Intuition

Intuition

R. Buckminster Fuller

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Intuition: Metaphysical Mosaic

The following thoughts regarding
The acquisition, commissioning and naming
Of a new seventeen-ton
Ocean-cruising sloop
Occurred and were inscribed
Throughout the morning hours,
Immediately preceding the moment
At which the craft was lowered
By a giant motorized sling
Into her design destined
REALIZATION
Of waterborne existence At midday July 31, 1968.

Life’s original event

And the game of life’s

Order of play

Are involuntarily initiated,

And inherently subject to modification By the a priori mystery,

Within which consciousness first formulates

And from which enveloping and permeating mystery Consciousness never completely separates, But which it often ignores

Then forgets altogether

Or deliberately disdains.

And consciousness begins

As an awareness of otherness,

Which otherness-awareness requires time.

And all statements by consciousness

Are in the comparative terms

Of prior observations of consciousness

(“It’s warmer, it’s quicker, it’s bigger

Than the other or others”).

Minimal consciousness evokes time,

As a nonsimultaneous sequence of experiences.

Consciousness dawns

With the second experience.

This is why consciousness

Identified the basic increment of time

As being a second.

Not until the second experience

Did time and consciousness

Combine as human life.

Time, relativity and consciousness

Are always and only coexistent functions

Of an a priori Universe,

Which, beginning with the twoness of secondness, Is inherently plural.

Ergo:

All monological explanations of Universe

Are inherently inadequate And axiomatically fallacious.

There can be no single key

Nor unit building block of Universe.

Before humans had learned by experiment That light and other radiation

Have unique speed, Humans thought of sight As being instantaneous.

Under this misapprehension

Classical science assumed

That every action had a simultaneous reaction.

Since light does have a speed, And there is no simultaneity, There are inherent event lags.

We learn that every event is triplex, Consisting of an action

That has both a reaction and a resultant.

These three inseparable functions of an event Are nonidentical

And nonsimultaneous.

In the event called “diesel ship-at-sea”

The action of the ship’s propeller

Has a thrust pattern

To which the ship reacts by moving forward, Which also results, secondarily, In the ship’s bow elevated wave,

And its depressed transverse stem wave Which wave disturbances of the water

Are separate from the propeller’s thrust wave.

Ships appear to be so solid That they negate human perception Of their minute longitudinal contraction, Which occurs initially as a consequence Of the interaction of the ship’s inertia With the propeller’s thrust.

This contraction

And its subsequent expansion

Could be observed in yesterday’s Loosely coupled railway trains, As they jerkingly accelerated or stopped.

In addition to inherent duality of Universe There is also and always

An inherent threefoldedness and fourfoldedness

Of initial consciousness

And of all experience.

For in addition to (i) action, (2) reaction, (3) resultant, There is always (4) the a priori environment, Within which the event occurs, I.e., the at-first-nothingness around us Of the child graduated from the womb,

Within which seeming nothingness (fourthness) The inherently threefold Local event took place.

Whether our experience episodes Are voluntary or involuntary, Passive or active, Subjective or objective, Our brains always and only Isolate, tune-in,

Modulate and document,

Store, retrieve and compare informedly,

Or speculatively formulate,

In special-case increments of unique concepts.

God gave humans a faculty Beyond that of their and other creatures’ Magnificent physical brains — And that unique faculty

Is the metaphysically operative mind.

Brains apprehend and register Store and retrieve

The sensorial information Regarding each special-case experience.

Mind alone can and does

Discover heretofore unknown Integral pattern concepts And generalized principles, Apparently holding true Throughout whole fields of experience. And once discovered by mind The concepts of the generalized principles Become additional special-case experiences, And are stored in the brain bank And are retrievable thereafter by the brain. But brains and their externalized Detachedly operating descendants — The electronic computers — Can only search out and program The already experienced concepts, And mind alone can recognize and capture The unknown and unexpectedly existent,

Ergo, unsearchable, unwatched-for— Generalized principles.

If you do not know

The behaviors exist,

You cannot be

On watch for them.

Weightless, perceptive, prescient mind Alone enabled humanity

Also to conceive of new, original

And objective ways to employ

The (only subjectively acquired) concepts Of generalized principles, Such for instance as leverage,

Which empowered men

To conceive of practical ways

To both elevate and move

Objects manyfold their own weights, Or that of their direct muscles’

Lifting, pushing and pulling abilities.

And this greatly augmented Humanity’s competence To heed anticipatorily

The lessons of past negative experiences, And with enlightened logic

To alter the environment

In ways permitted by nature, Which would protect humanity Against external and internal deprivations While also increasing the sustenance Of increasing numbers of humans

For increasing numbers of days Of their potential life spans.

Or mind enables

A co-operative succession of humans

Both to discover and objectively employ A complex family

Of generalized principles

Brought from

The weightless, timeless, Metaphysical integrity and fidelity Of absolutely orderly Eternal Universe;

Brought into

Time and energy synchronized consciousness Of the physical evolution scenario;

Brought by

Ajjlurality of individually

And remotely operating— But interregeneratively— Inspiring and educating Exquisitely prescient minds.

A typical family

Of generalized laws,

Thus interinspiringly discovered

By a plurality of human minds,

Would start with that first disclosed by Avogadro

Of a constant number of molecules

In a given volume

Of any and all chemical elements

Isolatable in their gaseous state

Under identical conditions Of heat and pressure, Which mathematically Statable law

Compounded with Boyle’s chemical law

To informedly inspire Mendeldyev

And a few other colleagues

To differentiate out and predict

The existence of a closed family

Of ninety-two

Regenerative chemical elements.

These elements, when found, They said would display Such-and-such

Unique and orderly characteristics,

And they mathematically identified in advance

The respective constituent quantities

Of the as yet undiscovered discrete characteristics Of the as yet undiscovered elements.

All the members of this interregenerative Information relay team

Did not know one another personally.

Their accumulatingly inspired prediction occurred At the historical moment

When, a century ago —

Only fifty-two

Of the ninety-two

Of those heretofore unexpected chemical elements Had as yet been discovered

And physically isolated

By humans on Earth —

Sir James Jeans said that Science is

The attempt to set in order The facts of experience.

Mendeleyev, attempting scientifically

To find an order

In which to set

The first fifty-two chemical elements, Inadvertently uncovered

A previously unknown

System of regularities

Common to all fifty-two,

Which, if their implied generalization

Proved in due course

To hold true,

Would require the presence in Universe Of the additional unknown forty To fill in the membership vacancies Occurring in the revealed periodic behaviors Of the already discovered chemical elements.

Since Mendeleyev’s prediction,

Every few years —

One by one—

All ninety-two have been identified

As being present in various abundances In all the known stars of the heavens, While ninety-one of them Have been isolated by scientists Somewhere on planet Earth,

And all of them have the exact characteristics Predicted by Mendeleyev and his colleagues.

And all the foregoing Subjective harvesting— Accomplished by individuals Bound together

By naught other than intellectual integrity — Has enabled still other

Remotely exploring

Educatively inspired individuals First to discover

Then inventively to employ The originally unknown Uniquely recombining Synergetic behaviors — In structural groupings — Of those ninety-two regenerative elements, Thereby attaining utterly surprising Structural, mechanical,

Chemical and electromagnetic characteristics, Which have enormously increased

The relative advantage

Of ever-increasing numbers of humans To cope with the challenges of life By accomplishing ever more difficult tasks, Previously considered impossible to do;

With ever less

Time, weight and energy investments, Augmented exponentially

By ever-greater investment of unweighables Of the metaphysical resources —

Of hours of thoughtful reconsiderations Anticipations, conceptualizing, Searchings and researchings, Calculations and experiments.

But despite mind’s ability

To capture, mathematically equate

And employ in conscious temporality

The eternal weightless generalized principles,

Man cannot design

A generalized anything

He can only embody.

The eternal design’s generalized principles

In special-case employments

Of those generalized principles.

In confirmation of the foregoing

We note that

While Archimedes discovered

The generalized principle

Governing displacement—

Of all floating bodies —

In respect to the flotation medium

In terms of their respective volume weight ratios

We cannot design

A generalized boat.

It must be a specific canoe

A ferryboat, or sloop—

And each of unique size and capability and durability

For all special-case embodiments

Are entropically fated

To disintegrate in time

Whether the experience episodes

Are passive or active —

I.e., involuntary or voluntary,

Subjective or objective—

Brain always and only

Isolates, tunes in, documents,

Stores and retrieves

Special-case concepts.

Only mind can discover,

Comprehend, equate and employ

The absolutely weightless,

Ergo, purely metaphysical, Generalized principles

Which, being weightless and unfailing, Must be eternal.

Synergy is one

Of those generalized principles.

It is defined scientifically

As behavior of whole systems

Unpredicted by behaviors

Of any of their separate parts.

Synergy is disclosed, for instance,

By the attraction for one another

Of two or more separate objects.

Such objects, however,

On closer inspection

Are themselves mass-attractively integrated Energy event aggregates,

Each of which is so closely amassed

As to be superficially deceptive

And therefore misidentified

By humanity’s optically limited discernment, As bodies —

Separate “solid” bodies—

Despite that physics has never found Any “solid” phenomena.

For instances of unpredictable Synergetically mass-interattracted

And mutually interco-ordinating phenomena, We witness the mathematical regularity With which objects

Accelerate toward Earth —

Or, as it is said,

“Fall” into Earth.

Or we witness the co-ordinate behaviors

Of the corotating, coorbiting

Earth and its Moon,

Or of any two or more neighboring,

Larger or smaller,

Uniquely amassed,

Separatedly and individually existing, Harmonically frequenced,

Neighboring aggregates

Being both mass attractively

And precessionally reassociative

In the manner superficially identified by humans As matter—

Be they metallic or nonmetallic.

Another intuitively interinspired

Experimentally informed

Scientific relay team’s

Century-spanning accumulative accomplishment By remotely existing individuals, Started with Tycho Brahe’s

Instrumentally harvested data On the Sun’s planets.

The mass attraction of those remotely separated, Seemingly solid planets — Which we now know to be Microcosmic aggregates Of energy events — Was first hypothetically explained By Kepler

To account for the geometrical regularities Of interco-ordination Of their elliptical orbits By the Sun’s planets.

Kepler found the regularity For which he searched In the identical areas Of the different Pie-shaped segments of the sky— Some short and wide, Some long and thin — “Swept-out” in a given time By imaginary radial tethers Tied to each of the planets From the same star-Sun center Around which they traveled, Each at vastly different distances And at vastly different rates.

“How and why,” asked Kepler, “Could these separate planets Act in such unitary co-ordination With one another and the Sun, Without any visible Mechanical or structural Interconnectors?”

Inspired by Brahe and Kepler, As well as by Galileo’s Rate-of-fall measurements And law-of-motion formulations, Isaac Newton hypothesized That a body should move In an astronomically straight line Except as affected By other celestial bodies, Such, for instance, as manifest By Kepler’s hypothetical Interplanetary attractiveness.

Newton calculated the straight line Tangential to its orbiting, Along which the Moon would move If it were not attracted by the Earth, And measured the rate at which the Moon Fell away from that line In toward the Earth.

He found that the rate of falling Corresponded exactly With Galileo’s observation Of an accelerating-acceleration In the rate of Earthward fall, Which elegance of scientific agreement Reinspired Newton To evolve his mass attraction law, Which showed that the relative initial value Of Kepler’s assumed mass attraction Could be determined

By multiplying the two interattracted masses By one another

And increasing the attraction value fourfold Each time the distance

Between tire two bodies is halved.

This explained Galileo’s observed

Accelerating-acceleration

Of bodies falling inward

Toward Earth.

Tested by the interim centuries

Newton’s law has since come to explain The interattraction integrities

Of all macro and micro behaviors of Universe.

Because science has not found any property Of any one of the bodies

Which, considered only by itself, Predicts that the body will attract, Or be attracted by another body — And, even more surprisingly, With the rate of that attraction

Increasing exponentially

As they approach one another—

It is in experimentally demonstrated evidence That neither the phenomenon mass attraction Nor its even more surprising

Second power, algebraic rate Of interattraction increase Can be disclosed

And humanly comprehended

Only by observation

Of the integral body characteristics

Of any one body

While disregarding

The mutually covarying behaviors

Of both bodies,

Or of all of a complex of bodies.

Comprising the observed system,

As comprehensively and progressively measured

And mathematically described

In terms of relative proximity,

Relative mass and relative dimensionings,

Relative velocities

And their respective

Rates of change.

Since both mass attraction

And accelerating-acceleration

Are experimentally demonstrable,

While no property of any one part

Has been discovered

Which predicts either the attraction

Or its accelerative gain —

And in fact

No property of one part

Considered only by itself

Predicts the existence of another part—

Synergy is experimentally —

Which means scientifically—

Manifest.

Q.EJ>.

Synergy is the only word that means

Behaviors of a -whole system

Unpredicted by the separate behaviors

Of any of its parts.

As of 1970,

World-around questioning

Of three hundred university audiences,

Averaging five hundred persons each,

Finds the word synergy —

As well as the phenomenon it identifies —

To be known to less than three percent, Of university students or staffs.

As of 1970 also,

Persistent inquiry of general public audiences Discloses a knowledge of synergy

By only one percent of general society.

Because all the generalized principles

Thus far discovered

Are uniquely identifiable

Exclusively as

“Behavioral interrelationship”

Of two or more

Separate components—

Which, in turn, consist

Of energy event-aggregates —

The generalized principles

Are not to be confused

With the profusion of data

Concerning common characteristics or statistics

Of separate components of systems,

Which are myopically

And oversimplifyingly observed

By an everywhere specializing society.

Such common statistics

Can be monitored satisfactorily By the brain or

Its externalized adjunct, The computer;

But unknown synergies

Of as yet unknown generalized principles Which are inherently and exclusively, Integral behaviors of two or more, Cannot be programmed for computer discovery Because the relevant unknown behaviors

Are experimentally demonstrable only in retrospect As existing only between But not of or in any one part.

The synergetic behaviors Of a plurality of parts Are inherently unpredictable.

Development is programable; Discovery is not programable. Since the behaviors to be sought Are unknown,

Computers cannot be instructed To watch out for them.

Computers can “keep track” Of a complex of behaviors, But only human mind can discern The heretofore unknown Unique interrelationships Which exist between and not of The separate bodies.

Even less known and understood Than the generalized principle Mass attraction

Is the generalized principle of precession And the synergetic phenomenon Which it uniquely identifies.

Precession is the behavioral interrelationship Of remote and differently velocitied, Differently directioned, And independently moving bodies Upon one another’s separate motions And motion interpattemings.

Mass attraction is to precession As a single note is to music. Precession is angularly accelerating, Regeneratively progressive Mass attraction.

Because the Sun’s planets

Did not fall into one another

Kepler’s discovery of their elliptic orbiting As well as the solar system’s motion Relative to other star groups Of the Galactic Nebula

Are all and only accounted for By precession.

Precession is uniquely dependent Upon the entirely unexplained, Ergo mystically occurring, Omnimotions of Universe

Successfully hypothesized by Einstein

In contradistinction

To Newton’s assumed

A priori cosmic norm of “at rest.”

Precession is a second-degree synergy

Because it is not predicted by mass attraction Considered only by itself.

Mass attraction

Is experienced intimately by Earthians

As gravity’s pulling

Inward toward Earth’s center

Any and all objects

Within critical proximity

To Earth’s surface,

And moving through space

At approximately the same speed

And in the same direction

As those of planet Earth.

Not until we learn by observation

That the mass attraction

Of any two, noncritically proximate

Bodies in motion

Imposes a motional direction

At ninety degrees

To their interattraction axis,

Do we learn of this second surprise behavior

Of two or more bodies.

