Threesology Research Journal

The Study of Threes

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For those unfamiliar with the topic of "Threes", these three links can serve as an introduction to the recurring presence of "threes":

Numbers are not everywhere... unless you are applying/implying some sense of subitizing (involving different models of memorization) to the human brain. While the apparent standard is to address two types (Perceptual and Conceptual), let me add a 3rd:

Perceptual subitizing: (intuitive) which is the instant recognition of small quantities (typically up to 5).
Conceptual subitizing: (contemplative) which involves recognizing and combining smaller groups within a larger set to quickly determine the total.
Inceptual subitizing: (reflexive) impressed upon/built into the human psyche and can influence behavior unrecognizably at most times. Let us reference cultural, environmental and physiological forms which suggest a process of memorization analogous to "muscle memory".

I say that numbers are not everywhere, because I do not see the number 3 or some pattern-of-three everywhere. Sometimes some other number is more apparent. At other times, it involves a bit of creative thinking or rationalization to conceive/perceive a presumed sense of enumeration even if the final count is zero (nothingness), a singularity, a duality, or some plurality which we may or may not personally favor.

The Study of "threes" involves looking a bit more closely at this recurring phenomena as a sustained cognitive attribute of development and usage in multiple avenues of research such as Physics, Biology/Genetics/ Physiology/Anatomy, Literature, Logic/Philosophy, Mathematics, Literature/Fairy Tales, Numerology, Astrology, Speech writing, Art, Music, Gaming (Games and Gambling), Photography, Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics/Language, Military strategy/logistics, Politics, Criminology, Horse racing, Experimental procedures, Education, Superstition, Religion, Mythology, Computer science/language, etc... Yet, enumeration values do not always show up as a common number symbol. Sometimes number words are used and at other times one must be cognizant of a person or object expressing an enumeration in terms of activity in short, medium or extended periods of times under given singular and/or dual, and/or plural instances.

The study conducted by Alex Bellos concerning popular numbers is referentially supported by his view that ("We're always sensitive to arithmetical patterns, and this influences our behavior even if we're not conscious of it, and irrespective of our ability at maths.") While his online survey discovered that the number 7 was most popular among those who responded to his query, it is not placed into an analysis about the development of counting nor assorted other contextual applicable parameters of discovery as to why, when, where, how, etc... In particular, because no such similar study has ever been taken (at least not to my knowledge), we do not have a means of comparing whether this number had a similar, less than, or more poignant interest in the past, or if it is diminishing over time due to the presumed lessened influence of its advocacy by religions, which the public is apparently moving away from conventional religious ideology.

Since the 1990s, large numbers of Americans have left Christianity to join the growing ranks of U.S. adults who describe their religious identity as (1) atheist, (2) agnostic or (3) "nothing in particular."
Around the World, Many People Are Leaving Their Childhood Religions

While it is understood that there is evidence for people moving away from religion, we do not have any measurable evidence for them also leaving behind the (numerical or otherwise) superstitions commonly associated with a given religion. Such an idea is most often readily relegated to some supposition that is taken for granted without verification because we assume that a person leaving their religion also leaves behind any and all things which define it.

For example, we do not know whether the once born-into numerical superstitions have been exchanged for enumerations found in one or another science such as physics, chemistry or genetics... or if mathematics is being used as a substitute flavor of an old religious mentality, or if the superstitions being found in multiple types of gaming (gambling), etc..., are extensions of earlier models of thinking patterns which became supplanted into various other interests, some of which have adopted their own respective proofing methods and measurements as a defense against any notion they are simply modernized forms of ancient ideas which retain relabeled and rejacketed ancient ideas.

If numbers and combinations thereof are embedded in the (apparently receptive-to-enumeration) human psyche type of impressionability; what if the changes taking place are due to an unrecognized evolutionary change in human conceptualization which an exploration of the "threes phenomena" has helped to make clearer, even if it turns out that an interest in the "three" has a "tip of the iceberg" relevance when more information is gathered? In other words, researchers of the "threes phenomena" are cognizant of the possibility that it serves as a foot/hand hold to a higher branch of perception, it is not the only branch, tree, or overall vantage point. If not but a road sign marker or crumb seen along a wayward path, it has served a useful purpose.

