September 23 - 24. “Matrix”
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September 23 - 24. “Matrix”
On Sunday, after supper, I decided to have a break and shifted to big notes from Holmes’s file. The first article that attracted my attention was a note about the film “Matrix”, printed from Russian site www.dotu.ru. The translation was rather good, though it was clear that it was made not by Englishman but by Russian, who spoke English rather well, diluting it with American slang. The note was called “Matrix” is different to “Matrix”. I‘ve seen this film the last year. Then it seemed to me simply one of hits, may be a little more eccentric than other contemporary hits, and so I started reading the note supposing easy-reading text. And how great was my surprising when after finishing the first chapter with brief rendering of the main events of film, I realized that I could understand almost nothing of what I’ve read. I stopped and thought: what’s the matter? I understood each particular word, but the sense of the whole phrase eluded from me. I had a feeling, that this was some unknown language, resembling English but formally. By the end of the evening I have coped two first chapters, and stuck in the third finally. It was called rather unusually: “Mathematics and God’s Providence ”. The clock stroke midnight, and I gave up and went to bed. In spite of hard work with unusual text, I felt vigorous and energetic in the morning.
– I’m to see the film anew, or it will be very hard to understand the note.
Thinking about this, I went to editorial office, and bought on the way the videocassette with “Matrix”. Having finished my business, I tried to watch “Matrix” in the evening by the eyes of the author of the analytical note. Either it was for good sleeping this night, or for yesterday work with the hard text, but I had a feeling, that I’d never seen this film. Or, did I get the new look on habitual things? Encouraged with this thought, I started reading again and reached the forth chapter “‘Matrix’ ruling”. This chapter turned out to be the key, because it made me understand the existence of new kind of power, different from any known before - conceptual power. I re-read thoroughly the part of chapter, especially interesting for me:
“And so there is a kind of social power, which has not surfaced in the field of attention of the traditional political science and therefore, lies beyond its understanding, which is firmly connected to the processes, going on in the world (the reality) of the multiple predetermination matrixes. First, this kind of power represents the dependence of the social life to a particular matrix or a set of matrixes. Second, this is the power, exercised over the society by those people, who posses the capability to destroy, transform and create previously non-manifested subordinate matrixes, predetermining the life of the human societies within the limits set by the all-enclosing matrix - the Gods Predetermination.
If one tries to describe the contents of such matrixes, there will appear the conception of the life of the society as a certain ideal and as a set of means, by which this ideal is brought into life. In accordance with this, for quite some time we call the power based on the matrix processes, the conceptual power.
Here one should understand that the conception of the life of the society is not an ideology. An ideology is sometimes not even the reflection of the conception, but only one of the means of the implementation of the conception into life. For example, in the history of the humankind all the subtle systems of slavery were covered by the ideologies of freedom of the labour from oppression - but the slavery was the essence of the conceptions, which remained principally the same during many centuries, although they have changed many ideological cover-ups. Also, the conception of the life of the society is not its acting legislation or the juridical projects. All the legislation is just a frontline, by which the ruling conception is protecting itself from the development of the alternative conception in the same society”.
And indeed, after September 11 the world has changed. If I saw this text before the “black Tuesday”, I would have thrown it away not paying much attention to it. But now, 13 days after American events, I felt some unfamiliar force behind these words, as well as confidence of rightness of the deed, essence of which the authors were trying to express. Even not penetrating into details, I understood the entire and important component, which is not always possible to be indicated by words. One paragraph in the forth chapter was underlined perhaps by Holmes himself:
“Entering the world of any enclosed matrix from its upper level - enclosing matrix - it is enough to DECLARE all opponents nonexistent, powerless or in other way transformed; to announce oneself invisible and all-mighty (obviously immortal and invulnerable in the world the matter of which fills the cells of the embraced matrix). After that the necessity for all theatrical effects with shooting, fights, disappearances over the telephone cable lines and tragic impossibility to disappear from the persecutors, having dissolved in air, or to leave them alone with their "matrix" generated daydreams, having disappeared over mobile telephone. There is no need in all these show-off entertainment FX for the public if there is a valid entry in such matrix even from the different matrix of the same order, to say nothing of the enclosing matrix of the higher order; such stuff is even difficult to consider as any pleasure for the eye”.
