…onal systems. One approach is to analyze whether systems with a prime number of components show exceptional stability or resonance resistance. For example, create arrays of coupled oscillators or resonant circuits of various sizes N, and compare energy dissipation or mode stabili…

…lex living organism. This formulation has three distinct but also complementary components: (1) the subjective component, (2) the experiential component, and (3) the neurobiological component. So let us consider each one briefly in turn. First, to say that consciousnesslo is subje…

…ler changes only concomitant with, or are they to be considered as constitutive components of, grammatical- ization (Lehmann, p.c.)? Again, from a prototype approach no commit- ment on this issue is required. Meillet (1958 [1912]), however, propagated grammaticalization as a moto…