They no longer “fall-in,”

One to the other.

Thus is the Moon

Precessed into elliptical orbit about the Earth

As the Earth and Moon, together,

Are precessed into elliptical orbit around the Sun,

Yielding only in a ninety-degree direction

To the Sun’s massive pull —

Being beyond

The critical proximity distances

For falling into one another.

Unlike ninety-nine point nine nine nine

Percent of all humans,

Goddard, carefully heeding the laws

Of both mass attraction and precession,

Realized that an object,

Rocket-propelled or accelerated,

Into a different velocity—

And into a different direction

To that of the Earth’s

Speed and course around the Sun —

Would have its gravitational pull

Toward the Earth

Reduced fourfold

Every time it doubled

Its distance away from the Earth;

Only a hundred miles out

From our Earth’s surface

The attraction would be

So diminished

That it would permit the Moon’s pull

To become significant,

At which distance

The rocketed object

Would lose its tendency To fall back into the Earth, And now affected dominantly By the integrated mass attractions Of all other celestial bodies, Would go into orbit Around our Earth.

And to understand How little is that One-hundred-mile distance Out from Earth’s surface At which orbiting Replaces the tendency To fall back into the Earth. We note that

The thickness of a matchstick Out from the surface Of a twelve-inch diametered Household “World Globe” Is the distance at which Our first rocketed objects Do go into orbit.

Mass attraction and precession Provide the first scientific means Of elucidating social behavior. When humans affect one another Metaphysically, The least thoughtful Goes into local system orbit Around the most thoughtful. When humans tense one another

Physically,

The least strong

Falls into the other,

“Falls” in love.

When they repel one another physically The least strong is rocketed Into remote system orbit.

Because the physical characteristics Of an aggregate’s separate components And their respective submotions Cannot explain the behaviors Of their progressively encompassing And progressively complex systems, We leam that

There are progressive degrees of synergy, That is to say,

Synergy-of-synergies,

Which means

Complexes of behavior aggregates Holistically unpredicted

By the separate behaviors

Of any of their subcomplex-aggregates;

And because mass attraction

Does not predict precession Each subcomplex-aggregate Is in itself

Only a component behavioral aggregation Within an even greater

Behavioral aggregation,

Whose comprehensive behaviors Are never predicted

By the component-aggregates alone.

It is, furthermore,

In experimentally disclosed evidence

That there is

A synergetic progression in Universe —

An hierarchy of total complex behaviors

Entirely unpredicted

By their successive

Subcomplexes’ behaviors.

This means that there exists

A synergetic progression

Of ever more encompassing systems

Of human experience discernibility

Which are spontaneously differentiated

Into unique levels

Of cognitory consideration

In which the contained micro

Of any adjacent macro level

Never predicts the existence

Or the observed behaviors

Of the adjacently next most encompassing Macro level complex.

Thus are the atoms

Unpredicted by any

Of their individual

Neutrons, protons,

Positrons, electrons,

Neutrinos and antineutrinos

Et al.

Nor does any one atom

In itself predict

The family of

Periodically co-ordinate

Unique chemical elements

In ninety-two, self-regenerative varieties

Of mathematically incisive order;

Together with their several hundred

Of interspersed isotopes

To be coexistent

In complex but orderly array.

And the periodic behaviors

Of the chemical elements

And their isotopes

In turn fail to predict

Their aggregate behaviors

As molecular structurings

Of various, harmonically complexed,

Unique associabilities of atoms,

Known as chemical compounds.

Nor do the chemical compounds’ molecular structures

Have inherent characteristics

Which predict the level

Of organic associability

Of molecules as biological cells.

And the level of biological cells

Does not predict

Their association in turn

As biological tissue—

The first human

Naked eye-discernible level —

Of these synergetic behaviors.

And the level of tissues

Does not predict

Organic biological species

In a vast variety

Of permitted design alternatives,

Whose unique pattern structurings

Are chromosomically programmed

To replacingly aggregate

As regenerative organisms

Ecologically interacting

All around our planet

In chemical phase intercomplementations

All fundamentally actuated

By a combination of mathematical symmetries and cycles

All pyramided upon

Mass interattraction of atoms

Dynamically hovering in orbits

Within critical “fall-in” proximity

Of one another.

Or fallen into

A single-bonded -fluttering

Or into double-bonded hinging

Or into triple-bonded rigidity

Or into quadruple-bonded densification—

Ergo all pyramided upon

Exponentially compounded

Synergies of mass attraction and precession.

When adequate acceleration

Is imparted to micro aggregations

Of atoms,

Sufficient for them to escape

The critical limits

Of both mass attraction

And precession intereffects,

Then radiation

At 186,000 m.p.s.

Of the separate energy quanta

Ensues,

And the generalized behavioral law

Is that cited by Einstein’s

E = Mc².

Inasmuch as mass attraction

And its second-degree synergy, precession, Together with radiation, most prominently explain The synergetic interpatteming integrity

Of both macro and micro

Aspects of Universe,

And the fact that

Three out of four of the names

Of their behavioral identities

Are popularly unfamiliar,

Provides experimental evidence

That less than one percent of humanity

Has the slightest notion

Regarding the extraordinary principles

Kinetically structuring and cohering

The integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.

While one percent of society

Has superficial awareness

Of the existence of mathematical regularities

Synergetically displayed by mass attraction

And supersynergetically displayed as precession,

No scientist has the slightest idea What mass attraction is Nor why Synergy, precession or radiation Exist or act as they do.

Nobel laureate physicists, In self-conscious defense Of their abruptly discovered ignorance In regard to such cosmically important matters (Understanding knowledge of which Society has accredited them with possessing) Shrug off the necessity to explain By saying, “Here we will have to assume Some angels to be pushing things around.” Though popularly unrealized, It is in experimental evidence That the origins of science Are inherently immersed In an a priori mystery.

This explains why The history of science Is a history of Unpredicted discoveries And will continue So to be.

But within the mystery Lies the region Of humanly discovered phenomena Whose whole region Is progressively disclosing

An omni-integrity of orderliness, Of interactive and interaccommodative Generalized principles.

In view of all the foregoing The preponderance of as yet Scientifically uninformed peoples Explains why human awareness Has at first and for long Greatly misapprehended, For instance, as “solids”

The superficially deceptive microaggregates Which defied differentiating resolution, Into their myriads of separate parts, By the instrumentally unaided

Human sight.

Thus loving humans

Have unwittingly tutored

Their young to acquire

A whole body of reflexes

Labeled as knowledge,

All of which has since been invalidated

By experimental science’s findings — As armed with powerful instruments For exploring

The ninety-nine percent of reality,

Which is inherently

Untunable directly by the human senses. Humans grope for absolute understanding, Unmindful of the a priori mystery Which inherently precludes Absolute understanding.

Unaware that their groping

Does not signify personal deficiency, And ignorant of the scientific disclosure Of fundamentally inherent mystery, They try to “cover up” their ignorance By asserting that no fundamental mystery exists.

The omnicommitment

Of the twentieth century’s World-around society To the synergy invalidated misconception That specialization

Is desirable and inevitable,

Tends to preclude humanity’s

Swift realization

Of its many misconceptionings

And its necessity to substitute therefore Tactically reliable information.

Specialization is antisynergy.

In short, physics has discovered

That there are no solids,

No continuous surfaces, No straight lines;

Only waves,

No things,

Only energy event complexes,

Only behaviors,

Only verbs,

Only relationships,

Which, once discovered, Can be kept track of

And employed

By both the integral brain

And the extracorporeal computer

But may never be discovered originally

By those physically limited tools.

And the why-for and how-come

Of omni-interaccommodation

Of all the known family

Of weightless, eternal, generalized principles —

Thus far discovered

By scientific observation

To be metaphysically governing

In elegant mathematical order

All Scenario Universe’s

Interrelationships, transformations and transactions, Without one principle contradicting another— Are all and together

Absolute mystery.

Offsetting the formidable dilemma

Of comprehensive social ignorance

Human mind finds

A new comprehending advantage

To be inherent in the discovery

That within all the foregoing

Progressively encompassing

Hierarchy of synergetic levels,

Each encompassing level does manifest

Synergetic behaviors

Unpredicted by the behaviors

Of any of its sublevels’

Components’ behaviors —

Considered only by themselves.

Though neither known nor anticipated

By the status quo’s present body of knowledge

This hierarchy of hierarchies

Constitutes a cosmic consistency,

Warranting its recognition

As a generalized law of Universe.

Knowledge is of the brain

Wisdom is of the mind

And there is herewith implicit An a priori wisdom-of-wisdoms.

Out of the a priori mystery

From time to time

Mind fishes a new

Generalized principle,

Which though absolutely unique

Always accommodates and integrates

With all the previously discovered Generalized principles.

All of which are originally apprehensible

Only by weightless mind

Which alone of all phenomena

Can cope knowingly

With the etemality of principles.

The omni-interaccommodativeness

Of the totally known inventory

Of generalized principles

Constitutes progressive disclosure

Of a vast a priori design

To be governing Universe, Whose intellectual integrity bespeaks An a priori greater intellect Than that manifest in humans, All of which synergetic integral Is hidden from sight of humanity, As it is at present omnivictimized By a universally specializing antisynergetic, Anticosmological Educational process.

Wherefore it is also manifest that

Universe is the maximum, synergy-of-synergies Being utterly unpredicted by any of its parts Or by the hierarchy of synergies Of ever exponentially advancing degree — No complex stage Having been predicted By its parts.

For instance,

The chemistry and structure

Of the human’s toenail

In no way predicts

The complex, organic behavior Known synergistically As humans.

For humanity to comprehend In individually effective degree The life in Universe Which it is experiencing, It is logically required That humanity must develop

Self-initiated and self-disciplined reconsiderations Of its total inventory of experiences From which it may, hopefully, Gain a degree of knowledge

Adequate to humanity’s

Spontaneous initiation

Of conscious and competent co-operation With the orderly processes Of universal evolution.

In order to accommodate

And abet evolution,

Humanity must heed

The synergistic hierarchy

And must commence by heeding

That human mind has discovered

And proved mathematically, Two millennia ago

In Ionian Greece,

A generalized principle —

Corollary to synergy —

Whose mathematical characteristics are statable as: The known behavior

Of whole systems

And the known behavior

Of some of its parts

Make possible the discovery

Of other —if not all —

Of the originally unknown Component parts Of the system.

Therefore in direct contradiction to present specialization, All educational processes Must henceforth commence At the most comprehensive level Of mental preoccupation, And that level is the one That consists of the earnest attempt To embrace the whole eternally regenerative phenomenon Scenario Universe.

And this is what children Try to do spontaneously Whenever they ask their parents Embarrassingly important Cosmological questions.

Evolution, most powerfully operative In the metaphysical spontaneity of children, Is trying to break through The barrier of ignorance of synergy and mystery Which as yet frustrate human understanding.

Perversely, the parents Tell them to forget Universe And to concentrate With A, B, C, 1, 2 and 3- Only with parts, Which process the parents Call “Elementary Education,” And reflexively misconceive As the essential beginning Of all learning processes.

In our now to be adopted Synergetically strategied Educational process We are aided

By scientists who preceded us, For Euler discovered

Early in the nineteenth century, That all patterns of Universe Can be resolved into three Conceptual differentiations: Lines, crossings and areas. Systems divide Universe Into a plurality of regions: All of the Universe Which is outside the system And all of the Universe Which is embraced by the system. Systems are inherently polyhedronal. Systems of thought Divide the Universe

Into the conceptual and nonconceptual. Conceptual systems always consist Of a constant relative abundance Of the lines, crossings and areas In which C + A = L + 2

And because of this Constant relative abundance Whole pattern behaviors Of all our experiences — When properly conceptioned — Can be comprehensively differentiated, Topologically equated, observed and considered.

Thus was Einstein synergetically

And equatingly advantaged, with cosmological integration Of the known behaviors of the whole physical Universe, As well as of behaviors of its two principal parts, Mathematically to predict and discover Heretofore unknown

And unexpected behaviors

Of heretofore unrecognized

Constituents of the whole.

Intuitively stimulated

By experimentally demonstrable

Speed of radiation knowledge,

As well as by Brownian movement

And black body heat,

Einstein started holistically

With the concept of Scenario Universe

As an aggregate

On nonsimultaneous,

Complexedly frequencied,

And only partially overlapping

Ever and everywhere

Methodically intertransforming events

Which conceptioning

Is superbly illustrated by an evening

Of overlappingly frequenced fireworks.

E = Mc2

And

C+A=L+2

Experimentally conceptualized By those partially overlapping Fireworks events

As one rocket is blasted off Before the previous rocket’s Unique display has been completed And both a moving picture camera And a tripodded still camera Can be set

With their lenses left open

To register the whole evening’s Fireworks program Both as a scenario

And as single, composite, static pictures Of all the light pattemings

That took place Against the black void of sky.

And the synergetic relationships Of the scenario footage And the “still” photographs Together may become

The basic experimental evidence Of fundamental self-education.

For E = physical Universe, Which consists of energy In two phases:

(One) Energy associative,

As matter = M,

Where critical proximity

Accounts for all the atoms

Either falling into one another Or precessing into very local orbits. (Two) Energy disassociative, As radiation = c²,

For the omnidirectional light-wave, growth sphere Increases as the second power Of the linear speed of light.

c = linear speed of all radiation c² = radiant growth rate of a spherical wave. The radiant light discloses the Trajectory lines of the successive Rocket blast-offs

Whose trajectory lines = L Cross one another = C, As the local “burst” lines Complexedly define areas = A And the whole fireworks Demonstrate the patterning Of Einstein’s Universe as a Scenario Universe— Of “nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping Transformation-events.” Again q.ejd.

And the black void Nothingness of night Backdropping the fireworks Is the omnipresent, A priori mystery.

And the real beginning of education Must be the experimental realization Of absolute mystery.

For the a priori Comprehensive and permeative Mystery of Universe Is approximately unknown, Or is deliberately side-stepped,

Or is just overlooked

By most educators,

And is politically acknowledged

Only as orthodox religions.

And again

Society’s lack of knowledge

Of the a priori mystery,

And its pragmatic conditioning of its reflexes

By leaving to its priests

What manner of response

They should make

To the innate intuitive awareness

Of the a priori mystery,

Permit the persistence

Of such ignorant cerebrations

As that which for instance

Invents atheism.

Tending to discount science

Society has no working knowledge

Which contradicts such assumption.

The scientific proof of synergy

Is, however, experimentally demonstrable

And is experienced

In a myriad of ways.

As for instance

In the tensile strengths of alloyed metals, Such as chrome-nickel-steel — Which is severalfold stronger

Than the sum of the tensile strengths

Of each of the separate metals

Which altogether comprise the alloy —

Metallic alloying is explained only by synergy.

Such high heats and stresses Were involved in a jet engine That it could not be realized Until chrome-nickel-steel Was discovered and produced. And the jet engine

Within only one decade of years Has shrunk our Earth

Into a one-town dimension,

Which now realized accomplishment

Was mysteriously unanticipated

By any scientific society

Of yesterday’s

Governments, corporations,

Educators and politicians, Who even now utterly disregard The mysterious realization That synergy now permits

The logically predictable

Humanly conceivable and executable

Rearrangements of environmental constituents, In ways which are sufficiently favorable For the regeneration of all life

Aboard our planet Earth

By producing ever more performance With ever less pounds, minutes and watts Per each function served.

And the more-with-lessing

Constitutes ever-increasing mastery Of physical behaviors of Universe By the metaphysically operative verb

Mind;

And all the foregoing

Implies incontrovertibly

The progressive realization

By humans on Earth

Not only of a vast

Universal design

But of a Universe Scenario,

Whose a priori conceptioning

Is clearly intent

To render Earth-riding humans

A comprehensive physical success, Despite humanity’s

As yet undiscarded

Ignorance, fear

And distrust of its mind.

