2 Brain and Mind
1Dr. Harvey Cushing ---1869 to 1939 ---
2 Was so great a neurosurgeon
3 That his professional colleagues first called themselves
4 The Harvey Cushing Society
5 But later adopted the more formal name
6 Of American Association of Neurosurgeons
7 And at the same time instituted the Harvey Cushing Oration
8 As the principal address of their annual congress.
9 And though I am neither a neurosurgeon
10 Nor a professional of any discipline
11 An aberration of fate brought me the honor of delivering
12 ‘‘The 1967 Harvey Cushing Oration’’
13 To two thousand of their members
14 At their annual meeting in Chicago.
15 I never prepare lectures so I thought out loud to them About humanity, its world
16 And its function in universal evolution,
17 And as I thought and spoke I realized o’erwhelmingly That if humanity is going to survive
18 It will be only because it commits itself
19 Unselfishly, courageously and exclusively
20 To its most longingfully creative inclinations,
21 Visionary conceptions
22 And intuitively formulated objectifications;
23 For the mind’s intellections ---
24 In contradistinction to the brain’s automatics ---
25 Apparently constitute humanity’s
26 Last and highest order of survival recourse.
27 Therefore I felt I must devote the occasion
28 To distinguishing between mind and brain ---
29 For that unique difference
30 Also differentiates most incisively
31 Between human beings
32 And all the other living creatures.
33 For instance, it was mind alone that discerned
34 That physical experiment disclosed and confirmed
35 That local physical systems
36 Are always exporting energy
37 In one manner or another, such as by friction,
38 And it was mind alone that determined to identify semantically
39 The exporting of energy
40 By inventing the abstract name entropy.
41 And mind went on to discern
42 That physical experiences disclosed and confirmed
43 That all living tissue
44 During cell multiplication
45 Must import more energy
46 Than it exports,
47 Else it could neither grow
48 Nor even sustain healthy balance.
49 And mind also witnessed
50 That crystalline structures
51 Also can import energy
52 But not as much as they export;
53 And mind identified
54 Energy importing by the name syntropy.
55 Because of the tidal fluctuations of syntropy-entropy Local environments are forever altering themselves. Living phenomena, being both entropic and antientropic, Are, as Professor Waddington points out, Forever altering the environment At a faster rate than the nonbiologicals, And the ever-more-completely altered environment Is, in turn, continually altering all the creatures. Waddington identified this external modification Of living morphology as epigenetics --- In contradistinction to the corporeal morphology Of all living organisms’ integral growth Whose angle and frequently designing
56 Is governed by the internal dna-rna genetic codes.
57 As the irreversible succession of self-regenerative human events --- Experiences, intuitions, experiments, discoveries and productions --- Successively increases both the comprehensions and capability options The commonwealth of intercommunicated comprehensions Produces an ever-evolving, subconsciously changing common sense. Where syntropy is gaining over entropy, life prevails;
58 Where entropy is gaining over syntropy, death prevails.
59 Their exponentially regenerative, birth-death interplay
60 Is describable in information theory
61 As ‘‘self-accelerating feedback,’’
62 And in nuclear physics it is manifest as ‘‘chain reaction’’
63 And in an even more comprehensive way
64 It is manifest pulsatingly, resonantly and propagatively, As the irreversible regeneration of universal evolution.
65 For the obviously inanimate, Nonbiological, physical phenomena Are all, always, giving off energies In ever more diffuse, expansive And disorderly ways, Which impose complex intertransactions Upon all the intertransforming systems. This was only half anticipated In a generalized way
66 By the late eighteenth-century scientists’ Academically hailed
67 Great ‘‘Second Law of Thermodynamics,’’ Which discovered and recognized only the energy-exporting phase called entropy.
68 Entropy’s behavior may be modernized to state
69 That every separately experienceable
70 And generalizably conceivable system in Universe
71 Is continually exporting energies
72 While also always importing energies
73 At a concurrently accelerating and decelerating
74 Variety of local system rates,
75 Which also means
76 That all systems are continually transforming
77 Internally as well as externally,
78 And because the periodicity of importing and exporting
79 Are both nonsimultaneous and unequal,
80 All the systems are tidally pulsative
81 At a variety of frequencies.
82 In the same way that systems
83 Have ‘‘centers of gravity’’ (cg)
84 And ‘‘neutral axes of gyration’’
85 Identified by engineers as ‘‘I,’’
86 They also have
87 ‘‘Centers of omniequilibrious symmetry,’’
88 At which their kinetic transformings never pause, But relative to which kinetic action centers
89 They oscillatingly transform.
90 And the frequencies and geometries
91 Of those intemally-extemally co-ordinated pulsative trendings Are always uniquely asymmetric
92 As related to the local systems’ symmetrically co-ordinate Abstract ‘‘centers of equilibrious symmetry’’ (ces).
93 Because the unsynchronizable, asymmetric excesses
94 Are inherently exported
95 The internal-external events
96 Propagate both inward- and outward-bound waves.
97 These unique wave-system propagations
98 Only infrequently coincide
99 With the unique symmetry pattemings of others,
100 The orderly patterning energy releases of any one system
101 Only superficially appear to be disorderly---
102 Being unsynchronized immediately with other systems,
103 Though each system is internally orderly
104 And each is uniquely symmetrical dynamically.
105 This relatively minor yet true disorder, external to local systems, Is spoken of by the confused observer as ‘‘diffuse.’’
106 Having different-sized teeth, and rates of revolution, Two such gears cannot mesh, but associate only tangentially. Consequently, their axial centers must be farther apart Than are those of meshable gears.
107 Omnidirectionally pulsative systems
108 Are, in effect, spherical gears.
109 Their inwardly and outwardly pulsating and rotating ‘‘teeth’’
110 Consist of multifrequenced circumferential and radial waves
111 Of fifty-six great-circle subdivisions of spherical unity, Often nonmeshing with other local systems.
112 The universally infrequent meshing of wavelengths and frequencies Produces an omnicondition
113 In which the new omnidirectional system’s center must, as each is created,
114 Continually occupy omnidirectionally greater domains of disorder.
115 The sum total consequence of entropy is
116 An omniexpanding physical Universe
117 And an only (apparently increasing) disorderliness.
118 This does not mean absolute disorder;
119 It means the momentarily superficial appearance
120 Of less order than symmetry.
121 And the disorder is only relative
122 To the majority of individual cases,
123 For each system
124 And its particular entropic exportings
125 Is orderly within itself,
126 And the detection of disorder is mistakenly assumed As the result of exclusively myopic And too short-termed observing.
127 I am convinced therefore
128 That there is a great deal of difference Between absolute disorder, i.e., chaos, And the only one-sidedly considered, Relative asymmetry, whose pulsative balancing At a later time with other systems was not awaited By the too hasty and biased observer.
129 On the contrary, I am convinced
130 By comprehensively considered experience
131 That a total integrity of order prevails And am inspired to explore that order In hope of discovering humanity’s function In the evolutionary scenario
132 Of omniself-regenerative Universe.
133 To date, we have gained vast inventories
134 Of trial-and-enor experience
135 From all of which information we have developed
136 A family of generalized scientific principles
137 Which are weightless pattern concepts.
138 Being weightless they are metaphysical.
139 From the metaphysics
140 We have in turn designed
141 Rearrangements of the physical behavior constituents
142 Of our omnikinetic environment scenery.
143 We have rearranged the scenery
144 In the pattern of world-around occurring power-driven tool networks All of which teleologic process
145 Has produced an ever-increasing survival advantage for humanity.
146 The human advantage is both physical and metaphysical,
147 As ever-increasing proportions of all Earthians
148 Become involved in the processes
149 Of massive production and distribution
150 Of both the necessities and desirables
151 Which implement humanity’s regenerative evolution requirements.
152 And the degrees of increasing advantage
153 Are expressible in precise scientific terms
154 Of the number of centimeters, grams and seconds of work
155 Humanity is able to accomplish
156 Out of each hour of investment
157 Of each and all of its individuals’
158 Potential lifetime hours,
159 Energies, materials and know-how.
160 But we also discover that humanity
161 Does not yet realize its potentially imminent success, Despite the published statistics of death-deferring Doubling and even tripling of life spans Of a billion and a half humans Rendered wealthy by industry Within only the last seventy years Of the numbers of human hours That must be individually invested To produce the essentials and desirables. And humanity’s enlightenment is delayed Because the Earth planet is so large, And man is so infinitely tiny
162 And so myopically preoccupied with personally avoiding The erroneously assumed inevitability of poverty for the many, Which has slavishly and fearfully conditioned his reflexes.
163 Those not as yet included
164 In the high-living advantage, ever-multiplyingly produced
165 By power-driven tool networks,
166 Do not comprehend the swiftly accelerating rate
167 At which comprehensively increasing human advantage
168 Will include them and their children,
169 As well as the children of the already advantaged---
170 For they find themselves in a cultural environment
171 Whose customs, logic and law
172 Were designed uniquely to cope only with the lethal struggling Of the preindustrial, frequently failing agrarian era, Which struggle is no longer essential to their omnisuccessful potential ---
173 Intuiting which, children find themselves brimming
174 With unanswered questions regarding the significance of life.
175 Inspired by the beauty and appeal
176 Of their earnest questioning
177 And in continuance of our attempt
178 To differentiate the domains and functionings
179 Of brain and mind,
180 We eagerly explore
181 For experiential evidence
182 That human minds and brains
183 May be essentials
184 In the total design integrity
185 Of eternally self-regenerative
186 Scenario Universe.
187 From physics we learn that every fundamental behavior of Universe Always and only coexists with a nonmirror-imaged complementary. The nonsimultaneity and dissimilarity
188 Of the complementary interpatteming pulsations
189 Integrate to produce
190 The complex of events
191 We sensorially identify as reality.
192 Without the pulsative asymmetries and asynchronous lags
193 The complementations would cancel out one another
194 And centralize equilibriously,
195 And there would be no sensoriality,
196 Ergo, no self-awareness, no life
197 For we have also learned from physics
198 That all the positive and negative weights
199 Of the fundamental components of matter
200 Balance out exactly as zero.
201 Life may well be a dream,
202 A comedy and tragedy
203 Of errors of conceptioning
204 Inherent in the dualistic
205 Imaginary assumption
206 Of a self differentiated
207 From all the complex otherness Of reasonably conceivable Universe For it must be remembered
208 That no human has ever seen directly Outside himself.
209 What we call seeing
210 Is the interpretive imagining in the brain Of the significance and meaning
211 Of the nervous system reports
212 Of an assumed outsideness of self, All of which organic design conception May be that of a great intellect
213 Which is inventing Universe progressively Evolving mathematically elegant
214 Integral equations
215 For each conceivable challenge Including the invention
216 You and me.
217 But you and I cannot escape
218 And are given extraordinary faculties Which we are supposed to use.
219 So here we go again
220 From right where we are Now.
221 At least our speculative excursion
222 Was relative to our attempt to differentiate Between brain and mind,
223 For the written record of two millenniums Discloses human minds forever rediscovering The great dream concept
224 While the brains of the dog and cat Sleeping at my feet
225 Have never given evidence
226 Of being concerned with such thoughts.
227 Either the brain tells them to go hunting Because their bellies are hungry
228 Or they bark in reflex to a strange noise Or they wag their tails in response To brain-recalled propitious circumstances.
