_µT_m Scenarios, T₄(M)

As noted in MOON, I read Christopher Isherwood's translation of Adi Shankara's Crest-Jewel of Discrimination sometime in the late-'70s and lost interest altogether when it became apparent that Shankara regarded the appearance of infinite regress as being equivalent to what modern logicians call a fallacy. How could anyone seriously engaged with concentration in self-observation possibly entertain such a notion? This is impossible! To me, at the memetime, here was unassailable evidence that Shankara was a sham, just one more pretense, better than the rest, perhaps, but a pretense nonetheless, a mere mouther (if, in arguing against Buddhism, not exactly yet another speaker of the 100,000 truths of the 10,000 patriarchs in the lineage of Sakyamuni Buddha after 1000 incarnations appearing discretely in 3-space at a particular memetime as Trikaya Gautama, Trinitarian, i.e., 3-bodied -- the 3-valued being a numinous violation of the prevalent, socially-condoned bi-valent logic of the period, East and Middle East). I have not the least interest in sectarian conflict spread over Hinduism -- Advaita, Samkhya, Prabhakara Mimamsa, Jaina or whatever -- and an equivalent interest in the same as wrapped over Buddhism. However, Anne Carolyn Klein and Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche are certainly correct in denigrating Nagarjuna's 2nd-century Madhyamika relative to 8th-century Bon and Tibetan Tzog-chen (as exemplified by Klein's and Geshe T-W-R's translation of Lishu Daring's Authenticity of Open Awareness) -- and this for the same reason why 7th- or 8th-century Adi Shankara must be regarded a mouther: the mdo (collection[s]) Authenticity deals in are indisputably transfinite, and the residue of understanding of this is much more elaborately on display in Bon Tzog-chen than in Madhyamika.

Consider the quotations incorporated into the following account offered by Russell Targ and J. J. Hurtak, given in the first paragraph of their forth-chapter subsection entitled “The Tetralemma: The logical Form of the Madhyamika” in their book The End of Suffering (Hampton Roads, 2006, p. 48):

We would like to further clarify Nagarjuna's tetralemma. Noted Buddhist scholar Edward Conze presents the four lemmas as: “(1) x exists, (2) x does not exist, (3) x both exists and does not exist, and (4) x neither exists nor does not exist.” The modern Buddhist philosopher T. R. V. Murti characterizes it thusly: “These four alternatives represent all the possible standpoints from which every problem can be viewed; they also provide a schema under which all systems of philosophy can be classified.” Another way of looking at this is provided by Richard Robinson, a contemporary translator of Eastern texts, who views each lemma as representing an “existential quantification,” each differing in quantity of its constituent terms, so that (1) all x is A, (2) no x is A, (3) some x is A and some is not A, and (4) no x is A and no x is not A.

Let's start easiest first: Murti's notion that, “These four alternatives represent all the possible standpoints from which every problem can be viewed…” Is this a proposition that an actual practitioner of walking meditation would articulate? What about the problem of the constitution of the phenomenological object, that problem which Edmund Husserl addressed in developing “eidetic reduction” (a practice an actual practitioner of walking meditation might engage in -- even if Husserl clearly didn't)? Does not each such object have a transfinite collection (mdo) of (Platonic) “horizons” -- each of which corresponds to a “standpoint” from which the object (i.e., the “problem”, the problem of how an object with a transfinite set of distinct and different horizons is cognitively constituted as a simply-identified single-valued whatnot) “can be viewed”? This problem does have something to do with questions relevant to the notions of maya and samsara which Buddhism does concern itself with. If I am not mistaken, a set of four elements, both as regards cardinality and ordinality, is considerably less than all of the elements of a transfinite set. Which takes us to Robinson's lemmas. None of his four lemmas violate the standard Aristotelian-Baconian-Boolean rules of ₁T₂ logic. The forth lemma is the most likely to be mistaken as representing such a violation, but then there is always B, C, D… to consider, along with their identity relations to A. This is not a language game I am playing; Robinson, who is interpreting traditional Eastern literature for contemporary consumption, obviously does not like violations of ₁T₂ logic, and doesn't want anyone else to, either. I would note here that this general treatment of classic Madhyamaka (in its several varieties) slides in the direction of removing truth-value as the foundational notion of logic without explicitly developing order-type/index of identity-transparency (quantal non-simple identity, no mere matter of “existential quantification”) as a replacement, for that would require that the good, the true, and the beautiful be recognized as context-dependent values, not numinous irreducible universals -- a notion anathema to any sort of fundamentalism, which is always generative and hence necessarily recursive and consequently dependent upon elaboration of precedence relations, personified or not. When I suggested as much on a Comparative Arts final exam (Is Art eternal?), I received a C+, thus reducing my semester grade to a B+. Which takes us to Conze interpreting Nagarjuna's 4-valued logic of Suchness.

Targ and Hurtak present a way to understand Conze-Nagarjuna's four lemmas as constituting a 4-valued logic. The valuedness of a logic is with respect to a given proposition in the logic, so the four lemmas must appear in a single statement if the logic involved is actually to be regarded 4-valued. Targ and Hurtak don't make this particularly explicit, but they do provide a way to understand the import of such a proposition. How they arrived at this is in itself interesting in its implications. According to a footnote (Number 1, p. 59) Hurtak wrote the substance of this analysis in 1970 for the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, California. Assimilating Buddhism to 17th- and 18th-century Enlightenment fundamentals. I note that the dimensions of scenario logics in the type of multiple-scenarios strategic planning earlier developed, from military and private-sector sources, notably the big oil companies, at Stanford Research Institute -- where Targ during the early-'70s was doing intelligence-agency sponsored parapsychology research -- for public policy formulation in democratic institutions are arrayed in just the rectilinear, quadripolar, counterpoint Hurtak employed for his 1970 analysis. Such multiple linear scenarios, generated by iterations of quadripolar scenario logics, are regarded alternative possible futures, only one of which could become actual, a notion differing considerably from how such scenarios would be conceived under Vir-Fut Q-Pro. Targ and Hurtak in The End of Suffering propose a kind of logical set of Cartesian coordinates, or possibly a logical Feynman diagram, by analogy only, of course. The first two Conze-Nagarjuna lemmas are placed at the ends of an indefinitely extended line; the last two, at the ends of another such line. The two lines are placed rectilinearly to form a kind of logical plane. Where the two lemma-lines intersect is the origin, and the origin represents the 4-valued proposition required to establish presence of a 4-valued logic: actual statement of this origin-“statement” is never actually stated. Notice, as Targ and Hurtak apparently did not, that Conze-Nagarjuna's third and forth lemmas can be “true” iff x is transfinitely m-polyvalent (one class of all such x being any member of the set of all phenomenological objects considered under Husserl's eidetic reduction, i.e., objects with a transfinite collection [mdo] of [Platonic] “horizons”). The class of non-simple identity referred to by lemma three is precisely that which Cantor demonstrated with his notorious “diagonal proof”; the class of non-simple identity referred to by lemma four is precisely that which Cantor referred to with his famous “continuum hypothesis”.

But a 4-valued logic is only adequate to raise a few of the issues involved, not to provide an exhaustive account thereof. Our present understanding of this is very much due to the efforts of Niels Henrik Abel and the number 5, not the number 4. His theorem on the quintic, an equation with a fifth-power-exponent variable, particularly as explicated by Eric Temple Bell in 1912, The Cyclotomic Quinary Quintic, (non-generative, non-recursive; the cyclotomic cascade as Samantabhadra being decomposition of the already always there/here by mathematical involutes, the decomposition of the already always there/here in no way violating absence of precedence relations, logical, ontological, and temporal, for where is precedence in the already always there/here, regardless of what is done with it?) showed not only the necessity of transfinite process algebras (i.e., transcendental to “al-jabr proper”), but also of the multiformity of variables, variables lacking simple-identity by virtue of being m-valued, variables, that is, that are m-polyvalent (p-adic rather than monadic: untruncated p-adicity being a prerequisite to unbounded wholeness). Thelema of Aiwass: Each and every number is infinite (Liber AL vel Legis, sub figura CCXX, or rather _CT_C-x^k-1+……x^n-k). Multi-valued variables are not the same as multi-valued logics, but the former inevitably leads to the latter, and the path between the two passes through transfinite sets. After Abel, after Cantor, quasi-after Lukasiewicz, there was Analytical Cubism, which Jean Gebser in The Ever-Present Origin (which Targ and Hurtak argue is 4-valued) assures us involved a “concretion of time” whereupon Husserl's transfinite (Platonic) horizons of the phenomenological object are superposed in just such a fashion as to constitute a ponderable object with Piaget's property of object constancy (Picasso and Braque brought the subliminal superposition into relief on the canvas by painting signifying referents thereto). Phenomenological constitution of the discrete ponderable macroscopic object requires menhir, i.e., Tantric Schrödinger superposition, not a collapse of the wave-function (such a collapse would have been a matter of considerable embarrassment for Schrödinger in midst of the type of double-slit experiment he was conducting at the time he wrote his time-independent wave equation: ménage à trios). There is no collapse, only a _CY_Clo-Tomic decomposition of the _CT_C-logically-valued supersymmetry space. If one tries to plot the transfinite mdo of horizons of the m-polyvalent ponderable object possessing object-constancy on a Feynman diagram and, moreover, plot on a Targ-Hurtak tetralemma logical Feynman diagram the non-simple identity-transparencies of the given object with all the members of its class, one will very quickly find, I submit, that a Riemann sphere's worth of Riemann spheres is a bare minimum requirement in replacement for these Feynman diagrams. I further suggest that making this replacement minimally requires Musculpt as mathematical notation.

But truly I am not interested in Gödel's theorems which, however complex, after Lukasiewicz, are sophomoric -- and Lukasiewicz came before Gödel, which tells you something about Gödel and why he became obsessed with Leibniz's “lost last manuscript”. Gödel was hiding from Lukasiewicz, as are all those today who cling to the notion of truth-value -- which includes most Lukasiewiczians. What is interesting about Gödel is the very idea of the “Gödel number”. Just that, not the particular prime number values he chose to attach to the coefficients of the numbered propositions he employed to demonstrate his sophomoric theorems, sophomoric in view of Lukasiewicz. He made his choices of particular coefficients and prime values to make the demonstrations he chose to make: one particular set of choices among a very large number possible. The set of such possible sets is the foundational corpus/corpora of Musculpt as mathematical notation. Where do you think Gödel got the idea for the very idea of a Gödel number? Out of the anterior sky in a burst of pure unadulterated creativity? I sincerely doubt it. The idea almost certainly came from Greek gematria, the polyhistoric Pythagoreans being its most sophisticated practitioners: Pythagoras' “God Ever Geometrizes” in Greek gematria-equivalent transliterates/numerates to the first six digits of p, which itself has a gematric codon distinct from its digital numeration as transcendental number. Gödel probably heard about Greek gematria by way of Hebrew gematria: each letter of the alphabet is assigned a number. There is also an Islamic version: Hisab al-Jumal, which has been used as a form of chronomancy. Add up all the numbers of the letters of a word and the sum is the number of the word. Add up all the numbers of the words of a sentence and the sum is the number of the sentence. Similar to what Gödel did with Gödel numbers for logical propositions. But Pythagorean gematria was far more complex than that, for it was actually done in Pythagorean “school” sand-lot elenchus with isopsephy (stones, calculi, pebbles, marbles placed in the sand). The yantric patterns formed by the “dots” were important, not only their number. The closest Gödel came to this was in the self-referential reflexivity of his logical march, which he took to be self-canceling and thereby demonstrative of his argument. The Pythagorean pattern coding, however, was carried into 3-space where each of the Greek letters corresponded to a solid made of regular polygons (the Platonic polyhedra being only one class among these). The twenty-two polyhedrons were nested into a cosmological maze, which was the reference space within which elenchus was conducted (during walking meditation, for, obviously, the sand lot becomes irrelevant once the transition to 3-space signification is made -- not to mention the transition to regular polytopes). And since polygonality reduced to a matter of proportions and their mantric string theory, the Greek modal scales were musically embedded in the cosmological-maze reference space over which Polyhymnia mused sacred songs: Musculpt. But, just as I do not study details of Gödel's particular Gödel-numbering applications, so I do not study application of gematria to sacred books of The Fertile Crescent Religion. The principle behind gematria interests me, not its application to ethnic histories regarded somehow universal -- particularly as I do not believe in an objectively real linear-time and therefore could have no more interest in histories than in the recognition of pattern recognition treated as evolution. When, in memetime, the human species lost conscious access to the time-independent, fully-synaesthetic, m-logically-valued processing of the quantum substrate of the brain, i.e., the brain not contained by the brain, gematric Musculpt was the way some members of the species retained residuals of what once was the common lot of mankind.

Okay. I have a good example for you from Peter Wilberg (The Qualia Revolution, New Gnosis Publications, 2004, p. 3 and p. 2, emphasis in original):

Cosmic qualia science is founded on a fundamental distinction between inner qualities of awareness on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the outward qualities of any phenomena that we may be aware of…

…“qualia” -- sensual qualities of awareness that are distinct in principle from any sensory qualities we are aware of…

The first statement is legitimate in ₁T₂ logic: exemplified in the rule that “no A is not-A”. The second statement, however, violates the ₁T₂-logical rule that “the case is either A or not-A”; in so doing, it is a statement “typical of theosophical thinking”. In both statements a distinction is drawn, establishing two possible logical values to the given proposition; this is indicated by the 2 to the right-hand side of the T. According to the first statement, only one or the other will be true (indicated by the 1 to the left-hand side of the T), not both simultaneously: no A (inner qualities) is not-A (outward qualities). The definition of “qualia” offered in the second statement, however, doesn't fit this formal-logic mode. It fits the mode of Conze-Nagarjuna's third lemma (earlier discussed): “x both exists and does not exist”. The distinctive property of “qualia” as given by Wilberg is resident in the fact that “x exists” (qualities of awareness) and simultaneously “does not exist” (qualities we are not aware of). The formal logic of this statement is ₂T₂: there are two possible mutually exclusive distinct logical values, both of which can simultaneously be “true” (the notion of truth-value is not actually applicable). In shift from the either/or ₁T₂ logic to the both/and ₂T₂ logic, the objectively real linear-time resident in iterations of either/or is lost to the simultaneity of both/and. What is the formal logic mode of Conze-Nagarjuna's forth lemma, “x neither exists nor does not exist”? This also is a ₂T₂ logic, but one would have to invert the T so that it is upside down. In terms of the notation employed for the “calculus of indications” described in G. Spencer Brown's Laws of Form, the “tokens” or “marks” or “crosses” indicating a “crossing” (here denoted by T) are inverted (see The Moon of Hoa Binh, Vol. 2, pp. 334-44, for a discussion of this). The inverted cross or T denotes logical operations in numerical counterspace, a reference space of counter-hypernumbers beyond counter-quaterions. It is important to recognize that Brown's calculus is exclusively confined to ₁T₂ logic, but in “proving” Sheffer's postulates for Boolean algebras he simultaneously demonstrated that the notion of “distinction” is more fundamental than that of “truth-value”, and this opened up understanding of Lukasiewicz _µT_m-valued logics relative to states of non-simple identity-transparency. Interpretation of Lukasiewicz logics as indicating the infinitude of states of gray or fuzziness over the real-number line between 0 and 1 -- whatever the pragmatic utility -- is a dissimulation derivative of the mistaken retention of truth-value as the foundational notion of logic. Arbitrarily cutting the line, the plane, the solid, the polytope -- whatever referent one may choose -- at two poles, 0 and 1, positive and negative, in space or counter-space -- however the representation is made -- is to illegitimately orient that which is nonorientable to the mth-degree of hypertwisting: the “logical walk” over the reference space/counter-space is uninterruptedly without ₁T₂-logical boundary. When, in “crossing” from ₁T₂ logic to ₂T₂ logic, objectively real linear-time and truth-value are lost (this loss of time being quasi-equivalent to Gebser's “concretion of time”), just try to imagine all we do not know spread over transfinitely _µT_m-valued Lukasiewicz logics! If x is particle and not-x is wave, and the double-slit experiment is equivalent to the “cross” or the T, then we begin to see how sophomoric is contemporary science. Karl Pribram, reviewing, in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, Ignacio Matte Blanco's The Unconscious as Infinite Sets (Duckworth, 1975), said: “Its charts of terra incognita are as good as any we have as yet available.” This is surely an enormous understatement, and, that being the case, we can understand something of why Gödel ran from Lukasiewicz into nervous and mental disorders late in life -- and why the human species has been collectively following Gödel.

Where I have difficulty with Rudolf Steiner, Rupert Sheldrake, Peter Wilberg, the material channeled by Jane Roberts through her Seth, and a good portion of phenomenology, particularly of the descriptive variety, is the inability to overcome incredulity that the 19th century notions of “field” and “resonance”, which are not general enough to unify theories even of matter, are somehow general enough to explain both quantitative material-quanta and qualitative awareness-qualia, i.e., to unify pan-hylism and pan-psychism on some more fundamental, non-binary level -- and that this can be done, not only largely in the frame established by ₁T₂ logic, with just a few minor variances there from, but also in a fashion substantively communicable in speakable languages and notatable between the covers of books, even books written on a commercially viable, popular level. Entrepreneurial psychology, entrepreneurial spirituality, entrepreneurial theosophy, entrepreneurial meditation, entrepreneurial yoga, entrepreneurial socialism, entrepreneurial Marxism: praxis-based, action-based, actor-less postmodernism -- Elmer Gantry's revolutionary New Knowledge/Wisdom of the timeless future. I lived not far from Jane Roberts for several years during the mid-'70s and after a letter exchange I periodically received phone calls (in lieu of an invitation to visit). This specific issue was the focus of the conversations. Is non-locality of whatsoever (whatever the term “non-locality” actually signifies) to be understood in relation to “field”; indeed, in terms of “space” -- ponderable, hyper, abstract, empty, etheric, akasic? Particularly so as “field” is a passive-time dependent notion, if not also linear-time dependent. All these years later, I remain totally incredulous. And is there some “fundamental stuff”, quantitative and/or qualitative, material and/or immaterial -- with elemental point, line, plane, solid, polytope? No such stuff; no such elemental; no such bifurcation to mend: so it seems to me. And what has been bifurcated is not authentically unifiable by means of any march from the bifurcation. All “tonalities” are in some fashion constructs, “marks” readymade for placement on Marcel Duchamp's “Large Glass” -- even from the notion “identity-transparency” which is a formal-logic way of denoting field-theoretic “resonance” which is a phenomenological way of legitimating “generative empathy” which is a neuropsychiatric way of handling “contagion” which is a social anthropologist's way of collectivizing the psychologist's “projective-identification” at “transference” sparring with “counter-transference” (which metaphysically and in meditative contemplation can be/exist/transpire on the subject/[physical]object-level over the “base-state” of… not necessarily some “fundamental stuff”). Tame extensions of the _CT_C-logically-valued Cloud of “Unknowing” by bringing it (is-ness, that-ness, such-ness) via concretization/personification to the ₁T₂-logically-valued? Hmmmm. Not too likely. But I always enjoy engagement with any explorations in this area I happen to happen upon.

Peter Wilberg responds:

A friend of mine recently forwarded to me some comments on my book The Qualia Revolution which he found on your site. I'm assuming here, perhaps falsely, that you were the author and would like to offer some remarks in response:

You seem to wish to subject the following statements of mine to logical critique, as if they were merely asserting abstract metaphysical propositions that cannot stand up to logical analysis:

Cosmic qualia science is founded on a fundamental distinction between inner qualities of awareness on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the outward qualities of any phenomena that we may be aware of…

…“qualia” -- sensual qualities of awareness that are distinct in principle from any sensory qualities we are aware of…

Are you saying that there are no grounds at all for distinguishing what we experience, for example as a 'black mood' or 'warmth of feeling' (both of which are prime examples of what I call 'sensual qualities of awareness') from 'the awareness of sensory qualities' - for example an outer sense-perception of the colour black or an inner sensation of bodily warmth or temperature? My terminological distinction was the best way I could find to call attention to a most important, but hitherto ignored experiential distinction.

My deeper definition of psychical qualia defines them as tonal qualities,i.e., qualities of feeling awarenessof the sort expressed in the qualities of musical and vocal tones. Is not feeling one's whole awareness of the world sharpened and raised to a higher pitch by the sharp tone of a high-toned trumpet or trombone something quite distinct from the sensory experience of the physical sounds produced by the instrument. Yet it does requires 'a musical ear' i.e., deep musical feeling to make this experiential distinction - one which I felt it as my task as a philosopher to seek to articulate conceptually in the simplest and most concise way possible.

I see the central issue at stake here as whether or not feeling awareness - however well or poorly expression in conceptual and logical terms - is or is not an independent mode of cognition - one prior to and more primordial than both sensory experience and its logical-conceptual representation.

So bluntly stated, this notion may sound to many like an appeal to old-fashioned (but thereby necessarily false?) 19th century 'Romanticism'. Hence my attempt, in The Qualia Revolution, to give the latter new, more concise articulation - along with specific concepts such as 'field' and 'resonance' (re-sonare).

On the other hand I do find your site most intriguing, and also respect your primary interest in sophisticated logics. Given this interest I myself would be most interested in what you make of the formalised 'dialectical logic' of Michael Kosok - my earliest teacher. Even if only for your own interest therefore, I would recommend a look at the new dialectics.

The inner logic of my own writing is expressed primarily through the type of linguistic 'chiasm' employed so frequently by both Michael Kosok and Marx (e.g., human science of nature / natural science of man). In my case the chiasm 'from a new awareness of experience to a new experience of awareness' constitutes the very definition of what I call 'The New Yoga', and embracing a number of sub-chiasms such as 'from awareness of sensory experience to a sensual experience of awareness'. I see the chiasm not merely as one type of linguistic 'trope' but as the principle linguistic medium for articulating dialectical relationships.

With best regards,
Peter Wilberg

PS: If you would honour me by including part of my response to your comments on your site that would be most appreciated. You may also find my new site of interest - aiming as it does at offering a new rational 'spiritual' world-view rooted-based on a logically-refined reinterpretation of Indian metaphysics. In particular you may be interested in the articles in the Archive section entitled 'The Science Delusion' and 'Beyond the Religion of Objective Science'.

I reply:

Dear Prof. Wilberg:

Thank you very much for your response to my website posting referring to your work. I deeply appreciate your taking the time to address my comments, as this has helped me push my thoughts along. I will, indeed, post your response immediately after my posting, followed by my reply, given below. And I will visit your website and referrals as you suggest. Thank you again. Sincerely, William L. Pensinger

In using two statements lifted from your excellent book, The Qualia Revolution, as examples illustrating possible semantic differences between two-orders of logical-value, I should have gone a bit further. I am not saying that the two statements cannot stand up to logical analysis; rather, that the two statements can be understood to exemplify two different orders of logical-value. The difference between “not standing up” and “exemplifying two different orders” is the crucial point needing further elaboration. My treatment of this is based upon an interpretation of Lukasiewicz m-valued logics where a given proposition can validly have simultaneous imports which are not interpreted in relation to truth-value, to truth/falsity, and therefore cannot be subjected to the notion of contradiction. Indeed, there are numerous orders into which such formal propositions can validly fall where the number of values possible to the given proposition is not necessarily equal to the number of values available under a given concrete interpretation of that proposition. I notate the values available to the left-hand-side of the T and those possible to the right-hand-side. The classical-logic order of Lukasiewicz logics is ₁T₂ logic (the proposition can be either true or false, but not simultaneously both); all other orders of Lukasiewicz logics are notated with higher numbers to the left- and right-hand sides. The left-hand-side number can never be larger than that to the right-hand-side. The problem here has been how to understand the meanings carried by higher-order Lukasiewics logics. Your second proposition, I feel, is instructive in that regard. My ₂T₂-logic interpretation of your second proposition does not suggest I hold there is no ground for distinguishing between “black mood” and the “color black” or “warmth of feeling” and “bodily warmth”; rather, that this distinction may not be an absolute either/or distinction, nor a matter of “shades of gray” between the inner and outer poles. I am saying that there are two possible values to the proposition and that I feel both are validly simultaneously available in this concrete interpretation. With that statement, we are no longer in the realms of logical formalism. Let's jump, and then come back to this point. Kandinsky used the term “pure feeling” to connote some aspect of his experience, and this became an important factor in his notion of color as applied to what he called “non-objective art”. How do we get from “black mood” / “color black” to Kandinsky's “pure feeling” of color? What is one difference between “black mood” and “pure feeling”? “Black mood” is imbued with affect-charge, in the Jungian sense of the term, a term which Jung does not use as in any way equivalent to “feeling”. “Feeling” to Jung is more like aesthetic judgment, while affect-charge is indicative of emotional agitation. Kandinsky's “pure feeling” suggests to me an inner feeling-toned state not only free of affect-charge but also empty of all other concrete contents. The aesthetic response is absolutely free, in the idealized case, of judgmental properties; the “object” -- inner or outer -- eliciting the aesthetic feeling-toned response has somehow become indistinguishable from the responder: a state of unadulterated, pure identity transparency has been established. Call that state “generative empathy”. Leaving aside the physics of light and color, the properties of binocular visual space, whether or not color perception is learned or innately neurologically encoded, whether or not color exists out-there or only in-here, whether color in synaesthetic perception is utterly different from color under radically differentiated sensory modalities, we can still ask how a “pure feeling” of black, say, a bare knowledge-through-identity of black, could establish itself in awareness. “Black mood” not only has affect-charge but also concrete contents relative to inner and outer objects -- the “why” of the black mood -- as well as metareferential (tropological) reach with respect to the “color black”. And there is simply being “in” the black mood as well as not-so-simply being aware of being “in” the black mood. I think we can easily countenance that being aware of being in a black mood doesn't have much power to change it. But this is not the case with being aware of being aware of being “in” a black mood. It is in the exponentiation of self-reflexivity that its effectiveness is to be found. Once we begin exponentiating self-reflexion, affect-charge falls away, concrete contents fall away, metareferential associations between “mood” and “color” fall away. Under infinite regress over self-observation, in the idealized case, we would be left with the “pure feeling” of the color black by identity transparency. But, formalistically speaking, exponentiation of incommensurate, non-reducible orders of self-reference is the very basis of m-valued Lukasiewicz logics! Resonance between two or more discrete entities is qualitatively different from identity transparency. But this way of speaking is upside down for me: I believe that separate-self-existence demerges from unadulterated, pure identity transparency, not vice versa. And, if this is the case, the field concept developed over atomic theories of matter, as well as the derivative notion of resonance, as useful as these ideas have been, are not adequate to the nature of the case. Some more-fundamental notions, it seems to me, are required.

One measure of the strength of the religion is the fact that the atmospheric science establishment thirty years later has finally acknowledged inevitability of anthropogenic climate change without challenging the prevalent opinion that the Earth's atmosphere is a Newtonian domain -- with sensitive dependence on initial conditions, of course. Then there's… And since they now feel comfortable making numerical predictions spread out over decades instead of days, one can only conclude they have discovered the missing initial conditions and/or have figured out some way to get rid of all the butterflies. When any even intradepartmental report of necessity has to be the LCD -- lowest common denominator, power-pointed to LCD screens or no -- just imagine what comes out of an intergovernmental panel! Check out the IPCC's guestiments 20 years ago when first set up. Mariah! Whistlin' in the wind. What a way to paint your wagon! The military-service-funded, cascade computer model of tornado genesis could only make predictions 12-hours in advance and only on a 1-km grid and only thirty years ago. Ha-ha-ha! And that gave rise to fistfights at severe storms conferences. As I said earlier, “Religion is the glutamate of the people!” -- particularly religions of personification Resurrecting the EgoSphere P2P via open-source VR in Cyberia of Second Life, U2, and YouTube, telepresent by MoSoSo, compliments of the RMA -- Revolution in Military Affairs -- precluding a revolution in human awareness, whatever proBono BandAid there might be for We-are-the-World -- coercive “we”, and only we -- boob-tubed by the Revolution in TV perpetrated by MicroSoft internetworking, embedding you, yes you in Jacob's Elevator to the 57th floor, live in the wars in I-raq, Somalia, Afghan, I-ran, the airways, WeWorld's mega-urban-region rapid transit systems… Full-blown synaesthetic animism was not “primitive religion”, as religion is by definition primitive; speaking in memetime, it was prior to The (glutamate) Flood, prior to First Coming, prior to Second Coming as IT revolution when TV, which has not yet left the breast, leaves the udder mooing, “MoSoSo! MoSoSo! MoSoSo!” and “GooGal! GooGal! GooGal!”. Got my glutamate! Got my etching! Both of the neuron and the perineural tissue. Multivalued to single-valued. Ah, what a relief! Got that ol' time religion! Now for the acoustic neuroma and the glioma: both of the neuron and the perineural tissue. That's all folks: religion as RSS.

Not only Against the Day -- against the hour, the minute, the second; against the week, the month, the year, the millennium. Glutamatergic linear-time: a Readymade on display in The Armory Show. Boredom. That's it! The cause of violence. Uh, hold it. Got that? Quoting J. G. Ballard (Kingdom Come, Fourth Estate, 2006, pp. 104-5):

“…Witch-hunts, auto-da-fés, heretic burnings, the hot poker shoved up the enemy's rear, gibbets along the skyline. Willed madness can infect a housing estate or a whole nation.”

“Thirties Germany?”

“A good example. People still think the Nazi leaders led the German people into the horrors of race war. Not true. The Germans were desperate to break out of their prison. Defeat, inflation, grotesque war reparations, the threat of barbarians advancing from the east. Going mad would set them free, and they chose Hitler to lead the hunting party. That's why they stayed together till the end. They needed a psychopathic god to worship, so they recruited a nobody and stood him on the high altar. The great religions have been at it for millennia.”

“States of willed madness? Christianity? Islam?”

“Vast systems of psychopathic delusion that murdered millions, launched crusades and founded empires. A great religion spells danger. Today people are desperate to believe, but they can only reach God through psychopathology. Look at the most religious areas of the world at present -- the Middle East and the United States. These are sick societies, and they're going to get sicker. People are never more dangerous than when they have nothing left to believe in except God.”

“…People are deliberately re-primitivizing themselves. They yearn for magic and unreason, which served them well in the past, and might help them again. They're keen to enter a new Dark Age…”

“…The consumer society is a kind of soft police state. We think we have choice, but everything is compulsory. We have to keep buying or we fail as citizens. Consumerism creates huge unconscious needs that only fascism can satisfy. If anything, fascism is the form that consumerism takes when it opts for elective madness…”

Wyvern of suburban wynd: willed madness -- or madness of the Nietzschean will? Only an exurbanite could believe violence is caused by boredom, or an ex-Marine turned war correspondent who has written an acclaimed Viet Nam war novel themed of such substantive ideas. Boredom…boredom…boredom: shop! shop! shop! Who shops? Who fights the wars? Why is it people have nothing left to believe in? Who is responsible? It has to be a who. Belief, non-belief, disbelief, unbelief, belieflessness: these are human behaviors. And why episodic fulminations of “nothing left”? Franco-Prussian war; WWI; WWII… Three wars -- or one war in three acts, three fulminations, three nothing-left's? Four fulminations? Five? The horror, the horror of an acentric world because there is nothing, just nothing left to believe in? Sounds like a substantive idea right out of anti-animistic Harvard! Nietzsche came of age just after the Tristanakkord was written. Was the madness of the Nietzschean will willed madness? Or was it the will Nietzsche set against the madness registered in the Tristanakkord? A decade later came the Franco-Prussian war. Consumerism is quite likely a cause of global warming, but it is no more likely a cause of violence than is boredom: nay, thematic self-exoneration, flights from responsibility, these substantive ideas. “Inauthenticity” -- which is akin to boredom, akin to the impulse to shop -- now that's closer to the mark, if still off in Left field, one more riff on the fetish as cause-all, not merely causal: theater over the counter, as well as beneath the skirt. What was the madness registered in the Tristanakkord? Who caused that? What class of human beings? Could it be that “deliberately re-primitivizing themselves” -- in memetime right up until taaaday -- plays in unconscious thematic compensatory relation to the cause of the madness registered in the Tristanakkord, one overtone-stack among myriad species of beat frequencies echoing from memetimes past, from ice ages of yore, from climate shifts induced by Gods in Collision? You think “Defeat, inflation, grotesque war reparations, the threat of barbarians advancing from the east” caused the willed madness named Nazification, all that collective projective-identification at transference and counter-transference in contagion, resonance, participation mystique, generative empathy leading to mass violence, total war -- or were these mere symptoms, like consumerism, like boredom, like belieflessness? And if mere symptoms, what is the self-exoneration of this theme exonerating, what is the theme this flight is a flight from responsibility for?

Oh, no, Ballard's book, Kingdom Come, is one more British writer's fear-ridden fiction on the Hobbesian all-against-all, which is as far into the Dark Continent of unconscious animism Anglo-Saxon Lockeans -- in part a class thing -- have ever been able to see. Lord of the Flies. The Beach. Same ol', same ol'. Being fiction, there is deniability, of course, but the ideational march nonetheless betrays the scribe's commitment. And what is this all-against-all hidden away in the novelist's unconscious? Quoting Kingdom Come (p. 174, all-caps and ellipses in the original):

Then a harsh voice boomed over our heads:

“NOTHING IS TRUE! NOTHING IS UNTRUE…!”

Carradine stopped and held my arm, as if the sky was about to fall onto the dome and slide down the roof towards us.

“…UNTRUE! NOTHING IS…HEAR YE…NOTHING IS TRUE…!”

Nothing is true and nothing is untrue. As earlier given, Conze-Nagarjuna's forth lemma of the “concretion of time” in The Ever-Present Origin, Suchness: x neither exists nor does not exist. Everything is true and everything is untrue: the third lemma, where x both exists and does not exist. These ₁T₂-logic-transcending (O dread! derivative of Abelian trans-al-jabr) propositions signify, for the linear-time-bound mind, the Great Nihil: sociologically, all-against-all. “The Great Books of the East” were being translated into European languages when Abel produced his “Impossibility” Theorem, which was actually an existence proof for “authenticity of self-reflexive open awareness of unbounded wholeness”, so to speak. The working out of the implications of this in higher mathematics was a “yellowing”, a jaunissement, of the European mind -- Ubersetzungen zum gesuchten Wort jaunissement -- a process so threatening it was “extrojected” to Franco-Prussian-war-era “Yellow Peril” hysteria by collective projective-identification. Out of the rat holes of Asia! Is it any wonder the prevailing account of self-organization can't see past ADAM, uh, Adam Smith that is? With an international system ever accelerating in complexity for the past several hundred years, blocked by this time-bound, anti-animistic, fearing all-against-all-behind-every-tree mindset from transiting to higher and higher levels of self-organizational competency, what are the likely outcomes? After Ballard's notion, suburbs that dream of violence, perhaps? And so very, very much more.

My perspective on the quantum computing of m-logically-valued Lukasiewicz monetary units has long been that authentic quantum information units are not q-bits, but non-binary q-µits. No probabilities about it, no statistics, no odds-on, no racetrack accelerators. Mu-its, mu information units, units of _µT_m logics, not merely ₁T₂ logics. Logical-value order-types (having nothing to do with truth-value, but, rather, with non-simple identity-transparency) are incommensurate; no concatenation of ₁T₂-logic operations yields a “conclusion” in a higher order-type. Meaning is order-of-logical-value dependent. If the number of q-µits is q, the total number of actual states (not possible states) is µ^q, where q = M, and M is the logical-value-partitioning imposed at measurement (by the particular characteristics of the measurement intervention employed; which does not collapse the superposition, only “pull out” a given order-type from the enfold: a class of attractor, teleology, “anthropic” principle). Just as the domain of a logarithm function over a Riemann surface has been arbitrarily cut from the origin to infinity in order to “defang” multi-valued functions, so mu-its have been transformed into b-its by arbitrarily regarding a periodic function as linear via frequency splitting, a splitting-type renormalization which yields the functions of time. The full circle of time, with its simultaneous _CT_C phase angles, is transformed into a line from negative-infinity to positive-infinity by making an arbitrary cut (Gebserian de-concretion, a decoherencing) from The Ever-Present Origin to the time circle, which is actually a logarithmic spiral over the spiral ramp of a Riemann surface, where the bridges are established at branch points of the universal wave-function by the simultaneous m-values of each universal physical “constant”. This operation on time is what polarizes, what yields the field, what is responsible for charge creation, parcel formation, and so on. Anthropic teleological attractor can be regarded “strange” only after the full circle of time has been ironed out. The pulsed radiation fed to superconductant DNA, as beat down through its frequency funnel (itself an m-valued spiral ramp), simultaneously executes temporal operations by 3-fold temporal curl over µ^q actual states, the calculated effects on each such state being selected by the particular characteristics of the phase boundaries receiving the pulse-coded information radiated by the molecule, the act of reception by phase boundary being a measurement intervention. The increasingly strangled biosphere does not need faster binary processors by two-qubit controlled-NOT operations; it requires the functional integration only _µT_m-logic processors of q-µits can provide. Results of such processing can only be implemented across the human-systems/biosphere interface by m-logically-valued Lukasiewicz monetary units. Carbon trading and the like are at far, far too low a level of self-organizational competency.

There have been language problems. Over-learning the languages of physicist and chemist and engineer prevents communication with one's own Whitmanian “other I-am's” via internal Musculpt: not the way to go. And then potentially-interested parties, for evident reasons, have no appearance in English; they speak Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai… The language problem doubly-exponentiated. And when the list of humans on planet Earth and their life histories is scoured, those uniquely qualified, who should be interested, are never interested. Are there any criteria? Maybe not. Been that way for decades. After the full international agreement is finally reached -- thirty years later? forty years later? “later” than should have been the case -- global trade in carbon quotas, allotments, scot and lot -- when the quota assigners have short-term vested interests in dissimulation and the local-parish enforcers can only hurt themselves by carrying out enforcement -- is not only at a far, far too low a level of self-organizational competency, it is altogether a sham. Moreover, it assumes a very high level of atmospheric mixing efficiency, the absence of atmospheric limited spacetime domains, the absence of gas-modulation impingements upon atmospheric frequency response windows, the irrelevance of electron temperature enhancements, hot auroras, high-altitude-induced local magnetic anomalies… Bye-Bye Birdy!… to mention only a few classes of indicators that are market externalities no ₁T₂-logical monetary unit could possibly internalize, whatever quotas are traded. And a Tobin Tax to pay Planetary Assessors and Global Enforcers would be even worse. Why? Because a Tobin Tax would further force currency unions, thereby removing locally-specific information from exchange units moving through the monetary system within which price-tagging is made, such tagging -- ₁T₂-logical, therefore not exactly fine-grained -- being the primary criterion upon which market self-organizational competency is based. Is every possible fart to be ₁T₂-logic rationally allocated by the CentComE-SupPlans -- Central Command Economy SuperPlanners -- according to Green Planometrics, assessed by the Planetary Assessors, and unwarranted farts sanctioned -- more scot and lot; assault-rifle rounds into the air; scouring the region in question of the unwanted by satellite-guided drones seeking DNA fingerprints on the End-of-Violence MasterList -- by the Global Enforcers? Voluntary compliance will work when the going gets tough, assuming that what needs to be complied with can be CentComEed and GrePlanned down to details, this fart, that fart? Palm oil is great for the Netherlands, an ecological disaster for Indonesia, a financial windfall for the Straits Chinese, by peat-bog draining and peat burning a great boost for the global atmosphere's carbon content which will persist over the next millennium leaving a black smudge on the planetary boundary layer. Vast expansion of corn monocropping for ethanol is great for hybrid motor cars of the First World, but means tortillas made of taro starch for the lower Latin classes of the Union of North America, local information traces of which will disappear from peso tagging with appearance of the Union's amero, one last failed attempt at a vehicle currency -- ₁T₂-logical, one might add -- being a functional international reserve currency. Trial and error is the method of choice chosen by the CentComE-SupPlans. And all the trials and all the errors, GrePlans tells us, must be made within a decade, a convenient exhortatory period arrived at on the basis of…

And then there are mu-its. The very same mu-its used by Earth's atmosphere (e.g., the acoustically-modified gravity-wave modes filtered from the computer models of a dynamical meteorology regarding the atmosphere as a Newtonian domain) and the quantum substrate associated with intranuclear-neuronal and intramitochondrial-perineural DNA, i.e., quantum substrate as the brain not contained by the brain, and by glutamateric etching electrochemically filtered and thus not available to the normal state of consciousness. Among other mu-it users, natural processes, planet Earth. Map bureaucratic variables on Koch-curve-type fractal boundaries-without-boundary and they become, not only sociological band-pass filters, but standing-wave phase boundaries-without-boundary (internetworked for e-monies) selecting mu-it order-types arrayed over superposed monetary-unit bases on a local-indicator basis. Mu-it palm-oil superposed price, multiply-tagged relative to multiple local incentives and sanctions, simultaneously processed by market sorting-demons reading real-time the fluctuating m-values of measures on multiple local indicators tagged finely-grained to m-logically-valued monetary units. Not something brought down from above; something brought up from below. Can't happen by command decision. Quantum autopoionomies -- natural and human-created -- resolve to no decision science and no ₁T₂ processing, however fast.

