
B

B Particle:
See Module: B Quanta Module

RBF DEFINITIONS
Babbling:
"Babbling is experimental sound making. No sound identity
with other than the tongue, breath, saliva, nose, click,
clack, etc., all used by the Zulu, Swazi, etc., in So.
Africa.
"He Bolles has not shown any genetic basis for grammar,
only for babbling which
as tongue and lung
coordination develops and is experimented with.
"Chimps have no tongue cage.
You can't say 1-mmm- 1.(other)
with your mouth open. You can't say N-nnn (No) with your
mouth closed."
Cite RBF marginalia at "The Innate Grammar of Baby Talk,"
by Edmund Blair Bolles, Saturday Review, 18 Mar 72

Babbling of Babies:
See Mother, 17 Oct '72
Universal Language, 28 Apr* 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Baby Button:
*We've always had automation. Push the right button
and-- bang-- nine months later a cutie-pie."
- Cite I SEEM TO BE A VERB, Queen, May 170 (Not in Bantam edition)

RAE DENINITIONS
Baby Button:
Push the Baby Button:
See Automation of Metabolic and Regenerative Processes
Life's Original Event
Procreation
(1)

Baby Button:
Push the Baby Button:
See Automation, Jun'69; Dec'69; 4 Feb'68
Ego, 9 Nov 75
Promote: I Don't Promote, 2 Jun' 74
Short Cuts, 9 May' 57
(2)
123

Baby-making Machine Home:
See Cosmic Fish Sequence, (2)

Baby: Babies:
See Babbling of Babies
Mother: Infant Nursing at Mother's Breast
Womb Population
Rockabye Baby
Birth
Rebirth
(1)

Baby: Babies:
See Antientropic, Jun'69
Design, 1938
Regenerativity, 17 Jan '75
(2)

Babylonian Mathematica:
See Modelability, (3) (4)
Quantum Sequence, (2) (3)
Subvisible Discontinuity, 19 Oct'72

Backgammon:
See Computer Asks an Original Question: Checkers or
Backgarmon?

Back: Comes Back On:
See Nature Always Comes Back On Itself
Returning Upon Itself

Background Nothingness:
See Minimum Awareness Model, (1)
Thinking, (I)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Background Nothingness:
"When you draw the triangle on the Earth's surface it shows
how our mathematics is really pre-Euler. The triangle also
demonstrates self and otherness. The spherical triangle is
the first
awareness: there is an inherent' twoness in the
triangle's insideness and outsideness and the axis of the
two poles constitute the two points of self and otherness.
The background nothingness of these two points represents an
area not contained by a line. Euler did not realize that
there could be an area not contained by a line.
"One spherical triangle on the Earth's surface four triangles
because
that's the only way you can define a triangle.
Euler
did not recognize the bacground nothingness of the outside
triangles.
SYNERGETICS
Cite RBF to EJA; telephone from Beverly Hotel, NYC, 2 Jun'75
2ND. ED AT SEC. 505.811+ SEC. 812.05)

Background:
See Parameters, 1960
Variables: Theory of, Nov 71

Back Into: Man Backs Into His Future:
See Future: Man Backs Into His Future

RBF DEFINITIONS
Back Pack:
"Those who are world travelers are familiar with the scene
at the airport delivery turntables: along come well strapped
bundles of tubes and blue nylon which are picked up by young
humans and strapped on their backs. These packs open out
into very small homes, but homes they are, and very satis-
factory to youth in a world where there are so many satis-
factory technological complementations of such world-around
living in the form of electrified and plumbinged campsites
and hostels."
Cite ACCOMODATING HUMAN UNSETTLEMENT, p.20; 20 Sep' 76

Back Pack:
See Autonomous Living Technology Packet

RBF DEFINITIONS
Backyard: My Backyard is Getting Bigger:
"In all reality I have not left home, as it is usually said
of me.
My backyard has just grown progressively bigger. Since
now the world is my backyard."
-
Citation & context at Acceleration of Change (1), 16 Aug170

Backyard: My Backyard Is Getting Bigger:
See Geographical Identity
Local Identification
(1)

Backyard: My Backyard is Getting Bigger:
See Acceleration of Change (1)*
Rootless, 19 Oct 72
(2)

Back: Backwards:
K
See Moving Picture Run Bacwards
Reversibility

Bad:
See Evil
Good & Badding Kind of Idea
Good & Evil
Sin

Bad:
See Plastic Flowers, Oct' 70
Electron, 18 Aug'70
(2)

Baer,
Steve:
See Allspace Filling, 25 Sep*73
Patent, 19 Apr 66

Bag:
See Pneumatic Bag

RBF DEFINITIONS
Balance:
"The mathematical balancing or complementation
Of the proton and neutron are analagously balanced,
Each one haveing two small energy teammates.
"1
Citation and context at Proton and Neutron (1), 22 Jul'71

Balanced Connectors:
See Curvature: Compound, 25 Jan'73

Balance of Power Poker Game:
See Detente, 20 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Balance of Universe:
"The four faces of a tetrahedron are in polar opposition in
such a manner that as one of the pairs of faces converges
the other pair of faces diverges. Here is the balance of
Universe between radiation and gravity."
-
Citation & context at Tetrahedron: Polarization of; 13 Nov'75

Balancing of Values:
See Rationalization Sequence, (1)

Balancing of Vectors:
See Vector Equilibrium, 3 Jan'75

Balanced vs. Unbalanced:
See Asymmetries: Balanced va. Unbalanced

Balance:
See Counterbalancing
Dynamic Balance
Ecological Balance
Energy Balances: Energetic Balance
Highs & Lows
Importings & Exportings
Interbalance
Proton & Neutron
Star Tetrahedron & Vector Equilibrium
Tidal
Trial Balance
Tetrahedral Dynamics
Omnilibrium
Cosmic Integrity Balancing
Self-balancing
Evolutionary Checks & Balances
Omnibalanced
(1)

Balance:
See Antientropy, (A); 10 Oct 163
Complementary, Spring'66
Equation Symbol, 9 May'60
Metaphysical & Physical, Jun'66
Motion, 1938
Order & Disorder, May 72
Proton & Neutron, (1)*
Sta Tetrahedron, 8 Oct 171
Structural Stability, 15 May'73
Vector Equilibrium, (1); (A)
Conceptuality & Nonconceptuality, 27 Jan '72
Implosion-explosion, Jun'66
Wind Stress & Houses, (8)
Life is a Sumtotal of Mistakes, (2)
Scenario vs. Absolute Symmetry, 11 Dec 75
Human Beings at the Center, (2)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Ball Bearings:
"It is not surprising
that ball bearings prove to
be the most efficient compression members known to and
ever designedly produced by man."
-
Cite LEDGEMONT, p. 32 as expanded by RBF in SYNERGETICS,
Sec. 614.081. 15 Oct 64/1971

Ball Bearings:
See Compression, 15 Oct'64
Sphere, 1971; 15 Oct164
Tension & Compression, 1 Apr'49
Gravity, (g)
Wheel, 9 Feb 64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Ball at the Center:
" ...Section 1012, 'Nucleus as Nine - None - Nothing, .
describes a closest-sphere-packing model of the same
phenomenon. If we make an X configuration with one ball at
the center common to both triangles of the X, the ball at
the intersection common to both represents the zero-- or the
place where the waves can pass through each other. The
zero always accommodates when two waves come together. We
know that atoms close pack in this manner and we know how
wave phenomena such as radio waves behave. And now we have
a model to explain how they do not interfere."
[1223.14 FOOTNOTE]
-
Cite footnote at SYNERGETICS draft Sec. 1223-15, 9 Mar'73

Ball at the Center Model:
See X Configuration with One Ball at the Center

Ball at the Center:
See Nuclear
Nucleus
Center Ball
Me Ball
Sphere Center
(1)

Hall at the Center:
See Icosahedron:
11 Jul 62
Contraction from Vector Iquilibrium,
Jitterbug, 25 Feb'69
Tension, (3)
Two, (1)
VE & Icosa, 10 Apr '75
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Balla Coming Together:
"Closest packing of spheres does not have to begin with a
nucleus. Closest packing begins with two balls coming
together.'
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at 411.02, Aug 71, as rewritten
by RBF, Bear Island, 25 Aug'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Balls Coming Together:
"It is a surprising thing that all closest packing begins with
two balls, rather than omnidirectionally.
together is where thought begins... it is a wedding thing... and
it is very beautiful the way the two balls reoccur at each
wave outwardly."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, NYC, 19 Jun'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Balls Coming Together:
"If you take one sphere, it can, in a sense, go anywhere
in the Universe. I have another sphere in the Universe and
the two come together. They can do anything in the Universe
except go through each other. If they become tangent they
roll around on each other very tightly.
"Now I have a third sphere here. I had one sphere first and
it was all alone; then I have two; they can roll around on
each other. From the distance you see just the profile of
a dumbell, but they are very free to roll. Now along comes
a third sphere and it nests in the valley.
This makes a
train of gears with each one geared to the next one. Even
numbers of gears will always reciprocate and the odd numbers
will always block. This way a plus or minus, or whatever
it is-- it is going to block. So no longer can those balls
roll in a plane on the triangle which they form. If one tries
to go one way it will make the next go the other way; and
one can't be moving in two different ways, so odd numbers
will always block.'
Cite RBF to Verner Smythe, NYC, reel 1, p.4, 25 Feb'69
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Balls Coming Together:
"Therefore, all it can do is evolute. The three balls can
evolute
like a rubber doughnut. I could have it open
as a torus. They could open its top and come in at the
bottom, so they have a degree of freedom. Now I have a
fourth ball that comes around in there and it nests on top of
these. Now it can no longer even evolute and, for the first
time, all motion is blocked. This makes a tetrahedron: I
connect the centers of these spheres as a tetrahedron. This'
is where stability begins. The tetrahedron is where the
triangle gives what we call a 'structure' or something that
doesn't change its pattern any more. It was dynamic up to
that time."
Cite RBF to Verner Smythe, NYC, reel 1, p.5, 25 Feb'69
(2)

Balls Coming Together:
See Closest Packing of Spheres
Intertangency
Line Between Two Sphere Centers
Other: Otherness
(1)

Balla Coming Together:
See Gravity, (g) (h)
Life, 19 Jun 71
Line 19 Jun*71
Wedding, 19 Jun 71
(2)

Ball:
See Bounce
Spheric
Tennis Ball Hits the Big Earth
Center Ball
Me Ball
Tether Ball
Odd Ball
Stacking of Oranges and Cannon Balls
Yin-yang
(1)

Ball:
See Javelin, 12 Jul 62
Sphere, Apr 49
Whole, Dec '72
(2)

Ballistics:
See Tracer Bullet Sequence
(1)

Ballistics:
See Navy Sequence (1)-(6)
Navy: Theory Of, 22 Dec 74
(2)

MBF DEFINITIONS
Balloon:
"A gas-filled balloon is not stratified.
If it were
it would collapse like a Japanese lantern."
Cite HBF to H.U.D. Engineers, Washington, 26 Jan 172
BALLOON
"
SEC. 656.51]

RBF DEFINITIONS
BALLION.
Ballona:
(a)
"People think spontaneously of a balloon as a continuous skin,
or a solidly impervious, unitary, and spherically closed
membrane holding the gas. They say that because the gas can't
get out and because it is under pressure, the pressure makes
the balloon spheroidal. This means the gas is pushing the skin
outwardly in all directions.
"But if we look at this skin with a microscope we find that it
is not a continous film at all. It is full of holes.
Instead it is in fact a net. If we look at the net
atomically we will see that the tensional net's threads are
discontinuous, being in reality "Milky-Way-like" constellations,
great energy aggregates cohering only 'gravitationally'to act
as the 'webbing of the pneumatic ball's net.
"In a gas balloon we do not have a continuous membrane of film.
There is no such thing as a continuous 'solid' skin or 'solid'
anything in Universe. But we do have a network pattern, a
network of energy actions that is interspersed with vast
spaces or lack of energy events. But the spaces between the
energy action net are smaller than are the internally
captivated and mutually interrepelled gas molecules, wherefore"
Cite MEXICO 63, p.45, 10 Oct'63
SECS.
656-11.02

RBF DEFINITIONS
BALLOON -
Balloon:
"the gas molecules, which are complex local, low-frequency
energy events interfere with the higher frequency net webbing
events. The pattern is similar to that of fish, corwded in
a net, and therefore running tangentially outward into the
net in approximately all directions.
"A gas balloon' exterior tension 'net' has the shape that it
has because some of the molecules are too large to escape
and crowded by the other molecules-- are hitting the balloon.
But the molecules do not huddle together at the center and
then simultaneously explode outwardly to hit the balloon skin
in one omnidirectionally-outboun shock wave. The molecules
near the surface are coursing in chordally ricocheting patterns
all aroun the inner net's surface. I therefore saw that--
because every action has its reaction-- that it would be
possible to pair all the molecules so that they would behave
as can two swimmers who dive into a swimming tank from
opposite ends meet in the middle of the tank and then,
employing each other's inertia, shove off from each other's
feet in opposite directions. This pattern indicated that we
could have each and all of the paired molecules bounce off"
-
Cite Mexico 63. pp.45-46, 10 Oct'63
SECS. 658.03 +656.10) 761011
(b)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Balloon:
(c)
"their partners and dart away in opposite directions, with each
finally hitting the balloon net and pushing it outwardly as
they each angled off in glancing blows in new directions, but
always toward the net at another point, where-- in critical-
repelling-proximities-- they would all pair off nonsimultane-
ously, but at high frequency of re-repellment sve-offs to
ricochet off the net in approximately all directions at such
a frequency of events as to keep the net stretched outwardly
in all directions.
it
(Same text is caption to Synergetics Illus. #94)
Cite MEXICO 63, p.46, 10 Oct 163
Balloon - SECS, 65761.027

RBF DEFINITIONS
Balloon:
(A)
"All of you have experienced a child's balloon and footballs
full of air. The idea of a ballon as a pneumatic bag is a
very familiar one. . . that it tends to take certain shapes
like, sausages or spheres. It doesn't take a flat disc:
it wants to become a sphere. If you took two discs of rubber
and joined them together at the edge, and filled them with
air, if it doesn't become a lozenge, it becomes a sphere.
A sphere contains the most volume and the least surface aand
is the most comfortable condition. These energy patterna
are always the most comfortable and the most economical
conditions. Think about the pneumatic bag then. People
have always thought of it as if you put air under pressure
and there's sort of a solid mass of air and you jammed it
in, and it's in a solid bag and can't get out. The fact is
that if you look at a pneumatic bag with a micrscope you
will find that it is full of holes. It is made of molecules
and molecules are fairly remote from one another, and
atomically it is full of holes. It is not solid and in
fact the components are not even touching each other
atomically."
Cite Oregon Lecture #5, pp. 185-186,9July 162
BALLOON
SEC. 656 767-21