But humans are designed,

(Again a priori)

Metaphysically equipped, and advantaged

First to apprehend, then comprehend The significant potentialities Of generalized principles

Permeating their physical experiences.

Thus were humans gifted

Imaginatively and teleologically To employ and process

Complex information.

Thus also humanity is permitted By the omni-intellectual, Weightless, amorphous,

Metaphysical integrity of Universe—

Which we intuitively designate By the sound word “god” To participate in meager degree Locally and temporarily— In god’s own vast

Evolutionary designing capabilities.

And of all the designs

Thus far formulated by humans None have been

As adequately anticipatory Of the probable reoccurrences Of yesterday’s experiences — Positive and negative, Large and small, Frequent and infrequent Sudden and slow— And therefore as

Progressively comprehensive Complexedly adequate, Economically exquisite Powerfully eloquent And regeneratively reinspiring To further evolutionary perfection As is

The sailing ship.

It is visually obvious

Even to the inexperienced viewer That the sailing ship is designed To cope with nature’s Most formidably hostile Environmental conditions

For human survival, Those existing at the interface Of the ocean’s and the atmosphere’s Ofttimes tumultuous ferocity, Where, for long and most often, Of all places around Earth An unprepared, ill-equipped humanity Usually perished.

For it was the many lethal experiences With those myriad

Of awesomely demanding conditions Witnessed by a few fortunate survivors Which progressively invoked Man’s subjective discovery And objective invention Of general engineering principles As well as the foundations of mathematics From which in turn he evolved Not only competent naval architecture But such other mathematical essentials as Chronometers, compasses, charts Spherical trigonometry, sextants And celestial navigation, And thereby derived

Instrumentally guidable safe passaging Of multitonned vessels

Scudding along under full sail Over the rocks and shoals permeated Great ocean waters

Under the invisible conditions Of night, fog and high seas.

And sailing ships

Unlike bulldozers

Do no damage to the sea, land or sky

While employing the windpower

Without any depletion

Of the vast wealth of universal energy.

And because the sailing ship’s beauty

Is the unpremeditated consequence

Of omni-integrity in designing

Both its comprehensively anticipatory performance as a ship

As well as the technology of its building,

That functional beauty has inspired

The high-seas sailorman,

Voyaging safely within its womblike hold,

Not only reproductively to proliferate

The successful prototype designs

But also spontaneously to identify

Sailing ships

As females.

Three quarters of our planet

Is covered by water.

And in developing the ability

To live at sea

And thereby to integrate

The world around occurring

But very unevenly distributed

Gamut of physical resources and knowledge,

And thus ultimately to make all resources

Available to the integrated production

And distributive service of all humanity

(Despite the world-around recurrent formidable conditions), 56

Humanity has manifested

Its greatest comprehensively anticipatory

Scientific designing effectiveness

In the high-seas sailing ship

The by-products of which have been

His establishment of a science-founded,

World-embracing,

Scientifically laboratoried,

Search and research navigated,

Speed of light intercommunicated,

Industrial mass-production complex—

Out of which, in turn,

Has come, evolutionarily,

Humanity’s mastery of sky and interplanetary travel

And its biochemical conquest

Of physiological disorders

Of the human organism

And possibly soon to come

The adequate physical sustenance of all mankind.

Key to humanity’s scientific discoveries,

Technical inventions,

Design conceptioning

And production realizations

Has been a phenomenon

Transcendental to humanity’s

Self-disciplined

Objective concentrations of thought

And deliberate acts —

A phenomenon transcendental to humanity’s Consciously disciplined inventive capabilities.

That key is the first And utterly unpremeditated event In all discovery, invention and art. It is humanity’s intuitive awareness Of having come unwittingly upon An heretofore unknown truth, A lucidly conceptual, Sublimely harmonic, Regenerative relationship Of a priori Universe — An eternal principle— And then moments later A second intuitive awareness

Regarding what the conceiving individual human Must do at once

To capture the awareness of And secure the usefulness of That eternally reliable generalized principle For all humanity

For now and henceforth.

Again and again, Step by step, Intuition opens the doors That lead to man’s designing Of more advantageous rearrangements Of the physical complex of events Which we speak of as the environment, Whose evolutionary transition ever leads Toward the physical and metaphysical success Of all humanity.

And because its design

Permits humanity to live anywhere

Around our planet’s watery mantle

And because this sailing craft

We are now to launch

Is the epitome of design competence —

As manifest at this moment

In the forever forwardly mounting and cresting wave

Of design capability —

We herewith give

To this world-around dwellable

High-seas sailing craft

The name intuition.

During pauses in the post-launching events The soliloquy persisted And later that evening And for many days thereafter

The following thoughts were inscribed:

I am now seventy-three years of age And am eager to participate further In humanity’s designing functions — That is, in metaphysically comprehending And mastering in orderly ways The physical energy Universe’s

Inexorably expanding momentary disorders, And am aware that humanity Is approaching a crisis

In which its residual ignorance, shortsightedness And circumstance-biased viewpoints May dominate,

Thus carrying humanity

Beyond the “point of no return” —

Enveloping his exclusively Sun-regenerated

Planetary home

In chain-reactive pollutionings And utter disorder.

As a comprehensive and anticipatory design scientist I am aware that the reciprocating engines Of all our automobiles

Are only about

Fifteen percent efficient,

While our gas turbines

Are about thirty,

And our jet engines

About sixty percent efficient,

And fuel cells eighty percent

In delivering effective work power From the energies they consume.

The overall average of mechanical efficiency

Of world-around humanity’s power-to-work

As presently designed and tooled-up

Is only about four percent,

While experienced engineers and scientists concede That the world’s industrial network

Could easily be redesigned to operate at better Than an overall fifteen percent efficiency.

Ergo, I have long been intuitively aware

And am now scientifically confident

That a physically permitted design revolution

Is indeed feasible

Which can increase fourfold

The present design tool-up,

Of the planet Earth’s technology,

Thus raising it to a meager

Sixteen percent

Overall efficiency,

Which can do so very much more

With progressively ever less

Of kilowatts, minutes, grams and pollution

Of the physical resources of our Spaceship Earth —

To be invested in

Each function accomplished

As to be able to raise

The overall percentage of humanity

Enjoying a satisfactorily adequate standard of living

To a one hundred percent “haveness,”

And do so

Without having any human

Prosper at the expense of another

And do all the foregoing

Not only for all the humans now aboard

But also for all those

Later to come aboard

Our Spaceship Earth,

Which witnessed a condition

Only two thirds of a century ago

When less than one percent

Of its human passengers

Enjoyed an in any way comparable standard of living.

I am also acutely aware

That only a very small percentage of humanity

Has enough comprehensive experience

And cerebrated reconsideration of those experiences To know that all the foregoing is true.

And if you do not know

All of the foregoing to be true

You do not know enough

To be able to

Comprehend the synergetic significance

Of the integrated truth,

As well as feel intuitively

The irresistible compulsion

To act effectively

In the teleologic solution

Of all those problems,

And thereafter to reduce them

By design science

To realized technological practice

And industrial adoption

At the earliest moment

Whereby mankind may be

Streamlined into unself-conscious adoption

Of ever more effective

New ways of behaving,

Thus also unconsciously to abandon

The inadequate customs.

I also realize intuitively

That the elimination

Of the condition of resource inadequacy

And thereby the elimination of human want

May probably eliminate war

— Or quick death —

Which is always consequent to the overlong protraction

Of the slow and more anguished poverty’s

Slow dying

As brought about by lethal ignorance

In respect to the design revolution potentials

As society takes its only known recourse

In political actions,

Which can but throw the “Ins” out

Or “pull the top down,”

Unwitting that the design revolution

Could effectively elevate

Not only all those now on bottom

But also those now already prospering, Bringing all humans alike

To higher levels of advanced living Than have as yet been realized By any humans,

Without taking away

Or diminishing the advantages of any.

For the norm of all yesteryears

Was failure

As unwillingly conceded

By a sometimes

Vainly boastful

But most often abjectly prayerful

Poverty- and disease-bewildered people

Living out only one third

Of their potential years

In utter ignorance

Of the invisibly bounteous life-support system Hidden in the superficial landscape,

And consisting only

Of instrumentally gleanable information, Abstract and weightless generalized principles, Unique electromagnetic frequencies

And exclusively mathematical realizabilities; While the norm of today and tomorrow, If any is possible, Must be total success

For all of humanity

As inherent in

The integratable potentials

Of the comprehensive family Of omni-interaccommodative, And omniorderly

Generalized principles

Discovered by scientists

To be in a priori governance

Of universal evolution’s aggregate

Of nonsimultaneous

And only partially overlapping Transformative events.

And the norm of sustainable success

Of all humanity

Will be realized

By the computer-confirmable information That humanity can afford

To gratify handsomely

Whatever of its needs

And growth requirements

Can be satisfied

By what can be produced

Out of the as yet untapped resources Employed in yesterday’s

Now obsolete and scrapped Technological devices.

For we now know scientifically

That wealth consists exclusively

Of physical energy

Which cannot be depleted

Plus intelligence’s know-how

Which can only increase

As the ever metaphysically improved uses

Of the family

Of unique physical behaviors

Of energetic Universe

Are ever more promptly

Reinvested to omniregenerative advantages

Of all humanity’s ecological involvements

Within an omniconsiderate

Universal evolution integrity.

But as of this old-to-new era’s

Threshold crossing moment,

Ignorance of the design revolution potentials is pervasive,

And its vacuum persuades

The most powerful political thought

Of the largest organized groups of society

—Among the sixty percent of humanity

Now aboard Earth

Who are as yet “have nots” —

To assume that

Since there seemingly is nowhere nearly enough

Of vital resources

For all to be successful,

And in cunent fact

Only enough to support a minority,

The only fair condition for society Is one of comprehensive deprivation.

And a camaraderie of poverty

Which ever and again

Must assuage its emotional depression

By vindictively leveling

All attempts of any individual humans

To advance standards

As mistakenly constituting new upshoots

Of the socially abhorred

Survival only

Of the fittest selfishness.

We are also aware

That other vast numbers of the “have nots”

Who are almost entirely,

Unorganized politically,

Have for so many millennia

Suffered intensely

Both physically and metaphysically

Throughout their short-termed lives,

That there has been

No suggestion in their experience

That life was meant to be

Anything other than a tortuous trial.

Ergo, they rationalize

That the only explanation

Of such a negative experience

That could be hopefully contemplated

Is that life on Earth constitutes

Only a period of qualification

For an eternal life

Hereafter and elsewhere,

And the greater the hardship endured In the temporary or temporal life The pleasanter the life hereafter. And to all such life-hereafterers Any attempt to ameliorate and improve Their short life on Earth Assumedly threatens To dissipate and preclude The eternal ecstasy Of their life hereafter.

I am also aware that

An increasing number of human beings — More especially the young people of the world — Who have witnessed the success

Of my earlier prognostications, inventions And developmental initiatives In doing more with less

To inaugurate the design revolution Are asking me

At an increasing frequency And in increasing numbers

To share with them the experimental knowledge Which I have gained

And the philosophically harvested Design strategies I employ.

They seem especially interested In my environment control devices Which employ only the high priority Sea and sky sciences and technologies Of advanced industrialization.

But most of all they are interested In synergetics —

Which is the name I have given To the omnirational, comprehensive Co-ordinate system of Universe Which it has been my privilege To have discovered.

Synergetics makes nuclear physics A conceptual facility Comprehensible

By any physically normal child.

It also seems clear

That an increasing number of young, Or young-minded people Are beginning

To share my awareness That total holocaust

Is now being ignorantly induced By the world’s preoccupation with Exclusively political palliatives Which are inherently shortsighted And applicable only

To the emergency-dramatized local aspects Of the greater and unrecognized Evolutionary problems With which human life

Aboard our planet is beset.

For evolution is apparently intent That life in Universe

Must survive.

Biological life

Is syntropic

Because it sorts and selects Unique chemical elements From out of their randomly received Time and locality of reception As celestial imports;

Or from out of their random occurrence As terrestrial resources — fresh or waste— Anywhere around our Earth’s biosphere, And reassociates those elements In orderly molecular structures Or as orderly organs Of ever-increasing magnitude. Thus effectively reversing The entropic behaviors Of purely physical phenomena Which give off energy In ever more random, Expansive and disorderly ways.

For human life contains the weightless Omnipowerful, omniknowing Metaphysical intellect Which alone can comprehend Sort out, select, Integrate, co-ordinate and cohere.

Little humans

Preoccupied with the immediate needs Of their physical regeneration Have locked

Their zoom-lens focusing mechanism On the close-ups only Leaving it exclusively to their intuition

To remind them

Once and again in a surprised while Of the vast long-distance focusing Of evolutionary events.

And because evolution is apparently intent

Upon accomplishing humanity’s total economic success, Whenever society delays overlong

In adopting, producing, distributing and using

In peaceful spontaneity,

The evolutionary essential

Discoveries and inventions

Of the technological innovations,

Evolution then forces humanity to adopt and develop

All the progressively advancing technologies

As emergency commitments

Under the negative aegis of group fear of military defeat And its consequent defensive action taking.

In these emergencies humanity reorganizes

The physical environment

In naturally permitted ways

Which turn energy as matter

Into a myriad of wheel-mounted levers

And shunt energy

As radiation-induced flows

To impinge upon those levers, Thereby to do the gamut of tasks Conceived by the human mind To be most productively efficient

And requisite to the immediate survival emergencies Thereby inducing humanity’s Inadvertent acquisition

Of the subsequently and peacefully employable Mass-production capability,

Which could have been acquired

At fractions of the cost in lives and goods,

Had they been undertaken peacefully

At the time that they were introduced By the intuitive inventors, scientists, artists.

Though it was readily discernible long before the war It was only publicly acknowledged after the war That the copper mined, refined and shaped into wire In the emergency

Did not unrefine itself

And return as ore into the mountain

After the war was over—

But remained in the dynamo winding

And in the high-voltage transmission lines, To keep on delivering

Electrically converted water power

To distant places

To help humanity do its work,

To refrigerate the foods that used to perish

Before reaching the world’s mouths

To regenerate life.

Man had simply rearranged the scenery

To support more humans For more days of their lives. Despite its being

Only negatively entered

In the ignorantly applied

Agricultural accounting system

As a vast natural debt To cover the colossal

Industrial expenditures of war, Naught had been spent but thoughtful hours. Humanity’s productive and distributive Life-supporting capability — wealth — Had been irreversibly amplified

In view of all the foregoing

It is equally evident

That whatever we can contribute

As individuals

Which might lead to humanity’s

Choosing to abandon with sufficient alacrity Its futile preoccupation with politics —

And the latter’s inevitable recourse only to war And the latter’s negatively accounted “spending” — Is dependent upon

Our continuing physical health and agility, Metaphysical clarity and

Spontaneous initiative.

For if we can maintain

Both physical and metaphysical health

We might be able to join with others In helping to tip the scales

In favor of world society’s becoming preoccupied With the design-revolution priority

And its inherently required Educational-process revolution.

It was thus that intuition

Suggested the sloop intuition.

As the most favorable tool

For self-effectiveness conditioning

Within our individual ken.

For ships, sailors and the sea Have been my greatest Teachers and conditioners.

The Ancient Greeks initiated problem solving By recourse to cosmology and cosmogony, By proceeding from the whole to the part Lest they miss

The exquisite relevance Of each little part or event.

