2 Brain and Mind
2Dr. Harvey Cushing ---1869 to 1939 ---
3 Was so great a neurosurgeon
4 That his professional colleagues first called themselves
5 The Harvey Cushing Society
6 But later adopted the more formal name
7 Of American Association of Neurosurgeons
8 And at the same time instituted the Harvey Cushing Oration
9 As the principal address of their annual congress.
10 And though I am neither a neurosurgeon
11 Nor a professional of any discipline
12 An aberration of fate brought me the honor of delivering
13 ‘‘The 1967 Harvey Cushing Oration’’
14 To two thousand of their members
15 At their annual meeting in Chicago.
16 I never prepare lectures so I thought out loud to them About humanity, its world
17 And its function in universal evolution,
18 And as I thought and spoke I realized o’erwhelmingly That if humanity is going to survive
19 It will be only because it commits itself
20 Unselfishly, courageously and exclusively
21 To its most longingfully creative inclinations,
22 Visionary conceptions
23 And intuitively formulated objectifications;
24 For the mind’s intellections ---
25 In contradistinction to the brain’s automatics ---
26 Apparently constitute humanity’s
27 Last and highest order of survival recourse.
28 Therefore I felt I must devote the occasion
29 To distinguishing between mind and brain ---
30 For that unique difference
31 Also differentiates most incisively
32 Between human beings
33 And all the other living creatures.
34 For instance, it was mind alone that discerned
35 That physical experiment disclosed and confirmed
36 That local physical systems
37 Are always exporting energy
38 In one manner or another, such as by friction,
39 And it was mind alone that determined to identify semantically
40 The exporting of energy
41 By inventing the abstract name entropy.
42 And mind went on to discern
43 That physical experiences disclosed and confirmed
44 That all living tissue
45 During cell multiplication
46 Must import more energy
47 Than it exports,
48 Else it could neither grow
49 Nor even sustain healthy balance.
50 And mind also witnessed
51 That crystalline structures
52 Also can import energy
53 But not as much as they export;
54 And mind identified
55 Energy importing by the name syntropy.
56 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
57 Is governed by the internal dna-rna genetic codes.
58 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;
59 Where entropy is gaining over syntropy, death prevails.
60 Their exponentially regenerative, birth-death interplay
61 Is describable in information theory
62 As ‘‘self-accelerating feedback,’’
63 And in nuclear physics it is manifest as ‘‘chain reaction’’
64 And in an even more comprehensive way
65 It is manifest pulsatingly, resonantly and propagatively, As the irreversible regeneration of universal evolution.
66 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
67 By the late eighteenth-century scientists’ Academically hailed
68 Great ‘‘Second Law of Thermodynamics,’’ Which discovered and recognized only the energy-exporting phase called entropy.
69 Entropy’s behavior may be modernized to state
70 That every separately experienceable
71 And generalizably conceivable system in Universe
72 Is continually exporting energies
73 While also always importing energies
74 At a concurrently accelerating and decelerating
75 Variety of local system rates,
76 Which also means
77 That all systems are continually transforming
78 Internally as well as externally,
79 And because the periodicity of importing and exporting
80 Are both nonsimultaneous and unequal,
81 All the systems are tidally pulsative
82 At a variety of frequencies.
83 In the same way that systems
84 Have ‘‘centers of gravity’’ (cg)
85 And ‘‘neutral axes of gyration’’
86 Identified by engineers as ‘‘I,’’
87 They also have
88 ‘‘Centers of omniequilibrious symmetry,’’
89 At which their kinetic transformings never pause, But relative to which kinetic action centers
90 They oscillatingly transform.
91 And the frequencies and geometries
92 Of those intemally-extemally co-ordinated pulsative trendings Are always uniquely asymmetric
93 As related to the local systems’ symmetrically co-ordinate Abstract ‘‘centers of equilibrious symmetry’’ (ces).
94 Because the unsynchronizable, asymmetric excesses
95 Are inherently exported
96 The internal-external events
97 Propagate both inward- and outward-bound waves.
98 These unique wave-system propagations
99 Only infrequently coincide
100 With the unique symmetry pattemings of others,
101 The orderly patterning energy releases of any one system
102 Only superficially appear to be disorderly---
103 Being unsynchronized immediately with other systems,
104 Though each system is internally orderly
105 And each is uniquely symmetrical dynamically.
106 This relatively minor yet true disorder, external to local systems, Is spoken of by the confused observer as ‘‘diffuse.’’
107 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.
108 Omnidirectionally pulsative systems
109 Are, in effect, spherical gears.
110 Their inwardly and outwardly pulsating and rotating ‘‘teeth’’
111 Consist of multifrequenced circumferential and radial waves
112 Of fifty-six great-circle subdivisions of spherical unity, Often nonmeshing with other local systems.
113 The universally infrequent meshing of wavelengths and frequencies Produces an omnicondition
114 In which the new omnidirectional system’s center must, as each is created,
115 Continually occupy omnidirectionally greater domains of disorder.
116 The sum total consequence of entropy is
117 An omniexpanding physical Universe
118 And an only (apparently increasing) disorderliness.
119 This does not mean absolute disorder;
120 It means the momentarily superficial appearance
121 Of less order than symmetry.
122 And the disorder is only relative
123 To the majority of individual cases,
124 For each system
125 And its particular entropic exportings
126 Is orderly within itself,
127 And the detection of disorder is mistakenly assumed As the result of exclusively myopic And too short-termed observing.
128 I am convinced therefore
129 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.
130 On the contrary, I am convinced
131 By comprehensively considered experience
132 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
133 Of omniself-regenerative Universe.
134 To date, we have gained vast inventories
135 Of trial-and-enor experience
136 From all of which information we have developed
137 A family of generalized scientific principles
138 Which are weightless pattern concepts.
139 Being weightless they are metaphysical.
140 From the metaphysics
141 We have in turn designed
142 Rearrangements of the physical behavior constituents
143 Of our omnikinetic environment scenery.
144 We have rearranged the scenery
145 In the pattern of world-around occurring power-driven tool networks All of which teleologic process
146 Has produced an ever-increasing survival advantage for humanity.
147 The human advantage is both physical and metaphysical,
148 As ever-increasing proportions of all Earthians
149 Become involved in the processes
150 Of massive production and distribution
151 Of both the necessities and desirables
152 Which implement humanity’s regenerative evolution requirements.
153 And the degrees of increasing advantage
154 Are expressible in precise scientific terms
155 Of the number of centimeters, grams and seconds of work
156 Humanity is able to accomplish
157 Out of each hour of investment
158 Of each and all of its individuals’
159 Potential lifetime hours,
160 Energies, materials and know-how.
161 But we also discover that humanity
162 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
163 And so myopically preoccupied with personally avoiding The erroneously assumed inevitability of poverty for the many, Which has slavishly and fearfully conditioned his reflexes.
164 Those not as yet included
165 In the high-living advantage, ever-multiplyingly produced
166 By power-driven tool networks,
167 Do not comprehend the swiftly accelerating rate
168 At which comprehensively increasing human advantage
169 Will include them and their children,
170 As well as the children of the already advantaged---
171 For they find themselves in a cultural environment
172 Whose customs, logic and law
173 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 ---
174 Intuiting which, children find themselves brimming
175 With unanswered questions regarding the significance of life.
176 Inspired by the beauty and appeal
177 Of their earnest questioning
178 And in continuance of our attempt
179 To differentiate the domains and functionings
180 Of brain and mind,
181 We eagerly explore
182 For experiential evidence
183 That human minds and brains
184 May be essentials
185 In the total design integrity
186 Of eternally self-regenerative
187 Scenario Universe.
188 From physics we learn that every fundamental behavior of Universe Always and only coexists with a nonmirror-imaged complementary. The nonsimultaneity and dissimilarity
189 Of the complementary interpatteming pulsations
190 Integrate to produce
191 The complex of events
192 We sensorially identify as reality.
193 Without the pulsative asymmetries and asynchronous lags
194 The complementations would cancel out one another
195 And centralize equilibriously,
196 And there would be no sensoriality,
197 Ergo, no self-awareness, no life
198 For we have also learned from physics
199 That all the positive and negative weights
200 Of the fundamental components of matter
201 Balance out exactly as zero.
202 Life may well be a dream,
203 A comedy and tragedy
204 Of errors of conceptioning
205 Inherent in the dualistic
206 Imaginary assumption
207 Of a self differentiated
208 From all the complex otherness Of reasonably conceivable Universe For it must be remembered
209 That no human has ever seen directly Outside himself.
210 What we call seeing
211 Is the interpretive imagining in the brain Of the significance and meaning
212 Of the nervous system reports
213 Of an assumed outsideness of self, All of which organic design conception May be that of a great intellect
214 Which is inventing Universe progressively Evolving mathematically elegant
215 Integral equations
216 For each conceivable challenge Including the invention
217 You and me.
218 But you and I cannot escape
219 And are given extraordinary faculties Which we are supposed to use.
220 So here we go again
221 From right where we are Now.
222 At least our speculative excursion
223 Was relative to our attempt to differentiate Between brain and mind,
224 For the written record of two millenniums Discloses human minds forever rediscovering The great dream concept
225 While the brains of the dog and cat Sleeping at my feet
226 Have never given evidence
227 Of being concerned with such thoughts.
228 Either the brain tells them to go hunting Because their bellies are hungry
229 Or they bark in reflex to a strange noise Or they wag their tails in response To brain-recalled propitious circumstances.