I guessed vaguely, that this paragraph was dealt somehow with the events of September 11 and with the solution of “picnics” rebus, all the more, that Holmes paid his attention to this very paragraph; but still I could say nothing more distinct. But I was rather astonished by the text of the note, with regard to Holmes’s behaviour.
– If Holmes has read it, why did he never discuss with me such important problem? Did he want me to understand it by myself? Or isn’t it high time yet? Or, may be, Holmes himself has problems (!!!??? - Watson was amazed by this thought) in understanding this, and he simply doesn’t know, what and how to speak about it?
The deeper I became absorbed in the note the more I understood that I was dealing with some new philosophical system developed in Russia by the group which was called the Internal Predictor of the USSR. The familiar word “predictor” was comprehensive for common sense: “predictor” means forecaster, and suddenly I remembered my classmate, prattling the words “predictor-corrector”, refusing to go to some party on the eve of some exam of him during student’s session. The remembrances of my classmate lead me to the mathematical reference book, where I found the description of one of the methods of computing mathematics, under the name of “predictor-corrector”, where: “the solution of the problem is found by successive approximations; the algorithm of the method represents a cycle, in which two operations are carried out consistently: the first - prognosis of solution and the second - the verification of prognosis for meeting the requirements of preciousness of solution of the problem. The algorithm is complete in that case, if prognosis meets the requirements of preciousness of problem’s solution”.
So it became clear to me that I encountered with new notional and terminological system, on the base of which the parts of knowledge, inaccessible to the common mind, can be represented to the reader in rather clear and extremely brief state. For instance, the course of psychology, accessible only for specialists in Western countries, was rendered in the frame of one page in the note. It seemed to me that important, so I made up my mind to keep this fragment for myself, although for finding an explanation to the picture with an ape in the third “picnic”:
“Mentality of any individual is a multi-component information system. More exactly: mentality is an information-metric system, since mentality is first of all the algorithms, and algorithms is a sequence of steps of transformation of the information, what is impossible without different kinds of matrixes, common to algorithms - the converters of measured conditions, which represent all kinds of “tracing-paper” from the objective all-enclosing measure-matrix - the God’s Predetermination of life.
The personal psyche determines individual behaviour of a man based on the elements, which in computer business it is usually referred to as software. The information software, guiding the people's behaviour is different in quality and includes:
· Instincts of a biological species “Homo Sapiens”;
· Habits, absorbed from the surrounding culture of the community in a ready-to-use way, and executed mostly (as the instinctive programs) automatically in "triggering" situations;
· Fruits of the individuals' own intellectual efforts;
· Intuition, which nor is homogeneous, and includes:
O The results of independent (isolated from the environment) work of unconscious levels of mentality of the individual;
O Spiritual, or bio-field, influence on the individuals' mentality by collective mentality, which the individual supports and participates in the spiritual world;
O Intimidation from outside and possessiveness, as a result of field influence on the individual from the other subjects of both embodied, and bodiless spirits;
O Direct Highest Guidance.
The information software, determining individual behaviour, proceeding from some of the above mentioned diversified components, is not necessarily - in all the life circumstances - go without collisions with the information software of behaviour, proceeding from the other components. Depending on what the individual prefers, allowing this or that algorithms to be executed in his behaviour both in material, and in the spiritual worlds, his personal psychological composition builds up, even if the individual does not realize at all, what this is. Owing to ambiguity of individual preferences, aimed at the resolution of internal conflicts between diverse components of information software of behaviour in everyone's' mentality, the society at large displays more or less vividly expressed tendency to polarization: on one end there are those who mostly unconsciously aspire to subordinate everything to satisfaction of their instinctive needs - on the other those who more or less consciously aspire to summon everything to accord with the God’s Providence and to live their lives on the route of God’s Guidance.
