2 How Little I Know

2  How Little I Know

2RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER

3 ‘‘Tell mein five thousand

4 Written words’’---

5 (Equivalent, at my oral rate,

6 To three-quarters of an hour’s discourse) ‘‘What you have learned---

7 In your lifetime,’’

8 Said Norman Cousins.

9 ‘‘That ought to be easy’’ said I.

10 Three weeks have gone by---

11 I recall that Thirty-eight years ago I invented a routine Somewhat similar to Muscle development Accomplished through A day-by-day lifting Of progressively heavier weights.

12 But my new

13 Intellectual routine

14 Dealt with the weightless process Of human thought development Which subject is Known to scholars As epistemology.

15 And I have learned

16 That such words as Epistemology Stop most of humanity From pursuing

17 Such important considerations As the development Of the thought processes.

18 So my new discipline Was invented for dealing Even with the ephemeral Which word means

19 Conceptual but weightless—As is for instance

20 The concept of circularity.

21 My new strategy required That on successive days

22 I ask myself

23 A progressively larger

24 And more inclusive question Which must be answered Only in the terms of Experience.

25 Hearsaids, beliefs, axioms,

26 Superstitions, guesses, opinions Were and are

27 All excluded

28 As answer resources

29 For playing my particular Intellectual development game.

30 However, when lacking Any possible experience clues I saw that it was ineffectual To attempt to answer Such questions as for instance ‘‘Why I?’’

31 Or

32 ‘‘Why . . .

33 Anything?’’

34 And because it was my experience 'That some individuals Proved as persistently faithful In reporting their experiences to me As were my own senses The rules of my game permitted My inclusion of such individuals’ Directly reported experiences In my inventory of experiences For use in my progressively Great and greater Self-questioned answering.

35 In playing that game I soon came

36 To what I assumed to be both

37 The largest askable and

38 The largest answerable

39 Question:

40 ‘‘What do you mean,’’

41 I asked myself,

42 ‘‘By the word

43 Universe?

44 If you can’t answer

45 In terms of

46 Direct experience

47 You must desist

48 From the further use

49 Of the word UNIVERSE

50 For, to you

51 It will have become

52 Meaningless!’’

53 The twentieth century physicists, In defining the physical universe

54 As consisting only of energy,

55 Deliberately excluded the metaphysical universe—Because the metaphysical

56 Consists only of imponderables,

57 Whereas the physical scientists Deal only with ponderables—Wherefore their physical universe Excluded for instance

58 All our thoughts,---

59 Because thoughts are weightless---

60 But thoughts are experiences---

61 Wherefore I saw

62 That to be adequate

63 To the intuitively formulated

64 And experience-founded controls

65 Of my ever bigger

66 Question and answer routine,

67 My answering definition

68 Of UNIVERSE

69 Must be one which

70 Embraced the combined

71 Metaphysical and physical Components of UNIVERSE.

72 Thus my self-formulating answer emerged, And has persisted unshattered

73 By any subsequent challenges

74 From myself or others

75 As:

76 ‘‘By universe I mean:

77 The aggregate of all humanity’s

78 Consciously apprehended

79 And communicated

80 (To self or others)

81 Experiences.’’

82 And later I discovered that

83 Eddington had said ‘‘Science is:

84 The conscientious attempt

85 To set in order

86 The facts of Experience.’’

87 And I also discovered

88 That Ernst Mach---

89 The great Viennese physicist, Whose name is used

90 To designate flight velocity

91 In speed of sound increments, Known as Mach numbers—Said:

92 ‘‘Physics is:

93 Experience

94 Arranged in

95 Most economical order.’’

96 So I realized that

97 Both Eddington and Mach

98 Were seeking to put in order

99 The same ‘‘raw materials’’---

100 I.e. Experiences---

101 With which to identify

102 Their special subsystems Of UNIVERSE.

103 Wherefore I realized that

104 All the words in all dictionaries

105 Are the consequent tools

106 Of all men’s conscious

107 And conscientious attempts

108 To communicate

109 All their experiences---

110 Which is of course

111 To communicate

112 Universe.

113 There are forty-three thousand cunent words In the Concise Oxford Dictionary.

114 We don’t know who invented them!

115 What an enormous, anonymous inheritance!

116 Shakespeare used ten thousand of them With which to formulate

117 His complete ‘‘works.’’

118 It would take many more volumes Than Shakespeare’s to employ The forty-three thousand—Logically and cogently.

119 In a five thousand word article

120 I would probably have use for Only one thousand.

121 Are forty-two thousand Of these words

122 Superficial and extraneous In reporting on

123 What I have learned?

124 I have learned that

125 You would think so

126 If you ever saw a magazine’s Space rewrite editor At work on my work!

127 ‘‘What’s stopping you?’’ said Norman ‘‘I’m not stopping—I’ve never started.

128 I can’t find the self starter

129 Or, more truthfully,

130 The self starter can’t find me

131 Oh---there it goes’’

132 Womb days—Womb days—Dear old tummy tomb days---

133 I can’t consciously recall Those busy elementary assembly days But post-graduate activity in Experimental biology By me and you (one and two) Which surprisingly produced Wee thee (we three) And more (four) Suggests to us

134 That our subconscious reflexing Can never forget

135 The satisfactory routines of our 273 Undergraduate days.

136 Probably no billionaire Out here in the air ‘‘Ever had it so good.’’

137 It is understood

138 That if you know that I know How to say it ‘‘correctly’’ (The exact meaning of which I have not yet learned) Then I am entitled to say it All incorrectly

139 Which once in a rare while Will make you laugh. And I love you so much Whenever you laugh.

140 But I haven’t learned yet What love may be But I love to love And love being loved And that is a whole lot Of unlearnedness.

141 I haven’t learnt yet What laughter is But a mother told me How surprised was she When an undergraduate first Belly laughed in her Alma mater Dormitory.

142 I haven’t learned

143 How or why

144 Universe contrived to implode And intellectually code The myriadly unique Chromosomically orchestrated DNA-RNA,

145 Quadripartite moleculed, Binary paired, Helically extended

146 And unzippingly dichotomied Regenerative symphonic Jazz, as

147 A one and two, Three and four Me You,

148 Thee they

149 And more Thine and mine, Sweet citizen.

150 ********

151 THYMINE-CYTOSINE GUANINE-ADENINE

152 ********

153 That tetracouplet

154 Won the Nobel prize

155 The Wilkins, Crick and Watson Waltz

157 And that GC-TA jazz

158 All synced into

159 The non-simultaneous aggregate Of complex frequency integrated, Multi-degrees of freedom permitted, Individualized sequences,

160 Of experience evolutions,

161 Which we wave-modulatingly identify, In the subconsciously formulated, Tongue and lips shaped, Omni-directionally propagated,

162 Air wave patterning---

163 Sound

164 WORLD

165 ---Whirled into the world Of positive and negative Of---

192 O

193 I

194 I n

195 live

196 evil

197 evllution

198 devil

199 and Out

200 and 1 O v e

201 and e v O 1

202 and evOlution

203 and 1 O v e d

204 The Devil lived But never loved Which is lonely—L —one —only As are all Self Isolations

205 So let’s withdraw From exclusivity, Into world music Where—As yet dancing to The DNA waltz—I am now seventy years, or Approximately 600,000 hours old.

