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The idea that the use of dualities represent a type of cognitive wobbling, should be taken seriously. There are events and activities in our lives which serve as a list of formative influences or constructs from which other dualities have arisen to be used as models of influence and even intimidation or threat to convince others in the continuing usage of dualities when it would be evolutionarily more profitable for the species to adopt trichotomization, as that seen in multiple Natural occurrences (particle physics, biology/genetics, human anatomy... ).
While Psychology does try to utilize a "rule of three" in terms of trying to lead patients somewhere in between two (or multiple) extremes, for the most part it eschews the usage of anything related directly to a theme of 3; particularly when the research which leads them away from this conceptualization is based on some duality, whether recognized and itemized or not. However, Psychology and other Institutionally organized ideas (which includes Mathematics), relies heavily on the use of dichotomies as a formative structure and then builds on it with more dualities, with only a handful of excursions into trichotomization. Trichotomization is neither taught in classrooms as an identifiable cognitive capacity, nor appropriately used as a valuation beyond duality. Instead, the idea of a third place as a viable alternative is not seen but imagined as a construct simply because one stands aside a fire and frying pan, though in the vicinity of both! A place near a hot fire and frying pan is not an actual third option, but the extension of a centrality as an attempted triangulation... and yet the so-called third option is a part of the formula. Hence, the Pythagorean formula is a stretched variety of a duality, though we are taught to think of it as a three-part reality. It is a syllogism (sillygism) which requires three parts to make two of them work as a duality. For example, we have a Major and Minor Premise attached with a conclusion. Only with the conclusion do we acclimate ourselves to a fuller understanding of the underlying duality.
Like having a ruler with enlarged enumerations of "1" and "2" set in a linear fashion and then construct multiple points of intervals, as if to mark the spots in a race denoting a Tortoise and Hare used as an example of the Calculus; this is the state of duality... even though humanity has the potential to develop an actual cognitive base of trichotomization similar to that construct we see occurring in particle physics and biology, and several people are working on to create the next generation of computers with. It is ridiculous not to think that a psychology that uses dichotomies will not be able to design effective treatments, so long as the patient is steeped in a mindset of dichotomization themselves. Yet if they are cognitively in a transitional state of Trichotomization, it is doubtful that any duality-focused treatment will be effective. Show a person a large script of three-patterned examples from different subjects, and watch how they react. You might well be surprised to apprize a reaction which appears to indicated some recognition of the theme... as if the person's mind has already been venturing there. Other number patterns do not provide the Length, Width, Depth and overall volume of items to be found in a landscape of trichotomization. Such a list provides observant people with a formative anchoring for furthering cognitive explorations. Those who are steeped heavily into dichotomies or patterns-of-two may well act defensively an negatively to such an exposition. But don't take my word for it. Try it.
What I am saying is that our human activity of bipedal walking may be a recurring form of influence on thinking. Bipedal walking goes hand in hand with the use of dualities, though if we look closely at examples of anatomical "twos" such as the ears, we can identify structures exhibiting a pattern-of-three. The same goes for several skeletal examples such as the two arms and two legs where the bones respectively exhibit the 3-patterning of 1-bone, 2- bones, many bones. Though comparative anatomists decided on using the term "Pentadactyl", meaning five in quantity, this reference is a simple narrative to the more complex observation where a pattern-of-three can be sighted and use alternatively as a reference to early attempts at developing a counting theme as a sort of trace element of mental/brain development.
Understanding the topic of bipedalism and then linking it with the use of dualities can provide a useful alternative for thinking about how the use of dualities remains a persistence in many professions. Let us take a short stroll into a discussion of bipedalism with the following excerpt:
Bipedalism: a major type of locomotion, involving movement on two feet.
The order Primates possesses some degree of bipedal ability. All primates sit upright. Many stand upright without supporting their body weight by their arms, and some, especially the apes, actually walk upright for short periods. The view that the possession of uprightness is a solely human attribute is untenable. Humans are merely the one species of the order that has exploited the potential of this ancestry to its extreme.