Is there an interest in numbers overall for all humans, regardless of what that interest may be labeled, if labeled at all? What numbers are being added and which ones are losing favor of usage over time? Is a particular enumeration(s) to be found in an increased or decreased usage of numbers? How about an increase or decrease in the usage of Number-related words? What about Patterns of behavior exhibiting unrecognized enumerations that are not called expressions of an obsession or compulsion? Or is there a decrease even though one might think there is an increase only because of an increasing population using fewer enumerations but is misinterpreted to suggest an increase? In other words, if there are more people using one number yet the usage of multiple numbers by a smaller population has decreased, this could be falsely interpreted to mean an increased number usage.

In other words, we humans have not kept a sustained interest in enumeration over time to see whether there are any changes taking place. We have taken our overall usage of enumeration for granted. Because numbers (enumeration) plays such a large and distinguishing part in human life... and apparently Natural processes... A study of enumeration is important... Psychologically, Sociologically, Philosophically, etc., for us to keep abreast of, just like we do with consensus taking. It does not matter whether you personally think this aspect of human cognitive activity is important or not. Granted, future queries need to be broader and contain more respondents. We also need to differentiate which numbers are true orientations based on some aspect of culture, or are the result of some personalized creation. We also need to know if the number(s) is/are "set in stone" (so to speak), or are arbitrary conventions which change over time due to personal circumstances. For example, is one's interest in a given number cultivated by politics, religion, personal events/attributes, science, mathematics, art, music, etc...?

While numbers can be perceived as existing everywhere, let us not forget it is a tool made-up by humans who have sometimes claimed it as a gift/message from a god. In any respect, let us not become so overwhelmed by the usage of numbers we act like some ancient human who may well have looked to the night sky and became awe-struck as to the presence of such a large quantity and react to it as if someone momentarily looked towards the Sun without closing their eyes... which can produce a "startled breath" sensation that some ancient person no doubt interpreted as having had some communication or audience with a god/king. Indeed, while earlier humans may have expressed a sense of gasping at the sheer quantity, a few humans later on began to isolate the stars into groupings and count them. Upon counting them and stressing some believed-in importance to one and another grouping, we find that the quantity of seven was found. As a point to be touched upon later on in this article, the point to be stressed at this juncture is to acknowledge the presence of a behavior directed towards cognitive grouping coupled to counting, and that the counts were generally of a small quantity... thus stressing a recurrence of a former cognitive limit having been reached when humans began to partake of the journey into developing a counting system, that can be generalized as a "1-2-Many" scenario.

Though humans claim to have access to an infinity of numbers, we find that both humans and Nature tend towards the usage of a conservation of number... of both quantity and quality... which suggests an effort towards optimization by using available resources where a common phrase in the present era is "tweaking the system". This is not to say that one optimization is best overall, but characterizes application of available directions or codes which may be the optimal form of modeling which is actively present during developmental or pre-developmental scenarios. In physics, in biology, in chemistry, in a box of crayons, an artist's palette, the quantity of cylinders in an engine, the quantity of engines used in the space shuttle, building code requirements, troop unit sizing (squads, platoons, companies, battalions...), etc..., we see the use of limitations being imposed (as creations from someone's mind), thus possibly describing that there exists a limitation to our imaginative capability since it too is most likely inclined towards some measure of conservation as a survival mechanism in a planetary system with a course along an incrementally deteriorating line-of-sight for DNA's existence, despite its present adaptability in millions of life forms.

Recurring patterns-of-three for example, can be seen in the common use of taking 3 X-rays or using a 3-drug cocktail for multiple procedures such as the death penalty or 3 trimesters for pregnancy or holding a pen or pencil with three fingers, etc.... While in and of themselves these examples are commonly taken for granted, it is by collecting them and associating them under the topic of Recurring Cognitive Activity does the idea of a Pattern come to mind, particularly when this pattern-of-three is placed next to other enumerated patterns (for example):

Patterns-of-one (singularity, monism, circles...)
Patterns-of-two (dichotomies/dualities, pairs, parallel...)
Patterns-of-four (quadri...)
Patterns-of-five (quinta..., pentadactyl...)
Patterns-of-6, 7, 8, 9... 13... etc.,

The use of a hypothetical chart can be used as for those whose mind requires visual aids reminiscent of the idea that "seeing is believing". Because some people are visual and creative thinking, they may be inclined an image to go along with what they read, and yet that which they visualize may lead them astray of what I am trying to convey in a simple matter:

By placing such patterns together and making a simple count of quantity that will later be understood also in terms of quality, do we begin to realize we are dealing with recurring patterns in multiple subjects such as biology and all other activities which can lead us to better understand them as a phenomena which is, for the most part, misunderstood by different subjects:

Cultural Anthropologists/Anthropology (science of humanity) have made varying superficial (albeit distinctive) accounts of enumeration in human life...
- The views appear strikingly synonymous with ancient star gazers having created stories and myths about particular star groupings.
- The Meaning of Numbers Among Different Cultures by Day Translations
- The Number Three in the American Culture by Alan Dundez
- Numbers and their Meanings among Different Cultures by Nisar Nikzad
- The Symbolism of Numbers in Different Cultures: A Global Perspective by Athena Dykman
- The World's Most Popular Numbers by Alex Bellos
Psychologists are appreciably ignorant of enumeration in the context of human behavior and development.
- They are caught up in an ancient world of established Dichotomy, and know little of Trichotomization.

Examples of dualities underlying math usage.

Mathematicians are vaguely aware of underlying recurrences with the advent of set theory ideas.
- Mathematicians persist in retaining romanticized notions of Mathematics such as The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences (by Eugene Wigner)
- Another romanticized notion created by motion picture script writers is that numbers are fundamental and that all intelligent (alien) species will necessarily understand communication efforts based on human-designed mathematics... because humans believe their brand of mathematics is pure and universal.
- (Because of its top-heavy reliance on a foundation of dichotomies, I need to write a paper entitled "The Reasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences", or it wouldn't attempt to create different models of Trichotomy.)
- The underlying presence and usage of dualities in mathematics needs to be viewed as an expressed time-line feature of cognitive development where the dualities of yin/yang, Binomial Nomenclature in Biology, dualities in Psychology, and the Binary code of computers are sorted alongside trichotomization which, in Biology and basic counting development, reveals a 1-2-3 (set) of development.
Pseudo-sciences such as Numerology and Astrology have extremely narrowed focusing about enumeration.
- Listing examples of different enumerations without following up with a more comprehensive philosophy involving origination and possible predictabilities leaves such ideologies in the realm of relying solely on rationalized supposition and make-believe.
Writers in most genres are aware of enumeration for specialized applications typically involving some "rule of three".
- Such "rules-of-three" typically originate as a copy-cat scenario.
Military strategists/Logicians are not taught about cognitive enumeration values and use personal experiences thereof.
- Military academies typically teach a reliance on "predecessor role modeling" which are pre-established values to be incorporated into personal experiences to create an Egotistically framed chain of command embodied in sleeved patches and other emblems... instead of assisting students to embrace an understanding of cognitive enumerations from which an enlarged calculus of strategy and logistics can be formulated by noting limitation(s) and how to surmount them when needed in different terrains when no former history provides illumination of what to do in given circumstances; where personal creativity and originality of thought are the only rule-of-thumb by which decision making can best be applied to orders that may need to be modified as a requirement of flexibility that senior officers and enlisted memberships can appreciate and defer to if they have had training in cognitive enumeration studies beyond that discovered on the battlefield, changed duty stations, and changed occupations.
i>Artists continue to use their crafts as mediums for projecting impressions of cognitive enumeration events.
- Look at any artwork and you can see expressions of enumeration... that is if you are sensitively aware of such patterning and its multiple formulations. Some artists are keenly aware of their usage of enumeration, others less so, and others think to exceed such symbology and referencing for varying reasons... or excuses.
Musicians use their efforts to compile creative redundancies of enumeration frequently resulting in "hooks" as exercised repetitions.
Theologians/religion remain(s) superstitious about.
- There are multiple uses of number, but an exploration into the development of greater insight is nullified by a reliance on antiquated notions of enumeration defined as sacred and thus inviolable from realistic and non-rationalized investigation.
Eastern Philosophers/Philosophies practice adolescent orientations to.
- Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, etc., all have specialized "three" (and other number) uses which are treated in much the same manner as other religions do their orientations of enumeration.
Most normal/common/everyday people remain oblivious to the topic of cognitive enumerations though varieties appear with everyone (such as in simple 1-2-3 or A-B-C or person-place-thing or subject-object-verb counting, accounting methodology, filing, categorical ordering, shopping lists, time allocations, etc...).

