2 How Little I Know

2   How Little I Know

1RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER

2 ‘‘Tell mein five thousand

3 Written words’’---

4 (Equivalent, at my oral rate,

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

6 In your lifetime,’’

7 Said Norman Cousins.

8 ‘‘That ought to be easy’’ said I.

9 Three weeks have gone by---

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

11 But my new

12 Intellectual routine

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

14 And I have learned

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

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

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

18 Conceptual but weightless—As is for instance

19 The concept of circularity.

20 My new strategy required That on successive days

21 I ask myself

22 A progressively larger

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

24 Hearsaids, beliefs, axioms,

25 Superstitions, guesses, opinions Were and are

26 All excluded

27 As answer resources

28 For playing my particular Intellectual development game.

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

30 Or

31 ‘‘Why . . .

32 Anything?’’

33 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.

34 In playing that game I soon came

35 To what I assumed to be both

36 The largest askable and

37 The largest answerable

38 Question:

39 ‘‘What do you mean,’’

40 I asked myself,

41 ‘‘By the word

42 Universe?

43 If you can’t answer

44 In terms of

45 Direct experience

46 You must desist

47 From the further use

48Of the word UNIVERSE

49For, to you

50It will have become

51 Meaningless!’’

52 The twentieth century physicists, In defining the physical universe

53 As consisting only of energy,

54 Deliberately excluded the metaphysical universe—Because the metaphysical

55 Consists only of imponderables,

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

57 All our thoughts,---

58 Because thoughts are weightless---

59 But thoughts are experiences---

60 Wherefore I saw

61 That to be adequate

62 To the intuitively formulated

63 And experience-founded controls

64 Of my ever bigger

65 Question and answer routine,

66 My answering definition

67 Of UNIVERSE

68 Must be one which

69 Embraced the combined

70Metaphysical and physical Components of UNIVERSE.

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

72 By any subsequent challenges

73 From myself or others

74 As:

75 ‘‘By universe I mean:

76 The aggregate of all humanity’s

77 Consciously apprehended

78 And communicated

79 (To self or others)

80 Experiences.’’

81 And later I discovered that

82 Eddington had said ‘‘Science is:

83 The conscientious attempt

84 To set in order

85 The facts of Experience.’’

86 And I also discovered

87 That Ernst Mach---

88 The great Viennese physicist, Whose name is used

89 To designate flight velocity

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

91 ‘‘Physics is:

92 Experience

93 Arranged in

94 Most economical order.’’

95 So I realized that

96 Both Eddington and Mach

97 Were seeking to put in order

98 The same ‘‘raw materials’’---

99 I.e. Experiences---

100 With which to identify

101 Their special subsystems Of UNIVERSE.

102 Wherefore I realized that

103 All the words in all dictionaries

104 Are the consequent tools

105 Of all men’s conscious

106 And conscientious attempts

107 To communicate

108 All their experiences---

109 Which is of course

110 To communicate

111 Universe.

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

113 We don’t know who invented them!

114 What an enormous, anonymous inheritance!

115 Shakespeare used ten thousand of them With which to formulate

116 His complete ‘‘works.’’

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

118 In a five thousand word article

119 I would probably have use for Only one thousand.

120 Are forty-two thousand Of these words

121 Superficial and extraneous In reporting on

122 What I have learned?

123 I have learned that

124 You would think so

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

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

127 I can’t find the self starter

128 Or, more truthfully,

129 The self starter can’t find me

130 Oh---there it goes’’

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

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

133 That our subconscious reflexing Can never forget

134 The satisfactory routines of our 273 Undergraduate days.

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

136 It is understood

137 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

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

139 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.

