How Little I Know
1TELL ME
2 in five thousand
3 Written words—
4 (Equivalent, at my oral rate,
5 To three-quarters of an hour’s discourse)
6 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
12 I invented a routine Somewhat similar to Muscle development Accomplished through A day-by-day lifting Of progressively heavier weights.
13 But my new Intellectual routine
14 Dealt with the weightless process Of human thought development Which subject is Known to the 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
18 Of the thought processes.
19 So my new discipline Was invented for dealing Even with the ephemeral Which word means
20Conceptual but weightless— As is for instance
21 The concept of circularity.
22 My new strategy required That on successive days 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, Superstitions, guesses, opinions Were and are All excluded
26 As answer resources
27 For playing my particular Intellectual development game.
28 However, when lacking Any possible experience clues I saw that it was ineffectual To attempt to answer
29 Such questions as for instance‘‘Why I?’’ Or‘‘Why…
30 Anything?’’
31 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.
32 In playing that game
33 I soon came
34 To what I assumed to be both The largest askable and The largest answerable Question:
35 ‘‘What do you mean,’’ I asked myself,‘‘By the word Universe?
36 If you can’t answer
37 In terms of
38 Direct experience You must desist From the further use Of the word UNIVERSE For, to you
39It will have become Meaningless!”
40 The 20th century physicists, In defining physical Universe As consisting only of energy, Deliberately excluded metaphysical Universe—Because the metaphysical Consists only of imponderables, Whereas the physical scientists Deal only with ponderables—Wherefore their physical Universe Excluded for instance All our thoughts—Because thoughts are weightless—
41 But thoughts are experiences—Wherefore I saw That to be adequate To the intuitively formulated And experience-founded controls Of my ever bigger Question and answer routine, My answering definition Of UNIVERSE Must be one which Embraced the combined Metaphysical and physical Components of UNIVERSE.
42 Thus my self-formulating answer emerged, And has persisted unshattered By any subsequent challenges From myself or others
43 As:
44 ‘‘By Universe I mean:
45 The aggregate of all humanity’s Consciously apprehended And communicated (To self or others) Experiences.’’
46 And later I discovered that Eddington had said ”Science is: The conscientious attempt To set in order
47 The facts of Experience.’’
48 And I also discovered That Ernst Mach—The great Viennese physicist, Whose name is used to designate flight velocity In speed of sound increments, Known as Mach numbers—Said:
49”Physics is: Experience Arranged in Most economical order.’’
50 So I realized that
51 Both Eddington and Mach Were seeking to put in order The same‘‘raw materials’’—I.e. Experiences—
52 With which to identify Their special subsystems Of UNIVERSE.
53 Wherefore I realized that All the words in all dictionaries Are the consequent tools Of all men’s conscious And conscientious attempts To communicate All their experiences—Which is of course To communicate Universe.
54 There are forty-three thousand current words In the Concise Oxford Dictionary.
55 We don’t know who invented them!
56 What an enormous, anonymous inheritance!
57 Shakespeare used ten thousand of them With which to formulate
58 His complete‘‘works.’’
59 It would take many more volumes Than Shakespeare’s to employ The forty-three thousand—Logically and cogently.
60 In a five thousand word article I would probably have use for Only one thousand. Are forty-two thousand Of these words Superficial and extraneous In reporting on What I have learned?
61 I have learned that
62 You would think so
63 If you ever saw a magazine’s Space rewrite editor At work on my work!
64 ‘‘What’s stopping you?’’ said Norman.‘‘I’m not stopping—I’ve never started.
65 I can’t find the self starter
66 Or, more truthfully,
67 The self starter can’t find me Oh—there it goes’’
68 Womb days—
69 Womb days—
70 Dear old tummy tomb day: I can’t consciously recall Those busy elementary assembly days But post-graduate activity in Experimental biology
71 By me and you (one and two) Which surprisingly produced Wee thee (we three) And more (four) Suggest to us
72 That our subconscious reflexing Can never forget
73 The satisfactory routines of our 273 Undergraduate days.
74 Probably no billionaire Out here in the air‘‘Ever had it so good.’’
75 It is understood
76 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 Which once in a rare while Will make you laugh.
77 And I love you so much Whenever you laugh. 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.
78 I haven’t learned yet What laughter is
79 But a mother told me
80 How surprised was she
81 When an undergraduate first
82 Belly laughed in her
83 Alma mater
84 Dormitory.
85 I haven’t learned
86 How or why
87 Universe contrived to implode
88 And intellectually code
89 The myriadly unique
90 Chromosomically orchestrated
91 DNA-RNA,
92 Quadripartite moleculed,
93 Binary paired, Helically extended
94 And unzippingly dichotomied
95 Regenerative symphonic
96 Jazz, as
97 A one and two,
98 Three and four
99 Me You,
100 Thee they
101 And more
102 Thine and mine,
103 Sweet citizen.
104 ********
105 THYMINE-CYTOSINE
106 GUANINE-ADENINE
107 ********
108 That tetracouplet
109 Won the Nobel prize
110 The Wilkins, Crick and Watson Waltz
112 C-G T-A A-T G-C A-TG-C
113 And that GC-TA jazz
114 All synced into
115 The nonsimultaneous aggregate Of complex frequency integrated, Multi-degrees-of-freedom permitted, Individualized sequences, Of experience evolutions,
116 Which we wave-modulatingly identify, In the subconsciously formulated, Tongue and lips shaped, Omnidirectionally propagated, Air wave patterning—
