Catastrophe Theory studies the ways in which discontinuities can arise in equilibrium surfaces. Regarding such topological transformations as discontinuities and treating them as catastrophes may be deemed an intellectual subterfuge subliminally designed to prevent psychological engagement with implications of skew-parallelism and its generalizations. The same can be said for Chaos Theory which treats multivalued processes as if they were single-valued and aligns itself with non-linear Newtonian dynamics against Nature’s violation of the “classical limit” in manifesting consequences of quantum-relativistic principles across all scale levels. The whole post-modernist mode of thought can be regarded in this vein. Very few people appear to comprehend the extremity to which the current circumstance has evolved. To illustrate this point, let me quote from Mae-Wan Ho, a leading geneticist and radiation biologist. From her popular account of the physics of organisms, THE RAINBOW AND THE WORM: “The existence of time (as well as space) structure in living systems also has its own interesting consequences… A coherent space-time structure theoretically allows ‘instantaneous’ communication to occur over a range of time scales and spatial extents. What this implies in practice is a vast unexplored area, as the notion of nonlinear, structured time this entails is alien to the conventional, Western scientific framework that this book is based upon.” She draws back here, as did Maria Louise von Franz in her brilliant NUMBER AND TIME, because long experience with the blinders and emotional armoring characteristic of the prevailing institutionalization counsels that this statement enters the zone within which hysterical back-reaction has become the norm.
In the next paragraph, Mae-Wan Ho comes at it in a different way, offering a sop, so as to appease those predisposed to hysteria: “What is it that constitutes a whole or an individual? It is a domain of coherent, autonomous activity. Defined thus, it opens the way to envisaging individuals which are aggregates of individuals, as, for example, a population or a society engaging in coherent activities. As coherence maximizes both local freedom and global cohesion, it defines a relationship between the individual and the collective which has previously been deemed contradictory or impossible. The ‘inevitable’ conflict between the individual and the collective, between private and public interests, has been the starting point for all social as well as biological theories of Western society. Coherence tells us it is not so inevitable at all.” As far as I have been able to discover, she deleted the “alien to the conventional, Western scientific framework” discussion from the second edition of her book, which is thoroughly re-written in some sections.
At age eleven (1956), a white boy (baka Amekoo), I was returned to America (D.C. no Washington) and Western identity from an animistic village in rural Kyushu, Japan. Two years later, I was physically attacked in the locker room by the teacher of 7th Grade Civics class (the football coach) -- repeatedly backhanded across the face -- because I had had the gall to reject the notion that freedom and order are inherently in conflict and had presented before the class a cogent pseudo-mathematical argument in support of my thesis to the contrary. In THE RAINBOW AND THE WORM, Mae-Wan Ho makes the “soft case” on the sociological implications of solid state physics (the physics of the computer technologies the “New World Order” of globalization is based upon) -- soft case, because she persists in the “probability amplitude” interpretation of quantum mechanics, rather than m-valued logics and identity transparency, and does not apply Special Relativity to consideration of the time structures of organisms (such as temporal domain-structures like first, second, and third-order DNA p-electron parcel oscillation rates between stable and transition temperatures -- which give rise to the coherent DNA radiation she has repeatedly documented in her laboratory studies of Drosophila larvae).