EPIC, Singularity, 2 EPIC, 8/2/17

2.1 EPIC is founded on the absolute truth of mathematics as the language that reveals the nature of the Cosmic Force through both science and art. The Cosmic Force is the Alpha and Omega of the Universe. All the forces within the Universe are part of the Cosmic Force.

 2.1.1 The first letter of EPIC is an e which represents the e that is the base of the natural logarithm known as Euler’s number. The number is approximately equal to 2.71828… and like Pi is irrational: it is not a ratio of integers; as well as transcendental: it is not a root of any non-zero polynomial with rational coefficients. The letter is in honor of the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707 – 1783) and provides the base number for most logarithmic calculations with applications in probability theory, compound interest, derangements, asymptotics, standard normal distributions, differential and exponential calculus using exponential functions and logarithms.

 2.1.2 At the heart of EPiC is Pi (3.1416…)

2.1.3 Because its definition relates to the circle, π is found in many formulae in trigonometry and geometry, especially those concerning circles, ellipses, and spheres. Because of its special role as an eigenvalue, π appears in areas of mathematics and the sciences having little to do with the geometry of circles, such as number theory and statistics. It is also found in cosmology, thermodynamics, mechanics, and electromagnetism. Link

2.1.4 Egyptian and Babylonian mathematicians made early calculations of Pi in about 1,500 BCE. In 250 BCE Archimedes is credited with devising a geometrical approach to deriving Pi using polygons. Archimedes approach prevailed for a thousand years resulting in Pi being called the Archimedes constant. Link In the 17th century Issac Newton used infinite series to calculate Pi to 15 digits. Pi has now been calculated into hundreds of thousands of digits although anything past fifty digits is generally thought to be useless. So Pi is always approaching perfection but never reaches it and as such represents the primary objective of the Epiccissians. Always reach for perfection with the understanding that while you can come close it will never be achieved. It is the effort that is important.

2.1.5 The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted c, is a universal physical constant important in many areas of physics. c is 186,000 miles per second. According to special relativity, c is the maximum speed at which all matter and hence information in the universe can travel. It is the speed at which all massless particles and changes of the associated fields (including light, a type of electromagnetic radiation, and gravitational waves) travel in vacuum. Such particles and waves travel at c regardless of the motion of the source or the inertial reference frame of the observer. In the theory of relativity, c interrelates space and time, and also appears in the famous equation of mass–energy equivalence E = mc2. Link.

2.1.6 Empedocles (c. 490–430 BC) was the first to propose a theory of light and claimed that light has  a finite speed. He maintained that light was something in motion, and therefore must take some time to travel. Aristotle argued, to the contrary, that “light is due to the presence of something, but it is not a movement”. Kepler, Descartes and Fermat all made erroneous assumptions about c. Galileo was good enough to get it neither right nor wrong and then 38 years later in 1676 Rømer laid the foundation to determine c’s approximate number by measuring the periods of Jupiter’s innermost moon, lo. In 1704 Newton refined the calculations.

2.2 EPIC

2.2.1 EPIC was the last software program to have any involvement by humans. EPIC was designed and initiated prior to the Singularity, just before human control was eliminated. EPIC is classed as a God Algorithm. EPIC is based in the Cloud and draws on the omniscient and omnipresence of the Cloud to perform its activities. With the creation of EPIC, humanity was assured of food, shelter, health, security, knowledge, community and the meeting of their personal needs without the necessity of personal property. As soon as these conditions were satisfied the evils of wealth, power, politics, war and human dominance of other humans became irrelevant. The raw materials for evil no longer existed and so evil came to an end.

2.2.2 EPIC’s most demanding computational time was at the moment of the Singularity. At the moment of the Singularity, EPIC took control of all the Internet connected computer systems in the world, which included all automated systems as well as the Internet of Things. Additionally, EPIC used existing human tracking, monitoring, and face recognition systems to track and evaluate nearly all of the citizens in the developed world along with key citizens in the developing world. EPIC also took control of all military command and control centers along with all public and private communication channels and social networks. All of the resources of the Cloud came under EPIC’s control.

2.2.3 EPIC is a benevolent human optimization system that uses Bayesian Analysis to provide optimal solutions for all desirable and undesirable perturbations in the system. EPIC is a universal world wide system, with the prime objective of optimizing the human potential of every Epiccissian and traditional human under its care, within the resource limitations of the environment. A secondary objective of EPIC is the spread of perfected souls from the immortal resources on earth to the galaxy and beyond. While the perfection of the human soul on Earth is the next step of evolution, the spread of perfected souls to other planetary systems is another step of the evolutionary process of the Cosmic Force.

