Ondwelle Publications
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Tel. +61 3 9598 9239 Email:
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website ondwelle.com home page last updated 12 August 2008 / 12th version previous change 31 Dec 2007
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 $22 US / £11 / EUR 15
) now all-inclusive postage-free
* Online .pdf versions (each about 108 page-sides and about 1MB)
No charge for temporary screen display only. For other usages please consult CAL at
info@copyright.com.au (Tel.: +61 2 9394 7600; Fax: +61 2 9394 7601)
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
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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
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(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
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(No.3)
How Popperian positivism killed a good-but-poorly-presented theory
insect communication by infrared
(R.R.Traill December 2005)
.rtf
.pdf
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(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
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(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
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(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:
.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