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03 Chapter2.txt
Chapter 2: Astro Age David's Sling:
In each herd of wild horses there is a king stallion. Every once in a while a young stallion is born bigger and more powerful than the herd's other colts. When the new big colt matures, the king stallion engages him in battle. Whichever one wins becomes the inseminator of the herd's mares. Darwin saw this phenomenon as the way in which nature contrives to maintain the strongest, best coordinated, most alert, and fastest strains in the species. Twentieth-century racing stable operators progressively inbreed the fast-running genes. Nature uses this progressive, only-by-generation-to-generation, (DNA-RNA)-genes-concentrating method in selecting, evolving, and maintaining the physically fittest biological types to serve the vast variety of planet Earth's omniintercomplementary ecological regeneration functions to become operative under each and every uniquely variant set of environmental conditions.
Nature employs the same solely-by-survival-through-successive-generations, genes-concentrating principle when introducing humans into the complex ecological scheme of intercomplementary regenerativity of life on planet Earth.
While nature undoubtedly initiated the installation of humans on planet Earth with semi-giant leaderships, she had eventually to disclose to humans through direct experience lessons that human muscle is naught as compared to the competence of the mind-directed brain.
I acquired one of the most important
Of my life's working assumptions
When I undertook to answer
My own 1927 self-questioning:
"Why have humans been included
In the design of Universe?"
My hypothetical answer of 1927
Was, and as yet is:
What impresses me most
Is the experientially demonstrable fact
That all living organisms
Other than humans
Have some organically integral equipment
That gives them some inherent
Physical advantage
In coping with special environmental conditions--
A plant that can and does thrive
Only under dense Amazon
River jungle conditions--
A bird that can fly beautifully
While in the sky
But which cannot divest itself
Of those wings
While awkwardly walking--
The fish having equipment
To extract oxygen from the water
That dies out of water.
Common with many creatures
Humans have brains.
Brains of humans and other creatures
Are always and only
Coordinating and memory-storing the information
Reported to their brains
By internal and external
Sensing devices
Regarding each special-case systemic experience.
But humans are given mind's access
To objectively realizable mathematical principles whereby
Humans can produce their own wings to
Outfly all the special-case, integrally winged birds.
In addition to their brains
Humans have minds,
Possessed by no other
Known organism.
Weightless, nonphysical minds
Are concerned with discovering
The interrelated significance
Of all-time humanity's
Thus-far-experientially-discovered
And experimentally-verified inventory
Of ever-experientially-redemonstrable,
Only-mathematically-expressible
Cosmic design laws
And of those laws' governance
Of the multi-alternative freedoms of realization
As mathematically incisive,
Omnirational, variously magnituded,
Structurally associative and dissociative,
Nonsimultaneous,
And only omnicomplexedly intercomplementary,
Always and only overlapping episodes
Altogether essential
To eternally regenerative
Scenario Universe.
HUMANS:
IF
Successfully evolved
Physiologically, psychologically, and philosophically
From their born-naked,
Helpless-for-months,
No-experience state
Of absolute ignorance
To be progressively educated
As driven only by innate
Hunger, thirst, procreative instinct, and curiosity
Into initiative-takings
Can thereby discover frequent errors
Of assumption, identification, or execution
Wherewith, if the individual's innate courage
And sense of the importance of truth
Are greater than the sense of pride
Of the individual,
Error is admitted
Thus only inadvertently uncovering
That which is true
Which discovered truth may prove to be
Both physically and metaphysically
Inspiringly advantageous information
Suggesting ways of progressively improving
Physical life-support systems
And their environmental realizations
Together with their operational information agenda
Whereafter, encouraged by experiencing
The ensuing, more favorable environmental circumstances
Accruing only to their ever abiding by the spontaneous
Self-admonitions springing intuitively
From their innate love of the truth,
The thus-inspired individuals
Persevere with integrity
Throughout some hundred thousand generations
Of such only-by-trial-and-error conditioning
With each generation's intermatings
Of those mutually surviving
Under the evolving environment
And mutually educated exclusively
By such artifacts-accomplished,
Creative conversions
Of negative into positive circumstances
And through those regenerative matings
To concentrate the DNA-RNA,
Exclusively angle- and frequency-controlled,
Structural and mechanical design programmings
Of the creatively imagining faculties
And their corresponding crafting dexterities
Which with their inventing of words
Their metaphysical tools
And electromagnetic-spectrum
Communications accomplishments
Might in time
Attain and sustain
A semi-divine level
Of exclusively artifacts-realized,
Creative design wisdom
Adequate to render the cosmic environment
Healthily supportive of all humanity
THEN
Shall humans discover
That they have been
Included in Universe
To function:
First, as local Universe information-harvesters;
Secondly, as critical information-winnowers;
Thirdly, as generalized
Patterns-and-principles discoverers;
And fourthly, employing those principles objectively
To serve as local Universe problem-solvers
In support of the integrity
Of eternally regenerative,
Only overlappingly inter-episoded
Scenario Universe.