230 Returning to our hard and soft Experiential realities,
231 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
232 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.
233 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
234 Were it not for Einstein’s observation
235 That the experimentally demonstrated Linear speeds of all forms of radiation Unleashed in a vacuum Were identical,
236 Indicating a top speed
237 Of physical Universe expansiveness.
238 This gave hope
239 But it did not explain
240 How Humpty Dumpty reassembled himself.
241 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.
242 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.
243 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.
244 Man is continually overlooking Earth
245 In his astronomical searching
246 Because of his fundamental propensity
247 For not thinking realistically of the Earth
248 As an astronomical body.
249 By making a globe
250 To demonstrate the scientific fact
251 That our Earth is a sphere
252 He concedes theoretically
253 That his Earth is not an infinite plane,
254 But he as yet feels and talks
255 Of ‘‘the four comers of the Earth,’’
256 Of ‘‘the wide, wide world,’’
257 And identifies ‘‘realistic, practical’’ thinking
258 As ‘‘getting down to Earth.’’
259 He uses the words up and down,
260 Which refer exclusively to a planar concept of the world and Universe;
261 For all the perpendiculars to an infinite plane
262 Must be parallel to one another,
263 Ergo, extend only upwards and downwards.
264 ‘‘Up to the sky,’’ ‘‘down to Earth.’’
265 Humans see
266 Hlusionarily receding railroad tracks apparently converging
267 Before reaching the horizon,
268 And therefore assume
269 That all the parallel lines leading ‘‘upwardly,’’
270 Also logically must converge in a point called Heaven
271 And converge in the other direction
272 In a spot called Hell.
273 This is a powerful illusion still rampant in Earthians’ sensorial reflexing.
274 Even though many humans no longer promulgate
275 The conception of an otherworldly Heaven and Hell, They retain the illusionary orientation of Up and Down.
276 I have asked hundreds of audiences around the world
277 For a show of hands by those
278 Who do not use the words ‘‘up’’ and ‘‘down.’’
279 In none of all my audiences have hands appeared.
280 This means that all the human beings
281 In all of my audiences
282 Use the words ‘‘up’’ and ‘‘down,’’
283 And believe they’re being logical
284 In so doing.
285 And they query,
286 ‘‘What may we say cogently
287 In lieu of up and down?’’
288 The answer was found by aviators.
289 As they flew around the world.
290 They did not feel themselves
291 To be ‘‘upside down.’’
292 As flyers they selected the right words.
293 Flyers ‘‘Come in for a landing.’’
294 Flyers ‘‘Go out in the sky.’’
295 Flyers ‘‘Fly around the world.’’
296 And the astronauts
297 Go in toward various celestial bodies
298 And accelerate outwardly from them
299 And into the spatial nothingness
300 Out of which space they steer themselves
301 To come in to another
302 Of tire always orbiting celestial bodies, Around any of which they may locally orbit In great or lesser circles.
303 All of us go outward, inward and around
304 Any object, or system of reference,
305 Such as planets, stars, houses, things, and atoms.
306 Atomic events transpire
307 Inward, outward and around their respective nuclei. We direct an astronaut into the Moon:
308 We will soon direct him info Mars.
309 Out is common to all bodies
310 And is outward in all directions
311 From any one of them.
312 ‘‘Out’’ is omnidirectional,
313 ‘‘In’’ is unidirectional.
314 ‘‘In’’ is unique.
315 In is always specifically oriented. In is individual.
316 The word ‘‘invention’’
317 Uses the prefix ‘‘in’’
318 To identify this specifically.
319 It means a ‘‘coming in,’’
320 A coming into our thought of a unique conception,
321 Which we in turn
322 Realize in a special physical case demonstration
323 Thus in-troducing
324 The in-vention to society.
325 No scientist would suggest that any part of the Universe
326 Is identifiable as ‘‘up’’
327 Nor any other locale as ‘‘down.’’
328 Yet individual scientists themselves
329 As yet reflex spontaneously
330 In an ‘‘up’’ and ‘‘down,’’ conditioned-reflex miasma.
331 Their senses say reflexively,
332 ‘‘I see the Sun is going down,’’
333 Despite that scientists
334 And almost everyone else have known theoretically
335 For five hundred years that the Sun is not going down at dusk And rising at dawn.
336 What is important in this connection
337 Is that the way in which humans reflex spontaneously
338 For that is the way in which
339 They usually behave in critical moments, And it is often ‘‘common sense’’ to reflex
340 In perversely ignorant ways
341 That produce social disasters
342 By denying knowledge
343 And ignorantly yielding to common sense.
344 We are therefore interested in how man
345 Can liberate himself
346 From all the up and down kind of reflexing.
347 I suggest to audiences that they say, ‘‘I’m going ‘outstairs’ and ‘instairs.’ ’’ At first that sounds strange to them;
348 They all laugh about it
349 But if they try saying in and out
350 For a few days in fun,
351 They find themselves beginning to realize
352 That they are indeed going inward and outward In respect to the center of Earth, Which is our Spaceship Earth.
353 And for the first time
354 They begin to feel real ‘‘reality.’’
355 Blocked by until now The Heavens Above And Down to Earth fixations,
356 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.
357 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
358 At a thousand miles per hour As it Sun orbits.
359 As man first turned the television camera
360 Toward Earth from the Moon
361 In demonstration of our Earthians’
362 General reflexing in self-misinformative ways, My greatly admired friend Walter Cronkite At the microphone said, ‘‘There she is, Floating there!’’
363 Floating in what?
364 And later the President of the United States Congratulated the astronauts
365 On going safely ‘‘up to the Moon
366 And back down again to the Earth.’’ Studying the experientially acquired data We begin to discover
367 That energies emanating
368 From celestial regions
369 Remote from Planet Earth
370 Are indeed converging and accumulating
371 In planet Earth’s biosphere
372 As a spherical collection of energies, Both as radiation and as matter.
373 Recent estimates of geo- and astrophysicists Show that many tons of stardust Arrive daily and remain on Earth.
374 Some estimates go as high
375 As one hundred thousand tons daily---
376 Probably acquired during Earth’s orbital passaging Through the rubble of comet tails By virtue of such stardust And asteroid fall-ins,
377 Earth is actually increasing its weight
378 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.
379 This cosmic radiation seems to impinge In the same disorderly manner As does the stardust.
380 Stardust itself is the intraverted Concentrate of cosmic radiation. Every chemical phenomenon Can be identified
381 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.
382 And of their eternally regenerative Terminal intertransformabilities.
383 We have our particular Radiant energy star---the Sun, Which is our prime energy supply source.
384 The Sun is our nearest celestial fuel ship. It is flying formation with us Through the Galactic System
385 At an Earth-fife incineration-proofing distance Of ninety-two million miles
386 As our energy concentrating Spherical space vehicle Earth Circles around our ten-billionfold greater Amassed energy mothership Sun.
387 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.
388 We haven’t found life on board Any other planetary space vehicles.
389 So our ship and its passengers May indeed have a unique function In this particular star group.
390 Our Sun squadron of planetary spaceships Speeds within our Galactic System --- At thousands of times
391 Our Earth’s speed around the Sun.
392 Our enormous spiral nebula constitutes
393 The grand fleet of local Universe space vehicles --- Which fleet we speak about In English as the Milky Way.
394 While all this celestial fleet maneuvering transpires, Operating at cosmic flank-speeds,
395 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.
396 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.
397 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.
398 If our space vehicle Earth Were nearer to the Sun, We would be incinerated By our energy-supplying mothership.
399 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.
400 These belts are the outermost Of the biosphere’s spherical mantles. Within these Van Allens we have The ionic veil surrounding our spaceship.
401 The Van Allen belts intercept the radiation
402 Which would kill a naked man positioned outward of those belts. The Van Allen belts
403 Diffuse the radiation, by refraction, to below lethal level.
404 From thence inward, the ionosphere,
405 The stratosphere and atmosphere
406 Progressively refract the radiation,
407 Separating its original lethal radiation concentration Into a variety of life-sustaining increments.
408 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.
