threes@freeport.com
Expanding appreciation of Triadic structures.
Herb O. Buckland
threes@freeport.com
Tue Aug  1 11:21:16 2000
Beyond the conventional discussions of triadic formulas, is the understanding that there is an environmentally influenced genetic predisposition to conceptualize many of our ideas, perform many of our activities, and grow physiologically along a 1- 2 - 3 maturational development sequence.  For example, the triad of the biosphere is RNA- DNA- Proteins.  RNA is predominantly single stranded, DNA is predominantly double stranded, and Proteins may have a primary- secondary- tertiary structure, with the uaternary as a composite matrix.  Additionally, we find this same triadic sequencing in the Germ layer development of from simple to more complex organisms in that simple ones exhibit one layer (Ectoderm)-more complex organisms exhibit two Germ layers (Ectoderm- Endoderm)- and we complex-structured humans exhibit three Germ Layers (Ectoderm- Mesoderm- Endoderm).  Furthermore, our brain follows a triadic development which is found throughout the veertebrates from fishes to mammals: Forebrain- Midbrain- Hindbrain, and that these three are followed by three successive divisions: Hind/Midbrain- Limbic system- Cerebral cortex.  And the brain as well as the spinal cord are surrounded by three membranes labeled Pia Mater- Dura- Mater- Arachnoid process.  Hence, in short, using computer terminology, humans are a type of "file" system based upon a three-pattern program. Consciousness and cognition must follow similar routes, suggesting we are in the two going on to three developemental phase.  No less, when looking at the three traditional race divisions, it is the third group (Indo-Europeans, the other two being African and Asian) that exhibit THE predominant usage of three-patterned categories.  For example, we find the social movements of Indo-Europeans focused on a "three" designation and this same perspective is not a recurring focus of Africans nor lAsians unless there has been a Indo-European influence. Three examples of thes three-focused social movements are Hitler's Third Reich, the French Revolution's Third Estate, and the Italian (Musolini's) Third Way.  The one thing we must understand is that we Indo-Europeans are increasing our usage of three-patterned ideas moreso than are Africans or Asians who are cattempting to copy the cultural values of Indo-Europeeans.  *br*