Six clicks separate people from each other.

“A long-observed social phenomenon suggests that people across the globe are separated by surprisingly few connections. Credit: Stock” (ScitechDaily, Scientists Prove There Are Just Six Degrees of Separation in a Social Network)

“In a networked world, we are about six steps away from another individual. In the world of the Internet. That means six clicks separate us from any person who uses the internet. This is one of the most incredible ideas. The idea dates back to 1967. Harvard psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment. He sent letters to random people and then asked them to send those letters to their closest friends. This is a classic chain letter experiment. And of course, Milgram asked. People. Those who participated in that network test wrote their names on that paper. The idea was that Milgram wanted to know how far a random person was from Milgram. Most of those letters never return. But in letters. Those that returned were about five to six names. Before they returned to the hand of Milgram. 

This means that there are approximately six people between members of the same network. This causes an interesting thing about networks. People can be members of the same networks. But they ever. Head of each other. And this causes. The situation that we all know. Some people might say that somebody. That person knows, knows that third-party person, or knows somebody who has that name. Those people don’t necessarily know the person. But they know the name. 

“Milgram concluded from his small-world experiments that any two random people in the United States would be linked by a chain of (on average) six steps.” (Wikipedia, Small-world experiment)

In that image, the balls are people who are not involved in the chain. But those people transmit information to their own networks. The same models are used to track the origins of the epidemics. Or, those models can also be used. To track. Things like drug dealers. When some outside actor transfers information into their own networks. That causes a situation where information spreads to global networks. 

“The small-world experiment comprised several experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram and other researchers examining the average path length for social networks of people in the United States. The research was groundbreaking in that it suggested that human society is a small-world-type network characterized by short path lengths. The experiments are often associated with the phrase "six degrees of separation", although Milgram did not use this term himself.  (Wikipedia, Small-world experiment)

But then. We can think. About the networks and their problem. When we think that we all have two or three good friends, we must understand. A couple of things. In information networks, “friend” is not necessarily. The individual person. The friend is the thing. There, we share information. We all have more than just two relationships. If we think that we are three actors, who tell everything to each other. We forget. We can think that humans have two hands. They might all have two connections. Those two close friends are only one connection. And then we have the connection. None of our three people ring knows. When we share information with those outsiders that causes a situation, that information starts to spread in the network. 

Things like married people can use or look at each other’s Facebook accounts. The “Friend” can also be some group. Like a soccer team discussion forum. If we have two trusted fiends in the information network, we often forget that those fiends also have two trusted friends. But there is a possibility that those people or groups. That we think of as “fiend”. Might not know each other. So we might know those two people. But maybe one or both know some third-party member. This third-party member. Is the thing. That causes information to spread through the network. In the networked world. We don’t know. Who really is the person we see on the net? People can claim. That they are even the Secretary General of the U.N. 

The model. That. Between every user of the net. Cause interesting thoughts. Six clicks. Separate us from the biggest chiefs in the business world. Six clicks separate us from a serial killer. And six clicks separate us from secret agents and drug dealers. This means. That the secret agent, the biggest boss, the serial killer, and the drug dealer. They are always part of our networks. This causes an interesting thought. 

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-prove-there-are-just-six-degrees-of-separation-in-a-social-network/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_experiment

Neuroscientists say that it's possible to engineer dreams.

“A powerful way to investigate memory consolidation during sleep utilizes acoustic stimulation to reactivate memories. In multiple studies, Targeted Memory Reactivation (TMR) using sounds associated with prior learning improved later memory, as in recalling locations where objects previously appeared.” (APAPsycNet, Targeted memory reactivation during sleep to strengthen memory for arbitrary pairings). 

Reseachers say that the purpose of dreams is to analyze things that happened during the daytime, or wake-up time. Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (1829 – 1896) was the chemist who uncovered. The structure of benzene. Saw in a dream. Where the snake. To bite its tail. When he woke up, Kekulé von Stradonitz realized that benzene is composed of a ring of carbon atoms. Same way. Compositors are seen. When a devil or angel. Who played some composition. In dreams. 

The most well-known case is the case of Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770), who saw. The devil played violin in his dreams, and then Tartini created his Devil's Trill Sonata by following. The things that he saw in his dreams. 

Those things support the theory that dreams are made. For solving problems. The problem with the dream analysis is that people don’t remember their dreams. But. A technology called targeted memory reactivation (TMR). The TMR uses acoustic waves to activate memory blocks after sleep. The opposite system is TMD, targeted memory deactivator. TMD deactivates memory. 

That system might. Help people. To remember their dreams. The TMR technology has uncovered that.

