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09-23, 2023. Part A: From a milieu to the 6th extinction

MILIEU-PROBLEM

Dear reader, in nature and the human brain the infinite speed of lying, in the hyperspace that joins the opposite faces of a coin (e.g., a snake [+1] opposed to a bird [-1]) makes the bow that allows an arrow to move at a finite speed in spacetime. In the same way, quantum empowers classical computing. We may use the tension of lying to amuse others (e.g., by singing while playing a guitar) or to save them, instead of using the lives of others to feed needless needs of ours. Let us drink, eat, and do moderately!

You may forget the words around the Mexican Quetzal-coatl (Bird-snake) above and focus on the colors blue (1), red (2), and green (3). They stand for the complex circle behind the three attention-intentions of nature and men-, women-of-knowledge, or people with vision and will. Any circle where a going top (2) opposes a returning bottom (3) is complex. Our attentions.intentions are:

male seeing, cerebral sensing, classical computing, reality, the Trojan War, Achilles, the "Iliad," Moises's Thummim, the Mesoamerican Tonal, Zechariah's (the prophet) stick Hovalim (Bands), any arrow, autism opposed to schizophrenia, order opposed to chaos, a coatl (snake) opposed to a quetzal (bird), and the seeing of Quetzal-Coatl seen as our autistic side;
female going, cerebellar coherence, infinity, nothingness, lying, the devil, quantum computing, the end of the Trojan War by removing the lintel of the door of Troy to introduce there Odysseus-Ulysses's malicious horse, Moises's Urim, our freedom to sin, Zechariah's stick Noam (Beauty), the simultaneous tension of any bow, the Mesoamerican Nagual, the going of Quetzalcoatl into coherence, the hope felt by the Aztec/Spanish Coatlaxopeuh/Guadalupe, and
decoherence in the returning Quetzalcoatl, the "Odyssey," Ulysses, the lying girl-soldier Mullan, the alliance of 1 with 2, creativity, the use of lies to readjust reality, the education of Uke (sought by Tori in Morihei Ueshiba's AIKIDO), the search of justice by Hamlet, Nam-yi in "The war of the arrows," and the bow and arrow behind infinity and finiteness.

The attentional-intentional structure of our brain animated both the legend of the going and returning Mesoamerican demigod Quetzalcoatl and of the Greek hero Odysseus-Ulysses, king of Ithaca. Without the going (2, upper red, coherence) and returning (3, left green, decoherence) of Ulysses, reality (1, right-blue) would have deteriorated. Similarly, only a new Ulysses can re-create our dying world. The 3rd attention (green) of a hero boosts life, as in the "Tangata-Manu" ("Human-Bird") myth of Micronesians.

As a liar-hero, Ulysses realized that his lying and heroic wife Penelope would have to surrender to her reckless suitors and that his native Ithaca (the reality we remember and experience with our cerebral cortex) would vanish. When the dog Argos recognized his master before dying, Odysseus knew that he had indeed returned and that he would have to muster all his tricks to renew Ithaca.

Muhammad showed us in his night flight on the winged half-mule Buraq that any return implies a previous going. As Abraham (the first Hajj pilgrim to Makkah) built the Kaaba in Makkah near the Zamzam well and turned left 7 times, a counterclockwise rotation renews our three attentions and the Grace of the Virgin Mary stops the devil (2) and madness (1) from returning (3). His 1st and 2nd attention became returning decoherence (the 3rd attention) in a Christ Who flew over the Sea of Galilee (John 6: 1-70, KJV). Nine centuries before Christ, an Aztec-Coatlaxopeuh-Holy ghost, preceded Mary as mother of a laughing Quetzalcoatl.

Six centuries before Quetzalcoatl, a blind "Isaac" ("laughter," or 3) blessed his lying son "Jacob" ("cheater," or 2) for he knew that Jacob's twin Esau (+1) was barred from lying and self-renewal. Since Esau could not lie (2), I attach his lack of malice to autism (+1). Perhaps Moses's account in his Genesis influenced the myth of Quetzalcoatl. Perhaps both leaders got the structure of our brain:

Blue (light or deep) stands for any arrow, a snake (+1), or a bird (-1), for Moses's Thummim-rigidity-bread) or the autistic/schizophrenic reality we sense with our cerebrum (I also attach the 1% mad to classical computing);
red (Moses's Urim-flexibility-water-wine) stands for coherence (2, or reality and folly) in our cerebellum; and
green (3), for their alliance in the decoherence that readjusts nature's attentions-intentions in our brainstem.

Decoherence is personal and difficult to achieve. In nature and my vision, only a liar (2) can seize the decoherence that readjusts (3) reality (+1). But not any liar can return. In fact, most liars do not. Our genes easily add the 2nd attention to our 1st attention in 99% of babies, toward the Tree of Good and Evil (e.g., Pinocchio). Yet to reach the Tree of Life (as did Moses, the Buddha, Christ, Muhammad, Quetzalcoatl, and the Blue Fairy) poets must pass from metaphors to poems; jesters, to new humor; readers, to reading Sacred Texts; and heroic souls, to solving a problem.

Although most of us lie to help ourselves, the wickedest man in Tuscany (Boccaccio's St. Ciappelletto da Prato) lied (2) to solve (3) a problem in Paris, where no one knew him. Now, we need a few compulsive liars to ally in solving the problem of a dying Earth.

The problem: Since 1825, global population has grown from 1 to 8 billion. Samuel Preston's curve (1975) implies that a small growth of wealth per-capita/per-year (e.g., $2000/year) would increase population. To that Malthusian trap, we should add an increase in the per year wealth/capita (e.g., $70,000 today in Nordic countries). Mercantilism, Adam Smith's "invisible hand," David Ricardo's Central Bank, and rulers' mediation by John Maynard Keynes have fed paper money, hedonism, and our disposition to pollute the Earth 100 times faster than two centuries ago. We are doomed! Anthropogenic global warming will hit us in spite of our technological prowess.