RBF DEFINITIONS
Balloon:
"They are like the tensegrities. In the tensegrities you
either have gravity, electromagnetism, and you don't have
any strings at all. The pneumatic bag then is full of
holes and you can see them under a microscope. Therefore,
it is not what we used to talk about as a solid membrane.
Our concept 'solid' gets to be lessand less reliable the
more we think about it, and the more we experiment.
So
(B)
if it is full of holes it is a net and not a bag, so let
us call it a net. It is a net in which the holes are a0
small that the molecules are larger than the holes and they
can't get out. The molecules are gas and there is an
integrity of the molecule of gas and it is one of these
tensegrity kinds of integrity also, but it has a minimum
dimension and it can't get out those holes. The next thing
we discover is what we call the pressure of the gases as
explained by what we call the kinetics of gases.
That is,
the molecules are in motion. They are not rigid. There
is nothing static here at all pushing against that net--
but they are hitting it like projectiles. Not only is there
a critical proximity that shows up physically, but there
are critical proximities tensionally and critical proximi-
ties compressionally, that is, there are repellings,
Cite. Orego Lecture #5, p. 186,9 July '62
BALLOON - SEC 656.02-031

763.01
763.02
RBF DEFINITION.S
BALLION-
SEC-656786
Balloon:
(C)
"as we would find out in electromagnetics: so there are
domains of actions, and these molecules want certain sizes.
When you pressure too many of these patterns into the
same area there is not room enough and they develop a very
high speed. And speed makes up for the crowding.
you do that?
How can
"I spoke to you the other day about the airplanes coming
in for a landing and while they're in the sky they seem to
be great distances apart. The minute they land they are
slowed down and they are much closer to each other. It is
fairly simple to work this out. If you have something at
a very high speed, the amount of time at any one point is
a very short time. The amount of time that it would be
at any one point for something to hit it would be very much
lessened by the speed. The higher the velocity, the lesser
So we
the possibility of interference in any one local.
have the patterns making themselves comfortable inside the
pneumatic bag by increasing the velocity so that it can
take care of the interferences that are developing. This
velocity then, gives us what we call pressure or heat; it
can be read either way-- and if you feel the pneumatic"
Cite Oregon Lecture #5, pp. 186-187,9 July 162

760
RBF DEFINITIONS
BALCOTH Seful
Balloon:
"you find it getting hotter. What makes the net take the
shape that it does is simply the molecules that happen to
hit it. The molecules that are not hitting it have
nothing to do with its shape. There is potential that
other molecules might hit the network, but that is not
what we are talking about. The shape it has is by virtue
of the ones that happen to hit it.
"One of the things I saw, of course was that when we are
crowding them in that one pattern, it was using the other
Thereffore we
pattern as action, reaction, and resultant.
(D)
can see that when one is going out to hit it; it is pushing
another one inwardly, or some other direction. But we
discover mathematically that it would be impossible to
get all of them to go to an absolute common center because
that would require a lot more pressure. It would have to
be a smaller space so the patterns are not all from center
outwardly against the bag. Each one of the patterns are
ricocheting around the bag, and so one hits the bag, like
this, and then the reaction causes another one to hit the
bag on the other side. Then we have some that are inside
there, in movement and hitting and changing the angles of"
Cite Oregon Lecture #5, p. 187,9 July '62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Balloon:
So
(E)
"the others, and precessing them but not hitting the bag.
I saw thagwe can have two swimmers and they can jump off
the same end of the swimming tank together, go to the
other end, and use the inertia of the tank to shove off,
to go in the other direction and build up their velocity.
If you could start the two swimmers at opposite ends of
the tank and they could get to the middle of the tank and
push off from each other's feet, then they would go off
and hit the other end of the tank. If the tank was pretty
small and they did that, they could shove off from each
other's feet and hit the end of the tank pretty hard.
we could have conditions where these molecules shoving
off from one another, and very close to the bag, would
make simply a chord and ricochet off. You could study
the ways these are hitting and the patterns they are making,
and when they hit they ricochet off and make another
angle, so they are the ones that are accounting for all
the work. So this pattern of the swimmers, of the
two meeting each other and they bounce off like that, hit
the bag, and then run into another pair. You begin to find
that they are pairable. So we discover that all we are
accounting for can be paired. The chord of an arc is
always less distance than the length of the arc itself."
Cite Oregon Lecture #5, p. 188,9July '62

RbF DEFINITIONS
Balloon:
"These actions are less than the distance of the net,
so they will push the net out and try to straighten out
those arcs. . They become mathematically pairable.
The tensegrity events that made the spheres were the
ones where the events happened to aim at each other at
approximately 180 degrees. It was only approximately,
and we find then that the ones that do give you the
actual pattern.
"here we realize what occasions the shaping of the
pneumatic bag is really the complex of the molecules
going into these kinds of patterns. All the other mole-
cules, and there are lots of others, have nothing to do
with that shape."
-
(For follow-on text see Snow Mound)
Cite Oregon Lecture #5, p.9188, July '62
(F)

HBF DEFINITIONS
balloon:
(1)
"If we make a microscopic inspection of a pneumatic balloon,
we will find that the balloon skin is full of holes between
its molecular chains, with a secondary and far smaller
space continuity of 'all holes' or 'continuous space*
between the remotely islanded energetic components of mah
each molecule's respective atomic nuclear constellations.
All these humanly invisible balloon 'holes' are too small
for molecules of gas to escape through. Because the
balloon's skin is full of holes, it is really a subvisible
spherical netting, rather than a 'flexibly solid film,
within which the gaseous element molecules are crowded into
lesser volume than required by their respective energetic,
ecological domains, like fish within a seiner's net. The
resultants of forces of all these net-frustrated molecular
actions is angularly outward of the balloon's geometrical
center each surface molecule of the interior group of
pressured gas has a vectorial action and reaction pattern
identical to a spherical chord. In such enclosure of
pressured gas, random sizes of molecules, each too large
for the spherical molecular netting's holes, impinge
randomly upon the interior
webbing of the spherically
CPAS TEXT Affim
IN
Ie1, pp 164-170]

BF DEFINITIONS
Balloon:
My
(2)
tensioned net. There are, therefore, more outwardly pressing
molecules and more inwardly restraining net components than
are necessary to the structurally resultant balloon pattern
interrity. Howver, in the geodesic, tensional integrity
spherical nets the islands of interior compressional
chordal struts impinge in discrete order at the exact
vertexes of the enclosing finite tensional network.
independent satellite or moon structures are then the most
economical, frequency modulated, dynamic balances between
outwari bound resultants of force and inward bound
resultants of force, The exterior tensional net is a
finite system successfully binding the otherwise randomly
entropic infinity of outbound, self-disassociative forces.'
APPEARS IN 1+1, pp. 169-170]
[THIS TEXT
Cite "Tensegrity, Art News Portfolio," pp. 122-123. Dec161

RBF DEFINITIONS
Balloon:
"If the frequency is high enough the sise of the interstices
of the tensegrity net may become so relatively small as to
arrest the passage of any phenomena larger than the holes.
If frequency is high enough, neither water nor air molecules
can pass through. They may be made to keep out the weather-
complex while admitting radar's microwaves and light, etc..
If we 'up the frequency sufficiently, we will decrease the
residual compressional islands to the microscopic magnitude
of atoms, which only serves to disclose that the atoms and
their nuclei are themselves geodesic tensegrity structures,
ergo compatible with this ultimate, frequency limit, a fact
that is now swiftly looming into the nuclear physicists' ken.
"We now comprehend that the tensegrity geodesic structuring
provides the first true and visualizable model of pneumatic
structures in which the relative thickness of the enclosing
films, in proportion to diameter, rapidly decreases with
the increasing size of the balloons.
(3)
TENSEGRITY
Cite "Tensegrity, Art News Portfolio," p. 124. Dec*61
SECS. 655.20. 21221

HBF DEFINITIONS
Balloon:
however,
"In the case of the geodesic tensegrity structures,
no over-crowding of interior gas molecules, imprisoned
within a submolecular mesh net, is necessary to thrust
the net's structure outward from its spherical geometric
center, because the compressional struts, locally islanded,
as outward thrusting struts at both their ends, push the
spherical net outwardly at every vertexial advantage of
network convergence. Geodesic tensegrities are then
TENSEGRITY.
'hollowed out' balloons, discarding their redundantly 'solid'
air core.
"The geodesic tensegrity is a hollowed out balloon in which
those specific molecules of gas which happen to be impinging
from within against the skin at any one moment (thus
pushing it outwardly) are replaced by the islanded geodesic
struts. It is possible then to sew pockets on the inside
surface of a balloon skin corresponding in pattern to the
islanded geodesic struts and to insert stiff battens into
those
pockets which cause the otherwise limp balloon
bag to take spherical shape as itwould if filled with a
pressured-in gas."
Cite "Tensegrity, Art News Portfolio," Pp. 124-125. Dec 61
SEC 655,23.24)
(4)

Balloon: Sausage-balloon-fibrous Units:
See Colloiodal Chemistry, 1938

TEXT CITATIONS
Balloon:
Oregon Lecture #5, pp. 185-189
Mexico 63, pp. 45-47
703.06-703.16
751.05-751.10
760: 761.01-766.04
1024.17-1024.19

Balloon:
See Bubbles
Domes
Membrane
Pneumatics
Pneumatic Bag
Pneumatic Structures
Tensegrity:
Tensegrity:
Snow Mound
Vessel
(1)
Geodesic Grid: Three-way Grid
Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic Tensegrities

Balloon:
See Invisible Pneumatics, 27 Dec173
(2)
20

Bamboo:
See Grow-a-dome, 1 Dec' 76

TEXT CITATIONS
Banana:
Fig. 640.20
641.02
644.01

Banana:
See Tidal, Dec161

Bang: Big Bang Theory:
See Scenario Universe vs. Big Bang Theory

Bank: Like Pumping Money Out of the Bank:
See Energy Capital Sequence, (1)

Bank:
See Federal Reserve Bank
Brain Bank
Memory Bank
(1)

Bank: Banks:
(2)
See Building Business, (2)
Transnational Capitalism & Export of Know-how, (1)-(3)
Building Industry, (1)-(8)
Dymaxion Car, 13 May' 77
Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment, (4)(5)

Bankrupt:
See Cosmically Bankrupt

Baptism:
See Woman is Continuous, 11 Aug'77

ED SCHLOSSBERG DEFINITIONS
Bare Maximum:
measure
We found that the only way we could really show
that we could make the world work for 100 percent of
humanity was to show that we could provide the energy needs,
externally and internally, to every human being on Earth.
That was the only way we could, in a sense.
that we had provided for the world's needs. So we started
off and tried to figure out exactly what would be bare
Baximum.
How much had to be provided to every human
being as fast as possible to give them their high standard
of living and totally reinvestable time in the sense that
all of the survival needs were taken care of and they
would be able to invest all their time in their own lives/
"We made these two charts to give a graphic representation
of how we want to move to that bare maximum in external
metabolics and kilowatt hours and internal metabolics
meaning calories and protein. And if you see the chart. .
this is the increase in our kilowatt hours and that's
population. So as these curves rise, you see them going
more and more horizontal towards bare maximun. In 1965
the majority of the population is below the kilowatt hours
Cite Saturn Film Transcript, Tape #1, Jun'69
(A)

ED SCHLOSSBERG DEFINITION
Bare Maximum:
(B)
"necessary.
In 1980 everyone is above their minimum which
is 3000 kilowatt hours and by 1990 the majority are over
5000 hours... These are the scenarios we have designed, supported
by the research we have done."
Cite Saturn Film Transcript, Tape #1, Jun'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bare Maximum:
This
"When we get enough power for agriculture, in 1980, we will
be able to accelerate the production of food a great deal
more. Our acceleration is going to increase. The number of
people that are fed with a certain diet is increasing.
Despite the increasing population, and the inefficiency of
the system, people are getting better and better fed all the
time. By 1954 on the graph-- the majority of the people
on the Earth are receiving approximately 1800 calories.
sets you below our bare minimum level: the level at which
you can function at all. . . . way below our bare maximum,
which is the level at which you can be truly human. But the
bare minimum is really a sub-human level of existence.
It's an extremely low level of consciousness. But in 1967, the
level at which the greatest number of people on Earth, in
other words over 50 percent of the people on Earth, are
receiving over 2,000 calories, or about 2,400, which gets
the majority of humans above the bare minimum. So the
majority of world man is presently conscious, conscious of
himself as a physical being, but not yet able to function
well until he gets up to the bare maximum level."
Cite RBF to World Game, Jun-Jul 69
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bare Maximum:
"Until we get everybody up to the bare maximum level we
really won't be able to function as a worldwide organization.
So we've got a pressure beuilding up here. We've got people
that are conscious of themselves physically but who can't
truly function on the level of efficiency of mankind. So
the pressure is building up to get rid of this inefficiency
in agriculture. You can probably get efficiency up from
10 percent to 50 percent or 75 percent of the agricultural
system. When you get over 50 percent of the people say,
above 3,000 calories, man is going to really begin to be
on a high level of consciousness, as a world organism; and
it's going to be very quickly that the entire world is going
to be able to be at the bare maximum. 11
(2)
Cite RBF to World Game at NY Studio School, 12 Jun-31 Jul'69,
from Saturn Film transcript, Sound 1, Take 1, pp.18-21.