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

141 I haven’t learned

142 How or why

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

144 Quadripartite moleculed, Binary paired, Helically extended

145 And unzippingly dichotomied Regenerative symphonic Jazz, as

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

147 Thee they

148 And more Thine and mine, Sweet citizen.

149 ********

150 THYMINE-CYTOSINE GUANINE-ADENINE

151 ********

152 That tetracouplet

153 Won the Nobel prize

154 The Wilkins, Crick and Watson Waltz

156 And that GC-TA jazz

157 All synced into

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

159 Of experience evolutions,

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

161 Air wave patterning---

162 Sound

163 WORLD

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

183 O

184 I

185 I n

186 live

187 evil

188 evllution

189 devil

190 and Out

191 and 1 O v e

192 and e v O 1

193 and evOlution

194 and 1 O v e d

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

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

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

198 My 400,000 awake hours---

199 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.

200 And another 100,000---

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

202 But this time prescribed

203 In the by-laws of membership

204 In the non-simultaneous invention Universe---

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

206 A human member.

207 Each such member is

208 A metabolically regenerative

209 Ninety-nine per cent automated, Individually unique,

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

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

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

213 An extra-corporeally decentralized organic set.

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

215 All of which complex Regenerative processes

216 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

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

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

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

220 And ever increasing aggregate Of water molecules.

221 There is another experiment

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

223 One of nylon

224 One of cotton

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

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

227 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

228 That the knot is neither

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

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

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

232 Neither water nor rope

233 ‘‘Went’’ anywhere

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

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

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

237 Continually shunting more

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

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

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

241 Amounting at my seventy years To a cumulative total

242 Of approximately 1,000 tons---

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

244 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.

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

246 Which has been slipped Along the rope By time.

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

248 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

249 Of all the other metals

250 Per each industrialized man.

251 And man’s tool extensions

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

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

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

255 But at a ten millionfold

256 Finer degree of precision;

257 While working tirelessly Under conditions of heat

258 And cold which would destroy man.

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

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

261 But the human package

262 Of integral and deployed tooling Has fortunately

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

264 Including man.

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

266 In getting from here to there;

267 And that has left me

268 A bonus of 40,000 hours

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

270 Wishes.

271 It is hard therefore to explain Why conscious I

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

273 Per each and every human on Earth.

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

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

276 For all the rest

277 Of this century

278 While thus providing the opportunity To invest the gained time

279 In providing for all Human generations to come.

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

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

282 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

283 As being principles, By other biological species.

284 Rejecting the word ‘‘creativity’’

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

286 Of reciprocal and transformative freedoms In pure principle

287 Which apparently govern universe And constitute the verb god,

288 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.’ ’’

289 I am most impressed

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

291 Through millenniums the philosophies Have become progressively

292 Compromised and complicated.

293 I am an explorer, however,

294 Of the generalized design science principles Which seemingly differentiate

295 Man from animal

296 And mind from brain.

297 The word ‘‘generalization’’

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

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

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

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

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

303 The conscious detection of

304 Generalized principles which hold true Under all conditions

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

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

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

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

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

310 Its equatorial girth expands and tenses.

311 It is inconceivable that a dog

312 Tugging at its leash at one time

313 And, compressing its teeth

314 On a bone at another time,

315 Should formulate consciously

316 The generalized

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

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

319 To generalize further than

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

321 We may say that ‘‘plus and minus

322 Only coexist’’

323 And generalize even further

324 By saying ‘‘Functions only coexist.’’

325 Then there is an even more powerful

326 And intellectually more exalted stage

327 Of generalization of principles

328 And that is the generalization

329 Of a complex of generalizations

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

331 ---Which combines the generalized law

332 Of the coexistence only of functions

333 With the theory of number.

334 In turn we discover the generalizations

335 Governing the associative powers

336 Of the nucleus and of the weak interactions

337 For the unity is two

338 Of the congruent, convex and concave spheres

339 As evidenceable in the generalized laws

340 Disclosed conceptually, arithmetically, and geometrically In synergetics.

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

342 Is a form of tentative generalization

343 Of principles underlying

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

345 To employ generalized principles ---Once recognized---

346 In a consciously selective variety Of special case interrelationships.

347 The whole regenerative process Of intellectual discovery

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

349 Teleology embraces

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

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

352Is only intuitively initiated by humans.