Coral Castle

The oolitic limestone in Coral Castle (Greater Miami, FL, USA) grew 125,000 years ago under 25 feet of water

CORAL CASTLE

My picture of the northern wall of Ed Leedskalnin's (†-1951) Coral Castle (25 miles south of Miami's center) enhances his mysterious perception of the three attentions-intentions of nature and the human brain:

the two short vertical columns on top of the massive northern wall stand for the clash between cerebral order (Brotherhood, Hierarchy, Bands, Autism, Reality, +1, snake) and cerebellar chaos (-1) in the classical computing (or an arrow) that inhabits our rigid cerebral cortex (e.g., true, patriotic militaries opposed to lying invaders);
the beam that joins the two columns stands for the bow of quantum computing in our flexible cerebellar cortex with the corpus callosum that joins our two cerebral hemispheres; and
the uniplurality that rests on the horizontal beam stands for the alliance (3) of 2 and 1 in our brainstem (e.g., a cup-graal and the wine it contains, a canyon and the river that carved it, the statues protecting the inhabitants of Easter's island, the Distributed Hierarchy of the human brain, creativity, or the song l'Italiano by Cutugno (†-2023)-Minellono.

In the picture above, I explain Ed's hidden vision: Autistic Order (Bands, [+1]) in our cerebral cortex opposes Schizophrenic Chaos ([-1] in our cerebellar cortex). In any one of our 5000 cerebellar microcomplexes, quantum computing (Beauty, Ed's horizontal beam, or our 2nd attention) rejuvenates (3) our ideas about an unknowable reality. In other words, infinite speed (the result of resting simultaneously on separate locations) joins nothingness in the playing hands of a music composer.

Our enemies deserve no respect, unless we enter (Beauty) their clothes without leaving our own clothes. In Lisbon's 1755's tragedy, after withstanding seismic waves, tsunamis, and fire, its children and women were terrified, raped, and eaten by mad human gangs, incapable of entertaining the repentance provided by uniplurality, the element that Ed left resting on lying, as in a dolmen.

Florida was underwater 125,000 years ago. Yet that may not reoccur. Through the vision of a complex circle (e.g., Stonehenge and its dolmens), in the 11 sections of this page readers will realize that classical computing can harmonize with quantum computing.

The fact that thousands Stonehenge-like circles can be found in the world suggests that Ithaca (or reality) is a gift that we can renew. I believe that Zechariah's purported prophecy (shown in the verses above) of a future tragedy makes an irony. He offered us the roots of nature and not the death of more than one billion children. Civilization will not sink if we find an heroic captain capable of avoiding a storm or of preserving ship Earth through a storm. A truly heroic captain would recognize and seek the harmony (AI) between the principles of quantum (KI) and classical (DO) computing. Morihei Ueshiba's AIKIDO offers us a way of controlling an unknowable nature. My vision tries to master will, infinite speed, and nothingness before dying. Any reader could join the principles I envisioned.

PRINCIPLES

Classical computing and our cerebral cortex sense the Trojan War (in which order fights chaos) through two principles:

Nothing can exist simultaneously in different locations (Albert Einstein's Finiteness of the speed of light); and,
Separate objects cannot share the same space (Wolfgang Pauli's Impenetrability).

However, the weak (young and old) are chosen and torn to pieces by hungry lying tigers-hyenas-cuckoos, who add nonautistic cerebellar (red-2nd attention) to autistic cerebral computing (blue) in stalking their prey. Cerebellar, quantum principles are:

Anything may exist in distinct locations (Entanglement or infinite speed); and,
Separate things may share the same space (Superposition or nothingness).

For example, in the 11th century CE (Common Era) the Castilian "El Cid Campeador" crossed with his sword the Moorish head of Valencia in Medieval Spain. That Moor died because his body and the sword of El Cid could not share the same space. By contrast, a hyena may stalk a weak zebra before eating it. All nonhuman species live in the present because they cannot meta-represent.

META-REPRESENTATION

The Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget found that after age 7.5 years (6.5 in reality) all humans can link past to present concepts within classical meta-representing. Our cerebral cortex may plan and "move" even if we rest; retarded persons and nonhumans cannot.

As with the impassive half-Vulcan Mr. Spock of the Star-War franchises, my vision (Cassella [2023b] ) caught why classical meta-representing in our cerebrum allows high-functioning autistics to pass the Proper-Self protocol and why, although they can meta-represent, they fail the false-belief protocol linked to quantum meta-representing in our cerebellum and the proper use of pronouns. Autistics cannot deal with pronouns because they cannot lie. Some schizophrenics can; but neither can return.

The next section shows that infinite speed in the top half of a complex circle allows humans to hug the lying devil in the going of quantum coherence. It also shows why saints or heroes (e.g., St. Ciappelletto or Ulysses) can lean on infinite speed before opening the door of nothingness to return to a re-created reality. Vision may allow us to save Ithaca and our children.

Mission

As in the top-half complex circle of the figure above, our genes help our devilish quantum coherence (2) to stay in our autistic (+1, blue) and our schizophrenic (-1, orange) facets at once (infinite speed). Our genes lead 99% of us to join the devil (from 1 to 2). Yet fleeing the devil and folly is tough. A saintly heart allows us to return to a re-created autistic facet via the 3rd attention. As Matthew (22:14, KJV) says: " For many are called (red, 2) but few are chosen" (green, 3). That happens in a complex circle in which we lie to save others. As Luke (1: 28, KJV) says in the "Hail Mary": Blessed art thou among women." If a solution (Mary) precedes possible solutions (women), some dreams are blessed, although most are fiction.

