{Torbay, or not Torbay}[13th November 1990]

[Redbook8:114][19901113:2305]{Torbay, or not Torbay}[13th November 1990]

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Oh fickle dreamer of Pershore,* Old Court Houses,** and Llan[...]!*** – Now we’re wondering if we might be able to afford a terraced house in Devon....****

Still plenty of time to think about it before we have to make a decision.#

*[[Redbook3:164-166][19870410:1000]({Dream of} PERSHORE)[10th April 1987]ff,

[Redbook7:91][19900317:2244b]{Dream: Of Several Buildings [continued]}[17th March 1990],

[Redbook7:122-123][19900416:2351]{Dream: Of Boarding the Wrong Train}[16th April 1990]&f, (&al?);

& cf [Redbook7:80-81][19900307:2322]{Soliciting the Future}[7th March 1990]]

**[[Redbook7:90-91][19900317:2244]{Dream: Of Several Buildings}[17th March 1990],

[Redbook7:137][19900519:1830]{Dream: Of an Urban House}[19th May 1990], (&al?);

& cf: [Redbook7:123][19900417:1857]{Dream: Of Boarding the Wrong Train [continued (3)]}[17th April 1990],

[Redbook7:168][19900718:2353]{[Old Court House]}[18th July 1990]]

***[refs not found; possibly daydreams rather than sleeping dreams?]

****{cf VI: [[Redbook6:354-356][19891130:1358b]{On the Move}[30th November 1989]] 354,

XIV: [[Redbook14:1][19911205:0000]{The Story So Far....}[5th December 1991]LnUlt,] 1}

#{We’re back to Llan[...] now.... }

[to which town the writer & his family did eventually move]

{cf XIV: [[Redbook14:1][19911205:0000]{The Story So Far....}[5th December 1991]LnUlt,] 1

Now back to Torbay, since c199111/12 – just returned from 1^st visit <92010(4-)5>

{See VII: [[Redbook7:281][19900911:1202b]{Dreams: Of a Spring Diverted...}[11th September 1990],] 281?}

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{Ever Decreasing Crises}[13th November 1990]

[Redbook8:113][19901113:1520]{Ever Decreasing Crises}[13th November 1990]

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Each circle degree is (likely to be) a Crisis on some smaller circle, in history cycles, because of the pattern of period doubling:

Taking line 4 as the reference: Each A~ is clearly at the top of a column of halving C’s; each M~ & G~ has an A~ interposed above a column of halving C’s, so the C strength is correspondingly less; each diagonal degree (S~, U~, J~, R~) is correspondingly less still in C strength.

Increasing in scale (ie moving up the page), the effect is not so clear in abstract (eg C up to C or A~, A~ up to M~ or G~, etc.) but should be more obvious in history.

The fact that C’s (& A~’s) ‘rest on C’s may be connected with the apparent tendency of Economics (A~) to oscillate more widely in its C periods than (eg) religion (C): A~ tries to get away from C.*

*{(or an effect of the freedom implied by underlying C? But then why are ** revivals often so precisely on time?)

(cf [[Redbook8:118-119][19901118:2310]{Precise Crises}[18th November 1990],] 118)

(cf [[Redbook8:142][19901222:1304c]{The Circle of Politics}[22nd December 1990],] 142)}

**[Religious, presumably, not economic]

[See Redbook8:115][19901115:2113b]{[Kondratieff ‘top’ lags]}[15th November 1990]]

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{The Split Brain}[13th November 1990]

Redbook8:113][19901113:1010e]{The Split Brain}[13th November 1990]

19901113.1010

[continued]

[(Notes for reference [continued]:)]

N[ew] S[cientist] 19901027/128:1740/54[:] C. Kennard, ‘Sperry sets his sites* on the brain’, reviewing ‘Brain circuits and functions of the mind: Essays in honour of Roger W. Sperry’, neuroscientist who won the Nobel prize for work in hemispheric localisation and studies on ‘split brain’ patients (mentions the treatment by others of severe epilepsy by cutting the corpus callosum which connects the cerebral hemispheres, which treatment apparently helped the patients).

