It will never be enough to express my gratitude to Polyhedron's magnificent author Coşkun Rüzgar Karakoç. In his work, I could see things differently, remember what was essential and be entertained by his wonderful world where he, in the beginning, wins the battle against any virtual reality tools that try in vain to convey the experience through approximations.
This paper will try to express my opinions and the things that have been awakened in me after reading:
6) On Being
I am sure by both Shannon-Nyquist information theory and the incredible depth of Mr Karakoc, I can only aim for bits of value available in the given articles. Shall you and Polyhedron forgive me if I am to skip something.
For me, this article showed the treasure. That was within our grasp. Mound Ida and the places where the wise Greek Philosophers and Mathematicians lived were within our reach, yet, some turned their back to this ancient tranquillity and now seeking salvation, actually seeking redemption for their negligence.
I am fortunate that Mr Karakoc brought this awareness of tranquillity. Sometimes you are so concerned about the things happening around you—the general trend of the country, the instability and even the inflation of something other than many. However, in the past, those were the places people of Turkey, now "Turkiye", reacted strongly and repelled the invaders who invaded, calling the inhabitants invaders.
I sense there will again be a place of repulsion from the corruption infesting the soul of a country. The tranquillity there allowed the birth of rational civilisation. The ones who came here later should have continued to contribute the knowledge of humankind. Yet, unlike Europe, which liberates itself from the shackles of heaven and the dregs of hell, becoming aware of the actual heresy.
Now is the chance for redemption. Culture will either transform or fade. We are standing at the precipice. I am sure the tranquillity of the Aegean will power the rise of intellect, cleansing this horde-like accumulation.
From the small stories shall rise one of the most extraordinary histories once more.
It's funny that all histories intertwine with each other. Eventually, wanting one to collapse means wanting others, including yours, to collapse as well.
In this article, Mr Karakoc highlighted a crucial thing about being resolute. This hasn't been more important in human history than now because humans have over-choices in their lives. This causes them to either resolute on things that were not proper for themselves or have them made choices that paralysed them. Karakoc benefited the world by bringing the importance of Resoluteness. Some may have broken this paralysis and may be ready to take action to become themselves.
Therefore, a strong sense of resolution can exist in some individuals, though with a small contribution of awareness to it, which would indicate a dangerous specimen. Correspondingly, awareness may also make a lesser contribution to Resoluteness.
A very lovely build-up on every day of our Lives here we have. The hand-to-hand Resolution and Awareness have been nicely shown. Without either, the best cannot be achieved.
It would also say that the degree of resolution of resolution rises with awareness, i.e., more awareness results in a stronger and more unbreakable resolution.
Hence without On Being, we cannot will to will.
I had always wondered how Malekith was doing in the citadel Naggarond. Karakoc's brilliance and wide range of experience led him to describe things before themselves. In the fictional world, you see different castes and a hierarchy, much like Druchi. Then the trembling doom for enemies and total dominion for the people approach.
That was the most exciting part to see that those dark elves adopted the dynamics mentioned by Karakoc in Total War II. Malekith is the superior leader of dark elves and The Messenger from the Great Vortex.
The battle for eternity has started!
We will be eagerly waiting On Sunset series!!
From the first paragraph, we have,
Here we have a representation of life mathematically where T denotes the end of one's life cycle. L(ν) is a tensor transformation of positive gains from life. And dt is the instantaneous experience you get from life.
So what does this total represent? What does the sum of all your experiences in every possible dimension of your life mean?
Karakoc's fascinating point is to solve this optimisation problem, we need to be aware of the moment. With that, we can remember the Integral of Life and optimise it for the maximum output. This starts by being aware of dt, the instantanious change that corresponds to our present experience.
Awareness of every sensation increases the L(V) 's span, increasing the chance of the total magnitude of the tensor. Karakoc brilliantly described this equation in his excellent article without mathematics.
I must thank the dear author that fiction deserves more than cookies and tea. This article proves his point. I had seen fiction as an inefficient way of learning things, yet Mr Karakoc showed the opposite. It was the most "flowing" type of learning through your armchair with cookies and tea next. Fiction may seem like conveying things unrelated to your surrounding and experience. Yet, among these new conjurations by the author, you link yourself with the article. Then the miracle starts, and you are in the reading. No other type of writing tries to do this like academics. They promise answers without experience. Fiction can promise both, while its success alternates widely with each author. In this regard, one can easily accept that Mr Karakoc is beyond successful.
In this article, first, he laid the atmosphere through visual elements. He made this fictional world available for entering.
The article slowly transforms its message from material to immaterial. The humanities still have the same problems after their intergalactic expansion. The carnage, hatred and probably love. The meaning? That is for sure.
This article led me to think that we should first aim for the Ubermensch rather than other types of expansion. Without it, even with the vast beauties of the universe, human experience and meaning will be earthly, and unevolved.
Mars lay further than Hope.
On Being, being the first article of Mr Karakoc gives a glimpse of the future about what is to come.
That is the question." To be. To live? To exist? To think? To be observed? To be virtuous? To be one's self? What does it mean, what can it be, to be? More specifically, what is it for Man to be?
His concern with such an archaic matter promises you will have more time ahead than anything else. His capture of the problem that human sense-reference divergence was essential to understanding his point. Adopting Wittgenstein's argument, we cannot settle on anything philosophically and logically without genuinely having a concise language system. I believe this conclusion led the author to combine with the first question of existence itself.
Later, he continues arguing whether positive and social sciences combined can reference human existence. This, being the very central question of science, has been neglected by pragmatics but still lives within the mind of the overseers.
The information packet created from the synthesis of the other packets until then creates a brand new packet. Thus the system cannot gather all information included in itself and cannot know everything about itself.
It sounds like Russel's paradox has returned ironically without ever leaving. Unless fuzzy sets help us on this point, this could be true. However, pragmatism in science neglects such matters only to crush the models' boundaries sooner or later but eventually.
I agree that everything out of our comprehension without showing themselves will not affect one Being. Though the saying, life is full of surprises, had been saying for invasion of the uncomprehended.
The article starts and ends with a question. I leave the golden glowing question for the readers to re-discover.
Conclusion
In coming years, many will again find Hope for the floating city we all thought was hidden and disappeared. For the things that make it, shall its citizens embrace the Hope.
Surprisingly, we only needed Hope, nothing else.
DALL · E has created the cover image.
Originally published for Coşkun Rüzgar Karakoç on Polyhedron on 09/22/2022
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