1. General.
2. Topics for show.
3. Contacts.
4. Particulars on The Cambridge
Environment and Mr. La Trémouille.
5. Particulars
on some projects of Robin Pope (PhD University of New South Wales Australia)
1. General.
On
Sunday, March 26, 2017, at 6:30 pm on Cambridge, MA, USA Cable Channel 9, 2017, at 6:30 pm The Cambridge
Environment, hosted by Robert J. La
Trémouille, will present a special appearance of Dr. Robin E. Pope. Dr. Pope is guest of Prof Leopold-Wildburger
Graz University, Austria.
Most
of the readers of this blog are not available for direct cable connection. People who would like to watch may link to
the show live from the home page at www.cctvcambridge.org. Just click on Channel 9 in the box.
2. Topics for show.
On The
Cambridge Environment, Dr. Pope will detail accelerated global warming,
destruction of health, nature, recreation in Cambridge perpetrated by Harvard,
MIT & government agencies, followed by glimpses of her vision from steps to
know, love, enjoy nature, so transform Charles River regions into inclusive,
world heritage beauty, sustainable non-commuter nodules. Some of the topic she will discuss include:
Erosion: Dr Pope will describe the soil erosion and shoddy paths
on the Memorial Drive Charles river bank, and how this has been exacerbated
some 10-fold by the the DCR, Department of Conservation and Recreation’s $7
million “Demonstration Project” that demolished some 150 mature trees, ripped
out undergrowth, then ripped out new varied wild flower undergrowth that
arrived.
Slope unreality: Proper surveying and terracing are fundamental
to avoiding increased erosion when ripping out foliage. Robin Pope will
describe how the DCR’s expensive new paths were so badly surveyed that they are
under water some ten-fold of the time more often than those they replace, and
the MIT-CCC (Cambridge City Council)’s surveying dyslexia is such as to plan
denudation of the only sizable urban wild in this Charles River area to install
a bike path steeper than an events stunts person could handle, and at a cost of
about $3 million.
People’s views & wildlife blocked: Dr Pope will illustrate how
the DCR “Demonstration Project” blocks views treasured by people, and ended
access of the white geese, so beloved that when their gold chicks came, every
passing local and tourist photographed.
Dr Pope will point to like DCR destruction (with more planned) of
aesthetics & blockage of people delights & wildlife needs in adjacent
upstream Charles segment, Magazine Park.
Reversal and Non-Repetition: The executed trees, shrubs and flowers cannot be
resurrected, but Robin Pope will identify acts that would reverse many of the
other damages, some at a tiny cost, plus ways to end the imminent danger of
more destruction planned on the Charles river.
Nature&Health Ignorance: Robin Pope will document how
displacement of whole plant/animal studies by genetics, biomed &
unrealistic evolutionary models rob seeing where many Harvard/MIT mini-city
features and DCR/CCC projects accord with climate change denial – with misperceiving
conservation, personal/communal recreation as executing trees & longer car
commutes by a boring sanitised riverbank.
Help is needed.
Imagination: Robin Pope will present an implementable vision
of transformed physical&mental health, sustainability, inclusiveness &
natural beauty on the lower Charles regions & Harvard/MIT mini city
features.
The Torch&Nature Stewardship: Robin Pope will pay tribute to
Bob La Trémouille, white geese feeders, Wen Stephenson, Lesley University's
Science&Mathematics Division, Caroline Bird’s 2014 MIT Boston’s Urban
Wilds.
3. Contacts.
Robert J. La Trémouille
Post
Office Box 391412
Cambridge, MA 02139
phone
617-283-7649
Dr Robin E Pope, Room 1438
Hyatt Regency, 575 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02139
phone 929-365-3345
Dr Robin E Pope
Guest of Prof Dr
Leopold-Wildburger
Department of Statistics and Operations
Research
Karl-Franzens-Universität
Graz, Austria
4. Particulars on The Cambridge Environment
and Mr. La Trémouille.
The
Cambridge Environment is the longest running of the Live shows on Cambridge
Community Television, running for more than 21 years.
The
host, Robert J. La Trémouille, has had major environmental victories in
Cambridge, repeatedly reversing the staff of the Cambridge City Manager.
Victories include areas at Alewife, in East Harvard Square and on and near
Mass. Ave. extending from Harvard Square to City Hall. La Trémouille saved
Guffey Park in East Harvard Square and the 19th century
building at 10 Mt. Auburn Street. Harvard wanted the now renamed Inn at Harvard
building at Mass. Ave. and Harvard Street to be 72% larger.
La
Trémouille, a professional, union movie actor has appeared in more than 100
works.