117 Sound
118 WORLD
119 —Whirled into the world Of positive and negative Of—
120MALE | 121and | 122FEMALE |
123Singular | 124and | 125Plural |
126Discontinuous | 127and | 128Continuous (has ovaries) |
129Compression | 130and | 131Tension |
132Hunter | 133and | 134Consolidator |
135Differentiator | 136and | 137Integrator |
138I 139In live | 140and 141and | 142O 143Out 1441 O v e |
145evil | 146and | 147e v O 1 |
148evllution | 149and | 150evO lution |
151devil | 152and | 1531 O v e d |
154 The Devil lived But never loved Which is lonely—L —one —only
155 As are all
156 Self I-s-O-lations
157 So let’s withdraw
158 From exclusivity,
159 Into world music
160 Where—
161 As yet dancing to
162 The DNA waltz—
163 I am now seventy years, or
164 Approximately 600,000 hours old.
165 I have slept away 200,000 of those hours.
166 While another 200,000—Which is half of
167 My 400,000 awake hours—
168 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. And another 100,000—
169 Half of the remaining 200,000 awake hours—
170 Have gone also into routine work But this time prescribed
171 In the by-laws of membership
172 In the nonsimultaneous invention, Universe—As one of its impressively independent, Variable functions—
173 A human member.
174 Each such member is
175 A metabolically regenerative
176 Ninety-nine percent automated,
177 Individually unique,
178 Abstract, pattern integrity system,
179 Whose input-output energy involvement
180 And control capability
181 Must continually expand, extend, relay, rebuild
182 And maintain, as‘‘operative,’’
183 An interior-exterior, bipartite tool complex
184 Beginning with an integrally centralized organic set Which is subsequently extended into An extra corporeally decentralized organic set.
185 Both of which interior and exterior sets consist of Progressively interchangeable and intertransformable Chemical, hydraulic, pneumatic, Electromagnetic, thermodynamic, Molecular and anatomical, Structural patterning processes.
186 All of which complex Regenerative processes 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
187 By a complex pattern of orderly and local Physical environment displacements, Which—as the circular wave Emanating in any liquid
188 Such as water, milk or kerosene, From the impact of an object Dropped in the liquid—Grows or expands regeneratively.
189 But as with the circularly expanding Weightless wave emanation There occurs also at outset
190 A momentary displacement exchange As a centralized splash-back Dissipated against gravity To balance the local accounts.
191 And thus there is propagated An abstract and weightless
192 Horizontally flowing
193 Wave impulse pattern integrity Which though visibly apprehended By its succession of local displacements Does not consist of a horizontally moving And ever increasing aggregate Of water molecules.
194 There is another experiment
195 Which discloses the pattern integrity Which can be demonstrated By taking three different Pieces of rope of equal diameter One of manila
196 One of nylon
197 One of cotton
198 And making a beautiful running splice Of one end of the manila rope Into the end of the nylon rope
199 And the other end of the manila rope Into the end of the cotton rope.
200 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
201 That the knot is neither
202 Cotton, manila, nor nylon But a pattern integrity Made visible to us
203 By its temporary local displacement Of the electromagnetic frequencies Visible to us as colors
204 Within the frequency range Tunable by our human optic system.
205 Neither water nor rope
206 ‘‘Went’’ anywhere
207 Only the weightless pattern integrity Moved from here to there.
208 So too does the complex wave package Of human being pattern integrity Begin to compound and
209 Expand regeneratively
210 The local environment’s chemical association
211 And disassociation events;
212 Continually shunting more
213 And more chemical event patterns
214 Into its local disturbance—
215 Like a tornado gaining twist,
216 Power and visible presence on Earth
217 By inhibiting ever
218 Greater quantities of
219 Locally available dust, fibers,
220 Water droplets and larger objects—
221 Until the new human being
222 Nine months later emerges From its mother’s womb As a seven-pound, placid, Pink tornado.
223 And this tomato-tinted tornado—me—
224 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—
225 From which it extracts six pounds of oxygen:—Amounting at my seventy years
226 To a cumulative total
227 Of approximately 1,000 tons—
228 The weight of one United States Navy’s World War Two destroyer,
229 Or 300,000-fold my arrival weight.
230 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.
231 Into the molecular rope
232 A complex slip knot has been‘‘tied’’
233 Which complex knot
234 Is both internally and externally
235 In the exact pattern
236 Of the complex, pattern integrity:
237 Me—
238 Which has been slipped
239 Along the rope
240 By time.
241 And as the knot passed, The rope behind it Disintegrated and Its atoms dispersed And deployed into
242 Other biosphere function patternings.
243 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 Of all the other metals Per each industrialized man.
244 And man’s tool extensions Process Universe energies, Occurring only externally to man, and
245 Provide each 1965
246 North American type industrialized human
247 With two-hundred, 24-hour-serving, energy slaves;
248 Each slave being capable
249 Of doing as much physical work as A human can do;
250 But at a ten millionfold
251 Finer degree of precision;
252 While working tirelessly Under conditions of heat And cold which would destroy man.
253 All of this combined internal and external Metabolically regenerative man package Arrives without any instruction manual Covering either its own operation Or that of nonsimultaneous Universe Within which man must function As an independent variable.
254 But the human package
255 Of integral and deployed tooling Has fortunately
256 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
257 Of Universe
258 Including man.
259 Of my remaining 100,000 hours 60,000 have been used
260 In getting from here to there;
261 And that has left me
262 A bonus of 40,000 hours
263 Or 62/s percent of my life’s total hours To invest at compound interest In whatever way the‘‘Conscious’’ I
264 Wishes.
265 It is hard therefore to explain Why conscious I
266 Should have behaved so perversely As to have concentrated on producing Explosives equivalent in destructive capability To fourteen tons of TNT
267 Per each and every human on Earth.
268 And how perverse I have been Is only to be comprehended When it is realized
269 That the 14 tons per capita Of self-annihilating explosives Represents an energy harvest Which if properly cultivated Could have been made to support At high standard of living All human life on Earth
270 For all the rest
271 Of this century
272 While thus providing the opportunity To invest the gained time In providing for all
273 Human generations to come.
274 I’m not inclined to use
275 The word‘‘Creativity’’ In respect to human beings;
276 What is usually spoken of as creativity Is really a unique and unprecedented
277 Human employment of principles Which exist a priori in the Universe.
278 I think man is a very extra-ordinary Part of the Universe
279 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 As being principles, By other biological species.
280 Rejecting the word‘‘creativity’’ For use by any other than The great intellectual integrity Progressively disclosed as conceiving Both comprehensively and anticipatorily The complex interpatternings Of reciprocal and transformative freedoms In pure principle
281 Which apparently govern Universe And constitute the verb god, 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/‘‘ I am most impressed
282 With the earliest recorded philosophic statements By unknown individuals of India and China. Through millenniums the philosophies Have become progressively Compromised and complicated.