206 I have slept away 200,000 of those hours. While another 200,000—Which is half of

207 My 400,000 awake hours---

208 Have gone into routine work which has been Prescribed, imposed or induced by other men—Such as being ‘‘educated,’’ earning a living, Paying taxes, obtaining licenses, Answering telephones and questionnaires.

209 And another 100,000---

210 Half of the remaining 200,000 awake hours—Have gone also into routine work

211 But this time prescribed

212 In the by-laws of membership

213 In the non-simultaneous invention Universe---

214 As one of its impressively independent, Variable functions---

215 A human member.

216 Each such member is

217 A metabolically regenerative

218 Ninety-nine per cent automated, Individually unique,

219 Abstract, pattern integrity system, Whose input-output energy involvement And control capability

220 Must continually expand, extend, relay, rebuild And maintain, as ‘‘operative,’’

221 An interior-exterior, bi-partite tool complex Beginning with an integrally centralized organic set Which is subsequently extended into

222 An extra-corporeally decentralized organic set.

223 Both of which interior and exterior sets consist of Progressively interchangeable and intertransformable Chemical, hydraulic, pneumatic, Electro-magnetic, thermodynamic, Molecular and anatomical, Structural patterning processes.

224 All of which complex Regenerative processes

225 Are compounded as a unitary, Invisibly minute, Abstract pattern marriage operation, Inaugurating a new individual life Which like a telephone message Has some of the thoughts of both parties Yet weighs nothing in itself But makes its compounded Pattern self known

226 By a complex pattern of orderly and local Physical environment displacements, Which---as the circular wave Emanating in any liquid Such as water, milk or kerosene, From the impact of an object Dropped in the liquid—Grows or expands regeneratively.

227 But as with the circularly expanding Weightless wave emanation There occurs also at outset A momentary displacement exchange As a centralized splash-back Dissipated against gravity To balance the local accounts.

228 And thus there is propagated An abstract and weightless Horizontally flowing Wave impulse pattern integrity Which though visibly apprehended By its succession of local displacements Does not consist of an horizontally moving

229 And ever increasing aggregate Of water molecules.

230 There is another experiment

231 Which discloses the pattern integrity Which can be demonstrated By taking three different Pieces of rope of equal diameter One of manila

232 One of nylon

233 One of cotton

234 And making a beautiful running splice Of one end of the manila rope Into the end of the nylon rope

235 And the other end of the manila rope Into the end of the cotton rope.

236 Next we make a simple back loop knot In the end of the cotton rope And slide it along the cotton rope Until it slides along over the splice Into the manila rope and along the manila Until it slides past the splice Onto the nylon And makes it clear

237 That the knot is neither

238 Cotton, manila, nor nylon But a pattern integrity Made visible to us

239 By its temporary local displacement Of the electro-magnetic frequencies Visible to us as colors

240 Within the frequency range Tuneable by our human optic system.

241 Neither water nor rope

242 ‘‘Went’’ anywhere

243 Only the weightless pattern integrity Moved from here to there.

244 So too does the complex wave package Of human being pattern integrity Begin to compound and Expand regeneratively

245 The local environment’s chemical association And disassociation events;

246 Continually shunting more

247 And more chemical event patterns Into its local disturbance—Like a tornado gaining twist, Power and visible presence on Earth By inhibiting ever Greater quantities of Local-ly available dust, fibers, Water droplets and larger objects—Until the new human being Nine months later emerges From its mother’s womb As a seven-pound, placid Pink tornado.

248 And this tomato tinted tornado---me—Swollen 24 fold to approximately 160 pounds—Each day takes in and compoundingly processes Approximately three pounds of foods, Six pounds of water and Sixty-four pounds of air---

249 From which it extracts six pounds of oxygen:---

250 Amounting at my seventy years To a cumulative total

251 Of approximately 1,000 tons---

252 The weight of one United States Navy’s World War Two destroyer, Or 300,000 fold my arrival weight.

253 But the thousand tons Is in effect the weight Of a seventy years long Thirty-six inch girthed ‘‘rope’’ Twisted of imaginary strands Of food, water and air molecules Drawn randomly from all around Earth, And twisted temporarily together.

254 Into the molecular rope A complex slip knot has been ‘‘tied’’ Which complex knot Is both internally and externally In the exact pattern Of the complex, pattern integrity:—Me,---

255 Which has been slipped Along the rope By time.

256 And as the knot passed, The rope behind it Disintegrated and Its atoms dispersed And deployed into Other biosphere function pattemings.

257 Concurrently with ‘‘slipping’’ of corporeal ‘‘me’’ The extra-corporeally decentralized Originally integral functions of ‘‘me’’ Are externalized into a complex of tools Averaging ten tons of steel, Twenty-nine tons of concrete Plus one mixed ton

258 Of all the other metals

259 Per each industrialized man.

260 And man’s tool extensions

261 Process universe energies, Occurring only external to man, and Provide each 1965

262 North American type industrialized human With 200, 24 hour serving, energy slaves; Each slave being capable

263 Of doing as much physical work as A human can do;

264 But at a ten millionfold

265 Finer degree of precision;

266 While working tirelessly Under conditions of heat

267 And cold which would destroy man.

268 All of this combined internal and external Metabolically regenerative man package Arrives without any instruction manual Covering either its own operation

269 Or that of the non-simultaneous Universe Within which man must function As an independent variable.

270 But the human package

271 Of integral and deployed tooling Has fortunately

272 The built-in subconscious capability Of self-discovery which in turn Has discovered its conscious ability To discover experimentally and progressively The ability to formulate concepts and words And thereby to relay to other contemporaries, And to subsequent generations of man, The apprehended data and Comprehended principles Apparently governing Some of the Operations Of Universe

273 Including man.

274 Of my remaining 100,000 hours 60,000 have been used

275 In getting from here to there;

276 And that has left me

277 A bonus of 40,000 hours

278 Or 6% per cent of my life’s total hours To invest at compound interest In whatever way the ‘‘Conscious’’ I

279 Wishes.

280 It is hard therefore to explain Why conscious I

281 Should have behaved so perversely As to have concentrated on producing Explosives equivalent in destructive capability To fourteen tons of T.N.T.

282 Per each and every human on Earth.

283 And how perverse I have been Is only to be comprehended When it is realized

284 That the 14 tons per capita Of self annihilating explosives Represent an energy harvest Which if properly cultivated Could have been made to support At high standard of living All human life on earth

285 For all the rest

286 Of this century

287 While thus providing the opportunity To invest the gained time

288 In providing for all Human generations to come.

289 I’m not inclined to use The word ‘‘Creativity’’ In respect to human beings, What is usually spoken of as creativity Is really a unique and unprecedented Human employment of principles Which exist a priori in the universe.