409 The Sun’s radiant energy
410 Is the prime regenerating source
411 For all biological life on our planet.
412 Even while sunburning their skins
413 Humans and all other mammals
414 Are unable to take in enough radiant energy
415 Through their skins
416 To keep themselves alive.
417 To circumvent mammals attempting futilely so to do
418 Nature has invented
419 The green vegetation on the dry lands,
420 And the algae in the waters around the Earth’s surface.
421 The vegetation and the algae
422 Impound the Sun’s radiation by photosynthesis
423 Converting the radiation
424 Into orderly molecules,
425 Which provide celestial life’s prime energy intake.
426 The vegetation and algae
427 Provide metabolic sustenance
428 Of all manner of creatures,
429 Some of which can in turn
430 Nourish humans.
431 Urged by subconsciously initiated desire,
432 Or genetically programmed
433 To experience thirst, appetite and breathing,
434 Biological species are motivated
435 To ‘‘feed’’ in the solid, liquid and gaseous
436 Chemical constituents necessary
437 To produce the ongoing biological molecules
438 Whose energies are convertible Into action and growth.
439 As the prime energy impounder,
440 The vegetation on the land has to have roots
441 In order to get enough water to cool itself
442 So that it will not be dehydrated
443 While it photosynthesizes the radiation energy of the Sun
444 Into the beautiful molecular structures
445 That provide the metabolic energy exchange functions
446 Of terrestrial life support.
447 The algae floating in the sea Are automatically water-cooled.
448 Remembering that we are searching for an understanding
449 Of humanity’s functioning in Universe
450 And that we had thought it logical to find first
451 A moving locus in Universe where syntropy dominates,
452 We intuit excitedly that
453 The photosynthesis process
454 Of orderly molecule production
455 Indeed constitutes elegant manifest
456 That our planet Earth may be
457 One such moving locus in Universe
458 Where energy is accumulating syntropically
459 Being conserved
460 In ever more compact and orderly patterns,
461 As biological, crystalline,
462 Liquid and gaseous substances ---
463 As a complementary process to the entropic disorder
464 Multiplyingly manifest
465 By the omnientropic star centers
466 Of Universe.
467 Our First Manifest that our planet Earth
468 Is just such a syntropic locus
469 Is the constant terrestrial acquisition
470 Of energy around Earth’s spherical surface
471 Provided by the stardust and cosmic radiation,
472 The latter of which, including the Sun’s,
473 Is not reflectively redistributed
474 Back outward to Universe,
475 As would a reflective mirrored ball
476 Reject the radiation.
477 Instead, Earth is measurably impounding the radiation
478 By progressive angular refractions,
479 Which separate
480 The originally lethal radiation dosages
481 Into nonlethal fractions
482 And shunt those radiations
483 From perpendicular to circumferential travel
484 Within the biosphere’s concentric mantles.
485 This refraction of radiation
486 Manifests mathematically orderly angular shunting
487 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.
488 This frequency modulating
489 Biosphere refractionating relay
490 Constitutes Manifest Number Two
491 Of our sought-for syntropic
492 Orderly energy concentrating
493 In a mobile locus of Universe.
494 Manifest Number Three
495 That our Earth is just such a traveling locus
496 Of syntropic energy concentration
497 Is the demonstrable fact already noted
498 That all the biologicals are continually multiplying
499 Their beautiful cellular, molecular and atomic structurings
500 Which planetary metabolic conservation
501 Constitutes a comprehensive pattern integrity
502 Of orderly energy concentration.
503 Manifest Number Four that our planet Earth
504 Is indeed the first known such syntropic center of Universe Is the processing formation
505 Of the Earth’s chemically regenerative topsoils.
506 And the Fifth Manifest is the inwardly sunken
507 And progressively pressure buried
508 Coal and petroleum deposits
509 As high energy concentrate fossil fuels.
510 Having set out to discover
511 Whether humans had a function in Universe
512 And having only found humans
513 As passengers aboard planet Earth,
514 We sought first to discover
515 Whether the Earth planet itself had a function in Universe.
516 Saying to ourselves
517 That if the Earth’s function could be found
518 Then we might go on to find what constituent functions
519 Of Earth planet’s universal functioning
520 Man might, uniquely, be performing.
521 We have thus far found a five-stage hierarchy of manifests
522 Clearly confirmatory
523 Of planet Earth’s functioning
524 As the only thus far known traveling focus
525 Of syntropic concentration
526 Of eternally regenerative Universe’s physical energies.
527 This confirms our assumption
528 That we had first to find such a syntropic traveling locus
529 Within the total complementary scheme
530 Of universal regeneration.
531 A Sixth Manifest of Earth’s
532 Unique celestial scheme functioning
533 Is discoverable as the impoundment
534 Of star energy radiation
535 In both the Earth’s atmosphere
536 And in its hydrosphere,
537 Which provides the weather and ocean currents
538 And which maintains the critical temperatures
539 Within which the biological proliferation of metabolic formulations And feedback chemical process exchangings must occur.
540 For an instance, the heating of the hydrosphere
541 Involves the fact that water takes on heat and loses it At the slowest rate of all known substances.
542 The water temperatures of the Earth
543 Vary between such close limits
544 That the average temperatures throughout the years
545 Have varied less than one degree Fahrenheit
546 Over all the years in which temperatures
547 Have been recorded.
548 Within these exquisitely stable limits
549 The metabolic regeneration of humans is sustained
550 As an ultimate focus of the metabolic interchange
551 And transformations of the total biological ecology complementation.
552 So delicate are the thermal balances involved
553 That healthy humans, for instance,
554 At all times manifest a temperature
555 Of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit
556 No matter what their age,
557 Their geographical location,
558 Or their clothing may be.
559 Manifest Number Seven
560 Is that the progressive geological burying
561 Of the hydrocarbon energy concentrates
562 Ever more deeply
563 And at increasing pressures
564 Within the Earth’s crust, or hydrosphere,
565 Transforms the biological residues
566 Into rigid, liquid or gaseous fossil fuels.
567 With this stored energy
568 Humans were advantaged
569 To power their myriad levers
570 Of industrial tooling
571 To permit humanity
572 To hook-up directly
573 With the inexhaustible energy
574 Of eternally regenerative Universe.
575 Thus graduating his metabolic dependencies
576 From the frequently failing
577 Agricultural energy impoundments
578 To direct access to never-failing celestial sources.
579 All our Manifests
580 Combine to demonstrate that planet Earth Is indeed one such energy collecting, Concentrating, sorting and conserving, Mobile and reliably interorbiting
581 Orderly energy locus of Universe
582 For which we were seeking
583 As an only Sun reflectively invisible complementary To the optically obvious energy distributing
584 Radiant stars.
585 Thus it is evidenced
586 That Earth’s energy concentrating
587 Will culminate millions of years hence
588 In Earth itself becoming an entropically radiant star In its turn exporting energy
589 For the biological life support of humanity Long since migrated to other planets
590 Of other stars.
591 This is celestial confirmation
592 Of Boltzmann’s law, Which states in modernized effect That within a closed system
593 There are oscillations and evolutions
594 Between high and low energy
595 Concentrations and diffusions.
596 New lows concentrate energy and become highs
597 By exhausting yesterday’s highs
598 As yesterday’s exhausted highs
599 Become today’s lows.
600 Boltzmann made his finding
601 While checking Avogadro’s discovery
602 That under identical
603 Conditions of energy ---
604 As heat or pressure ---
605 All gases will disclose
606 The same number of molecules
607 Per given volume.
608 Boltzmann’s law
609 Has been found to hold true
610 Outside the gaseous microcosm
611 Within which he found it.
612 It explains for instance
613 Not only the weather---
614 But also the high and low energy concentration dynamics
615 Of our biosphere.
616 And now we find it explaining Earth’s function
617 In the macrocosmic scheme of Universe.
618 We now come to man’s unique function
619 Aboard the energy-storing planet Earth
620 As distinctly differentiated out
621 From the first seven manifests
622 Of syntropic concentration
623 At this moving locus of Universe.
624 Man’s mind-over-mattering
625 Is distinguishable as syntropic Manifest Number Eight.
626 Our discovery and confirmation
627 Of man’s having a unique and essential
628 Role in Universe
629 Will depend upon our developing a clear understanding Not only of the difference
630 Between brain and mind functioning
631 But also of their respectively unique characteristics.
632 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:
633 They are often used synonymously
634 The pragmatist tends to discard
635 The word mind as embracing
636 What seems to him ‘‘untenable mysticism’’;
637 While the realist feels
638 That the word brain
639 Is adequate to all his needs.
640 Though I have discussed
641 My differentiating of
642 Brain and mind
643 With leading neuroscientists
644 And have received the tentative
645 Approbation of many for my hypothesis,
646 And have exposed the concepts
647 To hundreds of audiences
648 Including audiences of teachers
649 And prominent journalists,
650 I have had no serious rejections.
651 When in the spontaneity of a moment
652 I chose the neurosurgeons
653 As the particular audience
654 Before whom to differentiate between brain and mind.
655 I did so
656 Because experience suggested them to be
657 The most competent judges
658 Of the merit of my theretofore unpublished hypothesis And method of its evolvement.
659 Having first resolved that
660 Only the known data
661 Either of inadvertent experience
662 Or deliberate experiment
663 Constitute the foundations
664 Of scientific exploration and discovery
665 We will now go on to consider all of such data
666 That I know to be pertinent
667 To the potential differentiation Of brain and mind.
668 For the last three decades
669 Physiologists and neurologists
670 Have been probing the human brain
671 With electrodes, oscillographs, Potentiometers, et al.
672 They have combined their instrumental findings
673 With behavioral observations
674 Of first, second and third parties.
675 The brain probers have identified
676 Several types of energy emanations
677 Both as amperage
678 And as wave-frequency oscillations
679 In unique magnitude sequences.
680 With vast numbers
681 Of permanent bed cases
682 In veterans’ hospitals,
683 Many of those permanent invalids
684 Have willingly and interestedly submitted
685 To wearing
686 Of the sensationless
687 Head-mounted electrodes
688 Of the brain-probing scientists, Whether they are awake or asleep.
689 While they sleep
690 The recording oscillographs
691 Scribe their wavy lines
692 Of magnitudes and frequencies.
693 These taped records are numbered.
694 When the patients awake
695 They are asked to describe their dreams,
696 If any.
697 From time to time
698 The oscillographed wave patterning
699 Is found to be repeating An earlier recording.
700 The scientists have found
701 That unique patterns of waves Characterize specific dreams Which are being re-experienced!
702 Sum totally to date
703 The scientists have learned
704 That the human brain
705 Is a vast communication system
706 Able to record and retrieve information At varying rates of lag.
707 The brain is a special case
708 Concept-communicating system
709 Very much like a television set.
710 It’s not just a telegraph wire,
711 Not just a telephone,
712 It is sensorially conceptual as well.
713 It deals with our optical receipts
714 As well as with our hearing,
715 Our smelling
716 And our touching.
717 In effect we have a telesense station
718 Wherein we receive the live news
719 And make it into a video-taped documentary.
720 In our brain studio we have made a myriad of such videoed recordings
721 Of the once five news,
722 All of which we hold in swiftly retrievable storage.
723 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.
724 In any television station studio The director intuitively sorts and selects Resource sequences
725 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.
726 Out of all this comparative viewing
727 The director then selects what he conceives of
728 As an appropriate action scenario
729 Of action to be taken now
730 In view of both the news challenges
731 And the documentary reminiscences.
732 Because the brain’s TV prime resource
733 Consists of images,
734 We may call the total brain activity
735 Image-ination.
736 My youth began a half century before TV.
737 During that half century
738 Those who wished to discredit
739 Another man’s thinking, words or actions
740 Often said,
741 ‘‘Pay no attention to him;
742 He is full of imagination.’’
743 This was tantamount to saying,
744 ‘‘He is a liar.’’
745 TV society is not making that mistake any more.
746 All we have ever seen
747 Is and always will be
748 In the scopes of our brain’s TV station.
749 All that humanity has ever seen
750 And will ever see
751 Is his own image-ination;
752 Some of it is faithfully reported new,
753 Some of it is invented fiction or make believe;
754 Some of it is doggedly retained ‘‘want to believe.’’
755 The physiologists and neurologists
756 Probing the brain
757 Say it is easier to explain
758 All the data they have
759 Concerning the general phenomena
760 Operative at the top of the spine
761 If they assume two prime variables always to be operative.
762 They give one of them the name ‘‘mind,’’
763 The other they call ‘‘brain.’’
764 The neurologists and physiologists say
765 It is easier to explain all the data they have
766 If they assume
767 The mind as well as the brain to be co-operative, Than it is to explain all the data
768 If they assume only brain to be operative.
769 And why is that?
770 It is because it is found that there are conversations Going on over this communication system ---
771 Using its information retrieving and storing system --- Whose conversational contents
772 Are in no way explicable
773 As being produced by feedback of the system itself.
774 Since neurologists and physiologists
775 Find it desirable
776 To assume the two phenomena,
777 The brain and the mind,
778 I became intent, if possible, to differentiate scientifically Between brain and mind.
779 I’ve developed my own
780 Experimental strategy of differentiation
781 Which was published in the 1965 spring edition Of Phi Beta Kappa’s quarterly magazine, The American Scholar.
782 I have had generally favorable response to it,
783 I have also the favorable response
784 Of the two thousand neurosurgeons
785 When I delivered their Harvey Cushing Oration.
786 The physicists and mathematical physicists call me An ‘‘experimental mathematician.’’ Because I reject axioms and I Explore mathematics experientially.
787 To present my scientific differentiation
788 Of brain and mind
789 I proceed as follows ---
790 First I say:
791 ‘‘I take a piece of rope and tense it.’’
792 As I purposely tense it
793 I inadvertently make it tauter.
794 But I was not tensing the rope
795 For the purpose of making it tauter,
796 I was trying only to elongate the rope.
797 Its girth is inadvertently contracting and
798 The rope is also inadvertently getting harder.
799 In contracting and getting harder
800 The rope is going into radial compression In a plane at ninety degrees to the axis of My consciously purposeful tensing
801 And ---in an inadvertently complementary manner---
802 Next I purposely produce compression.
803 To do so I take tempered-steel rods:
804 Each rod is three feet long
805 And one eighth of an inch in diameter.
806 If I take one rod by itself
807 Between the fingers of my right and left hands
808 And press the ends toward one another,
809 The rod will bend flexively.
810 Using uniform diameter rods
811 We find experientially
812 That two parallel rods cannot stand closer to one another Than in tangency of their circles’
813 Of respective cross-sectionalling.
814 A third parallel rod cannot stand closer
815 To the other two than by nestling into the valley
816 Between the other two’s tangent circles,
817 With each of the three rods
818 Now in parallel tangency
819 With both of the other two.
820 The centers of their three circular cross-sections
821 Form an equiangular triangle.
822 Hexagons consist of six equiangular triangles.
823 Hexagons have six circumferential points
824 And a center point ---seven in all ---
825 All equidistant from one another.
826 Six parallel unidiameter rods
827 May now be stood in parallel tangency
828 To form an additionally complete
829 Hexagonal perimeter ring
830 Around the first seven,
831 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,
832 All of which nineteen will also be nuclear, That is, be completely surrounded
833 By six others in closest tangential triangulation.
834 We may add more parallel tangent hexagonal rings, Each ring increasing the number by six more rods Than those of the previous outermost ring.
835 The outermost ring rods will always Be tangentially closest packed With only three other rods ---
836 That is, they will be triangularly stabilized,
837 But not nuclear,
838 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
839 That the rod-like Earthward trajectories
840 Of closely falling inter-mass-attracted raindrops Passing through freezing temperature
841 Nucleate in hexagonal snow-flake arrays Under just such close-packing laws.
842 The Greek architects found experientially That when a stone column’s height Exceeds eighteen diameters of its girth It tends to fail by buckling.
843 The length to diameter ratio Of compressional columns Is called its slenderness ratio. Steel columns are more stable Than stone columns.
844 Steel columns are structurally usable
845 With slenderness ratios as high as thirty-to-one.
846 But such columns are called long columns.
847 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.
848 A twelve-to-one slenderness ratio Provides a short column.
849 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.
850 Each rod by itself has
851 A slenderness ratio
852 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.
853 These 547 willow-slender rods
854 Will close-pack symmetrically
855 Into a tangential hexagonal short-column set
856 Of thirteen concentric rings around the nuclear rod.
857 Standing the hexagonal bundle vertically on a table
858 I bind them tightly together
859 With a steel wire
860 In an hexagonal honeycomb pattern
861 Similar to that of a wire rope section.
862 The maximum diameter of this bunch
863 Will now be three and three eighths inches.
864 I next put hexagonal steel caps
865 Neatly fitted over the opposite ends
866 Of the wire-wrapped
867 Steel-rod bunch.
868 The whole bundle
869 Is now integrated
870 As a single column
871 Three feet long
872 And three and three eighths inches in diameter.
873 I put this stout short column’s ends
874 Between the upper and lower jaws
875 Of an hydraulic press
876 And thus load the composited rod column
877 In vertical compression
878 In the axis of the rods.
879 We know by our earlier trial
880 That each end-loaded rod can bend;
881 So end-loading them in a bunch
882 Results in each rod tending to bend in its middle But being closest-packed together
883 They cannot bend inwardly toward one another, I.e., toward the column’s center rod,
884 They can bend only outwardly away from one another.
885 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.
