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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI all over again?

rshowalter - 05:33pm May 11, 2001 EST (#3702 of 3703)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

In MD2865: rshowalter 5/1/01 7:09am .... and MD 2866: rshowalter 5/1/01 7:11am ... there's this:

I've worked hard - my social and economic survival have depended on - work in mathematics and neurosciece. It has come very far -- I'd be proud to have some read -- rshowalter "How the Brain Works" 1/21/01 5:10pm to get a sense of my hopes for the work. At that time, and before, and since, some very able people at the University of Wisconsin have made accomodations that indicate, at the least, a willingness to consider that I could be right. Personally, that would be survival and salvation for me.

I've taken some time, at much risk to myself, to work on this thread because I thought it was important that I do so.

I think that the thread has been influential enough that I reasonably took that decision in the public interest.

I beg people at the TIMES to not pull my core citations in HOW THE BRAIN WORKS down, including a very useful section between December 23 and January 4. They've been useful before, and will be again.

rshowalter - 05:42pm May 11, 2001 EST (#3703 of 3703)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Next weekend, I'll be giving a short talk at a Midwest Neurobiologists meeting:

CHANGING A TRANSMISSION EQUATION, AND AN IDEA FROM HEISENBERG.

The last two years at this conference, I've reported reasons to believe that we need a differential equation of passive conduction with inductance. http://www.wisc.edu/rshowalt/MWN_TALK http://www.wisc.edu/rshowalt/Midwest2000 In the past year, reasons to believe this have become stronger. Progress has been somewhat delayed by work on nuclear weapons control. rshowalter 5/8/01 6:51pm To accommodate the new equation, or any other change, and to make comfortable and efficient progress doing so, we need to change our theories in ways that fit our people and institutions. When we finally understand some core things about how the brain works, those things will be simple enough to work as well as they do. To get to that understanding, we’ll have to make some judgements that turn out to be mistakes. We need to accommodate the new, without penalizing or downgrading previous creativity and hard work. To facilitate this, I’ll set out a notion of “disciplined beauty,” based on an idea of Heisenberg.