Academic or scientific research project.

Possible academic or scientific research project.

I approached an academic with the intent of possibly finding a way forward. his comment was to possibly produce an academic/scientific research paper. He then also sent me a copy of portions of Imre Lakatos’ book on “The Validation of Scientific knowledge.” part 3. More specifically the portion on “Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes”.

I mentioned to him that:

“I am going to try and get some funding over the holidays to fund a academic research paper or project. It is however multi-faceted so will require input from academics in the field of psychology, economics, justice, political and government theory among others, as well as possibly philosophy. “

He responded with the following:

“None of that is really desirable or necessary. Since you have been working on your viewpoint for some years:”

Write down your conjecture.

(takes about 10 mins.)

Write down 3 reasons to believe its true.

(takes about 2 hours.)

Write a response to 3 objections which people have come up with when you have talked about it.

(takes about 2 hours.)

Write out some possible applications to fields in the Social Sciences. (takes about 20 mins.)

So after 4 hours & 30 mins. you’ll have an academic paper.

Put it aside for a week.

Then take out, – polish and send to an appropriate journal for publication.

That’s what an academic in a university would do.

So I complied the following using his protocol:

Write down your conjecture.

(takes about 10 mins.)

The metaphysical claim I am making is that “Time is the genesis of value.”

Every conscious mind values its time. Or time is valued by every conscious mind. It is a law of nature or categorical imperative. It is a universal normative statement.

To elaborate a bit every conscious mind values its ability to experience time going forward. Ultimately or primarily to be able to experience it, to live, and secondarily to make that experience as pleasant as possible. It is a universal constant.

Time has some unique features among them, that we all have it, we all experience it uniquely from our own perspective, or consciousness, but also concurrently with others together. It’s the one thing in life that is free, but you cannot buy more. Its units are a duration and is measured with a timer that divides that duration into uniform intervals for reference.

Write down 3 reasons to believe its true.

(takes about 2 hours.)

You cannot create value without investing your time productively. That includes types of value even as abstract as the value placed on friendships. If you know of a way to create monetary value without investing time, please let me in I want to know. As does every other person in the world. It is an impossibility.

That should logically on its own be reason enough but just for good measure:

I value my time and I assume you value yours, that’s always a good start, strangely so does just about everyone I bounce this idea or concept off…if you can find someone who doesn’t please tell me.
It provides the logic as to why every conscious mind does what it does. From the basics like why you scratch an itch, to why a lion chases a zebra, and why a zebra runs away from a hungry lion, to why you go to a toilet, or swat a mosquito. All these actions allow your experience of time going forward to be more pleasant.
It enables a social contract theory architecture to exist that allows everyone to contribute equally and everyone to benefit equally. Instead of the current model that has contribution heavily biased towards the productive members of society and benefit heavily biased towards the corrupt public servants and their buddies as well as the unproductive members of society who currently contribute very little if any.
A newly created conscious mind has no value to anyone, except its parents. It requires the input of value or time, generally by its parents or their proxy, to enable it to start learning stuff to make it integrate with its culture, this involves making its time valuable to its culture and possibly other cultures as well. Once it has the ability, it needs to invest constructive time in itself to continue educating itself. If this education is well targeted, it will increase the embodiment of that conscious minds ability to provide or add some sort of value to some their conscious mind or person, generally within their culture. All this costs is productive investment of that conscious beings time, there is no other way. You cannot will, or wish, an education on anyone, to make their time more valuable, it takes an investment of time productively. The more educated your culture deems you are, the greater your ability to provide value to others within your culture, and possibly others, becomes, and they then reward you, unless you are a slave, usually through payment, and that increases your ability to increase your perceived enjoyment of some of your remaining time, you can now take that reward and feed yourself or go on a holiday.
It provides a reasonable explanation and logic for the fight or flight mechanism, or natural justice and recourse, something intrinsic to every conscious mind. If a conscious mind perceives you as a threat to its time going forward, it will take recourse as it sees fit. It’s the default recourse mechanism foundational to natural law.
It provides the logic as to why you can train a animal. The animal learns that if it listens to you, or more precisely, performs a task on cue, its time going forward will be more pleasant, it will either be rewarded, and that reward may be a treat or attention or affection, or it won’t be punished. Either way its time going forward will be more pleasant.
It provides a reasonable logic that defines intuition, why murder is bad or why slavery is unjust or why you don’t put your hand on a hot plate or why you hesitate to swim with sharks. The one commonality which all these actions have is the strong possibility that they are going to result in your experience of your time going forward in a negative way. Make it unpleasant for you or intuitively for the person performing them.
It’s the mechanism that a violent criminal uses to appropriate your will and gets you to do stuff you normally wouldn’t do. That mechanism is the value you place on being able to experience time going forward. It is so powerful. The value you place on that right, that they are able to appropriate your will, and get you to do things that you ordinarily never would do. Nothing like a gun to your head or knife to your, or a loved one’s neck, to make you realize they have absolute power over your will. Once you understand that mechanism and you realize that they also value their time, just as much as you do, you can design a justice model that throws that logic straight back at them. Beat them at their own game as it were.
This may seem a bit abstract now, but it provides the reason and logic that defines some abstract concepts such as, free will, justice or morality. When you are spending your time doing what you choose to do with your time, that is a state of free will, or a just state, or a moral state. When you are forced to spend time doing what you don’t want to do with your time, or against your will, that is a unjust state or immoral state. It allows for a exoteric binary logic for morality or justice and is consistent with every moral unbiased law that exists.
It’s what you pay someone for when they work, or create value, for you. Time is the common denominator that every artist needs to be able to create art.
It realizes a logic that we appear to subconsciously have used to create our laws. They are there primarily to allow you, or protect your right, to experience time going forward and punish those that affect your time going forward negatively, especially if it’s malicious and with intent.
Every culture that has ever existed has as its ultimate sanction the death penalty, or they banish you, they know you value your time, and they take your ability to use it to affect others negatively away from you, in the case of the death penalty absolutely and permanently.
And from within our species, and culture, it’s intrinsically what we use to create and calibrate value.

Write a response to 3 objections which people have come up with when you have talked about it.

(takes about 2 hours.)

Using your two objections:

The professor gave me two objections both are dealt with.

The first one of his objections,

Your conjecture is contradicted by the facts of biology and psychology. Many conscious agents do not value time.

Think of all the time wasters in the world, dawdlers, idiots, all day surfers, druggies high on cocaine or heroin, cafe society people spending years playing chess or talking about matters of no consequence…. etc.

My response to this is that the guys are doing with their time what they want, even if it is nothing that is their right as long as they don’t do anything that negatively affects your time. No injustice here unless they are being forced to do what they are doing against their will or if their actions are causing you to spend time on something you don’t want to without your consent. If that is the case, then you should have recourse.

The second one of his objections:

Your conjecture has no applications. “Psychological time” cannot cause social theories or practices of fairness or justice.

Psychological time is not a causal agent.

Psychological time incorporates time sense and biological time. In it the past is memory and the future is imagined.

My response to this, where you say it has no applications, is dealt with below in point 4 Write out some possible applications to fields in the Social Sciences.

Write out some possible applications to fields in the Social Sciences.

(takes about 20 mins.)

It results in a social contract theory with a single maxim or right, that maxim is based on a natural construct, one that is a end in itself, that maxim is the right to one’s time, only you can waive that right, either voluntarily, through mutual contract, or involuntarily through not respecting that that right exists for all. That maxim is common to the architecture of every individual component that forms or realizes the social contract. Starting from defining value and progressing to models for the economy, justice, or morality, and political, or theories of government.

Let me elaborate con this a bit.