I remember the day, I don't remember which day it was, we were walking from the distant parking lot, past the dairy, on the way to the Bradfield building during leaf-fall of 1975 on the Cornell campus, laughing about that NYC reporter who had dismissed a six months in advance forecast of a tropical storm tracking into Long Island -- Ho-ho-ho! -- and who was thoroughly beside himself when it actually happened as predicted. Those days totally on top of the data everyday, cognitively resident in the wild blue yonder, Cornell dynamical meteorologist, specialist in severe storms, Douglas A. Paine, that day voiced his recently arrived at privately-held firm conclusion: “It's too late to do anything, you know.” The subsequent lengthy discussion was the first time I heard what the IPCC has just committed to: “Warming 'likely' man-made, unstoppable” (AP, 2 February 2007):

The scientists -- using their strongest language yet on the issue -- said now that the world has begun to warm, hotter temperatures and rises in sea level “would continue for centuries” no matter how much humans control their pollution. The report also linked the warming to the recent increase in stronger hurricanes.

The 1975 personal conclusion by a young specialist, not a department chairman, not an intradepartmental committee, not an intergovernmental panel, however, was not based primarily on a consideration of the changing complement of greenhouse gases; rather, on studies of the atmosphere treated as a relativistic-quantum system exhibiting extraordinary properties of superintegration and exquisite frequency-window-dependent sensitivity to complex angular momentum impingements carried by vehicles like the solar wind. This was a cascade/reverse-cascade perspective on severe storm genesis and atmospheric cycles, strongly resisted by the field of meteorology which was by then well swept up in chaos theory butterflies -- resisted as well by physicists specialized in the relativity and quantum theories -- and, finally, altogether squashed. A peered paper published by Doug Paine in Eos around 1980 on solar cycles and solar-terrestrial interactions, a paper incorporating some of the basic notions on the atmosphere as a relativistic-quantum system, notions he had been working with by that time for over a decade, was regarded in harsh terms -- the by-then characteristic knee-jerk response to this class of notions, however rigorous, however supported by data, however well computer modeled. So, thirty years later, as impress of the signatures of climate shift become so deep as to be utterly undeniable, the field shifts gears -- but not of its own accord, and the gear-shift involves no revisioning of fundamentals in the field that did not well foresee what it now affirms. Clearly, not of its own accord, for it took the successful publicity efforts of a non-meteorologist, an ex-Vice-President, Al Gore, to remove enough risk, remove enough peer pressure against affirmation of the climate-change thesis, such that a new party line could reverberate through the field. And it looks as if Al Gore will receive a Nobel Prize for having provided this service: well deserved. This is an instructive story as regards how things are likely to go in the future as the species attempts very belated response to a situation that will “'…continue for centuries' no matter how much humans control their pollution.” Did not well foresee this! No matter how humans control their pollution, circa 2007! Too late to do anything by 1975, perhaps! Inherently unpredictable, as chaos theory perspectives would have it? Sensitive dependence on initial conditions? Why do you think chaos theory entered meteorology? Because it was already too late to do anything! Therefore, it just had to have been inherently unpredictable. Some years after 1975, we learned that during the early-1920s Soviet scientists were applying Einstein's Special Relativity theory to development of mathematical models of processes transpiring in Earth's atmosphere, the same thing D. A. Paine, independently, began doing during the second half of the 1960s. This Soviet initiative was resolutely rejected by Anglo-American-French science (part and parcel, according to my thesis, not only of anthropic contribution to climate shift, but also to origins of the Second World War: overdetermination, as the psychoanalytic term has it). Had a relativistic-quantum model of Earth's atmosphere been allowed development during the 1920s, it would not have taken until 1975 for a young specialist to realize -- on the basis of relativistic-quantum perspectives -- that it was too late to do anything. And still, thirty years later, no such model is being employed! So, what do we not know about in 2007 which has already become too late to do anything about? Quite possibility, a lot more than we are capable of imagining. I should add that this is my own personal opinion on these matters, the opinion of a non-specialist, of a person without qualifications: Joe Blow reaction. I do not know what Dr. Paine's assessment of the present situation is, or how he would recount history of the past thirty years.

I am not challenging the existence of what Peter Wilberg (The Qualia Revolution, New Gnosis, 2004) calls “qualia” or in singular a “quale”. Wilberg's book is excellent and a very considerable contribution, well worth whatever memetime one might choose to spend with it. I am challenging the notion that the physical “field” and the physical process of “resonance” are adequate metaphors -- for they can be no more than that -- with which to account for qualia. In The Moon of Hoa Binh, our novel, the protagonist, Derek Dillon, uses the neologism “psychoideograph” to designate exactly what Wilberg refers to with the word “quale” and to reference it to the metalanguage Musculpt. This neologism was arrived at by appeal to, not the phenomenology, but the “proprioceptology” of the direct experience -- systematically investigated over a several year period during, for instance, sessions of figure drawing from the nude. Dillon also uses the term “psychoideographically authentic” wherein the word “authentic” has an imputed sense similar to that as when used in Bon Tzog-chen (judging by Anne Klein's presentation in English). Insofar as “one” remains “in” the body, i.e., in IBE, and is not in OBE, sensory nerve terminals (proprioceptors/muscles, interoceptors/visera-hara, exteroceptors/skin) are necessarily involved -- not only apperception and perception (Piaget-Winnicott maturational development very much involves accumulation of motor skills at playing). Visualization of the tip of the charcoal stick as the end of the finger moving over the model while doing a Kimon Nicoliades' “contour drawing” as slow as possible is not only instructive about the various classes of sensory nerve terminals, but also of “residual tension patterns” in the small extraocular muscles and their role in “eye-movement reprogramming”. This can be verified by prolonged practice of autosensory observation in an appropriate setting (e.g., drawing, digging trees, “sacred” dance-movements) by adaptation of the mindset of a “fair witness” (disbelief suspended for duration of the exercise/experiment, a suspension of the “scientific” skepticism precluding objectivity): setting and set. John C. Lilly, M.D., added to this self-reflexive, autocognitive equation a glutamate-quenching propofol (sans the sedative), a sensory isolation environment-cavity, and a repetitive resonance inducer calling forth a large amplitude vibration: a small periodic stimulus of the same period, or multiples thereof, as the natural frequency of the resonator (i.e., p-electron gas core-cavity of intranuclear neuronal and intramitochondrial perineural DNA). In terms of Autogenic Therapy: the antiepileptic effects of AT practice upon different levels of PM epileptic discharge relate to entrainment to biological rhythms set by the intracellular Zeitgeber (and ventricular resonances thereof, and resultant beta-endorphin and ACTH ventricular-fluid levels and their involvement with glutamateric phase-advance on rhythms): the variable, radiation-dependent, internal frequency of p-electron parcel temperature oscillation, origin of the shaktipat quale and the qualia of the kriyas, temperature oscillations governed by exactly the same temporal-operators regulating temperature oscillations of air parcels in Earth's atmosphere, whereupon m-valued acoustically-modified gravity-wave modes are generated). Cogitate, cogitate, cogitate, cogitate, cogitate, cogitate… Demystification of mantra (and the verbal formula of Autogenic Training). What do you think I've been doing since 1980? If I had the resources, I would add Musculpt, the psychoideographically authentic metalanguage of qualia, to the experimental setup pulled together by Lilly: biofeedback-enhanced Tank Tantra. Lilly also tried to do this in an interspecies communications environment, thus providing an additional “control” with which to evaluate apparent findings. And the species he chose to work with -- unlike Daniel Quinn's Ishmael -- possesses a unique bottle-nosed, optico-acoustic, sonic-visioning system directly analogous to the m-logically-valued, pulse-code receiver/transmitter properties of superconductant DNA and the “viscera-hara” of the photo-acoustic spectrometer. Even so, even with all this field stuff and resonance stuff, still the notions of “field” and “resonance” are not general enough to actually account for the incredible complexity of psychoideographic Musculpt qualia. Going more general, Dillon in MOON used the term “feeling space”, and topological transformations of what that term designates, synaesthetic plenum of Kandinsky's “pure feeling” unsullied by concrete contents, as a means to approach what Rice Pereira called “the transcendental formal logic of the infinite”, order-type _CT_C, arrayed over the “layered transparent”.

This is not only a big issue, it's a central issue. Consider Wilberg's neologisms (pp. 9-10, Qualia) “simference” (similarity-in-difference) and “simferent” (similar but different). As he describes, these terms are meant to replace the formal logic notions of “identity” (of the apparently distinct) and “selfsameness” (of a given identity: “I am me and only me, heh-heh-heh!” as Dillon's “other I-am” kept heckling him in MOON). Evocative of Georg Cantor's infamous “diagonal proof” that the whole is not greater than the sum of its parts; rather, that by cardinality any given part is the whole sum of all parts (published in 1891 after Kronecker's death): animistic-holographic identity-transparency of part and whole in violation of the rules of ₁T₂ logic. Bitterly opposed not only by Kronecker, but also by Brouwer, Weyl, Poincaré, Wittgenstein… Some attribute the proof to Cantor's bi-polar disorder; others, to Jewish grandparents (on the father's side, of course). The infamous proof became the famous proof as people found ways to dissimulate its import such that it could be regarded as not in violation of ₁T₂ logic. Consider that Cantor is appointed to Halle (a High Lutheran appointed to a High Lutheran school) in 1869 and completes his first important work on m-valued (think Abel's “Impossibility” Theorem) functions -- “uniqueness”, i.e., “selfsameness”, of representation by trigonometric series -- in April of 1870. On July 4, 1870, construction is completed for transformation of the old insane asylum in Burghölzli into the university-affiliated "The Burghölzli" where violations of ₁T₂ logic become regarded symptoms of dysthymia, cyclothymia, hebephrenia, dementia praecox, and schizophrenia (all synonyms for unprocessed pagan animism). On July 19, 1870, France declares war on Prussia. The shows of the Impressionist's Salon des Refusés, which Napoleon III, himself, was forced to permit, span the most creative period of Cantor's career. Wilberg uses the word “resonance” as a replacement for “empathy” (experienice of “generative empathy” -- the order of empathy required for direct full-blown experience of qualia -- being grounds for commitment to The Burghölzli) and the psychoanalytic designators “transference” and “counter-transference”. Related words with subtle shades of distinction -- differing rasa (i.e., “inner taste”) of the involved quale -- are “identification”, “projective-identification”, “participation mystique”, “possession”, “contagion”, “attachment”, “displacement”, “conversion”. Each of these terms signify some qualia class of the breakdown in non-contradiction and exclusion of the middle or distribution of the middle to the polar terms of a ₁T₂-logic proposition: no A is not-A (law of non-contradiction); the case is either A or not-A (law of excluded middle). But notice that “simference” and “simferent” imply no actual violation of these laws of ₁T₂ logic: “similarity” does not actually contradict “difference”, and does not necessarily fall in the middle between “same” and “other” for “similar” can be regarded not actually “same” and therefore must be regarded “other”. “Simference” is not the same as J. G. Bennett's “diversely identical” (Appendix to Chapter 15, “The Geometrical Representation of Identity and Diversity”, J. G. Bennett, The Dramatic Universe, Vol. 1, Hodder & Stoughton, 1956, p. 506). A “diversely identical skew cube” posits that “A absolutely is not-A” which absolutely violates the law of non-contradiction, and since cardinality of the order-types of skewness (which Bennett designates the “apokritical interval”: measure of the capability of an identity to maintain selfsameness under the impress of diversity) is transfinite, the law of excluded middle is also absolutely violated. The “diversely identical” is one understanding of the import of what are known as “Clifford parallels”, the basis of fiber-bundle arithmetics, applications of which underlie much of contemporary quantum and relativity physics, superstring theory in particular. Starting to get some feel, i.e., some rasa of the involved quale, for why there is developing such a huge back-reaction against superstring theory now that it has transited to M Theory? I am me and only me, heh-heh-heh! Bennett and his associates R. L. Brown and M. W. Thring arrived at the “diversely identical” by way of explorations in higher-dimensional field theory (“Unified field theory in a curvature-free five-dimensional manifold”, Proc. Roy. Soc. A, 198, 1949) which they eventually set aside (in my judgment because the very notion of “field” -- and therefore also “resonance” -- is insufficiently general). The skewness factor is directly involved in the appearance and disappearance of “divergence”, the arising of some kind of (potential) difference or disappearance into some kind of (equivalent potential) sameness, and can be handled as a 5th dimension, particularly as the “internal” curled dimension of a Kaluza-Klein 5-space (I would say: the “temporal curl” geometrically handled as the looped internal 5th dimension [related to “loop-quantum gravity” treated as if the gravitational field somehow existed in an objectively real linear-time which is actually a mere memetime]). Brown, Thring, and Bennett used “null vectors”; using bi-vectors and Hodge-duals, this leads to a geometrization of Maxwell's electromagnetic field theory (and in turn to a geometrodynamic treatment of divergence in Earth's atmosphere, be the divergence relative to severe storm genesis or climate shift). “Potential difference”, i.e., voltage, is dependent upon the “divergence” geometrically involved with the skewness factor: that “same” is “difference” when set to zero, when run to infinity -- i.e., run amok, uh, ah, divergent -- is why Maxwell had to posit his demon. Thermodynamic considerations were secondary: without the demon, the electromagnetic field violates ₁T₂ logic. And when ₁T₂ logic is violated there is no way to codify an objectively real and real-numbered, passive, linear-time reference frame: linear-time cannot be defined in _µT_m orders of logical-value supraordinate to the ₁T₂ order (one instant of time cannot be absolutely distinguished from another, and therefore what the “next” instant is is not absolutely ascertainable, et cetera). The instants of time could be subjected to Cantor's infamous diagonal proof: time gone to Cantor dust! Dust on the wind, a wind named Mariah. And if linear-time becomes mere memetime, then that means “repeatability of experimental demonstration” has no objectively real basis: if there is no linear-time, there is no repeatability. The end of science… as we have known it. Long live technological development for sustainable war! Repeats of experimental demonstrations, then, i.e., when linear-time is understood to be memetime, would merely be existential confirmations of ₁T₂-logic consistency of the socialization of cognition, facilitated by neuronal etching at glutamate flood. There is a little insight here into why Anglo-American-French science opposed Soviet introduction of Einstein's Special Relativity into theory of the “classical Newtonian domain” of Earth's atmosphere during the early-1920s, and why, during the mid-1920s, superposition in the m-valued wave-function of Schrödinger's time-independent wave equation was not interpreted with m-valued logics, but rather with probability amplitudes, and why today M Theory founders for not embracing m-valued universal physical constants (understood during the mid-1970s as integral to tornado genesis, a thesis adamantly rejected at the memetime by leading figures in quantum and relativity physics): atemporality is the end of science… as we have known it -- as well as the end of “I am me and only me, heh-heh-heh!”

Whoopse! Perhaps a misimpression has been given. These ideas are not only not consensus physics, they are no part whatsoever of contemporary physics. I have not seen, except in my own writings, even a mention of the idea that Schrödinger's time-independent wave equation should be interpreted with extensions of aleph-null-valued Lukasiewicz logics. I have never seen Lukasiewicz logics interpreted in relation to animistic non-simple identity-transparency. And except for Julian Barbour's The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics (Oxford U. Press, 2000) I have never seen it suggested that there is no need to make Schrödinger's equation linear-time-dependent. People think for their careers, not for themselves. Nor have I seen the notion that universal physical constants are m-valued, indeed, transfinitely m-valued -- all those values being simultaneously existent, not strung out over linear-time, not probable, virtual, or relative to multi-worlds. And the only references I've ever seen to operator-time are based on the standard quantum-mechanics parlance wherein an “operator” is a “measurable” -- not an authentic active agent of topological transformation, like your hand modeling the cosmic clay. Time is not only a handle on space; it is your “hand” on the handle on space. Moreover, if Hugh Everett, III's, “Relative-State Formulation of Quantum Mechanics” is actually a relative-state formulation, then it cannot be a multi-worlds hypothesis: the two notions are incompatible. Everett understood that, but was counseled by the superstars into not understanding it, and into hiding the convolution behind a fog of von Neumann formalism -- a fog serving the same purpose as Barbour's “probability mists” over “Platonia”, mists in several colors. Barbour, too, understands and does not understand (p. 137):

Time does not exist. All that exists are things that change. What we call time is -- in classical physics at least -- simply a complex of rules that govern the change.

I've said that over and over since the mid-1970s -- and if you replace the English word “rules” with the Japanese word “kata”, since the mid-1950s. But Barbour does not go on from there to regard the “complex of rules” -- the “kakureta kata” -- as “time-logics” (in the archaic/traditional animistic Shinto view, that which connects the planar sheets of “kami dust” forming the representation space manifold: THE IDEA, the foundational idea, behind the whole of Japanese aesthetics) and the logical operators manipulating those logics as topologically-, ontologically-, and epistemologically-active, hands-on, transforming-the-“clay” molders of numbered-Gödel-numbered and transfinitely m-logically-valued hyperfunction space logically-latticed, Penrose twistorized, and involuted in multiple Riemannian sheets to Wheelerian superspace by a facsimile of the Regge calculus. I did not come to these ideas by studying physics or higher mathematics. As I briefly summarized, but did not fully recount, in my first communication about these ideas to John A. Wheeler in 1975, I came to mathematics and physics as aids to further insight into childhood experiences and the notions they gave rise to.

Summer of 1953, eight years old, footloose in the rice fields and open ordure pits of Midori Gaoka, Ashiya-cho, kita-Kyushu, Japan. Take the train from Kokura to Orio station; from there, the bus to Ashiya. Then walk for an hour or so out, around, behind the hills on the other side of the airfield. Rice-straw cape in the rain, high-rise wooden-clog geta to stay above the mud of the road. The gravel rail bed of the old Ongagawa Line is still there, but the tracks are long gone, since the war's end. Out every day exploring, all over those rice fields, those hills. Finding the sacred places with their marks of the numinous, I came under the wing of an old grandmother, a go-between who mediated with the spirits, all the classes of kami, in arranging marriages and conducting affairs of the local Shinto shrine, located just up the hill directly above my house. Over a three-year period, I asked her the 10,000 questions and received as many answers -- virtually all of which I later forgot. Storied answers drew me -- a very “suggestible” toe-headed kid -- into the “state” of the subtle history of the valley, its current spiritual morphologies, and their ritual propitiation. Rice ritual. Servicing the dust of yama no kami “descended” from the “mountains” in their myriad sheets. There was a sacred pine tree, ancient on a mound in midst of the fields (in 1990 marked by a menhir inscribed with characters), surrounded by blood grass -- grass phosphorescent red in sunlight, black-red in rain. Red rice was sometimes grown in the fields immediately adjacent. Especially when it rained, if I could, I sat under that tree wrapped in a cape watching sheets of rain lash the wind-driven rice into waves upon waves -- and I would hear things and see things, and then I would ask Obaasan, the old grandmother, what those things meant. Except for the general gist and a very few concrete particulars, I don't remember her answers, only the myriad occasions -- and the fact that I wasn't there, not there in any way like I am here now. For there was no “I” like this “I” and there was no “there” like this “here” and there was no “now” like this “now”. That, the fact of that, I never forgot and never had to try to remember. But that which I never forgot, I could not later really understand. And it would not leave me alone: engendering dissociative “Plexiglas wall experiences” and “near fugues”. Trying to understand it, which was all held there in my head somehow, was what led me to mathematics and physics: looking for a way to understand what I already held somehow, for if I couldn't understand it I couldn't know what I was, if I was, and surely, in that case, I'd never be free of the “Plexiglas wall experiences” and “near fugues”. But I didn't even know that this was what I was doing, or trying to do, until a decade later: 1963, when I read F. S. C. Northrop's The Meeting of East and West. During high school in Alaska I had finagled extracurricular tutorials in symbolic logic, topology, and foundations of mathematics which took me into areas that re-invoked echoes of the “places” I had been during 1953-6, but I never fully registered that fact until 1963, when it finally hit me as a shock wave. About the same time I read Northrop, I ran across J. G. Bennett's appendix on the “diversely identical” and I was consciously on my way from that point onward: trying to reconstruct in detail what I already held in my head somehow, taking from mathematics and physics only what was useful and refashioning it according to the requirements already in my head somehow.

Timeless change. Yes, that is what is implied by Barbour's statement. And yes, I understand what that means, how it is, and have no problem with it. Consider that the kanji -- ideograph -- for ma, sacred “active” space, is a gate holding the moon, a moon that represents the sun regarded a goddess because of her extraordinary powers. This is the Goddess A{ma}terasu from whom the Emperor is descended, and upon whom his regalia is scripted. The Emperor stands in for an “empty center” -- a singularity, a discontinuity in an equipotential surface (see: Hayao Kawai, “The Hidden Gods in Japanese Mythology”, Eranos Yearbook 1985, Volume 54, 1986; and the 1991 University of Hawaii Ph.D. dissertation by Pat Masters [another military brat footloose in Japan during the 1950s] on the subject of scripting the Emperor, concerning which I heard discussions in progress, but never saw a finished copy), this surface one dotty Yayoi Kusama kami-dust sheet among many -- an empty center about which self-organization spontaneously congeals. To the degree the Emperor acts, to the same degree can there be no spontaneous social order. The Emperor is, just is, in order to signify the fact that politics is not a decision science, that the Everett relative-state wave-function of the corpus (think amae, think ninjo-giri) is the actual autopoietic operator. But the very presence of an emperor as the Emperor personifying an empty-center singularity -- a solar mass-center, cosmic alchemist-synthesizer of the elements, warping spacetime event-gradient curvature configurations -- is a move away from autopoiesis and an expression of collective unconscious projective-identification at transference, which is a displacement and a conversion, actually an inversion of the cosmogonic case: regressed hierarchical human sociality projected on nature as Nature, rather than nature involuted to setting of the forms of human sociality. The same principle applies to all lesser gods, place-specific tutelary deities, totem animals, and other personifications: they are steps over the stepping stones (michiyuki) of projective-identification back from authentic full-blown animism, the animism of synaesthetic identity-transparency, and moves toward rise of role stratification and other forms of mutual dominance relations. Walking the Emperor back to the source, back from Sun and Steel, i.e., Shinto Westernized, back to Moon and Moss during the Age of the Gods, Shinto in shadows of Amaterasu's Goddess-cave -- withdrawing projections, dissolving personifications -- we find the Yayoi Culture “regalia” of autopoiesis displayed on the “moon”, a “moon” from the Ma River valley, for instance, such “moons” being the solar-imaged tympana of ancient bronze drums, cosmological-climatological mandalas/clocks, generators of m-valued acoustically-modified gravity-wave modes when sited under energy-momentum cascades like waterfalls, these modes from these “fractal” drums setting up standing-wave, Koch-curve boundaries-without-boundary over which -- organizational adaptation by resource exchange across osmotic boundaries -- autopoiesis transpires. The “gate” holding this “moon”-which-is-the-sun is a laminate of ma, sacred space, ma being also the onomatopoeic root homonym from which speakable languages demerged (see: Huynh Sanh Thong, “Mother's Tongue and Slang: Why and How Thought, Language, and Culture Began”, parts 1, 2, and 3, Journal of Unconventional History, Fall 1990, Winter and Spring 1991). Gates within gates within gates of the Sakharovian multi-sheeted, Novikov-dust cosmology (the actual revolution of 1968, its year of publication: see Andrei Sakharov's Collected Papers). All “changes” are _µT_m-logic mu-it value-stacks over the nested “gates” falling out of and into “view”: Platonic “forgetting” (the “Fall” by atemporal involutory decomposition) and remembering (anamnesis) in Amaterasu's cave: the so-called Christmas-tree effect at metric elasticity. “The {neuro-genetic} Fall” (mistakenly regarded evolution), which logically, ontologically, and temporally precedes (from perspective of ₁T₂ logic over memetime regarded an objectively real linear-time line) “The {glutamateric} Flood” of BabelWords, is not a fall from Nature regarded non-human or divine, but a prescriptively enculturated, brain-change, shape-shifting illusion of unfolding an imponderable, enfolded, implicate into a ponderable explicate. Neither The Fall nor The Flood were discrete events. The more forgetting (constriction of consciousness by glutamatergic neuronal etching), the more ponderable spacetime is, and the more action is linear-time-bound and undertaken by identifiable actors. Study the infinitely deep nesting of nests on an equilateral-triangular quark symmetry tiling pattern (one of the many at foundations of the gematria later transliterated into, say, “The Sermon on the Mount”) to see how “values” falling out of and into view is change, and yet nothing ever changes because the dusting of numerical values stacked on a point that must drop out of view for a larger nest to come into view, or vice versa, are always there nonetheless (not of “this world”, this world being the corpus of normotically normal linear-time-bound ₁T₂-logical percepts given to direct awareness under glutamate flood): changes are simply “crosses” between logical-value order-types fully there always and all ways.

Taoist non-doing, wu wei, or action-without-action, wei wu wei, over boundaries-without-boundary, is related to Barbour's timeless change. Even kung fu movies somewhat illustrate this, for the hero and/or heroine inevitably goes into time-slowdown (baud rate of consciousness increases so that everything appears to slow down) in effortlessly executing “moves”. Time-slowdown in the limit is required for timeless change, action literally without action. Nam-mo^ A-Di-D-a`-Pha^.t… Homage to the Buddha Amitabha… Nam-mo^ D-a.i Tu+` D-a.i Bi Cu+'u Kho^? Cu+'u Na.n Qua'n The^' A^m Bo^` Ta't… Pray to the Boddhisattva of Great Compassion, Avalokitesvara, Savior from adversities… The Chinese character for nam, here given in Viet{nam}ese, is a combination of nan above and wu below. The three lines forming nan taken together indicate the untamed forest to the south of China. To the upper left of a cross-hatching pattern ## in the pictograph for wu there is a diagonal /, and below there are four hash marks '''' indicative of fire: this is said to represent the clearing of the forest, the diagonal indicating a cut or slash and ## the stand of trees. More fancifully, the chaos-theory percolation-model of a forest fire is evoked; this being a numerical model, it is interesting to note that the forest is treated as a number-landscape and a number may be understood as a Dedekind “cut”. Early on, the wu pictograph may have represented some aspect of Buddhological space: empty sacred “active” space. And if we note the “notes” involved, Buddhological space may have had something to do with the Musculpt Manifold for Music-Sculpture. The kanji for mu (Japanese for the Chinese wu) is also said to depict a person carrying a heavy burden: person/burden over four hash marks indicating fire (hot from the effort, maybe). The meaning is: out of breath, none, without, not, nothing, no, don't, emptiness, the empty set. Mu is the correct response to a (Rinzai Zen) koan where both yes and no are incorrect, inappropriate, misleading -- and here is the kicker -- not because the assumptions behind the koan are incorrect, but because they cannot be stated as a proposition in ₁T₂ logic (that order-type of Lukasiewiczian _µT_m logics which defines a proposition as “any statement which can be determined to be true or false”). Gödel's proofs of the validity of mu (see: Douglas Hofstadter's 1979 Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid [this braid being the enshrined Shinto rope of eternality, i.e., timelessness of Everett relative-state over the wave-function of the time-independent Schrödinger wave equation, producing Mariyo Yagi's “rope shock”]) by self-referentially demonstrating ₁T₂-logic incompleteness and undecidability, were actually tantamount to existence proofs for Lukasiewiczian _µT_m-valued logics (just as was, more remotely, Abel's “Impossibility” Theorem). The _µT_m order-type is index of self-reflexivity: how many times over I am not me and only me (which is not simply a matter of how many me's there are, how many split-off, dissociated, multiple personalities, what William Blake addressed as “ghosts of a flea”: the very notion of what identity can be as a metaphysical category is unique to each logical-value order-type; hence, such order-types are incommensurate). I think the heavy load carried by the person in the sinograph for mu is a burden of lattice-logic (the burden is drawn as a lattice), and that early on (if not originally) the four hash marks below indicating fire stood for the 4-valued Conze-Nagarjuna tetralemma of Madhyamika, discussed earlier in relation to Targ's and Hurtak's book The End of Suffering. By the memetime Buddhism arrived, however -- certainly Mahayana Buddhism -- the MemeAge of the Gods had already ended, and with it the original meaning of the mu pictograph was lost. Going back through clerical, seal, and oracle bone scripts, it is clear from kanji for, say, bird, horse, phoenix that the four hash marks indicating fire had originally to do with motion, for in oracle bone they clearly depict legs and feet/hoofs, the mechanisms of locomotion. One could, therefore, easily imagine that the kanji for mu originally signified a “four-wheeled car” -- sporting Firestones, ha-ha-ha -- after the fashion of the “one-wheeled car” mandalas/clocks qua tonal calendars of the Vedas (see: Ernest G. McClain, The Myth of Invariance, Nicolas Hays, 1976). Each “wheel”, each mechanism of locomotion, is an axis of spin. Quoting the Rg Veda (translated by Antonio T. de Nicolas, Four-Dimensional Man: The Philosophical Methodology of the Rg Veda, Dharmaram College, Bangalore, 1971):

Speech is divided into four levels,
The wise singers know them all.
Three levels are hidden, and men never attain them.
Men speak only the fourth.

Three-fold operator-time plus ponderable space. The “emptiness” of mu, mu's not, without, none is the hidden to which men never attain, the _µT_m time-logics supraordinate to ₁T₂ logic. Details of how the involved orders of “temporal curl” and their hypernumbers work over changing axes of spin in tornado genesis and DNA radiation exchange are discussed in appropriate papers on the MOON website. As Dillon observed in MOON (Vol. 2, p. 340): “Ameno-mi-naka-nushi, Kami-musuhi-no-kami, Takami-musuhi-no-kami [i.e., three-fold operator-time, “The Hidden Gods in Japanese Mythology”] birthing themselves through autopoiesis: hyparxis, that is. I believe I can just about see the Plains [planes] of High Heaven emerging!”

Thailand, which has had a relatively-floating currency ever since it lost its peg, relatively-floating largely because it doesn't have the resources to maintain a quasi-peg of whatever sort against a concerted corpus of international currency speculators, is geographically located very close to a behemothic country which does have the resources to maintain a cheap currency. Not only does it take money to make money, it takes money to impose definition of the properties of the money made. Quoting Hannah Beech quoting on this topic (“The Trouble with Thailand”, Time, 15 January 2007, p. 33):

“I've told the International Monetary Fund that they really need to consider restructuring the world financial system because of these imbalances that are hurting small, open economies,” says Bank of Thailand governor Tarisa Watanagase. “We need a new world financial order.”

Having read the journal IMF Staff Papers for years, I would observe: Lot's of luck, Governor Watanagase! In big red letters, placed right next to this quoted quote is quoted by Hannah Beech another quote (intercalation in original): “[This military government's] post-coup management has been dismal.” This evaluation comes from a political scientist, not an economist. Now, let me quote a person completely without qualifications: myself writing the first sentence to “Tranche 1” posted on this website in January of 2001. “Beginning in 1993, I argued to people working for the Thai Prime Minister's Office that the Thais could protect themselves from the negative effects of globalization by use of local currencies.” I did not suggest then, and I do not suggest now, that this is a quick fix (or a quasi-“complete” fix independent of a new world m-logically-valued financial system) -- but the suggestion was argued four years before the 1997 crash of the baht, and fourteen years ago. I do stand accused -- in 1999, by Milton Friedman -- of not understanding the words I use. Friedman made this accusation by way of explaining why he could not understand what I was talking about in explaining to him the notion of m-logically-valued monetary units. Of course, Friedman had never even heard of Lukasiewicz logics, and he did not understand F. A. von Hayek's notion of “the time-shapes of total capital stock” because he had never studied Everett's “The Relative-State Formulation of Quantum Mechanics”. Must be the Hoover Institute's library doesn't hold a candle to that of the University of Chicago. Whose performance, anyhow, “has been dismal”? Friedman was one of the foremost architects -- in providing the price-of-money-theory rationale for floating fiat currencies -- of the non-system monetary system of the breached Bretton-Woods financial order which Bank of Thailand governor Tarisa Watanagase has told the IMF that it needs to replace, and which non-system system has midwifed late-term breech delivery of peak-oil dynamics, GWOT, anthropogenic-component forcing of climate shift, anthropogenically-induced extinction of a quarter-million species, a fulmination in human holocausts, impulse to nuke proliferation… I wonder why uniquely positioned ex-currency-speculator George Soros has no interest in m-logically-valued monetary units? Why Bill Gates wouldn't is obvious.

The above-given is by way of preface to the issue you raise. Well… if you regard a given amount of money as a quantity thereof, and if you regard a quantity a number, and a number a Dedekind “cut”, then what money is, what number is, what quantity is -- as opposed to “quale” -- is largely dependent upon what you “cut”. Dedekind cuts the denumerably-infinite real-number line between the ₁T₂-logic poles 0,1. This is the foundational reason why money is solely quantitative, why it is functionally single-valued, and why its collective behaviors all too often exhibit properties of percolation theory over forest fires -- Stuart Kauffman's 2^nk “fitness landscape” as opposed to my M^nk relative-state-articulation landscape (Darwin set against Everett: no mere Monkey Trial, _mT; rather, _muT_m). Why is it that “fuzzy logic” has not (and will not) yield the “new world financial order” we need? When theoreticians of Lukasiewicz logics reference their interpretations of the mu-it-values of such m-logics to the “undistributed middle” between the 0,1 logic-poles of the real-number line, by the very fact of arbitrarily establishing such a binary reference, they could not possibly be dealing in _µT_m logics, only _µT_m logics as viewed through the lens of ₁T₂ logic: the inter-network-gated neuron's glutamate-flooded view of the wave-effect processing of its quantum substrate, not that substrate's view of its own processing. Moreover, these logicians retain pathological “residuals” of such “cuts” insofar as they persist in the notion that quantity is not quality, quality is not quantity; quanta not qualia, qualia not quanta. Forget: Is this true? It has nothing to do with truth or falsity; no-thing to do… meaning no-discrete-thing is involved, no simple-identity any simply-identifiable identity could possibly identify. Mu to that koan! I do not understand the words I use because what I use the words for is not the what for which Friedman understood why the words he used stand for whatever they stand for. Real Buddhist economics in a Buddhological monetary space, contrary to George Wehrfritz's understanding (“Buddhist Economics”, Newsweek, 22 January 2007, pp. 22-4), has nothing to do with the Four-S's: subsistence, simplicity, sufficiency, subservience. No fuzzy, undistributed middle-morals, gray-scale about it: Mu to that koan! The whole of “dependent origination” is in equilateral-triangular Tantric-Schrödinger's time-independent “one mind moment” -- and that being the case, Everett's “relative-state” is the best-yet account of it: the superposed-simultaneous “time-shapes of total capital stock”. See on this issue P. A. Payutto's Dependent Origination: The Buddhist Law of Conditionality, Bruce Evans, trans. (Bangkok: Buddhadhamma Foundation, 1994). Quoting the appendix (p. 98): “It has been mentioned that in the commentary to the Abhidhamma Pitaka (Sammohavinodani) the principle of Dependent Origination is shown occurring entirely within the space of one mind moment.” Whether or not, or to what degree, the “space of one mind moment” (emphasis added) is dependent upon the baud rate of consciousness, and whether or not, or to what degree, this baud rate is dependent upon Planck's minimum time, and whether or not, or to what degree, Planck's universal physical constant “minimum time” is single-valued, single-valued but changing over an objectively-real real-numbered linear-time line, a “field”, functionally m-valued, functionally m-valued under m-valued logics… are very interesting questions, which to a large degree depend upon what you cut with your Dedekind cuts. And these questions can be addressed very succinctly by consideration of the temporal operators notated in the canonical equation descriptive of radiation exchange by superconductant p-electron gas core of intranuclear-neuronal and intramitochondrial-perineural DNA.

Instead of the real-number line, or even the complex plane, try doing your Dedekind cut through the universal covering of a Riemann-surface worth of Riemann-spheres worth of Riemann spheres (the correct statement, considering exactly what this case of a universal covering surface would be). The single number such a single cut represents cannot be selfsame, the same as itself and only itself; it must be non-self-identical, not-itself m-times over. As The Lemma of I-was once was: each and every number is infinite (Liber AL vel Legis). Indeed, by Cantor's “diagonal proof”, any such cut is cardinality-equivalent, i.e., “cardinologically” speaking, to all, as opposed to every, such cuts -- or by the fifth axiom of Dillon's as-if axiomitization of Musculpt Manifold universal covering of the Rice Pereira “layered transparent” of her “transcendental formal logic of the infinite” has it (MOON, Vol. 2, p. 668): “Any property belonging to any number belongs to some value of every number”. This numerical circumstance is precisely why it is required that Gödel numbers be numbered, and why Riemann's complexification of Euler's real zeta function must, itself, be hypercomplexified relative to, minimally, the square-root of plus-one (which does not equal plus-one, and indicates rollout into Hawking “imaginary time”, not imaginary quaternion space). Such numbers have a lot to do with quantum numbers -- and also are why you can't get the Abelian transcendental out of superstring theory and bring it down to Earth; you have to take Earth up into the Abelian transcendental (which is to say by Platonic anamnesis), or, equivalently, passive linear-time-independence being the nature of the case which is Nature, take the Earth out of the Abelian transcendental by mathematical involutes (which is to say by Platonic “forgetting”). And if you can do this, then you can forget Julian Barbour's “probability mists” but retain the colors of those mists as the relative-state qualia-values stacked on any given quantal base-state kami-dust mote: externalities internalized to the market as qualia stacked on the quantitative monetary base situated by relative-state in Buddhological space made user friendly as Music-Sculpture.

