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Oh my God I'm such a twilight girlie you write him so good!!! Like I'm a blushing mess here giggling kicking feet the whole nine yards. Also making him thic is such a accurate power move 🤭🤤 one of these days I'd love to hear all your thoughts on the different 🍆 sizes for the links I just know it'd be glorious until then I shall devour all your writing repeatedly while imagining hot blondes (your four rut one is my absolute favorite I must confess)

Anon you flatter me!!

Hyrule: 4.9 inches. Now, before you come at me in the comments for making our fairy prince smaller than Four, hear me out: like I've said before, and continue to say, penis size is heavily affected by both genes and external factors, and even a slight discrepancy in either one can had mixed outcomes. 'But Fyre, we came here for sin, not a biology lesson!!', some of you may gripe, but I promise there's method to this madness. Ever since starting his first adventure at the ripe age of 9 or 10, Hyrule has been on constant alert because of 1) the literal cult trying to steal his blood to reincarnate a giant pig man and 2) the fact that his world is quite literally a wasteland with minimal food/tainted water/and all sorts of other nasty things. I can't even imagine the stress he was under during those frankly crucial developmental years, so it's highly likely that his body just... didn't fully develop due to a combination of him not getting enough to eat/drink and being on the run for most of his life (i.e lots of stress + probably a horrific sleep schedule). Moreover, both of these factors are what's known as endocrine disruptors, which can heavily affect mental and physical growth.

But now onto the dick-cannons: while he may not be the largest or thickest, I like to think Hyrule has a pretty good handle on what he's doing regardless*. Definitely not circumcised, considering his background (someone please tell him how to wash).

*(I once saw a headcannon that Hyrule probably used sex as a form of payment when things got tough, which I think is very underrated and absolutely true.)

Four: 5.5 inches. So I DEFINITELY did too much research on Four's, but I think y'all need to hear this. While I love the headcannon about Four's dick being 4 inches because his name is quite literally 'Four', I'm not sure anyone has tried to tackle this conundrum with his heritage in mind. Typically, penis size is influenced by parental genes, the person's own unique genes, and a combination of other external factors. For Four, we know for certain that he has Hylian parents, BUT he's also part Minish because of the events of Minish Cap. The Minish are typically described as anthropomorphic mouse people, so we can comfortably use mice as the basis for this genetic addition. Now, mice typically have a penis size of 10% of their body length (tip of nose to base of tail), which would concurrently put Four at 0.458333333 in feet, or 5.5 inches.

Dick-canons: probably circumcised. He's got the vibe of being pretty unassuming, but then he whips it out and everything suddenly makes sense. Balls* are on the bigger side (BREED), but no one's complaining.

*(Have you seen mice balls?? They're fucking [tee hee] massive. View at your own risk, but I couldn't have stopped the idea of Four like this if I tried. Yes yes I know this is a rat, but close enough!)

Wild: 5.6 inches. This one was probably the most difficult, because Wild's just... an average guy*. He doesn't have any non-Hylian transformations or crazy evolution history under his belt (tee tee), so all that really leaves is his height–which isn't a truly reliable measure of penile length, BUT we take what we can get in this blog–and background. It's somewhat implied that his father was a knight/someone who worked for the kingdom, which means he and Warriors were likely raised in very similar situations, though Wild's likely was a bit more stressful. For one, he pulled the Master Sword from its pedestal at the ripe old age of 12, and was immediately shipped off to guard Princess Zelda while she attempted to awaken her powers. While not as extreme as Hyrule's backstory, this is still a great deal of pressure for a child who arguably had a very peaceful life before finding the Master Sword, but I don't think he suffered any developmental conditions; even with the stress of finding out you're the Hero of Hyrule before you even finish puberty, it's reasonable to assume that Wild was physically cared for by the royal family, if only for the fact that his destiny was to defeat Ganon. Not just that, but there's the whole other issue of being stuck in a shrine for 100 years after dying; I'm no doctor, but that doesn't sound like favorable conditions for anyone. Obviously, the shrine heals him, but is that all it does? It's a well-known fact that water isn't good for skin**, especially considering he laid in it without moving for a century, so it's hard to imagine how his dick looked after the bath to end all baths.

Dick-canons: it glows– assuming he actually does have a penis, it's fairly average looking. Probably circumcised for military/cleanliness reasons, but he does have a very lovely vein running up the side of the shaft that always looks like it's about to pulse out of his dick. He should probably get that check out. Average sized balls, maybe a bit on the small side due to 100 years of cold water exposure.

*(I'm just going to come out and say this: all the Links are, at their core, average guys. Twilight was a goat herder. Time may or may not have been birthed by a tree and raised by tree people. Hyrule is just a simple traveler. Wind wasn't even chosen, he just wanted to save his sister. That's why they're so likable... they're not born special, or heroic, or anything. They're just dudes. Regular, selfless, boring, amazing dudes. Anyways enjoy the rest of my insanity.)

**(Is it wrinkly? Dried up? Completely and totally detached?? Laying in water for even a few days can cause severe medical complications, such as open sores, loss of skin elasticity, bacterial and fungal infections, and tissue decomposition. Cold water can temporarily slow the effects of decomposition because of adipocere formation, which is a phenomenon in which a waxy substance forms over the skin as a byproduct of fat decomposition, but not for 100 years. By this logic, Wild shouldn't be on this list because he shouldn't have a dick.)

Legend: 6 inches. Y'all already know where this is going. Unlike his successor, Legend didn't begin his first adventure until the age of 12, and lived a fairly stable life before hand thanks to his Uncle. This means that there likely wouldn't be too many developmental factors to worry about in determining the dick-cannons, so now we must turn to his rabbit-ifying encounter from his first adventure. I'm going to use the eastern cottontail rabbit (Sylvilagus floridanus) for this example because they're one of the most widely studied/available rabbit species. Now, cottontails typically reach 14-19 inches in length, but I'm going to go with 20 inches for Legend because he is CHONK, and also 20 is a lot easier to do math with. Keeping this in mind, WikiVet has informed me that rabbit penises can range from 20 to 45 mm in length. I'm going with 45 mm (4.5 inches) because he's a big boy and I also want him to have a big dick, so, when paired with the 20 inch body length, you'll find that approximately 8.86% of a rabbit's length is dick. Now that we know dick-to-body ratio, all that needs to be done is put that against Legend's height of 5'6", which leaves us with 5.8476 inches, but I added an extra 2 in to account for the fact that he is also hylian. It just feels right.

Dick-canons: Definitely a good choice if you're not sure what you want; bunny boy has many talents. Definitely has some breeder balls*, and I firmly believe he's curved just right for maximum pleasure. Probably circumcised because of his uncle, but he's secretly glad because it means he doesn't have to clean it like he would if he wasn't.

