Nova fluctus unda vox libertatis Part 2

George was sitting at his favourite diner, in the back room at the table by the kitchen. Michael, the owner, had come to sit with him. They were enjoying their 'old man important coffee club conversation'. Current events directed the topic to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Michael was leaning forward in his chair and looked straight at George. “Great philosophers have spent lifetimes considering the concept of freedom. I was born to earn a living, and after 50 years of service, I feel like I am a bonded slave who has been given manumission, freedom by a lord master of government. I have been blessed in my life. I have been a slave to my own interests, free to gain skills and learn my craft, in a manner that respects myself, others and the environment. The best part is that I still can do the job I love, even as an elder. I embrace my freedom with my heart.

"Look at me, in this transient, semi-solid state of a beast. I am free to follow my chosen interests and I can work within the limitations of my natural disposition to fulfil my destiny. I can be an independent thinker and creatively design my destiny as I go along the path that fate dictates. My hardest job is to release myself from the prison walls of my own personal mental and physical limits. Because of my age, I cannot adapt so easily now. Who would have thought time would remove me freedom. ”

George marvelled that he had such a friend as Michael. George had spent his lifetime in academia, studying statistical concepts of freedom at the local university. When he met Michael, he realized that in one 15 minutes conversation he could get better insight into many issues than he had in 15 years of study.

George chuckled, "It does get harder to adapt with age, but heaven knows, you have done your share. You told me your story – you were able to escape tyrants who targeted civilians and populations with ominous threats through persecution because of race, colour and creed. In spite of the media portraying your whole nation as a villain, you were able to face your fears, become self-educated, move and even start your own business. God knows you have adapted, and used your freedom to escape war, poverty and a poor education. I don't know how you did it."

Michael, a shy man, laughed. “What is it you people say? 'Necessity is the mother of invention'. I had to think for myself.I did my best to interpret freedom. I used my own form of statistics to predict how the mysteries of the physical and spiritual worlds that can align forces. I am a simple man. I like to work to please others and myself and am glad that I can do what I love and make a living. My friend, I am here, in this body on this earth for maybe 90 years if the gods will. I have never wanted to sit on a reclining chair with diapers and a channel changer and call that freedom."

Both men chuckled. He appreciated a friend who was happy and satisfied. George felt that he could too could be happy, as a humble poet who played with numbers, that to him, held the visual pyrotechnics of words. George had confidence that Michael could handle an open conversation, but he couched his next words. “ I think the secret to happiness is keeping the definition of freedom simple. I love applying mathematics to test the limits of freedom.”

Michael laughed. “I was taught about freedom in mathematics as a child. My teacher taught us about zero. It is considered a whole of nothing. Zero is the 'sunya' the hollow void that is one with the cosmos, in 'samadhi” -contemplation of the absolute undisturbed by emotion - it is a state of joyful calm, rapture and beatitude that maintains full mental alertness and acuity and enlightenment.

" Zero holds the potential of everything, it is the spiritual aspect of the divine creator and destroyer. It is the point where all and none are equal. The mathematician and astronomer Brahmagupta identified zero as a dot under a number. Zero is the balance point of positive fortune and negative debt. He said zero divided by zero is zero, although mathematicians say it is undefined. Zero holds a holographic fractal point of all possibility. A single source point of nothingness, carries all potential energy from which everything began."

George looked at Michael. How did this man have such wisdom? George agreed. " Fractal arrangements occur through random weak bonds in liquid crystals, called the fourth state of matter, that go beyond illusion or delusion. Liquid crystals hold ephemeral possibilities hidden in the faint echoes of star dust. Their harmonics pass through the fractal dimensions of the Buckyballs hexagon hive model, from the universe to the organic carbon based life-forms that interact with the inorganic. Liquid crystals are thought to have been the origin of terrestrial life.

"The liquid crystalline cell membrane, of even the simplest single-celled creature, is in constant flux as nerve impulses and nutrients are transported, keeping homogeneity of chaos constant. The membrane controls internal and external conditions that affect DNA and control quick automatic associative responses from the recesses of the social mind.”

Michael nodded. George continued. “ Zero, as a placeholder of exponential levels of 10, was identified independently in Mesopotamia, Maya, India, China and Islam. Then Zero was applied to degrees of Freedom in Mathematics, meaning that you can not tell if there is a difference between the expected and observed data."

