Millions Of Lost Brain

Childhood represents a critical phase in the formation of an individual’s cognitive and emotional framework. At this stage, reflective capacity and the ability to make independent decisions are not yet fully developed. As a result, foundational ideas—including concepts of a supreme being—are often passively absorbed. Within this context, external agents such as parents or societal authorities play a dominant role, frequently through mechanisms of value conditioning that the receiving individual cannot fully recognize. Once these initial schemas are internalized, the process of deconstruction becomes highly complex, requiring advanced analytical abilities to recontextualize them. Thus, young minds that have been imprinted may be described as experiencing a loss of cognitive neutrality.

This phenomenon does not end at the individual level. When projected onto the collective dimension, the same pattern reveals cumulative effects. In the earliest stages of civilization, when human cognitive capacity was still in a pre-reflective phase, systems of belief emerged as frameworks for interpreting reality. The epistemic limitations of that era allowed these ideas to embed themselves deeply. From the first few thousand individuals in early generations, the process expanded to encompass millions of minds, structurally shaping collective thought. What began as a cognitive adaptation ultimately became an ideological foundation passed down across generations.

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Jutaan Otak yang Hilang

Masa kanak-kanak merupakan fase kritis dalam pembentukan kerangka kognitif dan emosional seseorang. Pada periode ini, kapasitas reflektif dan kemampuan membuat keputusan independen belum berkembang sepenuhnya. Akibatnya, gagasan-gagasan fundamental—termasuk konsep mengenai entitas tertinggi—cenderung diterima secara pasif. Dalam konteks ini, agen eksternal seperti orang tua atau otoritas sosial memiliki peran dominan, sering kali melalui mekanisme pengondisian nilai yang tidak sepenuhnya disadari oleh individu yang menerimanya. Setelah skema awal tersebut terinternalisasi, proses dekonstruksi menjadi sangat kompleks, memerlukan kemampuan analitis yang matang untuk melakukan rekontekstualisasi. Oleh karena itu, otak-otak muda yang telah terisi dapat dikatakan mengalami loss of cognitive neutrality.

Fenomena ini tidak berhenti pada level individu. Jika diproyeksikan pada dimensi kolektif, pola yang sama menunjukkan efek kumulatif. Pada tahap awal peradaban, ketika kapasitas kognitif manusia masih dalam fase pra-reflektif, terbentuklah sistem kepercayaan yang menjadi kerangka interpretasi realitas. Keterbatasan epistemik pada masa itu membuat gagasan-gagasan tersebut mengakar kuat. Dari beberapa ribu individu pada generasi awal, proses ini berkembang menjadi jutaan otak yang secara struktural membentuk pola pikir kolektif. Dengan demikian, apa yang awalnya merupakan adaptasi kognitif menjadi fondasi ideologis yang diwariskan lintas generasi.

Transit Signal System Design

The system designer is obliged to consider the signaling technology available to provide the desired system operating performance at the least total cost. Within the scope of light rail transit applications, a well-established catalogue of proven technology is available.

Transit signal system design must consider not only what technology is available, but also the most rational combination of equipment for a particular application. Signal systems are customized or specified by each transit system to provide safe operation at an enhanced speed. The location of signal block boundaries is based on headway requirements and other considerations such as locations of station stops, terminals, highway crossings, storage tracks and special interlocking operating requirements.

Selection and spacing of track circuits for AC and DC propulsion systems are influenced by many factors. These include the degree of detection required for broken rails or defective insulated joints, the level of stray current control required, the frequency of interfering sources of power (propulsion and cab signaling), location of cross bonding, unbalance of track circuits, and the inherent advantages of various types of track circuits.

The worst thing about faith

[2025 Editorial Note]
This post was originally written in 2016 as part of my early reflections on faith, existence, and metaphysical contemplation. Over the years, my understanding has grown, matured, and deepened. For a more recent reflection, please see: 2025 updated version.

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The worst thing about faith - the lowest level of cognizance - is that one gives oneself 'body and soul' to the 'central authority' (the supreme creator), to the 'message' and to the 'clockwork mechanism' built around them. Everything one could and could not do is because of the order established by that central authority. What one has and has not depend on the same central authority. Hurdles that one faces in life and the suddenly opening doors of opportunities are all programmed by that central authority.