229 Returning to our hard and soft Experiential realities,
230 We seek to discover whether there exists A major phase of universal behavior Which complements but does not mirror The omniexpansive, increasing asymmetry And progressive entropy diffusion of physical systems, And matches the latter
231 With an increasingly orderly and symmetrical Omnicontracting and compacting syntropic phase. We know that the light by which astronomers Are able to observe stars through optical telescopes Is the ‘‘disorderly entropic output’’ of radiation Emanating from the ever-transforming And continually moving star systems.
232 Thus, all the information of astronomers until recent decades Has indicated increasing disorder and expansion Which would seemingly threaten A progression of Universe Toward ultimate chaos Or utter disorder
233 Were it not for Einstein’s observation
234 That the experimentally demonstrated Linear speeds of all forms of radiation Unleashed in a vacuum Were identical,
235 Indicating a top speed
236 Of physical Universe expansiveness.
237 This gave hope
238 But it did not explain
239 How Humpty Dumpty reassembled himself.
240 In recent years the astronomers have been aided by radar--- And with the electronic telescope --- they are potentially capable Of bouncing signals off invisible celestial black bodies Which may be angled to echo back to Earth, Which could identify the relative time fix positions.
241 But they haven’t as yet with any certainty Bounced their radar signals off another planet In a star system other than the Sun’s.
242 In looking for some region or body in Universe Where energy events are not only collecting But are doing so in increasing orderliness, We discover the observational availability Of our own noncandescent Spaceship Earth.
243 Man is continually overlooking Earth
244 In his astronomical searching
245 Because of his fundamental propensity
246 For not thinking realistically of the Earth
247 As an astronomical body.
248 By making a globe
249 To demonstrate the scientific fact
250 That our Earth is a sphere
251 He concedes theoretically
252 That his Earth is not an infinite plane,
253 But he as yet feels and talks
254 Of ‘‘the four comers of the Earth,’’
255 Of ‘‘the wide, wide world,’’
256 And identifies ‘‘realistic, practical’’ thinking
257 As ‘‘getting down to Earth.’’
258 He uses the words up and down,
259 Which refer exclusively to a planar concept of the world and Universe;
260 For all the perpendiculars to an infinite plane
261 Must be parallel to one another,
262 Ergo, extend only upwards and downwards.
263 ‘‘Up to the sky,’’ ‘‘down to Earth.’’
264 Humans see
265 Hlusionarily receding railroad tracks apparently converging
266 Before reaching the horizon,
267 And therefore assume
268 That all the parallel lines leading ‘‘upwardly,’’
269 Also logically must converge in a point called Heaven
270 And converge in the other direction
271 In a spot called Hell.
272 This is a powerful illusion still rampant in Earthians’ sensorial reflexing.
273 Even though many humans no longer promulgate
274 The conception of an otherworldly Heaven and Hell, They retain the illusionary orientation of Up and Down.
275 I have asked hundreds of audiences around the world
276 For a show of hands by those
277 Who do not use the words ‘‘up’’ and ‘‘down.’’
278 In none of all my audiences have hands appeared.
279 This means that all the human beings
280 In all of my audiences
281 Use the words ‘‘up’’ and ‘‘down,’’
282 And believe they’re being logical
283 In so doing.
284 And they query,
285 ‘‘What may we say cogently
286 In lieu of up and down?’’
287 The answer was found by aviators.
288 As they flew around the world.
289 They did not feel themselves
290 To be ‘‘upside down.’’
291 As flyers they selected the right words.
292 Flyers ‘‘Come in for a landing.’’
293 Flyers ‘‘Go out in the sky.’’
294 Flyers ‘‘Fly around the world.’’
295 And the astronauts
296 Go in toward various celestial bodies
297 And accelerate outwardly from them
298 And into the spatial nothingness
299 Out of which space they steer themselves
300 To come in to another
301 Of tire always orbiting celestial bodies, Around any of which they may locally orbit In great or lesser circles.
302 All of us go outward, inward and around
303 Any object, or system of reference,
304 Such as planets, stars, houses, things, and atoms.
305 Atomic events transpire
306 Inward, outward and around their respective nuclei. We direct an astronaut into the Moon:
307 We will soon direct him info Mars.
308 Out is common to all bodies
309 And is outward in all directions
310 From any one of them.
311 ‘‘Out’’ is omnidirectional,
312 ‘‘In’’ is unidirectional.
313 ‘‘In’’ is unique.
314 In is always specifically oriented. In is individual.
315 The word ‘‘invention’’
316 Uses the prefix ‘‘in’’
317 To identify this specifically.
318 It means a ‘‘coming in,’’
319 A coming into our thought of a unique conception,
320 Which we in turn
321 Realize in a special physical case demonstration
322 Thus in-troducing
323 The in-vention to society.
324 No scientist would suggest that any part of the Universe
325 Is identifiable as ‘‘up’’
326 Nor any other locale as ‘‘down.’’
327 Yet individual scientists themselves
328 As yet reflex spontaneously
329 In an ‘‘up’’ and ‘‘down,’’ conditioned-reflex miasma.
330 Their senses say reflexively,
331 ‘‘I see the Sun is going down,’’
332 Despite that scientists
333 And almost everyone else have known theoretically
334 For five hundred years that the Sun is not going down at dusk And rising at dawn.
335 What is important in this connection
336 Is that the way in which humans reflex spontaneously
337 For that is the way in which
338 They usually behave in critical moments, And it is often ‘‘common sense’’ to reflex
339 In perversely ignorant ways
340 That produce social disasters
341 By denying knowledge
342 And ignorantly yielding to common sense.
343 We are therefore interested in how man
344 Can liberate himself
345 From all the up and down kind of reflexing.
346 I suggest to audiences that they say, ‘‘I’m going ‘outstairs’ and ‘instairs.’ ’’ At first that sounds strange to them;
347 They all laugh about it
348 But if they try saying in and out
349 For a few days in fun,
350 They find themselves beginning to realize
351 That they are indeed going inward and outward In respect to the center of Earth, Which is our Spaceship Earth.
352 And for the first time
353 They begin to feel real ‘‘reality.’’
354 Blocked by until now The Heavens Above And Down to Earth fixations,
355 Humanity has failed to realize commonsensically That our own Spaceship Earth Is an independent celestial object, Albeit a swiftly moving one, Compared to whose motion rates Hurrying hurricanes rate as frozen pudding.
356 Disciplining ourselves to use in and out Requires frequently thoughtful self-correction And gradually our knowledge-informed thought Begins to recognize realistically That we are indeed riding In the skin of a planet, An eight-thousand-mile diameter Spherical space vehicle Zooming around the Sun At sixty thousand miles per hour Spinning its equator
357 At a thousand miles per hour As it Sun orbits.
358 As man first turned the television camera
359 Toward Earth from the Moon
360 In demonstration of our Earthians’
361 General reflexing in self-misinformative ways, My greatly admired friend Walter Cronkite At the microphone said, ‘‘There she is, Floating there!’’
362 Floating in what?
363 And later the President of the United States Congratulated the astronauts
364 On going safely ‘‘up to the Moon
365 And back down again to the Earth.’’ Studying the experientially acquired data We begin to discover
366 That energies emanating
367 From celestial regions
368 Remote from Planet Earth
369 Are indeed converging and accumulating
370 In planet Earth’s biosphere
371 As a spherical collection of energies, Both as radiation and as matter.
372 Recent estimates of geo- and astrophysicists Show that many tons of stardust Arrive daily and remain on Earth.
373 Some estimates go as high
374 As one hundred thousand tons daily---
375 Probably acquired during Earth’s orbital passaging Through the rubble of comet tails By virtue of such stardust And asteroid fall-ins,
376 Earth is actually increasing its weight
377 But so are the Moon and other planets, Wherefore gravitational imbalance Of the planets is avoided. All the stars give off energies And much of the radiation from stars Other than the Sun Impinge on our Earth.
378 This cosmic radiation seems to impinge In the same disorderly manner As does the stardust.
379 Stardust itself is the intraverted Concentrate of cosmic radiation. Every chemical phenomenon Can be identified
380 Either by its mass characteristics, Such as weight per volume, Or by its radiation-frequency bands. Both the frequencies and the matter Are behavioral states of the same phenomenon. This underlies Einstein’s fundamental thinking, That is, of energy associative as matter (stardust); Or of energy disassociative as radiation.
381 And of their eternally regenerative Terminal intertransformabilities.
382 We have our particular Radiant energy star---the Sun, Which is our prime energy supply source.
383 The Sun is our nearest celestial fuel ship. It is flying formation with us Through the Galactic System
384 At an Earth-fife incineration-proofing distance Of ninety-two million miles
385 As our energy concentrating Spherical space vehicle Earth Circles around our ten-billionfold greater Amassed energy mothership Sun.
