Chapter 2
Astro-age David’s Sling
93In each herd of wild horses there is a king stallion. Every once in a while a young stallion is born bigger and more powerful than the herd’s other colts. When the new big colt matures, the king stallion engages him in battle. Whichever one wins becomes the inseminator of the herd’s mares. Darwin saw this phenomenon as the way in which nature contrives to maintain the strongest, best coordinated, most alert, and fastest strains in the species. Twentieth-century racing stable operators progressively inbreed the fast-running genes. Nature uses this progressive, only-by-generation-to- generation, (DNA-RNA)-genes-concentrating method in selecting, evolving, and maintaining the physically fittest biological types to serve the vast variety of planet Earth’s omni-intercomplementary ecological regeneration functions to become operative under each and every uniquely variant set of environmental conditions.
94Nature employs the same solely-by-survival-through-successive-generations, genes-concentrating principle when introducing humans into the complex ecological scheme of intercomplementary regenerativity of life on planet Earth.
95While nature undoubtedly initiated the installation of humans on planet Earth with semi-giant leaderships, she had eventually to disclose to humans through direct experience lessons that human muscle is naught as compared to the competence of the mind-directed brain.
96I acquired one of the most important
97Of my life’s working assumptions
98When I undertook to answer
99My own 1927 self-questioning:
100‘‘Why have humans been included
101In the design of Universe?’’
102My hypothetical answer of 1927
103Was, and as yet is:
104What impresses me most
105Is the experientially demonstrable fact
106That all living organisms
107Other than humans
108Have some organically integral equipment
109That gives them some inherent
110Physical advantage
111In coping with special environmental conditions—
112A plant that can and does thrive
113Only under dense Amazon
114River jungle conditions—
115A bird that can fly beautifully
116While in the sky
117But which cannot divest itself
118Of those wings
119While awkwardly walking—
120The fish having equipment
121To extract oxygen from the water
122That dies out of water.
123Common with many creatures
124Humans have brains.
125Brains of humans and other creatures
126Are always and only
127Coordinating and memory-storing the information
128Reported to their brains
129By internal and external
130Sensing devices
131Regarding each special-case systemic experience.
132But humans are given mind’s access
133To objectively realizable mathematical principles whereby
134Humans can produce their own wings to
135Outfly all the special-case, integrally winged birds.
136In addition to their brains
137Humans have minds,
138Possessed by no other
139Known organism.
140Weightless, nonphysical minds
141Are concerned with discovering
142The interrelated significance
143Of all-time humanity’s
144Thus-far-experientially-discovered
145And experimentally-verified inventory
146Of ever-experientially-redemonstrable,
147Only-mathematically-expressible
148Cosmic design laws
149And of those laws’ governance
150Of the multi-alternative freedoms of realization
151As mathematically incisive,
152Omnirational, variously magnituded,
153Structurally associative and disassociative,
154Nonsimultaneous,
155And only omnicomplexedly intercomplementary,
156Always and only overlapping episodes
157Altogether essential
158To eternally regenerative Scenario Universe.
159HUMANS:
160IF
161Successfully evolved
162Physiologically, psychologically, and philosophically
163From their born-naked,
164Helpless-for-months,
165No-experience state
166Of absolute ignorance
167To be progressively educated
168As driven only by innate educated
169As driven only by innate
170Hunger, thirst, procreative instinct, and curiosity
171Into initiative-takings
172Can thereby discover frequent errors
173Of assumption, identification, or execution
174Wherewith, if the individual’s
175Innate courage And sense of the importance of truth
176Are greater than the sense of pride
177Of the individual, Error is admitted
178Thus only inadvertently uncovering
179That which is true
180Which discovered truth may prove to be
181Both physically and metaphysically
182Inspiringly advantageous information
183Suggesting ways of progressively improving
184Physical life-support systems
185And their environmental realizations
186Together with their operational information agenda
187Whereafter, encouraged by experiencing
188The ensuing, more favorable environmental circumstances
189Accruing only to their ever abiding by the spontaneous
190Self-admonitions springing intuitively
191From their innate love of the truth,
192The thus-inspired individuals
193Persevere with integrity
194Throughout some hundred thousand generations
195Of such only-by-trial-and-error
196Conditioning with each generation’s intermatings
197Of those mutually surviving
198Under the evolving environment
199And mutually educated exclusively
200By such artifacts-accomplished,
201Creative conversions
202Of negative into positive circumstances
203And through those regenerative
204Matings To concentrate the DNA-RNA,
205Exclusively angle-and-frequency-controlled,
206Structural and mechanical design
207Programmings Of the creatively imagining faculties
208And their corresponding crafting dexterities
209Which with their inventing of words
210Their metaphysical tools
211And electromagnetic-spectrum
212Communications accomplishments
213Might in time
214Attain and sustain
215A semi-divine level
216Of exclusively artifacts-realized,
217Creative design wisdom
218Adequate to render the cosmic environment
219Healthily supportive of all humanity
220THEN
221Shall humans discover
222That they have been
223Included in Universe
224To function:
225First, as local Universe information-harvesters;
226Secondly, as critical information-winnowers;
227Thirdly, as generalized
228Patterns-and-principles discoverers;
229And fourthly, employing those principles objectively
230To serve as local Universe problem-solvers
231In support of the integrity
232Of eternally regenerative,
233Only overlappingly inter-episoded
234Scenario Universe.
