looser community with a less binding moral matrix, you might have to rely somewhat more on an internal moral compass, read by the rider. That might sound appealing to rationalists, but it is also a recipe for anomie—Durkheim’s word for what happens to a society that no longer has a shared moral order.63 (It means, literally, “normlessness.”) We evolved to live, trade, and trust within shared moral matrices. When societies lose their grip on individuals, allowing all to do as they please, the result is often a decrease in happiness and an increase in suicide, as Durkheim showed more than a hundred years ago.64 Societies that forgo the exoskeleton of religion should reflect carefully on what will happen to them over several generations. We don’t really know, because the first atheistic societies have only emerged in Europe in the last few decades. They are the least efficient societies ever known at turning resources (of which they have a lot) into offspring (of which they have few). THE

The historian deals with the past, but the true storyteller works with the future. You can tell the strength of an age by the imaginative truth-grasping vigour of its storytellers. Stories are matrices of thought. They are patterns formed in the mind. They weave their effect on the future. To be a storyteller is to work with, to weave with, the material of time itself.

Jubilation on the matric day is not the same thing as jubilation on the convocation day. Same is winning an election like matriculation, but delivering on your campaign promises, and even performing beyond expectations, is the convocation.

¿cómo es posible que el preámbulo de la abortada Constitución Europea mencionase a Grecia, Roma y la Ilustración entre las matrices culturales del continente, pero no al cristianismo?

The moral domain is unusually narrow in WEIRD cultures, where it is largely limited to the ethic of autonomy (i.e. moral concerns about individuals harming, oppressing, or cheating other individuals). It is broader — including the ethics of community and divinity— in most other societies, and within religious and conservative moral matrices within WEIRD societies.

if you are an atheist living in a looser community with a less binding moral matrix, you might have to rely somewhat more on an internal moral compass, read by the rider. That might sound appealing to rationalists, but it is also a recipe for anomie—Durkheim’s word for what happens to a society that no longer has a shared moral order.63 (It means, literally, “normlessness.”) We evolved to live, trade, and trust within shared moral matrices. When societies lose their grip on individuals, allowing all to do as they please, the result is often a decrease in happiness and an increase in suicide, as Durkheim showed more than a hundred years ago.64

We want to move a thousand of these,” Cowboy says. “All perfect, all Orbital quality, made for Yoyodyne by their Olivetti subsidiary. OCM Twenty-two Eighty-ones, to be precise.” There are matrices times fifteen K in the panzer, but he doesn’t want to take more of the Hetman’s property than necessary. He hasn’t forgotten whom Sarah is really working for.

Tensors are higher dimensional extensions of matrices. Just as matrices can represent pairwise correlations, tensors can represent higher order correlations (Anima Anandkumar)

C'est la mère qui nous fait naître au monde. Lové en son sein, le foetus découvre ses premières sensations, épurées, adoucies. Lumières, sons, caresses. Il baigne dans un univers d'éther dont il est le soleil, soudé à une chair qui lui est vouée et dévolue. Le ventre maternel, la matrice. Un état sans conscience, délivré du désir et de la peur.

If there is one thing that we should have fixed in the new South Africa it is education. After my matric I enrolled for an A-level course in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Within the first day of studies my South African friends and I knew, without a shadow of doubt, that the South African system had well-nigh destroyed us: the Zimbabweans were far more educated, more assured and more able to grasp the advanced concepts put before us by our teachers. We were left in the dust. Today, a tour of South Africa’s banks, pension funds, asset managers, insurance companies and other financial services firms will show you that it is Zimbabweans and other black Africans who are at the top of the pile. The reason for this is not difficult to find: Zimbabwe and other newly independent nations did not fiddle with their education systems. The system worked in colonial days and under post-liberation administrations. South Africa’s education system, however, was allowed to stutter, calcify and rot by our own post-1994 administrations, including that of Nelson Mandela.

The comedian toys with our rational minds and brings about a "momentary fusion between two habitually incompatible matrices." The punch line comes a surprise but makes perfect sense. The sudden click of logic makes a joke funny; humor is reasonable. Someone without a strongly developed sense of logic is unlikely to have a good sense of humor either.