Thus did the Ionian Greeks intuitively Commence mathematical pattern mensuration Of their world, by geometry,

Within which comprehensive, synergetic advantage They discovered and demonstrated that

The known sum —

One hundred and eighty angular degrees — Of all the angles of any triangle, Plus the known values

Of three of the triangle’s six parts Provided the mathematical capability

To discover the other originally unknown values

Thus also synergetically did Democritus, Starting with the totally known complex Of visible Universe behaviors, Come to conceive schematically Of the logically necessary existence Of primary yet invisible components Of the physical Universe Which he named “atoms,”

More than two millennia in advance Of nonsynergetically plodding science’s

Physical verification

Of the microcosmic stardom role Played by those atoms.

If all humanity attains planetary success, Central to that attainment will be The magnificently regenerative power Of the Greek’s intuitive

Synergetic spontaneity of thought.

Brain and Mind

Dr. Harvey Cushing —1869 to 1939 —

Was so great a neurosurgeon

That his professional colleagues first called themselves

The Harvey Cushing Society

But later adopted the more formal name

Of American Association of Neurosurgeons

And at the same time instituted the Harvey Cushing Oration

As the principal address of their annual congress.

And though I am neither a neurosurgeon

Nor a professional of any discipline

An aberration of fate brought me the honor of delivering

“The 1967 Harvey Cushing Oration”

To two thousand of their members

At their annual meeting in Chicago.

I never prepare lectures so I thought out loud to them About humanity, its world

And its function in universal evolution,

And as I thought and spoke I realized o’erwhelmingly That if humanity is going to survive

It will be only because it commits itself

Unselfishly, courageously and exclusively

To its most longingfully creative inclinations,

Visionary conceptions

And intuitively formulated objectifications;

For the mind’s intellections —

In contradistinction to the brain’s automatics —

Apparently constitute humanity’s

Last and highest order of survival recourse.

Therefore I felt I must devote the occasion

To distinguishing between mind and brain —

For that unique difference

Also differentiates most incisively

Between human beings

And all the other living creatures.

For instance, it was mind alone that discerned

That physical experiment disclosed and confirmed

That local physical systems

Are always exporting energy

In one manner or another, such as by friction,

And it was mind alone that determined to identify semantically

The exporting of energy

By inventing the abstract name entropy.

And mind went on to discern

That physical experiences disclosed and confirmed

That all living tissue

During cell multiplication

Must import more energy

Than it exports,

Else it could neither grow

Nor even sustain healthy balance.

And mind also witnessed

That crystalline structures

Also can import energy

But not as much as they export;

And mind identified

Energy importing by the name syntropy.

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

Is governed by the internal dna-rna genetic codes.

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;

Where entropy is gaining over syntropy, death prevails.

Their exponentially regenerative, birth-death interplay

Is describable in information theory

As “self-accelerating feedback,”

And in nuclear physics it is manifest as “chain reaction”

And in an even more comprehensive way

It is manifest pulsatingly, resonantly and propagatively, As the irreversible regeneration of universal evolution.

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

By the late eighteenth-century scientists’ Academically hailed

Great “Second Law of Thermodynamics,” Which discovered and recognized only the energy-exporting phase called entropy.

Entropy’s behavior may be modernized to state

That every separately experienceable

And generalizably conceivable system in Universe

Is continually exporting energies

While also always importing energies

At a concurrently accelerating and decelerating

Variety of local system rates,

Which also means

That all systems are continually transforming

Internally as well as externally,

And because the periodicity of importing and exporting

Are both nonsimultaneous and unequal,

All the systems are tidally pulsative

At a variety of frequencies.

In the same way that systems

Have “centers of gravity” (cg)

And “neutral axes of gyration”

Identified by engineers as “I,”

They also have

“Centers of omniequilibrious symmetry,”

At which their kinetic transformings never pause, But relative to which kinetic action centers

They oscillatingly transform.

And the frequencies and geometries

Of those intemally-extemally co-ordinated pulsative trendings Are always uniquely asymmetric

As related to the local systems’ symmetrically co-ordinate Abstract “centers of equilibrious symmetry” (ces).

Because the unsynchronizable, asymmetric excesses

Are inherently exported

The internal-external events

Propagate both inward- and outward-bound waves.

These unique wave-system propagations

Only infrequently coincide

With the unique symmetry pattemings of others,

The orderly patterning energy releases of any one system

Only superficially appear to be disorderly—

Being unsynchronized immediately with other systems,

Though each system is internally orderly

And each is uniquely symmetrical dynamically.

This relatively minor yet true disorder, external to local systems, Is spoken of by the confused observer as “diffuse.”

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.

Omnidirectionally pulsative systems

Are, in effect, spherical gears.

Their inwardly and outwardly pulsating and rotating “teeth”

Consist of multifrequenced circumferential and radial waves

Of fifty-six great-circle subdivisions of spherical unity, Often nonmeshing with other local systems.

The universally infrequent meshing of wavelengths and frequencies Produces an omnicondition

In which the new omnidirectional system’s center must, as each is created,

Continually occupy omnidirectionally greater domains of disorder.

The sum total consequence of entropy is

An omniexpanding physical Universe

And an only (apparently increasing) disorderliness.

This does not mean absolute disorder;

It means the momentarily superficial appearance

Of less order than symmetry.

And the disorder is only relative

To the majority of individual cases,

For each system

And its particular entropic exportings

Is orderly within itself,

And the detection of disorder is mistakenly assumed As the result of exclusively myopic And too short-termed observing.

I am convinced therefore

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.

On the contrary, I am convinced

By comprehensively considered experience

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

Of omniself-regenerative Universe.

To date, we have gained vast inventories

Of trial-and-enor experience

From all of which information we have developed

A family of generalized scientific principles

Which are weightless pattern concepts.

Being weightless they are metaphysical.

From the metaphysics

We have in turn designed

Rearrangements of the physical behavior constituents

Of our omnikinetic environment scenery.

We have rearranged the scenery

In the pattern of world-around occurring power-driven tool networks All of which teleologic process

Has produced an ever-increasing survival advantage for humanity.

The human advantage is both physical and metaphysical,

As ever-increasing proportions of all Earthians

Become involved in the processes

Of massive production and distribution

Of both the necessities and desirables

Which implement humanity’s regenerative evolution requirements.

And the degrees of increasing advantage

Are expressible in precise scientific terms

Of the number of centimeters, grams and seconds of work

Humanity is able to accomplish

Out of each hour of investment

Of each and all of its individuals’

Potential lifetime hours,

Energies, materials and know-how.

But we also discover that humanity

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

And so myopically preoccupied with personally avoiding The erroneously assumed inevitability of poverty for the many, Which has slavishly and fearfully conditioned his reflexes.

Those not as yet included

In the high-living advantage, ever-multiplyingly produced

By power-driven tool networks,

Do not comprehend the swiftly accelerating rate

At which comprehensively increasing human advantage

Will include them and their children,

As well as the children of the already advantaged—

For they find themselves in a cultural environment

Whose customs, logic and law

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 —

Intuiting which, children find themselves brimming

With unanswered questions regarding the significance of life.

Inspired by the beauty and appeal

Of their earnest questioning

And in continuance of our attempt

To differentiate the domains and functionings

Of brain and mind,

We eagerly explore

For experiential evidence

That human minds and brains

May be essentials

In the total design integrity

Of eternally self-regenerative

Scenario Universe.

From physics we learn that every fundamental behavior of Universe Always and only coexists with a nonmirror-imaged complementary. The nonsimultaneity and dissimilarity

Of the complementary interpatteming pulsations

Integrate to produce

The complex of events

We sensorially identify as reality.

Without the pulsative asymmetries and asynchronous lags

The complementations would cancel out one another

And centralize equilibriously,

And there would be no sensoriality,

Ergo, no self-awareness, no life

For we have also learned from physics

That all the positive and negative weights

Of the fundamental components of matter

Balance out exactly as zero.

Life may well be a dream,

A comedy and tragedy

Of errors of conceptioning

Inherent in the dualistic

Imaginary assumption

Of a self differentiated

From all the complex otherness Of reasonably conceivable Universe For it must be remembered

That no human has ever seen directly Outside himself.

What we call seeing

Is the interpretive imagining in the brain Of the significance and meaning

Of the nervous system reports

Of an assumed outsideness of self, All of which organic design conception May be that of a great intellect

Which is inventing Universe progressively Evolving mathematically elegant

Integral equations

For each conceivable challenge Including the invention

You and me.

But you and I cannot escape

And are given extraordinary faculties Which we are supposed to use.

So here we go again

From right where we are Now.

At least our speculative excursion

Was relative to our attempt to differentiate Between brain and mind,

For the written record of two millenniums Discloses human minds forever rediscovering The great dream concept

While the brains of the dog and cat Sleeping at my feet

Have never given evidence

Of being concerned with such thoughts.

Either the brain tells them to go hunting Because their bellies are hungry

Or they bark in reflex to a strange noise Or they wag their tails in response To brain-recalled propitious circumstances.

Returning to our hard and soft Experiential realities,

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

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.

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

Were it not for Einstein’s observation

That the experimentally demonstrated Linear speeds of all forms of radiation Unleashed in a vacuum Were identical,

Indicating a top speed

Of physical Universe expansiveness.

This gave hope

But it did not explain

How Humpty Dumpty reassembled himself.

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.

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.

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.

Man is continually overlooking Earth

In his astronomical searching

Because of his fundamental propensity

For not thinking realistically of the Earth

As an astronomical body.

By making a globe

To demonstrate the scientific fact

That our Earth is a sphere

He concedes theoretically

That his Earth is not an infinite plane,

But he as yet feels and talks

Of “the four comers of the Earth,”

Of “the wide, wide world,”

And identifies “realistic, practical” thinking

As “getting down to Earth.”

He uses the words up and down,

Which refer exclusively to a planar concept of the world and Universe;

For all the perpendiculars to an infinite plane

Must be parallel to one another,

Ergo, extend only upwards and downwards.

“Up to the sky,” “down to Earth.”

Humans see

Hlusionarily receding railroad tracks apparently converging

Before reaching the horizon,

And therefore assume

That all the parallel lines leading “upwardly,”

Also logically must converge in a point called Heaven

And converge in the other direction

In a spot called Hell.

This is a powerful illusion still rampant in Earthians’ sensorial reflexing.

Even though many humans no longer promulgate

The conception of an otherworldly Heaven and Hell, They retain the illusionary orientation of Up and Down.

I have asked hundreds of audiences around the world

For a show of hands by those

Who do not use the words “up” and “down.”

In none of all my audiences have hands appeared.

This means that all the human beings

In all of my audiences

Use the words “up” and “down,”

And believe they’re being logical

In so doing.

And they query,

“What may we say cogently

In lieu of up and down?”

The answer was found by aviators.

As they flew around the world.

They did not feel themselves

To be “upside down.”

As flyers they selected the right words.

Flyers “Come in for a landing.”

Flyers “Go out in the sky.”

Flyers “Fly around the world.”

And the astronauts

Go in toward various celestial bodies

And accelerate outwardly from them

And into the spatial nothingness

Out of which space they steer themselves

To come in to another

Of tire always orbiting celestial bodies, Around any of which they may locally orbit In great or lesser circles.

All of us go outward, inward and around

Any object, or system of reference,

Such as planets, stars, houses, things, and atoms.

Atomic events transpire

Inward, outward and around their respective nuclei. We direct an astronaut into the Moon:

We will soon direct him info Mars.

Out is common to all bodies

And is outward in all directions

From any one of them.

“Out” is omnidirectional,

“In” is unidirectional.

“In” is unique.

In is always specifically oriented. In is individual.

The word “invention”

Uses the prefix “in”

To identify this specifically.

It means a “coming in,”

A coming into our thought of a unique conception,

Which we in turn

Realize in a special physical case demonstration

Thus in-troducing

The in-vention to society.

No scientist would suggest that any part of the Universe

Is identifiable as “up”

Nor any other locale as “down.”

Yet individual scientists themselves

As yet reflex spontaneously

In an “up” and “down,” conditioned-reflex miasma.

Their senses say reflexively,

“I see the Sun is going down,”

Despite that scientists

And almost everyone else have known theoretically

For five hundred years that the Sun is not going down at dusk And rising at dawn.

What is important in this connection

Is that the way in which humans reflex spontaneously

For that is the way in which

They usually behave in critical moments, And it is often “common sense” to reflex

In perversely ignorant ways

That produce social disasters

By denying knowledge

And ignorantly yielding to common sense.

We are therefore interested in how man

Can liberate himself

From all the up and down kind of reflexing.

I suggest to audiences that they say, “I’m going ‘outstairs’ and ‘instairs.’ ” At first that sounds strange to them;

They all laugh about it

But if they try saying in and out

For a few days in fun,

They find themselves beginning to realize

That they are indeed going inward and outward In respect to the center of Earth, Which is our Spaceship Earth.

And for the first time

They begin to feel real “reality.”

Blocked by until now The Heavens Above And Down to Earth fixations,

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.

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

At a thousand miles per hour As it Sun orbits.

As man first turned the television camera

Toward Earth from the Moon

In demonstration of our Earthians’

General reflexing in self-misinformative ways, My greatly admired friend Walter Cronkite At the microphone said, “There she is, Floating there!”

Floating in what?

And later the President of the United States Congratulated the astronauts

On going safely “up to the Moon

And back down again to the Earth.” Studying the experientially acquired data We begin to discover

That energies emanating

From celestial regions

Remote from Planet Earth

Are indeed converging and accumulating

In planet Earth’s biosphere

As a spherical collection of energies, Both as radiation and as matter.

Recent estimates of geo- and astrophysicists Show that many tons of stardust Arrive daily and remain on Earth.

Some estimates go as high

As one hundred thousand tons daily—

Probably acquired during Earth’s orbital passaging Through the rubble of comet tails By virtue of such stardust And asteroid fall-ins,

Earth is actually increasing its weight

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.

This cosmic radiation seems to impinge In the same disorderly manner As does the stardust.

Stardust itself is the intraverted Concentrate of cosmic radiation. Every chemical phenomenon Can be identified

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.

And of their eternally regenerative Terminal intertransformabilities.

We have our particular Radiant energy star—the Sun, Which is our prime energy supply source.

The Sun is our nearest celestial fuel ship. It is flying formation with us Through the Galactic System

At an Earth-fife incineration-proofing distance Of ninety-two million miles

As our energy concentrating Spherical space vehicle Earth Circles around our ten-billionfold greater Amassed energy mothership Sun.

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.

We haven’t found life on board Any other planetary space vehicles.

So our ship and its passengers May indeed have a unique function In this particular star group.

Our Sun squadron of planetary spaceships Speeds within our Galactic System — At thousands of times

Our Earth’s speed around the Sun.

Our enormous spiral nebula constitutes

The grand fleet of local Universe space vehicles — Which fleet we speak about In English as the Milky Way.

While all this celestial fleet maneuvering transpires, Operating at cosmic flank-speeds,

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.

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.

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.

If our space vehicle Earth Were nearer to the Sun, We would be incinerated By our energy-supplying mothership.

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.

These belts are the outermost Of the biosphere’s spherical mantles. Within these Van Allens we have The ionic veil surrounding our spaceship.

The Van Allen belts intercept the radiation

Which would kill a naked man positioned outward of those belts. The Van Allen belts

Diffuse the radiation, by refraction, to below lethal level.

From thence inward, the ionosphere,

The stratosphere and atmosphere

Progressively refract the radiation,

Separating its original lethal radiation concentration Into a variety of life-sustaining increments.

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.

The Sun’s radiant energy

Is the prime regenerating source

For all biological life on our planet.

Even while sunburning their skins

Humans and all other mammals

Are unable to take in enough radiant energy

Through their skins

To keep themselves alive.