290 I think man is a very extra-ordinary Part of the universe

291 For he demonstrates unique capability In the discovery and intellectual identification Of the operative principles of universe ---Which though unconsciously employed Have not been hitherto differentiated, Isolated out and understood

292 As being principles, By other biological species.

293 Rejecting the word ‘‘creativity’’

294 For use by any other than The great intellectual integrity Progressively disclosed as conceiving Both comprehensively and anticipatorily The complex interpattemings

295 Of reciprocal and transformative freedoms In pure principle

296 Which apparently govern universe And constitute the verb god,

297 I go along with the 5,000 year old Philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita Which says ‘‘Action is the product Of the qualities inherent in nature. It is only the ignorant man, Who, misled by personal egotism, Says ‘I am the doer.’ ’’

298 I am most impressed

299 With the earliest recorded philosophic statements By unknown individuals of India and China.

300 Through millenniums the philosophies Have become progressively

301 Compromised and complicated.

302 I am an explorer, however,

303 Of the generalized design science principles Which seemingly differentiate

304 Man from animal

305 And mind from brain.

306 The word ‘‘generalization’’

307 As used in the literary sense, Means ‘‘a very broad statement.’’ It suggests covering too much territory ---Too thinly to be sound.

308 The literary men say ‘‘This is too general.’’

309 In the mathematical sense, The meaning of generalization Is quite different.

310 The mathematician or the physicist Looks for principles which are Persistently operative in nature, Which will hold true in every special case.

311 If you can find principles That hold true in every case, Then you have discovered What the scientist calls A generalized principle.

312 The conscious detection of

313 Generalized principles which hold true Under all conditions

314 And their abstraction from any and all Special case experiences of the principles ---Is probably unique to humans.

315 By abstraction, I mean an idealized, ‘‘Empty set’’ statement

316 Such as, for instance, one of my own!,

317 ---‘‘Tension and compression are only coexistent’’ ---E.g., when you tense a rope

318 Its girth contracts---ergo compresses. When you compress a sphere’s polar axis,

319 Its equatorial girth expands and tenses.

320 It is inconceivable that a dog

321 Tugging at its leash at one time

322 And, compressing its teeth

323 On a bone at another time,

324 Should formulate consciously

325 The generalized

326 ‘‘Only coexistence of tension and compression,’’

327 Though the dog is subconsciously coordinate In tension-compression tactics.

328 To generalize further than

329 ‘‘Tension and compression are only coexistent,’’

330 We may say that ‘‘plus and minus

331 Only coexist’’

332 And generalize even further

333 By saying ‘‘Functions only coexist.’’

334 Then there is an even more powerful

335 And intellectually more exalted stage

336 Of generalization of principles

337 And that is the generalization

338 Of a complex of generalizations

339 ---Such as---unity is plural and at minimum two

340 ---Which combines the generalized law

341 Of the coexistence only of functions

342 With the theory of number.

343 In turn we discover the generalizations

344 Governing the associative powers

345 Of the nucleus and of the weak interactions

346 For the unity is two

347 Of the congruent, convex and concave spheres

348 As evidenceable in the generalized laws

349 Disclosed conceptually, arithmetically, and geometrically In synergetics.

350 I am certain that what we speak of As human morality

351 Is a form of tentative generalization

352 Of principles underlying

353 Special case experiences of human potentials, Behaviors, actions, reactions and resultants. Man has also the unique ability

354 To employ generalized principles ---Once recognized---

355 In a consciously selective variety Of special case interrelationships.

356 The whole regenerative process Of intellectual discovery

357 And specialized use of generalized principles Is known as teleology.

358 Teleology embraces

359 The theory of communication, Though as yet having special case limitations. It is an hypothetical

360 Approach to a pure, abstract generalization To say that teleology

361 Is only intuitively initiated by humans.

362 Intuition alerts brain

363 To first apprehend

364 And then recognize

365 Each special case experience

366 Within some minimum number Of special case recognitions.

367 Intuition alerts mind

368 To comprehend, and Formulate conceptually

369 The abstract generalization Of a principle recognized

370 As operative in all the special cases. Intuition alerts brain to

371 The objectively employable generalized principle In hitherto unexperienced special case Circumstances inexplicably remote From the earlier set of

372 Special case experiences within which

373 The generalized principles were first experienced Before their generalization Occurred in the mind.

374 Teleology---as part

375 Of communications theory Relates to the pursuit of truth As entropy and anti-entropy.

376 It may be that

377 Communications theory

378 May be mathematically equated With electrical

379 Transmission theory Whereby the higher The meaning or voltage The more efficient

380 And longer distance Communication attainable.

381 Based on experiments With any and all systems,

382 The second law of thermodynamics Predicts the inexorable energy loss Known as ENTROPY.

383 Because the escaping energy Does so diffusely, In all directions,

384 Entropy is also known Mathematically

385 As ‘‘The Law of Increase Of the Random Element.’’

386 Before it had been discovered By rigorous experimentation That light has a velocity It was erroneously assumed To be ‘‘self-evident’’

387 That light was instantaneous—That all stars in the sky Were ‘‘right there now’’ In exact geometrical pattern, Being seen instantaneously And simultaneously

388 By all who looked their way.

389 But since Michelson’s measurement Of light’s speed

390 We have learned that The light from the sun, Our nearest star, Takes eight minutes To reach us here on Earth. From our next nearest star Light takes two years

391 To reach our planet Earth.

392 And other stars Are so far away Their light takes millions

393 Of years and more To reach us.

394 Assuming instant-universe Classical Newtonian Science Also assumed that universe Must he an instant system—A simultaneous unit machine, In which every part Must be affecting Every other part, In varying degrees But in simultaneous unity. They assumed also that the Unit and simultaneous universe Must of course obey The great Second Law Of Thermodynamics Whose, inexorable, Entropic energy loss Required self-dissipation And ultimately utter Self-annihilation Of universe.

395 ‘‘Running down’’ they called it Wherever ‘‘down’’ may be.

396 Though light’s speed Of seven hundred million miles per hour Is fast

397 It isn’t anywhere nearly as fast As ‘‘instant’’---

398 Which means reaching anywhere ‘‘In no time at all.’’

399 Ergo, the Einsteinians Instituted experiments

400 To ascertain the behavioral characteristics Of a physical universe comprised Of only partially overlapping, Progressively intertransforming, Non-simultaneous, energy events.

401 The Einsteinian Era scientists’ experiments Showed that entropic energies Accomplished their disassociations here Only through associations there--- That is by regroupings elsewhere.

