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Self-Creating Language

by Aleksander Marcisz

183 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #02-0061; ISBN 1-55369-248-9; US$20.50, C$26.95, EUR17.60, £12.20

The book presents an alternative system describing the connection of consciousness with matter. It explains physical, psychical and sociological phenomena on the uniform ground unifying miscellaneous fields of science.

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About the Book Full book description:     What is consciousness? What is matter? What is the connection between them? From where do the laws of nature derive? I feel that I exist, but what does it mean? Where is the limit between imagination and reality? the book tries to help the reader to find satisfactory answers.   Beginning with the simplest ideas, the book leads the reader to explaining miscellaneous phenomena in a way unknown up to this time. From simple to complex processes in physics, psychology and sociology - each of them is subject to a clear description within the framework of the presented system. Many matters which up till now have been merely the domains of philosophy, religion and parasciences will be moved by the reader to the areas of rational and cohesive knowledge.   In a consequent way there are explained the associations of consciousness with matter, the source and essence of a time phenomenon, the origin of laws of nature and the way in which they can be altered. On the same foundation there are explained the phenomena of thoughts, desires, felt emotions and connections between them and their effects.   What most important is, the reader is not only provided with ready explanations but also with a powerful tool that can be practically applied to the situations which are met with in everyday life.

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About the Author Aleksander Marcisz is 44 years old. There was a time when he was a scientist, teaching computer science at university, and there was a time when he was a homeless man sleeping in the streets. Now Aleksander works as an engineer of computer science.

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Table of Contents and excerpt

Contents
        Introduction
        How to read the book
LABORATORY
        Experiment
        Laws by which collections are governed
        Way of thinking, logic
        Interpretation
        Levels of interpretation
        Multiple interpretations
        Collection
        Identifier, information transfer
        Niches
        Countability, quantity, individuality
        Similarity, identity
        Basin of collection
        Supplying collection, force of collection, information concentration
        Reinforcing collection, limitations
        Sculpture
        Individuality and sculpture
        Complexity of collections
        Discrimination
        Time sequence, potentials area, time
        Timelessness
        Point of time, the present, situation
        Area of concentration
        Thread of time, key effect
        Repeatability
        The beginning and the end
        Next stage: the end of existence of our system?
        Area B and Area K
        Memory
        Concept, word, symbol
        Reality and its description
        Connection between collections
        Theorem, truth, untruth
        Cause and effect
        Cause of action
        Probability, fortuity
        Information
        Speed, propagation of information
        Entropy
        Consciousness of individual existence
        Conclusions from the experiment
PRACTICE
        Interpretation
        Levels of interpretation in practice
        Parallelism of interpretations
        Canvas
        Space and time
        Energy, the principle of conservation
        Travels in time
        Laws of nature, physical and mathematical constants, logic
        Particle physics as niche
        Behaviour of elementary particles
        Matter
        Mathematics
        Universe
        Man
        The beginning and the end with reference to man
        Society
        Entropy and man
        Artificial intelligence?
        Human niches
        The real, reality, man's surroundings
        Imagination, thought
        Desires, emotions
        Morality, the good
        Responsibility
        Conscious formation of threads of time
        Habits
        Contacts of man with other collections
        Scale of information concentration
        Supercollections supplied by people
        Supercollections supplied by other collections than human
        Free will, active action
        Destiny?
        Example with a man and a vase
        Example with elementary particles
        Example with an electron, a proton and an atom
        Example with society
        Comparison of the Secral with computer science programming languages
        Knowledge
        Ways of acquiring knowledge, systems of knowledge
        How should the Secral language be understood?
        What results from the presented description?
CONCLUSION
More important concepts used in the book
Synonyms of concepts
Index

Introduction

In the book the reader will find a description of a language. I have not invented the language and no one else has done so. The way, in which it has originated reminds one of how from a little seed there arises something that nobody would expect it to develop.
My role has been to observe and record its successive stages of development. I have also inserted my comments about and interpretations of the observed phenomena.

LABORATORY

When beginning to do anything, we should do it in full, we should be aware where to seek for that beginning. The whole idea of our intentions is contained in the previous statement. The goal of our work will be the creation of something from nothing. If it is not we who create, at least we will observe this process.

Let us not work in accidental surroundings. Let us create a suitable environment - a laboratory in which we will perform an experiment.

Principle 1

'Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily'
William de Ockham

I have adopted these words as THE ONLY principle of conduct. It is so important that I should like to write it before every single sentence of this book.
As its complement, I will add:

Principle 2

If you have already created an entity, do not simultaneously create any limits to it. Limits are also entities.

A glance at our laboratory will allow us to understand why these principles are so important. I should like us to begin with zero, with nothing. Not even with zero for zero is already a concept and in the beginning we do not want to have ANY CONCEPTS such as 'nothing' or 'nonentity'.

Logic is the way of thinking which we acknowledge most readily. Let us look at it closer.

Way of thinking, logic

The way of thinking which we use is founded on identity (this is this*).
The whole of logic is merely based on this one operation. If we separate some other operations, we will notice that they are more or less sophisticated compositions of individual operations of identity.
In every law and theorem we will find the word 'is'. In every mathematical formula we will find an equality sign or its equivalent. Every sentence that we say, write or think contains the word 'is'. If it does not occur directly, it occurs conjecturally as the ascertainment of existence. Identity is never a single-argument operation. For instance, the statement "A exists" seemingly refers to one object 'A'. After all, let us not forget the definite observer. Let us notice that the statement deals with three objects: an observer, the object named 'A' and the concept 'exists'. In its complete form, the statement should state "A exists for the observer B".

An operation contrary to identity does not exist. The statement "A is not B" emphasizes differences between the two objects but it still constitutes their identification. We will deal with this phenomenon in a more detailed way in further chapters of the book.

Identity is an inseparable attribute of the information transfer. The information transfer is the act of identity performed by a sender. The object of identification is a receiver and the sent information.

One can find the existence of information only by transferring it. The existing information is solely that which is being transferred.

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