In the Russian University of Saint Petersburg, the Swiss Leonhard Euler invented the complex plane by replacing the vertical axis of a Cartesian Plane (e.g., the map of Rome) with an imaginary axis formed by multiples of the imaginary square root of -1 ("i"). He then applied polar coordinates by placing a circle with a varying radius ("r") at the center of the complex plane. His formula, re^i(theta) = cos(theta) + isin(theta), with r=1, gives the identity e^i(Greek pi) + 1 = 0 (called "Euler's Identity"). Euler's Identity matches quantum coherence, my 2nd attention, and the upper half of the complex circle, since it starts at +1 and it ends at -1. Yet the identity e^i(2Greek pi) - 1 = 0 (or "Tau Identity") matches my 3rd attention, the whole complex circle, and decoherence. In a complex circle, then, decoherence includes coherence since it starts at +1 and it ends at +1. The name of the Buddha, "thatagata" ("Thus returned"), says it all. Similarly, Muhammad returned (Wal Mirah) to Makkah after his Al Isra.

We spend the first two months of life with our blue classical computing and autistic Adam-"Quetzal-coatl" ("Bird-Serpent"), the explicit self that allows us to see and recall the order imposed to us by our local family (e.g., the cackle of a queen hyena). After three months, the inherited coherence of quantum computing in 99% of us creates a red implicit self. The order and chaos of our nonlocal self lets us lie, dream, pray, hope, and sin freely (Jacob, Quetzal-Coatl, and the devil). Social smile rises after two months. Too bad that it remains forgotten in infantile amnesia.

One per cent of infant liars end up in a schizophrenic adulthood by which a particular person believes the reality of his or her own lies (at age 20 years for males and 30 for females). Schizophrenics cannot decohere by returning like Jacob did when he became Israel. Yet helping the autistic 1% who can't go (e.g., Esau) and the 1% schizophrenics who can't return will show us how lying could renew the cosmos if we used it charitably.

We use a cerebellar trick to lie. If that fails, pronoun reversal and autism arise. I will not reveal that trick now. Yet Neanderthals, Egyptian Sages, The Yellow Emperor, Moses, Hindu Gurus, Christ, Muhammad, and Martin Luther knew that lying to save others would help us pass from the many liars that are called to the few heroes chosen to catch the decoherence that readjusts reality. In 1997 I measured (Cassella, 2002c, 2017a, 2018c), under the guidance of the Psychology Department of Harvard University, autistics's feat in passing performance-IQ tests and failing verbal-IQ tests,

Those scientific neuro-cognitive tests created my vision: Any charitable liar can unite Moses's Urim to his autistic Thummim. We just need to face a question; smile in front of a paradox; choose a solution among many possible answers; write a poem; read the humor and parables of a Sacred Text; understand complex numbers ("z"), or (as did Emperor Constantine before the "Battle of the Milvian Bridge" in 312 CE [Common Era]) understand the meaning of uniting infinite speed with nothingness. Constantine's mother, St. Helena, could have told him that nature, any cross, and the Christogram "Chi-Rho" embrace the same meaning:

The thorns tormenting the head of Jesus stand for the 1st attention;
mockery in the crown, for the 2nd attention; and
forgiveness of mockers by Christ, for the 3rd attention.

Unfortunately, lying humans, avid of sex and delicatessen, already have: a) killed one half of non-human species; b) contaminated Earth's atmosphere; and c) weakened the progress of our descendants. Yet the vision I offer here and the will of a new Quetzalcoatl-like hero may still save us.

MISSION

My MISSION consists in spreading an intuitionist vision of nature's nature (the 3rd attention) by which
the flexible lying power of infinity-nothingness in a 2nd attention made by quantum computing (e.g., any liquid) helps us
readjust the classical rigidity of the autistic reality attached to our 1st attention (e.g., bread, or a goblet-Graal).

Reality sets order against chaos, while going with autism, Esau, and the Aristotelian Law of the Excluded Middle (LoEM);
Fantasy goes with humor, lying, and metaphors before facing a problem; and
heroism goes with heartfelt solutions.

In front of exceptional remaining natural beauties (for example, the Yellowstone National Park in the USA), it does not seem right to advance inertial chaos and the end of civilization, but the anthropogenic problem we have already caused cannot be erased from a conscious view. North America (excluding Mexico) has 5% of the world population and uses about 20 % of the energy resources exploited in the world. China uses about 18% with 5 times the people that inhabits the USA and Canada; and India uses five times less energy than China with about the same population.

The problem, the consequences, and nature's nature

THE PROBLEM

THE CONSEQUENCES

From data by U.S. NASA, EPA, and Jozuel et al. (2007) I found that ice cores retrieved from Antarctic glaciers show an odd correlation in the past 800,000 years among greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxides), heat in the lower atmosphere, and sea level.

Whenever the temperature of the lower atmosphere varied, greenhou

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Whenever the temperature of the lower atmosphere varied, greenhouse gases and sea-level followed suit. E.g., sea-level rose 7 meters 125,000 years ago (in 10,000 years).

252 Mya, the magma unleashed by a volcanic explosion at the Siberian Traps loaded the atmosphere with about 4000 ppm (parts per million) of Carbon Dioxide. The temperature of the lower atmosphere rose by more than 7° C (Degrees Celsius). Most species died.

Our descendants might undergo the same fate by anthropogenic reasons: Too many people consuming too much fossil energy.