353 Intuition alerts brain

354 To first apprehend

355 And then recognize

356 Each special case experience

357 Within some minimum number Of special case recognitions.

358 Intuition alerts mind

359 To comprehend, and Formulate conceptually

360 The abstract generalization Of a principle recognized

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

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

363 Special case experiences within which

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

365 Teleology---as part

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

367 It may be that

368 Communications theory

369 May be mathematically equated With electrical

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

371 And longer distance Communication attainable.

372 Based on experiments With any and all systems,

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

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

375 Entropy is also known Mathematically

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

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

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

379 By all who looked their way.

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

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

382 To reach our planet Earth.

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

384 Of years and more To reach us.

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

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

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

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

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

390 Ergo, the Einsteinians Instituted experiments

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

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

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

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

395 As a consequence of

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

397 Had to be abandoned

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

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

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

401 Though entropically irreversible Every action

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

410 Fission verified Einstein’s hypothesis---

411 Change is normal Thank you Albert!

412 Irreversible verse.

413 Einstein’s intellect

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

415 While Universe is finite

416 Energy is definite Because definable.

417 Energy is XY.

418 Intellect is 0.

419 The wealth of Earthians

420 Is irreversible.

421 Wealth cannot alter yesterday’s experience.

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

423 It can buy

424 Forward time in which intellect

425 May scientifically explore for The orderly interrelationships

426 Disclosed in yesterday’s experiences

427 Which can be employed by intellect

428 To forecast

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

430 Wealth is the organized and operative Tool and energy capability

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

432 To increase his knowledge

433 And degrees of freedom

434 While decreasing his interfrustrations.

435 Solo wealth is to commonwealth

436 As Xis toX⁴.

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

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

439 And his intellectual advantage Automatically increases.

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

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

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

443 The faster---the more!

444 Wealth is accountable as

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

446 With first class comprehensive services

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

448 Has man a function

449 In Universe?

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

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

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

453 And final inwardly forwarding

454 Of the benign radiation residues

455 To the biosphere stage

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

457 Earth also receives daily

458 Additional thousands of tons

459 Of expanding Universe dispatched Stardust.

460 This concentration around Earth’s surface

461 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 In the thus far inventoried Reaches of universe.

466 The biological life on earth

467 Is inherently anti-entropic

468 For it negotiates the chemical sorting

469 Out of the Earth’s crust’s

470 Chemical element inventory

471 And rearranges the atoms In elegantly ordered

472 Molecular compound pattemings.

473 Of all the biological anti-entropics,

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

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

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

477 I.e., more efficient,

478 ‘‘Better sorted-out,’’