*(Yup, we're doing this again. Scientifically, rabbits have some of the highest sex drives of any animal, and are capable of breeding six hours after giving birth [WTF], which means this absolutely applies to Legend. He is never not down for a fuck.)

Sky: 6.3 inches. Prepare yourself because this one is very speculative. So, Sky was born on Skyloft, a set of islands in the sky. He was trained as a knight for most of his life and had a generally very peaceful life, so no endocrine disruptors or developmental discrepancies to worry about. Moreover, we know he started his journey at seventeen, which means he's at the tail-end of development. Now, instead of turning to some type of animal encounter, I'll turn to his Hylian heritage to answer this conundrum. I doubt there's anything out there with Skyloft's exact elevation, but it does appear to be a decent few thousand feet above the cloud barrier, which I've discovered are most likely altocumulus clouds, which typically form at an elevation between 6,000 to 20,000 feet. To calculate this, I watched a Skyward Sword gameplay video and determined that, in-game, it takes approximately 1:02.87 to reach the surface, and, assuming Sky/Link, is going at terminal velocity (the fastest an object can go while in motion, which happens to be 120 mph for belly-to-earth skydiving), this would put Skyloft at a roughly 7,544.4 foot elevation, which aligns with the altocumulus cloud prediction. There are only so many places on Earth that match such a high elevation, but I'm going to choose the Himalayas (which are inhabited by the Tibetan people, which are already known to have more capillaries and a more specialized hemoglobin function due to living in higher altitudes) as our comparer-region. Using this information, we can safely assume that Skyloftians, though fictional, who evolved in a very similar environment, may exhibit some similar traits to the modern-day Tibetan people.

While researching, I also discovered an incredibly interesting phenomenon called "airplane boners", which is a scientific occurrence where changes in pressure can cause erections (i.e. flying on a place), and decided that this would be perfect fuel for my scholarly degeneracy, which leads me to my next point: Sky has a big dick as an evolutionary response to what is colloquially known as the 'airplane boner'. Not convinced? Let me explain. When a penis is erect, arteries in the pelvic/penile region dilate to allow for greater blood flow, which thus increases the size of the penis itself. Now, imagine being at a high elevation for your whole life, surrounded by people whose ancestors have never lived anywhere else. I firmly believe that Skyloftians are well-endowed as an evolutionary response that allows the sustainment of larger blood vessels as a sort-of defense against high air pressure. Natural selection favors these traits because they ultimately lead to reproduction, which is the single-most important characteristic of evolution. 6.3 inches was a bit of an educated guess, but I believe that because the people of Skyloft evolved in a closed high-altitude ecosystem, it's entirely reasonable for Sky to be THICC because his body has a adapted to handle a greater hemoglobin factor and increased vascular capacity, likely in the penile region.

Dick-canons: due to the blood-vessel evolution, Sky's dick is likely thicker than average, with some very visible veins running up the sides; so many that it likely makes his dick appear incredibly flushed when erect. Contrary to what some of you may think, I don't think he has large balls, because it is likely more advantageous to have a smaller scrotum to combat the elements/conserve heat. So no breeder balls for him, but that doesn't mean he can't breed you just as good ;)

Twilight: 6.8 inches. I feel like this goes without saying, but he's a country boy. He's hung. Twilight grew up in Ordon, a close-knit community where everyone takes care of everyone, which means he most definitely had a very good childhood. Like some of the others, I see no reason to bring up developmental challenges due to being chased by a cult or some similar bullshit, so we're going to skip right to his transformation of a wolf at the beginning of his journey. Contrary to Legend and Four, I do not believe that this transformation affected him significantly in terms of penis appearance/size. Twilight was 17 when his adventure began, which means he already is at the end of physical development from a biological standpoint, and, in Linked Universe, his tattoos appear to be the only true physical mark on his hylian body, so it's safe to assume that we don't need to take this into consideration. Now, some of you may say: "Fyre, but your theories were so crazy for the other ones and now you're saying Twilight's hung because he's country??" Yes. Yes, I am saying that.

BUT.

There's a pretty solid theory running around that Twilight is a very small part Gerudo, due to Talon (Malon's father) having married/banged a Gerudo woman in secret. In LOZ, it's fairly obvious that the Gerudo are supposed to emulate modern-day Middle Eastern culture, which a study by the National Institute of Health states have an average penis length of 14.34, or 5.6 inches. Obviously, this is nowhere near 6.8, but this is also a race of mythical female warriors, so everything's a little skewed. However, in every iteration we see of the Gerudo, they're always tall, somewhat aggressive, and visibly muscled, which are all indicators of above-average levels of testosterone. This is highly important because, in addition to being required to build muscle mass, testosterone is heavily responsible for penis growth during puberty, meaning that Twilight could very well be the way he is because of this naturally-increased testosterone production (i.e why he's so visibly muscled compared to the other Links), plus an assumed more efficient vascular system due to his heritage. Adding on to this, Twilight likely already has booming levels of testosterone due to his very physical, very labor-intensive occupation as a rancher, plus the fact that he's in the prime of his life. In short, he's doing everything right: he eats well, works out, and has fairly decent emotional and mental health, all of which can be correlated with optimal penile development.

Dick-canons: Breeder balls to the MAX. All that extra testosterone has got to go somewhere, and it ain't his head. Fairly girthy, so prep is a necessity. Has one big vein right under the head that honest-to-god throbs when he's turned-on. Probably not circumcised because Ordon is fairly closed-off and I can't see them as being sticklers for that.

Warriors: 7 inches. While height isn't directly correlated with dick size, it is reasonable to assume that Warriors would be a bit higher on the list because of this, as well as his overall health in comparison to Hyrule and/or Legend. It's hinted that Warriors was raised in a very military-esque lifestyle, so it's not a surprise that he wouldn't have any true developmental setbacks in terns of penile length. Now, that doesn't mean we can't analyze the reasons why he's like this. Being raised in a militant environment means he was fed appropriately, participated in training regularly, and was likely taught stress-regulation habits (does he use them? no, but at least he knew them during his developmental years). Like Twilight, increased muscle mass is typically linked to elevated testosterone levels, and since Warriors has been training his whole life, it's reasonable to assume that these factors had a positive impact on his penile development. He and Twilight are very similar in this regard, except Twilight's size comes a bit more from favorable, wack genetics, though they both make sure to take care of themselves. However, Warriors is shown to be somewhat vain in Linked Universe canon (to the point that the other heroes have a running joke on it), which means it shouldn't be put past him to try more... under-the-table methods to ensue his 'perfection' reaches all aspects of his body, dick absolutely included. I'll leave it up to y'all on whether it's actual herbal/medical enhancements or sheer force of arrogance, but it's still a fun thought!

Dick-canons: Definitely circumcised (if not, definitely obsessed over keeping that shit squeaky clean). He's not as girthy as Twilight or Sky, but it'll definitely feel like he is from the way he wields it* during the deed. Doesn't have the biggest balls, but they'll definitely smack against any ass he can get his hands on.

