On Human Use of Cognitive Prosthetics. Since we did our comprehensive pre-Fed discussion in the Sunday special edition (here), we give away the first part of my newest thinking and writing adventure this morning. What’s it about?
What if the tools we use every day—books, language, coffee, meditation, even AI—aren’t just conveniences, but actual mind amplifiers?
What if they are extensions of the nervous system, tuned gain-stages that boost awareness, sharpen recall, or distort reality depending on how we use them?
That’s the premise of my newest book project, Mind Amplifiers: On Human Use of Cognitive Prosthetics. It’s an exploration of how humans have always relied on external and internal “prosthetics of thought” to stretch our reach.
From the flicker of firelight on cave walls to the printing press, from vocabulary to nootropics, each step has been a way to increase signal, reduce noise, and transmit a cleaner life-report back to the Universe.
In the Focus section today, I’m giving readers the first half of the book—a ride through noise floors, attention as a directional antenna, cognitive dithering, and the difference between “simple indexers” and “mass indexers” of reality. It’s both a framework for personal growth and a toolkit for navigating the age of AI and information overload.
Plus, in the ChartPack, our last chart survey ahead of FOMC this afternoon…
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I worked as a “Page” at the County library after school. I knew the card catalog, Dewey and individual book physical locations so well that the Librarians politely asked me to stop helping patrons find books (because that was their job).
Microdosing 4 fun and prophets !
-https://youtu.be/mrUH9pGk90w?si=E2-05mql-4eb6Sfl
yerp – thats uncle Ted playing lead.
Hold her steady you scruvy dogz, hold her steady.
NOPE
Are they gonna take another crack at tRUMP again while in bloody ole england?
Technically he was in Scotland when they tried the handheld NRG weapon – see paraglider, they got the agent, but missed the pompadoo of ethnic cleansing hisself. Paragliding and Shooting for accuracy,hmmm ?
Im strangling the market with SPY long and QQQ short. No real conviction either way this time.
Gold, Silver, RareEarths and Crypto. All four have been producing dbl and trpl digit gains so far this year. So will continue to ride this beast till it drops..rode it hard and put away wet!
Must be time for the Ghost Riders, again, pay heed scury dogz, pay heed the lyrics… https://youtu.be/nOWjX4BpC24?si=_WBNfG7uTHJWovpq
Yippee-yi-yay
Yippee-yi-o
The Devils Hurd indeed.
“…been producing dbl and trpl digit gains” Lol. Maths is hard!
re: “City Across the River”, 1949
feat: USN Signalman 3rd Class, Tony Curtis
CuW75,
Eyes peered skywards along the Thames River across London today. MEGA 45 year old Hawk T1 jets from the RAF’s Red Arrows raced towards Windsor to release their spectacular cargo of diesel mixed with red, white, and blue colours for waiting heads of state. Regrettably an anticipated F-35 accompaniment allegedly became grounded because of high winds and low cloud ceilings. As chance would have it, the Blue Angels’ schedule reflects their upcoming prior engagement in Virginia Beach, Va. near a first landing of English settlers to the 13 Colonies.
Speaking of birds of a feather, here is a link I saw on “X” today. Someone helpfully pointed to the webpage application for persons desiring drone flight permissions over university environs in “Family City”, Utah. ‘Hurds’ of birds are exempt.
https://auxiliary.utah.edu/drones-on-campus/
“Housing”
Think back to the Russian invasion of Ukiville. After the start all of a sudden the U.S. had Ukies dotted across the fruited plain.
If/when bombing of South America kicks off. The U.S. will get chock full of war refugees.
re: “The Graduate”, 1967
feat: Mrs. Robinson
Folks,
Ever had an azov to orem maoment triggered? Yesterday Russian-leaning Telegram channel “Wartime Media” offered its spin on the alleged “Family City”, Ut. shooter courtesy of Mrs. Robinson’s social media posts of 7 years past at their following link:
https://t.me/wartimedia/107325
Now it seems Uncle Mikey has a cool gig with Ukrainian radio. Fire up the next link for a sense of what the squad is scoping out on the range:
https://radiofreeukraine.com/foreign-influence-in-america/
Speaking of shooting, the ceo of Blackstone continues to develop his 2,100 acre Conholt Park estate in Wiltshire. He is apparently aiming for the lands to support downing 500 pheasants a day in sport. Complementing the business model will be a 9 million gallon man-made lake on the grounds. The “BBC” in recent days pictured water-laden trucks delivering their cargo drawn from surrounding peasant aquifers reduced to trickles under drought restriction bans.
The Blackstone ceo appears on the guest list for the State Dinner set to commence at St. George’s Hall, Windsor Castle in a couple of hours. As chance would have it, pheasant crumble pie is understood to be a favorite dish of the King.