To circumvent mammals attempting futilely so to do

Nature has invented

The green vegetation on the dry lands,

And the algae in the waters around the Earth’s surface.

The vegetation and the algae

Impound the Sun’s radiation by photosynthesis

Converting the radiation

Into orderly molecules,

Which provide celestial life’s prime energy intake.

The vegetation and algae

Provide metabolic sustenance

Of all manner of creatures,

Some of which can in turn

Nourish humans.

Urged by subconsciously initiated desire,

Or genetically programmed

To experience thirst, appetite and breathing,

Biological species are motivated

To “feed” in the solid, liquid and gaseous

Chemical constituents necessary

To produce the ongoing biological molecules

Whose energies are convertible Into action and growth.

As the prime energy impounder,

The vegetation on the land has to have roots

In order to get enough water to cool itself

So that it will not be dehydrated

While it photosynthesizes the radiation energy of the Sun

Into the beautiful molecular structures

That provide the metabolic energy exchange functions

Of terrestrial life support.

The algae floating in the sea Are automatically water-cooled.

Remembering that we are searching for an understanding

Of humanity’s functioning in Universe

And that we had thought it logical to find first

A moving locus in Universe where syntropy dominates,

We intuit excitedly that

The photosynthesis process

Of orderly molecule production

Indeed constitutes elegant manifest

That our planet Earth may be

One such moving locus in Universe

Where energy is accumulating syntropically

Being conserved

In ever more compact and orderly patterns,

As biological, crystalline,

Liquid and gaseous substances —

As a complementary process to the entropic disorder

Multiplyingly manifest

By the omnientropic star centers

Of Universe.

Our First Manifest that our planet Earth

Is just such a syntropic locus

Is the constant terrestrial acquisition

Of energy around Earth’s spherical surface

Provided by the stardust and cosmic radiation,

The latter of which, including the Sun’s,

Is not reflectively redistributed

Back outward to Universe,

As would a reflective mirrored ball

Reject the radiation.

Instead, Earth is measurably impounding the radiation

By progressive angular refractions,

Which separate

The originally lethal radiation dosages

Into nonlethal fractions

And shunt those radiations

From perpendicular to circumferential travel

Within the biosphere’s concentric mantles.

This refraction of radiation

Manifests mathematically orderly angular shunting

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.

This frequency modulating

Biosphere refractionating relay

Constitutes Manifest Number Two

Of our sought-for syntropic

Orderly energy concentrating

In a mobile locus of Universe.

Manifest Number Three

That our Earth is just such a traveling locus

Of syntropic energy concentration

Is the demonstrable fact already noted

That all the biologicals are continually multiplying

Their beautiful cellular, molecular and atomic structurings

Which planetary metabolic conservation

Constitutes a comprehensive pattern integrity

Of orderly energy concentration.

Manifest Number Four that our planet Earth

Is indeed the first known such syntropic center of Universe Is the processing formation

Of the Earth’s chemically regenerative topsoils.

And the Fifth Manifest is the inwardly sunken

And progressively pressure buried

Coal and petroleum deposits

As high energy concentrate fossil fuels.

Having set out to discover

Whether humans had a function in Universe

And having only found humans

As passengers aboard planet Earth,

We sought first to discover

Whether the Earth planet itself had a function in Universe.

Saying to ourselves

That if the Earth’s function could be found

Then we might go on to find what constituent functions

Of Earth planet’s universal functioning

Man might, uniquely, be performing.

We have thus far found a five-stage hierarchy of manifests

Clearly confirmatory

Of planet Earth’s functioning

As the only thus far known traveling focus

Of syntropic concentration

Of eternally regenerative Universe’s physical energies.

This confirms our assumption

That we had first to find such a syntropic traveling locus

Within the total complementary scheme

Of universal regeneration.

A Sixth Manifest of Earth’s

Unique celestial scheme functioning

Is discoverable as the impoundment

Of star energy radiation

In both the Earth’s atmosphere

And in its hydrosphere,

Which provides the weather and ocean currents

And which maintains the critical temperatures

Within which the biological proliferation of metabolic formulations And feedback chemical process exchangings must occur.

For an instance, the heating of the hydrosphere

Involves the fact that water takes on heat and loses it At the slowest rate of all known substances.

The water temperatures of the Earth

Vary between such close limits

That the average temperatures throughout the years

Have varied less than one degree Fahrenheit

Over all the years in which temperatures

Have been recorded.

Within these exquisitely stable limits

The metabolic regeneration of humans is sustained

As an ultimate focus of the metabolic interchange

And transformations of the total biological ecology complementation.

So delicate are the thermal balances involved

That healthy humans, for instance,

At all times manifest a temperature

Of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit

No matter what their age,

Their geographical location,

Or their clothing may be.

Manifest Number Seven

Is that the progressive geological burying

Of the hydrocarbon energy concentrates

Ever more deeply

And at increasing pressures

Within the Earth’s crust, or hydrosphere,

Transforms the biological residues

Into rigid, liquid or gaseous fossil fuels.

With this stored energy

Humans were advantaged

To power their myriad levers

Of industrial tooling

To permit humanity

To hook-up directly

With the inexhaustible energy

Of eternally regenerative Universe.

Thus graduating his metabolic dependencies

From the frequently failing

Agricultural energy impoundments

To direct access to never-failing celestial sources.

All our Manifests

Combine to demonstrate that planet Earth Is indeed one such energy collecting, Concentrating, sorting and conserving, Mobile and reliably interorbiting

Orderly energy locus of Universe

For which we were seeking

As an only Sun reflectively invisible complementary To the optically obvious energy distributing

Radiant stars.

Thus it is evidenced

That Earth’s energy concentrating

Will culminate millions of years hence

In Earth itself becoming an entropically radiant star In its turn exporting energy

For the biological life support of humanity Long since migrated to other planets

Of other stars.

This is celestial confirmation

Of Boltzmann’s law, Which states in modernized effect That within a closed system

There are oscillations and evolutions

Between high and low energy

Concentrations and diffusions.

New lows concentrate energy and become highs

By exhausting yesterday’s highs

As yesterday’s exhausted highs

Become today’s lows.

Boltzmann made his finding

While checking Avogadro’s discovery

That under identical

Conditions of energy —

As heat or pressure —

All gases will disclose

The same number of molecules

Per given volume.

Boltzmann’s law

Has been found to hold true

Outside the gaseous microcosm

Within which he found it.

It explains for instance

Not only the weather—

But also the high and low energy concentration dynamics

Of our biosphere.

And now we find it explaining Earth’s function

In the macrocosmic scheme of Universe.

We now come to man’s unique function

Aboard the energy-storing planet Earth

As distinctly differentiated out

From the first seven manifests

Of syntropic concentration

At this moving locus of Universe.

Man’s mind-over-mattering

Is distinguishable as syntropic Manifest Number Eight.

Our discovery and confirmation

Of man’s having a unique and essential

Role in Universe

Will depend upon our developing a clear understanding Not only of the difference

Between brain and mind functioning

But also of their respectively unique characteristics.

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:

They are often used synonymously

The pragmatist tends to discard

The word mind as embracing

What seems to him “untenable mysticism”;

While the realist feels

That the word brain

Is adequate to all his needs.

Though I have discussed

My differentiating of

Brain and mind

With leading neuroscientists

And have received the tentative

Approbation of many for my hypothesis,

And have exposed the concepts

To hundreds of audiences

Including audiences of teachers

And prominent journalists,

I have had no serious rejections.

When in the spontaneity of a moment

I chose the neurosurgeons

As the particular audience

Before whom to differentiate between brain and mind.

I did so

Because experience suggested them to be

The most competent judges

Of the merit of my theretofore unpublished hypothesis And method of its evolvement.

Having first resolved that

Only the known data

Either of inadvertent experience

Or deliberate experiment

Constitute the foundations

Of scientific exploration and discovery

We will now go on to consider all of such data

That I know to be pertinent

To the potential differentiation Of brain and mind.

For the last three decades

Physiologists and neurologists

Have been probing the human brain

With electrodes, oscillographs, Potentiometers, et al.

They have combined their instrumental findings

With behavioral observations

Of first, second and third parties.

The brain probers have identified

Several types of energy emanations

Both as amperage

And as wave-frequency oscillations

In unique magnitude sequences.

With vast numbers

Of permanent bed cases

In veterans’ hospitals,

Many of those permanent invalids

Have willingly and interestedly submitted

To wearing

Of the sensationless

Head-mounted electrodes

Of the brain-probing scientists, Whether they are awake or asleep.

While they sleep

The recording oscillographs

Scribe their wavy lines

Of magnitudes and frequencies.

These taped records are numbered.

When the patients awake

They are asked to describe their dreams,

If any.

From time to time

The oscillographed wave patterning

Is found to be repeating An earlier recording.

The scientists have found

That unique patterns of waves Characterize specific dreams Which are being re-experienced!

Sum totally to date

The scientists have learned

That the human brain

Is a vast communication system

Able to record and retrieve information At varying rates of lag.

The brain is a special case

Concept-communicating system

Very much like a television set.

It’s not just a telegraph wire,

Not just a telephone,

It is sensorially conceptual as well.

It deals with our optical receipts

As well as with our hearing,

Our smelling

And our touching.

In effect we have a telesense station

Wherein we receive the live news

And make it into a video-taped documentary.

In our brain studio we have made a myriad of such videoed recordings

Of the once five news,

All of which we hold in swiftly retrievable storage.

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.

In any television station studio The director intuitively sorts and selects Resource sequences

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.

Out of all this comparative viewing

The director then selects what he conceives of

As an appropriate action scenario

Of action to be taken now

In view of both the news challenges

And the documentary reminiscences.

Because the brain’s TV prime resource

Consists of images,

We may call the total brain activity

Image-ination.

My youth began a half century before TV.

During that half century

Those who wished to discredit

Another man’s thinking, words or actions

Often said,

“Pay no attention to him;

He is full of imagination.”

This was tantamount to saying,

“He is a liar.”

TV society is not making that mistake any more.

All we have ever seen

Is and always will be

In the scopes of our brain’s TV station.

All that humanity has ever seen

And will ever see

Is his own image-ination;

Some of it is faithfully reported new,

Some of it is invented fiction or make believe;

Some of it is doggedly retained “want to believe.”

The physiologists and neurologists

Probing the brain

Say it is easier to explain

All the data they have

Concerning the general phenomena

Operative at the top of the spine

If they assume two prime variables always to be operative.

They give one of them the name “mind,”

The other they call “brain.”

The neurologists and physiologists say

It is easier to explain all the data they have

If they assume

The mind as well as the brain to be co-operative, Than it is to explain all the data

If they assume only brain to be operative.

And why is that?

It is because it is found that there are conversations Going on over this communication system —

Using its information retrieving and storing system — Whose conversational contents

Are in no way explicable

As being produced by feedback of the system itself.

Since neurologists and physiologists

Find it desirable

To assume the two phenomena,

The brain and the mind,

I became intent, if possible, to differentiate scientifically Between brain and mind.

I’ve developed my own

Experimental strategy of differentiation

Which was published in the 1965 spring edition Of Phi Beta Kappa’s quarterly magazine, The American Scholar.

I have had generally favorable response to it,

I have also the favorable response

Of the two thousand neurosurgeons

When I delivered their Harvey Cushing Oration.

The physicists and mathematical physicists call me An “experimental mathematician.” Because I reject axioms and I Explore mathematics experientially.

To present my scientific differentiation

Of brain and mind

I proceed as follows —

First I say:

“I take a piece of rope and tense it.”

As I purposely tense it

I inadvertently make it tauter.

But I was not tensing the rope

For the purpose of making it tauter,

I was trying only to elongate the rope.

Its girth is inadvertently contracting and

The rope is also inadvertently getting harder.

In contracting and getting harder

The rope is going into radial compression In a plane at ninety degrees to the axis of My consciously purposeful tensing

And —in an inadvertently complementary manner—

Next I purposely produce compression.

To do so I take tempered-steel rods:

Each rod is three feet long

And one eighth of an inch in diameter.

If I take one rod by itself

Between the fingers of my right and left hands

And press the ends toward one another,

The rod will bend flexively.

Using uniform diameter rods

We find experientially

That two parallel rods cannot stand closer to one another Than in tangency of their circles’

Of respective cross-sectionalling.

A third parallel rod cannot stand closer

To the other two than by nestling into the valley

Between the other two’s tangent circles,

With each of the three rods

Now in parallel tangency

With both of the other two.

The centers of their three circular cross-sections

Form an equiangular triangle.

Hexagons consist of six equiangular triangles.

Hexagons have six circumferential points

And a center point —seven in all —

All equidistant from one another.

Six parallel unidiameter rods

May now be stood in parallel tangency

To form an additionally complete

Hexagonal perimeter ring

Around the first seven,

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,

All of which nineteen will also be nuclear, That is, be completely surrounded

By six others in closest tangential triangulation.

We may add more parallel tangent hexagonal rings, Each ring increasing the number by six more rods Than those of the previous outermost ring.

The outermost ring rods will always Be tangentially closest packed With only three other rods —

That is, they will be triangularly stabilized,

But not nuclear,

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

That the rod-like Earthward trajectories

Of closely falling inter-mass-attracted raindrops Passing through freezing temperature

Nucleate in hexagonal snow-flake arrays Under just such close-packing laws.

The Greek architects found experientially That when a stone column’s height Exceeds eighteen diameters of its girth It tends to fail by buckling.

The length to diameter ratio Of compressional columns Is called its slenderness ratio. Steel columns are more stable Than stone columns.

Steel columns are structurally usable

With slenderness ratios as high as thirty-to-one.

But such columns are called long columns.

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.

A twelve-to-one slenderness ratio Provides a short column.

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.

Each rod by itself has

A slenderness ratio

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.

These 547 willow-slender rods

Will close-pack symmetrically

Into a tangential hexagonal short-column set

Of thirteen concentric rings around the nuclear rod.

Standing the hexagonal bundle vertically on a table

I bind them tightly together

With a steel wire

In an hexagonal honeycomb pattern

Similar to that of a wire rope section.

The maximum diameter of this bunch

Will now be three and three eighths inches.

I next put hexagonal steel caps

Neatly fitted over the opposite ends

Of the wire-wrapped

Steel-rod bunch.

The whole bundle

Is now integrated

As a single column

Three feet long

And three and three eighths inches in diameter.

I put this stout short column’s ends

Between the upper and lower jaws

Of an hydraulic press

And thus load the composited rod column

In vertical compression

In the axis of the rods.

We know by our earlier trial

That each end-loaded rod can bend;

So end-loading them in a bunch

Results in each rod tending to bend in its middle But being closest-packed together

They cannot bend inwardly toward one another, I.e., toward the column’s center rod,

They can bend only outwardly away from one another.

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.

This results in the whole column

Becoming cigar-shaped as seen in vertical profile.

If loaded sufficiently, The bundle approaches sphericity.

This experiment indicates

That our purposeful loading of the column in compression Inadvertently results

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.

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.

One can be at “high tide” of visibility,

And the other coincidentally

At low-tide visibility.

These always and only coexisting variables,

(Where one is at high tide

While the other is at low tide)

Are typical complementaries

Which are not minor-images

Of one another but must always

Complexedly balance one another in physical equations. Both demonstrate ninety-degree inadvertent resultants. This behavior is known as the Poisson Effect.

Universe is the aggregate

Of all of humanity’s

Consciously apprehended

And communicated experiences,

Which aggregate

Of only partially overlapping events Is sum-totally a lot of yesterdays Plus an awareness of now.

Yesterdays and now

Are neither simultaneous

Nor minor-imaged;

But through them run themes As overlappingly woven threads, Which though multipliedly individualized Sum-totally comprise a scenario.

