Ondwelle Publications
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29 Arkaringa Crescent, Black Rock 3193, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Tel. +61 3 9598 9239 - Email: rrtraill4@dodo·com·au
website ondwelle.com home page - last updated 30 June 2009 / 15th version; - previous change 24 April 2009
Main theme: An interdisciplinary attack on hitherto unexplained aspects of Mind and Brain, and the Nervous System in general - paying particular attention to the technical feasibility of new suggestions, and the plausibility of traditional tacit assumptions.
Secondary theme: History of Electromagnetic physics (including translations).
Books
(printed,† and also as ".pdf" files):
Mind and Micro-Mechanism: a hunt for the missing theory
ISBN 0-9577737-0-6 R.R.Traill (1999) .pdf *
Physics and Philosophy of the Mind: some new insights in an extended neuro-project
ISBN 0-9577737-1-4 R.R.Traill (2000) .pdf *
† Printed - $25 Australian (currently $20 US / £12 / EUR 14
) - now all-inclusive - postage-free
* Online .pdf versions (each about 1MB, incl. line-drawings)
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Online Thesis
- R. R. Traill (1978/2006).
Available below as seven pdf-files (2006), -- or as just TWO files (one 203pp) via Brunel University Research Archive (BURA):
http://hdl.handle.net/2438/729
"Molecular Explanation for Intelligence - including its growth, maintenance, and failings"
Preliminaries + Part A (361KB) - This file includes "Contents", Introduction, and Part A itself (previously published in Kybernetes 5 and 7). Part A summarizes Piaget's relevant concepts, but also considers what general-types of submechanism could possibly explain such human abilities.
Part B (409KB) - here, and originally, published as the self-contained Brunel Monograph #24: "Toward a theoretical explanation of electro-chemical interaction in memory use: the postulated role of infra-red components and molecular evolution". This accepts the hard-science challenge posed by Part A - moving the debate beyond abstract philosophy into physics and information-technology whilst retaining the biological context.
Chapters C1-C5 (471KB) - The hierarchical-organization concepts of W.R.Ashby are added, and tentatively identified with Piaget's "developmental stages" such as to explain the advanced mental capabilities of humans.
Chapter C6 (424KB) - "The system looked at as a whole, and some inherent weaknesses to be expected"
Chapter C7 (93KB) - "Mechanisms for neuroses", applying the above concepts.
Chapter C8 (450KB) - "Developing a consistent and reasonably comprehensive structural theory of psychosis"
References (165KB)
Ondwelle Short Monographs
NEW: Full online re-issue of journal article (with permission)
(No.10)
"The case that mammalian intelligence is based on sub-molecular coding and fibre-optic capabilities of myelinated nerve axons",
from Speculations in Science and Technology, vol 11(3), pages 173-181.
(R.R.Traill 1988 / June 2009) .pdf
also: Supplement with (i) Alphabetical listing of the references, and (ii) sample translations -- .pdf
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(No.1) Strange regularities in the geometry of myelin nerve-insulation - a possible single cause
(R.R.Traill March 2005) .htm .pdf
(No.2) Thinking by Molecule, Synapse, or both? - from Piaget's Schema, to the Selecting/Editing of ncRNA
(R.R.Traill April 2005 and augmented Feb. 2008) .htm .pdf
- Or in French
: Penser par Molecule, par synapse, ou toutes les deux ? - Du schéma de Piaget, à la sélection/rédaction du ARNnc
(August/ août, 2008) .pdf
(No.3) How Popperian positivism killed a good-but-poorly-presented theory
- insect communication by infrared
(R.R.Traill December 2005) .rtf .pdf + see new conference version:
Critique of the 1977 debate on infra-red 'olfaction' in insects
- (Diesendorf vs. P.S.Callahan)
(R.R.Traill October 2008) .rtf .pdf
(No.4) Thinking as mental model-building:
a Piagetian-cum-mechanistic explanation of the 'engram' (alias Brunel Monograph #12)
(R.R.Traill April 1975 - with 2007 annotations/links) .pdf
(No.5) The gulf between behavioural psychology and fundamental physiology:
a systematic attempt to bridge the gap (alias Brunel Monograph #15)
(R.R.Traill April 1976 - with 2007 annotations/links) .pdf
(No.6) Short papers and letters on the 'linear micro-element' theory of mental mechanism:
and related questions of scientific method (alias Brunel Monograph #18)
(R.R.Traill October 1976 - with 2007 links and new extended preface) .pdf
Publicly-evolving draft, criticism encouraged:
(No.8) Problems with Economic Rationalism - Psychology, Green-issues, and Jobs
(R.R.Traill, first issued 23 Nov 2007) Latest version (Dec 2008): .pdf
History of Electromagnetic Theory
On the equations of the electromagnetic field for moving bodies /
Ueber die Gleichungen des elektromagnetischen Feldes für bewegte Körper
- by Emil Cohn (1902), Annalen der Physik (series 4), 7(1), 29-56;
- plus his reply to Wien's criticism: (1904 May) ibid. 14(6), 208.
Parallel English/German text (10 August 2008) Cohn.pdf
On the differential equations of the electrodynamics for moving bodies /
Über die Differentialgleichungen der Elektrodynamik für bewegte Körper
- by W.Wien (1904 March), Annalen der Physik (series 4), 13(4), 650-662, and 663-668.
Parallel English/German text (11 August 2008) Wien.pdf
[obsolete links: Cohn Wien ]
Miscellaneous
Australian Senate Political Preferences allocated by each party
in the State of Victoria - Nov 2007 federal elections
(Sortable table compiled by R.R.Traill, from print-data supplied by the Australian Electoral Commission) .rtf .doc