479 Local universe, energy tasks

480 With ever less units of investments

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

482 Resources of energy,

483 As atomic matter,

484 Or energy, as channeled electro-magnetics.

485To guarantee

486 All of life’s

487 Anti-entropic functioning

488 The intellectual integrity universe,

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

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

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

492 Which at the same time

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

494 Of the regenerative continuance Of the much larger

495 Survival support conditions For the generalized

496 Ecological system of ‘‘all life.’’

497 It is part of

498 The comprehensively anticipating, Design science of life

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

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

501 And again inadvertently,

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

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

504 A metabolically sustaining

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

506 But only by

507 Our retrospectively gained knowledge---

508 Has kept man

509 Regeneratively alive on Earth

510 For at least two million years,

511 While ever improving

512 His physical survival advantages And increasing his longevity.

513 This vast ‘‘game playing’’ of life

514 Has also indirectly occasioned,

515 Not only the regenerative multiplication Of human beings,

516 But also a progressively increasing Percentage who survive in conditions

517 Of ever improving Physical advantage.

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

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

520 It is just not understanding

521 Anything

522 That disturbs him.

523 When an accident bares

524 Portions of human organs

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

526 Stick your tongue way out Before a mirror.

527 It is a strange looking device.

528 If existing originally and

529 Transcendentally as psyches only, Individuals had to choose,

530 And assemble their own sets

531 Of organic parts,

532 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

533 Sense of selectivity,

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

535 Those co-operatively functioning parts

536 Into Mortal beings

537 For no part of the ‘‘guts’’

538 Would be chosen.

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

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

541 I have learned

542 That man knows little

543 And thinks he knows a lot.

544 When any man can tell us

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

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

547 The diversified energies of his ham and eggs;

548 Or when any man can tell us

549 That he is deliberately

550 Pushing each of his million

551 Head hairs

552 Out through his scalp

553 At specifically preferred rates

554 And in specifically controlled shapes

555 For specific purposes

556 We may say that this man

557 Knows a little,

558 But I don’t know of any man

559 Who can tell me

560 So little even as

561 Why we have hair.

562 I am the most unlearned man I know.

563 I don’t know anyone

564 Who has learned

565 How little one knows

566 As have I.

567 But that does not belittle

568 The little I seem to know,

569 And I have confidence

570 In the importance of remembering

571 How little we know

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

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

574 I like algebra

575 Positives more powerful than negatives

576 minus wins plus wins only by default plus wins

577 (+)x (-) = (-) (+)X (+) = (+) (-)X (-) = (+)

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

579 What the astronomers rank as

580 The nearest ‘‘bright’’ star to Earth

581 Is ‘‘Rigel Kent’’

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

583 One third of a mile away and

584 We were surprised when young

585 To see a man

586 At that distance

587 Swinging a sledge

588 To drive a post into the ground

589 And to realize

590 That the sound of his maul

591 Hitting the post top

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

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

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

595 About twice that distance Away from Earth.

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

597 That is, the light takes

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

599 And the overall four seconds lag

600 Of the visual report

601 Is the same time lag as that in

602 Our childhood realized lag

603 Of the sound report

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

605 Because the light coming to Earth

606 From the Moon

607 Takes two seconds to make the trip,

608 And because the light

609 Coming to Earth from the Sun

610 Takes eight and one-half minutes,

611 And because the light

612 Coming to us from Rigel Kent

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

614 Taking place in the sky

615 Four and one-half

616 Years ago.

617 And as we gaze around

618 The starry heavens

619 We see right now

620 Live shows of ‘‘yesterdays’’

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

622 We see all of history

623 Now alive.

624 It took only two million years and

625 Four and one-half billion human babies

626 To establish a human survival beachhead

627 Aboard the little

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

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

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

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

632 Who will persist in prime health And youthful vigor.

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

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

635 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---

636 Which are so economical

637 And uniquely fresh

638 In viewpoint and formulation

639 As to be pure poetry

640 Proving, apparently, that Poetry is inexhaustible;

641 To which their sophisticated

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

643 In the year 1964

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

645 In the United States of America

646 Invested four out of five

647 Of their new plant and equipment Expansion dollars

648 In production and service facilities

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

650 This trending to World identity only

651 Of the industrial giants

652 Held true also not only with thousands

653 Of lesser magnitude

654 U.S.A, and European bom

655 Limited liability industrial organizations

656 But also with the Communist countries’

657 Giant industrial organizations.

658 Wherefore world industrialization trends swiftly---

659 And altogether transcendentally

660 To man’s conscious planning---

661 Into an unitarily co-ordinate

662 World giant

663 With built-in automated,

664 Research fed,

665 Computer analyzed and selected,

666 Evolutionary self-improving

667 And self-transforming

668 Through altematingly regenerated

669 Competitive precessioning

670 Of all the variable functions

671 Of general systems theory.

672 TRUTH

673 I have learned that truth

674 Is an omni-present, omni-directional,

675 Evolutionary awareness,

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

677 ---Only transitionally transformative verbing.