Was the Great Dying caused by an excursion of hydrogen sulfide (Ward, 2006), by low sea oxygen (Penn and Deutsch, 2022) or both?

In other words, could another Great Dying come if the temperature of the lower atmosphere rose again above 7° C?

Quantum computing rejects the LoEM. The figure above could be false and true (a problem). Will today's liars face questions and problems?

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THE CONSEQUENCES

Our problem conveys the risk of the three avalanches depicted in the glass skull above:

The avalanche linked to the correlation among the five variables at left is given in yellow.
The matching theory of Penn & Deutsch (2022) is more pressing.
Ward (2006) posited that the Great Dying was fed by the release of hydrogen sulfide from the che

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Our problem conveys the risk of the three avalanches depicted in the glass skull above:

The avalanche linked to the correlation among the five variables at left is given in yellow.
The matching theory of Penn & Deutsch (2022) is more pressing.
Ward (2006) posited that the Great Dying was fed by the release of hydrogen sulfide from the chemocline between sulphur and oxygen bacteria in some water-bodies. Chemocline's excursions weakened Earth's Ozone layer.
Finally, pink stands for WWIII.

The depiction of Earth's atmosphere as a limited container in the figure above might explain why we cannot continue expanding population growth and yearly per-capita energy consumption, especially through fossil fuels.

China, the nation that contaminates the world more than any other, cannot be blamed for aspiring to get a fraction of the yearly wealth per capita enjoyed by Northern Americans. India's population has the same right. North America (without Mexico), China and India, feed the inertia of global warming.

Nigeria will experience in this century a population growth beyond India and China.

If final victory were good, WWIII would benefit Earth. But winning will never solve a problem; and even less, the havoc caused by warming the lower atmosphere beyond 7° C.

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NATURE'S NATURE

THE CONSEQUENCES

NATURE'S NATURE

Three hundred years before Hernán Cortés conquered the Aztec Empire in 1521, a group of Aztec mercenaries reached the high plain of the future Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City).

Wise elders led them 40 km north-east, to a city abandoned after ten centuries of progress: Teotihuacan. The Aztecs perceived that the name "Teotihuacan" meant, "

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Three hundred years before Hernán Cortés conquered the Aztec Empire in 1521, a group of Aztec mercenaries reached the high plain of the future Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City).

Wise elders led them 40 km north-east, to a city abandoned after ten centuries of progress: Teotihuacan. The Aztecs perceived that the name "Teotihuacan" meant, "The place where men become gods." The geniality of its artisans empowered a multiethnic city without walls.

Further, I posit that the design of Teotihuacan represents nature's roots for renewing itself:

1. The "Pyramid of the Sun" stands for the classical computing that rules sensed reality;

2. the "Pyramid of the Moon," for the quantum computing that may host the vision seized by problem-lovers; and

3. the "Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl," for the heroes-heroines who readjust reality.

We know today that a 30 year's drought caused malnutrition among the inhabitants of Teotihuacan. They emigrated to neighboring cities.

Before leaving Teotihuacan, though, artisans burned the palaces of the rich along the "Avenue of the Dead." Perhaps the leaders of Teotihuacan's never found a solution because they never faced their problem.

By crossing ritually the "Avenue of the Dead," as if they had a heartfelt solution, Teotihuacan's last leaders defeated the ideas of the original designers of the city: Reality is a gain that must be renewed continuously!

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The Avenue of the Dead in Teotihuacan

Only by solving a problem can we cross the "Avenue of the Dead" to reach the Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl

PROBLEM-SOLVING

Many liars can climb to the top of the Pyramid of the Moon, but only heroes who see and solve problems can go down and cross the Avenue of the Dead. Fulfilling a known rite or winning a war will not solve our problems. To solve our problems, we need to walk with God and will our seeing. Heroes-heroines can do it if God helps them remember the future. The seeing provided by Sacred Texts and here may help; but it cannot replace personal will in true heroism. A true heroic leader may re-adjust visible reality for the good of humans and of nonhumans on Earth.

Seeing or vision tells us that we can avoid global warming, the use of weapons of mass destruction, deadly viruses, autism, and folly. We need only to ally our 1st with our 2nd attention into our 3rd attention. Martin Luther did that (Cassella [2023b] ), but the Council of Trent did not get him.

Here are some examples of how the green 3rd attention may reach the Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl and renew the blue reality appreciated by autistics:

The transfiguration of Christ (3) on a mountain (Mark 9:2-8), in the company of Elias (2nd) and Moses (1st) ;
the union (3) of the stones-crystals Thummim (1) and Urim (2), kept by Moses and his brother Aaron in the Ark of the Covenant;
the meeting (3) of Kong-Fuzi with Laozi (5th century BCE);
the will (3) of Sita to protect (3) Rama's progeny (1) from the perfidy of Ravana (2) in the Ramayana (6th century BCE);
Krishna's advice (3) to Arjuna (2) in the Bhagavad Gita to suspend the use of his Gandiva bow while he (Krishna) talked;
the fraternal use (3) of the power (2) that sees through infinite speed or void the two faces of a medal;
understanding (3) the inscriptions (2) on the Excalibur sword of King Arthur: "Take me up" on one side and "Cast me away" on the other;
the love (3) between the Persian King Ahasuerus (1) (Xerxes I) and the hope-drenched Queen Esther (2) (Purim, Esther 9:20-32, KJV);
wal-Mi'raj (3), or Muhammad's return to the Black Stone in Mecca (1), after his al-'Isra' journey (2) to the farthest mosque; and
Quetzalcoatl's return to Mesoamerica with the Evening Star (3), after leaving reality (1) with the Morning Star (2) in the 9th century BCE.