Bare Maximum:
See World Power Grid, 31 Jul'6y

Bare Minimum:
See Bare Maximum

Barnacle:
See Coral Reef
Social Breakout from Barnacle to Salmon
Marine Life Analogy of Humans

RBF DEFINITIONS
Barrel:
"I give the explanation of a barrel. In a barrel you have
a number of staves parallel to one another. These staves
make a cross cut through the barrel. You'll find each of
these staves looks like a keystone in an arch. Each stave
is a truncated section of a triangle whose interior apex
would be at the center of the barrel. So you just cut the
_ beautiful triangular wedges, but you cut off the inner
TENSEGRITY -
(1)
part which isn't necessary. You still have a wedge where
the outer part of it is a greater chord than the inner part.
Therfore, it can't fall in between the others. So all these
staves are in line and parallel to one another, bound in a
circle. There are comprehensive tension straps to hold
them inwardly. They can't move outwardly due to the
finitiness of the straps coming back upon themselves, and
they can't fall inwardly on each other because their
external chords are bigger than their internal. So the
barrel seems to be pretty stable, butthetension bands don't
touch one another-- they're in parallel to one another and
the staves are in parallel. They don't cross or give you
any triangulation whatsoever. In fact, they let infinity
in to the system because the staves go on andon to infinity."
Cite RBF in Hans Meyer Interview, Dome Book Two, p. 90. Dec'70
SEC 650.50-521-7051

RBF DEFINITIONS
Barrel:
(2)
"So you take a blowtorch and burn out one of the wooden
staves of the barrel and the whole thing collapses because
that leaves enough room so that the outer part can fall in
through the smaller inner part, because what the blowtorch
does is let infinity into the system. or the nothingness
of the Universe gets into the system.
"Let me now make a wooden geodesic sphere in which each of
the triangular facets are external faces of a tetrahedron
whose interior apex will be at the center of the sphere, and
I'm going to truncate those, so I will now see really a
wooden barrel-- a spherical barrel and it has tension
straps. But its tension straps are triangulated, they are
And once
not just in parallel. They cross one another.
TEN SECRY -
So now
we get a crossing of two lines that cross each other like
a pair of shears. . . they are unstable angularly.
once you get the third one, suddenly it takes hold of the
ends of the shears and stabilizes the opposite angle.
we have an omnitriangulated geodesic sphere of wooden
triangular plugs, corks, each one pressed against the other
one, each with exterior chords larger than its interior
chords and they can't fall inwardly. When the straps have
great circles going completely around they won't come off
and the straps are fastened to each other as they cross
650,61 7051
SEC, 650.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Barrell
(3)
TENSEGRITY-
"each other. Therforem, they hold themselves in position.
They can't slip off the sphere. Everything is held as a
beautiful harness on the omnitriangulated. Great circles
are the shortest distance around spheres and they are inter-
triangulated so they're in the most comofortable position
they could possibly get into. Now let me take a blowtorch
and I burn out one of those wooden corks, and nothing
happens It doesn't collapse as did the wooden barrel.
Why? Becauseit leaves an opening there all right, but it is
a triangular opening and a triangular opening is a stable
opening. If I burn out four of these adjacent to each other
and make a larger triangle it is still a triangle and it
continually frames the opening with a great circle. Hence,
she will not collapse. In fact Iburn out very large ampunts
without the thing collapsing. This suddenly gives me a
fantastic realization of the fundamentals. This is really
the fundamental of compound curvature.
this three-wayness
of finiteness crossing itself up and it all being most
economical. Great circles are then the most economical
distance between points on spheres, as against the expression
that a straight line is the shortest distance between two
points.
- Cit RBF in Hans Meyer Interview, Dome Book Two, p. 90. Dec 70
SEC 65062+1
7057

RBF DEFINITIONS
Barrel:
"Barrels and cask which gave great 'container advantage'
in the past, due to the finite closure of the tension
circles, were limited in usefulness efficiency by the
infinitoness of the extended ends of the truncated triangle
sectioned staves and by the infinity which intruded
between the barrels' parallel sets of circular bands."
->
Cite RBF Ltr. to Shoji Sadao, 15 Feb. 166., p. 3.
TENSEGRITY- SEC 650-54 705)

H.F DEFINITIONS
TENSEGRITY-
Barrel:
"A barrel represents and advanced phase of the Roman
Arch or principle of stability accomplished by simple
curvature. The parallel barrel staves constitute a ring
held together in compression by encompassing tension
bands. Thus compression, which tends to curve, is favored
in that tendency until the curving line of compression
closes itself to thrust against itself. The tension line,
which tends to pull true, forms itself in a finite closure
of short true chords-- because tension members may be
flexed while they are in tension without tendency to
failure.
"The tension ends are united to pull against one
another. Thus we have closed circuits of tension arch-
bundling compression in dynamic stability. Tension
lines may also be flexed while under load, without
tendency to failure, as a compound corollary of the
principle to pull true and the ability to tolerate
bending while tensed.. Pressures exerted eitheroutside
or inside of the barrel result in outward thrust
of the staves against the tension mebers.
latter absorb the working or random loads.
SEC-650.50-53)-7051
Thus, the
-
Cite I&I, 1 Apr' 49
(A)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Barrel:
(B)
"When we press against a barrel, the stress is satisfied by
the tension hoop. Each hoop represents the circle of a single
plane. Thus it is seen that simple curvature stresses act in
a single plane, ultimately articulating that stress in
diametric opposition of a line within the plane. The stresses
are then ultimately focused to the infinite poles of parallels,
because the latter are unaided in interstabilization.
Cite "Preview of Building," IDEAS & INTEGRITIES,
1 Apr'49
pp.216-217,

Barrel:
Compound
See Curvature:
Curvature: Simple
Spherical Barrel
(1)

Barrel:
See Gravity, 22 Jan'73; (3)
Radiation-gravitation Sequence, (1)
Three-way Great Circling: Three-way Grid, 8 Mar 73
Octahedron as Photosynthesis Model, (A)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Baseball:
"Each lobe of a baseball is simply a precessed triangle of
a tetrahedron. The baseball is yin-yang-- not in a plane
but in Universe. The baseball is telling you about
precession."
Citation & context at lib-yang, 28 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Baseball:
"The whole action of baseball is to bring order out of
disorder. The pitcher creates disorder. Once there is
a hit the rapid and random fielding operates swiftly to
restore order."
Cite RBF to EJA, Pepper Tree Inn, Santa Barbara, 11 Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Baseball:
...The function of humans as metaphysically syntropic local
evolution monitors-- to 'field' as we call it in baseball, the
progressive recognition of ever more important universal
problems; and-- as in baseball 'fielding' means to successfully
intercept the random event and convert it to orderly
advantage."
Citation and context at Man as Local Problem Solver (2), Dec '72

Baseball:
See Javelin, 12 Jul162
152
Spherical Tetrahedron, (+) Noy' 5:
Yin-yang, 28 Jan'75* ?

RAF DEFINITIONS
Basic Event:
"A basic event consists of three vectorial lines: the action,
the reaction, and the resultant. This is the fundamental
tripartite component of Universe. One positive and one
negative event together make one tetrahedron, or one quantum.
The number of vectors (or force lines) cohering each and every
subsystem of Universe is always a number subdivisble by six,
1.e., consisting of one positive and one negative event on
each of three vectors, which adds up to six. This holds true
topologically in all abstract patterning in Universe as well
as in fundamental physics.
"The six vectors represent the fundamental six, and only six,
degrees of freedom in Universe. Each of these six, however,
has a positive and a negative direction, and we can therefore
speak of a total of 12 degrees of freedom. These 12 degrees
of freedom can be conceptually visualized as the radial lines
connecting the centers of gravity of the 12 spheres, closest
packed around one sphere, to the center of gravity of that
central sphere. The 12 degrees of freedom are also identified
by the push-pull alternative directions of the tetrahedron's
six edges."
- Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 537.15; Dec171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Basic Event:
"A prime number is a basic event.
Every event has three parts."
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, NYC, 7 Mar 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Basic Event:
"A basic event consists of three vectorial lines: the
action, and on one end of the action is its reaction,
and on the other end of the action is its resultant.
This is the fundamental tripartite component of Universe.
One positive and one negative event together make one
tetrahe iron or one quantum unit. .
"
"
+
Cite RBF Ltr. To Prof. Theodore Caplow, 18 Feb. 166.

Basic Event:
See Action-reaction-resultant
Energy Event
Event
Quantum:
Paired event Quanta
Three-vector Teams
2 Cobras
Three-phase Vectors
Open Triangular Spirals
(1)

Basic Event:
See Triangle, (a)
(2)

Basic Motions:
See Motions: Six Positive & Negative
Six Motion Freedoms

RBF DEFINITIONS
Basic Nestable Configurations:
Hierarchy of:
"There are three basic nestable possibilities shown in
Fig. C. They are (1) the regular tetrahedron of four
spheres; (2) the one-eighth octahedron of seven spheres;
and (3) the quarter tetrahedron, with a 16th sphere nesting
on a planar layer of 15 spheres. Note That this 'nesting'
is only possible on triangular arrays that have no sphere
at their respective centroids. This series is a prime
hierarchy. One sphere on three is the first possibility
with a central nest available. One sphere on six is the
One
next possibility with an empty central nest available.
sphere on 10 is impossible as a ball is already occupying
the geometrical center. The next possibility is one on
15 with a central empty nest available."
(Sec 415.58)
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 415.58; 29 May' 72

Basic Notes:
See Chords & Notes
Mites & Quarks as Chords & Notes
Tensed String

RBF DEFINITIONS
Basic Raft:
"May new strategy of 'least' asymetrical modulation
subdivision of spherical point system:
AB
BF
ca
BC
FO
OI
CD Identical
GH
Identical
IQ Identical
DE
HO
Cite RBF holograph "BASIC RAFT" Fuller Discovery Feb '50

Basic Raft:
See Cube: Diagonal of Cube as Wave Propagation Model
Deliberately Nonstraight Line
Raft
Hyperbolic Paraboloid

Basic Structural Systems without Nuclei:
See Three & Only Fundamental Structural Systems in Nature
Prime Structural Systems
Prime Volumes

Basic Tensegrity Structures:
See Tensegrity: Basic Tensegrity Structures:
Three & Only

RBF DEFINITIONS
Basic Triangle: Basic Disequilibrium 120 LCD Triangle:
Above designation adopted by RBF in SYNERGETICS
galley at Sec. 901, 19 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Basic Triangle: Basic Disequilibrium 120 LCD Triangle:
"Because the 120 basic disequilibrious LCD triangles of the
icosahedron have 2 times less spherical excess than do the
48 basic equilibrious LCD triangles of the vector equilibrium,
and because all physical realizations are always disequilibrious,
the Basic Disequilibrium 120 LCD Spherical Triangles become most
realizably basic of all general systems' mathematical control
matrixes.
-
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 901.17, 20 Dec173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Basic Triangle: Basic Disequilibrium 120 LCD Triangle:
"The spherical octahedron's eight faces become skew-subdivided
by the icosahedron's 15 great circles' self-splitting of its
20 equiangular faces into six-sach, right spherical triangles,
for an LCD spherical triangle total of 120, of which 15 such
right triangles occupy each of the spherical octahedron's
eight equiangular faces-- for a total of 120- which are the
same 120 as the icosahedron's 15 great circles."
-
[sz]
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 905.31, 16 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Basic Triangle: Basic Disequilibrium 120 LCD Triangle:
"The largest equilateral is 20 triangles. The utmost
subdivision is 120 because further subdivisions are no
longer identical. This is what we mean by basic triangle,
when you assume each of the edges to be chords."
Cite RBF to EJA, Haterford, Penna., 11 Oct. 171.
BASIC TRIANGLE - SEC. A

RBF DEFINITIONS
Basic Triangle: Basic Disequilibrium 120 LCD Triangle:
"The largest number of identical triangles in a sphere that
unity will accommodate is 120: 60 positive and 60 negative.
We can subdivide the surface of a sphere into 120 equilateral
triangles by dividing the base of each of the 20 original
triangles which made up the icosahedron, into six triangles.
Being spherical, they are positive and negative, consisting
of areas which cannot hinge back. One is inside, concave,
and the other is outside, convex. So 60 positive and 60
negative triangles are the largest common denominator of
unity."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, "Numerology," p. 14, Oct '71
BASIC TRIANGLE
SEC.
910,027

KBF DFINITIONS
Basic Triangle: Basic Disequilibrium 120 LCD Triangle:
"He cannot further subdivide the spherical icosahedron into
right triangles, but we can in the planar icosahedron.
When the sides of the triangle in the planar icosahedron
are bisected four similar triangles result, and the process
can be continued indefinitely. But in the spherical
icosahedron, the smaller the triangle, the less the
spherical excess, so the series of triangles will not be
similar.
Cite SYNENUATICS, "Numerology," pp. 13-14. Oct. '71.
SEC. Prorost
EAC TRIANGLE

RBF DEFINITIONS
Basic Triangle: Basic Disequilibrium 120 LCD Triangle:
The basic triangle is "the 120th of a sphere which is
the six right triangles subdividing each of the 20
equilateral triangles of the icosahedron. It occurs
spherically, but it doesn't make any difference whether
it is spherical, the angles are the same: the thing
would fold over if it weren't for the 6°."
Cite RBF tape transcript, Chicago, Blackstone Hotel
Synergetics V, 1 June 1971. P. 16.

TEXT CITATIONS
Basic Triangle: Basic Disequilibrium 120 LCD Triangle:
417.02
456.02-456.05
8251.29
915.20
81043.01
612.11
921,04
81053.36
201: 901.01-902.23
982.56-982.58
Fig. 901.03
985.04
902.21-902.22
1053.10-1053.15
902.33
1053.20-1053.21
905.46
905.48
905.52-905.55
905.60: 905.61-905.66
915.10-91511
1053.30-1053.35
1104.04 (footnote)
1210 (p.754)

Basic Triangle: Basic Disequilibrium 120 LCD Triangle:
See Atomic Triangulated Substructuring: Hierarchy of
Module: A Quanta Module & Basic Triangle
(1)

Basic Triangle: Basic Disequilibrium 120 LCD Triangle: .
(2)
See Dymaxion Airocean World Map:
27 Jan 75
Geodesic Dome, 20 Dec*73
Icosahedral Version,
Equimagnitude Phases, 19 Dec 73
Omnirational Control Matrix, 12 May'75
Quantum Sequence, (2) (3)
Icosahedron: Subtriangulation, (1)
Sphere: Volume-surface Ratios, 11 Dec' 75
0 Kodule, 29 Sep176

RBF DEFINITIONS
Basic Triangle:
Basic Equilibrium 48 LCD Triangle:
each
"Because each of the octahedron's eight faces are subdivided
by their respective six sets of spherical 'right' triangles
(three positive-three negative), whose total of 6 x 8 = 48
triangles are the 48 LCD's vector-equilibrium, symmetric-
phase triangles, and because 120/48 - 21, it means that
of the vector equilibrium's 48 triangles has superimposed
upon it 2 positively askew and 2 negatively askew triangles
from out of the total inventory of 120 LCD asymmetric
triangles of each of the two sets, respectively, of the two
alternate phases of the icosahedron's limit of rotational
aberrating of the vector equilibrium.
It is
"This 2 positive superimposed upon the 2 negative, 120-LCD
picture is somewhat like a Picasso duo-face painting with
half a front view superimposed unon half a side view.
then in transforming from a positive two-and-one-halfness
to a negative two-and-one-halfness that the intertransformable
vector-equilibrium-to-icosahedron, icosahedron-to-vector-
equilibrium, equilibrious-to-disequilibriousness attains
sumtotally and only dynamically a spherical fiveness.'
"
Cite HBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1053.15,
17 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Basic Triangle: Basic Equilibrium 48 LCD Triangle:
"Having just completed the expansive-contractive, could-be,
quantum jumps, we will now consider the rotatability of the
tetrahedron's six-edge axes generation of both the two
spherical tetrahedra and the spherical cube whose "split
personality's' four-triangle-defining edges also perpendicularly
four
bisect all of both of the spherical tetrahedron's
equiangled, equiedged, triangles in a three-way grid, which
converts each of the four equiangled triangles into six
right-angle spherical triangles-- for a total of 24, which
are split again by the spherical octahedron's three great
circles to produce 48 spherical triangles, which constitute the
48 equilibrious LCD basic triangles of omni-equilibrious
eventless eternity. (See Sec. 453)"
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 905.50, 16 Dec173