Je suis debout et Te regarde et je hais la blancheur de Ton front et l'innocence incommensurable de Tes yeux. Tu es blanche et Tu aveugles mes yeux. Je veux me pencher impitoyablement et laisser mon âme passer au-dessus de Toi et graver des rides dans Ton âme. Je veux ensanglanter Ton coeur avec le sang des espoirs blessés et inconsolables et avec la déchirure inguérissable des pensées désespérées. Tu es blanche et tu aveugles mes yeux ! Et je veux Te serrer des nuits entières entre mes bras et qu'au matin tu t'en ailles, inconnue et désespérée avec une blessure inguérissable dans un coin de Ton coeur et un désir infini de mort dans Tes grands yeux si beaux. Façonner Ta pensée et souiller Ton coeur et jeter Ton âme dans la matrice corrompue où mon âme s'est jetée. Je me sens la puissance, une nuit, de le corrompre tout entière. Que tu deviennes un écho de ma souffrance, une création de la corruption de mon âme, un lys au parfum perdu, au duvet souillé et aux feuilles déchirées comme si, toute la nuit, était passé sur lui un ouragan sans fin. ~ P 56

Can you remember when you finished primary, how about when you passed matric, graduation day, your learner's & license, getting your first salary slip and the most valuable of them all; having your first child, walking down the isle and even buying your first car:-) These are the common feelings from all those achievements: Gratitude, Fulfillment, Joy, Appreciation, Pride & your Worthiness. Now go achieve more

Liberals have a three-foundation morality, whereas conservatives use all six. Liberal moral matrices rest on the Care/harm, Liberty/oppression, and Fairness/cheating foundations, although liberals are often willing to trade away fairness (as proportionality) when it conflicts with compassion or with their desire to fight oppression. Conservative morality rests on all six foundations, although conservatives are more willing than liberals to sacrifice Care and let some people get hurt in order to achieve their many other moral objectives.

So even if we all share the same small set of cognitive modules, we can hook actions up to modules in so many ways that we can build conflicting moral matrices on the same small set of foundations.

Ils et elles, poussés par leur instinct vers une nouvelle naissance, s'enfermaient, avant l'expulsion, dans des matrices chaudes et demi-obscures où, secoués par des pulsations sonores, ils perdaient les derniers fragments de préjugés et de conventions qui leur collaient encore par-ici et par-là aux articulations, au sexe ou à la cervelle.

Table 3.2 Components of Clinical Whole Blood, Plasma, and Serum Matrices

D: Haide să facem câte o meditaţie de curăţare a Terrei în fiecare zi de întâi a fiecărei luni. Aşa vom vedea ce schimbări majore se vor petrece. A: Bine. La ce oră? D: Tot la zece şi jumătate. A: Şi medităm la curăţarea Terrei? D: Cerem Matricei ca apa, aerul, solul şi tot ceea ce există pe Terra viu sau materie să se cureţe de tot ceea ce nu are correspondent benefic şi adevărat în Matrice. A: Atât? D: Da. Durează cinci secunde.

Aceast limbaj amar Iti cunosc strazile , dulce oras, iti cunosc demonii si ingerii ce umbla in stolui si stau cocotati pe crengile tale ca pasarile . Te cunosc si pe tine , rau , de parca ai fi curs prin inima mea. Eu sunt fiica ta razboinica. Sunt litere facute din trupul tau cum e fantana facuta din apa. Sunt limbaje carora tu le esti matrice pe care, cand le vorbim, orasul se cladeste.

