The file..... sorry .... use *Rejection 101.pdf* enjoy! colin
Colin Hales wrote: > Hi Bruno, > I feel your angst. The received view is a blunt and frightened beast, > guarded by the ignorant and uncreative in wily protection of turf and > co-conspirator. I recently did a powerpoint presentation called > "rejection 101". It sounds like you have been through exactly what I > have been through - except on a geological timescale that would tire a > god. Although I am starting to make progress... I regard that progress > to be achieved in spite of them, not because of their vision or > knowledge. The science I thought I was going to find was full of those > who frolic in ideas.... sadly I was mistaken. Now, when I think I have > made progress - I know that progress to be mediated by the less than > adequate - and promulgated by momentum rather than incisive scrutiny- > and it doesn't feel good. > > see file *2008_Thu_23_Oct.pdf * in the googlegroups everythinglist > file store. > > So Amoebas speak english now, eh? Excellent. :-) > > cheers, > Colin > > > m.a. wrote: >> *Bruno,* >> * I've often wondered why neither Dr. Deutsch nor Alan >> Forrester has commented on your theory of UDA and AUDA. I certainly >> would be interested in their views. A theory that has execised some >> of the best minds on this list for months on end certainly deserves >> serious consideration. Best,* >> >> >> *martin a.* >> ** >> ** >> ** >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Bruno Marchal" <marc...@ulb.ac.be <mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be>> >> To: <everything-l...@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:everything-l...@googlegroups.com>> >> Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 2:49 PM >> Subject: Re: The Amoeba's Secret - English Version started >> >> >> > Even with politics operating behind the scene (which you have >> > hinted), I can't imagine that nothing of the work is publishable. >> >> >> I already discussed proposition of publishing "Conscience et >> Mécanisme" with three publishers, before my thesis was judged not >> receivable (meaning no private defense, nor public defense, I have >> *never* met those who criticize, not even my work, but a product of >> their imagination). Then silence, even after the defense in Lille, and >> even more after the paradoxical price in Paris. >> >> I cannot explain. Or I can explain except that here reality is far >> beyond fiction as usual, but also more sad, and rather delicate if >> only because that story is not finished. >> My life is more unbelievable than any thing I assert in my works. It >> took me 22 years to understand what happened in 1977, and since then. >> >> I feel responsible to let them build they own trap, and then get >> myself a bit worried seeing them to protect themselves from Brussels >> to Paris! >> >> It is not because I have done an "original work" (say) in Brussels, >> that I got problems there. It is because I got problems in Brussels >> that I have done an original work. In 1977, they give me no chance, >> not even getting out of Belgium. >> In 1994, my work was criticize vaguely as "not original", "too much >> simple", and then "delirious". And now already "not from him" in some >> place. Which again shows the problems is not related with my findings, >> except it belongs to the kind of things you can easily use to treat >> you as a fool (Gödel's theorem, Quantum mechanics, consciousness: few >> understand so it is easy to say "not serious"). >> >> The little scandal has grown up all the time and is too big, now. It >> is the kind of manipulation which makes everyone feel responsible, >> from corporatist reflex to corporatist reflex, when actually there is >> only one, very clever, but very bad, guy. >> Now that "little scandal" has become big enough to throw light on >> other really bigger scandals. There are "cadavres dans les placards", >> as we say in French (corpses hidden in boxes). Mean of pressures. >> >> I still believe in academies, but like in School "serial killer" can >> exist. When you see the time made by religious institution to protect >> their member of their hierarchy from their much grave behavior, I >> estimate it could take a long time if ever to understand and recognize >> what happened. >> And I have no problem with serious academicians and scientists which >> understand enough to understand it is "serious", even if probably >> wrong, which I have myself never ceased to believe plausible (which >> explains why I am eager to discuss the validity of the UDA steps, with >> people interested). I did defend the work as PhD thesis. I was asked >> many questions, I answered them and everyone got the idea. Some people >> takes time, but most get enough to trust the interest of the work. >> Still today, few get both UDA and AUDA. >> >> UDA is almost easy, but not so easy. AUDA is very *simple*, once you >> understand enough standard logic (which I have discovered is >> excessively rare). The whole thing is strongly interdisciplinary, and >> between disciplines, rumors circulate more quickly than "scientific >> bridge", which often makes people feeling being aggressed on their >> territories. Even more so when the work approaches question >> traditionally qualified as "philosophical". >> >> My initial power comes from the fact that in 1977, I did abandoned, >> for bad reasons (but it will take many years to understand that), the >> idea of doing academic research, and so I did come back to the very >> fundamental questioning I have always been living. I didn't and don't >> complain (my weakness probably). >> And it is the Academy, 20 years later, which will push me back again, >> and again. I have never submitted publications by myself. All have >> been asked by people, having heard I said something new, sometimes >> insisting gently. Nowadays, since those events, even ordered paper (or >> jobs) get jeopardized quickly. Last year I was asked to write a paper >> for a book in homage to the late logician Jean Ladrière, (who offered >> to me its formidable book on Gödel theorems: Les limitations internes >> des formalismes"), and then ... nothing again. I am used to it. >> >> Thanks for your interest, >> >> Bruno >> >> http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ <http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/%7Emarchal/> >> >> >> >> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---