Basic Triangle: Basic Equilibrium 48 LCD Triangle:
See Omnirational Control Matrix, 12 May'75
T Quanta Module, (1) (2)

Basic:
See Basic Event
Basic Raft
Basic Structural Systems
Basic Tensegrity Structures
Basic Triangle:
Basic Disequilibrium 120 LCD Triangle
Basic Triangle: Basic Equilibrium 48 LCD Triangle
Basic Nestable Configurations:
Basic Motions
Basic Notes
Hierarchy Of

Basketball:
See Octahedron, 16 Dec 73
Spherical Tetrahedron, 11 Nov' 52

Basketry Interweaving:
See Interweaving
Tensegrity Sphere: Six Pentagonals
Three-way Weaving
(1)

Basketry Interweaving:
See Matter, 9 Jul'62
(2)

Bastard:
See Design Revolution: Pulling the Bottom Up (4)

Bathing Cap:
See Spherical Triangle Sequence, (c)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bathroom as Symbolism and Association:
"This is part of what the intuition of young people today
says: that 'We don't want the symbolism of distinction...
And it's perfectly reasonable... His father wanted it for
his kids, because that's the way he associated it and as he
envisioned poverty he didn't want his kids to feel that way,
Therefore he got his little quarter of an acre estate, cmula-
ting what the man of success had yesterday...
"There really is pathos in hore, you know. The point is that
building the architecture of the present is a great anti-
priority holdover.... I look at things in a highly analytical
way.
Human beings have so much association with this kind
of a bathroom they have in that particular house. That's
where they remember crawling around and being loved by their
mother, and of being wanted... So terrific association; that's
the way a bathroom should be. That's to such an extent that
when as a kid you go into somebody else's house and say, 'I
don't like bathrooms like that-- this is the only kind of a
bathroom, the way I have it.' The association thing is very
very powerful. In 1927 society didn't want to listen at all;
they were terribly annoyed by my being analytical about
housing. It was pure symbolism and pure association.'
-
Cite Univ. of Alaska Address, p.9 20 Apr 172

Bathroom as Symbolism & Association:
See Excrement: Human Excrement
(1)

Bathroom as Symbolism & Association:
See Fuller, R.B: RBF Modus Operandi, Feb173
(2)

Bathroom:
See Plumbing
Dymaxion Bathroom
Outbound Packaging of Human Food Waste

Batten: Battens
See Local Stiffehers

Battery: Storage Battery Energy:
See Fuel Cell
Main Engines of Universe
Sun Energy Storage Battery
(1)

Jattery:
Storage Battery Energy:
See Windworks Windmill, (1)
(2)

Battle: Word, Fist & Bullet Battles:
See Geosocial Revolution, (2)(3)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Battleship:
"... The larger and more complex, less-frequently originally
occurring, and periodically re-occuring, for example...
asymmetrical terrestrial battleships (fortunately) least-
frequently and compatibly recurrent throughout the as-yet
known cosmos, being found only on one minor planet in one
galaxy of one hndred billion stars. amongst already-
discovered billion galaxies, there having been only a few
score of such manmade battleships recurrent in the split-
second history of humans on infinitesimally minor Earth."
-
Citation and context at Regenerative Design:
13 Mar 73
Law Of (3),

Battleship:
See Navy Sequence
Sea Technology
Weapons Technology
No Secondhand Battleships
(1)

Battleship:
See Detente, 20 Sep' 76
Electric Lights, 15 Oct'64
More With Less: Sea Technology, (4)
Secondhand, 1946
(2)
121

RBF DLFINITIONS
bauhaus School:
Remoteness of:
"I have spoken in this blunt way to demonstrate the remote-
ness of Bauhaus concepts from those I hold. However, simplest
demonstration of the fundamental remoteness of our ways is
the lack of schedules of ratio of invested resources per
units of performance abilities concerning structures designed
by the International' or Bauhaus School architects.
Do any
of them publish what their structures weigh and what their
original minimum performance requirements must be, and later
prove to be, in respect to velocities of winds, heights of
floods, severity of earthquakes, fires, pestilence, epidemics,
etc.,
and what their shipping weights and volumes will be,
and what man hours of work are totally involved?"
- Cite excert of RF Ltr. to unidentified English editor
published by steendrukkerij de Jong & Co, circa 24 Jan' 58

Bauhaus:
See Form Cannot Follow Function, (1); 1 Jul'62

Bazooka:
See Tetrahedron of Interferences

Bead:
See Necklace

Beam:
See Columns vs. Beams
Dome: Rationale for the Dome
Gusset
Horizontal
Strut
Focus
Beamable * Wirable
(1)

REF DINITIONS
Beam:
See Civil War (1)
Engineering, 3 Oct' 72
Horizontal vs. Vertical, 1963
(2)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Beaming:
11
It is possible
To conserve energies by reflection
As well as to reach
Great distance by beaming.
Citation and Context at Eve-Beamed Thoughts (I), May'72

Beamable: Beaming:
See Focal: Focus
Eye-beamed Thoughts
Focally Beamed Outward
Reflection
Reflection Sequence: Apple
(1)

(2)
123
See Broadcast, May'72
Gravitational Constant, (2)
Man: Interstellar Transmission of Man, 14 Aug'70
Radiation, (pp. 158-159) May172
Visible Light vs. Electricity, 1946
Beamable: Beaming:

Bearings:
See Gears
Lubricants

Bear Island:
See Wilderness Resource, 1968

Beating to Windward:
See Periodic Experience, (13)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Beatnik:
"The beatnik is the antibody of Madison Avenue.
The
true artists seek escape from the stalemated vacuum of
the two. History tells us they will probably be
successful."
Cite ART NEWS ANNUAL, 1961, p. 116.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Beautiful:
"Beautiful' is probably ejaculated when my entire chromo-
somic neuron bank is momentarily in 'happy' correspondence
with my entire experience neurons memory bank. 1 speak of
It is."
my brain as if it were a computer,
Citation at
Invisible Architecture (3), Aug'64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Beautiful:
"hen one of the phantom captains seeks a mechanism of the
complementary tyje to join with his in the manufacture of an
improved model replica of their mutual custody mechanisms,
he misinterprets his unself-conscious appraisal of the adequacy
of the observed complement to his 'own' half-plant as
constituting suitable hook-up conditions in the terms of
superficial or sensorial surface satisfactions. The result is
often the peculiarly amusing selective sound-wave emission,
through the major exit-entrance aperture of the turret:
Beautiful!"
Cite CS TO THE UK, p.24, 1938
-

Beautiful - Most Efficient:
See Trees, (1)

Beauty: Beautiful:
See Aesthetics
Harmonic: Harmony
Naked Girl on the Bed
(1)

Beauty: Beautiful:
See Standardization, 21 May 28
Integrity, 11 Aug'70
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Becoming:
"Our experiences include the becoming."
Cin Oregon tertin
Citation & context at Experience, 2 Jul 62

Become: Becoming:
See Experience, 2 Jul'62*
I, 11 Oct 73

Bed:
See Girl: Naked Girl on the Bed
Sleeping in the Same Bed
(1)

Bed:
See Empty, May'70
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bee Honey-seeking Bee:
"The most critical factors governing humanity's epochal
transition from bumblebee-like self's honey-seeking
preoccupation, which insect and avian bumbling in general
inadvertently cross-fertilizes all the vegetation's
terrestrial impoundments of the star-radiated energy which
alone regenerates all biological life around Earth planet;
and in doing so would be dehydrated were it not osmotically
watercooled by its root-connected hydraulic circuitry of
Larth waters' atomization for return into the sky-distributed,
fresh water-regenerating biological support system, which
rooting frustrates integral procreation of the vegetation
which is regeneratively cross-fertilized entirely by the
insect and avian, entirely unconscious, pollen-delivering
inadvertencies."
-
Cite HBF marginalis 6 Nov 7 2 incorporated in YERGLTICS
draft at Sec. 216.03, 9 Nov 72

TEXT CITATIONS
Bee:
Honey-seeking Bee:
Synergetics draft at Secs. 1009.68 - ff, 15 Feb'73
216.03
1009.67
$326.12
5326.13

Bee:
Honey-seeking Bee:
See Honey: I Go for My Honey
Money-bee Humans
Honeycomb
(1)

Bee: Honey-seeking Bee:
See Design (1)
Ecological Pattern, 19 Sep 64
Ecology Sequence (2); (a); (C)-(I)
Enterprise, 28 Nov 72
Scrap Sorting & Mongering (2)
Primary vs. Side Effects, 10 Dec' 73
Planetary Democracy, (2)
New York City (12)
Doing What Needs to be Done, (A)
(2)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Begeted Lightness:
"The 'begeted' eightness as fundamental number in newness
of nuclear self-regeneration may well account for the
fundamental octave consisting of four plus and four minus
inter-integer synergetics of intermultiplicative effects
and an octave inter-insulative accommodator in the zero
effect nineness as disclosed in our section on Indigs in
our chapter on Numerology.
"The regenerative initial eightness of first-occurring
potential nuclei at the frequency-four layer and its
frequency-five confirmation of those eight as constituting
true nuclei, sugrests identity with the third and fourth
periods of the Periodic Table of chemical elements, which
1st Period = 2 elements
occur as:
2nd Period = 8 elements
3rd Period = 8 elements
"This eightness being nucleiomay also relate to the
relative abundance of isotopal magic numbers."
41
Cite HHF holograph, 27 May'72, SYNERGETICS draft Secs. 415.31
+.92, + .93, 28/2 May172

Beget: Begeted:
See Precession, 8 Dec'72; (I) (II)
Precession & Degrees of Freedom, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Beginnings & Endings:
"Then Einstein's saying the beginning and the end: experience."
Citation & context at Universe, 16 Jun '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Beginnings and Endings:
"There can't be a principle that has a 'beginning' and an
'ending.' We cannot suggest that an abstraction could have
a beginning and an end. The words 'beginning' and 'end' have
to do with the physical."
-->>
Citation and context at Generalization Sequence (3), Jun'69

Beginnings & Endings:
See Biterminal
Finite
Increment
Interterminal
Package
Terminal
Enantiodromia
(1)

(2)
123
Beginnings & Endings:
See Action, Jun'66
Action-reaction-resultant, Kay' 71
Brain, 20 Jan 75
Creation, 29 Mar' 77
Definitive, 1959
Generalization Sequence, (3)*
Generalized Principle, (1)
Infinity, 20 Jun'66
Integrity, 24 Jan172
Moving Picture Continuity, Jun' 66
Honsimultaneity, 30 May' 75
Overlapping, 30 Kay' 75
Packaged, 1969; Jun'66
Pass: "And It Came to Pass," 29 Jun' 72
Frinciple, Dec'67; Jun' 69
Terminating, 28 Feb 71
Transcendental, 28 Jan' 69
Human Beings a Complex Universe, (10(11)

Beginning Event: Required Beginning Event Is Passe':
See Primordial, May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Beginningness:
"You can have planar insideness and outsideness with a
triangle. But you can't have volumetric insideness and outside-
ness with less than four points. I am looking for something
that has a limit, a beginningness of structure. There is a
beginningness of planar insideness and outsideness and a
beginningness of volumetric insideness and outsideness."
_ Cite tape transcript /5, Side B., P.2; RBF to Barry Farrell;
Bear Island, 15 Aug170

Beginning Number:
See Four, 16 Feb'78

Beginnings:
See Beginnings & Endings
Beginningless
Endings
Initial
Initiating
Outset
Start
Starting with Parts
Starting with Universe
Eternal Outset
Conceptual Genesis
Event Embryo
Starting Point
Conception:
Conceptional
Loss: Such Loss in the Beginning
Pre-Scenario
(1)

Beginnings:
See Infinity, 20 Jun166
Order, 6 Jul 62
Vector Equilibrium: Zerosize, 4 Nov'73
Whole Systems, 16 Jun'72
Population of Cities, 10 Sep' 75
Modules: A & B Quanta Modules, 20 Dec*73
(2)

Beginningless:
See Integrity, 24 Jan' 72
Scenario Universe, Jan' 72
Structural Sequence, (B)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Behaving:
"
Mankind may be
Streamlined into unself-conscious adoption
Of ever more effective
New ways of behaving,
Thus also unconsciously to abandon
The inadequate customs.
"
Cite INTUITION, p.63 May '72

Behavior & Environment:
See Womb of Permitted Ignorance, (1) (2)

Behavioral Phagen:
See Absolute Network, 10 Nov 74

Behavior Potential:
See Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom, 11 Aug 77

Behavioral Relationships: Inventory of:
See Inventory of Formulations & Constanta
Reciprocity
(1)

Behavioral Relationships: Inventory of:
See Synergetic Hierarchy (1) (2)
(2)

Behavioral Science: Behaviorista:
See Conditioning
Education:
Evolutionary Touchdowns
Operant Psychology
Morality
Skinner, B.F.
Human Tolerance Limits
(1)

Behavioral Science: Behaviorists:
See Social Sciences:
16 Feb 73
Knot, 22 Apr' 71
Analogue to Physical Sciences, (A);
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Behavioral States:
"Both the frequencies and the matter
Are behavioral states of the same phenomenon."
Citation and context at Chemical Phenomenon, May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Behaviorist Word vs. Static Word:
"Mass is a word of inherently synergetic connotation. It is a
behaviorist word popularly mistaken and used as a static word.'
11
Citation & context at Mass, 29 Dec'58

Behaviorist Word ys, Static Word:
See Process vs. Thing

Behaving: Behavior:
(1)
See Chemical Behaviors
Complexes of Behavior Aggregates
Interbehaving
Interwave behavior of Number
Inventions as Lifeways of Human Behaviors
Most Economical Ways of Behaving
Mathematical Behavior
Precession: Analogy of Precession & Social Behavior
Scheme of Behavioral Reference
Behavioral Relationships: Inventory of
Energy Behaviors
Conditioning
Operant Psychology