 “Seventy-five percent of participants reported dreams that contained elements related to the unsolved puzzles. Problems that appeared in dreams were later solved at a much higher rate than those that did not (42% vs 17%)”. (ScitechDaily, Can You Engineer a Dream? Neuroscientists Say Yes – and It Boosts Creativity) 

"Tartini's Dream" by Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761-1845). Illustration of the legend behind Giuseppe Tartini's "Devil's Trill Sonata". Caption: TARTINI'S DREAM. It is said that Tartini saw in a dream the Devil who offered him his services, and that, at his command, he performed a sonata on the violin, which Tartini had never heard before and which he tried to recall upon waking. He then composed that singular sonata that is still known today under the name of the Devil's Sonata.” (Wikipedia, Devil's Trill Sonata)

That means that dreams are meant to solve problems. Or they can help to solve them. The ability to send information into human brains just before people sleep. It can make people more productive. Maybe, things like AI can someday turn our dreams into mode. That we could project them on the computer screen. Things. Like a brain-computer interface, BCI systems. Which can also. Connect human creativity. Into a model that the AI can control and use in its training. The problem is how to send the right information. Into the brain. In the right moment. 

The BCI can also read those things from the electrodes or brain implants. The ability to control dreams makes people more creative. Or, the problem is. How we remember things. That we saw while we sleep. “Targeted Memory Reactivation (TMR) is a noninvasive technique from cognitive neuroscience that allows researchers to selectively influence which recent memories are strengthened during sleep. The method is based on the brain’s natural process of consolidating memories while a person is resting”. (Biologyinsights, How Targeted Memory Reactivation Works and Its Uses)

https://biologyinsights.com/targeted-memory-reactivation-how-it-works-and-its-uses/

https://www.eneuro.org/content/11/5/ENEURO.0285-23.2024

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-01081-001

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0028393218304482?via%3Dihub

Can You Engineer a Dream? Neuroscientists Say Yes – and It Boosts Creativity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Kekul%C3%A9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Trill_Sonata

Why do we research history?

 

 Why do we research history?

We should learn from things that were made in past. 

Why do we research history? History is a series of things that happened in the past. Those things that are happened in history can use to make models for the future. Research of history is the thing. That purpose is to find the things that will happen in the future. The key question in the history research is to find answers for the questions like "what made something happen"? 

What mistakes were made in cases that are under the research? And what did people learn about those cases? Another thing is that that the purpose of the research of history is to find the answer to the question "what should we do in similar cases"? What went wrong? And what went right? 

When we are thinking about questions like "which side had better generals Confederate or Union side in the United States civil war?". We must realize that the thing that fights is the entirety. Even the best generals in the world cannot win battles alone. In those cases also henchmen are playing roles. If the henchmen don't have the equipment, will, or skills to use weapons. The battle is lost. 

When we are thinking questions "what should we do" in those cases when something has happened. We must remember that when we are looking at history. We might know all answers. We might think that the King of Sweden Charles XII of Sweden. Should not advance to Poltava, where he faced Peter the Great army. 

But the King of Sweden didn't have the same knowledge that we have today. Today we can go to the library and find history books that are telling about the history of Sweden. And there are all answers. But Charles XII acted by using the information that he had. And that was the mistake. 

When we are looking at history we are easy to justify people. Those people made mistakes. And we would be different. And at this point, I must say one thing. In history, people acted by using the information that they had. They lived in different types of society. When they made their decisions they cannot look at results from the library. 

Today history repeats itself. We are thinking that joining the common currency of the European Union Euro was a mistake. The fact is that the Euro planned to be the virtual currency. Which purpose was to help to compile prices. But it turned to real currency. When countries joined the Euro nobody criticized that thing. There was the biggest boom in the history of Europe.

And people wanted to join that boom. But they forgot that even the biggest and strongest economies will face bear markets. So when the bear markets begin that kind of thing will cause things like bankruptcies and unemployment. What do we learn about Euro? When we are middle of the booms we can join everything. But when the boom is over. We still are in the system. 

We can of course, always step out from Euro. That kind of signal would please Russian leaders very much. When we joined Euro nobody said anything against that decision. But now Euro is facing criticism. And of course, we are independent nations who can always start to think about their national interest. We all can step out from Euro immediately, and maybe we are facing a new bull market. But then sooner or later our economy will face a bear market. 

And in that case, we can search for friends. Of course, we can always let those loans that are taken from the EU without paying and then ask for more loans. We have the right to do that thing. But when we are asking for money. There should be somebody willing to offer that money to us. The thing is that when we are looking at history the best wisdom is the hindsight is the best wisdom. 

