12 aspects of economy

In line with the recent 'The Ternary Classification' post, another quartet can be added to the two quartets of the 'Eight Aspects of Economy' post of 2010;

(((Gather, Hunt), (Farm, Manufacture)),

((Information, Intelligence), (Imagine, Create)),

((Barter, Trade), (Commerce, Finance)))

as the Application layer to complete the classification. I renamed the (Spiritual, Artistic) duality to (Imagine, Create). This way, the first quartet becomes the Measure, and the second the Theory of the ternary foundational classification. In the economics context, the first and third element can be called Production and Exchange.

The Ternary Classification

The classifications based on the stack of 12 for various fields I have attempted until now have the dominant symmetry 3*4. The outer aspect is ternary and the inner is quaternary or rather dual binary. For example for Mathematics;

(((Number,Function),(Operation,Equation)),
((Set/Logic,Analysis),(Algebra,Geometry)),
((Probability,Statistics),(Computation,Information)))

and for Physics;

((((Energy,Time),(Momentum,Distance)),((Angular-Momentum,Area),(Spin,Volume))),

(((Mass,Gravity),(Electric-Charge,Electric-Field)),((Weak-Charge,Weak-Field),(Strong-Charge,Strong-Field))),

(((Higgs,Atom),(Boson,Planet)),((Lepton,Star),(Quark,Black-Hole))))

 

The one for Physics has the symmetry of 3*4*2=24, and its outer shape is still 3.

 

If 3 words are assigned for the elements of this ternary symmetry they would probably be;

 

(Measure, Theory, Application) 

Previously I have mentioned the number triplet (0,1,∞) which also has ternary symmetry and this suggests Zero and Infinity have Binary symmetry. They are inversions of each other around unity anyway.

Why 3 dominates over 2 is open for investigation.

Science fractal

Consider the mapping;

SM0=1 ... Higgs ... Higgs ... Mathematics
SM1=1/2 ... Light ... Atom ... Physics
SM2=1/2 ... Weak ... Cell ... Chemistry
SM3=3/2 ... Quarks ... Planet ... Biology
SM4=18 ... Leptons ... Star ... Psychology
SM5=1080 ... Time ... Galaxy ... Intelligence
SM6=12150 ... Gravity ... Universe ... Aesthetics

Biology corresponds to Planet and sits in the middle. Implying that the universe is a biological form, or that all life obeys M6. Also displaying the analytical/emotional split of a brain. Chemistry/Psychology coupling shows that chemicals make the mood, like Star light make Cell. Physics/Intelligence coupling shows that Physics (electricity or light) make Intelligence, since our chemical and biological brain support the electrical action that make Intelligence. Since light speed is needed to go beyond the chemical reaction speeds to make a hyper-structure like brain. The most interesting is Mathematics/Aesthetics coupling. Aesthetics is beyond intelligence. It is beyond religion, beyond everything, but it needs all of them.

Religion replaces art in broken spirits. Spirits are broken, mostly early in childhood, by power dynamics of society. Spirit of an individual is broken to dominate the person, like breaking horses. But a shepherd is needed to keep the herd, so preachers are invented by the rich and powerful. Revolutionary preachers are eliminated, if not then adopted, like Romans adopted Christianity and Moors adopted Islam. A monotheistic religion naturally reflects the politics of an empire. This is not to say that there are no spirits. Just replace Art with Spirit. But it belongs to the bearer only. When we learn to go beyond the L&S+B&D+S&M+V&M (The Modular Group of monkey culture; Love and Sex, Bondage and Discipline, Sadism and Masochism, Violence and Murder) culture of our monkey past, we will know that a spirit is the most valuable entity of a society, and that it should not be broken by the proxies of the bullies.

 

EDIT 10-6-2026:  First published in 2006. Now some typos corrected. Seeing that the post got some attention lately, I had a reread. It still looks good but the first column of the particle physics classification looks wrong. I had better ones since this post, for example 'Universe in a Box' and '24 Aspects of the Universe'.

Capturability of the mainstream

Why is it that the human mainstream is so easy to capture?

In Cronulla race riots in Australia recently, a large number of youth were captured by a few well organised extreme racists. Since the Iraq invasion and the subsequent bombing in Bali, racial harmony suffered greatly. Racist Anglos were ready to be captured it seemed (most Anglos are decent good people I must add). Many of them were drunken and wrapped in Australian flags. They displayed a disgraceful scene, chasing and beating any dark skinned person who happened to be there, including women. The police chief later explained it as crowds being "captured". The oragnisers of the event would have been happy with the results, but I am sure they were not too happy with being seen as a mob of drunken losers.

Didn't Hitler capture an entire nation? He took so many of them to the grave. It seemed capturing humans was as easy as capturing sheep, maybe easier. Hitler was not alone of course. The Europian aristoctarcy and corporations were desperate to counter the Soviet revolution. They supported despots all over Europe to suppress local revolutions. Franco did not reach the efficiency of Hitler, but he also killed a lot of people. Mussolini was of the same kind. They keep showing docos on how bad were the dictators, but they never mention the fact that they were the ones behind the curtain. Later Hitler went rogue, as they do, and became an embarrasment. But Franco stayed a darling until the end.

Neo-cons also tried to capture the American mainstream and succeeded to a great degree. If they were successful in the invasion and holding of Iraq, we would have quite a different world order now. It was amazing to watch how easily they did it to the Americans. Few low life religious preachers were enough to mesmerise a large section of the society. As happened before in Europe, we all know who was behind the curtain. Greedy and ignorant corporate bully. The story of US is still unfolding. Democrats are putting a show but not too effective. Most democrats are also sponsored puppets.

Humans are easy to capture in all scales, from one person to large crowds. You just use slightly different methods. Controlling the media helps greatly. Internet must be quite a nuisance to these bastards. Falling in love is a consensual capture, supported by chemistry. Finding friends also falls into capturing. In the end it comes to reprogrammability. The mainstream provides a programmable power base for the marginal elements. It is a good representation of the concept of nothingness. It slumbers in the center to provide stability with it's size and power. We should study and understand this fact about ourselves and bring it to attention, if we want a peaceful future.

EDIT: 2-5-2026, I am republishing this as it was 20 years ago.

A geometric proof of the Pythagorean Theorem

 

Ulam spiral on triangle on hexagonal grid

Ulam spiral on triangle on hexagonal grid transformed by 12 symmetries and added. Black is no primes, white is 8 primes. Note the many stars embedded in the hexagon.

Ulam spiral on triangle on hexagonal grid

Ulam spiral on triangle on hexagonal grid transformed through 12 symmetries and added, and a color scheme chosen to represent the number of primes. White is 9 primes, yellow 8, purple 7...

Ulam spiral on a triangle on hexagonal grid is transformed through 6 symmetries and added. Black is no primes, white is 5 primes. When the remaining 6 symmetries are added, the curl should disappear.