Many of you may recall the toy, a small round box with a playing field of small holes and a ball. The object of the play is to keep the ball rolling, by jiggling the box, so that it circles around the pitfalls. We are going to try to keep you moving and circling around our themes in the style of play of 'Bourbaki'. Punch and Judy, and an American TV sitcom. A few of our auditors have caught on, in part, to the need of looking up words we use in a 'good' dictionary or encyclopedia to feel for the sense of the discourse we conduct.
Language is a very entangling web.
It is loaded with meaning. It almost requires a thick book of unpacking for each word. Read our recent article on language in Winter 1977, Comparative Civilizations Review for a taste of the problem of communication - with self or others. The following handout was used as what appeared to be a useful introduction to homeokinetics. As such, it may serve, once again, to stimulate multidisciplined dialogues with other systems' outlooks.