Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Poetics for The Void (See last night’s Loki, Episode 5)
"Only poets and schizophrenics communicate in language
that defies rational analysis, and poets do not normally
do so in ordinary conversation . . . . They also do it with
a certain elegance, lacking in this case, and usually with
some kind of rhythm and sonority."
— Robert Anton Wilson, Quantum Psychology ,
discussing the following situation in a mental hospital:
"A strange man had approached and said, 'I'm not Slavic.'
Many paranoids begin a conversation with such assertions,
vitally important to them, but sounding a bit strange to
the rest of us."
See as well the previous two posts and a web page that
discusses whether Romania is a Slavic country.
Related material: Heidegger on "the night of lunacy."
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Monday, July 5, 2021
For Stonehearst Asylum
Robert A. Wilson on symmetries of the ninefold square —
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"All of these ideas have shown promise at some time or other, and some are still under active investigation. But my conclusion after all this work is that the part of algebra that shows the most promise for genuinely useful applications to fundamental physics is the representation theory, real, complex, integral and modular, of the group GL(2, 3). There is, of course, no guarantee that a viable theory can be built on this foundation. But it appears to be the only part of algebra that both has a reasonable chance of success and has not already been exhaustively explored in the physics literature. It is therefore worth serious consideration." — "Potential applications of modular representation theory to quantum mechanics," arXiv, May 28, 2021, revised June 7, 2021. |
See as well GL(2,3) in this journal .
Some may consider more relevant the remarks of a different Robert A. Wilson —
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