No single frame either explains

Nor foretells the whole continuity—

The picture of the caterpillar Does not foretell the butterfly,

Nor does one picture of a butterfly Show that a butterfly flies.

I cannot think simultaneously

About all the special-case events which I have experienced, But I can think of one special set

Of closely associated events

At any one now.

Each one of these thinkable sets

Are what I call a system.

A system is a subdivision of Universe.

A system subdivides Universe

Into all of the Universe events

Which are irrelevant to the considered set

Because: (a) they are outside the system, Too macrocosmic and too infrequent Either to fit into Or to alter

The considered set.

Or irrelevant because (b) occurring

Too microcosmically remote

Within the system

And of too-high frequency

And of too-short duration

To be tunable with

Or to alter significantly

The considered think-set.

After dismissing momentarily

Both the macro and micro inelevancies

There remain

The few clearly relevant sets of associated events Which constitute the system.

We find that all the systems which subdivide Universe Into insideness and outsideness, Are concave on the inside And convex on the outside.

We next observe that

The concave and the convex

Always and only coexist.

A rubber glove on my left hand

Has an external part which is convex

And an inside which is concave.

If I strip the rubber glove off my left hand, It now fits my right hand.

What had been the concave

Becomes the convex

And the convex becomes the concave.

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.

Please do not think

That we have forgotten

That we are concerned here

With scientific, i.e., experimentally based, search For a means of differentiating neatly Between brain and mind.

Experimental demonstration

Of a plurality of special-case instances

Of always and only co-occurring phenomena

Are prerequisite to generalizing

The brain-mind differentiation.

I will give another example

Of always and only co-occurring phenomena.

Physicists today observe

That the proton and neutron

Always and only co-occur.

While they are not “mirror” images of one another

And have different weights,

They are transformable

One into the other,

And are thus complexedly complementary, As are isosceles and scalene triangles.

None of the angles and edges of either need be the same

To produce triangles of equal area.

And the sums of the three angles of each

Will always be one hundred and eighty degrees.

The mathematical balancing or complementation

Of the proton and neutron are analogously balanced, Each one having two small energy teammates.

The proton has its electron and its antineutrino, And the neutron has its positron and its neutrino.

And each of these little three-member teams

Constitute what the physicist calls half-spin or a half-quantum. They complement one another

And altogether comprise one unit of quantum.

We have now discovered experientially

An always and only coexisting tension and compression;

An always and only coexisting concave and convex;

And an always and only coexisting proton and neutron.

We next consider the Theory of Functions

Which embraces all of these terms.

X and Y are the always and only co-occurring

Covariables of the theory of functions

We can have X stand abstractly for tension

Or for convex or for proton

And we can then have Y stand abstractly

For compression, concave or neutron, respectively, In each of our foregoing always and only co-occuring Experiential observations of interessential relationships.

We can go further still:

We have the word “relativity.”

We cannot have relativity

Without at least two phenomena to be differentially related.

There is also the word complementarity.

We cannot have one phenomenon complemented

By less than one other phenomenon.

The words complementarity and relativity

Do not identify identical physical phenomena.

We need to discover

Whether there exists a generalized concept

Which embraces both phenomena,

And we find that the ponderable physical energy Universe That is, physical universe,

In contradistinction to the Universe’s

Weightless, metaphysical aspects,

Does embrace both complementarity and relativity.

B5

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?”

My statement was a “first-degree scientific generalization.” In literature the word generalization means Covering too much territory Too thinly to be convincing.

However, we have in science a term “generalization,” Which does not have the literary connotation.

A generalization in science refers to A principle discovered by experiment To be operative in every special case.

If we find any exception,

We no longer have a scientific generalization.

Scientific generalizations are extraordinarily meaningful, As for instance was the discovery

Of the principle of leverage,

Which probably came about as follows: Occasionally humans who have penetrated Wilderness forests

Encounter trees fallen slantwise Across their line-of-sight path In their chosen direction of travel.

It is obviously quicker

To climb over the fallen tree

Than to try to walk around it.

They find it logical

To walk along the top of the fallen tree

When it leads in the direction of preferred travel Or toward the next opening in the forest.

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.

They retreat —

Back along the tree trunk.

Experimenting, they find the tree

On which they are walking

Is lying across another tree.

And then they observe

That the end of the tree behind them,

Opposite to the direction

In which they were walking,

Is itself superimposed

By a third and very mighty tree.

Looking the situation over they find

That as they walk outward — joumeyward —

Along the first tree

That its slow but accelerating descent

Coincides with the other end’s

Lifting the trunk of the massive tree.

Never having heard of a lever

Or fulcrum,

They say, “That big tree, which is being lifted

Is much too big for me to lift.”

They go over to the massive tree And attempt to lift it directly With their arm, back and leg muscles. It doesn’t budge.

Shaking their heads in surprise, They once more try walking along On the first tree.

Again the massive tree rises easily.

And Neanderthal man probably thought

As it rose

That he had found a magic tree-lifting tree.

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,

Not only would any tree do

But so too would any steel bar,

Or glass reinforced plastic bar, Or any small-toothed gear, Or a large-toothed gear.

This man discovered

A true scientific generalization

Which always holds true Under any circumstances.

The lever works equally well

Anywhere in Universe.

It can be made of many materials, It can be of any size.

Its behavior follows incisively predictable Mathematical laws.

It was a first-degree generalization

When I said, “I take a piece of rope,”

And in describing my purposeful tensing of it.

There was nothing I said

Regarding the piece of rope

That in any way contradicted

Any experience that anybody

In any audience has ever had

With any piece of rope.

It is a second-degree generalization

To find an additional generalized principle

Operating within the generalized piece of rope;

Such as the always and only

Coexisting tension and compression.

It is also a second-degree generalization

To find the concave and convex within generalized systems.

It’s a third-degree generalization

Or a generalization of a group of generalizations,

To develop the Theory of Functions

Wherein the X and Y could stand

For any one second-degree coexistence generalizations.

It is a fourth-degree generalization

To develop the word “relativity.”

And it’s a fifth-degree generalization

To employ the word “Universe”

To embrace both the relativity and complementarity.

The degrees are then progressive omnibus stages

Of generalizations of generalizations.

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.

The a priori integrity Of scientific generalizations Is manifest in all the phases of Universe As we explore it progressively.

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.

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

A generalized anything.

We play tension and compression with a little dog. He uses compression of his teeth

As we pull on the stick and tense it, And the dog uses

The convex and concave surfaces of his teeth

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.

Some living creatures’ brains Develop conditioned reflexes To special-case type events, Which produce behaviors resembling a first-degree Sense of generalization.

But there seems to be no indication

That they ever evolve

A generalization of a generalization, And they certainly do not get to Fourth- and fifth-degree generalizations.

We find that brains deal

Always and only with special cases.

We remember the special-case name—Tim Smith— Which we may not need to recall For thirty-five years,

Yet it occupies its own special Physical brain’s “after-image” locale— Possibly its own neuron.

We find the brain always dealing with special cases

And the mind dealing with generalizations.

The generalizations have no weight;

Only special cases have weight

Or any other physical characteristic.

All scientific generalizations

Are pure metaphysics.

All metaphysics are weightless

And physically unlimited.

A triangle is a generalized principle

And a triangle persists conceptually

As a triangle,

Independently of size,

Color, weight, taste, texture or time.

Searching for a function of man in Universe

We found first

A phase of Universe

Which needed counterbalancing.

This was the entropic, expansive;

Increasingly disorderly, radiantly explosive Universe.

In answer we found Earth to be a sphere

Wherein Universe was collecting

Sorting, concentrating, and storing energies

In mathematically orderly ways

Such as by refraction, crystal growth,

Photosynthesis or molecular formations.

Then we found that all the biologicals

Were antientropic.

I found myself publishing in ‘49,

As did Norbert Weiner in another book at the same time, Unwitting of one another’s coincidental

Perceptionings and simultaneous disclosures

That all biological life is antientropic

And that the human mind

Is the most powerfully effective

Antientropy

Thus far evidenced.

It was only a few years ago

That it seemed logical

To cease speaking of the phenomena involved

As antientropy,

Entropy being disintegratively negative;

Antientropy was, in effect, a double negative

Used to express a positive.

So to render the concept positive

And to identify its kinship

To synergy,

I started speaking of it as syntropy

As the positive complementary

Of the negative entropy.

Now I surmise

That the speculative thought

Of the human mind —

In contradistinction

To the physical experience recalls

Of the physical brain —

Is physically nondemonstrable,

Ergo, metaphysical,

But its teleological activity,

Which subjectively evolves generalizations

From multiplicities of special-case experiences (And thereafter employs the generalizations

Objectively in other special-case physical formulations) Can be detected

Through man’s intuitive recognition

Of the weightless pattern integrity per se, Ever weightlessly, abstractly present in the original Discovering and inventing events.

Scientific generalizations

Have no inherent beginning or ending.

In discovering them

Mind is discovering a phase of Universe

That is eternal.

The physical human and its physical brain Unmonitored by mind

Are not only less effectively syntropic

Than other biological species;

They are often consciously

Far more entropic

Than any other species

And are only subconsciously syntropic.

Human’s average birth weight of seven pounds Is multiplied sometimes as much as fiftyfold By syntropic chemical combining of Other protoplasmic cells

Taken in as food;

With gases and liquids

Taken in by breathing and drinking.

But humanity’s syntropic cell multiplication

Is outperformed greatly by trees, whales, elephants And other living organisms.

Remembering that antientropy, or syntropy Means, on the one hand,

Reversing the physical trending

Toward greater disorder

And, on the other hand, means Converting the relative disorder To increasingly orderly physical arrangements.

We found that the human’s biological role is minor, But that his metaphysically-sorting mind-role

Is the paramount syntropy,

For it reviews and sets in fundamental order

The randomly, ergo disorderly,

Physical event experiences of the universal environment;

And the magnitude of physical rearranging In progressively more orderly patterns

Metaphysically conceived by the human mind Is overwhelmingly greater

Than that produced by the

Physiological organisms

Of any other biological species.

One mind can design orderly machines,

Such as the steamship Queen Mary, Or in a continental highway system In physical magnitude which dwarfs Any biological undertaking,

Even that of coral-reef building By minuscule coral creatures.

It must be remembered

That syntropy also means

To collect, concentrate, and store.

When I speak to an audience

As recounted before,

Saying, “Let us take a piece of rope . .

To demonstrate the generalized rope concept—

I am drawing on

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.

So my first-degree generalization Reduces our experience processing One hundred thousandfold.

Our second-degree generalization

Reduces the experiences multi-billionfold, And each further degree of generalization Multiplies the number of special experiences From which the generalization is extracted.

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.

When we get to the fifth-degree generalization, Universe,

We have increased our numbers-of-experiences base

To all the experiences

Ever known to and remembered by humanity, Including all the experiences

With all the atoms and their nuclear components.

Thus, the human mind

Has collected, combined and refined

All experiences of all humanity,

In all-remembered time,

Into one single concept,

Universe,

Which is, ipso facto, The ultimate generalization.

Clearly it is seen

That man’s metaphysical mind Demonstrates the most effective

Syntropic capability evidenced in Universe Excepting that of the universal mind’s Cosmic syntropy

As manifest in the eternal design complex, Comprehensively and synergetically interaccommodative As eternally regenerative Universe, Which cosmic syntropy combines

All the metaphysical integrities As well as all the physical patterns.

Human mind’s metaphysical syntropy potential Caps all the syntropic sequences

Operative in our Spaceship Earth’s Comprehensive syntropic system, Which, as we remember, started its analysis

Hoping to be able

To identify humanity’s function in Universe

And thereby to gain insights

Into the respective functions Of the mind and brain.

We started looking for

The syntropic complementation

Of the entropic energy expenditures

Of all the stars

And found our own Spaceship Earth

To be the most immediate demonstration

Of the energy aggregating

Of star radiation and stardust,

And we observed

The progressive impoundments by the atmosphere And oceans, of energy as heat, Refracted into circumferential

Weather and ocean currents,

Which energy impoundments produced the exact Temperatures, pressures, and chemical wherewithal For developing the vegetational photosynthesis Of land and sea.

And we went on to find that

The effect of all of this is

To reduce the randomly received energies

Into superbly orderly

Molecular and cellular structurings

And to multiply that highly concentrated

And chemically locked-in

Energy — as hydrocarbons

Which were and are continually

Being buried deeper and deeper

Within Earth’s agglomerate surface,

Where the pressures and heat

At a kilometer’s depth

Begin to convert the hydrocarbon fossils into petroleum As an even more compacted energy conserve.

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

Of the random terrestrial environment;

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

To perpetuate its supreme syntropic functioning In Scenario Universe As the ultimate sorting, Rearranging, compacting

And logic-employing local monitor Of the syntropic phases of regenerative Universe.

Einstein,

As metaphysical, weightless, human intellect, Took the measure of the weighable physical And wrote

The most economically formulated equation Mathematically possible,

For it put on one side of the equation

The physical Universe, which is to be equated, Represented as “E”—

Because all that is physical is energetic — And on the other side of the equation Einstein placed the two terms

Minimally necessary to disclose a relationship.

For these two terms he employed

“M” (For energy associated as matter) and

“c²” (For energy disassociative as radiation), Expressed as c² because

c is the speed of light

In any one linear direction;

But light goes omnioutwardly in a spherical wave Whose surface increases as the second power Of the linear speed of radiation.

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Ergo: Einstein’s equation

Is E = Mc².

And in it the velocity of c²

Is the constant and known term

And the amount of energy

Compacted in any given mass

Can be determined

If the given E to be analyzed

Is measured.

Einstein’s equation

Was intuitively formulated

From the experimentally Harvested data of others, But proved to be correct When the subsequent fission occurred.

Here we have the metaphysical intellect Taking the measure of

And mastering the physical.

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

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

Or irreversibility

Of intellectual processes.

For the syntropic metaphysical Is not a mirror-imaged reversal Of the entropic physical’s Disorderly expansiveness.

The fact that man, Using only his physical brain And not his mind, Can be the most

Entropically destructive organism

Does not contradict

The irreversibility principle

Unique to maximally syntropic mind.

Humanity’s imaginative invention of Hell Discloses its subconscious awareness Of the ultimate entropy.

Thus we find the metaphysical

Apprehending and embracing,

Comprehending, cohering and conserving

The integrity of Scenario Universe’s Never exactly identical recyclings.

The physical tries to destroy

And dissipate itself.

The metaphysical law masters and conserves The evolutionary integrity.

Though humans are bom equipped

To participate

In the supreme function of Universe.

This does not guarantee

That they will do so.

Humans are bom utterly helpless,

And must through trial and error,

By physical experiments,

Discover what the controlling family

Of generalized principles may be,

Which principles must be employed by humans To fulfill their Universe function, But in order to discover the latter

They first must discover the overwhelmingly superior efficacy

Of the mind, as compared to muscle.

And humans also must discover That the physical,

Which they tend to prize as seemingly vital To their regenerative continuance, Is utterly subordinate

To the omni-integrity of metaphysical laws, Which are discoverable Only by mind.

Only if man leams in time

To accredit the weightless thinking Over the physical values,

In a realistic, economic and philosophic accounting Of all his affairs,

Will the particular team of humans Now aboard planet Earth Survive to perform their function — When nature has an essential

And intercomplementary function to be fulfilled And the chances of development Of that functioning capability

Are poor.

Nature makes many potential “starts.” As for instance

All the vegetation which impounds the Sun’s energy Must be regenerated and multiplied.

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.

Wherefore all the trees

Launch their seeds

Into the air or upon the waters

To drift to chance landings,

Where the seeds may be favorably nourished

And grow.

