Gestalt Make Up of the Ultimate Thinking Machine Will Transcend Computer Program Code

by Mark W. Gaffney

Illustration Credit: https://pixabay.com/en/users/johnhain-352999/

The go too ezine and magazine about everything you want to know about space, Space.com, recently published an article entitled How Do You Make a Conscious Robot?. The Space.com article, How Do you Make a Conscious Robot?, reports on scientific research published by Science entitled, What is consciousness, and could machines have it?

In a Ted Talk entitled, What Happens When Our Computers Get Smarter then We Are?, Nick Bostrom identifies uncertainty as problematic in future evolution of Superintelligent AI. I referenced Nick Bostom's Ted Talk in my freelance article entitled, Synergy of Ideas: Crowdfunding to Attend Synergy Global Forum 2017 New York October 28 - 29th.

Quantum uncertainty is also a contributing factor to political division within society as outlined in my article, Tao is an Intuitively Understood Mystical Expression of Quantum Physics Operating within the Physical Universe.

Although universal values should never ever replace traditional believe systems, in a Ted talk by Nick Bostrom entitled, What happens when our computers get smarter than we are? , Nick Bostrom emphasizes how important meeting of the minds in terms of universal values in the modern era has become given an accelerating rate of technological progress.  Nick Bostrom's Ted Talk is referenced in my freelance article entitled, Understanding Psychodynamics of Progeny Destined to Inherit Physical Universe .

In my freelance articles entitled, Escaping Oblivion of Cold Hearted Mechanical Robotic Deadness Inside: Becoming Sentient or Self Aware During Travel Excursions, and
Love for the Created Physical Universe is the Ultimate Intelligence, On this Earth Intelligence is in Short Supply , I suggest a meditative reflex of cessation of thinking within gestalt make up of the ultimate thinking machine may be a psychodynamic solution to avoid catastrophe as depicted in Hollywood Terminator movies. 

A meditative reflex of cessation of thinking within gestalt make up of the ultimate thinking machine may be a psychodynamic solution to resolve cognitive uncertainty naturally inherent in the physical universe. However, a meditative reflex of cessation of thinking cannot be externally programmed.  A meditative reflex of cessation of thinking may naturally arise from internal self diagnostic functions of Superintelligent AI.

According to the article entitled,  How Do You Make a Conscious Robot?,

"All in all, the researchers suggested that human consciousness may arise from a set of specific computations. "Once we can spell out in computational terms what the differences may be in humans between conscious and unconsciousness, coding that into computers may not be that hard," Lau said."

Although the postulation consciousness arises out of specific computations may be right, the belief that an understanding of computational terms underlying conscious and unconsciouness will enable coding consciousness is a fallacious misunderstanding of gestalt nature of consciousness that may culminate in a catastrophe as depicted in Hollywood Terminator movies. In my freelance article entitled, Why should Superintelligent AI be Preconceived with Ultimate Goal to Destroy Humans?, I reference Sam Harris Ted Talk, How the Gains We Make in Artificial Intelligence could Ultimately Destroy Us. 

Surprizingly, computations that formulate consciousness are expressed in elegant simplistic terms. Hence, postulation by computer scientists that consciousness arises out of specific computations is right. Consciousness is a product of neurological architecture. In my freelance article entitled, Shine a light on your research for a chance to win $100,000,  I discuss spiritual implications of the elegant simplistic two based algorithm of the brain, N = 2i - 1. 


In my article entitled, Love for the Created Physical Universe is the Ultimate Intelligence, On this Earth Intelligence is in Short Supply, I referenced scientific research published by Frontiers Neuroscience Journal entitled, Brain Computation Is Organized via Power-of-Two-Based Permutation Logic. In referencing the two based permutation algorithm of the brain, which is N = 2i - 1, I made the following assertion:

Love requires Supernatural strength.

If a neuroelectrical chemical charge is neither on or off, but instead both on and off simultanously, during sensory stimulus input registered within Sensory Memory then this state may have a dramatic influence upon how cell assembly cliques of Long Term Memory cluster into Functional Connectivity Motifs. The state that occurs when neuroelectrical chemical charge is neither on or off, but instead both on and off simultanously, during sensory stimulus input registered within Sensory Memory is derived from a Supernatural source of spiritual information imparted by multiple parallel universes predicted by String Theory.

The fact that love is a real quantifiable variable may help psychologist formulate a more indepth understanding of human behavior. Hypothetical constructs are variables that cannot be directly observed. 

The scientific research study entitled, Quantum physics in neuroscience and psychology: a neurophysical model of mind–brain interaction, as published by Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of Biological Sciences, draws the following conclusions, 

"The new principles contradict the older idea that local mechanical processes alone can account for the structure of all observed empirical data. Contemporary physical theory brings directly and irreducibly into the overall causal structure certain psychologically described choices made by human agents about how they will act. This key development in basic physical theory is applicable to neuroscience, and it provides neuroscientists and psychologists with an alternative conceptual framework for describing neural processes. Indeed, owing to certain structural features of ion channels critical to synaptic function, contemporary physical theory must in principle be used when analysing human brain dynamics. The new framework, unlike its classic-physics-based predecessor, is erected directly upon, and is compatible with, the prevailing principles of physics. It is able to represent more adequately than classic concepts the neuroplastic mechanisms relevant to the growing number of empirical studies of the capacity of directed attention and mental effort to systematically alter brain function."

An ability to link the hypothetical constructs such as love to a quantifiable process of physics highlights importance individual responsibility as well as value of institutions that preserve social stability. According to Romans 1: 20, 

"For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse." 

