Thx. for sterling report of immanent disasters.

By now, I dare say, you have buttoned down the hatches for the big whirls and blow.

What happens with the legions of maritime freitage and passenger vessels great and small as well as the myriad motor and sail boats who are at sea and cannot make land in time to at least shore some security?

The oil rigs are presumably designed to withstand such tempests.  However, one of the largest ever built recently keeled over in the Gulf of Mexico and that was the end of that.  The oil company made it a write-off.

The Caribbean coral reef is now extinct because of pollution.  Much of it from shipping. 

Presumably you have a basement as do the folks MidWest.  They build 'em out yonder in case the house collapses.  Of course if they constructed robust of aerodynamic design instead of taking a slice from an urban terrace and reproducing in captured wilderness then they would stand a better chance.  The log cabins of yore weathered everything.  Maybe some roof repair.  Amazingly primitive habitation, but a century and a half ago.

Hopefully we'll have word in the not-too-distant future.  This Violent Earth:  I am not so fascinated with the ephemera of meteorology is so that I need monitor the inordinate daily proliferation-inundation of mass media reportage as to what is or is supposed to happen all over the place.  The Weather Channel might work for some people but it does not cater to my imagination.  Actually, it is astounding with balloons aloft, aeroplanes, satellites how often how innacurate weather forcasting is. 

I once resided on the ground floor of a V storey building downtown San Francisco when the roof was being replaced.  The site manager told me he had called the National Weather Bureau and was told no rain for at least three days.  The crew covered the then bare frame with polyethelyne (Visquine) sheet.  That night a mini tempest obtained.  Torrential wind driven.  Because the building was down a big slope there was a subduction current on account of the terrain and surrounding properties such as Hilton and other monoliths.  I enjoy the pitter patter of rain  -  though not an habitue  -  and on placing my foot on the carpet next morn I recoiled from a puddle.  My first (goofy, albeit) thought was that it could not be the cat (whom I had just rescued from junior maniacs) because it would have to be the size of a lioness for that.  I then sniffed saturation from lath and plaster.  By now I am bolt wide awake and made fast to a closet wherein I had consigned top copies of a welter of applied psychophysiology papers and of course a multitude of audio tapes.  These I then consigned to the boiler room where I strung them out as a sort of mosaic.  They survived legibly, though tarnished.  Utterly bloody ridiculous.  The inorganic detritus of five storeys had perculated to myne wee abode.  I subsequently examined Siamese Cat (by name) who maintained a Stoic attitude.  I reckon she understood something major was amiss.   Clothes are a massive nuisance as they require specialist cleaning, which is mighty expensive.  Red Cross has a brochure on how to treat different kinds.

All that folderol massively imposing on one's invaluable time because of incompetence.

I have every confidence you are well insulated.  Of course the East Caribbean settlements are in for an inundation as most are at sea level.  Of course the metereological bureaus can hardly miss an approaching hurricane.  God: plenty advance....

Incidentally, on a cheerfuller note:  That was a mighty kindly generous offer of the correspondent to help out fiscally with your site ongoing.  Remember, I suggested you do a popular paperback.  That would bounce around the world and catalyze and enhance global thinking.  Good gracious knows they sorely need it.  Even regular Muslims would get a kick out of it.

OK: That's quite enough of that.

(I'm in SF Californicus Fiat Lux where we don't get such tempests, nor tornados.  Although half the coral reef the length to Baja CA as well is now dead with the rest on the way out.  It is because of pollution.)

Highest Regards:

DERK

Hi,

I live in southern Florida and I am now getting ready for Hurricane
Frances which is now over the Bahamas. I have experienced a category
4 hurricane many years ago in the eastern Caribbean and I know how
dangerous it can be. If I'm still around after the hurricane, I'll
write a report. ;-(

Regards,

Louis Savain

Hi,

I live in southern Florida and I am now getting ready for Hurricane
Frances which is now over the Bahamas. I have experienced a category
4 hurricane many years ago in the eastern Caribbean and I know how
dangerous it can be. If I'm still around after the hurricane, I'll
write a report. ;-(

Regards,

Louis Savain

Hello,

if all you need to continue providing this information for free is
some webspace, I might be able to help you out.