In the "logos heuristics," or "Λ" (which I found after studying the autistic brain, Heraclitus's philosophy, Plato's "Parmenides,"and his "Meno"), the bird-serpent (sky and land, schizophrenia and autism, quantum computing) "Quetzal-coatl" might dream with God a new visible reality.

Quetzalcoatl returned with the Virgin of Guadalupe or the Aztec Coatlaxopeuh (Shekhinah, or the Archangels Gabriel-Michael-Raphael). Quetzalcoatl could stop the sixth extinction of nonhumans and the first one of humans. Notice that the figure above keeps the counterclockwise turn of all the figures of this page but is inverted. My intention is to show that in a complex circle the devil cannot leave the top of the pyramid of the moon because the capacity for lying and moving at infinite speed of the devil matches the Tree of Good and Evil, not the Tree of Life.

Smiling at or devising a pun is a first step toward problem-solving and dreaming the future and the Tree of Life with God.

The last pharaoh and the solution to our problem

CLEOPATRA AS THE QUEEN OF THE NILE (DENIAL)

MEANING OF GIZA'S PYRAMIDS

Cleopatra crossed classical computing (the blue crook, autism, and +1 on the right of the figure above) with quantum computing (the red flail and comedian-liars at the left, in the coherence by which Quetzalcoatl goes). Before meeting decoherence (green, complex circle) in Giza's Sphinx, Cleopatra met the power (the bow or Moses's Urim) that pulls opposite muscles of our mouth at once when we laugh, fills with tears our eyes together when we cry, makes us laugh and cry simultaneously, or makes us dream.

If we laid stomach-down between the paws of Giza's Sphinx, the saber-tooth feline (in its body) would not sink his extra-long canines into our neck because its head was replaced with a pharaoh's head in the 26th century BCE, after 8000 years. Instead of being eaten, we could dream. Pharaoh Thutmose IV, 3,400 years ago, left a Dream Stele between the paws of Giza's Sphinx. The Sphinx predicted in his dream that he would be pharaoh if he cleared the sand that hid the body of that monument. Let us dream too!

Suppose that we climbed at night the Great Pyramid. Upon reaching the benben-pyramidion, we would see that the two diagonals of the reducing square we were embracing end in a void. We could turn 180° in returning (feet-down) to land by the opposite side. The "Λ" sign traced in our going and returning trips mirrors the uniplurality that led pharaohs to renovate reality, and Ed Leedskalnin to picture his view of uniplurality in Coral Castle (FL, USA). The crossing diameters inside the reducing circles of a cone and the crossing diagonals inside the reducing squares of Giza's pyramids are the same.

About 200,000 years ago, Neanderthals admired the void that topped the stalagmites in their caverns and the infinite circles in their growth. Before vanishing, they taught pre-dynastic Egyptians in the "House of Thoth" about the peripheral infinity and central nothingness of circles (Moses's Urim). Infinity and nothingness accompany any circle (Moses's Urim), small or big.

Whatever a circle's size, its rim-over-diameter ratio gives Greek Pi (3.14 with infinite decimals), which is half a circle in radians. Did Egyptians intend the whole circle in radians (6.28 with infinite decimals, or Greek Tau)? In the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre, Menkaure, and Djedefre, the perimeter of the land square divided the height nears 6.28. Thus, the circle behind Giza's pyramids is a complex circle (Cassella [2023b] ). Egyptians used heartily the readjusting power of complex circles to retrace properties after a flooding by the Nile River. I posit that Giza's pyramids report on land the Northern Cross of the Cygnus constellation; and not Orion.

Khufu's Great Pyramid (as Delta Cygni) joins Gamma Cygni (Khafre's pyramid), Epsilon Cygni (Menkaure), and Sirius in marking a Southern Circle. Djedefre's Pyramid, Deneb, Gamma Cygni, Albireo, and Orion's Belt mark a Northern Circle. The two circles intersected at Gamma-Cygni (Khafre's pyramid) and a temple 14.1 miles East. A dead pharaoh left Memphis, crossed The Nile, and reached the Sphinx. His Spirit went to the Lion asterism, crossed The Milky Way, and reached Orion's Belt, where he resurrected.

Today, the Earth could resurrect by combining at least two liars (the USA and Russia) with a comedian (Ukraine) in stopping the sixth extinction of nonhumans and the first one of humans on our planet.

STOPPING THE SIXTH EXTINCTION

STOPPING THE SIXTH EXTINCTION THROUGH THE THIRD ATTENTION OF A HERO-HEROINE

THE SIXTH EXTINCTION

No non-human species can join two concepts, within classical meta-representation in our cerebral cortex (as Asperger autistics easily do). But our true power lies in our cerebellar lying. Thus, we follow the devil by trapping, butchering, and cooking less endowed species, as shown in the figure above. If our will is heartfelt, though, the Archangel Michael will open the door of nothingness that introduces complex numbers ("z"). Understanding complex numbers (Cassella [2023b] ) might stop the Sixth Extinction of nonhuman species and the first extinction of humans.

Uniplurality, or the infinite speed that sustains empathic nothingness ("Put yourself in my shoes!" ["without ever leaving your shoes"]), may lead to implanting our will. Will allows us to return into a fraternal spacetime, renewed for nonhuman species and our own offspring. Moses sought the heartfelt union of Urim (quantum computing) and Thummim (classical computing). As a liberator of his brothers and of humanity, Moses sewed the crystals Thummim and Urim at the height of the heart in the mantle-ephod that he and his brother Aaron kept in the Ark of the Covenant.