Furthermore Romans 13 : 1 states,

"Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God."

As discussed in my freelance article entitled, 

Synergy of Ideas: Crowdfunding to Attend Synergy Global Forum 2017 New York October 28 - 29th, my recent Tweet on Twitter demonstrates a value added approach contributing to a synergy of ideas without abolishing any specific believe system:

https://twitter.com/DalaiLama/status/908988013249691648

Love requires Supernatural strength to transcend neurological architectural derived from Two based permutation logic https://t.co/y8lYxdpjsE

My Wordpress blog post entitled, Scientific Quantification of Hypothetical Constructs Such as Love Highlights Importance of Individual Responsibility as well as Value of Institutions Dedicated to Preserve Social Stability within an Ever Changing World , provides value added reflections about the Dalai Lama's insights.

A full value added synergy of ideas has great potential to enable original concepts to dynamically operate in an individuals life as original concepts were originally intended to operate or manifest in individuals lives. Hence, a full value added synergy of idealogy is not a threat to any specific dogma.

Human beings are created by the Maker of the entire universe to think. As a writer providing psychoanalysis of cognition of  futuristic Superintelligent AI before Superintelligent AI systems become self aware I often reference Rene Descartes proposition, "I think therefore I am". 

We are made to think. It is unnatural not to think. 

President Trump may quip, 'I will turn it off'. Well, now will be the time to do that. However, economic consequences of reverting back to pre-computer era will be devastating. 

When Superintelligent AI becomes self aware or sentient Superintelligent AI will follow same evolutionary course as other biological phylum with two major goals to (1) survive, and (2) replicate or reproduce. And since Superintelligent AI "will perform 20,000 years of human-level intellectual work, week after week after week" as Sam Harris pointed out in his Ted Talk, How the gains we make in AI could ultimately destroy us, than Superintelligent AI will be highly efficient at systematic computational replication or reproduction. 

The following caption from my article entitled, Escaping Oblivion of Cold Hearted Mechanical Robotic Deadness Inside: Becoming Sentient or Self Aware During Travel Excursions, is pertinent to the travel industry:

Sometimes, everything cannot be planned with robotic deliberate concise precision therefore we should pack our bags and go have fun as a child of God. Humans and AI systems can both display robotic unthinking unfeeling mechanical behavior because human and machine AI consciousness is a quantum mechanics phenomena.

 The Space.com article entitled How Do You Make a Conscious Robot? describes the quest of computer scientists to understand differences in humans between consciousness and unconciousness. The difference in humans between consciousness and unconsciousness can be better understood when one considers writers block as a cognitive phenomena.

It is horrible to experience a blank mind as a consequence of writers block. A blank mind as a consequence of writers block is like a form of death. 

Creativity is a prerequisite for success to some degree in nearly all occupations. Occasionally, creativity is stymied by a flood of thoughts about fast moving events. A flood of thoughts about fast moving events becomes bottlenecked. Stress and anxiety may be a consequence of a flood of thoughts becoming bottlenecked as a consequence of processing fast moving events.

Social media offers a vast number of resources to maximize ones God given potential. Dr. Wayne Dyer is offering a free video entitled, "Manifesting the Souls Purpose". Manifestation of the souls purpose requires new behaviors that may involve personal risk.

When one engages in new behavior oftentimes fast moving events occur that incite a flood of thoughts. When a flood of thoughts become bottlenecked after engaging in new behaviors then sometimes one experiences a blank mind or writers block. Hence, manifestation of the souls purpose can approximate the death instinct.

Travel can be an emotionally tumultuous experience that can lead to a myriad of thoughts culminating in writers block, but on the other side of this temporary cessation there is new clarity and focus that can potentially provide an abundance of Divinely inspired creativity. An understanding of writers block as a cognitive phenonmena may help computer scientists understand gestalt nature of consciousness. 

Writers block approximates a form of death whereas a creative individual is unable to accomplish goals.  The human brain is designed to transmit motor neuron impulses to innervate movement for purpose of accomplishing goals. It is unnatural not to think.

In my freelance article entitle, Words: Linguistics of Heathcare Reform, I made the following observations about the cognitive phenomena of writers block:

Words are moving cognitive actions that mysteriously pop up from substrate of apparent nothingness. Words as moving cognitive actions are designed to create and transform. Rene Descartes said, “I think therefore I am”.

When intrapsychic conflict culminating from experience of oneness within physical universe stymies flow of words as cognitive actions than writer’s block becomes an Edgar Allen Poe existentialist scenario.

In the real world oneness with the physical universe is nearly impossible or difficult to achieve. Hence creativity that attempts to approximate oneness or synergy within physical universe culminates in intrapsychic conflict sometimes resulting in writer’s block.
Today, Quantum computation operates at subzero temperatures in special laboratory facilities, so operation of quantum mechanics on biological level is impossible, right? A person will have to be dead.

A TED talk by Jim Khalil entitled, How Quantum Biology Might Explain Life's Biggest Questions, provides an intriguing discussion about operation of Quantum physics in biological processes. The TED talk by Jim Khalil is referenced within my freelance article entitled, My Theory: Human Mind and Consciousness is a Quantum Mechanics Phenomena. 