The chances of such auspicious landing

Are so unfavorable

That nature must send

Billions times billions of seeds away

From the parent vegetation,

Which, though potential of complete success,

May never germinate and prosper.

The airs and waters

Of the planet Earth

Are filled with the aimlessly migrating seeds.

Because the chances of humanity’s

Self-discovery of the supremacy of the metaphysical

And the corruptibility of the physical,

While coming from an utterly helpless start,

Are very poor,

The probability is

That for each of the billions of stars

In the billions of nebulae

There are several planets

Where energies are being

Most effectively conserved—

Which means

By the metaphysical mind.

Ergo: there are probably myriads Of successful,

Consciously operated planets Despite greater myriads of failures.

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.

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.

We cannot have disorder

Because Universe is not monological;

It is pluralistic and complementary,

And we are founded on

The orderly base

Of the proton-neutron tripartite teams

Of six unique energy integrity vectors.

Men at the time of World War I

Were dealing in radio waves

That were a mile long.

Gradually they found shorter waves

And found ways of sending,

Transmitting and receiving

At ever shorter and shorter wavelengths And at higher and higher frequencies.

A quarter of a century later,

When we came into World War II

The electronics scientists

Were working at wavelengths Of about two meters.

After World War II they were working

With what we call microwaves,

Operating at fractions of meters

And at fractions of centimeters or millimeters

Of wavelengths.

The higher the frequency

The shorter the wavelength—

And the more tendency

To interference

With the waves of other phenomena.

Also: the higher the frequency,

The lower the energy required

To power the propagation Of the message-carrying Electromagnetic waves.

Therefore, these short, high frequencies Could only be sent

Relatively short distances.

They interfere with the walls, hills or trees. The long waves are not interfered with By such local obstacles.

Those who employ

Very high-frequency short waves Do not have to have an operator’s license. Their short waves are so interrupted By local events

That the walkie-talkies, for instance, Cannot carry far enough

To interfere with other stations such as

The commercial or government traffic, Because they do not interfere

With longer waves of the commercial bands.

It is also a characteristic of these waves And of all radiation

That when the wave propagation

Is beamingly aimed

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.

There seems to be no impedance

And no inherent limitation to the distance

Which such electromagnetic wave signals can go

Once outside the Earth mantles.

As far as we know,

The waves can go on forever in Universe—

Unless they hit some object,

And when they hit an object they lose some energy

Then bounce away

And keep on going

In a new direction.

Now let us tum our thoughts

To the neurologists who we left probing the brain with electrodes.

I find that the neurologists do not feel it to be shocking

When I suggest to them

That it could be demonstrated physiologically

Within the next two decades

That what man in the past has been calling telepathy

May in fact be ultra, ultra-high frequency,

Electromagnetic-wave propagation.

Almost everyone has had

The strange sensation of telepathy

Occurring as various kinds of awareness,

Anticipations or sensing

Of the imminent presence of other persons.

I myself had a very extraordinary experience

With our first child,

Who died just before her fourth birthday.

Bom at the time of World War I,

She first contracted flu,

Then spinal meningitis,

And, finally, infantile paralysis,

Being paralyzed and unable to move,

As do other children,

But with her brain unimpaired.

She manifested the normal child’s innate drive

To apprehend then comprehend

All that her eyes could see,

Her nose smell,

And her ears hear.

She had to obtain

The tactile information

By other means

Than with her own hands;

So the tensive-compressive,

Soft, hard, light, heavy,

Rough, smooth, wet, dry,

Hot, cold, cool and warm characteristics

Of the constituents of her environment

She had to sense vicariously.

And in so doing,

She demonstrated the extraordinary

Compensating faculties

Innate in all humanity,

Which are, however,

Brought into use

Only under very special conditions.

She was fantastically sensitive

To the cerebrations of all humans in her vicinity.

She was most frequently attended

By my wife, myself

And two trained nurses.

Often she had two of us with her.

Time and again when we were

About to say something to one another

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.

This happened so many times

As to convince us that our formulated communications Were obviously being transmitted through her.

This experience persuaded me that telepathy Might well be very short-range, Very high-frequency

Electromagnetic-wave propagation.

Assuming this to be so

We arrive at some new vistas of thought.

When we broadcast energies They are very greatly dissipated.

Radiant energies can be concentrated, however, By reflective beaming and lensing, As was candlelight in a lighthouse.

Reflectors and lenses concentrated them.

Reflectively beamed seaward, They were sometimes Visible for ten miles.

After World War I the only unused

Electromagnetic-wave-band frequencies available Were by international conventions preassigned To the then developing,

But not as yet inaugurated prime television-developing countries.

These available bands

Were in the very short-wave

And high-frequency area,

Where interferences were so frequent and great

That beyond-the-horizon broadcasting

Was physically impossible.

Unfamiliar as yet with the beaming technique

And its more economic potentials,

It was the accepted professional

Engineering dictum

That if we were going to have

Worthwhile, desirable, and popularly sustained —

And therefore commercially exploitable —

Post World War II TV programs,

We would not be able to afford

Having top-rank artists

And high-cost programs

Moving to every little local center

To be locally broadcast.

Therefore we would have to have

All expensive TV programs

Developed at central places

And distributed by cable

To secondary broadcasting stations.

During World War II

The discovery of the

Shorter and shorter waves and the capability

To receive and transmit them

Brought about after the war

The facile use of short waves,

Which waves were found to he short enough

To be easily reflected.

If the wave is a mile

In length, we have to have

A reflector over a mile in size.

As with optical light reflection,

We have to contain the wavelength

In order to beam it.

Wherefore after World War II

When television was instituted

We had masts at horizon-to-horizon points,

Well above the interference patterns

Of trees, mountains and buildings.

Instead of sending the radiation in all directions

We concentrated it in one direction,

Which greatly conserved it.

And energy boosted the signals

At each horizon relaying transceiver,

Reconcentrated them,

And sent them onto the next horizon point.

In this manner the TV programs

Are now transmitted around the world’s local national domains By satellite-relay transceiver.

Recognizing that it is possible

To conserve energies by reflection,

As well as to reach

Great distance by beaming,

We can point out that it is also possible

That our human eyes are just such

Very high-frequency electromagnetic waves

Propagating and receiving reflector relays,

As with the original propagation Occurring in the brain And the transceiving Relayed by our eyes.

I have had extraordinary experiences With audience after audience Around the world.

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

I know what the verdict is Before anyone has spoken Audible words.

And I am confident

That I first “saw” the message

In the people’s eyes

And not in their facial expressions, Which were mixed and arbitrarily fixed The speed of light, Ergo, of the sight functioning, Which is approximately

Seven hundred million miles per hour, Is such an enormous velocity That we mistakenly sense it Only as “instantaneous.”

When I was young

A camera required a minute’s exposure. By improving film chemistry And lens refinements

As we entered World War II,

A thousandth-of-a-second exposure

Had become adequate

For premium photographic equipment.

Now adequate exposure

With some scientific equipment

Has been lessened

To one millionth of a second

For producing a superb photograph.

In other words, the rate

At which we can “get the picture,”

And the rate at which we can transmit it

Is approximately instantaneous.

It may be true

That our eyes are electromagnetic-wave transceiving relays.

If so, it is possible

That seemingly instant exchanges between humans

May become scientifically accomplished through telepathy,

And people may soon be able

To know one another’s thoughts,

Which will mean

That people will be prone

To do good thinking

And also to co-ordinate

With one another

As never before.

In this connection it is recalled that when

Artzybasheff made a picture of me

For the cover of Time magazine,

He pictured my head as a geodesic sphere.

The shape of my head is

Of course not that of an exact sphere. Everything about my features Except my eyes

Was purely mechanistic, And were caricatured as mechanical devices. Though I sometimes read of myself As being almost inhumanly mechanistic

I myself think of the whole physical Universe As governed so exquisitely by generalized laws As to have to conclude

The whole of physical Universe Is technologically governed, But I find life to be weightless And only metaphysical

And I know that I am inspired Entirely by life

And its needs and potentials. So I do not tend to think Such characterizations by an illustrator To be accurate.

Yet this Time cover picture seems to me To be the best portrait of me That I recall having seen.

I never met Artzybasheff He is now dead.

But he sent word to me

Before his death, Relating his special satisfaction With this particular portrait of me.

He also sent word

That the only features that mattered to him Were the human’s eyes.

Before he painted my portrait

Time-Life photographers

Took many pictures, But only of my eyes. Artzybasheff did my portrait Entirely from those eye photographs, And all the foregoing

Discussion of the transceiving, Beam-relaying functioning of the eyes May explain why

It became the optimum likeness of me Despite tire mechanistic caricaturing.

Now let us employ

All the foregoing discussion of wave phenomena And speculate as to its significance— And remembering that, lacking interference, Electromagnetic waves Apparently can travel on

At their seven-hundred-million-miles-per-hour rate For what may be limitless periods of time.

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.

It is quite plausible

That his skyward focused eyes

May beam his thoughts, Quite unbeknownst to him, Out through the shallow atmosphere Into the approximately interference-free Macrocosmos.

And there is no reason why

The eye-beamed thoughts

Might not someday

Bounce off some other celestial body,

As humans have already

Bounced radio signals off the Moon

And back to Earth

By carefully angled beaming.

And as at present,

To avoid the circumferential

Ob taeles of our planet,

Electromagnetic-wave-carried programs

Of TV and voice

Are being relay-bounced

Around Earth by the

Communication satellites,

Holding their flight positions

Outside the atmosphere.

And the thoughts of our specially assumed human

Who is inadvertently beaming

His thoughts into the cosmos

Sends them on a path

Which results in their

Being uninterfered-with for millennia.

When finally they do interfere with

And bounce off a celestial body,

They are accidentally aimed back to where

Earth will be several millennia after their original dispatch.

At that moment of rereaching Earth planet

An individual on board Earth

Is looking out at the night heavens

And inadvertently tunes in the millennia-ago

Telepathy-dispatched thoughts

Through his transceiver beam-relaying eyes,

And the thought message is monitored into his brain, Whereby the inadvertently receiving human

Thinks he is thinking

A novel and interesting thought —

And all of the foregoing

Seems to indicate the possibility

That the family

Of generalized principles

Being eternally valid independently

Of special-case idiosyncrasies

(Ergo, of the language of its thinker)

Might be bouncing around in Universe

To be tuned in

Here and there from time to time

On various planets

By various humans

Of various planetary crews.

And it may be thus

That knowledge becomes tune-in-able

By humans on planets or wherever they may be.

This telepathic tuneability may occur

As the humans complete

Enough experiences

And do enough generalized thinking about them

To be able intuitively

To comprehend the significance

Of the thoughts which they are

Inadvertently receiving.

Certain it is on my own part

That I have made several mathematical discoveries Of fundamentally unexpected and unpublished nature. As I realized my discovery

I always have had

The same strange sensation

That this newly realized conception,

Previously unknown to terrestrial humans,

Had been known

To the human mind

Sometime vastly long ago.

Since whatever life may be,

It has no weight, As has been discovered By weighing individuals At the moment of their dying,

It is also possible,

That whatever our abstract

Metaphysical beings may be

Their complex weightless organic pattern integrity Might also be transmittable

By electromagnetic waves,

Whereby humans may already have been, Or Earthians may sometime become Beamed consciously and purposefully To elsewhere in Universe

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.

And wherever they came from, The thoughts arranged in this book Are discoveries Of its author

Since he first came in 1913 To think

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

Comprehensively co-ordinate system, And thankfully found it.

Love

Is omni-inclusive, Progressively exquisite, Understanding and tender And compassionately attuned To other than self.

Macrocosmically speaking Experience teaches Both the fading away Of remote yesterdays And the unseeability Of far forward events. Microcosmicdly speaking Science has proven The absolutely exact Also to be Humanly unreachable, For all acts of measuring Alter that which is measured.

Conceptual totality Is inherently prohibited. But exactitude can be bettered And measurement refined By progressively reducing Residual errors, Thereby disclosing The directions of truths Ever progressing Toward the eternally exact Utter perfection, Complete understanding, Absolute wisdom, Unattainable by humans But affirming God Omnipermeative, Omniregenerative, All incorruptible As infinitely inclusive Exquisite love.

While humans may never Know God directly They may have and do Palpitatingly hover Now towards, now away. And some in totality Come closer to God.

And whole ages of peoples In various places Leave average records

Garden,

Shah Abbas Inn Isfahan September 6, 1970

Of relative proximities Attained toward perfection.

Persia — positioned

At demographical center Of all Earthian peoples — Has been traversed by many Into and beyond The vanishing past

And will be traversed by many Into and beyond

The foreseeable future.

And at this most crisscrossed

Crossroads of history The record is left

Of the relative proximity Averagingly attained To that which is God.

The Persians’ record

Is tender and poignant Sheltering, embracing, An omnipoetical Proximity to God.

The Lord’s Prayer

I feel intuitively that what is now identified as the Lord’s Prayer was digested through ages from many philosophies in many lands. Also I feel intuitively that in relaying the Lord’s Prayer from country to country, from language to language, from one historical period to another that many at first small, then later large alterations of meaning may well have occurred. It seems unlikely to me that the prayers original conceivers and formulators would have included a bargaining proposal such as asking forgiveness of our trespasses or debts because we agree to forgive others. It also seems illogical to remind God of anything or to ask special dispensation for self, or to suggest that God doesn’t understand various problems, or that God needs earthly sales­men for his cause. Before going to sleep, even for short naps, I always re-explore and rethink my way through the Lord’s Prayer. And as I thought it through tonight, August thirteenth, 1966, I decided to in­scribe it on paper.

Oh god, our father—

our furtherer

our evolutionary integrity unfolder who art in heaven — who art in he-even

who is in everyone hallowed (halo-ed) be thy name

(be thine identity)

halo-ed—

the circumferential radiance

the omnidirectional aura of our awareness of being ever in the presence of that which is greater, more exquisite

and more enduring

than self—

haloed be thine identification

which is to say

the omnidirectional

vision and total awareness

is a manifest of your identity which name or identity is most economically stated as: truth is your identity —

by truth we mean the ever more

inclusive and incisive

comprehension which never reaches but always approaches closer to

perfection of understanding and our awareness is ever a challenge by truth —

truth is embraced by and permeates the omnidirectionally witnessible integrity of omni-intertransforming events which ever transpire—radiationally which means, entropically in the physical; and contractively — gravitationally— which means, syntropically in the metaphysical both of which — are characterized by either the physical expansions toward ever-increasing disorder, of the en tropic physical;

or the metaphysical contractions toward ever-increasing order of the syntropic metaphysical; and these pulsating contractions-expansions altogether propagate the wave and counterwave oscillations of the electromagnetic spectrum’s complex integration — of the omnienvironment’s evolutionary reality and its concomitant thought regeneration which altogether constitute what we mean by the total being.

Hallowed or haloed “be thy name,” which means your identification to us, Your kingdom cornel — your mastery of both the physical and metaphysical universe emerges as the total reality your will be done — your will of orderly consideration and mastery of the disorderly be done on our specialized case planet and in our specialized case beings and in our special-case consciousness and in our special-case intellectual integrities and in our special-case teleologic integrities as it is in your generalized case he-even (heaven).

We welcome each day our daily evolution and we forgive, post give, and give all those who seemingly trespass against us for we have learned retrospectively and repeatedly that the seeming trespasses are in fact the feedback of our own negatives, realistic recognition of which may eliminate those negatives.

For yours, dear god — oh truthful thought is our experience proven manifest of your complete knowledge, your complete understanding, your complete love and compassion, your complete forgiveness — subjective and objective, your complete inspiration and vision giving, and your complete evolutionary volition, capability, will, power, initiative timing and realization — for yours is the glory— because you are the integrity forever

and forever

amen.

