Reprinted from SCIENTIFIC AMERICA, January 1989

The Correspondence Theory
by John Milano

The Correspondence Principle ... is the requirement that every new theory contain, in as formal a way as its methods allow, a limiting transition to the old theory it replaces.  Insofar as the old theory has fitted some sound experiments, the new theory must concur.  If Planck's constant h tends towards zero, the quantum equations become just the classical ones; if the speed of light approaches infinity, Einstein's kinematic and dynamical equations go over to Newton's, and so on over a large number of examples from contemporary physics.

Philip Morrison, Ph.D., M.I.T., Book Editor, Scientific American

As we apply the Correspondence Principle to Sociobiology and Exo-psychology, we expect that each new Einsteinian, relativistic theory of human behavior and neuro-genetic evolution will include a translation back to the old theory it replaced.

Darwinians are clearly in violation when they fanatically, summarily reject the Monotheistic Creation theories of the Judeo-Christian Bible.  Newer theories of evolution must provide new insights into the validity of the older theories -- specifying the historical, neuro-technical factors which limited the earlier metaphors.

Any new theory of Neuro-genetics must relate to and lovingly demonstrate why the previous philosophic theory was "right" for its time and its gene-pool -- knowing that those to come will affectionately do the same for our theories.

The Astrological Zodiac which has continued to attract the attentions of intelligent people for five thousand years must have some caste-type meaning -- and this significance must be explained by the theories which improve it.  New theories can improve, can explain, but not reject, the Zodiac.

The Genesis version of Creation obviously must have had profound survival validity -- even though it obviously fails to take into account the newer evidence from Darwinian, Mendelian, DNA, Sociobiological and Behavior Genetics.

The Correspondence theory is a "magic stick" for searching out new laws, because it sets formal constraints on the new mathematics.  It also secures science against the loss of achievements of the past; for innovators it is a warning like the Hippocratic maxim for physicians; above all do no harm!  Classical mechanics is not a mere blunder that was repudiated in 1905, as the headlines imply.  (Morrison)

This affectionate maxim holds even more strongly for Human Ethology (i.e., philosophy).  All the theological and philosophical systems of the past must be seen as attempts (valid at the preceding, more primitive stage of neuro-technology), to explain the inner-outer (CNS-DNA) reality paradox.

Thus the concern in the Starseed Transmissions (Neurologic, Terra II, What Does WoMan Want?, Exo-psychology, Neuropolitics, Game of Life, Neurological Tarot) to trace correspondences among the many occult theories of the past (including Christianity and Buddhism) and the newer sciences.  Each past philosophy, far from being repudiated, or rejected, joyously fits into an evolving, stage-by-stage theory.  Medieval alchemy and Astrology were not blunders repudiated by Dow Chemical and Freud.

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