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Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Raiders of the Lost Articulation
Tom Hanks as Indiana Langdon in Raiders of the Lost Articulation :
An unarticulated (but colored) cube:
A 2x2x2 articulated cube:
A 4x4x4 articulated cube built from subcubes like
the one viewed by Tom Hanks above:
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A Raid on the Inarticulate
“… And so each venture
Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate….”
— T. S. Eliot, “East Coker V” in Four Quartets
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Where the Joints Are
An image related to the recent posts Sense and Sensibility:
A quote from yesterday's post The Eight:
A possible source for the above phrase about phenomena "carved at their joints":
See also the carving at the joints of Plato's diamond from the Meno :
Related material: Phaedrus on Kant as a diamond cutter
in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance .
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Monday, September 15, 2014
The Eight
The image at the end of today’s previous post A Seventh Seal
suggests a review of posts on Katherine Neville’s The Eight .
Update of 1:25 PM ET on Sept. 15, 2014:
Neville’s longtime partner is neurosurgeon and cognitive theorist
Karl H. Pribram. A quote from one of his books:
See also Sense and Sensibility.
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Sunday, September 14, 2014
Structure
In memory of cartoonist Tony Auth, who reportedly died today
From a Saturday evening post:
“A simple grid structure makes both evolutionary and developmental sense.”
From a post of June 22, 2003:
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Sermon
Epigraphs from Parallelisms of Complete Designs
by Peter J. Cameron (Cambridge University Press, 1976)
Introduction
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning
(T. S. Eliot: Little Gidding)
I The existence theorem
Here the impossible union
Of spheres of existence is actual
(T. S. Eliot: The Dry Salvages)
II The parallelogram property
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
(T. S. Eliot: Little Gidding)
III Steiner points and Veblen points
You say I am repeating
Something I have said before. I shall say it again.
Shall I say it again?
(T. S. Eliot: East Coker)
IV Edge-colourings of complete graphs
And hollyhocks that aim too high
Red into grey and tumble down
(T. S. Eliot: East Coker)
V Biplanes and metric regularity
Two and two, necessarye conjunction,
Holding eche other by the hand or the arm
Whiche betokeneth concorde.
(T. S. Eliot: East Coker)
VI Automorphism groups
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement.
(T. S. Eliot: Burnt Norton)
VII Resolutions and partition systems
… fiddle with pentagrams
Or barbituric acids, or dissect
The recurrent image into pre-conscious terrors .. .
(T. S. Eliot: The Dry Salvages)
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Sensibility
Structured gray matter:
Graphic symmetries of Galois space:
The reason for these graphic symmetries in affine Galois space —
symmetries of the underlying projective Galois space:
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Saturday, September 13, 2014
Sense
“A simple grid structure makes both evolutionary and developmental sense.”
— Van Wedeen, MD, of the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at
Massachusetts General Hospital, Science Daily , March 29, 2012
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