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Hanna Newcombe: Volume 2 on One Page Hanna Newcombe How Things Come Together: Volume 2 Contents The Volume 2 articles are listed by category below; in most cases, the categories are the same as those used in Volume 1. Time and Space GRASP? MIGHT AND LOVE. NON-AXIOMATIC TRUTHS. LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH. WHEN REACTION RATES CYCLES AND PARADOXES. VESSEL BREAKING AS MATTER. THE ANSWERING MACHINE. SYMMETRY BREAKING. WHAT TIME IS IT, ANYWAY? THE UNKNOWABLE. TRUTH VERSUS GOODNESS, GEOGRAPHICAL REFLECTIONS. ABSTRACT STRUCTURES. POWER VERSUS LOVE. THE LARGE AND THE SMALL. THE END OF CERTAINTY. WHAT IS GOD'S PURPOSE ? ROSZAK TRIANGLES. FOREVER SEEKERS. Matter and Energy REALITY. (1970s.) THE ACE. FORCES AND FIELDS. THE SNOW QUEEN (1970s) DO YOU CHERISH THAT OF REVOLUTION IN COSMOLOGY. GOD WITHIN YOU? Mind SOME IDEAS FROM RUPERT PROSERPINE. ENGAGING THE POWERS (From SHELDRAKE. COMPARISON OF DAMASIO AND book by Walter Wink.) AN ALTERNATIVE COSMOLOGY. CAIRN-SMITH. COSMIC ENCOUNTER GAME: SUPERSYMMETRY THEORIES OF MIND. THE TEN POWERS. TRANFORMATION: A REPRISE. CORE AND EXTENDED (SELF)- THE GOD HYPOTHESIS. MAGIC NUMBERS AND CONSCIOUSNESS. MORAL UNIVERSALS. TENSEGRITY. VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF BEYOND SOCIOBIOLOGY. OBJECTS IN THE BRAIN. Information MORALITY BASED ON THE MULTIPLE SELVES. PRINCIPLE OF COMMON LEFT OR RIGHT AT OAK NUMBER-IN-ITSELF. ESSENCE (PCE). STREET? ANALOG AND DIGITAL: THE COMMENTS ON BROTHERS MY BRAIN AND I. ROLE OF DISCONTINUITY. KARAMAZOV. MIND AND BRAIN. ACRONYMS. MEDITATION ON THE THE MAP IS NOT THE MUSICAL SCALES. PRINCIPLE OF COMMON TERRITORY. LAMENT FOR INFORMATION ESSENCE. THE WORLD IS MAYA. LOSS. ARMAGEDDON AND THE GREGORY BATESON "MIND AND THE MEDIA OF PEACEABLE KINGDOM. NATURE". EXPERIMENTATION. THE MISTS OF AVALON. WHERE ARE THE BOUNDARIES MORE ON COMPLEXITY. THE HOLY GRAIL. OF MIND? FROM ORDER TO THE MANY FACES OF EVIL. CONSILIENCE: THE UNITY OF RANDOMNESS. PRIMORDIAL ENERGY. KNOWLEDGE. RING THE CHANGES. THE CROSS, THE CROWN, AND A NEW DEFINITION OF LUCID THE CRONE. Meaning and Knowledge DREAMING? GNOSIS. THE NINEFOLD PATH OF MIND. IMPERMANENCE. FROM "THE SYMBOLIC SPECIES: BRAIN WAVES. MEDITATION ON ASCENDING COEVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE THE INTERPENETRATION OF AND DESCENDING. AND THE BRAIN" BY TERRENCE THE WORLDS. DEACON. COALITIONS WITHIN ACQUISITION OF LANGUAGE. Decision-Making COALITIONS WITHIN LANGUAGE AND THE MIND. COALITIONS. COMBINING THE MANDALA OF MINIMIZE OUR LOSSES. HIROSHIMA AND AUSCHWITZ. THE SCIENCES AND THE ROOM SCHRODINGER'S GAMES. CYCLES ARE NOT (OR ARE?) WITH MANY DOORS. AMBIGUITIES. PERPETUAL MOTION. OPEN AND HIERARCHICAL? ROADS OF DESTINY. THE SACRED AND THE DIFFERENT MEANINGS OF PROFANE. Spirit INTEGRATION. HOPES AND FEARS. HOT PERCEPTIONS: ASPECTS OF GODHEAD. THE BRIDGE. (A Meditation.) ADJECTIVAL OPPOSITES. SYMMETRY RESTORATION - PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. CAN OUR REACH EXCEED OUR ABOVE AND BELOW. ABBY AND ROSEMARY. RE-ENCHANTMENT WITHOUT RED AND GREEN REPRISE. NATURE-CULTURE LINKS. SUPERSTITION. THE WEB OF LIFE: COMMENTS CREB TO AYLA TO ... ON BOOK BY FRITJOF CAPRA. SUDDEN ORIGINS. Life RED BLOOD - WHITE BLOOD. SCIENCE AND HISTORY. POINTS OF VIEW. FIVE THEORIES OF GAIA ANATOMY AND LIVE SYSTEMS VERSUS LIVING EVOLUTION. PHYSIOLOGY. SYSTEMS. BOTTLENECKS. DARWIN AND KROPOTKIN. THE ROLE OF PLAY. THE SNOWBALL