quando l’isis «insegna» Distruggendo i reperti di Mosul e Nimrud i terroristi hanno paradossalmente dimostrato di capire cosa rappresentino e quanto siano preziosi Luigi Giaccone | 339 parole Dobbiamo essere «molto riconoscenti» verso quei militanti dell’Isis che hanno distrutto reperti assiri a Mosul e a Nimrud, perché ci hanno dimostrato di aver capito perfettamente ciò che quei resti testimoniano. Afferma Domenico Quirico su questo giornale: «La storia è il principale avversario dello Stato totalitario, di ogni Stato totalitario». Studiare la storia, e soprattutto quei periodi che sembrano più lontani da noi, significa confrontarsi con ciò che è diverso da noi, uscire dal guscio asfittico in cui siamo soliti muoverci e che vediamo come unico universo possibile. Quest’avventura, che ci apre alla conoscenza di mondi nuovi e di culture altre, ha una straordinaria valenza formativa, in quanto palestra di democrazia e di educazione allo spirito critico e al confronto delle idee, ma proprio per questo costituisce una minaccia per qualunque forma di pensiero unico, di qualunque matrice. Tutti i regimi autoritari si sono misurati con questa pericolosa infezione. In alcuni casi si sono limitati a distruggere ogni testimonianza del passato, a far tabula rasa di tutto ciò che potesse minacciare l’unica ideologia ammessa: oggi l’Isis in Iraq, ieri i talebani in Afghanistan, i khmer rossi in Cambogia, la rivoluzione culturale in Cina. Le dittature europee del Novecento hanno invece trovato un sistema più subdolo, strumentalizzando il passato ed estrapolando figure e momenti esemplari, da proporre come precursori per giustificare il proprio operato; hanno disinfettato la storia dal virus eversivo dell’alterità per omologarla alle proprie ideologie, appiattendo il passato sul presente: così è stato per l’impero romano con il fascismo, la società spartana con il nazismo, l’icona di Spartaco con i regimi comunisti. Che lo studio della storia, anche di quella meno recente, sia fondamentale, l’Isis e i vari Stati autoritari hanno dimostrato di averlo capito: perché noi l’abbiamo dimenticato? Insegnante al Liceo Cavour di Torino

The Names of Allah are endless because they are known by what comes from them, and what comes from them is endless, even though they can be traced back to the limited roots which are the matrices of the Names or the presences of the Names. In reality, there is but one of the Names or the presences of the Names. In reality, there is but One Reality which assumes all these relations and aspects which are designated by the Divine Names. The Reality grants that each of the Names, which manifest themselves without end, has a reality by which it is distinguished from another Name. It is that reality by which it is distinguished which is the Name itself - not that which it shares.

One of the most widely used intelligence tests is something called Raven’s Progressive Matrices. It requires no language skills or specific body of acquired knowledge. It’s a measure of abstract reasoning skills. A typical Raven’s test consists of forty-eight items, each one harder than the one before it, and IQ is calculated based on how many items are answered correctly.

L’émergence historique de la famille nucléaire absolue révèle surtout à quel point celle-ci ne peut fonctionner dans le vide. Elle forme, avec une collectivité rurale forte, capable de fiscaliser l’entretien des orphelins et des vieux, une totalité fonctionnelle. L’Angleterre semble avoir inventé l’État social en même temps que la famille nucléaire absolue. La puissance de l’encellulement local fait partie de la matrice anthropologique anglaise, avec ce paradoxe supplémentaire d’un collectif local qui autorise une mobilité extrême des hommes et des femmes entre les communautés.

Venimos a la vida para acoger el darse de Dios y para convertirnos en matrices de su desplegarse en el mundo.

I described research showing that people who grow up in Western, educated, industrial, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) societies are statistical outliers on many psychological measures, including measures of moral psychology. I also showed that: • The WEIRDer you are, the more you perceive a world full of separate objects, rather than relationships. • Moral pluralism is true descriptively. As a simple matter of anthropological fact, the moral domain varies across cultures. • The moral domain is unusually narrow in WEIRD cultures, where it is largely limited to the ethic of autonomy (i.e., moral concerns about individuals harming, oppressing, or cheating other individuals). It is broader—including the ethics of community and divinity—in most other societies, and within religious and conservative moral matrices within WEIRD societies. • Moral matrices bind people together and blind them to the coherence, or even existence, of other matrices. This makes it very difficult for people to consider the possibility that there might really be more than one form of moral truth, or more than one valid framework for judging people or running a society. In the next three chapters I’ll catalogue the moral intuitions, showing exactly what else there is beyond harm and fairness. I’ll show how a small set of innate and universal moral foundations can be used to construct a great variety of moral matrices. I’ll offer tools you can use to understand moral arguments emanating from matrices that are not your own. SIX