Regards,
Andreas

On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 14:22:21 -0000, Louis Savain
<eightwings2002@...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Ok. For something completely different. A lot of people have
> benefited freely from the information contained on my site. If it was
> up to me, I would continue to provide this information free of
> charge. But I can no longer afford it. Unless I get a source of
> funding in the next few days, I will be forced to close it down. So I
> suggest that everyone copy the latest pages to your computers. Sorry.
>
> Regards,
>
> Louis Savain
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>

Hello,

Ok. For something completely different. A lot of people have
benefited freely from the information contained on my site. If it was
up to me, I would continue to provide this information free of
charge. But I can no longer afford it. Unless I get a source of
funding in the next few days, I will be forced to close it down. So I
suggest that everyone copy the latest pages to your computers. Sorry.

Regards,

Louis Savain

Hi Marcus,

Thanks for writing. While I agree with you that one should try to
falsify a theory, I disagree that one should not also look for
coorborating evidence. After all, the predictions of the theory of
relativity and quantum theory are constantly being tested to confirm
their accuracy.

As far as my hypothesis (the interpretation of Revelation 3:11) is
concerned, note that it does not predict 12.6 seconds as the duration
of STM but 1260 cycles. The actual timing will depend on the duration
of a neural cycle which varies slightly from individual to
individual. It just so happens that most neurobiological sources put
it at 10 milliseconds.

Now, I did a little bit of research and found out that very few
actual experiments have been done to determine the precise duration
of STM. Most sources on the web are just repeating or paraphrasing
others. As far as I can tell, only a handful of careful experiments
have been conducted. The one conducted by Peterson and Peterson is
the one most often quoted. I was able to find out that it was
confirmed by at least one other experimenter. The result is that STM
recall disappears after 12 seconds. It turns out that pigeons also
have a 12-second STM duration

The problem with STM experiments is that it is easy to confuse STM
working memory with other memory phenomena. One must be careful to
test for *unrehearsed memory*. This is what Peterson and Peterson did.

In conclusion, I am not saying that this 12-second duration confirms
my hypothesis (to me personnally, it does) but it is just one more
item of evidence in its favor. The final confirmation will come in
the form of truly intelligent robots like those in the movie I,
Robot. There is no doubt in mind that we are heading in that
direction and we''l get there sooner then most people think.

Regards,

Louis Savain


--- In Temporal_Intelligence@yahoogroups.com, Marcus Sundman
<sundman@i...> wrote:
> > According to my interpretation (see the previous news item at the
> > link below) of Revelation, the duration of short-term memory is
about
> > 12.5 seconds. I just did a search on Google for instances of "12
> > seconds" and "memory", and I found several sites that mention a
> > duration of 12 seconds for short-term working memory. Now, is
this a
> > coincidence or are we onto something big? Very big?
>
> Neither. Try to search for "short term memory" and "seconds" and
then pretty
> much any other number, e.g. "3", "15", "20", "30". See?
> Really, the STM decay isn't fixed (some say it's 3-20 s, other say
it's
> 15-30 s, etc.), just as the number of items in the STM isn't fixed
(most
> say that it's 5-9).
>
> Generally, if you're trying to find support for a hypothesis you
should try
> very hard to prove it wrong. Hence you should be looking for
evidence
> _against_ it, not evidence supporting it. The worst thing one could
do is
> to try to find all true X, such that H=>X, where H is the
hypothesis to
> test. Since both true=>true and false=>true, such X are completely
> meaningless when trying to determine H. The only meaningful
implications
> are H=>false (which would disprove H) and true=>H (which would
prove H).
>
>
> - Marcus Sundman

> According to my interpretation (see the previous news item at the
> link below) of Revelation, the duration of short-term memory is about
> 12.5 seconds. I just did a search on Google for instances of "12
> seconds" and "memory", and I found several sites that mention a
> duration of 12 seconds for short-term working memory. Now, is this a
> coincidence or are we onto something big? Very big?

Neither. Try to search for "short term memory" and "seconds" and then pretty
much any other number, e.g. "3", "15", "20", "30". See?
Really, the STM decay isn't fixed (some say it's 3-20 s, other say it's
15-30 s, etc.), just as the number of items in the STM isn't fixed (most
say that it's 5-9).

Generally, if you're trying to find support for a hypothesis you should try
very hard to prove it wrong. Hence you should be looking for evidence
_against_ it, not evidence supporting it. The worst thing one could do is
to try to find all true X, such that H=>X, where H is the hypothesis to
test. Since both true=>true and false=>true, such X are completely
meaningless when trying to determine H. The only meaningful implications
are H=>false (which would disprove H) and true=>H (which would prove H).


- Marcus Sundman

Hi,

According to my interpretation (see the previous news item at the
link below) of Revelation, the duration of short-term memory is about
12.5 seconds. I just did a search on Google for instances of "12
seconds" and "memory", and I found several sites that mention a
duration of 12 seconds for short-term working memory. Now, is this a
coincidence or are we onto something big? Very big?