Now, today we can say wisely. We should not ever join Euro. We made a big mistake wise men say. But we always make mistakes. Only people who are not making anything are not making mistakes. And that is the fact. When we joined Euro nobody saw anything negative about that thing. Or those people said nothing against that thing. Where were the wise men when those political leaders made that decision?

Why did they keep their mouth shut? Why didn't they offer their advice when the nation joined Euro? Now the media is full of advisors who are telling that the Euro was the mistake? 

Today we can say that Euro should remain as the virtual currency. But people made the decision. By using information that was in use at that time. It's too late to cry. We are in Euro and that's it. And then we can make new decisions. 

Technology is advancing. And that brings new challenges and opportunities. 

Sometimes I have thought about what kind of decisions the King of Sweden Charles XII would make if that person had recon satellites? What if he would get confirmed information of his enemies?

At this point, I must say that we should not stare at history too much. Things like artificial intelligence are making it possible to return Euro to virtual currency or even delete that currency. The AI-based solutions offer possible to show the prices in multiple currencies. The modern internet has more capacity than some year 2000 version. And that thing makes it possible to make many things that were impossible in the year 1999. 

And if somebody is willing to pay with some other currency there is enough to put the bank card in the payment system. Then the system would change the price to the currency. That is in use in the country where the bank card is offered. The that we are living in the new era of history. And that era is full of threats and possibilities. Things like quantum computers would revolutionize data processing. And that is the thing that we should benefit more from in our life. Data processing and the internet are tools that began the revolution in the world. And that revolution continues today.

But when we are making decisions we should understand that they all have effects. We cannot make decisions undone. The decisions are made by using data. That was in use at that time.  And that's it. We cannot retake time and make them undone. But maybe we can learn something from history. And maybe, we should listen to more people when we are making some decisions in tomorrow world. And then we must say that somebody will pay the price. When some person gets something. That affects everything. 

https://thebrightchronicle.blogspot.com/

History channel version of the "Project Bluebook"

(Picture I)

Kimmo Huosionmaa

I have seen a trailer about this history and dramatized the story of the Americas attempt to investigate UFO:s. I think that there are many persons, who have seen that kind of documents before. In the trailer, the officer claims to Hynek that he wants to prove, that UFO:s or flying saucers have not existed, and here we are free to make one decision.

This decision is that maybe that officer wanted the report, what denies the existence of UFO:s because he wanted to hide the top-secret military recon or strike-fighters existence for some political or psychological reasons. Maybe he thought that government denies knowledge to make STEALTH-aircraft, what might be very fast and capable for invisible operations in the Soviet airspace.

But then we must say, that those systems existence would be uncover secrets, what government would not want to show. If that thing is real, and the thing, what wanted to hide was some very secret military system, there might be explanations about, what kind of systems or technology wanted to hide from the public eye. One of them was capacity to capture any person on the earth.

The system might consist the airships, what was very big, and at the same time very fast. If those Zeppelin-type airships are made by using carbon fiber they can be same time flexible and very capable for military and medical operations around the world. In those platforms could be very large medical space, what gives the capacity to make lobotomy or take the DNA from those persons, who are captured.

But if the mission of the Bluebook were made the fake reports for hiding the co-operation between humans and some other species, what would be that "other species". There are changes that those species would come from the Earth, that means that in some highly secretive laboratories have created the new species, what could be very intelligent. In this case, the genome, what makes us intelligent could be doubled for creating extreme intelligent persons.

There is of course change, that government covers the existence of the extraterrestrial habitats. And there could be a reason for that because if those aliens would set the Death Star orbiting us, the result for the aggression would be devastating. I sometimes have thought, that there is one good way to take some planet under the control. The method is just put the Death Star orbiting that planet, and if the persons, who live on that planet would resist the orders, would the Death Star open the fire.

Those theoretical ball-shaped battle stations could cover by using the water ice because it would cover the metallic structures and this ice core would be easier to fix than metal structures. This is, why in many theoretical spacecraft would be installed icy extra-armor. The craters, what micro meteors cause to ice can fill with water ice, what would pump to that hole. If similar damage will come to the metal core,  there would need the welding and complicated technologies to fix that hole.

Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4EmfM9isHo

Picture I

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/9/9d/DSI_hdapproach.png/revision/latest?cb=20130221005853

AIDS-virus and terrifying experiments

Kimmo Huosionmaa

I have written before about this thing, what are the most disturbing human experiments. One of the most horrifying thing, what history has been hidden, was the Stalin's "monkey soldier". In this experiment was attempted to create the soldier, who has an extremely low level of intelligence, but also capacity to follow the orders, that the rulers of the Soviet government would give to them. And in this case, there were made horrifying human experiments, what were lead by NKVD, for transferring the animal's brains to the human body. The reason, why Soviet intelligence was interesting about this technology, was that they could create the assassin, who couldn't testify against the employers.

