<table><tr><th>From:</th><th>jeffrey E. &lt;jeevacation@gmail.com&gt;</th></tr><tr><td>Sent:</td><td>Tuesday, June 16, 2015 10:25 PM</td></tr><tr><td>To:</td><td>Rupert Sheldrake</td></tr></table>

## Motivation</=2>

Zipf's law states that given some corpus <https://en.wikipedia.or=/wiki/Text_corpus> of natural =anguage <https://=n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language> utterances, the frequency of any word is inversely proportional <https://en=wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversely_proportional> to its rank in the frequency table. Thus the most frequent word will occur approximately twice as often as the second most frequent word (=the frequency might be argued was proportional to a morphic force. a=ter it was used once it was used more often. , three times as often as the third most frequent word, etc. For example, in the Brown Corpus <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Corpus> of American English text, the word "the" is the most frequently occurring word, and by itself accounts for nearly 7% of all word occurrences (69,971 out of slightly over 1 million). after it came into existence ,the second use was easier. =C2 True to Zipf's Law, the second-place word "of" account= for slightly over 3.5% of words (36,411 occurrences), followed by "and&quo=; (28,852). Only 135 vocabulary items are needed to account for half the Brown Corpus14) chttps://en.wikiperia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law#cite_note-4>

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