Fellow peasants may wish to take note. The “Daily Mail” has helpfully informed that the American delegation includes #47’s third child. Daughter Tiffany’s social media presence apparently is filed under “Snap Pack”. As chance would have it, Tiffany & Co. is situated beside Trump Tower. Her father-in-law, ???? ???? , may be uniquely qualified in certain Lebanese, Palestinian, Hezbollah, and African matters.
Her “Father In Law” … you mean the Ex-Felon and former US Federal Penitentiary occupant .. who now just happens to be the US Ambassador to Great Britain?
Talk about Prison Rehab!! … that guy shows just how it is done properly! I bet his Probation Officer is PROUD at what that Felon has done with his After Prison Life!
correction: 4th child, not 3rd
CBABM
Child By a Another Baby Momma
lemme guess – Blonde, big tits, nice ass, pretty smile ?
that would be a #4
GU (subscriber side) : “… So maybe I will just shut up, hold my tongue and let the charts whisper what they will …”
Ahem. Everyone who believes this stand on your head!
But, there’s always a first time, hey?
always, Egor
“China’s Cyberspace Administration (CAC) banned tech giants ByteDance and Alibaba from buying Nvidia’s RTX Pro 6000D AI chips, escalating efforts to strengthen domestic semiconductor production. ”
Uh-oh. By extension of Intel’s track record Nvidia will likely need .gov free to compete.
Was it Memorex ?
or was it israHELL ?
How about..NEITHER ?
Jeff Rense has the Video that shows clearly SF team doing the deed to Chavo. In fact you see the special holster and Pistol & the real shooter in video posted here 2 days ago. Why do they want Us to believe israHELL did it ?
Not like israHELL isnt about to go full retard, me thinks we are there already.. https://substack.com/redirect/82a90e05-16db-46af-b580-3c7f4ada702d?j=eyJ1IjoiMWtrNHlkIn0.fVVcJH6f1r_zprDxpYe9yhWMCY9me-zumT3TyeeDR9A -Haaretz
Yerp – thats the trophy nutinyahoo keeps in his office of the injectable neural networks euphemistically called vaccine, that he used to turn his People into golems that will unquestionably do his murderous bidding.
Here is video again – with the team and shooter – https://substack.com/redirect/38e5891c-1094-465f-a5fe-9b306a8baf53?j=eyJ1IjoiMWtrNHlkIn0.fVVcJH6f1r_zprDxpYe9yhWMCY9me-zumT3TyeeDR9A
BCP : your nasty spelling of Israel is really childish. Mom forget to pack your lunch? C’mon youngster. Give it a rest. Thanks for your attention to this matter. Egor
(Well said – I was going to ask about missing his meds…)
Thanks for the input/comments Egor.
i dont fault Israel as a nation. almost all the jews in israel do not like their government.
i watched that second video you posted and found nothing interesting in it.
what i did find interesting is that when they did a scan of cellphones in the crowd present when Charlie Kirk was shot, they found not one but 12 cell phones present that were all purchased and activated in israel.
wonder why not one but 12 people decided to buy and activate their cell phones in israel then traveled to Utah to see Charlie Kirk speak at a college. the day it just so happend to be the last time Charlie ever spoke in person.
Andy- source of that cell phone scan info ? Who did it ? Technical means ?
Maybe the FBI can access cell phone tower records, then access phone registration info, and compile it into something useable, but this does not really sound like something the average citizen or journalist would be able to do.
The FBI can not. The NSA can. That doesn’t matter because a cellphone activated in Israel could not ping a tower in CONUS (or damn’ near any place else), nor could it communicate with any phone in North America, unless it is a multi-SIM phone with a CONUS SIM card installed. A multi-SIM phone would work on a CONUS SIM, but any other SIM cards, from any other countries, would still be invisible to American cell towers. No “scan” would locate or identify Israeli cellphones unless it was performed in Israel, using Israeli cell towers.
Somebody is jerking Andy’s chain and feeding him anti-Semitic propaganda. They may not know it’s false, but it is, and whomever passed it to them is your basic Jew-hater.
When I said some time ago that by 2026 we would be able to believe nothing, unless we were physically present at the speech or event, to witness it with our eyes and ears, live and in real time, I wasn’t kidding.
Ray- A lot of people get duped by false narratives. I still live with the aftermath of a stalking-by-proxy scheme, which I will never get justice for. The best I can do is to publicly question narratives I encounter which seem a little off. The question I have with the Kirk assassination is how was his killer radicalized ? I don’t see a repeat of the Warren Commission with this. I expect a lengthy investigation, and the full public disclosure, that is in the best interest of all parties.
“I expect a lengthy investigation, and the full public disclosure, that is in the best interest of all parties.”
