Mind, inevitability

Designers must keep in mind that modem aircraft will likely be in service for thirty years and that repair of adhesive bonded structure will be inevitable. They must allow for reasonable disassembly of bonded stmcture for repair access as well as anticipate repair procedures that will not be unduly difficult for airline repair stations. 

Much of the work described in this section has inevitably to be reviewed against the background of earlier work using alloy catalysts where it was hoped to correlate activity or adsorptive properties with the electronic structure of the alloy (cf. Introduction). Therefore, it seems useful to summarize some current ideas about d-band structure with particular reference to the Pd-Ag system which has been extensively studied. However, it has been stated (96) that the differences between the Cu-Ni and the Pd-Ag systems, with respect to electronic structure, may be more impressive than their similarities and this must be kept in mind, i.e., ideas... 

This is a precise description of what is required of our system. It should be documented independently of how the requirements may be achieved. Clearly it will be necessary to think ahead, and consider some implementation questions, in part because there s no point in specifying something that cannot be made and in part because the creative minds of the analysts inevitably speculate about how it will work. We ve already discussed the difference between doing these steps in parallel and documenting them separately. 

In a monograph of this kind it has not been possible, nor indeed is it desirable, to segregate completely synthetic chemical methods from biological action. Such a separation would inevitably lead to a catalogue of entirely unrelated facts. Nevertheless, some effort has been made to concentrate particular aspects of the subject in different sections or chapters but the interrelationships of chemical constitution with biological activity, have always been kept in mind. 

But the Alchemist must not abuse either the theater or worldly pleasures, for intellectual dissipation would be the inevitable result. In every case, the Alchemist is never to forget his role as a guardian of the Occult Tradition. He should never engage in noisy set-tos, nor stir up arguments about those articles of faith pertaining to the domain of the Profane. Nevertheless, should the occasion arise, he should then affirm his opinions and beliefs, and these he will then maintain with conviction. He shall never depart from the most exquisite politeness and the greatest possible tolerance. The Adept is liberal-minded. Likewise, he continuously shows himself to be friendly and open with others—but he is always reserved in his manner. 

It is necessary to give second priority to the personal, career-advancing self-interest that we typically have and to develop the mind-set that our primary self-interest is inevitably linked and interdependent with the self-interest of the business md the other people around us. The major purpose of our work is to build an organization of our own choosing and one that we believe in. 

But what exactly is the theory What constitutes the identity of the deceiving subject,, and the identity of the object of deception, O And how are they related to one another At first sight, it seems that the distinction between them must be based squarely on the line dividing consciousness from unconsciousness. From the problem that the dichotomy of the mind has to solve is formulated in a way that seems to make that solution, such as it is, almost inevitable. When there is no latitude, how can anyone consciously persist in an irrational belief It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he must be unconscious of its irrationality, and similarly that in many cases where there is latitude he must be unconscious of the fact that his belief is caused by a wish. This was Freud s main idea and it seems that it must be a large part of the truth. 

Possessed by fear and suspicion, mind agitated, eyes alarmed, we desperately invent ways out, plan how to avoid the inevitable danger that threatens us so terribly. 

One can also cope with weakness of will by creating new principles for mental bookkeeping, without any intervention in the external world. The trick is to put oneself in a frame of mind in which one violation of the rule allows one to predict rule violations on all later occasions. "If I take a second helping of cream cake today. I m just fooling myself if I think 1 won t do it the next time. Since there is nothing special about this occasion, the causes that make me yield to temptation today will have the same effect on the next occasion." By setting up this domino eflert, I raise the slakes. One cigarette - just one - will inevitably lead me back to a pack a day. One drink, and I am on the... 

This scene is the longest sequence in the act and the climax of the play. From this moment on, the plot runs single-mindedly to an inevitable conclusion. The involvement of the plot develops further, but after Bonario s romantic entrance, the solution of the intrigue is never in doubt. The scene begins on this note of fatality. 

Carbon, of course, is the ideal element for simple-minded chemists. Obey a few elementary valency rules, and almost any organic structure you can doodle would exist, if you could make it. And this is perhaps the justification for my own simple-minded contribution to the story of C60. For many years I have maintained a scientific alter ego, Daedalus, whose musings used to appear in New Scientist but now appear in Nature. Daedalus launches scientific proposals which are intended to fall in that uneasy no-man s-land between the clearly feasible and the clearly fantastic. His aim is inevitably rather erratic, and many of the attempts land on one side or the other. An account of some of Daedalus s chemical proposals has appeared in Chemistry in Britain (Jones 1987). His greatest moment came late in 1966, when he proposed the hollow-shell graphite molecule (Jones 1966). 

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