Chimpanzees, gorillas and gibbons, macaques, spider monkeys, capuchins, and others are all frequent bipedal walkers. To define humans categorically as "bipedal" is not enough; to describe them as habitually bipedal is nearer the truth, but habit as such does not leave its mark on fossil bones. Some more precise definition is needed. The human walk has been described as striding, a mode of locomotion defining a special pattern of behaviour and a special morphology. Striding, in a sense, is the quintessence of bipedalism. It is a means of traveling during which the energy output of the body is reduced to a physiological minimum by the smooth undulating flow of the progression. It is a complex activity involving the joints and muscles of the whole body, and it is likely that the evolution of the human gait took place gradually over a period of 10 million years or so.
The pattern of locomotion of human ancestors immediately preceding the acquisition of bipedalism has long been a matter of controversy, and the question has not yet been resolved. The evidence derived from anatomic, physiological, and biochemical studies for the close affinity of chimpanzees and humans, and the slightly less close affinity of gorillas, would suggest that humans evolved from a knuckle-walking ancestry. There have been claims that the wrist anatomy of australopithecines shows remnant knuckle-walking adaptations. The issue is still hotly debated, and some authorities continue to support a brachiation model for the ancestry of all the apes. Other authorities have proposed other solutions: semibrachiation, for example, and even a form of locomotion similar to that of tarsiers and other clingers and leapers. At the present time, there is insufficient information to elucidate the phylogeny of the human bipedal gait, except that it can be assumed to have involved a large measure of truncal uprightness.
J.R. Napier, Director, Unit of Primate Biology, Birkbeck College, University of London. Coauthor of A Handbook of Living Primates; The Natural History of the Primates. ("bipedalism." Encyclopædia Britannica, 2013.)
Dualities can be thought of as a mental, a cognitive, an intellectual form of bipedalism, though very many emotional counterparts are identified.
The only way to appropriately think of duality is to propose it as a spectrum involving three dimensions of cognitive currency. While it is correct for the many who are interested in the topic of duality to speak of it as being an expressed model of linear thinking which constructs diametrically opposed idea, there are those who also rightly use the word "duality" (and its alternative labels such as binary, dichotomy, opposite, dyad, etc...) to bring attention to those ideas suggesting a complement, or complimentarity, such as how the Old Chinese idea of the Yin/Yang listings are frequently defined... that is, not as contrasting antagonists, but contrasting protagonists engaged in a beneficial symbioses.
However, if we use the biologically used term "symbioses" and note the frequently cited 3 models, we can thus see a close resemblance to different types of duality, since the word symbioses is used to describe relationships between two life forms. And while most readers may visually portray them in terms of a left to right or right to left occurrence synonymous with side to side, side by side, or aside; we also have top to bottom variety such as when we say a top down or bottom up hierarchy or approach to a problem. In both cases however, this may also invite the idea of linear thinking with attempts to view alternative ideas as thinking outside the Box and instead of a linear 1-dimension we have a suggested 2-dimensional variety, which necessarily brings some to think in terms of 3-dimensions so that the idea of chess moves (Horizontal- Vertical- Diagonal) come to mind. And those attempting a one-upmanship event by using mathematics to suggest more than three dimensions are trying to add different words to explain a spectrum they may be unfamiliar with, find to boring, or would rather be associated with since so many use the word "spectrum" as if to enlist the notion of superior thinking in their usage of analogy.
However, most often I encounter those who use the word "spectrum" to suggest multiplicity while at the same time engaged in several linear forms of thinking in terms of dualities. While variations of Horizontal and Vertical dualities are referenced by most, we do not see the same conversations speaking in terms of the 3rd dimensional expression involving diagonality. In addition, an explanation of differently directed dualities has been expressed as a entablatured wobbling effect where the idea of wobbling table has been used but my use of the word "entablature" seems more appropriate because it allows for geological shifts in one's thinking where an ideological earthquake of small, medium, or large seismic-like intellectual activity are held in relative stasis by cross-current beams tying the dichotomy together, and yet only later in Architecture was the added feature of a diagonally placed support beam added, and is not routinely used for various applications, yet few have recognized the analogy with cognitive forays into the 3 types of recurring structures of duality.
