Josh Plovanic's Writings and Thoughts

I've noticed from my study of scripture and from my own relationship with God that God does almost everything He does for two primary things; love and glory. Love is often the aspect of God's nature that believers focus on the most, and it is demonstrated to the greatest extent by the sacrifice of Jesus to pay for the sins of humanity.     Glory is not disregarded by any means in an evaluation of God's nature. Not by a long shot. A prime example of glory is the Resurrection of Christ and His conquest of death, one of the most important demonstration of God's glory in the history of his creation.     Now I believe God created an existence that is truly infinite. A reality more complex and wondrous then anything most human beings can imagine. Of course, in order to do such a thing, He Himself has to be infinite in every respect.        In his infiniteness, I believe he created existence as a platform for his glory to be demonstrated and actualized t...

So, a lot of my posts over the past year have been about information theory and ideas. I like to think about information and ideas a lot. Concepts like a hypothetical abstract realm of existence fascinate me and light up my mind.      I'm a war fanatic too. Any book or article that deals with war and warfare are an automatic tractor beam to my eyes. I've been thinking a lot about information warfare and mind warfare. I've written on these topics recently as well.       As I dived into deep thought about information warfare, I started thinking about the possibility of something akin to "information weapons." To put it shortly, weaponized information that cuts deep into the thinking processes of an enemy and cuts into their minds.       Depending on your intentions, these hypothetical information weapons would be used to either overthrow the minds of your enemy or induce self-destruction on your enemy.      Now this gets a l...

     There is a blindness that plagues humanity, and it is far worse than any plague of a virus or disease. It is a blindness of the mind, where truth is concealed or lost in a sea of mass deception and distortion. It is a blindness to the reality of sin and evil. It is a blindness to the consequences of reckless and riotous living. It is a blindness that undercuts the conceptual foundation of our reality in the minds of millions of people. It is a blindness that takes away the value of sacredness and denies the existence of holiness and the divine. It is a blindness to the complexities and wonders of an infinite existence.  It is a blindness that causes us to be herded and maneuvered by powerful people and governments into positions that compromise our liberties and sabatoges our children's future. We often become unwitting and even seemingly willing agents of evil. This blindness, from my perspective, is far more dangerous than Covid-19. This blindness of the mind ...

    The microcosm fascinates me almost as much as the macrocosm does. The realm of the small has its own mysteries. Its own wonders. Its own beauty.     I am fascinated by quantum structures and the quantum level of the physical reality in general. The particles, the laws, quarks, gluons, bosons, fields, quantum foam, singularities, all these things perk my curiosity from time to time.       I am fascinated with zero-points. Points in space and time that are irreducible in their smallness and lie at the smallness boundary of our physical universe. Infinitely small points, to put it another way. I call it a boundary because I believe past this smallness boundary is not an absence or nothingness, but a broader infinity our physical realm is projected from.      As a follower of Christ, I find it interesting that the best way to geometrically symbolize a zero point is a cross. Two intersecting lines with the infinitely small point bein...

     Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic in many sectors of society, in particular the tech industry. Engineering an artificial electronic network that can calculate, has a level of creativity that can reasonably parallel that of a human, or reasoning and other cognitive processes, even possibly emotions.   Self-aware and sentient artificial systems are big tropes of science fiction and fantasy. We've come a long way with AI, and are probably a lot more advanced with it than I am aware, especially with the advent of quantum computing.    However, I want to focus on another form of intelligence engineering. This one has a few more ethical questions and considerations than AI does. It is the engineering of human intelligence. Essentially enhancing the intelligence and cognitive capacity of human beings. It is a morally and ethically questionable undertaking, and has many risks as well as benefits From my thinking, I have contemplated 4 major avenues o...

Modeling can be a difficult process in itself, but one of the great flaws of artificial models is that when applied to real world complex systems, models of those systems are often oversimplified, and since you can never have a complete awareness or measurement of all the information present in a system and all the variables, the model and the predictions made within the model often fail to be accurate and are not successfully applied to a real world scenario.     Often times the complexity of the variables of the scenario is too great and results in a great degree of unpredictability within the system that no artificial model, no matter how empirical the model is, can successfully apply to the scenario and flawlessly predict its outcomes. This is known as the Ludic Fallacy. The Ludic fallacy was first described by a statistician by the name of Nassim Nicholas Taleb. He describes it as "the misuse of games to model real life situations."       Games are a founda...

          Conventional warfare against the United States is foolish and a losing strategy. Our global competitors know this. The weapons are so powerful and technology so advanced that conventional wars would be much quicker and much deadlier. It is not in the interests of most world powers to pick a fight with the U.S. in the traditional sense.      However, their are a few nation-states that stand to reap an economic and strategic benefit from a weakened and destabilized United States, like Russia or China. They know that it is counterproductive and detrimental to their objectives to start a war to weaken America, but their are other ways of weakening the United States.       Since highly destructive weapons and advanced technology created the "mutually assured destruction" scenario, this has forced competing nation-states to fight wars unconventionally, through proxies or alternative forms of warfare, like chemical or cyber, and ...