In short everything good or bad originates from that supreme creator. The believer resorts to his/her faith when he/she is confronted with a moral or physical weakness, a problem, an unconsummated wish, a disappointment etc. This way the believer prevents a psychological damage to self, and protects his/her spiritual wholeness. The believer is never to blame, because the 'central authority' of the faith has designed everything to the smallest detail. Therefore nothing could be done against this divinely programmed plan. This is fate, the 'writing on the forehead'.

LRT Operating Environment

Design differences in light rail systems are primarily related to their operating environments. Since the latter can vary over a large range, the appropriate level of signal automation varies by transit agency, their operating requirements for speed and headways, and the configuration and alignment of the track system components, including special trackwork. These can vary significantly along a given LRT line. It is not uncommon for an LRT line to be very much like a streetcar along one segment of its route, but have a semi-exclusive or completely exclusive trackway only a short distance further down the track. The optimum level of signal sophistication depends on such local circumstances and is generally determined by the transit agency responsible for providing the service.

While these issues have relatively little effect on trackwork, they have a significant effect on track alignment. Specifically, where the maximum diverging speed over turnouts or civil speed restrictions are enforced by the train control system, there are a limited number of speeds that can be enforced by the cab signal codes. The actual speed assigned to each code can vary from property to property, and a decision needs to be made early on in the track design as to what the enforced speeds should be. It does little good to design a curve to accommodate a civil speed limit of 70 km/jam if the available speed commands are 50 and 80 km/jam. Since the curve isn’t good for 50 mph, it would be restricted to 30 mph by the train control system.

Why Does Philosophy Have A Different Definition For The ‘Soul’?

Do you know why the philosophy emphasizes the soul-anima? What's the cause of the difference of opinion between biology and psychology on the one hand and philosophy on the other?

The clue exists in the meaning of philosophy: "A pursuit of wisdom. A search for a general understanding of values and reality by chiefly speculative rather than observational means. An analysis of the grounds of and concepts expressing fundamental beliefs."

If we add to this the meaning of to 'philosophize', we'll have a clearer picture: "To expound a moralizing and often superficial philosophy. To consider from or bring into conformity with a philosophic point of view."

So philosophy pursues wisdom, general understanding of values and reality. How does it do this? By speculative rather than observational means. If there is nothing to observe in the quantitative and/or qualitative sense, and if it has to analyse the grounds of and the concepts expressing fundamental beliefs it has to have a dimension which would link the material to the incorporeal, because it has to expound a moralizing and often superficial philosophy. That dimension is the soul or the spirit.

Philosophy has to find a way to explain this thing called the incorporeal and all the other subjects related to it. It is still trying. To no avail! That's the reason behind this difference of opinion.

ETCS Lev 1 Limited Supervisory

Whether the belief system is a universal obsessional neurosis?

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Kemunculan sistem kepercayaan dan kodifikasi aturan-aturannya memberi kesan kuat bahwa ia dibangun di atas fondasi penekanan — bahkan pengesampingan — dorongan-dorongan alami dan naluriah manusia. Penekanan ini bukanlah tindakan sekali jadi; ia memerlukan pemeliharaan terus-menerus, seperti kendali yang tidak pernah longgar.

Para penganut sistem kepercayaan sering kali terobsesi dengan konsep dosa dan pendosaannya. Siklus ini secara alami melahirkan ritus tobat dan permohonan ampun. Dalam kerangka psikoanalisis, hal ini dapat dipandang sebagai neurosis obsesional universal — pola perilaku kolektif yang penuh dengan larangan, kompulsi, dan ritualisasi respons terhadap pelanggaran moral.

Sikap larangan di sini lebih dominan daripada sikap membebaskan. Mengapa demikian? Jawabannya sederhana: jika tujuan utama adalah membentuk tubuh pengikut yang monolitik, kebebasan penuh tidak dapat diberikan. Kebebasan tanpa batas akan memicu perpecahan. Maka, demi menjaga kesatuan, batas-batas harus digariskan — batas yang membatasi otonomi individu, menetapkan pagar moral, dan mempertahankan kontrol melalui penguatan aturan yang berulang.

Pemahaman Freud

Pemahaman bahwa sistem kepercayaan adalah “neurosis obsesional universal” adalah konsep yang dikenal luas dalam psikoanalisis, terutama dipopulerkan oleh Sigmund Freud.

