Cancer : Regulatory Proteins The point is clearly and helpfully made that Ross Sarcoma Virus has its strongest impact on young chickens. Also the leucosis viruses are only likely to produce leukemia, if they infect young chickens. In other articles the point is made that a sequence of events is required before the rapidly dividing cells of a highly malignant tumour can be established. One of those events is a cell needs to be in a healing (cell reproducing) phase. This means the … [Read more...]
Can an Idea Exist Without a Mind ?
Can an Idea Exist Without a Mind? To question: "Can an idea exist without a mind?" not only probes the definition of an idea, but the nature of a mind. Is an idea the product of language? Is representation required to think? Is memory a representational map of our experience? If the computer is empowered with a robot, so that it can do something about the programmes it contains and uses to process data, is it like us? What about values? What about significance? What about meaning? … [Read more...]
Broadcast Signals
Broadcast Signals We have some familiarity with broadcast antennas. They are used to transmit radio and television signals, sound and video patterns. We also have some familiarity with receiving antennas. We know that electromagnetic waves of certain frequencies emanate from the transmission towers to the receiving antennas. Most people know that these broadcast signals move very swiftly. Usually, only fractions of a second are involved for most nearby or local transmissions. At any … [Read more...]
Bounding the Field
Bounding the Field The Membrane and the Wall A New Approach to Biological Systems Usually a system or a subsystem is defined by means of a system boundary. The process of analysis and the scientific practice of isolating and defining prescribes such a device as a closed system. The boundary defines the closure. It may simply be stated: there are no closed systems. All systems are open. Then what is the alternative to the system boundary? A cell may be regarded as a system. This is … [Read more...]
Blindness, Goals . . .
Blindness, Goals . . . [from conference proceedings, 1988] Sometimes we have a blind enchantment with the kind of material well-being we have enjoyed in recent decades. During this era of expanding productivity and increasing technology we have neglected many essentials of life. We have forgotten our dependence upon other life forms. We have considered science and technology to be goals in and of themselves. Consider this statement of Albert Einstein: "What hopes and fears … [Read more...]
Blessed Are They . . .
Blessed Are They . . . Righteous One way of generating a fresh and clear perspective or viewpoint on the word righteous is to see its meaning in terms of two words: "right" and "use". Right-use-ness then can guide and prompt the consciousness with the question: what is the right use? Having This right use entails the whole issue of having. Whatever befalls the zone of individuality, our term for what we often have called "me" and "mine", is for right use. Having is not to furnish … [Read more...]
Biological Hypothesis
Biological Hypothesis The chromosomal information and the chromosomes are a living unit. The information is living. The information is dynamic. The information is contained in motions and events. The information is contained in repeated and cycled motions in kinetic energy and in sequenced states or potential energy. Chromosomes are a kind of biological cuneiform. The structures contain the knowledge required to form a physical body. (to be continued . . . ) copyright 2011, … [Read more...]
Betrayal of Trust
Betrayal of Trust This subject was nominated by a friend. This friend suggested the use of capital punishment for Betrayal of Trust. Another friend queried whether betrayal of trust was possible. Here, now, I question, what is the nature of the trust? Is it trust in another's intent, their ability or performance, or perhaps their representation. I commented at the time the subject was nominated, "Trust is not offered in response to trustworthiness, but because trust works". I … [Read more...]
Belief, Its Force and Effect
Belief, Its Force and Effect John Lilly, M.D. concluded: “Anything we believe either is true or tends to become true as a result of having believed it.” Lilly reports this in his book, Center of the Cyclone. Is it true? How is it possible for it to be true? What does it mean? What does it imply? These are questions with answers. It may seem to require courage to gain the answers, but it takes more courage to live without gaining the answers. If you simply realize that each of us … [Read more...]
Being Mobility / Doing Mobility
Being Mobility Doing Mobility Being mobility involves the scale and geometry of charges and the charge motions of substance, of matter, of mass. There are degrees of freedom involved in motion. Normally, there are pairs of opposites involved in describing these degrees of freedom. These pairs of opposites operate in perpendicular sets. Each pair of opposites operates in a dimension. There are both linear and rotational movements constituting these degrees of freedom in the being … [Read more...]
Being and Doing Circuits
Being and Doing Circuits The two broad fields which structure the contents or the components of our subject are: 1) the surfaces of form, the structure of substance and doing, as near-field reflection, reaction and response, 2) the nucleus of energy, pattern and being as far-field reflection, reaction and response. The structures of consciousness situate: 1) at the interface between physical reality and physical consciousness, the most apparent and immediate consciousness, named … [Read more...]
Why Communicate ?
Why Communicate ? Communication allows us to share or exchange our perceptions. If we did not or could not communicate, we would be bounded in what we could take into account to determine the undertakings of our lives to our own perceptions. No gain would occur in the intricacy of our lives because each person would have to undertake from birth the same processes of perception required of our ancestry. There is something in the scheme of our present nature that not only allows … [Read more...]
Aspects of Personality, Life and The Second Law of Thermodynamics
The consideration of personality relates to the nature of persons. Personhood relates to the uniqueness of being of an individual. Notice the word "unique". Notice the prefix "uni". That prefix means only one. There are some characteristics common to all, or common to many persons or beings. There are some attributes or characteristics common to few, and some unique. The Common and The Unique When we interest ourselves in the common attributes of all … [Read more...]
Be Uniquely Perfect
To live is to exchange energy and pattern abundantly. To live is to admit flow, to move and to be moved. To live is to take apart and to combine, to seek, out of a sense of disbalance or discontinuity, to find and resolve or complete. To live is to create and be created. We are here to live and make alive. We are aroused. We are stirred. We are prompted. We are attracted or repelled. We are motivated out of a sense of longing or yearning, out of a sense of … [Read more...]
Be Not Unequally Yoked, Eve Revere
Be Not Unequally Yoked In order to understand this teaching of Jesus, it is necessary to consider what yoking means and what an unbeliever is. A yoke couples two animals together that must pull the load to which they are yoked with equal or near equal ability, in the same direction, and with the same or nearly the same height. If the animals are of different heights, with different strengths, they will not be able to provide a balanced pull. The yoke will twist. The animal making … [Read more...]