Future Giga Society members, intelligent as they are, will unravel the enigma of time transmission and invent t-mail, a variant of e-mail that allows the sending of messages through time. In their infinite kindness they will send a web-based t-mail interface backward in time for use on the Giga Society web site, so that visitors can send their comments or questions. If the future members consider a message worthy, they may display it with their possible reply on the future Giga Society web site. State-of-the-art early twenty-second century technology will make it possible to mirror the relevant page below.
These are the (to your time slice) most recent messages. For the other messages, see Archive 1.
Chronological order is from bottom to top; Replies by Dr. Whither.
Date: Sunday 7 February 2010
From: Alexander Morou <Alex•1633761860•AlexanderMorou.com>
Subject: Curious (Part II)
Sorry for the message a few years ago,
I just had a question, and figured this would be the best group to answer it.
Your temporal-mail message center uses the static point of delivery time: Sat, 19 Jul 2036 23:32:03 GMT. I was wondering how you were able to answer every possible message simultaneously. Unless your every interaction with reality is autonomic and thus millions, if not billions can be answered simultaneously.
Let me know, I'm interested.
Again the future members point out that earlier messages have clarified the working of t-mail sufficiently to make questions like this superfluous. Out of kindness, it is furthermore explained that what the asker calls "delivery time" of a message is irrelevant in this respect, as answering takes place in the remote future after which the answer is sent backward in time to the desired time slice. There is no necessity to answer simultaneously "delivered" messages at one and the same moment in the future, as their answers can be sent back to any desired time. Therefore the question contains the false assumption that messages are answered simultaneously, and can not be answered. The proper treatment of assumptions in questions is, as noted before, explained splendidly by the Pyschometitor.
Date: Tuesday 12 January 2010
From: Torstein <post•kast.no>
Subject: Funny function
what happena 20:12 20.12 2012
The future Giga Society members express disappointment as to the regrettable quality of this "question". Apart from the fact the asker has omitted the location, out of an astronomical amount of possible ones, for which the asker desires to know what takes place at the given moment, a similar question has been asked by Milly on 17 April 2009, revealing that the asker has not studied the so kindly made available archive.
In addition, it must be noted that no particular number sequence in a human-invented time reckoning has extra meaning over any other. Such notion betrays the absence of ratio. Finally I, Dr. Whither, point out that profound questions are a much more fruitful use of the precious gift that t-mail constitutes than are random unthinking trivialities.
Date: Wednesday 23 September 2009
From: Ben <LugO1+hotmail.com>
Subject: The biggest question
Why would any victim want to advance humanity after what it's done to him, after seeing its true face?
And by "empathy" before I meant having emotions of sympathy. Or at the very least being cognitively inclined towards a sympathetic behavior - by respecting others, being truthful, conscientious, etc.
On behalf of the future Giga Society members, I Dr. Whither kindly point out two false assumptions in the question, which can therefore not be answered directly: First, a genius - which is what is meant here, given the suggestion of advancing humanity - does not "want" to advance humanity. Such advancement is merely a byproduct of the irresistible inner drive to understand all that is, to create. The genius can not but follow that drive, can not help advancing humanity into the bargain.
Second, the torture implicit in the question is not the true face of humanity (as the question implies), but of a subset thereof, the torturers, the inferiors, who must be removed and kept from breeding.
Finally, the members conclude that the asker has a different interpretation of "empathy" than have the members.
Date: Tuesday 22 September 2009
From: Ben <LugO1+hotmail.com>
Subject: Clarification
They were not "children", but fully grown and almost 18 years old by the time I left them. I did exaggerate about their professional success, but only because they're still too young (mid 20s) to be what they aim at, which for most isn't law or medicine (and for some is) just by coincidence. They have more intelligence than is required for these professions (it was a class for the gifted). Really now, haven't you noticed that people low on empathy tend to be more common within the high iq regions ?
The Future Giga Society members note that the asker's highly valued clarification appears to reveal a number of misunderstandings which the members will kindly point out:
That "they" were not children is consistent with the members' previous answer, although the asker seems to erroneously have understood the opposite; The answer says explicitly that the torture does not stop after childhood.
The asker further admits in his present message that it concerned a class for the gifted; so, a class of only intelligent persons. Therefore the torturers could a priori only have been intelligent, and this fact logically constitutes no argument for the thesis that the intelligent tend to be torturers rather than the lowly intelligent. It simply could not have been otherwise in this case, as there were no lowly intelligent individuals available. The asker's case therefore forms no challenge to the members' position that while torturers may be of any intelligence level, they are located more often on the low than on the high end of the spectrum.
The admission regarding the class for the gifted also may hold the key to the asker's original question: Is the asker a rare case for not arising purer? Had the asker been subjected to and tortured by the lowly intelligent, the torture had undoubtedly been very much more brutal and, had the asker survived - which is to a high degree uncertain - , the asker would by now have been closer to purification. It must again be stressed that the asker would not have been less depressed in that case; on the utmost contrary. There exists no greater suffering than the purification of who are meant for the highest.
Finally, the asker is presumptuous in inquiring whether the members have not noticed that "people low on empathy tend to be more common within the high iq regions". For the members, having studied Hans Asperger's and the Psychometitor's writings, know as no other that the intellect-oriented tend to be disturbed in their mammalian instincts (such as empathy). However, torturers as meant in this case are most typically those who have the ancient instincts of empathy and nonverbality intact, regardless of their intelligence; the instinct-driven.
Date: Friday 18 September 2009
From: Ben <LugO1+hotmail.com>
Subject: My own account
Hello,
I have a certain syndrome, that makes me a little slow with things.