235 * * *
236In order that humans might so evolvingly function, they were first given brains and then access to mind.
237As already mentioned but worth repeating, human brains, as with those of many creatures, function always and only as coordinators of all the sense-apprehended information regarding each special-case temporal experience, all of which special-case experiences have beginnings and endings.
238In contradistinction to brains, which are constructed of physical matter, the weightless, matterless, metaphysical mind has the unique capability, from time to time, to discover eternal interrelationships existing invisibly between special-case experiences, which interrelationships cannot be discovered by any or all of the brain’s physical sense systems—for instance, the mathematical law governing gravity’s invisibly cohering not only the Sun and its multi-millions-of-miles-apart planets as discovered by the weightless invisible conceptual thought-relaying from the mind of Kepler to Galileo to Newton and as also cohering the never-anywhere-intertouching parts of local Universe systems of galaxies, and electrons remote from their nuclei.
239The relative interattractiveness invisibly operative between any two remote-from-one-another cosmic bodies, as compared to any other pair of cosmic bodies, equally distanced from one another, is proportional to the multiplicative product of the respective couple’s masses, and the interattractiveness of any pair of celestial bodies varies inversely as the second power of the distance between them. Halve the intervening distance and the interattractiveness increases fourfold.
240Human minds were given the semi-divine capability to discover and employ some of the only-mathematically-communicable eternal laws governing the design of eternally regenerative Universe itself.
241When I was born in 1895 humanity was 95-percent illiterate and needed leaders. Today the situation is reversed. Humanity is now 65-percent literate and capable of doing its own thinking, decision-making, and initiative-taking.
242Returning to the genetic evolution and the history of humans aboard our planet, we observe that only by the genes-concentrating of successive generations of survivormatings were design-produced the best all-around averagesize humans for average as well as special environmental conditions. Both giants and pygmies were design-evolved for coping with extremes of environment.
243Bare-handed giants could physically overwhelm both barehanded average humans and pygmies, except when the littler ones escaped into caves or thickets through entryways too small for giants.
244People think of the size of people in terms of height. Mathematics shows, however, that if we double human height while maintaining equal proportionment we have four times as much surface (skin) and eight times as much volume (flesh and bone—weight). ‘‘Twice as big’’ is really eight times as big. Giants were indeed overpowering.
245Tools are the only-intermittently-used, noncorporeal extensions of integral functioning capabilities of biological species. Spider webs are tool extensions of spiders. Nests are short-term tool extensions of birds whose regenerative functioning occupies only a minor fraction of their lifetime activity. In order to be light enough to be able to fly, the birds must physically separate out all those of their overall essential lifetime functions not continuously required in their survival and development. Momentarily containing both embryo and nutriment, eggs are externalizable, system-separable, new-life-gestation tools which together with insulating nests provide the means by which the mother bird may fly unencumbered to seek out the worm- or insect-packaged energy-intake-as-heat to be transferred to the embryo inside the heat conductive eggshell in its heat-conserving nest and do so before the eggs become too cold. Later she brings the worms and insects directly to the hatched chicks themselves, secure in their heat-conserving nest—an environment-controlling tool.