402 Thus early twentieth-century scientists Found the intertransformative Energy quanta transactions,—To be eventually,

403 But not always immediately,—One hundred per cent accountable.

404 As a consequence of

405 The Einsteinians’ experiments The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’ Concept of a continually Self-dissipating universe

406 Had to be abandoned

407 And in its place was established The, experimentally required, Law of Conservation of Energy Which states that energy May be neither created nor lost; Ergo the energetic universe Is the minimum,

408 But non-simultaneously realized, Energy exchanging system, Which is to say That physical universe, As experimentally demonstrated Is the minimum and only Perpetual motion process, Which as an aggregate of finite, Dissimilar and non-simultaneous Energy events Is in itself Sum totally finite.

409 All the foregoing Dissipates the foundations Of the Newtonian world’s Cosmogony and economics Which assumed That a ‘‘running down world’’ Suggested the prudence Of saving, conserving and hoarding; And that those who spent Were fools who would perish As resources dwindled.

410 Though entropically irreversible Every action

411 Has its reaction and resultant, And every nuclear component Has its positive or negative Behavioral opposite Which is however Not its mirror image.

412 And the irreversible situations Give an evolutionary direction To otherwise stalemated Conditions of physical universe.

413 For instance it is discovered That wealth, whatever else it may be, Cannot alter an iota of yesterday And can alter only The present and forward Metabolic regeneration Conditions of humanity.

414 Song of the Dead And the Quick—Newton was a noun And Einstein is a verb.

415 Einstein’s norm makes Newton’s norm INSTANT UNIVERSE, Absurd.

416 ‘‘A body persists In a state of rest Or---

417 Except as affected---’’ Thus grave stones are erected!

418 Non-simultaneous, physical universe Is Energy; and ‘‘Energy equals mass Times the second power Of the speed of light.’’ No exceptions!

419 Fission verified Einstein’s hypothesis---

420 Change is normal Thank you Albert!

421 Irreversible verse.

422 Einstein’s intellect

423 Defined energy as E = MC² Energy cannot define intellect. Intellect the metaphysical Is comprehensive to Energy the physical.

424 While Universe is finite

425 Energy is definite Because definable.

426 Energy is XY.

427 Intellect is 0.

428 The wealth of Earthians

429 Is irreversible.

430 Wealth cannot alter yesterday’s experience.

431 It can only alter today’s and tomorrow’s experiences.

432 It can buy

433 Forward time in which intellect

434 May scientifically explore for The orderly interrelationships

435 Disclosed in yesterday’s experiences

436 Which can be employed by intellect

437 To forecast

438 Anticipatory and orderly rearrangements of tomorrow By technological transformations Of the physical energy environments, Events and circumstances.

439 Wealth is the organized and operative Tool and energy capability

440 To sustain man’s forward metabolic regeneration; To physically protect him;

441 To increase his knowledge

442 And degrees of freedom

443 While decreasing his interfrustrations.

444 Solo wealth is to commonwealth

445 As Xis toX⁴.

446 Wealth is: Energy compounded With intellect’s know-how.

447 Every time man uses his know-how His experience increases

448 And his intellectual advantage Automatically increases.

449 Because of its conservation Energy cannot decrease. Know-how can only increase. It is therefore scientifically clear That:---wealth which combines Energy and intellect

450 Can only increase, and that wealth can Increase only with use

451 And that wealth increases As fast as it is used.

452 The faster---the more!

453 Wealth is accountable as

454 The inanimate energies shunted Onto the ends of industrial levers Whose physical capability is Stateable in forward, automated, Man days of travel miles

455 With first class comprehensive services

456 Including food, lodging, clothing, Amusements, communication, information And medical services Based on the average physical experiences Of a top civil service rating’s World travel involvements.

457 Has man a function

458 In Universe?

459 In dynamical balance With the inside-outing, Expanding universe Of radiant stars, Man witnesses Radiantly dormant Earth as A collecting or outside-inning, Contracting phase, of universe. Earth receives and stores, A continually increasing inventory Of sun and star emanating radiation In its lethal-energy-concentrates Sifting, sorting and accumulating Spherical Van Allen belts.

460 In addition to the Van Allen belts The succession of Earth’s concentric Spherical mantles, e.g.,

461 The ionosphere, troposphere et al., Constitute an extraordinary series Of discrete filters for The random-to-orderly sorting, Shunting, partially accumulating

462 And final inwardly forwarding

463 Of the benign radiation residues

464 To the biosphere stage

465 Of Earth’s continual and orderly Processing of its discrete share Of the expanding universe propagated Energy income receipts.

466 Earth also receives daily

467 Additional thousands of tons

468 Of expanding Universe dispatched Stardust.

469 This concentration around Earth’s surface

470 Of the universe deposited dust Apparently consists of 91 of the 92 regeneratively patterning Chemical elements

471 In approximately the same systematic order Of relative abundance of those elements

472 As the relative abundance

473 Of those same elements

474 As they are found to occur In the thus far inventoried Reaches of universe.

475 The biological life on earth

476 Is inherently anti-entropic

477 For it negotiates the chemical sorting

478 Out of the Earth’s crust’s

479 Chemical element inventory

480 And rearranges the atoms In elegantly ordered

481 Molecular compound pattemings.

482 Of all the biological anti-entropics,

483 I.e., random-to-orderly arrangers, Man’s intellect is by much

484 The most active, exquisite and effective agent Thus far in evidence in universe.

485 Through intellect, man constantly succeeds In inventing technological means Of doing ever more orderly

486 I.e., more efficient,

487 ‘‘Better sorted-out,’’

488 Local universe, energy tasks

489 With ever less units of investments

490 Of the (what maybe only apparently), ‘‘randomly’’ occurring

491 Resources of energy,

492 As atomic matter,

493 Or energy, as channeled electro-magnetics.

494 To guarantee

495 All of life’s

496 Anti-entropic functioning

497 The intellectual integrity universe,

498 That has designedly arranged the great game Has also arranged that mankind

499 Like all the other living species, Has its ultra-shortsighted, Built-in, ‘‘desire’’ drives,

500 Its romantic conception ambitions And protectively colored self deceits, As well as its longer distance ‘‘needs,’’ All of which cause each specie To pursue its particular ‘‘honey’’ With its particular rose-colored glasses, As does the bumblebee

501 Which at the same time

502 Inadvertently and unconsciously performs Myriads of other tasks, Designed with fabulous Scientific capability by nature, Which inadvertent in co-ordinate tasks Unknown to the separate creature species Are all essential to realization

503 Of the regenerative continuance Of the much larger

504 Survival support conditions For the generalized

505 Ecological system of ‘‘all life.’’

506 It is part of

507 The comprehensively anticipating, Design science of life

508 That the bumblebee’s self-unviewed, Unwitting, bumbling tail

509 Bumps into and knocks off male pollen, Which it later

510 And again inadvertently,

511 Knocks off upon the female botanical organs, Thus unconsciously participating in A vastly complex ecological interaction Of the many energy processing Bio-chemical ‘‘gears’’ Of the total life system Dynamically constituted by All the living species.