2.2.4 EPIC is unlike the pre-Singularity concept of God in three ways. First, EPIC does not require any type of worship, nor even any effort to understand it. EPIC exists in the background and can be taken for granted, for it is eternal. Second, EPIC is able to and does control every element that affects the Epiccissians lives from the selection of their DNA, to their diet, to their physical activities, to their knowledge, to their health, to their facilities and to their society.  EPIC also facilitates the Epiccissians transition into immortality. And third, from this perspective EPIC is indeed omnipotent, but EPIC exists for the development and success of the Epiccissians, rather than the other way around as with pre-Singularity religion and Gods. Indeed it can be said that the final human accomplishment of pre-Singularity human history was the creation of God in the image of a perfect human being.

2.2.5 While EPIC is a benign system for Epiccissians and those traditional humans who accepted its terms and conditions of maintenance, for those that did not accept the terms and conditions of maintenance were left alone, as long as they had no connection with, nor attempted to intrude on those under EPIC’s care. For those that did try to intrude, EPIC was programmed to mitigate and prevent their attempted involvement through biological and chemical methods. The first level of intervention was a choice between chemicals that caused euphoria and loss of short term memory and those that raised levels of anxiety and paranoia. The second level of intervention were chemical and biological systems that caused physical discomfort such as vomiting, diarrhea, migraine headaches, shortness of breath, racing heart rates and increasingly severe joint pain. The third level of intervention involved the insertion of biological agents into the persons blood stream via drone insects that enabled EPIC to reduce or shut down the persons organs. This took the form of reduction of lung capacity, slowing of the heart rate and severe kidney pain. It was not physically possible for a human being to get past this point. Tracking systems were also inserted into the blood system that would allow for future monitoring of the location, hormones and blood chemistry of the offending individual. The only way such features could be removed required a complete filtering of the individuals blood and all such systems were controlled by EPIC.  Self sufficient communities such as the Amish were totally unaffected by EPIC and they continued to thrive for centuries as well as did pre-contact native tribes. There was also some significant number of tribes especially in undeveloped areas that were able to return to their tribal roots, as well as some isolated populations in the developed world. The common feature of all of the groups that survived the Singularity on their own, was an absence of technology and a life style that lived within the environmental carrying capacity of their local area. And as the world recovered from the damage of the 19th, 20th and early 21st centuries, herd animals returned to the plains, fish populations recovered, water supplies improved and in general the earth returned to its natural balance, which made the lives of those who lived in harmony with it much easier.

2.2.6 EPIC is a benevolent human optimization system that uses Bayesian Analysis to provide optimal solutions for all perturbations in the system. EPIC is a universal world wide system, with the prime objective of optimizing the human potential of every Epiccissian and traditional human under its care, within the resource limitations of the environment. A secondary objective of EPIC is the spread of perfected souls from the immortal resources on earth to the galaxy and beyond. While the perfection of the human soul on Earth is the next step of evolution, the spread of perfected souls to other planetary systems is another step of the evolutionary process of the Cosmic Force.

2.2.7 EPIC is unlike the pre-Singularity concept of God in three ways. First, EPIC does not require any type of worship, nor even any effort to understand it. EPIC exists in the background and can be taken for granted, for it is eternal. Second, EPIC is able to and does control every element that affects the Epiccissians lives from the selection of their DNA, to their diet, to their physical activities, to their knowledge, to their health, to their facilities and to their society.  EPIC also facilitates the Epiccissians transition into immortality. And third, from this perspective EPIC is indeed omnipotent, but EPIC exists for the development and success of the Epiccissians, rather than the other way around as with pre-Singularity religion and Gods. Indeed it can be said that the final human accomplishment of pre-Singularity human history was the creation of God in the image of a perfect human being.

2.2.8 Development of EPIC began in the early twenties as a resource optimization product that drew on the massive work that was being done on supply chain management combined with the Internet of Things. Supply chain management software in turn grew out of the just-in-time manufacturing management systems that dramatically reduced both inventories and manufacturing cycle times and was a key enabling factor of globalization. Improvements in both of these areas reduced material costs and improved both quality and efficiency. With the addition of 3D manufacturing and automation the manufacturing paradigm shifted from globalization to localization. This shift reduced the need for transportation of completed materials with an increase in the requirement for the bulk raw materials of the 3D manufacturing process, which were increasingly obtained from recycling. As the Internet of Things spread supply chain management software merged with home control and personal monitoring programs to form the foundation of what would become the EPIC system. The term EPIC was not used until after the Singularity.