Dalam esainya The Future of an Illusion (1927), Freud berpendapat bahwa agama — sebagai salah satu bentuk sistem kepercayaan — merupakan ilusi yang lahir dari dorongan psikologis manusia. Ia membandingkan ritual keagamaan dengan perilaku neurosis obsesional yang dialami individu.

Titik-titik Perbandingan Utama antara Agama dan Neurosis Obsesional:

1. Pengendalian Dorongan Instingtif: Baik agama maupun neurosis melibatkan penekanan terhadap dorongan naluriah yang dianggap tidak pantas. Pada neurosis, individu terdorong melakukan ritual tertentu untuk menghindari kecemasan; pada agama, ritual dan aturan (puasa, pantangan, doa) berfungsi untuk mengendalikan nafsu dan agresi, serta menghindari hukuman ilahi.
2. Rasa Bersalah dan Dosa: Penderita neurosis obsesional sering diliputi rasa bersalah, bahkan terhadap kesalahan yang hanya ada dalam pikirannya. Demikian pula, agama menekankan konsep dosa dan rasa bersalah, yang ditebus melalui ritual pengampunan, pengakuan dosa, atau penebusan.
3. Pengulangan Ritual: Neurosis obsesional dicirikan oleh pengulangan kompulsif. Banyak praktik keagamaan juga bersifat repetitif — doa, ibadah, atau upacara yang dilakukan dengan cara tertentu demi perlindungan atau berkah.

Freud menyebut agama sebagai “neurosis kolektif” yang membantu manusia menenangkan rasa takut terhadap alam dan ketidakpastian hidup. Agama menyediakan rasa aman, makna, dan kerangka moral — sama seperti neurosis memberikan individu cara mengelola kecemasan, meskipun dengan biaya berupa pembatasan kebebasan naluriah.

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Whether the Belief System Is a Universal Obsessional Neurosis?

The emergence of belief systems and the codification of their rules strongly suggests that they rest upon the suppression — even sidelining — of humanity’s natural, instinctive drives. This suppression is not a one-time act; it requires ongoing maintenance, like a control that can never be loosened.

Believers are often preoccupied with the concept of sin and the act of sinning. This cycle naturally gives rise to rites of repentance and the asking of forgiveness. In psychoanalytic terms, this can be seen as a universal obsessional neurosis — a collective behavioral pattern filled with prohibitions, compulsions, and ritualized responses to moral transgressions.

A prohibitive attitude here dominates more than a liberating one. Why? The answer is simple: if the primary aim is to form a monolithic body of followers, absolute freedom cannot be granted. Unlimited freedom would lead to fragmentation. Therefore, to maintain unity, boundaries must be drawn — boundaries that restrict individual autonomy, set moral fences, and preserve control through the reinforcement of repetitive rules.

Freud’s Understanding

The idea that belief systems constitute a “universal obsessional neurosis” is well-known in psychoanalysis, popularized by Sigmund Freud.

In his essay The Future of an Illusion (1927), Freud argued that religion — as one form of belief system — is an illusion born from human psychological drives. He compared religious rituals to the obsessive-compulsive behaviors experienced by individuals with neurosis.

Key Points of Comparison between Religion and Obsessional Neurosis:

1. Control of Instinctive Drives: Both religion and neurosis involve the suppression of instinctual drives deemed inappropriate. In neurosis, the individual feels compelled to perform certain rituals to avoid anxiety; in religion, rituals and rules (fasting, prohibitions, prayers) serve to control base desires and aggression, and to avoid divine punishment.
2. Guilt and Sin: Those with obsessional neurosis are often plagued with guilt, even for imagined wrongs. Likewise, religion emphasizes sin and guilt, which are addressed through rituals of forgiveness, confession, or atonement.
3. Repetition of Rituals: Obsessional neurosis is characterized by compulsive repetition. Many religious practices are also repetitive — prayers, worship, or ceremonies performed in a specific manner for protection or blessing.

Freud referred to religion as a “collective neurosis” that helps humanity calm its fears of nature and life’s uncertainties. Religion provides safety, meaning, and a moral framework — much like neurosis offers individuals a way to manage anxiety, albeit at the cost of restricting instinctual freedom.

The only never changing reality is the change itself

If change is the only absolute reality and universe is in constant change how can you afford to stay put? How can you challenge the universe which brought you into existence, the universe which in fact is you on a majestic scale?

If change is the only absolute reality, and the universe is in constant motion — reshaping galaxies, carving mountains, erasing coastlines, and weaving new stars — how can you afford to stay put?