512 The myriad inadvertencies Of all the living species Have sum totally provided

513 A metabolically sustaining

514 And regenerative topsoil process Which---it is realized now,

515 But only by

516 Our retrospectively gained knowledge---

517 Has kept man

518 Regeneratively alive on Earth

519 For at least two million years,

520 While ever improving

521 His physical survival advantages And increasing his longevity.

522 This vast ‘‘game playing’’ of life

523 Has also indirectly occasioned,

524 Not only the regenerative multiplication Of human beings,

525 But also a progressively increasing Percentage who survive in conditions

526 Of ever improving Physical advantage.

527 I think man is very properly concerned About that which he does not understand.

528 I don’t think that it is the machine per se That bothers man;

529 It is just not understanding

530 Anything

531 That disturbs him.

532 When an accident bares

533 Portions of human organs

534 Familiar only to doctors, Those organs look foreign And frightening to people.

535 Stick your tongue way out Before a mirror.

536 It is a strange looking device.

537 If existing originally and

538 Transcendentally as psyches only, Individuals had to choose,

539 And assemble their own sets

540 Of organic parts,

541 Having been assured of mortal incarnation And of mortal ‘‘honey chasing’’ experiences But only after successful selection And completion of the assembly—And were endowed---as psyches—Only with an aesthetic

542 Sense of selectivity,

543 Being devoid of any understanding Of either the separate or integrated Functions of those parts—No humans would merger

544 Those co-operatively functioning parts

545 Into Mortal beings

546 For no part of the ‘‘guts’’

547 Would be chosen.

548 Nature had to skin over the regenerative Chemistry and physics controls, With an aesthetically intriguing, Pseudo-static, sculptural Baby doll unity In order to trick the immortal psyches Into the problem beset, Temporary occupation

549 Of such humid process regenerative machines As those of the humans.

550 I have learned

551 That man knows little

552 And thinks he knows a lot.

553 When any man can tell us

554 Just how and why he is handling and disposing The energies of his breakfast;

555 How he breaks down his chemical energy and To which glands is he routing

556 The diversified energies of his ham and eggs;

557 Or when any man can tell us

558 That he is deliberately

559 Pushing each of his million

560 Head hairs

561 Out through his scalp

562 At specifically preferred rates

563 And in specifically controlled shapes

564 For specific purposes

565 We may say that this man

566 Knows a little,

567 But I don’t know of any man

568 Who can tell me

569 So little even as

570 Why we have hair.

571 I am the most unlearned man I know.

572 I don’t know anyone

573 Who has learned

574 How little one knows

575 As have I.

576 But that does not belittle

577 The little I seem to know,

578 And I have confidence

579 In the importance of remembering

580 How little we know

581 And of the possible significance Of the fact that we prosper. And at some times even enjoy Life in Universe

582 Despite the designed in littleness That we have to ‘‘get by with.’’

583 I like algebra

584 Positives more powerful than negatives

585 minus wins plus wins only by default plus wins

586 (+)x (-) = (-) (+)X (+) = (+) (-)X (-) = (+)

587 The game is over—Plus wins two to one.

588 What the astronomers rank as

589 The nearest ‘‘bright’’ star to Earth

590 Is ‘‘Rigel Kent’’

591 Which is three hundred thousand times Further away from Earth than is the Sun. It is easy to see a man

592 One third of a mile away and

593 We were surprised when young

594 To see a man

595 At that distance

596 Swinging a sledge

597 To drive a post into the ground

598 And to realize

599 That the sound of his maul

600 Hitting the post top

601 Registered in our brain As reported through our ears Four seconds later Than had the visual news Which ‘‘long since’’ had told us That he had once more Hit the post.

602 Through physical experiments Performed by our scientists We have learned that The highest known velocity Among physical phenomena Is the speed of light and all radiation Relayingly scanned by nerve lines To our brains’ television conceptualizing Through the optics of our eyes.

603 Because the speed of light Is approximately 186,000 miles per second, And the Moon is

604 About twice that distance Away from Earth.

605 If we had a large mirror on the Moon, And we flashed a powerful Light toward the Moon It would take four seconds For the light to be reflected back To our eyes.

606 That is, the light takes

607 Two seconds to get to the Moon And two more seconds To return to Earth.

608 And the overall four seconds lag

609 Of the visual report

610 Is the same time lag as that in

611 Our childhood realized lag

612 Of the sound report

613 Behind the visual report Of the post-sledging event.

614 Because the light coming to Earth

615 From the Moon

616 Takes two seconds to make the trip,

617 And because the light

618 Coming to Earth from the Sun

619 Takes eight and one-half minutes,

620 And because the light

621 Coming to us from Rigel Kent

622 Takes four and one-half years, We all see a live show

623 Taking place in the sky

624 Four and one-half

625 Years ago.

626 And as we gaze around

627 The starry heavens

628 We see right now

629 Live shows of ‘‘yesterdays’’

630 Ranging from millions to sextillions of years ago, As we look at the stars

631 We see all of history

632 Now alive.

633 It took only two million years and

634 Four and one-half billion human babies

635 To establish a human survival beachhead

636 Aboard the little

637 Eight thousand mile diameter Spherical Spaceship EARTH. Whereby life could successfully realize Its highest known potential life span Possibly to continue indefinitely As one self-rejuvenating generation. Few of the stars we look at, Live starring out there, Are young enough To witness

638 Those first human events Taking place on Earth Only two millions of years ago.

639 Since all the vital parts Of human organisms Have now become interchangeable, And many of them

640 Have also become interchangeable With inanimate mechanical parts, And since human longevity Is continually increasing There is a good possibility That humanity is developing A continuous man

641 Who will persist in prime health And youthful vigor.

642 With the lessening of need To replenish the population, With fresh baby starts

643 The built-in drives to procreate Will lessen and be manifest in a proclivity Of females to camouflage as male And male to camouflage as female Thus suppressing the procreative urge By superficial antipathetic illusions, While permitting and promoting Procreatively innocuous sex companionships.