The first group are the carriers of an animal build-up of mentality and in essentially represent speech-capable humanoid apes, more or less tamed by the influence of the cultural environment of the civilization. Representatives of the second group are at different stages on the path of irreversibly becoming humans - the carriers of the human build-up of mentality.
In between these two categories of the society there have dispersed (in the mathematical sense of statistical distribution) all others: different bio-robots-zombies - those who reject the freedom of their mind in the statement and resolving of different tasks, and also reject intuition, subordinating their will to the affect of external factors.
Among the zombies there is one specific group - the demonic personalities - those who do not reject both their mind and intuition, but who reject the guidance from God and thus stay in intoxication by the will power both of their own, and of some embodied or spiritual substances.
But under a closer look all zombies, including the demonic personalities, are identical carriers of the animal build-up of mentality, whose instincts are cemented by the norms of culture and surface - directly or in perverted way - under different masks of formal innovations in hedonic culture - subordinating all components of the mentality to the extraction of various pleasures from all and everything”.
I remembered Saturday Holmes’s speculations about “hominids”, when we were trying to find out the motifs of crimes in New York and Washington.
– May be, he didn’t read it, or Holmes has some other materials on the problem of psychiatry besides the note about “Matrix”?
And at this point there appeared a question, which I didn’t notice, when studying medicine and having a practice as a doctor: why is psychiatry in western countries a branch of medicine, and not of general psychology? Doesn’t it mean that psychological science is insolvent and, as a result, it can guarantee only isolation of its patient from society, but not always his recovery and returning to the society? And isn’t a reason of psychologists to reject from interfering to the sphere of psychiatry and to prefer developing pseudo-scientific literature? And when touching it carelessly, common people start to feel suddenly and absolutely on blank space “Oedipus complex”, or “latent and subdued homosexuality” and other socially dangerous patterns of behaviour. In other words, don’t the relations between psychological science and common people in western countries resemble very much the relations between the Owl and Winnie-the-Pooh, whose head was full of sawdust:
– Winnie, can you read?
– Generally, I can’t, but if I’m told, what is written there, I will read it.
– Then listen, foolish tiny bear: it is written here, that…
But there are no psychiatrists on the West, who could cure the victims of psychologists and such psychologists themselves, who earn their living by banal writings on the themes of human soul depths.
And who is this Internal Predictor of the USSR, if he dares to speak so directly about this mental disease of the whole civilization whose propaganda convinces everybody in its not-having-an-alternative on the basis of its incontestable superiority in everything? Br-r-r… this thought made me get the creeps on my skin… And is Holmes connected with them somehow?
Curious, I decided to have a look on this site www.dotu.ru, and it was a pity that I didn’t have Russian version of “Microsoft office” on my note-boor with Pentium-IIIM. In English version of the site, besides two analytical notes which Holmes has printed for me, there was a short report about the theme of basic works devoted to the Conception of Social Security, as an alternative to the biblical conception of ruling, and at the same time all guests of the site were offered to learn Russian for better understanding the new conception.
In my thoughts I thanked the creators of the site for a good advice and was intended to see firstly some works, expecting to find some files with “pictures” and probably even the enigmatic “picnics” among them. I accounted on the fact that graphic files, especially like those of “picnics”, were to take much place in the informational base of the site. It took me much time to fulfil this operation, but finally I’ve found files with “pictures”. Unfortunately, they had nothing to do with “picnics”, but represented the copies of pictures by some Russian painters. Then I understood that I had only two ways to achieve my goal. The first - long and hard: to install on my computer the means of support of Russian language, and using my knowledge in Russian (far from perfect), to try to understand by myself the works of Inner Predictor, and after that to return to the “picnics”, being ready for it. However, having remembered all difficulties dealt with the article about “Matrix”, I considered that all other works would hardly be easier for comprehension, and regarded the first way hopeless. The second way seemed to me simpler, but its realization demanded for outside help.