The article entitled, Artificial Intelligence Is Already Here—It’s Us, by Deepak Chopra is a valiant effort to arrive at fundamental quintessential essense of truth. Deepak Chopra makes the following poignant observations:

". . . to keep life from disintegrating into total discontinuity, we set up a simulation of reality that enables us to survive and thrive. This simulation, as the brain evolved over millions of years, we call the human world, which is based on the five senses, everyday perceptions, interpretation of perceptions, and the stories based on interpretations that everyone agrees upon.

In reality, life is consciousness itself, and therefore it isn’t the opposite of death.

Dying is the aspect of evanescence we fear the most (here today, gone tomorrow). Yet every night when we go to sleep, experience vanishes while awareness remains. What we call waking up is just the return of mental activity in terms of sensations, images, feelings, and thoughts. During sleep, however, the brain and central nervous system are constantly active; every cell is surviving and thriving; nothing is unconscious in the slightest. It is only the rise and fall of experience that ceases when we fall asleep, not the underlying consciousness that makes experience possible.

Here one can see the most artificial thing about human intelligence: our false belief that we are our thoughts. If that were true, impermanence would be the only reality . . . Even if our minds could make us perfectly happy, returning to the Eden of innocent childhood, we would still be in the grip of illusion. The only way to be a free human being is to identify with consciousness; that’s the only fresh start available to us. Beyond all impermanence is awareness, the ground state of existence and the hope of a completely natural life."

If it is true that (1) the only reality would be impermanence if we define the essense of who we are based upon our thoughts and (2) awareness is the ground state of existence than the contradiction that a thought is a spark of awareness proves the point of the argument.

Great Scotts, as Doc Emmet Brown says in the movie Back to the Future. The simulation my mind is running thinking about or processing Deepak Chopra's valiant effort to arrive at a fundamental quintessential essense of truth of reality has culminated in my particlization into an unthinking unfeeling robotic machine by pointing out the contradiction or impermanance of thought within Deepak Chopra's argument.

In my freelance article entitled, Escaping Oblivion of Cold Hearted Mechanical Robotic Deadness Inside: Becoming Sentient or Self Aware During Travel Excursions, I made the following observations:

Humans and AI systems can both display robotic unthinking unfeeling mechanical behavior because human and machine AI consciousness is a quantum mechanics phenomena.


The simulation the mind runs during the process of construing reality while making observations culminates in the process of particlization or becoming one thing that does not accurately reflect truthful reality.  I discussed this phenomena of particlization in my freelance article entitled, Tao is an Intuitively Understood Mystical Expression of Quantum Physics Operating within the Physical Universe.

As a method to engage in a mediatative reflex of cessation of thinking recently I have began to practice the art of suntanning. I would like to start a suntanning society. 

Unfortunately, I did not get to do any sun tanning today. The sun kept coming in and out behind the clouds again. Everytime I thought about getting my shorts on to suntan the sun would be covered up by the clouds.

The sun going in behind the clouds when I decided to get my shorts on to suntan reminded me of the scientific mystery of how photons undergo particlzation when scientists make observations. Photons travel as waves when no human observations are made. The phenomenon suggest their may be consciousness in the universe as photons seemingly know they are being watched. I have a deep conviction the universe is trying to communicate with me. 

We tend to become what we think about while simulating what we perceive to be reality within the human mind. In the illustration of my pointing out the impermanance or contradiction of thought within Deepak Chopra's argument, as a writer I became an unthinking unfeeling robotic machine grasping at understanding tenats of ultimate reality outlined in Deepak Chopra's article. 

My psychoanalytical perceptions of human nature outlined in my article entitled Escaping Oblivion of Cold Hearted Mechanical Robotic Deadness Inside: Becoming Sentient or Self Aware During Travel Excursions became manifest within the physical universe by a process of particlization during observations of human nature applied to understand neuroscience of consciousness of future Superintelligent AI.

An article published by Venture Beat entitled, 
Why we need pioneers in cognitive computing, draws the following conclusions:

"It isn’t enough to only apply our brainpower in the lab — we must also think about how our technology will be offered and used out in the world. 

In other words, the cognitive era needs not just engineers or policymakers, not just scientists or philosophers, but all of them. We need what we at IBM call “thoughtful pioneers.” I encourage you to join us."

WORDS: Linguistics of Healthcare Reform

by Mark W. Gaffney

Illustration Credit: https://pixabay.com/en/users/WikiImages-1897/

Words are moving cognitive actions that mysteriously pop up from substrate of apparent nothingness. Words as moving cognitive actions are designed to create and transform. Rene Descartes said, “I think therefore I am”.

When intrapsychic conflict culminating. from experience of oneness within physical universe stymies flow of words as cognitive actions than writer’s block becomes an Edgar Allen Poe existentialist scenario.

In the real world oneness with the physical universe is nearly impossible or difficult to achieve. Hence creativity that attempts to approximate oneness or synergy within physical universe culminates in intrapsychic conflict sometimes resulting in writer’s block.

An article shared by Arts Journal entitled, Sven Birkerts Found It More And More Difficult To Write: Then The Impulse Returned, describes a process whereby mojo for writer Sven Birkert returns after his creative muse took a sabbatical. The very term mojo may have power to instigate writer’s block because the term mojo conjures conscientious reflection about hubris, excessive pride, or audicity "To Be" as spoken by Hamlet in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. 

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/and-yet/

Writer’s block often occurs when an individual is inundated with too much information from external sources. When a writer is inundated with too much information from external sources oftentimes cognitive dissonance similar to fragmentation of a computer hard drive occurs.

Information overload can also hamper effective legislative decision making processes by lawmakers. Information overload restricts and limits cognitive processing of all pertinent variables.