Now, don't take my word for it. Go to Google, do the search and check
it out for yourselves.

Regards,

Louis Savain

http://users.adelphia.net/~lilavois/Seven/news.html

Hi everyone,

Ok, this is another long news item but I will not disappoint you.

The Woman in the Ephah and the Four Chariots

I am still working on these two pages. I want to upload them to the
site at the same time because, according to my current
interpretation, they are related to each other.

Short and Long-Term Memory, Sardis and Pergamum

I am slowly moving to the conclusion that Pergamum is the seat of
long-term memory (LTM) and that the neural structure of STM (Sardis)
exactly reflects that of LTM. What I mean is that the
predecessor/successor connections in Pergamum are exactly duplicated
in Sardis. This may be the reason that Zechariah chapter 4 (the
lampstand) is essentially a repeat of the subject of chapter 3
(Joshua the high priest) but using a different metaphor.
Chapter 3 is about Pergamum (LTM) and chapter 4 is about Sardis
(STM). The main difference between Pergamum and Sardis is that Sardis
retains a memory trace (the interval between predecessor and
successor) only for a very short time whereas Pergamum either has no
retention at all or has permanent retention.

How Long Does a Short-Term Memory Trace Last?

Short-term memory is very short-lived, hence the name. Various
pundits have claimed that it is somewhere between a few seconds and a
minute (why such a low precision? I don't know.) Does the Bible have
anything to say on the matter? I think so. In fact, I think the Bible
is very precise about it. In Revelation we read the following:
    11:3
    And I will give authority to my two witnesses and they shall
    prophecy for twelve hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.

I wrote about this before and, in fact, I am preparing a page on the
subject. But I am so excited about it that I would like to share the
following item with my readers. What is the meaning of 1260 days? I
have always maintained that day is a metaphor for a neural cycle
which is about 10 milliseconds. Thus 1260 cycles is about 12.6
seconds. I will add this to the predictions page soon.

By the same token, once an item is gone from short-term memory, it
must wait about 35 milliseconds (3 and 1/2 days) before it can be
allowed back in STM. In Revelation, this is symbolized by the two
witnesses being dead for three and a half days (Rev. 11:9) before
being resurrected. More on this in a future page.

Regards,

Louis Savain

http://users.adelphia.net/~lilavois/Seven/news.html

Hi,

This is a little long for a news item but please bear with me. One of
the things that continue to baffle me is the seven-item capacity of
short-term memory (STM). Two question arises: a) Why seven?  and b)
What is the underlying neural mechanism? There are repeated mentions
of 'seven' in both Revelation and the vision of Zechariah: the seven
churches, the seven stars, the seven eyes, the seven lamps and the
seven spirits. Which one has to do with STM capacity? It is obviously
not the seven churches. And since we now know that the seven eyes are
synonymous with the seven spirits and the seven lamps, we are led to
conclude that STM's seven-item capacity has to do with either the
seven stars or the seven eyes. Or both?
We also know that star is symbolic of angel and that the Son of man
holds the seven stars in his right hand. The right hand represents
the left hemisphere of the brain. I hypothesized in the past that the
seven stars are not the angels who are given messages to be delivered
to the churches. These seven stars (or angels) are associated with
Sardis. How?
We know that, in Zechariah's vision, Joshua is standing before the
angel of the Lord and that there are other angels standing by. Could
these be the seven stars? If so, why is no one else standing before
them? And why are they told by the angel of the Lord to put clean
garments on Joshua?
Ok. Where am I going with this? I am thinking that the seven stars of
Sardis are the seven stars in the right hand of the Son of man and
that the angels of Zechariah are also the seven stars. If so, how
does this provide a mechanism for STM capacity? Answer: I don't know
(yet). It is a difficult riddle but I am working on it. As always,
the answer is in the details.

Regards,

Louis Savain

Hi,

Today I got to thinking about something that has been bothering me
for quite some time. It has to do with the placement order of the
seven churches as seen in the book of Revelation. The placement of
the churches is, of course, important, seeing that Ephesus is given
this stern warning: "I am coming to you and will remove your
lampstand out of its place--unless you repent." The question that
arises is this: Why does Pergamum come before Thyatira and why does
Thyatira come before Sardis?