As far as I have been able to determine we know, anti-animism has been the primary motivator of every great religion, every great power, every great economic engine. Anti-animism is not only against animistic peoples; it is against the nature of Nature (maybe even against the existence of Nature). Anti-animistic Enlightenment fundamentalists -- anyone, during the 21st century, participating in 17th and 18th century political processes -- are going to solve environmental, resource, and climatic crises, planet Earth! An oxymoron if there ever was one. For sure, gunna be Gored! The essence of animism is the identity-transparency (reduced by social anthropology to “participation mystique”) at the core of unbounded wholeness: this does not mean there are no boundaries in “the world” -- a world without boundaries; it means awareness is utterly open, that there are no simple-identities identifiable in the awareness of unbounded wholeness. Total absence of simple-identity is infinitude (sets) in self-reflexivity -- which is not infinite regress (series), for there is no recursive calculability about it (which, once more, ha-ha-ha, contrary to Church, ha-ha-ha, does not mean it cannot be calculated; it just can't be iterated). Church's Hypothesis, which even Roger Penrose buys into, “calculable iff recursive”, by fiat definition disallows Schrödinger time-independence (and by clear implication linear-time-independent calculation as superpositioning in non-simple consciousness of utterly open awareness: involving non-linear order-types of Everett relative-state)… well, denied at least to domains of “measurables”, Earthly domains: this Hypothesis is the very quintessence of great-religion behavior! One more Witch Bull, like that of the Copenhagen Interpretation. There are reasons why contemporary neuroscience is obsessed with explanations of normal consciousness, and has little interest in consciousness which is not normally conscious, unless patently due to tissue pathology/damage: reasons which are all expressions of anti-animism. If “God ever geometrizes”, then man cannot do God's geometry. The primary function of great religion is to deny access to Religion. Just look at what an “iterate” is! Time is treated as equivalent to the real-number line, with arrowheads attached indicating infinite regress toward eternalities never really reachable in the real numbers (some, like Ilya Prigogine, adamantly insist upon removing one arrowhead, without, somehow, displacing zero, and without acknowledging the “directions” of counter-ordinalities-from-zero intrinsic to “the reals”). Time is thus quasi-made to take on the properties of the real number “system” -- the quasi-made-ness property of linear-time clearly indicating that it is mere memetime. In quantum theory, this quasi-made-ness explicitly involves arbitrary cuts and pastes violating the “spirit” of what is cut and pasted. An “instant” must exhibit the properties of an ordinal “iterate” -- not just those of a “bare” cardinal integer or iota. But ordinality as distinct from cardinality is wholly dependent on presence of the notion of passing time, which transforms bare cardinal integer into ordinal iterate: that's why linear-time was defined over the real-number timeline (that “ timeline” is correctly spelled one word is an indicator of the degree to which human brain has been injured by glutamate flood at prescriptive enculturation). But you cannot have a selfsame number without logically violating the real-number line! You have to Dedekind-cut an interval of the line, call the interval-ends 0,1 and build a system of ₁T₂-logic rules on those cuts and calls. In a very “real” sense, the carrying of a mantra -- a repetition, that is -- is a beating of the man with his own cane.

No it is not interesting; it's boring: how success of Steve Irwin's anti-animistic career was based on repeated demonstrations of human dominance, Horray-Horray! and how the circumstance of his death prefigures what is happening to the human species as a whole (construction of a Doomsday Seed Vault near the north pole is one late indicator of the status of the collective decision for species suicide rather than m-logically-valued animistic identity transparency); how the Western mass media have become integrated into the Beijing-Provinces Mutt-and-Jeff routine on environmental impacts rammed down Chinese throats during 19th-century industrialization of the Cartesian-Newtonian-Westphalian powers demonstrating their superior material powers to the Chinese, thus inculcating an obsessive compulsion to emulate; how the “my doom is bigger than your doom” litany is used to argue “doom is doom and gloom is gloom” and, by implication, that, therefore, the anti-animistic “We are the world!” myBandAid is bigger than yourBandAid solution is the one-and-only solution, and U2 better get Gored on this surveillance-society bandwagon: U-2s, intelsats, remote viewing, distant hearing… leading to The End of Violence droned in “death from above” targeted on a DNA fingerprint read from a satellite. Ever notice how technology by projective-identification always produces a regressed version of the function unavailable to direct conscious access? If 20 percent of what is manufactured were actually necessary and 70 percent actually useful and 50 percent free of built-in obsolescence… and accelerating growth were not necessary simply to organize… All modern societies, the economists point out, need a constant diet (and who can doubt Al Gore has a constant diet?) of growth in order to maintain a semblance of social order… And that suggests the level of self-organizational competency of modern societies employing ₁T₂-logical monetary units, rather than _µT_m-logical signification of identity-transparency at gift exchange of soul cloths, is… Quoting Robert Samuelson (“We Have No Global Warming Solution”, Newsweek, 7 February 2007):

Energy use sustains economic growth, which -- in all modern societies -- buttresses political and social stability. Until we can replace fossil fuels, or find practical ways to capture their emissions, governments will not sanction the deep energy cuts that would truly affect global warming.

Note the qualification placed on “societies”: i.e., “modern”. Supply-side aside, the downside of unending growth is The Second Law of Thermodynamics, which is inseparable from Dedekind cuts of the denumerably-infinite real-number line between the ₁T₂-logic poles 0,1: The Second Law is indefinable absent an objectively real linear-time line. Were linear-time merely memetime, as of Primordial Memetimes, this would not mean unending growth would have no downside; rather, unending growth would not be necessary for high-levels of self-organizational competency, for such growth would not even be possible, there being no objectively real linear-time for it to transpire in. Growth and decay would be apperceived percepts epiphenomenal of The Flood of glutamatergic neuronal etching at prescriptive enculturation canceling direct conscious access to _µT_m-logic processing by the brain not contained by the brain, i.e., quantum substrate of the self-containing brain temporally and spatially localizable only under ₁T₂ logic. Collectively-induced Samsara, Maya, MirageWorld -- neurochemically anchored. There is an accelerator card implanted in your brain you want to reach up there with this or that mantra and pull out. Why is it that the neurosciences are obsessed with the pathological, the injured, the damaged, and the normotically normal? Of course, productivity increases play a big role in sustaining unending growth, and this seems an escape clause to The Second Law. But is it? Even if labor input decreases with productivity increase, thermodynamic consequences largely depend upon definition of the word “productivity”. Increased production of the unnecessary, the unneeded, even the unuseful -- all with obsolescence designed in -- is somehow “productive”? This sort of GDP internality should be a poor-alternative economic externality indicator, but the market has no “price” allowing it to distinguish “shoulds” and “oughts” from the merely frivolous or the massively damaging -- not without m-logically-valued prices/wages/currencies. Cap-and-trade to renormalize the normotically normal by truncation/filtering? How very postmodern! Got that from the physicists, I'll bet. Cap-and-trade imposed (from what level are the allocations assigned?) from the top down (and not simultaneously brought up from below) is a quintessentially Cartesian-Newtonian-Westphalian travesty in violation of the very spirit of a holographically superintegrated atmosphere (and thus can hardly be expected sufficiently sophisticated as to regulate that atmosphere): only those who believe that the biggest effects upon Earth orb of solar flares and coronal mass ejections are upon human-created telecoms would believe it! What about SF and CME impacts on terrestrial complex-angular-momentum budgets involved in cascade and reverse-cascade effects? What percentage of environmentocide is due to greenhouse warming? What percentage of greenhouse warming is due to environmentocide? But one doom is not necessarily equivalent to another doom, and trillion-dollar solutions to this doom may not be solutions to that doom. If Earth's atmosphere, for instance, is a Cartesian-Newtonian domain, and there is to be doom, then that doom is not the same doom, if there is to be doom, as the doom to come if Earth's atmosphere is a relativistic-quantum domain under m-valued universal physical constants -- and the two solution sets may not robustly intersect. Since suppression-by-dissembling of the m-valued (variable + function + logic) has been co-evolutionary with persistence of the paradigm pathetically promulgating omni-environmentocide, it seems a good bet -- given how thematic orchestration, synchronicities, and symbolism characterize collective unconscious processes -- that Earth's atmosphere is actually a relativistic-quantum domain, not one Cartesian-Newtonian.

“Time-independent decomposition by mathematical involutes”, as The Fall, is indubitably not, repeat not, a new idea; it's as old an idea as any idea known. And the notion that The Fall, when transposed into linear-time, is involved with “evolution” certainly did not originate with me: “fall” and “descent” are age-old correlated concepts. Time-independent decomposition and re-composition (“spontaneous localization and fusion” in the parlance of quantum mechanics; Abfall and Afhebung [i.e., Afhebung = sublation: itself “strange” {strange: sociologically, tending to prostitution; liable to transformation, in quantum theory} in that “sub” indicates transcendence, a transcendence by a negation elevating to a dialectical synthesis] in Hegelian thought, thought from which Marx removed the Platonic “ideal form” emphasis) become conflated when transposed to the timeline, and this gives rise to confusion, even confusion about the meaning of the word “Kairos”, which can be regarded a synonym for the involved transposition (qualitative time, Kairos, a pregnant “gap” in the timeline, being “perpendicular”, or, more accurately, 90-degrees imaginary, to quantitative time, Chronos). End Times, therefore, does not necessarily indicate the end of linear-time; there could simply be a lifting out of linear-time through a “gap” by realization that linear-time is merely memetime. Transposed to the timeline, The Fall of man is treated as Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man actually regarded as Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man, both “descent” and “ascent” being stretched out over the same line (hidden in this confusion -- the transposition covertly involving shift in logical-value order-types whereupon logical, ontological, and temporal precedence “demerge” demiurgically -- is a good part of the subliminal rationale for going from points to strings as the “primitives” of physics, a very Shinto thing to do, I might add, given the Everett relative-state symbolism of “the rope”: an awfully good reason to oppose superstring theory, don't you think, covert animism?). Marx stripped away from the Hegelian dialectic the logical-ontological Platonic demiurge, of course, and transformed it into the labor theory of value (whereas m-logically-valued monetary units would carry the animistic demiurge into the realm of economics as F. A. von Hayek's “the time-shapes of total capital stock” woven together by fiber-bundle arithmetics into a market mooring hawser). And since ontogeny is thought to recapitulate phylogeny, atemporal spiritual “growth” is mistakenly transposed to inner development over time. Sri Aurobindo, in his magnum opus, The Life Divine, did this same thing: by treating “The Evolution” as occurring in linear-time, he did not clarify that “The Involution” does not occur on the timeline -- and if The Involution cannot so transpire, then neither can the return to the Divine as The Evolution. Mayer Baba produced a similar treatment. This is not merely a Christian, Fertile Crescent Religion, or Occidental conundrum. A great deal of complexity can be mapped over the transposition from atemporal to temporal, and return, providing thematic coherence to a fair outline of much of the history of ideas from Plato's Vedic idealism to Plotinus to Hegel to Aurobindo to the Copenhagen Interpretation. That's the kind of book yielded by the academic mode of production which I like to thumb, but would never spend the memetime required to research and write -- at least not in today's world. Any position in any way derivative of Marxian truncation (renormalization, filtering, re-scaling, Newtonianization) of the Hegelian dialectic such that atemporal Platonic decomposition by involutes is removed -- which is to say the whole of postmodernist thought -- has no more chance of reintegrating human understanding of human habitus in nature than does recoil into Enlightenment fundamentalism. Moreover, as the crisis deepens, human cognitive capacity to respond creatively diminishes as glutamateric etching of the brain is enhanced by proliferation of ₁T₂-logic IT. Without Musculpt to provide an alternative to presently dominant applications of multi-media and internetworking, what little gap the window of opportunity remains open will snap shut over neural networks of the species.

I remember exactly when I first encountered the idea, a first take on “The Law of Sevens”, and quite a bit about the circumstances. Because my family moved so frequently, all I have to do is remember where and I know when -- be it a song, a book, or whatever. Ypsilanti, Michigan: 1958. I had recently turned 13 and was entering the 7th Grade. We had just arrived from Pittsburg, and the year before that from Japan. My father was stationed at the Willow Run Airfield, somehow involved with NORAD. Remember that the previous year had seen Sputnik and people were pretty hysterical over North American Air Defense. What exactly Dad did, I probably never had any idea. Independent of the rest of the family, my focus was on the formation of a church. We lived in a new tract-home development and nearby one of the houses was being used as the initial meeting place while funds were raised for the construction of an actual church building -- the house then to become a vicarage. A non-denominational evangelical bible church. With the GM hydramatic plant nearby, Ypsi was becoming Ypsitucky, people coming in from the South, places like Kentucky -- lintheads becoming boltheads -- and the in-migration figured in the beginnings of this church. The church my mother had grown up in back in Pennsylvania was called The Evangelical Grace Reformed Church, so I found this prospect, the prospect of an evangelical bible church, and especially the process of its creation, very exciting, and thus attended services and catechism classes regularly, as well as sat in on planning sessions several times a week. The planning sessions were open to all, and keeping my mouth shut no one protested at the presence of a kid. I can't recall if someone handed it to me, or if I picked it up from a bookcase, but I remember acquiring it at that nascent church: a paperback copy of Thomas Merton's The Seven Story Mountain. Not strange, as many non-Catholics read that book. I doubt that I understood much of it at the time. I was already in the habit of reading things I couldn't understand. I remember being affected by the story, the deaths of the grandfather and the brother, the inner struggle depicted. I think I asked somebody about the title, maybe the catechism teacher. I couldn't identify the mountain or seven levels, or maybe there were seven stories about the mountain and somehow I couldn't find them. This person -- probably the teacher -- hadn't read the book and didn't know. I kept asking around. Someone mentioned Jacob's Ladder -- which I knew about from studying Genesis in catechism class -- and said that it sometimes was also called Mount Moriah. Maybe Merton was talking about the Ladder but calling it a Mountain. The Ladder, I found, went up to Heaven and had 70 steps: not exactly 7; but 7 multiplied by 10, at least. Someone else told me that each “step” was an “exile”, a place of exile for the Jews. It didn't seem to me, at least, that going from one bad place to another was likely to lead to Heaven, but who was I to know? Then I learned that the Ladder is Jesus! How could Jesus be 70 kinds of exile? Next, someone who had read the book told me that Merton's “mountain” was actually Hell, that the levels were down, not up, like in Dante's Hell. Whoever he was. Well… I got pretty confused. This is something like what happened. I don't remember details. There are certain pictures that come to mind. I can visualize the house, specific scenes -- like in a story. I remember that the conversation with the person who had read the book took place on the wooden steps between the living room and the basement meeting room -- which I somehow found significant. I can see the steps. The planning sessions took place down there, in the meeting room, and the more of them I attended the more they seemed to me like a kind of Hell, a bunch of people making a Hell for themselves.

At the same memetime I struggled with Merton's Mountain, I was reading a bestselling novel of the day: something a neighbor had passed on to my mother, a story set in the upper peninsula of Michigan involving a military wife. Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver, based on an actual murder case from several years earlier. When it came time for me to give an oral book report in my English class, I gave it on Traver's novel -- and this was the beginning of my nightmare at Ypsilanti High School. Mr. Higgins, the teacher, so inordinately raved before the class about this book report -- most were given on things like The Hardy Boys -- that I was attacked just outside the gym later in the day: a decisive event for me. You have to understand that the High School at that time went from 7th Grade through 12th Grade, involving thousands of students, and that many in the lower grades were just sitting there -- having been held back for failing grades -- waiting to turn 16 so they could quit school. The school was located in a huge old brick building from something like the WWI-era, built wing after wing in stages and enclosing an asphalt courtyard used mostly for parking. Row after row of teacher's cars, Cushman “Eagles”, Cushman “Mustangs”, and, for the toughest lot in the school, BSA motorcycles. The Cushmans were rough and ready motor scooters. The industrial shop area was to the back of the courtyard, and any of the big BSA guys who got out of hand were supposed to be taken care of by the shop teachers. But this didn't always happen, as the school was something of an asphalt jungle seething with barely suppressed violence: switchblades, straight-razors, chains, gangs. After school, gang fights down the alley which ran next to the ice-cream parlor located somewhat across from the main entrance to the school, reefer madness and “a strip” near the trestle bridge over the Huron River every Friday night (some girl would take off her clothes). Teachers got cut not infrequently. Going alone to the bathroom between classes meant considerable risk: robbery being the least worry. Something close to an inner city school, not in the big city. Much later, I read a novel, Harrison High, which I thought could have been inspired by the Old Ypsilanti High School. There were three groups: the white Ypsituckians, the blacks, and the Puerto Ricans. The person who attacked me was an Ypsituckian in my English class just on the verge of turning 16 who rode a “Mustang” and aspired to join the BSA guys. I was a skinny kid and he was a big hunk, but I had taken judo lessons the whole time I was in Japan, so I avoided getting clobbered and somehow managed to sock him good in the nose -- shattering a knuckle of my right hand in the process. There were lots of people watching this thing and the pop I gave him caused a bad nosebleed. At that point, five or six of his buddies jumped on me and I was down getting kicked and punched and the whole smear. I was saved by Chico, a Puerto Rican with a bright shiny pair of piatos -- pointy shoes with high wooden Cuban heels. Kick-boxer style, he took out the half dozen in about ten seconds. Why he did it, I was never quite sure. The whole crowd disappeared instantly when the wrestling coach came running out, having become aware of what was happening. Until the fight, I had been able to avoid joining with a gang. Afterwards, I was with Chico, even though I wasn't Puerto Rican. You couldn't survive in that school on your own. I hung with Chico and his boys. We both had study hall immediately after lunch and you could skip out on study hall pretty often without a problem, so we'd bail from Cross Street -- apt name -- where the school was and head downtown to Michigan Avenue for some real food -- Spanish food -- for lunch. Chico had some “relatives” who worked in a movie theater, and sometimes we'd catch a show, getting back to school late for class. These “relatives” allowed us to sneak in to see The Blackboard Jungle -- the movie had sex in it and was restricted; neither of us were old enough to gain regular admittance -- starring Glenn Ford and Sidney Poitier. “Rock Around the Clock” was the theme song: hey, that's our school! In the same way, I got in to see God's Little Acre when it came out that year: hey, that textile mill, that's our GM plant! They all came up here from that mill! Even more sex than The Blackboard Jungle. I went and found Erskine Caldwell's novel to read, but I had to sneak around to do it. And you can bet I didn't do a book report on it.

I didn't miss the “religion” in God's Little Acre (not so much as in Tobacco Road, I later learned) and couldn't escape comparing the labor conflicts described to the cat fights -- a reasonable comparison it seemed to me -- which characterized the “planning” meetings for our nascent neighborhood church. And God's Little Acre -- the land, that is -- was not like a rice paddy in Midori Gaoka, Japan, where I had lived for three years. I couldn't stop thinking about my Japanese teenaged ama's reaction to a Christmas Eve cocktail party: This is how to celebrate birth of the child god? I was developing much the same reaction to the planning sessions for the new tract-house church. Just over one year back from Japan. Can't be really sure, y'know, for I don't remember a specific instance as the first instance, or even if there was a major first instance, or just a kind of slide into them, but this period is the best I can do to identify when my “Plexiglas wall” experiences began. Plate of glass out there so real you could almost tap it, a separation distancing me from… well, everything. The “near fugues” didn't come until a couple of years later, I think. Alaska, yes, Alaska… probably. The planning session fights over what to name the new church were the worst, the very worst. I submitted a possible name, which was ridiculed in front of everybody, and that was probably the trigger, the trigger that lie in front of all that lie behind, the trigger, not only for no longer going to that new church, but also for stopping to have anything at all to do with religion. After The Seven Story Mountain, I don't think I read another book on Christianity until I had to read Unamuno's The Tragic Sense of Life during my freshman year of college. Though I can easily map ideas onto Christian concepts, those concepts no longer actively engaged me in personified form after my 7th-Grade memetime. In retrospect, I realize that many of the elements of what became my thought were decisively juxtaposed during 1958 in Ypsilanti: involutory decomposition hidden in “The Law of Sevens”; the simultaneity of distinct times and the inseparability of diverse places -- temporal and spatial non-locality -- in superposed multivalued quantum hyperPresence (of Christ as “Ladder” and as multiple times/places of “exile”); the neuronal aspects of decomposition over logical-value order-types prefigured by onset of the Plexiglas-fugue states; the economic issues; the land-animism issues; the sex issues raised immediate post-puberty. A creative year it now seems, 1958.

Not so. Absolutely not. I have never advocated incendiary collapse of the prevailing institutions. Quite the contrary: preventing precipitous dissolution of the institutionalization of the Cartesian-Newtonian paradigm has been my sole preoccupation for decades. Obviously, I believe that that institutionalization has been an utter disaster for the planet, the biosphere, and the human species, and that it needs to be replaced, but not by way of incendiary collapse or precipitous dissolution. This institutionalization is not merely in this or that country or only of the international system or simply of corporate management structures and practices -- it is every instance of these, and all such instances together, to include any and every institutional format, behavior, algorithm derivative of utopian socialism and Marxism, both quintessentially Cartesian-Newtonian. Judging from this or that instance of national institutional collapse or transformation -- say, disintegration of the USSR or removal of a Marcos -- provides no measures by which to adequately estimate disintegration of the whole institutional context within which any this or that instance might have transpired. To take such as measures is to be enormously mislead. “Collapse” means the rubble and the foundations remain; “dissolution” means POOF! all gone, no foundational notions left to help organize recovery. The optimum to be sought is a far-from-equilibrium phase transition exhibiting coherent critical-state behaviors: this will minimize losses of every sort. What are the likely governing autopoietic operators for such a transition: over the decades, that has been what I have attempted to identify. National communism, such as in the Soviet Union, was the weakest major link in the institutionalization of the Cartesian-Newtonian paradigm, but its collapse transpired within a global institutional environment with strong residuals of institutional coherency which, however they may have reverberated from the shock waves, retained a modicum of functionality. Consensus interpretations of the involved events -- Left or Right -- interest me not in the least. War against the very idea of the nation-state -- to which Islamist global insurgency tends, but which is yet far from a full expression thereof -- is a serious threat to the institutionalization qua institutionalization; war between nation-states is not, for such war is a behavior of the nation-state system (only global total war with nuclear weapons or “improvements” thereupon or the like -- global war by pandemics, say -- is an existential threat to this system qua system). Whatever the risk of any given this or that instance of the institutionalization collapsing from within -- considerable in some cases -- the likelihood of the whole institutionalization collapsing independent of major externality-type catalysts is not great due to the incredible inertias large-scale institutionalizations of worldview constructs embody (look at residuals of Brahmanism and Confucianism in today's East, Southeast, and South Asia, for instance). Below is given an example of the sort of thing that could strongly facilitate specific instances of collapse from within, collapse of the USSR being one concrete example, i.e., attempted synoptic-scale shift between alternative possible-world institutionalizations of the in-principle-failed Cartesian-Newtonian paradigm (“Book Review: America Beyond Capitalism by Gar Alperovitz”, Adria Schraf, Yes, Summer 2005):

…If the current system is broken and traditional fixes are no longer feasible, what set of institutions would actually restore and sustain equality, liberty, and democracy in the coming century?

The notion that in an environment of in-principle paradigmatic failure coherent institutional change can be carried out absent new paradigmatic principles is a recipe for collapse. This is a car mechanic's approach to processes of the polity and its socialities! If such a collapse were to transpire, by following the precedent set by the USSR, like in the case of the USSR, it would be only the residuals of coherency remaining to the global institutionalization of the failed paradigm which would prevent incendiary collapse. The U.S. being a less-weak major link in the institutionalization of the Cartesian-Newtonian paradigm than was the USSR, were a collapse of the U.S. to take place, coherency of residuals left to the whole institutionalization auguring against incendiary collapse would be considerably less than was the case for collapse of the USSR. The paradigm's foundational principles were irrevocably sundered during the 1820s within higher mathematics, the consequences percolating through every aspect of global civilization for the better part of 200 years, and still the whole corpus of human response remains that of the clinger, the dissembler, the dissimulator. Oscillating Right to Left, Left to Right, within the failed paradigm: pretty persistent pattern. Internal oscillation as the macro-state veers toward… wait until they discover that Earth's atmosphere is not a Newtonian domain, that there are more _µT_m-logical DNA genomic functions on the quantum level than ₁T₂-logical on the molecular! Juxtapose Alperovitz's recent expression of support for the separatist inclination with attitudinal formations developing at various levels within the U.S. military as expressed across the Blogsphere to get some feel for actual likely domestic dynamics of a fragmentation of the U.S.: “California Split”, New York Times, 10 February 2007. Many in the military, I am sure, would regard contents of this op/ed piece as bordering on treason, but even if a fragmentation of the U.S. to half-a-dozen smaller nation-states organized on a communitarian, participatory, internetworked global village, P2P, open-source, permaculture, quasi-utopian-socialist basis were to transpire wholly without domestic violence, how would this in any way address global consequences of the in-principle failure of the Cartesian-Newtonian paradigm -- given that none of these half-a-dozen smaller nation-states would have in any way thus organizationally embodied new paradigmatic principles? It's just a technical problem, right? Cultural monocropping via uniformizing technologies by those once opposed to agricultural monocropping but who now think it's okay for biofuels. Re-scale the technologies and improve their efficiencies. Radically down-scale the institutional partitioning. Change the structures, the information flows, feedbacks. Re-design the tools, their modularities. Renormalize. Redefine the socially-conferred role attributions. Fine tune the resultant “new” institutional format. Done with the right moral exhortations…

I underestimated the inertias because, even though I have been an unameliorated Platonic substantialist advocating development of exteriorized Musculpt, I did not understand the degree to which the brain is fashioned by the paradigm that uses it, and hence the degree to which cognitive capacity of the brain identified with the paradigm deteriorates in lockstep with deterioration of the paradigm.

How could I be saying that I have all the answers when I don't even say I have any of the answers, or even that there are answers? The m-logically-valued monetary unit idea, for instance, is clearly stated to be but a seed idea, that no person or small group could perfect the idea prior to implementation, that it would have to evolve through use like a natural language, or like an architectural design system (say, Japanese ken unit length and associated conventions) or a framework for music composition (like, say, the diatonic system) which evolves as a codification of a worldview construct, and that that's one reason why implementation should begin on the smallest scale: that of the town. Co-evolution of Musculpt and a Lukasiewicz monetary system has, thus, been argued to be a necessary corequisite (no prerequisites about it, precedence relations being superseded). Now, this Vedic-Platonic supersedure of precedence (logical, ontological, temporal) involves supersedeas of what? What Hubert Benoit designated the claim to be absolutely-in-so-far-as-distinct (Let Go! The Theory and Practice of Detachment According to Zen, published during the early-1970s by Samuel Weiser, and which I read at that time). Supersedure of ₁T₂ logic automatically revokes this claim -- to one order-type or another. During the early-'70s when I dropped away from harmony classes to the dismay of my composition mentor, I was not aspiring to replicate John Cage (teachers are teachers by significant measure in search of existential confirmations from their students: excelling, I was always early-on a confirmation, but I was never really there, never actually with that agenda as I also saw this agenda, and when that became apparent in my choices there were generally rage displays: Victor Frankl's Teacher as The Will to Meaning; excelling at conformity -- yes, Parent; yes, Teacher; yes, Doctor; yes, Sir; yes, Professor; yes, Mr. President; yes, Confessor -- we nowadays more and more clearly see, just beyond the horizon, is a concurrence to collective suicide and/or holocaust: yes, Executioner!). I knew that there is so much music in the world -- as much as there are prescriptively enculturated meaning attributions to withdraw projection of -- that no composers are required. Cage's wei wu wei non-performance performance of 4'33" was -- Praecisio! -- clearly for music the functional equivalent of what Marcel Duchamp's urinal was for the plastic arts: both signified the enculturation effect, glutamatergic Readymade consensuation of Samsara, Maya, MirageWorld, life as a portrait in Campbell's Soup cans (a meaning lost in the transition from Op to Pop). Noise is different from music insofar as pattern is identified for attribution of meaning, an effect of enculturation. Step out from under this effect, and music becomes noise (Debussy in the audience to his friend: “Let's go! They are starting to 'develop'”: i.e., form treated as a function of passing linear-time); noise, music. Interrumpere et epanados et zeugma! The “noise” of a construction site becomes “music” by dehabituating recognition of attributed meanings -- skill saw, hammer on pipe, arc welder -- and cultivation of bare attention to pure pattern over feeling-space place acoustico-optically presented as qualia chord-stack over quantification basso ostinato: the distinction between quality and quantity, as with all ₁T₂-logic claims to be absolutely-in-so-far-as-distinct, is merely a matter of order-type in claims made. Tasteless eyes sounding fury! Prepared piano is a play on koans: the unprepared piano was prepared by the enculturation effect; preparing the apparently unprepared is to unprepare the unapparently prepared. How can that dehabituation occur without short-circuiting short-term memory? And how can that shorting-out be maintained as a sustainable deautomatization without initiation of time-slow-down by increase in the baud rate of conscious? And how can the baud rate of a given state of consciousness be superseded without going to a higher order-type? Not only is remembering to be forgotten, but one must remember which remembering to forget. If passing linear-time is in remembering, as Brentano had it, then absence altogether of precedence relations is in Platonic remembering: anamnesis, the forgetting of Brentano-remembering by unforgetting Platonic-remembering. So, in surveying the corpus of Cage's chance music -- “his” aleatoric product -- my “I” found this “I” could not agree that The Book of Changes, the I-Ching, is the book of chances: Cage, like so many others, had simply kowtowed to the prevailing Witch Bull, the Copenhagen Interpretation. Yes, Teacher; yes, Doctor; yes, Sir; yes, Professor… Probability amplitude is a back-channel way to contravene the supersedeas nullifying precedence relations, and thus also to cancel Benoit's “inner counter-work” through which withdrawal of the claim not to be in identity-transparency is accomplished. And identity-transparency is itself a withdrawal of attributed meaning, the meanings attributed according to the conventions of the order-type of the logic employed to process projection of the attributes: qualia-in-projection distinct from qualia-in-themselves is resident in logical-value order-type. For the market quantifying the supply-and-demand dynamic in single-logically-valued prices, externalities are qualia invisible to the price mechanism. One could color-code the qualia (e.g., quality of life indicators) and stack them on the quantitative currency base by fine-tuned tagging, thus introducing them to the price mechanism (price of product, price of labor, price of money) orchestrating the supply-and-demand dynamic responsible for the allocations (ostensibly) clearing the market. But if the color-codes are not the qualia-in-themselves, only the tags, where does that leave the monetary system? It leaves it handling m-valued variables (base-prices with color-code chord-stacks) arrayed in m-valued functions (multiple simultaneous Hayek “time-shapes” in supply-and-demand functionals over total capital stock) with ₁T₂-logic processors: micro-actors responding to market action-directives sans Musculpt representations of _µT_m-logic choice-gradients. There are multiple corequisites here that would have to co-evolve through use, increased cognitive capacity by time-slow-down not being the least, such that load does not become overload. Cage, in altogether rejecting the socialities of music -- its capacities for worldview codification through systemic harmonies of expressive intentionality -- for exclusive focus on its capacity to facilitate dissolution of Benoit-claims, remained bound in ₁T₂-logic binaries precluding the collective karma yogas of market music-sculpture. Giri or ninjo, not giri and ninjo: so said John Cage!

Intentionality is a problem only if it is Brentano intentionality. Intentionality of what kind of whatnot? Insofar as intentionality is used to establish and/or maintain by Brentano-remembering a discrete selfhood located on a passing-time reference, to that degree is it a problem. The proprioceptive “notion” of a “place” in “feeling space” is resident in the “recognition” that Brentano-remembering and Platonic-remembering are not idempotent: the same word -- “remembering” -- is used, but the referents signified have only the smallest sliver of an intersection, in that one is itself-full and the other is itself-less. But there, actually, is no itself to itself itself with! “Remembering” is not authentically a binary operation (“operation” being an expression of intentionality, which is attributive and hence arbitrary: mathematics is; operations are not required to bring it into being; arithmetics and algebras are subsidence of mathematics, not transcendental to numbers). Platonic remembering is spread out over the whole of “feeling space”; it is not located in any “place” thereof. Current treatments of the loss of short-term memory are developed in viewing, by operational intelligence, that loss through a ₁T₂-logic lens under the assumption that the only practicable connecting principle is operational causality. Were the loss not a loss, were short-term memory simply never there to be lost, issues of practicality would have an altogether different contextualization: the connecting principle would not involve seriality, for instance. Intentionality would not emanate from a discrete selfhood. Thoughts and feelings (in the Jungian sense of aesthetic judgments, as distinct from affect-charge) would not be self-originated. “Feeling space” means feelings are not self-located to a discrete self (the “self” of “self-reflexivity” in open awareness is metaphorical attribution placed on unbounded wholeness, sort of like saying “ketamine is yuppie LSD”, as did John C. Lilly, personification just beginning to “demerge” demiurgically from principled Samantabhadra to personated Samantabhadra) and they are only “out there” if there is an attribution of a discrete “in here”. Similar for “cognitive space” (not self-similar, not selfsame: no-self about it). In time-slow-down, the self-attribution -- “one” -- can “see” thoughts coming in on one, can “sense” on the skin feelings coming in on one (Nirvana induction: according to Sri Aurobindo, circa 1908, the experience of “static Brahman”, Record of Yoga, Vol. 2, p. 1485; discussed in detail, memory serving -- ha-ha -- at multiple locations in Letters on Yoga). This is because there was a short-term memory to be lost, because a “one” had been self-attributed under glutamatergic prescriptive enculturation, because passive, passing linear-time has only slowed down, not stopped, because some short-term memory has been lost, not all, because the contextualizing socialities are so Gertz “thin”. Had memetime never been regarded an objectively real linear-time line (algebraically justified/rationalized only with an arbitrary “cut” through an Abelian variety) by prescriptive enculturation, there would be no “in here” for the thoughts, the feelings to come in upon from an “out there”. The connecting principle would not even be parallel, let alone serial. “Growth of the number of images of a point under iterates of a multivalued map”, A. P. Veselov, Mathematical Notes, 49:2, 1991. Where are these images of a point that they have to “grow”, that they have to be “under iterates”? Is art eternal? Does it last forever? Iterate endlessly? Or: Is it transcendental? Just transcendental, or “transcendental over”? Is transcendentality absolute or relative? These are not theoretical questions; they are questions of competency. How competent the proprioception. Competent enough to be apperception? How many “images of a point” does it take to make a string, a superstring? This bundle of feelings, that bundle of feelings: all their images are stacked in the mirror always and all ways. Iterates not recommended or required.

Not scandalous, planetocidal. Like Kissinger, the likes of Kronecker were not perpetrators; rather, responsible agents -- but on a much deeper level of culpability. I see no evidence Kissinger was ever smart enough to become that culpable. Kronecker was born one year before (1823) Abel codified and initially published (1824: full publication, 1826) his theorem on the quintic, substance of which had first been “proved” a quarter-century earlier by Ruffini (1799). Thus, my argument is: the Cartesian-Newtonian paradigm was dead 23 years after the American revolution of 1776 and well before Marx tried to save it. But this is not surprising: the Portuguese had been in Goa and the Japanese had been in Hoi An for over two centuries by then; Sanskrit scholar Max Müller (born the same year as Kronecker) did not have to finish overseeing fifty volumes of translations of the Sacred Books of the East for the European collective psyche to get “yellowed”, only for it to get pushed into “gelbe Gefahr” -- yellow peril -- hysteria. Psychological functions not available to conscious access automatically go into projective-identification at transference: qualia-in-projection distinct from qualia-in-themselves is resident in logical-value order-type, i.e., if supersedures of ₁T₂ logic are not available to conscious access, they become regressed and are projected in that form. Lukasiewicz logics were the “gelbe Gefahr” resident-implicit in Abel's “impossibility” long before they sponsored Polish jokes and provided impetus to a panzering of Poland. Did the Great Pacific War come on The Rising Tide of Color? And, if so, upon what did the Rising Tide ride? Why the Ruffini-Abel theorem became the "Impossibility" Theorem, I understand; precisely when and exactly how, I do not know. Finite iterations of the arithmetic operations plus root extraction are inadequate to “solve” the general quintic, but solutions can be found by methods of approximation: Newtonian, Laguerrean. Focus was not placed on form of the solutions, but on the forms of solving. With good reason? It is not that insight got more insightful with Galois groups; rather, skirting got its sendoff (an early sendoff: Galois died, aged 20, in 1832). The approximations are not approximate: they are real, even if numerically complex (a prefiguration of the case with Schrödinger's wave-function). That's why Eric Temple Bell's short discussions of this theorem so focused upon the Abelian multiformity as opposed to the Gaussian uniformity: cyclotomically lie the solutions: they do not need to grow under iterates. Transfinite, m-valued, transcendental over operational algebras. No recourse to operators, no recourse to radicals will do the trick in finite time: what does that tell us about where mathematics comes from? Eric Temple Bell's book of 1934, The Search for Truth, specifically addressed this question raised by his (Bell's) 1912 Ph.D. dissertation perspectus: The Cyclotomic Quinary Quintic. How to skirt all this? That's the Galois sendoff. Though there were many players, not-skirting-it was mostly taken up by Cantor, and opposed by the likes of Kronecker. Then Lukasiewicz picked up the ball and gave an inspired demonstration of broken-field running, lateraling-off to Schrödinger; why Gödel wasn't there to intercept was probably just in the pattern of the play executed. X's and arrows, you know how it is.