*(There's a lot of speculation on whether Warriors is a manwhore or not, but I believe he's got experience. Definitely not in relationships, but one-night stands? Tavern hook-ups? He's done more of those than he's [un]willing to admit, but when it's someone he honestly, truly cares about? Slap a blush on him and call him a virgin, because he sure acts like it!)

Time: 7.3 inches. I saved the best for last. I want to preface this by saying that Time is HUGE, so obvious he's got to have a bitchbreaker in those britches, right? Right? Not exactly, because the version of Time we see in Linked Universe is the 'second' version; the one who got sent back in time by Zelda for Majora's Mask. This is HUGELY relevant because, honestly? Time likely took terrible care of himself over the course of Ocarina of Time, or at least somewhat neglected his needs in favor of completing his quest. Then, when he was sent back to being 12 years old in a new timeline by Zelda (Majora's Mask), you cannot convince me that he didn't have a major epiphany on how to actually take care of himself now that he was literally given another chance to get it right. He still trains, hard, but also knows his limits and, for the first time in his new life, he actually makes a point to start eating vegetables and drinking milk*, which give him all the essential nutrients to bridge the gap between surviving and living, especially during these crucial developmental years. Time genuinely makes an attempt to try. For himself, this time. And it pays off in the form of that fat-ass cock ;)

Dick-canons: a true bitchbreaker that will rail you six ways to Sunday. Not circumcised (bro was basically birthed by a tree), and definitely has breeder balls; he basically acts like he's in rut, and Twilight's got to get that trait from somewhere. Probably pretty veiny, like his hands (HNNNN), with just the slightest curve that'll have him hitting all the right spots.

*(Lon Lon milk all the way, my good readers.)

And, of course, I had to consult google:

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The current (2024-7-23) first-link chain on Wikipedia containing mathematics goes

Mathematics -> Theory -> Reason -> Logic -> Logical reasoning -> Logical consequence -> Concept -> Abstraction -> Rule of inference -> Philosophy of logic -> Philosophy -> Existence -> Reality -> Universe -> Space -> Three-dimensional space -> Geometry -> Mathematics

and I think that's delightful.

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When Was the First Kingdom of the Wilderwest Built? (HTTYD Books)

Hello, my fellow Dragonmarkers! It's been awhile! As promised, here's the article concerning the plausible timeline of the Kingdom of the Wilderwest. This article was actually a very old one of mine that I had written during this month in 2018. Why didn't I post it on here? Because I wasn't on Tumblr until 2020. And by then, I had forgotten to post this on here. Whoops. Teehee. 😜

When did Hiccup the First end the First Human-Dragon War and built the First Kingdom of the Wilderwest?

Many fans just go with what Wodensfang says in Book 11, supporting the 1000-Year Dynasty mentioned in Book 11 rather than the 500-700-Year Dynasty suggested in Book 9. In fact, it's everywhere in the HTTYD Wiki. I guess it's because fans view Book 11 to be more accurate because it's a later book? I don't know; maybe I'm thinking too hard about this.

But I want to talk through this and thoroughly go through the pros and cons of both sides of the argument and do this right. I'd love to know what you guys think about this.

Anyway, on to the topic!  

Possible Contradiction?:

In the First Book — the Book that we're all familiar with — in Chapter 6, Page 68, says that:

"The Dragon (speaking of the Green Death) had crawled down into the depths of the ocean and had gone into a Sleep Coma. Dragons can stay in this suspended state for eternity, half-dead, half-alive, buried under fathom after fathom of icy-cold seawater. Not a muscle of this particular Dragon had moved for six or seven centuries."

Wodensfang's account of Hiccup the First in Book 9 "How to Steal a Dragon's Sword", on Chapter 12, Page 203, seems to probably confirm this when he says: "Five or six centuries ago, when I was young, it was a very dark age, and the dragons and humans were at war."

He goes on further explanation in Page 208 concerning the Green Death: "...Merciless flew to the north, and to the Open Sea. He lived so long a loner that perhaps over the centuries he forgot his youth as leader of a dragon army and became quite an ordinary killer. Rumor was that several hundred years later, he was known only as the Green Death, one of the many monsters that terrorize the Deep Sea."

So you're probably saying, "Great! There it is! There's your answer! It was 600-700 years ago! Problem solved, right?"

Wrong.

In Book 11 "How to Betray a Dragon's Hero", on Chapter 6, Page 98, Wodensfang tells the story of how the Dragonmark came to be, as well as a more detailed history of the Kingdom of the Wilderwest and the story of Grimbeard the Ghastly as a boy, and how he changed the Mark. 

He says at the beginning of the story: "Once upon a time, Hiccup, a thousand or so years ago, when I was young and about the size of a Saber-Toothed Driver Dragon, I met your ancestor, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the First, and I gave him the Dragon Jewel and trusted him with the Jewel's Secret."

In Page 100, Wodensfang repeats this by saying: "For over a thousand years, it seemed like I had made the right decision to entrust the Secret of the Dragon Jewel to the humans."

I know right? I'm as confused as you are! Didn't he say in Book 9 that it was "five or six centuries ago"? Maybe even SEVEN centuries ago? Why the change? Did he suddenly get the Dragon equivalent of memory loss due to old age? Does he not know how to count?

Here's the confusing thing: if he was rounding, this might explain it. But the thing is that you can do it with small numbers, but as the number gets bigger, you can't round up in great jumps.

(Warning: Math Ahead!)

For example, say that the number is 8, you round it up to 10 (in certain circumstances) because 8 is closer to 10 than 5. However, if it's 6, then you have to round down to 5 because 6 is closer to 5. The only time that it doesn't is when you're rounding up in percentages (55.678594375 would be 56, for example).

You can't round up to 1000 years from 600, or even 700. That's too high of a jump. Especially when you're telling a historical account. For one thing, it's inaccurate, and for another, it's lazy. And it'll spread lots of confusion.

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A Roman Piece to a Nordic Puzzle | The Hint's in the Roman Numerals: 

So then, which is it? Was the Kingdom of the Wilderwest built 600-700 years ago or 1000-odd years ago? 

First off, allow me to redirect your attention once more to the references concerning the Green Death (also known as Merciless):

The Green Death Takes His Tea by Crownflame on DeviantArt

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"The Dragon (speaking of the Green Death) had crawled down into the depths of the ocean and had gone into a Sleep Coma. Dragons can stay in this suspended state for eternity, half-dead, half-alive, buried under fathom after fathom of icy-cold seawater. Not a muscle of this particular Dragon had moved for six or seven centuries." 

And this one:

  ". . .Merciless flew to the north, and to the Open Sea. He lived so long a loner that perhaps over the centuries he forgot his youth as leader of a dragon army and became quite an ordinary killer. Rumor was that several hundred years later, he was known only as the Green Death, one of the many monsters that terrorize the Deep Sea." 

