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<p>Dear Pedro and dear Plamen, dear FIS list:</p>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484917577204_673701">Thank you very
much for your kindness.</div>
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simply say the following? I call it <br>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484917577204_680817">"A
Confession"</div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484917577204_673825">It is
beautiful to find oneself in a still existing
theoretical-biological community, as I learned to swim in
under the guidance of my friend Bob Rosen. I also enjoyed the
friendship of Gregory Bateson. And of Michael Conrad, pupil of
Dirac's. And of Jack Hudson. And Okan Gurel and Benoit
Mandelbrot and Edward Lorenz. To date, we all celebrate the
ongoing strength of Ralph Abraham who was always singularly
fearless. And there are the Japanese schools of Kunihiko
Kaneko and Ichiro Tsuda and Yukio-Pegio Gunji. And there is
the optimal-foraging genius Eric L. Charnov in the Midwest.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484917577204_674408">The
brain equation was made possible by my early discussions with
Konrad Lorenz in 1966 which led to the distinction between
"metabolic adaptation" (Darwin) and "positional adaptation"
which has the asset of being independent of historical
accidents and therefore being mathematically predictable. I
could hereby integrate my experience made with bonding in a
young doomed child which I was not allowed to adopt as a
youth. Later, my young son had to leave at 7 3/4. Most
recently, Szilamandee arose from those combined emotional and
theoretical-biological experiences, if I may call them so:
from the "smile theory." The fact that the therapeutic
professions refused to employ it for 40 years as a causal
therapy of early childhood autism, is a burden on me. In
recent times, my courses on philosophy held at Ottersberg
University enabled me to go farther than ever in the
interaction with young minds. But also my Tübingen students
are a fountain of mutual affirmation.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484917577204_674941">All
of this is classical thinking in the footsteps of Teilhard, if
you so wish. But there is this other reality of the quanta and
of the strange observer-centered speed of light. Here I was
blessed with the friendship of John Wheeler and John Bell, and
through the latter along a long line with the Dalai Lama who
never learned of this connection I am sure. Here most
recently, the quantum satellite of Anton Zeilinger and Jianwei
Pan's makes it possible to empirically decide between the
rational quantum mechanics of Everett ("the world is made for
me") and the bland irrational version of Niels Bohr's that
Einstein abhorred so profoundly.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484917577204_675754">If
you wish, these theories are also nothing but theoretical
biology -- the endophysical approach. <br>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484917577204_684786">But:
none of this has anything to do with the CERN-based dialog
which developed in the present community recently, for which
fact I am so much endebted to you. The insight that only
people who have learned to think in the biological way can
shoulder the task of criticizing naive physicists, is a new
one to me.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484917577204_675822">I
mean, to in a maximally naive pride generate the hottest
resident spot anywhere in the universe down on earth
(underneath a Swiss town) and to boast to thereby have "pulled
the Big Bang down onto earth" (a deeply erroneous concept in
itself) is odd enough to watch. Even more so is it to then see
them stick for 9 years to the order "zero risk" so that even
their learned old safety report LSAG could no longer be
renewed since 9 years was an "interesting" experience to make
for a theoretical biologist. Only people who have learned to
think in terms of systems -- not to say in the way of the
"Rashevsky-Rosen school" -- are able to independently judge
the naive pseudo-military thoughts and doings of physicists
who never saw any of the complexity of life in their more
narrow-minded education.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484917577204_676246">I
mentioned Szilamandee and the Thailand Royal house? It was my
philosophy students in Ottersberg who triggered the proposed
superperson experiment: That it is possible to find a higher
earthly intelligence who can explain in a tactful manner (as I
can't) why humankind was unable to abandon warfare over 15
millennia. I have to bow before Mandela here who worked a
miracle in history within one country, and already a second
one has followed. He also lost a 7 years old child.<br>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484917577204_677918">C.
Andy Hilgartner, the belated pupil of the Polish theoretical
biologist<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484917577204_680473">
Alfred Korzybski</span>'s, must be mentioned here too, a
uniquely modest and independent active thinker almost a decade
my senior. And without ever having had any contact, I must
also acknowledge the strength and spirit of Freeman Dyson.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484917577204_676746">Presently,
we have the chance to pull a fledgling president over onto our
side. I still hope that one of his advisors can make it
plausible to him that, when the whole physics discipline
cannot renew the safety report of its "Big Bang drawn down
onto earth" experiment for nine years in a row, it is not a
bad idea to demand from them to first renew their for so long
outdated safety report LSAG before being allowed to continue
if they can. But at this point the needle in my vinyl has hit
a periodic orbit: Shall I start anew?</div>
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care, my dear friends -- your brother Otto</div>
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Here the quantum satellite <br>
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