proteins

the protein folding project

for me, protein folding was about abstract ideas and how they interconnected. in college, during my mania as i read about chaos theory, and a lot of other stuff, i made up 'the problem-solving company,' a corporation that solved any kind of problem for you, at all - real-world problems. part of the concept was that ideas fit together like proteins. it had to do with cause and effect. it also had to do with 'information theory' that i briefly read about. i wondered how people could solve problems without having all the perfect information at all times. it's impossible to constantly possess all the necessary information and resources. i wrote in my journal all day long about those things, back when i was writing by hand. the problems were probably supposed to solve themselves, or something, by acting like proteins? i'm not sure - i'd have to look back. the idea was that this corporation was supposed to be a real thing that helped people. and it had to do with philosophy and uncertainty, and how logic isn't necessarily - oh, that's right - i had also been reading about fuzzy logic. so i read information theory, chaos theory, and fuzzy logic, at the same time, and went manic. it was overwhelming and i didn't understand any of it, but it sparked all these ideas. so, logical concepts were to be made into protein-like shapes that interacted with each other.

every action causes some set of consequences to occur. so the proteins were keys that triggered a set of events. that was the act of 'problem-solving.' but afterwards, after i read nathaniel branden, i decided that it wasn't merely problem-solving, but that it could be put into a more positive perspective, something creative and proactive rather than just a reaction to existing problems. edward de bono would have called that the yellow hat or the green hat - coming up with new ideas rather than merely responding to problems or putting out fires.

that's what i was doing in college instead of my homework.