In HuangTi’s codification scheme, all of the so-called yin (zang) meridians were on the inside/front of the body andall of the yang (fu) meridians were on the outside/back of the body.
http://www.quantumpsychology.com/pdf/Test-ClassicalPsychospinors.pdf
Specifically, when the hand is held as if embracing someone with the palm facing inward toward the body it is called pao chang (embracing palm). When the hand is held in essentially the same manner except having the intention on the outside of the hand as if going to strike someone with the outside/back surface, it is called liao chang (warding-off palm). So we see that what we are essentially coding is the intent of the hand with respect to the rest of oneself.
This representation only works for the (more fundamental) 1/2-integral representations (i.e. spinors/turns/quaternions) but also lets one build the vector and tensor representations. The converse does not hold.I think that such addition would impart an extraordinary adaptive advantage over multiplication since addition is so much simpler. It would seem to be a natural way for activity to combine and a reasonable, possible evolution of Georgopoulos’ efforts. On the other hand it might also not work since it would require the addition to be order dependent. Then again, this property of “noncommutivity” in itself might be valuable in some way.
Furthermore, an experimental hypothesis — that the brain uses spinor representations, not vector representation, in realizing mental rotations — has been proposed which is capable of demonstrating (accepting or rejecting) the hypothesis. Since all translations and rotations can be generated by pairs of spinorial reflection through half angles, in parallel planes or intersecting planes, respectively, the described hypothesis may reveal the method by which humans (and other animals) code sensory perception of Euclidean motions.
(Mathematicians and physicists refer to this as Dirac’s “belt trick” (eg, Kauffman, 1991) I first came to understand the perceptual import of this from Kenneth Cohen in 1980 in his class on Pa Kua Chang at the Academy of Taoist Healing Arts. (Oshins 1983c, 1984a,c, 1985, 1986a/87e, 1987b, 1988a; Painter,B., 1981). (Painter refers to this exercise as “white serpant serves tea.”
Painter, B. 1981. Pa kua chang - art of mysterious change. Reprinted in Inside Kung-Fu, April, 1982. Hollywood, CA: CFW Enterprises, Inc
So the "Bernstein" cited was my quantum mechanics professor. Herbert J. Bernstein.
There is a very famous Chen style t’ai chi chuan exercise called chan-ssu chin (silk-reeling exercise) in which the waist is used in a rotational fashion as the leader and coordinator of the arm motions (Jou, 1980)
https://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2020/05/revisiting-eddie-oshins-noncommutative.html
So he says "yin on the bottom, yang on the top" but he doesn't mention that the outside of his palm is facing down (yin). So the yang faces the yin and then vice versa - the inside of the palm faces up - yin faces yang.
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