According to these two quotes concerning the Dragon Merciless, it would appear that the events were about roughly 600 years ago. The problem is that the first quote says he had been in a Sleep Coma for six or seven centuries. I don't know about you, but that doesn't seem like a lot of time to me for him to have forgotten his past and about his nemesis Hiccup. It sounds like in the latter quote, Merciless lived and journeyed alone for a long time — about 100-200 years or more — before he fell into a Sleep Coma.

What might help support this is the mention of what he had eaten in Book 1, Page 129: "He was awake now, and he had coughed up the last thing he had eaten, the Eagle Standard of the Eighth Legion, with its pathetic ribbons still flying bravely."

Now, yes, the HTTYD books are exaggeratory and any historical references are "purely coincidental," and that the Roman Dragonrustlers were about during Hiccup the Third's time (but after Book 3 was said to have fled back to Rome — which is inaccurate because Hiccup's time was during the Viking Age, over 300 years after the fall of the Roman Empire. However, I have a theory that'll explain that in the future). 

But what if we DID get historical here? According to history, the only 8th Legion in Roman history was the Legio VIII Augusta, one of the oldest Roman legions in Rome's history (along with the Legio VI Feratta, Legio VII Claudia, and the (in)famous Legio IX Hispana). They were stationed in Gaul (modern France) near the modern-day Strasbourg area (called Argentoratum in Roman times). It was founded in 65 BC by Julius Caesar during the Gaul Wars. It continued service presumedly until either before or until the Fall of Rome (400-500 AD). 

Of course, since it continued service until that time period, then it's impossible for the Green Death to have eaten the Legion, right?

As Old Wrinkly used to say: "It's not im-POSSIBLE, only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imaginations." 

So, taking this sagely advice, let's think about this carefully.

According to Roman history, the Eighth Legion was disbanded during the first of Rome's Civil Wars (called Caesar's Civil War and the conflict was between Caesar and Scipio) soon after the Battle and Siege of Thapsus (modern-day Tunisia) in 46 BC for unknown reasons. It was reconstituted in 44 BC by Caesar's adopted son Augustus for Caesar's veterans who had loyally served him and helped him defeat Mark Antony and gain power as Rome's first Emperor.

So basically, there's a two-year gap between the disbandment and the reinstation of the Eighth Legion, which means that Merciless could've easily have eaten the Legion during that time and nobody would've been the wiser, and when Augustus reinstated the Legion two years later, he filled the ranks with other veterans who had served Caesar and Augustus.

What do you think? Plausible?

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Possible Connection to Dragon-Aging and Dates in the Book of Dragons:

Now, in Book 1, in the back of the How to Train Your Dragon book that Hiccup reads (similar to the Book of Dragons in the film) in Chapter 4 on Page 53-58, it says that the last stamped due-date was on "16 May 866 AD". The first and second due-dates stamped on there before that were "10 June 789 AD" and "9 April 835 AD".

However, there's no mention of when that book was borrowed, or when it was returned, or the gap between the date and when Gobber the Belch had burgled it from the Meathead "Public" Library. The Hooligans seemed to have had the book for a while. So the current date of the time of Hiccup's first memoir could be anywhere from 866-900 AD — if not later! 

Suffering Scallops, it could even be in the 1000s AD!!! In Book 7, Hiccup writes in his epilogue that: "Now I am an old, old man, and the world that I created has no need for dragons. They have retreated from the civilization that I brought, along with the wolves, and the Berserks, and the monsters of my childhood."

In 1015 AD, Berserkers were outlawed, and the practice of "going berserk" as a profession and the rituals involving their cults were forbidden until by the turn of the 12th century, Berserkers had all but disappeared from human history. The end of the Viking Age was considered to be between 1066-1100 AD, so, scallops, Hiccup could very well have lived during this time.

(This could explain the crossbows in the TV series, as they were beginning to show up around this time, as well as Hiccup's quote in the first film: "300 years and I'm the first Viking who wouldn't kill a dragon!") 

And, in Book 12, Hiccup also explains in his epilogue that Sea-Dragons like Toothless can live for thousands of years, so maybe 1000-year period might be correct? There's no mention about the other sea dragons, apparently, so I guess they don't live nearly as long?

The problem is the period of growth in the Sea-Dragons. Wodensfang was probably of-age by the time he meets Hiccup the First, and he was "the size of a Saber-Toothed Driver Dragon" then. Then, as the decades and centuries went by and the Kingdom prospered, he grew to be "as large as a mountain". Then he says that hundreds of years ago, he began to "shrink in old age", as Sea-Dragons are small in young and old ages, but in adult stages they're colossal, until he shrunk to the "size of a large Viking hunting dog (probably a Norwegian Elkhound, which lived during this time and was used mainly as a guard and hunting dog)" during the time of Grimbeard the Ghastly. By Hiccup the Third's time a hundred years later, he shrunk to the size of Toothless.

Furious was still considered a baby during Hiccup the Second's time, but grew to be the size of a small elephant. Then 100 years later, he became the size of a mountain, when it doesn't seem that Wodensfang grew that big that quickly (though, to be fair, the Berserks had been feeding him well with human sacrifices for the past 100 years, among other foods, so he probably grew to be that big because of it.) He must've had an early growth spurt. lol 😂

That being said, the reason Furious and Wodensfang have different growing speeds may be likely due to Furious having been fed well since his hatchling days. Whereas it's hinted by Wodensfang himself that he's had a difficult life in his younger days, which is one of the reasons he joins Merciless' rebellion against the Vikings. So the struggle for food could've stunted his growth until he met Hiccup the First later on, at which point he grew faster as more food was available.

Meanwhile, there's Toothless, who's a baby, and has been the size of Wodensfang since the first book, and, according to Hiccup in his epilogue in Book 12, hasn't really grown up at all despite it being 62 years since the events of Book 12 (which if Hiccup was 10-11 when he got Toothless in Book 1, this would make Toothless 65-66 years old by Hiccup's death) and is still able to sleep on his chest. 

He must be a late bloomer. lol 😂

Then there's the Green Death — or Merciless — to consider. While he was Furious's size during Hiccup the First's time, and was considered to be a young dragon, then several centuries later, if not more, when he meets Hiccup the Third, he's still the same size! Do Sleep Comas delay aging and growth or something?

So basically we have FOUR Sea-Dragons who grow and age at various speeds! So I don't think we can glean anything from this.

So . . . 1000 years or 600-700 years? Honestly, I seem to get more confused the further I try to explain it! I hope you're having better luck keeping up than I am at the moment! lol 😂

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Time For a Little More Math! (cue the groans!):

Okay, I'm going to do a little more math. To be honest, graphs, charts, and basic math is the only math I love. If you don't like it, then skip if you'd like, though you'll miss out on the cool part. 😉🧐

I've done the calculations and I'll do my best with it. If there are any mistakes, please let me know and I'll correct them. 