Michael put his hands up to his face and cradled his chin. "Why was this done?" In a blink of the eye, George realized his friend also pursued a career as a spirit warrior. They were both idiot savants, roaming through the universe and pushing through strife moving toward the light asking ‘why ?’ George worked to translate reality into mathematical thought, and his friend used his own mathematics to create reality.

George shared, “William Gosset, while working at the Guinness Brewery in Dublin in 1908, took small samples drawn from a normally distributed population of beer and developed the Student’s t-test in statistics to test the null hypotheses, that suggests differences are due only to chance. The test spread throughout the western world, where things were being produced bigger, better, faster and stranger than anything before and quality needed to be ensured.

"By 1922 the biologist and statistician Ronald Fisher, applied statistical procedures by varying random independent treatments on controlled subsamples while studying plant breeding experiments. He could answer multiple questions about how different variables affect a sample. A contemporary, Irving Fisher studied the theory of errors in relation to Economics. Irving Fisher showed weakness occurs when interest rates are variable. The results were applied to the theory of capital and interest rates.

"Ronald Fisher applied his statistical procedures to the genetic composition of mice and human and started the movement of eugenics. It led to the legal case of Buck versus Bell in the US, in 1926 that instituted compulsory sterilization of the unfit, for protection of the state.

"By the 1930’s many predominantly wealthy men and woman such as Darwin’s son Leonard and notable scientists like Alexander Graham Bell, supported strengthening the national population by eugenics. Controlling reproduction of different races and classes of people was openly discussed at county fairs. The same process for producing the prime cow or sow, was applied to ‘Fitter Families’ contests. They determined what variables would produce the most viable offspring based on appearance, behaviour, intelligence or health, with red lights to emphasize degenerates.

"By the 1940’s World War ll revealed how eugenics could play out as Jews, Serbs, Roma Gypsies, and others were selectively removed from the population. In 1942, the Skinner vs Oklahoma trial deemed that laws permitting compulsory sterilization of criminals was unconstitutional. The legal right to sterilize individuals in the US was overturned in 1981, but the process is still used in many countries."

Michael said, "Those Fisher’s of men used statistics as predictors to improve wealth and the betterment of mankind. Mankind often thinks they can define how nature works. They think they can predict all of the variables that might occur. Nature is far freer than man can calculate."

George, sensing the drift said," People use statistics without really knowing how it works."

Michael, not wanting his friend to feel he had been rude said, "Statistics might not have all of the answers, but myths talk about how Ra and Odin, sacrificed an eye in the quest for enhanced perception and wisdom. Erasmus said ‘In the valley of the blind the one-eyed man is king'. As a mathematician and astronomer, Erasmus believed in e ducare – education that draws out explanations - he encouraged social reform based on mathematical logic. You know about mathematical freedom and it's logic - it holds the key that can open and close the gates to heaven or hell."

George appreciated the insight. He started doodling a pattern on a napkin. “Mathematics describes commutative conditions, that give the same result regardless of the order of the quantities involved. They predict a harmonic resonance that forms stable fractals. However, life appears to hold non-commutative elements, where results depend on the order of operations, and create distinct frieze patterns, a two-directional translational design that repeat in one direction with ordered convolutions."

Michael said "Spell it" then laughed. “English is a wonderful language, I always thought it was a freeze pattern that locks ice into a shape… but it is a design.”

George said. “My friend, I am studying how degrees of freedom create what is termed a “farey boat” of non-commutative, non-symmetrical embedded fractions. Farey tessellations can form as fractals."

Michael interjected. " I will try to be smart. How are they so many flukes of language that point in the same direction? When you talk about farey I think of little fairies with wings. There are the Fisher's of men who seem to hold the secret powers. What next?"

George rallied. " Well, since you asked. I have been playing with the idea that there are strange connections in language. The Fisher kings are the cup-bearers, in charge of the Holy Grail. They guard the sacred water, the soma, the arcane wisdom of the universe that brings new matter into creation. Chretien de Troyes describes the wounded Fisher king of Arthurian legend who is incapable of caring for himself and the next generation. Percival, a youth ignorant of the ways of men forgot to ask the Fisher King “who does the grail serve”. In later versions, the Fisher king becomes a fisherman in a kingdom reduced to a barren wasteland. In film versions the wounded king addresses the Grail question “what troubles you” and realizes it is the need for empathy, love and friendship.

“I have another idea of what the Holy Grail means. The bell curve is important in stories of freedom that pass from generation to generation and can accommodate new ideas. Bells are an icon of freedom, and treasured relic of independence. The ancient inverted Bell beaker culture of late Megalithic began a huge multicultural trade network, using the vessels used for drinking and sailing. They depended on being in harmony with nature.