283 I am an explorer, however,
284 Of the generalized design science principles Which seemingly differentiate Man from animal
285 And mind from brain.
286 The word‘‘generalization’’ As used in the literary sense, Means‘‘a very broad statement.’’ It suggests covering too much territory —Too thinly to be sound.
287 The literary men say‘‘This is too general.’’
288 In the mathematical sense, The meaning of generalization Is quite different.
289 The mathematician or the physicist Looks for principles which are Persistently operative in nature, Which will hold true in every special case.
290 If you can find principles That hold true in every case, Then you have discovered What the scientist calls A generalized principle.
291 The conscious detection of
292 Generalized principles which hold true Under all conditions
293 And their abstraction from any and all Special case experiences of the principles —Is probably unique to humans.
294 By abstraction, I mean an idealized,‘‘Empty set’’ statement
295 Such as, for instance, one of my own!
296 —‘‘Tension and compression are only coexistent —E.g., when you tense a rope
297 Its girth contracts—ergo compresses.
298 When you compress a sphere’s polar axis,
299 Its equatorial girth expands and tenses, It is inconceivable that a dog
300 Tugging at its leash at one time
301 And, compressing its teeth
302 On a bone at another time,
303 Should formulate consciously
304 The generalized
305 ‘‘Only coexistence of tension and compression,’’ Though the dog is subconsciously coordinate In tension-compression tactics.
306 To generalize further than
307 ‘‘Tension and compression are only coexistent,’’
308 We may say that‘‘plus and minus
309 Only coexist’’
310 And generalize even further
311 By saying ‘‘Functions only coexist.’’
312 Then there is an even more powerful
313 And intellectually more exalted stage
314 Of generalization of principles
315 And that is the generalization
316 Of a complex of generalizations
317 —Such as—unity is plural and at minimum two
318 —Which combines the generalized law
319 Of the coexistence only of functions
320 With the theory of number.
321 In turn we discover the generalizations
322 Governing the associative powers
323 Of the nucleus and of the weak interactions
324 For the unity is two
325 Of the congruent, convex and concave spheres
326 As evidenceable in the generalized laws
327 Disclosed conceptually, arithmetically, and geometrical In synergetics.
328 I am certain that what we speak of As human morality
329 Is a form of tentative generalization
330 Of principles underlying
331 Special case experiences of human potentials, Behaviors, actions, reactions and resultants.
332 Man has also the unique ability
333 To employ generalized principles
334 —Once recognized—
335 In a consciously selective variety
336 Of special case interrelationships.
337 The whole regenerative process
338 Of intellectual discovery
339 And specialized use of generalized principles
340 Is known as teleology.
341 Teleology embraces
342 The theory of communication,
343 Though as yet having special case limitations.
344 It is a hypothetical
345 Approach to pure, abstract generalization
346 To say that teleology
347Is only intuitively initiated by humans.
348 Intuition alerts brain
349 To first apprehend
350 And then recognize
351 Each special case experience
352 Within some minimum number
353 Of special case recognitions.
354 Intuition alerts mind
355 To comprehend, and
356 Formulate conceptually
357 The abstract generalization
358 Of a principle recognized
359 As operative in all the special cases.
360 Intuition alerts brain to
361 The objectively employable generalized principle
362 In hitherto unexperienced special case Circumstances inexplicably remote From the earlier set of
363 Special case experiences within which The generalized principles were first experienced Before their generalization Occurred in the mind.
364 Teleology—as part
365 Of communications theory Relates to the pursuit of truth. As entropy and antientropy. It may be that Communications theory
366 May be mathematically equated With electrical
367 Transmission theory Whereby the higher The meaning or voltage The more efficient And longer distance Communication attainable.
368 Based on experiments with any and all systems, The second law of thermodynamics Predicts the inexorable energy loss Known as ENTROPY.
369 Because the escaping energy Does so diffusely, In all directions, Entropy is also known Mathematically
370 As‘‘The Law of Increase Of the Random Element.’’
371 Before it had been discovered
372 By rigorous experimentation That light has a velocity It was erroneously assumed To be ‘‘self-evident’’
373 That light was instantaneous—That all stars in the sky Were ‘‘right there now’’ In exact geometrical pattern, Being seen instantaneously And simultaneously By all who looked their way.
374 But since Michelson’s measurement Of light’s speed
375 We have learned that The light from the Sun, Our nearest star, Takes eight minutes To reach us here on Earth.
376 From our next nearest star Light takes two years To reach our planet Earth.
377 And other stars Are so far away Their light takes millions Of years and more To reach us.
378 Assuming instant-Universe Classical Newtonian science Also assumed that Universe Must be 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.
379 ‘‘Running down’’ they called it Wherever‘‘down’’ may be.
380 Though light’s speed
381 Of seven hundred million miles per hour Is fast
382 It isn’t anywhere nearly as fast
383 As‘‘instant’’—
384 Which means reaching anywhere‘‘In no time at all.’’
385 Ergo, the Einsteinians Instituted experiments To ascertain the behavioral characteristics Of a physical universe comprised Of only partially overlapping, Progressively intertransforming, Nonsimultaneous, energy events.
386 The Einsteinian Era scientists’ experiments Showed that entropic energies Accomplished their disassociations here Only through associations there— That is by regrouping elsewhere. Thus early 20th-century scientists Found the intertransformative Energy quanta transactions, To be eventually, But not always immediately, One hundred percent accountable.
387 As a consequence of
388 The Einsteinians’ experiments
389 The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’ Concept of a continually Self-dissipating universe Had to be abandoned
390 And in its place was established The, experimentally required, Law of Conservation of Energy Which states that energy
391 May be neither created nor lost;
392 Ergo the energetic Universe Is the minimum,
393 But nonsimultaneously realized, Energy exchanging system, Which is to say
394 That physical Universe, As experimentally demonstrated Is the minimum and only Perpetual motion process,
395 Which as an aggregate of finite, Dissimilar and nonsimultaneous
396 Energy events
397 Is in itself Sum totally finite.
398 All the foregoing
399 Dissipates the foundations Of the Newtonian world’s Cosmogony and economics Which assumed
400 That a‘‘running down world’’ Suggested the prudence
401 Of saving, conserving and hoarding;
402 And that those who spent Were fools who would perish As resources dwindled.
403 Though entropically irreversible Every action
404 Has its reaction and resultant,
405 And every nuclear component Has its positive or negative Behavioral opposite Which is however
406 Not its mirror image.
407 And the irreversible situations Give an evolutionary direction To otherwise stalemated Conditions of physical Universe.