MAÎTRE DE LA FATIGUE Le papier sur lequel j'écris Sent la saucisse, La ville où je vis sent le cadavre, Le peuple sent la suif, Le triomphe sent la détresse. Où aller, où mettre ma tête ? Sur la pierre de l'anachorète, Sur les genoux des chevaliers errants, Dans ton sommeil, Sur le ventre du chevreuil, Dans ta matrice.

We had now left the Enlightenment and entered the world of “belief matrices.

We, as a species, exist in a world in which exist a myriad of data points. Upon these matrices of points we superimpose a structure and the world makes sense to us. The pattern of the structure originates within our biological and sociological properties.

The real is produced from miniaturized cells, matrices, and memory banks, models of control - and it can be reproduced an indefinite number of times from these. It no longer needs to be rational, because it no longer measures itself against either an ideal or negative instance. It is no longer anything but operational. In fact, it is no longer really the real, because no imaginary envelops it anymore. It is a hyperreal, produced from a radiating synthesis of combinatory models in a hyperspace without atmosphere

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Tutto questo si basa però su un presupposto fondamentale: che esista una sorta di matrice comune che renda possibile tradurre una cultura nei termini di un’altra. Ogni sistema culturale si fonda su premesse particolari, assolutamente diverse le une dalle altre. Lo stesso si può dire delle relazioni logiche che legano i diversi aspetti di ogni cultura, però questa incommensurabilità non impedisce la traduzione. Il filoso austriaco Paul Karl Feyerabend sostiene che esiste in ogni cultura un “dispositivo di transitività”, dovuto alla capacità che ogni linguaggio possiede di elaborare concetti nuovi, inventandosi termini e nuove modalità comunicative.

It is simpler to redefine the meaning of “equal.

Given the finite and nondeterministic nature of these observations, the estimate of the covariance matrix includes some amount of noise. Empirical covariance matrices derived from estimated factors are also numerically ill-conditioned, because those factors are also estimated from flawed data. Unless we treat this noise, it will impact the calculations we perform with the covariance matrix, sometimes to the point of rendering the analysis useless.

What Born realized was that the symbols Heisenberg was manipulating in his equations were mathematical objects called matrices, and there was an entire field of mathematics devoted to them, called matrix algebra. For example, Heisenberg had found that there was something strange about his symbols: when entity A was multiplied by entity B, it was not the same as B multiplied by A; the order of multiplication mattered. Real numbers don’t behave this way. But matrices do. A matrix is an array of elements. The array can be a single row, a single column, or a combination of rows and columns. Heisenberg had brilliantly intuited a way of representing the quantum world and asking questions about it using such symbols, while being unaware of matrix algebra.