246Nests and eggs are indeed tools, as is the womb—an only-once-in-a-while, carried-with-mammalian, new-life-production tool. Mammals don’t have to fly so they can carry tools integrally, internally, as do they also carry their hearts, livers, and other continuously interlinked high-frequency-of-use tools. All tools exist in Universe only as essential functional components of development programs of living organisms.
247A cut-off finger can be swiftly stuck back onto the hand to seemingly function again as an apparently integral part of the organism. The comprehensive fact, however, is that nothing in Universe touches anything else. There are no solids. There are, in fact, no things. There are only complex critical-proximity and -frequency, unique event aggregates interoperative in pure principle. The event electron is as remote from its nuclear events as is the Moon from the Earth as size-referenced to their respective event diameters.
248Biological organisms, like all systems in Universe, are constituted of locally interregenerative functions in pure principle. So too with all species. Humans have a vast range of overall essential functionings whose frequency and duration of use can be developed either as integral or non-integral, inorganic or organic tool-extensions of their pounding, cutting, scratching, marking, formative, or transformative and transportive functions of survival and development.
249Simple tool-inventing, such as picking up a stone to throw in self-defense, requires only the brain’s instinctive functioning. Almost everywhere stones lie ready to serve as heavier ‘‘fists’’ for powerful, but only occasionally needed, punching, pounding, or smashing. Mind, which alone comprehends the complex interaction of principles, is required to anticipatorily invent stone-throwing slings, spring-loaded catapults, or bow-and-arrows archery.
250Tools of self-defense or aggressive warfare, called weapons, frequently embody principles that can be constructively rather than destructively employed. Beyond even that, they can solve positively the originally negative, aggression-aggravating problem—a basic precept of design science. Conversely, ballpoint pens, carried with us in our breast pockets because so frequently used, can be employed either constructively to write a life-saving prescription or destructively as a dagger. My hearing aids and my eyeglasses are more permanent components of my awake hours than are millions of daily dying-and-being-replaced protoplasmic cells of which my flesh is constructed—otherwise I could not lose a pound a day. My eyeglasses and hearing aids together weigh only a quarter of a pound. The same tool can become the extensions of many individuals, and for longer years than human generations. Bridges and transcontinental highways are universally social tools.
251Airplanes are mutually interchangeable human flying tools. There are metaphysical as well as physical tools. Mathematics are metaphysical tools. Inter-relevant metaphysical informations are tools. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Mathematics states officially: ‘‘Mathematics is the science of structure and pattern in general.’’ Physical structures are tools. Mathematics makes possible the synergetic organization of metaphysical information which can be progressively objectivized as pattern-controlling or evolving tools systems which can advantageously alter the physical environmental circumstances of human existence.
252The comprehensive name for the omni-interrelated significance of all physical and metaphysical tools is ‘‘technology.’’ All technology is governed by generalized physical laws. All of these can be physically demonstrated and mathematically expressed. The physical Universe itself is omnitechnology—a complex of various frequencies of intercomplementary functions altogether producing nonsimultaneous, multi-frequenced, multimagnituded, only overlappingly inter-episoded, eternal regeneration.
253Man-made laws, legal agreements, royal fiats are not tools. Man-made laws and customs are not technology. They are political power ploys, originally instituted only by-physical-might-asserted and -sustained ‘‘rights.’’ Corporations are not tools. They are conventionally accepted power-proclaimed legal contrivances.
254There are two fundamental types of tools: those which can be produced by one human unaided in any way physically or metaphysically by any other humans and those which could not be invented, developed, or operated by one human alone. The latter, multi-human-involvement tools, are the industrial tools.
255The solo-evolved tools are craft tools. The solo-developed craft tools can be complex and even powered, as by a harnessed creature or a dammed stream of water. Craft tools used as weapons make it possible for physically small humans to overwhelm physically either big humans or even bigger animals—tiger pitfall traps are one example.
256This brings us to the slaying of the giant Goliath by David and to the generalized principle of brain-mastered brawn by mind-mastered brain, of the metaphysical mastering the physical.
257This in turn brings us to the present confrontation of humanity by the Grunch of Giants—the supranational corporate conglomerates—the greatest giants in all history invisibly ‘‘Rough-Riding’’ planet Earth. While you can see their skyscrapers and factories, these are only the physical properties occupied by the human-drone workers employed by the elusively invisible corporate conglomerates.