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Man is the empowering intellect. Man is designing energy into non-random
systems and therefore he is anti-entropic.
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Employing anti-entropy in larger sweep-outs.
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Students and faculty falling in love with something.
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All humanity's built-ins are recognized as creating designs only inadvertently.
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We need a cogent inventory and experiments to prove the validity.
Bring your whistles. Ring bells when you fool yourself.
The Disciplining of the Artist is better than Science
Be a creative individual
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Man is designed to be limited.
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Every individual sees differently through the lens of interest and experience.
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All atoms plus infinity therefore equal zero.
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The Universe is purely intellectual.
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The fundamental complimentarity is that there is no unity (union implication).
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Basically they are two congruent balls or spheres with no differences.
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There is no reasoning from simple to complex.
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The 92 elements are the generalized prime schema (from the magazine Maincurrents
Science).
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Character comes from cross breeding not from inbreeding. There is a heterogeneous
or synergetic gain from bringing unlikes together.
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On a stringed instrument a half gives an octave while a third gives a fifth. We do no
create, we discover.
March 1965 Buckminster Fuller Lecture Notes - Page 6 of 6
Bucky at the greenboard demonstrating
how to multiply by “casting out nines.” Nine
is equal to three 3s which is the number of
sides in a triangle . . .
We need to find ways to help men reorient themselves
We need to show what is going on in universe.
Like Casting out nines.
Casting out nines concluded our lecture with
Bucky. The rest of our time with Bucky was spent
experimenting with closest packing of
tetrahedrons and octahedrons (using models
folded from IBM cards or marbles) and designing
and building a 150-foot diameter “kissing”
tensegrity dome out of bamboo. The Viet Nam
war was just getting started in 1965; Bucky
thought domes might be a “solution.”
Closest Packing
How do marbles arrange themselves under
different conditions? In triangles or squares? How
would unit tetrahedrons arrange themselves?
How about if we add some unit octahedrons? What
happens when we have octahedrons and tetrahedrons in a 1 to 4 ratio?
What if the container was round, square, or a triangle? Dished or flat?
Marbles tending toward closest packing on a cookie sheet
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