Moses's stone Thummim reflects the principles of classical computing (Finiteness and Impenetrability). And his stone Urim reflects the two magical principles of quantum computing (Entanglement and Superposition). Quantum Superposition, or Coincidence, may go with coherence (escape door closed) or with decoherence (escape door open at +1). As with Jacob's dream at Bethel, a vision of the 3rd attention (seeing) has to precede the benevolent path of heroes-heroines in willing its realization; e.g., seeing at Bethel allowed Jacob to become Israel at Penuel.

Hence, the union of the crystals Thummim and Urim at the height of Aaron's heart in his ephod reflects finiteness-infinity-nothingness in the Trinitarian creativity that drove the increase of new species in the forests and seas that covered Earth after each of the first five natural extinctions. As with Moses, our children and grandchildren might remember (1), learn to face problems (2), and will new solutions (3).

According to the prophet Zechariah, we will lose the staff No'am (the Grace behind the 2nd attention); and after that we will lose the staff Hovalim (Union, or the brotherhood of the first attention). If we lost our second attention (as the global increase of autism predicts) and then our autistic first attention (as the global increase of mental illnesses predicts), we will also lose the miracle of their personal union in a hero or a heroine.

Zechariah predicts that many children will die in the chaos in which a neighbor will attempt to kill another neighbor in countries abandoned by local governments. However, his prophecy may not become real if we understand its meaning by studying a 2 Hryvnia Ukrainian banknote.

09-22, 2023. Part B. The seal of "Jaroslav The Wise"

Did "Jaroslav the Wise" remember the future?

The two Hryvnia banknote of Ukraine above shows two seals. The upper one agrees with the youth of St. "Volodymyr-Vladimir the Great." The middle one agrees with "Jaroslav the Wise," a son of his by Anna Porphyrogenita, a princess of Byzantium. St. Volodymyr-Vladimir descended from Rurik, a Rus-Viking who became king of Slavic tribes near Lake Ladoga. He became Christian after marrying Anna in 988 CE (Common Era).

Neither Ukrainian nor Russian soldiers see now that the two tridents are complementary. The upper seal stands for the 1st attention (classical computing); the lower trident stands for the 2nd attention (quantum computing); and the union of the two seals, for the third attention. Both St Volodymyr-Vladimir and his successor-son Jaroslav the Wise show that classical and quantum computing can and should be taken together.

The two seals were united when Russia, Ukraine and the USA won WW2 against Hitler's schizoid nazism. The three countries can unite again in founding anew the economic and population growth that occurred since 1825, the year of the Great Divergence in the history of humanity. By uniting classical and quantum computing, they could save themselves and all of us if they thought, fought, and faced together a global problem:

Our crazy expansion of human-population, of yearly per-capita consumption-of-energy, and of the indiscriminate use of fossil fuels.

Will the USA and the EU pool their hydrogen bombs with Russia and China so as to reduce their own riches and use of fossil energy? That healthy measure seems improbable and even impossible. Will a new female or male Cincinnatus (a Roman short-time dictator) unite Ukraine, the USA, the EU, China, and Russia? That dream seems as laughable as the birth of Isaac ("laughter") by old Sarah, under the sperms provided by old Abraham.

The reality of a 4.2 (height) x 6.2 (length) meters mural by Leonardo da Vinci, the Fight for the Standard (centered by me at 7.035 meters under the center of Vasari's Battle of Marciano in the Hall of the 500 at Florence's Palazzo Vecchio) would support my "logos heuristics" (Cassella, 2021g) and the return to the population and energy use we had two centuries ago, or to an equivalent new solution. It's unreality, though, would discredit me.

I based on neuro-psychological tests the "logos heuristics" ("Λ"), or my vision on the cognition of autistics . The 3rd attention (or the union of classical and quantum computing) is difficult to explain and understand. E.g., Lord Voldemort and Harry Potter are both in the arms of their 2nd. attention. But they differ as do the devil from Holy Water: Only the good-willing Harry Potter will seize the Philosopher's Stone. Hopefully, the Ukrainian Volodymyr, the Russian Vladimir, a visionary or neutral American politician, and a Chinese leader will join Albus Dumbledore (the principal of the "Hogwarts School" for magicians) and the final Harry Potter, instead of joining Lord Voldemort and their own madness after that.

According to the the 13th century Turkish dancing dervish Taptuk Emre, the devil can tempt us but cannot witness the 3rd attention in people who walk with their heart and God, as did the son-in-law of Taptuk Emre: the lying poet Junus Emre. As Mary Magdalene found in France at Rennes-le-Château (and Ed Leedskalnin at Coral Castle) only a lying devil can sustain the bowl of Holy Water. Only a devilish liars may enter the 3rd attention. We need to trust a born and compulsive liar!

Any liar can arrive at the third attention if he or she faces and solves our problem by defeating the egoism of the dragon-devil hidden in the upper part of the complex circle. Otherwise, most of our children (or of our grandchildren for sure), will die with the folly of our schizophrenic side.

Volodymyr Zelensky, Vladimir Putin, the USA, the EU, and China should come soon to an understanding. Under the guidance of a new Cincinnatus, they could use once the power of the "Azolla" super-fern that absorbed a huge amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere 50 millions years ago. An excessive use of the Azolla, however, could induce a cooling that could be more obnoxious than a global warming. The reader might examine the articles Cassella [2023a] and Cassella [2023b] , before comparing Euler's complex circle to the Cartesian circle, and studying the next figure.

THE THREE MIRACLES OF PROGRESS

CREATION FROM NOTHINGNESS

Because decoherence includes coherence, the devil has to face an opponent in the upper complex circle. Since a half circle cannot be a whole circle, I fancy that the prayers of Shekhinah, Coatlaxopeuh, the Virgin of Guadalupe, or the Archangels Gabriel/Michael/Raphael stop the devil from reaching the lower circle. I also add the difficulty of completing the 3rd attention that unites Moses's Urim (2, or the Egyptian flail) to his Thummim (1, or the crook): "For many are called but few are chosen."