Instead of singular sounds being used as an initiating system of clang associations found in some mental health issues, I can see the use of different ideas arising out of words such as the visual aid of a wobbling table to portray an image of duality in motion, the view that the use of duality as a significant orientation in both Psychology and Mathematics (as well as computer language) is viewed as a type of wide-spread social neurosis and the idea of wobbling can be extended to including other wobbling phenomena such as the wobble (eccentricity) of the earth as a spinning top, and the wobbling event in genetics, both of which rely on relatively unseen gyroscopes for stability. Examples of how the word "wobbling" is used in different contexts can be seen as examples of describing perceived instances of duality though the topic of discussion is not specific about dualities. The perceive motions involved in different contexts shows how linear our thinking is even when Nature is providing alternative directions for compilation of ideas. And though different geometric forms and illustrations may be used, the use of simplified dualities is at the core of many observations, even though the actual events occur in a trichotomy. For whatever reason, many people seem to prefer the use of dichotomization and be oblivious to the notion of trichotomization.
For example, multiple ideas spin around conversations involving one topic or another (such as duality) and there are those who seek to speak of a "core" or eye of a storm, but fail to take into account the direction an idea is being spun (Clockwise or Windershins), as well as the velocity and encapsulations of its sprawl. Thinking lineally and in 1 or 2 dimensions presents us with a view of duality that may not be the central topic of orientation for those who have practiced thinking in terms of 3 dimensions and take into account the 3 chess moves, though the terms and context of attempting to implant a 3-dimensional perspective of duality falls short of the mark for changing the perspective of the larger society due to the embeddedness of simplistic modles of dualism being used by many institutions. In addition, attempting to use unconventional analogies for dualities is made more difficult if one uses more complex images where simple this and that illustrations are not expressed. But we should acknowledge that the use of duality has produced many intellectual storms...
.Wobbling... in astronomy, a small irregularity in the precession of the equinoxes. Precession is the slow, toplike wobbling of the spinning Earth, with a period of about 26,000 years. Nutation (Latin nutare, "to nod") superimposes a small oscillation, with a period of 18.6 years and an amplitude of 9.2 seconds of arc, upon this great slow movement. The cause of nutation lies chiefly in the fact that the plane of the Moon's orbit around the Earth is tilted by about 5° from the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun. The Moon's orbital plane precesses around the Earth's in 18.6 years, and the effect of the Moon on the precession of the equinoxes varies with this same period. The British astronomer James Bradley announced his discovery of nutation in 1748. ("nutation." Encyclopædia Britannica, 2013. )
The Wobble Hypothesis, by Francis Crick, states that the 3rd base in an mRNA codon can undergo non-Watson-Crick base pairing with the 1st base of a tRNA anticodon.
The mRNA codon’s first 2 bases form Hydrogen bonds with their corresponding bases on the tRNA anticodon in the usual Watson-Crick manner, in that they only form base pairs with complimentary bases. However, the formation of Hydrogen bonds between the 3rd base on the codon and the 1st base on the anticodon can potentially occur in a non-Watson-Crick manner. Therefore different base pairs to those usually seen can form at this position.
Flexible Base Pairing at the 3rd Position of the "codon-anticodon duplex".
- If A is at the 3rd position in the codon it can base pair with U or I, if either of these is present at the 1st position in the anticodon.
- If U is at the 3rd position in the codon it can base pair with A, G or I, if either of these is present at the 1st position in the anticodon.
- If G is at the 3rd position in the codon it can base pair with C or U, if either of these is present at the 1st position in the anticodon.
- If C is at the 3rd position in the codon it can base pair with G or I, if either of these is present at the 1st position in the anticodon.
I is the nucleoside Inosine that is formed in tRNA by the removal of an amino group from adenosine. A process that is carried out by an enzyme called anticodon deaminase. (Initial page source is no longer available. The copy I have provides this as their source: Wobble hypothesis).
Wobbling... in gunnery, rebound of a projectile that strikes a hard surface, or the rebounding projectile itself. At one time a form of fire known as ricochet was widely used; artillery was aimed to permit the shot to strike and rebound in a succession of skips. The invention of this type of fire in the late 17th century, usually attributed to the French military engineer Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, greatly influenced both sieges and field operations. A shot could be aimed to skip over lines of fortification and reach areas immune from direct fire. During World War II, ricochet fire was occasionally used with delayed-action fuses so that airbursts occurred after initial impact.
