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1.1 Erkenntnisse der Psychologie benützen A treatise about order in Nature, quite naturally, runs the danger of becoming very lengthy, as both concepts allow and invite a great number of observations. The present work about order in Nature attempts to be as concise, precise and to the point as possible. The argumentation is based on numbers. The numerical facts presented are indisputable. Ques- tions may arise, however, regarding their interpretation. The present work discusses these ques- tions; the numbers themselves move to the background. Still, it may be quite unavoidable for the reader to reproduce, for his own use, the tables referred to herein. The tables are the “red thread” of the narrative. The “blue thread” are the thoughts set out in enumerated paragraphs: these should help under- standing the numbers. Some important keywords are highlighted light grey. The “green thread” are the rather colloquial remarks in [square brackets]; they mobilise common sense in order to maintain a global overview. The simple illustrations accompanying the text deliver the most basic deictic denitions on the concepts discussed. This work is dedicated to Mr. Neil J. A. Sloane, who has contributed fundamentally to the infrastructure of science by founding the Online Encyclopaedia of Integer Sequences in 1964. Natural Orders | Foreword
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© 2016 Dr. Karl Javorszky Editor: Dr. Karl Javorszky, A-1010 Wien, Landhausgasse 4/23 Author: Dr. Karl Javorszky Graphic design: Felicitas Siegl-Linhart, 1200 Vienna; Julien Rouvel, Rennes Cover photo: pitris – Fotolia.com Editing and proofreading: Übersetzungsbüro Eisenreich/Dr. Claudia Koloszar-Koo, 1230 Vienna Assistant programmers: Szilárd Kovács, Löv“ o , Iván Davidov, Vienna Published by: myMorawa von Morawa Lesezirkel GmbH ISBN 978-3-99057-137-8 (Paperback) ISBN 978-3-99057-138-5 (Hardcover) ISBN 978-3-99057-139-2 (e-Book) The work, including its parts, is protected by copyright. Any use of this work without the permission of the publisher and the author is prohibited. This applies in particular to its reproduction, translation, dissemination and release to the public in eletronic or any other form. Typographical and printing errors excepted. Natural Orders | Publishing details
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1 Introduction 1.1Usingconceptsofpsychology7 1.2Hypotheses7 1.3Aboutthiswork8 2 Natural philosophy 2.1Usingarationalapproach11 2.2Eachnewgenerationneedsareformulatedcatalogueofthesameproblems11 2.3Allideasareembeddedinasocial-emotionalcontext12 3 The rational discussion 3.1Guidingtheattention15 3.2Changinghabits16 3.3Introducinganewview16 4 The logical sentence 4.1Traditionalinterpretations21 4.2Thebackground21 4.3True,false,unknown22 5 The thing and its place 5.1Order25 5.2Places26 5.3Metamorphoses27 6 Dealing with logical conicts: the model 6.1Numericfacts31 6.2Assertionsandnegations32 6.3Statementsandinformation33 7 Units 7.1Amountsanddistances39 7.2Durationandfrequency40 7.3Diverse,asynchronousandnon-existent41 8 Spaces 8.1Duality45 8.2Theuniedspaceconcept46 8.3WheretheNottakesplace47 9 Summary 9.1Whatwehavepresented49 9.2Possiblecontroversies50 9.3Possibleapplications50 Repetition56
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7 1.1 Using concepts of psychology 1.1.1 Stating the problem 1.1.1.1 Information processing in biology is different to information processing in the technological sciences. 1.1.1.2 The present treatise offers a contribution towards a harmonisation of explanations. 1.1.1.3 We will put forward an explanatory model. 1.1.2 Memory and genetics 1.1.2.1 A content of our perception may be present now, but it may also exist in a form that we all know as memory. 1.1.2.2 Genetic information can be apparent in its fully unfolded state, in the form of an organism, and also in a form which is known as DNA. 1.1.2.3 Common to both applications of information processing is that in their actualised/realised form many elements exist contemporaneously, in the same moment, while in their conserved form the elements possess at least one sequential order and therefore are not to be regarded as being present simultaneously. 1.1.3 Methodical approach 1.1.3.1 The philosophy of language concerns itself with the grammar of communications. 1.1.3.2 Natural philosophy delivers explanatory models by watching Nature, pointing the index nger towards a phenomenon observed and saying, ”This I explain as follows”. 1.1.3.3 Explanations will be best understood if they use words that are most generally understood and widely applied, and if the language used follows the rules of grammar to the greatest possible extent. 1.2 Hypotheses 1.2.1 Underlying principles are similar 1.2.1.1 We suppose that information processing in the brain as well as in genetics is based upon identical basic principles. Natural Orders | 1 Introduction
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Natural Orders | 1 Introduction 8 1.2.1.2 We suppose that these basic principles have to do with the simultaneous nature of incidents as contrasted with a sequenced succession of incidents. 1.2.1.3 We suppose that watching symbols which identify incidents both as simultaneously belonging to categories and as occupying sequential places within the categories will uncover insights that can be merged to form an explanation. 1.2.2 The idea is communicable 1.2.2.1 If the words are understandable and are connected according to the rules of the language, a logical sentence is generated. 1.2.2.2 Logical sentences are communicable. 1.2.2.3 Since a system of logical sentences which relate and refer to each other cannot contain anything new, the point of interest is not whether the content communicated has been under- stood or not, but rather whether it creates in the addressee a desire to act. 1.2.3 Expansion of arithmetics 1.2.3.1 We shall use natural numbers as demonstration objects, towards which we point our index nger while saying ”this I explain as follows”. 1.2.3.2 We introduce additional rules for dealing with natural numbers. 1.2.3.3 The natural numbers are assigned an additional family of logical attributes, which has not been used so far. We will investigate a part of the network of family relations among natural numbers which has so far not received any attention. 1.3 About this work 1.3.1 Philosophy of language 1.3.1.1 We continue Wittgenstein’s work by speaking about logical incidents in a language that observes the rules of logic. 1.3.1.2 What is new is that we also speak about that which is not the case. 1.3.1.3 Moving the attention away from what is the case towards that which is at the moment not the case includes the background into the discussion; we can do so owing to the technolo- gical progress of using computers: they enhance our perception of patterns. 1.3.2 Natural numbers 1.3.2.1 There exists a tradition in natural philosophy to explain Nature by means of natural numbers. 1.3.2.2 The basic idea that Nature is something continuously changing, while largely remaining es- sentially the same, is also known in natural philosophy. 1.3.2.3 What is new is that we do not only regard the incidents [processes] of Nature, for which the natural numbers stand as symbols, as being subject to continual change, but we also under- stand the natural numbers themselves as part of a dynamic process, we think of them as being on a journey, of being in movement. 1.3.3 Loss of meaning 1.3.3.1 An exclamation of surprise has a meaning that transmits itself to the listener, whether he wants it or not. [The meaning is brought to you.] 1.3.3.2 A manual about the kinds and frequencies of exclamations of surprise will transmit its meaning only to those who are involved with the matter. [You go and get the meaning.]