I'll be using current time from 866-1100 AD and then add the date to when the Kingdom of the Wilderwest could've been established in Hiccup the First's time. 

I will be using the terms CTP (Current Time Period) and DFP (Dynasty Foundation Period) to avoid confusion.

Whew! Okay! Now that THAT'S done and over with, let's get to the average ages of the Kings of the Wilderwest to further prove (hopefully) which date it might've been. 

I've organized it into different sections. Before Hiccup the Third, there were 12 Kings of the Wilderwest. So I'll divide the number of years that the Dynasty could've lasted to the number of Kings to get the average lifespan that each of the Kings have to be in order for this to become plausible.

Now granted, some of these Kings could've died young (20s-30s), or very old, or in their middle-ages (pun not intended). This is the AVERAGE lifespan for each king -- not a literal statistic for each and every King. 

Unless, of course, if we were fanciful people, we might've theorized that there's some sort of magic spell in the Dragon Jewel that Wodensfang didn't mention that causes all of the Twelve Kings to die at the same age. 

In that case, if true, and if every King DOES INDEED die at the same age, then since Hiccup the Third dies at the age of 75/76, it would've been 900 years since the foundation of the Kingdom of the Wilderwest since every King would've died at the same age that Hiccup had died.

But we're not fanciful people . . . and that would be ridiculous. lol 😜

However, you're probably noticing that there are no 1000 Years among the statistics that I just showed above. That's because I had just remembered that the Kingdom of the Wilderwest collapsed a hundred years before Hiccup the Third's time. Meaning that if the Dynasty and Kingdom lasted for 1000 years, then only 900 years of that has passed as a kingdom.

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Conclusion:

So . . . WHEW! That took a long time to write (5-6 hours, though the time could've been cut in half had I not done the statistics, but then where'd be the fun in that? lol 😜)

I apologize if any of this went over your head or overwhelmed you with informational overload. If it did, then I sympathize because I'm feeling this as well — and I'm WRITING THIS! 

So my conclusion is that, basically speaking, regardless of the Kingdom being anywhere from 600-1000 years old, 100 of those years need to be subtracted since the Kingdom fell apart when Grimbeard dissolved it a hundred years prior to the current events of the Second Dragon War. So, realistically, the Kingdom — and the 12 Kings (including Grimbeard) — lasted around 500-900 years, and when Wodensfang tells Hiccup the Third about the history of the Wilderwest, he includes the 100 years into the timeframe when the Kingdom of the Wilderwest was first founded.

So I guess that, in the end, the actual date and timeline will be left up to the fans to headcanon for themselves.

If you could take anything from this, what would it be?

What current timeline do you think Hiccup the Third could be living in during the Viking Age? 900s? 1000s? 1100?

And how many years do you think that the Kingdom of the Wilderwest was established (including the 100-year gap)? 1000 years? 800? 700? 600? 

Please share your thoughts! I'd LOVE to hear from you!!! ^_^ 

Thank you SO MUCH for taking the time to read this and I am looking forward to reading any theories, corrections, suggestions, discussions, answers, and/or questions you may have. 

I hope this article finds you well, and I hope you have a splendid weekend! 

Long Live the Wilderwest!

— Companion of the Dragonmark

[o2studies]

23:32 || ༻`` 2 June — Monday

57 days of productivity, 40/57

The Sci Journal has a new entry!! A Brief History of Time written by @hyacinth-dancing-in-rain !

The article dives down into the different types of clocks through the ages, why they were used, their mechanics and operation, and other fun/interesting details!!

And a quick website update: Due to technical issues, images will no longer appear in articles from 02/06/25 until the issue is resolved. At some point in the summer of 2025, The Sci Journal will change website platforms and with it its domain link.

Notice will be provided at the change and when the new website is available to view

But anyway,

Today I've procrastinated quite a bit, but after 2hrs 13 I finished a marh past paper and went through the stats half of the textbook, noting down any formulas and important details which has been really helpful already! I'm postponing the second past paper I was meant to do today for tm.

Today I also journalled, drew (I forget how much I love colouring pencils and the pieces I make from them!) and watched another episode of Noughts and Crosses — which I'm absolutely in love with!!!! It's based off of a book series that I also adored and it has taken me a few years to actually find where I can watch this series for free! And when reading the books I never considered the cultural effects and influence from Africa that the idea would being so it has been amazing visualisation also!! I think I've only got 2 episodes left tho :( (I know what it's all leading up to 😭)

Day /

Day 0

Floor time ☑️ // 🍊

[mildlybizarrecorvid]

ai’s name is actually 100% correct and describes it perfectly.

ARTIFICIAL intelligence

and the intelligence is def artificial.

Not real at all

There is none

Definitely, yeah

I remember I read a book with a line about how genuine stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time. Can't recall which it was, something from Discworld

[child-of-hurin]

Only idealized systems that involve infinity — an infinitely long tape, an infinitely extensive grid of particles, an infinitely divisible space for placing pinballs and rubber ducks — can be truly undecidable. No one knows whether reality contains these sorts of infinities, but experiments definitely don’t. Every object on a lab bench has a finite number of molecules, and every measured location has a final decimal place. We can, in principle, completely understand these finite systems by systematically listing every possible configuration of their parts. So because humans can’t interact with the infinite, some researchers consider undecidability to be of limited practical significance. “There is no such thing as perfect knowledge, because you cannot touch it,” said Karl Svozil (opens a new tab), a retired physicist associated with the Vienna University of Technology in Austria. “These are very important results. They are very, very profound,” Wolpert said. “But they also ultimately have no implications for humans.” Other physicists, however, emphasize that infinite theories are a close — and essential — approximation of the real world. Climate scientists and meteorologists run computer simulations that treat the ocean as if it were a continuous fluid, because no one can analyze the ocean molecule by molecule. They need the infinite to help make sense of the finite. In that sense, some researchers consider infinity — and undecidability — to be an unavoidable aspect of our reality. “It’s sort of solipsistic to say: ‘There are no infinite problems because ultimately life is finite,’” Moore said. And so physicists must accept a new obstacle in their quest to acquire the foresight of Laplace’s demon. They could conceivably work out all the laws that describe the universe, just as they have worked out all the laws that describe pinball machines, quantum materials, and the trajectories of rubber ducks. But they’re learning that those laws aren’t guaranteed to provide shortcuts that allow theorists to fast-forward a system’s behavior and foresee all aspects of its fate. The universe knows what to do and will continue to evolve with time, but its behavior appears to be rich enough that certain aspects of its future may remain forever hidden to the theorists who ponder it. They will have to be satisfied with being able to discover where those impenetrable pockets lie. “You’re trying to discover something about the way the universe or mathematics works,” Cubitt said. “The fact that it’s unsolvable, and you can prove that, is an answer.”