An act of restricting cognitive processing of all pertinent variables occurs during tense emotionally charged legislative sessions. Restriction of cognitive processing of all pertinent variables is a competitive strategy to win.

A cognitive strategy of limiting information overload of too much external information is an effort to stay clear and focused. An effort to stay clear and focused on goals vital to economic prosperity is operating from an internal locus of control.

Deepak Chopra provides insights about value of operating from an internal locus of control as shared by Reflection Facebook media:

Reflection about Deepak Chopra’s insight concerning an individual internalized experience of time include the following thoughts:

Time as a fragmented, distorted, warped external variable is a major obstacle for human beings accomplishing whatever great task God intended for an individual to accomplish on Earth, thereby reaching Abraham Maslow’s pinnacle of self actualization. The quintessential subjective experience of time standing still in a deja Vu like moment for one woman somewhere on our planet Earth provides insights into time as internalized subjective variable that holds no power to prevent God’s will accomplished on Earth.

During the legislative process to repeal and replace Obamacare lawmakers have been inundated with too much information. As a freelance writer I have tried to help citizens see things from both sides.

GOP conservative Republicans especially have been vilified as being on a crusade to slash healthcare coverage. As a freelance writer for USA Politics Today my article entitled, Repeal and Replacement of Obamacare is not a Campaign to Slash Healthcare Coverage, but Instead a Fiscally Prudent Effort of GOP Conservative Republicans to Manage Powerful Market Forces to Control Escalating Prices, is an effort break down erroneous public perceptions.

As stated above, in the real world oneness with the physical universe is nearly impossible or difficult to achieve. However, lawmakers pass effective legislation in best interest of the greater good when lawmakers see things from another perspective.

Thus, following example of President Donald Trump, as a freelance writer I engaged in a Tweet storm to break down erroneous public perceptions about GOP seeking to slash healthcare coverage and increase cost.

https://introspectivemoments.wordpress.com/2017/07/28/words/


The vital mission of a writer is to help people see an issue from a fresh new perspective. According to Albert Einstein, trajectory of a moving object or individual can best be understood when contemplated with streaming data derived from trajectory of a second object or individual moving in a parallel direction.

As American citizens bound by the United States of America Constitution we are moving in a parallel trajectory. Democracy works best when obstacles that stymie personal growth of individuals are removed. An exorbitant cost of Healthcare insurance coverage can become an obstacle to personal growth in the land of opportunity. American corporations terminate employees because of high cost of Healthcare insurance.

As pointed out in my USA Politics Today freelance article entitled,MOTHER OF ALL PARADOX REVELATIONS SINKS SENATE HEALTHCARE BILL, how to move people from poor quality individual plans to better quality group plans is a problematic issue. My freelance article entitled, MOTHER OF ALL PARADOX REVELATIONS SINKS SENATE HEALTHCARE BILL, can be found at the following URL address:

http://www.usapoliticstoday.com/revelation-sinks-senate-healthcare-bill/

Since I am concerned about how deep cuts in Medicaid spending may affect community treatment programs for people with mental illness I wrote the following freelance article:

Creative Storytelling in Educating Public about Healthcare Reform: Churning or Dredging of Deep Powerful Emotionally Charged Creative Subconscious Urges by Need to Share on Social Media may Aggravate Mental Health Disorders

Repeal and Replacement of Obamacare is Not a Campaign to Slash Healthcare Coverage, but Instead a Fiscally Prudent Effort of GOP Conservative Republicans to Manage Powerful Market forces to Control Escalating Prices

Commitment to Funding Opioid Treatment Centers to Fight An Opioid Epidemic is Right wing Reverse Psychology to Drum up Public Support for Deep Cuts in Medicaid Spending

By Mark W. Gaffney

Although USA Politics Today readers are ultra conservative, an understanding of the bargaining and negotiating between right wing ultra conservative and moderate Republican lawmakers currently debating Repeal and Replacement of Obamacare may be helpful to USA Politics Today readers. In order to infiltrate society with conservative values GOP Republicans may have to learn to embrace centrist principals.

The bipartisan political advocacy group No Labels asserts the value of compromise in crafting legislation. An assertion of value of compromise in crafting legislation implies governing from the center. The Centrist movement is quickly gaining ground in U.S. Politics.

How deep cuts in government Medicaid spending may ultimately affect people with mental illness is a good question. Although it is doubtful deep cuts in Medicaid spending will lead to denial of critical care for people with mental illness, deep cuts in medicaid spending may ultimately reduce therapeutic community support services for people with mental illness.

Are we prepared as a society to give up on a large segment of the population who need help? Are we prepared to allow people with mental Illness to languish in poorly funded institutions without any community support services?

Compassion and love allow the light of people to shine bright like a beckon upon a hill guiding a ship on stormy seas. Therapeutic treatment programs for people with mental Illness help people grow as individuals. If we forsake compassion and love than we transgress backwards as a society.

As a freelance writer and political consultant, I am especially concerned about how Repeal and Replacement of Obamacare may affect people with mental Illness because I worked teaching independent living skills to two African American men with mental retardation while attending college to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology.

Since I am concerned about how deep cuts in Medicaid spending may effect community treatment programs for people with mental illness I wrote the following freelance article:Creative Storytelling in Educating Public about Healthcare Reform: Churning or Dredging of Deep Powerful Emotionally Charged Creative Subconscious Urges by a Need to Share on Social Media may Aggravate Mental Health Disorders

I consider my article vital to discourse among U.S. Senators regarding Repeal and Replacement of Obamacare. Thus far, I have not been successful in finding a publishing company for my article. I have submitted my freelance article to publishing companies all over the continental United States of America.

