Deploying Ecological Intelligence: TimberFish Technologies
Channel: Math 4 Wisdom
Date: 2023-11-27

Jere Northrop presents the past, present and future of TimberFish Technologies at this meeting of the Math4Wisdom Language of Wisdom Study Group, 2023.11.06

1:15 Jere and Andrius share similar worldviews.
2:00 Concerned about the reductionist paradigm. Loved science but it was not talking to personal experiences.  Chose to start with consciousness and language.  Explain what the reductionist paradigm explains.
3:35 Analyzed, constructed languages. Art, music, genetics suggested a Hypothetical Universal Language. Constructed Ododu http://www.ododu.com Quaternions. Derive numbers from language. Apply, validate.
5:00 PhD from Syracuse in biophysics (microbial genetics).  Physics and math.  Computer simulation of bacterial community. Post-doc at UC Davis. Science did not explain who he was emotionally. In 1969, moved to New York with his wife, artist Lynn Northrop http://www.lynnnorthrop.com 
7:20 With John Ray Hamann at Buffalo. Relational systems, maximum entropy. Serial entrepreneurs. Microbial tank farm. Waste water treatment plant. 
9:50 Pitch deck. In 1973, growing weeds in 55 gallon drums, creating microbial biomass, feeding to fish. 
10:55 Process superintendent at waste water treatment plant in Amherst. Harvested worms, raised fish, analyzed them for pollutants, ate them! 
14:30 In 1979, formed Bion Technologies with his brother. Built animal waste water treatment systems. Left in 2008 to focus on recycling water and growing fish.
18:30 In the 90's hired Hamann, whose AutoGnomics corporation computerized Peirce's semiotic theory of Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness. In 2008, Jere incorporated TimberFish.
21:40 AutoGnome specification. Monadic, dyadic, triadic modes. Each incorporates abduction, induction, deduction. Levels: biochemical, cellular, neurophysiological, natural language. Expanding threeness to fourness.
24:30 New version of TimberFish. Biochemical (free energy - maximum entropy), microbial (genetic algorithm), animal (neural networks), natural language (language of wisdom). Decision system based on Goldilocks maximum entropy principle. Ecological intelligence: Nature gets the answer right without doing math. Hypothetical Universal Language defines quaternions. 
29:00 Andrius and Jere want to relate and apply their languages of wisdom.
30:45 Eri Mountbatten-O'Malley: Is this also how the mind works? Jere: TimberFish structure translates to the human body. 90% of the cells in our body are bacteria in our gut. Our nervous system also affects our health.
33:30 Benjamin de Vries: What is harvested from the components? Jere: Our bodies mirror the knowledge structure: Data, information - organized data, knowledge - applied information, wisdom - value added ethically.  
35:35 TimberFish Technologies pitch deck. Managed ecological process: combines concentrated organic substances, nutrients and wood chips to locally produce seafood. 
39:20 Demo unit can be used locally, monitored over the Internet. Wood chips multiply in value as fuel.
43:35 Ben: Can add other components: thermofilic compost yields heat energy, CO2 for green house, vertical aeroponics system, duck weed. Jere: Collaborate rather than seek funding.  
48:45 Eri: Implementation arose from philosophical ideas? Jere: They developed together. Influenced by Lynn's artistic ways.
50:25 Andrius: Why is philosophy relevant here? Jere: Collective reasoning. Political realities. Information disease. Handling statements that are neither true nor false such as: This statement is false. A tool to change how they think. Wealth inequality, racism, sexism is antithetical to happiness and viability.
53:20 Andrius relates his and Jere's languages. 
55:20 Peirce's deduction, induction, abduction. Firstness - unconscious, Secondness - conscious, Thirdness - consciousness. 
58:10 Experience through holistic structures: threesome, foursome.
59:50 Languages - argumentation, verbalization, narration. Systematizing ways of figuring things out.
1:00:20 Autognomics. Two three-cycles for learning, one perfecting us, the other perfecting knowledge, turning in opposite directions. 
1:03:40 We can develop an econet of local innovation, sharing failures and successes. And if we love a system, we can evoke its consciousness.
1:06:10 Eri: Exciting. My research is on human flourishing through philosophy of language, conceptual understanding, local events, mind mapping, brainstorming, facilitation.
1:08:10 Ben: CD3WD is a massive knowledge base. Appropedia. 

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