Opening of the Way

Music Maker

https://www.magix.com/us/music-editing/music-maker/



School of Rock Kansas City Do It Again (early Steele Dan, before their signature harmony.  For so many years they would play this on the radio just about non-stop)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4g-SMtkRJk

So Deleuze and Guattari are clear that clinical mental illness is created in the mental health system, its the drugs and its the talk therapy.

But they do say that there is one genuine mental illness, Neuroticism, and it is incurable and it is fatal.

Well, Dabrowski decimates the conventional notions of mental health. He describes that as psychoneurosis.

His idea of Positive Disintegration is something which is happening on multiple levels simultaneously. So there is always intense flux.

And it is always the disintegration of biologically determined and social conformity drive structures. So there is this biologically determined mental development.

Then there is this autonomous mental development, which is what we want. Transends the demands of biology and social norms.

Then there is also this one-sided mental development which is anti-social. It is egocentric and manifests in crime and paranoia.

Dabrowski takes apart the views that Mental Health is the absence of mental disorders or is a state of psychological integration.

Dabrowski's ideas revolve around his concept of Overexcitability.

He writes in 1970:

"
[Overexcitability] first provokes conflicts, disappointments, suffering in familily life, in school, in professional life--in short, it leads to conflicts with the external environment. Overexcitability also provokes inner conflicts as well as the means by which these convlicts can be overcome. Second, overexcitability precipitates psychoneurotic processes, and, third, conflicts and psychoneurotic processes become the dominant factor in accelerated development.
"

Dabrowski called a lot of this "positive infantilism" or "positive immaturity", and this is all associated with creativity and accelerated development.

And so inner conflicts and frustrations are inherent in positive disintegration. And so one with high developmental potential will become more introspective, more aware of possible choices and consequently, more conscious of different levels--higher and lower--in his or her feelings, thoughts and behavior. In his or her feelings, thoughts, and behavior. In these internally and often externally tumultuous conditions, such an individual "introduces into his life a new controlling factor, where higher feelings [being to control] the lower forms of instinctual, emotional and congnitive functions".

Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration
Sal Mendalio editor.

Great Potential Press, Scotsdale AZ 2008.

Now GPP is a major Gifted Movement Publisher, and Dabrowski is very highly thought of in the Gifted Movement.

He was a Polish Psychiatry, tortured by the first the Nazi's and then by the Communists.

He came to Canada and to the US and he had work groups and students, and many of these wrote the chapters in this book. I recognize some of the names.

Michael M. Piechowski, Linda Kreger Silverman, Nicholas Colangelo.

Now, what exactly is Positive Disintegration? I have long wanted to know. I will have to read it to find out.

Want to know how people used to think about things and they used to talk about things?  Then you have to read the old books.


The Education and Guidance of the Ablest

John Curtis Gowan and George D. Demos

Charles C. Thomas Publisher, Springfield Illinois (1964)

500 pages on surprisingly thick paper

Gowan taught at what would become CSU Northridge and Demos taught at what would become CSU Long Beach

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlNs8p6OVAM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3idihqvTtU

Hugh B. Urban
Secrecy
Silence, Power, and Religion
(2021)

Urban is at TheOSU and is supremely qualified to write about a subject like this.

https://www.amazon.com/Secrecy-Religion-Hugh-B-Urban/dp/022674664X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=27MKFYG2YHS3L&keywords=hugh+urban+secrecy&qid=1653162044&sprefix=urban%2C+secrecy+%2Caps%2C454&sr=8-1

He acknowledges April DeConick, at Rice University, Houston.

some of his refs:
Sisella Bok, Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation (1983)

He starts off talking about Albert Pike, co-founder of the KKK and Scottish Rite Masons.

He will also talk about the Neo-Nazi Turner Diaries, and lots of other stuff.  And he will talk about Blavatsky.

But here he talks about Maria de Naglowska:

refs:

Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality (City Lights 1986)

Donald Traxler, translating Naglowska's "The Light of Sex, Initiation Magic, and Sacrament (Inner Traditions)

Marc Pluquet "La Sophiale: Maria de Neaglowska (Inner Traditions)

Man Ray, a surrealist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Ray

“Pandemic, Inc.”: J. David McSwane on Chasing Capitalists & Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick

https://www.democracynow.org/2022/4/12/pandemic_inc_capitalists_pandemic_j_david

Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick
J. David McSwane

PANDEMIC, INC. : CHASING THE CAPITALISTS AND THIEVES WHO GOT RICH WHILE WE GOT SICK
Mcswane, J. David (2022)
**

Optimization Using Personal Computers
With Applications to Electrical Networks
John Wily and Sons 1987

Thomas R. Cuthbert Jr., his second book, and he is now

Director, Digital Signal Processing
Collins Transmission System Division
Rockwell International Corporation
Dallas Texas

Thomas Remy Cuthbert, born 1928

Now this book, like his prior, has a really stupid title. But never mind the math in this is really good and I have long wanted to read it.


Cuthbert has got a card in the book where in 1987 you could send $30 to Wiley and get a 5 1/4 DSDD floppy with all 33 of the BASICA programs, plus some test data.

Lots of references, but different from his other book.


