The smart woman's dilemma

Ever wonder why each new generation is dumber than the last one? Ever been told by your teacher that the students before us were much smarter? You probably didn’t believe them at the time, but recently I’ve discovered first hand that it’s true! People are becoming dumber, like really dumber, like an ocean of stupidy hitting your face square in the nose. and i'm not talking 10 years younger im talking 1,2,3 years younger.

Now if one were to take a Darwinian approach of this, it would hardly seem logical that each generation is dumber than the last…should’t stupid genes be sifting out the human gene pool?

Several theories have been proposed which I hope to refute during the course of this presentation.

1- TV and video games

2- Junk food

3- Sedentary lifestyle.

Those are the top reasons people put forth as the cause of the dumbing down of nations…but is it really as simple as that?

Id like to suggest an alternative reason.

The dilemma of the smart woman.

Like any normal woman, smart women tend to want to marry only men of equal or better qualities. I mean what woman would want to listen to a man whose obviously of much lower cognitive and intellectual capability then her? Religion and social norms dictate that the view of the man is the law of the house hold, and so if the man, due to lower intelligence, decides to invest all his life savings into "hello kitty ashtrays for men", the women has to listen to him…..the smart woman would divorce him. But of course that won’t do.

Unfortunately for the smart woman, smart men tend to prefer woman of much lower brain power, so as to completely control her, and due to the fact that she is easier to tame/break/mold. Why should the man bother himself to marry the smart woman in the first place? For him it’s just a hassle since she might contradict him or question him on everything he does that is stupid.

There’s also the problem that the plain sight smart women tend to be ambitious and career oriented which would make them seem less ideal to the man who wants a servant to do his laundry, or to be fair, at least someone to take care of the kids.

Then there’s the problem of the educated smart women who seeks the Phd…she would be far too old for thy average male in his late 30s, since no matter how old a man is, he still thinks he’s young enough to marry a girl in her early 20s.

So what happens to the smart woman?

Via natural selection, her genes are getting lost in the smart woman gene’s black hole. The stupid woman is getting hitched and procreating, diluting the smart Mans smart genes and furthering the stupid man’s stupid genes, thus progressively dumbing down the nations. and lets not forget that stupid people tend not to know when to stop having kids, while smart people take into consideration costs and education and thus limit the amount of kids they have.

So, are we doomed?

There still remains hope people! Our hope lies not in the plain sight smart woman genes, but in the hidden underachieving smart woman…you know the one who tries to woo men by acting dumb and ditzy, or maybe is too lazy to study thus she gets bad grades and doesn’t intimidate the males, or perhaps doesn’t want to be labeled a nerd and thinks its cool to get bad grades….this type of woman has no problem acting dumb when it suites her, while hiding the intelligence genes safely behind a veil of stupidity….

In conclusion acting cool and trying not to get labeled a nerd may hold the key to the future of humanity…

Heaven and the Multiverse.

Heaven is characterized in our religion as divine bliss. Where we are elevated as beings with no bad emotions, no bad thoughts, no bad smells, no bad anything.

So where does that leave the person that is me? Would any part of me, the “dunya” me remain? If a person went to heaven, and was stripped of all of his negative human emotion, does he still remain the same? Are we transformed into some sort of super angels? But then, do we still have free will? The will to do something bad is removed, so are we still human?

In my previous articles I presented my ideas of parallel universes (the ultimate theory), where every choice we make collapses all other infinite universes in that moment and pushes you into a certain finite universe. Depending on our choices we get pushed and pushed into a certain successive line of universes. Now try to imagine if these universes where lined up from up to down, the highest universe being heaven, the lowest universe being hell. The general you exists in all these universes, but the conscious you, the “you” reading this very article, is going to get pushed along as you follow you’re “line” either up or down into these universes, more up or more down.