[gil-estel]

wow I wonder what could have happened around 2013 to cause this

[why-the-heck-not]

computer science was a hoax from the universe to get me to study math in the pretense of ”hehe coding’s cool look at all these things u can do” *some mf vectors looming just around the corner* ”noNO dont look there; look here!! It’s ’hello world’ but in green heheh wOoOoo now it’s blue !! u are a god of this website” *matrices sharpening their knives somewhere*

[renee-minkowskis-therapist]

"Average Hephaestus survivor has died 0.6 times" factoid actually just statistical error. Average Hephaestus survivor has died 0 times. Deaths Isabel, who has lived in space for five years and experienced at least 3 brutal deaths, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

[siph-by-induction]

The 'Allee Effect' is the tendency of populations of organisms to have a lower reproduction rate per capita when there is a very small population size.

Many things could cause this, such as:

the organisms that are there are unable to find mates because they're all very far apart

carnivores that hunt in packs aren't able to find food

cooperative breeders that need other animals to care for their young

genetic bottlenecks

etc etc

It means that the rate of increase of a population can be negative when the population is very small, if the Allee effect is strong.

This means that for such populations there is a critical population size where the rate of population size change per capita=0. When a population is above this size, the population will approach its upper limit of what can be supported by the resources in the environment. When a population is below this size, the population will approach its lower limit of being extinct.

An interesting read!!!!!

This was pretty revolutionary at the time: it had previously been very expected that organisms should reproduce the most when there are few of them, since there are the most resources available to them in this case.

[beigetiger]

SO, I was working with some nontransitive dice, also known as conman dice, to see if they actually work as intended.

The way that they work is that each pair of dice has a colour associated with it. Each pair has also been manipulated so that it is MORE likely to have a higher average than two numbers (only exceptions are red and green, red is strong against three numbers and green is only strong against one), and is LESS likely to beat two other numbers. There are five pairs overall. Those pairs are red, purple, yellow, green, and blue. Here is a helpful diagram I picked up off the internet.

The way that they work is that each dice has only three possible combinations: a high number, a low number, and a number that is an average of those two. Because the lowest number is always ten lower than the highest number, the middle number will always be five lower than the highest number. How this is manipulated is that some numbers have a higher possible highest number, but dice with a lower highest possible number have said number appear on more sides, balancing it out.

As I said, each dice pair has three possible numbers. Red can make 8, 13, or 18. Purple can make 2, 7, or 12. Yellow can make 6, 11, or 16. Green can make 0, 5, or 10. And blue can make 4, 9, or 14.

So I was curious to see how well they worked, so I did a little experiment where I rolled each pair 100 times and put it all into a table so I could average it out at the end. It is inevitable that at least one number will go against it’s expected statistic, since in actual practice it is impossible to have the numbers go in a perfect loop like what is shown in the statistics.

And so I did that. Red averaged 9.5, purple averaged 9.3, yellow averaged 8.95, green averaged 8.25, and blue averaged 10.6.

So in the end, the outlier was blue. If you put it against the table though, every single other colour did exactly as predicted. Which was honestly not an outcome I was totally expecting.

So overall, experiment success! Mathematics has once again proven itself to me and now I have a very fun set of dice. Maybe I’ll do a repeat experiment at some point to see how often each colour is the outlier, but for now I’m gonna rest because god, my arm really hurts.

[mysdrymmumbles]

Looking at going back to school for astronomy, and I think I will actually call some places on Tuesday maybe? I wanna do a bit more research.

[tojisun]

just got stopped by the transit security (normal) and then got pulled aside (unusual) because apparently i look older now than i do in my student id (it’s linked to my bus pass) like 😭 cmon man thats my face four years ago ofc i look older now

[ssjkamui-digitalphoenixug]

Digitalplatonismus: Informationstheorie und Philosophie

Zuerst veröffentlicht auf https://www.geopolitika.ru/de/article/digitalplatonismus-informationstheorie-und-philosophie

16.01.2022

Michael Kumpmann

Konrad Zuse war nicht nur ein Ingenieur, der den ersten Turing vollständigen Computer baute und deshalb ein Gerät erfand, was theoretisch jedes lösbare mathematische Rätsel lösen kann. Zuse wandte sich in seinem Buch “Der Rechnende Raum” von 1969 auch philosophischen Fragen zu. Seine Hauptthese dort ist, dass sich die Physik in einer Sackgasse befindet und viele Fragen nicht lösen kann, weil man einer grundlegenden Fehlinterpretation der Welt unterliegt: Man sieht die Welt materialistisch. Dabei zeigen viele Phänomene der Physik, dass Materialismus wahrscheinlich ein Irrweg ist, und alle Materie bloß Illusion ist. Die wirklich “Reale” Realität ist laut Zuse stattdessen Information.

Damit kam Zuse durch Informatik zum selben Schluss wie Platon, Hegel, und die meisten Religionen. Der Science Fiction Autor Philip Kindred Dick kam in seinem philosophischen Hauptwerk “Tractates Cryptica Scriptura” auf eine ähnliche Idee der idealistischen Verbindung aus Religion und Mathematik, nur war seine Herleitung nicht Mathematik und Physik, sondern die vergleichende Analyse religiöser Schriften. Spätere Autoren wie Rizwan Virk entwickelten diese Thesen weiter und beschrieben, dass man dank des Konzepts Neuronaler Netze das Universum als Produkt eines riesigen, hegelschen “Weltgeistes” sehen müsste.

Abseits abstrakter Fragen zur Kosmologie stellt sich nun die Frage, ob man diese Ideen und Denkweisen auch auf andere Bereiche der Philosophie anwenden kann. Und das kann. Dies geht. Und mit interessanten Ergebnissen.

Der erste interessante Punkt ist eine Frage der Berechenbarkeit. Berechenbarkeit beschreibt grob, welche Fragen ein bestimmtes System “lösen” kann. Meist geht es um konkrete Maschinen. Sprachen fallen aber auch drunter. Die schon eingangs erwähnte Turing Vollständigkeit ist hier von besonderer Relevanz. Eine Turing Maschine ist ein hypothetisches Gerät was aus einem Programm, einem Speicherband und einer beweglichen “Schreib-/Lese Einheit” besteht, was alle berechenbaren Probleme berechnen kann. In der Mathematik gilt eine Frage als beantwortbar, wenn man sie so formulieren kann, dass dieses fiktive Gerät damit umgehen kann. Dann gibt es noch die Church Turing These, die besagt, aus Sicht der Berechenbarkeit sind 2 Systeme Äquivalent zueinander, wenn sie ihre Funktionsweise gegenseitig simulieren können. (Um es sehr vereinfacht zu verdeutlichen. Jeder hier kann sich die 80er Jahre Version von Donkey Kong ziehen und auf seinem normalen Notebook zum Laufen bringen, weil der Spielhallenautomat, auf dem Donkey Kong damals lief, und das heutige Notebook, fundamental beides Computer sind.)