"The shape of the bell is related to the vault of Heaven. Bells are often used in religious services, their pendulous motion represents the extremes of good and evil, death and immortality. In physics, the Bell theorem suggests two or more particles with indefinite properties are entangled, and mutually dependent even at large distances.

"Freedom can be objectively observed and measured on the normal bell curve that Gauss described in 1809. Chi squared tests provide a measure of the difference between the observed and expected frequencies of an outcome from a set of events or variables. It determines if the most frequent path of samples in a Gaussian normal bell curve is skewed to the extremes.”

Michael clapped his hands. “Bravo - what is thought of as modern thinking, that characterizes a rational, stable, and well-ordered society, has become outdated! I feel like I am undergoing a rite of passage in the sacred initiation of math as it applies to thought that is far freer than I gave it credit. The bell curve predicts what is known, and what is unknown that appears to be normal - but it holds far more.

Michael slapped the table. “If the bell curve is the Grail, it changes. Is this what J.F.Kennedy meant when he said “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth? I like the idea.” Tell me more of such strange connections my friend.”

George grabbed another napkin as he jotted the outline of his thoughts. "Mathematics consider freedom is greatest in homogenous space that offers the greatest potential when full of convolutions. Statistics are based on standard randomized controlled trials where discrete or continuous variables within the group are compared. Degrees of freedom describe the number of values that are free to vary.

"For a physical reality to be a mathematical reality requires rigour that defines some degrees of freedom. How we understand reality seems to be coded in words. The symbols often have predictable limits, based on temporal and spatial quantum coherence, that affect the frequency what relationships can be expected in a large number of samples. They depend on a flow to and from a neutral state.Degrees of freedom cause unexpected nuances with new deviations. What is seen in an unconscious glance sets up subconscious cognitive operations that can receive a universally known abstract meanings from encoded symbols and alter the realization of what instinct whispers.

" I like to use artistic creativity to explore predictable nuances of known variables that are not bound by what is accepted or ignored. A bell curve appears on either side of node of the sine wave. The sine wave is shortened as sin in mathematics. Sin is measured when the axis of equivalent powers of cause and effect change, divert from the golden mean. Sin involves division, between the high and low holds extremes of amplitude and defined period.

"Humanity has tendencies to sin, originally from the Greek word 'hamartia', defined as missing the in archery. It came to mean a tragic moral flaw that instigates the motivation to regain wholeness that might be considered happiness. Atonement of sin is needed for redemption that offers salvation and deliverance into freedom. How we adapt depends on consciousness that is swayed by education and social cultural conditioning, through traditions and propaganda, that is woven into imagination like a fence is into a growing tree."

Michael snapping his fingers said “Life without tradition is as shaky as a fiddler on the roof according to Tevye in the movie. Foundations of traditions are tested by changes with the times, and reinforced. When traditions become distorted, humans are wired to test unusual patterns of the periodic systems that look like a sin!" Mathematically, the bell curve is the cup that holds information of the immortal power that is needed to reincarnate aspects of potential. As it changes, so does the potential.”

George smiled. He was pleased that he could be understood. George nodded adding, "The null hypothesis, termed H0 - H sub-naught – removes falsehoods, so what remains might hold truth.Mathematics is traditionally used to selectively falsify information. Andrew Siegel in 1979, hypothesized that there is no way to affirm or reject a model when the null hypothesis has Zero degrees of freedom.

The mathematician Conway tested the null hypothesis that ‘Life is not pre-determined by fate’. He set to prove the free will theorem in the world of very small elementary particles and general relativity, that describe large scale properties of the universe. Although forces at large scales do not work the same as at small scales, his three axioms: that particles are entangled or twin, spin and cannot go faster than the speed of light, fin, do indicate that every object leaves a mark in its absence, with many of the same characteristics that are not a function of the past or the present.

"Conway concluded that at best, particles can be semi-free, with movement not totally pre-determined but not random. I share his “judendtraum” a childlike dream and believe that we are programmed automatons, playing out as unique characters in a game of life that is fixed. Apparently unpredictable laws of genetics are randomly and independently determined. We know that epigenetics, by ancient alien microbes embedded in female mitochondrial DNA, also controls behaviour. Epigenetic controls of psychological or sociological pressures often override self-preservation instincts and causes a trance that entraps the spirit.