Behaving Behavior: Behaviorism:
See Environment, 22 Jul171
Integrity, 25 Jan 72
Mass, 29 Dec 58*
Ninety-two Elements, 15 Jun'74; 21 Jun'77
Octet Truss, 24 Sepf73
Powering: Fourth Powering, 15 Oct 72
Synergy: Degrees Of (1)
Man: Interstellar Transmission of Man, 14 Aug'70
Universal Language, 21 Sep 74
Human Tolerance Limits, (A)
Technology & Culture, 25 Oct177
Prime Number, 16 Feb 78
(2)

Behaving:
Behavior:
See Behaving
Behavior & Environment
Behavioral Phases
Behavioral Relationships: Inventory of
Behavioral Science:
Behavioral States
Behaviorists
Behaviorist Word vs. Static Word
(3)

Being:
See Is
Nonbeing

RBP DEFINITIONS
Belief:
"I don't use the word belief.. I use the word belief, but
I don't believe anything. I use the word belief to mean
accepting explanations of physical phenomena that have no
experimental evidence... Where if somebody loves you very
much and they tell you they want you to believe this....
saying this is something I believe and I think you should
believe it--religious conviction or whatever it may be."
Transcript p.4 of RBF tape interview with Dr. Michael
Bruwer, Ritz Carlton, Chicago; 20 Feb'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Belief:
Believe' is a word I do not use. To believe is to take
someone else's say-so in the absence of empirical evidence.
"You are right to believe what can only come from another
person. If you tell me you love me, I believe you.
"The word to use with progress would be 'faith' not belief....
As for faith in progress, I do not think the Universe
is
getting any better. It is simply getting better understood.
As we learn more of its principles, as we put our
learning
to
use in guiding patterns of transformation, we can hope to
improve the scenario."
-
Cite REF quoted by Hugh Kenner in "Bucky Fuller and the Final
Exam, N.Y. Times Magazine, 6 Jul'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Belief:
"I do not believe anything; I am only interested in facts."
-
Cite RBF to Speech Class, SIU, Edwardsville, 14 Feb'74
(From notes by Mike Mitchell)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Belief:
"I think the word faith is very much better than belief.
Belief is when somebody else does the thinking. Most of our
religions are that way, just full of credos and dogma. They
are antithought and that, to me, is anti-Universe.
->
Citation & context at Kepler Alone with the Stars, Oct'71

TEXT CITATIONS
Belief:
Beliefs:
203.06
203.10
502.10

RBF DEFINITIONS
Belief:
"I represent how an individual can articulate what our potential
can be....
"In order to do so, it is necessary to take a second look at
life and to give up everything you've been taught to believe."
Cite RBF address to Harvard Law School Forum, Cambridge,
10 Dec'73 as quoted in next day's Crimson

Belief:
See Credo
Faith
Guess vs. Believe
Religion: Related to 'Reglio' or Rule
Make-believe
1
(1)

Belief:
See Anger, (1)(2)
Excluded Answer Resources, Oct166
Greater Intellect, (1)
Lecturing, 11 Aug 70
Life is Not Physical, (1)(2)
Synergetics, 19 Jun 71
Apolitical, 22 Jun'77
Young World, 9 Jul 62
(2)

Below:
See Above & Below

Belt:
See Dog Pulling on a Belt
Function
Rope

RBF DEFINITIONS
Benday Screen:
"We would see reality as the subvisible increments on the
verge of resolution, like a benday screen lithograph."
- Citation and context at Invisible Circuitry (2), 28 Oct 72

Benday Screen: Benday Screen Printing:
See Frequency Islands of Perception, 13 Nov' 75
Invisibility of Macro- and hicro- Resolutions, (1)
Resolvability
Limits, 30 Apr' 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bendings:
"... The red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet
refractions are just beautiful bendings."
Citation & context at Step-ip, Step-down Transformations,
23 Jun175

Bend: Bending: Bent:
See Curved Space: Bent Space
Rigidity vs. Resilience
3
(1)

Bend: Bending: Bent:
See Omnidiametric, 23 Sep'73
Precess, 6 Mar 73
Step-up, Step-down Transformations, 23 Jun'75*
(2)

Bent Space:
See Curved Space:
Bent Space

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bernouilli Principle:
"Bernouilli principle: pulling the air through a small hole
makes it cold. The Butler grain bin was the first air
conditioning dynamic structure.
10
-
Citation & context at Wichita House, (1), 31 Jan'75

Bernouilli,
See Airplane Flight as Lift, 4 Oct 72
Wichita House, (1)*
Human Mind & Physical Evolution, (5) (6)
Airspace Technology Environment Control, (3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Berry Picking:
There are many
"Man is not unique, then, as a toolmaker.
creatures that make tools, in the way of nests and other
apparatus. Man is unique only in the extent to which he has
employed tools. All his tools result from discovery of
repeated functions and conditions that are friendly or
unfavorable to the continuation of the life
(A)
process. In each case of man's developing or inventing a tool,
it is because he has had some experience of need. Man--
early man doesn't have to invent being hungry or thirsty.
So he tries out some things, and when he sees that some people
die when they eat those red berries, he passes those berries by
and keeps looking for something that will keep him going.
While looking for his food, he suddenly realizes that he is
very thirsty and there is no water at hand. In desperation for
a while, he finally happens upon some water. Now if you come
to water and you are very thirsty and you are just an ancient
man,
you would have to ask, 'How do I take in water?' You
might plunge your head under and you get water up your nostrils--
that isn't very good. I recall as a child seeing the cat and
the dog lapping up their water and wondering if maybe that
wasn't a better way. I saw lots of things that animals did
which seemed to be very logical. I remember trying to lap"
- Cite RBF in Franklin Lecture, Auburn, Ala., 1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Berry Picking:
(B)
(B)
"water with my tongue and I found that I couldn't take water
in nearly so fast as I could get it if I put in my hand and
cupped it, and then I found that two hands were even better
than one,
and I could pour it down like- kloope!
"Supposing then that our ancient man has repeated this same
process time and again and now has his water-- he's still very
hungry and must go after berries. And he says, 'Everytime I
go after berries I keep losing my water. I wish I could bring
this water along with me; yet, if I keep my hands full, this
So
among
water will probably spill and I can't pick berries.'
the very earliest of all artifacts of man on Earth we find
vessels or containers of various kinds. From the very beginning,
there were men who were able to control environment by taking
some of the environment here and moving it to another place so
as to have it with them. They were altering the environment in
a preferred way to their own advantage.
"Once man invents that vessel, several interesting observations
can be made. When he was not using it himself,
somebody else could use it. He could make the vessel by scraping"
Cite RBF in Franklin Address, Auburn, Ala.,
1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Berry Picking:
(c)
"out stones, or by scraping out wood, and finally by forming
things together-- baking clay, weaving baskets, and so forth.
Once you develop the vessel, you can also begin to make it of
materials that can stand up under heat that your hands couldn't
stand. You can make your tool hands much bigger than they had
been. You can make them stand acids that your real hands
couldn't. In other words, there is a definite basic function
for this tool, but you can greatly extend the limits of that
functioning-- sometimes to such a degree that you don't readily
recognize it as an extension of the integral function, as when
we get to great tanks and reservoirs. This is something that
it is very important to remember about tools.
"Thus
man has not been unique in his having developed tools,
but he is unique in the extent to which he employs them. And
all of this comes out of his recognizing repeated experiences
and realizing that he can anticipate certain conditions and
alter them favorably by making such a thing as a vessel.
"As I compare man with other creatures in relation to speciali-
zation, I observe that man discovers principles that are*
Cite RBF in Franklin Lecture, Auburn, Ala., 1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Berry Picking:
(D)
"operative in his environment and he makes use of those
principles. For example, we have the flying bird as a specialist;
and the bird does fly beautifully; but hen the bird want to
walk, it folds up its wings and therefore has to walk quite
awkwardly. The fish swims superbly but can't walk on land. Man
can walk on the land, but he also learns the principle of flight,
Then he takes them
and he puts on his wings and then flies.
off in so as not to be encumbered by them when he wants to walk
again. He can put on his scales and go into the sea, but he
So
is not encumbered by them when he doesn't want to use them.
man has the ability to put on and take off much more than other
creatures-- which seems to be unique. This is what I mean da
when I speak about man's general adaptability: the fact that
his functions seem to be as little encumbered as possible.
"What is really unique is that man is about halfway in the
range of size among all creatures-- halfway, in the middle of
them and he has extensibility in a great many directions.
This, then, says that the specialization should be in the
The
dinosaur had
a
tools and not integral to man himself.
one-ton tail to knock down bananas when he came to them, but"
Cite RBF in Franklin Lecture, Auburn, Ala., 1970
-

RBF DEFINITIONS
Berry Picking:
(E)
"he didn't come to enough bananas to make pulling that one-
ton tail around pay off for him. Man invents a ladder that
can be left near the trees and out of the way when not in use.
And we invent extensible hands and clippers with which to cut
things down. We can do all those remote things beautifully."
Cite RBF in Franklin Lecture, Auburn, Ala., 1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Berry Picking:
"The more specialized you are is his general adaptability,
the less generally adapatble
What's very unique about man
his
metaphysical capability
to disembarrass himself of
the equipment when he's not using it.
(1)
"Our studies here have dealt with the externalized functions
of man. I'll give you, then, an integral function of man.
He doesn't invent thirst. He doesn't invent his hunger. He's
a berry picker. He doesn't know anything about his spaceship
Earth, except that he's hungry. He goes around experimenting
with things to keep him going-- to satisfy this thing. He may
need water. terribly thirsty. Luckily he finds some water
and he sticks his head in up to his nose and tries lapping
like a cat. He finds the quickest way is to take his hand and
dip it. He finds that two hands are better than one and then
he can pour it down his throat. He says: now I want to go
berry picking again and every time I do kept losing sight of
my water. I get into trouble. I wish I could take this water
with me. If I carry it in my hands I can't pick berries.
I could put it in my mouth-- it's going to spill anyway."
Cite RBF to World Game 12 Jun-31 Jul'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Berry Picking:
(2)
"Amongst the very earliest of the artifacts you find in all
the great heaps of artifacts are vessels, or controls of the
environment by which you could take this part of the environ-
ment here with you and move it to where you are going.
Until finally when you go to the Moon you are taking your
controlled environment with you, taking what you need.
So
the Moon is simply an extension of man's making that vessel,
a vessel he can get inside of, his controlled environment.
"Now once you've made that cup that can take this liquid, then
you can use my hands when I'm not using them. Those are my
hands. I've got an extra pair of hands. You can have my
hands. You've got interchangeable hands. This begins to be
extraordinary-- our synergetic regeneration coming along. Once
I've made this cup I can make it out of a material that will
take heat that my hands can't take. I can make it so I can
put it over the fire to cauterize and boil and change.
I can
make it out of material that can handle acids my hands can't
handle. I can make it ten thousand times the size of my hands.
Once you have the principle you can then extend, and we do--
that's what all our tools are, simply extensions, original
complementations of our integral function. But they get to"
Cite RBF to World Game, 12 Jun-31 Jul*69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Berry Picking:
(3)
"be sometimes so enlarged, they seem to be so remote, we
don't tend to realize they are part of us-- but they are.
None of these tools, then, exist on Earth, except by
virtue of man. They are part of the ecological manifestation
of man. Then we get into large quantities. For instance,
I find the average American is wearing ten
the steel
tons of steel. He weighs around 30 tons of concrete. He's
one of us. Yet we're able to divest that part of ourselves
we leave over here. We're going to become a separated-out
organism. It is very extraordinary that it reassemble itself
and use itself whenever it wants."
-
Cite RBF to World Game at NY Studio School, 12 Jun-31 Jul'69,
Saturn Film transcupt, Sound 1, Reel 1, pp. 88-91.

Berry Picking:
See Trial & Error Discoveries
(1)

Berry Picking: Berry Patches:
See Design Revolution: Pulling the Bottom Up, (3)
Spaceship Earth, (c)
Orbital Escace from Critical Proximity, (2)
(2)

Bertalanffy: Ludwig von:
See General System Theory

Bertillon System of Finger-prints:
See Reflection Sequence: Apple, (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Between:
"Two points have betweenness but not insideness.... Three
points have betweenness but no insideness. "
Citation & context at Prime Enclosure, 17 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Between:
"You can program in any of the parts, but you cannot progran
what's between and not."
-
Citation & context at Mechanical Mind, 22 Jul 71

Between & Beyond:
See Life & Death, 26 Jan*76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Between and Not of:
"Intuition and mind apprehend that which is
comprehensively between, and not of, the parts."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 508.02, Nov 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Between and Not of:
"If we had Isaac Newton here and we asked him what mass
attraction is, he'd say I cannot tell you because there is
nothing in one of the bodies which indicates it's going to
attract or be attracted by. It is a behavior between and
not of."
-
Citation & context at Mass Attraction, 22 Jul 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Between and Not or:
"Mind alone has the capability of surveying all the special
case experiences and, from time to time, find a principle
Where the
that is holding true throughout the whole.
principle is between, and not of, is not predicted by the
parts.
"
Cite RBF at Students international meditation Seminar,
U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July 71, p. 10

KBF DEFINITIONS
Between and Not Of:
"Weightless, abstract human mind reviews and from time
to time discovers interrelationships existing between
and amongst but not 'in' or 'of' the special-case
experifice sets."
New context at Special-case Experience, 6 Nov'73
Cite Dreyfuss Preface, "Recesse of Meaning"
28 April 1971,
28 Apr 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Between and Not Of:
"Mind alone discerns the complex behavioral relationships
existing between and not of the myriad of special-case
experiences.'
Cite SYNERGETICS draft as re-edited with RBF marginalis
at Sec. 104, 1 Apr 171

Between: Between and Not Of:
See Truth, 22 Jun 75
Synergy, 26 May 75; 20 Feb'77
Mind, 22 Jul 71
Human Mind & Physical Evolution, (5)
Intertransforms, 11 Sep 75
Creation, 29 Mar' 77
Life is Not Physical, (1)
Human beings & Complex Universe, (1) (10)
(2)

Between the Halves:
See Invisible Pneumatics, 27 Dec 173

Between-sphere Spaces:
See Spheres & Spaces

Between Stage of Universe:
See Man as Halfway in Range of Sise of All Creatures
(1)

Between Stage of Universe:
See Everyday, May'49
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Between: Vector Equilibrium as the Prime Between-ness Model:
"Being between-ness: That's what humans always are.
That's where the problems start."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, 5 Nov 72; rewritten by RBF 7 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Between: Vector Equilibrium as Between-ness Model:
That's what we always are.
"Being between-ness.
one of the problems."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 5 Nov'72
That's