Clearly, externalized Musculpt as mathematical notation was possible by the mid-1980s; in some university labs and even a few Tokyo mind gyms, by the mid-'70s (heyday of the “electrophysiology of Zazen“). Thirty years later, we have multimedia, post-pubertal computer games, interactive porno streams, and the brink of so-called quantum computing, but no biofeedback-facilitated Musculpt as mathematical notation: a big reason why Lukasiewicz logics are still viewed through the lens of ₁T₂ logic and why prospective “quantum” computing is only so-called quantum computing. Selye status anxiety of conspicuous consumption of positional goods being just one more immunocompromising effect of the Gertzian cockfight, the hospital-associated Kyoto mind gym, Selye, was a potential development site during the early-1990s relative to neuroimmune biology, stress management, infrasound baths and bodywork in the biofeedback-equipped, detox, flotation-isolation tank (deep structure of psychoneuroimmunology expressing on the molecular and cellular levels the quantum-wave properties of radiation exchange by p-electron gas core of intranuclear-neuronal and intramitochrondrial-perineural DNA). During 1990, I gave an invited public lecture at Tsukuba University on the superconductant DNA model. After the lecture, one of Japan's leading innovator's in fuzzy logic, a practitioner of Autogenic Therapy, and I sat up all night haggling over my non-truth-value-related identity-transparency interpretation of Lukasiewicz logics: round and round turning to butter, for he could not understand what I was talking about. I interpreted this to be one legacy of collective humiliation over state Shinto: the identity-transparency that was the essence of animistic non-state Shinto is so fraught an emotional issue for the Japanese in the postwar period that anything related to it simply doesn't make sense, can't be allowed to make sense (similar reading of German and Vietnamese readings of our novel MOON is equally warranted and edifying). So go the missed opportunities. Even if everything were not so synergistically over-extra-super-interconnected, somethings (not merely some things) still would be overdetermined and superintegrated: no biofeedback-facilitated Musculpt as mathematical notation, then no Lukasiewicz monetary system replacement for the repudiated Bretton-Woods regime. And since all of this is currently externality to money market actors… and the money markets are externality to psychoneuroimmunologists… and there being no Unified Science movement, that sideshow having fallen by the wayside in run up to WWII… Planetocidal, not merely scandalous. Second-order operator-time transcendental over m-valued universal constants = a torus (when the “General Process” paper was brought together in 1977, I had but the merest intimation/visualization of the relation between J. G. Bennett's “pencils of skew-parallels”, Clifford parallels, fiber bundles, m-valued logics, operator-time, hypernumber arithmetics beyond square-root of minus-one, toroidal fibers of a point, fibrations as quaternionic rotations of 3-space and octonionic rotations unto superstring M Theory; I had by then intuited that three-fold operator-time requires Grassman algebras and octonions: some people are now thinking in a similar vein, e.g., Robert Neil Boyd). What the word “quantum” currently signifies is up in the air. Fibrillation to critical flicker frequency of the plasmid p-electron gas core torus fibration is covariant analogue of the chaos cycle of degenerative disease onset (the second-order operator providing a map of market reflexivities over accelerations in changes of economic variables). Hidden quantal information, biological and economic. Modeling of this long predated my flickering of intimation/visualization. This modeling came only six years after Schrödinger's time-independent wave equation, and only five years after Max Born's probability-amplitude dissembling. Heinz Hopf's 1931 paper on fiber-bundling of the torus (critical to particle creation under plasma-bottle controlled-fusion by tornado as acoustic analogue to black hole quantum computer, as was speculated when the "General Process" paper was written: ha-ha-ha!). Connections with Lukasiewicz logics appear still not to be explicitly made: only to be expected, I guess, as Hopf was of Polish origins (Poland when it was Germany: i.e., the Jungian “Shadow”): dissimulate one, dissimulate the other. No explicit connection yet with Everett relative-state, either, as the qubit is restricted to two-level entanglement and Lukasiewicz mu-its relate to m-level entanglements. But m-logically-valued monetary units could only be implemented in stages: quantum computing is a late-stage elaboration. The Hopf bundle was a Weimar enabler of the monetary innovations attempted by some German and Swiss municipalities, an enabler not recognized to be an enabler. And this lack of recognition meant they mostly tried Silvio Gesell “free money” variants. The currency base is the base space of the Hopf bundle; fibrations of the bundle are the m-values tagged to externalities “stacked on” the base of the currency. Economic indicators, alternative economic indicators, sustainable development indicators, quality of life indicators initially color-coded, later keyed to the key-ring model of Hopf fibration. Currency basket as fiber bundle, the indicators key signatures by Musculpt postings to the exchange markets. Done in measures, as each local indicator (tagged to a measurable) would become nested to larger scale-levels. The whole multivalued map for a monetary system capable of ongoing transitions to higher and higher levels of self-organizational competency by internalizing externalities has been elaborately on the scene since the early-1930s. It is a study in etiology and pathogenesis to reach a differential diagnosis as to why this map has yet to be implemented -- especially given dimensions of planetary deterioration manifest since then. The fact that the global economy is zinginginginginging as the planet is zaaaaaaaapped -- atmospheric phase shift, biospheric species drop, global insurgency, GWOT, nuclear proliferation, chemical dispersal… -- reveals a significant functional correlation. What level of self-organizational competency did you say the market has attained? Happiness, that's it. We'll just have to learn how to measure happiness. It's a measurable, don't you think? And if so, then it must be a quantum operator. That's it! Don't worry, be happy. That'll do it. Heh-heh-heh!

I don't wish to try to go into this area very far, here or elsewhere, as I am not at all qualified: no training. I more or less just play around with it, or, more accurately, play it off against my inner Musculpt; nothing more elaborate than that. I will, however, share a few impressions. I strongly agree with the general character of the effort being made as suggested in that brief exchange between Robert Neil Boyd and Arkadiusz Jadczyk, linked in the last posting, but I think it is vastly more “difficult” than that. The approach to mathematics there illustrated is oriented -- explicitly or not -- by the notion that consciousness is “emergent”, and this leads to the effort to generalize physical theory and associated higher mathematics to a level of abstraction capable of subsuming the emergent property, consciousness. Closely extracting the phenomenological account from Sri Aurobindo's voluminous text or parsing John C. Lilly's “Tank Logs” or mapping inner Musculpt against the terminological Rorschach of Bon Tzog-chen and the Agamas, say, gives the clear impression that no such effort is likely to be successful, however elaborate it becomes. Nothing remotely related to contemporary mathematics will be adequate, not the least because mathematics in its modern aspect did not grow out of minds functioning in full-blown synaesthetic fusion (sense modalities undifferentiable), which is a condition of mind tending toward, but only toward (e.g., the various order-types of Samadhi), pure consciousness (which is wholly unconscious to any simple-identity). Questions of qualia aside, with differentiable sense modalities, cognitive functions are automatized in such a fashion as to preclude any access whatsoever to some “forms formless” required; no tool can change this preclusion. No algebra, however free, however most general -- Clifford, Weyl, associative, symmetric, exterior, so on -- and no corpus of automorphisms, involutions, gradations, antiautomorphisms, scalars, transposes will correspond to pure consciousness, and nothing like existing notions of number will be involved, quaternionic, octonionic, Musés hypercomplex beyond the square-root of plus-one, so on. Mathematical “proof” is a hilarious notion, whatever the degree of induced hyperventilation. Change the conventions on arithmetic operations involving zero and infinity, as defined in octonions, say; then, better, but still… Transcendentals beyond transcendentals-over crossed into rotations of 3-space onto-and-into complex, hypercomplex, suprahypercomplex are constrained by the notion “degree of freedom”, which itself was generated by reference to automatization states of differentiable sense modalities. The very notions of mathematical differentiation and integration and functional correspondence were virtually one-to-one psychological projections of those automatization states. Removing axioms to generate more and more general notions has its limit in the notion “axiom”. Self-evident, when no-self is evident? Nude Descending a Staircase! This was understood almost 100 years ago. Maintaining cognitive habitus in ordinary consciousness and using contemporary maths to push the mind to the heights by thus descending just won't “do the trick”. The notion “axiom” is a barrier no superconductor tunnels: Barrier Penetration Disallowed, says the signifying urinal, the symbol, the semiosis posted on the wall which is the Large Glass. It's that bad. But that does not mean such effort is without value. Some sullied consciousness surely has to do with these maths and learning that correspondence will likely have a profound transformative effect on ordinary consciousness. There are at least _CT_C order-types of Lukasiewicz logics. Each of their aleph-null-worth of order-type sub+…sub-constituents will generate as many notions of number as yet discovered by mathematics in its modern aspect, and each of these will generate a New Physics and associated technological regime: m-valued universal physical constants under Lukasiewicz logics. Think of all the conservation laws -- and how many ways each are violated! Experimental demonstration is a hilarious notion, whatever the degree of induced hyperventilation. The _CT_C order-types of Lukasiewicz logics were arrived at by removing axioms from the axiom-giver, logic, the mind-mode. This “exercise” has clearly illustrated that mind, howsoever conscious, is no more consciousness than is matter. Consciousness is neither mind nor matter: speaking in ultimates, no pan-psychism and no pan-hylism and no combination thereof. But working out the hypercomplex-number arithmetics of topologically-active 3-fold operator-time (un-pure consciousness in its active aspect, according to lights of my inner Musculpt) and infinite-dimensional Hilbertian function-space under _CT_C order-types of Lukasiewicz logics (un-pure consciousness in its passive aspect, according to lights of my inner Musculpt) all numbered with numbered Gödel numbers would have immediate value relative to exteriorization of inner Musculpt, implementation of m-logically-valued monetary units, and such like. Even this formulation is still in spirit binary: pure/un-pure, active/passive -- when clearly or purely or truth-value-wise, there are no binaries about it, no question of clarity, purity, or truthfulness. No question of questions, even. This pure/un-pure, active/passive binary is a “cultural lag”, a residual of glutamatergic automatization over differentiable sense modalities: hence, the necessity of Musculpt as mathematical notation as a facilitator to right use (collective karma yoga) of the (minimally) _CT_C order-types of Lukasiewicz logics.

I instinctively recoil from the normotic Aristotelian prejudice of the M.D.-ed Oliver Sacks's of this world, so, seeing that Sacks wrote the Forward to Zoltan Torey's Out of Darkness: A Memoir (Picador, 2003), I refused for a long time to pick up a copy. Eventually relenting, I discovered I was right: the Forward by O. S. is an essay against Musculpt -- and thus by implication an essay against m-logically-valued monetary units, and thus by further implication against actually adequate response to anthropogenic components of climate-shift dynamics (components which likely involve non-Aristotelian, non-Newtonian factors shunned by the normotic prejudice). Sacks says in his Forward to Torey's Memoir that (p. xvii):

This [over-activity of an excited visual cortex in the blind] may lead to hallucinations, the involuntary eruption of visual images and memories, or of lights, colours, geometrical patterns (which probably reflect the organization of the visual cortex at a basic physiological level).

If you restrict your definition of “physiological” enough, I am sure some geometrical patterns could be ruled out of reflecting in some way organization of the visual cortex, but, clearly, it would take an effort at restriction -- ruling out the submolecular for a start (don't want to allow “imaging” to become invasive, now do we? as that would undermine the fMRI industry and so very much more, telecoms, for instance). And any image that is not physiological and not consensual-object oriented is irrupted hallucination: thus proclaimeth neoAristotle. And to back up this anti-Platonism, we have Sacks' testament that (p. xvi):

Many, but not all, blind people have vivid visual images and memories. This is not the case, naturally, for those born blind, who have never had any visual experience… they retain no memory of seeing, have no visual images, no visual dreams, and their ideas as to what a visual world is like must be based entirely on the descriptions of the sighted.

Naturally! Ha. And even a “must” carrying all sorts of tacit assumptions as to those logical-value order-types tolerated by the natural. And to cover himself, he reluctantly more or less acknowledges existence of synaesthesia by noting (p. xviii) that other senses may “clothe themselves in visual forms”. A nice metaphor, don't your think? Rather, what those sighted regard visual experience to be, more accurately stated, those of the sighted, to properly limit the case, who regard differentiation of sense modalities as an irreducible physiological given -- given, that is, adequate restriction of the definition of “physiological”. Since, naturally, those born blind could only know what seeing is if told by the sighted, the sighted doing such telling would not be too likely to learn of seeings they don't see, let alone to learn seeing of seeing, not merely seeing of the seen. Given that there is colored hearing, colored touch, colored taste, and colored smell, anyone capable of these four, possibly even one of these four, is capable of some form of colored color -- except that the subclass of the class of seeings will obviously be different for the never sighted. Your colored color may not be exactly my colored color, and not just a difference in the color of any given color, anymore than the “psychometric distance function” of one sighted person's non-Euclidian visual space is exactly the psychometric distance function of another sighted person's non-Euclidian visual space -- at least according to Luneburg's experimental findings demonstrating various Einsteinian properties as integral to visual space, findings largely ignored since the 1940s. Note, for instance, that Torey's The Crucible of Consciousness (Oxford U. Press, 1999) contains no discussion of Luneburg -- a strange oversight. This is, of course, to leave alone altogether the notion that qualia are not resident in the so-called objective-exterior object of perception or even any discrete so-called interior subject-self of perception -- and maybe even not resident in the perception part of perception. And, were questions of logical-value order-type not left aside, then even the quantitative attributes of the so-called objective-exterior object of perception may not be resident in that so-called object, as the quantum measurement problem clearly suggests, especially were any given universal physical constant found to be m-simultaneously-valued (as would certainly be the case under m-valued logics), thus removing all possible “classical limits”. Note, for instance, that the closest Torey's Crucible comes to a discussion of logical-value order-types is to quote (p. 44) Bronowski's A Sense of the Future on the brain's “ability to overcome… self-reference” (the formal-logic basis of logical-value order-types), an ability, I would note, prerequisite to there being a future of an objectively real, real-numbered, linear-time that is not mere memetime; this ability, I would further note, being resident in the brain's capacity for glutamatergic neuronal etching (by “metaphor” to the arbitrary “cut” required to “iron time out” to a timeline). Husserl's reductive phenomenology and Lukasiewicz's logics and Gebser's “concretion of time” -- a concretion which does have something to do with the constitution of visual space and whether or not it is specific to the visual cortex or is in Schrödinger superposition with auditory space, tactile space, feeling space, and other spaces never experienced (i.e., differentiated) by normotics and other classes of the well-enculturated (i.e., the well-glutamatergically etched) with little quality time (Kairos) in sensory isolation environments and who have throughout life habitually suppressed autogenic discharge activity with ergotropic functions -- should be left in the coffin where they belong. I have never heard that the Blind Priest Tradition -- very elaborate in traditional Japan, for instance -- precludes the congenitally blind, or that those of that class that somehow slipped by the censor are disallowed entry to most Samadhi states, classified in significant measure by the seeings involved, which, naturally, would be disallowed to the congenitally blind by a natural preclusion of all seeings, even if such blind priests achieved fully-fused synaesthesia altogether sans differentiation of sensory modalities (which may not violate a submolecular “physiological”: i.e., even if the visual cortex is not “physiologically” phasic above tonic activation baseline). Those congenitally blind who are taught that there is only one seeing in the class of all seeings, naturally, might believe it, for they would be so told by those members of the sighted who believe that physical objects exist independent of collective superposition among the cultures of differentiable sensoria -- a decidedly modern idea in firm opposition to Vedic-Platonic idealism, and hugely dependent upon maintenance of the exclusivity of the ₁T₂-logic order-type (thus precluding m-logically-valued identity states and monetary units and a quantum-relativistic atmosphere, planet Earth). None of this is in any way to denigrate the extraordinary accomplishments of Zoltan Torey, but such are the intraworkings of an academia in defense of a dead paradigm.

The point of that posting (the one given immediately above) was not to argue that the congenitally blind can see; it was to illustrate the degree to which elements of a worldview construct are superintegrated and how mutually reinforcing behaviors emerge when that construct comes under challenge. I would further argue that when the construct dies altogether the mutually reinforcing behaviors massively intensify into hysterical denials of existential threat collectively pandemic such that the hysteria is cloaked to participants. In this respect, consider the following quotation from a recent New York Times article by Fuchsia Dunlop (“China's True Dash of Flavor”, 18 February 2007):

In the absence of medical evidence of any harmful physiological effects of MSG, the fact that the Chinese use it while Americans not of Chinese descent generally don’t creates a serious cultural barrier to the mainstream appreciation of Chinese food. Isn’t it time, perhaps, to cast off our prejudices and take a cool, steady look at MSG?

Well past time, I'd say. What is glutamate? Quoting Professor Emeritus of Neurology, the University of Colorado, James H. Austin, M.D., a specialist in neurochemistry and neuropharmacology, glutamate is (Zen-Brain Reflections, MIT Press, 2006, p. 468):

A major excitatory neurotransmitter. It is the amino acid precursor (glutamic acid) of GABA [another neurotransmitter].

And can this endogenous neurotransmitter cause problems when present in the brain in greater than physiological concentrations? Again quoting James H. Austin, M.D., giving a non-technical introduction before launching into details of the neurochemistry (Zen and the Brain, MIT Press, 1998, pp. 654-5):

Monosodium glutamate provided the first striking evidence that excitotoxins do cause selective nerve cell death in the brain. Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is the familiar food additive, in use everyday, and not only in Chinese restaurants. In young laboratory rats, excess MSG destroys, selectively, 80 percent of the nerve cells in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus (see chapters 43 and 47). This key nucleus is the site in the young brain most vulnerable to the excitotoxic effect of excitatory amino acids. Even after researchers inject the excitotoxins at a far distant site subcutaneously, these chemical messengers still get into the circulation, hone in on the arcuate target, stimulate it, and destroy it. This fact suggests that arcuate nerve cells are rendered vulnerable to glutamate toxicity because they are coated with glutamate receptors. Our review has prepared us to understand how important the arcuate nucleus is. For example, these very same arcuate cells normally make the two pivotal stress-activated peptides, beta-endorphin and ACTH. And, when stimulated, arcuate cells then release these messengers throughout thalamus, hypothalamus, amygdala, and midbrain. What causes the nerve cell to die an excitotoxic death? The following sequences unfold…

And if books on Zen by a neurologist are too New Age to credit, consider the following from Allan N. Schore, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, writing about “critical period phenomena” like “glutamatergic neuronal etching” in the developing brain (Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, Lawrence Erlbaum, 1994, p. 512):

As previously mentioned in Chapter 13, excitatory neurotransmitters regulate postsynaptic calcium influx in developing neocortex (Yuste & Katz, 1991) and glutamate acting at NMDA receptors increases intracellular calcium in neurons (Burgoyne et al., 1988). Calcium ions regulate important neuronal functions, such as neurite elongation and growth cone movement (Erulkar, 1989). These ions are universally utilized as a messenger to couple cell surface signals to cell response (Rasmussen and Barrett, 1984), but prolonged, unregulated exposure to increased levels produces cell death (Farber, 1981), an effect seen in over-activation of excitatory amino acid receptors (Rothman & Olney, 1987).

Hmmm. Increased levels produce cell death, the aforementioned neuronal “etching”. Is the cognitive dissonance between the pro-MSG “food section” article and these testaments from neurology and neuropsychiatry due solely to the economics of MSG? Let us continue with this quotation from Schore, so as to gather further examples of the mutually reinforcing behaviors which massively intensify when a superintegrated worldview construct dies:

Calcium fluxes at the cell-surface are rapidly regulated by polyamines, agents important for cell growth and differentiation, and receptors for polyamines are found in the plasma membrane and subadjacent mitochondria (Koenig, Goldstone, & Lu, 1983). Jensen, Lynch, and Baudry (1989) demonstrate that an important action of polyamines is to specifically increase the rate of calcium uptake into neonatal brain mitochondria. As a result, during periods of rapid growth these mitochondria serve the important role of flexibly regulating calcium levels in the developing brain, damping down calcium increases to levels that promote growth and below levels that produce toxic effects. These authors also point out that the concentration of polyamines is particularly high during the postnatal period (Seiler & Lemberty, 1975), that polyamines increase pyruvate dehydrogenase activity in mitochondria (Damuni, Humphreys, & Reed, 1984) and that polyamines “might serve to regulate mitochondrial energy metabolism” (Jensen et al., 1989, p. 1179). Most intriguingly, Hofer (1984a) reports that the infant's production of ornithine decarboxylase, the enzyme catalyzing the rate-limiting step in polyamine synthesis, is externally controlled by the mother-infant relationship. I suggest that this could be mediated through the mother's regulation of the infant's glucocorticoid levels, since ornithine decarboxylase is induced by glucocorticoids (Cousin, Lando, & Moguilewsky, 1982), and corticosteroids are known to produce alterations in mitochondrial structure and function (Kimberg, Loud, & Weiner, 1968).

So… “rate of calcium uptake” and "“regulate mitochondrial energy metabolism” and “the rate-limiting step” and “alterations in mitochondrial structure and function”. The canonical equation in our model of radiation exchange processes mediated by superconductant p-electron gas core of DNA is all about rates within rates within rates, clocks within clocks within clocks, which, as regards mitochondrial DNA, certainly would be deeply involved with the regulation of the “mitochondrial energy metabolism” that would have to be a factor in “alterations in mitochondrial structure and function”. But here is the “hug”, the “grip”, the “stumbling block”, the “hysteria inducer”: clocks within clocks within clocks -- treated as waves, i.e., as, for example, those involved with radiation exchange -- are the very essence of quantum superposition, as in the Schrödinger wave-function. Now, if this m-valued wave-function is regarded a corpus of “probability amplitudes” it fits well with the old-paradigm notion of thermodynamic chance (random heat motion) causing -- chance as cause -- biological morphogenesis and associated non-quantum simple-identity (i.e., the “origin of the self” Schore talks about from a normative neuropsychiatric perspective). But if this m-valued Schrödinger wave-function is understood in terms of the m-valued Lukasiewicz logics of identity-transparency, not truth-value, then this is a most fundamental existential denial to old-paradigm thought, simple-identity-type selfhood, and prevailing models of brain function limited to traditional Aristotelian-Baconian-Boolean ₁T₂-logic-type operations. In this case, “critical period phenomena” like “glutamatergic neuronal etching” in the developing brain would not be interpreted as facilitating cognitive “development” but as cutting off -- under the influence of prescriptive enculturation, which Schore prefers to put off to “the mother's regulation of the infant…” -- direct conscious access to m-logically-valued Lukasiewicz processing (m-level entanglement) by the brain's quantum substrate under glutamatergic neuronal etching. Glutamate -- and radiation exchange in setting clocks within clocks within clocks -- playing a major role in denying animistic identity-transparency to conscious awareness! So, continued claims, in face of massive evidence, that there is an “absence of medical evidence of any harmful physiological effects of MSG”, such as that made by Fuchsia Dunlop and the New York Times, likely are not solely, or even primarily, motivated by the economics of MSG.

And is there a direct connection between radiation-exchange-regulated clocks within clocks within clocks and MSG? You bet there is! Quoting again James H. Austin, M.D., a neurologist who has regularly visited Japan over decades for instruction in the practices of Zen (Zen-Brain Reflections, pp. 112-3):

Moreover, deep down in the hypothalamus, glutamate can act to phase advance the circadian clock. How? By stimulating the synthesis of nitric oxide in the pivotal suprachiasmatic nucleus.

Why are the monkey-brain-sushi-ed, Ajinomoto-ed (i.e., MSGed) Japanese the leading party in early embrace of ₁T₂-logical cell-phone e-money (see: “A Cash Call”, The Economist, 15 February 2007)? The energy density of microwave radiation in Tokyo is… is… Because of their emotional problems with the m-logically-valued identity-transparency of animistic-Shinto derivative of the WWII-era collective catastrophe due to cultivation of state-Shinto, i.e., Shinto Westernized? Still emotional problems because of WWII? Crazy idea, eh! Schizophreniform, for sure. Not to mention the caponizing effects of mimetic estrogens, one example of which is… MSG! But consider this. Beginning with a medical congress during the summer of 1977, the Japanese have had the most elaborate exposure to the superconductant model of DNA radiation exchange of any people on the planet -- and they have exhibited… displays of polite interest, when backed into a corner with that model. The height of impoliteness achieved at a public lecture on the model given to Tsukuba University was the question: “Why do we need such a model as this?” Not only a good question, but a revealing question, eh? One of the leading principles explicated by this model is that the frequency response windows of DNA molecules located in different types of tissues -- collagen, muscle, nerve, so on -- are hairline thin because of the superconductivity factor, meaning that, cell phones, say, could be designed to stay out of biologically-active windows. Could be… Since 1977, however often explained, this has not gotten the attention of Tokyoites moving daily through unprecedented energy densities of microwave radiation. Do you think this lack of real interest could have anything to do with their emotional problems with the m-logically-valued identity-transparency of animistic-Shinto?

Contrary to contentions of decentered deconstructionists, every epoch has a thematic center. Our epoch, which began with Abel's “Impossibility” Theorem, published 1824 and 1826, or with Ruffini's early version, 1799 -- dates with which to date death in principle of the Cartesian-Newtonian-Westphalian paradigm -- is thematically anchored by conflict over what, metaphysically speaking, the notion “identity” is to be construed to be: no identifiable ha-ha-ha! aspect of the current global crisis, 21st century memetime, is not directly fraught with this issue. Medieval notions of identity -- same identity appearing at multiple locations in the same circumscribed space, for instance; “form” understood as standing-wave superposition of m-motifs multiply stacked in atemporal simultaneity through which a Cantus Firmus is heard; discrete incarnates as reflections on ground-state sacred-geometry modules, i.e., the “floor”, of the cosmic cathedral cast by divine light shining through Platonic forms signified by leaded-glass multiples of the Large Glass -- ended at the treaties of Münster, Osnabrück, and the Pyrenees, 1648-59, which rewrote the Holy Roman Empire. Unfortunately, the Abel-Ruffini Theorem, being immediately deemed a statement of impossibility, rather than an existence demonstration of transcendentality, did not successfully rewrite the modern era, and the energy density of collective fulminations over possession of the thematic center of the epoch has grown and grown episodically until the present memetime. Novelist Philip Roth gave a good statement of the cardinal issue in When She Was Good (1968 Bantam paperback version of the 1967 Random House edition copyrighted 1966):

Oh, yes, he can remember it all. Ginny, a fully grown, fully developed woman, looking down with that pale dopey face for Lucy to tell her what to do next -- and little Lucy, who was then no bigger than a bird. Behind the happy child, Ginny would go running across the lawn, the toes of her high shoes pointing out, and taking quick little steps to keep up -- a strangely beautiful scene, but a melancholy one, too, for it was proof not only of their love for each other, but of the fact that in Ginny's brain so many things were melted together that in real life are separate and distinct. She seemed always to think that Lucy was somehow herself -- that is, more Ginny, or the rest of Ginny, or the Ginny people called Lucy. When Lucy ate an ice cream, Ginny's eyes would get all happy and content, as though she were eating it herself. Or if as a punishment Lucy was put to bed early, Ginny, too, would sob and go off to sleep like one doomed… (p. 10)

Brain-damaged Ginny embodies a Poor Clare state of consciousness made famous by the Vigina of St. Francis of Assisi and especially by the resonant stigmata raised on the back of Mayer Baba at witness to the whipping of a cow: Baba Gi's welts were a psychophysiologic expression of what the neuropsychiatric community regards a mark of psychosis: “generative empathy”, the direct immediate experience of another discrete identity's experience (man or animal or plant). Because Ginny would not stop shadowing Lucy, her brother, Willard, returned her to the insane asylum in Beckstown.

On the long drive to Beckstown, Willard tried over and over again to somehow make Ginny understand the situation, but no matter how he explained, no matter how many examples he used -- look, there's a cow, Ginny, and there's another cow; and there's a tree, and there's another tree -- he could not get her to see that Ginny was one person and Lucy was someone else. Around dinnertime they arrived. Taking her by the hand, he led her up the overgrown path to the long one-story building where she was to spend the rest of her days. And why? Because she could not understand the most basic fact of human life, the fact that I am me and you are you. (pp. 11-2)

Castigating those who insist upon living in one story only, in MOON, Derek's “Third Voice” keeps haranguing him with, “I am me and only me…I am me and only me…I am me and only me…Heh-heh-heh!” I am that I am by ₁T₂ logic alone.

That Roth wrote this in 1965 and 1966 and published it in 1967 and 1968 is, to me, a Jungian synchronicity: considering what was then transpiring in Viet Nam -- and was about to transpire in Cambodia. The “enemy strength-estimates controversy” transpired during '66-'67, and the decisive turning point of the war, the Tet Offensive -- still massively influencing global affairs, and yet to be actually understood outside a very small community -- took place during 1968. Both of these, and the Cambodian holocaust as well, were intimately involved with Roth's theme. But the world is well-populated with willful Willards. The predominate reaction to my article -- written upon request of a German onetime Vietnam war correspondent -- about origins of the Cambodian holocaust was, “But that has already been said in Shawcross' Sideshow! Everybody knows the bombing caused the Cambodian holocaust.” Only trouble is my article was not about the bombing causing the holocaust; it was about the collective unconscious factors motivating the bombing which constellated collective unconscious compensatory abreaction amongst the Cambodians, that abreaction being that holocaust. Going back to 1799 or 1824 or 1826, any factor reminding of, suggestive of, construable as what is presently called in quantum theory “non-simple identity” becomes an object of extraordinary obsessive-compulsive fixation which willful Willards must, simply must, remove from the scene. Those classes of “enemy strength” least subject to “simple identity” no willful Willard was willing to count. The fact that the Vietnamese communist headquarters “located” in Cambodia was not actually a place but a highly fractionated activity in constant motion (under stacked canopy evocative of medieval polyphony) that could not be simply-located and thus could not be effectively bombed -- even with saturated area bombing and millions of CBUs -- was hysteria inducing amongst those doing the bombing and removing the triple-canopy, not because of the actual circumstances of the war, but by its ability to remind willful Willards of the experimental verifications of the violations of Roth's theme by the “non-simple identities” of quantum physics: collective psychological conversion/displacement greatly magnifying the delivered existential denial eliciting bombing tantrums. And we might have another such tantrum soon in Iran.

There are even larger parallels. When the “political order of battle analysts” identified classes of the non-simply-identifiable “political operators” as countable, and the willful Willards nonetheless stuck to the “official MACV figure”, those same willful Willards initiated a “Phoenix Elimination Program” to destroy the “non-simple identities” they were unwilling to count. These willful Willards, in fact, became obsessive-compulsive about removing those operators they would not credit as actually existing. And since these non-simple identities needing to be removed could not actually exist, their existence could not be reflected in the organizational dynamics of their “terrorist network”. So, that being the case, there was no need for the willful Willards to study properties of that network in order to identify the best way to remove the offending non-simple identities, or, better yet, to find ways to rectify the situation without having to so remove. All that was necessary was to get out there and get the job done: call in the exterminators, sub-out to LocoLooter. Similarly, after three decades of denying a climate-shift dynamic, the atmospheric sciences have finally acknowledged presence of greenhouse warming and their willful Willards have created a Kyoto Protocol elimination program to remove the offending simply-identified gases, but they are not re-studying the so-called “Newtonian domain” which is Earth's atmosphere to see if there are any non-simply-identifiable “operators” -- such as m-valued acoustically-modified gravity-wave modes -- involved in a fashion that they should not continue to go uncounted (i.e., remain filtered from the models). And the “cap and trade” system some willful Willards wish to sub-out is analogically modeled upon the truncation-filtering methods employed in the atmospheric models to engage in uncounting, rather than on the unfiltered m-valued modes which helped back in the 1970s to facilitate development of the notion of m-logically-valued monetary units. Consideration during the 1970s of the certainty of an ongoing climate-shift dynamic and the roles of m-valued acoustically-modified gravity-wave modes in facilitating atmospheric processes of self-organization was highly catalytic in development of the notion of m-logically-valued monetary units as facilitators of effective response to climate shift by internalizing externalities to the market's self-organizing mechanisms.

The center that is everywhere is still a center; it's just not a ₁T₂-logical center. The Hegelian center, being Platonic, not Aristotelian, is a center that is everywhere -- and this Marx regarded illegitimately transcendental a quarter century after Abel had demonstrated the necessity of transcendentality to the very existence of algebras and their arithmetics. You can't see the curled Kaluza-Klein 5th dimension and all those other superstring curled dimensions, any more than you can see “Indra's net”, so, if you can't see them, best get rid of all that transcendental stuff, eh? Duh…duh…duh… Last time I looked, I couldn't see the 4th dimension either, so I guess there weren't no real-numbered linear-time line I could have looked along in trying to see its dimension, eh what? There are lots of things wrong with superstring theory's M Theory -- but none of them are what the current crop of critics point to: one more group of Marx-minds under some new name clinging to ₁T₂ logic and its surrogate consensuated tap-tap material-girl objects spread out over a haptification of space they all just love to touch. There is no denying that the human species deserves absolutely every enormity it is bringing down on itself; too bad that bringing down is not upon only itself. Look, whenever the brain deautomatizes, for whatever reason, to include “brain damage”, ₁T₂-logic functions -- automatized by prescriptively enculturated glutamateric neuronal etching, and associated suppression of sub-clinical autogenic brain discharges (the primary function of which is to restore pathofunctional shifts of quantum parameter/superpositions to their natural frequency-stacks) -- lose their exclusive hold over conscious awareness, and _µT_m-logic processing by the quantum substrate of the brain bleeds through, animistic modes of consciousness being one result. The manner in which the deautomatization is initiated, the somatic structures affected, the march of onset, chronicity, pattern of recurrence, and many other variables -- surely -- influence the awareness-outcome. The various forms of social, political, economic, environmental, food, pharmacological, and irradiative coercion, in the hands of those who wield them, have sought to manipulate the processes of automatization/deautomatization so as to achieve this or that pattern perceived to be in the interests of the prevailing autocrats. Nothing, absolutely nothing, induces greater fear amongst elites than a perceived loss of control over these processes. Such loss of control has been episodic in human experience (to include over the economies of the academic mode of production). In our epoch, the Abel-Ruffini Theorem was the cardinal deautomatizer which has reverberated down through decades and decades of memetime in higher mathematics, music, the arts, psychiatry, physics, technology, and into every aspect of contemporary civilization inducing amplifying saddle-back-fever fulminations of collective hysteria, to include world wars, holocausts, genocides, ecocide, and planetocide. This has gone on for so long, with such gathering momentum, it is hard to imagine any means by which it can be resolved short of cusp events in ultimates. The pandemic hysteria inculcated by rigorous description and experimental demonstration of m-valued identity handled by m-valued logics has fostered snarling, mouth-foaming, bared-teeth collective clingings to the single-valued identity constructs that have been elaborated in immunology, immunobiology, psychoneuroimmunology -- where the issue of what identity is is paramount -- and an obsessive compulsion to take complete control over the genetic basis of biological identity so as to altogether eradicate m-valued identity and m-logically-valued processes wherever they can be found (these efforts being cloaked under various rubrics: renormalization, filtering of noise, treatment of genetic disease, functional image mapping, so on). But since m-valued and m-logically-valued processes are foundational to nature at all scale levels -- not least by the coherent waves produced by DNA undergoing radiation exchange; the acoustically-modified gravity-wave modes associated with double-helical flows in tornado genesis; double-helical energy-momentum feeder bands to comets, nebulas, spiral-banded galaxies, and black holes -- collective-hysteria-driven efforts to remove such animism-reminding factors from biological systems cannot possibly yield a happy outcome. And, by now, the bleed-over into sex warfare, multiculturalism warfare, monetary warfare, and all the rest insures that the tools employed to assess the situation are sufficiently falsified as to be those factors most needing assessment. Systems that have become as deranged as are those prevailing do not retain allegiance and involvement of people capable of de-deranging them. Such systems run their course with the sorts of people they retain. That course, of course, is no course I personally want even to witness, let alone move along.

Concurrence with that orientation is not for me possible. Quite contrary to the notion informing m-logically-valued monetary units, there is a tradition of handling “externalities” by lawmaker and functionary and enforcer -- not by functions, i.e., correspondences or relative-states -- which goes back at least to the Laws of Manu (interpreted to their current form during the first few centuries CE; in the lost original version, possibly back to as early as the fifth century BCE) which formalized the caste system and are versified as a sutra within the corpus of Dharamasastra texts (going back possibly to the fifth century BCE and incorporating many references to the Vedas). So scholarly opinion has it. To me, however, the Laws of Manu, in their extant form, are an early example in employment of the principle of “calling the thing by the name of its opposite”, in that they were touted as a codification of natural laws when they actually inverted those laws. The inversion was from time-independent decomposition by mathematical involutes of the correspondences or relative-states in holographic Cantor-Schrödinger superposition over the base-state (of what became known in one cultural context as Tzog-chen) to linear-time-bound temporal-power supersedeas as rigid hierarchies subduing every aspect of existence. The legalism and the appeal to natural law in the transpose from time-independent to time-dependent is captured well in physicist Julian Barbour's statement earlier quoted (The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics (Oxford U. Press, 2000, p. 137):

Time does not exist. All that exists are things that change. What we call time is -- in classical physics at least -- simply a complex of rules that govern the change.

Barbour, of course, is arguing for validity of the inverse transpose -- time-dependent to time-independent -- from that carried out by the Laws of Manu. The moral correspondent of Manu's legalistic inversion is the interpretation of the Buddhist Law of Conditionality (i.e., dependent origination) relative to a passing-time reference (i.e., lifetime-to-lifetime, the karma involved determining, and justifying, the caste into which a person falls for a given lifetime), rather than as “transpiring” in “one mind moment” (i.e., atemporally). A mention of the one-mind-moment interpretation is made in the Abhidhamma Pitaka (the Tipitaka or Tripitaka being the “three baskets” of oral teachings of Sakyamuni Buddha written down approximately four centuries after the fact). In discussing this one-mind-moment issue in the appendix to his book Dependent Origination (Bangkok: Buddhadhamma Foundation, 1994) P. A. Payutto says (p. 98):

Indeed, it is worth noting that what evidence there is for this interpretation [i.e., relative to “one mind moment”; or is it “one mind-moment”; or is it “one-mind moment”?] is possibly only a shadow from the past which has become well-nigh forgotten [Brentano-forgetting or Platonic-forgetting?], and which is still in existence only because the Tipitaka stands as an irrefutable reference.

That “past” to which Payutto refers certainly was in memetimes prior to production of the extant version of the Laws of Manu and possibly of the bulk of the Dharamasastra. As Payutto points out (p. 99), the time-bound interpretation of the Law of Conditionality is closely associated with the Visuddhimagga written by Acariya Buddhaghosa during the fifth century CE, that is, after the period of production of the existing version of the Laws of Manu: one can easily suppose, therefore, that the Visuddhimagga was written as a rationalization of the rigid hierarchies treated as derivative of natural law in the extant version of the Laws of Manu. Field power; all-powerful; greatest force; total control; utter mastery; complete competence; the scorpion! 10,000 power; ichiman ki; wan-ch'i; shakti-pa; sakdi na: fine-grained tagging in orders of self-organizational competency about an empty-center, a sacred singularity establishing curvature-configuration event-gradients, field power, by presence alone (dissembled by linear-time reference to rigid hierarchy, to a caste system). Innumerable (i.e., wan4) Abelian fibers not twisted into a Shinto rope, but tied in non-Abelian personal power knots. “Energy-momentum cascade” to tornado genesis denied. Field power of superconductant DNA denied. “Demergent” falsified as emergent. Tai Mao run amok over identification with collective transference: hey, Daddy O! Long Live Chairman Mao! Quench that superstring! Burn Indra's net! The closer superstring theory's M Theory comes to embracing m-valued universal physical constants, and hence to placing Hilbertian function-space under Lukasiewiczian m-valued logics, by collective-projective identification at transference, the greater will the popular hysterical back-reaction on the metric become: even though Tibet was a casualty of the cold war, by virtue of Tibetan Buddhism's and Bon's account of the base-state of Tzog-chen, the collective unconscious could very well make Tibet the Poland of the next great global total war. There is nothing the human species despises more than creative insight; on the order of creativity of m-valued Polish logics and such logics over the base-state of Tzog-chen, there is no toleration at all.