678 It seems possible to me

679 That God may be recognizable

680 In man’s limited intellection

681 Only as the weightless passion drive

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

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

684 It seems then to me

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

686 Orderly omni-interrelationships

687 Of all the weightless complex

688 Of all generalized principles

689 Which seem to be disclosed to us

690 As so important

691 As to be tentatively identified as God.

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

693 Which apparently govern

694 The great verb ‘‘universe’’

695 Or the vastly greater

696 ---Because comprehensively anticipatory—Verb intellecting

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

698 It seems that Truth

699 Is progressive approximation

700 In which the relative fraction

701 Of our spontaneously tolerated residual error Constantly diminishes.

702 This is a typical

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

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

705 As both our tooling and instrumentation Continually improve;

706 Ergo intellection’s effect

707 Upon measurement and the measured Is a gap closing,

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

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

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

711 When we ask ourself

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

713 That the answer is ‘‘nothing.’’

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

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

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

717 And some never existed.

718 As for instance

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

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

721 For what they aver

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

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

724 Whatever can be done

725 Is natural,

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

727 Nature never ‘‘fails.’’

728 Nature complies with her own laws.

729 Nature is the law.

730 When man lacks understanding

731 Of nature’s laws

732 And a man-contrived structure

733 Buckles unexpectedly,

734 It does not fail.

735 It only demonstrates that man

736 Did not understand

737 Nature’s laws and behaviors.

738 Nothing failed.

739 Man’s knowledge or estimating

740 Was inadequate.

741 Step to the blackboard.

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

743 The pattern of numbers

744 Constitutes a new form.

745 The number is a doodle.

746 And I cannot accredit novel form

747 As creativity of man.

748 The number of relationships between items

749 Is always N² —N

750 2

751 The relationships between four or more items

752 Are always greater in number

753 Than the number of items.

754 Ergo, there are always more chords than notes

755 And chords by themselves are not music.

756 It takes two to make a baby

757 But it takes God to make two.

758 God is twoing

759 God is threeing

760 God is multiplying

761 By dividing

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

763 Behavior of whole systems Unpredicted by

764 The behavior of their parts.

765 EN-ergy behaves entropically.

766 SYN-ergy behaves anti-entropically.

767 God is entropy

768 And God is also anti-entropy,

769 God is synergy

770 God is energy.

771 And God is always

772 A verb---

773 The verbing of Integrity.

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

775 I call finite

776 And what men called finite

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

778 By my philosophy

779 The finite, but imponderable Metaphysical universe

780 Embraces the definite,

781 Ponderable, physical universe.

782Finite is not conceptual.

783 Definite is conceptual.

784 I have mathematical proof

785 That the difference between the sums

786 Of all the angles around all the surface vertices

787 Of any conceptual, definitive physical system

788 And the finite but non-conceptual metaphysical universe

789 Is always 720°

790 Or a difference of only one

791 Definitive tetrahedron,

792 Therefore, the combined

793 Physical and metaphysical universe is finite.

794 You can’t buy anything worthwhile

795 Like spontaneous love or understanding.

796 Though metaphysically finite

797 These are imponderables.

798 The absolute would be

799 Non-transformable, static and weighable.

800 Ergo, experimentally meaningless.

801 Infinity is only local

802 And occurs within definite systems,

803 As for instance

804 Following a great circle

805 Around a sphere

806 Which because of the fact

807 That lines,---

808 Which occur experimentally

809 Only as energy vectors---

810 Cannot go through

811 The same point

812 At the same time---

813 Due to interference,

814 Which means also that lines

815 As curves

816 Cannot re-enter, or

817 ‘‘Join back into themselves,’’

