Target with Four Faces

Musical Instruments (painted wood), Pablo Picasso, 1914 Target with Four Faces (canvas and plaster), Jasper Johns, 1955 Radiant White 952 (cardboard and plywood), Robert Rauschenberg, 1971... 

I have made this model a little more complicated than the model in Chapter 2 by adding an arrow labeled Internal Stimuli within each possible information process to reflect the fact that more events are occurring in the agent s mind and nervous system than the experimenter s request to influence the target. This is also true for our clairvoyance and precognition model. For example, there may be spontaneous neural discharges or noises within your brain that interfere with the flow of information between the various processes. Or you may consciously dislike the experimenter, so that when he tells you to make the dice come up fours, you say (mentally), Nuts to you, and consciously try for a different target face. Or you may... 

Let us take a look at the back cover of Cram and Hammond s Textbook of organic chemistry, where a number of dream molecules are depicted. Truncated tetra-hedrane, or heptacyclo[5.5.0.02 12.03 5.041. 06 8.0911]dodecane, C12Hi2 (2) appears to offer a possibility of its cyclopropane bonds with high p-character to interact over the surface of the molecule. Structure 2 has eight faces and is formally obtained by truncating four vertices of tetrahedron (3) it is also the target of synthesis by several research groups (Woodward 1970). 

To investigate effects of monomer position on target selectivity, three different variants were designed and characterized (IB, 1C, and IsJ where the position of NLys relative to Nspe was changed with respect to the peptoid 1 sequence. As the name suggests, in the case of Is r the four NLys residues were scrambled between all three faces to disrupt amphipathicity. 

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