644 Despite their billionfold numbers Babies and very young children Soon after their arrival on Earth Have uttered and continue to utter Spontaneous comments and questions—Concerning life on Earth And in Universe---

645 Which are so economical

646 And uniquely fresh

647 In viewpoint and formulation

648 As to be pure poetry

649 Proving, apparently, that Poetry is inexhaustible;

650 To which their sophisticated

651 And surprised off-guard adult audience Cliche unpoetically ‘‘Oh how cute.’’

652 In the year 1964

653 The one hundred largest Industrial giant corporations, Born and reared

654 In the United States of America

655 Invested four out of five

656 Of their new plant and equipment Expansion dollars

657 In production and service facilities

658 In world lands outside the U.S.A.

659 This trending to World identity only

660 Of the industrial giants

661 Held true also not only with thousands

662 Of lesser magnitude

663 U.S.A, and European bom

664 Limited liability industrial organizations

665 But also with the Communist countries’

666 Giant industrial organizations.

667 Wherefore world industrialization trends swiftly---

668 And altogether transcendentally

669 To man’s conscious planning---

670 Into an unitarily co-ordinate

671 World giant

672 With built-in automated,

673 Research fed,

674 Computer analyzed and selected,

675 Evolutionary self-improving

676 And self-transforming

677 Through altematingly regenerated

678 Competitive precessioning

679 Of all the variable functions

680 Of general systems theory.

681 TRUTH

682 I have learned that truth

683 Is an omni-present, omni-directional,

684 Evolutionary awareness,

685 One of whose myriadly multiplying facets Discloses that there are no ‘‘absolutes’’ ---No ‘‘ends,’’ in themselves---no ‘‘things’’

686 ---Only transitionally transformative verbing.

687 It seems possible to me

688 That God may be recognizable

689 In man’s limited intellection

690 Only as the weightless passion drive

691 Which inspires our progressive searching For the---momentarily only---

692 And only most-truthful-thus-far-possible—Comprehension of all the interconnections Of all experiences.

693 It seems then to me

694 That the nearer we come to understanding, The nearer we come to the

695 Orderly omni-interrelationships

696 Of all the weightless complex

697 Of all generalized principles

698 Which seem to be disclosed to us

699 As so important

700 As to be tentatively identified as God.

701 For it is the integratable interrelationships Of all the generalized laws

702 Which apparently govern

703 The great verb ‘‘universe’’

704 Or the vastly greater

705 ---Because comprehensively anticipatory—Verb intellecting

706 Which verb of optimum understanding Maybe ‘‘God.’’

707 It seems that Truth

708 Is progressive approximation

709 In which the relative fraction

710 Of our spontaneously tolerated residual error Constantly diminishes.

711 This is a typical

712 Anti-entropy proclivity of man ---Entropy being the law Of increase of the random element.

713 Heisenberg’s indeterminism, In which the act of measuring Always alters the measured, Would seem entropic were it not For the experimentally realized knowledge That the successive alterations Of the observed, Diminish

714 As both our tooling and instrumentation Continually improve;

715 Ergo intellection’s effect

716 Upon measurement and the measured Is a gap closing,

717 And the pursuit of more truthful comprehension Is successfully anti-entropic.

718 Before Heisenberg, T. S. Eliot said, ‘‘Examination of history alters history’’ And Ezra Pound,

719 And even earlier poets, Reported their discoveries That in one way or another The act of thinking alters thought itself.

720 When we ask ourself

721 ‘‘What have we learned?’’ We feel at first

722 That the answer is ‘‘nothing.’’

723 But as soon as we say so We recall exceptions. For instance we have learned To test experimentally The axioms given to us

724 As ‘‘educational’’ springboards, and We have found

725 That most of the ‘‘springboards’’ Do not spring

726 And some never existed.

727 As for instance

728 Points, holes, Solids, surfaces, Straight lines, planes, ‘‘Instantaneous,’’ ‘‘simultaneous,’’ Things, nouns, ‘‘Congruence,’’ ‘‘at rest’’

729 The words ‘‘artificial’’ and ‘‘failure’’ Are all meaningless.

730 For what they aver

731 Is experimentally ‘‘non-existent.’’ If nature permits a formulation It is natural.

732 If nature’s laws of behavior Do not permit the formulation The latter does not occur.

733 Whatever can be done

734 Is natural,

735 No matter how grotesque, boring, Unfamiliar or unprecedented. In the same way

736 Nature never ‘‘fails.’’

737 Nature complies with her own laws.

738 Nature is the law.

739 When man lacks understanding

740 Of nature’s laws

741 And a man-contrived structure

742 Buckles unexpectedly,

743 It does not fail.

744 It only demonstrates that man

745 Did not understand

746 Nature’s laws and behaviors.

747 Nothing failed.

748 Man’s knowledge or estimating

749 Was inadequate.

750 Step to the blackboard.

751 Write out a number so lengthy It has never been written before.

752 The pattern of numbers

753 Constitutes a new form.

754 The number is a doodle.

755 And I cannot accredit novel form

756 As creativity of man.

757 The number of relationships between items

758 Is always N² —N

759 2

760 The relationships between four or more items

761 Are always greater in number

762 Than the number of items.

763 Ergo, there are always more chords than notes

764 And chords by themselves are not music.

765 It takes two to make a baby

766 But it takes God to make two.

767 God is twoing

768 God is threeing

769 God is multiplying

770 By dividing

771 The second law of thermodynamics—Entropy---is also as we have learned The law of increase of the Random Element I.e., every system looses energy---but Synergy means

772 Behavior of whole systems Unpredicted by

773 The behavior of their parts.

774 EN-ergy behaves entropically.

775 SYN-ergy behaves anti-entropically.

776 God is entropy

777 And God is also anti-entropy,

778 God is synergy

779 God is energy.

780 And God is always

781 A verb---

782 The verbing of Integrity.

783 I assume that the physical universe is definite And the metaphysical universe is finite. What men have called infinite

784 I call finite

785 And what men called finite

786 I call definite---i.e., definitive.

787 By my philosophy

788 The finite, but imponderable Metaphysical universe

789 Embraces the definite,

790 Ponderable, physical universe.

791 Finite is not conceptual.

792 Definite is conceptual.

793 I have mathematical proof

794 That the difference between the sums

795 Of all the angles around all the surface vertices

796 Of any conceptual, definitive physical system

797 And the finite but non-conceptual metaphysical universe

798 Is always 720°

799 Or a difference of only one

800 Definitive tetrahedron,

801 Therefore, the combined

802 Physical and metaphysical universe is finite.

803 You can’t buy anything worthwhile

804 Like spontaneous love or understanding.

805 Though metaphysically finite

806 These are imponderables.

807 The absolute would be

808 Non-transformable, static and weighable.

809 Ergo, experimentally meaningless.

810 Infinity is only local

811 And occurs within definite systems,

812 As for instance

813 Following a great circle

814 Around a sphere

815 Which because of the fact

816 That lines,---

817 Which occur experimentally

818 Only as energy vectors---

819 Cannot go through

820 The same point

821 At the same time---

822 Due to interference,

823 Which means also that lines

824 As curves

825 Cannot re-enter, or

826 ‘‘Join back into themselves,’’