In modern rifle shooting, the word ricochet is applied only to the graze of a bullet that has struck short. A modern bullet that has ricocheted can inflict a large and irregular wound because it is no longer spinning on its long axis but wobbling erratically at high velocity. ("ricochet." Encyclopæia Britannica, 2013.)
Wobbling in tropical cyclones... In addition to deep convective cells (compact regions of vertical air movement) surrounding the eye, there are often secondary cells arranged in bands around the centre. These bands, commonly called rainbands, spiral into the centre of the storm. Both the primary cloud band associated with the eyewall and the outer rainbands can be seen in the diagram. In some cases the rainbands are stationary relative to the centre of the moving storm, and in other cases they seem to rotate around the centre. The rotating cloud bands often are associated with an apparent wobbling of the storm track. If this happens as the tropical cyclone approaches a coastline, there may be large differences between the forecast landfall positions and actual landfall...("tropical cyclone." Encyclopædia Britannica, 2013.)
In discussions of duality we find that they are not actually antagonistic to trichotomization, but take the forefront of many discussions and are called a persistence in Psychology, though we could state the same about Mathematics, since it too reads like a chart of dualities like the binary code of computers and that of the Yin/Yang. The point however is that we need to ask ourselves is why? Why the persistence in spite of the very many instances of trichotomy occurring in biology and anatomy? Is it a normal brain function or a normalized one due to our life style? Instead of searching for some answer deep in genetics the answer may lay simply in the recurrence of an activity such a bipedalism, where humanity has used it as a transport vehicle and in later times applied a 3-part military cadence of left-right-left to, though only two words are used. The stride of humanity may well be used as the instructor that wields a very influential whip to make us adopt the rhythm of the bipedal stride, though in the following excerpt let us note three distinctions of locomotion. Please not the use of the word "waddle" instead of wobble, though the two are relatively compatible, though I have seen several people whose appearance while walking appears to be a waddle though the word "sway" might be used instead. In context, the use of dualties may well signal a sway, a waddle, a wobble, a toggling effect of a mind trained by a physical activity associated with an earlier developmental theme. And yet, the reader should not be so indulging to accept the idea of a side to side (or side by side) movement as the only type of duality. For example, peristaltic movement of food through one's gut, and burrowing animals/insects also display a basic dichotomous orientation just as does the development of the mouth/anus in most applications, but not all, since there is evidence for the mouth and anus having developed on the same side in some instances.
Bipedalism is not unique to humans, though our particular form of it is. Whereas most other mammalian bipeds (1) hop or (2) waddle, we (3) stride. Homo sapiens is the only mammal that is adapted exclusively to bipedal striding. Unlike most other mammalian orders, the primates have hind-limb-dominated locomotion. Accordingly, human bipedalism is a natural development from the basic arboreal primate body plan, in which the hind limbs are used to move about and sitting upright is common during feeding and rest. ("human evolution." Encyclopædia Britannica, 2013.)
Burrowing bivalve mollusks, such as clams, use the (1) contract– (2) anchor– (3) extend locomotor mode. Such bivalves have a large muscular foot that contains longitudinal and transverse muscles as well as a hemocoel (blood cavity). The digging cycle begins with the extension of the foot by contraction of the transverse muscles. The siphons (tubular-shaped organs that carry water to and from the gills) are closed, and the adductor muscle of the shell contracts, thereby forcing blood into the tip of the foot and causing it to dilate. With the tip acting as an anchor, the longitudinal muscles then contract, pulling the body down to the anchored foot. Frequently, the longitudinal muscles contract in short steps and alternate between the left and right sides; this causes the shell to wobble and penetrate deeper as it is pulled down. ("locomotion." Encyclopædia Britannica.)
Appendages of arthropods have been adapted for all types of locomotion—walking, pushing, running, swimming, and burrowing. In most arthropods the legs move alternately on the two sides of the body; i.e., when one leg is in a power stroke, its mate on the opposite side of the body is in the recovery stroke (the same is true of mammals when walking). The legs in front or back are a little ahead or behind in the movement sequence. Because of the lateral position of the legs, the body of an arthropod tends to hang between them. Leg interference and trunk wobble tend to be problems in an animal with a long trunk and many legs, such as a millipede or centipede.