"Free will acts with limited power as humans explore hidden variables of spontaneous action or self-movement. The Latin word ‘sponte’ means will. The conscious mind works with the sub and unconscious, as a Turing machine with infinite memory capacity. I believe symbols trigger free will. "

Michael said. " It really does seem that we are shells, that hold the soul that is detached from the vessel it inhabits. We are terracotta warrior who house a spirit that receives unique messages that flows between the the earth and star dust. The soul can understand messages about what is crucial for survival.

"Perhaps that is why I like to play with the flow of the seven dragon balls of the chakras energies. The energy flows through the systems of spinning chakra wheels that feeds the fire of the root, sacral and solar plexus chakras that nourishes and is nourished by the intuition. The brain is not just located in the mind, the heart or the gut but is part of an underlying essence of all being. It can, in a fixed moment have Zero degrees of freedom, and work like a mushroom mycelium that connects a tree through the forest. "

George was impressed with this idea and continued this train of thought. "Perhaps messages of the gut send messages through the heart, that go to the brain and allow speech and creative vision to connect body with the universe. Mental states have been shown to affect and be affected by the gut biome. Stress from becoming hypnotized by fear or dazed by glory shuts down digestion, in order that essential, instinctive, non-thinking elements of the primitive brain can do what might ensure survival. Stress can elicit strong associations that can drive an addictive need that is never sated or unleash new pathways so an individual can adapt. Breathing calms stress and probably makes the connection possible."

Michael added, “ John Donne wrote, 'no man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.'

George smiled at his friend adding, “Tomas Moore in Utopia, described people who lived on an isolated island that is ‘no place and nowhere'. Moore concluded that coherent connections with another independent humans requires imposing restriction and slavery. However, I think we are case in point that give and take is possible.

“Mathematics defines slavery, in terms of degrees of freedom. When two points, with infinite possible angles of inclination connect, there is one degree of freedom. One variable can change without affecting the value of the other variable. There is one degree of freedom between two phases of water. Liquid and vapour have pressure dependent on temperature.

“Mathematical possibilities of Degrees of freedom can be applied to patterns found in each of the natural and unnatural elements in periodic tables. I particularly enjoy the table of the known elements made by De Chancoutois that shows the current of how electrons move through matter, time and space in a turning of the Telluric screw. This image helps me see the complexities of how the internal world reacts to itself and to the external world in cyclic transformations. It represents how elements have degrees of freedom that let them arrange in ordered cascades of possible options. Patterns of electron orbital filling resonate through atoms and repeat in fractal dimensions.

“Elements are described in terms of subatomic particles that can compress, rarify and oscillate. They appear wave-like in Quantum mechanics, where matter and energy are interchangeable. The space or void left by the moving electrons or other particles, is found in a cloud space of possibility, called the antiparticle. Within the cloud, interactions can occur with degrees of freedom, an intimate stranger to statistics students."

“Two degrees of freedom accept variations in the natural frequency between two coordinates, with independent mass, speed and energy potential but they influence each other’s interactions such that forces can accumulate to create an amplitude of a wave that holds a current. Philosophically, anything experienced, imagined or something other could cause an effect.

“Most molecules in solid, liquids and gases have a minimum of three degrees of freedom. Hydrogen, the source molecule from which all other elements have arisen, holds the divine trinity of three degrees of freedom movement that can be rotational (so pitch and roll, twisting vertically and horizontally create yaw, the spiral longitudinal twist) or translational movement, forward or backward, right or left, up or down.

"Hydrogen easily interacts with organic Carbon based molecules and inorganic compounds such as Nitrogen, Oxygen and metals and make an acid or base that can ultimately affect further interactions.

"The carbon soul of human life and the silicon soul of the computer hold forces that move through the universe and stars to the environment and the animal. Carbon forms buckyballs that become diamonds and graphite and provide energy for carbon-based life forms. Ingots of Silicon are easily manufactured, abundant, readily available superconductors. Silicon is the base of other life forms and found in the mucilaginous slime that oozes as 'star jelly', in regurgitations of Darwin frog or birds that consumes frog spawn, and throw up tadpoles that form inside."

Michael started laughing and asked “How can you know such strange stories! Finish about the degrees of freedom."

“The fourth degree of freedom occurs when two planar bodies are connected by a pin pivot, that allows a pendulum swing that turns, and forms the circumpunct, a bull’s eye. Five degrees of freedom have two orientations of the pendulum, with a hinge that acts as a weighted fulcrum.

