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This paper describes the Universal Law of Mind (ULOM).
The first version was written in 1987. It was prompted by comments offered by William Powers regarding the book, Automotive Computers and Control Systems, that Claud Hunter and I wrote for Prentice Hall in 1984.
Powers is the founder of the Control Theory Group (the focus of which is now known as Perceptual Control Theory). Based on some topics in the Prentice-Hall book, he thought that I might have interesting opinions about control-related issues. After exchanging a few letters, maybe even talking once on the phone, he discovered that I knew more about writing than about control.
That is still true.
This second version of the ULOM paper was written in 2006, when I decided to include the article in an on-line anthology of my grand projects (in which I milk amusement from failure).
Most of the other reminiscences are accompanied by the original source material (crude art, patents, reports, etc.). However, because the ULOM is such grand shit, I figured this description deserved some touching up.
I am not sure that I want this taken seriously, but like other aging eccentrics who collect balls of string or build towers to nowhere, I do have a certain fondness for my stuff.
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For those who do not wish to read, there are pictures below. If intrigued by an illustration, click the image to go the place in the article where the picture is explained.
Copyright © 2006 Tom Weathers