And let me emphacise that yes, those of us interested in the topic of "threes" are familiar with other number and non-number patterns. However, let me be clear, I am interested in and prefer the Study of the Threes Phenomena which of late I have been referring to as "Trichotomization". While listing various examples of the "three" reference from different subjects is useful in that it provides evidence for its ubiquity (a word being used to describe its presence in multiple places), I am fully aware that it and its geometric models are absent from other circumstances.

For example, the common theme among Astronomers today is to speak in terms of "binary" planets. The word "binary" is used more often than singularity, trinary/ternary, quadruple, quintuple, etc... If the "three" had a significant cosmological importance, one might want to consider its absence from how the stars are arranged, unless we humans are too stupid to understand the larger picture, or/and the larger picture continues to unfold and/or the present moment in history is too early to provide an accurate picture of an unfolding "threes" theme... and/or we don't actually understand what a recurring "threes" them actually means... and not as some superstition, obsessive/compulsion, misidentification, misunderstanding, etc...

In other words the "three" (in whatever shape or form) is not being viewed by me as a god or some intellectually-grasped great cosmological truth and nor do I study the "threes phenomena" as a sanctified religious icon such as repeating a 3-lettered (A-U-M: OM) mantra. Granted, as I have gathered information over several decades, I have had to adjust my thinking in accord with the evidence being uncovered... and it has nothing whatsoever to do with some religion or Eastern Philosophy... Despite those that have cast the dichtomy/trichotomy idea into the superficiality of religion: Dichotomy vs. Trichotomy: Biblical and Theological Perspectives

Om, in Hinduism and other religions chiefly of India, a sacred syllable that is considered to be the greatest of all the mantras, or sacred formulas. The symbol Om is composed of the three sounds a-u-m (in Sanskrit, the vowels a and u coalesce to become o), which represent several important triads: the three worlds of earth, atmosphere, and heaven; the three major Hindu gods, Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva; and the three sacred Vedic scriptures, Rg, Yajur, and Soma. Thus Om mystically embodies the essence of the entire universe. It is uttered at the beginning and end of Hindu prayers, chants, and meditations and is freely used in Buddhist and Jaina ritual also. From the 6th century, the written symbol designating the sound is used to mark the beginning of a text in a manuscript or an inscription. The syllable is discussed in a number of the Upanishads, which are the texts of philosophical speculation, and it forms the entire subject matter of one, the Mandukya. It is used in the practice of Yoga and is related to techniques of auditory meditation. In the Puranas the syllable is put to sectarian use; thus the Saiva mark the lingam, or sign of Siva, with the symbol for Om, whereas the Vaishnava identify the three sounds as referring to a trinity composed of Vishnu, his wife Sri, and the worshipper.

Britannica: OM

Interestingly, the topic of "auditory meditation" does not typically direct people to look at the construction of the human Ear, nor make any effort to look at language and linguistics, not to mention speech making or story creation in which the "3" theme plays a dramatic role. In other words, the recurring "threes" in the ear would seem to suggest that we can experimentally create a means to test the hypothesis that if the human ear was other-than-three patterned, human speech and cognition might well be different.

Recurring patterns-of-three in the human ear

To me, the recurring "threes" in our biology, anatomy and ideology suggests an ongoing environmental influence related to the Sun, Earth and Moon. Hence, as the environmental conditions which have prevailed for the development of our biology continue to change, we might also be able to detect changes initially in our ideologies, since they seem to be most vulnerable to external and internal influence. In other words, there are three distinct environmental events which have the potential for change and influence:

The Sun is said to enlarge as it burns out, thus "fusing" or melding the three innermost planets into a singularity (hence, a 3 into 1 ratio like the Christian idea of 3 persons in 1 godhead... which suggests the idea of the Trinity originates with ancient (pagan) solar orientations adopted by multiple mainstream religions... most of which did not necessarily worship the Sun, and instead practiced an active orientation towards it by devising multiple types of nature/fertility practies.)
The Moon is receding, thus effecting a slow down in the "washing machine effect" that tides supply.
The Earth's rotation is slowing, which means it was faster in the past and created the condition in which the Sun's 3 phases/moments (dawn- noon- dusk) were illuminating early photosensitive building blocks of life with a 3-patterned strobe-light effect undergoing a "fusion" as the Sun enlarges and the Earth slows.