886 This results in the whole column
887 Becoming cigar-shaped as seen in vertical profile.
888 If loaded sufficiently, The bundle approaches sphericity.
889 This experiment indicates
890 That our purposeful loading of the column in compression Inadvertently results
891 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.
892 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.
893 One can be at ‘‘high tide’’ of visibility,
894 And the other coincidentally
895 At low-tide visibility.
896 These always and only coexisting variables,
897 (Where one is at high tide
898 While the other is at low tide)
899 Are typical complementaries
900 Which are not minor-images
901 Of one another but must always
902 Complexedly balance one another in physical equations. Both demonstrate ninety-degree inadvertent resultants. This behavior is known as the Poisson Effect.
903 Universe is the aggregate
904 Of all of humanity’s
905 Consciously apprehended
906 And communicated experiences,
907 Which aggregate
908 Of only partially overlapping events Is sum-totally a lot of yesterdays Plus an awareness of now.
909 Yesterdays and now
910 Are neither simultaneous
911 Nor minor-imaged;
912 But through them run themes As overlappingly woven threads, Which though multipliedly individualized Sum-totally comprise a scenario.
913 No single frame either explains
914 Nor foretells the whole continuity---
915 The picture of the caterpillar Does not foretell the butterfly,
916 Nor does one picture of a butterfly Show that a butterfly flies.
917 I cannot think simultaneously
918 About all the special-case events which I have experienced, But I can think of one special set
919 Of closely associated events
920 At any one now.
921 Each one of these thinkable sets
922 Are what I call a system.
923 A system is a subdivision of Universe.
924 A system subdivides Universe
925 Into all of the Universe events
926 Which are irrelevant to the considered set
927 Because: (a) they are outside the system, Too macrocosmic and too infrequent Either to fit into Or to alter
928 The considered set.
929 Or irrelevant because (b) occurring
930 Too microcosmically remote
931 Within the system
932 And of too-high frequency
933 And of too-short duration
934 To be tunable with
935 Or to alter significantly
936 The considered think-set.
937 After dismissing momentarily
938 Both the macro and micro inelevancies
939 There remain
940 The few clearly relevant sets of associated events Which constitute the system.
941 We find that all the systems which subdivide Universe Into insideness and outsideness, Are concave on the inside And convex on the outside.
942 We next observe that
943 The concave and the convex
944 Always and only coexist.
945 A rubber glove on my left hand
946 Has an external part which is convex
947 And an inside which is concave.
948 If I strip the rubber glove off my left hand, It now fits my right hand.
949 What had been the concave
950 Becomes the convex
951 And the convex becomes the concave.
952 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.
953 Please do not think
954 That we have forgotten
955 That we are concerned here
956 With scientific, i.e., experimentally based, search For a means of differentiating neatly Between brain and mind.
957 Experimental demonstration
958 Of a plurality of special-case instances
959 Of always and only co-occurring phenomena
960 Are prerequisite to generalizing
961 The brain-mind differentiation.
962 I will give another example
963 Of always and only co-occurring phenomena.
964 Physicists today observe
965 That the proton and neutron
966 Always and only co-occur.
967 While they are not ‘‘mirror’’ images of one another
968 And have different weights,
969 They are transformable
970 One into the other,
971 And are thus complexedly complementary, As are isosceles and scalene triangles.
972 None of the angles and edges of either need be the same
973 To produce triangles of equal area.
974 And the sums of the three angles of each
975 Will always be one hundred and eighty degrees.
976 The mathematical balancing or complementation
977 Of the proton and neutron are analogously balanced, Each one having two small energy teammates.
978 The proton has its electron and its antineutrino, And the neutron has its positron and its neutrino.
979 And each of these little three-member teams
980 Constitute what the physicist calls half-spin or a half-quantum. They complement one another
981 And altogether comprise one unit of quantum.
982 We have now discovered experientially
983 An always and only coexisting tension and compression;
984 An always and only coexisting concave and convex;
985 And an always and only coexisting proton and neutron.
986 We next consider the Theory of Functions
987 Which embraces all of these terms.
988 X and Y are the always and only co-occurring
989 Covariables of the theory of functions
990 We can have X stand abstractly for tension
991 Or for convex or for proton
992 And we can then have Y stand abstractly
993 For compression, concave or neutron, respectively, In each of our foregoing always and only co-occuring Experiential observations of interessential relationships.
994 We can go further still:
995 We have the word ‘‘relativity.’’
996 We cannot have relativity
997 Without at least two phenomena to be differentially related.
998 There is also the word complementarity.
999 We cannot have one phenomenon complemented
1000 By less than one other phenomenon.
1001 The words complementarity and relativity
1002 Do not identify identical physical phenomena.
1003 We need to discover
1004 Whether there exists a generalized concept
1005 Which embraces both phenomena,
1006 And we find that the ponderable physical energy Universe That is, physical universe,
1007 In contradistinction to the Universe’s
1008 Weightless, metaphysical aspects,
1009 Does embrace both complementarity and relativity.
1010 B5
1011 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?’’
1012 My statement was a ‘‘first-degree scientific generalization.’’ In literature the word generalization means Covering too much territory Too thinly to be convincing.
1013 However, we have in science a term ‘‘generalization,’’ Which does not have the literary connotation.
1014 A generalization in science refers to A principle discovered by experiment To be operative in every special case.
1015 If we find any exception,
1016 We no longer have a scientific generalization.
1017 Scientific generalizations are extraordinarily meaningful, As for instance was the discovery
1018 Of the principle of leverage,
1019 Which probably came about as follows: Occasionally humans who have penetrated Wilderness forests
1020 Encounter trees fallen slantwise Across their line-of-sight path In their chosen direction of travel.
1021 It is obviously quicker
1022 To climb over the fallen tree
1023 Than to try to walk around it.
1024 They find it logical
1025 To walk along the top of the fallen tree
1026 When it leads in the direction of preferred travel Or toward the next opening in the forest.
1027 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.
1028 They retreat ---
1029 Back along the tree trunk.
1030 Experimenting, they find the tree
1031 On which they are walking
1032 Is lying across another tree.
1033 And then they observe
1034 That the end of the tree behind them,
1035 Opposite to the direction
1036 In which they were walking,
1037 Is itself superimposed
1038 By a third and very mighty tree.
1039 Looking the situation over they find
1040 That as they walk outward --- joumeyward ---
1041 Along the first tree
1042 That its slow but accelerating descent
1043 Coincides with the other end’s
1044 Lifting the trunk of the massive tree.
1045 Never having heard of a lever
1046 Or fulcrum,
1047 They say, ‘‘That big tree, which is being lifted
1048 Is much too big for me to lift.’’
1049 They go over to the massive tree And attempt to lift it directly With their arm, back and leg muscles. It doesn’t budge.
1050 Shaking their heads in surprise, They once more try walking along On the first tree.
1051 Again the massive tree rises easily.
1052 And Neanderthal man probably thought
1053 As it rose
1054 That he had found a magic tree-lifting tree.
1055 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,
1056 Not only would any tree do
1057 But so too would any steel bar,
1058 Or glass reinforced plastic bar, Or any small-toothed gear, Or a large-toothed gear.
1059 This man discovered
1060 A true scientific generalization
1061 Which always holds true Under any circumstances.
1062 The lever works equally well
1063 Anywhere in Universe.
1064 It can be made of many materials, It can be of any size.
1065 Its behavior follows incisively predictable Mathematical laws.
1066 It was a first-degree generalization
1067 When I said, ‘‘I take a piece of rope,’’
1068 And in describing my purposeful tensing of it.
1069 There was nothing I said
1070 Regarding the piece of rope
1071 That in any way contradicted
1072 Any experience that anybody
1073 In any audience has ever had
1074 With any piece of rope.
1075 It is a second-degree generalization
1076 To find an additional generalized principle
1077 Operating within the generalized piece of rope;
1078 Such as the always and only
1079 Coexisting tension and compression.
1080 It is also a second-degree generalization
1081 To find the concave and convex within generalized systems.
1082 It’s a third-degree generalization
1083 Or a generalization of a group of generalizations,
1084 To develop the Theory of Functions
1085 Wherein the X and Y could stand
1086 For any one second-degree coexistence generalizations.
1087 It is a fourth-degree generalization
1088 To develop the word ‘‘relativity.’’
1089 And it’s a fifth-degree generalization
1090 To employ the word ‘‘Universe’’
1091 To embrace both the relativity and complementarity.
1092 The degrees are then progressive omnibus stages
1093 Of generalizations of generalizations.
1094 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.
