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website ondwelle.com home page last updated 2 Mar 2023 = 35th version; previous version 1 Sep 2022.
Main theme of website: 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.
This latter aspect now involves deep questions of 'Scientific Method' and other aspects of 'Knowledge-Theory' (Epistemology).
Secondary theme: History of Electromagnetic physics (including translations).
Latest changes:
(1) New Link to “Coding for the Brain:…” now published in J.Psychiatry & Psychiatric Disorders  Coding for the Brain: RNA, its Photons, and Piagetian Higher-Intelligence through Action
(2) It is now also available here in other languages:
Italian
French
Spanish
Indonesian
German(pdf)
German(Word)
(3) Link to a four-page summary of that project’s surprising hypotheses NOT repeating the varied sources of those ideas, but instead seeking to highlight the self-consistent nature of the total picture:
Chain of Hypotheses to explain Advanced Memory & Intelligence Bio-Mechanisms (in PsyArXiv)
(4) Also maybe see the earlier PsyArXiv paper:
Mechanisms of Human intelligence (2019)
§A
COMBINED SUMMARY FOR THOSE LATEST PAPERS:
Intellectual thought must depend on linear digit-like elements something which unaided synapses could never offer. Psychology offers a different approach: Piaget proposed units of action-sequences (“schèmes” usable as mental “building-blocks”). Some RNA now seems to serve this verb-like role. (Other RNA are adjectival/adverbial “regulators” while only about 3% serves its traditional noun-like role). Consequences:–
Ultramicro: The whole Piagetian structure-coding for a concept could fit into one 125nm capsid-granule; and many into a cell-body. The vast abundance of coding-sites would allow “wasteful” Jerneian/Darwinian selection for recording new learnings. Vastly greater memory-capacity. And inheritance of behaviour-traits now obvious.
Such micro-sites would use optical frequency signalling entailing greatly enhanced “Gigabit” rates, and optical-interference tricks.
Myelin gets an extra Optic-Cable role.
(In 1988
came the apparently weird “bold” hypothesis for this dual role but it now seems that this was correct, as shown by: Sun et al (2010) and
Zangari et al (2021)).
This opens up new explanatory possibilities.
What carries new memories intact from Hippocampus to Cortex-archives? That is more mysterious. Rakic observed a distinct flow of new neurons (which could well carry RNA memory-codes if they exist, and that looks like a frequent solution, BUT this flow ceases in human adulthood!! So they might travel in virus-sized capsids instead, but how transported? Two plausible mechanisms identified so far: (1) “axon-transport” within nerve-fibres (along with building-materials, to specific sites), AND/OR (2) via the bloodstream (available to all sites). This invites further investigation, but it seems useful to (provisionally) postulate that both mechanisms exist, and maybe cooperate according to required brain-tasks.
The main earlier “intelligence” studies are reported below in §D.
KEY WORDS
Piaget, ncRNA, schéma, coaxial, myelin, hippocampus, Kant, neurogenesis, UPE, infrared, Long-Term-Memory, epistemology, bio-optics, Scientific-Method, Brain-mechanism, Jerne, neuron-migration, vertebrate-intelligence, human intelligence.
§B
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)
Physics and Philosophy of the Mind
: some new insights in an extended neuro-project (.pdf)
ISBN 0-9577737-1-4 R.R.Traill (2000)
Printed $25 Australian (AUD)
now all-inclusive (free of postage and tax).
§C Two Theses:
Thesis 2
Anna-Marie Cushan (1983/2014).
Investigations into Facts and Values Groundwork for a theory of moral conflict resolution
Many people still believe that, by using specially privileged logical strategies, we can get to perfect certainty at least on some issues. Until the 1970s, many philosophers thought that too; but they eventually agreed this was a mistake because those special strategies can never be rigorously justified, so they lose that supposed privilege.
However without such pretentions, we all make many everyday decisions, and often in a reasonable way despite the admitted uncertainties and biases. So how do we do it?
And are those traditional 'logical' arguments just one end of this 'everyday' scale rather than being within a world of their own as previously supposed? If so, it becomes especially important to better understand those 'non-deductive' strategies; and that is the objective of Dr.Cushan's thesis, which can be seen as having two phases of this argument:
Phase 1. (Mainly in Chapters 3 and 4): Review of how the old strategy-system fails us, and the arguments used in its demise in the 1970s within philosophy and psychology, even though it often persists elsewhere.
Phase 2.: Cuts new ground in explicating 'ordinary' everyday logic, its long established use in ethics, aesthetics, and social institutions such as the law-court and how traditional 'facts' fit into this picture. Finally Dr.Cushan seeks to apply these insights to conflict problems.
Thesis 1
R.R.Traill (1978/2006).