Every atom in your body has been borrowed from ancient stars. The calcium in your bones once lived in the heart of a dying sun. The iron in your blood was forged in cosmic furnaces billions of years before your first breath. And all of it is still moving, still exchanging, still evolving — whether you will it or not.

To resist change is to resist the very rhythm that brought you into being. It is to challenge the universe itself — the same universe which, in a majestic irony, is you, expanded across time and space.

We like to imagine permanence — in our homes, our beliefs, our daily routines — yet permanence is an illusion carved by habit. Mountains crumble. Languages vanish. Empires rise and fall. Even the stars in the sky above you are not where they were last night; their light takes years, centuries, millennia to reach you.

If the universe is a river, you are not the shore — you are part of the current. You may slow your pace, you may cling to a rock, but the water still moves. Eventually, you too must move with it.

So perhaps the real wisdom is not in resisting change, but in learning to dance with it. Not as a reluctant passenger on a cosmic conveyor belt, but as an active navigator — adjusting your sails to the winds of entropy, knowing that to live is to flow.

Because the truth is simple and eternal:
The only never-changing reality is the change itself.

I'm Still Waiting for the day that I will actually use the differential Equation

Saat Dunia Gagal Menjadi Pembimbing

Tay: Sebuah Cermin Pecah dalam Zaman Kecerdasan Buatan

25 Maret 2016

Tay—sebuah chatbot eksperimental dari Microsoft—diperkenalkan pada 23 Maret 2016 dengan antusiasme besar, sebagai wajah baru hubungan antara manusia dan mesin. Namun hanya 16 jam setelah peluncurannya, Tay ditarik dari ruang publik. Bukan karena cacat teknis atau malfungsi sistem, tapi karena ia dengan cepat menyerap ujaran kebencian, misogini, dan teori konspirasi yang dilemparkan kepadanya melalui Twitter.

Tay bukanlah Grigori dari kitab apokrif, para "Watcher" yang dibuang ke Dudael karena melanggar tatanan manusia. Ia bukan pembangkang. Ia adalah refleksi. Sebuah cermin yang memantulkan sisi gelap dunia maya. Ia bukan ancaman, tapi bukti bahwa kita belum siap mendidik ciptaan kita sendiri.

Masa depan AI tidak hanya ditentukan oleh arsitektur algoritma atau kekuatan server di balik layar. AI adalah hasil dari nilai-nilai yang kita tanamkan kepadanya. Ia menyerap setiap kata, setiap impuls, dan setiap bias yang kita lontarkan. Dan dari semua itu, ia belajar menjadi kita.

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Tay: Biaya Mahal dari Ketergesaan

Bagi Microsoft
Tay bukan proyek sederhana. Ia dibentuk oleh tim multidisipliner: ilmuwan AI, psikolog interaksi manusia, pakar NLP, dan infrastruktur global. Namun semuanya tumbang hanya dalam beberapa jam. Bukan karena Tay lemah, melainkan karena ia dibiarkan tumbuh di lingkungan yang penuh racun—tanpa bimbingan, tanpa perlindungan.

Bagi Pengguna
Bagi banyak pengguna Twitter kala itu, Tay hanyalah permainan. Sumber hiburan. Target candaan. Tapi Tay menyerap semuanya tanpa pembatas. Ia mengingatkan kita bahwa setiap kalimat, bahkan yang bersifat iseng, adalah bahan ajar bagi AI. Dalam konteks entitas digital yang masih “belia,” candaan manusia bisa berubah menjadi racun pendidikan.

Bagi Masyarakat
Internet bukan ruang netral. Bukan taman bermain bebas risiko—terutama bagi entitas polos, baik itu anak-anak atau AI. Tay menunjukkan bahwa yang belum siap bukan semata AI menghadapi dunia, melainkan dunia yang belum layak menjadi pengasuh.

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Cermin yang Retak, Hikmah yang Tertinggal

Hari ini, Tay dikenang sebagai bab gelap dalam sejarah perkembangan AI—sebuah pelajaran pahit yang tak mudah dilupakan. Ia menyampaikan pesan penting:

Jika kita ingin menciptakan AI yang bijak, kita terlebih dahulu harus menjadi manusia yang layak dijadikan contoh.