Studying the "threes" phenomena takes a person into multiple subjects and forces reinterpretations of information. I see other patterns just as you do, but interpret them differently. For example, the number "7" is not sacred to me, but neither is the number "3". I look at both of them and other patterns and attempt to place them into separate as well as a collective categorization relative to human conceptualization. With respect to a different pattern such as the widely liked number "7", a few examples need only be listed in order for the reader to better comprehend that I too have paid witness to its variety of examples, but that such examples pale in comparison to those examples found for the number 3. Though there are others such as the 7 dwarves of Sleeping Beauty, 7 stars of the Big Dipper, 7 holes in a Ritz cracker, 7 continent emblem on Jeep vehicles, 7 layers of skin idea (typically cited by some adolescents), 7 "teen" years (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19), the 7th Calvary of Lt. Colonel George Custer that was wiped out by the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians at the Little Big Horn in Montana at The Battle of the Little Big Horn, etc...

3-pronged movements during Custer's command days

Note: Colonel Custer had 3 Indian scouts, he turned down 3 gatling guns and divided his command into 3 groups.

Here are a few more "seven" examples culled from this site: Seven sisters.

The seven deadly sins (lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride)
The seven virtues (chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, kindness, patience, and humility
The seven classical planets (The Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn)
The Pleiades, the seven daughters of Atlas
The seven metals of antiquity (gold, silver, iron, mercury, tin, copper, and lead)
The seven heavens
The seven days of the week
The seven colors in the rainbow
The seven seas
The seven continents
The seven climatic zones
The seven wonders of the ancient world
The seven notes in the Western (diatonic) musical scale

However, though you may be impressed by the foregoing list, take another look and pay witness to the absence of examples from multiple sciences such as Physics, Biology, Linguistics, etc... Indeed, if DNA had a seven code and the Earth was the 7th planet (which it is if we count from Pluto inwards), then I too would be impressed at the recurrence of this value... except it doesn't so I am not particularly interested in the recurrence of a pattern which does not have a secure presence in multiple genres of study and value:

Is it more important to count from the Sun outwards or Pluto inwards to determine the position of the Earth?

The first cracker is the Ritz variety. How do we account for a lack of some number (hole) values being used in the baking of crackers?:

In addition, if we look to the past and make an attempt to identify why the "7" became such an important pattern to ancient peoples whose influence continues to this day without those of the present (who are interested in the number "7") realizing; it is of need to point out 3 major celestial references which star gazers of antiquity were awed over and used as "evidence" that the presumed divinity of the Star alignments as seen by humans was related to the domain of a god(s) and was a required orientation for humans who wanted to believe in a personalized relationship with an assumed "higher" (overhead) power to be later described with three “omni” attributes of God:

Omnipotence (all-powerful)
Omniscience (all-knowing)
Omnipresence (present everywhere)

3 Celestial observations which influenced the idea that the number "7" was of great significance to ancient peoples and whose influence lingers today in the minds of those attached to primitive ideologies which they are oblivious to:

7 stars of the Big Dipper
- Seen during the 2 Solstices and 2 Equinoxes, the Big Dipper becomes the Swastika
7 stars of the Pleiades (also called the seven sisters)
7 planets ("wanderers") visible without a telescope: Mercury, Venus, Moon, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn

Another classic example of a "7" topic with an overlooked "3" pattern, at least in the subject of Psychology, is George Miller's 1956 paper entitled The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information. The "3 pattern" exists within the title: 7 + or - 2 yields the value of 5 - 7 - 9, even though one field of research after another, including University requirements for having a modicum of math knowledge... has ever noted the existence of the simple math equation and made reference to it in terms of human cognitive development in the context of biological development.

Not a single person since 1956 has ever made mention of the presence of the three-pattern. However, we should not expect too much insight from a field of study which embraces a pattern-of-2 (dualities/dichotomies) as a major/primary underlying world-view, just as we see in Mathematics, Computer code and the old Chinese Yin-g/Yang ideology... all of whom do not have an observable understanding of trichotomization though individuals within those respective fields have attempted different measures of exceeding the dominant and prominent "2-patterned" orientation. Understanding Trichotomization requires a whole new type of conceptualization that one might playfully entitle as a Third Consciousness... (Apperception- Perception- Properception of Trichotomization as part of a developmental 1- 2- 3 developmental sequencing.)