Quand la cosmologie hindoue enseigne que les âmes des défunts vont tout d'abord à la Lune, elle suggère indirectement, et en marge d'autres analogies beaucoup plus importantes, l'expérience d'incommensurable solitude - les « affres de la mort » - par laquelle l'âme passe en sortant « à rebours » de la matrice protectrice qu'était pour elle le monde terrestre; la lune matérielle est comme le symbole de l'absolu dépaysement, de la solitude nocturne et sépulcrale, du froid d'éternité (1); et c'est ce terrible isolement post mortem qui marque le choc en retour par rapport, non à tel péché, mais à l'existence formelle. (1) C'est ce qui nous permet de douter - soit dit en passant - de l'opportunité psychologique d'un voyage dans l'espace. Même en admettant des facteurs mentaux imprévisibles qui rendent psychologiquement possible une telle aventure, - et en écartant ici la possibilité d'un secours satanique, - il est peu probable que l'homme, en revenant sur terre, y retrouve son ancien équilibre et son ancien bonheur. Il y a quelque chose d'analogue dans la folie, qui est une mort, c'est-à-dire un effondrement ou une décomposition, non de l'âme immortelle, mais de son revêtement psychique, l'ego empirique; les fous sont des morts-vivants, le plus souvent en proie à des influences ténébreuses, mais véhiculant parfois au contraire, - dans des milieux de grande ferveur religieuse, - telle influence angélique; mais dans ce dernier cas, il ne s'agit plus à proprement parler de folie, la fissure naturelle étant compensée et en quelque sorte comblée par le Ciel. Quoi qu'il en soit, la folie se caractérise, surtout chez ceux qui y sombrent sinon toujours chez ceux qui s'y trouvent déjà, par une angoisse qui marque le glissement dans un épouvantable dépaysement, exactement comme c'est le cas à la mort ou, par hypothèse, lors d'un voyage interplanétaire. Dans tous les cas, les limites normales de l'ambiance humaine sont dépassées, et cela a lieu également dans la science moderne d'une façon générale : on est projeté dans un vide qui ne laisse plus le choix qu'entre le matérialisme ou une réadaptation métaphysique, à laquelle s'opposent les principes mêmes de cette science.

Sais-tu qu’il existe une personne dans ce monde qui ne t’abandonnera jamais? La seule qui sera toujours près de toi, c’est toi! Prends soin de toi, regarde-toi avec affection, en comprenant tes faiblesses et tes forces sans te juger. Commence par t’aimer du plus profond de ton être et tu pourras chérir quelqu’un sans peur. Tu te sens seule, parce que tu te délaisses. Aie confiance en la vie. Tu as émis tes souhaits, sois sûre que la matrice universelle œuvre pour toi. Tu vis ce que tu dois vivre, tu rencontres les bonnes personnes au bon moment pour atteindre tes objectifs. Tu es aimée bien au-delà de ce que tu peux imaginer. Tu es sur ton chemin.

«Odio questo posto, questa prigione senza sbarre, questo pianeta infetto!»

The heyday of conspiracy theories had been the reaction to the French Revolution. Like a virus, they would come to life every time that society was led into a state of anxiety and fears. But in the Modern Era they turned into a true secular religion. The surge of these theories in the Modern Era reflected the need to explain the collapse of a seemingly unshakeable ancien régime. This collapse was so unexpected, the break with medieval civilization so inevitable, and the upheaval so profound and so fraught with far-reaching economic, social, and political consequences that it needed an explanation. But the level of a patriarchal society's political culture changed too little, and the earlier one remained the explanatory matrix. Hence Divine Providence did not disappear, but a new fetish came to replace God: humans will and reason. In this respect, conspiracy is a sort of replacement of Revelation for an ill-defined, immature patriarchal consciousness disintegrating under the pressure of the Enlightenment, already having lost the integrity of faith but not yet having gained a basis in reason. Conspiracy gives the masses who have been cast out of the traditional matrices of thought explanations of the world missing outside of religion. Hence it contains elements of both religion (a parallel reality fitted to a ready-made picture of the world, teleologism) and rationalism (total logicalization, the search for cause-and-effect links and the hidden reasons for a phenomena lying within the interests of agents, and fitting the world into a logically interconnected system). This drama that burst onto Europe after the French Revolution finally arrived in Russia, with a century's delay.

The progressive de-sacralisation of modern man has altered the content of his spiritual life without breaking the matrices of his imagination: a quantity of mythological litter still lingers in the ill-controlled zones of the mind.

The transcendence of the thing compels us to say that it is plenitude only by being inexhaustible, that is, by not being all actual under the look--but it promises this total actuality, since it is there...But the thing is not really observable: there is always a skipping over in every observation, one is never at the thing itself. What we call the sensible is only the fact that the indefinite succession of Abschattungen precipitates--But, conversely, there is a precipitation or crystallization of the imaginary, of the existentials, of the symbolic matrices.

