natural fuels.
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The big question is:
WHAT SHOULD MAN BE DOING HERE IN UNIVERSE?
WHAT IS MAN DOING HERE IN UNIVERSE?
Norbert Weiner and Cybernetics
One idea of how to function comes from Norbert Weiner.
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He came to the conclusion, "that man is the most important anti-entropic functioner in the
universe," about the same time I did.
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The earth is a small spaceship.
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The equator speeds around at 1000 miles and hour and
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The whole planet speeds around the sun at a speed of a million miles a day.
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The rim speed of rotation of our galaxy is tremendous and
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the speed of the whole galaxy traveling through space is phenomenal.
Non-simultaneity
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Non-simultaneity means that
this room, all radiations, all
atomic frequencies are non
simultaneous.
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There is no logical,
composite picture of
anything.
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There is no inherent
associability.
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Some of the stars you "see"
are in your stomach.
All words are attempts to
tell experience
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but like universe you can
take all words and make
coherent sentences.
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There is no ideal moment,
no instantenaiety.
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Thought is small field differentiation.
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How fast (much) are the total patterns tied in local knots so that they appear static.
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On earth (spaceship) it means getting supplies.
The Red Shift
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Harlow Shapley is associated with the red shift.
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Red glow at night is bending of light.
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We now know we have an expanding universe because we discovered the red shift far away.
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Like the childhood tension experience where we discover that tension straightens while
compression curls things up.
What is Generalization in Science?
March 1965 Buckminster Fuller Lecture Notes - Page 3 of 6
photo by Dale Carlson
Design at Southern Illinois University
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