Graduated Certification for Applying Common Sense by James Dunn

Dear James,

Conscience is the only true common sense we all share.

Please read

Levels of consciousness.

I have created a custom search engine and a portal of portals

Any Body Can Do - Everything For Good to popularize the truth of our common sense or conscience.

I am a father of 3 little boys of ages 8,6 and 3 and I know it is not an easy task to teach them some good behavior and not to fight with each other with out enticing them with some gifts. It's amazing how even though they are biological brothers in the shorter frame of time and space of a single family, they tend to fight so vehemently sometimes. Now I can understand this situation extrapolated to a large scale of human kind, which easily forgets the truth of brotherhood and fights. It is for this reason we need to find ways to remind us all of who we really are and hence the fancy website to grab the attention. You might find categories in the website which are purely entertaining as it is a crucial part of enticing an ever wandering human mind.

"I thinks, therefore we are"

I thank you for your work and I hope you will adopt and spread your alter egos work of "Any Body Can Do - Everything For Good" as well.

Love,

I.

"I'm not sure what you are referring to when you say "voluntary activities". "Voluntary" does not occur in my writings."

Wilde seems to like manufacturing things people don't say or mean. Then he puts them in quotes and attributes them to us. He did it to me as well. Not collegial.

I.,

My concern here is that "Good" is most often interpreted based on personal perspective and not Universal perspective. What is Good for a church pastor can be devastating to someone of another religion. Opportunities are often denied persons based upon religious preference.

Good and Evil are words used most often to manipulate political influence to support personal agendas. There is no Evil or Good in actionable terms other than politics.

To destroy Evil, simply never again speak of it.

Ethiical is much different than Good. Good references the individual, while ethical references everything, everywhere, for all time domains. Due to our current limitations, ethics is narrowly considered.

Remember the "Prime Directive" from Star Trek. I think it should be to promote and sustain the greatest diversity of life. Which may one day mean the extinction of humans to protect the Universe, or other universes.

Broad consideration does not necessarily put humans on top. Especially when we are the cause of broad destruction.

James,

Certainly common sense and critical thinking are a requirement for a society that must consider a viable future that insures long-term survival. I don't believe that any of us know just how to accomplish that worthy goal. Certainly the qualities you mention are needed, and your corporate-type structure and your application examples help to make it possible. Certainly long-term planning is an element if you think and plan in a reasonable fashion.

My problem too is knowing not only what should be done but also what isn't done. How to approach it and emit the type of behavior required is another matter. Your ingredients are sound.

Jim

Hi James,

Very interesting essay, thank you! Teaching common sense is a honorable goal but teaching people who don't have the capacity to have such a skill is useless I'm afraid ;-)

Jim,

Not knowing what isn't done is a re-application of predicting consequences. In the profession of "Project Management" and "Program Management" (supervisory) these advanced skills are called "Requirements Management" and "Risk Management". The following is just a rough overview off the top of my head.

When a program manager first is introduced to forming a project, a representative group of experts get together with the customer and their team to define a "Project Charter". This defines the central intents of what is to be accomplished and design decisions map back to this Project Charter throughout the project until deliverables are finished and delivered. Otherwise wasted time is spent wavering in determining what the customer "might" want, or can do without. The Project Charter becomes customer approved.

From the Project Charter the List of Requirements is built by a team of experts. These are all things that become implicitly stated from the Project Charter. For example: SAE Standards related to the build, Federal Government Guidelines, IEEE Standards ... Phases of development and related milestones, payment schedules, required reporting, detail depth of documentation, customer specific requirements ... list of deliverables.

Asset Management from the status of the previous and present projects in development are referred to help determine a timeline for development. Typically a Gantt Chart and/or Project Management Software is implemented.

Requirements Management and Risk Management worksheets are implemented to capture details of requirements and their costs and risks and their potential costs and related delays. Asset Management is referred to for estimating availability of resources.

So far, all of this has occurred without getting paid by the customer so previous profits from other projects must pay for these efforts. Cost estimating is done based upon past experience. This is where experience plays between profit, losing the bid, and law-suits/bankruptcy. The Program Manager is only partly responsible for cost estimating. Built into the cost is labor for covering some number of other project estimates where the customer will choose another company to do the work.

The Customer pays for Phase I and no further payment will be received until the first milestone and related deliverables are conveyed to the customer.