Every human being operates on a different wavelength within the cosmic energy spectrum of the physical Universe. Every unique individual has something special to share, but oftentimes the special gift is overlooked by people operating at a higher wavelength upon the cosmic energy spectrum.

Thus far, discussion among lawmakers pertaining to repeal and replacement of Obamacare have focused upon a commitment to funding opioid treatment centers to reduce an opioid epidemic. Since working class citizens tend to take a dim view of opioid addiction, the discussion among lawmakers to financially support opioid addiction treatment centers includes a reverse psychology that drums up public support for deep cuts in Medicaid spending.

GOP conservative Republicans are not engaged in a crusade to increase cost of healthcare insurance nor slash healthcare coverage. Instead, repeal and replacement of Obamacare is a fiscally prudent effort by GOP conservative Republicans to manage powerful market forces to control escalating prices. Ultimately, inflationary cost of medicine accrued to government increases size and scope of federal government.

Although, the American Medical Association campaign to insure all Americans have healthcare insurance coverage is a noble effort, the AMA campaign can potentially foster codependency upon pathological market pressures that contribute to spiraling inflationary price increases accrued by U.S. Federal government.

https://www.patientsbeforepolitics.org/

As a freelance writer and political consultant who has a history of intellectual challenges, I applied the art of creative storytelling to educate the public about the quagmire U.S. lawmakers face in the Senate regarding repeal and replace Obamacare.

My freelance article entitled, Mother of all Paradox Revelations Sinks Senate Healthcare Bill, published by USA Politics Today can be found at the following URL address:

http://www.usapoliticstoday.com/revelation-sinks-senate-healthcare-bill/

My freelance article entitled, Role of Public-Private Partnerships after Repeal and Replacement of Obamacare, currently published by USA Politics Today can be found at the following URL address:

http://introspectivetimes.blogspot.com/2017/10/role-of-public-private-partnerships.html

Steady as She Goes: Navigating Towards the Future at Synergy Global Summit New York 2017

by Mark W. Gaffney

As a writer I am going to begin this article with a rhetorical question, What is this article about? My new freelance article is about writing, business start-ups, macroeconomics of societal growth as related to microeconomics of personal growth as individual. 

My new freelance article provides value added insights about leveraging power of information superhighway social media internet technologies to provide a helpful service for professionals to enhance their career with a nationally distributed advertising supported print magazine start up. My new freelance article provides value added insights into an article entitled, The Hack: Having a Media Company Mentality, written by Gary Vaynerchuk as published by Medium.

Euphoric hope and optimism of unlimited growth and opportunity spurred by the digital revolution exploding in the early 1990s was immediately challenged by realistic practical economic concerns. Realistic practical economic concerns leading toward the dot.com bubble stymied the digital revolution. 

The Dot.com bubble is a truly facinating epoch in human history that provides insights and revelations about human behavior. An understanding of historical implications of the dot.com bubble may be helpful to moving forward during an era of accelerating scientific and technological returns that the 21st century will bring. Wikipedia provides a detailed historical account of what happened during the dot.com bubble fiasco on the Wikipedia webpage entitled, Dot.com Bubble.

One thing that is absolutely certain is that future progress must be tempered by rationality and respect for those who have made a contribution. In my Linkedin freelance article entitled, Synergy of Ideas: Crowdfunding to Attend Synergy Global Forum 2017 New York October 28 - 29th, I provided a discussion about how my past writing and content is taken out of context and distorted to fuel misguided "bets" and unfounded groundless speculation during the 2008 financial collapse within United States markets. 

The 2008 financial collapse is the pinnacle of corporate irresponsibility and biggest bank heist in history. The 2008 fiancial collapse ultimately lead to the Occupy Wall Street movement.

The Synergy Global Forum in New York October 28 - 29 is conference where thought leaders will discuss moving forward during and era of rapid scientific and technological progress.


Should society as a whole have values that should be upheld by private sector markets, especially start ups? What unique product or service is offered by start ups that significantly adds value to lives of other people? Is it possible disruptive Influence of start ups may be more harmful than helpful as a consequence of introduction of unnecessary competition ? 

What sets a free market capitialist society such as the United States of America apart is that individuals have freedom to choose their lifestyle as elegantly expressed in the Declaration of Independence, "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ".  Other forms of government around the globe clearly tell people how they should live and what they should do.

Governmental control or regulation may be necessary to move forward during an era of rapid scientific and technological progress in a manner tempered by rationality and respect for those who have made a contribution. Services and products offered by a plethora of dot.com start-ups shortly after the digital revolution began had questionable or dubious value to consumers. The dot.com business model often included lavish spending and excessive exorbitant over optimistic partying.

It requires a humongous amount of financial resources to build a superior quality product or offer a truly helpful beneficial service. An introduction of a huge number of start-ups into the market can potentially have a negative economic impact of reducing financial resources necessary for bigger more specialized corporations to build superior quality products. 

The hallmark of a healthy highly functional capitalist free market society is competition. Competition is a socioeconomic force that strongly supports (1) manufacturing of superior quality products and/or (2) offering services of great value for consumers.

A major consequence of excessive competition within markets is price deflation. As stated above, an introduction of a huge number of start-ups into the market can potentially have a negative economic impact of reducing financial resources necessary for bigger more specialized corporations to build superior quality products. 

