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Volume 1

In the history of any country there is a moment of the maximum momentum, when it shows the way to the rest of the world, but then is bound to stumble and lag behind, if not entirely perish. Most probably, this character of development belongs to a particular epoch in human history, that of civilization. Nevertheless, one could indicate such historical summits for many old countries, while the younger nations are still climbing up.

There are certain necessary stages that any society has to pass. This is a fundamental law of economic development, and any attempt to skip the next stage and try to boost the historical progress will be followed by a dramatic roll back, which may ruin the society's developmental capacity at all.

Every historical position to achieve is like a rubber wall: you can run against it and force it to give some way, but then it will throw you back with nearly as much momentum as you have applied to it. Slow evolution of the economic basis of the society could be viewed as cutting small bits from the wall, which may eventually become weak enough to allow yet another revolutionary attack to break through, thus opening new vistas for the humanity as a whole.

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Two psychological types: oscillatory and translatory personalities. Conflicts. Mental disease. Complexity of the inner world and psychological type.

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Sets vs. Boolean Algebra Classical propositional logic and set theory are often considered to be two instances of Boolean algebra, with set union corresponding to logical or, and set intersection corresponding to logical and. However, this does not reflect the logical structure of set theory. Thus, any set may be considered as the union of one-element sets, the sense of this representation depending on interpretation:

Enumeration: the set is considered as element a and element b and element c and ... This is the simultaneous interpretation of set as an actual integrity - "strong" union.

Exhausting: the set is considered as element a or element b or element c or ... This interpretation stresses the idea of potential integrity, referring to the operation of "probing" the set by random selection of one of the elements - "weak" union.

On the other hand, enumeration is algorithmic, in the sense that one is supposed to be able to construct the set being given its elements; the probing technique, inversely, refers to the quality of the set, the properties of the elements that makes them belong to the set.

Compare:

the scheme of categorization by convention: "Let us refer to Mr. and Mrs. Jones as the Jones family."
the scheme of explanation by example: "The vegetables are... well... the carrot, the cucumber, the onions, and like."

Also the two types of definition:

by construction (explicit): "Numeric data types include integer, real, and date-time."
by function (implicit): "Let all real numbers x<0 be called negative."

Resubmitted: N00c0800

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Time in Quantum Mechanics and Temporal Coupling

Time vs. time variable

Hierarchical time

Synchronization, correlation and coupling

One space, one time?

Atomic time

Channel Coupling Approximation

Temporal Coupling in Atoms?

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