386 While orbiting together With our planetary companions Of the spherical spaceship fleet, We aboard Earth are receiving Just the right amount of energy To keep biological life regenerated on board Despite our manifold ignorance And its concomitant wastage and pollution.
387 We haven’t found life on board Any other planetary space vehicles.
388 So our ship and its passengers May indeed have a unique function In this particular star group.
389 Our Sun squadron of planetary spaceships Speeds within our Galactic System --- At thousands of times
390 Our Earth’s speed around the Sun.
391 Our enormous spiral nebula constitutes
392 The grand fleet of local Universe space vehicles --- Which fleet we speak about In English as the Milky Way.
393 While all this celestial fleet maneuvering transpires, Operating at cosmic flank-speeds,
394 I often have Earth passengers say to me, ‘‘I don’t see how you can stand such traveling!’’ They are referring, of course, Only to the terrestrially myopic fact That I sleep In about two hundred different beds During two hundred different nights of the year Somewhere around our planet And dwell for another hundred nights In the general facilities of world airlines.
395 The remaining sixty-five nights of the year Find me sleeping in one of three beds: One on the East Coast, One on the West Coast, And the other in the middle Of the U. S. of North America.
396 Such one hundred thousand miles per year Terrestrial travel is trivial When compared to an astronaut’s One million miles per week, Or the Moon’s six billion miles per year Sun-orbiting corkscrew travel.
397 If our space vehicle Earth Were nearer to the Sun, We would be incinerated By our energy-supplying mothership.
398 To compound the advantage of vast distance As protection against Sun’s incinerating us We have the Van Allen belts; of which we learned Only in the last few years.
399 These belts are the outermost Of the biosphere’s spherical mantles. Within these Van Allens we have The ionic veil surrounding our spaceship.
400 The Van Allen belts intercept the radiation
401 Which would kill a naked man positioned outward of those belts. The Van Allen belts
402 Diffuse the radiation, by refraction, to below lethal level.
403 From thence inward, the ionosphere,
404 The stratosphere and atmosphere
405 Progressively refract the radiation,
406 Separating its original lethal radiation concentration Into a variety of life-sustaining increments.
407 Enough Sun light gets through the atmosphere, however, Once in a while to inflict the fatal sunbuming Of naked humans dwelling at the crystalline And hydrosphere levels.
408 The Sun’s radiant energy
409 Is the prime regenerating source
410 For all biological life on our planet.
411 Even while sunburning their skins
412 Humans and all other mammals
413 Are unable to take in enough radiant energy
414 Through their skins
415 To keep themselves alive.
416 To circumvent mammals attempting futilely so to do
417 Nature has invented
418 The green vegetation on the dry lands,
419 And the algae in the waters around the Earth’s surface.
420 The vegetation and the algae
421 Impound the Sun’s radiation by photosynthesis
422 Converting the radiation
423 Into orderly molecules,
424 Which provide celestial life’s prime energy intake.
425 The vegetation and algae
426 Provide metabolic sustenance
427 Of all manner of creatures,
428 Some of which can in turn
429 Nourish humans.
430 Urged by subconsciously initiated desire,
431 Or genetically programmed
432 To experience thirst, appetite and breathing,
433 Biological species are motivated
434 To ‘‘feed’’ in the solid, liquid and gaseous
435 Chemical constituents necessary
436 To produce the ongoing biological molecules
437 Whose energies are convertible Into action and growth.
438 As the prime energy impounder,
439 The vegetation on the land has to have roots
440 In order to get enough water to cool itself
441 So that it will not be dehydrated
442 While it photosynthesizes the radiation energy of the Sun
443 Into the beautiful molecular structures
444 That provide the metabolic energy exchange functions
445 Of terrestrial life support.
446 The algae floating in the sea Are automatically water-cooled.
447 Remembering that we are searching for an understanding
448 Of humanity’s functioning in Universe
449 And that we had thought it logical to find first
450 A moving locus in Universe where syntropy dominates,
451 We intuit excitedly that
452 The photosynthesis process
453 Of orderly molecule production
454 Indeed constitutes elegant manifest
455 That our planet Earth may be
456 One such moving locus in Universe
457 Where energy is accumulating syntropically
458 Being conserved
459 In ever more compact and orderly patterns,
460 As biological, crystalline,
461 Liquid and gaseous substances ---
462 As a complementary process to the entropic disorder
463 Multiplyingly manifest
464 By the omnientropic star centers
465 Of Universe.
466 Our First Manifest that our planet Earth
467 Is just such a syntropic locus
468 Is the constant terrestrial acquisition
469 Of energy around Earth’s spherical surface
470 Provided by the stardust and cosmic radiation,
471 The latter of which, including the Sun’s,
472 Is not reflectively redistributed
473 Back outward to Universe,
474 As would a reflective mirrored ball
475 Reject the radiation.
476 Instead, Earth is measurably impounding the radiation
477 By progressive angular refractions,
478 Which separate
479 The originally lethal radiation dosages
480 Into nonlethal fractions
481 And shunt those radiations
482 From perpendicular to circumferential travel
483 Within the biosphere’s concentric mantles.
484 This refraction of radiation
485 Manifests mathematically orderly angular shunting
486 Of the Sun’s radiation into separately discrete frequencies As it is witnessed, for instance, in a rainbow, Or in the twilight sky’s red, orange, yellow, green, Blue and violet horizontal stratifications.
487 This frequency modulating
488 Biosphere refractionating relay
489 Constitutes Manifest Number Two
490 Of our sought-for syntropic
491 Orderly energy concentrating
492 In a mobile locus of Universe.
493 Manifest Number Three
494 That our Earth is just such a traveling locus
495 Of syntropic energy concentration
496 Is the demonstrable fact already noted
497 That all the biologicals are continually multiplying
498 Their beautiful cellular, molecular and atomic structurings
499 Which planetary metabolic conservation
500 Constitutes a comprehensive pattern integrity
501 Of orderly energy concentration.
502 Manifest Number Four that our planet Earth
503 Is indeed the first known such syntropic center of Universe Is the processing formation
504 Of the Earth’s chemically regenerative topsoils.
505 And the Fifth Manifest is the inwardly sunken
506 And progressively pressure buried
507 Coal and petroleum deposits
508 As high energy concentrate fossil fuels.
509 Having set out to discover
510 Whether humans had a function in Universe
511 And having only found humans
512 As passengers aboard planet Earth,
513 We sought first to discover
514 Whether the Earth planet itself had a function in Universe.
515 Saying to ourselves
516 That if the Earth’s function could be found
517 Then we might go on to find what constituent functions
518 Of Earth planet’s universal functioning
519 Man might, uniquely, be performing.
520 We have thus far found a five-stage hierarchy of manifests
521 Clearly confirmatory
522 Of planet Earth’s functioning
523 As the only thus far known traveling focus
524 Of syntropic concentration
525 Of eternally regenerative Universe’s physical energies.
526 This confirms our assumption
527 That we had first to find such a syntropic traveling locus
528 Within the total complementary scheme
529 Of universal regeneration.
530 A Sixth Manifest of Earth’s
531 Unique celestial scheme functioning
532 Is discoverable as the impoundment
533 Of star energy radiation
534 In both the Earth’s atmosphere
535 And in its hydrosphere,
536 Which provides the weather and ocean currents
537 And which maintains the critical temperatures
538 Within which the biological proliferation of metabolic formulations And feedback chemical process exchangings must occur.
539 For an instance, the heating of the hydrosphere
540 Involves the fact that water takes on heat and loses it At the slowest rate of all known substances.
541 The water temperatures of the Earth
542 Vary between such close limits
543 That the average temperatures throughout the years
544 Have varied less than one degree Fahrenheit
545 Over all the years in which temperatures
546 Have been recorded.
547 Within these exquisitely stable limits
548 The metabolic regeneration of humans is sustained
549 As an ultimate focus of the metabolic interchange
550 And transformations of the total biological ecology complementation.
551 So delicate are the thermal balances involved
552 That healthy humans, for instance,
553 At all times manifest a temperature
554 Of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit
555 No matter what their age,
556 Their geographical location,
557 Or their clothing may be.
558 Manifest Number Seven
559 Is that the progressive geological burying
560 Of the hydrocarbon energy concentrates
561 Ever more deeply
562 And at increasing pressures
563 Within the Earth’s crust, or hydrosphere,
564 Transforms the biological residues
565 Into rigid, liquid or gaseous fossil fuels.
566 With this stored energy
567 Humans were advantaged
568 To power their myriad levers
569 Of industrial tooling
570 To permit humanity
571 To hook-up directly
572 With the inexhaustible energy
573 Of eternally regenerative Universe.
574 Thus graduating his metabolic dependencies
575 From the frequently failing
576 Agricultural energy impoundments
577 To direct access to never-failing celestial sources.
578 All our Manifests
579 Combine to demonstrate that planet Earth Is indeed one such energy collecting, Concentrating, sorting and conserving, Mobile and reliably interorbiting
