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This website and all writings contained within are outdated and need to be completely reworked. We won't have the time or resources to get this done for at least a couple of months. Small updates in the meantime will likely be notes for the future rebuild.

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Meetings have been stopped until further notice.

1/1/2/2/1

Culture is not something that can be exactly described with words, it must be observed and experienced to be completely understood. Culture is something that is always in motion, cultural practice is what makes it come to life. Every memory of the past is dead culture.

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Number glyphs were changed so that the 0 and the 6 were no longer reflections of each other, but are now reflecting on the fact that they are the beginning, non-zero midpoint, and end. Should also be easier to draw and distinguish all the glyphs. Might reshuffle their order later.

Lunar calendar changes: Four lunar weeks in one lunar month. A lunar week has either 7 or 8 days, named after Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto. A 30-day month will be split into 7-8-7-8 weeks, a 29-month will be split in 7-7-7-8 weeks.

Solar calendar changes: There will be 8 months in a year, corresponding to the equinoxes, solstices, and their midpoints. Since the Earth has an elliptical orbit, the time from the December to the June solstice is a week longer than the time from the June to the December solstice. This unforunately means the long year should have its extra week in the middle of the year. We have to weigh the compromise of starting the year at the September equinox so that the extra week still comes at the end of the year and it is astronomically and seasonally more accurate.

Each solar month will alternate between 7 and 8 weeks, except in a long year where three 8-week months will occur in a row. The solar months may be renamed to seasons to distinguish them from lunar months. The lunar weeks can be named quarters to distinguish them from solar weeks.

The solar clock will be updated to have 10,0000 seconds in a day. Minutes and hours will be replaced and the naming convention of the second will be established the way that the meter works e.g. centimeter, kilometer, etc.

Meetings normally occur on the first day of the week.

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If your aesthetics are bad, you can change your aesthetic. If your ideas are bad, then what? One answer: Your ideas don't matter as long as you have a good aesthetic. This is the world we live in, but it is not the world we have to live in.

There has been a breakthrough in our understanding of measurement which will help in creating a unified measurement scale, but unfortunately forces an update of the clock and temperature scales.

The clock will likely change from 40,000_12 new-seconds to 100,000_12 new-seconds, where each new-second is about three times as fast as a regular second. To facilitate this change it would be highly recommended to establish the 12 digits and notational symbols with represents changes in magnitude. Considering ▲ and ▼ as placeholders such that 1234▲3 represents 1234000 and 1234▼3 represents 1.234. Replacements for dot and comma notational symbols also under consideration. The increased frequency of seconds makes single-syllable digits and magnitudinal names a necessity.

More research into mathematical physics must be done. Currently learning about lattices, continuum limits, and internal set theory. The measurement scales will likely involve a theory (mathematical structure) that enforces closure, specifically that every lattice-born input to a scale function must produce an output that is included within the same lattice. The scale function will likely always involve a ratio, as each scale will relate and convert to other scales using ratios.

Philosophically investigating the contention between a discrete and a continuous physical universe. Maintaining ambiguity should likely be the goal in defining scales, but there is a real risk of misinterpretation that these scales imply discreteness. Right now this is where we are at: continuity and discreteness are neither descriptions of a physical reality but are descriptions of our perception of that reality and the mathematical constructs we use to interact with it. It is possible that the universe is neither discrete nor continuous, or both, but maintaining one or another is a convenience for our conceptualization of our world. They may only exist in the realm of subjective perception.

Likely switching to an entropy-based system of measurement. Everything will be founded upon distinctions, difference, or change. Need to research: microstate, non-standard analysis, renormalization, computable analysis.

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Defining the number system: use of single-syllable words for all twelve digits, names for bigger numbers like 10, 100, 1000, 10000, grouping numbers in fours instead of threes.

Redefining measurements so that something like a new "meter" becomes based on a fixed physical constant from the very beginning, instead of starting off as arbitrary and using universal values after-the-fact. Instead of the speed of light being 300 million meters per second, it can be 1 new-meter per second, or 1 new-meter per new-second. To be determined.

The Maya used base-20 with proficiency and efficiency. If such is the case it serves as convincing evidence that base-12 would not be a problem for children who have never been exposed to the decimal system. Consider the possibility of a base-24 system in the far future (it would allow us to divide into twelfths, eighths, sixths, fourths, thirds, and halves). Count all the joints in eight fingers with your thumbs.

At this point it seems like a better use of time to keep working and establish a broad foundation for everything instead of diving into a subject to ensure perfection or that the math is correct. There's a chance of having a change of plans in the future which would make the latter effort pointless.

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First meeting held. Review of current progress on website. Discussed making a visual calendar with moon phases. Ideas for generating culture such as sculptures or using language to make poetry. Discussed the possibility of a creation myth.