I certainly am in no position to give a scholarly account, but I will present a sketch of ideas on this which have evolved ever since childhood days chasing funa (innumerable baby carp propagated with the pollywogs before being relocated in late spring) streams through the rice-paddy plant stems used to make the fiber bundles for twisting into the rope hanging over the entrance to the Shinto shrine located on the hillside just above my house in Midori Gaoka, Ashiya-cho, kita-Kyushu, Japan, circa 1953-6. Superstring theory = Yellow Peril! Fiber bundle arithmetics = gelbe Gefahr. Arithmetics with Abelian-transcendental algebras requiring complex higher dimensions for definition of their numbers. No such dimensions, no such numbers. During those childhood days in Japan, I was well aware of the fact that the female-genital delta triangle was referred to as the “little rice field”. What I didn't know is that in memetimes prior to production of the Dharamasastra this little rice field was represented in pre-Brahmanic tribal India by what those Greeks into gematria later called the “Holy Tetractys” and, later yet, became known as “Pascal's triangle” for generating the binomial distribution and the Pachinko-percolation, cascade-theory, sand-pile Gaussian distribution of event-gradients (Mt. Meru), the generator being half an hour-glass: ten dots or holes arrayed to form an equilateral triangle. Also involved is Euler's Koingsberg Bridge Problem in topology, map coloring theorems, spreading trees, rooted trees, so on. This dot-triangle figure (actually two of them, one inverted and the two placed point-to-point, forming the full hour-glass) was what Pupul Jayakar, the Indian scholar of pre-Brahmanic tribal art, called The Earthen Drum (Delhi: National Museum, 1980). A motif widespread over tribal India, propagated in particular by the weaving guilds strongly implicated in the origins of Tantra. A fractal-drum, band-pass, percolation filter composed of kami-dust motes over which the modern artist Yayoi Kusama went dotty (Yayoi being the Japanese name of the bronze culture which made bronze replicas of this earthen drum, replicas displaying algebraic yantras in circular maps upon their tympana, a culture the Japan seat of which Midori Gaoka, Ashiya-cho, kita-Kyushu, Japan is located in). Jayakar's book was later reprinted as The Earth Mother (Penguin, 1989), the title change representing an exchange of substantive content for mere symbolic reference stripped of substance. The Moon of Hoa Binh, the title of our novel, is the name of one such drum (moon = drum tympanum) notionally found in the Ma River valley (ma = sacred space of kami-dust-mote sheets) of what is now Viet Nam (the rubbing from which was actually taken off a drum housed in the Museum Pusat, Jakarta). Dot-matrix transpose of Pascal's triangular “drum” to yantric algebras in a “circular field of time” are described by the musicologist Ernest G. McClain in The Myth of Invariance (Nicolas Hays, 1976) under the rubric “The Drum of Siva”. He regards the involved Vedic “lattice logics” (p. 2) as being primarily musical in reference and projecting a philosophical synthesis, rather than being an expression of sophisticated science. But the whole of present-day chemistry could be re-codified in terms of acoustic-wave theory -- e.g., our quantum model of DNA helix-coil transition -- and mathematical details of acoustic-analogues to quantum black hole computing were elaborately prefigured during the 1970s in the cascade theory of tornado genesis and its computerized multiscale numerical forecast model. Quantum-mantra/molecular-yantra. Moreover, McClain's treatment of Indra's net of vibrating superstrings and the “Asvin pair” is so close to the phase-digit (qubit in two-level entanglement, Lukasiewicz mu-it in m-level entanglement) treatment of “temporal curl” as logical operator (thus involving lattice logics of Indra, the God of weather) that the overall cognitive impact is simply staggering. Moreover, the ch'i of wan-ch'i, i.e., 10,000 power, is deeply involved with the weather and medicine (e.g., tornado as geomantic acupuncture needle). Sophisticated science may well also have been involved!

So, what does this suggest about pre-Dharamasastra political economy -- or at least pre-Laws-of-Manu, in the extant form, political economy? In the Kingdom of Ayudhya (on territory of present-day Thailand, dating from the mid-14th century, i.e., well after codification of the extant form of the Laws of Manu) the big rice field was involved in the assignment of sakdi na by appeal to the Dharamasastra precedent, an assignment apparently initiated by King Borommatrailokanat (1448-88). As David K. Wyatt describes in Thailand, A Short History (Yale U. Press, 1982, Silkworm edition, p. 73):

Building upon principles and practices [li and ch'i] long established in the kingdom, these laws in effect delineated an enormously complex hierarchical society in which the place and position of every individual was carefully specified. The laws assigned to everyone a number of units of sakdi na, literally “field power.” Although at first this may have at least symbolically represented actual measured rice fields, expressed in terms of rai (2 1/2 rai = 1 acre), by the fifteenth century it did not carry this meaning, for even Buddhist monks, housewives, slaves, and Chinese merchants were assigned sakdi na.

Wyatt makes the further observation in “Laws and Social Order in Early Thailand” (Studies in Thai History, Silkworm, 1994, pp. 70-1) that:

…it has become customary to view Ayudhya's initiation in the fifteenth century of an elaborate system of socio-political hierarchy (the sakdi na system attributed to King Borommatrailokanat) as a dramatic and sudden change that thrust Ayudhya's development forward, but at the same time created dynamic tensions within the society, between rigid hierarchy and more “loosely-structured” behavior, that were to bedevil Siamese history into the twentieth century.

But even if the big rice field was -- early in Ayudhya's history -- involved in assignment of the number of units of sakdi na, it still seems certain that, even at that late date relative to the Laws of Manu, the big rice field could not have been understood as a rice field is understood in the modern era -- because the “geo-body” of the Kingdom was conceived in relation to sacred Buddhological space, which is not the 3-space of modern science (see: Siam Mapped, A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation by Thongchai Winichakul, University of Hawaii, 1994, Silkworm edition). Buddhological space, B-space, was a multi-leveled, laminated hyperspace (involving myo, a class of khetdaen, i.e., in quantum parlance, a “domain structure” of the hyperspace laminates) and a (p. 24) “space of pilgrimage” (the “pilgrimage” being the march of the function generating the space). B-space was a function-space (i.e., a space of correspondences -- a mathematical function, in Euler's definition, being a statement of correspondence) no less than is the Hilbert space of present-day quantum mechanics: the main difference is with regard to self-evident axioms (e.g., for B-space, axiom of no-self being evident) and logical-value order-types employed (under Madhyamika at its most sophisticated, ₄T₄). As Winichakul says (p. 32):

Although there are many numerical values in the Traiphum [i.e., the Traiphum Phra Ruang text explicating Buddhist cosmography] and Buddhological maps, they are symbolic figures of various worlds, ideal places, descriptions of beings, or symbolic quantities of sacred objects.

If not the big rice field of the modern era, what was actually numbered in assignment of the number of units of sakdi na? What were those units units of? In terms of B-space, under the Law of Conditionality as explicated by the Visuddhimagga “B Theory” textbook written by Acariya Buddhaghosa, the units were certainly units of the “store of merit” carried from the last lifetime to the current lifetime on the functional march (pilgrimage) of reincarnation determining position in B-space during any given incarnation (“position” being a “slice” through laminated B-space). And the “merit” stored was stored as logical-value order-type (in the case of open awareness of unbounded wholeness, across the spectrum ₁T₂ to _CT_C), the property determining by its operators (“3-fold temporal curl”, which the Traiphum directly implicates as being the decomposition operators) the path of the pilgrimage generating the space through which reincarnational “movement” transpires.

But what about the “well-nigh forgotten” -- to use P. A. Payutto's term -- “A Theory” which existed in memetimes prior to the Laws of Manu and the Dharamasastra texts out of which B Theory emerged? If the “store of merit” is stored as logical-value order-type, what is logical-value such that it can be order-typed as sakdi na? Is logical-value foundationally truth-value? Truth-value works very well over the ₁T₂ order-type, but raise its terms, and, as Madhyamika's “M Theory” clearly indicates, its utility pretty much fizzles out with the ₄T₄ order-type. The theory of full-blown pre-Brahmanic tribal animism, i.e., A Theory, deeply implicated as to origins of Tantra, necessitates by its very defining property -- identity transparency (reduced by social anthropology to “participation mystique” and “contagion” and by antisocial psychiatry to “generative empathy” as symptom of psychosis) -- requires the _CT_C order-type. The _CT_C order-type as 10,000 power! And what is the 10,000? The innumerable, the all that is, the great, the total, the complete: the quantum relative-state (m-level entanglement) that lies behind the power of “field power” bundled into fibers twisted into the signifying rope of synergistic superintegration. How was the big rice field understood traditionally?

On the outskirts of Bangkok there is on old house, a house made of teak in Thai style mirroring B-space with multiple levels, multiple terraces, many roofs, separate structures interconnected by ramps of the inner garden hanging pomelo and papaya and plum and persimmon, durian, mango and milk-breast fruit. Near the door to the highest sleeping pavilion is a large pierced carving -- 3 by 4 meters -- forming the frontal wall. One will walk past this layered cut-out relief dozens of times, momentarily stopping perhaps, registering only a confusion of abstractions, an entanglement of all shapes blended into one, wavering, precarious, a collection of aspects elusive and affording no hold, until suddenly -- object as subject! -- the image appears in awareness: A giant cicada superimposed upon a farmer squatting on a rice paddy dike, whose knees and thighs are the shoulders and torsos of two straining water buffalo surging forward at the viewing subject out of a valley of rice rimmed in circling hills stitched of bristling undergrowth. But the figures will not remain resolved! They become confused together borrowing mutually their qualities, appearing as an inextricable entanglement of reciprocal influences, persons and things in a perpetual state of instability confused together borrowing mutually their qualities, confused together, confused until suddenly -- object in subject! -- reappears the confusion of abstractions, all shapes blended into one, wavering, precarious, a collection of aspects: {object : subject :: subject : object, object : subject :: subject : object…n}. This big-rice-field mentality was studied in the Mekong delta early in the 20th century by the French anthropologist Giran. Quoting from his book of 1912 (Magie et Religions Annamites, Paris: Challamel, passage translated at The Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies, Tokyo, by the noted scholar, and leading authority on rice ritual in East and Southeast Asian societies, Nguyen Khac Kham):

…everything becomes confused and blended into one. The state of everything is essentially precarious. Their aspect is elusive and affords no hold for us to seize. This curious vision of the Universe explains some beliefs which otherwise would be hardly conceivable. Each individuality being very badly defined, its limits are wavering, extensible. They do not confine within the individual himself, but overlap him and encroach on his surroundings. Under these conditions, it is as difficult to discern the individual from the group to which he belongs as to discern him from everything that touches him or reminds of himself. With these concepts, we may understand that the Universe must appear as an inextricable entanglement of reciprocal influences where persons and things, in a perpetual state of instability, become confused together while borrowing mutually their qualities.

Quantum relative-state = “inextricable entanglement”! Here we have the m-level “EPR Paradox” which is the foundational notion of A Theory, a theory of the relative-state of all aspects recently scientifically substantiated at the two-level level by the “Aspect Experiments”. Lukasiewicz m-level entanglement being computable by mu-its (not qubits), all propositions in these sakdi na logical-value order-type realms are koans of one sort or another. When the “limits are wavering” and “badly defined”, when they “do not confine”, when they “overlap” and “encroach”, when they are “difficult to discern”… then, those limits, borders, boundaries are boundaries-without-boundary, which appear to the time-bound mentality to be in a constant state of flux (this “flux”, atemporally speaking, is actually what the mathematicians call “compaction” in calculus over complex manifolds like B-space). In the Mekong delta in particular, during the American period of the Viet Nam war, the Viet Cong who infiltrated the village voluntary associations (associations being correspondences, i.e., Eulerian functions) were themselves subverted by the thing they infiltrated: age old mind-states carried by those associations induced the Viet Cong cadres to define the job descriptions of their bureaucratic functionaries on boundaries-without-boundary, thus transforming functionaries into functionals over fractal boundaries of Pupul Jayakar's “earthen drum”, i.e., the “little rice paddy” (it is notable that the largest category of “captured enemy documents” taken by the Americans was composed of disciplinary citations for “licentious behavior”). Such functionals wore many hats: they were m-valued operating under the m-logically-valued conventions of animistic identity-transparency. This was incompatible with ₁T₂-logical Marxist-Leninist-Maoism, of course, and was suppressed as soon as possible.

A long time ago I reached the conclusion that, in this day and age, for me to devote a life to the attempt to SUSTAIN higher states of consciousness would be a waste. Just as there could have been no Beethoven symphonies absent the diatonic music system, so there can be no SUSTAINMENT of higher states absent the requisite collective psycho-socio-cultural infrastructure. The decision to act according to the dictates of this personal conclusion was firmed up with discovery that Aurobindo had much earlier articulated (in Letters on Yoga) a similar conclusion. The path chosen, therefore, was to engage in no inner work activities which do not directly relate to establishment of the requisite collective psycho-socio-cultural infrastructure. Making this choice did not come easily and involved a personal crisis precipitated by death of the 86-year-old man under whom I studied Japanese gardening. There was a lot of symbolism involved which played into factors of the decision which were not sorted out with clarity until well after the choice was made. I will describe these factors in a manner similar to how they appeared in awareness before clarity was obtained -- the better to convey the nature of the personal crisis.

The nursery I worked at was located in the shadow of the CIA directly between Robert Kennedy's Hickory Hill household and the Agency compound at the intersection of Leesburg Pike and Rt. 123 in McLean, Virginia. Prior to his assassination, Bobby Kennedy periodically walked this nursery as a form of relaxation. Earlier, while I was a student at American University's School of International Service, a friend and fellow student had been a live-in at the residence of the then President of the World Bank, a large house located along Chain Bridge Road on the other side of the CIA compound -- and I had shared an old rundown two-story directly across the river along Potomac Palisades. Visits to my live-in friend eventually yielded a similar position for me in the Georgetown home of another high-level government official, a townhouse located across the street from Teddy Kennedy's place at that time. The man I worked for had been a classmate of JFK at Harvard and an OSS officer during WWII.

I'm sure being taken to Nagasaki in 1955 by my father functioned for me as a spoiling operation. I never learned what his personal intent was. Never asked. Probably there was no real personal intent. Decided to drive over, took me along. We never talked about it. He never talked of his wars. And I can't truly estimate or reconstruct the impact on me of, say, Novaya Zembla in late-1961. My Eielson-AFB dates were 1960-1962. Just over the Circle from NZ. Soviet thermonuclear demo. U-2s, KC-97s, C-135s in their early varieties, B-47s, B-52s, I think. Summer job with a contractor rebuilding a runway; another summer job painting radar domes off swing-scaffolds on the DEW Line. Fifteen-, sixteen-years old. Tried to homestead a full quarter with three friends, but got bamboozled because you had to be nineteen and no parent would sign for us and no one would adopt us. Big, big disappointment, life-altering parental mistake. The Homestead Act for Alaska revoked before the time we turned nineteen. Paul Connell, a sourdough with twenty winters alone on the Yukon near Woodchopper south of Circle, Alaska, had helped us pick out the property after my parents had prevented me from making a boat trip with him to Woodchopper. The chance of a lifetime, it seemed to me. My mother acting in counterpoise to all the male influences upon my life? Next time I ran into one of these friends was in the chow line at Camp Zama Army Hospital, him bent over trying to prevent another pop-bleeder, me on crutches from a testicle wound. He had been forced into the Army from Alaska: his long-time girl friend hadn't quite turned sixteen when he was arrested turning eighteen and convicted of statutory rape, given a choice of prison or the Army. Took them some years before they were actually able to get married.

To me, my mother was a Viet Nam war casualty. She died young of a stroke while I was in Saigon. Earlier, when I told her I'd quit college, she became hysterical, said there was a war on, that I'd be killed. I didn't tell her I'd enlisted “airborne unassigned”. I had to tell her, though, when I volunteered for Special Forces training: she really knew her way around the military, kept watch, would find out who my CO was, call him on the phone, speak to him as a colonel to a captain. About Special Forces, she again lapsed into hysteria, said they would completely change me, I'd lose all my sensitivities and interests, they'd make me into a killer: she wouldn't know me. When I went to Viet Nam, she was certain she'd never see me again.

I knew pretty early my mother had set herself up as a counterpoise, but I never did figure out when I first got some inkling of this. I knew for sure in high school reading some book on William Blake. There was a discussion of Blake's relationship with his mother, who apparently encouraged, actually entered into, his early-childhood fantasy material, pretending he was somebody else, and so on. The author attributed to this Blake's ability to maintain eidetic imagery into adulthood -- a very rare occurrence. My mother and I did artworks together, painted pictures on burlap, crafts, that sort of thing up through high school. Then, after my senior year, she organized for me to spend part of my pre-college summer with a girlhood friend of hers who had become a psychologist specialized in treatment of childhood schizophrenia, a woman who analyzed the art of her patients at a mental hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. I think this was just a continuation of my mother's counterpoise, not anything really psychologically sophisticated on her part. I probably would never have quit Special Forces at the end of Dog Lab had it not been for this counterpoise -- but I didn't understand that at the time.

It took me two-and-a-half years to quit college after I knew I would -- which was the first day listening to the Dean talk about how we entering freshmen had the opportunity to join the foreign policy elite of the greatest nation on Earth. Yuck-yuck-yuck! My grades were fair, even though my focus was largely elsewhere. Worked and worked on a long paper entitled “The Predicament of Existentialism”. Read several piles of thick books on Christian and atheistic Existentialism, Special Relativity, Heisenberg indeterminacy, Gödel's proof, neo-Platonism, essays on skew-parallelism and Cabala. In a quandary over the 180-degree contradiction between Existentialism and Platonism. Existentialism: existence precedes essence; Platonism: essence precedes existence. Precedes: precedence relations logically, ontologically, temporally. I reached the personal conclusion that, speaking in terms of ultimates, “precedes” is wrong. I turned in this paper to Abdul Aziz Said at the end of the first semester of my freshman year. Prof. Said told me a story about some of his Arab friends who stayed in the desert, reclusing themselves -- and remarked that I was at risk, that I exhibited many of the same tendencies. A very perceptive observation made from some distance. A Dr. Mott at about the same time similarly warned me concerning my interest in Unamuno. Being directly exposed to the private lives of Washington power people could have been enough, but it took me another two years to actually quit school. Limbo. I didn't have any real idea of what I should do. Should, not wanted. I knew the “should” was a hangover from my military-culture forced assimilation, not an Existentialist ethical imperative: what you “want” is to “serve” the collective need. “Want” become “should” by military prescriptive enculturation. Then, two years later, I again happened across F. S. C. Northrop's The Meeting of East and West. Reading this book thoroughly during my twentieth year was a peak experience -- and provided just the necessary insight into the “should” required actually to quit college, which I had no doubt was an irreversible major life decision. I should never pursue any career; I should pursue the proper questions. And I vaguely sensed that this personal choice was also related to military prescriptive enculturation -- or, rather, what, largely due to my mother's counterpoise, I had done to that enculturation.

I don't know exactly when it started. Certainly by the time we were leaving San Antonio: Dad was off to fly the Berlin Airlift; we were heading back to Pennsylvania. Never see them again; never see HER again. Departure and death: what is the difference? If SHE is dead to me, then I must be dead to HER, too: a point of entry into worlds of childhood fantasy, imagining I am someone else, and so on. Self-manipulation of the third kind to see what happens: nascent introspective positivism as habitual existential stance, my habitus. One enculturation beater: the simple fact of having attended twenty-three schools before graduating from high school. No lock-down on peer typing. At the next place be what ever type you want to be. Who will know any better? Such moving, a huge phantasmagoria for self-experimentation. Enough of this straight-A student stuff; this time, we'll wear wooden Cuban heels on pointed shoes, a DA, smoke Lucky's, join the class hoods. At the next assignment, it'll be straight-C jock. Twenty-two such phase transitions is a lot of subjective experience cultivating inner flexibility, adaptivity, making maps of introspective climes, a kind of training environment turned inward. Training for what?

The Pennsylvania deer hunter I imprinted on was my Aunt Jo. She didn't play Russian roulette -- at least not with a pistol, or, well, not that kind of a pistol. I got to know her some during 1952 when we lived a year in Greencastle and my mother periodically took me along to see her in the mountains outside of Mercersburg. My mother had learned to drive driving a milk truck up over those mountains during the Great Depression. Nothing much had changed on the back roads and she knew every curve. I don't know how much I knew then -- probably quite a bit -- which I later forgot, and then later yet had to rediscover. These visits to a family exile, more of my mother's counterpoise? It's not just, as is well-known, that the eldest son and the military mother always have a thing going, however subtle -- virtually no exceptions, as far as I know -- but that a modestly-ectomorphic son of a high-mesomorph military father draws exposure to family history he might not otherwise have done. Aunt Jo became a mountain woman during the late-1930s as a teenaged girl. She was the most beautiful girl of a thirteen-child family. Wild. “Boy did she ever spread it around”. Her German-Dutch, town-sheriff father -- “a very hard man” -- beat her a lot. She never knuckled under, eventually told him to stuff it, took off to the mountains, never returned. Tracker, bow hunter, habitual wearer of buckskin skirts, exhibitionist, hard drinker, gambler, bar owner, dissipationist. Diana double-dealt. One kind of goddess. I thought she was great. And I wondered why my mother always took me along for the visits. No ulterior motive? Just company for the long rides? Neither Aunt Jo nor my mother were mesomorphic farm girls. Both had the same high-mesomorph father. Of course, they likely didn't know these words; but, then, you don't need to know the words to understand the principles involved. Running away from home as a beaten -- and who knows what else? -- late teen at Depression's end, and actually making oneself into a mountain woman, tracker, bow hunter meant having created for oneself a training environment. At least that is how it seemed to me.

Like I said, Aunt Jo was an exhibitionist (which she may well have considered part of her “inner work”) and I had never seen anything quite like that before, but it was good preparation for rural Kyushu at the end of the Korean war. Not the GI's “Baby-san”, normal country women. In 1953, they didn't wear underwear, squatted in the fields wherever they pleased, laughed if the foreign boy watched. Anyway, I was exposed to many things in Midori Gaoka. Verdant Hills, indeed! I mean, there were honey-bucket pits everywhere; how be conflicted over basic bodily functions? And the sexual stuff was a potent aspect of the cultural induction. My father enrolled me in judo lessons at the base gym, Saturday mornings. My mother took me along to her flower arranging lessons. The hillside behind our house in Midori Gaoka was filled with truly ancient, tree-like camellias from which seedlings were air-layered in moss clumps. I watched the old man do it and loved to range through the wooded sections. Once, looking at the camellias, walking past the Shinto shrine located on the hillside directly behind our house, my teen-aged ama pointed out the stone god displayed on the altar and squeezed my little pecker by way of telling me what the stone god represented. As if I had to be told! Later, she snuck me a peek at her hidden harigata (dildo), laughing in hoydenish farm-girl fashion. Later yet, I learned she had lost her hymen to that stone god in a special Shinto ritual overseen by a priestess. I didn't know whether to believe that or not -- but I came to believe it. Daily, I watched the base guards practice with their bamboo swords, helped the old women pull weeds from around the daikons planted in the terraced vegetable plots, gaped at the monks pulling needles off pine trees at the temple grounds located on the hilltop, observed every aspect of the rice cycle and the ritualistic manner of executing labor -- ritual well-practiced, rhythmic, often overtly sexual in reference. As were the back-in-the-throat paddy songs. “Rhythm entrainment”: a term I later learned to place on this potent aspect of any inner-work practice. Mostly it was the women from whom I learned: they planted the rice; they did the physical labor required to pave the roads in postwar Japan. Submissive Japanese women. What a joke! At least in those days. At least in rural Kyushu. It was right up the beach from the far end of the beach where the topless lady divers spread themselves out on the rocks that I learned to swim in the Sea of Japan. Strong, stocky women. Incredibly accomplished in the water. Many just girls, really; some so young as me. A long apprenticeship. Most of the American kids went swimming in the river, water skiing in the river, the Ongagawa. The bulk of preferred off-base housing was strung along the river. But we didn't often swim the river. In the beginning, Mother took us to the beach where she liked to get some sun; later, I'd ride my bike down there by myself. “Don't go in the water if the divers aren't there; its too dangerous for you alone… Okay, you can go, but stay next to the divers and close to the beach.” My mother, yet again putting me under the influence of women. Counterpoise. Even then I had a kind of vague awareness of the contrast. Ashiya, AFB, was big on air/sea rescue and that was my father's main business at the time. War over the water, like later portrayed in the Yul Brenner film Flight From Ashiya. So, standing there with the half-nude, and some sometimes all-nude, divers looking out across the waters, the counterpoise was well-drawn, even if I didn't actually grasp it whole at the time. Only many years later did I learn that female genital exposure, as conflict resolution algorithm, is a part of traditional Japanese cosmogenesis mythology. How can a girl resist? And there was another contrast, too, one that took years to properly register: the relative absence of fetish in rural Japan at the time. Didn't wear underwear. Contrast to what? Not my Aunt Jo. Other aunts, Mother's friends, neighbors, over-dressed military wives. It wasn't just my mother who called upon me to zip zippers, up and down. Up at The Gap, for instance, a mountain lake near Hershey, Pennsylvania: the women and the kids off for a summer's week, July and/or August. Late-'40s, early-'50s, the swimming suits had panels layered across the front to hide the mounds of Venus. But except when standing, given the unkempt hairstyle of the period, these panels did not altogether hide the moss clumps -- which, apparently, occasionally needed airing because most of these women wore underwear even under their thick swim suits with cotton lining at the crotch. Three-fold covering of the space. Sitting on a beach blanket, knees up and pubes splaying out to both sides, the layering panel didn't hide much, usually not even the over-abundant unnecessary panties. Sunglasses on, filtered smoke hanging off a puffy red lower lip, knees up, sucking Vernor's Ginger Ale from a straw projecting from the long-necked bottle -- all the while idly pulling on pubes with fingers of the left hand, staring vacantly out across the lake. Suddenly notices the boy watching, jerks around to see who else, nobody, smiles, makes some air-layering adjustments to the camellia, all the while smirking the boy down. Later, whenever in the mood, and the opportunity is there, achieves a new level of casualness around the boy. Invites him over to her house, even. Fetish, no fetish: what's the difference in the counterpoise? Maybe quite a bit, the fetishizing always being something of a counter-power play -- especially among military wives of the period.

Selected stories illustrating an omnipresence of the female in counterpoise to military prescriptive enculturation. What this meant to me, largely at the instigation of my mother, was that I not only internalized the military mindset-ethos, I turned military attitudes, habits, approaches inward, away from the external world, applied them to metaphysical, psychological, spiritual matters. In a sense, I reversed history within my own experience. Military practicum, the metapsychology of training and operations, grew over thousands of years out of tribal rites of passage. Without quite understanding the whats, whys, and wherefores, I endeavored to strip the military content away from the metapsychology imposed upon me as a child, and in so doing in many ways returned to the originating tribal rites of passage -- inwardly. Not surprising I should have gravitated toward interpretation of the Schrödinger wave-function in terms of m-logically-valued animistic-tribal relative-state identity transparency. Or that, when a personal crisis came with death of the Japanese gardener under whom I studied, I would choose, right in the shadow of the intelligence establishment, to understand my inner-work circumstance in terms of relative-state identity transparency (Everett's office at the time was located only several long blocks away). Going for SUSTAINMENT of higher states in face of the prevailing regime in relative-state of the population corpus made no sense at all. The collective psychological induction -- by definition -- would simply be too great.

The piece by Stuart Hameroff (Quantum Computing in DNA) is, indeed, very interesting. He seems to have taken an important step that could lead to a bridge between Jacqueline Barton's metallic intercalation of electron donors research on DNA conductivity and our quite different model of superconductant pi-electron gas core of DNA. I may be wrong, but the way I frame this in my mind is that they use the term “pi stacks” because they understand free electrons from the pi-orbitals of atoms composing the nucleotide staircase as being involved in electron transport between the rungs of the DNA ladder. Hameroff has then imagined this electron transport as being superconductant, and, by virtue of the superconductant state, establishing a quantum superposition of the pi-electrons of adjacent rungs, electrons from a given rung constituting an information bit, the superposition of two such bits forming a qbit -- thus making quantum processing by DNA a possibility. This is a strong plausibility argument for DNA superconductivity, because, if DNA is a quantum processor by radiation and/or entanglement, functional integration of cellular processes would become much more simply explained than by molecular biochemical processes alone. It would also add quite a bit to Gilbert Ling's theory of the multilayer polarization of intracellular water and cell wall as plasmahaut. Moreover, it is almost certain that the content of Raymond Y. Chiao's article “Superconductors as quantum transducers and antennas for gravitational and electromagnetic radiation” would be seen to play a part. It is also plausible that, in the case of intraneuronal and intraperineural DNA, contemporary research on glutamate metabolism in the brain, and associated glutamatergic neuronal etching, may become involved, for glutamate excitotoxicity may quench DNA superconductivity and by this means deny conscious access to m-logically-valued Lukasiewicz processing.

My supposition has been that the few people who have encountered our superconductant DNA model have simply dismissed it out of hand as implausible because the existing research has provided no evidence that DNA is a (backbone) superconductor (and they were unaware that we are describing a pi-electron gas core). Those very few who may have given sufficient benefit of the doubt to think themselves through the model likely in the end rejected it as implausible because it addresses the involved issues from a thoroughly submolecular perspective (and in a way not explicitly tied to BCS theory of superconductivity). Barton-Hameroff go from hard molecular structure to atom to electron to field to logic, each subsequent step being derivative of the one before, whereas the direction of our thought is exactly the inverse. For instance, we understand the atom as something like a time-lapse photograph of quantum field interactions, and molecules as something like time-lapse photographs (perhaps “holographs” is a better word) of atomic interactions. Our thought about the nature of “operator-time” and its conjugation within the Schrödinger wave equation, and interpretation of the meaning of that operator-time-conjugated equation by employment of m-valued Lukasiewicz logics, is involved with this “time-lapse”, so to speak, way of thinking. Furthermore, the notions Hameroff explicates are drawn in relation to space and structure. Whereas we are thinking primarily in terms of time and function. Our canonical equation is written in terms of a rate of temperature change, and rates of that rate, and rates of rates of that rate as determinants of the functions of radiation exchange by DNA. Very little is said in our paper about structures in spatial array.

We describe a way to think about radiation exchange by the DNA molecule. Fluctuations of ambient fields drive (possibly by BCS-like virtual exchanges, and the notion of skew-perpendicularity as underlying the Heisenberg indeterminacy inequalities) formation of pi-electron parcels. These parcels are the elements of superposition in our way of thinking. In helix-coil transition, as the critical Curie temperature is reached, coherent waves are radiated from the superconductant pi-electron gas core. We envision these waves as being quadripolar, each pole corresponding to one of the four nucleotide pairs. In our way of thinking, the nucleotide pairs are something like time-lapse holographs of the wave interactions -- and if this were the case, there would be an intimate connection between the code and the environmental forcing functions. Meaning, so to speak, would not be an emergent property; it would “demerge” from a “frequency domain” which itself would demerge from a logic domain (m-logically-valued reference space, something like Hilbert space under Lukasiewicz logics) involved with operator-time and its description by conjugation within the Schrödinger wave equation. I would go on to speculate that both Regge pole theory and Regge lattices of the Regge calculus (via Raymond Y. Chiao) will become involved in mapping from the logic level to the field level, where numbered Gödel numbers are understood as p-adically stacked on a point in the reference space. Pi-stacks as screen grid and cytoskeletal microtubules and hexagonal cellular array in the cortex may be “cascade engineering” aspects of “demergence” on different scale levels.

Note from Lauri Love (nsh):

Matti Pitkanen reports findings by Peter Gariaev regarding DNA's interaction with coherent radiation and interpretations, at his blog: http://matpitka.blogspot.com/

Still reading. However, noted the following immediately:

• correspondence between the DNA codons and polarisation-axis of scattered radiation
• induction of gene expression through information in this radiative modulation
• “addressing” requirements for the gene expression induction
• encoding of information about the DNA molecule's environment and self-structure
• “wave genome”, incorporating code of temporal patterns of coherent EM fields relating to the organism
• requirement of macroscopic coherence lengths
• reading of the dna sequence by (supposed) mechanism involving “acoustic soliton” along the DNA molecule

Assuming Pitkanen's summary of Gariaev's findings is comprehensive in its high-lighting, and one has no suppose otherwise, then there is not a single feature of these results that is without parallel, or in most cases, direct statement, in your work, and the greater portion dating directly to the 1979 paper.

I have no doubt the DNA molecule responds to coherent EM radiation. What I doubt is that it produces photon pulse-code bursts. The mathematics of our microphysical model of superconductant free-electron gas core of DNA strongly suggests (by analogy to cascade theory of the microphysics of double-helical flows in tornado genesis) something akin to acoustically-modified gravity-wave modes generated at helix-coil transition (i.e., acoustic analogue to black hole computer): very likely electromagnetic waves transduced by superconductor to gravitational waves (an early prefiguration of Raymond Y. Chiao's model of “Superconductors as quantum transducers and antennas for gravitational and electromagnetic radiation”, a paper to which I can no longer gain access and, therefore, cannot further think my way into). Coherent graviton pulse-code bursts. Not really going to get this without an authentic GUT.

The point I've been arguing since 1977 is that, if DNA free-electron-gas core is superconductant, then the molecule's frequency-response windows are hairline thin and appliances (nowadays the cell phone being the most invasive) can be designed to stay out of the biologically-active windows. If there is no such DNA superconductivity, then, the frequency-response windows are broad, and, given elaboration and projected further elaboration of the telecommunications industry, all biological organisms on this planet are in a very bad fix.

In our first paper exploring the implications for homeopathy of our superconductant model of free-electron gas core of DNA (Julia Jus, William L. Pensinger, and Douglas A. Paine, “A New Theoretical Approach to the Homeopathic Law of Similars”, Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy, Autumn 1995, Vol. 88, No. 3, pp.126-29), we observed that (p. 128):

The secondary hypothesis being suggested here, then, is that the critical dose of a given chemical agent creates temporal effects on the quantum domains of cellular processes exactly equivalent to that of a given frequency of radiation.

Now that big pharma has begun developing drugs to counteract the effects of radiation, one can see the approach that will be taken, for instance, to ameliorate radiation impacts upon the brain, such as from cell phone use. Prophylactic and remedial drug use, rather than redesigning cell phones such that the microwaves they radiate stay out of the hairline thin biologically-active frequency response windows of superconductant DNA. In the early-1980s, I began discussing this redesign possibility with whomever electronics-industry CEOs I happened to run across. Not only was there no interest, there were veiled threats.

History of genetic engineering should be viewed in that light. A cone-beaten-down, superheterodyne, trapdoor, response-frequency and waveform and intensity through the radiosphere bubble shielding the molecule from undue environmental influence. Irregular, cascade/reverse-cascade, recept-emit rebound signature… ha! An m-logically-valued DNA fingerprint is not merely related to target acquisition -- immuno-logically and/or militaro-logically. Think of how fine-grained the superposed target-signature, its population group-signature, its genus-signature, its species-signature, et cetera, thus acquired, would be, and of the various optional modalities of attack upon it. You think I -- having worked, however briefly, as a target analyst -- haven't been aware of this for over thirty years? Acquired characteristics? well… SLE-discrimination, AIDS-discrimination -- as are consensually understood -- pale by comparison. And it is well to remember -- contemplate, even -- that consensually understood pathogenic history of HIV/AIDS epidemiology considers that there are no quantum dimensions to genomes, human and monkey included. The search for a simple cause -- road building, urbanization -- is motivated by the desire for a simple solution, because simple solutions mean there is no necessity to question fundamental principles, principles necessary to continued validation of genetic engineering by genetic engineers! As if human-monkey intercourse hadn't been going on for at least tens of thousands of years in deepest, darkest Africa. And what was the contacts/day/km² threshold catalyzing the viral leap through human antiviral immunity such that this road, not that one, this city, not that one, was the critical one? And what about the psychoneuroimmunologic impact of peak colonial oppression on antiviral immunity of the most at risk population group? Or what about the peak colonial oppressors? Could they have carried something that triggered/activated an inherited DNA quantum-frequency anomaly-residual of tens of thousands of years of human-monkey intercourse in deapest, darkest Africa, but long latent, prevalent in the most at risk population group? How about rage? Think rage amongst the most at risk population group, rage at peak colonial oppression, may have reduced killer T-cell titers sufficiently to have allowed the latent frequency anomaly-residual to have been successfully activated by the factor carried by the peak colonial oppressors, from mega-urban-regions elsewhere, during the critical period of the death of a paradigm, of a whole Weltanschauung, actually, and consequent onset of world wars and associated pandemics?

In recent communications from Lauri Love (nsh), it is noted that additional suggestive experimental material concerning recognition at a distance of DNA fingerprints can be found in “DNA Double Helices Recognize Mutual Sequence Homology in a Protein Free Environment” by Geoff S. Baldwin, et al., J. Phys. Chem. B, 112 (4), 1060 -1064, 2008. Excerpting from the abstract and the body of the paper:

We thus report experimental evidence and discuss possible mechanisms for the recognition of homologous DNAs from a distance.

Amazingly, the forces responsible for the sequence recognition can reach across more than 1 nm of water separating the surfaces of nearest neighbor DNAs in the spherulites.

Much work remains to be done before we know the mechanism of the recognition observed in the present study and whether this recognition plays any role within the complex cellular environment…

A recent study (“Dual Origin of Tissue-Specific Progenitor Cells in Drosophila Tracheal Remodeling” by Molly Weaver and Mark A. Krasnow, Science Express, 31 July 2008) of “developmental backtracking” and “stem cell understudies called 'facultative stem cells'” in fruit flies has revealed that (quoting the abstract):

Drosophila pupal/adult tissue progenitors can arise both by early allocation of multipotent cells and late return of differentiated cells to a multipotent state, even within a single tissue.

A summary article posted on EurekAlert! elaborates as follows:

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found mature, specialized cells naturally regress to serve as a kind of de facto stem cell during the fruit-fly life cycle. The surprising discovery counters the common belief that the ability to form new cell types or tissues wanes as a cell becomes more specialized.

This is an extraordinary finding in regards to cellular-level automatization and deautomatization, demonstrating normative ability of differentiated cells to return to multivalent status, a finding which exactly parallels phase transitions between Albert Szent-Györgyi's submolecular-level “alpha and beta states” (Introduction to a Submolecular Biology, Academic Press, 1960), submolecular transitions Szent-Györgyi described as being facilitated by structured intracellular water. Not only is this parallel suggestive in relation to self-similarity across scale levels, but the ability to return to multivalent cellular status strongly supports our thesis that superconductant DNA not only propagates genetic-code information into the cellular environment via coherent quadripolar waves, but also engages in m-logically-valued Lukasiewiczian quantum-information handling via the higher-order derivatives of those waves.

As regards a facilitative role played by structured intracellular water, we have the recent discovery (“Real-Time Detection of Protein-Water Dynamics upon Protein Folding by Terahertz Absorption Spectroscopy” by Seung Joong Kim, et al., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 6486-89) that (quoting a summary article, “Water is 'designer fluid' that helps proteins change shape, scientists say”, posted on EurekAlert!):

In tests on ubiquitin, a common protein in cells, the researchers found that water molecules bound to the protein changed to a native-type arrangement much faster than the protein. The water motion helped establish the correct configuration, making it much easier for the protein to fold… Water can be viewed as a 'designer fluid' in living cells…

I note here an illustration of time-ordering of space consonant with the role given topologically-active operator-time in our model of superconductant free-electron gas core of DNA. The “much faster than“ was the critical observation allowing the researchers to attribute guidance capabilities to structured intracellular water. Fascinating research, again highly supportive of the perspectives pioneered by Albert Szent-Györgyi and Gilbert Ling (especially Ling's “association-induction hypothesis” concerning structured intracellular water, most completely described in his book Life at the Cell and Below-Cell Level: The Hidden History of a Fundamental Revolution in Biology, water, according to our lights, structured in part by DNA-generated coherent waves).

Great observation and question:

That is most interesting, water playing a role in protein folding. Remember, tropopause folding is associated with copious amounts of water undergoing phase changes. Could more complex (for lack of a better term) forms of water also be involved in atmospheric water dynamics (i.e., diabatics)?