This book explained why people are divided by politics and religion. The answer is not, as Manichaeans would have it, because some people are good and others are evil. Instead, the explanation is that our minds were designed for groupish righteousness. We are deeply intuitive creatures whose gut feelings drive our strategic reasoning. This makes it difficult—but not impossible—to connect with those who live in other matrices, which are often built on different configurations of the available moral foundations. FIGURE 13.1.

new scheme of merit-cum-means scholarships was introduced for post-matric students, with twenty million students benefitting by the end of UPA-1.

The humorist has solved his problem by joining two incompatible matrices together in a paradoxical synthesis. His audience, on the other hand, has its expectations shattered and its reason affronted by the impact of the second matrix on the first; instead of fusion there is collision; and in the mental disarray which ensues, emotion, deserted by reason, is flushed out in laughter.

The creative act of the humorist consisted in bringing about a momentary fusion between two habitually incompatible matrices. Scientific discovery, as we shall presently see, can be described in very similar terms-as the permanent fusion of matrices of thought previously believed to be incompatible.

Matrices vary in flexibility from reflexes and more or less automatized routines which allow but a few strategic choices, to skills of almost unlimited variety; but all coherent thinking and behaviour is subject to some specifiable code of rules to which its character of coherence is due-even though the code functions partly or entirely on unconscious levels of the mind, as it generally does. A bar-pianist can perform in his sleep or while conversing with the barmaid; he has handed over control to the automatic pilot, as it were.

To program their psychological matrices to include promiscuity and masochism.

Critiquer le sujet ne signifie pas cesser toute lutte et s'abandonner au fatalisme ; cela veut dire au contraire une nouvelle forme de lutte, qui se donne consciemment pour but la rupture avec la matrice capitaliste.

use this method of airframe shock testing in economic engineering, the prices of commodities are shocked, and the public consumer reaction is monitored. The resulting echoes of the economic shock are interpreted theoretically by computers and the psycho-economic structure of the economy is thus discovered. It is by this process that partial differential and difference matrices are discovered that define the family household and make possible its evaluation as an economic industry (dissipative consumer structure). Then the response of the household to future shocks can be predicted and manipulated, and society becomes a well-regulated animal with its reins under the control of a sophisticated computer-regulated social energy bookkeeping system. “Eventually every individual element of the structure comes under computer control through a knowledge of personal preferences, such know ledge guaranteed by computer association of consumer preferences (universal product code — UPC — zebra-stripe pricing codes on packages) with identified consumers (identified via association with the use of a credit card and later a permanent “tatooed” body number [WC emphasis] invisible under normal ambient illumination.… THE ECONOMIC MODEL “...The Harvard Economic Research Project (1948-) was an extension of World War II Operations Research. Its purpose was to discover the science of controlling an economy: at first the American economy, and then the world economy. It was felt that with sufficient mathematical foundation and data, it would be nearly as easy to predict and control the trend of an economy as to predict and control the trajectory of a projectile. Such has proven to be the case. Moreover, the economy has been transformed into a guided missile on target.

To use this method of airframe shock testing in economic engineering, the prices of commodities are shocked, and the public consumer reaction is monitored. The resulting echoes of the economic shock are interpreted theoretically by computers and the psycho-economic structure of the economy is thus discovered. It is by this process that partial differential and difference matrices

De lui-même, en lui-même, comme ensemble de croyances, comme méthode d'analyse, l'orientalisme ne peut se développer. En fait, il est par sa doctrine l'antithèse du développement, son argument central est le mythe du développement interrompu des Sémites. De cette matrice sortent d'autres mythes, chacun montrant le Sémite comme le contraire de l'Occidental et la victime, irrémédiablement, de ses propres faiblesses. Par tout un enchaînement de circonstances, le mythe sémitique a bifurqué dans le mouvement sioniste ; l'un des Sémites a suivi la voie de l'orientalisme, l'autre, l'Arabe, a été forcé de suivre celle de l'Oriental.

La critique ne peut consister en l'éternelle invocation du sujet, que ce soit dans les catégories ou en tournant le dos aux catégories ; elle doit viser la remise en cause théorique et, à terme, la destruction pratique de la matrice catégorielle, donc du sujet, du mâle-occidental-blanc lui-même.