Archive for the ‘Memuonics’ Category
Friday, May 20th, 2011
I came to the idea of Memory-Time when reading about Samuel Alexander’s Space-Time (see also Memory Creates God). Here Memory plays the same foundational part as Space with memory-instants paralleling point-instants. I recently found the notion of memory-time (small capitals) appearing in Wittgenstein lectures as cited in Jaakko Hintikka’s paper “Wittgenstein on being and time”. However, it is considered there from the phenomenological subject-based perspective with a role of memory in the creation of time and external world and was only present in the earlier Tractatus-based Wittgenstein’s worldview.
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Posted in Memoidealism, Memory Religion (Memorianity), Memuonics, Metaphysics of Memory Worldview, Philosophy | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
Similar to Buddhism view of a person as a transient assemblage of physical and psychical elements Memorianity considers a person as an assemblage of memories always in flux. To be saved correctly also means working with memories to overcome their original defects and reorder chains of memory perspectives. This is similar to karmic laws and past actions that determine the nature of rebirth. See also on Morality and Memorianity.
Why it is so difficult to restore everything that was saved? Here André-Marie Ampère’s notion of dynamic resistance when we try to penetrate matter is similar to memuonic resistance when we try to penetrate Memory.
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Posted in Memoidealism, Memory Religion (Memorianity), Memuonics, Metaphysics of Memory Worldview, Philosophy, Religion | No Comments »
Friday, November 12th, 2010
Five volumes of cross-disciplinary Anthology (dubbed by the author “The Summa Memorianica”) lay the foundation of the scientific discipline of Memoretics (study of computer memory snapshots and their evolution in time) that is also called Memory Dump and Software Trace Analysis.ca
The 5th volume contains revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized selected DumpAnalysis.org blog posts about crash dump, software trace analysis and debugging written in February 2010 - October 2010 for software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows platforms, quality assurance engineers testing software on Windows platforms, technical support and escalation engineers dealing with complex software issues, and security researchers, malware analysts and reverse engineers. The fifth volume features:
- 25 new crash dump analysis patterns
- 11 new pattern interaction case studies (including software tracing)
- 16 new trace analysis patterns
- 7 structural memory patterns
- 4 modeling case studies for memory dump analysis patterns
- Discussion of 3 common analysis mistakes
- Malware analysis case study
- Computer independent architecture of crash analysis report service
- Expanded coverage of software narratology
- Metaphysical and theological implications of memory dump worldview
- More pictures of memory space and physicalist art
- Classification of memory visualization tools
- Memory visualization case studies
- Close reading of the stories of Sherlock Holmes: Dr. Watson’s observational patterns
- Fully cross-referenced with Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, and Volume 4
Product information:
- Title: Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 5
- Author: Dmitry Vostokov
- Language: English
- Product Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24
- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Opentask (10 December 2010)
- ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-96-4
- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: Opentask (10 December 2010)
- ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-97-1

Back cover features memory space art image Hot Computation: Memory on Fire.
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Saturday, November 6th, 2010
I’m pleased to announce that MDAA, Volume 4 is available in PDF format:
www.dumpanalysis.org/Memory+Dump+Analysis+Anthology+Volume+4
It features:
- 15 new crash dump analysis patterns
- 13 new pattern interaction case studies
- 10 new trace analysis patterns
- 6 new Debugware patterns and case study
- Workaround patterns
- Updated checklist
- Fully cross-referenced with Volume 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3
- Memory visualization tutorials
- Memory space art
Its table of contents is available here:
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/MDAA/MDA-Anthology-V4-TOC.pdf
Paperback and hardcover versions should be available in a week or two. I also started working on Volume 5 that should be available in December.
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Thursday, November 4th, 2010
Where’s God in Memorianity (memory religion)? It borrows Samuel Alexander’s notion of the emergence of God as a new synthesis from patterns. In Alexander’s philosophy the basis of nature is space-time continuum with point-instants. In memoidealism (which is a metaphysical foundation of Memorianity) Memory is the basis of everything and in its memuonic formulation memuons play the role of memory-instants. Their patterns also involve emergents on every hierarchy level with Mind emerging at some memory organization level and then out of mind level we have emerging Deity.
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Posted in Intelligent Memory Movement, Memoidealism, Memory Religion (Memorianity), Memuonics, Philosophy | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
Memorized states and events look different from varying memory perspectives, for example, some historical event looks different to and interpreted differently by people of varying memory backgrounds. Memuonic version of memoidealist philosophy explains differences in memory perspectives by different memorizing orderings of memuons respective to some base memuon.
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Monday, September 20th, 2010
There many interpretations of the letter M in M-theory but I propose another one: M stands for Memory. In any outcome it surely will be committed to memory in the future either as successful or not. On the other hand I’m now trying to make sense of it in relation to Memory as an ur-foundation (ur-, primordial, German prefix).
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Posted in Fun with Crash Dumps, Memoidealism, Memoretics, Memuonics, New Acronyms, New Words, Philosophy, Physics | No Comments »
Sunday, April 18th, 2010
OpenTask to offer first 3 volumes of Memory Dump Analysis Anthology in one set:

The set is available exclusively from OpenTask e-Commerce web site starting from June. Individual volumes are also available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other bookstores worldwide.
Product information:
- Title: Modern Memory Dump and Software Trace Analysis: Volumes 1-3
- Author: Dmitry Vostokov
- Language: English
- Product Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24
- Paperback: 1600 pages
- Publisher: Opentask (31 May 2010)
- ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-99-5
Information about individual volumes:
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
This is a revised, edited, cross-referenced and thematically organized volume of selected DumpAnalysis.org blog posts about crash dump analysis and debugging written in July 2009 - January 2010 for software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows platforms, quality assurance engineers testing software on Windows platforms and technical support and escalation engineers dealing with complex software issues. The fourth volume features:
- 13 new crash dump analysis patterns
- 13 new pattern interaction case studies
- 10 new trace analysis patterns
- 6 new Debugware patterns and case study
- Workaround patterns
- Updated checklist
- Fully cross-referenced with Volume 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3
- New appendixes
Product information:
- Title: Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 4
- Author: Dmitry Vostokov
- Language: English
- Product Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24
- Paperback: 410 pages
- Publisher: Opentask (30 March 2010)
- ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-86-5
- Hardcover: 410 pages
- Publisher: Opentask (30 April 2010)
- ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-87-2

Back cover features memory space art image: Internal Process Combustion.
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
What is that mysterious memory “particle” memuon? According to memoidealism our Universe has Memory (*) and therefore, its memory has to be composed from memory entities. These entities are called memuons and they can be represented as numbers (some extreme interpretation can be that memuons are numbers, similar to metaphysics of Pythagoreanism). There can be “heavy” memuons (for example, represented by a number that is a 64 TB memory dump; for dumps as numbers see the discussion about memorillions) and the “light” ones (for example, represented by a byte value numbers). There are no 2 distinct memuons with the same number representation. There is infinite amount of memuons and all of them can be put into a “Memorized” relation and ordering, for example:
M1 Σ M2 Σ M3 Σ …
where the state of M1 can be memorized by M2, the state of M2 can be memorized by M3 and so on (**). Only memuon states can be memorized in other memuons. Memorization is not an inclusion, containment or aggregation. But any given memuon can be memorized many times and their memorized states will be identical when represented by numbers. For any given memuon the number of states of other memuons it can memorize is bounded. This is consistent with computer memory and its saving semantics, for example, we can save 8 bytes in a qword.
(*) Strong Memoidealism postulates that our Universe is Memory, the so called Memory Universe Hypothesis (MUH); see also EPOC hypothesis for Multiverse.
(**) Σ is 90° counterclockwise letter M.
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Posted in Memoidealism, Memuonics, Philosophy | 2 Comments »
Saturday, September 26th, 2009
This is a revised, edited, cross-referenced and thematically organized volume of selected DumpAnalysis.org blog posts about crash dump analysis and debugging written in October 2008 - June 2009 for software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows platforms, quality assurance engineers testing software on Windows platforms and technical support and escalation engineers dealing with complex software issues. The third volume features:
- 15 new crash dump analysis patterns
- 29 new pattern interaction case studies
- Trace analysis patterns
- Updated checklist
- Fully cross-referenced with Volume 1 and Volume 2
- New appendixes
Product information:
- Title: Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 3
- Author: Dmitry Vostokov
- Language: English
- Product Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24
- Paperback: 404 pages
- Publisher: Opentask (20 December 2009)
- ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-43-8
- Hardcover: 404 pages
- Publisher: Opentask (30 January 2010)
- ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-44-5

Back cover features 3D computer memory visualization image.
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
If memory is the basis of everything we might think that memoidealism is a kind of dual aspect monism or plural aspect monism, where mind, body and perhaps many other aspects are manifestations of one single memory substance. Or perhaps, memory is the same as matter or the realm of ideas (materialism or some sort of idealism), and memoidealism is the kind of monism. Or memory is the same or not the same as mind or matter and can be associated with one side of dualism. Not at all, memory is the aspect or attribute of mind, body and other substances, possibly itself. This can be illustrated on the following picture:
If there are only 2 substances then we have monistic aspect dualism as an extension of monism, for example, the extension of idealism:

or the extension of materialism (memuonic theory, memuonics):

Therefore, Memory is a substance and an aspect (attribute) at the same time. This is the essence of MAP (Monistic Aspect Pluralism).
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Posted in Memoidealism, Memuonics, New Acronyms, Philosophy, Science of Memory Dump Analysis | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
Do you remember memuons1, the indivisible entities of memory? Their study is the domain of the new science called memuonics2. According to the so called memophysical principle3,we have particle interpretation of memuons. This is called classical memuonics with classical memory field theory where memuons are “quanta” of memory. We can also ”quantize” memory fields and get quantum memory field theories where memuons are created and annihilated.
(1) The notion of memuons first appeared in the philosophy of memoidealism.
(2) Please don’t confuse memuonics with memiotics. The latter is computer memory semiotics.
(3) Memophysical principle - theories of memory-based universe need to take into account the current mainstream sciences including physics.
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