Definitely agree with your idea about “complex forms of water in the atmosphere”. Essentially, this is what I have been arguing relative to Gilbert Ling, in illustrating the structural parallels between his multi-layered “association-induction hypothesis” regarding biological structured intracellular water and Sakharov's “multi-sheet model of the universe”. If protoplasm is an organic physical substrate for the MVRS (m-logically-valued reference space), there likely are other such physical substrates per the principle of self-similarity across scale levels, adumbrations of “as above, so below”. All the quantum features Ling describes in modeling biological intracellular water are present in the atmospheric environs of severe storms (and are even involved in electrochemical theories of the origins of macromolecules and of life). I would be surprised if lightning's zig-zag plasma-discharge cascades were not involved in structuring supercellular water in the cascaded LSTDs (limited spacetime domains) nestings (multi-layered, multi-sheeted) of severe storm genesis. In view of the role played by operator-time in atmospheric cascade dynamics, what needs to be closely appraised is not only water structuring, but its complexification (i.e., Hawking imaginary-time) under chronotopological operations. If complex forms of water are involved in orchestrating complex-manifold (e.g., theta-e surfaces, aka “equivalent potential temperature” surfaces) folding processes in the atmosphere, what would that imply in regards to, say, superintegration and climate-shift dynamics?

“The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth”? The world is vastly more complex than that, and if we humans continue to insist upon living in it as if it were that simple, then surely we are going to do even greater damage than we already have done. Why do you think Albert Szent-Györgyi's quantum theory of the pathogenesis of cancer and Gilbert Ling's “association-induction hypothesis” concerning structured intracellular water and cell wall as phase-boundary/plasmahaut have been resolutely opposed in spite of so much experimental support? The real reason. Ask me if I think the m-logically-valued reference space (something like a Lukasiewiczian Hilbert space) has a physical substrate in the case of organisms. I would have to say: “I do not know; but, if so, the most likely candidate is the corpus of quantum properties of structured intracellular water.” And if this were the case, protoplasm in particular and colloids in general would be in violation of “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth” -- because m-valued logics are not about truth-value. The notion of truth, like the notion of simple single-valued identity, is indelibly wed to the right-or-wrong ₁T₂-order of logics, to which quantum mechanics does not confine itself. Prescriptive law is criminal in that it precludes quantum processes of spontaneous order made possible by the non-simple m-valued identity denoted by the term “relative-state”. Can institutional science permit an account of organic life legally defined as criminal?

It's quite obvious at this point that one of the reasons Einstein's discoveries have been so destructive (atomic/nuclear bombs, dirty atomic energy) and indicative of such a mistaken view of nature was his exclusive reliance upon ₁T₂-valued logic. Take matter-energy conversion, for instance. The ₁T₂-valued logic form of Einstein's most famous equation, energy equals mass times the velocity of light squared, not only holds that the universal physical constant, c, the speed of light, is single-valued at any given time at any given location throughout all of time and all of space, but also that, matter as matter being matter and only matter, and energy as energy being energy and only energy, mass-energy conversion is an on-off, all-or-nothing affair: whatever amount of matter is converted is wholly converted to energy, not to some intermediate identity between matter and energy. But given all the various energy-states of matter we now know about by employment of ₁T₂-valued logic alone to analyze experimental data, including virtual states, it is not much of a reach to conclude that nature likely uses intermediate identity states between the matter and energy poles codified by ₁T₂-valued logic to produce clean “atomic” energy in course of cascade-type processes embedded in multi-scaled systems -- and that this would become apparent once m-valued logics were employed to analyze data and abstract principles there from. Many ways exist to approach Einstein's most famous equation with considerations such as these held in mind.

Lauri Love (nsh) draws attention to thought of M. D. Scherbin, Central Scientific Research Institute, Russian Federation Ministry of Defense, “On Possibility of Electromagnetic Nature of Atmospheric Intensive Vortices Generation” (undated, but by references, 2005 or later), wherein vorticity of tornado genesis is characterized as resultant of lightning discharges in thunderstorm supercells. Quoting Lauri Love:

…if, as conjectured in the article, hydrometeors are indeed ferroelectric (have a nonlinear relationship between electric permittivity and applied electric field, causing electric polarisation, analogous to magnetic polarisation in ferromagnets), then the mechanism of angular momenta origin that is amplified by the dynamics of dissociated electrons during leader lightning strikes might indeed by a cascade of electromagnetic momenta from the tropopause…

For a related but differing view, I reproduce the abstract from a Storming Media Pentagon report entitled “Role of Intracloud Lightning in Tornadogenesis” (2005) by Ronald W. Armstrong:

Abstract: The role of cloud electrification within supercells and, in particular, the role of lightning in tornadogenesis is re-examined. Rather than cloud-to-ground lightning, it is intracloud lightning that is the culprit for enhancing updraft wind velocities to tornadic levels. The lightning produces within the intracloud chamber both: (1) newly generated hydrogen ions, of negligible cross-section, that stream downwards to recombine with the main resident lower cloud hydroxyl ion concentration, thereby liberating significant ionic recombination and condensation energy to produce significant temperature rise; and, (2) counterpart hydroxyl ions that sweep upward to push all in their way so as to reach the topmost cloud structure for recombination with the resident hydrogen ion concentration. To effect the significant updraft enhancement required for tornado initiation, repeated lightning strikes are required within an individual vortex “core”; and, this restriction relates to the relatively rare occurrence of tornadoes as generally minor dissipative sources of supercell energies.

To contextualize, I note that electrical engineer, William Beaty, says of Bernard Vonnegut's “Electrical Theory of Tornadoes”, circa 1960:

Dr. Vonnegut didn't believe that tornadoes were electrical generators. Instead, he supported the hypothesis that some (or all?) tornadoes are a type of electric motor which is driven by the high-voltage output of the parent thunderstorm.

I would further note, scanning the long list of Vonnegut's publications that only one title seems relevant to Scherbin's thesis: “Miniature Vortices Produced by Electrical Corona” (1993), H. H. Jonsson and B. Vonnegut, J. Geophys. Res. 98, pp 5245-5248.

And to put Scherbin's thought into contemporary Russian context, I quote A. N. Dmitriev, et al., from “Electrogravidynamic Concept of Tornadoes” (undated, but by references, 1995 or later):

…the European Space Agency's SOHO spacecraft… has detected a dozen tornadoes whipping across the solar surface… The newly discovered phenomenon may help scientists better understand the impact of solar wind, which buffets the earth's environment… “We see the hot gas in the tornadoes spiraling away from the sun and gathering speed. These spectacular events in the sun's atmosphere must have widespread effects,” British scientist David Pike of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory was quoted as saying. Is there really any question concerning the relationship between EMF's, the Sun and terrestrial tornadoes?

I would observe that if there is no question today, there certainly was yesterday. My thoughts upon reading Scherbin, and my thoughts alone, no one else in anyway implicated, are as follows. Look at lightning channel formation as a case of transduction of gravitational information to electromagnetic information by hydrothermodynamic superconductor at topological operations of operator-time. Look at generation of acoustically-modified gravity-wave modes as a case of transduction of electromagnetic information to gravitational information by hydrothermodynamic superconductor at topological operations of operator-time. The angular momentum involved in vortex-tube formation is complex angular momentum, which is why it can be treated in terms of operator-time, and why the spinor fields involved would best be handled by Penrose twistor formalism, the twistor being quantization of the temporal curl imparted by the topological operations of operator-time. As changes of terrestrial macroscale complex angular momentum budget (those changes penultimately coming from solar-tornado-generated solar wind) cascades into the acoustic analogue to a black hole computer, plasma discharges (particularly intracloud, those to the ground carrying angular momentum to Earth core) serve the same function as Ling's “unidirectional stirring” (which I believe is performed by DNA-generated coherent waves) in structuring intracellular water, only in this case in structuring water in the severe storm environment. Ling has operational amplifiers (nodal points) in his model (which he compares to the towers on the Great Wall of China, along which messages were passed by signaling) and one role of ice plasmoids (as the Russians call them) may have a similar function in structuring the water. A lot of details of Ling's model relative to Sakharov's model could be useful here, to include the multi-sheet, layered aspect (e.g., highly convoluted theta-e surface topologies). I would observe that, in this operator-time way of looking vortex formation and function, the water structuring would not only be space-ordered but also time-ordered (which Ling does not consider), i.e., in chronotopologies. The whole body of cascade theory of tornado genesis challenges the notion of purely local (e.g., in the cloud) generation of tornadic vorticity (which is not to say there can be no local component) and added to that the notion of structured water, and especially complexly structured water influencing constant entropy surface topologies suggests that the following statement from Scherbin could only be a small part of the picture (p. 16):

The impulse gained by the particles is transferred to the surrounding air. Since the presence of water in the cloud media is negligible compared to the air mass in volume unit, the rotational moment, which the environment surrounding the lightning channel might receive, is also negligible. In this connection the generation of vorticity in the cloud area, sufficient for appearance of an intensive vortices in the atmosphere may be brought about by the pumping up of the angular momentum by the lightning in the selected volume of the thunderstorm with considerable lightning activity.

To me, it is too much to flip over to EM theory alone, and altogether neglect the other aspects, e.g., hydrothermodynamics. Self-organization of this geon/acoustic analogue/black hole/quantum computer/high-energy transducer, and its dissipation, likely is deeply involved in modulation of greenhouse-gas-ratios-determined frequency-response windows to solar wind inputs, by plasma discharge effects on the chemistry, e.g, of NO and O₃ metabolism, which self-reflexively modulates terrestrial high-energy bursts propagating into space (if only by lightning into stratosphere, ionosphere, and space, all now observed by satellite and/or space shuttle). Electron-positron annihilation may be involved in lightning channel formation. Zero-point energy of the vacuum may be involved in onset of the superconductant state prerequisite to the transduction. Some of the strange behaviors observed in the storm environment may involve superconductant levitation and supersolid states of matter obtained during the involved high-energy transductions. The following from Scherbin's Conclusion is very interesting and suggestive that the above-referred to notions may have some utility (p. 15):

Then, a lightning flash can be identified as a natural gamma laser. Vysotskii and Kuzmin [1989] and Chruikov [2003] pointed out the possibility of a realization of such a phenomenon based on annihilation of electron-positron pairs. Nevertheless, it is absolutely not clear, what physical process leads to such physical conditions in the local area of a thunderstorm, causing these quantum phenomena.

According to my lights, and my lights alone, it is the cascade process all the way from the Sun into a species of gravitational collapse to the atmospheric microscale which is responsible for those physical conditions. Not to mention origin, evolution, and solar-terrestrial-interaction climate-shift roles of 50-mile-high noctilucent clouds. By analogy to contesting the mainstream perspective that intermolecular electron transport processes play no significant role in biology regardless of all that is not known about degenerative disease, when atmospheric physicists are routinely predicting the point (center of cross-section) of tornado touch-down on a one-centimeter grid, twelve hours in advance, without consideration of electromagnetic phenomena, then and only then, will I believe such phenomena play no significant role in tornadogenesis.

As I understand it, tornado genesis is not the same thing as tornado structure which is not the same as tornado function -- and electromagnetic and gravitational and acoustic phenomena very likely are not equally and/or identically involved in each of these. Moreover, if one takes the Gaia hypothesis literally -- as I do, and the ancient Chinese certainly did, their medical texts frequently being as much about the weather and geomorphology as about the human body, so much so, in fact, as to suggest they drew no absolutely-in-so-far-as-distinct distinction between human body and Gaia, Earth body -- then the gravity involved may be more akin to what has been deemed short-range biogravitation than the force of Newton or the acceleration/curvature of Einstein. Indeed, the term "short-range gravity" may be a way of designating the effects of first-order operator-time upon orchestration of superconductant transduction of electromagnetic to gravitational waves -- whereas second-order operator-time generates the long-range phenomenon Einstein generalized from Newton. Third-order operator-time would be involved in some GUT encompassed by the I-Ching as understood, but lost, long before days of King Wen. In this conception, the Penrose twistor would be quantization of the temporal curl involved in whatever order of operator-time: temporal densities, temporal-spin moments, and chronotopologies are expressions such that tornado structure could not be merely a matter of space articulation nor tornadogenesis simply a question of autopoiesis along a series of points in ponderable space during an interval of memetime. The electromagnetic component of vorticity generation would be more a “fine-tuning device” and far more related to tornado function than to tornado genesis -- and expressive of charge creation by skew-perpendicularity of superposed spacetime laminations, i.e., Riemann's “lines of force trapped in the [elastic chrono]topology of [Sakharov's multi-sheet] space”. This fine-tuning component of vorticity generation would determine -- not from perspective of ponderable space and memetime, but à la the quantum measurement occasion -- the “point” and “time” of “current” (perhaps a GUT “current”) injection to Earth's crustal and core dynamics (the Earth referred to here being Gaia in its full Sakharovian, multi-sheeted, chronotopological superpositioning in m-logically-valued Lukasiewiczian Hilbert space, three of this space's early designations being “Buddhological sacred space” and “ma” and the “base state of Tzog-chen”). This “point” and “time” would not be exactly determinant to 2-logically-valued cognition over ponderable space and memetime, but would be exactly “determinant” to m-logically-valued cognition over Lukasiewiczian Hilbert space (keeping in mind that “determinant” is absolutely-in-so-far-as-definable only under the 2-valued order of m-valued logics, non-simple identity being otherwise at issue, including the non-simple identity of, say, points, lines, and planes). The reverse transduction from gravitational waves (short, long, and some GUT) to those electromagnetic, I suspect, is also primarily involved with tornado function, specifically the functions of some species of “cold fusion” transpiring in the leakless tornadic plasma bottle and associated with the coherent high-energy particle burst transmission most expressive of the reverse cascade process in solar-terrestrial interactions. As operator-time manipulation of spatial laminates (this manipulation also know as gravitation conflated with…) is so intimately involved in each of these tornado functions, it is hard to reject the notion that a tornado may be one sort of spacetime gate. And since what appears to 2-logically-valued cognition over ponderable space and memetime as double-helix-coil transition plays such an important role in tornadogenesis, one is encouraged to imagine DNA-mediated morphogenesis as it would appear to m-logically-valued cognition over Lukasiewiczian Hilbert space -- and, I posit, this has a great deal to do with Musculpt as mathematical notation.

Still, not one-one-thousandths of one-percent of seven-billion transiting to ten-billion people actually believe what is going to happen is going to happen. Even most of those who claim belief do not in reality so believe: this is revealed by their continued commitments to this and that, which prevents them from entertaining thus and so such that this, that, and the other could be undertaken in response to certainty that what is going to happen is going to happen. Already, ten times faster than imagined, one can circle the north pole in a boat. “Two days wrong! I told you butter wouldn't suit the works! Crumbs must have got in the well.” Ah, yes, the well-potential hidden variable, that chimera! But this faster meltdown does not impugn the models; it only means that intersystemic coupling and positive feedback set in some time ago: the basic ideas informing the models are correct. And when the next major forecast anomaly clarifies itself, again, this too will not indicate basic ideational problems with the underlying science. Undoubtedly, another category of externalities will have been revealed -- just like in economics. We know exactly what will happen if there is a four-centigrade-degree-temperature increase due to greenhouse warming! And there is no other plausible explanation for the temperature increase. No hidden variables allowed! No contributing factors we haven't factored in (except intersystemic coupling, of course, that kind of externality, an externality some people MISTAKENLY believe responsible for economic cycles). And, please, don't talk of abstractions as if they were concrete; we all know that to be a logical fallacy -- all, except perhaps the Platonists among us. “Potential temperature” is derivative of simply-measurable temperature. And “equivalent potential temperature” is derivative of potential temperature. And “derivative” means after, not before. Which means that folding and buckling, layering and sheeting of equivalent potential temperature surfaces (constant entropy surfaces) comes after simply-measurable temperature change, not before. And that means that the temporal curl cusping the constant entropy surface comes after the temperature change, not before. Moreover, the cusping of such surfaces, though possibly having something to do with severe storms, is completely unrelated to climate-change dynamics. Unless -- hah-hah-hah! -- there is a composite momentum-memory of some sort. M-logically-valued reference space, I suppose: nature's own double-entry bookkeeping. Derivatives, anti-derivatives: how ridiculous! Heh-heh-heh! And this constant disorder surface (equivalent potential temperature) is absolutely-in-so-far-as-distinct from any possible constant order surface because the rules derivative of ₁T₂-valued logic tell us so. And “derivative” here, likewise, means after, not before. So, by all logical plausibility, small changes in complex angular momentum budget -- the “complexity” here being handled as temporal curl, i.e., Hawking complex-imaginary operator-time -- could not cause cusping of equivalent potential temperature surfaces, thus inducing changes in potential temperature, in turn yielding, say, increases of simply-measurable temperature because that would mean anti-derivatives are involved in simply-measurable temperature changes, which we know cannot be the case due to the simple thermodynamic fact that after is after before, not before before. And how do I know that? Because ₁T₂-valued logic tells me so. And if I were to consider 3-valued logic, and 4-valued logic, and 5-valued logic, and m-valued logic, and C-valued logic… well, then I would be allowing the existence of hidden variables which would be a violation of the obvious axiom that there is nothing I do not know.

Thank you very much for drawing the work of Gotthard Gunther to my attention. This is my first awareness of the polycontextual-logic interpretation of m-valued Lukasiewicz logics. It is wonderful to discover that Gunther challenged the classical notion that logical-value is identical to truth-value, that m-logical-values are gradations between true and false, and that he realized that identity-value is a more fundamental notion in logic. This has a great deal of correspondence with what I have long been thinking. Unfortunately, he does essentially the same thing Emil Post did at the end of his famous 1921 paper: he finds a way to reduce m-valued logics back to 2-valued logic by retaining the traditional Western notion of identity, which he distributes across many simple-subjects. This is patently the result of psychological identification with the “normal state of conscious” as experienced by non-animists. He also allows no animation to objects, a highly anti-animistic prescription. Orders of animistic-tribal-pagan relative-state identity transparency cannot be logically accounted for in this manner, let alone, say, Bon Tzog-chen.

Talk to anyone who has actually experienced “high combat” and you will come away with the strong suspicion that there are existential circumstances wherein “a multitude of ontological locations, locations of individual being” simply do not exist. That multitude is holographically identity-incorporated by voluntary dissociation into a state of identity transparency affecting all sense modalities. What Gotthard Gunther, son of a Fertile Crescent Religion minister, distributes (m-logically-valued animistic-tribal-pagan states of consciousness) across a multiplicity of so-called individuals is experienced whole as nonlocal, atemporal ontological occasion. This can also be experienced in walking meditation or any other form of practice yielding a sufficiently elaborate level of deautomatization. But there are easier ways to get a taste of it. At what was surely the last co-appearance of Timothy Leary, John C. Lilly, and Laura Huxley at UCLA, a student in the audience asked how she could experience what they were talking about. John Lilly suggested that she inject herself with ketamine. There was a collective gasp from the crowd, a moment of embarrassed silence -- and then the meeting continued as if Lilly's retort had not been made. Ketamine flood to briefly reverse glutamate flood: absence of identity-transparent, nonlocal, atemporal ontological occasion is a result of prescriptive enculturation anchored to the brain by glutamatergic neuronal etching -- and this etching is no proper foundation for a mature logic, or an adequate model of the logical properties of brain function.

Two-logically-valued, law-of-distributed-middle type mathematics and science, after all, being continuations of war by other means, are types of knowledge that, by definition, separate -- and such dissociative knowledge is power over nature which only separates the power wielder from that which is over-powered (leading to anthropogenic climate shift, among much else). Forced outer object-world dissociation as compensatory to involuntary inner object-world dissociation -- inner/outer separation being “by definition” -- cloaked in socialized personas mistakenly claiming to be absolutely-in-so-far-as-distinct (to utilize a term drawn from the theory and practice of “detachment” -- a misnomer until normative perception is understood to be normotic identification -- according to Zen). In clinically-acute hysteria involving split-off dissociated personalities, there is “lost time” between separated personalities in a manner directly analogous to the multiple-universes interpretation of Everett's relative-state interpretation of quantum mechanics. So, the consensus-physics understanding -- drawing, by analogy, on consensus psychiatry -- of Everett is a dissociational take (multiple non-communicating universes) on an associational concept (relative-state). What exactly is the relationship between inner dissociation and outer association? I will tell you in unconditional terms, with utter certainty, that the “lost time” in multiple-personality hysteria is memetime, and that the lack of communication is due to the absence of conscious awareness of three-fold operator-time (ACTIVE Hawking-imaginary-time plus two higher orders of the same). Luneburg experimentally demonstrated that binocular visual space has an absolute limiting velocity constraint. That's the visual space used by the glutamatergically-etched brain to encode the mathematically-designated space treated as ponderable in physics (whereas Piaget mistakenly assumed that that encoding is Euclidian). What is the relationship between inner dissociation and outer association? This is the question Gotthard Gunther systematically avoided by distributing m-logical-values over a multitude of outer ontological locations (unless the corpus of such locations is internally superposed and packaged in a multi-sheeted universal covering surface by projective processes associated with voluntary internal dissociation). Psychological filo dough! Collective unconscious smooth noodle maps! My socialized “I/i” has experienced onset of “pilot fixation syndrome” at least twenty-thousand times. “Plexiglas wall” experiences, wrong-end-of-the-telescope experiences (beginning at adolescence when I was abruptly lifted out of animistic Midori Gaoka, kita-Kyushu, Japan and precipitously dropped into anti-animistic Pittsburg, Pennsylvania). Is that “telescope” a space-looking scope? I know this is not so. It is the time-dilation tunnel of Luneburg binocular visual space. At the visual-space absolute limiting velocity, memetime utterly stops -- fixation syndrome -- and nothing replaces it in the glutamtergically-etched awareness. Hence, BLACKOUT! Same with what Wilhelm Reich called the “fully-potent orgasm”. No superconductive quantum barrier penetration for the glutamate-etched brain: BLACKOUT, instead. Can't make the Tantric transit into status orgasmus. Do you think John Nash might have known something about walking meditation? How is BLACKOUT escaped in transit? By one means or another, antidote to glutamate. Walking meditation is one way to give carte blanche to the brain, to endogenous ketamine flood: best done slowly over a period of years. Once constellated, how do you “get behind” this adequately so as to emerge in non-regressed fashion? By “suspending disbelief” long enough to process it “raw”, without preprogrammed interpretation, i.e., by engaging in “regression in service to the ego” such that personal dimensions of the archetypal projective-identifications can present themselves unclothed enough to facilitate the underlying electrochemical unloading sufficient to full cognitive transit. So, was John Nash crazy in taking seriously “supernatural beings” or was George Mackey crazy in transposing/concretizing this to “extraterrestrials” and “aliens”? Is the ketamine-general-anesthesia lack of consciousness a total BLACKOUT -- or is that induced by the hypnotic in the anesthetic cocktail? Not by ketamine alone is BLACKOUT obtained. Look at John C. Lilly's “Tank Logs”! What is a Gödel-numbered Gödel number stacked on a point in Hilbert space under Lukasiewicz logics, if not a “supernatural being” -- when personified by projective-identification? It speaks, for that is what a Gödel number is: a representation of the content of a proposition. And Gödel-numbered Gödel numbers stacked on points are very definitely “super” -- super to everything registered by binary mind. Not personified: Lal Ded dots; warm-golden-dust of supermind; Kusama dots; kami dust. Could m-valued logics exist without packaged m-logically-valued identity also existing? Not merely 2-level phase-digit superpositioning, but m-level phase-digit superpositioning. Is it likely that packaged m-logically-valued identity exists and human beings have absolutely no relation to it? What do you think The Tibetan Book of the Dead and Plato's discussions of the afterlife world in The Republic are all about if not Gödel-numbered Gödel numbers? All these notions became public knowledge before Nash was chemically convulsed. Communism hysteria was a collective conversion-disorder “displacement” whereby McCarthy, Nixon, Mundt, et al., the whole nation, much of humanity, transferred by collective unconscious processes their fears of the implications of Gödel-numbered Gödel numbers onto a far more familiar bogeyman as a way to reduce the quotient of fear. Utter cowardice, really. As the cycle through alternative bogeymen continues, final fulmination of this collective unconscious transference may well be all-out global nuclear war and attendant riffs. It is because of these psychological factors, not their economic, political, and social play out, that one does not have to speculate on the probabilities of human-species suicide. The human species has long since rid itself of the requisite cognitive capacity -- and whenever confronted by the reality has reacted with inquisition, massacre, genocide, slavery, pogrom, holocaust, chemically-induced convulsions, electro-convulsions… What do we see suggesting this is about to change? Nothing, and so be it.

I am not saying that real (delineated by real numbers; experientially real) linear time does not exist; I am saying that I believe this passive reference-frame linear time is a meme anchored to the brain by glutamatergic neuronal etching, and that this memetime is not the same as the linear order of topologically-active operator-time. Nor do I dispute the existence of bi-polarity or the binary order of logical-value. Bi-polarity demerges through the infinite regress of skew-perpendicularity between lines of force and equipotential surfaces underlying Heisenberg's uncertainty inequalities and expressing as Riemann's “lines of force trapped in the topology of space”; construing universal physical constants as single-valued under binary-logic alone veils this skew-perpendicularity and gives rise to the notion of an “anthropic principle”. Operator-time, as expression of the logical operations numbered by Gödel-numbered Gödel numbers, is responsible for the involved topological operations. Two-valued logic, in my view, is the lowest order of logical-value, not the most fundamental order, and that order which carries the least density of meaning. Of course, the glutamatergically-etched binary mind, suffering cognitive overload even with 3-valued logic, regards the binary order as most fundamental, as most meaningful, as well it might, and this is why it interprets the meaning of m-logically-valued propositions through the cognitive lens of the binary order: why Nash, when experiencing early stages in transcortical march of long-range phase correlation between neurons at ketaminergic onset of intraneuronal-DNA superconductance, saw meaning saturation-overload everywhere he looked. Actual Nash-embedding: levels upon levels upon levels of elaboration in Everett relative-state and associated semantic gestalts. Before Everett's paper, Nash experientially transcending the trivial Riemann Hypothesis and rewriting by inner experience consensus quantum mechanics. What a crime against humanity to have quenched all that! Nor do I dispute the dualistic principle of psycho-physical parallelism by going over to either pan-psychism or pan-hylism; again, challenging the notion “precedes”, logically, ontologically, temporally, I view this dual as emergent over memetime, as the last finite of demergence by linear operator-time, as an oscillation by 2-fold operator-time, and as something like a standing-wave hologram by 3-fold operator-time (the applicable Greek term for the latter case being that chosen by J. G. Bennett: “hyparxis”). The “parallelism” in psycho-physical parallelism, to this way of understanding, is not parallelism as commonly understood in geometry, but resolves to a distinction between temporal operations and counter-temporal operations (as expressions of the relevant Gödel-numbered Gödel numbers), this distinction not being a mere matter of memetime-reversal and, hence, not a matter of anti-matter, but possibly of so-called “dark matter”.

The Riemann Hypothesis on prime number distribution was premature, and therefore not interesting, because the complex Riemann zeta function is no more complete than was the real Euler zeta function it extended. A much more important distributional issue is that of Gödel-numbered Gödel numbers, Nash's “supernatural beings”. Consideration of that, however, requires Musculpt as mathematical notation of a hypercomplex zeta function (foundations of which were explicated by Charles Muses).

John von Neumann, in my view, was one of the more destructive individuals of the 20th century: right up there with the worst of them. 1920s: established foundations of the game theory streamlining the silly games nation-states play, enhanced by good offices of Arrow and the Rand Corporation, and extended to the silly games market players play by Nash-equilibrium devolving to financial derivatives ballooning to Nash-blow-up. Besides, the whole of game theory is based on a violation of nature: the mistaken assumption that absolutely-in-so-far-as-simple identities actually exist. This is the cosmic koan Nash stumbled over, that stumbling now being greatly generalized: knee-jerk centralization under the FED. No connection, this, to the current global crisis, eh what! 1930s: dissimulated lattice logics, thus helping Gödel postpone real insight into Lukasiewicz logics, this postponement becoming a collective-unconscious precipitator of WWII. 1940s: helped softspool and hardwire the primary product of mental rape issuing out of Bletchley Park, i.e., finite-iteration, 2-logically-valued Turing machine and all the consequences that has had and will continue to have in further debilitating human cognitive function. 1950s: early wrapped falsification of Schrödinger's wave-function in the von Neumann formalism, thus facilitating the later falsification of Everett relative-state, while simultaneously playing a role in forming the weather-manipulation mindset and attendant falsification of numerical weather prediction models, thus helping to postpone acknowledgement of ongoing climate shift. Where/what/whom do I look to? Not to the artwork of Yayoi Kusama. Not to the formalized mathematics of John Nash. Not to the psychiatric analyses of Kusama-Nash: these analyses tell us more about the level of functioning of the analysts than about Kusama-Nash. I look to superposition of all that has been stigmatized in the experience of Yayoi Kusama, all that has been stigmatized in the experience of John Nash. Why so? Kusama: highly elaborated sensation function; secondary function, feeling. Nash: highly elaborated intuition function; secondary function, thinking. Superpose the given-in-immediacy stigmatized cognitive readout to conscious awareness of both of these brains -- before being disrupted by invasive psychiatric intervention -- and we have the foundation of synaesthetic Musculpt as Kunstwissenshaft notation of Gödel-numbered Gödel numbers over the m-logically-valued reference space. Mathematics-music as previously notated interests me very little.

No, from what I have read of and about Nash, I would not characterize him, in his prime, as a thinker; he was a looker and a hearer -- and the word “intuition” is not really apropos, just a black-box term to throw at the uninitiated. I learned about some of this from a onetime professional basketball player while a teenager at Eielson, AFB, Alaska (at the same time I was taking independent study courses in symbolic logic, topology, and foundations of mathematics). In long-sustained practice sessions, taping fingers together, tying one arm behind the back, stuffing a pad in one Converse All-Star: any modification, so long as it continues to disrupt patterns of habituated attention. Sustain deautomatization for the requisite period. I learned to get into semi-fugue states (Plexiglas wall, elaborated to tunnel-induction) at the height of the game such that some other-I-am took over and it was no longer necessary to look at the basket to make the shot, the body just knew where it was on the floor so long as my I-ness-identification sufficiently let it alone. Over and over and over, rhythm entraining with an irritant to disrupt habituation, thus inducing deeper and deeper states of self-observation in motion until onset of voluntary dissociation as semi-fugue. Then, the other-I-am passively looks and hears. Nash did an analogue of this, I think, on a very high cognitive level -- and much of his stigmatized behavior can be so understood: what was necessary to cultivate the state wherein such looking and hearing is possible. Doing theoretical research with a person of these capabilities requires cultivating sensitivity to when they are “hitting”, when they are “on”. Feed Nash! He's hitting! ((You might think that basketball is unrelated to this issue, and it is likely that Amos Tversky would agree. Speaking as one who received his first introduction to a special case of Soros-reflexivity [right methods in self-observation] from a onetime professional basketball player, I would have to retort, “Well, I don't think Tversky could ever have been much of a basketball player.” One of the more important papers [Gilovich, T., Vallone, R. & Tversky, A. “The hot hand in basketball: On the misperception of random sequences,” Cognitive Psychology, 17, pp. 295-314, 1985] out of which Tversky's and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's “prospect” theory of irrational economic choices -- how investors cognitively handle risk -- grew was a statistical analysis of the “hot hand” of the basketball player, in which they could find no statistical evidence that such a supposed phenomenon actually exists. What they didn't check was the status of the game when the hot hand was claimed. Being on, hitting, having a hot hand is what a “clutch player” does especially well; when the pressure is on, that's when the hot hand appears -- by getting into that “other I-am” through cultivation of self-reflexivity. Making under pressure the right two shots out of five, say, which make all the difference in outcome of the game is “being on” -- not the achievement of some statistical deviation over a game or a career. In “high combat” making the single right move at exactly the right time is frequently designated “sixth sense”. Both of these cases, I think, have underlying psychologies related to cultivated capacity for voluntary dissociation, a prerequisite to right method in self-reflexivity.)) Once you know they are in an “on” state, then you have to learn when you need to disappear, be simply a mirror or an irritant, what kind of irritant is required at just that moment. The insight comes from the “anterior sky”, the Musculpt manifold presented by the collective unconscious for looking and hearing: most clarified when not personified. I experienced a research environment like this twice: once at Strategic Research and Analysis, MACV-HQ, with, in particular, Kelly Robinson, a brilliant researcher, and later at Cornell with Doug Paine, another brilliant mind. Total immergence in concrete-content detail, while simultaneously cultivating irritated-rhythm-entrainment over interior distancing, a lifting out from, not only of self-definition, but of the content focused upon. Once out, looking through and hearing through stacked overlays, otherwise sequentially elaborated. A pile of leaded-glass windows, medieval polyphony, levels of Husserl's eidetic reduction. It can be done with any functional modality. What you look and hear is many-horizoned inner Musculpt, moving-flowing sounded-forms tropologically metareferencing… whatever. You can attend to the forms, the sounds, both, neither -- if neither, then some notational spin-off that might look like, for instance, Toru Takemitsu's idiosyncratic notation of his percussion pieces or the graphics associated with theories of autopoiesis, these two superimposed in a Synthetic-Cubism collage, perhaps, or, most remotely, some verbal reduction, usually made into a private metareferential -- to the uninitiated, generally designated schizophrenic “world salad” -- language of evoked tropes evolving through use. ((Even though in planning MOON, Nha Trang and I covered the walls and ceilings of every room in our apartment with such graphics and evoked tropes -- live in the form of the novel as a happening-environment Merzbau, before writing it! -- the latter two, graphic notation and verbal reduction, I find grossly inadequate -- reductionism of the plastic metaphor is not equivalent to signification! -- and, therefore, have long envisioned exteriorized holographic Musculpt evolved-through-use like a natural language, evolved with the aid of a computerized biofeedback-equipped isolation-flotation tank, bee-ish EscherForm dance, smart holographic dancewear [see the MOON website], and so on. Giving credit where credit is due, both of us just back from J2-SRA/MACV-HQ, Kelly Robinson and I first discussed this possibility in early-1969 while he was doing some technological forecasting research at University of Washington in Seattle. I think we initially touched on precursors of such ideas while discussing, in Viet Nam, metapsychological aspects of VC agit-prop teams and their guerrilla-theater performances relative to the strategy aspects of the old village practices of “human chess”, cockfighting, et cetera. Clifford Gertz reduced the cooperative, m-logically-valued, animistic identity-transparency aspects of all this, in the Balinese context, to mere ₁T₂-logical Cartesian-Newtonian status duels, analogue of non-cooperative games -- a mode of comprehension characteristic of the MACV-powers-that-be, none of whom were portrayed in MOON. Listening to complaints as to how characters in MOON aren't developed, don't read like real people, I replied, “They're all composite characters.” The retort was, “That's why they don't make any sense.”)) “Recognition” is generally by physiological registration: a patterned panoply of paresthesias, for instance. No thinking is involved. Everything you are doing is to get rid of thinking, get inner passivity, get empty, nothing left there to be a block. The biggest obstacle is habituation of the irritant, which must constantly be substituted anew. Thinking comes later, and is always a falsification: putting it into ₁T₂-logical terms for glutamate-etched-brain readout to normotic consciousness. Solving problems cast in their terms, the world as they have transferred via projective-identification (the their being an artifact of normosis). If investiture of belief, personal identity, to the collective transference matrix is made, by actually valuing the thinking part, by settling into a socially-conferred role attribution, then inter-locking double-binds are defined over the whole effort: method and product mutually exclude. The route into semi-fugue of looking and hearing Musculpt is infinite regress of self-reflexivity, while, say, game theory not only assumes an undivided self, undivided selves, individual actors, but exclusive validity of the ₁T₂ logic required to define such a fictitious self, such fictitious actors. The reflexivity devolving to identity transparency embedded in the method transferred by projective-identification to game rules, their functional representations, and equilibriums, and so on: falsification of the case. The state cultivated by Nash's method belied the fundamental assumptions of his product, and that's where he stumbled. Unconscious as infinite sets under the Lukasiewicz logics of identity transparency cultivates no such conflict between method and product. It is a stretch, even, to regard individual consciousness as a bubble submerged in an ocean subject to the laws of fluid dynamics. Nash-bubble -- looking-hearing Musculpt manifold at the meta-level to the class of all algebraic varieties -- got sucked into game-theory waterspout. Think of the lost insight as regards, say, orbifold tetra-chord geometries of superconductant-DNA pi-electron-gas-core radiation-exchange processes! Or the theta-e topologies of severe storm genesis and complex-angular-momentum exchange in the solar-terrestrial interactions involved in climate-shift dynamics! John von Neumann did so very much to steer attention away from development of such perspectives.

I have always strongly resisted learning about mathematics as processed by the binary mind. For me, personally, I have never seen the benefit -- the costs always seemed too high. Mathematics as received-created rarely involves the binary mind, yet most mathematical labor is consumed with pulling reception-creation down into binary mind where communication between mathematicians primarily transpires. ₁T₂-logical proofs after Lukasiewicz and Gödel! What interests me is finding notation in the form of reception-creation. On balance, it is hard to say at this memetime that the USES to which mathematics have been put are beneficial to the planet; they may even become in significant measure responsible for human-species near-extinction. Mathematics as received-created is another matter -- and, by all rights, the preponderance of mathematical labor should be devoted to lifting binary mind into reception-creation.

I'm implying in the article “Constructing a Chaotic Marketplace” that, with m-logically-valued monetary units, the self-reflexive boom-bust cycle can be safely decomposed, decompacted, and smoothly distributed at, diagonalized at, the meta-level to the concrete economy, and that so long as you continue to employ ₁T₂-logical vehicle currencies defined over one scale level -- that of national economies -- and particularly when one or several such vehicle currencies serve(s) as one or more international reserve currency(ies), there is no escaping a poorly-behaved, wrinkled, random-walk climb up the “devil's (embedding) staircase” whereupon microscale risk is progressively packaged, compacted, and deposited at the macroscale, leading inevitably to Nash-blow-up. Consider the corpus of manifold risk in the global economy a Riemannian manifold with Nash-embedded, nested-grid, multi-sheeted sub-manifolds (i.e., von Hayek time-shapes of total global risk) possessing Kosyrevian-Sakharovian metric elasticity. Stepping off the devil's staircase, upon which risk is progressively wrinkle-compacted to the macroscale, involves finding a way to “reverse” the Nash-Moser theorem (anti-derivatives) in application to the risk manifold such that manifest risk at all economic scale levels is diffeomorphically distributed across elastic, fractal, boundaries-without-boundary to a non-compact _CT_C-order m-logically-valued reference space. Time rates of change, their rates of change, and rates of these rates of rates -- as well as the ₁T₂-logical boundaries over which currencies are currently defined -- blow up on the devil's embedding-staircase as derivatives step into derivatives (analytically and financially). One way to get rid of this is by Nash-smoothing, but studies of the atmospheric cascade/reverse-cascade process in severe-storm genesis and solar-terrestrial interactions at climate shift (both involving modulation of theta-e topologies) suggest that nature has a much more elegant method to achieve smoothing than by Nash-iterative-guessing or Nash-linearization: at divergence over systems of highly nonlinear partial differential equations, three-fold operator-time (ACTIVE Hawking-imaginary-time, plus two higher orders thereof) topologically acting upon m-valued functions of Everett relative-state (economically: von Hayek “time-shapes of total capital stock”) under Lukasiewicz logics topologically point-set mapped by Gödel-numbered Gödel numbers. Karpenko functors of Lukasiewicz logics over the primes can be regarded as expressions of holographic Cantor-diagonalization distributed across _CT_C orders of self-referential Lukasiewicz logics demerging (third-order operator-time) to diffeomorphisms across manifold and sub-manifold demerging (second-order operator-time) to component-whole multiple-connectedness across given algebraic varieties. Run this monetarily in reverse-cascade. I am not saying that this has been done, only that it could be done, but not without Musculpt (manifolds being the looking part; acoustically-modified gravity-wave modes being the hearing part) as mathematical notation -- such notation being ultimately required, in any case, for a user-friendly interface with any full-blown monetary-system application.