1095 The a priori integrity Of scientific generalizations Is manifest in all the phases of Universe As we explore it progressively.
1096 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.
1097 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
1098 A generalized anything.
1099 We play tension and compression with a little dog. He uses compression of his teeth
1100 As we pull on the stick and tense it, And the dog uses
1101 The convex and concave surfaces of his teeth
1102 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.
1103 Some living creatures’ brains Develop conditioned reflexes To special-case type events, Which produce behaviors resembling a first-degree Sense of generalization.
1104 But there seems to be no indication
1105 That they ever evolve
1106 A generalization of a generalization, And they certainly do not get to Fourth- and fifth-degree generalizations.
1107 We find that brains deal
1108 Always and only with special cases.
1109 We remember the special-case name---Tim Smith--- Which we may not need to recall For thirty-five years,
1110 Yet it occupies its own special Physical brain’s ‘‘after-image’’ locale--- Possibly its own neuron.
1111 We find the brain always dealing with special cases
1112 And the mind dealing with generalizations.
1113 The generalizations have no weight;
1114 Only special cases have weight
1115 Or any other physical characteristic.
1116 All scientific generalizations
1117 Are pure metaphysics.
1118 All metaphysics are weightless
1119 And physically unlimited.
1120 A triangle is a generalized principle
1121 And a triangle persists conceptually
1122 As a triangle,
1123 Independently of size,
1124 Color, weight, taste, texture or time.
1125 Searching for a function of man in Universe
1126 We found first
1127 A phase of Universe
1128 Which needed counterbalancing.
1129 This was the entropic, expansive;
1130 Increasingly disorderly, radiantly explosive Universe.
1131 In answer we found Earth to be a sphere
1132 Wherein Universe was collecting
1133 Sorting, concentrating, and storing energies
1134 In mathematically orderly ways
1135 Such as by refraction, crystal growth,
1136 Photosynthesis or molecular formations.
1137 Then we found that all the biologicals
1138 Were antientropic.
1139 I found myself publishing in ‘49,
1140 As did Norbert Weiner in another book at the same time, Unwitting of one another’s coincidental
1141 Perceptionings and simultaneous disclosures
1142 That all biological life is antientropic
1143 And that the human mind
1144 Is the most powerfully effective
1145 Antientropy
1146 Thus far evidenced.
1147 It was only a few years ago
1148 That it seemed logical
1149 To cease speaking of the phenomena involved
1150 As antientropy,
1151 Entropy being disintegratively negative;
1152 Antientropy was, in effect, a double negative
1153 Used to express a positive.
1154 So to render the concept positive
1155 And to identify its kinship
1156 To synergy,
1157 I started speaking of it as syntropy
1158 As the positive complementary
1159 Of the negative entropy.
1160 Now I surmise
1161 That the speculative thought
1162 Of the human mind ---
1163 In contradistinction
1164 To the physical experience recalls
1165 Of the physical brain ---
1166 Is physically nondemonstrable,
1167 Ergo, metaphysical,
1168 But its teleological activity,
1169 Which subjectively evolves generalizations
1170 From multiplicities of special-case experiences (And thereafter employs the generalizations
1171 Objectively in other special-case physical formulations) Can be detected
1172 Through man’s intuitive recognition
1173 Of the weightless pattern integrity per se, Ever weightlessly, abstractly present in the original Discovering and inventing events.
1174 Scientific generalizations
1175 Have no inherent beginning or ending.
1176 In discovering them
1177 Mind is discovering a phase of Universe
1178 That is eternal.
1179 The physical human and its physical brain Unmonitored by mind
1180 Are not only less effectively syntropic
1181 Than other biological species;
1182 They are often consciously
1183 Far more entropic
1184 Than any other species
1185 And are only subconsciously syntropic.
1186 Human’s average birth weight of seven pounds Is multiplied sometimes as much as fiftyfold By syntropic chemical combining of Other protoplasmic cells
1187 Taken in as food;
1188 With gases and liquids
1189 Taken in by breathing and drinking.
1190 But humanity’s syntropic cell multiplication
1191 Is outperformed greatly by trees, whales, elephants And other living organisms.
1192 Remembering that antientropy, or syntropy Means, on the one hand,
1193 Reversing the physical trending
1194 Toward greater disorder
1195 And, on the other hand, means Converting the relative disorder To increasingly orderly physical arrangements.
1196 We found that the human’s biological role is minor, But that his metaphysically-sorting mind-role
1197 Is the paramount syntropy,
1198 For it reviews and sets in fundamental order
1199 The randomly, ergo disorderly,
1200 Physical event experiences of the universal environment;
1201 And the magnitude of physical rearranging In progressively more orderly patterns
1202 Metaphysically conceived by the human mind Is overwhelmingly greater
1203 Than that produced by the
1204 Physiological organisms
1205 Of any other biological species.
1206 One mind can design orderly machines,
1207 Such as the steamship Queen Mary, Or in a continental highway system In physical magnitude which dwarfs Any biological undertaking,
1208 Even that of coral-reef building By minuscule coral creatures.
1209 It must be remembered
1210 That syntropy also means
1211 To collect, concentrate, and store.
1212 When I speak to an audience
1213 As recounted before,
1214 Saying, ‘‘Let us take a piece of rope . .
1215 To demonstrate the generalized rope concept---
1216 I am drawing on
1217 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.
1218 So my first-degree generalization Reduces our experience processing One hundred thousandfold.
1219 Our second-degree generalization
1220 Reduces the experiences multi-billionfold, And each further degree of generalization Multiplies the number of special experiences From which the generalization is extracted.
1221 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.
1222 When we get to the fifth-degree generalization, Universe,
1223 We have increased our numbers-of-experiences base
1224 To all the experiences
1225 Ever known to and remembered by humanity, Including all the experiences
1226 With all the atoms and their nuclear components.
1227 Thus, the human mind
1228 Has collected, combined and refined
1229 All experiences of all humanity,
1230 In all-remembered time,
1231 Into one single concept,
1232 Universe,
1233 Which is, ipso facto, The ultimate generalization.
1234 Clearly it is seen
1235 That man’s metaphysical mind Demonstrates the most effective
1236 Syntropic capability evidenced in Universe Excepting that of the universal mind’s Cosmic syntropy
1237 As manifest in the eternal design complex, Comprehensively and synergetically interaccommodative As eternally regenerative Universe, Which cosmic syntropy combines
1238 All the metaphysical integrities As well as all the physical patterns.
1239 Human mind’s metaphysical syntropy potential Caps all the syntropic sequences
1240 Operative in our Spaceship Earth’s Comprehensive syntropic system, Which, as we remember, started its analysis
1241 Hoping to be able
1242 To identify humanity’s function in Universe
1243 And thereby to gain insights
1244 Into the respective functions Of the mind and brain.
1245 We started looking for
1246 The syntropic complementation
1247 Of the entropic energy expenditures
1248 Of all the stars
1249 And found our own Spaceship Earth
1250 To be the most immediate demonstration
1251 Of the energy aggregating
1252 Of star radiation and stardust,
1253 And we observed
1254 The progressive impoundments by the atmosphere And oceans, of energy as heat, Refracted into circumferential
1255 Weather and ocean currents,
1256 Which energy impoundments produced the exact Temperatures, pressures, and chemical wherewithal For developing the vegetational photosynthesis Of land and sea.
1257 And we went on to find that
1258 The effect of all of this is
1259 To reduce the randomly received energies
1260 Into superbly orderly
1261 Molecular and cellular structurings
1262 And to multiply that highly concentrated
1263 And chemically locked-in
1264 Energy --- as hydrocarbons
1265 Which were and are continually
1266 Being buried deeper and deeper
1267 Within Earth’s agglomerate surface,
1268 Where the pressures and heat
1269 At a kilometer’s depth
1270 Begin to convert the hydrocarbon fossils into petroleum As an even more compacted energy conserve.
1271 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
1272 Of the random terrestrial environment;
1273 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
1274 To perpetuate its supreme syntropic functioning In Scenario Universe As the ultimate sorting, Rearranging, compacting
1275 And logic-employing local monitor Of the syntropic phases of regenerative Universe.
1276 Einstein,
1277 As metaphysical, weightless, human intellect, Took the measure of the weighable physical And wrote
1278 The most economically formulated equation Mathematically possible,
1279 For it put on one side of the equation
1280 The physical Universe, which is to be equated, Represented as ‘‘E’’---
1281 Because all that is physical is energetic --- And on the other side of the equation Einstein placed the two terms
1282 Minimally necessary to disclose a relationship.
1283 For these two terms he employed
1284 ‘‘M’’ (For energy associated as matter) and
1285 ‘‘c2’’ (For energy disassociative as radiation), Expressed as c2 because
1286 c is the speed of light
1287 In any one linear direction;
1288 But light goes omnioutwardly in a spherical wave Whose surface increases as the second power Of the linear speed of radiation.