*(sic)

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{Annual and Weekly Cycles}[13th November 1990]

[Redbook8:112][19901113:1010d]{Annual and Weekly Cycles}[13th November 1990]

19901113.1010

[continued]

[(Notes for reference [continued]:)]

N[ew] S[cientist] 19901027/128:1740/23: ‘Is winter the saddest time of year?’ – No; but ‘Stiles and his colleagues found a significant weekly variation in the scores for specific problems, which was related to work and relationships. The patients found that problems were most intense on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and least intense on Sundays.’

(Compare the Mandelbrot Snowman:

)

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{Nile Flood Cycles}[13th November 1990]

[Redbook8:112][19901113:1010c]{Nile Flood Cycles}[13th November 1990]

19901113.1010

[continued]

[(Notes for reference [continued]:)]

‘From records of Nile floods during the past 2000 years, Joseph Fletcher of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Asministration in Boulder, Colorado, has established one cycle lasting 135 years.’

– N[ew] S[cientist] 19901013/128.1738/44: F El-Baz, ‘Do people make deserts?’

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[A New Science of Insanity][13th November 1990]

[Redbook8:112][19901113:1010b][A New Science of Insanity][13th November 1990]

19901113.1010

[continued]

[(Notes for reference [continued]:)]

NB: N[ew] S[cientist] 19901006/128: 1737/48: D. Healy, [‘]A new science of insanity[’] – good on the value of patients’ accounts of their own experiences, [and] the polarisation of ‘biological’ and ‘psychological’ approaches, etc.

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[Chaos, Free will, & the Really New][13th November 1990]

[Redbook8:112][19901113:1010][Chaos, Free will, & the Really New][13th November 1990]

19901113.1010

[(Notes for reference [continued]:)]

NB: N[ew] S[cientist] 19901006/128: 1737/48: P. Davies[,] ‘Chaos from the Universe’ re the possible reality of free will, and the genuinely new.

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{The Unlucky Number}[12th November 1990]

[Redbook8:112][19901112:1205f]{The Unlucky Number}[12th November 1990]

19901112.1205

[continued]

[(Notes for reference [continued]:)]

‘Koreans, like most East Asians, consider the number “four” to be unlucky, perhaps because in Chinese it rhymes with the word for death.*

(In Japan, where it is virtually impossible to buy household utensils in sets of four, it is impolite even to say the word.)**

***

*{cf (in Numerology) 13=1+3=4}

[& curiously, in Circles Analysis & Synthesis, on the circle of 8 where C=0, A~=4; & of the Ordinal (diagonal) degrees alone, on the outer circle R~=4 (where T.XIII is found) (& on the inner circle of course S~=4)]

**{cf [[Redbook8:210][19910205:1030c]{Cycles}[5th February 1991],] 210}

***N[ew] S[cientist] 19900729 (1990,127): 64, Feedback

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[The Lure of the Paranormal][12th November 1990]

[Redbook8:111][19901112:1205e][The Lure of the Paranormal][12th November 1990]

19901112.1205

[continued]

[(Notes for reference [continued]:)]

(NB: ibid [N[ew] S[cientist] 19900915/127, 1734/]* 62: S. Blackmore, ‘The Lure of the Paranormal’ – links belief in psychic experiences to relative inability correctly to work out probabilities.)

*[Presumably; see last previous entry]

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[Fractals][12th November 1990]

[Redbook8:111][19901112:1205d][Fractals][12th November 1990]

19901112.1205

[continued]

[(Notes for reference [continued]:)]

(Note: N[ew] S[cientist] 19900915/127, 1734/38: B. Mandelbrot,* ‘Fractals, a geometry of nature’.**  Update on usefulness of fractals)

(NB: N[ew] S[cientist] 19900922/127, 1735/54: C. Series, ‘Fractals, Reflections and Distortions’ – re repeated reflections (‘inversions’) in fractal geometry.)

*For it is he.

**[See [Redbook8:145][19901223:1645b]{The Sierpiński Gasket}[23rd December 1990]]

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{Historical Laws}[12th November 1990]

[Redbook8:111][19901112:1205c]{Historical Laws}[12th November 1990]

19901112.1205

[continued]

[(Notes for reference [continued]:)]

(Note: N[ew] S[cientist] 19900908/127, 1733/66: H Pollack, ‘Genes and history’, in which a biologist argues that Human DNA should be read, not as a set of laws, but as a book.