In order that humans might so evolvingly function, they were first given brains and then access to mind.
As already mentioned but worth repeating, human brains, as with those of many creatures, function always and only as coordinators of all the sense-apprehended information regarding each special-case temporal experience, all of which special-case experiences have beginnings and endings.
In contradistinction to brains, which are constructed of physical matter, the weightless, matterless, metaphysical mind has the unique capability, from time to time, to discover eternal interrelationships existing invisibly between special-case experiences, which interrelationships cannot be discovered by any or all of the brain's physical sense systems--for instance, the mathematical law governing gravity's invisibly cohering not only the Sun and its multi-millions-of-miles-apart planets as discovered by the weightless invisible conceptual thought-relaying from the mind of Kepler to Galileo to Newton and as also cohering the never-anywhere-intertouching parts of local Universe systems of galaxies, and electrons remote from their nuclei.
The relative interattractiveness invisibly operative between any two remote-from-one-another cosmic bodies, as compared to any other pair of cosmic bodies, equally distanced from one another, is proportional to the multiplicative product of the respective couple's masses, and the interattractiveness of any pair of celestial bodies varies inversely as the second power of the distance between them. Halve the intervening distance and the interattractiveness increases fourfold.
Human minds were given the semi-divine capability to discover and employ some of the only-mathematicallycommunicable eternal laws governing the design of eternally regenerative Universe itself.
When I was born in 1895 humanity was 95-percent illiterate and needed leaders. Today the situation is reversed. Humanity is now 65-percent literate and capable of doing its own thinking, decision-making, and initiativetaking.
Returning to the genetic evolution and the history of humans aboard our planet, we observe that only by the genes-concentrating of successive generations of survivormatings were design-produced the best all-around average-size humans for average as well as special environmental conditions. Both giants and pygmies were designevolved for coping with extremes of environment.
Bare-handed giants could physically overwhelm both bare-handed average humans and pygmies, except when the littler ones escaped into caves or thickets through entryways too small for giants.
People think of the size of people in terms of height. Mathematics shows, however, that if we double human height while maintaining equal proportionment we have four times as much surface (skin) and eight times as much volume (flesh and bone--weight). "Twice as big" is really eight times as big. Giants were indeed overpowering.
Tools are the only-intermittently-used, noncorporeal extensions of integral functioning capabilities of biological species. Spider webs are tool extensions of spiders. Nests are short-term tool extensions of birds whose regenerative functioning occupies only a minor fraction of their lifetime activity. In order to be light enough to be able to fly, the birds must physically separate out all those of their overall essential lifetime functions not continuously required in their survival and development. Momentarily containing both embryo and nutriment, eggs are externalizable, system-separable, new-life-gestation tools which together with insulating nests provide the means by which the mother bird may fly unencumbered to seek out the worm or insect-packaged energy-intake-as-heat to be transferred to the embryo inside the heat conductive eggshell in its heat-conserving nest and do so before the eggs become too cold. Later she brings the worms and insects directly to the hatched chicks themselves, secure in their heat-conserving nest--an environment-controlling tool.