Next the Program Manager assembles a team of Project Managers. The team assembles a Statement of Work (SOW). The SOW details every step and every Work Order down to the largest reasonable effort that one person can reasonably accomplish with their known skill set and experience. The Team updates the Requirements Management and Risk Management worksheets as they discover new potential issues.

Then the team of Project Managers under the direction of the Program Manager schedule the expertise and material and begin development.

The coordination of Requirements Management, Timeline, and Risk Management are tightly monitored throughout the development to ensure what isn't yet done is completed on-schedule.

What you asked is an advanced skill of Common Sense where self-esteem in that environment in-part comes from practiced application and developing experience.

We all, including myself, can always improve our Common Sense skills related to the Social Group in which we are involved. Common Sense is Group-centric. For example, Common Sense between a Program Manager and a team of General Electric national defense contractors is very specific.

The Common Sense component of Self-esteem in that environment is based in a developed set of thumb-rules to deal with the emotional condition of team members, developed social etiquette that does not fully transfer to other companies, and systems of communication processes that are expected. These components can be documented so that a new Program Manager can come up to speed quickly in dealing with the specific National Defense Contractor to ensure that risks in obtaining the bid are minimized.

This is one application for having a certification program to help ensure selected Program Managers can quickly develop the "practiced" skills to engage in these high level negotiations.

However, for smaller projects just keep the equivalent of a grocery list. :.)

I tend to disagree. We all have deficiencies as compared to others in specific situations. But I think you meant someone who is handicapped or a drug addict.

I have not as yet considered tools to address drug addicts as yet.

However, a person with ADHD has certain challenges to overcome. Typical symptoms include, but are not limited to: chronic tardiness, sloppy work, hostile to authority, procrastination, working harder not to accomplishing some task than just doing the task, hiding out ...

In the Common Sense structure that is being developed at www.UA-KiTS.com, are the beginning of tools to address certain personal challenges that people have.

One tool for those with ADHD is that when reading, every time a person notices their mind has drifted they should make a small mark at the top of the page. Use a Post-it if the page cannot be marked, or even put a Post-it on the top bezel of the computer display. The conscious act of making the mark over time will tend to train the mind to remain focused while reading.

This is just one of hundreds of techniques that are available to be taught to help persons with professional disabilities to compensate for their perceived lack of common sense.

A tool for the average person is Refereed Debate, and can be easily used in classrooms and meetings to multiply interactive experiential learning. A teacher/lecturer normally stands in front of a room and infrequently engages students/participants one at a time. The students/participants have no hope of sharing respect with their peers. Referred Debate can be set up with 3 to 10 participants in each group. The object is to find and support the best pathway to achieve a common goal.

The Referee is initially the person most experienced in critical thinking and predicting consequences. In grade school, this is the teacher. In a company meeting, this might be a program manager.

As certain participants reliably express themselves logically and with well-developed predicting of consequences, then they are rotated in as Referee.

The Referee verbally guides the expressions of debate participants to cite three categories of weakness: logical, path of consequences, sustainability. Additionally, the Referee verbally guides the expressions of debate participants to cite three categories of strength: emotional connectedness, social connectedness, and Clarity of processes. A list of points given or taken is provided to each participant before-hand.

Types of issues in each category might include: logical inconsistencies, holes in considerations, vagueness ... and points are charged to the participant.

The result is the sharing of Respect between participants as they teach each other useful relationships. The process is practiced experience. The educational platform is Project Based Learning (PBL). An entire rudiment project can mentally be planned in a few minutes by thinking through the needed requirements, risks, resource availability, and processes. Practiced expression quickly builds these skills where reading about it does little to change engrained behaviors.

These are just examples of what can be done with people who appear not able to learn common sense.

Please keep in mind that the non-profit 501(c)3 corporation is at present just a place-holder until I can find other people who have the philosophical, psychological, and logical skills to augment my own. I do not know everything .... yet :.) No really, knowledge is a continuous learning process.

Every certification agency (SAE, IEEE, AMA, ABPS ...) have all started with an Articles of Incorporation and incrementally grown. A complete solution is not needed up front. Continuous asserted effort builds resources quickly.

I am seeking persons that can contribute to development. I can perhaps obtain a grant to pay for the first phase of development and implementation if I can find persons with related recognized qualifications in philosophy, psychology, human resources administration ... support@ua-kits.com

Additionally,

The Referee in Refereed Debate is in a different position than the participant and continuously learns techniques and relationships. So the Referee is learning every bit as much as the participants.

