Artistically, it can be likened to quickly running through a chamber of mirrors. However, our human experience with Humor has a larger and deeper dimension beyond this personal mental enjoyment. It reaches into the sphere of total biologic function and the essence of life of humans - and perhaps aII other creatures that at least are capable to play. This physiologic phenomena gives testimony, on the broadest scale, to the dynamic nature of our life process. Homeodynamics defines functioning systems of entire and continuous, rather than intermittent, interaction of all component elements of each biologic entity.
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Each of the other three persons, beside myself, have scheduled opportunity in the program to comment on the significance and values of their own research. For myself, I have thought of my studies as having similarities to the observation by Galileo, during the 16th Century, of the moons of Jupiter. Galileo did not discover something that did not already exist. The moons were there, waiting to be observed. Galileo observed and communicated his observation to the rest of humanity, with the result that this new knowledge became the base for greater understanding, became a stimulus for extension of theory and practice, prompted previously unanticipated changes of belief and philosophy - and even religion.