Epstein Secrets

of the mind emerged in this century from other subjects once considered just as personal and inaccessible but which were explored, for example, by Freud in his work on adults' dreams and jokes, and by Piaget in his work on children's thought and play. Why did such work have to wait for modem times?

mpler! The theory of the roots of equations seemed hard for centuries within its little world of real numbers, but it sud- denly seemed simple once Gauss exposed the larger world of (so-called) complex numbers. Similarly, music should make more sense once seen through listeners' minds. Sonata as Te

hysically specifiable but rather hermeneutic of a force. It is both a potential and a realization, observed and inferred. It is the “energy stuff’ of Freud’s /ibido, Wilhelm Reich’s orgone energy, Pavlov’s drive, Rudolph Steiner etheric formative force, the arousal and attention of brain wave and conscio

vil could work miracles. The great mathematician, Cauchy, was known for his persistent efforts to convert fellow mathematicians to Roman Catholicism. Gauss, who was not particularly religious, said that a difficult to prove theorem did not result from hard work but “...the grace of God.” In letters betwe

ontinuous and global brain state phase transitions. 135 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013635 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013636 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013637 primary process by Freud and his followers. This forgotten language of the unconscious, an archaic needs and fear-driven tongue lurking beneath our supposedly objective disco

gebraic system, a + bi and c + di can be added and multiplied. This extension of the real numbers into the imaginary realm permitted d’Alembert’s and Gauss’s proofs (and many, more complete ones since) of the powerful Fundamental Theorem of Algebra from which the faith derives about always being able to