Und jetzt der “Spannende Punkt”. Die Simulationshypothesen sagen aus, weil Computer unsere Welt immer besser simulieren können, wird es wahrscheinlicher, dass die reale Welt auch eine berechnete Simulation ist. Es gibt aber bei diesen Überlegungen noch einen übersehenen Punkt. Wir Menschen haben diese Turing Maschine erst erdacht. Ergo fällt unser Geist auch unter diese Gesetzmäßigkeiten. Wir sind auch Turing Vollständig oder sogar mächtiger. Und wir verstehen das Universum immer besser und können immer bessere Vorraussagen und Vorherberechnungen treffen. Es gibt also einen Grundzug einer Äquivalenz zwischen dem schöpferischen Weltgeist und dem menschlichen Verstand. Der Weltgeist erschuf den Menschen nach seinem Ebenbild.

Es ist aber offensichtlich, dass ein einzelner menschlicher Verstand und ein Computer nicht alle Fragen dieser Welt lösen können. Da kommt jetzt nämlich ein anderes Element ins Spiel. Es gibt zwei Varianten von Turing Maschinen. Universelle, die alles berechnen können, weil sie ein unendliches Speicherband haben, und beschränkte Turing Maschinen, die endlich begrenzt sind. Und dies ist der Hauptunterschied zum “Schöpfer”. Der Mensch ist Endlich (Begrenzt) und kann nicht alle Information aufnehmen.

Eine gute Frage ist nun, was Technik für den Menschen bedeutet. Technik ist auch oft ein Speichermedium, was Information externalisiert und vom Geist entkoppelt. Was sich der Mensch nicht ewig merken kann, schreibt er auf, damit er es für später nachlesen kann. Damit dient Technik auch vor Allem dazu, die Speicherkapazitäten des Menschen zu erweitern, und den Unterschied zwischen begrenzter Turingmaschine und universeller Turingmaschine zu verkleinern. Man könnte hier Spenglers Metapher des “faustischen Menschen” verwenden und sagen, der Mensch versucht sich mit Hilfe der Technologie selbst zum Gott zu machen, indem er die “Frucht vom Baum der Erkenntnis” nimmt.

Ein sehr ähnliches Konzept ist die Idee der Informationsentropie und das damit verbundene Konzept des Maxwellschen Dämons. Informationsentropie ist grob gesagt der Wert, der aussagt, in wie weit es möglich ist, aus vorhandenen Informationen die fehlenden Infos zu rekonstruieren. Und wie viel fehlen darf, damit etwas noch “Lesbar” bleibt. Beispielsweise kann man erkennen, dass bei “Da ein” ein S fehlt. Da ist die Entropie gering. Aber bei “D n” ist die Entropie so groß, dass es schwer wird, zu erraten, was gemeint ist. Entropie ist somit auch der Grad des Unvermögens, aus bestehendem Wissen schlussfolgern zu können, was als Nächstes kommt. Thermodynamische Entropie gilt als Folge der Informationsentropie. In einem heißen Gas fliegen alle Bestandteile chaotisch umher. Deshalb kann man aus einem Abbild, wo alle Bestandteile des Gases or 10 Minuten waren, nicht wirklich ableiten, wo sie jetzt sind. Bei einem Kristall ist dies aber gut möglich, da dort alles starr, unbeweglich und geordnet ist. Man könnte hier auch grob sagen, Entropie ist ein Wert des Chaos.

Nach der Informationsentropie gilt auch, dass in jedem System die Entropie unweigerlich zu nimmt, die existierende Information weniger wird, und somit jede Ordnung gezwungen ist, in sich zusammen zu fallen. Gleichzeitig steigt damit aber auch das Potenzial, welche Art Information existieren könnte. [1][2] Dieser Punkt ist interessant, da er auf genau den Punkt hinaus läuft, den Dugin in seinem Text “Die Metaphysik des Chaos ansprach: Die Ordnung basiert auf der Extinktion oder Exklusion des Chaos. Das Chaos ermöglicht es aber, dass in ihm verschiedene Ordnungen entstehen können.[3]

Mit der Entropie wiederum hängt die Theorie des Maxwellschen Dämons zusammen. Der Maxwellsche Dämon ist eine hypothetische Maschine, welche über ein chaotisches System (ein Gas) gestülpt wird, und die Bestandteile dessen ordnen und sortieren soll. Es ist erwiesen, dass so ein System nicht auf Dauer funktionieren kann. Und zwar, weil u.A. Dieses Problem der potenziellen Information dazu führt, dass diese Maschine an ihre Speichergrenzen stoßen würde. Das Chaos könnte nur dauerhaft kontrolliert werden, wenn die Maschine einen unendlichen Speicher hätte (siehe die Überlegungen weiter oben, hierzu). Da die Maschine so etwas nicht hat, wird das Chaos irgendwann so groß, dass es in einer paradoxen Situation mündet, wo die Maschine selbst Chaos stiften und sich selbst langsam zerstören muss, um sich selbst erhalten zu können.

Dieser Maxwellsche Dämon lässt sich nun wiederum erstaunlich gut nutzen, um die Moderne und das “Gestell” zu analysieren.

Jeder moderne Staat ist nämlich de Facto ein Maxwellscher Dämon, der die Entropie beenden und die perfekte Ordnung erzwingen will. Angefangen von kommunistischen Planwirtschaften, die den Bedarf der Menschen von Oben herab planen wollten. (Der Gipfel dieser Entwicklung war Salvador Allendes Cybersyn, wo man die Kontrolle über einen großen Teil von Staat und Wirtschaft an einen Zentralcomputer abgeben wollte.)

Das Verhalten der dritten politischen Theorie und insbesondere Nazi Deutschlands mit Eugenik, Ahnenpässen, Vernichtungslagern etc. kann man sehr stark als eine große Operation zur Beseitigung von Chaos, Unreinheiten und Entropie beschreiben, auf Kosten von Freiheit, Menschlichkeit und Menschenleben.