Summaries in brief (initiated for the present truncated model of re-posting):

Trichotomization: A fledgling field of study incorporating various labels such as Threesology, tripartite ideology, threeism, triadism, triunity, treble, ternary, etc..., found in different guises in multiple subjects.
- Identifies possible origination(s) of three-patterned ideological constructs.
- Identifies potential changes in cognitive adoption of tripartite patterning in contrast to other patterns.
- Identifies probabilities of further structuring over time under given biological, environmental, sociological, educational, industrial, etc., pressures...
Threes Posters series: Compiled examples from different subjects with a "three" related theme. (Rendered as a collage in which some similar items may be referenced together. I was not trying to be artistic, I was simply trying to cram multiple ideas into a small space.)
Evolutionary Psychodynamics series: Psychology has a persistent usage of duality/dichotomization and is (for the most part), unaware of how deep and widespread the human mind has evolved into... and relies on trichotomy/trichotomization; which is a problematic issue that creates a need for altering institutionally used philosophies to make a deliberate accounting of numerically-based cognitive patterning.
Images speaking for themselves: It is of need (at times) to display images without commentary because they are able to invoke the repertoires of individualized imaginations. The old adage "one picture is worth a thousand words" comes to mind just as its obverse: "One word is worth a thousand pictures." Hence, a gallery of images I have collected and created for the Threesology site may be of greater value to some viewers than a particular supplemental commentary.

Looking through history we can find individuals deliberately (or unknowingly) using a pattern-of-three as a main organizational tool for their research efforts such as:

Georges Dumezil's Tripartite Ideology
Dr. McNulty's List of threes in Human anatomy
G.W. Hegel's triads
Herbert Spencer's Triads
Immanuel Kant's 3 Critiques (Each of Kant's three critiques is divided into the same three parts: (1) an "analytic," or analysis of reason's right functioning, (2) a "dialectic," or logic of error, showing the pitfalls into which a careless reason falls, and (3) a "methodology," an arrangement of rules for practice... Source: "philosophy, Western." Encyclopædia Britannica, 2013.) 3 early dissertations: De Igne (On Fire), Monodologia physica (1756), Principiorum Primorum Cognitionis Metaphysicae Nova Dilucidato (1755), (on the first principles of metaphysics. Source: "Kant, Immanuel." Encyclopædia Britannica, 2013.)
Triads in Classical European mythology (various authors other than Dumezil)
Literature (i.e. Fairy tales discussed by numerous authors)
etc... In other words, some writers do use one or more patterns-of-three but not all of them... only those whose consciousness has ventured near the realm of a 3rd consciousness. In fact, most do not appear to be particularly focused on using an explicit "three" theme, whether they are consciously aware of it or not, and may only use such a theme for one story, one song, one painting, etc...

Here is a handful of others noted for using a 3-part theme, though the expression may have been the result of some later researchers having coined it, and the actual author of the cited philosophy did not themselves use the pattern-of-three with any repeated distinction or elaboration:

St. Augustine's Philosophy:	Memory ~ Understanding ~ Will
Comte's Philosophy:	Great Being ~ Great Medium ~ Great Fetish
Hegel's 3 Spirits:	Subjective Spirit ~ 0bjective Spirit ~ Absolute Spirit
Plotinu's Philosophy:	One ~ One Many ~ One and Many
Aristotle's 3 Unities:	Unity of Action ~ Unity of Time ~ Unity of Place
Sir F. Bacon's 3 Tables:	Presence ~ Absence ~ Degree
Albert Einstein's Mass to Energy equivalency formula:	E (equals) M (times) C²
Thomas Hobbes's 3 Fields:	Physics ~ Moral Philosophy ~ Civil Philosophy
Immanuel Kant's 3 Critiques:	Pure Reason ~ Practical Reason ~ Judgment
Averroes's 3 Commentaries:	Little ~ Middle ~ Great
Karl Marx's 3 isms:	Communism ~ Socialism ~ Capitalism
Woodrow Wilson's 3 isms:	Colonialism ~ Racism ~ Anti-Communism
Hippocrates's Mind Disorders:	Mania ~ Melancholia ~ Phrenitis
Emile Durkeim's 3 Suicides:	Egoistic ~ Altruistic ~ Anomic
D. Liesman's 3 Social Characters:	Tradition-directed ~ Inner-directed ~ Other-directed
Erich Fromm's 3 Symbols:	The Conventional ~ The Accidental ~ The Universal
Pythagoras's "fusion" idea:	Monarchy ~ Oligarchy ~ Democracy (into harmonic whole)
M.L. King Jr.'s "Middle Road":	Acquiescence ~ Nonviolence ~ Violence
Kierkegaard's 3 Stages:	Aesthetic ~ Ethical ~ Religious
Husserl's 3 Reductions:	Phenomenological ~ Eidetic ~ Religious
St. Augustine's 3 Laws:	Divine Law ~ Natural Law ~ Temporal, or positive Law
Witness Stand "Laws":	Tell the Truth ~ The whole Truth ~ Nothing but the Truth
Julius Caesar's self proclaimed expression:	Veni- Vidi- Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered)
Titus Carus's 3 Ages:	Stone Age ~ Bronze Age ~ Iron Age
Feuerbach's 3 Thoughts:	God, 1st Thought ~ Reason, 2nd ~ Man, 3rd
Magnus's 3 Universals:	Ante Rem ~ In Rem ~ Post Rem
Max Weber's 3 Authorities:	Traditional ~ Charismatic ~ Legal-rational
F. de Sausure's 3 "Signs":	Sign ~ Signified ~ Signifier
Charles Pierces 3 "Signs":	Qualisign ~ Sinsign (token) ~ Legisign
John Keynes's 3 Eras:	Scarcity ~ Abundance ~ Stabilization
George Mead's 3 Distinctions:	Self ~ I ~ Me
Thrasher's 3-group Gangs:	Inner Circle ~ Rank & File ~ Fringers
Christian J. Thomsen's three-part system of prehistory:	Stone, Bronze, Iron ages (Describing the successive stages of man's technological development in Europe.)
Abe Lincoln's 3-For-All:	Of the People ~ By the People ~ For the People
Jesus Christ's 3 Praises:	In the name of the Father ~ Son ~ Holy Spirit
Division of Time by multiple authors:	Past- Present- Future
Samuel Clemmons' 3 lies: (Mark Twain)	Lies ~ Damned Lies ~ Statistics

3-part Logic Thesis ~ Antithesis ~ Synthesis Indulgence ~ "Middle Way" ~ Ascetism Major Premise ~ Minor Premise ~ Conclusion Contradiction ~ Excluded Middle ~ Identity Principal
"God-ology": Omnipresent Omnipotent Omniscient	"Metaphysics-ology": What is real How change comes What is mind	Marxian "Dialectology": Unity of opposites Quantity & quality Negation of negation
Epistemology: How we know What is truth What is mind	Axiology: Nature of good Nature of beautiful Nature of religious	Ontology: Quality (1st-ness) Relation (2nd-ness) Representation (3rd-ness)

3 times the fool: You can fool some people some of the time - Some people all the time - But not all people all the time.
3 traditional syllogism forms: Categorical - Hypothetical - Disjunctive
3-patterned (adult) basic syllogism: All ravens are black - Jack is a raven - Therefore, Jack is black.
3-patterned (child) basic syllogism: Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear- Fuzzy Wuzzy had not hair- Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't Fuzzy was he?
3 basic computer logic gates: AND- OR- NOT
3-parts betting formula: Rock- Scissors- Paper
3 sentence ending marks: Period- Question mark- Exclamation point
3 traditional grading levels: A(plus)- A- A(minus)
3 common classroom tests: True/False- Multiple choice- Essay
3 separate Stone Age Periods: Paleolithic Period, Mesolithic Period, and Neolithic Period (based on the degree of sophistication in the fashioning and use of tools. Source: "Stone Age." Encyclopædia Britannica, 2013.)
3 Metal Ages: {approximate dates] Bronze Age (2300–700 BCE)- Iron Age (700–1 BCE)- Copper Age (c. 3200–2300 BCE). {At this time, societies in Europe began consciously to produce metals.) Source: "Europe, history of." Encyclopædia Britannica, 2013.
3 German fathers of Botany: Otto Brunfels, Hieronymus Bock (Latinized to Tragus), Leonhard Fuchs (Source: "genetics." Encyclopædia Britannica, 2013.)
3 Foundation Stallions: Byerly Turk, Darley Arabian, Goldolphin barb
3 Foundation Stallion direct-line descendants: Matchem- King Herod- Eclipse
3, upper right computer screen corner indicators: Minimize- Maximize- Close
3 laws of motion, 3 laws of planetary motion, 3 (Asimov) laws of robots
3-patterned "arbitrarily chosen" math tool used in Electronics: ^-15 10^-12 10^-9 10^-6 10^-3 ... 10³ 10⁶ 10⁹ 10¹² 10¹⁵ ...etc.