Why do I say synaesthetic Musculpt? Well… because you are absolutely not going to “think” in _µT_m-Lukasiewicz logics -- as opposed to thinking about such logics by employment of ₁T₂ logic -- without experiencing, for instance, taste polymorphism. It is utterly impossible to escape this. As endogenous ketamine flood backs off the effects of glutamatergic neuronal etching, dissociation between sense modalities breaks down and cross-correlations between the five senses increasingly begin to establish. This is a mark of onset of long-range phase-correlation between neurons. Coffee, for instance, can taste different in a green room from in one yellow. After the initial shock, and with understanding, this can become quite pleasant -- even joyous. Colored-hearing, colored-touch, and so on. The Japanese have over twenty words for slimy, only a couple of which have negative connotations. I learned something about this as a kid in Ashiya because my mother was very experimental in regards to food: she'd try anything.

In answer to your question, let me explain why I believe anyone systematically and effectively doing walking meditation on a daily basis for a long period is going to have what the average person will consider very strange eye behaviors and facial expressions -- unless, outside sessions of walking meditation, efforts are made at concealment. By 1977, I had accumulated thousands of pages of inner-work journal entries in cardboard boxes, journal entries begun in the 7th grade at Ypsilanti, Michigan, one period when my “Plexiglas wall experiences” were elaborate. At some point, Doug Paine perused these boxes and offered me living expenses for the time required to type them up. I sorted through the boxes, selected approximately 300 pages, typed them up, and destroyed the rest. The typed pages were later incorporated into our novel, The Moon of Hoa Binh. The first entry employed was from the year 1964 (MOON, Vol. 1, pp. 270-71) when I began what I considered systematic inner work. This was about a year after running across J. G. Bennett's The Dramatic Universe and Maurice Nicoll's Commentaries at Samuel Weiser's bookstore in NYC. Somewhere, in following out implications of Gurdjieff's methods of self-observation, I ran across reference to laboratory use by Edmund Jacobson -- onetime student of William James and independent co-developer of the EEG -- of “autosensory observation”. I believe I found a copy of Jacobson's book, Progressive Relaxation, at the Georgetown University Medical Library or the National Library of Medicine, and in looking it over saw the reference to his paper of 1911 entitled “On Meaning and Understanding” (Am. J. Psychol., XXII, pp. 553-577) wherein the methods of autosensory observation he had developed for his electrophysiology studies were described. This paper was found at the Library of Congress. I studied it assiduously, but at that time only made haphazard use of what I learned. Some of it, later, undoubtedly became part of how I approached dealing with Special Forces training. Later yet, upon return from Viet Nam, it became the foundation for the techniques which evolved into my personal form of walking meditation. This is written about elsewhere on our webpages in regards to what, a decade later, became known as “eye-movement reprogramming”, so I won't go into detail here, but, briefly, Jacobson established by electrophysiologic measurements coupled to autosensory observation that mental associations are highly correlated to residual (near zero action-potential on the electromyograph) tension patterns in the extra-ocular muscles and the pharyngeal muscles. Current fMRI studies, so far as I know, do not nullify Jacobson's findings, only complement and extend them. So, if you want to stop roof-brain chatter and shut down ₁T₂-logical thought, so as to enter realms of _µT_m-Lukasiewicz logics, one thing you will want to do is relax the extra-ocular and pharyngeal muscle groups deeply enough to get under residual tension patterns in those groups. Stick with it long enough and you discover ways and means that work for you. I wanted to do this in the midst of everyday life -- not by candle gazing, chanting, mantra, or sitting-meditation -- hence, walking meditation and autosensory observation while digging trees piece work alone in a nursery. I also used Nicoliades-contour-drawing in figure drawing from the nude model for similar purposes. Jacobson's techniques of “differential relaxation”, a refinement of “progressive relaxation”, can be applied in many, many different settings: using only those muscles required to accomplish the task at hand, while deeply relaxing others. One thing I did as an “irritant” reminding factor to “go negative” on the pharyngeal muscles was keep a toothpick in my mouth. I just noticed at some point after a meal that the toothpick served this function for me. For someone else, who knows? The extra-ocular muscles, for me, were vastly more difficult, and I developed a whole range of elaborate techniques, one of which involved imagining a screen-grid -- like the Renaissance painters actually used to study linear perspective -- superimposed across my visual field whenever I did walking meditation. I then practiced many specific visualizations (Jungian “active imagination”), relative to properties of this imagined screen-grid, as “irritant” reminding factors to “go negative” on the extra-ocular muscles. One threshold experience in this practice, for me -- when the extra-ocular muscles relaxed under the residual-tension barrier -- occurred when all the skew-parallels of the projection funnel were seen to converge on me as a vanishing point, yielding the feeling-toned realization (which I had earlier understood only intellectually) that my claim to be me-and-only-me is false, that the center which is everywhere is always and all ways right here now where all codes intersect as Purusha intersects Prakriti. “All the world is a cipher!”, as a famous Renaissance cryptographer once exclaimed. Daily engagement in such practices will eventually alter out-of-session eye-movement patterns and facial expressions.

There are no words for it. It is like John C. Lilly calling ketamine “yuppie LSD”. After studying his “tank logs”, I asked him why he used that term -- because ketamine is obviously nothing like LSD. He replied, “Well, what would you call it?” One says something that gives the other person something to work with; that's the best one can do. I say Musculpt “manifold”, but the word “manifold” is just something for the other person to grab onto. Think about it. Theory of complex n-dimensional manifolds -- indeed, the whole of modern mathematics, including contemporary thought about m-valued Lukasiewicz logics -- has been developed by employment of ₁T₂-logic alone, and we are talking about inner Musculpt “representing” cognitive contents of the state of being in direct immediate awareness through _µT_m-valued logics. How could contemporary understanding of manifolds actually capture this? It could not. But the word “manifold” is a something that gives the other person something to work with. Perhaps it will become theory of hypercomplex n-dimensional manifolds under _CT_C-order Lukasiewicz logics point-set mapped by non-selfsame numbers stacked on Lal Ded dots. Why do you think people who gain some direct access to this, get stuck on it, can't fully process it, so frequently take recourse to numerology and Cabala? Why? Ask what is their actual situation. By whatever means, say, walking meditation, they have slowly facilitated endogenous ketamine flood, which begins to roll back the effects of glutamatergic neuronal etching, thus establishing early stages of a march of long-range phase-correlation of neurons across the cortex, permitting some direct conscious access to m-logically-valued processing. But their automatized proprioceptive-perceptive-cognitive functions remain, in these early stages, still rooted in ₁T₂-logic semantic-gestalts, so they immediately go into cognitive overload upon receiving _µT_m-logic input. Feed superposed phase-digit q-bits to a binary-logic Turing machine! Give the rooted-trees of Karpenko functors over the primes a direct “look” at the Lukasiewiczian Gödel-numbered Gödel numbers of which they are decomposition products! If the transcortical march develops too fast, the person will fugue, black out, seizure, crash. Ask what situation could lead to a spontaneous fully-conscious gran mal seizure. If, by elaborating psycho-social -- even by exogenous electro-chemical induction -- resistances to the march (in “autogenic training” called “neutralization antagonizing forms of resistance”), the transition is stalled, then what? Only in the most extreme cases, reformatting of the hard-drive! Meaning saturation-overload episodically pulsing in and out of conscious awareness as the momentum of the constellated processes driving the transition cyclically attempts to push it along. By Everett relative-state (neurologically expressed through long-range phase-correlations) everything is connected to everything else (and is so in actuality, Schrödinger wave-function under _µT_m-logics), but how is this experienced by an awareness caught in mid-transit? The closest familiar analogical models making some sense of the meaning saturation-overload are numerology and Cabala. How else deal with, for instance, non-selfsame numbers? Not merely 2 equals 4, but 2 is 4. How many formalized arithmetics of the natural numbers, alone, are there, after Gödel-diagonalization, and under _CT_C-orders of Lukasiewicz logics? And what are the implications (₁T₂ to _µT_m) of all these natural number arithmetics for… for… for… Not even to try to “think” in _µT_m orders about numbers other than the natural numbers. No-mind is not the absence of mind, it is presence of the multivalue! And no-mind does not _µT_m-ly cohere by ₁T₂ logical-accommodation schemata. But numerology, Cabala, graphology, matrices, gematria, mandala are no more adequate than is the word “manifold” in conveying what Samadhi-content of inner Musculpt actually is. In such a context all words are koans. When, say, in an intense conversation about a complex subject, and in a deep state of concentration, a Musculpt piece (moving-flowing-undulating topologically-transforming colored forms with sound) comes eidetically into awareness on aromatic, paraesthesia rush and strange taste in the mouth (petit mal aura march), then, instantly, effortlessly, in a “single mind moment” -- by tropological metareference over “recognized” properties of the movement, the flow, the undulation, the manifest topological transformations, alterations in the color properties, the changing tonal qualities of the sound, all of these highly correlated one with another -- is available with urgent immediacy, not only everything you have ever heard, read, learned by whatever means about the subject of the conversation, and that subject's myriad relations to many, many other subjects, but collective unconscious accretions regarding the same, and, also, by projection of the possible Musculpt modulatory schemata of the given piece, which are directly seen-heard in superimposition, the gamut of possible directions the conversation could unfold is given in a single multi-layered sounded-form over one mind moment of awareness. Is it one-mind moment, or one mind-moment? If not Musculpt “manifold”, what would you call it? We are not talking virtual realities here, or for that matter “delusions”; we are talking non-selfsame nature. By Cantor-Lukasiewicz-Cohen, there is at least a continuum infinity of orders of logical-value, and any so-called “delusion” you can think of, and infinities of them you will never think of, are normative to some order of logical-value and associated order-type in identity-transparency. When the “objective” object is no less animated than the “subjective” subject (“…perhaps the immobility of things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not something else”: Proust, Remembrance of Things Past), the spread of polarities across _µT_m-orders -- not merely to logical-value terminals of a given proposition -- altogether evaporates on the incommensurability between those orders, which are semantically one to another as zero to infinity. The physical world-picture that heuristically reduces this continuum infinity down to but one order-type -- the ₁T₂ order -- does so not only to subdue nature and subsets of the human corpus, but also to suppress the spontaneous capacity of the quantum brain not contained by the cellular-molecular brain to fully encompass the continuum infinity of order-types which is its defining characteristic. The odds that the human species will much longer survive this heuristic reduction in its war upon nature are becoming longer and longer. Indeed, James Lovelock envisions but a small collection of breeding pairs localized to Earth's polar regions in a matter of a few decades. This is a far worse scenario than my sense of a human-species survival rate possibly as low as ten percent. If inner Musculpt is to be exteriorized by synaesthetic holography as mathematical notation, it will have to be done as a process of evolution-through-use in the way of a natural language by persons in their teens and twenties unobstructed in making the sort of transition discussed here. Of course, if the index of prescription-proscription in enculturation (beginning in the womb) were substantially reduced such that glutamatergic neuronal etching did not so thoroughly suppress conscious awareness of m-logically-valued quantum processing, this sort of transition would be easier and more widespread in the population corpus. One way to stimulate a reduction of the index of prescription-proscription in enculturation would be to develop Musculpt as mathematical notation and use a fairly elementary expression of it as the user interface for an m-logically-valued monetary system. Daily use of such a monetary system would be a collective form of inner work, yoga, meditation.

Notes and Reflections from Peter Wilberg:

(1) Though I am not at all familiar with m-valued logic in its formal structure and deployment, I do have questions regarding propositional logics of any form, feeling that one of the deficits of such logics is that the truth values of any proposition are dependent on how the language and concepts employed within it are understood in the first place. Thus it is that so many old and new propositions about such 'things' as ‘energy’, ‘fields’, ‘resonance’, ‘non-locality’ etc. tend to already assume a particular understanding of what these words mean or refer to (not least the prima facie assumption that they necessarily do refer to some pre-given signified in the form of a thing or concept). That is one reason why for me propositional logics have for me -- at least up to now -- fallen into the domain of what Heidegger called a purely 'representational' understanding of both language and thought, with its assumption that words refer to the signified in the form pre-given things or concepts -- rather than being the linguistic weave, surface-boundary or topology (‘meaning-brane’ or 'm-embrane') of an unbounded 'intensional' dimension of potential meanings (what Deleuze suggested by the term 'plane of immanence' within the concept). Such an intensional domain of meaning does of course transcend all purely bi-valent logics. That is why I incline myself in the direction of understanding the 'm-' in 'm-valued' as having to do essentially with an inexhaustible dimension of potential m-eaning -- one contracted by representational understanding of their use in any given proposition.

(2) It is in this context that the challenge I summarised above is one I feel we can only both properly rise to by distinguishing the strategic illocutionary aim of our respective writings from the necessary limitations of its formal expression, whether through logics of different sorts or any variety of scientific, spiritual or philosophical language. For we can understand propositions as locutionary assertions, or as illocutionary or suggestive in essence -- hence Steiner's understanding of speech as invisible gesture and Lacan's understanding of language (drawn from Abhinavagupta) as essentially su-ggestive (‘sub-gestural’).

(3) Following one from this point, my own use of terms such as 'field', 'resonance' 'qualia' etc should not be taken as implying some already signified sense or ‘signified’, but rather as an attempt to imbue these terms with new dimensions of potential meaning derived from 'sensed significance' or what Eugene Gendlin calls “felt sense” as opposed to their already signified sense. Thus for example, I see Sheldrake's notion of “morphic resonance” as possessing far deeper dimensions of meaning than he himself recognises. This as-yet unthought dimension of the term itself brings us to one of the points of convergence-divergence between us I mentioned in my last communication. For my understanding of 'morphic resonance' takes up what the term itself suggests -- an intrinsic relation between tone or sound on the one hand and surface form (morphe) on the other -- in other words something very similar, if not identical in essence to what you term MUSCULP. More specifically, I understand the essence of 'resonance' as a relation of Form one the one hand, and 'Feeling Tone' on the other. Thus I hear and feel music as the formal patterned expression, through audible textures of sound tone, of silent tonalities of mood or 'feeling tone'. I 'hear' these silent feeling tones especially strongly in the difference between performances of the same musical piece by different conductors (or even the same conductor in different performances of the same piece). There is for me an underlying 'fundamental mood' or tonality of feeling awareness that constitutes the directly felt or sensed 'signature' underlying and uniting all the works of a given composer, a feeling tone which literally re-sonates in the recognisable characteristics of their audible sound textures and the formal structures of their compositions.

(4) Recalling your comment on the “adequacy” of particular concepts such as ‘field’ and ‘resonance’ therefore, I would emphasise that for me it is not so much that particular words or terms as such are more or less adequate, but more that our understanding of them is -- not least if it does not bear an awareness of their unquestioned or 'unthought' dimension. That is not to say that out of a deeper understandings of terms, new more adequate terms may indeed be found -- or the extant one's invested with deeper dimensions of meaning that make them fuller or more ‘resonant’. Returning again to the specific term 'morphic resonance' therefore, I see Eugene Gendlin too, as offering a far deeper understanding of this term than Sheldrake himself -- specifically where Gendlin speaks of what he calls 'Focusing' as a process of “resonating back and forth” (palintonos) between our direct, inwardly felt, sensuous and bodily sense of meaning or ‘sense’ (what I term sensed significance) and its expression in specific mental words and images (what I term signified sense). In practice this means staying with our inward, bodily sense of a word, image -- or experience -- long enough for other words, images or experiences to arise that are fully 'adequate' to it, deeper resonance with what it seeks to express. This alone can prevent verbal signifiers from imposing their own already signified senses or 'signifieds' on directly sensed significance or ‘felt sense’.

(5) Following Seth’s [i.e., as channeled by Jane Roberts] account of ‘feeling tone’ as something more primordial than any feelings we are aware of, I also emphasis the supreme significance of this term in suggesting something both musicologically, epistemologically and indeed ontologically more primordial also than both emotional feelings or “affect-charges” on the one hand and sound or colour tones on the other. Here I must come back to something you wrote, namely that “Kandinsky's ‘pure feeling’ suggests to me an inner feeling-toned state not only free of affect-charge but also empty of all other concrete contents. The aesthetic response is absolutely free, in the idealized case, of judgmental properties; the 'object' -- inner or outer -- eliciting the aesthetic feeling-toned response has somehow become indistinguishable from the responder: a state of unadulterated, pure identity transparency has been established. Call that state 'generative empathy'”. I do so in order to both accord with your reference to “a feeling-toned state free of affect-charge” but also to emphasise that such feeling toned states and their qualities or ‘qualia’ are not in any way ‘elicited’ by ‘objects’ of any sort. Mine is a radical philosophy of absolute subjectivism in which there simply are no objects whatsoever. Instead there are elements or qualities of phenomenal experiencing, ‘inner’ or ‘outer’ all of which emerge from a field or space of pure awareness or subjectivity. Thus there is not first an object in the form of a work of art or of a musical composition, one that than ‘elicits’ either affect-charges, pure feeling or even ‘feeling tones’. Instead all experienced phenomena, mental, emotional or material, together with their sensory qualities, are to begin with experiential expressions of feeling tone and its qualities arising from and within a space of pure awareness or subjectivity. The latter is, as you point out, itself entirely free of affect charge. My mantra here is that ‘Matter is Metaphor’. In other words it is not that terms such as ‘black mood’ constitute some sort of multi-valent or ambi-valent metaphor derived from black objects. On the contrary, the colour black itself -- as a sensory quality of some outwardly experienced ‘material’ phenomenon -- is itself but the outer sensory expression or material metaphor of a primordial quality of feeling tone which -- one which can then in turn be signified by the term ‘black’. Put simply, both the word ‘black’ and any actually experienced, black-coloured ‘thing’ are manifestations of a primordial feeling tone that can be called ‘black’ even though, as a Kandinsky-type ‘pure feeling’ or pure Gendin-type ‘felt sense’ it transcends any already signified senses belonging to the word ‘black’. The question you pose -- of “how a ‘pure feeling’ of black, say, a bare knowledge-through-identity of black, could establish itself in awareness” (my stress) simply does not arise from my perspective, since all elements of experience arise from and within awareness, as the experiential expression of qualitative potentialities of immanent within it.

(6) When I refer to a ‘field’ or ‘space’ of pure awareness within which all elements of phenomenal experiencing emerge, I am speaking literally. For just as space is both distinct and yet inseparable from its contents, so is pure awareness distinct but inseparable from its contents -- from all concrete elements or shapes of experiencing that emerge or stand out (ex-ist) within it. Indeed, from the perspective of the new tantric metaphysics I expound, space itself is nothing physical but a spatial field or spatialisation of pure awareness within which different concrete qualitative elements and shapes of subjective experiencing arise. To call these ‘objects’ is to resurrect the subject-object metaphysics, which denies that these objects are but elements of and within a field or space of subjective experiencing. The idea of the ‘object’, like that of ‘matter’ or ‘energy’, is a typical example of what Husserl saw as an ideal construct which is taken as more real than the very shapes and forms of lived subjective experience it is used to name and explain. It is perhaps important to recant the threefold prime mantra of my new yogic-tantric metaphysics evolved since writing ‘Qualia Revolution’: there is nothing outside awareness; awareness is everything -- and everything in turn (whether a black thought or mood, a black seed or sky, or a spot of black paint pigment) is an awareness in its own right.

(7) You wrote also that “after a letter exchange (with Jane Roberts) I periodically received phone calls (in lieu of an invitation to visit). This specific issue was the focus of the conversations. Is non-locality of whatsoever (whatever the term 'non-locality' actually signifies) to be understood in relation to 'field'; indeed, in terms of 'space' -- ponderable, hyper, abstract, empty, etheric, akasic?… All these years later, I remain totally incredulous. And is there some 'fundamental stuff', quantitative and/or qualitative, material and/or immaterial -- with elemental point, line, plane, solid, polytope?” I see our convergence-divergence on this unanswered question of yours as being of key significance. For whenever I myself read physical-scientific or spiritual-scientific talk of ‘fields’, ‘non-locality’ etc. etc, my questions are of the following sort: What is a field a field of…? What is space a space of…? What is matter a materialisation of…? What are locality or non-locality the localisation or non-localisation of…? What is physicality or physis (‘emergence’) the emergence of…? What is matter the materialisation of…? What stuff is it made of…? The answer I am least happy with is some pre-given thing or ‘stuff’ called ‘energy’ -- for energein means 'actualisation' and is a process not some actual stuff or thing. What stuff does it then actualize…? The simple answer I am most content with is Shakespeare’s “We are such stuff as dreams are made on.” That stuff is the awareness as such -- which I understand as the very ‘aether’ of space. Just as dream space and dream experiencing emerges from and within awareness, so do all dimensions of space and of experiencing, inner and outer. The process of their emergence of actualisation is the other pole of pure awareness -- the pure power of actualisation or action (Sanskrit Shak) called ‘Shakti’ that is inseparable from pure awareness and which is released by the light of pure awareness from and within the darkness of the potentialities latent within it. This ‘metaphysics of awareness’ may sound too simplistic put in this way, and on one level it is simple and has long been recognised as such -- and yet I am constantly striving to give ever more refined expression to its simplexity in my books and writings on ‘The New Yoga’. Pure awareness then, is my equivalent in primordiality to your concept of identity-transparency -- being the condition for our experience of each, every and any identity, being, entity, self, world or universe whatsoever -- and that, which translucently and transparently pervades them all.

(8) I see your project, like that of Michael Kosok and myself, as that of overcoming the ‘Myth of Identity’. I will not even attempt here to describe the events through which that myth was overwhelmingly transcended for me through experiences of my own ‘multipersonhood’ -- and much, much more. I have no doubt that we both have many powerful ‘shamanic’ experiences of the truth of so-called ‘animism’ though precisely by virtue of this I cringe at using these currently degraded terms. Returning from our respective and no doubt equally rich ‘Adventures in Consciousness’ to the realm of logical formalisms however, you will probably already have gathered from Michael Kosok’s writings the central understanding of ‘identity-transparency’ and also ‘non-duality’ that has seeded much of my work. This is the concept of ‘inseparable distinction’ -- a relation neither of separation into discrete beings or identities nor of their merger into indisinction. Inseparable distinction is the unity of duality and non-duality, like the relation of two sides of the same coin. Yet it is not a mere state or static relation but, as Michael Kosok expounds it, an exponentially self-multiplying and internally self-differentiating dynamic of awareness -- one in which every apparent surface boundary is understood not as a separating or containing boundary delimiting the surface of a separable and discrete entity or identity but as one which -- in my own terms -- unites it with the spaces or ‘fields’ of awareness within and around it, and thus unites it also with every other identity within them. In this sense my use of the term field is more resonant (sorry about my language!) with Heidegger’s use of the terms Lichtung (illuminating space or clearing), Gegend (region) or Feldung (the fielding which allows for rice to grow). More on this can be found in my forthcoming book on Heidegger, Phenomenology and Indian Thought.

(9) Mention of Heidegger returns me to the issue of language that I began these notes with -- whether it is to be understood as ‘representation’ of truth or as saying something to another; as wordless communication ‘through the word’ (dia-logos) -- transmitting what Seth called “the wordless knowledge within the word”.

(10) Your emphasis on the necessary “exponentiation of self-reflexivity” goes to the very heart of what I term ‘The Practice of Awareness’ at the heart of ‘The New Yoga of Awareness’. What I call ‘The Awareness Principle’ behind this Practice is the simple recognition that the awareness of a chair is not a chair, nor is the awareness of a black mood or black thought itself a mood or thought of any colour. That is why identification with the pure awareness of any element of our experiencing does indeed eventually remove its ‘affect-charge’. Yet precisely because we can never experience pure awareness in its ultimately pure form, for even if awareness as such is experienced in a ‘higher’ way as translucent light, as sensual bliss or as divinity itself in some form, still all such experiences are in some sense sensually feeling-toned. That is why only the ‘iteration’ or ‘exponentiaton’ of the basic practice of identifying with the awareness of any given state of feeling-toned awareness -- no matter how seemingly free of mood, content, charge or qualities -- can both sustain such states and lead us towards an experience of new qualities of feeling-toned awareness. What ‘The Awareness Principle’ and its Practice questions however, is the adequacy of terms such as ‘self-observation’ or ‘self-awareness’. For one of its precepts of The Awareness Principle is that awareness of self cannot, in principle, be the property or activity of any self there is an awareness of. Hence my didactic emphasis, both in my writing and with personal students on the expression ‘There is an awareness of…’ rather than ‘I am aware of…?’ Hence also the significance for me of the notion of a universal or ‘field’ subjectivity without a subject -- as well as without objects. For another central precept of The Awareness Principle is that awareness is not, in principle, the private property of any ego or ‘I’, self or subject, being or identity. I think it important therefore not to confuse “exponentiality of self-awareness” with the infinite regress implied by the notion of a ‘witnessing’ or ‘experiencing’ self, one aware of or experiencing another self. I also think it important to recognise that any experienced self does not ‘have’ or even find itself ‘in’ a mood -- but rather is itself mooded or feeling-toned -- constituted by a felt tonality of awareness. Heidegger emphasised the primordiality of mood -- arguing that even a mood of neutral, dispassionate and apparently moodless objectivity is still itself a mood, still feeling-toned. Yet he also insisted on the equi-primordiality of both ‘foundational concepts’ and ‘fundamental moods’ -- a type of ‘m-valued logic’ of both m-eaning and m-ood!

William Pensinger responds:

Never having been a working mathematician or a working scientist, or been trained there as, I have never cultivated an interest in consensus mathematics or normal science. But, having been born into membership in the prevailing global civilization, I am subjected to the paradigms governing its organizational dynamics which, synoptically speaking, are largely derivative of post-Renaissance mathematics and science. I, therefore, have had an abiding interest in paradigm conflicts and documentation related thereto. Largely eschewing material related to consensus mathematics and normal science, of any given period, I have, for personal edification, tried to inform myself about paradigm challenges within mathematics and the sciences. In doing so, I necessarily derive my methods from the lessons drawn from my experience. This effort may or may not be of interest or value to others, which is an issue largely out of my hands, and therefore my concern. One such experience was that of being an intelligence analyst focused on study of the organizational dynamics of the Viet Cong political infrastructure. Never having been a working Viet Cong, or, indeed, a communist of any sort, my former relationship to these studies of the Viet Cong has a certain parallel to my studies of mathematical and scientific paradigm conflicts as they relate to organizational dynamics of the prevailing global civilization -- to include its changing monetary systematics.

So, whenever I attempt to read relevant mathematical and scientific papers, I approach them in exactly the same manner I once studied Viet Cong kiem thao (examine-discuss) criticism/self-criticism committee-level policy documents. In my non-professional judgment, even before peer-review criticism/self-criticism, the mathematician and/or scientist never writes down, let alone seeks to publish, what he or she has actually thought in developing paradigm-challenge notions. The actual thought content as it appeared in immediacy to awareness, I believe, cannot be written down -- not in words, notation, graphics, schematic drawings. On top of that, the criticism/self-criticism engaged in with peers -- both formally and informally -- falsifies such content as it appeared in immediacy to awareness by subjecting it to the tacit and overtly-codified assumptions of the reigning paradigm. The resultant published mathematical or scientific paper is tantamount to a party committee policy document from which the actual substantive content as it appeared in immediacy to awareness has been stripped. Private discussion between mathematicians-scientists (informal criticism/self-criticism) contains more such actual substantive content, as “echoes”, perhaps, and is tantamount to Viet Cong phe binh: criticism/self-criticism within the three-person party cell. Private Viet Cong diaries often contained accounts/summaries of such phe binh discussion sessions, as do mathematical and scientific memoirs. But such diary-memoir entries are inherently highly expurgated in being reprocessed summaries, and because the actual thought content as it appeared in immediacy to awareness cannot be written down. Words (even in face-to-face verbal exchanges), notation, graphics, schematic diagrams are always mere “transliterations”. So, in due course, in studying Viet Cong organizational dynamics, I came to largely ignore documentation issuing out of both kiem thao and phe binh, except as offering -- in their form -- signatures, eidolons, traces, echoes of what I came to regard as the animistic identity-transparency subliminally informing deep-structures of overt decision algorithms related to organizational transformations. Since, by definition, there could be no documentary record of such subliminal deep-structures, how did I study them?

While endeavoring (ergotropic) to reach total immersion in detail, I cultivated a passivity (trophotropic) allowing registration to awareness of the hypothesized signatures, eidolons, traces, echoes which, when registered, I endeavored to evaluate against a certain class of evidence that was available. This is how I worked alongside others who had their own methods. This evidence was contained in what we at Strategic Research and Analysis referred to as “nuts and bolts” documents: the utter minutia of day-to-day bureaucratic operation of the Viet Cong political infrastructure. One area in which this method was particularly fruitful had to do with Viet Cong boundary changes, which were discovered to be in a near-state of continuous flux relative to any other politico-economic boundary system we had heard of. Pursuing implications of this, we eventually were able to map many categories of bureaucratic variables on these nested fluctuating boundaries. Properties of these multi-sheeted mappings were later understood as “indicators of Viet Cong intentions” on the level of strategy. A few of us at the time were to a certain small degree aware that, since there was considerable factionalism within the Viet Cong political infrastructure, behind this lie a tacit deep-structure theory of n-player cooperative games involving multi-sheeted mappings over nested one-dimensional manifolds in a heuristically-continuous state of flux. But that was never systematically pursued at Strategic Research and Analysis largely because attention was diverted by command direction to rather trivial issues like the enemy strength estimate -- and all later attempts to systematically investigate it were blocked. I can note here, parenthetically, that I have been able to find no evidence Rand Corporation researchers on the Viet Cong political infrastructure ever picked up on this even though they received copies of all Strategic Research and Analysis documentary distribution.

My continued interest in these matters is focused upon two areas which I believe to be in some manner related to content of your last message: the process by which, when cognitively sitting in a state of deautomatization between the ergotropic (primarily cortical) and trophotropic (primarily sub-cortical) brain modalities, whereby the signatures, eidolons, traces, echoes appear to awareness (as content of “autogenic abreactions” or less elaborately “autogenic discharges”); and the issue of boundary-flux as it relates to the notion of identity-transparency. In terms of both these areas in relation to origination of paradigm-challenge notions in mathematics and science, I would say that, in the particular case of John Nash, what would correspond to the “nuts and bolts” documents would be the letters he wrote during the period he was diagnosed a paranoid schizophrenic. This was the period when he was most fully able to establish his habitus between the ergotropic and trophotropic modalities, wherein one or another condition of identity-transparency prevails by virtue of having gained, in his case, it appears, more or less involuntarily, and/or more or less naively, conscious access to quantum-level brain processing by m-valued logics. At the time this transpired, his experience of worldly realities was rather limited, and this fact alone goes a considerable distance in explaining his subsequent behaviors. Given the rapidly evolving planetary circumstances on Earth, the conditions prevailing within human institutions, and the normotic-reality-protection role assumed by professional psychiatry, it has been a long time since I have chosen to closely associate with anyone who does not exhibit at least a few symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia: to not so exhibit simply isn't healthy.

Because of the corpus of “non-ordinary” inner experiences I accumulated largely before the age of 30, when I made an abrupt shift in life purposes, I feel I have the latent capacity to assimilate something of the what is behind what you are saying. In terms of the spectrum of logical-value order-types between and including _CT_C and ₁T₂, I experience you speaking from an ontological-logical location somewhere in the general “direction” of _CT_C (e.g., identity “field” as plenum, rather than field-theoretic as treated in physics; awareness-in-itself, rather than the awareness of or by or to some discrete whatnot) and I immediately “resonate” with that, finding your explications eloquent and “in tune” with aspects of awareness demergent, so to speak, to that cusp of the plenum Universal Observer Q, were there such, might designate the corpus of “my” I-ness-identifications and object-attributions. I raise “John Nash” in this context because “his” efforts to get free of that cusp which might be designated the corpus of “his” I-ness-identifications and object-attributions suggest that “his” formalized work on the nature of complex manifolds and real algebraic varieties might be regarded as concerning a limiting case of “identity 'field' as plenum” -- i.e., that case under the ₁T₂-order of logical-value -- and that, further, “he”, volunteering to some degree involuntarily, realized “he” was addressing only a limiting case, and that “he” knew “he” must somehow step aside inside “his” corpus of I-ness-identifications and object-attributions if address was to be made other than to a limiting case.

If “identity 'field' as plenum” is construed as spanning the full spectrum of logical-value order-types between and including _CT_C and ₁T₂, then it may be useful to obtain by some means -- perhaps by passive registration of signatures, eidolons, traces, echoes -- some notion of how it might be constituted so as to discover clues as to of what it is constituted, or, indeed, whether the question “Of what?” actually makes sense, and, if so, on what orders of logical-value it does so make sense. The term I have used for what is here designated “identity 'field' as plenum” is “m-logically-valued reference space” (the notion “identity”, according to my understanding, being more fundamental in logic than the notion “distinction”, which is more fundamental than the notion “truth”). By signature, eidolon, trace, echo awareness-in-itself has demerged to the neighborhood of “my” plenar cusp awareness-in-the-notion -- and this is pretty much how it seems it should be characterized -- that “identity 'field' as plenum” is in some respect how constituted by Gödel numbers and Gödel-numbered Gödel numbers stacked on branch points of certain types of functions in certain types of transcendental algebraic varieties, and latticed together such that certain types of calculi may transpose those lattices to curvature configurations of what I, having fallen back into I-ness-identifications and object-attributions, have come to designate the hypercomplex Musculpt “manifold”.

Looking at this while in I-ness-identifications and object-attributions, it seems to me that the question “Of what?” is likely most meaningful in that collection of logical-value order-types approaching ₁T₂, and least meaningful in that collection approaching _CT_C, for it is only under ₁T₂ that a selfhood, to which an “Of what?” can be predicated, can be absolutely-in-so-far-as-distinctly indicated, and, as that selfhood twists and reenters itself cyclotomically by order-types of self-reference, it stepwise loses all the indications of absolutely-in-so-far-as-distinct identity. But, remembering what it was like on those occasions awareness-in-itself, likely in the general “direction” of that collection approaching _CT_C, “my” corpus of I-ness-identifications and object-attributions supposes absolutely-in-so-far-as-distinct selfhood cyclotomically demergent from _CT_C. Both being, insofar as I know by “the awareness of, by, or to” and by remembrance of those occasions awareness-in-itself, simultaneously the case -- hence, the stacking on points -- fundamentality of the notion “precedence” -- logically, ontologically, and temporally -- is in question, and its apparent conditional operation must be explained. As regards boundary-flux issues specifically, “the awareness of, by, or to” appears fuzzily bound to that collection approaching ₁T₂. Is awareness-in-itself co-terminus with and, hence, bound to “identity 'field' as plenum”? Is “identity 'field' as plenum” in some sense bound and, hence, in or of something? With questions like this, I know I am an egg.

Absolutely. Like in the case of the Viet Cong political infrastructure, where bureaucratic variables were tacitly mapped on boundaries, contemporary ₁T₂-logic monetary units are defined over national boundaries -- and, in regards to those boundaries, the boundaries of some domains of legal tender are porous by virtue of being multi-currency domains, Cambodia, for instance, where the Cambodian riel, the U.S. dollar, and the Thai baht are each accepted as legal tender, with internal fuzzy regions of preferred acceptance, the Thai baht being for obvious reasons preferred in areas of Cambodia near Thailand. But not only were Viet Cong bureaucratic variables tacitly mapped on boundaries, so were multi-currencies used for Viet Cong “taxation” purposes -- and this was one of the several main reasons why Viet Cong boundaries were in a near-state of continuous flux. As the environment of the combat changed -- there being a war on -- distribution of resource-need similarly changed. For taxation purposes, all such taxes being locally-collected, the Viet Cong used financial instruments like “bonds” hypothetically redeemable postwar, corvee-equivalent tender, commodities, barter, piastres, U.S. military-payment currency -- each of these tacitly mapped on the fluctuating boundaries. Given correlations between the bureaucratic variables and the multi-currency-tagged resource needs/in-flows (in-flows, both local and from elsewhere) -- which were explicit and closely monitored by Finance and Economy functional elements in every lateral partition and vertical echelon -- and the fact that all these were tacitly mapped on boundaries, organizational adaptation was highly streamlined: change the boundaries and everything else changes more or less automatically. Now -- like in so many areas of the prevailing global system -- given factional in-fighting, regional allegiances, and the like, say, presence of Hoa Hao and Cao Dai, Cham, Buddhist, Catholic areas of population concentration, negotiations/bargaining, both overt and subtle, were involved when the changing environment of the combat demanded boundary changes. Many, many factors strategic, tactical, political, economic, social, psychological were involved in determining outcomes of these negotiations, which not infrequently involved employment of the full gamut of coercion. So, there was actually a superposition of cooperative and non-cooperative games (tacitly informed by generations of experience at traditional village games), with the cooperative component -- relative solely to Viet Cong boundary changes -- generally predominating. This system, in no small measure, allowed the Vietnamese communists to overcome the disparity in available force and prevail in the war. I argue that the boundary-value mappings were handled TACITLY, subliminally mediated by a thousand years and more of experience with animistic identity-transparency within and between groups and between persons-groups and a land very fuzzily partitioned -- and that this identity-transparency resolves, in terms of formal logic, to Lukasiewicz m-valued logics. There is no such thing as authentic person-to-person, person-group, group-group identity transparency unmediated by transparency to environment, this transparency being a property associated with the Everett relative-state of a universal wave-function codifying the involved corpora. Now, if the totality of this can be understood as a factor-collected (i.e., to provisionally simulate person-group-environment transparency, as opposed to mere mega-mergered, buy-out-leveraged, super-CEOed, hedge-managed corporate persons, government monoliths, industrial combines) subsystem-system-supersystem composite game involving multi-sheeted mappings over nested one-dimensional manifolds (possibly in some way related to string theory, p-branes, et cetera), there are multiple opportunities for generalization of Nash-notions like embedding, equilibriums, blowing-up, and so on -- generalization, if, for instance, the “changing environment of the combat” and the “business cycle” are each viewed as special cases of black-box rubric for collections of externalities driving micro-systemic adaptations. As I have already argued in regards to the issue of risk, not only does this Nashed approach shed a different light on Robert Lucas' thesis that governments cannot manage the business cycle, but it also suggests a way risk compacted and derivatived to the macroscale can be extra-systemically processed and redistributed across all scale levels. This is not redistribution of income, but of risk. Were Nash-equilibriums generalized over complex manifolds and real algebraic varieties to topological invariants, this effort would be extended, and further generalization employing Lukasiewicz m-valued logics -- which are by no means equivalent to Tversky-irrationality -- would further extend toward domains of authentic macroscopic quantum-composites and phase-digit computing, and from there to what I refer to as VirFut Q-Pro. Most simply stated: so long as there are relatively fixed boundaries (as opposed to, say, fractal e-boundaries) over which ₁T₂-logic currencies are defined, the business cycle will not be manageable by either governments or market forces and the global economy will not adapt to changing externalities like, for instance, climate-shift dynamics (no matter how well designed the auctioning off of Earth's atmosphere). Reading Mollie Pants-Down -- and thinking how earlier there were as many British casualties on opening day at the Somme as American loses over whole of the Viet Nam war, a figure two-and-a-half times Union-Confederate loses in reckoning at Antietam -- I expect we shall have rather another epidemic of Captain Nolan's with their unbridled light brigades, for, whatever the ideology and sexual preference, how gainsay death poems scratched in blood by the Nguyen Thi Minh Khai's of this world or the execution ground imperturbably stood by that other Asian lady, Javanese-Dutch Mata Hari? Even now, once againe in Cabul and Baghdad -- if not Shanghai -- how many Empire-Made-Me's are fashioned upon the hour? And how substantively would a New Empire of Greater China differ from its precedents? O, what name the wind cries tomorrow! Contradictions are rampant in life and throughout m-logically-valued nature. ₁T₂-logic has been employed to hide from this fact by cultivating the illusion/delusion of control; the ₁T₂-logic Law of Non-Contradiction is the primary means by which a supposed control over nature has been imposed. For don't ya know? Roundheads always become Flathead Levellers! The fantastic existential claim made by identification with ₁T₂-logic-alone is a violation of nature and a grossly unwarranted arrogation that could very well destroy the human species as it continues to wantonly destroy much else.

