Changing the Ending of the "Factual" Account Friday evening we saw the video Mosquito Coast. On the one hand we saw the defeat of the principal character. We saw deficiencies in his ideals. The issue is still with us: Is humanity the means of completing or advancing the creation? Is technology humanity's effort to advance creation? Should humanity have the powers s/he has presumed, but only when s/he plans and designs with comprehensive elegance? Of … [Read more...]
Changing the Ending of the “Factual” Account
Circuited ECOdynamic Microbiological Environmental Systems (CEMES)
Circuited ECOdynamic Microbiological Environmental Systems (C E M E S) Renewing Bioevents Microbiological life is profuse. Microbes provide renewing bioevents, which recycle and nourish life forms, downstream, downwind, below or within range of their limited motility and mobility. CEMES (Circuited ECOdynamic Microbial Environmental Systems) Idealized CEMES explore the best of these environments. CEMES seek the idealization of habitation for microbial life and the ideal sequencing … [Read more...]
Celebration and Duty
Celebration and Duty Both celebration and duty are mechanisms, which diminish or eliminate responsibility. The way in which this is true, is that annual dates become the focus of a kind of certification. Marriage is not so much a matter of intent and commitment, as it is a matter of certification of achievement of a kind and a degree of relationship. Anniversaries become celebrations of this certification of relationship. Birthdays become a kind of celebration of what the … [Read more...]
Cascades, Triggers, Pilots and Control . . .
Cascades , Triggers , Pilots and Controls Growth and Development We hear a sound. It provokes a thought. We turn to investigate further. We see the direction from which the sound came. We walk towards it, to try to identify the source of the sound. We would be helped if the sound occurred again. We would be helped if the sound were continuous. The sound had a quality we judged to merit more attention. There are many sounds we ignore, but this one attracted more attention. We … [Read more...]
The Metaneural Network / Electromagnetic Waves
The Metaneural Network Electromagnetic Waves IMAGE The captivity of believing that the physical is all there is to reality, comes from a disregard for and from certain inconsistent assumptions (the conservation of energy). Even the skeptical scientist can not sustain the belief sometimes practiced in the psychological and psychiatric world that there is a nothing which is called illusion or an image called an hallucination which is nothing. The extent of the energy pattern which … [Read more...]
Cancer, A Disease of Interrupted or Confounded Intracellular and / or Intercellular Communication
Cancer : a Disease of Interrupted or Confounded Intracellular and / or Intercellular Communication Recently, in the news (from a researcher in California), it was reported, there is a higher incidence of cancer among users of cellular (radio mediated) telephones than among non-users. William van Bise (1978) reported changes in brain waves and behaviour on exposure to power densities lower than 10-12 Watts per cm2. This power density is substantially below typical urban levels (from … [Read more...]
Cancer, Healing Principles and Orthomolecular Medicine
Cancer , Healing Principles and Orthomolecular Medicine ______________________________________________ Healing principles and viewpoint The alternative Natural cooperative predators? ATP, the life energy form Mitochondria Oxygen required Overdemand Coccoid forms Somatids Sources of weakness or destabilization Fever Interdependent dynamic progression Contrasting electrical conductivity Cathodic electrodes, an alternative source of electron pairs The problems of … [Read more...]
Cancer: Regulatory Proteins
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...]
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...]