Most arthropods have evolved more compact bodies and a smaller number of legs. The number of pairs of legs used in walking is not more than seven (crustacean pill bugs), four or five (shrimps and crabs), four (arachnids), and three (insects). This reduces the problem of mechanical interference. When a ghost crab, for example, is running rapidly across a beach or dune, only the second, third, and fourth pairs of the five pairs of legs (counting the claws) are employed. Leg interference is further reduced in most arthropods by varying limb length and placement. For example, in Scutigera, the centipede commonly seen in houses, the legs increase in length from front to back and thus pass over or under one another in stepping. The tendency for the trunk to wobble has been reduced in some centipedes by having overlapping dorsal plates and in millipedes by having pairs of segments fused to form double segments. Many arthropods are capable of walking on vertical surfaces. Some simply grip minute surface irregularities with the claws at the end of the legs. Others, such as certain spiders and flies, have an array of specialized gripping hairs at the ends of the legs. ("arthropod." Encyclopædia Britannica, 2013.
The argument for the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence is based on the so-called principle of mediocrity. Widely believed by astronomers since the work of Nicolaus Copernicus, this principle states that the properties and evolution of the solar system are not unusual in any important way. Consequently, the processes on Earth that led to life, and eventually to thinking beings, could have occurred throughout the cosmos.
The most important assumptions in this argument are that:
- Planets capable of spawning life are common.
- Biota will spring up on such worlds
- The workings of natural selection on planets with life will at least occasionally produce intelligent species.
To date, there is no proof of any of these assumptions. However, astronomers are currently hunting for small, rocky planets that, like Earth, could have atmospheres and oceans able to support life. Unlike the efforts that have detected massive, Jupiter-size planets by measuring the wobble they induce in their parent stars, the search for smaller worlds involves looking for the slight dimming of a star that occurs if an Earth-size planet passes in front of it.
The U.S. satellite Kepler, launched in 2009, is designed to observe more than 100,000 stars in the hope of observing such transits. Another approach is to construct space-based telescopes that can analyze the light reflected from the atmospheres of planets around other stars, in a search for gases such as oxygen or methane that are indicators of biological activity. If Kepler and other satellites succeed, assumption 1 will be validated. In addition, space probes are trying to find evidence for life that emerged on Mars or other worlds in the solar system, thus addressing assumption 2. Proof of assumption 3, that thinking beings will evolve on some of the worlds with life, requires finding direct evidence. This evidence might be encounters, discovery of physical artifacts, or the detection of signals. Claims of encounters are problematic. Despite more than a half-century of reports involving unidentified flying objects, crashed spacecraft, crop circles, and abductions, most scientists remain unconvinced that any of these are adequate proof of visiting aliens. ("extraterrestrial intelligence." Encyclopædia Britannica, 2013.)
There is the phenomena of an ongoing persistence of dichotomization in Psychology... both in teaching and clinical work, that it is important to a cknowledge that there also is a lack of acknowledgement for the phenomena of trichotomization. While you will find a few interested in Psychology providing one or another list of duality examples, such an exercise is not labeled negatively with the term Numerology. Neither is it viewed as an expressed obsessive- compulsive character trait. However, this is not the case when they are confronted by someone able to produce hundreds of pattern-of-three examples. Yet, we do not know exactly at what point in reading such a list a person begins acting negatively towards it and for what reason. Are they overwhelmed? Unable to sustain a lengthy cognitive orientation? For whatever reason, while their own listing of duality examples is used to construct a philosophical disposition to share with colleagues, an encounter with a more lengthier list of "trialities" creates a defensive posture of one type or another.