408 For instance it is discovered
409 That wealth, whatever else it may be, Cannot alter an iota of yesterday And can alter only
410 The present and forward Metabolic regeneration Conditions of humanity.
411 Song of the Dead And the Quick—Newton was a noun And Einstein is a verb. Einstein’s norm makes Newton’s norm INSTANT UNIVERSE, Absurd.
412 ‘‘A body persists In a state of rest Or—
413 Except as affected—’’
414 Thus grave stones are erected!
415 Nonsimultaneous, physical Universe Is Energy; and
416 ‘‘Energy equals mass Times the second power Of the speed of light.’’ No exceptions!
417 Fission verified Einstein’s hypothesis—
418 Change is normal Thank you Albert!
419 Irreversible verse.
420 Einstein’s intellect
421 Defined energy as E = Me2Energy cannot define intellect.
422 Intellect the metaphysical Is comprehensive to Energy the physical.
423 While Universe is finite Energy is definite Because definable Energy is XY.
424 Intellect is 0.
425 The wealth of Earthians
426 Is irreversible.
427 Wealth cannot alter yesterday’s experience.
428 It can only alter today’s and tomorrow’s experiences.
429 It can buy
430 Forward time in which intellect
431 May scientifically explore for
432 The orderly interrelationships
433 Disclosed in yesterday’s experiences Which can be employed by intellect To forecast
434 Anticipatory and orderly rearrangements of tomorrow By technological transformations
435 Of the physical energy environments, Events and circumstances.
436 Wealth is the organized and operative
437 Tools and energy capability
438 To sustain man’s forward metabolic regeneration;
439 To physically protect him;
440 To increase his knowledge
441 And degrees of freedom
442 While decreasing his interfrustrations.
443 Solo wealth is to commonwealth
444 As X is to X4.
445 Wealth is: Energy compounded With intellect’s know-how.
446 Every time man uses his know-how His experience increases
447 And his intellectual advantage Automatically increases.
448 Because of its conservation Energy cannot decrease. Know-how can only increase. It is therefore scientifically clear That:—wealth which combines Energy and intellect
449 Can only increase, and that wealth can Increase only ivith use
450 And that wealth increases As fast as it is used.
451 The faster—the more!
452 Wealth is accountable as
453 The inanimate energies shunted Onto the ends of industrial levers Whose physical capability is Stateable in forward, automated, Man days of travel miles With first class comprehensive services Including food, lodging, clothing, Amusements, communication, information And medical services
454 Based on the average physical experiences Of a top civil service rating’s
455 World travel involvements.
456 Has man a function
457 In Universe?
458 In dynamical balance With the inside-outing, Expanding universe
459 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., The ionosphere, troposphere et al., Constitute an extraordinary series Of discrete filters for The random-to-orderly sorting, Shunting, partially accumulating And final inwardly forwarding Of the benign radiation residues To the biosphere stage Of Earth’s continual and orderly Processing of its discrete share Of the expanding-Universe-propagated Energy income receipts. Earth also receives daily Additional thousands of tons Of expanding-Universe-dispatched Stardust.
461 This concentration around Earth’s surface Of the Universe-deposited dust Apparently consists of 91 of the 92 regeneratively patterning Chemical elements
462 In approximately the same systematic order Of relative abundance of those elements
463 As the relative abundance
464 Of those same elements
465 As they are found to occur
466 In the thus far inventoried
467 Reaches of Universe.
468 The biological life on earth
469 Is inherently antientropic
470 For it negotiates the chemical sorting
471 Out of the Earth’s crust’s
472 Chemical element inventory
473 And rearranges the atoms
474 In elegantly ordered
475 Molecular compound patternings.
476 Of all the biological antientropics,
477 Le., random-to-orderly arrangers,
478 Man’s intellect is by much
479 The most active, exquisite and effective agent Thus far in evidence in Universe.
480 Through intellect, man constantly succeeds In inventing technological means Of doing ever more orderly
481 Le., more efficient,
482 ‘‘Better sorted-out/’
483 Local Universe, energy tasks
484 With ever less units of investments
485 Of the (what may be only apparently), ‘‘Randomly’’ occurring
486 Resources of energy,
487 As atomic matter,
488 Or energy as channeled electromagnetics.
489 To guarantee
490 All of life’s
491 Antientropic functioning,
492 Intellectual integrity Universe
493 Which has designedly arranged the great game Has also arranged that mankind, Like all the other living species,
494 Has its ultra-shortsighted, Built-in,‘‘desire’’ drives, Its romantic conception ambitions And protectively colored self deceits, As well as its longer distance‘‘needs,’’ All of which cause each species To pursue its particular‘‘honey’’
495 With its particular rose-colored glasses, As does the bumblebee
496 Which at the same time
497 Inadvertently and unconsciously performs Myriads of other tasks, Designed with fabulous
498 Scientific capability by nature, Which inadvertent interco-ordinate tasks Unknown to the separate creature species Are all essential to realization
499 Of the regenerative continuance Of the much larger
500 Survival support conditions For the generalized
501 Ecological system of‘‘all life.’’
502 It is part of
503 The comprehensively anticipating, Design science of life
504 That the bumblebee’s self-unviewed, Unwitting, bumbling tail
505 Bumps into and knocks off male pollen, Which it later
506 And again inadvertently,
507 Knocks off upon the female botanical organs, Thus unconsciously participating in A vastly complex ecological interaction Of the many energy processing Bio-chemical ‘‘gears’’
508 Of the total life system Dynamically constituted by All the living species.
509 The myriad inadvertencies Of all the living species Have sum totally provided A metabolically sustaining And regenerative topsoil process Which—it is realized now, But only by
510 Our retrospectively gained knowledge—Has kept man
511 Regeneratively alive on Earth For at least two million years, While ever improving
512 His physical survival advantages And increasing his longevity..
513 This vast ‘‘game playing’’ of life Has also indirectly occasioned Not only the regenerative multiplication Of human beings,
514 But also a progressively increasing Percentage who survive in conditions Of ever improving Physical advantage.
515 I think man is very properly concerned About that which he does not understand.
516 I don’t think that it is the machine per se That bothers man;
517 It is just not understanding Anything
518 That disturbs him.
519 When an accident bares
520 Portions of human organs Familiar only to doctors, Those organs look foreign And frightening to people. Stick your tongue way out Before a mirror.