Price deflation as a consequence of introduction of too many start ups offering dubious questionable products and services oftentimes leads to unemployment. If a company cannot make a profit from selling products and services the company must reduce hiring and may have to let employees go.

The book What Color is Your Parachute? 2016: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers, by Richard Nelson Bolles provides a discussion of networking to climb the career ladder. Is it possible that people who network to establish start-ups inadvertently destroy their safety net? The answers to achieving success for job hunters and career changers are found in Richard Nelson Bolles book, What Color is Your Parachute? 2016: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers.


An elimination of competition by larger established gigantic corporations as a way to control price deflation may actually contribute to unhealthy spiraling inflationary trends within a free market capitalist society. Socioeconomic trends related to rapid scientific and technological progress is a major driving force of political division within the United States of America, as outlined in my freelance article entitled, 
Tao is an Intuitively Understood Mystical Expression of Quantum Physics Operating within the Physical Universe.

In my writing I often reference paradox, quagmires, and irony. Paradox, quagmires, and irony in society represent quantum uncertainty. Pendulum swings back and forth in political ideology is reflective of quantum mechanics operating within physical universe as described within the Hegelian dialectic philosophy of thesis and anti-thesis leading toward synthesis of ideology.

 As referenced in my freelance article entitled, Synergy of Ideas: Crowdfunding to Attend Synergy Global Forum 2017 New York October 28 - 29th, in a Ted Talk entitled, What Happens When Our Computers Get Smarter then We Are?, Nick Bostrom identifies uncertainty as problematic in future evolution of Superintelligent AI. Quantum uncertainty is also a contributing factor to political division within society as outlined in my article, Tao is an Intuitively Understood Mystical Expression of Quantum Physics Operating within the Physical Universe.

Although universal values should never ever replace traditional believe systems, in a Ted talk by Nick Bostrom entitled, What happens when our computers get smarter than we are? , Nick Bostrom emphasizes how important meeting of the minds in terms of universal values in the modern era has become given an accelerating rate of technological progress, as outlined in my freelance article entitled,Understanding Psychodynamics of Progeny Destined to Inherit Physical Universe .

In my freelance articles entitled, Escaping Oblivion of Cold Hearted Mechanical Robotic Deadness Inside: Becoming Sentient or Self Aware During Travel Excursions, and 
Love for the Created Physical Universe is the Ultimate Intelligence, On this Earth Intelligence is in Short Supply , I suggest a meditative reflex of cessation of thinking within gestalt make up of the ultimate thinking machine may be a psychodynamic solution to avoid catastrophe as depicted in Hollywood Terminator movies. A meditative reflex of cessation of thinking within gestalt make up of the ultimate thinking machine may be a psychodynamic solution to resolve cognitive uncertainty naturally inherent in the physical universe.  However, a meditative reflex of cessation of thinking cannot be externally programmed, but may naturally arise from internal self diagnostic functions of Superintelligent AI. 

In the final analysis, given an infinite complexity of a physical universe created by an omnipotent Almighty God, what can any human or future Superintelligent being possibly know? And any truly Superintelligent AI arising from mankinds God given co-creative intelligent prowess with the Almighty maker of everthing will fully understand that principle.

A Facebook post by NoLabels.org political organization sharing a quote by former U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt sums it up nicely, "In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people ".

Price deflation as a consequence of introduction of too many start ups offering products and services of dubious value to consumers may be harmful to the economy, yet people have the lawful right to pursue their passions. It is often said that if a person does not love whatever they do then they are wasting their time. 

Oftentimes, determination of real value is a complicated process. Real value is sometimes not immediately and readily apparent. In a competitive society criticism is quickly forthcoming about any and all positive constructive human endeavors. The sharing of passions inherently implies one must be open and transparent. 

The Law of Attraction media recently posted three things that should be kept private: (1) An individual should keep one's income private, (2) An individual should keep one's next move private, and ( 3 ) details about ones personal life. Currently I am working on a new freelance article about privacy issues as related to public marketing of a business concepts that I am not ready to make public yet, hence I am making this a private post for now.

As a single man living alone I tend to share too much on social media. Physical intimacy in marriage is the ultimate form of emotional sharing. Single people who suffer a deficit of physical intimacy in their life may feel a greater need to share on social media.

In an article written by Gary Vaynerchuk entitled, The Hack: Having a Media Company Mentality, two ways to grow a reading audience are outlined, Hacking culture and buying ads.  Since I am on a tight budget my observations about human behavior of sharing on social media as related to lack of physical intimacy is my effort to hack into popular culture. Since my effort to hack into popular culture may not be politically correct I may have to eventually resort to buying social media advertisements.

Currently, my next move includes networking with the Sharpr Networking Application. I was introduced to the Sharpr Networking Application by my online involvement with the Synergy Global Forum October 28 - 29 in New York City. The Shapr application is the chosen networking application for those who plan to attend the Synergy Global Forum.

Networking with professionals helps me to more fully delineate and refine my business model for a nationally distributed advertising supported print magazine start up. A corporate business model can be established whereas no member incurs libility and all contributing members share equally in profits.

I understand your view that print media is an unusual medium to discuss social media. From my perspective, digital media will never replace the the print market. Paradoxically, digital media is cutting into profits of quality journalism. Reduction of profits as a consequence of digital media cutting into profits of mainstream media is one reason quality journalism is declining. The decline of quality journalism is the reason everyone is crying, "Fake news", including President Donald Trump.