EARTH. THE AGES OF GAIA. GENE SWAPPING AND KINSHIP ATLANTIS. SYNTHETIC LIFE? STRUCTURES. PLANNED GRADUALISM. ENZYMES AND TEMPLATES. BIOTECHNLOGY - PROS AND FROM PERNICIOUS TO LESS AMBITIOUS DEFINITIONS CONS. BENEFICENT ANARCHY. OF LIFE. PEACE PROCESS AS A LIFE THE CIVILIZATORY HEXAGON. BREATH AND BREAD. PROCESS. PANGAEA. THE FLOW OF LIFE. HYMN TO LIFE THE CENTRAL DOGMA. DEEP PARTHENOGENESIS. Conclusions THE HOLY FLAME. THE INNER SANCTUM. (1970s.) THE JOY OF FLYING. RECENT READINGS. WHY THE HOLY FLAME. Passages SCIENCE AND RELIGION. DICTY. STUART KAUFFMAN MODELS. SENSORY EXOTICA. PHASE CHANGE TRANSITIONS. HOW THE IDEAS OF RECENT THE DOLPHIN CLICK. FOUR TRANSITIONS THINKERS COME TOGETHER. EVOLUTION OF THE SENSES. COMPARED. FLUX. THE MARSUPIAL FUTURE. CULTURAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCHEHERAZADE III AND DAISY JUNK DNA OR ROGUE DNA? EVOLUTION. WORLD III. AVOID IMMORTALITY AT ALL LIMITS TO TRUST. TRANSFORMATIONS OF COSTS - IT IS LETHAL. FAMILY BREAKDOWN. AGGRESSION. ADDICTED TO LIFE. FOUR ANIMAL EXAMPLES. CONFERENCE DIALOGUE. LIFE AS A TRAP. MAJOR TRANSITIONS IN THE TWO DREAMS. LIFE'S TERRIBLE BEAUTY. PROGRESSION OF LIFE. WORD FLOW. KINSHIP LINKS. MOOD CHANGES. HIGHLIGHTS. TIME AND LIFE. CASCADES. THE RED AND THE GREEN. REGIME CHANGE. WHEN REACTION RATES MATTER. Explosives are usually associated with death, not with life. But more or less the same chemical elements are involved in explosion reactions and in life reactions: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and perhaps phosphorus and sulfur (abbreviated to CHNOPS). Gunpowder consists of saltpeter (containing nitrogen and oxygen), charcoal (carbon), and sulfur. The mixture burns as the carbon and sulfur avidly react with oxygen. Nitrogen in the form of nitrate (in saltpeter) provides a source of loosely bound and concentrated oxygen. The mixture burns quietly if unconfined (no pressure), but explosively when confined. Yet gunpowder is only a mixture, and the three ingredients cannot be mixed intimately enough. In high explosives, all the necessary chemical elements are contained in the same compound, so that they can interact at a molecular level. Nothing can be more intimately mixed. Nitrocellulose (guncotton), nitroglycerine, and TNT (trinitrotoluene) contain the CHNO needs of powerful explosions. (S and P are not really necessary.) In aerobic life forms energy metabolism consists of combining carbon-hydrogen-containing compounds (sugars and fats) with oxygen, through initial glycolysis followed by the Krebs cycle taking place in mitochondria, all the way through to carbon dioxide and water. (If proteins are metabolized, there is nitrogen and sulfur as well, but the fate of these elements need not concern us here.) Explosions and metabolism essentially involve similar reactants and identical final products. The main difference is the rate of the oxidation reactions. Both involve “burning” of organic compounds to the most stable free energy compounds, carbon dioxide and water. However, the reactions proceed very rapidly in explosions, since the drop in free energy is very large, and when all obstacles are removed, events proceed very rapidly, as in a waterfall or a lightning bolt. In the metabolism of living cells, on the other hand, the “burning” is slowed down by making it proceed through a number of small steps, each controlled by enzyme catalysts. So instead of a sudden cataract, the burning proceeds as if through multiple