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