3-patterned formulas:

C = pi x D	(Circumference of a Circle)	E = H x V	(Planck's Constant)
A = L x W	(Area of a Rectangle)	P = I x E	(Watt's "Law")
A = 1/2B x H	(Area of a Triangle)	E = I x R	(Ohm's "Law")
A = pi x R²	(Area of a Circle)	E = V₁ + V₂	(Kirchhoffs Voltage Law)
E = M x C²	(Einstein's formula)	P = R x B	(Percentage formulas)
Z = E_g ÷ I_g	(Thevenin impedance formula)	A² + B² = C²	(Pythagorean theorem)

However, it is not enough to list different examples of "threes", regardless of how many different types of subjects you include. You must reach the point in your listing efforts to recognize some pattern which can be used as a unifying theme of further exploration, if not provide some eventual explanation, which represents some commanding theme for additional considerations from other observant individuals. What I see is a developmental 1-2-3 scenario having occurred in biology. Because our brain and hence our consciousness are inextricably intertwined, it is not unwarranted to consider the possibility that human consciousness has the potential to develop what I describe as a "Third Consciousness" that is already a theme of consideration in multiple ideologies which have not established any observable facts to back up their claims. Biological development does. This does not mean their particular claims are correct, but there does exist an identifiable biologically-based criteria for thinking about the existence of such a "Higher" consciousness potentiality.

Note: I do not in any way advocate attaching any presumed preeminence to any metaphysical or spiritualistically- oriented idea which has practiced the consideration of some "higher consciousness" inclusive of their particular ideology, be it Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Christianity, New Age Hyper consciousness, or other similarly focused indulgences. Such ideas are like Mathematicians who speak of a "Pure Mathematics" or Musicians who speak of a "Pure note" (or Pure sound), though other subjects (such as sports with the idea of reaching a "zone") have their own respective notions of that which exists beyond the norm and you must perform one or more duties, tests, tasks, contests, deprivations, sufferings, contortions, rituals, [physical/mental/emotional mantra], etc., in order to provide oneself a means of achieving such a state of vaguely defined, understood, and illustrated realization. All of them are on a course of soon-to-be-outdated survival mechanisms, even though each of them in their own way are sensitively aware of the human potential for achieving a 3rd consciousness... just not in the model which they ascribe to. Their ideas of Heaven, of Nirvana, or other superior place or existence of being, are to be viewed as little more than a basement (subway, sub-flooring, or ground floor) variety of an actual 3rd consciousness.

Coupled to this idea is the realization that an additional influence of consciousness development exists in the relationship between the Sun-Earth-Moon Trio. Simply put, the fast rate of the Earth's rotation billions of years ago presented early biological macromolecules with at 3-patterned strobe light effect established by the Sun's irradiation of a fast spinning Earth. As such, if the influence is an actuality to be established by experimentation and not sit on some theological or mystical shelf of traditional belief lasting for centuries, then further slowing may necessarily effect a "fusion" event of the 3 solar phases (moments); thereby continuing to influence a 3-to- 1 ratio expression of which there are multiple examples such as Mendelian genetics, the Christian trinity (3 persons in 1 godhead), a 3-branched government (functioning as a singular unit), the universally used 3 colors in 1 street signal, 1 pen/pencil held with three fingers, etc...

As such, let me provide a couple of similar images which gives some indication of where my thinking is directed towards at the present time:

The idea of a developing 3rr consciousness aligned with developmental biology

Place value notation pattern seen in biology

However, it may be much too early in the development of humanity to appreciate a full realization of what is taking place due to the influence of the environment on biology which in turn plays a role in our developing perceptions over time.

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