Josh Plovanic's Writings and Thoughts

   Infinity is a hard subject to grasp for humans. We, as finite creatures with a finite neurological capacity, are greatly challenged by the infinite. Our confinement to a "moment-to-moment/point-to-point" progression through time and space, as well as our limited memory and processing capabilities based on finite time makes comprehending infinite numerical sets quite difficult for most people.           Even so, we can still categorize and encode information into sets to help simplify complex information and concepts and make the complexity more accessible to our minds. Also, we can describe the complex information linguistically to supplement the mathematical descriptions and proofs we use.  In doing so, we can make concepts like infinity and eternity more relatable, understandable, and graspable to the average person.       I would like to describe a different hypothesis. I would like to present the possibility of an infinite set of non-numerical information. (non-number

I remember the first time I saw a Star Wars movie. I was 5 years old and it was Return of the Jedi. I was enthralled with the action, the lasers, and the planets and spaceships. It ignited my imagination, and I went from my Lion King fixation to now being open to a whole world of possibilities. A whole galaxy's worth of possibilities. A whole Universe's worth.        I started immersing myself into fantasy worlds, and as I consumed more media, ideas, and information, my fantasies became more complex. I would ride my bike around my hometown for hours by myself, and my frame of reference became trees, houses, cars, and foliage. Trees became galaxies, my bike was a spaceship, and cars and houses were space stations.          I would play Star Wars-like fantasies constantly throughout my early childhood, in particularly my 6-13 years of age. I would hybridize star wars with other Science Fiction media like Star Trek and others, and the fantasies became more complex, more exciting,

      A few years back, when my mind was much more fractured than it is today and I was absolutely out of control and out of my element, in the midst of the insanity my mind's eye and my thoughts were exceedingly vivid. Chaotic and broken, but vivid nonetheless. As I was immersed into a dark rage and hatred and my mind and spirit became more poisoned, I saw something in my head that was quite shocking, yet reassuring. I saw what I can only describe as an "image," for lack of a better word, of an immense period of time.    In this mental time-image, the time I was witnessing was billions of years of adventure, pleasure, victories, purpose, wonders, and beauty that I partook in and engaged in. I saw world upon world, culture upon culture, knowledge compounded on knowledge, wonder upon wonder, and beauty like I have never seen in life.  I fought wars, had victories, had defeats, fell in love, made friends, made enemies, and lived an exciting, full, purposeful, and fulfilling

No person was born with all the answers or an absolute state of comprehension of the depth, scope, and mysteries of this world and existence in general. Neither was our species put on this earth at our origins fully advanced and with absolute and complete knowledge of existence. It would defeat the purpose of a state of conscious existence based on growth, learning, and experience, which obviously requires the passage of time as well as a relative mental blank slate for the conscious beings involved. Without this, novelties, learning, and experience would be both impossible and unnecessary if all information and knowledge were presented to you immediately after your creation and placement in existence.  In order for advancement and evolution of conscious organisms to occur, there often has to be a catalyst for change and growth. In regards to knowledge and the fields of study within the human experience, human beings often form paradigms within the respective fields of knowled

Without hope, life is hell. I've definitely felt the truth of that. In a world poisoned by darkness, doubt, fear, and hate, hope remains one of the most significant and most essential concepts and forces for the betterment, healing, and resilience of humanity, both as a whole and directly regarding the individual. You are never truly defeated until your hope is taken or destroyed. If your hope dies, and the wonders of existence and the boundless possibilities of creation get labeled as delusions and even the light of truth, goodness, love, and righteousness get denied their legitimacy and even their very existence in your eyes, then your mind truly gets engulfed in a thick, oppressive black void, one that often is exceedingly difficult to break free of, and all but impossible without hope. When that void overtakes your mind, friends, and hope is stolen and crippled, then you are truly in a living hell. Crippling or annihilating hope in the minds of a population is one of the most u

The human imagination is a powerful thing. With it, we can create and develop entire worlds, or sometimes entire universes, in our own minds. Our culture enjoys many artificial worlds and realities, much of which have been brought to us through media like Hollywood movies, written stories, myths, legends, and what we ourselves conjure up in our minds and fantasies.                    I believe that whatever can exist does exist, just not all in one place and all in one time. This includes alternate realities and fantasy worlds. Since I place my faith in the potential of an infinite existence, I also believe humans never truly "create" anything. Instead, we construct new mental or physical structures out of already existing concepts or substances, and we "access" new worlds in our imaginations and minds, but never truly create them, as the conceptualization of these worlds had already existed. I believe the human imagination and human consciousness could be roote

When most people think of curses, they think of something supernatural, like witches or sorcerers or lycanthropy and other legends. I have made the argument before that many legends, myths, and stories have metaphorical or allegorical applications to things that do in fact exist. I believe the concept of a curse falls into this category, but curses exist in a way most people often overlook. One of the most notable examples, and one of the most important in terms of its social and reputational consequences is the act of labeling someone as something. Labeling acts as a curse because it puts someone in an identity box, and when that label is spread around a social group or community, the person who is labeled has that label be part of their identity in the eyes of the members of their community and social circles. Depending on how severe the label is, it may be exceedingly difficult to shake off and get rid of for that individual. False or misleading labeling of an individual can d

Complex Scenarios and circumstances, like games, warfare, and multifaceted procedures and activities always have high degrees of unpredictability. The level of unpredictability and lack of control on the outcome increases almost exponentially the further from the immediate present moment your attempts to predict and control the scenario or circumstance gets. Long term predictions and probability analyses are always very difficult to present and implement with high degrees of success and accuracy because the cause-and-effect determinism of the procession of events only has high degrees of accuracy in the short term and immediate. This cause-and-effect determinism also only has high degrees of successful predictability in regards to the individual parts of a system or scenario.         For example, imagine a soldier in a combat situation is out on a mission with his unit with a set of objectives to complete and a fixed, rather small number of soldiers in his unit and the unit comes un