QUOTATIONS FROM THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK, BY NATHAN COPPEDGE

" It makes your hair stand on end when you reflect on how much time and exertion has been wasted on the brilliancy of the Bible...And what...will have been gained from these ‘Facts’? Certainly nothing more than the knowledge that, like all books, the Bible was a book written by men...The more an elucidation shines upon the Bible the more it contains ordinary proofs..."


"Writing is an excellent means of awakening the system within, as well as those problems which wax eternal..."


"All men treat themselves this way in their own minds: with golden objectivity. {What about women}, you might ask at this point. Well, some things we must pass over in silence…"


" Do you think the world has ever been different than NOW? ... Yes or no, then very well, but what about LIFE, THE SUN, AND GOD? ... That question comes from an obscure place. And my answer is the question. The question is the answer THAT How do God and Sun exist in One? Or Love wear a Hat that works on my Materiel? Indeed, Obscure, Obscure!"

"Mathematics works independent of all other quantities... Yet it has quantity to thank, albeit. So, other quantities are aliens. Aliens to aliens... In truth, the mind dabbles freely. History is nothing except the development of the laws of the human mind."


"It is the most dependable of all the human sciences, but also certainly SIMPLE or EASY... Judging by this, metaphysics is the easiest of all sciences (BECAUSE TO IT it is the simplest)..."


"Who is a fiction? I mean to ask a metaphysical question!"

“ 'And, I perceived' its value only after I began to lose it (should I believe this? Religion is for the Gods)..." --- Nathan Coppedge, The Golden Notebook


"Translations of madness are mad... But I know that both eating and reading contribute something to the conversation in my head."


"[I]f only I had done something verily wicked this morning, at least I would know this nature I suffer with you... [all of this as a means of empathizing]"


"...Since we do not know where we think, we can remove our thoughts to wherever we wish. Just as we can speak so that he who hears us believes the voice is coming from a third person, so we can think, too, as though we were being spoken to. Genius Sokratis, etc... What an astonishing amount we may learn from our dreams."


"[E]ven those well-versed in him often found his epithets emotional and grasped them with difficulty..."


"It is like A TEMPLE OF DOOM in which WE ARE IMMORTALS. The impossible leap! The harrowing doves! The acorns made of missiles!"


"Regarding HEALTH... There are as many who are sick in imagination as are physically ill. And there are as many minds with healthy imaginations as there are people with healthy bodies---!"


"The true function of the writer is to admit of others’ psychological states. Medium-quality writers only say the things that are held in common amongst all the writers...."


"If walking on two legs is not natural to man, it is certainly an invention that does him credit."


"Enlightenment in all meaningful roles really consists in correctly grasping our essential function, which is MEANING."


"It was no friendly act on the part of Mr. Kant... With works of this nature, the zesto and gusto related to their epiphanization is sustained only by the idea of the worthy EPIPHANY."


"Pray for God. God’s dead!... Or death is infirm information."


"Feed me golden apple cores..."


"[M]aybe God could have a standard."

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The Authentic Method of 64-Category Deduction

The method has been earlier elaborated in THIS VIDEO.

But there is one thing I failed to clarify: what are the other potential four categories? After I made the video, I realized that those categories might be equally important from most points of view. Although the four original categories are important, they are not the whole picture.

So, here are the official eight categories for the 64-square diagram, with the final four categories restored:

CATEGORICAL DEDUCTION FOR 64 CATEGORIES

(1) 1A2A 3B4B
(2) 1A2B 3B4A
(3) 1B2A 3A4B
(4) 1B2B 3A4A
(5) 3A4A 1B2B
(6) 3A4B 1B2A
(7) 3B4A 1A2B
(8) 3B4B 1A2A


The four parts of each subset of the deduction refer to specific combinations of coordinates. Notice that every number has different coordinates, and each number is used just once for a given subset of the deduction. The letters are used once as well, but must remain opposite in opposite positions, as recorded above. Note that the major numbers (1,2,3,4 going with As and Bs) cycle counterclockwise, thus appearing in the modular order 1,2,4,3. This could easily be re-written for modular format by putting 4A and 4B over the 3A and 3B positions, and 3A and 3B over the 4A and 4B positions. The category numbers (1-64) however, have been recorded in modular order for the sake of objectivity. The entire set must be re-written, for which there are simpler notations, if subset numbers take cyclical order instead of modular. Modular order in my diagrams is written from upper right linearly to lower left. However, as long as it is noticed that the spatial location changes, the same system can be used for different linear-scripted writings, although it may modify the order of the major quadrants.However, the quadrants will remain counterclockwise from the starting position. For most purposes, it may be most convenient simply to imitate my methods as best you can, or to work with simpler diagrams, including the standard quadra, in which the formula is much simpler: AB:CD and AD:CB, in which neighboring letters are joined by choosing the quality of one and the noun ('property') of the other.


ACTUAL SETS FOR 64-CATEGORY CATEGORICAL DEDUCTION

These follow the sentence order of the individual categories, which involves maintaining opposites in opposite positions, and standardizing the order of the contingent categories so as to correspond with their coherent positions within the data:

1A:

1,2,10,9 | 3,4,12,11 | 28,27,19,20 | 26,25,17,18

1B:

1,2,10,9 | 3,11,12,4 | 28,27,19,20 | 26,18,17,25

2A:

5,6,14,13 | 7,8,16,15 | 32,31,23,24 | 30,29,21,22

2B:

5,6,14,13 | 7,15,16,8 | 32,31,23,24 | 30,22,21,29

3A:

64,63,55,56 | 62,61,53,54 | 37,38,46,45 | 39,40,48,47

3B:

64,63,55,56 | 62,54,53,61 | 37,38,46,45 | 39,47,48,40

4A:

60,59,51,52 | 58,57,49,50 | 33,34,42,41 | 35,36,44,43

4B:

60,59,51,52 | 58,50,49,57 | 33,34,42,41 | 35,43,44,36

ABOVE: A 64-Category Diagram Following Modular Order. Notice that in modular order every position in quadrant A (upper right) is opposite to every category in quadrant C (lower left). Also, every category in quadrant B (upper left) is opposite of every category in quadrant D (lower right). This is not true with every set ordering, but only with cases where the order proceeds across the entire (square) diagram from the first position, and ending in the last. Two other potential orderings include numbering individual sub-cycles in cyclical order, or proceeding linearly, but adapted to the cycle of the diagram. Thus, 1,2,10,9 would instead appear 1,2,3,4, or in the next case 27,28,36,35 would instead appear 6,2,1,5, since the enumeration would begin in the center near the mote, and proceed contingently to the motion of the cycle. But those are alternate methods. Modular order is in some ways preferable, although in some cases it is simpler to explain in terms of sub-cycles.