There is another aspect to why the mind which has suddenly gained naive conscious access to m-logically-valued quantum-brain processing resorts to numerology and Cabala -- or some tropological metareferential analogue thereof -- a resort which may in some sense be considered therapeutic and potentially highly creative. Tentatively assume, for the entertainment value, that the understanding of this presented here is somewhere in the ballpark -- assume, that is, in full realization that none of this has been experimentally verified, though there appears to be a good bit of supporting evidence for some aspects -- then, as modification of intermolecular electron-transport processes associated with the full gamut of neurotransmitter-metabolic pathway-cascade transpires by endogenous ketamine flood functioning as an antidote to glutamatergic neuronal etching, this modification affects radiation-exchange processes of involved DNA molecules such that intra-nuclear neuronal DNA and intra-mitochondrial perineural DNA undergo superconductant phase transitions initiating a march of interneuronal and interperineural long-range phase-correlations by virtue of pi-electron parcels of free-electron gas core of DNA molecules reaching m-order phase-digit superposition (not just 2-order superposition) step-function-wise over the nucleotide-pair pi-stacks logically encoded by Gödel numbers and Gödel-numbered Gödel numbers stacked on a Borel set of dimensionless points arrayed across orbifold tetrachord geometries holographically articulated by superconductant-DNA-generated coherent waves (tetrachords being the lowest-order case encoded with Gödel numbers). This corpus of Gödel numbers and Gödel-numbered Gödel numbers would be the basis of one class of quasi-local cases of what John A. Wheeler has referred to as “pregeometry as a calculus of propositions” (in all but the lowest-order case, m-logically-valued beyond the ₁T₂-order, and the more quasi-local the closer the collection of operative superposed order-types approaches ₁T₂). The quantum brain is not contained by the cellular-molecular brain (hence only quasi-local depending on the order of superposition) by virtue of the principle of quantum nonlocality, so, with sudden conscious access to m-logically-valued processing, the sense of thought being self-initiated, sensed, that is, as localized to the cellular-molecular brain, will be lost, and thoughts will be suddenly sensed as coming from elsewhere, from, say, Mallarme's “anterior sky” -- and, if this is personified by naive object-attribution, may be interpreted as one or another form of possession by remote entities, god-like beings, asuras, demons. One meditative practice used to facilitate endogenous ketamine flood is to “candle gaze” the “locus” of the inner voice at roof-brain chatter (such locus being normally never attended to, only generally appercieved). This autosensory observation practice disrupts both free-associative and ₁T₂-logical thought by returning attention cathexis to an automatized function, thus altering it, and, as endogenous ketamine flood and associated quantum-level processes ensue, one aspect of the conscious “bleed-back” will be an apparently random-walk migration (michiyuki) of the sensed locus of the inner voice (this michiyuki being related to the step-function-wise onset of phase-digit superposition) until that locus is experienced as being outside the head, first located in front of the forehead, then without discrete localization. This was the hallmark in onset of Sri Aurobindo's first 1907 experience of Nirvana, repeatedly described by him throughout his writings on yoga: stopping thought (Zen no-mind) by exteriorizing roof-brain chatter such that identification with thought, egoic self-attribution of thought, is broken -- and, it being directly in immediacy sensed as coming from elsewhere, can easily be rejected. One prerequisite to onset of Nirvana, according to Aurobindo's highly detailed bare-phenomenological testimonial. Once thus rejected: awareness-in-itself, being in being-in-itself. But no-mind is not only the absence of free-associative and ₁T₂-logical mind; it is presence to consciousness of m-logically-valued quantum-brain processing elaborated over a nested hierarchy of Samadhi states distinguished by characteristic modes of awareness-in-itself. The shock value of sudden onset of this (Satori) when initiated relatively volitionally with some significant degree of understanding in a knowledgeable and supportive community (set and setting) is quite different from cases of stress-induced, or other relatively non-volitional modes of onset (e.g., diagnostically: paranoid schizophrenia), and naively experienced within a conflicted community, even without invasive psychiatric intervention. And the quantum-genomic and electrochemical brain processes involved in these two classes of cases may significantly differ, if, as I believe, DNA pi-electron-parcel oscillation rates are the bottom-line on biological clocks and DNA frequency-response windows in superposed quantum relative-state are immunological signifiers of composite self-identity, to include the many frequency-tagged histological-types constituting the physical body (existence of this frequency-tagging has a lot of experimental support, suggesting that the Everett universal wave-function for the body-physical is an m-valued subsystem-system-supersystem composite operative under m-logical-values). Recording of chronic stress, I believe, resolves to shifts away from normative values of these two quantum-level parameters (parcel-oscillation rates; frequency-response windows). So, stress-induced onset would likely alter quantum-brain processes in a manner significantly differing from non-stress-induced onset -- which implies that glutamate is the primary agent of automatization while ketamine is the primary agent of deautomatization, and that neither, in physiologic titers, is monotonically associated with pathofunctional or prohomeostatic roles, that other intervening factors make that determination: e.g., set (to include pathofunctional components of prescriptive enculturation and socialization of cognition) and setting; genomic factors; ambient radiation (to include that of medical imaging technologies); chemical exposure (to include psychotropic drugs, which may for a period restore identification with free-associative and ₁T₂-logical thought processes); exogenous inducement of convulsions (which may for a period restore identification with free-associative and ₁T₂-logical thought processes).

Now -- tentatively assuming that this is in the ballpark -- in naive, poorly-supported, relatively-involuntary onset of conscious awareness of m-logically-valued processing, the inner voice externalizes, and as each available order of logical-value is personified, the shock value is enormous, thoroughly disorienting, and interpreted as one or another form of possession. Branches of the quantum-composite wave-function are not experienced as in superposition, and, hence, the existential claim to be absolutely-in-so-far-as-distinct is not superseded, and there is no direct, in immediacy, experience of awareness-in-itself, but, rather, an overwhelming sense of being under assault by, or under the direction of, remote entities of one sort or another -- depending on set and setting: so-called paranoid schizophrenia, with associated electrochemical and genomic markers. In such circumstances of apparent assault, there are many things a person can do in the attempt to protect him- or herself -- the selection made being, again, according to set and setting. Violations of the ₁T₂-logic Law of Non-Contradiction by all higher m-orders of Lukasiewicz logics are directly experienced in immediacy as involuted and utterly irresolvable Bateson double-binds. Violations of the ₁T₂-logic Law of Distributed Middle by all higher m-orders of Lukasiewicz logics are directly experienced in immediacy as fragmentations across -- potentially -- the full gamut of cognitive categories and proprioceptive-perceptual modalities, fragmentations lending themselves to concretization by haptification to Aaronson “place names of time” (whereas, in onset of awareness-in-itself, the concomitants are those of cognitive superintegration, e.g., “cosmic consciousness”, and synaesthetic fusion). Whereas, again, in assimilation to awareness-in-itself, with associated relatively unimpeded interneuronal and interperineural march of long-range phase-correlation, evoked environmental responses fall into categories like birds circling overhead, dogs wagging up, babies' smiles, happy hellos, the environmental effects of experienced supposed double-binds and perceived fragmentation are received as an “aura” of the uncanny. Now, in the so-called paranoid schizophrenic case, with its personifications (and associated corpus of projective-identifications in transference), the received violations of ₁T₂-logic laws are handled more or less exclusively by recourse to “displacements” strategically designed to dissipate the perceived assault, all such displacements, according to this thesis, regressively mimicking -- through notions of reference, by set and setting more or less directly -- properties of m-valued Lukasiewicz logics. While cultivation of ₁T₂-logically-valued games (to include stock markets, war games, commercial auctions, et cetera) reinforces identification with ₁T₂-logic-formatted cognitive-proprioceptive-perceptual modalities, strategic games of tropological metareference attempt to decode -- in the so-called paranoid schizophrenic case, by displacement -- the semantic content of m-valued Lukasiewicz logics in application to given domains of experience -- and both numerology and Cabala can be understood as specific non-displacement cases of tropologic metareferential decryption by mathematical metaphor ((for a scholarly account of both algebraic and geometric METAPHORS see Robert S. Brumbaugh, Plato's Mathematical Imagination [Indiana U. Press, 1954]: Brumbaugh's “effect of reversed intellectual vision”, “effect of inverted intellectual vision”, “effect of oblique intellectual vision” can be usefully compared to Bernard S. Aaronson's half-dozen or so papers on schizophreniform perception [published between 1966 and 1968 in journals like Journal of Schizophrenia and American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis], and I would submit that the “schizophrenic” designation of the “place names of time” is a geometric-algebraic METAPHOR for Wheelerian pregeometry's Gödel-numbered Gödel numbers, which decompose to the topological operations of ACTIVE hypercomplex-imaginary operator-time in conjugation to Schrödinger's wave-function, lending a certain support to Everett's initial rather Nashish insight into Everett relative-state)), as can be gematria and various notions of universal grammar, these decryption attempts transpiring in absence of direct, immediate awareness, except perhaps very infrequently, of what is herein referred to as inner Musculpt as the Form-level of natural languages (virtually all of which, with the exception of Andean Aymara, in non-poetic usage, are presently thought to be ₁T₂-logical in foundation).

A recent communication from Lauri Love (nsh):

Of particular note, and perhaps promise, have been the works of Laurent Nottale, et al. on Scale Relativity and Carver Mead on Collective Electrodynamics. Scale Relativity is a (relatively-)valiant -- and thus (equally-)heretical -- attempt to reconcile relativity and quantum mechanics, subjects divided through scale by the 'classical realm', by understanding that constants -- in particular Planck's constant, and the there-from-derived Planck-length -- are not absolute quantities, but rather ratios of quantities, as they are measured in (multiplied or divided by) units, thus are relative to the scale of resolution (measuring rod). [[Pensinger notes that here is another -- along with, for instance, “acoustic analogues to blackhole computers” -- recent independent rediscovery of principles intimately associated with the 1960s and '70s Paine-Kaplan cascade theory and multi-scale numerical modeling of tornado genesis.]] To quote Wikipedia's summation:

The scale relativity extends to scales the reasoning made by Einstein on speeds in special relativity: just like a constant speed in Maxwell's equations, which does not appear to depend on the speed of the observer, suggests that the law of combination of speeds must preserve this invariant, similarly, the appearance of a constant length in Schrödinger's equation suggests that the law of combination of scales must preserve this invariant. In other words, just like c is a physical speed limit, l(P) is a physical length limit.

This, I would suggest, paves the way to an appreciation of m-valued constants, as is given credence by the following extract from one of Nottale's papers (Scale Relativity: A Fractal Matrix for Organisation in Nature, p. 75):

Generalized charges:
After having written the transformation law of the basic variables, we now need to describe how various physical quantities transform under these [[the involved]] transformations. These new transformation laws are expected to depend on the nature of the objects to transform (e.g., vectors, tensors, spinors, etc.), which implies to jump to group representations. We anticipate the existence of charges by generalizing to multiplets the relation (Eq. 184) between the velocity field and the wave function. In this case the multivalued velocity becomes a biquaternionic matrix. [[Pensinger deletes the mathematics here, which he cannot transcribe into html, not currently having access to Mathwriter software.]] The biquaternionic (therefore noncommutative) nature of the wave function, which is equivalent to Dirac bispinors, plays here an essential role. Indeed, the general structure of Yang-Mills theories and the correct construction of non-Abelian charges can be obtained thanks to this result. The action also becomes a tensorial biquaternionic quantity…

In passing on this subject, I have just this minute come across another paper/book which might perhaps be even more interesting, but have yet to read it fully, though I have had a little previous exposure to the ideas of the author and have noted them for future persual. The title is, familiarly indeed, "Multi-Valued Logic, Neutrosophy, and Schrödinger Equation" and the abstract reads as follows:

This book was intended to discuss some paradoxes in Quantum Mechanics from the viewpoint of Multi-Valued-logic pioneered by Lukasiewicz, and a recent concept Neutrosophic Logic. Essentially, this new concept offers new insights on the idea of 'identity', which too often it has been accepted as given. Neutrosophy itself was developed in attempt to generalize Fuzzy-Logic introduced by L. Zadeh. While some aspects of theoretical foundations of logic are discussed, this book is not intended solely for pure mathematicians, but instead for physicists in the hope that some of ideas presented herein will be found useful. The book is motivated by observation that despite almost eight decades, there is indication that some of those paradoxes known in Quantum Physics are not yet solved. In our knowledge, this is because the solution of those paradoxes requires re-examination of the foundations of logic itself, in particular on the notion of identity and multi-valuedness of an entity.

The book mentions Notalle's work on scale-relativity, which is how it came to my attention just a moment ago, and is available on the internet.

The second notable crista into the classical realm, this time coming instead upwards in scale from the quantum, is Carver Mead's Collective Electrodynamics, wherein he employs his own considerable empirical experience in the quantum properties of electrodynamic systems and, perhaps quite importantly, John Cramer's Transactional Interpretation of QM, itself derived from the earlier ideas of Wheeler and Feynmann on advanced (forward-in-[linear]time) and retarded (backward-in-[linear]time) waves, and the standing wave resonance between them which accounts for nonlocal (in time and space) “handshake” which is required so that the energy transferred is matched in frequency and momentum between the “sender” and “receiver” of an electromagnetic exchange.

Mead argues that the preceding seven decades of “dark age” in physics were the result of clinging to the a mechanical (read: Newtonian-Cartesian) understanding of physics to explain atomic phenomena, rather than a wave/field (Maxwellian-Lorentzian) conception, a clinging epiphenomenal to the poverty of experimental evidence, causing only statistical data of atomic electromagnetic interactions to be available to theorists and, of course, the detrimental effects of Bohr's political censorship.

Of note from an interview with Mead (available on the internet is the following):

In your book, you ambitiously redraw the boundaries of physics. In the “dark age” of the last 70 years, you say, a fundamental distinction was drawn between classical physics mechanics, electricity and magnetism and modern physics, consisting of quantum theory and relativity. Bohr connected the two with his “correspondence principle”. What was that?

That was one of the big mistakes they made. They wanted the quantum domain to approximate the classical Newtonian world. And it simply doesn't. But Bohr believed that if you picked a limit where there are enough wavelengths, everything would average out to the same result you get from Newtonian physics.

So by “correspondence”, he meant a correspondence between the quantum world and the larger Newtonian world?

Yes. And that was the wrong assumption. When you get to coherent quantum systems, they don't have a Newtonian limit at all. Coherent quantum systems “scale” in a way that is entirely different.

You propose dividing physics into “coherent” and “incoherent” systems. What' s the difference?

Okay. The quantum world is a world of waves, not particles. So we have to think of electron waves and proton waves and so on. Matter is “incoherent” when all its waves have a different wavelength, implying a different momentum. On the other hand, if you take a pure quantum system, the electrons in a superconducting magnet, or the atoms in a laser, they are all in phase with one another, and they demonstrate the wave nature of matter on a large scale. Then you can see quite visibly what matter is down at its heart.

But to our everyday understanding, on the “macro” level, a billiard ball is also “coherent” in the usual sense of that word. It obeys Newton's laws, for example. Throw it with a certain velocity and we can predict where it will land.

Right, but that is a different sense of the word. As I describe them, coherent and incoherent systems are dominated by different sets of physical laws. With the incoherent systems that we see all around us, time is one-directional. And things that come apart don't spontaneously come together again. And the inertia of the billiard ball, for example, increases linearly with the number of atoms. With coherent systems, on the other hand, time is two-directional, and inertia increases with the square of the number of elements. In a superconducting magnet, the electron inertia increases with the square of the number of electrons. That's foreign to Newtonian thinking, which is why Feynman had trouble with it. A coherent system is not more real, but it is much more pure and fundamental.

Can we finesse this business about time going backwards and forwards? Understanding quantum physics is hard enough as it is! When Bohr proposed the correspondence principle, he wanted to keep a single set of laws: “As above, so below”. And yes, in the microcosm, when things are jumbled up and “incoherent”, it does approximate the physics of the macro-world. But under appropriate conditions, what you term coherence, the micro-world seems to operate in a quite different way?

Right. Bohr put his foot on the wrong stone, the Newtonian side rather than the quantum side. The underlying reason is that Newtonian physics was phrased in terms of things like position and momentum and force which are all characteristics of particles. Bohr was wedded to particles.

Are coherence and incoherence absolutes, can something be “a little bit pregnant”?

Yes, it can be. Light from an ordinary fluorescent bulb has a certain amount of coherence, but light from incandescent bulbs has almost none. With coherence, all the waves have a common phase. When they're out of phase you get all these fringes and interference patterns.

“Coherence” seems comparable to electricity, it has existed forever, and we could see it in the sky as lightning, but only in the nineteenth century were we able to harness it. And only recently have we been able to harness coherent phenomena.

Right. And once we have harnessed them in the laboratory, and begin to understand them, we can start to see them in the universe around us. There are increasing indications that many of the objects in the universe have coherent things going on in them. There are known to be masers in the atmospheres of some stars. It's now thought that a lot of the beaming of pulsars has to do with laser-like action. That's just surmised from the actions of these very mysterious objects, mysterious within the normal realm of incoherent physics. The universe is probably full of coherent physics.

I have not yet had a chance to read the book itself, though I have an electronic copy. However, I suspect from reviews that in it Mead displays a rare and pleasantly-nonobscured understanding of nonlinear time, the beginnings of fully-fledged operator-time, especially in regards to what I term “proper interval locality”, a zero-seperation in Minkowski spacetime (along light-cones), and the resonant coupling between coherent systems thus (non-)seperated.

I am unsure, however, if he takes into consideration the effects of the Huygens principle (each point on a light-cone is the origin of a new light-cone) in the context of the metric-elasticity. As each point in space-time is constantly expanding outwards in all directions, the light-cone is really a misconception, as it represents only the /projection/ of the space-time point corresponding to an event onto Euclidean space. In actuality, the “light-cone”, is multiply-reentrant, as the metric expands back towards the origin from each point on the cone. Thus light-cones, or more accurately, locality itself is ouroboral -- it eats its own tail -- a Klein bottle. This means that there is a non-denumerably transfinite set of relative-states “stacked” on any point in space-time as decomposed (each ouroboros-cone is a Klein 2-surface (2-brane), itself a transfinite set of 1-branes (superstrings), themselves a Fourier-frequency-decomposition of the wave-function between two transparently-identical identical points). This all follows from an intuitive understanding of the implications of Minkowski four-space.

I would hasten to point out that the existence of scale-relativity, associated multi-valued universal physical constants, and, indeed, acoustic analogues to blackhole computers, indicates that relativity theory and quantum mechanics, in principle, apply to mid-range scale levels, and that this implies there are principles underlying the Heisenberg uncertainty relations more fundamental than those identified by Heisenberg -- a subject referred to at numerous locations on this website and that devoted to our novel The Moon of Hoa Binh, and discussed frequently during the 1970s at Cornell in relation to the applications of quantum-relativity physics informing cascade theory of tornado genesis. This is a matter of some urgency due to its implications for weather-forecast and climate models, if a climate-shift dynamic is, indeed, presently underway.

Well, one could consider a number of things in thinking about implications of, for instance, the poleward shift of the jet stream. We know they will be tweaking their models under the assumption that this is solely due to greenhouse warming, so they will be moving values of their variables around trying to get the simulation models to replicate their observations. But what if there are other factors than merely greenhouse warming involved? Or consequences of greenhouse warming (such as change of gas-ratios-mediated frequency-response characteristics, e.g., affecting how efficiently the upper atmosphere processes solar-wind inputs, and how efficiently they are cascaded to meso- and microscales) which their models cannot “see”? Is, for instance, the poleward shift an indication of a change in the absolute limiting velocity for the Earth's atmosphere? By virtue of a change in the minimum time for spontaneous localization as dictated by first and second order spacetime del operators in the Maxwellian formulation? And if so, is this partially due to change in geostrophic velocity norms relative to a Coriolis effect receiving an unusual pattern of complex angular momentum “jolts” conveyed by the solar wind? And what about the quotient of tropopause-boundary holes punched by vertically-propagating acoustically-modified gravity-wave modes? How would a change in that affect prevailing norms of hydrostatic balance? Draw down of ozone through those holes? It certainly seems that, if there is anything to such questions, the Maxwellian formulation is the most apropos context within which to evaluate them. Moreover, assuming the whole context of cascade theory, if the jet stream moves poleward, then it appears there would be something equivalent to what under normal circumstance would be on the order of a geological-time-frame shift in angular-momentum/electromagnetic injection points to Earth's crustal and magnetic-core dynamics. The birds and the bees might register small pattern changes in magnetic fluctuations. There might, for instance, be unusual seismic activity over the American Midwest. Given that hardly anybody believes in a reverse cascade actually effecting small changes in solar dynamics… as derivatives climb into derivatives, so to speak.

Let me preface this note as to the meaning of terms like ₁T₂, _uT_m, _CT_C, and so on by emphasizing that this is simply my take, and surely no trained logician sees it in this fashion. Around 1906, the Polish logician Lukasiewicz began to challenge the notion “logical necessity” -- i.e., if this is true, then that must be true -- which had until then been a tacit assumption. In challenging the must he questioned fundamentality of the very idea of logical precedence, the notion that inferences necessarily follow from given propositions. Even though this was his breakaway notion, he continued to employ inferential logic to think about what he had done, by continuing to regard traditional logic as the basis of all logics. By 1921, he had produced a rigorous account of 3-valued logic. That same year, Emil Post, produced a rigorous account of logics of any value whatsoever. Instead of using n to designate this “any value”, he used m, hence m-valued logics. In traditional Aristotlian-Baconian logic, a proposition is defined as any statement that can be determined to be true or false. So, these are the only statements considered in traditional logic. Such propositions, Post notated as ₁T₂: there are two logical-values available (true-false: i.e., the 2 on the right), but a given proposition can only be one or the other (either true or false, i.e., the 1 on the left). In regards to m-valued logics, Post notated them as _muT_m (I frequently use u in place of mu). The C in _CT_C, is Cantor's symbol for a continuum infinity, a non-countable infinity, also indicated by Aleph-1, an order of infinity with cardinality higher than a countable infinity, designated Aleph-null, like that of the real numbers. As far as I know, Lukasiewicz did not adopt this notation. At about the same time as Post, Lukasiewicz also produced a rigorous treatment of m-valued logics. The problem was to understand what all of this meant. And that continues the problem until this day. Fuzzy logic is one interpretation of the meaning of m-valued logics: the m is understood as shades of gray between a white true and a black false. This is understood to violate the traditional-logic Law of Distributed Middle, where, by definition of what a proposition is, there can be no logical-values between true and false. There have been many applications of fuzzy logic, even to making refrigerators more self-regulative. 3-valued logic also violates the Law of Distributed Middle. Another interpretation of m-valued logics, pretty much the standard interpretation, is that the m-values one-to-one map upon the countably-infinite set (Aleph-null) of real numbers between 0 and 1, also a violation of the Law of Distributed Middle. None of these interpretations violate the traditional-logic Law of Non-Contradiction, i.e., by maintaining that a statement can be both true and false simultaneously. In my judgment, this is accomplished largely by using ₁T₂-logic to think about _uT_m-logics, justified by regarding ₁T₂-logic as more fundamental than all the rest, a way of regarding all this which was begun by Lukasiewicz himself. Lukasiewicz got onto the way of thinking leading him to challenge the notion “logical necessity” by considering “paradoxical” self-referential propositions like, “This statement is false” -- commonly known as “the liar's paradox” -- which were until then considered to be fallacies: in one way of another all such statements refer to themselves. So, the whole of m-valued logics, beyond the corpus of ₁T₂ propositions, can be regarded as having in some one way or some another to do with self-reference or self-reflexivity or self-reentry. Another thing done in most prevailing interpretations, is, as the number on the right increases, the number on the left is held to 1, and, in my judgment, this is why Post's notation is generally not employed (because not using that notation somewhat conceals the fact that the number on the left is being held to 1, that formally, it is denied there exists a “left-hand” value which can take on any number). So, in most interpretations of m-valued logics, even though the given proposition is regarded as having many logical-values, it can be determined to actually be only one of them (which has a parallel with the probability-amplitude interpretation of quantum mechanics in the collapse of the wave-function to a single actual value upon observation). In my judgment, the reason why the traditional-logic Law of Non-Contradiction is not challenged in the standard interpretations, is that that would involve abandoning the notion that truth-value (i.e., true or false) is the foundational concept of logic. Now, Gotthard Gunther, during the 1950s and 1960s, I have recently learned (noted above, with links) has challenged the Law of Non-Contradiction by interpreting m-valued logics in relation to multiple discrete individual simultaneous users of ₁T₂ logic residing at a multiplicity of distinct “ontological locations”. So, as regards the orders of m-valued logics (i.e., ₁T₂, ₁T₃, ₁T₄, and so on), he distributes these over multiple users and then considers collections thereof. In doing this, he explicitly challenged the assumption that truth-value is the foundational notion in logic, and entertained instead that “identity” is the foundational notion. Now, I agree with Gunther insofar as he goes, but believe that his traditional Western notion of identity is too restrictive. I do this by entertaining the notion of C-incommensurate-orders of identity-transparency. One way to understand that in relation to Gunther's notion is to understand a given collection of “ontological locations” (tantamount to an order of m-valued logics) as internally nonlocal or identity-transparent, and since, from the perspective of a given “ontological location” other such “locations” in the collection can be understood as “objects”, this would be equivalent to something like your “absolute subjectivity” -- within the given collection, a sort of solipsism. Such solipsism is overcome if, by considering subsets of collections of ontological locations, Gunther's take can be understood as no longer holding the left-hand value to 1: as larger and larger subsets of the given collection of ontological locations are considered, the left-hand value would increase. But Gunther doesn't actually do this, for he retains the notion that ₁T₂ logic is the basis of all logics, and as the logic employed by every given identity at every given ontological location. I personally believe that there is no order of logical-value more fundamental than every other, least of all the ₁T₂ order, such that the left-hand value can take on any value up to and including that of the right-hand value, e.g., ₄T₅, ₈₆T₉₅, ₁₂₈T₅₆₃, and so on right up to and beyond _CT_C -- and that all of these are required for a non-dissimulative understanding of Schrödinger's wave-function in quantum mechanics. Moreover, I believe that what is called the “base-state of Tzog-chen” is characterizeable as such, and that ontological residence thereupon may be deemed as being in the Authenticity of Open Awareness. You will notice that all of this has been elaborated by subsuming logic to spatial metaphor. If one considers temporal metaphor also, which challenging the notion of logical “precedence” indirectly involves, then the enormous complexity already apparent becomes even more complex. It is in such context that I entertain notions like “operator-time” in relation to logical operations.

Well, what do you think Hypnosis and Related States (title of what I consider still to be a very, very important book) are? Some mental tricks? Some undue access to the limbic system? The introduction of computer viruses? Malware? Sudden access to exe.org under self-reentrant reflexivity? Deautomatization. What is it really? When return of attention cathexes to an automatized function transpires, what actually happens? Is read-out to the peripheral device called egoic awareness (Ego Psychology and the Problem of Adaptation: another still-important title) reformatted such that direct access to the quantum brain is reestablished? And if so, how? Consider two cases: (1) in walking meditation, while visualizing a screen-grid arrayed across the visual field, the parallel-distance alleys establish multiple connections and the point at infinity converges on what your you takes to be you; (2) in using inner separation from the act of reading as a context within which to “candle gaze” the “locus” of the inner voice, that locus moves out in front of the forehead, then begins to disappear. What happens when “point convergence” or “locus divergence” onset transpires? Without interpretation, just pure phenomenology. Then comes the color wheel. Spin, spin, spin. Musculpt induction. Hello, temporal curl. Ever read Annie Besant on auric colors? Goethe's theory of colors? Colored-hearing, anyone? The color of time. Chromodynamics of the instant. Spinors. Pure phenomenology. The faster the spin moment of time twirls, the slower everything moving in the visual field becomes: parallel-distance alleys converge. Eventually, if your you lets its self go, the colors stand still. Passive acceptance. Carte blanche to the brain, the quantum brain. Cusp-over! Fugue induction. No more memetime! And the hole in the center which is everywhere-alltime convergent-divergent becomes the center of the cyclone, the point of tornado touchdown. Injection. What your you takes to be you is injected. Right through the hole in the center of the color wheel no longer spinning. No longer there. Far enough in-here is out-there; far enough out-there is in-here (from “point” of view of ₁T₂-valued logic). Injected to Lukasiewicz quantum-brain processing? What is the injection-point center which is everywhere-alltime convergent-divergent? Some (hypernumbered transcendental to the Riemann Hypothesis) p-adic point upon which Gödel-numbered Gödel numbers are stacked? And the exact Samadhi-state phenomenologies awareness-in-itself presents vary as to which injection point, which Gödel-numbered Gödel numbers? And the heuristic nesting of Samadhi states is according to which point-set sheet covering Tzog-chen allbase m-order phase-mu-it superposition composite over Musculpt “manifold”?

Thank you for the referral to the work of Jochen Pfalzgraf, specifically his paper entitled “On Logical Fiberings and Automated Deduction in Many-Valued logics Using Gröbner Bases”. Back during the mid-1970s, as described in our novel The Moon of Hoa Binh, when I first became aware of m-valued logics, I intuited -- by earlier exposure to J. G. Bennett's notion of skew-parallelism and his idea of the “diversely identical” -- that Grassmann algebras, fiber bundles, sheaf theory, theory of complex and hypercomplex manifolds, and so on would eventually become involved with these logics. This was also apparent from studying m-valued aspects of tornado genesis, theta-e surface topologies, and their acoustically-modified gravity-wave-mode signatures, et cetera. What I did not fully anticipate -- because studies of tornado genesis supported my sense from various inner experiences, accumulated since childhood, that orders of m-valued logics are incommensurate and, thus, not reducible by any concatenation to bivalent logic -- though the suspicion grew over the years, was that the approach to doing this would mirror the way in which the Riemann surface came to be understood as having dealt with m-valued functions, i.e., that they can be regarded as, essentially, single-valued functions in bridge conjugation: the import, then, of m-valued functions is really no different than that of single-valued functions. In Pfalzgraf's work, basing itself on that of Gotthard Gunther, I sense, we get a very good impression of how m-valued logics will be dealt with in an emergent consensus: another way to preclude application of Lukasiewicz logics to interpretation of the Schrödinger wave-function, or a way to use these logics for such interpretation that turns out to be tantamount to the prevailing standard interpretation. Parallelization, reduction by mediation schemes of equivalence classes to the global set of bivalent truth values so as to develop robotics applications (e.g., battlefield management computer systems for fiberinged air corps of drones) and modeling of biological communications systems derivative of the consensus theory of autopoiesis which was developed largely on the cellular level and has nothing substantive to say about quantum biochemistry, not to mention human systems engineering over action-based sociologies (i.e., the single fiber regarded as absolutely-in-so-far-as-distinct individual agent). And I don't have any difficulty at all imagining how this will be applied to the theory of schizophrenia genesis and phenomenology (a subject mentioned in the paper). If, as Prigogine has famously said, anything deterministic (including Everett quantum-composites) can be treated as probabilistic, then anything post-Cartesian-Newtonian can be treated as Cartesian-Newtonian. Nonetheless, it is interesting and instructive to see how Pfalzgraf puts these various areas together.

In consideration of the two collections given below, I would suggest that the second is but a most tentative touching upon semantic import of Lukasiewicz logics:

[1] Factor; coefficient; real-surreal-hyperreal; correspondence-function; imaginary to; 90-degree twist; complex-hypercomplex; changes of rates as changes of directions (real-complex-hypercomplex); ordinality-cardinality of finite sets; higher-lower dimension; polytopes; inner-outer dimension; skew-parallel; fiber bundling; discrete-continuous; particle-field; convergence-divergence; absorbed at a point/radiated from a point; Riemann-bridged m-valued functions; Einstein-Rosen bridge with entry-exit trajectories; nesting; enfolded-unfolded; braned-unbraned; pinched-stretched; folded (higher dimensional); twisted (higher dimensional); topological genus/invariance; time-like to a spatial reference; space-like to a temporal reference; spacetime contraction/dilation; mass-energy conversion; single-valued universal physical constants; spread out; compacted; fractalized; decomposed-fused; localized-delocalized; implosion-explosion; finite-transfinite; stacked on a point; Gödel numbering of ₁T₂-logic propositions; order-class-type.

[2] Cut, twist, reentry (higher dimensional); cardinality-ordinality of transfinite sets; Cantor-diagonalization; whole-part holographic identity (“displaced” under ₁T₂-logic “conversion” interpretation to Doppelganger?); diversely-identical skew-geometries as null-vectorial/dimensional chronotopologies; orders of self-reference; orders of reentry; orders of non-selfsameness; fusion in a point; “schizophrenic” notions of reference; tropological-cosmological metareference; orders of Gödel-numbered Gödel numbers of m-valued Lukasiewicz propositions; zero-infinity/source-sink/convergence-divergence identities; Forms of a use/uses of a Form; numerical non-selfsameness (e.g., “equivalent” numbers in numerology, Cabala, gematria); mantra-yantra “equivalence”; acoustic-wave signatures of atmospheric theta-e topologies; orbifold tetrachord geometries of DNA-generated coherent waves; numeric-geometric-alphabetic “equivalence” in gematria; synaesthetic equivalence/correspondence (e.g., colored hearing); systems of Eulerian functional correspondence (e.g., atmosphere, land, human body) in traditional Chinese medicine; non-equivalence between finite sets of zeros; non-equivalence between finite sets of infinities; “generative empathy”, contagion, participation mystique; a function automatized is a structure and a structure deautomatized is a function; direct, immediate awareness of “my foot is your foot”, “my leg is your leg”, “my body is your body” under endogenous- or exogenous-inducement of ketamine flood (by concretion of memetime?) and direct, immediate awareness of staged Abfall-sublation back into separatism by glutamatergic quenching (i.e., by re-constellation of post-Hellenistic in-the-body musculature-identification by prescriptively-enculturated haptification of space at glutamatergic neuronal etching?); Platonic amnesis as materialization equivalent to “less is more”; step-functioned distribution of m-valued universal physical constants and associated scale-relativity fused into a Borel set of points latticed over an m-valued Lukasiewiczian reference space; Hegelian-centered as “center is everywhere” in Abfall-Afhebung/supralation-sublation; boundaries-without-boundary covering complex manifolds; immanence of the transcendental (eidolon-epiphany); imminence of the temporally removed (epiphany-eidolon); “each number is infinite” equivalent to Dedekind cuts of the numberline taken to Cantor dust; “each instant is eternal” equivalent to Dedekind cuts of the timeline taken to Cantor dust; Nirvanic non-experiential bare-awareness of no-self, i.e., awareness-in-itself of being being-in-itself (pure feeling of the “authenticity of open awareness”).

One can certainly try to understand identity-transparency, “naked” Everett relative-state (i.e., not interpreted through the lens of the von Neumann formalism), nonlocality, _CT_C-order Lukasiewicz logics -- which are corresponding notions -- as infinite propagation velocity. And one can regard this notion -- infinite propagation velocity -- as a clinging to the normotic state of consciousness, and the associated notion of absolutely-in-so-far-as-distinct identity, under the mistaken claim that these are normative and hence uniquely correlated to “reality” -- for, really, what sense does infinite propagation velocity make when no actual propagation transpires and the absence of actual propagation is the sense of the term “identity transparency”. One could even suppose something similar about the notions of absolute limiting acceleration and absolute limiting time rate of change of acceleration. But I think this “clinging hypothesis” is a vast over-simplification, and that presence of notions like scale-relativity and m-valued universal physical constants strongly suggests this (not even to mention m-valued universal physical constants under m-valued logics -- and who has exhibited evidence of having actually thought in, as opposed to about m-valued logics?). Moreover, there is a considerable body of evidence that cascade of angular momentum in tornado genesis involves a twist into/out-of Hawking “imaginary time” at every scale boundary (constellated by the corpus of initial conditions and boundary values required for approximating to single-valued solutions of the involved systems of nonlinear partial differential equations -- who is handling the full corpus of multivalued solutions to these systems of equations, let alone such solutions under m-valued logics, which, I believe, requires Musculpt as mathematical notation?). This means that the twist into/out-of Hawking “imaginary time” -- relative to angular momentum cascade -- may be regarded as the signature of presence of complex angular momentum, the basis for development of the notion of the Penrose “twistor”. This is one lead-in (for the complex-ity involves both the space and the time of spacetime) to the notion of “operator-time” -- and a “lead-in” evidentially viewable at macroscopic scale lengths. And since the twist into/out-of Hawking “imaginary time” occurs only at Special Relativity absolute limiting values of dynamical variables (for any given scale-relative “limited spacetime domain”), one must suppose that the notion of infinitudes and infinitesimals (involved in the very notion of the limit in differential and integral calculus) -- at least as regards the notion of propagation -- is a black-box term veiling the complexity of what transpires over topological twists, the twist into/out-of Hawking “imaginary time” being but a limiting case thereof. It was in consideration of implications of thoughts like this that, for instance, some atmospheric physicists reached the conclusion during the late-1970s that nothing could be done to prevent an inevitable climate shift.

A helpful reminder in the form of an anonymous contribution:

Revisionists usually have a tough job, having to manufacture details that can convince people of their agenda without being disproven by facts. You have it easy. By denying the existence of truth and time, you can say whatever you want. By denying the existence of sameness, you can claim it means anything it's expedient to say. You can thoroughly modify or even delete pages that get a bad rap, and claim that the offending statements are figments of the accuser's imagination.

And, most m-valued of all, you entice people into your pages with promises of learning about math, science, and economics for the betterment of humanity. But all you have is a smattering of high-faluting words, anarchist rants, and bits of torn-up Vietnamese philosophy.

You're just as bad as Bush.

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