The public disclosure won’t happen. The Democrats will block it. Their agenda is to normalize, then legalize, then institutionalize pedophilia. Pedophilia is six times as popular as “trannyism.” It is a voting bloc of 4.6 million Americans, virtually all of whom are of legal voting age and virtually none of whom are legally barred from voting.
The tranny mafias and militias are funded by Soros and the ChiComs. They WILL begin to come to light, before the Dems put a lid on things, but IMO we likely will get no serious, meaningful intel regarding them, before everything is hushed. The two things I can say about them is they are far more radical and violent than Antifa or BLM, and their funding sources are interested in sowing discord, not any possible “tranny cause.” They are an assault on our society, using our society against us, and took out Charlie Kirk, not because he was a Trump supporter, but because he was an effective communicator with the youth, and had tens, maybe hundreds of millions of followers, aged 12-26, worldwide.
Many cell phones do NOT need a “Nation Specific” SIM card, I know mine doesn’t when I travel to Europe. My current US SIM card works just fine virtually everywhere except Great Britain.
Ditto with going south of the border. My phone with my existing SIM card works just fine in most of Central /South America. (don’t know about Asia since haven’t taken a trip there for awhile).
It may well be that an Israeli Cell Phone with an Israeli SIM card in it will work just fine inside the US, my guess is that it probably would as long as you were paying your back home (in Israel) cell phone company for your roaming charges. That would mean that any scan of the an area that could pick up the SIM card data “could” potentially be able to note that certain phones were from other countries.
Inching closer to Total Awareness Internet ID.
“On Wednesday, a U.S. House committee called CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit to testify on Oct. 8 about online user radicalization.
Representative Comer, chair of the Oversight Committee, initiated the hearing post Charlie Kirk’s assassination, stating, “Congress has a duty to oversee the online platforms that radicals have used to advance political violence.””
FED meetings are always so calm and scripted. everybody has the dialogue and script . so calm and methodical
mind amplifiers,
It is not just i see the sun. More over by the sun i see all things and their shadows.
I know to everybody here I sound like a Broken Record after so many years of harping on the same subject … but the FED’s decision today, and the next three meetings are MEANINGLESS in the Big Picture … sort of like arguing over what type of icing to put on the cake that is ALREADY BAKED.
The “CAKE” is the overall US economy and the fact that we GAVE AWAY our long term economy for Short Term Wall Street Profits while impoverishing not just working people but the country as a whole.
So called “Free Trade” was just a fancy phrase for the INTENTIONAL Impoverishing of the United States … and oh were they SUCCESSFUL at at their goal.
No matter what is done at this stage of the game US Manufacturing being the center of the world’s economy is NOW GONE and NOT coming back. We GAVE IT to China … China now manufacturers 30% of everything made in the world, a number that is still growing YEARLY.
In addition to China’s manufacturing prowress China is now funding the building of MORE manufacturing hubs throughout SE Asia which will make their manufacturing even MORE Efficient and MORE Dominant onthe world stage
In cutting edge technology, except for Aviation and some DESIGN (but NOT build) aspects the US still has a lead, but ONLY in that narrow realm of the economy, and in high tech circuit design China should seize the lead from the US in the next 3 years.
WRT Integrated Circuit manufacturing … well China already outmanufacturers us about 3:1 which should reach about 7:1 in about 3 years AND it makes MORE ADVANCED semi-conductors than we can currently make in the US!! (we import our advanced semi-conductors from Taiwan and South Korea – though those countries are building a few advanced chip plants in the US, but NOT as advanced as what they have or are building in Taiwan and South Korea).
So … why is everybody so concerned about the “Icing” that the cake is receiving, ie: Fed Decisions, but not about the cake itself? Because the US Government and Wall Street mindset is STILL locked into SHORT TERM THINKING and a SHORT TERM PROFITS Orientation.
Fwiw every War Game that the US Government has played wrt a War with China over the last 5 years indicates the US will LOSE and LOSE QUICKLY unless WE go nuclear (which means China will have to go nuclear too). And to rub salt in the wounds the Chinese Military just did their own War Game update wrt using AI for anti-sub use … and it indictes that with AI integrating the data available 19 out of 20 US subs at sea can now be sunk within just a few days, most within just a few hours of the outbreak of full blow hostilities.
The economic world for the US is now going to change and change rapidly … and NOTHING the Fed does is going to stop it. We no longer produce stuff, our military particularly our Navy is no longer dominant in the Western Pacific, and we are falling further and further behind on the production side of the ledger compared to China with each passing month.
As for the “American Culture” unifying those who live here … that is now a DEAD dynamic. The Democrats have spent the last 35 years trying to drive wedges between the different groups people in the US and destroy our common culture … and it has worked. Large segments of the US population no longer see any commonality with large chunks of others inout country. In addition 45+ million people who now live here were born elsewhere and most of those are only here for short term ECONOMIC benefits, not because the believe in America and would risk their and their children’s lives so as try to “save” or “protect” the United States, ie: we no longer have a unified citizenry in any way shape or form.
