THE AXIOMS OF DIANETICS

AXIOM 1

THE SOURCE OF LIFE IS A STATIC OF PECULIAR AND PARTICULAR PROPERTIES

AXIOM 2

AT LEAST A PORTION OF THE STATIC CALLED LIFE IS IMPINGED UPON THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE

AXIOM 3

THAT PORTION OF THE STATIC OF LIFE WHICH IS IMPINGED UPON THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE HAS FOR ITS DYNAMIC GOAL, SURVIVAL AND ONLY SURVIVAL

AXIOM 4

THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE IS REDUCIBLE TO MOTION OF ENERGY OPERATING IN SPACE THROUGH TIME

AXIOM 5

THAT PORTION OF THE STATIC OF LIFE CONCERNED WITH THE LIFE ORGANISMS OF THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE IS CONCERNED WHOLLY WITH MOTION

AXIOM 6

THE LIFE STATIC HAS AS ONE OF ITS PROPERTIES THE ABILITY TO MOBILIZE AND ANIMATE MATTER INTO LIVING ORGANISMS

AXIOM 7

THE LIFE STATIC IS ENGAGED IN A CONQUEST OF THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE

AXIOM 8

THE LIFE STATIC CONQUERS THE MATERIAL UNIVERSE BY LEARNING AND APPLYING THE PHYSICAL LAWS OF THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE

SYMBOL:

The Symbol for the Life Static in use hereafter is the Greek letter THETA

AXIOM 9

A FUNDAMENTAL OPERATION OF THETA IN SURVIVING IS BRINGING ORDER INTO THE CHAOS OF THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE

AXIOM 10

THETA BRINGS ORDER INTO CHAOS BY CONQUERING WHATEVER IN MEST MAY BE PRO- SURVIVAL AND DESTROYING WHATEVER IN MEST MAY BE CONTRA- SURVIVAL, AT LEAST THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF LIFE ORGANISMS

SYMBOL:

The symbol for the PHYSICAL UNIVERSE in use hereafter is MEST, from the first letters of the words Matter, Energy, Space, and Time, or the Greek letter PHI

AXIOM 11

A LIFE ORGANISM IS COMPOSED OF MATTER AND ENERGY IN SPACE AND TIME, ANIMATED BY THETA

SYMBOL:

Living organism or organisms will hereafter be represented by the Greek letter LAMBDA

AXIOM 12

THE MEST PART OF THE ORGANISM FOLLOWS THE LAWS OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES ALL LAMBDA IS CONCERNED WITH MOTION

AXIOM 13

THETA OPERATING THROUGH LAMBDA CONVERTS THE FORCES OF THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE INTO FORCES TO CONQUER THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE

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AXIOM 14

THETA WORKING UPON PHYSICAL UNIVERSE MOTION MUST MAINTAIN A HARMONIOUS RATE OF MOTION

The limits of Lambda are narrow, both as to thermal and mechanical motion

AXIOM 15

LAMBDA IS THE INTERMEDIATE STEP IN THE CONQUEST OF THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE

AXIOM 16

THE BASIC FOOD OF ANY ORGANISM CONSISTS OF LIGHT AND CHEMICALS

Organisms can exist only as higher levels of complexities because lower levels of converters exist

Theta evolves organisms from lower to higher forms and supports them by the existence of lower converter forms

AXIOM 17

THETA, VIA LAMBDA, EFFECTS AN EVOLUTION OF MEST

In this we have the waste products of organisms on the one hand as those very complex chemicals which bacteria make, and, on the other hand, we have the physical face of the earth being changed by animals and men, such changes as grass holding mountains from eroding or roots causing boulders to break, buildings being built, and rivers being dammed There is obviously an evolution in MEST in progress under the incursion of Theta

AXIOM 18

LAMBDA, EVEN WITHIN A SPECIES, VARIES IN ITS ENDOWMENT OF THETA

AXIOM 19

THE EFFORT OF LAMBDA IS TOWARD SURVIVAL

The goal of Lambda is survival

The penalty of failure to advance toward that goal is to succumb

DEFINITION:

PERSISTENCE IS THE ABILITY TO EXERT CONTINUANCE OF EFFORT TOWARD SURVIVAL GOALS

AXIOM 20

LAMBDA CREATES, CONSERVES, MAINTAINS, REQUIRES, DESTROYS, CHANGES, OCCUPIES, GROUPS AND DISPERSESMEST LAMBDA SURVIVES BY ANIMATING AND MOBILIZING OR DESTROYING MATTER AND ENERGY IN SPACE AND TIME

AXIOM 21

LAMBDA IS DEPENDENT UPON OPTIMUM MOTION MOTION WHICH IS TOO SWIFT AND MOTION WHICH IS TOO SLOW ARE EQUALLY CONTRA- SURVIVAL

AXIOM 22

THETA AND THOUGHT ARE SIMILAR ORDERS OF STATIC

AXIOM 23

ALL THOUGHT IS CONCERNED WITH MOTION

AXIOM 24

THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN OPTIMUM MOTION IS A BASIC GOAL OF REASON

DEFINITION:

LAMBDA IS A CHEMICAL HEAT ENGINE EXISTING IN SPACE AND TIME MOTIVATED BY THE LIFE STATIC AND DIRECTED BY THOUGHT

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AXIOM 25

THE BASIC PURPOSE OF REASON IS THE CALCULATION OR ESTIMATION OF EFFORT

AXIOM 26

THOUGHT IS ACCOMPLISHED BY THETA FACSIMILES OF PHYSICAL UNIVERSE, ENTITIES OR ACTIONS

AXIOM 27

THETA IS SATISFIED ONLY WITH HARMONIOUS ACTION OR OPTIMUM MOTION AND REJECTS OR DESTROYS ACTION OR MOTION ABOVE OR BELOW ITS TOLERANCE BAND

AXIOM 28

THE MIND IS CONCERNED WHOLLY WITH THE ESTIMATION OFEFFORT

DEFINITION:

MIND IS THE THETA COMMAND POST OF ANY ORGANISM OR ORGANISMS

AXIOM 29

THE BASIC ERRORS OF REASON ARE FAILURES TO DIFFERENTIATE AMONGST MATTER, ENERGY, SPACE AND TIME

AXIOM 30

RIGHTNESS IS PROPER CALCULATION OF EFFORT

AXIOM 31

WRONGNESS IS ALWAYS MISCALCULATION OF EFFORT

AXIOM 32

THETA CAN EXERT ITSELF DIRECTLY OR EXTENSIONALLY

Theta can direct physical application of the organism to the environment or through the mind, can first calculate the action or extend, as in language, ideas

AXIOM 33

CONCLUSIONS ARE DIRECTED TOWARD THE INHIBITION, MAINTENANCE OR ACCELERATIONS OF EFFORTS

AXIOM 34

THE COMMON DENOMINATOR OF ALL LIFE ORGANISMS IS MOTION

AXIOM 35

EFFORT OF AN ORGANISM TO SURVIVE OR SUCCUMB IS PHYSICAL MOTION OF A LIFE ORGANISM AT A GIVEN MOMENT IN TIME THROUGH SPACE

DEFINITION:

MOTION IS ANY CHANGE IN ORIENTATION IN SPACE

DEFINITION:

FORCE IS RANDOM EFFORT

DEFINITION:

EFFORT IS DIRECTED FORCE

AXIOM 36

AN ORGANISM’S EFFORT CAN BE TO REMAIN AT REST OR PERSIST IN A GIVEN MOTION

Static state has position in time, but an organism which is remaining positionally in a static if alive, is still continuing a highly complex pattern of motion, such as the heart beat, digestion, etc

The efforts of organisms to survive or succumb are assisted, compelled or opposed by the efforts of other organisms, matter, energy, space and time

DEFINITION:

ATTENTION IS A MOTION WHICH MUST REMAIN AT AN OPTIMUM EFFORT

Attention is aberrated by becoming unfixed and sweeping at random or becoming too fixed without sweeping

Unknown threats to survival when sensed cause attention to sweep without fixing

Known threats to survival when sensed cause attention to fix

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AXIOM 37

THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF LAMBDA IS INFINITE SURVIVAL

AXIOM 38

DEATH IS ABANDONMENT BY THETA OF A LIFE ORGANISM ORRACE OR SPECIES WHERE THESE CAN NO LONGER SERVE THETA IN ITS GOALS OF INFINITE SURVIVAL

AXIOM 39

THE REWARD OF AN ORGANISM ENGAGING UPON SURVIVAL ACTIVITY IS PLEASURE

AXIOM 40

THE PENALTY OF AN ORGANISM FAILING TO ENGAGE UPONSURVIVAL ACTIVITY, OR ENGAGING IN NON- SURVIVAL ACTIVITY, IS PAIN

AXIOM 41

THE CELL AND VIRUS ARE THE PRIMARY BUILDING BLOCKS OF LIFE ORGANISMS

AXIOM 42

THE VIRUS AND CELL ARE MATTER AND ENERGY ANIMATEDAND MOTIVATED IN SPACE AND TIME BY THETA

AXIOM 43

THETA MOBILIZES THE VIRUS AND CELL IN COLONIAL AGGREGATIONS TO INCREASE POTENTIAL MOTION AND ACCOMPLISH EFFORT

AXIOM 44

THE GOAL OF VIRUSES AND CELLS IS SURVIVAL IN SPACE THROUGH TIME

AXIOM 45

THE TOTAL MISSION OF HIGHER ORGANISMS, VIRUSES AND CELLS IS THE SAME AS THAT OF THE VIRUS AND CELL

AXIOM 46

COLONIAL AGGREGATIONS OF VIRUSES AND CELLS CAN BE IMBUED WITH MORE THETA THAN THEY INHERENTLY CONTAINED

AXIOM 47

EFFORT CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED BY LAMBDA ONLY THROUGH THE CO- ORDINATION OF ITS PARTS TOWARD GOALS

AXIOM 48

AN ORGANISM IS EQUIPPED TO BE GOVERNED AND CONTROLLED BY A MIND

AXIOM 49

THE PURPOSE OF THE MIND IS TO POSE AND RESOLVEPROBLEMS RELATING TO SURVIVAL AND TO DIRECT THE EFFORT OF THE ORGANISM ACCORDING TO THESE SOLUTIONS

AXIOM 50

ALL PROBLEMS ARE POSED AND RESOLVED THROUGH ESTIMATIONS OF EFFORT

AXIOM 51

THE MIND CAN CONFUSE POSITION IN SPACE WITH POSITION IN TIME (COUNTER- EFFORTS PRODUCING ACTION PHRASES) AXIOM 52 AN ORGANISM PROCEEDING TOWARD SURVIVAL IS DIRECTEDBY THE MIND OF THAT ORGANISM IN THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF SURVIVAL EFFORT

 

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AXIOM 53

AN ORGANISM PROCEEDING TOWARD SUCCUMB IS DIRECTED BY THE MIND OF THAT ORGANISM IN THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF DEATH

AXIOM 54

SURVIVAL OF AN ORGANISM IS ACCOMPLISHED BY THE OVERCOMING OF EFFORTS OPPOSING ITS SURVIVAL

(Note: Corollary for other dynamics)

DEFINITION:

DYNAMIC IS THE ABILITY TO TRANSLATE SOLUTIONS INTO ACTION

AXIOM 55

SURVIVAL EFFORT FOR AN ORGANISM INCLUDES THE DYNAMIC THRUST BY THAT ORGANISM FOR THE SURVIVAL OF ITSELF, ITS PROCREATION, ITS GROUP, ITS SUB- SPECIES, ITS SPECIES ALL LIFE ORGANISMS, MATERIAL UNIVERSE, THE LIFE STATIC AND, POSSIBLY, A SUPREME BEING

(Note: List of dynamics)

AXIOM 56

THE CYCLE OF AN ORGANISM, A GROUP OF ORGANISMS OR A SPECIES IS INCEPTION, GROWTH, RE- CREATION, DECAY ANDDEATH

AXIOM 57

THE EFFORT OF AN ORGANISM IS DIRECTED TOWARD THE CONTROL OF THE ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL THE DYNAMICS

AXIOM 58

CONTROL OF AN ENVIRONMENT IS ACCOMPLISHED BY THE SUPPORT OF PRO- SURVIVAL FACTORS ALONG ANY DYNAMIC

AXIOM 59

ANY TYPE OF HIGHER ORGANISM IS ACCOMPLISHED BY THE EVOLUTION OF VIRUSES AND CELLS INTO FORMS CAPABLE OF BETTER EFFORTS TO CONTROL OR LIVE IN AN ENVIRONMENT

AXIOM 60

THE USEFULNESS OF AN ORGANISM IS DETERMINED BY ITS ABILITY TO CONTROL THE ENVIRONMENT OR TO SUPPORT ORGANISMS WHICH CONTROL THE ENVIRONMENT

AXIOM 61

AN ORGANISM IS REJECTED BY THETA TO THE DEGREE THAT IT FAILS IN ITS GOALS

AXIOM 62

HIGHER ORGANISMS CAN EXIST ONLY IN THE DEGREE THAT THEY ARE SUPPORTED BY THE LOWER ORGANISMS

AXIOM 63

THE USEFULLNESS OF AN ORGANISM IS DETERMINED BY THE ALIGNMENT OF ITS EFFORTS TOWARD SURVIVAL

AXIOM 64

THE MIND PERCEIVES AND STORES ALL DATA OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND ALIGNS OR FAILS TO ALIGN THESE ACCORDING TO THE TIME THEY WERE PERCEIVED

DEFINITION:

A CONCLUSION IS THE THETA FACSIMILES OF A GROUP OF COMBINED DATA

DEFINITION:

A DATUM IS A THETA FACSIMILE OF PHYSICAL ACTION

 

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AXIOM 65

THE PROCESS OF THOUGHT IS THE PERCEPTION OF THE PRESENT AND THE COMPARISON OF IT TO THE PERCEPTIONS AND CONCLUSIONS OF THE PAST IN ORDER TO DIRECT ACTION IN THE IMMEDIATE OR DISTANT FUTURE

COROLLARY:

THE ATTEMPT OF THOUGHT IS TO PERCEIVE REALITIES OF THE PAST AND PRESENT IN ORDER TO PREDICT OR POSTULATE REALITIES OF THE FUTURE

AXIOM 66

THE PROCESS BY WHICH LIFE EFFECTS ITS CONQUEST OF THE MATERIAL UNIVERSE CONSISTS IN THE CONVERSION OF THE POTENTIAL EFFORT OF MATTER AND ENERGY IN SPACE AND THROUGH TIME TO EFFECT WITH IT THE CONVERSION OF FURTHER MATTER AND ENERGY IN SPACE AND THROUGH TIME

AXIOM 67

THETA CONTAINS ITS OWN THETA UNIVERSE EFFORT WHICH TRANSLATES INTO MEST EFFORT

AXIOM 68

THE SINGLE ARBITRARY IN ANY ORGANISM IS TIME

AXIOM 69

PHYSICAL UNIVERSE PERCEPTIONS AND EFFORTS ARE RECEIVED BY AN ORGANISM AS FORCE WAVES, CONVERT BY FACSIMILE INTO THETA AND ARE THUS STORED

DEFINITION:

RANDOMITY IS THE MIS- ALIGNMENT THROUGH THE INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL EFFORTS BY OTHER FORMS OF LIFE OR THE MATERIAL UNIVERSE OF THE EFFORTS OF AN ORGANISM, AND IS IMPOSED ON THE PHYSICAL ORGANISM BY COUNTER- EFFORTS IN THE ENVIRONMENT

AXIOM 70

ANY CYCLE OF ANY LIFE ORGANISM IS FROM STATIC TO MOTION TO STATIC

AXIOM 71

THE CYCLE OF RANDOMITY IS FROM STATIC, THROUGH OPTIMUM, THROUGH RANDOMITY SUFFICIENTLY REPETITIOUS OR SIMILAR TO CONSTITUTE ANOTHER STATIC

AXIOM 72

THERE ARE TWO SUB- DIVISIONS TO RANDOMITY: DATA RANDOMITY AND FORCE RANDOMITY

AXIOM 73

THE THREE DEGREES OF RANDOMITY CONSIST OF MINUS RANDOMITY, OPTIMUM RANDOMITY AND PLUS RANDOMITY

DEFINITION:

RANDOMITY IS A COMPONENT FACTOR AND NECESSARY PART OF MOTION, IF MOTION IS TO CONTINUE

AXIOM 74

OPTIMUM RANDOMITY IS NECESSARY TO LEARNING

AXIOM 75

THE IMPORTANT FACTORS IN ANY AREA OF RANDOMITY ARE EFFORT AND COUNTER- EFFORT

(Note: As distinguished from near- perceptions of effort)

AXIOM 76

RANDOMITY AMONGST ORGANISMS IS VITAL TO CONTINUOUS SURVIVAL OF ALL ORGANISMS AXIOM 77 THETA AFFECTS THE ORGANISM, OTHER ORGANISMS AND THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE BY TRANSLATING THETA FACSIMILES INTO PHYSICAL EFFORTS OR RANDOMITY OF EFFORTS

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DEFINITION:

THE DEGREE OF RANDOMITY IS MEASURED BY THE RANDOMNESS OF EFFORT VECTORS WITHIN THE ORGANISM, AMONGST ORGANISMS, AMONGST RACES OR SPECIES OF ORGANISMS OR BETWEEN ORGANISMS AND THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE

AXIOM 78

RANDOMITY BECOMES INTENSE IN INDIRECT RATIO TO THE TIME IN WHICH IT TAKES PLACE, MODIFIED BY THE TOTAL EFFORT IN THE AREA

AXIOM 79

INITIAL RANDOMITY CAN BE REINFORCED BY RANDOMITIES OF GREATER OR LESSER MAGNITUDE

AXIOM 80

AREAS OF RANDOMITY EXIST IN CHAINS OF SIMILARITY PLOTTED AGAINST TIME THIS CAN BE TRUE OF WORDS AND ACTIONS CONTAINED IN RANDOMITIES EACH MAY HAVE ITS OWN CHAIN PLOTTED AGAINST TIME

AXIOM 81

SANITY CONSISTS OF OPTIMUM RANDOMITY

AXIOM 82

ABERRATION EXISTS TO THE DEGREE THAT PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY EXISTS IN THE ENVIRONMENT OR PAST DATA OF AN ORGANISM, GROUP OR SPECIES, MODIFIED BY THE ENDOWED SELF- DETERMINISM OF THAT ORGANISM, GROUP OR SPECIES

AXIOM 83

THE SELF- DETERMINISM OF AN ORGANISM IS DETERMINED BY ITS THETA ENDOWMENT, MODIFIED BY MINUS OR PLUS RANDOMITY IN ITS ENVIRONMENT OR ITS EXISTENCE

AXIOM 84

THE SELF- DETERMINISM OF AN ORGANISM IS INCREASED BY OPTIMUM RANDOMITY OF COUNTER- EFFORTS

AXIOM 85

THE SELF- DETERMINISM OF AN ORGANISM IS REDUCED BY PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY OF COUNTER- EFFORTS IN THE ENVIRONMENT

AXIOM 86

RANDOMITY CONTAINS BOTH THE RANDOMNESS OF EFFORTS AND THE VOLUME OF EFFORTS

(Note: An area of randomity can have a gret deal of confusion but, without volume of energy, the confusion itself is negligible)

AXIOM 87

THAT COUNTER- EFFORT IS MOST ACCEPTABLE TO AN ORGANISM WHICH MOST CLOSELY APPEARS TO ASSIST ITS ACCOMPLISHMENT OF ITS GOAL

AXIOM 88

AN AREA OF SEVERE PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY CAN OCCLUDE DATA ON ANY OF THE SUBJECTS OF THAT PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY WHICH TOOK PLACE IN A PRIOR TIME

(Note: Shut- off mechanisms of earlier lives, perceptics, specific incidents, etc)

AXIOM 89

RESTIMULATION OF PLUS, MINUS OR OPTIMUM RANDOMITYCAN PRODUCE INCREASED PLUS, MINUS OR OPTIMUM RANDOMITY RESPECTIVELY IN THE ORGANISM

 

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AXIOM 90

AN AREA OF RANDOMITY CAN ASSUME SUFFICIENT MAGNITUDE SO AS TO APPEAR TO THE ORGANISM AS PAIN, ACCORDING TO ITS GOALS

AXIOM 91

PAST RANDOMITY CAN IMPOSE ITSELF UPON THE PRESENT ORGANISM AS THETA FACSIMILES

AXIOM 92

THE ENGRAM IS A SEVERE AREA OF PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY OF SUFFICIENT VOLUME TO CAUSE UNCONSCIOUSNESS

AXIOM 93

UNCONSCIOUSNESS IS AN EXCESS OF RANDOMITY IMPOSED BY A COUNTER- EFFORT OF SUFFICIENT FORCE TO CLOUD THE AWARENESS AND DIRECT FUNCTION OF THE ORGANISM THROUGH THE MIND’S CONTROL CENTER

AXIOM 94

ANY COUNTER- EFFORT WHICH MIS- ALIGNS THE ORGANISM’S COMMAND OF ITSELF OR ITS ENVIRONMENT ESTABLISHES PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY OR, IF OF SUFFICIENT MAGNITUDE, IS AN ENGRAM

AXIOM 95

PAST ENGRAMS ARE RESTIMULATED BY THE CONTROL CENTER’S PERCEPTION OF CIRCUMSTANCES SIMILAR TO THAT ENGRAM IN THE PRESENT ENVIRONMENT

AXIOM 96

AN ENGRAM IS A THETA FACSIMILE OF ATOMS AND MOLECULES IN MISALIGNMENT

AXIOM 97

ENGRAMS FIX EMOTIONAL RESPONSE AS THAT EMOTIONAL RESPONSE OF THE ORGANISM DURING THE RECEIPT OF THE COUNTER- EFFORT

AXIOM 98

FREE EMOTIONAL RESPONSE DEPENDS ON OPTIMUM RANDOMITY IT DEPENDS UPON ABSENCE OF OR NON- RESTIMULATION OF ENGRAMS

AXIOM 99

THETA FACSIMILES CAN RECOMBINE INTO NEW SYMBOLS

AXIOM 100

LANGUAGE IS THE SYMBOLIZATION OF EFFORT

AXIOM 101

LANGUAGE DEPENDS FOR ITS FORCE UPON THE FORCE WHICH ACCOMPANIED ITS DEFINITION

(Note: Counter- effort, not language, is aberrative)

AXIOM 102

THE ENVIRONMENT CAN OCCLUDE THE CENTRAL CONTROL OF ANY ORGANISM AND ASSUME CONTROL OF THE MOTOR CONTROLS OF THAT ORGANISM (ENGRAM, RESTIMULATION, LOCKS, HYPNOTISM)

AXIOM 103

INTELLIGENCE DEPENDS ON THE ABILITY TO SELECT ALIGNED OR MISALIGNED DATA FROM AN AREA OF RANDOMITY AND SO DISCOVER A SOLUTION TO REDUCE ALL RANDOMITY IN THAT AREA AXIOM 104 PERSISTENCE OBTAINS IN THE ABILITY OF THE MIND TO PUT SOLUTIONS INTO PHYSICAL ACTION TOWARD THE REALIZATION OF GOALS

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AXIOM 105

AN UNKNOWN DATUM CAN PRODUCE DATA OF PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY

AXIOM106

THE INTRODUCTION OF AN ARBITRARY FACTOR OR FORCE WITHOUT RECOURSE TO NATURAL LAWS OF THE BODY OR THE AREA INTO WHICH THE ARBITRARY IS INTRODUCED BRINGS ABOUT PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY

AXIOM107

DATA OF PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY DEPENDS FOR ITS CONFUSION ON FORMER PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY OR ABSENT DATA

AXIOM108

EFFORTS WHICH ARE INHIBITED OR COMPELLED BY EXTERIOR EFFORTS EFFECT A PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY OF EFFORTS

AXIOM109

BEHAVIOR IS MODIFIED BY COUNTER- EFFORTS WHICH HAVE IMPINGED ON THE ORGANISM

AXIOM110

THE COMPONENT PARTS OF THETA ARE AFFINITY, REALITY, AND COMMUNICATION

AXIOM111

SELF- DETERMINISM CONSISTS OF MAXIMAL AFFINITY, REALITY AND COMMUNICATION

AXIOM112

AFFINITY IS THE COHESION OF THETA

Affinity manifests itself as the recognition of similarity of efforts and goals amongst organisms by those organisms

AXIOM113

REALITY IS THE AGREEMENT UPON PERCEPTIONS AND DATA IN THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE

All that we can be sure is real is that on which we have agreed is real Agreement is the essence of reality

AXIOM114

COMMUNICATION IS THE INTERCHANGE OF PERCEPTION THROUGH THE MATERIAL UNIVERSE BETWEEN ORGANISMS OR THE PERCEPTION OF THE MATERIAL UNIVERSE BY SENSE CHANNELS

AXIOM115

SELF- DETERMINISM IS THE THETA CONTROL OF THE ORGANISM

AXIOM116

A SELF- DETERMINED EFFORT IS THAT COUNTER- EFFORT WHICH HAS BEEN RECEIVED INTO THE ORGANISM IN THE PAST AND INTEGRATED INTO THE ORGANISM FOR ITS CONSCIOUS USE

AXIOM117

THE COMPONENTS OF SELF- DETERMINISM ARE AFFINITY, COMMUNICATION AND REALITY

Self- determinism is manifested along each dynamic

AXIOM118

AN ORGANISM CANNOT BECOME ABERRATED UNLESS IT HAS AGREED UPON THAT ABERRATION, HAS BEEN IN COMMUNICATION WITH A SOURCE OF ABERRATION, AND HAS HAD AFFINITY FOR THE ABERRATOR

AXIOM119

AGREEMENT WITH ANY SOURCE, CONTRA- OR PRO- SURVIVAL, POSTULATES A NEW REALITY FOR THE ORGANISM

 

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AXIOM120

NON- SURVIVAL COURSES, THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS REQUIRE NON- OPTIMUM EFFORT

AXIOM121

EVERY THOUGHT HAS BEEN PRECEDED BY PHYSICAL ACTION

AXIOM122

THE MIND DOES WITH THOUGHT AS IT HAS DONE WITH ENTITIES IN THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE

AXIOM123

ALL EFFORT CONCERNED WITH PAIN IS CONCERNED WITH LOSS

Organisms hold pain and engrams to them as a latent effort to prevent loss of some portion of the organism

All loss is a loss of motion

AXIOM124

THE AMOUNT OF COUNTER- EFFORT THE ORGANISM CAN OVERCOME IS PROPORTIONAL TO THE THETA ENDOWMENT OF THE ORGANISM, MODIFIED BY THE PHYSIQUE OF THAT ORGANISM

AXIOM125

EXCESSIVE COUNTER- EFFORT TO THE EFFORT OF A LIFE ORGANISM PRODUCES UNCONSCIOUSNESS

AXIOM126

PERCEPTIONS ARE ALWAYS RECEIVED IN THE CONTROL CENTER OF AN ORGANISM WHETHER THE CONTROL CENTER IS IN CONTROL OF THE ORGANISM AT THE TIME OR NOT

This is an explanation for the assumption of valences

AXIOM127

ALL PERCEPTIONS REACHING THE ORGANISM’S SENSE CHANNELS ARE RECORDED AND STORED BY THETA FACSIMILE

AXIOM128

ANY ORGANISM CAN RECALL EVERYTHING WHICH IT HAS PERCEIVED

AXIOM129

AN ORGANISM DISPLACED BY PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY IS THEREAFTER REMOTE FROM THE PERCEPTION RECORDING CENTER

Increased remoteness brings about occlusions of perceptions one can perceive things in present time and then, because they are being recorded after they passed Theta perception of the awareness unit, they are recorded but cannot be recalled

AXIOM130

THETA FACSIMILES OF COUNTER- EFFORT ARE ALL THAT INTERPOSE BETWEEN THE CONTROL CENTER AND ITS RECALLS

AXIOM131

ANY COUNTER- EFFORT RECEIVED INTO A CONTROL CENTER IS ALWAYS ACCOMPANIED BY ALL PERCEPTICS

AXIOM132

THE RANDOM COUNTER- EFFORTS TO AN ORGANISM AND THE INTERMINGLED PERCEPTIONS IN THE RANDOMITY CAN RE- EXERT THAT FORCE UPON AN ORGANISM WHEN RESTIMULATED DEFINITION: RESTIMULATION IS THE REACTIVATION OF A PAST COUNTER- EFFORT BY APPEARANCE IN THE ORGANISM’S ENVIRONMENT OF A SIMILARITY TOWARD THE CONTENT OF THE PAST RANDOMITY AREA

 

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AXIOM133

SELF- DETERMINISM ALONE BRINGS ABOUT THE MECHANISM OF RESTIMULATION

AXIOM134

A REACTIVATED AREA OF THE PAST RANDOMITY IMPINGES THE EFFORT AND THE PERCEPTIONS UPON THE ORGANISM

AXIOM135

ACTIVATION OF A RANDOMITY AREA IS ACCOMPLISHED FIRST BY THE PERCEPTIONS, THEN BY THE PAIN, FINALLY BY THE EFFORT

AXIOM136

THE MIND IS PLASTICALLY CAPABLE OF RECORDING ALL EFFORTS AND COUNTER- EFFORTS

AXIOM137

A COUNTER- EFFORT ACCOMPANIED BY SUFFICIENT (ENRANDOMED) FORCE IMPRESSES THE FACSIMILE OF THE COUNTER- EFFORT PERSONALITY INTO THE MIND OF AN ORGANISM

AXIOM138

ABERRATION IS THE DEGREE OF RESIDUAL PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY ACCUMULATED BY COMPELLING, INHIBITING, OR UNWARRANTED ASSISTING OF EFFORTS ON THE PART OF OTHER ORGANISMS OR THE PHYSICAL (MATERIAL) UNIVERSE

Aberration is caused by what is done to the individual, not what the individual does, plus his self- determinism about what has been done to him

AXIOM139

ABERRATED BEHAVIOR CONSISTS OF DESTRUCTIVE EFFORT TOWARD PRO- SURVIVAL DATA OR ENTITIES ON ANY DYNAMIC, OR EFFORT TOWARD THE SURVIVAL OF CONTRA- SURVIVAL DATA OR ENTITIES FOR ANY DYNAMIC

AXIOM140

A VALENCE IS A FACSIMILE PERSONALITY MADE CAPABLE OF FORCE BY THE COUNTER- EFFORT OF THE MOMENT OR RECEIPT INTO THE PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS

Valences are assistive, compulsive or inhibitive to the organism

A CONTROL CENTER IS NOT A VALENCE

AXIOM141

A CONTROL CENTER EFFORT IS ALIGNED TOWARD A GOALTHROUGH DEFINITE SPACE AS A RECOGNIZED INCIDENT IN TIME

AXIOM142

AN ORGANISM IS AS HEALTHY AND SANE AS IT IS SELF- DETERMINED

The environmental control of the organism motor- controls inhibits the organism’s ability to change with the changing environment, since the organism will attempt to carry forward with one set of responses when it needs by self- determinism to create another tosurvive in another environment

AXIOM143

ALL LEARNING IS ACCOMPLISHED BY RANDOM EFFORT

AXIOM144

A COUNTER- EFFORT PRODUCING SUFFICIENT PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY TO RECORD IS RECORDED WITH AN INDEX OF SPACE AND TIME AS HIDDEN AS THE REMAINDER OF ITS CONTENT

AXIOM145

A COUNTER- EFFORT PRODUCING SUFFICIENT PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY WHEN ACTIVATED BY RESTIMULATION EXERTS ITSELF AGAINST THE ENVIRONMENT OR THE ORGANISM WITHOUT REGARD TO SPACE AND TIME, EXCEPT REACTIVATED PERCEPTIONS

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AXIOM146

COUNTER- EFFORTS ARE DIRECTED OUT FROM THE ORGANISM UNTIL THEY ARE FURTHER ENRANDOMED BY THE ENVIRON AT WHICH TIME THEY AGAIN ACTIVATE AGAINST THE CONTROL CENTER

AXIOM147

AN ORGANISM’S MIND EMPLOYS COUNTER- EFFORTS EFFECTIVELY ONLY SO LONG AS INSUFFICIENT PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY EXISTS TO HIDE DIFFERENTIATION OF THE FACSIMILES CREATED

AXIOM148

PHYSICAL LAWS ARE LEARNED BY LIFE ENERGY ONLY BY IMPINGEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE PRODUCING RANDOMITY, AND A WITHDRAWAL FROM THAT IMPINGEMENT

AXIOM149

LIFE DEPENDS UPON AN ALIGNMENT OF FORCE VECTORS IN THE DIRECTION OF SURVIVAL AND THE NULLIFICATION OF FORCE VECTORS IN THE DIRECTION OF SUCCUMB IN ORDER TO SURVIVE

COROLLARY:

LIFE DEPENDS UPON AN ALIGNMENT OF FORCE VECTORS IN THE DIRECTION OF SUCCUMB AND THE NULLIFICATION OF FORCE VECTORS IN THE DIRECTION OF SUCCUMB AND THE NULLIFICATION OF FORCE VECTORS IN THE DIRECTION OF SURVIVE IN ORDER TO SUCCUMB

AXIOM150

ANY AREA OF RANDOMITY GATHERS TO IT SITUATIONS SIMILAR TO IT WHICH DO NOT CONTAIN ACTUAL EFFORTS BUT ONLY PERCEPTION

AXIOM151

WHETHER AN ORGANISM HAS THE GOAL OF SURVIVING OR SUCCUMBING DEPENDS UPON THE AMOUNT OF PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY IT HAS REACTIVATED (NOT RESIDUAL)

AXIOM152

SURVIVAL IS ACCOMPLISHED ONLY BY MOTION

AXIOM153

IN THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE THE ABSENCE OF MOTION IS VANISHMENT

AXIOM154

DEATH IS THE EQUIVALENT TO LIFE OF TOTAL LACK OF LIFE- MOTIVATED MOTION

AXIOM155

ACQUISITION OF PRO- SURVIVAL MATTER AND ENERGY OR ORGANISMS IN SPACE AND TIME MEANS INCREASED MOTION

AXIOM156

LOSS OF PRO- SURVIVAL MATTER AND ENERGY OR ORGANISMS IN SPACE AND TIME MEANS DECREASED MOTION

AXIOM157

ACQUISITION OR PROXIMITY OF MATTER, ENERGY OR ORGANISMS WHICH ASSIST THE SURVIVAL OF AN ORGANISM INCREASE THE SURVIVAL POTENTIALS OF AN ORGANISM

AXIOM158

ACQUISITION OR PROXIMITY OF MATTER, ENERGY OR ORGANISMS WHICH INHIBIT THE SURVIVAL OF AN ORGANISM DECREASE ITS SURVIVAL POTENTIAL

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AXIOM159

GAIN OF SURVIVAL ENERGY, MATTER OR ORGANISMS INCREASES THE FREEDOM OF AN ORGANISM

AXIOM160

RECEIPT OR PROXIMITY OF NON- SURVIVAL ENERGY, MATTER OR TIME DECREASES THE FREEDOM OF MOTION OF AN ORGANISM

AXIOM161

THE CONTROL CENTER ATTEMPTS THE HALTING OR LENGTHENING OF TIME, THE EXPANSION OR CONTRACTION OF SPACE AND THE DECREASE OR INCREASE OF ENERGY AND MATTER

This is a primary source of invalidation, and it is also a primary source of aberration

AXIOM162

PAIN IS THE BALK OF EFFORT BY COUNTER- EFFORT IN GREAT INTENSITY, WHETHER THAT EFFORT IS TO REMAIN AT REST OR IN MOTION

AXIOM163

PERCEPTION, INCLUDING PAIN, CAN BE EXHAUSTED FROM AN AREA OF PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY, STILL LEAVING THE EFFORT AND COUNTER- EFFORT OF THAT PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY

AXIOM164

THE RATIONALITY OF THE MIND DEPENDS UPON AN OPTIMUM REACTION TOWARD TIME

DEFINITION:

SANITY, THE COMPUTATION OF FUTURES

DEFINITION:

NEUROTIC, THE COMPUTATION OF PRESENT TIME ONLY

DEFINITION:

PSYCHOTIC, COMPUTATION ONLY OF PAST SITUATIONS

AXIOM 165

SURVIVAL PERTAINS ONLY TO THE FUTURE

COROLLARY:

SUCCUMB PERTAINS ONLY TO THE PRESENT AND PAST

AXIOM166

AN INDIVIDUAL IS AS HAPPY AS HE CAN PERCEIVE SURVIVAL POTENTIALS IN THE FUTURE

AXIOM167

AS THE NEEDS OF ANY ORGANISM ARE MET IT RISES HIGHER AND HIGHER IN ITS EFFORTS ALONG THE DYNAMICS

An organism which achieves ARC with itself can better achieve ARCwith sex in the future; having achieved this it can achieve ARC with groups; having achieved this, it can achieve ARC with mankind, etc

AXIOM168

AFFINITY, REALITY AND COMMUNICATION CO- EXIST IN AN INEXTRICABLE RELATIONSHIP

The co- existent relationship between affinity, reality and communication is such that none can be increased without increasing the other two and none can be decreased without decreasing the other two

AXIOM169

ANY AESTHETIC PRODUCT IS A SYMBOLIC FACSIMILE OR COMBINATION OF FACSIMILES OF THETA OR PHYSICAL UNIVERSES IN VARIED RANDOMITIES AND VOLUMES OF RANDOMITIES WITH THE INTERPLAY OF TONES

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AXIOM170

AN AESTHETIC PRODUCT IS AN INTERPRETATION OF THE UNIVERSES BY AN INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP MIND

AXIOM171

DELUSION IS THE POSTULATION BY THE IMAGINATION OF OCCURRENCES IN AREAS OF PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY

AXIOM172

DREAMS ARE THE IMAGINATIVE RECONSTRUCTION OF AREAS OF RANDOMITY OR THE RE- SYMBOLIZATION OF THE EFFORTS OF THETA

AXIOM173

A MOTION IS CREATED BY THE DEGREE OF OPTIMUM RANDOMITY INTRODUCED BY THE COUNTER- EFFORT TO AN ORGANISM’S EFFORT

AXIOM174

MEST WHICH HAS BEEN MOBILIZED BY LIFE FORMS IS IN MORE AFFINITY WITH LIFE ORGANISMS THAN NON- MOBILIZED MEST

AXIOM175

ALL PAST PERCEPTION, CONCLUSION AND EXISTENCE MOMENTS, INCLUDING THOSE OF PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY, ARE RECOVERABLE TO THE CONTROL CENTER OF THE ORGANISM

AXIOM176

THE ABILITY TO PRODUCE SURVIVAL EFFORT ON THE PART OF AN ORGANISM IS AFFECTED BY THE DEGREES OF RANDOMITY EXISTING IN ITS PAST (THIS INCLUDES LEARNING)

AXIOM177

AREAS OF PAST PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY CAN BE READDRESSED BY THE CONTROL CENTER OF AN ORGANISM AND THE PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY EXHAUSTED

AXIOM178

THE EXHAUSTION OF PAST PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITIES PERMITS THE CONTROL CENTER OF AN ORGANISM TO EFFECT ITS OWN EFFORTS TOWARD SURVIVAL GOALS

AXIOM179

THE EXHAUSTION OF SELF- DETERMINED EFFORT FROM A PAST AREA OF PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY NULLIFIES THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THAT AREA

AXIOM180

PAIN IS THE RANDOMITY PRODUCED BY SUDDEN OR STRONG COUNTER- EFFORTS

AXIOM181

PAIN IS STORED AS PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY

AXIOM182

PAIN, AS AN AREA OF PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY, CAN RE- INFLICT ITSELF UPON THE ORGANISM

AXIOM183

PAST PAIN BECOMES INEFFECTIVE UPON THE ORGANISM WHEN THE RANDOMITY OF ITS AREA IS ADDRESSED AND ALIGNED

AXIOM184

THE EARLIER THE AREA OF PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY, THE GREATER SELF- PRODUCED EFFORT EXISTED TO REPEL IT

AXIOM185

LATER AREAS OF PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY CANNOT BE RE- ALIGNED EASILY UNTIL EARLIER AREAS ARE RE- ALIGNED

 

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AXIOM186

AREAS OF PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY BECOME INCREASED INACTIVITY WHEN PERCEPTIONS OF SIMILARITY ARE INTRODUCED INTO THEM

AXIOM187

PAST AREAS OF PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY CAN BE REDUCED AND ALIGNED BY ADDRESS TO THEM IN PRESENT TIME

AXIOM188

ABSOLUTE GOOD AND ABSOLUTE EVIL DO NOT EXIST IN THE MEST UNIVERSE

AXIOM189

THAT WHICH IS GOOD FOR AN ORGANISM MAY BE DEFINED AS THAT WHICH PROMOTES THE SURVIVAL OF THAT ORGANISM

COROLLARY:

EVIL MAY BE DEFINED AS THAT WHICH INHIBITS OR BRINGS PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY INTO THE ORGANISM, WHICH ISCONTRARY TO THE SURVIVAL MOTIVES OF THE ORGANISM

AXIOM190

HAPPINESS CONSISTS IN THE ACT OF BRINGING ALIGNMENT INTO HITHERTO RESISTING PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY NEITHER THE ACT OR ACTION OF ATTAINING SURVIVAL, NOR THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THIS ACT ITSELF, BRINGS ABOUT HAPPINESS

AXIOM191

CONSTRUCTION IS AN ALIGNMENT OF DATA

COROLLARY:

DESTRUCTION IS A PLUS OR MINUS RANDOMITY OF DATA

The effort of construction is the alignment toward the survival ofthe aligning organism

Destruction is the effort of bringing randomity into an area

AXIOM192

OPTIMUM SURVIVAL BEHAVIOR CONSISTS OF EFFORT IN THE MAXIMUM SURVIVAL INTEREST IN EVERYTHING CONCERNED IN THE DYNAMICS

AXIOM193

THE OPTIMUM SURVIVAL SOLUTION OF ANY PROBLEM WOULD CONSIST OF THE HIGHEST ATTAINABLE SURVIVAL FOR EVERY DYNAMIC CONCERNED

AXIOM194

THE WORTH OF ANY ORGANISM CONSISTS OF ITS VALUE TO THE SURVIVAL OF ITS OWN THETA ALONG ANY DYNAMIC

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