From: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2016 11:02 AM To: Nowak, Martin Cc: Joi Ito; Joscha Bach martin, you seemed want to to describe pow=r as potential energy, ie the ability to do work.. =AO however many of the categories appear to violate the conservation=of energy law . ie the more you use your intellectual p=wer. the greater it becomes.- the use of political power ,ex a= public hanging . increases the perception of strength. etc. =C2 there seems to be a very important observer effec= - ie signaling. =AO ( biologlical entites need signals ? ) t=e accumulation of power. sends a signal to others. =money might be considered a useful signal. it can be sen= as an exchange or accummulated for a status bump in a narrow search=space. the observer perception meanings are complex =br> topics for our conferences . I will fund . =C2 including hiring others to research. seminars. =AO weekends etc 1 Power . =AO what is it? what are some of its forms. =C2 , financial- physical intellectual poliitical. computational -=C2 and others. . chomsky - langauge ehu= military. gates. financial.. etc Decept=on . biology vs mathematics. biological entities =AO FEED. therefore predator prey, look at the cost be=efit of deception , including self deception. al=o respect , how it is earned. wasted, stolen , e=en borrowed inherited, and then dignity the study of self resp=ct? 3 Money , what is it ? =AO an agreement? a signal. similar to ATP. stor=d convened and used. created, local global chiv> 4. music, melody horizontal combi=ed with vertical . ie melody and harmony, the har=ony is extremely involved. i dont understand if computa=ion can be made so that parallel processors not only work their own =oice but can be overlayed to form a more complex pattern =/div> 5 Probabiliy - is it a f=rce like gravity. we can describe ( measure ) grav=ty , we can describe probabilities. neither do we =nderstand what they are, 6 Derivation of =he