“Six degrees of freedom describes a fixed point in a rigid body, that repeats form and function of the three types of rotational and translational spin, through many dimensions. Like most solids, boats have six angular degrees of freedom. They heave vertically , with universes dynamic erotic exotic forces. They sway right to left laterally, surge forward or back along the axes, and with the yaw, the angular velocity of rotation lets the boat roll along the horizontal and pitch on the vertical.

“As a mathematical idea evolves, it is copied as a natural response to how reasonable thoughts can be imagined and is revised as a story that becomes part of social encounters. Someone who knows 44 people who know another 44 separate people who know another separate 44 people and so on, have six degrees of separation equal to the six degrees of freedom - that make up the population of the earth."

Michael snapped his fingers. “You definitely have explored how freedom can operate and made a point about how they are used. ”

George refocussed. “Technology uses large data collection to show that repeating periodic appearances of rare, repeatable data points are significant. The Hamiltonian, measures the rate of change the total kinetic and potential energy and describes how an individual moves within the energy of a system, that is in a state of controlled chaos. The total energy depends on the position and momentum of molecules in the dynamic action of a physical system with one large amplitude internal motion."

Michael said, “ I know my place my friend. This conversation does make me happy but my brain is starting to hurt. Let me get us a top up on our coffee. Standing up he said, "Although you have just lost me, it appears that there is some control of energy transformations. Perhaps those flocking birds that make patterns and schools of fish know math."

Laughing at his own joke, Michael went and got the coffee. Still laughing when he returned he added. “ With friends like you, I can enjoy my freedom. I have what food, water and shelter I need to permit a comfortable existence and thanks to you, I have sufficient opportunity to think, learn and experience another way to find fulfillment and joy. It is good and makes me happy.”

George gave a thumbs up and said, "Aristotelian ideals of freedom allow for the Greek definition of happiness called eudaimonia. Happiness is an objective end result of freedom when the good indwelling spirit can strive and thrive. Happiness is described when love, leisure, family, or activities offer pleasure as an internal reward that makes time stop.

"Happiness can be measured in the prefrontal cortex activity by an increase in the alpha brain state , resulting in effortless execution of a task, caused by a relationship between left and right brain hemispheres. Happiness is related to genes but it's awareness is enhanced through techniques such as breathing and exercise, diet control and intentional mindfulness, savouring what creates pleasure and expressing gratitude. These qualities can improve the effect on the electromagnetic field coherence between heart, mind and emotions that generates brain alpha activity that supports stress relief and creativity. Recognizing happiness links to the heart, gut, and mind and may repair damage and disease. The heart acts as a pendulum that can synchronize with other pendulum around it.

“You have a positive attitude. There is evidence that positive psychology can help define freedom. A positive attitude with happiness can optimize creativity, allow focus and help strengths and virtues evolve to meet their highest potential, even when dealing with inescapable negative events. It can release a victim mentality of learned helplessness."

“You my friend Michael, hone the skills and natural ability to generate happiness that trickles through society. You provide the most venerable source of Happiness, being of service to others by using your strengths and meeting your potential in a meaningful life.”

Michael bowed his head and put his hands into the prayer position. “ I am flattered. When I came to Canada, I knew what I wanted freedom and happiness to look life – my definition has changed -especially with technology - but still find freedom from feeling trapped with friends, nature, music, and food."

Michael continued. “ I was born into a life where I did not have many choices. I accepted the unexpected and used my instinct to play the odds. I learned the rules and how to work with them. The rules are often put into laws that cause issues. I remember when I came to Canada, in 1968, when the law requiring use and installation of seat belts caused mass hysteria. Car companies were upset that the government was regulating a free society, and even compared it to draconian Russian control. I think that to this day, New Hampshire, still does not have a mandatory seat belt law and their license plate is 'Live free or die'. I have no problem when government has to step and make laws to prevent harm."

George interjected,”Compliance to law versus enforcement are two different things. Abraham Lincoln wrote the 'Emancipation Proclamation' in 1863 offering freedom of speech and work, but it took 50 years to define what it is to be human. Women were only free to vote in 1918. The Jim Crow laws, enforcing a system of segregation, remained in place until the 1960’s, when voting rights and other priviledges were secured for African Americans.

Michael said, “ So many wars fought for freedom have left generational scars. I am thankful for freedom and grateful that my scars do not cause me to lose using the freedom to have a friendship with someone life you."

George stood up to leave and taking Michael’s hand shook it and putting his other hand on his shoulder said “ As am I. Thank you. Our friendship that lets us both appreciate our freedom." George left after a most enjoyable visit with his friend Michael,who was a beacon that had led him to a safe harbour where freedom existed.