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Numbers: ISTMRN numbers are a way to make explicit our assumptions underlying our beliefs about cause and effect, perhaps the only way. Numbers. Counting. Math. Space-time. All pervade our every thought. Perhaps the thoughts originate in a priori concepts of “fairness” in distributing surplus grain among the gatherers, even if only two or three. Perhaps numbers got a big boost when we noticed ratios among obvious cycles: days, months, years, 360, 12, 3 (half of half of 12) and of course 2, much earlier, one for you and one for me. But whatever its source; it stuck. Math, and its big cousin, perhaps father, logic seems to be the only mutually agreeable means that make our assumptions explicit when we have to settle or negotiate disagreements. Otherwise my negotiating position reduces to, “Because I say so”, and dominance and submission (alpha-beta encounters) becomes paramount in negotiations. Of course, that is Caesar’s way, POWER. |