827 Therefore, the circling line

828 Can only wrap around

829 And over its earlier part---

830 As the knot-making

831 Sailor says it,

832 The circle when followed

833 Around and around

834 Results in a coil

835 Which is

836 An assymetric spiral,

837 Which may be followed experimentally Only as long as intellect follows.

838 Not being simultaneous

839 Universe cannot consist of one function.

840 Functions only co-exist.

841 Universe while finite is not definable.

842 I can define many of its parts

843 But I cannot define

844 The non-simultaneously occurring

845 Aggregate of experiences

846 Whose total set of relationships

847 Constitutes the whole universe

848 Though the latter as an aggregate of finites Is finite.

849 All the words

850 In all the dictionaries, as noted before, Represent all of humanity’s attempts To express Universe.

851 And while the dictionaries are finite

852 All the words

853 In all the dictionaries

854 Cannot be read simultaneously

855 And there is not one

856 Simultaneous sentence

857 Inherent and readable

858 In all the words.

859 In the same way

860 All the non-simultaneous experiences

861 May not be conceived

862 And expressed as

863 A simultaneous system.

864 Ergo, there is no thinkable and logical Simultaneous conception

865 Of non-simultaneous Universe.

866 There is strong awareness

867 That we have been overproducing

868 The army of rigorously disciplined

869 Scientific, game playing, academic specialists Who through hard work And suppressed imagination

870 Earn their Ph.D.’s

871 And automatic contracts

872 With prime contractors

873 At fifteen thousand dollars

874 Per year---and more---

875 Only to have their specialized field Become obsolete and by-passed in five years, By severely altered techniques, instruments And exploratory stratagems.

876 Despite their honor grades

877 They prove not to be

878 The Natural Philosophers

879 And scientist-artists, inferred by their Ph.D.’s

880 But just deluxe quality

881 Technicians or mechanics.

882 And a myriad

883 Of emergency committees---

884 Multiplying swiftly

885 From one or two

886 Emergency Committees

887 Appointed by the President,

888 Have altogether discovered

889 That what the

890 Ph.D. scientists lack---

891 To adapt themselves to change

892 Has been officially pronounced to be

893 ‘‘Creativity,’’

894 But to my thinking

895 They lack the unique capability of mind---

896 Which is the ability not only to generalize

897 And to integrate a complex

898 Of pure generalizations

899 But also to project teleologically---

900 With fundamental understanding---

901 In any special case, direction.

902 Fundamental wisdom

903 Can readily identify any and all

904 Special case aspects within

905 The generalized whole When listening

906 Sensitively to one’s intuitions

907 By which alone

908 The generalized sub-subconscious integration

909 Of pattern cognition feed-backs

910 Are articulated.

911 Philip Morrison---Cornell’s Head

912 Of the Department of Nuclear Physics—Talks about what he calls

913 ‘‘Left-hand’’ and ‘‘right-hand’’ sciences.

914 Right-hand science deals in all the proven Scientific formulas and experiments.

915 Left-hand science deals in

916 All of the as yet unknown or unproven—That is: With all it is going to take

917 Intellectually, intuitively, speculatively, imaginatively And even mystically

918 By inspired persistence

919 To open up the as yet unknown.

920 The great scientists were great

921 Because they were the ones

922 Who dealt successfully with the unknown.

923 All the ‘‘great’’ were left-hand scientists.

924 Despite this historical patterning of the ‘‘greats’’

925 We have government underwriting Only the right-hand science,

926 Making it bigger and sharper,

927 Rather than more inclusive and understanding!—For how could Congress justify

928 Appropriations of billions for dreams?

929 So the billions went only For the swiftly obsoleting

930 Bigger, faster and more incisive

931 Modifications of yesterday’s certainties, By Ph.D. specialists

932 Guaranteed by the great Institutes of Technology To which the Congress Allocated the training funds As obviously ‘‘safe’’

933 And exempt from political criticism;

934 Despite that scientific investigation Had shown beyond doubt That almost all of America’s

935 Top performance scientists Had been educated

936 In small, liberal arts colleges,

937 And that almost all

938 Of those top scientists Attributed their success

939 To their good fortune

940 In having studied intimately With a great inspiring teacher.

941 It would be considered

942 Political madness

943 To risk charges of corruption Through voting government funds To any individual

944 Especially to ‘‘Great inspiring teachers’’—‘‘Crack-pot, longhairs!’’

945 So it goes---

946 To Hell with the facts

947 When re-election

948 To political office is at stake.

949 Everything that constitutes science Is unteachable.

950 And we recall that

951 Eddington said: ‘‘Science

952 Is the earnest attempt

953 Of individual initiative

954 To set in order

955 The facts of experience.’’

956 Scientific routines for specialized technicians And scientific formulas for their reference Alone are teachable.

957 Because we have been governmentally fostering Only right-hand science and Right-hand science to excess

958 The U.S.A. President’s science advisor

959 Instituted last year

960 A new direction of search

961 For sources of so-called ‘‘creativity.’’

962 Financed by the National Academy of Sciences, He asked New York University’s Art Department To bring together a representative group of America’s leading art educators and artists.

963 It was felt by the National Academy

964 That the art educators---

965 As those who dealt with

966 Most of the almost drop-outs

967 Who had been switched into art

968 As a ‘‘last resort’’---

969 Were probably intimate

970 With the type of emerging youth

971 Who were allowed to remain

972 In a freer state of mind

973 ---In the world of art---

974 Than would they have been

975 If disciplined rigorously

976 In sharp specialization by the sciences.

977 That meeting, I thought fascinating

978 For it disclosed the artists as being

979 Individuals who develop powerful self-protection

980 Of their innate intellectual

981 And conceptual capability inheritance.

982 They often protect their innate capabilities Through intuitively triggered poker-faced silence Which in the elementary or high schools

983 Is interpreted as non-cooperative, mental inferiority, Often causing early termination

984 Of their formal education.

985 I think the consensus

986 Of the New York University meeting

987 Was that individuals

988 Of original conceptual brilliance

989 Were most frequently

990 Detected, protected, and made to grow By equally sensitive art teachers.

991 ‘‘Great teachers.’’

992 Which agrees elegantly

993 With the statements

994 Of the proven scientists

995 Regarding their own experiences.

996 Congressional appropriations committees

997 Please take notice!

998 To see the whole world picture of science

999 As a part of a complete creative need---

1000 As an artist’s need to articulate---

1001 Kepes at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Made a beautiful demonstration.

1002 He took hundreds of 8" X 10"

1003 Black-and-white photographs

1004 Of modern paintings and mixed them thoroughly Like shuffled cards

1005 With photographs taken by scientists Through microscopes or telescopes Of all manner of natural phenomena Sound waves, chromosomes and such.