Between: Vector Equilibrium as Prime Betweenness Model:
See Equanimity Modal

Between:
See Apart
Concave-in-betweenness Domaina
Halfway
Interstitial
Intertangency
Interrelationships
Line Between Two Sphere Centers
Middle
Omniintertangency
Spheres & Spaces
Interphase
Omni-inter-between
(1)

Between:
See Computer, May' 72
Everyday, May' 49
Mechanical Mind, 22 Jul 71
Pencil, 1938
Prime Enclosure, 17 Feb 73*
Rhombic Dodecahedron, 22 Mar 73
Mass Attraction, 22 Jul 71*
Brain as Library, 15 Nov*74
Mental Mouthfuls, y Jul*62
Rate, 9 Nov 72
Life, 22 Jan 175
Special-case Experience, 6 Nov'73*
Event, 23 Jan'77
(2)

Between:
See Between & Beyond
Between and Not Of
Between the Halves
Between-sphere Spaces
Between Stage of Universe
Between: Vector Equilibrium as Between-ness
Model
(3)

Beyond:
See Between & Beyond

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bias:
"People want to be either symmetric or asymmetric.
They love bias....
"
- Citation and context at Love, 15 Oct 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bias:
"Bias precludes synergetic advantage."
Citation & context at Periodic Experience, (13), May'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bias on One Side of the Line:
"I spoke about the early days in the Mediterranean area.
when man thought the world was an infinite plane and that
the Greek geometry was axiomatically logical. They defined
a circle or a triangle as an area bound by a closed line of
unit radius, or by three edges and three angles. They
only accredited the area which is bound on one side of the
line, simply because the area outside of the line was
extended in all planar directions to infinity and was there-
fore undefinable. We have all been brought up at school to
accredit only the integrity and identity of the area on
one side of
a line, which is to assume a fundamentally
biased attitude towards all problems. That conditioned
reflexing of bias is unnatural but is rampant in world society
due to its early inculcation as the very base of what is
thought of as geometrically reliable education.
11
-
Cite BEIRUT Address, p.23, 4-6 May167

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bias on One Side of the Line:
"The Greeks defined a triangle as an area bound by a
perimeter of three angles and three edges. At one time,
the Greeks thought of the Earth as only horizontally
extended; their planes and lines went to infinity. The
bound area of the triangle was finite. The 'outside'
beyound the perimeter line was unbounded, infinite, occupied
by barbarians, then unknown chaos. Today we know that all
systems, as with Earth, are finite and return upon themselves
in all directions, so that the triangle divides the definite
surface of the sphere into two different areas, both
definite and both bound by the same three vertexes and three
edges, ergo, two spherical triangles. Both sides of the
line are now validly definite."
"The reflexively deep bias of men for 'their side' is built
into man's whole educational experience as relayed through
generations since the Greek accrediting of only one side of
the line. . . Men as yet speak of flat Earth in respect to
which there is as yet an 'up' and 'down'-- where the Sun goes
down. Men as yet see the Sun 'rising' and 'setting' and they
as yet see only one side of a line of big patterns as valid
or positive, ergo the inability to deal logically in
resolving major world political biases."
Cite RBF in AAUW Journal, p.177, May 65

RBF DLFINITIONS
Bias of One Side of the Line:
""This is the most extraordinary of the biases that
exist in our society.
You feel you have to validate
one side of the line or the other in a closed boundary
system. I find no validity favoring one or the other."
(Adapted.)
-
Cite LEDGEMONT LAB Lecture, 15 Oct 164, p. 55

TEXT CITATIONS
Bias on One Side of the Line:
Arts & Letters Gold Medal, pp.14-15, May 68
Ledgemeont Lab. Address, p.55, 15 Oct164
Oregon Lecture #6, p.206, 10 Jul'62
Beirut Address, p.23, 4-6 May 167
AAUW Journal, p.177, May'65
Synergetics, Sec. 811

Bias on One Side of the Line:
See Loyalty
Spherical Triangle
(1)

Bias on One Side of the Line:
See Key-Keyhole Sequence, (1)
Up & Down Sequence, (3) (4)
Nucleus vs. Boundary, 28 Jan'75
(2)

Bias Symbol:
See Verse vs. Prose, 11 Dec 75

Bias:
See Fear & Political Bias
Local Bias
Self-debiasing
(1)

Bias:
See Linear Programming, 5 Jun'73
Love, 15 Oct 72*
Periodic Experience, (13)
Feedback, 7 Nov 75
(2)

BIBLICAL REFERENCES
Biblical References:
See Child: A Little Child Shall Lead Them
Christian Legend & Philosophy
Firmament
Garden of Eden
Heavenly Host Phenomenon
Meek Hava Inherited the Earth
Pass: "And It Came to Pass"
Noah's Ark

RBF DEFINTIONS
Bibliography:
"You notice that I do not have any bibliography to give
you to go along with my talk for the simple reason that
there are no books that I know of in which individuals
have employed the strategy of inventory taking that I
employ. I have found myself a fairly lone operater--
not purposefully at all-- that just seems to be the
circumstances."
Cite Orgen Lecture #2, p. 37. 2 Jul 62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bicycle Wheel:
"The 1927 Dymaxion was my first tensegrity. The hub of the
wire bicycle wheel just becomes the mast.
And the bicycle
wheel itself was a transfer of sea technology."
Citation & context at Dymaxion House, 29 Jan'75

Bicycle Wheel Model:
See Fourth Dimension: VE as Fourth-dimension Model,
22 Jun 77

Big Bang:
See Bang Big Bang

Big Complex:
See Visual Symphony (2)

TEXT CITATIONS
Big Dipper:
403.02
600.04
1110.12

Big Dipper:
See Cosmic Structuring, (1)
Harmonics, (3),
Stable & Unstable Systems, 2 Nov 73
Twenty-foot Earth Globe and 200-foot Celestial
Sphere, (8) (9)
Thinking,
Constellar, 3 Oct 72

Big Man ys, Little Man:
See Divide & Conquer Sequence
Litlle Individual: Little Man
Invisible Masters
Pirates: Great Pirates
(1)

Big Man vs. Little Man:
See Literacy, 18 Aug'70
(2)

Big:
Big Picture:
See Largest Pattern
Big Complex
Only the Whole Big System Works
11)

Big: Big Picture: Big Pattern:
See Most Economical, 15 Jun'74
Intuition, 15 Jun174
Navy Sequence (1)
Telephone (2)
Good & Evil Sequence (1)
Generalist, 26 Sep'68
Pattern, Dec 72
Navy: Theory Of, 22 Dec'74
Sovereignty, (1)
(2)

HBF JEFINITIONS
Big System:
"All except humans are equipped to excel in special local
environments. However, the whole terrestrial ecological system
is only omnicircumferentially successful. Only the whole
big system works. . . .
Citation and context at Ecology Sequence (E), 5 Jun 73

Big System & Little System:
See Local Radius, 14 Feb 73
Orbit Circuit, 10 Sep'74
General System Theory, (2)

Big & Little:
See Energy Magnitudes: Order Of
Macro-Micro
Slower & Closer vs. Faster & Far Apart
Fast & Slow
Rates & Magnitudes
Astro & Nucleic Interpositioning
Largest Case
Largest Pattern
Me:
Bigger Than Me; Littler Than Me
Tennis Ball Hits the Big Earth
Cosmic & Local
Local Radius vs. Wide Arc
(1)

Big & Little:
See Human Beings, 10 Dec 73
Spheres & Spaces, 11 Jul 62
Tension, 15 Oct*64i Jul162
Time-energy Economics, 15 Jun '74
Trim Tab Sequence, (2)
Quantum Mechanics:
Gravity, 12 May 75
Grand Strategy, 30 Jan'75
Multiplication by Division, 20 Jan' 77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Billboard Model:
"The isotropic vector matrix can be described as a matrix
of lights on a broadway billboard with powerful little
lights at each vertex which could be controlled in intensity
and color displaying all the superb concentricity around a
nucleus. Your innermost guts could be illustrated and
illuminated. I could turn all the right lights on and
you could move through space in a multidimensional way, just
by moving the lights from one vertex to the next."
-
Context and citation at Invisible Circuitry (1), 28 Oct 172

Billboard Model:
See Atomic Computer Complex:
1
(1)

Billboard Model:
See Fuller, R.B: Meeting with Fernandez-Moran, (2)
Scan-transmission of Pattern Integrities, 22 Jun '77
(2)

Billiards:
See Gravity (8)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Binary:
"It is fascinating to learn that, with the development
of the computer, nature uses a Yes-No or binary system.
This is the basis of waves. Consequently the Polynesians
have been using the most advanced techniques during the
period that we presumed them to be inferior because
they only counted to two."
Cite NAGA TO INVISIBLE SEA, p. 6. 1970

TEXT CITATIONS
Binary Stars:
Synergetica text, Sec. 1106.31, 26 Jan173

Binary:
See Bits: Bitting
Go-no-go
Pulse Pattern
Twenty Questions
Yes-no-yes-no
(1)

Binary:
See Reciprocity, (4)
(2)

Binomial:
See Scheherazade Number, 18 Jul 72

Bio-connection:
See Redundancy: Reduction of, 22 Apr'71

Biodynamic:
See Life, May'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Biogenetic Experimentation:
Q.
RBF:
"Are you concerned about the dangers of biorentic
experimentation?"
"I don't worry about it any more. At first, I used
to... very much. We are in the middle; we are not specialized.
We are not in a linear or a planar Universe. You can't improve
on the middle. Biogenetic experiments seam bound to have
In
results which will just depart further from the middle.
due course it will become clear that you can't improve on that.
Though we might correct certain biological deficiencies.'
Cite RBF to World Game Workshop'77; Phila., PA: 22 Jun'77

Bio-logic:
See Redundancy: Reduction Of, 22 Apr 171

RBP DEFINITIONS
Biologicala
"Design logic... requires the presence...of a designing
capability... through human organisms... to offset the gamut
of nonthinking conditioned reflexes of all biological systems.'
"
Citation & context at Eternal Designing Capability, 2 Jun' 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Biologicals:
"All the biologicals are converting chaos into beautiful order.
All biology is
antientropic."
See Photosynthesia, Oct 69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Biologicala:
"All the biologicals are antientropic.
-
Citation and context at Order, Jun-Jul'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
"
...
Biological Call Nucleus:
The simplicity of the biological cell nucleus which
valves universal teleological problems."
-
Citation and context at Environment Events Hierarchy, 1954-59

Biological Cell Dichotomy:
See Gravity (d)

TEXT CITATIONS
Biological Cells: Single Cells:
229.02
751.06
1025.13
8263.02
8531.04
81041.12
81041.13
81044.08
81052.67

Biological Cell:
See Life, 13 Nov'69
Trigonometric Limit:
First 14 Primes, 14 Jan'74
Fourteen Axes of Truncated Tetrahedron, (1)
Regenerativity, 17 Jan' 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Biological Design:
"Biological designs apriori to human alteration contriving are
directly reproducible in frequency_design magnitude. Blades
of grass are reproduced on planet Earth in vast quantities due
to the universal inadequacy of Sun and other star photosyn-
thetic impoundment to maximum dry land occupation for the
terrestrial impoundment of the cosmic radiation. Daisies,
peanuts, glow worms, et. al., are reproduced in direct
complement to their design complexity, which involves biological
and eternal environmental interplay of chemical element simplexes
and compounds under a complex of energy, heat, and pressure
conditions critical to the complex of chemical associating and
disassociating involved. Humans thus far evolved the industrial
complex designing which is only of kindergarten magnitude as
compared to the complexity of the biological success of our
planet Earth. In its complexities of design integrity the
Universe is technology."
Cite RBF draft Ltr. to Karan Singh incorporated in SYNERGETICS
text at Sec. 172, 13 Mar 73

Biological Design:
See Load Distribution, 17 Oct 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Biological Equation of Univerag:
"The biological equation of the Universe... the principle of
essential priority of common weal is implicit; 1.0.
the
individual is a product and servant of a plurality.
Citation and context at Individuality, 1947

Biological Equation:
See Equation: Philosophical Equations

RBF DEFINITIONS
Biological Integral:
"All biological evolution
Is ecologically integral
And omni-interdependent.
The final biological integral
Is the supreme physical
Problem-solving phase
of the regenerative physical system
Of the Universe
As maintained by the metaphysical integrity."
Cite DREYFUSS Preface, "Decease of Meaning."
28 April 1971, p. 4

Biological Integral:
See Human Beings, 10 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Biological Life:
"Biological life
Ia syntropic
Bause it sorts and selects
Unique chemical elements
From out of their randomly received
Time and locality of reception
As celestial imports;
Or from out of their random occurrence
As terrestrial resources-- fresh or waste--
Anywhere around our Earth's biosphere,
And reassociates those elements
In orderly molecular structures
Or as orderly organs
Of ever-increasing magnitude,
Thus effectively reversing
The entropic behaviors
Of purely physical phenomena
which give off energy
In ever more random,
Expansive and disorderly ways.
For human life contains the weightless
Omnipowerful, omniknowing
Metaphysical intellect
Cite INTUITION, p.70 May '72
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Biological Life:
"Which alone can comprehend
Sort out, select,
Integrate, co-ordinate and cohere."
Cite INTUITION, p.70 May '72
(2)
123

RBF DEFINITIONS
Biologicala vs. Nonbiologicals:
"In order to regenerate, the biologicals take on and give off
more energy than themonbiologicals because, mechanically
speaking, none of the biologicals are 100 percent efficient.
Thus the biologicals give off much more energy than the
nonbiologicals.
Therefore their entropy alters the environment
even more than the nonbiological entropy.'
Cite Museums Keynote Address, Denver, p.3; 2 Jun'71

Biologicala vs. Nonbiologicals:
See Animate & Inanimate
(1)

Biologicala ra. Nonbiologicals:
See Epigenetics, May 72
Industrialization, (A)
Ang pa
(2)

Biological: Biologicals:
See Ecology Sequence
Overspecialization of Biological Species
Organic Model
Biologicals vs. Nonbiologicals
(1)

Biological: Biologicala:
See Energy Capital Sequence, (A)
Intuition: Hot Line Of, Jan'72
Man as a Function of Universe, (C)
Mind, 31 May 74.
Reciprocity, (1)
Structure, 16 Dec 73
Tensegrity: Unlimited Frequency, (8)
Thinkable You, (1)
Vector Equilibrium, (2)
Culture, 1 Feb'75
Bundle of Experiences, May'49
Cyclic Bundling of Experiences, Kay'49
Communications Hierarchy, (1)
Animate & Inanimate, 11 Dec 75
Great Circles, May'44
Human Beings at the Center, (1) (2)
(2)