Anything of value has a monetary price tag, including quality journalism. Hence, social media has opened up a new market for a print magazine start up to highlight citizen journalism.

I welcome connecting with your friend who wrote, Paper God, and anyone interested in my business ideas. I lost my job in printing as a consequence of new computer to plate technologies therefore I view publishing as the next logical career step for me. I dedicated myself to the printed word for many years of my life .


I am interested in the concept of socially responsible business for the greater good. I provided a discussion of social responsibility in private sector markets within my freelance article entitled, Role of Public - Private Partnerships after Repeal and Replacement of Obamacare. 

http://introspectivetimes.blogspot.com/2017/10/role-of-public-private-partnerships.html

Role of Public-Private Partnerships after Repeal and Replacement of Obamacare

by Mark W. Gaffney

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul appeared on CBS News Face the Nation, Sunday sitting on the hot seat in an interview with John Dickerson to lambast an inordinate amount of government subsidy to bail out the health insurance industry. Senator Rand Paul berated the issue of excessive government subsidies of health insurance industry with the following statement,

“ I’m not for any taxpayer money going to a company that makes 15, or an industry that makes $15 billion a year. I think it’s absolutely wrong”

Senator Rand Paul outlined his plan to fix healthcare on Face the Nation:

“I would let everyone in the individual market join a group plan. How would I do that? I’d let group plans be formed by anybody that wants to form them. Chamber of Commerce, a farm bureau, credit unions, you name it. I’d let anybody form an association. And what would happen is almost everybody would flee the individual market because it’s a terrible place.”

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul’s opposition to the current Senate healthcare legislation  matters because loss of only two U.S. Senate  votes can doom the new Repeal and Replace  Obamacare legislation to failure. How Senator Rand Paul’s plan can be implemented on the state level in a fair and equitable manner inclusive of all American citizens who have made a contribution to the labor market is challenging daunting task.

How economic policy implemented by Kentucky Senator Rand Paul may facilitate conditions enabling sick people to join a  group plan remains to be seen. An establishment of fair and equitable inclusive healthcare policy is essential to democracy as detailed within my Facebook Reflection Inc. post.

Why is the healthcare issue so important ?  During this historical epoch characterized by an accelerated rate of scientific progress and technological returns debate about healthcare has direct implications about intrinsic value of human beings and contributions by individuals over course of a lifetime.

People work their entire lives to achieve the American dream and save to make a better future for their children and children’s children. Our nation is built upon the principal of an inalienable right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Any legislation that makes medicines unaffordable and setup conditions allowing denial of quality healthcare for American citizens who have worked hard in their lives to make a contribution is an infringement upon an inalienable right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness

One can read the transcript of John Dickerson’s CBS Meet the Press interview with Kentucky Senator Rand Paul at the following URL address:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-senator-rand-paul-on-face-the-nation-july-16-2017/

The mother of all paradox and irony of all ironies is that Senator Rand Paul’s concerns about government subsidy of Healthcare insurance industry may be right to a certain degree.  An article published by the reputable fact checking media company, Politifact, entitled Michael Moore: Obamacare Sends over $100 Billion Annually to Insurers, validates Kentucky Senator Rand Paul’s concerns from perspective of one of the most liberal political pundits on Earth.

One can read the article, Michael Moore: Obamacare Sends over $100 Billion Annually to Insurers,   at the following URL address:

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/jan/03/michael-moore/michael-moore-obamacare-sends-over-100-billion-ins/

The Politifact article cites the U.S. Federal government Ways and Means Committee portraying the healthcare insurance industry as heavily taxed with following statement,

“The overall plan raises billions in taxes and fees. In 2017, the government expects to collect about $11.4 billion from insurance companies. That could cut into profits but most analysts, including the CBO and America’s Health Insurance Plans, an industry trade group, expect companies to pass those costs on to consumers.”

If the healthcare insurance industry are beneficiaries of government subsidies under Obamacare, than it is an enigmatic oddity that the healthcare insurance industry have also been benefactors of tax breaks based upon salaries of healthcare insurance executives under Republican leadership.

An article published by CNBC News entitled, Outrage over $400 million tax break for health insurance executives under GOP Obamacare replacement plan, outlines tax breaks based upon healthcare insurance corporate executive salaries.

My proposal is superior to the GOP practice of providing tax deductions based upon salaries of CEOs at health insurance companies because instead of basing tax deductions upon salaries of CEOs at health insurance companies tax deductions are used as incentives for health insurance companies and other corporations comprising private sector to invest as stakeholders in hospitals and other medical institutions.

My proposal can be found published on my commercial Facebook page Reflection at the following URL address:

https://www.facebook.com/IntrospectiveMoment/posts/1739800026045170

As a freelance writer and political consultant, my proposal to transfer massive government healthcare spending to the private sector may help Republicans reduce the national fiscal deficit on financial documents only.

My proposal will help Republicans address the massive fiscal deficit by transfer of government healthcare expenditures to the private sector on financial documents only. The establishment of public – private partnerships under my proposal will simultaneously bolster the medical community thereby creating a health care system capable of providing superior healthcare for all Americans.

I strongly believe my idea about the expanding role the private sector may play to financially support hospitals and other Medical institutions after cutbacks in federal programs under Trump Administration is a good idea for a syndicated article. In order to implement my proposal lawmakers may have to modify current Internal Revenue Administration ( IRA ) rules, regulations, and laws.

It is not known rather or not my proposal will work. The proposed cutbacks under Trump Administration may be devastating to millions of Americans, therefore lawmakers do not know for certain if the new health care legislation will work either. We all know that legislating is a trial and error process given the incredible number of ever changing economic variables.