A universal value theory centred around time, will intuitively unlock, or realize an economic theory, one centred around time. A economic theory is fundamentally centred around value.
A universal value theory could possibly open the door or unlock to a universal theory of justice, one where we are all equal before the law. It is a common realization that justice is the protection and preservation of what you value. It appears that this value theory, because it is universal to all conscious minds, then births a justice theory that is exoteric, fair and just and should be acceptable to all. The justice theory entrenches that maxim or right that is foundational to the existence of the value theory. That justice theory has an architecture that addresses injustice proactively in its architecture, and not reactively through an endless myriad of convoluted laws. As our current justice model, system or theory reactively does. Put simply it’s justice through a reasonable peer of your choice. The logic here is firstly that he is your peer and is there to judge you and your ability to tolerate other cultures, not the other party. Secondly, you chose him so he introduces all your biases that your culture finds acceptable so you cannot claim a bias or injustice. And thirdly, as he is your peer when he tells you you are wrong, you have to accept it. Same with the sentence you have no choice he is your peer you chose him even if it’s the death penalty. So make sure he can reason or you both get a hiding. There are obviously protocols attached, but it’s the logic that has to first exist and secondly be sound then the protocols can be looked at.
In short a social contract theory that should be acceptable to all, is one that has a architecture that creates the reality where we all contribute equally and all benefit equally, instead of the current system where contribution is heavily biased towards the productive members of the community. It can also allow for everyone to benefit equally instead of benefit being heavily biased towards sticky fingered politicians, their friends, and those that traditionally don’t traditionally contribute much at all.
That then opens the door or unlocks a political theory and theory of government that has some interesting attributes like forcing corrupt sticky-fingered politicians to be productive and removing the ability for them to be corrupt with your money. It has mechanisms for party members to force the leaders to be productive and add value for their constituents or members. This is accomplished in short by reversing the flow of capital in the system or model. Remember it’s the reason and logic we’re looking at here. If the money, or value, as it currently is, is injected at the top and has to filter is way down to those that need it, it has to pass through sticky-fingered politicians, whereas if the money is injected at the individuals at the base and has to filter its way up to the politicians, they cannot steal it without your consent.
It’s not capitalism or socialism but strangely the ideal of both.
If one understands the reason and logic behind the mechanism that allows a criminal to commit crime one can design a social contract that proactively deals with injustice at its origin, instead of reactively through a myriad of convoluted laws. That mechanism is the absolute value you place on your ability to experience time. Or your right to the ownership of your time, a natural right common to all conscious minds, a law of nature or universal constant.
It allows for any and every culture or religion to exist as long as they don’t impose themselves on others and respect the right of other to also exist.
It allows for a political architecture with mechanisms that removes the ability for politicians to be corrupt.
It results in a social contract that enforces accountability and responsibility for your actions and choices as well as the consequences of those choices. With acceptable protocols for recourse when a injustice is committed. The only downside is that when you are charged with a injustice you have to submit to recourse.

It attaches a universal value system applicable to everyone, in fact every conscious mind, one we subconsciously already use, or rely on to define our current social contracts. This just realizes it or moves it from the realm of the subconscious to the realm of the conscious.

As morality or justice is the protection and preservation of what one values it opens the door to a universal theory of justice. It provides the perfect mechanism for a “veil of ignorance” as described in John Rawls book “theory of justice” as time has no inherent biases, or preferences, it has no race, religion, culture or preference for any of those attributes, those are introduced by the individual and his culture, allowing for cultural relativism. It results in interesting political theory, an ideal of capitalism as well as the ideal of socialism and any iteration of any ideology you just cannot impose your culture on others without your consent.

It realizes a interesting justice model there are obviously protocols to be followed but it works like this, justice is through a reasonable peer of your choice. Intuitively this just seems incoherent, nonsensical and disjointed but the logic is as follows if you choose your presiding officer then when he tells you, you are wrong, you have to accept it he is your peer. You chose him, even if he imposes the death penalty on you have no choice. He is there to judge you and your ability to reason as well as tolerate and respect other cultures.

It has a interesting contribution benefit model that is based in a reason and logic that should make sense to all. Everyone contributes equally and everyone benefits equally. But you cannot unduly benefit or contribute. This changes the flow of taxation money from the top down to a bottom-up model it take the ability of politicians to be corrupt it forces them to be productive else their supporters won’t give them funds. It’s the logic that needs to exist and be sound.

So after 4 hours & 30 mins. you’ll have an academic paper.

Put it aside for a week.

Then take out, – polish and send to an appropriate journal for publication.

I’ll leave it for a while and polish a bit after I get some feedback from others.