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Chimeric Faces

F. Frank LeFever flefever at ix.netcom.com
Sun Jan 10 21:13:07 EST 1999


KKKollins is a lost cause, but let me spell it out for any novice who
might otherwise suffer from this malignant misinformation:

WE (i.e. we who know what the term "chimeric faces" refers to) are
talking about PHOTOGRAPHS or (in some cases) LINE DRAWINGS (i.e.
cartooons).  We manipulate the symmetry or asymmetry of these
PHOTOGRAPHS or LINE DRAWINGS.  Got it?

Usually Levy and others show them to ORGANICALLY INTACT VOLUNTEER
SUBJECTS!

Why we do this is, of course, beyond kkollins grasp, but---!

F. LeFever


In <36985BBC.6A295067 at pop3.concentric.net> kkollins at pop3.concentric.net
writes: 
>
>I stand on what I posted.
>
>I study organically-intact systems, and their information-processing
>with respect to naturally-occuring phenomena, not "contrived" systems,
>because studying organically-intact systems, and their
>information-processing with respect to naturally-occuring phenomena,
>enables one to recognize "contrived" systems.
>
>I Wrote The Book on facial symmetry, Mr. Frank. As is briefly
explained
>in AoK, it reduces directly to TD E/I-minimization within the neural
>topology, and has extraordinary information-processing usefulness.
Look
>and see, in-there is verification that Darwin's "evolutionary theory"
>isn't even close to what's actually going on in the engineering of the
>DNA. It's all just what's described by 2nd Thermo (wdb2t).
>
>Beyond this, IMO, using "chimeric" to express "relative-symmetry"
>burdens the discussion with insensitive connotations. See, for
instance:
>
>http://www.personal.u-net.com/~lfi/
>
>Why use words so recklessly? K. P. Collins
>
>F. Frank LeFever wrote:
>> 
>> Why not "symmetry"? Precisely because they are contrived to be
>> asymmetric, i.e. designed to be, constructed to be asymmetric, in
SOME
>> cases, but contrived to be "un-naturally" symmetric in other cases
>> (e.g. the right half reversed and substituted for the left half, or
>> vice versa).
>> 
>> "Chimeric" is simply the term by which these constructins are known
>> among people engaged in or at least FAMILIAR with this line of
research
>> --for example, those who attended the joint New York Academy of
>> Sciences/New York Neuropsychology Group meeting at which Dr. Levy
spoke
>> (at my invitation), a few Novembers ago...
>> 
>> Again, this COMPULSION u-no-who has to comment on things he knows
>> nothing about--shouldn't he be spending more time on manipulating
the
>> stock market?  or are these posts intended to do so?  OR does the
stock
>> market drive his compulsive commentary?  Has he been programmed to
do
>> so?  Is this candidate really Manchurian??
>> 
>> F. LeFever
>
>> [...]




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