La
Trémoujille was the 2015 winner of New England Actors’ Dramatic Monologues
Award for his performance as a Physics Professor in Artemis Burning. It may be viewed on line at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrXmKrZn9wM.
La
Trémouille’s 2016 video on Charles River governmental destruction, The
Destruction of Memorial Drive, Charles River, Cambridge, MA, USA, January –
February 2016, Final Cut, appeared several times on CCTV. It is on line at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o.
5.
Particulars on some projects of Robin Pope (PhD University of New South
Wales Australia)
In her Charles River Vision to
be imparted on TV 26th March 2017, will be practical suggestions
towards its implementation. In
addition, she has other projects on which some in White Geese community may
find ways to join and move forward in science, in research, and policy to
foster our own wellbeing and as stewards of others in the human and wider
natural community of planet earth. On
these other projects she has had Australian Research Council, Australian and US
government agencies, the German National Science Foundation, the German Federal
Government Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices and the North Rhine
Westfalian State Psychiatric Clinic, Robin Pope has economics, finance, botany,
zoology, physics, psychology and mental health projects that apply her new
depreciations framework or her new risky choice framework, to which eventually
in 2006 she gave the name SKAT, short hand for, Stages of Knowledge Ahead
Theory of chance/risk/uncertainty.
Laying out the sequential (SKAT)
stages of our emotional, material and financial experiences under a risk, Robin
Pope demonstrates an anticipated evolution in our stages of knowledge
ahead (knowledge of the future) – that risks are a deep matter because they 1)
are brain events, not events “out there in the world”, and 2) involve
anticipating new knowledge later compared to knowledge now (no
risk if nothing bad could happen later). Once laid out, this deep matter of risk entailing anticipated
knowledge evolution stages becomes commonsense a child can grasp, but had
eluded 17th century Pascal (the father of risky choice theory) and
his successors over the centuries. Eg
in 1947 game theorists von Neumann and Morgenstern reported a complementarity
paradox when they tried to include risk experiences in their algebraic axioms,
and their inability to find the higher level to resolve it. The anticipated new knowledge stages that
Robin Pope eventually named SKAT, is the discovery of the higher level to
resolve that Neumann-Morgenstern complementarity paradox.
Robin Pope has also used her
SKAT framework to delineate timing (events) contradictions in the Newtonian
algebraic calculus treatment of movement used still today in physics and other
disciplines. These un-noticed timing contradictions have contributed in
biology, to an over-emphasis on genetic, molecular biology research and
underfunding of how whole plants and animals survive, adapt or go extinct in
nature that is required to notice and track human environmental and climate
damage. These un-noticed timing
contradictions have contributed to Nobelists in economics advocating the
bombing of Vietnam, violent territorial extension of Israel, demolition of
Bretton Woods and much of the mixed economy, austerity policies after crises,
and global laissez-faire without realizing that their models exclude
pre-requisites for survival of the person-made and human plus non-human natural
capital stocks.
The Scientifically Enriched
Sudoku Path
Help is needed to disseminate
knowledge of these timing contradictions.
One path can be from those who get fun from Sudokus (mathematical
crossword puzzles) to start getting joy from scientifically enriched Sudokus
– and enticing these to be constructed. The symbol (sets) in an ordinary
Sudokus are just symbols. By contrast
those in a scientifically enriched Sudokus have event interpretations. The solution a scientifically enriched
Sudoku avoids implying timing events contradictions.
Events are normally
specified/defined in words (or picturegrams).
This means that solving a scientifically enriched Sudokus is a
multi-skill process requiring logic in (a) algebra, (b) words (picturegrams);
and (c) combining contradiction-free a) and b) so a better brain exercise as it
employs more brain functions. It can
also entice team collaboration between people good at algebraic deduction and
people good at verbal reasoning, as a means of team members improving their overall
logical capacities since verbal and algebraic implications must be jointly
consistent. This can be a fun hobby that has an exceedingly serious side. It can contribute to wiser policy from an
informed public able to comment on where some models currently used in policy
should be discarded because of their timing (events) contradictions. The shame
of the Sudoku-playing general public spotting and talking about the
contradictions would destroy some elite academics’ claims to be rigorous in
their teaching, research and policy advice when in fact the contradictions they
have dodged facing connect to them impairing scientific understanding and
restoration and renewal of life on planet earth.
It would be good for newspapers and periodicals,
especially those from higher education organizations such as the MIT Tech,
to add onto their multi-page Sudoku sections each issue one or two so scientifically
enriched Sudokus. In due course,
ability to solve scientifically enriched Sudokus applied to their own
discipline might fruitfully become a graduation prerequisite in the many using
algebra, and so needing to avoid timing contradictions in how they have
formally modelled risk. Such a pre-requisite may alleviate the problem of
algebraic facility outstripping many students, teachers and researchers’
ability to understand what their algebraic models imply about the real
world.