818 Therefore, the circling line

819 Can only wrap around

820 And over its earlier part---

821 As the knot-making

822 Sailor says it,

823 The circle when followed

824 Around and around

825 Results in a coil

826 Which is

827 An assymetric spiral,

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

829 Not being simultaneous

830 Universe cannot consist of one function.

831 Functions only co-exist.

832 Universe while finite is not definable.

833 I can define many of its parts

834 But I cannot define

835 The non-simultaneously occurring

836 Aggregate of experiences

837 Whose total set of relationships

838 Constitutes the whole universe

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

840 All the words

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

842 And while the dictionaries are finite

843 All the words

844 In all the dictionaries

845 Cannot be read simultaneously

846 And there is not one

847 Simultaneous sentence

848 Inherent and readable

849 In all the words.

850 In the same way

851 All the non-simultaneous experiences

852 May not be conceived

853 And expressed as

854 A simultaneous system.

855 Ergo, there is no thinkable and logical Simultaneous conception

856 Of non-simultaneous Universe.

857 There is strong awareness

858 That we have been overproducing

859 The army of rigorously disciplined

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

861 Earn their Ph.D.’s

862 And automatic contracts

863 With prime contractors

864 At fifteen thousand dollars

865 Per year---and more---

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

867 Despite their honor grades

868 They prove not to be

869 The Natural Philosophers

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

871 But just deluxe quality

872 Technicians or mechanics.

873 And a myriad

874 Of emergency committees---

875 Multiplying swiftly

876 From one or two

877 Emergency Committees

878 Appointed by the President,

879 Have altogether discovered

880 That what the

881 Ph.D. scientists lack---

882 To adapt themselves to change

883 Has been officially pronounced to be

884 ‘‘Creativity,’’

885 But to my thinking

886 They lack the unique capability of mind---

887 Which is the ability not only to generalize

888 And to integrate a complex

889 Of pure generalizations

890 But also to project teleologically---

891 With fundamental understanding---

892 In any special case, direction.

893 Fundamental wisdom

894 Can readily identify any and all

895 Special case aspects within

896 The generalized whole When listening

897 Sensitively to one’s intuitions

898 By which alone

899 The generalized sub-subconscious integration

900 Of pattern cognition feed-backs

901 Are articulated.

902 Philip Morrison---Cornell’s Head

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

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

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

906 Left-hand science deals in

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

908 Intellectually, intuitively, speculatively, imaginatively And even mystically

909 By inspired persistence

910 To open up the as yet unknown.

911 The great scientists were great

912 Because they were the ones

913 Who dealt successfully with the unknown.

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

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

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

917 Making it bigger and sharper,

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

919 Appropriations of billions for dreams?

920 So the billions went only For the swiftly obsoleting

921 Bigger, faster and more incisive

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

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

924 And exempt from political criticism;

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

926 Top performance scientists Had been educated

927 In small, liberal arts colleges,

928 And that almost all

929 Of those top scientists Attributed their success

930 To their good fortune

931 In having studied intimately With a great inspiring teacher.

932 It would be considered

933 Political madness

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

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

936 So it goes---

937 To Hell with the facts

938 When re-election

939 To political office is at stake.

940 Everything that constitutes science Is unteachable.

941 And we recall that

942 Eddington said: ‘‘Science

943 Is the earnest attempt

944 Of individual initiative

945 To set in order

946 The facts of experience.’’

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

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

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

950 Instituted last year

951 A new direction of search

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

953 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.

954 It was felt by the National Academy

955 That the art educators---

956 As those who dealt with

957 Most of the almost drop-outs

958 Who had been switched into art

959 As a ‘‘last resort’’---

960 Were probably intimate

961 With the type of emerging youth

962 Who were allowed to remain

963 In a freer state of mind

964 ---In the world of art---

965 Than would they have been

966 If disciplined rigorously

967 In sharp specialization by the sciences.

968 That meeting, I thought fascinating

969 For it disclosed the artists as being

970 Individuals who develop powerful self-protection

971 Of their innate intellectual

972 And conceptual capability inheritance.

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

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

975 Of their formal education.

976 I think the consensus

977 Of the New York University meeting

978 Was that individuals

979 Of original conceptual brilliance

980 Were most frequently

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

982 ‘‘Great teachers.’’

