The World of Louis Carlo Lim

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence. — Immanuel Kant 

Then the sky spoke to me in language clear, familiar as the heart, than love more near. The sky said to my soul, 'You have what you desire! Know now that you are born along with these clouds, winds, and stars, and ever-moving seas and forest dwellers. This your nature is. - 'Passion' (1943)

Up through an empty house of stars,

Being what heart you are,
Up the inhuman steeps of space
As on a staircase go in grace,
Carrying the firelight on your face
Beyond the loneliest star 

-GK. Chesterton

Mixed martial arts training is among the most complete martial arts training since MMA is recognized as a complete martial arts. It's a training that would develop you in several aspects such as striking, grappling, submissions, and many more.

This kind of training will be focusing much of its time on submission holds and techniques. The correct employment of these holds will enable the practitioner or MMA fighter to win a match in no time. As a matter of fact, a submissions expert can sometimes turn a losing fight around in the last few seconds with a successful submission hold.

A submissions expert can apply a submission hold at any time within a close fight. Submission holds like the triangle choke or rear naked choke are probably the most widely used as far as this facet of training is concerned. Practicing these techniques on your own can be dangerous and you will have to practice carefully or hire a trainer who has enough experience for a safe training.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is famous for these submission strategies and training in Jiu-Jitsu is integrated into MMA as a vital part of the whole program. Striking techniques are another important aspect of the training.

Martial arts that focus in striking such as Muay Thai, Western boxing, Karate, and others are integrated into the whole program and you can choose which striking program will work best for you. Thus, a practitioner trains in a number of grappling and striking variations and will be exposed to several martial arts backgrounds.

Training in striking is actually easier compared to training in grappling but it's still something which requires hard work since a practitioner would be training for speed, reflexes, and power. The grappling element takes more time to master and if do not become an expert, at least you can study the basic techniques that are very important.

There are a number of things you need to learn as far as MMA training is concerned. Martial artists from different backgrounds will participate in a training camp to continually develop more refined programs for MMA. No wonder why it is considered as the most popular and complete martial arts system on the planet.

This is a wood-cut of The Blind Men and The Elephant. It's a reminder that any complex subject can be studied in many ways. It is certainly true for any complex subject. Anthropology can study universal patterns of the belief and behavior across the world's societies as well as the ways in which they differ, Psychology can study universal patterns in human behavior as well as a few differences among different individuals, Biology, Chemistry, Physics and the Physical Sciences reveal how nature works in different levels with each level more complex than the levels before it, and even Fiction can illuminate us by showing the universal themes and plots that obsess people in their pensive stories.

In application, it is possible for us to reverse engineer any complex object of study. To take an analogy, most of us don't understand in detail how a rocket works. But however incompletely we understand how a rocket works, we all understand by what general process it came into existence. It was designed by humans on drawing boards. We can look at the model and study its parts. A complex thing such as a rocket is actually made up of simple parts combined together to make up a complex whole whose over-all function is completely different from the parts that constitute it. Our world is dominated by feats of engineering and works of art. There's actually more to a seemingly simple thing once we see it in layers and the seemingly complex object is actually made up of parts that are simple.

The universe that we know, of course, is a tiny fragment of the actual universe. There may be yet more complicated objects than us on other planets, and some of them may already know about us.The computer on which I am writing these words has an information storage capacity of about 64 kilobytes (one byte is used to hold each character of text). The computer was consciously designed and deliberately manufactured. The brain with which you are understanding my words is an array of some ten million kiloneurones. Many of these billions of nerve cells have each more than a thousand 'electric wires' connecting them to other neurones. Moreover, at the molecular genetic level, every single one of more than a trillion cells in the body contains about a thousand times as much precisely-coded digital information as my entire computer. The complexity of living organisms is matched by the elegant efficiency of their apparent design. But the complicated things everywhere have a special kind of explanation. We can determine why they came into existence and why they are complicated. We can do it like the men exploring the elephant.

'I, myself, alone, have more memories than all mankind since the world began', he said to me. And also:'‘My dreams are like other people’s waking hours'. And again, toward dawn: 'My memory, sir, is like a garbage heap.'— Funes, el Memorioso, Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges' Funes the Memorious is a fantasy short story about Funes, a teenage boy who's Memory tells the evocative tale of Ireneo Funes, a Uruguayan boy who suffers a crash which leaves him hopelessly immobilized coupled with a critical method of Hypermnesia - a mental abnormality expressed in exceptionally precise memory. So vivid is Funes' memory which he can effortlessly distinguish any physical object at most distinct period of viewing. Within his perpetual present images unfold their archaeology as infinite wells of details: "He knew the sorts of the clouds while in the southern sky to the morning of April 30th, 1882". Funes' memories are intensely present as muscular and thermal sensations accompanying every visual record to be recorded. They can reconstruct every event he ever experienced. His recollections are really accurate which the time that it takes to reconstruct a full day's importance of events equals to the length of that very day. In Funes' world perception makes no for good business choices is only little time or motive to perceive, reflect, or interpret.

As a result, Funes lacks the ability for detail suppression and any search to conceive, or manage, his impressions -muscles and stuff of thought - is overridden with relentlessly literal recollections ("We, within a glance, perceive three wine glasses revealed; Funes saw many of the shoots, clusters, and grapes of your vine".) Funes is unable to generalize, to deduce in order to induce anything he experiences. Everything's just what there're, scaled one to one. Cursed with meticulous memory, Funes escapes to reside in remoteness and isolation - a "dark room" - where new images tend not to enter and where his motionless figure is absorbed inside the contemplation of an sprig of Artemisia.

On the century later, Hypermnesia happens to be to Funes what the Web is today to mankind.

An inexhaustible anthology of each one possible thing recorded at intervals of conceivable location in a different time, the internet is displacing the role of memory plus it achieves this immaculately. Any imaginable detail regarding the many dimensions of the given experience will be either recorded or consumed confirmed another fragment of reality. There is absolutely no time to think, this indicates. Through technology, thinking becomes so much easier. Or perhaps, this is simply a brand new types of thinking. Will be the Web just one more kind of reality, or possibly reality to become label of the world wide web?

In their "On Exactitude in Science", Borges carries on sticking with the same ideas concerning trace when he talks about an empire in which the work of cartography attained such accuracy that its map has emerged the size of the kingdom it describes. Scale, or distinction, was now changed by repetition. A model within itself, this sort of map embodies the dissimilarity between reality and its particular representation. It is the territory itself plus the origin loses authenticity; it achieves your being more real than real mindful about reality to chart.
The net, without doubt, is becoming such a map worldwide, both literally and symbolically, simply because it traces in a almost 1:1 ratio every event that has ever taken place. One cannot afford to have lost inside a space so perfectly detailed and predictable. Physical navigation is very solved as online maps offer including the most exuberant flâneur the information of prediction. But additionally, there are enormous mental implications to that.

Even as we are fed while using the information required or desired to understand and perceive the world around us thus comes the particular power of perception and the ability to practice abstract and critical thought atrophies. Nothing demonstrates this more than virtual games or virtual reality. Models become the very reality that individuals are inspired to model.