Chapter 2
Astro-age David’s Sling
4.1In 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.
4.2 Nature 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.
4.3 While 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.
4.4I acquired one of the most important
4.5Of my life’s working assumptions
4.6When I undertook to answer
4.7My own 1927 self-questioning:
4.8‘‘Why have humans been included
4.9In the design of Universe?’’
4.10My hypothetical answer of 1927
4.11Was, and as yet is:
4.12What impresses me most
4.13Is the experientially demonstrable fact
4.14That all living organisms
4.15Other than humans
4.16Have some organically integral equipment
4.17That gives them some inherent
4.18Physical advantage
4.19In coping with special environmental conditions—
4.20A plant that can and does thrive
4.21Only under dense Amazon
4.22River jungle conditions—
4.23A bird that can fly beautifully
4.24While in the sky
4.25But which cannot divest itself
4.26Of those wings
4.27While awkwardly walking—
4.28The fish having equipment
4.29To extract oxygen from the water
4.30That dies out of water.
4.31Common with many creatures
4.32Humans have brains.
4.33Brains of humans and other creatures
4.34Are always and only
4.35Coordinating and memory-storing the information
4.36Reported to their brains
4.37By internal and external
4.38Sensing devices
4.39Regarding each special-case systemic experience.
4.40But humans are given mind’s access
4.41To objectively realizable mathematical principles whereby
4.42Humans can produce their own wings to
4.43Outfly all the special-case, integrally winged birds.
4.44In addition to their brains
4.45Humans have minds,
4.46Possessed by no other
4.47Known organism.
4.48Weightless, nonphysical minds
4.49Are concerned with discovering
4.50The interrelated significance
4.51Of all-time humanity’s
4.52Thus-far-experientially-discovered
4.53And experimentally-verified inventory
4.54Of ever-experientially-redemonstrable,
4.55Only-mathematically-expressible
4.56Cosmic design laws
4.57And of those laws’ governance
4.58Of the multi-alternative freedoms of realization
4.59As mathematically incisive,
4.60Omnirational, variously magnituded,
4.61Structurally associative and disassociative,
4.62Nonsimultaneous,
4.63And only omnicomplexedly intercomplementary,
4.64Always and only overlapping episodes
4.65Altogether essential
4.66To eternally regenerative Scenario Universe.
4.67HUMANS:
4.68IF
4.69Successfully evolved
4.70Physiologically, psychologically, and philosophically
4.71From their born-naked,
4.72Helpless-for-months,
4.73No-experience state
4.74Of absolute ignorance
4.75To be progressively educated
4.76As driven only by innate educated
4.77As driven only by innate
4.78Hunger, thirst, procreative instinct, and curiosity
4.79Into initiative-takings
4.80Can thereby discover frequent errors
4.81Of assumption, identification, or execution
4.82Wherewith, if the individual’s
4.83Innate courage And sense of the importance of truth
4.84Are greater than the sense of pride
4.85Of the individual, Error is admitted
4.86Thus only inadvertently uncovering
4.87That which is true
4.88Which discovered truth may prove to be
4.89Both physically and metaphysically
4.90Inspiringly advantageous information
4.91Suggesting ways of progressively improving
4.92Physical life-support systems
4.93And their environmental realizations
4.94Together with their operational information agenda
4.95Whereafter, encouraged by experiencing
4.96The ensuing, more favorable environmental circumstances
4.97Accruing only to their ever abiding by the spontaneous
4.98Self-admonitions springing intuitively
4.99From their innate love of the truth,
4.100The thus-inspired individuals
4.101Persevere with integrity
4.102Throughout some hundred thousand generations
4.103Of such only-by-trial-and-error
4.104Conditioning with each generation’s intermatings
4.105Of those mutually surviving
4.106Under the evolving environment
4.107And mutually educated exclusively
4.108By such artifacts-accomplished,
4.109Creative conversions
4.110Of negative into positive circumstances
4.111And through those regenerative
4.112Matings To concentrate the DNA-RNA,
4.113Exclusively angle-and-frequency-controlled,
4.114Structural and mechanical design
4.115Programmings Of the creatively imagining faculties
4.116And their corresponding crafting dexterities
4.117Which with their inventing of words
4.118Their metaphysical tools
4.119And electromagnetic-spectrum
4.120Communications accomplishments
4.121Might in time
4.122Attain and sustain
4.123A semi-divine level
4.124Of exclusively artifacts-realized,
4.125Creative design wisdom
4.126Adequate to render the cosmic environment
4.127Healthily supportive of all humanity
4.128THEN
4.129Shall humans discover
4.130That they have been
4.131Included in Universe
4.132To function:
4.133First, as local Universe information-harvesters;
4.134Secondly, as critical information-winnowers;
4.135Thirdly, as generalized
4.136Patterns-and-principles discoverers;
4.137And fourthly, employing those principles objectively
4.138To serve as local Universe problem-solvers
4.139In support of the integrity
4.140Of eternally regenerative,
4.141Only overlappingly inter-episoded
4.142Scenario Universe.
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4.143 In order that humans might so evolvingly function, they were first given brains and then access to mind.
4.144 As 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.
4.145 In 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.
4.146 The 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.
4.147 Human 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.
4.148 When 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.
4.149 Returning 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.
4.150 Bare-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.
4.151 People 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.
4.152 Tools 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.
4.153 Nests 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.
4.154 A 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.
4.155 Biological 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.
4.156 Simple 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.
4.157 Tools 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.
4.158 Airplanes 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.
4.159 The 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.
4.160 Man-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.
4.161 There 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.
4.162 The 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.
4.163 This 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.
4.164 This 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.