The petrified ammonite at left tells us that nature returns from nothingness to infinity in ruling the billion cells that compose a snail. Similarly, the black hole at the center of a double-spiral galaxy (e.g., M51, NGC 5194) feeds the life of that galaxy.

The petrified ammonite at left and the galaxy in the center of the figure above mirror the spiral at right in growing from nothingness (3rd) to infinity (3rd). Most liars do not understand that in complex circles. spiraling into nothingness from the infinity at the rim of a circle is equivalent to spiraling into infinity at the rim of a circle from the nothingness at its center.

Nothingness and infinity in whoever remembers the future are distinguishable in the three spiral-circles of the figure above. In them, the central zero satisfies real numbers (1), imaginary numbers (2), and complex numbers (3). As we saw, the devil, the bad (Faust, or souls linked to the devil), and the mad cannot enter the 3rd attention. But a heroic liar could complete decoherence.

Scholastic philosophers had only their Sacred Texts.These and their heart suffice to walk with God. In the 13th century, St. Dominic, St. Francis of Assisi (who talked with wolves), St. Anthony (the Portuguese Fernando Martins who talked with fish), Duns Scotus, and St. Albert the Great called "quod est" sensed reality, "quo est" the miraculous quantum computing used by God to free the universe, and "quod est," or synderesis, recreated reality. As former liars, heroic saints saw and willed three miracles:

The finite speed and locality of classical computing (in the certain spacetime of our first attention, repetitive memory, "yes against no," and perfect faith in our cerebral cortex) makes the first necessary, but insufficient, autistic MIRACLE.
In the second MIRACLE, we "reach simultaneously distinct places" through the hyperspace of problems raised by the less-than-perfect attention wronged in autism.
And in the third MIRACLE (which the devil and our mad side cannot witness), the alliance of classical computing and quantum computing allows a particular hero/heroine to: a) suspend memories, b) drop malice, c) solve the problem at hand, d) open the closed door of the 3rd attention, e) escape madness, and f) complete decoherence.

By returning with Quetzalcoatl and the grace of Coatlaxopeuh (the Virgin of Guadalupe), our grandchildren would grow in an unburned Teotihuacan, or a new Earth in which the sixth extinction of nonhuman species would be stopped by our re-birth.

THE RETURN OF QUETZALCOATL WITH COATLAXOPEUH (GUADALUPE)

FROM AUTISM TO MADNESS, THE THIRD ATTENTION, AND PROGRESS

In the 9th century BCE, the Olmecs (and later the Maya, the Teotihuacans, the Toltecs, and the Aztecs) did not know that planets turn around the Sun. However, they noticed that the light of the Morning Star becomes weaker for 263 days before vanishing for 50 days (superior conjunction in the figure above). As the Evening Star, the light of Venus reappears and turns stronger for 263 days. After that, Venus disappears for 8 days.

Ancient Mesoamericans associated the Morning Star with the going journey of the demigod Quetzal-coatl (any liar). They linked the luminosity of the Evening Star, with the return from Venus of Quetzal-Coatl, the bearer of the third attention. To return we have to seek the alliance (3) of:

perfect memory, in being/"yes" opposed to nonbeing/"no," the 1st. attention (finite spacetime, grammar in our native language, the shared rules, routines, or prototypical schemata adored by our autistic facet and negated by our schizophrenic facet) and . . .
the less-than-perfect imagination adored by our artistic, creative, malicious, graceful, infinite, or diabolical/angelical facet.

Quantum computing echoes the biblical Tree of Knowledge, being-and-nonbeing, "maybe," the 2nd attention, infinite hyperspace, doubt, dilemma, paradox, hope, humor, the unknown, deceit, facing a problem, the contrasting hypotheses about potential solutions; the pragmatics behind figures of speech, the subjunctive, the conditional, and the correct use of pronouns, which autistics cannot fathom. Autistics and schizophrenics cannot seize the union of classical computing with quantum computing into the third attention (3) or the biblical Tree of Life.

Autistics, who imagine what they see (sanity), oppose schizophrenics, who see what they imagine (insanity). And both miss the mental fluidity that invites dancers who can imagine what they see and see what they imagine into flying with beauty, elegance, grace, and charm.

At the age of one year, an autistic boy will not be able to tease an unknown visitor by giving and not giving him a sweet.
At the age of two years, most autistics show definitely that they cannot step on the bridge of quantum coherence, and embrace our schizophrenic facet and our autistic facet simultaneously (pretend play), whereas . . .
in adulthood, schizophrenics cannot find the bridge of quantum decoherence in returning from fictional pretense to a renovated reality and the social triumph of shared progress.

We need to recover a vision of the reality of the third attention in trying to escape the autistic appreciations of Esau (1). Gabriel helped the devilish Jacob (2) to do that at Bethel. Early in history (e.g., Göbekli Tepe in Turkey), some heroes-heroines among us lied in serving and saving others. Will they help us now as they helped Jacob reach the archangel Michael at Penuel?

For instance, when French revolutionaries exalted the values of equality, liberty, and fraternity, they unconsciously highlighted the values of faith, hope, and charity in combining and renewing our 3 attentions-intentions. We may match those French by recovering the meaning of Göbekli Tepe.

o9-22, 2023. THE FOUR ENEMIES OF HUMANS

A possible meaning of Göbekli Tepe's temples

Above, the drawing of one temple of Göbekli Tepe (Turkey), seen from the perspective of a bird, exalts the wisdom of the fair use of infinite speed and nothingness. Hunter-gatherers 11,000 years ago inherited a view of power from the Neanderthal troglodytes of half a million years ago. The fair use of power is compared to the harmony sought by the martial art AIKIDO, developed about 100 years ago by the Japanese Osensei Morihei Ueshiba. Osensei adapted his knowledge of Samurai warriors to the tenets of "Zen" (ancient Chinese "Chan") and to the kung fu and meditation (Chinese "dhyana"/Japanese "zazen") introduced into China by the mythical Patriarch Bodhidharma in the sixth century CE.