983 Which agrees elegantly

984 With the statements

985 Of the proven scientists

986 Regarding their own experiences.

987 Congressional appropriations committees

988 Please take notice!

989 To see the whole world picture of science

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

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

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

993 He took hundreds of 8” X 10”

994 Black-and-white photographs

995 Of modern paintings and mixed them thoroughly Like shuffled cards

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

997 The only way you can classify

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

999 Pattern classifications.

1000 Group the mealy, the blotchy, the striped,

1001 The swirly, the polka-dotted, and their sub-combinations.

1002 The pattern classified groups

1003 Of photographs were displayed.

1004 The artists’ work and the scientists’

1005 Were indistinguishable.

1006 Checking the back-mounted data, it was found

1007 That the artist had frequently conceived

1008 His imagined pattern before

1009 The scientist found it in nature.

1010 Science began to take A new view of artists.

1011 Loving mothers

1012 Prohibit here and promote there---

1013 Often in ways irrelevant or frustrating To brain-coordinated genetic evolution,

1014 Often suppressing

1015 A child’s profound contribution Trying to emerge.

1016 We have to look on our society

1017 As we look on the biological world in general Recognizing, for instance,

1018 The extraordinary contributions

1019 Of the fungi, the manures, the worms, et al.—In the chemical reprocessing—And fertility up-grading of the earth.

1020 We must learn to think

1021 Of the functions of the trees’ roots

1022 As being of equal importance To the leaves’ functions.

1023 We tend to applaud

1024 Only the flower and the fruit

1025 Just as we applaud only the football player

1026 Who makes the touchdown

1027 And not the lineman

1028 Who opened the way.

1029 What society applauds as ‘‘creative’’

1030 Is often isolated

1031 Out of an extraordinary set

1032 Of co-equal evolutionary events, Most of which are invisible.

1033 Evolutionary ‘‘touch-downs’’ are unpredictable—Sometimes centuries apart.

1034 Who knows which child is to make the next breakthrough? In the next decade society

1035 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.

1036 We have thought erroneously of education

1037 As the mature wisdom

1038 And over-brimming knowledge of the grownups

1039 Injected by the discipline pump

1040 Into the otherwise ‘‘empty’’ child’s head.

1041 Sometimes parents say ‘‘don’t’’

1042 Because they want to protect the child

1043 From getting into trouble.

1044 At other times when they fail to say ‘‘no’’

1045 The child gets into trouble.

1046 The child, frustrated, stops exploring.

1047 It is possible to design environments

1048 Within which the child will be

1049 Neither frustrated nor hurt

1050 Yet free to develop spontaneously and fully

1051 Without trespassing on others.

1052 I have learned to undertake

1053 Reform of the environment

1054 And not to try to reform man.

1055If we design the environment properly

1056 It will permit child and man to develop safely

1057 And to behave logically.

1058 Order is achieved through---positive and negative

1059 Magnitude and frequency controlled alteration

1060 Of the successive steering angles.

1061 We move by zig-zagging control

1062 From one phase of physical universe evolution to another.

1063 The rudder concept of social law is most apt.

1064 The late Norbert Wiener chose the word cybernetics

1065 Derived from Greek roots of ‘‘rudder’’

1066 Because Wiener, Shannon and others in communication theory

1067 Were exploring human behaviors

1068 And their brain-controlled ‘‘feed-back,’’ etc., As a basis for the design of computers—And it became evident

1069 That the human brain

1070 Steers man through constant change.

1071 No sharp cleavage is found

1072 Which identifies the boundary between life and non-life Between the heretofore so-called ‘‘animate’’ and ‘‘inanimate.’’