For those visiting this essay, I would appreciate if you would rate the topic as it relates to being able to take action to Steer the Future of Humanity. This topic is more than viable, there is a market need and funding resources to create a distributed self-sustaining implementation.

If you have any recognized qualifications and an interest in contributing to development, a grant application can be submitted to ED.gov and other organizations to pay contributors for their efforts.

support@ua-kits.com

UA-KiTS

Unlocking Aptitude - Knowledge in Translational States

Dear James,

Thank you for the score you gave to me. You are right about the missing part of providing sustainable support of investigative efforts. However, my article, being written by a physicist, hardly could deal with such items, and I wanted to put the accent on the epistemological attitude facing the legitimate unification of knowledge, of realities and, mainly, of humans. Indeed, I think that attitude is first; economics is later. As a matter of fact, one can find quite often such confusion in most of the western countries, namely, that prosperity in education comes from prosperity in economics; I think it is exactly the opposite.

You say well that we don't even teach common sense at schools (neither public nor private): common notions are completely oriented to making money, to generate and utilize technologies, to worship the body, to be as popular as possible, to reach wealth at any price, and so on and so forth. In other words, we have consciously organized our world on an egoistic basis and, as a consequence, rather that dignifying the human individual by making him more responsible of the world, humans within, we block the natural volition of humankind to live with the others, to live for the others as the best possible self-service, to back feed a healthy self-esteem, ... That's why I believe science can become an area of hopefulness for humankind in the future, provided we actually understand the crucial role of self-critique in science generation and the importance of learning other ways of thinking the world and the whole reality. ¿Don't you think so?

Best regards,

Alex

P.-S. I shall read your paper in detail. Only then, I will be able to making comments to you; however, I can see in advance that it will be an enjoying experience.

Regarding why teaching Common Sense broadly is important to the future of physics.

If we are living in a construct that allows for simulation/virtual-consideration, then we ourselves may be able to use the underlying construct in Building Universes - Relativity from Quantum Causality.

http://vixra.org/pdf/1402.0041v1.pdf

This is repeatedly implied elsewhere. What are the implications for intelligent life?

If you have a computer model, where there is environment evolved consciousness. Proposed elsewhere is a lack of substantive structure is an indication of a simulated environment. This is the realm of present particle physics and the Standard Model, there is nothing substantive below the size of an atom. Yet artifacts considered as subatomic particles have features larger than an atom; like boson. This contradiction seems to be supported by as yet non-observable systems of causal connectedness.

"Connectedness" is not a proper word. But it is a key feature in describing causality that exists despite and without direct reference to energy.

Energy has a component of m/s or space/time. As long as Qubits are related directly to space/time then energy is a required consideration. However, as in quantum entanglement, energy need not be a consideration related to a logic state. We may yet not have the means of creating an energy-less evolving causal state, but that does not mean it is not possible.

No two things can occupy the same space at the same time; in macro-physics. But in subatomic physics many things occupy the same space at the same time. There is no empty space anywhere in a Universe of Relativity.

Illusion is simply any system that is considered with incompletely considered perspectives. Everything we know is incomplete, so yes, cosmology from our perspectives is an illusion.

Probability, error tolerance, and limitations for approximations mask causality.

The contradiction between the macro and subatomic worlds seems to indicate a structural component of causality. Many more than one set of connectedness can share a causal component. The simple (exaggeration) shift of a causal connection is like the difference in spin observed in quantum entanglement. Seemingly instantaneous propagation. But outside of relativity, it is potentially just a slight shift between similar causal systems; energy-less.

The potential is that Building Universes - Relativity from Quantum Causality can be done without any energy at all except where we want to interface our space/time tools with the universes we build.

The universes we build need not have the same physics constants as our universe. As such, we can build alternate dimensional spaces. When interfaced with our universe; warping of space/time, worm holes, black holes, gateways between locations, quantum cameras ...

I believe we can build a mechanism to Exactly model our universe, and manipulate it to create computational systems. But the physical outcomes will exactly match physics and not the approximations provided by mathematics.