But: ‘No serious historian expects the historical record to yield rules that predict the course of history, or which order historical and political events by their closeness to an historical “ideal”. Every claim to have found such laws of history has turned out to be premature, and many have also been excuses for terrible, murderous behaviour.’

– ibid, 67)

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[The Shape of the Rose][12th November 1990]

[Redbook8:111][19901112:1205b][The Shape of the Rose][12th November 1990]

19901112.1205

[continued]

[(Notes for reference [continued]:)]

(Note: N[ew] S[cientist] 19900818/127, 1730/25: ‘Searching for the shape of the rose’, re the possible connection between biological bud shapes and mathematical ‘w’ curves.)

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{Stochastic Electrodynamics}[12th November 1990]

[Redbook8:110][19901112:1205]{Stochastic Electrodynamics}[12th November 1990]

19901112.1205

(Notes for reference:)

(Note: N[ew] S[cientist] 19900728/127, 1727/52:* H Puthoff, ‘everything for nothing’, re fluctuations of electromagnetic zero-point energy in empty space, possibility of gravity being due to this, and the use of this in Stochastic Electrodynamics (SED) as a rival theory, based on classical physics, against Quantum Electrodynamics (QED).)

*[sic]

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{Left-Handers}[11th November 1990]

[Redbook8:110][19901111:1535b]{Left-Handers}[11th November 1990]

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[continued]

*‘Older mothers have more left-handed babies’. Possibly because left-handedness has been shown to increase with birth-stress. There is also (the article records) ‘a range of problems which left-handers experience more than right-handers do – for instance, sleep disruptions, migraine, headaches and allergies. They also tend on average to reach sexual maturity a few months later than right-handers’; and ‘“overall, the left-handers run** about a half-inch shorter and about 3 pounds lighter than the right-handed....”’ The last feature could be due to the next-to-last. Unlike animals, nine out of ten individuals are right-handed.***

****

*N[ew] S[cientist] 19900721.127:1726

**[sic, apparently]

***[The paragraph ends with a closing quote mark ’ in the ms but it is not clear where that quote began]

****[The writer later discovered from his education file that at the age of about four he was discovered to be left-handed but was quickly re-educated into right-handedness]

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[Firewalking][11th November 1990]

[Redbook8:110][19901111:1535][Firewalking][11th November 1990]

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(I am skimming through unread copies of New Scientist for the 3^rd quarter.)

(Note. N[ew] S[cientist] 19900714.127.1725:64:* S Blackmore ‘Playing with fire’ – the scientific explanation for firewalking)

*[sic; ‘127’ inserted in ms. cf next entry ref]

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{Egyptian Symbols [continued]}[11th November 1990]

[Redbook8:109][19901111:1123c]{Egyptian Symbols [continued]}[11th November 1990]

19901111.1123

[continued]

‘Representations of the king as a powerful lion or * a strong bull are often repeated in [Egyptian] Dynastic times.’**

***

*{U~,J~}

**[ie c3100bce to (presumably) 30bce]

***E[ncylopaedia of] V[isual] A[rt] 29

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{Egyptian Symbols}[11th November 1990]

[Redbook8:109][19901111:1123b]{Egyptian Symbols}[11th November 1990]

19901111.1123

[continued]

On the Stela of Mentuhotep, [Middle Kingdom Egypt] c2050-1750bce, Mentuhotep is shown gazing into a lotus of the perfect 8-petalled form.*

**

*{☼}

**E[ncylopaedia of] V[isual] A[rt] 26

[continued]

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[Wagner’s Aliens revisited][11th November 1990]

[Redbook8:109][19901111:1123][Wagner’s Aliens revisited][11th November 1990]

19901111.1123

(Watched Wagner ‘Sigfried’ Act II,* BBC2TV [19901110]1940)

(I also watched ‘Aliens’ afterwards, which was a mistake, as I have been struggling to suppress a mild dose of ’flu: and during a hot, restless and uncomfortable night I relived, and varied, the film in unpleasantly realistic detail....)

*[See [Redbook8:87][19901104:2348]{The Ring Cycle (3)}[4th November 1990]]

[→ [Redbook8:115][19901117:2216]{Divine Giddiness}*[17th November 1990]]

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