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This Defense Documentation Center report (ADA068988) reproduces a paper Thomas E. Bearden prepared for the 1979 MUFON Annual Symposium. It carries a public-release distribution statement. Bearden is a retired Army lieutenant colonel and nuclear engineer. The paper proposes a speculative mind and matter model built on a claimed fourth law of logic and hyperspatial frames. It argues that the collective unconscious can materialize thought forms under Cold War stress, and it fits major UFO waves and U.S. cattle mutilations since 1973 into that model.
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FIGURE 3. A FUNDAf,lENTAL CORRECTION TO CLASSICAL LOGIC
1. A V A ARISTOTLE'S LAW OF THE EXCLUDED MIDDLE
2. DEFINE D AS "IS PERCEIVED~'
3. 0 vI A I LAW OF THE EXCLUDED MIDDLE
4. EACH PERCEPTION IS A FINITE OPERATION AND REQUIRES A FINITE TIME TO OCCUR.
THE LOGIC SYMBOL ALSO REPRESENTS A DECISION ALGORITHM: A SERlES OF
OPERATIONS PERFORMED IN A SEPARATE TIME INTERVAL.
EACH FINITE TIME INTERVAL MUST BE ACCOUNTED FOR.
s. [E]1V3~2
f), THE LAW STATES THAT PERCEPTION IS A MONOCULAR PROCESS IN TIME 3.
ONLY ONE-THING-AT-A-TIME IS PERCEIVED.
7. NOW NOTE THAT SEPARATION OF A AND A DOES NOT OCCUR IN
I<Al ) 7\2)1 ~
8. so Al =3 A2
=s
14.5
[!]4
BOUNDARY IDENTITY OF EXACT OPPOSITES
9. AND EQUATION 8 CONSTITUTES A FOURTH LAW OF LOGICAL THOUGHT.
IT SIMPLY STATES THAT PERCEPTION THREE IS BINOCULAR~ AND EXCLUSIVE
SEPARATION OF EITHER A OR A IS NOT PERMITTED.
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