580 Orderly energy locus of Universe
581 For which we were seeking
582 As an only Sun reflectively invisible complementary To the optically obvious energy distributing
583 Radiant stars.
584 Thus it is evidenced
585 That Earth’s energy concentrating
586 Will culminate millions of years hence
587 In Earth itself becoming an entropically radiant star In its turn exporting energy
588 For the biological life support of humanity Long since migrated to other planets
589 Of other stars.
590 This is celestial confirmation
591 Of Boltzmann’s law, Which states in modernized effect That within a closed system
592 There are oscillations and evolutions
593 Between high and low energy
594 Concentrations and diffusions.
595 New lows concentrate energy and become highs
596 By exhausting yesterday’s highs
597 As yesterday’s exhausted highs
598 Become today’s lows.
599 Boltzmann made his finding
600 While checking Avogadro’s discovery
601 That under identical
602 Conditions of energy ---
603 As heat or pressure ---
604 All gases will disclose
605 The same number of molecules
606 Per given volume.
607 Boltzmann’s law
608 Has been found to hold true
609 Outside the gaseous microcosm
610 Within which he found it.
611 It explains for instance
612 Not only the weather---
613 But also the high and low energy concentration dynamics
614 Of our biosphere.
615 And now we find it explaining Earth’s function
616 In the macrocosmic scheme of Universe.
617 We now come to man’s unique function
618 Aboard the energy-storing planet Earth
619 As distinctly differentiated out
620 From the first seven manifests
621 Of syntropic concentration
622 At this moving locus of Universe.
623 Man’s mind-over-mattering
624 Is distinguishable as syntropic Manifest Number Eight.
625 Our discovery and confirmation
626 Of man’s having a unique and essential
627 Role in Universe
628 Will depend upon our developing a clear understanding Not only of the difference
629 Between brain and mind functioning
630 But also of their respectively unique characteristics.
631 Starting a new line of attack we first note That until the present moment in history Humanity has not differentiated lucidly Between the meanings of the words Brain and mind:
632 They are often used synonymously
633 The pragmatist tends to discard
634 The word mind as embracing
635 What seems to him ‘‘untenable mysticism’’;
636 While the realist feels
637 That the word brain
638 Is adequate to all his needs.
639 Though I have discussed
640 My differentiating of
641 Brain and mind
642 With leading neuroscientists
643 And have received the tentative
644 Approbation of many for my hypothesis,
645 And have exposed the concepts
646 To hundreds of audiences
647 Including audiences of teachers
648 And prominent journalists,
649 I have had no serious rejections.
650 When in the spontaneity of a moment
651 I chose the neurosurgeons
652 As the particular audience
653 Before whom to differentiate between brain and mind.
654 I did so
655 Because experience suggested them to be
656 The most competent judges
657 Of the merit of my theretofore unpublished hypothesis And method of its evolvement.
658 Having first resolved that
659 Only the known data
660 Either of inadvertent experience
661 Or deliberate experiment
662 Constitute the foundations
663 Of scientific exploration and discovery
664 We will now go on to consider all of such data
665 That I know to be pertinent
666 To the potential differentiation Of brain and mind.
667 For the last three decades
668 Physiologists and neurologists
669 Have been probing the human brain
670 With electrodes, oscillographs, Potentiometers, et al.
671 They have combined their instrumental findings
672 With behavioral observations
673 Of first, second and third parties.
674 The brain probers have identified
675 Several types of energy emanations
676 Both as amperage
677 And as wave-frequency oscillations
678 In unique magnitude sequences.
679 With vast numbers
680 Of permanent bed cases
681 In veterans’ hospitals,
682 Many of those permanent invalids
683 Have willingly and interestedly submitted
684 To wearing
685 Of the sensationless
686 Head-mounted electrodes
687 Of the brain-probing scientists, Whether they are awake or asleep.
688 While they sleep
689 The recording oscillographs
690 Scribe their wavy lines
691 Of magnitudes and frequencies.
692 These taped records are numbered.
693 When the patients awake
694 They are asked to describe their dreams,
695 If any.
696 From time to time
697 The oscillographed wave patterning
698 Is found to be repeating An earlier recording.
699 The scientists have found
700 That unique patterns of waves Characterize specific dreams Which are being re-experienced!
701 Sum totally to date
702 The scientists have learned
703 That the human brain
704 Is a vast communication system
705 Able to record and retrieve information At varying rates of lag.
706 The brain is a special case
707 Concept-communicating system
708 Very much like a television set.
709 It’s not just a telegraph wire,
710 Not just a telephone,
711 It is sensorially conceptual as well.
712 It deals with our optical receipts
713 As well as with our hearing,
714 Our smelling
715 And our touching.
716 In effect we have a telesense station
717 Wherein we receive the live news
718 And make it into a video-taped documentary.
719 In our brain studio we have made a myriad of such videoed recordings
720 Of the once five news,
721 All of which we hold in swiftly retrievable storage.
722 You are the TV studio’s Production director--- Surrounded by many repeater Cathode-ray tube sets --- You say, ‘‘What is going on here?’’ As you view ---hear, smell, feel ---the news ‘‘Can I recognize this scenario?’’ ‘‘Have I seen it before --- Or anything like it?’’ Your phone-headed assistants search the files And plug in any relevant documentaries.
723 In any television station studio The director intuitively sorts and selects Resource sequences
724 From out of the myriad of Relevant scenarios live or replayed; Now putting the subject at long range, In full-environmental perspective And now at close range Scrutinizing some detail. He has other cameramen With their lenses aimed At static photographs, Others feeding angles Of a host of yesterday’s Documentary footage. He also has available Imaginarily invented footage As well as yesterday’s experience clues Which may be appropriately considered At various stages for mixing in with the news.
725 Out of all this comparative viewing
726 The director then selects what he conceives of
727 As an appropriate action scenario
728 Of action to be taken now
729 In view of both the news challenges
730 And the documentary reminiscences.
731 Because the brain’s TV prime resource
732 Consists of images,
733 We may call the total brain activity
734 Image-ination.
735 My youth began a half century before TV.
736 During that half century
737 Those who wished to discredit
738 Another man’s thinking, words or actions
739 Often said,
740 ‘‘Pay no attention to him;
741 He is full of imagination.’’
742 This was tantamount to saying,
743 ‘‘He is a liar.’’
744 TV society is not making that mistake any more.
745 All we have ever seen
746 Is and always will be
747 In the scopes of our brain’s TV station.
748 All that humanity has ever seen
749 And will ever see
750 Is his own image-ination;
751 Some of it is faithfully reported new,
752 Some of it is invented fiction or make believe;
753 Some of it is doggedly retained ‘‘want to believe.’’
754 The physiologists and neurologists
755 Probing the brain
756 Say it is easier to explain
757 All the data they have
758 Concerning the general phenomena
759 Operative at the top of the spine
760 If they assume two prime variables always to be operative.
761 They give one of them the name ‘‘mind,’’
762 The other they call ‘‘brain.’’
763 The neurologists and physiologists say
764 It is easier to explain all the data they have
765 If they assume
766 The mind as well as the brain to be co-operative, Than it is to explain all the data
767 If they assume only brain to be operative.
768 And why is that?
769 It is because it is found that there are conversations Going on over this communication system ---
770 Using its information retrieving and storing system --- Whose conversational contents
771 Are in no way explicable
772 As being produced by feedback of the system itself.
773 Since neurologists and physiologists
774 Find it desirable
775 To assume the two phenomena,
776 The brain and the mind,
777 I became intent, if possible, to differentiate scientifically Between brain and mind.
778 I’ve developed my own
779 Experimental strategy of differentiation
780 Which was published in the 1965 spring edition Of Phi Beta Kappa’s quarterly magazine, The American Scholar.
781 I have had generally favorable response to it,
782 I have also the favorable response
783 Of the two thousand neurosurgeons
784 When I delivered their Harvey Cushing Oration.
785 The physicists and mathematical physicists call me An ‘‘experimental mathematician.’’ Because I reject axioms and I Explore mathematics experientially.
786 To present my scientific differentiation
787 Of brain and mind
788 I proceed as follows ---
789 First I say:
790 ‘‘I take a piece of rope and tense it.’’
791 As I purposely tense it
792 I inadvertently make it tauter.
793 But I was not tensing the rope
794 For the purpose of making it tauter,
795 I was trying only to elongate the rope.
796 Its girth is inadvertently contracting and
797 The rope is also inadvertently getting harder.
798 In contracting and getting harder
799 The rope is going into radial compression In a plane at ninety degrees to the axis of My consciously purposeful tensing
800 And ---in an inadvertently complementary manner---
801 Next I purposely produce compression.
802 To do so I take tempered-steel rods:
803 Each rod is three feet long
804 And one eighth of an inch in diameter.
805 If I take one rod by itself
806 Between the fingers of my right and left hands
807 And press the ends toward one another,
808 The rod will bend flexively.
809 Using uniform diameter rods
810 We find experientially
811 That two parallel rods cannot stand closer to one another Than in tangency of their circles’
812 Of respective cross-sectionalling.
813 A third parallel rod cannot stand closer
814 To the other two than by nestling into the valley
815 Between the other two’s tangent circles,
816 With each of the three rods
817 Now in parallel tangency
818 With both of the other two.
819 The centers of their three circular cross-sections
820 Form an equiangular triangle.
821 Hexagons consist of six equiangular triangles.
822 Hexagons have six circumferential points
823 And a center point ---seven in all ---
824 All equidistant from one another.
825 Six parallel unidiameter rods
826 May now be stood in parallel tangency
827 To form an additionally complete
828 Hexagonal perimeter ring
829 Around the first seven,
830 Making a total of nineteen rods With each of the interior rods Surrounded tangentially by six others. Now eighteen more equidiameter rods Standing in parallel tangency Will form an additionally complete Hexagonal perimeter ring around The first nineteen rods,
831 All of which nineteen will also be nuclear, That is, be completely surrounded
832 By six others in closest tangential triangulation.
833 We may add more parallel tangent hexagonal rings, Each ring increasing the number by six more rods Than those of the previous outermost ring.
834 The outermost ring rods will always Be tangentially closest packed With only three other rods ---
835 That is, they will be triangularly stabilized,
836 But not nuclear,
837 While all the internal rods will be nuclear, Having six tangentially parallel rods around each. However, only the rod at the center of them all Is the symmetrical nucleus of the whole aggregate. It is not irrelevant to note
838 That the rod-like Earthward trajectories
839 Of closely falling inter-mass-attracted raindrops Passing through freezing temperature
840 Nucleate in hexagonal snow-flake arrays Under just such close-packing laws.
841 The Greek architects found experientially That when a stone column’s height Exceeds eighteen diameters of its girth It tends to fail by buckling.
842 The length to diameter ratio Of compressional columns Is called its slenderness ratio. Steel columns are more stable Than stone columns.
843 Steel columns are structurally usable
844 With slenderness ratios as high as thirty-to-one.
845 But such columns are called long columns.
846 A short column is one whose slenderness ratio Is far below that of the Greek column. Short columns tend to fail by crushing Rather than by buckling.
847 A twelve-to-one slenderness ratio Provides a short column.
848 For our experiment in purposeful compression We select a column thirty-six inches high With a minimum girth diameter of three inches. To produce this twelve-to-one short column We will take 547 of our uniformly dimensioned rods Of one eighth of an inch diameter By thirty-six inches long.
