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      • Biological models 2 – a newspaper-cell comparison
        05/29/06
        The editor as CEO and the nucleus drive the show, provide today’s direction, and by appointing subs, hacks and feature writers, direct the immediate future. They direct divisions, multiplying, and some repair. All parts report to them, the finger is on every button. Owners and mitochondria provide

      • Some brain feeds - a first list
        05/27/06
        Resonance between circuits a major player, perhaps the king
        How lubricants reduce friction
        Feeding all ?8 levels of the mind
        Reflection at barriers
        Reinforcement gives detail to pictures
        Dysfunctional memories
        All storage is transient
        Storage can be mended and mani

      • Towards a civil service that is both
        05/27/06
        Green men and river trolls exist in all cultures.
        Friend or foe, we need their help to cross nature’s barriers.
        When they become ravening monsters we send for George,
        who succeeds if we can arm him/ fix his foot/ help him think .

        Just as Thatcher had to slay union power, so

      • The self-friendly species and its future 1
        05/14/06
        Survival of which fittest?[\b]

        If the first priority is survival, lesser questions of ethics and religion and education and capitalism become tools for leaders. The public face of probity remains, but the inner circle knows the reality: Marxism was right about church and opium, wrong abou

      • Towards a 22nd century brain
        05/13/06
        Brain, mind, memory and consciousness -
        a short personal topic list of how I think we think.

        To a hammer, every problem is a nail. Quoted by Steven Rose
        Protrusions will be hammered in. Japanese proverb

        Evolution of brain with body.
        Early cells survived by sens

      • Functions of peace and war.
        05/10/06

        Collective species use peacetimes for breeding and readying for emergencies.
        Countering invasions and protecting commerce are ‘moral’ uses of war, as is spreading core values. The young are easily persuaded to protect the herd.

        War also removes the excess population engendered

      • Towrds universal education 2 - bullying
        05/09/06
        Precursor to adult enslaving, the school bully is merely essaying the skills of successful evolution and business: symbiosis of plants whether epiphytic ivy or parasitic gall or chemically murderous trees have learnt to co-exist through the bullied gaining strength by selective breeding.
        The c

      • Towards universal education 1
        05/07/06
        The learning dichotomy
        Simplistically, schools grew from the ducal homeschool with whipping boy into the independent and the state school for redundant whipping boys.
        Today there are inspiring schools, less inspiring schools, and etons.
        The hidden curricula are multiple and would fill

      • Random one liners
        05/07/06
        Is unity essential in the Iraqs of the world?


        We more often minimise good than maximise bad. Law of unintended consequences.


        In what fields does better payoff follow bad service, so bad service becomes both deliberate or tactical or strategic or all three?
    • April