In turn the pre-requisite to construct or solve
such scientifically enriched Sudokus involving a risky choice, is to get
to that commonsense level of what a risk implies about the SKAT stages of
anticipating when our knowledge will evolve.
Some Hard Copy Resources on SKAT
For those with hard copy library access, there is
an exceedingly simple illustration, suitable in gist to be imparted even to
elementary school children, tracing how we anticipate our knowledge ahead to
evolve after encountering a risk, eg an evolution to learning that the outcome
is good, or bad, but not knowing earlier which fork that knowledge evolution
will take. It is in Robin Pope’s 1989
Vienna Institute volume paper, 'Attractions to and Repulsions from Chance', in
Werner Leinfellner and Eckehart Köhler eds, Game Theory, Experience,
Rationality, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 95-107.
About a project that we are considering whether
to undertake, SKAT allows us to identify and lay out how our risk experiences
may be beneficial such as yielding us pleasurable thrills – but also where our
risk experiences may be very negative often in the form of worry, inability to
borrow, inability to commit and inability to plan. Too much of these negative risk experiences paralyses and kills
humans, non-human animals and plants as individuals and as members of bigger
communities (ecological groupings) so that deciding to insure (ie adopt
policies that make some dire outcomes very unlikely or impossible) is often
sensible. Under the initiative of
Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger, SKAT was explored and tested experimentally 2003 to
2006 in the insurance context, and written up by Robin Pope in a book
co-authored with her splendid Graz University experimenters Johannes Leitner
and Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger in the Springer Lecture Note Series titled The
Knowledge Ahead Approach to Risk: Theory and Experimental Evidence.
Some Online Free Resources on SKAT
There are SKAT resources online to read or
download free as PDFs. Using the SKAT
framework Robin Pope has explored with Nobel Laureate Reinhard Selten in
complex laboratory experiments and other forms of empirical and theoretical
analysis the exchange rate uncertainty and speculation costs of abandoning the
Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rate system. Two of these are open access: their 2011 “Managed Floats to Damp
World-Wide Managed Floats to Damp World-Wide Exchange Rate Liquidity Shocks
Like 1982-5, 2006-9: Field and Laboratory Evidence for the Benefits of a Single
World Currency: Field and Laboratory
Evidence for the Benefits of a Single World Currency” in Open Economics
Journal’s at
https://benthamopen.com/contents/pdf/TOECONSJ/TOECONSJ-4-1.pdf and their
sequel 2012 paper “Public debt tipping point studies ignore how exchange rate
changes may create a financial meltdown”, at, http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue59/PopeSelten59.pdf
that uses the lens of SKAT to lay out damages from massive ongoing private
sector bubbles in international finance and pharmaceuticals.
In mental health, prescription drugs have largely
failed beyond for the severest cases where they replace asylum chains with
emotion-damping, brain vegetating, liver killing tablets as the medical model
of mental ill health focuses in a static knowledge ahead perspective on
chemically rebalancing the brain. Robin
Pope has used SKAT to generate an epistemically dynamic understanding of the
brain as evolved to process risks into adequate decisions. In turn this illuminates that adequate
mental health cannot be primarily attained by pill popping but from developing
from birth adequate decision making through the natural socio-economic
environment affording the appropriate varieties and frequencies of small risks
to learn which are wise, which foolish decisions. The seven main risk varieties needed are for the seven varieties
of human tasks with the first sensual risk processing (stimuli) from nature
each millisecond and the 7th episodic ethical spiritual chances and
challenges (including how to act under those from environmental pollution and human-induced
climate change). Societal changes
including from pollution and climate warming deprive some groups of some of
these varieties of these risk/chance challenges to develop or maintain their
brains and thus adequate mental health.
Robin Pope has used SKAT to identify some of these problems and suggest
remedies, including in “Attention deficit hyperactivity disorders, panic
attacks, epileptic fits, depressions and dementias from missing out on
appropriate fears and hopes” Mind & Society (2015), readable free
online at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11299-015-0165-0. Robin Pope seeks assistance in spreading
mental health understandings and applications of SKAT, including in achieving
societal experiments indicated in this 2015 and other articles for overcoming
some prescription drug wrong turns especially alarming in the matter of 10% of
US children now on ADHD drugs for which on the only clean experiment, this puts
their school graduation grades 10 standard deviations below those of children
ADHD diagnosed but not treated with drugs.