Normally one would expect the order of the lampstands to be dictated
by the direction of signal flow starting from the sensory layer and
ending at the motor layer. If Pergamum represents the motor learning
and coordination layer (the motor cortex), why does it not come
immediately after Sardis and before Philadelphia, the motor output
layer? This was my original expectation.

Slowly but surely I am beginning to understand that Pergamum,
Thyatira and Sardis are not succeeding layers (that is, from the
standpoint of signal flow), but cooperating cells assemblies working
on the same signal level. I am also beginning to realize that
Pergamum, in addition to being involved in motor learning, is also
the seat of long-term memory. I am preparing a page on this issue.
More to come.

Regards,

Louis Savain

Hi Everyone,

I think I may have a complete interpretation of the "four chariots"
metaphor mentioned in Exekiel, chapter 6. It has to do with four
different pathways originating from the output of Sardis. The four
chariots and the woman in the ephah are rather strange metaphors, if
I may say so myself. But I have found that paying attention to
seemingly unimportant details is the best way to decode these
biblical symbols, especially when one is stuck in a rut. The worst
thing one can do is to underestimate the intelligence of the author.
I will have a new page ready in a day or two.

Regards,

Louis Savain

PS. I want to thank everyone of you who sent me suggestions and words
of encouragement in the last few days. I get a lot of correspondence
but I promise that I will get to everyone of your emails eventually.

Hi everyone,

I am currently preparing a page on the four chariots metaphor of
Zechariah 6. I can tell you right now that, as far as I can tell, it
has to do with four types of feedback within the hippocampus. In my
opinion, intra-hippocampal feedback is essential to hierarchical
concept formation.

The real reason for this post has to do with long-term memory or LTM.
I think I now understand the mechanism of short-term memory (STM)
fairly well but, so far, I have not been able to come up with a
mechanism that explains LTM and how the hippocampus contributes to
its formation. It is known that LTM is unaffected by hippocampal
damage. This tells me that LTM must be located outside of the
hippocampal formation. Like STM, LTM must also involve the recording
of temporal intervals between events. The question is, where is LTM
located? I suspect it may be in Pergamum but I have not yet been able
to identify the right biblical metaphor for it. Whereever it may be,
it is almost certain that it must reflect what is learned in the
hippocampus.

Please, email me with your thoughts. I would appreciate any
suggestion that would shed some light on the matter.

Regards,

Louis Savain

http://users.adelphia.net/~lilavois/Seven/bible.html

http://users.adelphia.net/~lilavois/Seven/flyingscroll.html

I just uploaded the flying scroll page to the site. I think I now
have a fairly good (although not yet complete) idea of how synaptic
learning works in the hippocampus. Check it out.

Louis Savain

Sorry, I just had to write back. I am kind of excited about my newly
found insight into the flying scroll (Zech 4). I just need to say
that I think it is a beauty of a metaphor. A real jewel. Coming soon.

Regards,

Louis Savain

Ok. That was quick. I just found out that the NIV has a far too
restrictive copyright license agreement (quoting more than fifty
verses requires their written permission). So it is going to be the
NASB (New American Standard Bible) instead.

Regards,

Louis Savain

I have decided to stop using the King James version (KJV) of the
Bible and move to the New International version (NIV). KJV leaves
much to be desired, IMO. Note, however, that I will not limit myself
to the NIV. I will use other translations when appropriate. I am
currently in the process of changing all the relevant pages to
reflect my decision. This may take a day or two.

Regards,

Louis Savain

PS. Last night I got some interesting insight into the symbolic
meaning of the flying scroll in Zechariah 5 and the four chariots in
Zechariah 6. Coming soon.

I added some comments about the possible symbolic significance of the
bowl in the Zechariah 4 page. Please take a look. Any comments or
suggestions from readers would be appreciated.

http://users.adelphia.net/~lilavois/Seven/zechariah4.html#Bowl

Regards,

Louis Savain

I just uploaded my interpretation of Zechariah 4 to the site. It is
not yet completed but it is revealing. Chapter 4 is really a
continuation of Chapter 3 but from a different angle. I explain the
meaning of the metaphor of the lampstand with the seven lamps. We can
see more clearly how the lampstand is related to motor actions.

http://users.adelphia.net/~lilavois/Seven/zechariah4.html

Louis Savain

Hi everyone,

I just added more stuff to the Zechariah page, including a diagram at
the bottom of the page. They say a picture is worth a thousand words.
Check it out.

http://users.adelphia.net/~lilavois/Seven/zechariah.html

Regards,

Louis Savain

PS. I am feeling somewhat jubilant right now. I sense the coming of a
eureka moment, as they say. It is all coming together a little at a
time. Soon I will have enough understanding of the whole thing to
start coding the model into Animal, my experimental AI platform. More
to come.

http://users.adelphia.net/~lilavois/Seven/bible.html

--- In Temporal_Intelligence@yahoogroups.com, DEREK HARTE
<dhartex7@y...> wrote:

[cut]
> This be kinda ironical given the nature of the material!
>(Congratulations on  outstandingly brilliant research and
>development.  You might well consider publication as a popular
>paperback with a major publishing house.  It would blow an immensity
>of fluff out of the water.)