521 It is a strange looking device.
522 If existing originally and
523 Transcendentally as psyches only, Individuals had to choose, And assemble their own sets
524 Of organic parts,
525 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
526 Sense of selectivity,
527 Being devoid of any understanding Of either the separate or integrated Functions of those parts—No humans would merger
528 Those co-operatively functioning parts
529 Into mortal beings
530 For no part of the‘‘guts’’
531 Would be chosen.
532 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,
533 Temporary occupation
534 Of such humid process regenerative machines As those of the humans.
535 I have learned
536 That man knows little
537 And thinks he knows a lot.
538 When any man can tell us
539 Just how and why he is handling and disposing The energies of his breakfast;
540 How he breaks down his chemical energy and To which glands he is routing
541 The diversified energies of his ham and eggs; Or when any man can tell us
542 That he is deliberately
543 Pushing each of his million
544 Head hairs
545 Out through his scalp
546 At specifically preferred rates
547 And in specifically controlled shapes
548 For specific purposes,
549 We may say that this man
550 Knows a little,
551 But I don’t know of any man
552 Who can tell me
553 So little even as
554 Why we have hair.
555 I am the most unlearned man I know.
556 I don’t know anyone
557 Who has learned
558 How little one knows
559 As have I.
560 But that does not belittle
561 The little I seem to know,
562 And I have confidence
563 In the importance of remembering
564 How little we know
565 And of the possible significance Of the fact that we prosper, And at some times even enjoy Life in Universe
566 Despite the designed-in littleness That we have to‘‘get by with.’’
567 I like algebra
568 Positives more powerful than negatives
569 minus wins
570 (+) X (-) = (-) ( + ) X (+) = ( + ) (-) X (-) = (+)
571 plus wins only by default plus wins
572 The game is over—
573 Plus wins two to one.
574 What the astronomers rank as
575 The nearest‘‘bright’’ star to Earth
576 Is‘‘Rigel Kent’’
577 Which is three hundred thousand times Further away from Earth than is the Sun.
578 It is easy to see a man
579 One third of a mile away and
580 We were surprised when young
581 To see a man
582 At that distance
583 Swinging a sledge
584 To drive a post into the ground
585 And to realize
586 That the sound of his maul
587 Hitting the post top
588 Registered in our brain
589 As reported through the ears
590 Four seconds later
591 Than had the visual news
592 Which‘‘long since’’ had told us
593 That he had once more
594 Hit the post.
595 Through physical experiments
596 Performed by our scientists
597 We have learned that
598 The highest known velocity
599 Among physical phenomena
600 Is the speed of light and all radiation Relayingly scanned by nerve lines To our brain’s television conceptualizing Through the optics of our eyes.
601 Because the speed of light
602 Is approximately 186,000 miles per second, And the Moon is
603 About twice that distance
604 Away from Earth.
605 If we had a large mirror on the Moon,
606 And we flashed a powerful
607 Light toward the Moon
608 It would take four seconds
609 For the light to be reflected back
610 To our eyes.
611 That is, the light takes
612 Two seconds to get to the Moon
613 And two more seconds
614 To return to Earth.
615 And the overall four seconds lag
616 Of the visual report
617 Is the same time lag as that in
618 Our childhood realized lag
619 Of the sound report
620 Behind the visual report
621 Of the post-sledging event.
622 Because the light coming to Earth
623 From the Moon
624 Takes two seconds to make the trip,
625 And because the light
626 Coming to Earth from the Sun
627 Takes eight and one-half minutes,
628 And because the light
629 Coming to us from Rigel Kent
630 Takes four and one-half years,
631 We all see a live show
632 Taking place in the sky
633 Four and one-half
634 Years ago.
635 And as we gaze around
636 The starry heavens
637 We see right now
638 Live shows of ‘‘yesterdays’’
639 Ranging from millions to sextillions of years ago, As we look at the stars
640 We see all of history Now alive.
641 It took only two million years and Four and one-half billion human babies To establish a human survival beachhead Aboard the little 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-rejuvenation generation. Few of the stars we look at, Live-starring out there, Are young enough To witness
642 Those first human events Taking place on Earth Only two millions of years ago.
643 Since all the vital parts Of human organisms Have now become interchangeable, And many of them
644 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 human
645 Who will persist in prime health And youthful vigor
646 With the lessening of need To replenish the population With fresh baby starts, The built-in drives to procreate
647 Will lessen and be manifest in a proclivity Of females to camouflage as male And males to camouflage as female Thus suppressing the procreative urge By superficial antipathetic illusions, While permitting and promoting Procreatively innocuous sex companionships.
648 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—
649 Which are so economical And uniquely fresh In viewpoint and formulation As to be pure poetry Apparently proving 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 Invested four out of five
655 Of their new plant and equipment Expansion dollars
656 In production and service facilities In world lands outside the U.S.A. This trending to World identity only Of the industrial giants
657 Held true also not only with thousands
658 Of lesser magnitude
659 U.S.A, and European born
660 Limited liability industrial organizations
661 But also with the Communist countries’
662 Giant industrial organizations.
663 Wherefore world industrialization trends swiftly—And altogether transcendentally
664 To man’s conscious planning—
665 Into an unitarily co-ordinate
666 World giant
667 With built-in automated,
668 Research fed,
669 Computer analyzed and selected,
670 Evolutionary self-improving
671 And self-transforming
672 Through alternatingly regenerated
673 Competitive processioning
674 Of all the variable functions Of general systems theory.
675 TRUTH
676 I have learned that truth
677 Is an omnipresent, omnidirectional, Evolutionary awareness,
678 One of whose myriadly multiplying facets Discloses that there are no‘‘absolutes’’ —No‘‘ends in themselves’’—no‘‘things’’ —Only transitionally transformative verbing.