Biorganics: Bio-organism:
See Pretence Bio-organism
(1)

Bio-organics:
Bio-organism:
See Economic Accounting System, (A)
Man as Halfway in Range of Sise of All Creatures,
22 Jun 75
(2)

Biophysics:
See Hyphenated Sciences

RBF DEFINITIONS
Biosphere:
Q: Do you think there will be habitable satellites with
their own atmosphere?
RBF: "Why not? I don't see how we can help it."
Q: How do you think they will affect the Earth?
(1)
RBF: "Very, very greatly. Only recently have we known that
there was some mystical element called air and that it broke
down into oxygen and other parts, and that oxygen was necess-
ary for the lungs and knowing what it does to the blood.
The point is that there was this a priori inventory of
resouces and behaviors of nature that made it possible for
man to be born absolutely helpless and ignorant. With
beautiful equipment, but helpless. Therfore, part of the
invention of having a species born absolutely helpless was
that it had to be looked out for. And so the air was the
way you could breathe. A mother wouldn't have known how
to invent a breast, or how to invent the oxygen" for her
baby. "So we did have all these things and they've been so
plentiful, they have permitted man to be really very
ignorant, and also his being very wasteful."
-w
Cite WATTS TAPL, pp. 1-2, 19 Oct '70

RBF DEFINITIONS
Biosphere:
"He was given enough cushion of resouces, and so by trial
and error he could gradually discover that his mind was
much more important than his muscle; and that his probable
We are all
functioning was metaphysical and not physical.
of us thatthat extraordinary moment where the totality of
Rather than
humanity is beginning to realize these things.
When
(2)
a few leaders leading ignorant and helpless humanity.
we have man in great fear, when he is ignorant and also
fearful, he can panic officially and war has been an
enormous official panic: great mandates to eploy that which
Under
mind has already discovered to build up weapons.
the aegis of the great mandate of fear. The only way the
administration really has any great powers is war powers:
then they can really undertake anything. If evolution really
wanted man to acquire these capabilities, he could only be
really motivated to do these things through fear. I hope
we are coming to a breakthrough point where we are beginning
to do things for logical reasons-- and it is in longing
rather than fear. The scientists were making such guns
that an ignoramus could be trained to fire it; but they didn't
do anything about the man because the air was waiting there
for him to breathe it. You have to find some way to
-
Cite ATTS TAPE, pp. 2-4, 19 Oct 170

KBF DEFINITIONS
Biosphere:
"motivate hum until he begins to get off this self-
starter and to get on to the main engines of his mind."
Cite WATTS TAPE, p. 5, 19 Oct 170
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Biosphere:
"I'll come back to your question about space.
The point
being that science has not done anything really about man
until they were forced to do a little bit in medical
science, but then only on a respair basis rather
really how to service and understand him.
than on
(4)
You find there
is really a very great ignorance of what is really
necessary to actually support human beings, to keep them
going. It is really an extraordinary matter that the
minute you go out of our biosphere, the minute that you
get out from this bountiful supply that we've had, you now
for the first time really find out what is necessary to
keep a man going. Men have been going to the moon
on a sandwich and thermos bottle basis. It has been very
easy to have that much, but wheh we talk about staying
outside the biosphere for more than a year,
then you
really hav, for the first time, to discover what really
supports a man.
Cite WATTS TAPE, pp. 6-7, 19 Oct 170

RBF DEFINITIONS
Biosphere:
Within the spherical womb sheath of planet Earth's
water, gaseous, and electromagnetic biosphere."
Cite RBF Introduction to Gene Youngblood's EXPANDED CINEMA, p.24.
Oct 170

RBF DEFINITIONS
Biosphere Inventory:
"Only the metaphysical can designedly organize the physical
landscape-forming events to human advantage, and do so while
also maintaining
(a) the regenerative integrity of the complex
ecological-physiological support of human life
aboard our planet, and
(b) maintaining the integrity of the comical-
element inventory of which our planet," its
biosphere, and co-orbiting hydraulic, atmospheric,
ozonic radiation-shielding spheres, ionosphere,
Van Allen belts, and other layerings, all consist."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS 2nd. Ed. draft
at Sec. 325.04, 15 Nov'74

Biosphere Inventory:
See Time-energy Economics, 15 Jun'74
Interrelatedness vs. Names, (1)

TEXT CITATIONS
Biosphere:
534.06
8326.04
1005,20: 1005.20-1005.24
$326.12
1009.73
8326.40
1056.20 (26)
8541.43
81052.54

Biosphere:
See Air
Ecology
External Metabolica
Jet Stream
Atmosphere
Photosynthesis
Radiation Sequence
Van Allen Belt
Weather
Wind
Womb of Permitted Ighorance
(1)

Biosphere:
See Coral Reef, May'65
Design (2)
Space Technology, (1)
Precession (I) (II)
Orbital Escape from Critical Proximity, (4)
Rain, 11 Feb'76
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bird's Nest As A Tool: (A)
"...A bird alters environment by making a nest, and this is
related to its ability to fly. If a bird had to gestate little
birds in its womb, it would become so heavy that it would be
unable to fly. So we find the bird developing the process of
the nest and then issuing forth new life in the form of an egg
encasing both the embryo and all the nutriment that is going to
be necessary to develop the embryo until it hatches as a chick.
There is only one thing to be added: a very discrete amount of
heat has to be given to that egg to keep it going along so
that the embryo will develop.
"In designing that nest birds demonstrate an interesting ad-
justment to the delicacy of the process. With a great many
migrating birds, the males migrate north earlier than the females,
and, from their flight advantage, pick areas of the trees where
there is going to be the kind of food that that type of bird
needs to live-- insects or worms or whatever it may be. The
males come into the trees and pick positions where nests are
going to go. We are familiar with soldiers standing in a tight
line and then taking room on the line, spreading out until each
man has adequate elbow room. The birds do this in an omni-"
Cite RBF in Franklin Lecture, Auburn, Ala., 1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bird's Nest As A Tool:
(B)
"directional way. Sometimes you see two birds of the same
species
out on the lawn, and you wonder why they seem to be
fighting. What they are doing is taking positions in the
trees and
then making trial flights to find the nearest
insect: they come together, they hit each other, they get
interference, and then they spread out in their positions
before
the time comes to build nests. The males pick domains
for their nests and sing their song, and soon the females come
along
. The female doesn't just stop at the first male she
comes to; she waits until she finds the right song and then she
comes in.
And now they both get busy and build the nest. By
the time the
eggs are laid in the nest, it is a beatiful
insulating device; the mother bird sits on top of ft making a
total
enclosure with high insulation; mother giving off just
exactly the right amount of heat to make the egg work.
have situated the nest so that the mother bird is in good
They
position to fly to an insect or a worm, without interference
from any other bird, and to get back in time, before the egg
goes below the critical heat.
All in all, it is an extraordi-
narily
well-balanced design, essential to the successful
flight of birds.
We have here, then, an externalized function,"
Cite RBF in Franklin Lecture, Auburn, Ala., 1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bird's Nest As A Tool:
"in that the nest is really part of the womb function. I
mention all this in order to make clear that a process, such
as the bird, being in several parts which are not integral
to one another, can be disassociated from part of its func-
tion."
(C)
-
Cite RBF in Franklin Lecture, Auburn, Ala., 1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bird's Nest As A Tool:
(1)
"When any of the creatures alter the environment in preferred
ways it is complementary to their direct regeneration pattern.
I call this a tool. So we find the bird making a nest. In
order for the bird to be able to fly it can't have the extra
weight of gestating the new bird in its womb.
Therefore,
it gives out new life very fast, and the egg, with all its
nutriment, all its needs from here on, has the right chemistry.
It needs one more thing-- energy-- in the form of heat; and
the bird supplies that, the mother bird, and the nest
insulates it so he doesn't lose it. So the bird, in order
to be able to fly, has to take on very small amounts of
energy at one time, as food. The mother bird has to be able
to reach, to go from her nest and reach the worm and get
back just before the egg gets below the critical heat. At
any rate the bird is able to keep on flying in that way.
The nest becomes a tool invented and employed by the bird.
That's what I mean by a tool: an orderly alteration of the
environment to complement the integral organic process.
Man
is not unique then as a tool maker. The spider is a tool-
maker. Many creatures are tool makers. But man is unique
in the extent to which he uses the tools. That is the"
-
Cite RBF to World Game, 12 Jun-31 Jul'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bird's Nest As A Tool:
(2)
"impressive thing. You find all the living creatures are,
relative to man, much more specialised. The bird is a very
good flier, but the bird can't get rid of its wings when ida
not flying; therefore it has a very hard time walking. And
the fish can get on beautifully as a specialist, but it can't
walk at all. We find that all the species that have become
extinct have all become extinct by virtue of overspecialization."
Cite RBF to World Game at NY Studio School, 12 Jun-31 Jul 69,
Saturn Film transcript, Sound 1, Reel, 1, pp.86-88.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bird's Nest As A Tool:
"The spider makes a web and that is a tool, and the bird
makes his nest which is a tool. We find that all life
carries on some kind of external environment-altering
operation which, when importantly persistent and specific,
detaches some of the environment from the rest of the
environment and fashions the detached increment into a
multifold complex which we identify as a tool with which
the living species effect much greater repetitive alterations
of other aspects of the environmental processes. For
instance, a man takes part of a tree and shapes it into
an axe handle with which he chops down other trees in order
to concentrate lumber from those trees so densely that they
will shed the rain. Man has developed his tool making
capability to a far greater degree than has any other
biological species.'
"
-
Cite BEIRUT Address, p.16, 4-6 May'67

Bird's Nest as a Tool:
See Epigenetic Landscape, May' 70
Mechanics, (2)
Technology, (1) (2)
Tools, 1967;

Bird's Wing:
See Human Beings, 10 Dec 73
Human Beings at the Center, (1)

Bird:
See Bumbling:
Hawk
Avian Bumbling
Feeding a Flock of Sea Gulls
Nest is Part of the Bird
Duck
Gull
Hen

RBF DEFINITIONS
Birth:
"Birth is life's most critical moment."
-
Citation & conetxt at Desovaraiznization Sequence, (8) 15 May175

RBF DEFINITIONS
Birth:
"Birth is the most critical state we ever come to.
a revolutionary matter."
L-
It is
Cite RBF to Stated Dept. Senior Seminar, Rosslyn, Va., 22 Dec'74

Birth Control:
See Abortion

Birth-death Interplay:
See Feedback: Self-accelerating Feedback, May'72
Human Beings, 1972

Birth-death:
See Life & Death
Complementarity of Growth & Aging
(1)

Birth-death:
See Cosmic Discontinuity & Local Continuity, 15 Jan' 74
(2)

Birth: When You Are Born You Go Into Orbit:
See Umbilical Cord, 4 Mar 73

Birth: Moring in all Directions in the Womb:
See Omnidirectional, 2 Jul'62; 1960

Birth: Emergence into External Oxidation:
See Womb Population, May'65

Birth: Non-self-requested Experience of Life:
See Charting Alternating Experiences of Man & Nature, (3)
Humanity, 1968
Ego, 9 Nov 75

Birth:
See Earth Birth
Genius: Children Are Born Geniuses
Helpless: Humans Born Helpless
Life's Original Event
Rebirth
Stillbirth of Humanity
Surprise: Utter Surprise to be Born
Womb entries
Conception-birth
Regenerative Birth
1
(1)

Birth:
See Awareness, 13 Jul 74
Capability, 27 Dec '73
Four, 27 Dec173
Voluntary & Involuntary, 28 Feb 71
Desovereignization Sequence, (8)*
News & Evolution, (4)
Life & Death, 17 May'77
Womb of Permitted Ignorance, (2)
(2)

Bite:
See Dog Pulling on a Belt
Tongue: Bite Your Tongue

TEXT CITATIONS
Altes: (Asymmetric Tetrahedra):
953.40
954.1
10

Bite: (Tetrahedron)
See Syte, 20 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Biterminal:
"Special cases are all biterminal, i.e., having both
beginning and ending."
-
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 502.02,
6 Nov 73

Biterminal:
See Beginnings & Endings
(1)

Biterminal:
See Avogadro, 12 Jul'62
Vector, 10 Nov'73
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bite: Bits
finite parts."
. . . break up finite wholes into
(Adapted.)
All irrelevancies fall into two main
categories or bits."
REDUCTION BY BITS SEC. 522.331
Cite NASA Speech, p. 40, Jun'66

HBF DEFINITIONS
Bite: Bitting:
"The mathematician's . . straight line is not
a straight line but is an ultra-visible high frequency,
linearly articulated event. This binary mathematics
methodology of halving or cybernetic 'bitting,' not
only explains linear wave phenomena but also identifies
Pythagoras's halving a music string to gain an exact
musical octave. The computer programmed to employ the
cybernetic bits of binary mathematics progressively
subdivides until one of its peak or valley parts gets
into congruence with the size and position of the unit
we seek. This identification process is accounted for
in the terms of how many bits it takes to locate the
answer, that is, to 'tune in.'"
REDICTION
BY BITS SECS 522.30 + 522.311
->
Cite NASA Speech, pp 47,48, Jun166

RBF DEFINITIONS
REDUCTION
Bita:
(1)
"Starting with whole Universe we quickly reach any local
system within the totality by differentiating it out temporarily
from the whole for intimate consideration. We do so by the
process of reduction by bits.
"Bits is the term used in the binary mathematics of computer
operation. Once you state what your realistic, optimum
recognition of totality consists of, then you find how many
bits or subdivision stages it will take to isolate any items
within that totality.
"It is like the childhood game of Twenty Questions in which
you start by saying, 'Is it physical or metaphysical?' Next:
Is it animate or inanimate?t (One bit.) 'Is it big or
little?' (Two bits.) Is it hot or cold?' (Three bits.)
It takes only a few bits to find what you want. When we use
bit subdivision to ferret out the components of our problems,
we do exactly what the computer is designed to do, for the
computer's mechanism consists of simple go-no go, or yes-and-no
circuit valves, or binary math. valves.
Cite NASA Speech, p.98, Jun'66
BY BITS- Secs, 522.32 +34)

RBF DEFINITIONS
REDUCTION
Bits:
(2)
"We keep 'halving' the halves of Universe until we refine out
the desired bit. In four halvings you have eliminated 94
percent of irrelevant Universe. In seven halving you have
removed 99.2 percent of irrelevant Universe. Operating as fast
as multithousands of halvings per second, the computer 'seems'
to produce 'instantaneous' answers.
"Thus we learn that our naturally spon@tneous faculties for
acquiring a comprehensive education make it easy to instruct
the computer and thus to obtain its swift answers. Best of
all, when we get the answers we have comprehensive awareness of
the relative significance, utility, and beauty of the answers
in respect to our general universal-evolution conceptioning."
-
Cite NASA Speech, p.98, Jun'66
BY BITS
-
SEC. 522.357

Bits: Bittink:
See Cybernetics
Differentiation
General Systems Theory
Irrelevances: Dismissal of
Zigzag: Right-left: Halfway Averaging
Info-bits
(1)

Bits: Bitting:
See Generalized Dichotomy:
Grand Strategy, (3)
Relevant: Lucidly Relevant Set, Jun'66
Synergetics, (p.101) Jun'66; Nov'71
General Systems Theory, (2)
Regenerativity, 17 Jan 75
(2)

TEXT CITATIONS
Bivalent:
Double-bonded:
224.40
931.30
8441.021
033.01
982.13
0936.15
636.01
982.14
8936.16
638.10
1008.13
8937.31
717.01
1011.41
81053.845
Fig. 770.11D
1012.12
770.13
Fig. 1054.40
842.01-842.05
1060.02
905.32-905.49
910.01

Bivalent:
See Chemical Bonds: Double Bond
(1)

Bivalence: Bivalent:
See Quantum Jump, 26 Aug' 76
Quanta Loss by Congruence, (2)
Bubble Bursting, 20 Jan'78
(2)

RBF DEFINITIIONS
Blackboard:
"Because the structural integrity of the blackboard or paper
on which they may be schematically pictured, the cubically
profiled form can exist, but only as an experienceable, forms-
suggesting picture, induced by lines deposited in chalk, or
ink, or lead, accomplished by the sketching individual with
only 12 of the compression-representing strut edge members
interjoined by eight flexible vertex fastenings."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 615.03; 23 Feb'72

KBF DEFINITIONS
Blackboard:
"With the use of the blackboard, the pedagogues were
able to bring infinity indoors."
Cite RBF to JA, Washington, 6 October 1971.

