As an example of memory feedback and what could result in an edit

cycle in a conventional writing and publishing arena I now after

reading a bit more of my book am triggered to write that the torques

on bolts I actually keep in my mind as fractions that represent the

bolt sizes. Thus common sense is 9/16". Less common is 3/4" and 13/16"

which are common GM and Ford lug wrench sizes. Chrysler uses left hand

bolts on the left so it is special. A sparkplug is typically 13/16 but

special neoprene insert wrenches were developed to prevent the

breaking of insulators in my early working life. Screws are different

and I don't know their sizes leading to putting groups of them in

common post office envelopes for safe keeping in my mind. Recessed

head screws or Allen bolts as they are sometimes called or even

internal wrenching bolts are quite a shock to the ordinary senses.

This could lead to metric sizes and a break down of the whole politcal

order of bolts as a 9/16" becomes almost a 14mm. Now 14mm and 14

pounds have a competition in the mind as to how tight to turn the bolt

by wrench presure and how much to lift a weight. This could require a

trip to the gym to at least get the 2-1/2 pound and 5 pound set from

1-1/4 pound up to 1340 pounds. Now the memory would have lots of

values and a sunset would gradate from yellow through yellow red to

red to almost blue violet purple to black. Wow! How do painters do it

with just a pallet of grounds and oils? I am not writing of what is

available but rather of the gradations of what is mixed where some

intellectual effort is requied to distinguish what is seen and what is

mixed into not just matching but multitudes of values to give nice

feather and blending effects. Different size brushes of course and

standing at an easel for hours require stamina and clarity of

selection under stress. I tried to paint off the TV screen to force

myself to make the decision quickly and accurately. The pictures

change rapidly resulting in lots of blank faces and abstractions of

what is remembered to an approximation for the last view or scene.

Gradually a predictive sense develops so you can tell when a camera

angle on a particular talk sho guest or host will be repeated and not

speculate but wait for the new information that refreshes the old.

Then you can se how video tape and movies would drive the short term

to the deficiency of the long term memory. The composition necessity

of talking on a telephone or in person would also be left out. As you

can see I have been writing about strength and force and integers and

now rational numbers (fractions). Many of my graphics programs use

only these two types. Ratios of very large numbers are used to create

very fine fracton distinctions. Through the years I have used reals

which IBM used to call floating point and even transcendentals which

have no special representation in the FORTRAN and PASCAL I have known

nor in the BASIC or C, C++ that I used later. These can require very

long word length and are avoided by the commercial people for machine

forms. Complex numbers can have some participation though the users

are few. Two dimensional forms predominate in the complex plane used

to map graphically the concept of an imaginary square root of one. I

have never really resolved how that goes with strength. Maybe it is

just how one makes his body an airfoil to the wind to keep moving or

to keep from being blown off a high place. the old fractional bolt

sizes then precisely define the short term memory overload. If we

choose 7/16 as our standard bolt hen in practice it is a dead soft

bolt in automobiles. The 9/16 which is more common has three marks of

a grade 5 bolt and can have the 5 marks of a SAE grade 6. these then

are the overloads of the memory which packages at 16 and actually has

only 7 partitions of storage. It also nicely goes to the phone at

3/4". What gets hard to explain is the 13/16 common use. Certainly the

division limit is 16 but what does 13 represent? Two trips to the poor

house would be a smart remark. One at seven and one at six to

crossover the wheel to get it aligned at the center is one thought.

The poor house being that great force needed to tighten such a bolt by

hand and thus the poverty of thouhgt that is possible at that exertion

when done as an overload of so many moves. slowly the concept of

exertion as the source of loss of memory is finding a competitor in

the memory stack size for teh foreground short term memory. Cartoons

with no background at all lead to art. The loss becomes a gain for the

humorist.