849 Each rod by itself has
850 A slenderness ratio
851 Of two-hundred-and-eighty-eight-to-one, Which is a very highly buckleable column As we have already discovered By compressing it axially, I.e., bending one end toward the other.
852 These 547 willow-slender rods
853 Will close-pack symmetrically
854 Into a tangential hexagonal short-column set
855 Of thirteen concentric rings around the nuclear rod.
856 Standing the hexagonal bundle vertically on a table
857 I bind them tightly together
858 With a steel wire
859 In an hexagonal honeycomb pattern
860 Similar to that of a wire rope section.
861 The maximum diameter of this bunch
862 Will now be three and three eighths inches.
863 I next put hexagonal steel caps
864 Neatly fitted over the opposite ends
865 Of the wire-wrapped
866 Steel-rod bunch.
867 The whole bundle
868 Is now integrated
869 As a single column
870 Three feet long
871 And three and three eighths inches in diameter.
872 I put this stout short column’s ends
873 Between the upper and lower jaws
874 Of an hydraulic press
875 And thus load the composited rod column
876 In vertical compression
877 In the axis of the rods.
878 We know by our earlier trial
879 That each end-loaded rod can bend;
880 So end-loading them in a bunch
881 Results in each rod tending to bend in its middle But being closest-packed together
882 They cannot bend inwardly toward one another, I.e., toward the column’s center rod,
883 They can bend only outwardly away from one another.
884 Because the binding wire around the rods can stretch, The binding wire wrapped around the rods yields To the severe hydraulic loading force While the bunched ends are held together By the hexagonal steel caps.
885 This results in the whole column
886 Becoming cigar-shaped as seen in vertical profile.
887 If loaded sufficiently, The bundle approaches sphericity.
888 This experiment indicates
889 That our purposeful loading of the column in compression Inadvertently results
890 In its girth increasing in diameter, Which brings about tension In the horizontally-bound wire--- Which is to say, that while I was consciously applying Only a compressive force upon the column’s ends, An inadvertent tension occurs in a plane At ninety degrees to the axis Of purposeful compression.
891 By two visibly different experiments, One with rope and one with steel rods --- I have demonstrated experimentally That tension and compression Always and only coexist.
892 One can be at ‘‘high tide’’ of visibility,
893 And the other coincidentally
894 At low-tide visibility.
895 These always and only coexisting variables,
896 (Where one is at high tide
897 While the other is at low tide)
898 Are typical complementaries
899 Which are not minor-images
900 Of one another but must always
901 Complexedly balance one another in physical equations. Both demonstrate ninety-degree inadvertent resultants. This behavior is known as the Poisson Effect.
902 Universe is the aggregate
903 Of all of humanity’s
904 Consciously apprehended
905 And communicated experiences,
906 Which aggregate
907 Of only partially overlapping events Is sum-totally a lot of yesterdays Plus an awareness of now.
908 Yesterdays and now
909 Are neither simultaneous
910 Nor minor-imaged;
911 But through them run themes As overlappingly woven threads, Which though multipliedly individualized Sum-totally comprise a scenario.
912 No single frame either explains
913 Nor foretells the whole continuity---
914 The picture of the caterpillar Does not foretell the butterfly,
915 Nor does one picture of a butterfly Show that a butterfly flies.
916 I cannot think simultaneously
917 About all the special-case events which I have experienced, But I can think of one special set
918 Of closely associated events
919 At any one now.
920 Each one of these thinkable sets
921 Are what I call a system.
922 A system is a subdivision of Universe.
923 A system subdivides Universe
924 Into all of the Universe events
925 Which are irrelevant to the considered set
926 Because: (a) they are outside the system, Too macrocosmic and too infrequent Either to fit into Or to alter
927 The considered set.
928 Or irrelevant because (b) occurring
929 Too microcosmically remote
930 Within the system
931 And of too-high frequency
932 And of too-short duration
933 To be tunable with
934 Or to alter significantly
935 The considered think-set.
936 After dismissing momentarily
937 Both the macro and micro inelevancies
938 There remain
939 The few clearly relevant sets of associated events Which constitute the system.
940 We find that all the systems which subdivide Universe Into insideness and outsideness, Are concave on the inside And convex on the outside.
941 We next observe that
942 The concave and the convex
943 Always and only coexist.
944 A rubber glove on my left hand
945 Has an external part which is convex
946 And an inside which is concave.
947 If I strip the rubber glove off my left hand, It now fits my right hand.
948 What had been the concave
949 Becomes the convex
950 And the convex becomes the concave.
951 So we find these always and only coexisting Complementaries are behaviorally interchangeable--- The tension could be the compression And the compression could become the tension. Because in one case the girth Went into tension And in the other it Went into compression.
952 Please do not think
953 That we have forgotten
954 That we are concerned here
955 With scientific, i.e., experimentally based, search For a means of differentiating neatly Between brain and mind.
956 Experimental demonstration
957 Of a plurality of special-case instances
958 Of always and only co-occurring phenomena
959 Are prerequisite to generalizing
960 The brain-mind differentiation.
961 I will give another example
962 Of always and only co-occurring phenomena.
963 Physicists today observe
964 That the proton and neutron
965 Always and only co-occur.
966 While they are not ‘‘mirror’’ images of one another
967 And have different weights,
968 They are transformable
969 One into the other,
970 And are thus complexedly complementary, As are isosceles and scalene triangles.
971 None of the angles and edges of either need be the same
972 To produce triangles of equal area.
973 And the sums of the three angles of each
974 Will always be one hundred and eighty degrees.
975 The mathematical balancing or complementation
976 Of the proton and neutron are analogously balanced, Each one having two small energy teammates.
977 The proton has its electron and its antineutrino, And the neutron has its positron and its neutrino.
978 And each of these little three-member teams
979 Constitute what the physicist calls half-spin or a half-quantum. They complement one another
980 And altogether comprise one unit of quantum.
981 We have now discovered experientially
982 An always and only coexisting tension and compression;
983 An always and only coexisting concave and convex;
984 And an always and only coexisting proton and neutron.
985 We next consider the Theory of Functions
986 Which embraces all of these terms.
987 X and Y are the always and only co-occurring
988 Covariables of the theory of functions
989 We can have X stand abstractly for tension
990 Or for convex or for proton
991 And we can then have Y stand abstractly
992 For compression, concave or neutron, respectively, In each of our foregoing always and only co-occuring Experiential observations of interessential relationships.
993 We can go further still:
994 We have the word ‘‘relativity.’’
995 We cannot have relativity
996 Without at least two phenomena to be differentially related.
997 There is also the word complementarity.
998 We cannot have one phenomenon complemented
999 By less than one other phenomenon.
1000 The words complementarity and relativity
1001 Do not identify identical physical phenomena.
1002 We need to discover
1003 Whether there exists a generalized concept
1004 Which embraces both phenomena,
1005 And we find that the ponderable physical energy Universe That is, physical universe,
1006 In contradistinction to the Universe’s
1007 Weightless, metaphysical aspects,
1008 Does embrace both complementarity and relativity.
1009 B5
1010 I started our brain-mind differentiation By saying, ‘‘I take a piece of rope.’’ I’ve done this before many audiences, And no audience has ever said, ‘‘You don’t have a piece of rope.’’ But the fact is I didn’t have a piece of rope. Nor has anybody ever said, ‘‘Is it nylon, manila or cotton?’’ Or, ‘‘What is its diameter?’’
1011 My statement was a ‘‘first-degree scientific generalization.’’ In literature the word generalization means Covering too much territory Too thinly to be convincing.
1012 However, we have in science a term ‘‘generalization,’’ Which does not have the literary connotation.
1013 A generalization in science refers to A principle discovered by experiment To be operative in every special case.
1014 If we find any exception,
1015 We no longer have a scientific generalization.
1016 Scientific generalizations are extraordinarily meaningful, As for instance was the discovery
1017 Of the principle of leverage,
1018 Which probably came about as follows: Occasionally humans who have penetrated Wilderness forests
1019 Encounter trees fallen slantwise Across their line-of-sight path In their chosen direction of travel.
1020 It is obviously quicker
1021 To climb over the fallen tree
1022 Than to try to walk around it.
1023 They find it logical
1024 To walk along the top of the fallen tree
1025 When it leads in the direction of preferred travel Or toward the next opening in the forest.
1026 As they walk along the horizontal trunk They feel the tree to be progressively sinking. As they move farther it tips earthward At a faster rate.
1027 They retreat ---
1028 Back along the tree trunk.
1029 Experimenting, they find the tree
1030 On which they are walking
1031 Is lying across another tree.
1032 And then they observe
1033 That the end of the tree behind them,
1034 Opposite to the direction
1035 In which they were walking,
1036 Is itself superimposed
1037 By a third and very mighty tree.
1038 Looking the situation over they find
1039 That as they walk outward --- joumeyward ---
1040 Along the first tree
1041 That its slow but accelerating descent
1042 Coincides with the other end’s
1043 Lifting the trunk of the massive tree.
1044 Never having heard of a lever
1045 Or fulcrum,
1046 They say, ‘‘That big tree, which is being lifted
1047 Is much too big for me to lift.’’
1048 They go over to the massive tree And attempt to lift it directly With their arm, back and leg muscles. It doesn’t budge.