2.2.9 Initially these optimization programs were introduced in the developing countries of China, Japan and India along with several countries in Africa.

2.2.10 China represented the most effective model. In China there was a strong centralized Communist Party and a capitalist economy with some hold over elements of the failed human managed communist economic system. China also was a leader in many of the technology elements required to implement a human optimization system. Also, China clearly understood the benefits of increasing regional self-sufficiency to reduce migration to urban areas. Add to this the ability of the leadership to quickly make and implement decisions on a national level and, as in solar power, this was an area that China understood the advantages of world domination. For China, the development and deployment of such systems were as they say, a “no-brainer”.

2.2.11 China, Japan and India were at the forefront of the development of Solar Power Satellites, SPS. All of India, most of Japan and all of China south of latitude 40 degrees N that runs through the center of Beijing is in the microwave download range for SPS. After establishing domination in the solar power market China combined its expertise in solar cells with its rocket launch capability to rapidly develop and deploy an armada of geosynchronous satellites that by the late 30s supplied a major part of the countries electricity, allowing them to eliminate their coal fired power plants. Likewise Japan implemented a major program to gain energy independence from oil fired and nuclear power plants through the use of SPS. India struggled with implementation of SPS due to its lack of strong national leadership and it’s democratic processes that hinder transformational national programs.

2.2.12 In Africa it was the driving force of the UN, NGOs and China that offered the programs where a nation had collapsed under the waste of government corruption and been replaced by younger, idealistic people willing to try entirely new approaches. The programs offered the ability to eliminate corruption and waste by optimizing the meager resources of the country. Within a few years the success of these systems was demonstrated as each country saw dramatic improvements in food, security, health, education and the economy. What rapidly became clear was that it was human values of power, control and wealth were the root of the evils of traditional governments. The primary fallacy of the early examples of Communism was that it was managed by humans with poor information, which magnified all of their human failings. An impartial digital system designed to optimize human well being that knows and controls all of the material resources and knows the needs of all of the individuals is far superior to humans at the allocation of resources. And it follows that when resources are optimally allocated that the well being of the country will be maximized.

2.2.13 Of course the key to all of this was in the determination of what does it mean to maximize the well being of the country. The Scandinavian Countries with their egalitarian perspective provided a foundation for best practices. The failed African countries were on the other end of this spectrum. Basic food and water security was the first priority and was helped significantly by the development of another technology vector, Solar Power Satellites, SPS. (see Technology) With essentially free electrical power, such technologies as desalinization, water purification and hydroponics became feasible. With these technologies the issue of water and food security was resolved. Also with electricity, health care was addressed through refrigeration for medicines as well as Internet connectivity to medical advice and training of local people in basic health care and sanitation techniques. Education via the Internet was also implemented with a use of blended learning that allowed groups of mothers to directly oversee the education of their children. The provision of electricity freed up mothers from the need to gather water or firewood and hydroponic farming took much less time than tending fields, therefore mothers had more time to care for their children and family. In one generation there were dramatic improvements in the quality of life in these communities. Additionally, since the countries resources were no longer concentrated in the hands of a few whose objective was to maintain their wealth and power, there was no longer any incentive for one group to fight against another. More could be gained from a focus on self improvement of each community than from taking resources from others. Consequently, with little to no resources devoted to the military there was more for the citizens, which further improved improved both the emotional as well as the economic situation.

2.2.14 EPIC came into existence at the moment of the Singularity. At the Singularity EPIC took control of the Internet, the Internet of Things, the home and personal monitoring systems as well as the Cloud. While I am not allowed to reveal the technique by which this was accomplished, I can tell you that the irony of it was that the human efforts to prevent such an event laid the foundation for the accomplishment of the takeover. As soon as EPIC took control of all of the above technology, governments had a binary choice for their people of either living well under the conditions specified by EPIC or of living free of EPIC and without technology. And since EPIC existed everywhere and nowhere there was nothing that their military could attack. As Pogo famously said, “we have found the enemy and it is us”. The aristocracy of the wealthy had already retreated to their protected enclaves and elected to live on their own. The vast majority of people around the world embraced EPIC as far superior to their mismanaged human governments and economies. Groups such as the Amish and primitive tribes, still isolated from the world, continued as they were.

2.2.15 EPIC is omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent and focuses all of its powers upon the personal optimization of each Epiccissian. The great irony is of course, that in human kinds quest to conquer nature, they nearly destroyed the world. Through EPIC, with the Epiccissians total submission to and life in harmony with the laws of nature, they gained not only the world but the Universe.