Being the geek that I am, I’m going to try and elaborate using role playing games as an analogy. As you play the game the character has a choice of conversation and action option. Good and evil options, and a karma bar to show what side you’re on. For example, if you were to continuously choose the “good” option during the game, more and more “good karma” options open up to you and your metre gets filled with blue karma as u progress, and the more good you become the easier it is to get even more good karma. By the end of the game, if you’ve gained sufficient “good karma”, you will no longer be able to even access the evil conversation and action options. And you will have a “good ending” to the game.

 Applying that to the concept of the multiverse, if one were to think that the more “good” actions you do, the more you get pushed “up” along the line of infinite universes arranged in ascending order towards heaven. By the end of the road you no longer have “evil” conversation options opened up to you. Obviously no one actually reaches the final ultimate universe that is heaven, on his own merit; God will have to give you a push to fill up that bar completely.

 Depending where your bar is when you’re “line” runs out, that’s what’s going to determine the end of the game.

at least thats how i see it...

The Ultimate Theory of life, the universe and everything.

Inspired by a conversation i had with Danah Azizi.

In the following article I will (in collaboration with danah Azizi) attempt to link various mind baffling facts and theories relating to existentialism, the universe and the concepts of free will and predestination in the broader context of islam.

Fact: the brain unconsciously makes the decision before we are ever aware we made the decision ourselves. (1)

Fact: in the double slit experiment; photons/particles, when fired one at a time, through a double slit, will form an interference pattern; when any attempt is made to determine which slit the photon/particle goes through, the interference pattern will collapse.

Fact: islam requires us to believe in the presence of seven (or several) samawat, planes or astral realms.

Fact: islam requires us to believe in predestination and free will at the same time.

Theory: M theory (membrane theory, the mother of all theories, the mad theory) requires for 10 spatial dimensions and one time dimension. M theory also requires parallel universes.

The wave particle duality of nature:

One might offer the explanation of how the electron causes an interference pattern by assuming that the strings of the electron divides and goes through both slits and once, thus interfering with itself..

But wouldnt it stop being an electron at that moment?

Do you know how small the plank length is? (About one-10^20th of the diameter of a proton) there’s no way a string can divide without causing an explosion of energy….unless the string is passed through a tiny wormhole and goes through both sides, string reaches slits, divides into two smaller strings these now interfere with each other = interference pattern

No explosion?  Maybe the dimensions of the string ( reallllllllly smalll) would make it possible for it to go, at the same time, through quantum foam ( space time is irregular there)

A wormhole…

But why should it divide in the first place

Why bother?

Why should it care that there are two slits nearby and decide that it has to go through both of them at the same time?

Do you see how our problem is solved with alternate realities?

The Schrödinger equation fixes everything elegantly.

the reason it goes through both slits is because it’s going everywhere to begin with, since those slits happen to be there they go through both at the same time, but that would require parallel universes!

And thus we reach our conundrum…

Now you may be thinking: alternate universes do not make sense, if there were alternate universes then there are probably multiple"you's"

Multiple “me’s” make so much sense, you dont even know!

Look, the electron has one of three choices:

Since it’s being shot one at a time: either go through slit one or go through slit two or hit the board with the slits and ricochet somewhere else. So how does it interfere?

Why should it decide to split and go through both at the same time?

Because it can?  why does sound find a way around obstacles when it can?

It finds its way around obstacles because it goes through every possible direction already!

"Because it can" is not a viable answer

Schrödinger baby!!!

M theory explains wave particle duality; it offers an ultimate theory of everything.

And since electrons are going through every possible direction, then "we" are going through every possible direction as well!

M theory offers these explanations by assuming the presence of 11 dimensions including one time dimension, it does that by offering an explanation for why we get an interference pattern when there is supposedly only one electron; Schrödinger is an integral part of M theory.

But where do alternate universes fit in?

It fits by extrapolating Schrödinger to humans.

Okay, so what collapses the wave functions of possible realities in Schrödinger?

Consciousness! And that’s what I mean by choice and free will.