1049 Shaking their heads in surprise, They once more try walking along On the first tree.
1050 Again the massive tree rises easily.
1051 And Neanderthal man probably thought
1052 As it rose
1053 That he had found a magic tree-lifting tree.
1054 And he probably dragged it home Where the tribe worshipped it Until suddenly his wife said, ‘‘Any tree will do that lifting.’’ And sure enough,
1055 Not only would any tree do
1056 But so too would any steel bar,
1057 Or glass reinforced plastic bar, Or any small-toothed gear, Or a large-toothed gear.
1058 This man discovered
1059 A true scientific generalization
1060 Which always holds true Under any circumstances.
1061 The lever works equally well
1062 Anywhere in Universe.
1063 It can be made of many materials, It can be of any size.
1064 Its behavior follows incisively predictable Mathematical laws.
1065 It was a first-degree generalization
1066 When I said, ‘‘I take a piece of rope,’’
1067 And in describing my purposeful tensing of it.
1068 There was nothing I said
1069 Regarding the piece of rope
1070 That in any way contradicted
1071 Any experience that anybody
1072 In any audience has ever had
1073 With any piece of rope.
1074 It is a second-degree generalization
1075 To find an additional generalized principle
1076 Operating within the generalized piece of rope;
1077 Such as the always and only
1078 Coexisting tension and compression.
1079 It is also a second-degree generalization
1080 To find the concave and convex within generalized systems.
1081 It’s a third-degree generalization
1082 Or a generalization of a group of generalizations,
1083 To develop the Theory of Functions
1084 Wherein the X and Y could stand
1085 For any one second-degree coexistence generalizations.
1086 It is a fourth-degree generalization
1087 To develop the word ‘‘relativity.’’
1088 And it’s a fifth-degree generalization
1089 To employ the word ‘‘Universe’’
1090 To embrace both the relativity and complementarity.
1091 The degrees are then progressive omnibus stages
1092 Of generalizations of generalizations.
1093 The generalized principles Are all interaccommodative. None contradicts another; Nor do they contradict Any combination Of other scientific generalizations. They have complete integrity. One is associable with the other.
1094 The a priori integrity Of scientific generalizations Is manifest in all the phases of Universe As we explore it progressively.
1095 Man does not create, Man cannot create. Creation is a priori, Creation is the gamut Of generalized principles Which scientists can and do discover. And inventors can employ In special-case uses.
1096 Man can invent, Which means ‘‘bring in,’’ The special-case use Of generalized principles And of combinations of them. But man cannot design Or invent
1097 A generalized anything.
1098 We play tension and compression with a little dog. He uses compression of his teeth
1099 As we pull on the stick and tense it, And the dog uses
1100 The convex and concave surfaces of his teeth
1101 And his protons and neutrons Are in beautiful co-ordination Without his even knowing it. There is no experience with dogs That suggests that they could ever Develop the Theory of Functions.
1102 Some living creatures’ brains Develop conditioned reflexes To special-case type events, Which produce behaviors resembling a first-degree Sense of generalization.
1103 But there seems to be no indication
1104 That they ever evolve
1105 A generalization of a generalization, And they certainly do not get to Fourth- and fifth-degree generalizations.
1106 We find that brains deal
1107 Always and only with special cases.
1108 We remember the special-case name---Tim Smith--- Which we may not need to recall For thirty-five years,
1109 Yet it occupies its own special Physical brain’s ‘‘after-image’’ locale--- Possibly its own neuron.
1110 We find the brain always dealing with special cases
1111 And the mind dealing with generalizations.
1112 The generalizations have no weight;
1113 Only special cases have weight
1114 Or any other physical characteristic.
1115 All scientific generalizations
1116 Are pure metaphysics.
1117 All metaphysics are weightless
1118 And physically unlimited.
1119 A triangle is a generalized principle
1120 And a triangle persists conceptually
1121 As a triangle,
1122 Independently of size,
1123 Color, weight, taste, texture or time.
1124 Searching for a function of man in Universe
1125 We found first
1126 A phase of Universe
1127 Which needed counterbalancing.
1128 This was the entropic, expansive;
1129 Increasingly disorderly, radiantly explosive Universe.
1130 In answer we found Earth to be a sphere
1131 Wherein Universe was collecting
1132 Sorting, concentrating, and storing energies
1133 In mathematically orderly ways
1134 Such as by refraction, crystal growth,
1135 Photosynthesis or molecular formations.
1136 Then we found that all the biologicals
1137 Were antientropic.
1138 I found myself publishing in ‘49,
1139 As did Norbert Weiner in another book at the same time, Unwitting of one another’s coincidental
1140 Perceptionings and simultaneous disclosures
1141 That all biological life is antientropic
1142 And that the human mind
1143 Is the most powerfully effective
1144 Antientropy
1145 Thus far evidenced.
1146 It was only a few years ago
1147 That it seemed logical
1148 To cease speaking of the phenomena involved
1149 As antientropy,
1150 Entropy being disintegratively negative;
1151 Antientropy was, in effect, a double negative
1152 Used to express a positive.
1153 So to render the concept positive
1154 And to identify its kinship
1155 To synergy,
1156 I started speaking of it as syntropy
1157 As the positive complementary
1158 Of the negative entropy.
1159 Now I surmise
1160 That the speculative thought
1161 Of the human mind ---
1162 In contradistinction
1163 To the physical experience recalls
1164 Of the physical brain ---
1165 Is physically nondemonstrable,
1166 Ergo, metaphysical,
1167 But its teleological activity,
1168 Which subjectively evolves generalizations
1169 From multiplicities of special-case experiences (And thereafter employs the generalizations
1170 Objectively in other special-case physical formulations) Can be detected
1171 Through man’s intuitive recognition
1172 Of the weightless pattern integrity per se, Ever weightlessly, abstractly present in the original Discovering and inventing events.
1173 Scientific generalizations
1174 Have no inherent beginning or ending.
1175 In discovering them
1176 Mind is discovering a phase of Universe
1177 That is eternal.
1178 The physical human and its physical brain Unmonitored by mind
1179 Are not only less effectively syntropic
1180 Than other biological species;
1181 They are often consciously
1182 Far more entropic
1183 Than any other species
1184 And are only subconsciously syntropic.
1185 Human’s average birth weight of seven pounds Is multiplied sometimes as much as fiftyfold By syntropic chemical combining of Other protoplasmic cells
1186 Taken in as food;
1187 With gases and liquids
1188 Taken in by breathing and drinking.
1189 But humanity’s syntropic cell multiplication
1190 Is outperformed greatly by trees, whales, elephants And other living organisms.
1191 Remembering that antientropy, or syntropy Means, on the one hand,
1192 Reversing the physical trending
1193 Toward greater disorder
1194 And, on the other hand, means Converting the relative disorder To increasingly orderly physical arrangements.
1195 We found that the human’s biological role is minor, But that his metaphysically-sorting mind-role
1196 Is the paramount syntropy,
1197 For it reviews and sets in fundamental order
1198 The randomly, ergo disorderly,
1199 Physical event experiences of the universal environment;
1200 And the magnitude of physical rearranging In progressively more orderly patterns
1201 Metaphysically conceived by the human mind Is overwhelmingly greater
1202 Than that produced by the
1203 Physiological organisms
1204 Of any other biological species.
1205 One mind can design orderly machines,
1206 Such as the steamship Queen Mary, Or in a continental highway system In physical magnitude which dwarfs Any biological undertaking,
1207 Even that of coral-reef building By minuscule coral creatures.
1208 It must be remembered
1209 That syntropy also means
1210 To collect, concentrate, and store.
1211 When I speak to an audience
1212 As recounted before,
1213 Saying, ‘‘Let us take a piece of rope . .
1214 To demonstrate the generalized rope concept---
1215 I am drawing on
1216 A multiplicity of special-case rope experiences As a brain-stored resource of that audience, Probably amounting to over a hundred experiences each: With different kinds of pieces of rope Ergo ---I am drawing upon a memory resource Of more than one hundred thousand experiences With as many different pieces of rope, When I speak to an audience of one thousand.
1217 So my first-degree generalization Reduces our experience processing One hundred thousandfold.
1218 Our second-degree generalization
1219 Reduces the experiences multi-billionfold, And each further degree of generalization Multiplies the number of special experiences From which the generalization is extracted.
1220 The third-degree generalization, Consisting of the theory of functions, Embraced all the always-and-only co-occurring phenomena Of a plurality of second-degree generalizations.
1221 When we get to the fifth-degree generalization, Universe,
1222 We have increased our numbers-of-experiences base
1223 To all the experiences
1224 Ever known to and remembered by humanity, Including all the experiences
1225 With all the atoms and their nuclear components.
1226 Thus, the human mind
1227 Has collected, combined and refined
1228 All experiences of all humanity,
1229 In all-remembered time,
1230 Into one single concept,
1231 Universe,
1232 Which is, ipso facto, The ultimate generalization.
1233 Clearly it is seen
1234 That man’s metaphysical mind Demonstrates the most effective
1235 Syntropic capability evidenced in Universe Excepting that of the universal mind’s Cosmic syntropy
1236 As manifest in the eternal design complex, Comprehensively and synergetically interaccommodative As eternally regenerative Universe, Which cosmic syntropy combines
1237 All the metaphysical integrities As well as all the physical patterns.
1238 Human mind’s metaphysical syntropy potential Caps all the syntropic sequences
1239 Operative in our Spaceship Earth’s Comprehensive syntropic system, Which, as we remember, started its analysis
1240 Hoping to be able
1241 To identify humanity’s function in Universe
1242 And thereby to gain insights
1243 Into the respective functions Of the mind and brain.
1244 We started looking for
1245 The syntropic complementation
1246 Of the entropic energy expenditures
1247 Of all the stars
1248 And found our own Spaceship Earth
1249 To be the most immediate demonstration
1250 Of the energy aggregating
1251 Of star radiation and stardust,
1252 And we observed
1253 The progressive impoundments by the atmosphere And oceans, of energy as heat, Refracted into circumferential
1254 Weather and ocean currents,
1255 Which energy impoundments produced the exact Temperatures, pressures, and chemical wherewithal For developing the vegetational photosynthesis Of land and sea.
