Unpublished

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The unpublished articles:

It will be a long time – if ever – before I get around to updating, correcting and revising the third and fourth of these articles for publication.

The "Phlogiston" article has been rejected at least seven times. Perhaps this was justified - but my guess is that it was not. So, I would rather leave this here at this web site to become a memorial to the blindness of "normal science" to fundamentally new perspectives. (Nevertheless, it is an annoyance that I cannot cite this work. If there is anyone out there who would be prepared to let it have a place in a citable journal, I would be most grateful for this.)

The Behçet’s paper is incomplete, without its references. One of these days I might get around to collating them all.

Morphostasis and immunity This is the embryonic version (late 1984). I think this still emphasises important points. In particular it emphasises the primacy of innate immunity and it introduces a "danger-like" concept of aggressive T-cell activation.

Morphostasis and immunity This is the next version that I have in my keeping (a late 1992 version). This pads out more of the rationale for a change and it still contains important points that the published articles do not cover. It is looking pretty secure now - in sharp contrast to its rejection at the time (after being held seven months before a referee's report was obtained).

The neurology of Behçet’s syndrome. This is where it all started (see the History section). It was, in particular, the analogy of BS (and other sero-negative arthritides) with adjuvant arthritis, that led to the growth of the morphostasis hypothesis.

Clinical morphostasis. This pads out the "whistle-stop-tour" mentioned in Morphostasis and Immunity.

Flushing out the phlogiston …..? This is the ultimate extension of the morphostasis hypothesis. I wonder how close this will have got to future perceptions. So far, looking through the "retrospectoscope", its track record is continuing to improve.

The rejection letters. These are in the Frustrations section but the links are included here, too, for they are relevant.

Other thoughts. This link leads to various letters and points of interest that pad out the morphostasis concept.

Entropy - I have found this an awkward concept to get a good feeling for. Since it is a central player in many of the thoughts concerning a "morphostatic system" (roughly, what conventional bio-medicine describes as the "immune system") I have put together some personal thoughts here. I am sure that card carrying physicists will wince at my interpretations: so anything you read here should only be used as a launch pad for titillating your own imagination and none of it should be treated as remotely authoritative. I'll probably throw in a fair bit of conjecture too.

Sheer speculation - the wilder side of speculation. Where it just might be leading and what it just might mean.

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