Only one version of you exists, because a split second before you make a decision all the alternate realities collapse, leaving only the one you decide to make, that’s why you never get to see the alternate realities, and that also explains how our brain knows what were doing before we do it, because the decision already exists. Otherwise our atoms would be flying all over the place!

This “you” exists in one reality but not the other based on the decisions you make, but they all exist at the end, the evil you, the good you and everything in between, so which “you” is the one that gets 7esab or “judgment”?

Alternate realities that “you” choose to collapse (or not), the “you” that is collapsing to one reality or the other.

So which of these universes or realities is the original?

None of them!!

There’s only the “one” that your consciousness perceives.

YOU choose your own reality

We tune into the ones we choose if you will, kind of like a radio.

Still don’t get it?

Imagine an apple behind you. Before you look at it, all its atoms are spread across the universe in every possible direction (courtesy of Schrödinger). As you turn around to look at it, all the wave functions of its particles collapse to form the apple JUST AS YOU LOOK AT IT.

No matter how many times you try or with whatever instruments, you’ll NEVER catch that apple floating through infinity.

It will always be that apple.

It will always be collapsed, the infinitesimal second before u look at it.

Think Occam’s razor applies here...?

Try a simpler explanation: we seem to know what were going to decide, on simple matters because we have already made the choice earlier on. The brain experiment was only ever performed when the decisions were trivial and you believe the participants were informed of what they were going to be asked to do, they make their choice then, when asked, they recall their original decision.

Predecided decisions due to repetitions, a cache memory if you may,

But that theory is lacking in the novel experience department.

How about this..,

All the neurons blasts the possible decisions at the same times, and as they test the brain they see that one decision is formed before we are consciously aware, because the rest collapse a split second before we make the decision

Before…just like the apple

The reason we don’t “realize” we choose it, is because all the realities that we don’t chose collapse, leaving only one reality where the only choice is the choice “you” made, making it seem like we had no choice because all the realities with different choices no longer exist

But if your "self" makes a decision that you are not aware/conscious of then is your consciousness separate from your self. So who calls the shots? And where exactly does the line between "self" and consciousness exist?

If you assume our consciousness is different then our awareness you’ll create an infinite loop

The problem of infinite regression will inevitably present itself.

You must think of the timescales here, infinitesimally small time scales.

The "self" makes the decision thus collapsing all other realities one-hundredth of a nanosecond BEFORE we become "aware" of the choice, ergo the collapse is the only apparent reason why we make that particular "choice" in the first place. I think therefore I am, right ? So, if thinking/ choosing and awareness are separate then who is "I"?

There are an infinite number of possible choices, manifested in infinite number of possible neuronal discharges. like turning around to look at the apple, the moment we "I,ME" decides something, AS I DECIDE, all other choices are collapsing so infinitely fast that I’m not even aware of the existence of other choices....AS I turn around, the perspective I have of the apple creates itself out of, seemingly, nothing.

I do believe if we combine this theory, with the theory about repetitive tasks and the cache memory (5), we’ve undeniably solved our problem.

In conclusion: the decision and the awareness of it are SIMULTANEOUS but because all other choices collapse (i.e. they cease to exist) it makes it seem like they were never there at all!!!!

Bonus: Just gonna throw this on the table for your consideration, when we are unable to make a choice we ask for divine intervention , the choice is made for us in the astral plane thus collapsing all other realities leaving us with only the reality that is best for us ( isti5ara ) (5)

Okay people you can stop cutting yourselves now, and turn off that emo music! :)

References and further reading:

1-     Chun Siong Soon, Marcel Brass, Hans-Jochen Heinze & John-Dylan Haynes. Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain. Nature Neuroscience April 13th, 2008.

2-     John Baez, “The Planck Length”

3-     “Parallel worlds” (2005) Dr. Michio Kaku

4-     "The elegant universe” (1999) Dr. brian greene

5-      Danah  Azizi’s brain (2010)