679 It seems possible to me
680 That god may be recognizable
681 In man’s limited intellection
682 Only as the weightless passion drive
683 Which inspires our progressive searching For the—momentarily only—
684 And only most-truthful-thus-far-possible—Comprehension of all the interconnections Of all experiences.
685 It seems then to me
686 That the nearer we come to understanding, The nearer we come to the
687 Orderly omni-interrelationships
688 Of all the weightless complex Of all generalized principles Which seem to be disclosed to us As so important
689 As to be tentatively identified as God.
690 For it is the integratable interrelationships Of all the generalized laws Which apparently govern The great verb‘‘Universe’’ Of the vastly greater
691 —Because comprehensively anticipatory—Verb intellecting
692 Which verb of optimum understanding May be‘‘God.’’
693 It seems that Truth
694 Is progressive approximation In which the relative fraction
695 Of our spontaneously tolerated residual error Constantly diminishes.
696 This is a typical
697 Antientropy proclivity of man —Entropy being the law
698 Of increase of the random element.
699 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
700 Diminish
701 As both our tooling and instrumentation Continually improve;
702 Ergo intellection’s effect
703 Upon measurement and the measured
704 Is a gap closing,
705 And the pursuit of more truthful comprehension Is successfully antientropic.
706 Before Heisenberg, T. S. Eliot said,‘‘Examination of history alters history’’ And Ezra Pound,
707 And even earlier poets,
708 Reported their discoveries
709 That in one way or another
710 The act of thinking alters thought itself.
711 When we ask ourself‘‘What have we learned?’’ We feel at first
712 That the answer is‘‘nothing.’’
713 But as soon as we say so
714 We recall exceptions.
715 For instance we have learned
716 To test experimentally
717 The axioms given to us
718 As‘‘educational’’ springboards, and
719 We have found
720 That most of the ‘‘springboards’’
721 Do not spring
722 And some never existed.
723 As for instance
724 Points, holes,
725 Solids, surfaces,
726 Straight lines, planes,‘‘Instantaneous,’’ ‘‘simultaneous,’’
727 Things, nouns,‘‘Up,’’ ‘‘down,’’ ‘‘at rest’’
728 The words ‘‘artificial’’ and ‘‘failure’’ Are all meaningless.
729 For what they aver
730 Is experimentally‘‘non-existent.’’
731 If nature permits a formulation
732 It is natural.
733 If nature’s laws of behavior
734 Do not permit the formulation
735 The latter does not occur.
736 Whatever can be done
737 Is natural,
738 No matter how grotesque, boring, Unfamiliar or unprecedented.
739 In the same way
740 Nature never‘‘fails.’’
741 Nature complies with her own laws.
742Nature is the law.
743 When man lacks understanding Of nature’s laws
744 And a man-contrived structure
745 Buckles unexpectedly,
746 It does not fail.
747 It only demonstrates that man
748 Did not understand
749 Nature’s laws and behaviors.
750 Nothing failed.
751 Man’s knowledge or estimating Was inadequate.
752 Step to the blackboard.
753 Write out a number so lengthy It has never been written before.
754 The pattern of numbers Constitutes a new form. 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 The relationships between four or more items Are always greater in number Than the number of items.
760 Ergo, there are always more chords than notes And chords by themselves are not music.
761 It takes two to make a baby But it takes God to make two.
762 God is twoing
763 God is threeing
764 God is multiplying
765 By dividing
766 The second law of thermodynamics—Entropy—is also as we have learned The law of increase of the Random Element I.e.z every system looses energy—but Synergy means
767 Behavior of whole systems Unpredicted by
768 The behavior of any separate part.
769 EN-ergy behaves entropically.
770 SYN—ergy behaves syntropically.
771 God is entropy
772 And God is syntropy,
773 God is synergy.
774 God is energy.
775 And God is always
776 A verb—
777 The verbing of Integrity.
778 I assume that the physical Universe is definite And the metaphysical Universe is finite.
779 What men have called infinite
780 I call finite
781 And what men called finite
782 I call definite—i.e., definitive.
783 By my philosophy
784 The finite, but imponderable
785 Metaphysical Universe
786 Embraces the definite,
787 Ponderable, physical Universe.
788Finite is not unitarily conceptual.
789Definite is unitarily conceptual.
790 I have mathematical proof
791 That the difference between the sums
792 Of all the angles around all the surface vertices
793 Of any conceptual, definitive physical system
794 And the finite but non-conceptual metaphysical universe
795 Is always 720 degrees
796 Or a difference of only one
797Definitive tetrahedron,
798 Therefore, the combined
799 Physical and metaphysical Universe is finite.
800 You can’t buy anything worthwhile
801 Like spontaneous love or understanding.
802 Though metaphysically finite
803 These are imponderables.
804 The absolute would be Nontransformable, static and weighable. Ergo, experimentally meaningless. Infinity is only local
805 And occurs within definite systems, As for instance
806 Following a great circle
807 Around a sphere
808 Which because of the fact
809 That lines—
810 Which occur experimentally
811 Only as energy vectors—
812 Cannot go through
813 The same point
814 At the same time—
815 Due to interference,
816 Which means also that lines
817 As curves
818 Cannot re-enter, or
819 ‘‘Join back into themselves,’’
820 Therefore, the circling line
821 Can only wrap around
822 And over its earlier part—
823 As the knot-making
824 Sailor says it,
825 The circle when followed
826 Around and around
827 Results in a coil
828 Which is an endless scenario—
829 An asymmetric spiral,
830 Which may be followed experimentally
831 Only as long as intellect is interested.
832 Not being simultaneous
833 Universe cannot consist of one function.
834 Functions only coexist.
835 Universe while finite is not definable.
836 I can define many of its parts
837 But I cannot define simultaneously
838 The nonsimultaneously occurring
839 Aggregate of partially overlapping experiences Whose total set of local scenario relationships Constitutes the whole Universe
