Postscript #117 to the "Lanzarote" paper (10/03/98)
‘FAQ' #2 ON "RHYTHM BASED COMMUNICATION"

How may "Rhythm Based Communication" (RBC) create employment?

     1) Find a species of animals (a single, a pair or a small group) where the biological stress is minimal, at least for part of each day. Discover a time when hunger is not of primary concern, when no sign of predators is present and where individual health problems are not potential stress producers. "Share a rhythm," using trial and error, by: a) producing low stress signals at a timing interval approximately equivalent to the animal's respiration period, b) watching for "possible synchronization" where the animal signals back at about the same time as your transmitted signal and c) bargaining with both the rhythm and the signals until a relatively low stress "comfort zone" is attained. If difficulty ensues check the library of successful signals and rhythms for a variety of animals, at the Ceta-Research center in Trinity (as per web site "Contact" e-mail). Helpful suggestions are to use rhythm periods that divide exactly into 60 seconds (for ease of analysis), and soft, abrupt, convenient signals such as comb scratches, ring taps or finger clicks. When you think that you might have attained "real synchronization," try "rhythmic, message mimicry" to develop a lateness concept (postscript #19) and Pavlovian rhythmic conditioning to build a vocabulary. Then reverse the direction of your "Rhythm Based Time" (postscript #114) to communicate with the interrogative. Use also the affirmative and the negative (postscript #111). 
     Now sell your skills to any vacation lodge worldwide as an "RBC guide" and invite the guests into your communication world, and onto other such human-animal communication expeditions that you may thus, with the same methodology, quickly develop. Become an authority with one or more species, publish the results and travel (the world) giving slide and video presentations while inviting additional guests to join your expeditions. 

     2) Study bio-chemistry and then search for the transduction process between RBC and the action potentials of the central nervous system. For a second major accomplishment find the reverse transduction process between the electrical nerve signals and the electromagnetic rhythmic cascades, where information is probably stored for the most part in some of the helical components of DNA. 

     3) Compose music that transmits and thus allows reception of "Rhythm Based Communication" where the "lateness," as earlier described, is syncopation. Videotape the audience watching for "rhythmic mimicry" and the two way transfer of emotional messages (FAQ#1, postscript #115) where information is encoded in time, quite probably more so than in signals. Build excitement through RBC and as this success grows so also should the admission costs of your concerts! 

      4) Apply the theory and practice of RBC to improve the productivity of human food, especially the essential crops needed to feed the malnourished members of our species. Remember that the distinct "alpha rhythm" for plants (the time period needed for both synchronization and "Rhythm Based Communication") is twenty-four hours or one diurnal rhythm. 

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