1073 Viruses,

1074 The smallest organized structures

1075 Exhibiting ‘‘life’’

1076 May be classified either---

1077 As inanimate or animate---

1078 As crystalline or ‘‘cellular’’ forms.

1079 This is the level also at which

1080 The DNA/RNA genetic code is essentially A structural pattern integrity.

1081 Such pattern integrities

1082 Are strictly accountable

1083 Only as mathematical principles

1084 Pattern integrities are found

1085 At all levels of structural organization in universe.

1086 The DNA/RNA is a specialized case

1087 Of the generalized principle of pattern integrity

1088 Found throughout life and non-life.

1089 All pattern integrity design

1090 Is controlled by

1091 Angle and frequency modulation.

1092 The biological corpus

1093 Is not strictly ‘‘animate’’ at any point.

1094 Given that the ‘‘ordering’’

1095 Of the corpus design

1096 Is accomplished through such codings as DNA/RNA Which are essentially angle and frequency modulation.

1097 Then we may go on to suggest

1098 That ‘‘life,’’ as we customarily define it Could be effected at a distance—Precession is the effect

1099 Of one moving system Upon another.

1100 Precession always produces

1101 Angular changes of the movements Of the effected bodies and

1102 At angles other than 180 degrees, That is, the results are never Continuance in a straight line.

1103 Ergo all bodies of universe Are effecting the other bodies In varying degrees

1104 And all the inter-gravitational effects Are precessional angular modulations And all the inter-radiation effects Are frequency modulations.

1105 The gravitational and radiation effects Could modulate the DNA/RNA Angle and frequency instructions At astronomical remoteness—Life could be ‘‘sent on.’’

1106 Within the order of evolution as usually drawn Life ‘‘occurred’’ as a series

1107 Of fortuituous probabilities in the primeval sea.

1108 It could have been sent or ‘‘radiated’’ there.

1109 That is, the prime code

1110 Or angle and frequency modulated signal Could have been transmitted

1111 From a remote stellar location.

1112 It seems more likely

1113 (In view of the continuous rediscovery of man

1114 As a fully organized being

1115 Back to ever more remote periods)

1116 That the inanimate structural pattern integrity,

1117 Which we call human being,

1118 Was a frequency modulation code message Beamed at earth from remote location.

1119 Man as prime organizing

1120 ‘‘Principle’’ construct

1121 Was radiated here from the stars---

1122 Not as primal cell, but as

1123 A fully articulated high order being.

1124 Possibly as the synergetic totality

1125 Of all the gravitation

1126 And radiation effects

1127 Of all the stars

1128 In our galaxy

1129 And from all the adjacent galaxies

1130 With some weak effects

1131 And some strong effects

1132 And from all time.

1133 And pattern itself being weightless

1134 The life integrities are apparently

1135 Inherently immortal.

1136 You and I

1137 Are essential functions

1138 Of universe

1139 We are exquisite anti-entropy.

1140 I’ll be seeing you!

1141 Forever.

1142Richard Buckminster Fuller

1143 Architect/engineer R. Buckminster Fuller first gained prominence in 1927 with the invention of the Dymaxion House, a spacious, low-cost, high-strength dwelling uniquely suspended from a central mast. In the early 1930s he introduced the three-wheeled Dymaxion car, which had a top speed of 120 miles an hour, went forty miles on a gallon of gasoline, and could turn in its own length. Of his many other inventions perhaps the most famous is his geodesic dome, whose design is based on a mathematical formula he himself developed and named ‘‘energetic synergetic geometry.’’ Born in Massachusetts in 1895, Mr. Fuller is a graduate of Harvard University and U.S. Naval Academy. He has founded several design and manufacturing firms and served as a consultant to industry, the U.S. Government, the Ford Foundation, and most recently to the government of Japan. He has been a visiting professor, lecturer, and critic abroad and on many American campuses, including Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Princeton, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California at Berkeley. He now holds a professorship with life tenure at Southern Illinois University. His books include No More Second Hand God, Education Automation, and The Unfinished Epic of Industrialization.