In any "real" physical environment, it would take an extraordinary number of seemingly abstract mathematics relationships to model the systems of relationships that are in constant change within a cubic centimeter. To do so without error is presently and for the foreseeable future impossible. A change in course on a practical pathway to manipulate space/time is needed.

http://vixra.org/pdf/1205.0021v1.pdf

By using the structure of the universe to build a system for analyzing a piece within our universe (quantum camera), then we are not relying upon approximations. Math will likely still be used, to get us into the general area we want to be. But the quantum camera would respond and interact with the our universe exactly.

The quantum camera would be a subset of a universe that we build.

To be sure, this is not pie in the sky relationships.

Billions of dollars in grants are available for this type of research:

https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=7fa50ea731f2aa4529b223b7f5b38987&tab=core&_cview=1

Why is broadly teaching Common Sense imperative?

....

Who will control the technologies developed?

Business Model to Broadly teach Common Sense:

How should we steer the future of humanity?

http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/2045

Method for ethically monitoring and eliminating all corrruption:

Corruption = unethical allocation of resources and/or opportunities

http://eliminate-all-corruption.pbworks.com

These combined methods provide for eliminating corruption from both the Top/Down (management of NSA) AND Bottom/Up (broadly teaching Common Sense).

Broadly teaching Common Sense is vital to the ethical use of technologies developed by physicists.

Common Sense ermöglicht Physik Karriere Straße.

Dear Mr. Dunn,

I found your essay vastly entertaining, and I do hope that it does well in the competition. I do have a minor quibble, and I do hope that you do not mind me raising it.

I have gone to great pains in my essay, REALITY, ONCE, to emphasize the fact that reality is unique. For instance, each real person has unique real fingerprints. Each real person has a unique dollop of real DNA, and each real person has unique real eyeballs. It must follow that each real person must have unique real intelligence. Your contention that: "There are three (abstract) types of (abstract) influence that are part of (abstract) Common Sense: (abstract) logical relationships and (abstract) perspectives, (abstract) emotional relationships and (abstract) perspectives and (abstract) social relationships and (abstract) perspectives. Please understand I am in no way trying to imply that although you appear to have mastered the requirements for understanding what abstract common sense might consist of, you do not seem to know much about reality. I would never really do that.

Top regards,

Joe Fisher

Joe,

Reality is composed of abstractions. Each person's partial perspectives of what is real to them is malleable.

Challenge: Name one thing you believe is real without contention.

Joe,

I'm asking for a really hard example for me to consider.

Everyone has a unique fingerprint, for all people who have ever lived and who will ever live. Is that your contention?

You are certain that a closed causal system does not repeat. Is that your contention?

Each potential intelligence must have DNA. Is that your contention.

Persons born without eyes are not people. Is that your contention.

Intelligence is a set of abstractions that together fit current needs in most social groups. Obviously a social group inside an sanitarium may or may not be open to inclusion of irrational statements. The same for terrorist groups and others who demand compliance with irrational edicts.

But in business, engineering, science, medicine, pharmacology, the military, nuclear power plants ... rational behaviors depend upon the interrelationships of abstractions having to do with emotional, social, and communication processes.

Define one word that has the same exact meaning for all peoples; for all time.

I look forward to hearing of your one "real" thing that is real without contention. Anything that is based in a partial perspective is an illusion, and not real. The best we can do is attempt to provide the greatest useful utility with the broadest systems that we can perceive, and relate, while minimizing contradictions.

Joe,

Perceived Reality only exsists within a subset of consistent perspectives without contradicting relationships.

A reality is a certain type of system of causal relativity.

How come your comments do not appear headed in an orange box like an author's replies ought to do?

Sir, I pity you. You are suffering from a severe case of chronic informania. I have no need to prove that any real object is a real object. I am a real person.

With amicable regards,

Joe Fisher

Mr. Dunn,

I am truly sorry for the comments I have tarnished your essay entry comments boxes with. Please forgive me. My comments were unnecessary and totally uncalled for.

Regretfully,

Joe Fisher

Joe,

I looked for your essay, but could not find one listed. Involved perspectives often have useful information buried within them. I won't necessarily accept everything you have to share, but likely there will be relationships I will find interesting.

Respect is only acquired by the mutual sharing of useful information. As we teach each other something useful, trust is attributed within the context of consideration. This is universally how respect is directly acquired.

The opposite of respect is Disdain. Disdain is attributed when distrust is developed due to telling lies, deceitful omission, negligence ....

The combination of accumulated trust from Respect and Disdain form Self-Esteem within a particular social group.

So I appreciate your apology and remain open to hear your perspectives.

James