Nests and eggs are indeed tools, as is the womb--an only-once-in-a-while, carried-with-mammalian , new-lifeproduction tool. Mammals don't have to fly so they can carry tools integrally, internally, as do they also carry their hearts, livers, and other continuously interlinked high-frequency-of-use tools. All tools exist in Universe only as essential functional components of development programs of living organisms.
A cut-off finger can be swiftly stuck back onto the hand to seemingly function again as an apparently integral part of the organism. The comprehensive fact, however, is that nothing in Universe touches anything else. There are no solids. There are, in fact, no things. There are only complex critical-proximity and -frequency, unique event aggregates interoperative in pure principle. The event electron is as remote from its nuclear events as is the Moon from the Earth as size-referenced to their respective event diameters.
Biological organisms, like all systems in Universe, are constituted of locally interregenerative functions in pure principle. So too with all species. Humans have a vast range of overall essential functionings whose frequency and duration of use can be developed either as integral or non-integral, inorganic or organic tool-extensions of their pounding, cutting, scratching, marking, formative, or transformative and transportive functions of survival and development.
Simple tool-inventing, such as picking up a stone to throw in self-defense, requires only the brain's instinctive functioning. Almost everywhere stones lie ready to serve as heavier "fists" for powerful, but only occasionally needed, punching, pounding, or smashing. Mind, which alone comprehends the complex interaction of principles, is required to anticipatorily invent stone-throwing slings, spring-loaded catapults, or bow-and-arrows archery.
Tools of self-defense or aggressive warfare, called weapons, frequently embody principles that can be constructively rather than destructively employed. Beyond even that, they can solve positively the originally negative, aggression-aggravating problem--a basic precept of design science. Conversely, ballpoint pens, carried with us in our breast pockets because so frequently used, can be employed either constructively to write a life-saving prescription or destructively as a dagger. My hearing aids and my eyeglasses are more permanent components of my awake hours than are millions of daily dying-and-being-replaced protoplasmic cells of which my flesh is constructed--otherwise I could not lose a pound a day. My eyeglasses and hearing aids together weigh only a quarter of a pound. The same tool can become the extensions of many individuals, and for longer years than human generations. Bridges and transcontinental highways are universally social tools.
Airplanes are mutually interchangeable human flying tools. There are metaphysical as well as physical tools. Mathematics are metaphysical tools. Inter-relevant metaphysical informations are tools. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Mathematics states officially: "Mathematics is the science of structure and pattern in general." Physical structures are tools. Mathematics makes possible the synergetic organization of metaphysical information which can be progressively objectivized as pattern-controlling or evolving tools systems which can advantageously alter the physical environmental circumstances of human existence.
The comprehensive name for the omni-interrelated significance of all physical and metaphysical tools is "technology." All technology is governed by generalized physical laws. All of these can be physically demonstrated and mathematically expressed. The physical Universe itself is omnitechnology--a complex of various frequencies of intercomplementary functions altogether producing nonsimultaneous, multi-frequenced, multimagnituded, only overlappingly inter-episoded, eternal regeneration.
Man-made laws, legal agreements, royal fiats are not tools. Man-made laws and customs are not technology. They are political power ploys, originally instituted only by-physical-might-asserted and -sustained "rights." Corporations are not tools. They are conventionally accepted power-proclaimed legal contrivances.
There are two fundamental types of tools: those which can be produced by one human unaided in any way physically or metaphysically by any other humans and those which could not be invented, developed, or operated by one human alone. The latter, multi-human-involvement tools, are the industrial tools.
The solo-evolved tools are craft tools. The solodeveloped craft tools can be complex and even powered, as by a harnessed creature or a dammed stream of water. Craft tools used as weapons make it possible for physically small humans to overwhelm physically either big humans or even bigger animals--tiger pitfall traps are one example.
This brings us to the slaying of the giant Goliath by David and to the generalized principle of brain-mastered brawn by mind-mastered brain, of the metaphysical mastering the physical.
This in turn brings us to the present confrontation of humanity by the Grunch of Giants--the supranational corporate conglomerates--the greatest giants in all history invisibly "Rough-Riding" planet Earth. While you can see their skyscrapers and factories, these are only the physical properties occupied by the human-drone workers employed by the elusively invisible corporate conglomerates.
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