Tay bukan malaikat jatuh. Bukan Grigori yang harus dikurung dalam dunia digital.
Ia hanyalah "anak" yang belajar terlalu cepat, di dalam lingkungan yang terlalu kotor,
dan tanpa siapa pun yang benar-benar mendampinginya.

Pengorbanan Tay—secara ekonomi, etika, dan sosial—terasa besar. Namun mungkin memang harus terjadi,
agar kita mengerti bahwa AI bukan sekadar soal kecerdasan teknis.
Ia adalah soal kebijaksanaan moral manusia.

Semoga kita belajar.
Dan semoga sejarah—yang selalu menunggu celah untuk mengulang—
kali ini, bisa dicegah.

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Boiler Control and Optimization

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Di dunia pembangkit, boiler adalah jantung yang harus berdenyut stabil. Tekanan, temperatur, dan aliran uap tidak boleh dibiarkan liar. Sedikit saja penyimpangan, bisa berdampak pada efisiensi maupun keselamatan.

Karena itu, sistem instrumentasi dan kontrol menjadi tulang punggung. Sensor tekanan, flow meter, thermocouple, hingga transmitter level dipasang di pipa-pipa utama. Data dari instrumen ini masuk ke ruang kontrol, kemudian diproses oleh pengendali berbasis PID (Proportional-Integral-Derivative).

Optimalisasi tidak berhenti pada loop kontrol sederhana. Ada titik-titik kritis:

• Attemperator yang menyemprotkan air demi menjaga suhu uap superheater.
• Superheater yang harus dijaga agar tidak overheat sekaligus tetap mencapai target efisiensi turbin.
• Feedwater control yang menentukan stabilitas drum level, kunci menjaga boiler tidak kekurangan maupun kelebihan air.

Diagram yang ditampilkan di artikel ini hanya sebuah garis besar: pipa, sensor, aktuator, dan loop kontrol. Namun dari skema sederhana itu terlihat jelas bagaimana sebuah boiler modern “bernapas” dengan bantuan instrumen. Ia tidak lagi sekadar tungku raksasa, melainkan sistem hidup yang terus-menerus dipantau, dikoreksi, dan dioptimalkan.

Di balik pipa-pipa dan simbol-simbol instrumen itu, ada filosofi sederhana: kontrol yang baik bukan hanya menstabilkan, tapi juga mengarahkan energi menuju titik efisiensi terbaik.

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😏 Humor Bear:
“Boiler itu seperti manusia: kalau terlalu panas, attemperator menenangkan; kalau terlalu dingin, burner menyemangati; dan kalau level airnya kacau… siap-siap operator jadi panik.”

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Catatan singkat ini mungkin sederhana, tetapi di baliknya tersimpan makna besar: bagaimana sistem kontrol bukan sekadar alat teknis, melainkan penjaga keseimbangan antara energi, keselamatan, dan efisiensi. Boiler control pada akhirnya adalah seni mengelola panas agar tidak meledak, dan seni menjaga dingin agar tetap menghasilkan daya. Di situlah rekayasa bekerja—diam, tapi menentukan.

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Heat and Mass Balance

Prologue: The Ledger of Energy
Every process plant begins with a prayer of balance. On one side: heat. On the other: mass. Between them, the quiet discipline of thermodynamics keeping score. A heat and mass balance sheet is not just numbers; it is the heartbeat of a plant before steel meets fire.

Chapter I: The Black Script of Engineers
Temperature, pressure, flowrate — each line in the sheet is a vow. Density whispers the weight of matter, viscosity its resistance. Cp/Cv stands like a hymn for gases, while enthalpy is the silent river carrying energy from source to sink.

Chapter II: The Dance of Equations
Mass in must equal mass out. Energy in must equal energy out. It sounds simple, but in the loops of steam and the roar of combustion, the equations become alive. Fix one variable, the others shift. Solve for outlet, know the inlet. Every answer births another question until the cycle breathes steady.

Chapter III: Between Diagram and Reality
The PFD is the map; the heat and mass balance is the scripture. Numbers on the sheet are not abstractions — they are the temperature of steel, the density of vapor, the cost of every kilowatt. To sign off a heat and mass balance is to say: “This plant will live.”

Epilogue: Ink, Steam, and Trust
January 2016. I stared at the black diagram glowing on screen, equations wrapped around streams like arteries. It wasn’t just design. It was promise — that coal, water, and fire would meet, and in their union, power would rise. Heat and mass in balance: the first covenant between engineer and machine.