chaos theory for lay people? [was MDMD(4) p.123 small re-write]

[Sojourner]

At 06:30 PM 7/31/97 +0200, Thomas Eckhardt wrote:


>"He believes that bread is alive,- that the yeast Animalcula may unite in a
>single purposeful individual,- that each loaf is so organized, with the
>crust, for example, serving as skin or carapace,- the small cavities within
>exhibiting a strange complexity, their pale Walls, to appearance smooth,
>proving, upon magnification, to be made up of even smaller bubbles, and, one
>may presume, so forth, down to the limit of the invisible." MD 204
>
>Note that "bread" in German means "Brot", as in "Mandelbrot" (which would be
>"almond bread"). Could be helpful to know what "Animalcula" means. 
>
>The passage continues: "The Loaf, the indispensable point of convergence
>upon every British table, the solid British Quartern Loaf, is mostly, like
>the soul, Emptiness." Which implies, I think, that the soul is fractal...
>Thomas Eckhardt
>

Kind Sir, as you are in Germany, perhaps you can translate this to
some enlightenment:

Der Entwickler der Klassischen Homöopathie, Samuel Hahnemann 
(1755 - 1843) benutzte diesen Begriff zunächst auch in diesem Sinne, 
wenn er z. B. von den "akuten Miasmen" spricht oder von 
"festständigen Krankheiten" ="festständigen Miasmen" wie etwa bei 
Masern, Scharlach etc. Er war einer der ersten, denen bewußt war, daß 
die Krätze und die Cholera von kleinen Tierchen - in der Sprache der 
Zeit  ->>--"ANIMALCULA" -<<-- übertragen werden. Dennoch maß 
er dem materiellen Erreger bei der Entstehung von Krankheiten nicht 
die entscheidende Rolle zu. Im Zentrum seiner Betrachtungen stand 
stets die "dynamisch verstimmte Lebenskraft". 

The ---- lines are me.

I got this from:

http://members.aol.com/angelfranz/miasmen.html

If it turns out to be something worthwhile, please let us know eh?

*grin*

	"And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to 
	 another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And 
	 Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD 
	 hath given you to eat.
	 And the Lord said unto them, it was the yeast I could do 
	 for you, my chosen people."

		--Exodus 15:16-17  (Sojourner edition)