Curtbert gives refences for Problem matrices, not maybe singular, but still problematic, and for other data too.

first of all Knuth 1968, Art of Computer Programming. And matrix types, Vandermonde, Combinatorial, Cauchy, Hilbert

and then Nash 1979 Compact Numerical Methods for Computers: Linear Algebra and Function Administration

matrix types: Hilbert, Ding Dong, Moler, Bordered, Diagonal, Wilkinson W+, Ones

Dongarra, J. J., C B. Moler etal (1979) LINPACK User's Guide, SIAM

Smith (1976) and Garbow (1977) document the EISPACK eigensystem

Hopper (1981) Harwell Subroutine Library. United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

Compact numerical methods for computers : linear algebra and function minimisation / J.C. Nash. (1990 2nd edition)
*

So this seems to be a pivotal reference,

Smith, Boyle, Dongarra, Garbow, Ikebe, Kelma etal
Matrix Eigensystem Routines, Springer-Verlag, 1976

Matrix eigensystem routines : EISPACK guide / B. T. Smith [and others] 1976
*

also available is a 1977 extension guide

And Cuthbert's book:

Optimization Using Personal Computers: With Applications to Electrical Networks Hardcover – January 1, 1987
by Thomas R. Cuthbert


Courant, R. (1936) Differential and Integral Calculus, Wiley


Differential and integral calculus / by R. Courant ; translated by E. J. McShane. (1937 2nd edition)
*

And he has other books too.

I like old books like this because I can see how they likely explained things differently.


Continuing with Cuthbert:

Optimization Using Personal Computers
With Applications to Electrical Networks
John Wily and Sons 1987

Cuthbert p14

He sites:

Acton, F. S. (1970) Numerical Methods That Work
Numerical methods that work / Forman S. Acton. (Mathematical Association of America 1990)
* widely disseminated

Cuthbert quotes Acton:

"
minimum-seeking methods are often used when a modicum of thought would disclose more appropriate techniques. They are the first refuge of the computational scoundrel, and one feels at times that the world would be a better place if they were quietly abandoned. ... The unpleasant fact that the approach can well require 10 to 100 times as much computation as methods more specific to the problem is ignored -- for who can tell what is being done by the computer?
"

I have seen this first hand. Curthbert is writing in 1987. A lot of this correlates to the popularity of personal computers and to the rise of some software vendors who's names I will not speak.

They promote idiocy. And wasting computer cycles is not by itself that important. The problem is that the entire approach to the problem at hand is completely wrong headed. And then the simulation program becomes a child's busy box, a video game. And the well paid people who are running this are just glorified script files. The simulation program serves as a division of labor, as there will be one pit boss who gives the orders, and then minions who carry it out. Very very little smarts is being used, and what results is usually completely appropriate, but they will never understand this.

I am embarrassed to admit that I know how many millions of dollars a company can blow through doing this. And I know there are large sectors of industry which are entirely like this.

I have seen things like this in human behavior all along. But this specific kind of stuff pertaining to computer simulations I first learned of reading discussion way way back about the race for the 64k DRAM chips. The US firms lost and Japan won. One analysis explained that in the US modelling and simulations some wrong assumptions had been made. But 95% of those doing the design and simulations were not even aware that there were such assumptions.

These people, they just know that if they continue being good frat boys, then they will continue to get paid and continue to have social approval. This is about all they are good for. They understand things in terms of buzz words, but they don't have an in depth understanding of how the ideas developed, what really is at issue, or of what the limitations are in the analysis. They don't understand the assumptions behind the buzz words.


So continuing on with Thomas Remy Cuthbert jr. 1987

So he gives us a function F in the variables x and y. So he shows a graph of F rising over the x and y plane. There are 4 local maxima and 3 saddle points.

The function he gives us in that that complex, but it seems to be just an example to give us the idea.

So he talks about partial derivates and then he talks about approximating the maxima by a parabola in two variables.

Not sure why you really need to do this here, and he does not go into the math to do this, but he has 33 BASICA programs to do it.

I think if the function F were something for which each point required lengthy simulations, then by using the 2d parabolic approximation you might be able to get a satisfactory result more quickly.

Himmelblau, D. M. (1972) Applied Nonlinear Programming, McGraw Hill



Applied nonlinear programming [by] David M. Himmelblau (1972)
*

Himmelblau has other books oriented towards numerics for Chemical Engineering.

And Nonlinear Programming is the description of all this preferred by Cuthbert.

Gilbert Strang, Linear Algebra 1976, read just a couple of months ago.

And Cuthbert idenfies himself as being with Collins Radio Company, Texas Instruments, and Rockwell International and he signs his preface as being in Plano Texas.

He acknowledges Karl R. Varan. Our local Varian?

Davidson, W. C. (1959) wrote books about this, but not standard publishing.

In 1847 Cauchy described the method of steepest ascent.

Traub, J. F. (1964) Iterative Method for the Solution of Equations
Iterative methods for the solution of equations / [by] J.F. Traub. (1964)
*

and also note:

Information, uncertainty, complexity / J.F. Traub, G.W. Wasilkowski, H. Woźniakowski (1983)
*


Lootsman, F. A. (1972) Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Optimization
Numerical methods for non-linear optimization : Conference sponsored by the Science Research Council, University of Dundee, Scotland, 1971 / Edited by F. A. Lootsma.
* a conference digest

Vlach J. and K. Singhal(1983) Computer Methods for Circuit Analysis and Design
Computer methods for circuit analysis and design / Jiří Vlach, Kishore Singhal (1983)
*

Dixon, L. C. W. (1972) Nonlinear Optimization
0

Practical methods of optimization / R. Fletcher (1980) 2 volumes
*

Selected applications of nonlinear programming / [by] Jerome Bracken and Garth P. McCormick.
Imprint New York : Wiley, [1968]
*

Compact numerical methods for computers : linear algebra and function minimisation / J.C. Nash. (1990 second edition)
*

Methods for solving systems of nonlinear equations / Werner C. Rheinboldt (1998 2nd ed)
*