840 Though the latter as an aggregate of finites
841 Is finite.
842 All the words
843 In all the dictionaries, as noted before,
844 Represent all of humanity’s attempts
845 To express the aggregate of experiences—Universe.
846 And while the dictionaries are finite
847 All the words
848 In all the dictionaries
849 Cannot be read simultaneously
850 And there is not one
851 Simultaneous sentence
852 Inherent and readable
853 In all the words.
854 In the same way
855 All the nonsimultaneous experiences
856 May not be conceived
857 And expressed as
858 A simultaneous system.
859 Ergo, there is no thinkable and logical Simultaneous conception
860 Of nonsimultaneous Universe.
861 There is strong awareness
862 That we have been overproducing
863 The army of rigorously disciplined
864 Scientific, game playing, academic specialists Who through hard work And suppressed imagination
865 Earn their Ph.D.’s
866 And automatic contracts
867 With prime contractors
868 At fifteen thousand dollars
869 Per year—and more—
870 Only to have their specialized field
871 Become obsolete and by-passed in five years, By severely altered techniques, instruments And exploratory stratagems.
872 Despite their honor grades
873 They prove not to be
874 The Natural Philosophers
875 And scientist-artists, implied by their Ph.D.’s But just deluxe quality Technicians or mechanics.
876 And a myriad
877 Of emergency committees—
878 Multiplying swiftly
879 From one or two
880 Emergency Committees
881 Appointed by the President, Have altogether discovered <
882 That what the
883 Ph.D. scientists lack—
884 To adapt themselves to change
885 Has been officially pronounced to be
886 ‘‘Creativity/’
887 But to my thinking
888 They lack the unique capability of mind—
889 Which is the ability not only to generalize
890 And to integrate a complex
891 Of pure generalizations
892 But also to project teleologically—
893 With fundamental understanding—
894 In any special case direction.
895 Fundamental wisdom
896 Can readily identify any and all
897 Special case aspects within
898 The generalized whole
899 When listening
900 Sensitively to one’s intuitions
901 By which alone
902 The generalized sub-subconscious integration
903 Of pattern cognition feedbacks
904 Are articulated.
905 Philip Morrison—Cornell’s head
906 Of the department of nuclear physics—
907 Talks about what he calls
908 ‘‘Left-hand’’ and‘‘right-hand’’ sciences.
909 Right-hand science deals in all the proven
910 Scientific formulas and experiments.
911 Left-hand science deals in
912 All of the as yet unknown or unproven—
913 That is: With all it is going to take
914 Intellectually, intuitively, speculatively, imaginatively
915 And even mystically
916 By inspired persistence
917 To open up the as yet unknown.
918 The great scientists were great
919 Because they were the ones
920 Who dealt successfully with the unknown. All the‘‘greats’’ were left-hand scientists. Despite this historical patterning of the‘‘greats’’ We have government underwriting Only the right-hand science, Making it bigger and sharper,
921 Rather than more inclusive and understanding!— For how could congress justify
922 Appropriations of billions for dreams?
923 So the billions went only For the swiftly obsoleting
924 Bigger, faster and more incisive
925 Modifications of yesterday’s certainties, By Ph.D. specialists
926 Guaranteed by the great Institutes of Technology To which the congress Allocated the training funds As obviously ‘‘safe’’
927 And exempt from political criticism;
928 Despite that scientific investigation Had shown beyond doubt That almost all of America’s Top performance scientists Had been educated
929 In small, liberal arts colleges,
930 And that almost all
931 Of those top scientists Attributed their success
932 To their good fortune
933 In having studied intimately With a great inspiring teacher. It would be considered
934 Political madness
935 To risk charges of corruption
936 Through voting government funds
937 To any individual
938 Especially to‘‘great inspiring teachers‘‘—‘‘Crackpot longhairs!’’
939 So it goes—
940 To hell with the facts
941 When re-election
942 To political office is at stake.
943 Everything that constitutes science Is unteachable.
944 And we recall that
945 Eddington said:‘‘Science
946 Is the earnest attempt
947 Of individual initiative
948 To set in order
949 The facts of experience.’’
950 Scientific routines for specialized technicians And scientific formulas for their reference Alone are teachable. Initiative is unteachable.
951 Because we have been governmentally fostering Only right-hand science and Right-hand science to excess
952 The U.S.A. President’s science advisor
953 Instituted last year (1965)
954 A new direction of search
955 For sources of so-called‘‘creativity.’’
956 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.
957 It was felt by the National Academy
958 That the art educators—
959 As those who dealt with
960 Most of the almost drop-outs
961 Who had been switched into art
962 As a‘‘last resort’’—
963 Were probably intimate
964 With the type of emerging youth
965 Who were allowed to remain
966 In a freer state of mind
967 —In the world of art—
968 Than would they have been
969 If disciplined rigorously
970 In sharp specialization by the sciences.
971 That meeting, I thought fascinating
972 For it disclosed the artists as being
973 Individuals who develop powerful self-protection
974 Of their innate intellectual
975 And conceptual capability inheritance.
976 They often protect their innate capabilities
977 Through intuitively triggered poker-faced silence
978 Which in the elementary or high schools
979 Is interpreted as non-cooperative, mental inferiority, Often causing early termination
980 Of their formal education.
981 I think the consensus
982 Of the New York University meeting
983 Was that individuals
984 Of original conceptual brilliance
985 Were most frequently
986 Detected, protected, and made to grow
987 By equally sensitive art teachers.
988 ‘‘Great teachers.’’
989 Which agrees elegantly
990 With the statements
991 Of the proven scientists
992 Regarding their own experiences.
993 Congressional appropriations committees Please take notice!
994 To comprehend the integral of art and science
995 As an irrepressible, intuitive creative urgency—
996 As an artist’s need to articulate—
997 Kepes at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Made a beautiful demonstration.
998 He took hundreds of 8’’ X 10’’
999 Black-and-white photographs
1000 Of modern paintings and mixed them thoroughly
1001 Like shuffled cards
1002 With photographs taken by scientists
1003 Through microscopes or telescopes Of all manner of natural phenomena Sound waves, chromosomes and such. The only way you can classify Photographs with nothing recognizable in them Is by your own spontaneous Pattern classifications.