1289 I
1290 Ergo: Einstein’s equation
1291 Is E = Mc2.
1292 And in it the velocity of c2
1293 Is the constant and known term
1294 And the amount of energy
1295 Compacted in any given mass
1296 Can be determined
1297 If the given E to be analyzed
1298 Is measured.
1299 Einstein’s equation
1300 Was intuitively formulated
1301 From the experimentally Harvested data of others, But proved to be correct When the subsequent fission occurred.
1302 Here we have the metaphysical intellect Taking the measure of
1303 And mastering the physical.
1304 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
1305 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
1306 Or irreversibility
1307 Of intellectual processes.
1308 For the syntropic metaphysical Is not a mirror-imaged reversal Of the entropic physical’s Disorderly expansiveness.
1309 The fact that man, Using only his physical brain And not his mind, Can be the most
1310 Entropically destructive organism
1311 Does not contradict
1312 The irreversibility principle
1313 Unique to maximally syntropic mind.
1314 Humanity’s imaginative invention of Hell Discloses its subconscious awareness Of the ultimate entropy.
1315 Thus we find the metaphysical
1316 Apprehending and embracing,
1317 Comprehending, cohering and conserving
1318 The integrity of Scenario Universe’s Never exactly identical recyclings.
1319 The physical tries to destroy
1320 And dissipate itself.
1321 The metaphysical law masters and conserves The evolutionary integrity.
1322 Though humans are bom equipped
1323 To participate
1324 In the supreme function of Universe.
1325 This does not guarantee
1326 That they will do so.
1327 Humans are bom utterly helpless,
1328 And must through trial and error,
1329 By physical experiments,
1330 Discover what the controlling family
1331 Of generalized principles may be,
1332 Which principles must be employed by humans To fulfill their Universe function, But in order to discover the latter
1333 They first must discover the overwhelmingly superior efficacy
1334 Of the mind, as compared to muscle.
1335 And humans also must discover That the physical,
1336 Which they tend to prize as seemingly vital To their regenerative continuance, Is utterly subordinate
1337 To the omni-integrity of metaphysical laws, Which are discoverable Only by mind.
1338 Only if man leams in time
1339 To accredit the weightless thinking Over the physical values,
1340 In a realistic, economic and philosophic accounting Of all his affairs,
1341 Will the particular team of humans Now aboard planet Earth Survive to perform their function --- When nature has an essential
1342 And intercomplementary function to be fulfilled And the chances of development Of that functioning capability
1343 Are poor.
1344 Nature makes many potential ‘‘starts.’’ As for instance
1345 All the vegetation which impounds the Sun’s energy Must be regenerated and multiplied.
1346 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.
1347 Wherefore all the trees
1348 Launch their seeds
1349 Into the air or upon the waters
1350 To drift to chance landings,
1351 Where the seeds may be favorably nourished
1352 And grow.
1353 The chances of such auspicious landing
1354 Are so unfavorable
1355 That nature must send
1356 Billions times billions of seeds away
1357 From the parent vegetation,
1358 Which, though potential of complete success,
1359 May never germinate and prosper.
1360 The airs and waters
1361 Of the planet Earth
1362 Are filled with the aimlessly migrating seeds.
1363 Because the chances of humanity’s
1364 Self-discovery of the supremacy of the metaphysical
1365 And the corruptibility of the physical,
1366 While coming from an utterly helpless start,
1367 Are very poor,
1368 The probability is
1369 That for each of the billions of stars
1370 In the billions of nebulae
1371 There are several planets
1372 Where energies are being
1373 Most effectively conserved---
1374 Which means
1375 By the metaphysical mind.
1376 Ergo: there are probably myriads Of successful,
1377 Consciously operated planets Despite greater myriads of failures.
1378 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.
1379 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.
1380 We cannot have disorder
1381 Because Universe is not monological;
1382 It is pluralistic and complementary,
1383 And we are founded on
1384 The orderly base
1385 Of the proton-neutron tripartite teams
1386 Of six unique energy integrity vectors.
1387 Men at the time of World War I
1388 Were dealing in radio waves
1389 That were a mile long.
1390 Gradually they found shorter waves
1391 And found ways of sending,
1392 Transmitting and receiving
1393 At ever shorter and shorter wavelengths And at higher and higher frequencies.
1394 A quarter of a century later,
1395 When we came into World War II
1396 The electronics scientists
1397 Were working at wavelengths Of about two meters.
1398 After World War II they were working
1399 With what we call microwaves,
1400 Operating at fractions of meters
1401 And at fractions of centimeters or millimeters
1402 Of wavelengths.
1403 The higher the frequency
1404 The shorter the wavelength---
1405 And the more tendency
1406 To interference
1407 With the waves of other phenomena.
1408 Also: the higher the frequency,
1409 The lower the energy required
1410 To power the propagation Of the message-carrying Electromagnetic waves.
1411 Therefore, these short, high frequencies Could only be sent
1412 Relatively short distances.
1413 They interfere with the walls, hills or trees. The long waves are not interfered with By such local obstacles.
1414 Those who employ
1415 Very high-frequency short waves Do not have to have an operator’s license. Their short waves are so interrupted By local events
1416 That the walkie-talkies, for instance, Cannot carry far enough
1417 To interfere with other stations such as
1418 The commercial or government traffic, Because they do not interfere
1419 With longer waves of the commercial bands.
1420 It is also a characteristic of these waves And of all radiation
1421 That when the wave propagation
1422 Is beamingly aimed
1423 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.
1424 There seems to be no impedance
1425 And no inherent limitation to the distance
1426 Which such electromagnetic wave signals can go
1427 Once outside the Earth mantles.
1428 As far as we know,
1429 The waves can go on forever in Universe---
1430 Unless they hit some object,
1431 And when they hit an object they lose some energy
1432 Then bounce away
1433 And keep on going
1434 In a new direction.
1435 Now let us tum our thoughts
1436 To the neurologists who we left probing the brain with electrodes.
1437 I find that the neurologists do not feel it to be shocking
1438 When I suggest to them
1439 That it could be demonstrated physiologically
1440 Within the next two decades
1441 That what man in the past has been calling telepathy
1442 May in fact be ultra, ultra-high frequency,
1443 Electromagnetic-wave propagation.
1444 Almost everyone has had
1445 The strange sensation of telepathy
1446 Occurring as various kinds of awareness,
1447 Anticipations or sensing
1448 Of the imminent presence of other persons.
1449 I myself had a very extraordinary experience
1450 With our first child,
1451 Who died just before her fourth birthday.
1452 Bom at the time of World War I,
1453 She first contracted flu,
1454 Then spinal meningitis,
1455 And, finally, infantile paralysis,
1456 Being paralyzed and unable to move,
1457 As do other children,
1458 But with her brain unimpaired.
1459 She manifested the normal child’s innate drive
1460 To apprehend then comprehend
1461 All that her eyes could see,
1462 Her nose smell,
1463 And her ears hear.
1464 She had to obtain
1465 The tactile information
1466 By other means
1467 Than with her own hands;
1468 So the tensive-compressive,
1469 Soft, hard, light, heavy,
1470 Rough, smooth, wet, dry,
1471 Hot, cold, cool and warm characteristics
1472 Of the constituents of her environment
1473 She had to sense vicariously.
1474 And in so doing,
1475 She demonstrated the extraordinary
1476 Compensating faculties
1477 Innate in all humanity,
1478 Which are, however,
1479 Brought into use
1480 Only under very special conditions.
1481 She was fantastically sensitive
1482 To the cerebrations of all humans in her vicinity.
1483 She was most frequently attended
1484 By my wife, myself
1485 And two trained nurses.
1486 Often she had two of us with her.
1487 Time and again when we were
1488 About to say something to one another
1489 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.
1490 This happened so many times
1491 As to convince us that our formulated communications Were obviously being transmitted through her.
1492 This experience persuaded me that telepathy Might well be very short-range, Very high-frequency
1493 Electromagnetic-wave propagation.
1494 Assuming this to be so
1495 We arrive at some new vistas of thought.
1496 When we broadcast energies They are very greatly dissipated.
1497 Radiant energies can be concentrated, however, By reflective beaming and lensing, As was candlelight in a lighthouse.
