and tails minus one. That is, Var(E(n)) = CX6xD)Ox6x4- 6-4) = 2.03. From these (6+4) x(6+4-1) three terms, we compute srs = E(r)— Obs(r) _ 5:8=6,0 __4 140. We conclude that /Var(E(r) 2.03 the standard run score of the binary series is less than zero and therefore more random than the expected random behavior of a fair coin. Recall from the last chapter that Karen Selz, Martin Paulus and others have shown that various personality types and psychiatric diagnoses are associated with characteristic deviations of srs from zero. When the winners of the 2002 Annual World Rock, Paper Scissors Championships held in Montreal Canada were interviewed, they said that sensing their opponent’s characteristic style of deviations from randomness in what we would call the continuum from maximal to minimal entropy determined their successes. We characteristically use all of these measures to estimate quantitate the deviation from randomness standard run score, Srs, algorithmic complexity, AC, as well as H; and Hy,, the topological and metric entropies. The encounter with mystical Absolute Reality, though sought by arduous contemplative and other practice, emerges spontaneously, most often during times of apparent mental emptiness, detachment, a state in which rationally instructive thought and the choral background of brain voiced, emotion-ladened, commentary have disappeared into the entropic soup of formless silence. It is this indescribable, ineffable, stillness that we think serves as the psychophysiological anlage of mystical experience. The mathematical systems yielding quantitative metaphors, descriptive ideas about dynamical entropic statistical emptiness and form inspire the use of mathematical structures in place of localized lumps in brain meat as personalized icons of doing. Our wedding of well-defined mathematical objects to metaphoric elements of more general nonverbal intuition has a long tradition. Rene Thom’s 1990 book, 112 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013612