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>   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" < marchal@... <mailto:marchal@...> >
>>> To: < everything-list@...
>>> <mailto:everything-list@...> >
>>> 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/>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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