1498 Reflectors and lenses concentrated them.
1499 Reflectively beamed seaward, They were sometimes Visible for ten miles.
1500 After World War I the only unused
1501 Electromagnetic-wave-band frequencies available Were by international conventions preassigned To the then developing,
1502 But not as yet inaugurated prime television-developing countries.
1503 These available bands
1504 Were in the very short-wave
1505 And high-frequency area,
1506 Where interferences were so frequent and great
1507 That beyond-the-horizon broadcasting
1508 Was physically impossible.
1509 Unfamiliar as yet with the beaming technique
1510 And its more economic potentials,
1511 It was the accepted professional
1512 Engineering dictum
1513 That if we were going to have
1514 Worthwhile, desirable, and popularly sustained ---
1515 And therefore commercially exploitable ---
1516 Post World War II TV programs,
1517 We would not be able to afford
1518 Having top-rank artists
1519 And high-cost programs
1520 Moving to every little local center
1521 To be locally broadcast.
1522 Therefore we would have to have
1523 All expensive TV programs
1524 Developed at central places
1525 And distributed by cable
1526 To secondary broadcasting stations.
1527 During World War II
1528 The discovery of the
1529 Shorter and shorter waves and the capability
1530 To receive and transmit them
1531 Brought about after the war
1532 The facile use of short waves,
1533 Which waves were found to he short enough
1534 To be easily reflected.
1535 If the wave is a mile
1536 In length, we have to have
1537 A reflector over a mile in size.
1538 As with optical light reflection,
1539 We have to contain the wavelength
1540 In order to beam it.
1541 Wherefore after World War II
1542 When television was instituted
1543 We had masts at horizon-to-horizon points,
1544 Well above the interference patterns
1545 Of trees, mountains and buildings.
1546 Instead of sending the radiation in all directions
1547 We concentrated it in one direction,
1548 Which greatly conserved it.
1549 And energy boosted the signals
1550 At each horizon relaying transceiver,
1551 Reconcentrated them,
1552 And sent them onto the next horizon point.
1553 In this manner the TV programs
1554 Are now transmitted around the world’s local national domains By satellite-relay transceiver.
1555 Recognizing that it is possible
1556 To conserve energies by reflection,
1557 As well as to reach
1558 Great distance by beaming,
1559 We can point out that it is also possible
1560 That our human eyes are just such
1561 Very high-frequency electromagnetic waves
1562 Propagating and receiving reflector relays,
1563 As with the original propagation Occurring in the brain And the transceiving Relayed by our eyes.
1564 I have had extraordinary experiences With audience after audience Around the world.
1565 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
1566 I know what the verdict is Before anyone has spoken Audible words.
1567 And I am confident
1568 That I first ‘‘saw’’ the message
1569 In the people’s eyes
1570 And not in their facial expressions, Which were mixed and arbitrarily fixed The speed of light, Ergo, of the sight functioning, Which is approximately
1571 Seven hundred million miles per hour, Is such an enormous velocity That we mistakenly sense it Only as ‘‘instantaneous.’’
1572 When I was young
1573 A camera required a minute’s exposure. By improving film chemistry And lens refinements
1574 As we entered World War II,
1575 A thousandth-of-a-second exposure
1576 Had become adequate
1577 For premium photographic equipment.
1578 Now adequate exposure
1579 With some scientific equipment
1580 Has been lessened
1581 To one millionth of a second
1582 For producing a superb photograph.
1583 In other words, the rate
1584 At which we can ‘‘get the picture,’’
1585 And the rate at which we can transmit it
1586 Is approximately instantaneous.
1587 It may be true
1588 That our eyes are electromagnetic-wave transceiving relays.
1589 If so, it is possible
1590 That seemingly instant exchanges between humans
1591 May become scientifically accomplished through telepathy,
1592 And people may soon be able
1593 To know one another’s thoughts,
1594 Which will mean
1595 That people will be prone
1596 To do good thinking
1597 And also to co-ordinate
1598 With one another
1599 As never before.
1600 In this connection it is recalled that when
1601 Artzybasheff made a picture of me
1602 For the cover of Time magazine,
1603 He pictured my head as a geodesic sphere.
1604 The shape of my head is
1605 Of course not that of an exact sphere. Everything about my features Except my eyes
1606 Was purely mechanistic, And were caricatured as mechanical devices. Though I sometimes read of myself As being almost inhumanly mechanistic
1607 I myself think of the whole physical Universe As governed so exquisitely by generalized laws As to have to conclude
1608 The whole of physical Universe Is technologically governed, But I find life to be weightless And only metaphysical
1609 And I know that I am inspired Entirely by life
1610 And its needs and potentials. So I do not tend to think Such characterizations by an illustrator To be accurate.
1611 Yet this Time cover picture seems to me To be the best portrait of me That I recall having seen.
1612 I never met Artzybasheff He is now dead.
1613 But he sent word to me
1614 Before his death, Relating his special satisfaction With this particular portrait of me.
1615 He also sent word
1616 That the only features that mattered to him Were the human’s eyes.
1617 Before he painted my portrait
1618 Time-Life photographers
1619 Took many pictures, But only of my eyes. Artzybasheff did my portrait Entirely from those eye photographs, And all the foregoing
1620 Discussion of the transceiving, Beam-relaying functioning of the eyes May explain why
1621 It became the optimum likeness of me Despite tire mechanistic caricaturing.
1622 Now let us employ
1623 All the foregoing discussion of wave phenomena And speculate as to its significance--- And remembering that, lacking interference, Electromagnetic waves Apparently can travel on
1624 At their seven-hundred-million-miles-per-hour rate For what may be limitless periods of time.
1625 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.
1626 It is quite plausible
1627 That his skyward focused eyes
1628 May beam his thoughts, Quite unbeknownst to him, Out through the shallow atmosphere Into the approximately interference-free Macrocosmos.
1629 And there is no reason why
1630 The eye-beamed thoughts
1631 Might not someday
1632 Bounce off some other celestial body,
1633 As humans have already
1634 Bounced radio signals off the Moon
1635 And back to Earth
1636 By carefully angled beaming.
1637 And as at present,
1638 To avoid the circumferential
1639 Ob taeles of our planet,
1640 Electromagnetic-wave-carried programs
1641 Of TV and voice
1642 Are being relay-bounced
1643 Around Earth by the
1644 Communication satellites,
1645 Holding their flight positions
1646 Outside the atmosphere.
1647 And the thoughts of our specially assumed human
1648 Who is inadvertently beaming
1649 His thoughts into the cosmos
1650 Sends them on a path
1651 Which results in their
1652 Being uninterfered-with for millennia.
1653 When finally they do interfere with
1654 And bounce off a celestial body,
1655 They are accidentally aimed back to where
1656 Earth will be several millennia after their original dispatch.
1657 At that moment of rereaching Earth planet
1658 An individual on board Earth
1659 Is looking out at the night heavens
1660 And inadvertently tunes in the millennia-ago
1661 Telepathy-dispatched thoughts
1662 Through his transceiver beam-relaying eyes,
1663 And the thought message is monitored into his brain, Whereby the inadvertently receiving human
1664 Thinks he is thinking
1665 A novel and interesting thought ---
1666 And all of the foregoing
1667 Seems to indicate the possibility
1668 That the family
1669 Of generalized principles
1670 Being eternally valid independently
1671 Of special-case idiosyncrasies
1672 (Ergo, of the language of its thinker)
1673 Might be bouncing around in Universe
1674 To be tuned in
1675 Here and there from time to time
1676 On various planets
1677 By various humans
1678 Of various planetary crews.
1679 And it may be thus
1680 That knowledge becomes tune-in-able
1681 By humans on planets or wherever they may be.
1682 This telepathic tuneability may occur
1683 As the humans complete
1684 Enough experiences
1685 And do enough generalized thinking about them
1686 To be able intuitively
1687 To comprehend the significance
1688 Of the thoughts which they are
1689 Inadvertently receiving.
1690 Certain it is on my own part
1691 That I have made several mathematical discoveries Of fundamentally unexpected and unpublished nature. As I realized my discovery
1692 I always have had
1693 The same strange sensation
1694 That this newly realized conception,
1695 Previously unknown to terrestrial humans,
1696 Had been known
1697 To the human mind
1698 Sometime vastly long ago.
1699 Since whatever life may be,
1700 It has no weight, As has been discovered By weighing individuals At the moment of their dying,
1701 It is also possible,
1702 That whatever our abstract
1703 Metaphysical beings may be
1704 Their complex weightless organic pattern integrity Might also be transmittable
1705 By electromagnetic waves,
1706 Whereby humans may already have been, Or Earthians may sometime become Beamed consciously and purposefully To elsewhere in Universe
1707 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.
1708 And wherever they came from, The thoughts arranged in this book Are discoveries Of its author
1709 Since he first came in 1913 To think
1710 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
1711 Comprehensively co-ordinate system, And thankfully found it.