Poppers Anhänger werden jetzt behaupten, liberale Gesellschaften seien der Schutz vor solchen Entwicklungen, aber diese Propaganda ist ein riesiger Trugschluss. Siehe Patriot Act, den Greueltaten, Unterdrückung, Vertreibung und Umerziehung indigener Völker im Namen von Kolonialismus und “White Mans Burden”, den Neocon Kriegen im Namen der Demokratie, dem übergriffigen "therapeutischen Staat", der die Leute zur Gesundheit erziehen will und den Bürger schon von Kindesbeinen an immer wieder auf gesundheitliche Störungen hin kontrollieren will, Cancel Culture, Political Correctness und anderer Formen von progressiver, antifaschistischer Gedankenpolizei und Netzzensur, EU Überregulierung, sowie vielen anderen Beispielen. In gewisser Weise führen liberale Staaten auch Eugenik dank Planned Parenthood und Anderem auch in privatisierter Form fort. Und in der Coronakrise gibt es auch im freiheitlichen Westen jetzt verpflichtende Zertifikate über biologische Reinheit, und das Thema "Lager für biologisch unreine" kommt in dieser neuen Form immer wieder auf. Siehe Australien. (Der Hauptunterschied zwischen dem Dämon im Liberalismus (2.0) und anderen Systemen ist, dass hier der Dämon errichtet wird, als ein System, dass alle Einschließt und dem sich keiner verweigern oder entkommen soll, während andere Systeme eher auf Verdrängung oder Vernichtung chaotischer Elemente ausgelegt waren.)

Egal in welcher Form. Jede politische Theorie der Moderne und jeder moderne Staat ist ein maxwellscher Dämon, der immer mehr das Chaos bekämpfen soll, auf Kosten der eigenen Bürger. In gewisser Weise ist der maxwellsche Dämon auch der Kern der Moderne, der von fast allen antimodernen Theorien erfasst wurde. Egal ob man es nun wie Heidegger "Gestell", wie Adorno "Instrumentale Vernunft", wie Herbert Marcuse “Eindimensionale Gesellschaft”, wie René Guénon "Herrschaft der Quantität", wie John C. Lilly "Feststoffintelligenz" oder sonst wie nennt. Alles von Ted Kaczinsky über Terence McKenna bis zu Rudolf Steiner läuft darauf hinaus, dass die Moderne ein Prozess der Errichtung einer Totalmaschine zur Ausmerzung des Chaos ist, welcher dabei gleich die Menschlichkeit mit auszumerzen droht. Und mit Methoden von Künstlichen Neuronennetzen, Genmanipulation, Transhumanismus usw. und Entwicklungen wie dem Great Reset wird das nahezu perfektioniert.

Nur, wie schon beschrieben, da kein unendlicher Speicher existiert, kann kein maxwellscher Dämon auf lange Sicht funktionieren. Alle Ordnung bleibt, um es buddhistisch zu sagen "Annica", also nicht dauerhaft, und vom ständigen Einsturz bedroht. Entropie und Chaos werden nicht ausgemerzt, sondern auf Dauer nur untern Teppich gekehrt. Und hinter den Mauern der geordneten Welt der Moderne und in deren Untergrund türmt sich das Chaos so lange auf, bis es die Staudämme einreisst. Bestes Beispiel hierfür ist die Tatsache, dass 2021 ein Schiff im Suez Kanal einen Unfall baute und damit beinahe eine Weltwirtschaftskrise auslöste.

Nur führt jeder Eingriff moderner Staaten, um das Chaos zu beheben, nach dem maxwellschen Dämon automatisch nur zu mehr Chaos und zur Notwendigkeit weiterer Eingriffe. (Man könnte es mit Ludwig von Mises als “Interventionsspirale” bezeichnen.)

Wie entkommt man diesem Dämon? Wahrscheinlich durch Blick in den Osten und auf Lehren wie Buddhismus und Taoismus, sowie die Kyoto Schule. Diese Lehren zeigen sehr gut auf, dass alles irgendwann zerfällt und das Endziel allen Seins irgendwann Chaos, Zerfall und das absolute Nichts bedeutet. Aber auch, dass wir Menschen nicht wirklich gegen die Entropie kämpfen können, und oft ein solcher Versuch die Entropie nur schlimmer macht. Stattdessen hilft nur, Abstand om Materiellen zu nehmen und sich stattdessen ewig gültigen, unveränderlichen göttlichen Prinzipien zuzuwenden. Da das Ewige sich nicht ändern kann, bleibt die Entropie bei Null und kann sich nicht vervielfachen, denn das Zweifache on Null wäre z.B. immer noch Null.

[1] Siehe https://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/archiv/haegele//Vorlesung/Grundlagen_II/_information.pdf Seite 6

[2] Ein Effekt der Entropie ist auch die Auflösung von streng getrennten Kategorien und das Ineinanderfließen, hin zu einem Mittelwert. Dies trifft auf die Postmoderne zu.

[3] Siehe dazu auch folgendes Zitat aus “Die Metaphysik des Chaos”:

“Um diese Schwierigkeit zu lösen, sollten wir uns dem Chaos nicht aus der Position des Logos, sondern aus der des Chaos selbst nähern. Es kann mit der weiblichen Vision verglichen werden, dem weiblichen Verständnis des Anderen, das nicht ausgeschlossen, sondern im Gegenteil in die Gleichheit eingeschlossen ist.

Logos betrachtet sich selbst als das, was ist und als das, was ihm gleich ist. Es kann die Unterschiede in sich akzeptieren, weil es das Andere, das außerhalb liegt, ausschließt. Der Wille zur Macht funktioniert also, das Gesetz der Souveränität. Hinter Logos, behauptet Logos, liegt nichts, nicht etwas. Logos, die alles andere als sich selbst ausschließen, schließen also Chaos aus. Chaos verwendet eine andere Strategie. Es schließt in sich alles ein, was es ist, aber zugleich auch alles, was es nicht ist. Allumfassendes Chaos beinhaltet also auch das, was nicht inklusive ist, nämlich das, was Chaos ausschließt. Das Chaos nimmt Logos also nicht als das Andere wahr, sondern als sich selbst oder als etwas Nicht-Existentes. Der Logos als erstes Prinzip des Ausschlusses ist in das Chaos eingeschlossen, darin präsent, von ihm eingehüllt und hat darin einen Platz gewährt, wie die Mutter, die das Baby trägt, in sich trägt, was ein Teil von ihr ist und was nicht von ihr gleichzeitig. Der Mann begreift die Frau als ein äußeres Wesen und versucht, in sie einzudringen. Die Frau betrachtet den Mann als etwas Inneres und versucht, ihn zu gebären und ihn zu gebären.

Chaos ist die ewige Entstehung des Anderen, das heißt des Logos.

Zusammenfassend lässt sich sagen, dass chaotische Philosophie möglich ist, weil das Chaos selbst Logos als eine innere Möglichkeit beinhaltet. Es kann es frei identifizieren, es schätzen und seine Exklusivität erkennen, die in seinem ewigen Leben enthalten ist. So kommen wir zur Figur des ganz besonderen, chaotischen Logos, das heißt eines völlig und absolut frischen Logos, das ewig von den Wassern des Chaos belebt wird. Dieses chaotische Logo ist gleichzeitig exklusiv (deshalb sind es eigentlich Logos) und inklusiv (chaotisch). Es geht anders mit Gleichheit und Andersartigkeit um.“