1004 Group the mealy, the blotchy, the striped, The swirly, the polka-dotted, and their sub-combinations. The pattern classified groups Of photographs were displayed.
1005 The artists’ work and the scientists’
1006 Were indistinguishable.
1007 Checking the back-mounted data, it was found That the artist had frequently conceived The imagined pattern before The scientist found it in nature.
1008 Science began to take A new view of artists.
1009 Loving mothers
1010 Prohibit here and promote there—
1011 Often in ways irrelevant or frustrating To brain-coordinated genetic evolution, Often suppressing
1012 A child’s profound contribution
1013 Trying to emerge.
1014 We have to look on our society
1015 As we look on the biological world in general Recognizing, for instance,
1016 The extraordinary contributions
1017 Of the fungi, the manures, the worms, et al.— In the chemical reprocessing—
1018 And fertility up-grading of the earth.
1019 We must learn to think
1020 Of the functions of the trees’ roots
1021 As being of equal importance To the leaves’ functions.
1022 We tend to applaud
1023 Only the flower and the fruit
1024 Just as we applaud only the football player
1025 Who makes the touchdown
1026 And not the linemen Who opened the way.
1027 What society applauds as ‘‘creative’’
1028 Is often isolated
1029 Out of an extraordinary set
1030 Of co-equal evolutionary events, Most of which are invisible.
1031 Evolutionary‘‘touchdowns’’ are unpredictable—Sometimes centuries apart.
1032 Who knows which child is to make the next breakthrough? In the next decade society
1033 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.
1034 We have thought erroneously of education
1035 As the mature wisdom
1036 And over-brimming knowledge of the grownups Injected by the discipline pump
1037 Into the otherwise‘‘empty’’ child’s head.
1038 Sometimes parents say‘‘don’t’’
1039 Because they want to protect the child From getting into trouble.
1040 At other times when they fail to say‘‘no’’ The child gets into trouble.
1041 The child, frustrated, stops exploring.
1042 It is possible to design environments Within which the child will be Neither frustrated nor hurt
1043 Yet free to self-educate, spontaneously and fully Without trespassing on others.
1044 I have learned to undertake
1045 Reform of the environment
1046 And not to try to reform man.
1047 If we design the environment properly
1048 It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
1049 Order is achieved through—positive and negative—
1050 Magnitude and frequency controlled alteration
1051 Of the successive steering angles.
1052 We move by zigzagging control
1053 From one phase of physical Universe evolution to another.
1054 The rudder concept of social law is most apt.
1055 The late Norbert Wiener chose the word cybernetics
1056 Derived from Greek roots of ‘‘rudder’’
1057 Because Wiener, Shannon and others in communication theory
1058 Were exploring human behaviors
1059 And their brain-controlled‘‘feedback,’’ etc.,
1060 As a basis for the design of computers—
1061 And it became evident
1062 That the human brain only waveringly
1063 Steers man through constant change.
1064 No sharp cleavage is found
1065 Which identifies the boundary between life and non-life, Between the heretofore so-called‘‘animate’’ and‘‘inanimate.’’
1066 Viruses,
1067 The smallest organized structures
1068 Exhibiting ‘‘life,’’
1069 May be classified either
1070 As inanimate or animate—
1071 As crystalline or‘‘cellular’’ forms.
1072 This is the level also at which
1073 The DNA-RNA genetic code serves as
1074 An angle and frequency designed
1075 Structural pattern integrity.
1076 Such pattern integrities
1077 Are strictly accountable
1078 Only as mathematical principles
1079 Pattern integrities are found
1080 At all levels of structural organization in Universe.
1081 The DNA-RNA is a specialized case
1082 Of the generalized principle of pattern integrity
1083 Found throughout life and non-life.
1084 All pattern integrity design
1085 Is controlled entirely and only by
1086 Angle and frequency modulation.
1087 The biological corpus
1088 Is not strictly‘‘animate’’ at any point.
1089 Given that the‘‘ordering’’
1090 Of the corpus design
1091 Is accomplished through such codings as DNA-RNA Which are exclusively angle and frequency modulation.
1092 Then we may go on to suggest That‘‘life,’’ as we customarily define it Could be effected at a distance. Precession is the effect
1093 Of one moving system Upon another moving system. Precession always produces Angular changes of the movements Of the effected bodies and
1094 At angles other than 180 degrees, That is, the results are never Continuance in a straight line. Ergo all bodies of universe Are effecting the other bodies In varying degrees
1095 And all the intergravitational effects Are precessionally angular modulations And all the interradiation effects Are frequency modulations.
1096 The gravitational and radiation effects Could modulate the DNA-RNA Angle and frequency instructions At astronomical remoteness—Life could be‘‘sent on.’’
1097 Within the order of evolution as usually drawn
1098 Life‘‘occurred’’ as a series
1099 Of fortuituous probabilities in the primeval sea.
1100 It could have been sent or‘‘radiated’’ there.
1101 That is, the prime code
1102 Or angle and frequency modulated signal
1103 Could have been transmitted
1104 From a remote stellar location.
1105 It seems more likely
1106 (In view of the continuous rediscovery of humans
1107 As fully organized beings
1108 At ever more remote historical periods)
1109 That the inanimate structural pattern integrity,
1110 Which we call human being,
1111 Was a frequency modulated code message Beamed at Earth from remote location.
1112 Man as prime organizing
1113 ‘‘Principle’’ construct pattern integrity
1114 Was radiated here from the stars—
1115 Not as primal cell, but as
1116 A fully articulated high order being,
1117 Possibly as the synergetic totality
1118 Of all the gravitation
1119 And radiation effects
1120 Of all the stars
1121 In our galaxy
1122 And from all the adjacent galaxies
1123 With some weak effects
1124 And some strong effects
1125 And from all time.
1126 And pattern itself being weightless,
1127 The life integrities are apparently
1128 Inherently immortal.
1129 You and I
1130 Are essential functions
1131 Of Universe
1132 We are exquisite syntropy.
1133 I’ll be seeing you!
1134 Forever.