One of those tests was so-called  "sleep experiment", where the areas, what is controlling sleep in the human brains were damaged, and the pictures, what were taken in that test were disturbing, but here I must say, that those pictures might be taken from some immunological test, where the victim's immune defense would be destroyed by using some chemicals or AIDS virus. When we are thinking about the experiments, were the brains of human would be transferred in some other body, we must remember tests, what were made by Dr. Ivanov, the man, who transferred the head of the dogs between bodies.

The problem with the brain transfer would be that immune-system would attack against that tissue. That's why the immune defense of the body must be destroyed. Of course, if the immune system would be transferred to malfunctioning condition, that would give a very effective way to control the person, who must stay in absolute sterilized space. And this makes possible to control the engineers and scientists, who would not want voluntary co-operate with the rulers. If the immune system would be destroyed, that thing would not destroy the brain tissue, what was transplanted to the other body.

And if Ivanov transferred the brains of the dog to the human head, would that man wanted to talk with animals. If the immune system of that victim would be destroyed, the bacteria, what lives in the intestines causes the death, or person dies in cancer. Here I must say, that in those experiments were used the persons, who have made the most disgusting crimes, what mankind can ever imagine, and some of them were working as the users of the gas chambers in Nazi extermination camps, what means that nobody misses them.

Ivanov was very precise, that those prisoners were very hated, that the hate would not target that man himself. And here we must ask, what kind of experiments were made in the jungles of South America and Vietnam? And at this time we must say, that also South-African government have been made human experiments, what were supervised by the military of that country. In those tests were tested methods of the heart transplantation and some other things, like antibiotics.

Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDqh-r8TQgs&has_verified=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XfrS1bkI4Y

The "Skinwalker ranch" part II (Is this place the robot test site?)

Steam horse from 19th century
(Picture I)

https://crisisofdemocracticstates.blogspot.com/

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Could somebody force the owners of that famous ranch leaving the area by using electric arcs and another kind of stuff? And did they make that thing for covering something, what people should not see? When we are thinking about the poltergeist, what was the description in the film, what is below the text, we must see, that those phenomena are very easy to make by using electric arcs, fireworks, and loudspeakers. The name of the ranch feels like something psychological operation.


So were Shermans the victims of "Project Garnet". The pseudo-UFO-project, what government uses to turn the attention from otherwise, when it wants to hide something, and in that project is made the high power electric systems, holographic equipment, airships, and other things, what are made look like UFO:s. But as we might see, there is something very interesting in the films, what is made by that case. The film is not made by me, and I don't own copyrights, but there are a couple of interesting parts.


In the 2:02 is the art, what seems very interesting, and the left figure might seem like the horse, what is hit by the rocket. And the left side of thing looks like a horse, what has some kind of hilts. Or maybe they are the fuel tanks for some kind of mechanical horse. We know that in 19th. century was made the mechanic humans, and horses, what were called as "automaton". So could that kind of technology tested in that ranch? The picture in 2:06 seems like painted while LSD trip, and this is very interesting. And in my mind came one very interesting thought, could that ranch be used for testing undercover intelligence or military surveillance robots?

The intelligence and military are , of course, interesting many kinds of robots, and some robots, what could be developed for surveillance might seem innocent, and probably intelligence would be tested also artificial cows, what could be equipped with composts, what creates the methane for the fuel cells of that device. I know this feels futuristic, but the robot, what could look for fuel from nature would be hard to detect and own more operational time, than robots what tank must refill. Or if the robot can drink the hydrocarbons like an animal, would that help to keep those things secret.

Even in 19th. century the automatons or robots, as we call those things today were seriously investigated and tested, but the technology was not enough high level for making those early robots suitable for the everyday purpose. But as we know the modern technology allows us to make even artificial cows, what eats the real food like, and that biomass can be transformed as an alcohol or methane in the anaerobic reactor, and use in fuel cells, what gives power for that kind of robots. Those robot animals can be equipped with machine guns and anti-tank weapons, and if we want to be nasty, those artificial cows can also be equipped with nuclear explosives. That kind of solutions is interesting many organizations and offices in the world of intelligence and military.

The film of "Skinwalker's ranch"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b3hu_zNs2o

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_robots

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mephisto_(automaton)


Picture 1
https://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/science/steam-horse.jpeg