Available as two files (Part B + The remaining 207pp) via Brunel University Research Archive (BURA):
to get Part B: electrical & optics aspects
to get all the rest, incl. Parts A and C
Or else (from this site) as the 7 separate files itemized below:
"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)
§D Other Work Important to Main Project
(in Date Order)
(#10 1988)
"The case that mammalian intelligence is based on sub-molecular coding and fibre-optic capabilities of myelinated nerve axons"
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) several translations of the abstract --
.pdf
The “Bold” Hypothesis eventually demonstrated by
Zangari et al (2021) and
Sun et al (2010)
- (#02 2008)
Thinking by Molecule, Synapse, or both? from Piaget's Schema, to the Selecting/Editing of ncRNA
(R.R.Traill April 2005, 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
.pdf
Or in German
: Unser Denken mit Molekülen, Synapsen, oder beidem? Vom Piaget-Schema zum Selektion/Edierung von ncRNA
.pdf
- (#19 2011 - Prague.1 )
"Coherent Infra-Red as logically necessary to explain Piagetian psychology and neuro-microanatomy Two independent corroborations for Gurwitsch’s findings, and the importance of coherent theory "
Link to Journal of Physics
Or in German
: Kohärentes Infrarot als logisch notwendig zu erklären Piagetsche Psychologie und Neuromikroanatomie
Zwei unabhängige Bestätigungen für Gurwitschs Ergebnisse,
und die Bedeutung einer in sich konsistenten Theorie
.pdf
§E
PowerPoint Summary
Piaget conference, Toronto 2012
(#16, English version)
"A molecular basis for Piaget's 'scheme' (as memory-code): Some surprising implications"
(R.R.Traill June/July, 2012)
PowerPoint Presentation
pdf notes+references
(#16, French version)
"Une base moléculaire du 'schème' piagetien (le code de la mémoire): Quelques implications surprenantes"
(R.R.Traill Juin/Juillet, 2012)
PowerPoint Presentation
pdf notes+references
(#16, German version)
"Eine molekulare Grundlage für Piagets Schème (als Gedächtnis-Code): Einige überraschende Auswirkungen"
(R.R.Traill Jan, 2013)
PowerPoint Presentation
(#16, Indonesian version)
"Dasar molekuler untuk Piaget-'schème' (sabagai memori-kode): Beberapa implikasi mengejutkan "
(R.R.Traill Jan, 2013)
PowerPoint Presentation
(#16, Spanish version)
"Una base molecular para 'schème' de Piaget (como codigo de memoria): Algunas implicaciones sorprendentes"
(R.R.Traill Jan, 2014)
PowerPoint Presentation
(#16, Thai version)
"- - "
(R.R.Traill Jan, 2014)
PowerPoint Presentation
(#16, Italian version)
"Una base molecular per lo 'schème' de Piaget (come codice-memoria): Algune implicazioni sorprendenti"
(R.R.Traill Jan, 2014)
PowerPoint Presentation
_______________________________________________
§F
Incidental Bio/Social-issues
- (#18 2015)
"Concurrent Roles for the Eye (Passive 'Camera' plus Active Decoder)
Hence Separate Mechanisms?"
(R.R.Traill July, 2015)
.pdf
- (#07 2015)
"Reductionist Models of Mind and Matter:
But how valid is Reductionism anyhow?"
(R.R.Traill December, 2015)
pdf
- (#14 2010)
"Meaningful UV and IR photon-exchange within bio-tissue? — Interdisciplinary evidence, and a new way to view asbestos toxicity"
(R.R.Traill October 2010)
.pdf
- (#15 2010)
"The theoretical case that some asbestos fibres could trigger cancer optically, while others act mechanically"
(R.R.Traill Mid-November 2010)
.pdf
- (#20 2011 - Prague.2 )
in Journal of Physics:
"Asbestos as ‘toxic short-circuit’ optic-fibre for UV within the cell-net:
Likely roles and hazards for secret UV and IR metabolism"
- (#01 2005-a)
Strange regularities in the geometry of myelin nerve-insulation a possible single cause
(R.R.Traill March 2005)
.htm
.pdf
- (#03 2005)
How Popperian positivism killed a good-but-poorly-presented theory
(R.R.Traill December 2005)
.rtf
.pdf
+ see conference version [“#09”]:
- (#09 2008)
Critique of the 1977 debate on infra-red 'olfaction' in insects
(Diesendorf vs. P.S.Callahan).
[from Conference of the Australian Entomological Society, Sep.2008]
(R.R.Traill October 2008)
.pdf
- (#04 1975) Thinking as mental model-building:
a Piagetian-cum-mechanistic explanation of the 'engram'
(Brunel Monograph #12)
(R.R.Traill April 1975 with 2007 annotations/links)
.pdf
- (#05 1976-a)
The gulf between behavioural psychology and fundamental physiology:
a systematic attempt to bridge the gap (Brunel Monograph #15)
(R.R.Traill April 1976 with 2007 annotations/links)
.pdf
- (#06 1976-b)
Short papers and letters on the 'linear micro-element' theory of mental mechanism:
and related questions of scientific method
(Brunel Monograph #18)
(R.R.Traill October 1976 with 2007 links and new extended preface)
.pdf
- (#11 reprint of rare key-ref.)
"A Radiation Theory Of The Assembling Of Moths"
from
The Entomologist, vol 93(1165-1166), pages 113-117, 133-137.
(E.R.Laithwaite 1960 / September 2009)
.pdf
- (#12 2009)
"Real Mechanisms for Natural-Thought? The History of an in-depth Analysis"
(R.R.Traill December 2009 32pp.)
.pdf
- (#08 2008)
Problems with Economic Rationalism Psychology, Green-issues, and Jobs
(R.R.Traill, first issued
23 Nov 2007)
Latest version (Dec 2008):
.pdf
§G
Translations (Physics)
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
§H
Interrelations between Political Parties
Australian Senate Political Preferences allocated by each party in recent federal elections
(Sortable tables compiled by R.R.Traill, from data supplied by the Australian Electoral Commission)
www.ondwelle.com/Preferences_Senate2004Vic.rtf
www.ondwelle.com/Preferences_Senate2007Vic.rtf
www.ondwelle.com/Preferences_Senate2010Vic.rtf
www.ondwelle.com/Preferences_Senate2010NSW.rtf
www.ondwelle.com/Preferences_Senate2010Qld.rtf
ALL regions for election of 7 Sep 2013
www.ondwelle.com/Preferences_Senate2013multi.doc
Re-run for Western-Australia on 5 Apr 2014 (due to lost ballot papers!)
www.ondwelle.com/Preferences_Senate2014WA.doc
Note the interesting case of Victoria 2004. That was when one party (the ALP) was just too clever in its strategic voting advice a scheme which seriously backfired, as explained briefly on page 2: