Quine's Poor Tom

`Poor Tom' was a-cold but not schizophrenic

We have written before in Seizure about Shakespeare’s play King Lear and its reference to epilepsy1. The play is, of course, a treasure house for those with an interest in the psychopathology of any age or those with an interest in Renaissance medicine. However, in breaking open the treasure house, it is possible that any jewels brought into the light of the 21st century are not always what the...

Artificial cells as reified quines

Cellular automata were initially conceived as a formal model to study self-replicating systems. Although reproduction by biological cells is characterized by exponential population increase, no population of self-replicating machines modeled as a cellular automaton has ever exhibited such rapid growth. We believe this is due to the inability of cellular automata to model bonded complexes of rei...

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Tom George

Tom George lias an odd kind of picture gallery. All the houses in his street have lean-to pantries, with tiny windows, the upper half glass, the lower latticed wood. It is traditional to keep the family egg-cups on the ledge formed by the wooden bottom of the glass section. Every variety of egg-cup is here displayed?white, red, and blue china, and metal. Occasionally other small, gay articles a...

Spectral changes in the tom-tom related to striking force

This study has investigated the question how the radiated spectra of a tom-tom changes with striking force. Five tom-toms of different size were recorded at four dynamic levels (pp, mp, mf and ff) and their averaged spectra analysed. It was observed that the number of modes excited increase with playing strength, seen in the radiated spectra as a characteristic change in slope for higher freque...