Derek, I am always interested in new ways to get my message out. I am
not interested in making a lot of cash. I just want to be able to
continue my research without having to think about necessities. If
you (or anyone else in the group) know of any publisher who might be
interested in this stuff, please drop me a line. I would be much
obliged.

Regards,

Louis Savain

PS. Thanks for your suggestion regarding the flu medication. I no
longer have it but I'll try your suggestion the next time I get sick.

I just uploaded my interpretation of some passages in Zechariah's
book which are relevant to the seven churches. It is still under
construction but it will give you an idea of where I am going with it.

    http://users.adelphia.net/~lilavois/Seven/zechariah.html

Regards,

Louis Savain

Jim,

I hope you're reading the messages in this group. I tried sending you
an email but your email account is full and is not accepting any new
emails. You need to delete some stuff.

Regards,

Louis Savain

Derek,

Sorry, I misunderstood you. The URL address of the site is:

http://users.adelphia.net/~lilavois/Seven/bible.html

My email address is: eightwings2002@...

Regards,

Louis Savain


--- In Temporal_Intelligence@yahoogroups.com, DEREK HARTE
<dhartex7@y...> wrote:
> What is received is a blank correspondence page, on which I
herewith scribe.
>
> What I need the address in order to retrieve your essays-articles
so I can study them and forward them.
>
> How I came by them initially was be referral from another site
(link)  -  though I forget which.  It has to be so-to-speak in
cyberspace somewhere.
>
> Mayhap this suggestion:  when you post "upload" then to what
address!  Perhaps I can back engineer?
>
> This be kinda ironical given the nature of the material!
(Congratulations on  outstandingly brilliant research and
development.  You might well consider publication as a popular
paperback with a major publishing house.  It would blow an immensity
of fluff out of the water.)
>
> Thx.
> Regards:
>
> DEREK HARTE
>
> PS:  Trust the 'flu dose has subsided.  It takes quite a toll on
the system  -  much more so than is generally surmised.  A powerful
roburant is "Siberian Ginseng" [Eleutherococcus Senticossus]  -
which is not botanically ginseng those a close relative.  It is an
adaptogen.  Routinely prescribed in Russia for those recovering from
an illness, some system insult such as accident, those routinely
subjected to high stress thresholds: eg: air pilots, cosmonauts,
divers, military.  An elephant was killed in a savagely brutal
experiment to ascertain is there a lethal overdose of ginseng.  With
ES there is none.  It conserves, nurtures, enhances the organism as a
whole.  Absolutely marvellous stuff.  A neat 'n' nifty way of taking
it is in a smoothie or by juicing.  The powder can be got in bulk
[eg: San Francisco Herb Company] for aprx. $5. plb  -  and that is
what is in the expensive gelatin capsules retailing eg: $8. for 60!
>
>
> ---------------------------------
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish.

WHAT IS email ADDRESS FOR ARTICLES?

WHAT IS email ADDRESS FOR ARTICLES?

Hello all,

Just uploaded the Laodicea page. As susual, there is more to come.

Regards,

Louis Savain

Hello everyone,

First I want to welcome the new temporal intelligence group members.
I hope you find your stay here informative and pleasant.

The church of Thyatira is now on the site. Just click on the Thyatira
link.

Regards,

Louis Savain

PS. Please bear with me. I am a little slow due to having contracted
a nasty flu in the last week. Next up: Philadelphia and Laodicea.

Hello All,

In the next few days (and weeks) I will make many falsifiable
predictions about the brain as derived from my hypothesis regarding
the seven churches of the book Revelation. I just uploaded a new page
titled "Falsifiable Predictions" to the site. I will use this page
from now on to list new predictions as I go along.

http://users.adelphia.net/~lilavois/Seven/predictions.html

Regards,

Louis Savain

Hello,

There will more stuff uploaded to the site soon. I am trying to
recuperate from a bout with the flu. Hard to do any serious thinking
when your entire body aches. Bear with me.

Regards,

Louis Savain