[Fis] Cycles: Adventures in Sorting & Sequencing

[Katherine Peil Kauffman]

Hi Karl,
Perhaps you give me too much credit when you call me an adept at the book sorting experiment. But I will take the complement because I know you respect the time and effort I’ve put into my studies. 
Here are my entries for your records: 1) Kung Fu Kate; 2) June 21, 2020; 3) Cycles 10; 4) Lengths: 7,1,7,1,8,5,4,3,3,2. I think I get it, because there is something akin to a phase transition at Cycle 6 as the ratio of “open possibilities” gives way to the limits of “actual taken spots” as the sorting process culminates. The expectations are forced to change along with the probabilities.  But I’m still confused by what “Cohort 16” might be in your official definition of information.
Please feel free to set me straighten me out, if I’m engaging in apophenia. It happens. There’s precedent.
With warm thanks,
Kate

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>   1. Is this a new session about cycles? (Karl Javorszky)
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> Dear Colleagues,
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> Kate, Krassimir, Joseph have contributed to the idea of the term
> information being defined as the deviations between cycles 3, 6 of the
> reorder ab - ba of Cohort 16.
> 
> Understanding the underlying system of coherent ideas is a complicated
> task, as Krassimir has pointed out.
> 
> The method suggested translates in the example of the mysterious elephant
> into : let us measure the beast as exactly as we can. Let us use cm and kg
> measurements. Let us imagine slicing the beast into thin slices. Our
> picture of its inner organization can maybe better agreed on if we imagine
> the beast to be highly ordered. We don't know yet by which principles, but
> organized within itself it is, by all means (called Nature).
> 
> The didactics of the efforts to achieve cooperation among the scientists
> trying to figure out the concept of an elephant is a subject of its own.
> 
> During years of experience with the learned friends this person has found a
> way of introducing the ultimate methodology of measuring an elephant. The
> key point is that the measurements are a system of circular references.
> 
> So why not establish a methodology of circular references? The Austrian
> part in one says don't do that, nobody does that, it is not done, all count
> distances as lengths and not as when does this element reappear again. The
> Hungarian part in one says, this is the core of the business, to find
> something that is usually not done, do it and check it out for yourself
> whether the traditional taboo is a caduque artefact of the previously
> lacking technology of our esteemed forefathers.
> 
> So we arrive at cycles. Once you drop the Sumerian nonsense of an endless
> number of identical units and join the true Akkadian belief of a limited
> number of individual units, you have a perspective on the inner workings of
> a beehive (or of society or of a cell, etc.).
> 
> One counts in terms of coincidences.
> 
> To introduce the term of coincidence, one needs something that the learned
> friends have experience with and can take in their hands, relate to. If you
> want to present something new, make sure that all the background is already
> familiar to the proband.
> 
> So the best medium for the communication are books. Each of the learned
> friends have books. They surely know how to sort books.
> 
> Observe on the familiar background that what the elephant is made up of,
> namely coincidences. The coincidence is that a book is on a spot. This is
> coincidence type 1.
> 
> As you resort the books you will find cycles. It would take too long to
> explain what is a cycle in words, and the explanation would need to be
> rooted in the Sumerian context so that it can be understood by someone who
> thinks in Sumerian categories. Therefore, it is necessary that you yourself
> find the apparition and yourself see that cycles can be used in the
> Akkadian system of categories.
> 
> Once you have made yourself your own deictic definition of a cycle, we can
> discuss how the coincidences develop if we utilize the Akkadian way of
> thinking about elephants.
> 
> This excellent assembly of learned friends is best positioned to offer
> methodical help to the great many scientists working tirelessly all around
> the world to get to grips about the elephant.
> 
> Nothing but one's own inhibitions hinder one from establishing a common
> methodology for measuring elephants.
> 
> The first session of learning is the exercise with reordering 12 books from
> author - title into title - author. Do send one line to this here Elysium,
> saying id, date, no of cycles found, their lengths. For friends of details,
> it is welcomed if they enclose the original data. (authors named A - L,
> titles named 1 - 12.)
> 
> Looking forward to an interesting and fruitful debate,
> 
> Karl
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