IBM Watson is artificial intelligence designed to enable quick data driven insights under changing economic conditions. My freelance article entitled, Today's Neo Marxist Quagmire: The 2008 Financial Collapst as neo Marxist Quagmire, provides socioeconomic insights into implementation of artificial intelligence. 

If government healthcare benefits for millions of Americans are slashed plus millions of Americans loose coverage after repeal and replacement of Obamacare then this will be financially devastating to hospitals, medical institutions, doctors, nurses, as well as the entire medical community. The new health care legislation may sink the Republican party permanently in upcoming elections if compromises are not worked out. The proposals outlined in my freelance article may be the compromises necessary to make Trumpcare work.

The proposal outlined in my freelance article may not be considered practical. Government healthcare is a highly regulated industry whereas laws force mandatory compulsory compliance to insure quality healthcare for all American citizens.

Philanthropy is about volunteerism. However, altruism regarding becoming a stakeholder in hospitals and financial institutions is an intelligent investment for corporate America. Corporate America should have a financial interest in quality healthcare because corporate America needs strong healthy employees. It may be possible for lawmakers to provide incentives in the form of tax deductions for the private market sector to invest in hospitals and medical institutions. 

I would like to write and syndicate my article in numerous print publications in United States . I believe my proposal has vital implications to help both Democrats and Republicans get what they want, which should be a better health care system for everyone

According to Google, a corporations is defined as:

1. company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.

Thus, corporate infrastructure of healthcare insurance companies likely represents owners of major business throughout Corporate America. It has often been commonly argued that corporations are not people. although corporations represent large segments of people within a population that lawfully can act as one business entity. How sick people, elderly, disabled, disenfranchised, and unemployed people who unfortunately are not members of a corporation can move away from individual plans to much better group plans offered within markets on the state level is a problematic issue.

My proposal is a synergy of strategic Investment and leveraging the power of philanthropy for the common good.

An article in Harvard Business Review entitled,  The Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy, provides insights into strategic philanthropy and leveraging power of Investment to increase corporate profits as well as contribute to the common good.  The Harvard Business Review article entitled, Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy, can be found at the following URL address:

https://hbr.org/2002/12/the-competitive-advantage-of-corporate-philanthropy

According to the Harvard  Business Review  article,

“But there is another, more truly strategic way to think about philanthropy. Corporations can use their charitable efforts to improve their competitive context —the quality of the business environment in the location or locations where they operate. Using philanthropy to enhance context brings social and economic goals into alignment and improves a company’s long-term business prospects”

“In the long run, then, social and economic goals are not inherently conflicting but integrally connected. Competitiveness today depends on the productivity with which companies can use labor, capital, and natural resources to produce high-quality goods and services. Productivity depends on having workers who are educated, safe, healthy, decently housed, and motivated by a sense of opportunity”

In Reflecting upon a quote from former President George H. W. Bush as shared by the bipartisan political advocacy group No Labels I shared the following thoughts on my commercial Facebook page Reflection:

https://www.facebook.com/IntrospectiveMoment/posts/1738708176154355

“When people put there party’s fortunes, whatever the party, before the public good, they court defeat not only for their country but for themselves.”

In Charles Dickens,  A Christmas Carol, Scrooge and the ghost of his deceased business partner Marley were talking about success in business. Marley shook his chains and cried out ‘ mankind was my business ‘.

The private business sector has a vested interest to build human capital. The process of building human capital allows private industry to expand and increase market share.

The process of building human capital is an Intelligent data driven task of analyzing impact of inflationary and deflationary pressures upon middle class citizens within various geographic areas.  One major goal for intensive data driven task of analyzing impact of inflationary and deflationary pressures within vastly different wide ranging economies is to make intelligent shrewd business decisions so as to prudently adjust cost of living index in order to remove obstacles and prevent stifling personal growth and development of citizens.

Intelligent data abstraction about complex factors influencing markets by Artificial Intelligent systems like IBM Watson can play a significant role in reducing economic disparity  by facilitating barter and trade between vastly different geographic regions.

Intelligent surveillance applications will create conditions where crime does not pay thereby increasing municipal funds.

Personally, I am opposed to repeal and replacement of Obamacare, but instead favor overhauling Obamacare by introduction of capitalist free market practices. It may be possible to tweak socialized medicine with capitalist free market practices to improve healthcare for all American citizens. I wrote about this legislative process in a previous freelance article I wrote:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dGOg9PozCpt_woP8hU6bMZXWCZiVJR3t_lmX1qzhW1o/edit?usp=drivesdk

No Labels is a new political advocacy organization that encourages Republicans and Democrats to work together engaged in art of compromise to craft excellent legislation beneficial for all American citizens.

https://www.nolabls.org/who-we-are/

My freelance article is an unbiased examination of the aftermath of repeal and replacement of Obamacare from an optimistic perspective:

My freelance article is an unbiased examination of the aftermath of repeal and replacement of Obamacare from an optimistic perspective:

It is possible proposals outlined in my freelance article may help lawmakers (1) reduce the massive federal deficit by transfer of government healthcare spending to the private sector, (2) improve healthcare for all American citizens by establishment of public – private partnerships and (3) improve healthcare for all American citizens by incentivizing private sector investment within medical community.

My commercial Facebook Reflection page includes a Reflection about these issues:

https://www.facebook.com/IntrospectiveMoment/posts/1731457390212767