1256 And we went on to find that
1257 The effect of all of this is
1258 To reduce the randomly received energies
1259 Into superbly orderly
1260 Molecular and cellular structurings
1261 And to multiply that highly concentrated
1262 And chemically locked-in
1263 Energy --- as hydrocarbons
1264 Which were and are continually
1265 Being buried deeper and deeper
1266 Within Earth’s agglomerate surface,
1267 Where the pressures and heat
1268 At a kilometer’s depth
1269 Begin to convert the hydrocarbon fossils into petroleum As an even more compacted energy conserve.
1270 And beyond these physiological syntropies We find the mind of man Discovering the generalized principles Operative weightlessly and eternally Everywhere and everywhen In Universe, Knowledge of which principles Permits humans to employ The vast extraterrestrial energies To do evermore rigorously scientific, Evermore efficient rearranging
1271 Of the random terrestrial environment;
1272 Thereby to regenerate and sustain Evermore years of evermore humanity’s lives. Humans will leam how to concentrate Evermore minuscule packages of energy To impel human travelers --- So that when the time comes, Millions of years hence, For the Earth-concentrated energies To become an energy reradiating star, The humans will have migrated Safely elsewhere in Universe
1273 To perpetuate its supreme syntropic functioning In Scenario Universe As the ultimate sorting, Rearranging, compacting
1274 And logic-employing local monitor Of the syntropic phases of regenerative Universe.
1275 Einstein,
1276 As metaphysical, weightless, human intellect, Took the measure of the weighable physical And wrote
1277 The most economically formulated equation Mathematically possible,
1278 For it put on one side of the equation
1279 The physical Universe, which is to be equated, Represented as ‘‘E’’---
1280 Because all that is physical is energetic --- And on the other side of the equation Einstein placed the two terms
1281 Minimally necessary to disclose a relationship.
1282 For these two terms he employed
1283 ‘‘M’’ (For energy associated as matter) and
1284 ‘‘c2’’ (For energy disassociative as radiation), Expressed as c2 because
1285 c is the speed of light
1286 In any one linear direction;
1287 But light goes omnioutwardly in a spherical wave Whose surface increases as the second power Of the linear speed of radiation.
1288 I
1289 Ergo: Einstein’s equation
1290 Is E = Mc2.
1291 And in it the velocity of c2
1292 Is the constant and known term
1293 And the amount of energy
1294 Compacted in any given mass
1295 Can be determined
1296 If the given E to be analyzed
1297 Is measured.
1298 Einstein’s equation
1299 Was intuitively formulated
1300 From the experimentally Harvested data of others, But proved to be correct When the subsequent fission occurred.
1301 Here we have the metaphysical intellect Taking the measure of
1302 And mastering the physical.
1303 We have no experimental data That in any way suggests That this process is reversible And that energy can or will Take the measure of
1304 And write the equation of intellect Or the equation of the metaphysical. This is an example of one Of the great generalized principles Operative in Scenario Universe, Which is the principle
1305 Or irreversibility
1306 Of intellectual processes.
1307 For the syntropic metaphysical Is not a mirror-imaged reversal Of the entropic physical’s Disorderly expansiveness.
1308 The fact that man, Using only his physical brain And not his mind, Can be the most
1309 Entropically destructive organism
1310 Does not contradict
1311 The irreversibility principle
1312 Unique to maximally syntropic mind.
1313 Humanity’s imaginative invention of Hell Discloses its subconscious awareness Of the ultimate entropy.
1314 Thus we find the metaphysical
1315 Apprehending and embracing,
1316 Comprehending, cohering and conserving
1317 The integrity of Scenario Universe’s Never exactly identical recyclings.
1318 The physical tries to destroy
1319 And dissipate itself.
1320 The metaphysical law masters and conserves The evolutionary integrity.
1321 Though humans are bom equipped
1322 To participate
1323 In the supreme function of Universe.
1324 This does not guarantee
1325 That they will do so.
1326 Humans are bom utterly helpless,
1327 And must through trial and error,
1328 By physical experiments,
1329 Discover what the controlling family
1330 Of generalized principles may be,
1331 Which principles must be employed by humans To fulfill their Universe function, But in order to discover the latter
1332 They first must discover the overwhelmingly superior efficacy
1333 Of the mind, as compared to muscle.
1334 And humans also must discover That the physical,
1335 Which they tend to prize as seemingly vital To their regenerative continuance, Is utterly subordinate
1336 To the omni-integrity of metaphysical laws, Which are discoverable Only by mind.
1337 Only if man leams in time
1338 To accredit the weightless thinking Over the physical values,
1339 In a realistic, economic and philosophic accounting Of all his affairs,
1340 Will the particular team of humans Now aboard planet Earth Survive to perform their function --- When nature has an essential
1341 And intercomplementary function to be fulfilled And the chances of development Of that functioning capability
1342 Are poor.
1343 Nature makes many potential ‘‘starts.’’ As for instance
1344 All the vegetation which impounds the Sun’s energy Must be regenerated and multiplied.
1345 But it cannot have its progeny Within its immediate vicinity, As the tree’s shadow Would prevent its young From impounding the Sun’s radiant energy.
1346 Wherefore all the trees
1347 Launch their seeds
1348 Into the air or upon the waters
1349 To drift to chance landings,
1350 Where the seeds may be favorably nourished
1351 And grow.
1352 The chances of such auspicious landing
1353 Are so unfavorable
1354 That nature must send
1355 Billions times billions of seeds away
1356 From the parent vegetation,
1357 Which, though potential of complete success,
1358 May never germinate and prosper.
1359 The airs and waters
1360 Of the planet Earth
1361 Are filled with the aimlessly migrating seeds.
1362 Because the chances of humanity’s
1363 Self-discovery of the supremacy of the metaphysical
1364 And the corruptibility of the physical,
1365 While coming from an utterly helpless start,
1366 Are very poor,
1367 The probability is
1368 That for each of the billions of stars
1369 In the billions of nebulae
1370 There are several planets
1371 Where energies are being
1372 Most effectively conserved---
1373 Which means
1374 By the metaphysical mind.
1375 Ergo: there are probably myriads Of successful,
1376 Consciously operated planets Despite greater myriads of failures.
1377 One physicist remarked recently, ‘‘I am tiring of the nonsense legend Which finds one end of Universe closed, By a required beginning event And the other end open to infinity.’’ The concept of primordial --- Meaning before the days of order--- Which imply an a priori, Absolute disorder, chaos, a beginning (‘‘The primordial ooze-gooze explosion’’) Is now scientifically invalidated, passd.
1378 The physicist finds That the proton and neutron Not only always and only co-occur, And are interchangeably transformable, But also could not occur independently Anymore than a triangle could occur With only two points.
1379 We cannot have disorder
1380 Because Universe is not monological;
1381 It is pluralistic and complementary,
1382 And we are founded on
1383 The orderly base
1384 Of the proton-neutron tripartite teams
1385 Of six unique energy integrity vectors.
1386 Men at the time of World War I
1387 Were dealing in radio waves
1388 That were a mile long.
1389 Gradually they found shorter waves
1390 And found ways of sending,
1391 Transmitting and receiving
1392 At ever shorter and shorter wavelengths And at higher and higher frequencies.
1393 A quarter of a century later,
1394 When we came into World War II
1395 The electronics scientists
1396 Were working at wavelengths Of about two meters.
1397 After World War II they were working
1398 With what we call microwaves,
1399 Operating at fractions of meters
1400 And at fractions of centimeters or millimeters
1401 Of wavelengths.
1402 The higher the frequency
1403 The shorter the wavelength---
1404 And the more tendency
1405 To interference
1406 With the waves of other phenomena.
1407 Also: the higher the frequency,
1408 The lower the energy required
1409 To power the propagation Of the message-carrying Electromagnetic waves.
1410 Therefore, these short, high frequencies Could only be sent
1411 Relatively short distances.
1412 They interfere with the walls, hills or trees. The long waves are not interfered with By such local obstacles.
1413 Those who employ
1414 Very high-frequency short waves Do not have to have an operator’s license. Their short waves are so interrupted By local events
1415 That the walkie-talkies, for instance, Cannot carry far enough
1416 To interfere with other stations such as
1417 The commercial or government traffic, Because they do not interfere
1418 With longer waves of the commercial bands.
1419 It is also a characteristic of these waves And of all radiation
1420 That when the wave propagation
1421 Is beamingly aimed
1422 Perpendicularly outward from Earth’s surface They experience little or no interferences, Once outside our atmo-, strato-, and ionospheres, Other than by collision with meteorites And other celestially traveling objects.
1423 There seems to be no impedance
1424 And no inherent limitation to the distance
1425 Which such electromagnetic wave signals can go
1426 Once outside the Earth mantles.
1427 As far as we know,
1428 The waves can go on forever in Universe---
1429 Unless they hit some object,
1430 And when they hit an object they lose some energy
1431 Then bounce away
1432 And keep on going
1433 In a new direction.
1434 Now let us tum our thoughts
1435 To the neurologists who we left probing the brain with electrodes.
1436 I find that the neurologists do not feel it to be shocking
1437 When I suggest to them
1438 That it could be demonstrated physiologically
1439 Within the next two decades
1440 That what man in the past has been calling telepathy
1441 May in fact be ultra, ultra-high frequency,
1442 Electromagnetic-wave propagation.
1443 Almost everyone has had
1444 The strange sensation of telepathy
1445 Occurring as various kinds of awareness,
1446 Anticipations or sensing
1447 Of the imminent presence of other persons.
1448 I myself had a very extraordinary experience
1449 With our first child,
1450 Who died just before her fourth birthday.
1451 Bom at the time of World War I,
1452 She first contracted flu,
1453 Then spinal meningitis,
1454 And, finally, infantile paralysis,
1455 Being paralyzed and unable to move,
1456 As do other children,
1457 But with her brain unimpaired.
1458 She manifested the normal child’s innate drive
1459 To apprehend then comprehend
1460 All that her eyes could see,
1461 Her nose smell,
1462 And her ears hear.
1463 She had to obtain
1464 The tactile information
1465 By other means
1466 Than with her own hands;
1467 So the tensive-compressive,
1468 Soft, hard, light, heavy,
1469 Rough, smooth, wet, dry,
1470 Hot, cold, cool and warm characteristics
1471 Of the constituents of her environment
1472 She had to sense vicariously.
1473 And in so doing,
1474 She demonstrated the extraordinary
1475 Compensating faculties
1476 Innate in all humanity,
1477 Which are, however,
1478 Brought into use
1479 Only under very special conditions.
1480 She was fantastically sensitive
1481 To the cerebrations of all humans in her vicinity.
1482 She was most frequently attended
1483 By my wife, myself
1484 And two trained nurses.
1485 Often she had two of us with her.
1486 Time and again when we were
1487 About to say something to one another
1488 Which was not the kind of concept That would be known to a child of her age, She would say what we were about to say Before we had time to say it.