Sadly my kids and grandkids will have to live in an impoverished America that will be lucky if it can muster enough military strength just to keep our borders secure, forget about 700 overseas bases and trying to be the World’s Policeman and to Fight War after War for Israel and Israel’s interests (Wars that were NOT for the benefit of the United States)
OK … rant over.
but hey i tell yah it was a great rant !! well done , yep all true .
Mind Amplifiers: According to FCC rules, I am limited to 1.5 kW. Mine seems loud enough already, Thanks.
Vance is in the state today… blah, blah, blah.
The news shows he’s taking about sending the National Guard into Detroit to fight crime.
A separate news story about Detroit shows a lot of the Detroit families are flat broke and can’t afford school shoes for their kids so there’s a show give-away.
Evidence shows it’s cheaper for 3rd parties to buy foreign made shoes and give them away Vs build a shoe factory in Detroit to hire Detroit folks to productively make and buy shoes for their kids. The workers could even supply shoes to shoe wearer outside of the city.
I’ve seen the same give-aways for school children’s backpacks. Later in the season it’ll be free coats & boots.
Maybe state run .gov factories aren’t a bad idea. Fill the heads of people w/thoughts of making shoes Vs driving a U-Haul into the side of a weed shop for some free weed. Central planning.
“Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have formalized a mutual defense pact, enhancing their long-standing security partnership. ”
Trump said India has been lost. Let’s see if India signs a mutual with the Capitalists or the Chicoms.
Hi, George,
You are writing yet another excellent book that is researched by your intense focus. Thank you.
By the way, I have been using, and am still using, real butter with extra virgin olive oil when I marinate onions, garlic, or meats.
When I am faceting a gemstone, I am in a zone. I have what is called flow time. If I am interrupted, the flow time can be a challenge to retrieve. At the beginning stage of cutting a gem, I often create a new diagram especially suited for what I am working on, and I write down what angles and faceting arrangements I use. These become my instructions. Sometimes, I like to listen to podcasts when I am at the final stages of prepolish and final polish but not all the time. If I have a particularly difficult piece I am working on, I like to have silence. Flow time is essential.
(“By the way, I have been using, and am still using, real butter with extra virgin olive oil when I marinate onions, garlic, or meats.”)
Nancy…that I feel is the ONLY way to marinate onions and garlic… when they ask me why I use real butter.. its because I can..
although I had a traditional Ukrainian meal yesterday .. home baked rye bread…( delicious) borscht.. ( again delicious) and an odd item.. SALO…
which is basically salted pork fat..It reminded me of a spread an old woman would give me on toast when I was a little boy.. that recipe is below as well as how they make salo..
how its made..
2–3 lbs pork back fat (skin-on, thick and firm)
½ cup coarse salt (non-iodized)
1 tablespoon black pepper (crushed or ground)
6–8 garlic cloves (sliced or crushed)
Optional: bay leaves, paprika, chili flakes, coriander seeds
they turn it once a day to age..Cut into slabs or blocks (about 2×4 inches).
Score the skin lightly if desired.Place in a non-metal container or zip bag.
Refrigerate for 5–7 days, turning daily.Slice thinly. Serve with rye bread, raw garlic, pickles, or mustard.Traditionally paired with vodka or horilka.
now interesting enough it wasn’t bad lots of garlic..
Thinking about that and the conversation on lard.. the smalec something I remember from an old woman when I was a little boy , it was a traditional lard-based spread that was beloved by pioneers and settlers across Eastern Europe and adopted in frontier kitchens for its richness, preservation, and comfort and widely used during the depression when there were limits on what you could buy and use. It’s essentially seasoned rendered pork fat similar to SALO , often enhanced with onions, garlic, apples, and sometimes bacon or cracklings. It was spread on hearty bread and served with pickles or tea—perfect for cold mornings and long days.
2¼ lbs white pork fat or leaf lard, diced
½ lb fatty bacon or s?onina, diced (stoning is basically salt pork fat back similar to bacon)
2 large onions, finely chopped
4 cloves garlic, minced ( I would put more garlic in it and more onions)
2 tart apples (like Granny Smith), peeled and diced
1 tsp salt (adjust to taste)
? tsp black pepper
1 tsp dried marjoram (optional but traditional)
Grind or finely dice pork fat.Cook in a large skillet over low heat until fat becomes transparent and liquid. Stir occasionally.Stir in onions, garlic, and bacon. Sauté until golden and fragrant.Add apples and cook until soft.
my mother used lard all the time..all her breads and biscuits had it in..