The Lord’s Prayer — Second Version

This is the way I thought through the lord’s prayer on June 30, 1971, at the American Academy in Rome.

B.F.

Oh god

Our father

Who art in he even

Omniexperience Is your identity. You have given us O’erwhelmingly manifestation Of your complete knowledge, Your complete comprehension, Your complete wisdom, Your complete concern, Your complete competence, Your complete effectiveness, Your complete love and compassion, Your complete forgiveness, giveness, and postgiveness, Your complete inspiration giving, Your complete evolutionary sagacity,

Your complete power, will, initiative, And absolute timing of all realization. Yours, dear god,

Is the only and the complete glory!

You are the universal integrity

The eternal integrity is you.

We thank you with all our hearts, Souls and mind— Amen.

Appendix

Resources

The Buckminster Fuller Institute

www.bfi.org

Founded in 1983. The Buckminster Fuller Institute serves a global network of design science innovators working at the leading edge of the design revolution Fuller inspired including the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, an annual $ 100.000 prize to support the development and implementation of solutions to humanity’s most pressing problems. 181 N.11th St. Suite 402/Brooklyn, NY 11211/718 290-9280

The R. Buckminster Fuller Archive

www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/fuller/index.html

Called in 1976 by archivists from the Smithsonian Institute, “the most extensive personal archive in existence,” the collection contains over 1.300 linear feet of papers and manuscripts, 2.000 hours of video and audio recordings, and thousands of models and other artifacts.

Dept, of Special Collections/The Stanford University Libraries/Stanford, CA 94305

The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

http://www.buckminsterfuller.net

Fostering the preservation, publication, and dissemination of Buckminster Fuller’s legacy.

P.O. Box 3248/Santa Barbara. CA 93130/Fax: 805 456-2912

The Earth Policy Institute

www.earthpolicy.org

The Earth Policy Institute, dedicated to building a sustainable future as well as providing a plan of how to get from here to there, publishes the remarkable book Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization by founder and President Lester R. Brown (free online access).

1350 Connecticut Ave. NW. Suite 403/Washington, DC 20036/Fax: 202 496-9325

The ONE Campaign

www.one.org

The campaign to make poverty history is over 2.4 million people committed to raising public awareness about the issues of global poverty, hunger, disease, and efforts to fight such problems in the world’s poorest countries.

Rocky Mountain Institute

www.rmi.org

An independent, entrepreneurial, nonprofit organization fostering the efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, just, prosperous, and lifesustaining, co-founded by scientist Amory Lovins, and featuring publications such as their groundbreaking Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs, and Security (free online access).

2317 Snowmass Creek Road/Snowmass, CO 81654/970 927-3851

The We Campaign

www.wecansolveit.org

A project of The Alliance for Climate Protectiona nonprofit, nonpartisan effort founded by Nobel laureate and former Vice President Al Gore that aims to halt global warming through educating people in the U.S. and around the world that the climate crisis is both urgent and solvable.

From the bottom of my heart, I wish to thank all the devoted and inspired individuals who assisted me in preparing these new editions of Buckminster Fuller’s books:

I could not have undertaken this project without the unswerving support of my beloved wife, Cheryl. She was my partner, primary advisor, and tireless editor in reviewing the new materials I wrote. She always encouraged me to seize this moment to bring focus to the grave challengesand opportunities facing our planet.

It was a great pleasure to work again with Dr. Janet Brown. She joined me in the multimonth process of re-reading the books for the series, updating facts and figures, and finally in being an expert editor. And as in any project I undertake at this point in my life, John Ferry is at my sideas he has been for over 25 years. He backed me up with finding photos, selecting images, assembling materials, researching background facts, and resolving any other loose ends, not to mention the management of our numerous other projects.

I want to also thank Roberto Trujillo, head of Stanford University’s Department of Special Collections, for his support of my research at the R. Buckminster Fuller Archive. I especially want to thank Mattie Taormina, the Head of Public Services and Manuscripts Processing Librarian, who facilitated my research and expedited my needs for scans of images from the Archive. Living nearby, it was an unexpected treat to be able to spend some days in their beautiful reading room to joyfully commune with Bucky through his own working papers.

I particularly would like to express my appreciation for Lars Müller. Lars and I have been enjoying talking about this project for almost ten years, ever since he designed the two beautiful volumes of Your Private Sky: The Art of Design Science. Lars is a great artist of book design, and his encouragement all along the way inspired me to pursue the vision of presenting these books to a new generation in a fashion fitting to their remarkable prescience. I want to also acknowledge his fine team at Lars Müller Publishers in Switzerland: Michael Furrer, Katharina Kulke, and Lea Pfister, supplemented by Jonathan Fox in Spain. I cannot imagine a more competent team to undertake such a task.

And finally I want to express my gratitude to my dear “Fuller” family: my sister, Alexandra Fuller May, a passionate champion of design revolution, who urged us to go for a design that would reach a vital new audience. My mother, Allegra Fuller Snyder, who cheered me on in this project, and gave of her aesthetic wisdom and deep sensitivity for Bucky’s way of being. My father, the late Robert Snyder, who joined the fold and gave so much to this work as a pioneering documentarian of Bucky. My aunt Alexandra Fuller, who died five years before Allegra was born. And dear dear Bucky and Anne, who gave so much for us.

J.S.

Index

Accounting.
See Economic accounting

Anticipatory design science, 22

Anti-entropy, 101–102 See also Entropy

Areas. See Topology

Astronauts: all humans as, 56

Atomic energy, 129.
See also Energy Automation: of human biological processes, 54; and loss of jobs, 124

Automobiles: ownership of, 134

Bank wealth, 89

Behavioral sciences: in educational process, 26

Brain: as coordinating switchboard, 25; difference between mind and, 101; imitated by computer, 118

British Empire and the great pirates, 37–38

Categoryitis, 31

Children: as comprehensivists, 25–26 Circle. See Great circle Comprehension: defined, 77 Comprehensivity of Great Pirates, 34–35; Great Pirates abandoning their, 50–51; man forced to reestablish, 53

Computers: provide new impersonal problem solutions, 45; as superspecialist, 53; strategy combined with general systems theory and synergetics, 93–94; as imitation of human brain, 118; beginning of, 122; resolving ideological

dogmas, 138

Craftsmen: early specialized, 29; tools of, 122; in the industrial economy, 123

Cross-breeding: of world man, 131

Cybernetics: defined, 95

Darwin, Charles: theory of animate evolution, 47

Da Vinci, Leonardo, 35–36

Democracy, 92–93

Design: capability of early world men, 28–29; of spaceship Earth’s internal support systems, 59–60; of universal evolution, 111–112; revolution in, 134

Design science: anticipatory, governing yesterday’s naval mastery, 22

Divide and conquer: grand strategy of, 39

E = MC{^2}, 69, 96. See also Energy

Economic accounting: by great pirates, 94–95; synergy in, 103; need for realistic, 112

Educational task: to allow physical and metaphysical success, 130

Einstein, Albert: formula E = MC{^2}, 45, 69, 96; definition of physical universe, 70; reassess universe, 97

Electromagnetic spectrum: great pirates’ first use of, 43–44; effecting human evolution, 110 Energy: impounding of sun’s radiant, 58, 59, 93; generalized law of, 73; savings as fossil fuels, 94, 129; in synergetics, 95; finite, 96; harnessing of, 129; atomic exploitation of, 129

Entropy: energy systems eventually run down, 46; assumed universe subject to, 96; wealth as antientropy, 101

Environment: early society inability to cope with, 26; evolution synergeticaily produced, 103–104; changes in physical, 110

Euler, Leonhard, 81

Evolution: success of human dependent on mastering metaphysical, 46; design and patterns in, 49, 54, 111–112; man’s feeling about, 53–54; inexorable, 55; our present position in, 65–66; effected by electromagnetic spectrum, 110; comprehending phases of, 127

Experiences: to extract generalized principles, 62; is finite, 70

Exploitation: of atomic energy, 129; of fossil fuels, 129. See also Energy

Extinction, 48

Failures: humanity’s, 24–25 Fellowships, 125

Forecasting, 22

Fossil fuel: energy savings account, 94, 128; expending of, 129. See also Energy

Generalized principles: minds discovering, 21; extracted from human experience, 61–62; first was leverage, 63; surviving with, 118; inventively employed only through mind, 127

Genera! systems theory: as tool of high intellectual advantage, 67, 70–71; combined with computer strategy and synergetics, 95

Geodesic lines, 76

GI Bill, 115

Gold: demand system inadequate, 88–98; used by Great Pirates for trading, 90

Grand strategy: divide and conquer, 39; organizing our, 65.

See also Strategy

Great circle: defined, 76

Great Pirates: as sea mastering people, 34; feared bright people, 35; use of logistics by, 37; and British Empire, 37–38; use of local strong man as king by, 39; tutoring of bright specialists by, 40; in world competition, 41, 43; becoming extinct, 44, 50; rules of accounting still used, 45

Gross national product: estimate for 1970, 108–109

Growth: physical and metaphysical, 61

“Have-nots” struggle with “haves” produces war, 87

“Haves”: struggle with “have-nots” produces war, 87

Heisenberg, Werner: principle of indeterminism, 72

Human beings, as astronauts, 56; will be free, 111; employing real wealth, 124; characteristics in Mexico, 132. See also Man

Humanity: exists in poverty, 23–24; on Earth’s surface, 27; extinction of, 49; place in evolution of, 66; function of, in universe, 83–84; and standard of living of, 102–103

Ideologies: political, 48; resolving dangerous dogmas of, 138

Indeterminism: Heisenberg’s principle of, 72

India: population problems in, 113 Industrialization: demonstration of world, 104

Industry: tooling of, 22, 116, 122, 133; production increased by world wars, 116; craftsmen in the economy, 123. See also Tools

Information: multiplies wealth, 104–105 Initiative, 45

Intellect: as humans’ supreme faculty, 60–61; frees man of special case superstition, 63; use of as man’s function in universe, 99

International Monetary Fund: 1967 deliberations of, 88

Invention, 134

Inventory: of variables in problem solving, 67–68

Jobs: loss of in automation, 124

King: as great pirate’s local strong man, 39, 40

Law of conservation of energy: defined, 98. See also Energy

Learning: always increases, 99; man’s past, 131; industrial retooling revolution, 133

Lesser circle: defined, 76

Leverage: first generalized principle, 63. See also Generalized principles

Life: as synergetic, 79–80; hypothetical development of support systems in, 107–108

Lincoln, Abraham, 45–46

Lines, 81. See also Topology

Machine: spaceship Earth as, 59–60 Macrocosm: as universe outside the system, 70

Malthus, Thomas, 47

Man: utterly helpless as newborn, 61;

as adaptable organism, 118–119.

See also Human beings

Mass production: and mass consumption, 123

Mathematics: improved by advent of zero, 36. See also Topology

Metals: not destroyed in war, 117 Metaphysical: initiative confused between religion and politics, 45; masters the physical, 46; experiences not included in physical universe, 68; defies “closed systems” analysis, 69; in synergetics, 95; need for, in educational task, 130

Mexico: human characteristics in, 132 Michelangelo, 35–36

Microcosm: universe inside the system, 70

Mind: comprehends general principles, 24, 127, 128; difference between brain and, 101; fellowships of, 125

Money: as bank wealth, 89.

See also Wealth

Moon gravity: as income wealth, 94 More-with-less: and generalized principles of, 63

Myth: of wealth as money, 114;

of population explosion, 136 Natural laws: and Great Pirates, 34.

See also Generalized principles Navies: and Great Pirates, 38 Negatives: yesterday’s, realized, 24 North America: early crossbreeding men in, 131

Photosynthesis: impounds sun’s energy, 59

Pirates. See Great Pirates

Planck, Max, 97

Planners: more comprehensive than other professions, 67

Points. See Topology

Politicians: local, asked to make world work, 51.

See also Ideologies

Pollution: as survival problem, 85 “Poluto”: as new name for planet, 85 Population: problems in India, 113;

explosion in as myth, 136 Poverty: humanity existing in, 23–24 Principles. See Generalized principles Problem solving: by yesterday’s

contrivings, 21

Resources: of Earth unevenly distributed, 29; no longer integratable, 52; unique materials made “on order,” 106

Revolution: design and invention, 134

Safety factor: in man’s evolution, 111–112

Schools: beginning of, 41.

See also Specialization; Strategy Second law of thermodynamics, 46 Senses: Great Pirates relying on, 43 Ships: logistics for production and maintenance, 37. See also Vessels

Slavery: of specialist expert, 41; human, 107

Sovereignties: claim on humans in, 37–38; categoryitis in, 31

Spaceship Earth: present condition of, 121

Specialist: computer as super, 53 Specialization: society operates on theory of, 25; early leaders who developed, 26, 30, 33; intellectual beginning of schools, 41–42; specialist as slave, 41; over causing extinction, 48, 49; scientific, applied toward weaponry, 52–53

Speed of light: discovery of, 97 Spending: regarding energy is obsolete, 98

Spoken word: as first industrial tool, 122

Strategy: secret and anticipatory, of Great Pirates, 35; comprehensive of naval war colleges, 37

Structures: industrial tool enclosing, 116–117

Students: comprehend elimination of war, 134

Sun: radiation as income wealth, 58, 94. See also Energy

Survival: physical and metaphysical, 61; potentials increased by intellect, 63

Sword: powerful men of, 26.
See also Great Pirates

Synergetics. See Synergy

Synergy: defined, 78, 95; defines universal evolution, 79; combined with computer strategy and general systems theory, 95; wealth develops interest through, 102; in economic accounting, 103; in humanity escaping from local identity, 106

System: universe as biggest, 68; thought is, 72; first subdivision of universe, 71, 83;

variables in evolution, 83

Technologies: as substitute after war, 117

Telford, Thomas: as Great Pirates’ specialist, 37

Thinking: long-distance future of, 22; in terms of whole, 67; as a system, 72; dismissal of irrelevancy in, 76–77; tackling problems with, 83; humans free to, 126.

See also Intellect; Mind

Time: as relative, 135

Tools: industrial, 116; externalizations of integral functions, 117; craft and industrial extinctions, 122; spoken word, 122

Topology: mathematics of comprehension, 77; discovered by Euler, 81; patterns of lines, points and areas, 80–81. See also Geodesic lines; Great circle; Lesser circle

Underlying order in randomness, 74–75 Universe: as biggest system, 68, 96; physical defined by scientists, 68–69, 70, 72, 97; subdivision, 71; generalized law of energy conservation in, 73; defined by synergy, 79; humanity’s function in, 83, 112

Van Allen belts, 58

Variables: inventorying of and
problem solving in, 67

Vectorial geometry: mathematics
of comprehension, 75–80

Vessels: use of, in venturing, 28

War: beginning of the great class, 47–48, 87; as age-old lethal formula of ignorant men, 52; as taking priority over real problems, 87; students comprehend elimination of, 134

Water: desalinization of, as problem solution, 85–86. Pollution

Wealth: generated by integrating resources, 29; as a safety factor, 61; defined, 88, 93; irreversible in evolutionary processes, 91; society’s real, 91, 94,124; income is sun radiation and moon gravity, 94; as anti-entropy, 101; can only increase, 101,105; common, of humanity, 105; of the U.S., 108; of know-how produced by GI Bill. 115

Weaponry: scientific specialization applied toward, 52

Wholes: thinking in terms of, 67; systems in synergy, 78. See also Systems

World: and first seafarers, 28; sea ventures thought in terms of, 30; asking local politicians to make it work, 51; defined, 104, 119; veterans returning from World War II, 115; increase industrial production in, 115–116; cross-breeding in, 131-132

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