1489 This happened so many times
1490 As to convince us that our formulated communications Were obviously being transmitted through her.
1491 This experience persuaded me that telepathy Might well be very short-range, Very high-frequency
1492 Electromagnetic-wave propagation.
1493 Assuming this to be so
1494 We arrive at some new vistas of thought.
1495 When we broadcast energies They are very greatly dissipated.
1496 Radiant energies can be concentrated, however, By reflective beaming and lensing, As was candlelight in a lighthouse.
1497 Reflectors and lenses concentrated them.
1498 Reflectively beamed seaward, They were sometimes Visible for ten miles.
1499 After World War I the only unused
1500 Electromagnetic-wave-band frequencies available Were by international conventions preassigned To the then developing,
1501 But not as yet inaugurated prime television-developing countries.
1502 These available bands
1503 Were in the very short-wave
1504 And high-frequency area,
1505 Where interferences were so frequent and great
1506 That beyond-the-horizon broadcasting
1507 Was physically impossible.
1508 Unfamiliar as yet with the beaming technique
1509 And its more economic potentials,
1510 It was the accepted professional
1511 Engineering dictum
1512 That if we were going to have
1513 Worthwhile, desirable, and popularly sustained ---
1514 And therefore commercially exploitable ---
1515 Post World War II TV programs,
1516 We would not be able to afford
1517 Having top-rank artists
1518 And high-cost programs
1519 Moving to every little local center
1520 To be locally broadcast.
1521 Therefore we would have to have
1522 All expensive TV programs
1523 Developed at central places
1524 And distributed by cable
1525 To secondary broadcasting stations.
1526 During World War II
1527 The discovery of the
1528 Shorter and shorter waves and the capability
1529 To receive and transmit them
1530 Brought about after the war
1531 The facile use of short waves,
1532 Which waves were found to he short enough
1533 To be easily reflected.
1534 If the wave is a mile
1535 In length, we have to have
1536 A reflector over a mile in size.
1537 As with optical light reflection,
1538 We have to contain the wavelength
1539 In order to beam it.
1540 Wherefore after World War II
1541 When television was instituted
1542 We had masts at horizon-to-horizon points,
1543 Well above the interference patterns
1544 Of trees, mountains and buildings.
1545 Instead of sending the radiation in all directions
1546 We concentrated it in one direction,
1547 Which greatly conserved it.
1548 And energy boosted the signals
1549 At each horizon relaying transceiver,
1550 Reconcentrated them,
1551 And sent them onto the next horizon point.
1552 In this manner the TV programs
1553 Are now transmitted around the world’s local national domains By satellite-relay transceiver.
1554 Recognizing that it is possible
1555 To conserve energies by reflection,
1556 As well as to reach
1557 Great distance by beaming,
1558 We can point out that it is also possible
1559 That our human eyes are just such
1560 Very high-frequency electromagnetic waves
1561 Propagating and receiving reflector relays,
1562 As with the original propagation Occurring in the brain And the transceiving Relayed by our eyes.
1563 I have had extraordinary experiences With audience after audience Around the world.
1564 I find that eyes tell me so much That I am able to go into a room Wherein some verdict has been adopted, And I find that
1565 I know what the verdict is Before anyone has spoken Audible words.
1566 And I am confident
1567 That I first ‘‘saw’’ the message
1568 In the people’s eyes
1569 And not in their facial expressions, Which were mixed and arbitrarily fixed The speed of light, Ergo, of the sight functioning, Which is approximately
1570 Seven hundred million miles per hour, Is such an enormous velocity That we mistakenly sense it Only as ‘‘instantaneous.’’
1571 When I was young
1572 A camera required a minute’s exposure. By improving film chemistry And lens refinements
1573 As we entered World War II,
1574 A thousandth-of-a-second exposure
1575 Had become adequate
1576 For premium photographic equipment.
1577 Now adequate exposure
1578 With some scientific equipment
1579 Has been lessened
1580 To one millionth of a second
1581 For producing a superb photograph.
1582 In other words, the rate
1583 At which we can ‘‘get the picture,’’
1584 And the rate at which we can transmit it
1585 Is approximately instantaneous.
1586 It may be true
1587 That our eyes are electromagnetic-wave transceiving relays.
1588 If so, it is possible
1589 That seemingly instant exchanges between humans
1590 May become scientifically accomplished through telepathy,
1591 And people may soon be able
1592 To know one another’s thoughts,
1593 Which will mean
1594 That people will be prone
1595 To do good thinking
1596 And also to co-ordinate
1597 With one another
1598 As never before.
1599 In this connection it is recalled that when
1600 Artzybasheff made a picture of me
1601 For the cover of Time magazine,
1602 He pictured my head as a geodesic sphere.
1603 The shape of my head is
1604 Of course not that of an exact sphere. Everything about my features Except my eyes
1605 Was purely mechanistic, And were caricatured as mechanical devices. Though I sometimes read of myself As being almost inhumanly mechanistic
1606 I myself think of the whole physical Universe As governed so exquisitely by generalized laws As to have to conclude
1607 The whole of physical Universe Is technologically governed, But I find life to be weightless And only metaphysical
1608 And I know that I am inspired Entirely by life
1609 And its needs and potentials. So I do not tend to think Such characterizations by an illustrator To be accurate.
1610 Yet this Time cover picture seems to me To be the best portrait of me That I recall having seen.
1611 I never met Artzybasheff He is now dead.
1612 But he sent word to me
1613 Before his death, Relating his special satisfaction With this particular portrait of me.
1614 He also sent word
1615 That the only features that mattered to him Were the human’s eyes.
1616 Before he painted my portrait
1617 Time-Life photographers
1618 Took many pictures, But only of my eyes. Artzybasheff did my portrait Entirely from those eye photographs, And all the foregoing
1619 Discussion of the transceiving, Beam-relaying functioning of the eyes May explain why
1620 It became the optimum likeness of me Despite tire mechanistic caricaturing.
1621 Now let us employ
1622 All the foregoing discussion of wave phenomena And speculate as to its significance--- And remembering that, lacking interference, Electromagnetic waves Apparently can travel on
1623 At their seven-hundred-million-miles-per-hour rate For what may be limitless periods of time.
1624 Let us assume a cloudless night Somewhere around the spherical surface Aboard our space vehicle Earth, And a human looking out at the stars And inspired by the celestial splendor To be thinking profoundly.
1625 It is quite plausible
1626 That his skyward focused eyes
1627 May beam his thoughts, Quite unbeknownst to him, Out through the shallow atmosphere Into the approximately interference-free Macrocosmos.
1628 And there is no reason why
1629 The eye-beamed thoughts
1630 Might not someday
1631 Bounce off some other celestial body,
1632 As humans have already
1633 Bounced radio signals off the Moon
1634 And back to Earth
1635 By carefully angled beaming.
1636 And as at present,
1637 To avoid the circumferential
1638 Ob taeles of our planet,
1639 Electromagnetic-wave-carried programs
1640 Of TV and voice
1641 Are being relay-bounced
1642 Around Earth by the
1643 Communication satellites,
1644 Holding their flight positions
1645 Outside the atmosphere.
1646 And the thoughts of our specially assumed human
1647 Who is inadvertently beaming
1648 His thoughts into the cosmos
1649 Sends them on a path
1650 Which results in their
1651 Being uninterfered-with for millennia.
1652 When finally they do interfere with
1653 And bounce off a celestial body,
1654 They are accidentally aimed back to where
1655 Earth will be several millennia after their original dispatch.
1656 At that moment of rereaching Earth planet
1657 An individual on board Earth
1658 Is looking out at the night heavens
1659 And inadvertently tunes in the millennia-ago
1660 Telepathy-dispatched thoughts
1661 Through his transceiver beam-relaying eyes,
1662 And the thought message is monitored into his brain, Whereby the inadvertently receiving human
1663 Thinks he is thinking
1664 A novel and interesting thought ---
1665 And all of the foregoing
1666 Seems to indicate the possibility
1667 That the family
1668 Of generalized principles
1669 Being eternally valid independently
1670 Of special-case idiosyncrasies
1671 (Ergo, of the language of its thinker)
1672 Might be bouncing around in Universe
1673 To be tuned in
1674 Here and there from time to time
1675 On various planets
1676 By various humans
1677 Of various planetary crews.
1678 And it may be thus
1679 That knowledge becomes tune-in-able
1680 By humans on planets or wherever they may be.
1681 This telepathic tuneability may occur
1682 As the humans complete
1683 Enough experiences
1684 And do enough generalized thinking about them
1685 To be able intuitively
1686 To comprehend the significance
1687 Of the thoughts which they are
1688 Inadvertently receiving.
1689 Certain it is on my own part
1690 That I have made several mathematical discoveries Of fundamentally unexpected and unpublished nature. As I realized my discovery
1691 I always have had
1692 The same strange sensation
1693 That this newly realized conception,
1694 Previously unknown to terrestrial humans,
1695 Had been known
1696 To the human mind
1697 Sometime vastly long ago.
1698 Since whatever life may be,
1699 It has no weight, As has been discovered By weighing individuals At the moment of their dying,
1700 It is also possible,
1701 That whatever our abstract
1702 Metaphysical beings may be
1703 Their complex weightless organic pattern integrity Might also be transmittable
1704 By electromagnetic waves,
1705 Whereby humans may already have been, Or Earthians may sometime become Beamed consciously and purposefully To elsewhere in Universe
1706 Traveling at seven hundred million miles per hour, Rather than at the ponderously slow rate Of twenty thousand miles per hour to which Our present Earthian rocketing is confined.
1707 And wherever they came from, The thoughts arranged in this book Are discoveries Of its author
1708 Since he first came in 1913 To think
1709 That nature did not have Separate departments of Mathematics, physics, Chemistry, biology, History and languages, Which would require Department head meetings To decide what to do Whenever a boy threw A stone in the water, With the complex of consequences Crossing all departmental lines. Ergo, I came to think that nature Has only one department --- And I set to discover its Obviously Omnirational
1710 Comprehensively co-ordinate system, And thankfully found it.