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The earth's crust has all elements in good proportions.
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Making the topsoil took years to get keys to man's survival in the universe.
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The sun has Hydrogen, Helium and Carbon while the earth has most all elements in it's crust. It's in
the crust or the topsoil where worms, flies and other organisms do things inadvertently to gain
their local advantage.
Intellect.
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Automation. Man is all automated.
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There are few things we do consciously.
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Those things we do do consciously are called design.
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All conscious thinking is design.
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Man has a design capability.
Sphere Packing
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Bees couldn't help but make
hexagons because close packed
circles take less area than cubic
arrangements.
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Humans may be unique because
we can't improve in conscious
design.
Associating
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Dr. Penfield = Patterns of
thought in the brain [did RBF
mean Roger Penrose?]
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Names are remembered on the
left side.
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All brain behavioral data is easier
to explain with mind intellect
included with a reflexive brain.
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Man apprehending conscious patterning of the universe and designing in preferred patterns to
increase leverage.
Everything is design, clean your toilets.
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Archaeologists just go through trash.
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In America we're now clean.
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Design is pyramiding conscious reappraisal of the
universe.
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We are capturing more energy.
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We learn to leverage nature.
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Make levers on waterwheels and gears.
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The environment does work is preferred ways and
finding those ways will make us a metabolic
success.
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Man makes steam from nature's million years of
coal-making.
March 1965 Buckminster Fuller Lecture Notes - Page 4 of 6
Bees do it
Design at Southern Illinois University
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