Ondwelle Publications
ABN: 79 755 470 078
29 Arkaringa Crescent, Black Rock 3193, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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