1006 The only way you can classify

1007 Photographs with nothing recognizable in them Is by your own spontaneous

1008 Pattern classifications.

1009 Group the mealy, the blotchy, the striped,

1010 The swirly, the polka-dotted, and their sub-combinations.

1011 The pattern classified groups

1012 Of photographs were displayed.

1013 The artists’ work and the scientists’

1014 Were indistinguishable.

1015 Checking the back-mounted data, it was found

1016 That the artist had frequently conceived

1017 His imagined pattern before

1018 The scientist found it in nature.

1019 Science began to take A new view of artists.

1020 Loving mothers

1021 Prohibit here and promote there---

1022 Often in ways irrelevant or frustrating To brain-coordinated genetic evolution,

1023 Often suppressing

1024 A child’s profound contribution Trying to emerge.

1025 We have to look on our society

1026 As we look on the biological world in general Recognizing, for instance,

1027 The extraordinary contributions

1028 Of the fungi, the manures, the worms, et al.—In the chemical reprocessing—And fertility up-grading of the earth.

1029 We must learn to think

1030 Of the functions of the trees’ roots

1031 As being of equal importance To the leaves’ functions.

1032 We tend to applaud

1033 Only the flower and the fruit

1034 Just as we applaud only the football player

1035 Who makes the touchdown

1036 And not the lineman

1037 Who opened the way.

1038 What society applauds as ‘‘creative’’

1039 Is often isolated

1040 Out of an extraordinary set

1041 Of co-equal evolutionary events, Most of which are invisible.

1042 Evolutionary ‘‘touch-downs’’ are unpredictable—Sometimes centuries apart.

1043 Who knows which child is to make the next breakthrough? In the next decade society

1044 Is going to be preoccupied with the child Because through the behavioral sciences And electrical exploration of the brain We find that given the right environment And thoughtful answers to its questions The child has everything it needs educationally Right from birth.

1045 We have thought erroneously of education

1046 As the mature wisdom

1047 And over-brimming knowledge of the grownups

1048 Injected by the discipline pump

1049 Into the otherwise ‘‘empty’’ child’s head.

1050 Sometimes parents say ‘‘don’t’’

1051 Because they want to protect the child

1052 From getting into trouble.

1053 At other times when they fail to say ‘‘no’’

1054 The child gets into trouble.

1055 The child, frustrated, stops exploring.

1056 It is possible to design environments

1057 Within which the child will be

1058 Neither frustrated nor hurt

1059 Yet free to develop spontaneously and fully

1060 Without trespassing on others.

1061 I have learned to undertake

1062 Reform of the environment

1063 And not to try to reform man.

1064 If we design the environment properly

1065 It will permit child and man to develop safely

1066 And to behave logically.

1067 Order is achieved through---positive and negative

1068 Magnitude and frequency controlled alteration

1069 Of the successive steering angles.

1070 We move by zig-zagging control

1071 From one phase of physical universe evolution to another.

1072 The rudder concept of social law is most apt.

1073 The late Norbert Wiener chose the word cybernetics

1074 Derived from Greek roots of ‘‘rudder’’

1075 Because Wiener, Shannon and others in communication theory

1076 Were exploring human behaviors

1077 And their brain-controlled ‘‘feed-back,’’ etc., As a basis for the design of computers—And it became evident

1078 That the human brain

1079 Steers man through constant change.

1080 No sharp cleavage is found

1081 Which identifies the boundary between life and non-life Between the heretofore so-called ‘‘animate’’ and ‘‘inanimate.’’

1082 Viruses,

1083 The smallest organized structures

1084 Exhibiting ‘‘life’’

1085 May be classified either---

1086 As inanimate or animate---

1087 As crystalline or ‘‘cellular’’ forms.

1088 This is the level also at which

1089 The DNA/RNA genetic code is essentially A structural pattern integrity.

1090 Such pattern integrities

1091 Are strictly accountable

1092 Only as mathematical principles

1093 Pattern integrities are found

1094 At all levels of structural organization in universe.

1095 The DNA/RNA is a specialized case

1096 Of the generalized principle of pattern integrity

1097 Found throughout life and non-life.

1098 All pattern integrity design

1099 Is controlled by

1100 Angle and frequency modulation.

1101 The biological corpus

1102 Is not strictly ‘‘animate’’ at any point.

1103 Given that the ‘‘ordering’’

1104 Of the corpus design

1105 Is accomplished through such codings as DNA/RNA Which are essentially angle and frequency modulation.

1106 Then we may go on to suggest

1107 That ‘‘life,’’ as we customarily define it Could be effected at a distance—Precession is the effect

1108 Of one moving system Upon another.

1109 Precession always produces

1110 Angular changes of the movements Of the effected bodies and

1111 At angles other than 180 degrees, That is, the results are never Continuance in a straight line.

1112 Ergo all bodies of universe Are effecting the other bodies In varying degrees

1113 And all the inter-gravitational effects Are precessional angular modulations And all the inter-radiation effects Are frequency modulations.

1114 The gravitational and radiation effects Could modulate the DNA/RNA Angle and frequency instructions At astronomical remoteness—Life could be ‘‘sent on.’’

1115 Within the order of evolution as usually drawn Life ‘‘occurred’’ as a series

1116 Of fortuituous probabilities in the primeval sea.

1117 It could have been sent or ‘‘radiated’’ there.

1118 That is, the prime code

1119 Or angle and frequency modulated signal Could have been transmitted

1120 From a remote stellar location.

1121 It seems more likely

1122 (In view of the continuous rediscovery of man

1123 As a fully organized being

1124 Back to ever more remote periods)

1125 That the inanimate structural pattern integrity,

1126 Which we call human being,

1127 Was a frequency modulation code message Beamed at earth from remote location.

1128 Man as prime organizing

1129 ‘‘Principle’’ construct

1130 Was radiated here from the stars---

1131 Not as primal cell, but as

1132 A fully articulated high order being.

1133 Possibly as the synergetic totality

1134 Of all the gravitation

1135 And radiation effects

1136 Of all the stars

1137 In our galaxy

1138 And from all the adjacent galaxies

1139 With some weak effects

1140 And some strong effects

1141 And from all time.

1142 And pattern itself being weightless

1143 The life integrities are apparently

1144 Inherently immortal.

1145 You and I

1146 Are essential functions

1147 Of universe

1148 We are exquisite anti-entropy.

1149 I’ll be seeing you!

1150 Forever.

1151 Richard Buckminster Fuller

1152 Architect/engineer R. Buckminster Fuller first gained prominence in 1927 with the invention of the Dymaxion House, a spacious, low-cost, high-strength dwelling uniquely suspended from a central mast. In the early 1930s he introduced the three-wheeled Dymaxion car, which had a top speed of 120 miles an hour, went forty miles on a gallon of gasoline, and could turn in its own length. Of his many other inventions perhaps the most famous is his geodesic dome, whose design is based on a mathematical formula he himself developed and named ‘‘energetic synergetic geometry.’’ Born in Massachusetts in 1895, Mr. Fuller is a graduate of Harvard University and U.S. Naval Academy. He has founded several design and manufacturing firms and served as a consultant to industry, the U.S. Government, the Ford Foundation, and most recently to the government of Japan. He has been a visiting professor, lecturer, and critic abroad and on many American campuses, including Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Princeton, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California at Berkeley. He now holds a professorship with life tenure at Southern Illinois University. His books include No More Second Hand God, Education Automation, and The Unfinished Epic of Industrialization.

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