Heisenberg-Eliot-Pound Sequence

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Heisenberg-Eliot-Pound Sequence:

"As usual poets anticipated

The scientists' discoveries

Before Heisenberg's 'indeterminism,'

T.S. Eliot said,

'The act of considering history alters history.'

Ezra Pound anticipated them both

For he remarked much earlier

That 'the act of thinking alters thought.'

And all of this

Evolution regenerating altering

Is found to be implicit in entropy,

The name given to the

Experimentally disclosed fact

That energy system is always giving off energy.

Thus evolution must forever

Alter the total inventory

Of humanity's nonsimultaneous

And only partially overlapping

Experience

For clearly experience always alters

Previous experience

And the process is both irreversible

And nonidentically repetitive."

28 Jan'69

-Cite GENERALIZED PRINCIPLES. d.a.