Use of the word "Spectrum" may seem to be an appropriate way to list one's preference for letting multiple people have a "piece of the action" so to speak when discussing any topic where semantics may prove to be troublesome or cumbersome in that the same event may be perceived but those perceiving it do not have the same experiences, vocabulary or even intelligence to provide their approximations, with the idea of a color spectrum coming to mind for some. However, if we look at the color spectrum as but a small portion of the electromagnetic wave spectrum, let us also not that we need to include duality as part of a cognitive spectrum where only a handful of number patterns are recurring. These include terms of distinction such as Monism (e.g. one, singularity...) and Duality (e.g. two, binary, couple, dichotomy, pair...), with Three (e.g. triune, ternary, trinary, triple, trinity... ), or as a group which includes the notion of "three or more", such as plurality, bunch, some... However, I would also list individual pluralities which may or may not have additional referencing such as 4, 5, 6, 7, 8... 13... 64..., even though some of them are used only sparingly in a cognitive sense and even though humans may not actively take notice of others patterns, including non-numerical ones in any commonly organized manner. The point is, we can acknowledge the presence of a cognitive spectrum which is quite limited, no matter which number is the reader's personal preference.
For those unfamiliar with the Electro-magnetic spectrum and its importance in reality, take a look at the following excerpt. It provides a tell-tale indication that human thinking is not exempt either in thinking about reality in terms of a spectrum, but also thinking within the value of a spectrum of cognitive activity, even if the idea is shoe-horned by someone into providing some supposed intelligent grasp of a given topic of discussion. The unfamiliarity of a term such as "spectrum" used by someone in a seemingly unrelated physics topic is generally interpreted by some listeners to refer to and infer that they are being more intelligent than they actually are by making an allowance for such a term. While the term does have wide application, the fault for its acceptance as a term which artificially elevates a topic to some supposed sphere of higher intellectual consideration, lays with those whose knowldge of spectrum is limited to superficial definitions such as the color spectrum and then to some associated social contrivance of application such as the LGBTQ" nonsense.
Close to 0.01 percent of the mass/energy of the entire universe occurs in the form of electromagnetic radiation. All human life is immersed in it and modern communications technology and medical services are particularly dependent on one or another of its forms. In fact, all living things on Earth depend on the electromagnetic radiation received from the Sun and on the transformation of solar energy by photosynthesis into plant life or by biosynthesis into zooplankton, the basic step in the food chain in oceans. The eyes of many animals, including those of humans, are adapted to be sensitive to and hence to see the most abundant part of the Sun's electromagnetic radiation—namely, light, which comprises the visible portion of its wide range of frequencies. Green plants also have high sensitivity to the maximum intensity of solar electromagnetic radiation, which is absorbed by a substance called chlorophyll that is essential for plant growth via photosynthesis.
Practically all the fuels that modern society uses—gas, oil, and coal—are stored forms of energy received from the Sun as electromagnetic radiation millions of years ago. Only the energy from nuclear reactors does not originate from the Sun.
Everyday life is pervaded by man-made electromagnetic radiation: food is heated in microwave ovens, airplanes are guided by radar waves, television sets receive electromagnetic waves transmitted by broadcasting stations, and infrared waves from heaters provide warmth. Infrared waves also are given off and received by automatic self-focusing cameras that electronically measure and set the correct distance to the object to be photographed. As soon as the Sun sets, incandescent or fluorescent lights are turned on to provide artificial illumination, and cities glow brightly with the colourful fluorescent and neon lamps of advertisement signs. Familiar too is ultraviolet radiation, which the eyes cannot see but whose effect is felt as pain from sunburn. Ultraviolet light represents a kind of electromagnetic radiation that can be harmful to life. Such is also true of X rays, which are important in medicine as they allow physicians to observe the inner parts of the body but exposure to which should be kept to a minimum. Less familiar are gamma rays, which come from nuclear reactions and radioactive decay and are part of the harmful high-energy radiation of radioactive materials and nuclear weapons. ("electromagnetic radiation." Encyclopædia Britannica, 2013.)
Name any subject and you will have identified part of the human cognitive spectrum which is appreciably more limited than most readers may be aware of, since the use of words belie overlapping ideas of the same orientations labeled differently. For example, very many topics are just variations of philosophy and philosophy is an expose' of a few enumerations, while numbers have an underlying base of dualities, as if the use of such is a representative model of how the bipedal gait of humans has impressed itself upon the human psyche which has a potential to "cogitate" beyond this pattern, similar to how biology has stepped beyond the recurring twoness seen in the doubling of cellular divisions and amino acid pairing, not to mention the recurring use of pattern-of-three in the two ears and other physiological pairings.
Initial Posting: Thursday, 16th January, 2025 ... 6:06 AM