My familiarity with "zazen" derives from the French sensei Ives Carouget in Maracaibo; and my familiarity with AiKiDo, with the teachings I obtained from the mystical sensei Venceslao Barignani in Ciudad Ojeda (Venezuela). The three stages of meditation (Cassella, 2018c) correspond to the three attention-intentions (cerebral classical computing, cerebellar quantum computing, and their union in the brainstem) I have been detailing here.

In other words, our fear of chaos leads us to the search for autistic order. Yet the adoration of order in the law, perfect memories, and tribal fraternity would lead us in the end to the cognitive trap of autism (Do). Relying solely on our capacity for lying (Ki), would lead us in the end to the trap of madness. By contrast, if we lie to help others, we might be able to overcome the inner circle of Göbekli Tepe and reach vision,

Anyone can defeat in life the first three enemies of humans: Fear, Clarity, and Power. If our heart gathers the courage of lying to help others or to seek justice (as did Hamlet and would any hero), we would vanquish power and reach vision first (seeing) and then the will of a man- or a woman of-knowledge. The last event corresponds to harmony or Ai (3) in the illumination achieved by Morihei Ueshiba before dying.

Although no one can avoid old age and the trap of death, crossing the door of nothingness entails knowledge that:

The tension created by pulling a bow (2) can be used to sing or play a lyre, instead of shooting an arrow (1, or our first attention) to kill;
Some men- or women-of-knowledge will will the dolmen of their third attention, as did Ed Leedskalnin in Coral Castle;
The horizontal stone (2) in the dolmens along the circles of dolmens left in most countries can be controlled by the 3rd attention;
The Yellow Emperor in China recognized the 3rd attention by teaching others the meaning of his Yin-Yang circular sign;
By changing the cat-head of Giza's Sphinx into a pharaoh's head, pharaoh Khufu showed his workers that the 3rd attention was real;
Hindu Saints placed the OM syllable (pronounced "aaaauuuummmm") and the 3rd attention in the embrace of Vishnu (or "aaaa"), with Shiva (or "uuuu"), and Brahma (or "mmmm");
The Hindu Trimurti, the concept of Trinity, and the OM syllable fed the Hindu Dharma and all Sacred Texts;
Moises and Queen Nefertari knew about the reality of the 3rd attention; and
So did the Mesoamericans who trusted the seeing and will of a lying Quetzalcoatl in the year 900 BCE;
The "logos heuristics" agrees with trusting a lying pharaoh-dictator and an actor-president to save the world;
Only a liar who remembers the future can become a man- or a woman-of knowledge;
Christ crossed his parents's con-citizens in Nazareth (Luke, 4:14-30, KJV), after they tried to push Him into a precipice;
Any liar can go up the stairs of quantum computing, but only Saints and heroes-heroines can go down that ramp in returning to a new Earth;
The Buddha "Tathagata" ("Thus returned") reached illumination when he understood that fasting led nowhere;
Few people are aware of resurrection and of the fact that any liar can resurrect if he or she helps others before dying;
Lying to save others sustains gravity, matter, anti-gravity, and anti-matter (the reader may check the "Cosmos" page);
The Christian Cross shows gravitational anti-symmetry in its vertical beam and symmetry in its horizontal beam (the Holy Ghost);
The crossing point of a cross exists only in our cerebellar microcomplexes.

Today, dark energy (the 2nd attention) is about 73%. Dark matter (the door of nothingness in the 3rd attention) is about 22%; and visible matter, only 5%. Since dark matter was 63% 13.7 billion years ago, when the universe was only 380 k-years old, nothingness has been driving the infinite speed that unites matter to anti-matter. Will Ukrainians, Americans, Chinese, and Russians resurrect us all by following dark matter?

Rejoice readers! Quetzalcoatl has returned!

09-23, 2023. Part A: From a milieu to the 6th extinction

Coral Castle

The oolitic limestone in Coral Castle (Greater Miami, FL, USA) grew 125,000 years ago under 25 feet of water

Mission

The problem, the consequences, and nature's nature

THE PROBLEM

THE CONSEQUENCES

THE CONSEQUENCES

THE CONSEQUENCES

THE CONSEQUENCES

THE CONSEQUENCES

NATURE'S NATURE

THE CONSEQUENCES

NATURE'S NATURE

The Avenue of the Dead in Teotihuacan

Only by solving a problem can we cross the "Avenue of the Dead" to reach the Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl

The last pharaoh and the solution to our problem

CLEOPATRA AS THE QUEEN OF THE NILE (DENIAL)

STOPPING THE SIXTH EXTINCTION

STOPPING THE SIXTH EXTINCTION THROUGH THE THIRD ATTENTION OF A HERO-HEROINE

09-22, 2023. Part B. The seal of "Jaroslav The Wise"

Did "Jaroslav the Wise" remember the future?

THE THREE MIRACLES OF PROGRESS

CREATION FROM NOTHINGNESS

THE RETURN OF QUETZALCOATL WITH COATLAXOPEUH (GUADALUPE)

FROM AUTISM TO MADNESS, THE THIRD ATTENTION, AND PROGRESS

o9-22, 2023. THE FOUR ENEMIES OF HUMANS

A possible meaning of Göbekli Tepe's temples

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