locks and canals. Compare the flow of water from Lake Erie to Lake ontario through the Niagara River and the WeIland Canal. We go from the superfast and spontaneous to the slow and controlled. There is beauty in the cataract, but the canal is more useful for navigation. Yet, what is time? It makes the difference between fast and slow reactions, but “fast and slow” are subjectively viewed in our human frame of reference. In a way, we are “exploding” from conception to death like the Big Bang universe. We could go on indefinitely, being an open system unlike the universe, but nature says “no”, for the sake of posterity and further evolution. In the same context, reaction rates matter when otherwise very slow reactions are accelerated by enzyme catalysts. Without enzymes, the constituent reaction steps of metabolism would proceed so slowly as to be imperceptible at our time scales. So “the little enzymes that run the world” act both as controls on explosion speeds and accelerators of blocked reactions; they are both brakes and gas pedals. Between explosion-type speeds and glacier-type speeds life winds its way. WHAT TIME IS IT, ANYWAY? At a recent conference, James Joseph reported eloquently on a recent meeting of urban gang leaders in Kansas City in which they made peace with each other. It was a moving moment. James Joseph, a religious leader who had convened that Gang Summit, compared it to the Parable of the Prodigal Son. He said “When the sinner returns home to his Father’s house, it’s Party Time!” He received a standing ovation. In his recent record cassette, “The Future”, Leonard Cohen sings movingly about “Closing Time”, the end of the party which is life. It’s Party Time! It’s Closing TimeWhat time is it, anyway? It is High Noon, the time of decision. It’s party time when the prodigal son returns to his own Father’s house, reformed. It’s closing time when prodigal daughter spurns her Mother Earth, and sees her deformed. It’s High Noon time when the train will bring the one who deals out life or death, decision time when minutes cling to every move and every breath. It’s crisis time. So who are you? One to break down, or to break through? For the n-th time since the Earth was formed, a creature goes down, or lives, transformed. GEOGRAPHICAL REFLECTIONS. As Lister Sinclair pointed out in the CBC program “Ideas” in July 1996, East and West are fundamentally different from North and South on the Earth’s surface, although they look identical on.a small flat map. When you go North on the globe, you eventually start going South when you loop over the Pole; the same happens in reverse when you go South—you start going North eventually. But you can continue going West, round and round, forever; and likewise when going East. This has to do partly with the properties of a spherical surface, and partly with the way we draw lines on it meridians for the North-South direction, and parallels for the East-West direction. The reason why we draw these lines of longitude (meridians) and latitude (parallels) differently is because the Earth rotates (spins) on a North-South axis, with its imaginary ends emerging at the Poles. The meridians are all great circles (a term in spherical geometry). Great circles are circles drawn on a spherical surface such that their centres coincide with the centre of the sphere; these are the biggest circles that can be drawn on a spherical surface.
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