I had been, as one may describe it- tortured, by my classmates. Only, it did not seem like that to them - they didn't give it much or any thought (except for making it harder and longer, the usual), and had absolutely no remorse since. They are all highly intelligent (above mensa level), and also very successful today as doctors, judges, professors, etc. Their excuse for the beatings was me being 'weak'/'stupid'/both. Though most were weaker or more stupid than I was (but of course not as a group). Being treated like shit did not make me feel like I'm "arising purer", only plunging deeper- into depression. Am I a rare case, then?
The future Giga Society members see you are referring to the Psychometitor's classical work Inferiority - the opposite of genius , section "The possible evolutionary function of inferiority". Your question is interpreted by the members as "Am I a rare case for not arising purer and advancing humankind, but instead plunging into depression?"
The answer is "No". Although that suffices considering the poor formulation of the question, out of kindness the following additional information is provided: It must be understood that not all who are tortured arise purer to become geniuses; Only those with sufficient amounts of intelligence, associative horizon, and conscientiousness do. A cow is an animal, but not all animals are cows. Inferiors are only human after all, and may occasionally torture someone of less than genius material by mistake. Also, even in who have the potential to arise purer, this does not happen overnight. The torture does not stop after childhood but continues, requiring decades of persistence to arise.
That torturers have no remorse too is not rare, but the rule. They never have, instead they either blame the victim or deny the torture and call it "paranoid delusions". That torturers are highly intelligent also is not impossible. It has never been said all inferiors are lowly intelligent. Low intelligence is merely one of the features of inferiority, and an inferior need not have all of the features but only several thereof, as said so clearly and explicitly by the Psychometitor in the relevant article. Inferiors may occur over a wide range of the intelligence spectrum, be it that the bulk is below average. And specifically in childhood, when sense of responsibility and abstract thinking have not yet developed in most, intellect fails to make the instinct-driven immune to inferior behaviour. Having said that, the future Giga Society members sense that intelligence and professional success of the torturers are being exaggerated in the present case for the sake of argument, for the sake of intelligent-bashing, and out of that so often seen paralyzing politically correct fear to associate low intelligence with inferiority.
Finally, the members wish the asker strength in attempting to arise purer, but warn that the long road to arising purer is harder than any torture or depression can ever be.
Date: Sunday 30 August 2009
From: Blackburn <blackburn.20090829202600.pookmail.com>
Subject: Brain structure and intelligence
Recent studies suggest that the brains of those diagnosed with asperger's syndrome and high-functioning autism have higher-than-normal levels of white matter. Other studies suggest that there are white matter deficiencies in those diagnosed with and at risk for schizophrenia. It has been found that certain areas of Albert Einstein's brain had a higher proportion of glial cells to neurons than the average brain.
Not being a neuroscientist, merely an amateur internet information-collector, I tend to look at brain function in an overly-simplified manner. With that caveat well in mind, I shall continue. From what I am aware, glial cells and white matter, while not necessarily being one and the same, are closely related.
Of all the conclusions one could draw from this currently limited information, and of all the questions which could be asked of future Giga Society members in regards to this (admittedly pathetic) information, I will present one in the hope that I receive an equally overly-simplified answer to said question.
In what way, if any, are glial cells and white matter related to general intelligence? In other words, are people on one or another spot on the intelligence spectrum often found to have particular white matter volume, structure, or functioning?
The future Giga Society members allow me, the humble Dr. Whither, to reveal the following findings of to you remotely future research: White matter and glia cells support and feed the gray matter - neurons - in a number of physical ways, and are required for the neurons to function. The primary relation of brain matter to general intelligence though is that of gray matter: More is better. Isis, for instance, has a gray matter volume in the order of 108 to 109 cubic kilometre, yielding an I.Q. of approximately 240. Yes, that is how much is needed to escape the normal human range of intelligence. So whenever someone claims an I.Q. of 220, 230 or thereabout... just look at the size of that person's head and ask yourself if something roughly half the size of the Moon (including the additionally needed white matter) would fit in there.
The amount and distribution of supportive white matter in a brain are affected by the nature and extent of the cortical activity. Hard and frequent or continuous intellectual, cerebral work, for instance, requires much energy, and the white matter expands to accommodate the neurons in those areas. This is analogous to the improved energy supply to muscles that one gets after a period of physical exercise. Aspergoid persons have an impairment of the deep, ancient instinctive brain functions, which they from early childhood on tend to compensate via the intellect, using their brain in the manner of an adult scientist. Hence their increased white matter. So, the volume of white matter not so much relates to intelligence itself, as to the actual use of the intellectual functions.
Psychosis on the other hand - living out of touch with reality, in a state of delusion and/or hallucination - reduces white matter, as do a number of other causes like: Recreational drug use; laziness; unconscientiousness; consumptive as opposed to creative behaviour; wastefulness; high sexual activity; belief in pseudoscience, the occult, the paranormal, God etcetera; lying; interpreting facial expression, intonation, or "body language"; committing crimes; meditation; listening to certain types of music - to name but a few.
Date: Wednesday 26 August 2009
From: Joseph Vaccaro <joevvaccaro•20090826133125•gmail.com>
Subject: Executable files.
Why are executable files such as FLAMINGHELL.EXE still utilized during an age in which technology has advanced to the point of the artificial mimicking and implementation of the human mind onto a virtual environment?
The good Dr. Whence, who wrote the relevant Official Report for a 2015 issue of Giga Society journal Nemesis, kindly points out there is no mention of any "executable file" in his report. FLAMINGHELL.EXE is merely the name of a program that creates a virtual environment to the new-brained mind. In addition, there is no question of "mimicking" the human mind in the meant technology; It is the original human mind itself that takes into use the new brain. That is exactly the point; Were it "mimicking", it would be only a copy of the mind, and there would still not be a continuation of the original awareness of the individual, and therefore of the individual.