Blackboard as System:
See Spherical Triangle on Earth's Surface
Triangles
Spherical Triangle Sequence
- Four
(1)

Blackboard as System:
See Drawing, 1971
Operational, 3 Jan' 72
Windows of Nothingness, (1) (2)
Dodecahedron, 23 Feb'72
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom, (1)
(2)

Black Body: Black Body Radiation:
See Antientropy, (A)
Man as a Function of Universe, (B)
Relativity, 1968
Fourth Dimensional Modelability, 24 Feb 75
Modelability, (b)
Quantum Sequnce, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Black Hole:
"The black hole is not a hole but inside-out Universe,
impenetrable only because unenterable inherently in
plural unity."
Cite RBF marginalia as "Interview With Michael Ben-Eli,"
p.747, AD/12/72, Jan'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Black Hole:
All the
"When there's no place in Universe where there is matter
so dense, why do they call it a 'hole'?
hydrogen is spent. It is a superdense star at limit
condition. . . Light comes from the hydrogen cycle:
the hydrogen-helium interplay.
They must have been
looking for a place where they see nothing.
So I suppose
they called it a hole. But it's very strange, very
ignorant that they haven't corrected their terminology."
"It is preposterous to be deliberately ignorant. They can't
see what is true until they relinquish what is not true."
- Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, 28 Oct 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Black Hole: (1)
RBF pronouncements after reading Walter Sullivan's article,
"Laws of Universe Put into Question," N.Y. Times, 27 Jan '12
on some recent experimental confirmation of intense gravita-
tional fields known as "black holes:"
* If you had another planet, you'd have to have some
and you'd have to have a star.
gravity.
Syntropics would be the black holes.
Conceptuality balances with nonconceptuality.
" It's all invisible.
"It's the complementary negative tetrahedron that we
have always accounted for in synergetics, all along. We
have always had the invisible 720° of excess in every system.
"It's the same for galaxies as for solar systems.
Collecting versus dispersing.
"I think this is just a special case of finding a special
case.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Black Hole:
(2)
That's
"Like lower and higher pressures in the Earth's atmosphere
It's just local. But its always the pulsation.
the point with the gravitationals exhausting the highs.
"Omnidirectional interpulsativeness.
"It seems a discrepancy because the conceptual is just a
fantastically limited part of the total, not just in the
electromagnetic spectrum range, but in thinkability itself.
"We suddenly see the mold of nothingness!
That's all it is!"
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, New York, 27 Jan '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Black Holes & Synergetics:
"I do think the vector equilibrium's symmetrical contrac-
tion from 20 volumes to one, and then its transformation
into the minus-one tetrahedron is quite logically identifiable
with the black hole phenomena...
"I am glad that you agree with my rejection of the "big bang"
theory, which is completely contradicted by my scenario
Universe concept.
"I do subscribe to your assumption that the galaxies may be
mutually repellent due to the negative charge of their outer
realms--I would not say 'surface.
"It is possible that Professor Wheeler might discover our
work and might even be prone to support it, but I am confident
that any attempt on my part, or that of any of my supporters,
would tend to frustrate such a happy event. Nature has her
own gestation rates. The biggest, most important, events take
the longest.
"
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Donald B. Benson, Shaw University, Raleigh,
NC; 1 Mar 77

Black Hole:
See Hole in the Universe
Invisible Hole
Negative Universe
Omnilibrium
Stars: Implosive Forces Of
Superatomics
Syntropics
(1)

Black Hole:
See Ecology Sequence, (A)
Invisible Circuitry,
Omniequilibrium, (2)
(2)

Blacksmith:
See Hammering Sheet Metal
(1)

Blacksmith:
See Gravity (f)
Invisible Pneumatics, 27 Dec'73
(2)

Blades of Grass:
See Reproducible, 22 Apr'68

Blade:
See Razor

Blane: Eachew Negative Blaming:
See Individual Economic Initiative, 1965

Blasphemy:
See Cussing

Blind Calculation:
See Cartography: Conventional Projections, (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Blind Date With Principle:
"My blind date with principle seemed the only way for me
to serve those processes most potential of accelerating the
overall technical advantage network toward realization for
our new child and all new children of commonly gained
participation in spontaneous, anticipatory, economic and
technical pattern adoptions, by industry and by society,
which would erase from probability the reoccurrence of the
unattended environment-bred hazards fatal to our first child.
I resolved to apply the rest of my life to converting my
pattern sense, through teleologic principle into design and
prototyping developments governing the pertinent, but as yet
unattended essential industrial network functions, necessary
to removal of such housing chaos by physically effective and
lasting technology. As a corollary I resolved to eschew
further acceptance of conventional recourse to political or
moral reforms which, lacking physical energy effectiveness,
must in the fact of physical inadequacy adopt peaceful or
forceful palliation through political action.
"
- Cite INFLUENCES ON MY WORK, I&I, pp. 24-25, Jan'55

Blind Date with Principle:
See Fuller, R.B: What I Am Trying To Do
Blind Date with Principle
Commitment to Humanity
Dymaxion Outset
Fuller, R.B:
Crisis of 1927

Blindfold Assumptions:
See Solid State, 13 May'73

RBF ULFINITIONS
Blind Man's Buff:
"Calculus was necessary because they had such a blind man's
bluff game.
They get a proprietary interest in blind man's
bluff. Newton and Leibnitz inherited all the blind man's
bluff.
Galileo was the most noble of them all, holding
to real experiment.
Kepler and Newton had beautiful
mathematics but Galileo and Tycho Brahe were much more
exciting."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 1 Oct. '71.

Blind-Man's-Bluffing Art:
See Joyce, James, 1965

Blind Man's Bluff:
See Blind Man's-Bluffing Art
Calculus

Blind: Blindness!
(1)
See Unseeability
Instruments:
Science Blind-flying "On Instruments"

Blind: Blinding:
See Statistics, 1938
(2)

Blitzkrieg:
See Sea Power, 23 Jan'75

Blocking:
See Locking & Blocking

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bloom: Dr. Benjamin S. Bloom:
"I want your members to understand that the propensity of
that child will be twoard comprehensivity.
Read Dr.
Henjamin S. Bloom's book, 'Stability and Change in Human
Characteristics.!"
-
Cite RBF in AAUW Journal, p. 178, May 165

Bloom: Dr. Benjamin S.:
See Brain's Alarm Clocks and Chromosome Ticker Tapa
Instructions

Blossom:
See Roots vs. Blossoms

Blueprints:
See Tensile Blueprints

HBF DEFINITIONS
Boast:
See Raison d'Etre of Boasts and Fears

RBF DEFINITIONS
Boats at Anchor Retard the River's Flow:
"... No matter how meager the network of sonal relationships
of the residually considered star set of holding-pattern
relevancy, the latter shuntingly impedes in some degree the
velocity of omnidirectional universal information traffic,
forced by geometrical surroundment to pass through the
zonal constellation. If a squadron of boats enters a river's
mouth and passes upstream and anchors, their presence and the
friction of their hulls will mildly retard or choke the
river's flow. Thus do the constellation of considered events
mildly choke the otherwise unimpeded universal and gedesically-
inter-routed communication traffic which they have
separated into the two (micro-macro) realms. As Heisenberg
shows in the principle of ultimate indeterminism the physical
act of measurement always alters the behavior of the measured
phenomenon.
"
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, pp.139-140, 1960

Boat:
See Generalized Boat
Intuition:
Sailing Yacht "Intuition"
Rowing Needles
Sailboats
Sailing Ship
Ship
Water: Trend Toward Living on Water
Submarine
Fleet of Sailboats
Omnimedium Transport
(1)

Boat:
See Phoenician Phonetic Sequence, 23 Jan'75
World Game, (B)
(2)

Body as Mechanism:
See Humans as Machines
Human Instrument Vehicle
Life's Temporary Vehicles
Baby-making Machine Home
(1)

Body As Mechaniam:
See False Property Illusion, (1)(2)
Synergy, 20 Feb '77
Hand, 20 Jun'77
(2)

Body ys, Medium:
See Building, 28 Jan'75

Body: Solid Bodies:
See body vs. Medium
Matter
Particle
Solids
(1)

Bodies: Solid Bodies:
See Newton's First Law of Motion:
4 May' 57
Solids, May'72
RBF Restatement Of,
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Boeing 747 Sequence:
"There are 500 types of parts in a house; 5,000 in a car;
and 25,000 in an airplane. And I mean types of parts.
"Nature permits us to separate out the different periodicities
to consider each problem-- each type of part-- separately.
Instruments can monitor the variables. The pilot intervenes
only on those few occasions when the access to generalized
principles afforded by the mind is required.
"But the design of a Boeing 747 is like a plate of spaghetti
compared to the deisgn of an eternally regenerative Universe.
Humans, by using their minds, are here as a guarantee of the
integrity of an eternally regenerative Universe."
Cite RBF to EJA, Pagano's Kest., Phila., PA., 22 Jun'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Boeing 747:
"Just think of the Boeing 747 and its engineering ferocity.
With air resistance at the second power it copes with 100
times the ferocity of a hurricane. It's like taking the
Qeen Mary over Niagara Falls.... and then that 150 tons
hits the Earth at 150 m.p.h.!
!"
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping session Philadelphia, PA.,
21 Jan 75

Boeing 747:
See Principle (1)
Airspace Technology Environment Controls, (2)(3)
Building Business, (3)

Bohr Bohr's Complementarity:
See Coincidental Articulation Sequence, (2)
Synergetic Hierarchy, (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Boltzmann Sequence:
(1)
"There is another generalised cosmic law known as Boltzmann's
law, which is relevant to the stars as cosmic energy store-
houses which, though long-lived, eventually dissipate all
their energy by radiational export. Boltzmann's law states in
effect that 'within a closed system-- in this instance the
Universe itself-- there are oscillations and evolutions betweeen
high and low energy concentrations and diffusions. This holds
true all the way from the Universe itself to the smallest
atomic nucleus components-- and energy is never lost from the
total system.
While the Sun may be feeding energy to each of
its planets, we do not know that they have means of storing it
and sorting it to the degree that we do know indeed that the
Sun is being impounded on our planet Earth by the refraction
of the atmosphere, by the refraction of the water, with the Sun
heating the oceans, and all the vegetation growing and impound-
ing the radiations by photosynthesis, and with all the hydro-
carbons we call fossil fuels being buried deeply within Earth's
crystalline mantle. The planet Earth is one place we know
with empirical certitude to be collecting, sorting, and
storing energies in chemically orderly ways. As with the
weather, there are cosmic high pressures and low pressures.'
-
Cite RBF in Michael Ben-Eli Interview, AD, Dec'72
"

RBF DEFINITIONS
Boltzmann Sequence:
(2)
"Earth is a cosmic low pressure center, drinking in the
radiation from the cosmic high pressure' Sun and other atara--
someday itself to become a star. All this recycling of energy,
packaged as matter and redistributed as radiation, is done on
such a grand scale in the Universe that it is able to eternally
conserve and meet all complex evolutionary transformation
requirements in an infinitely competent manner-- forever.
"I have introduced this big-scheme thinking because it was in
just auch terms that I found my 1927 resolution forcing me to
think in order to be truly omniconsiderate.
I had always
to think about the fact that the Earth is a tiny planet where
energy is supposed to be stored and saved, and that we must
learn to operate it successfully for all humanity to come and
do so within our natural cosmic energy income. This made it
clear that good design on behalf of our fellow humans and all
their generations to come must be considerate of the fact that
Earth is a place where energy is being sent primarily for
storage, wherefore we are only cosmically, which is realistic-
ally, entitled to use energy out of our energy income in what
must be very meager amounts, which must be very efficiently"
Cite RBF in Michael Ben-Eli Interview, AD, Dec 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Boltzmann Sequence:
(3)
"used in order not to frustrate what evolution is trying to do.
To make the Earth a place where energy is being successfully
stored we must stop burning
those fossil
fuels. It's all right to use a little of it as a self-
starter to link in with the main engines of Universe.
We use
storage batteries to power our automobile self-starters with
which in turn we get our main engines going which in turn
regenerate and we fill our batteries.
"Demonstrating the Boltzmann principle, the main engines of
our Universe are celestially and eternally pulsed between the
gravitational concentration of energy and the radiational
exporting of the stars. Physice' gravitational constant is
greater than the radiational constant by a very small percent-
age. The eternal integrity of the Universe seems vested in
the fractional supremacy of cosmic coherence over its dis-
integrative proclivities.
"Now these are the kind of comprehensive principles and
patterns I found, in 1927, that the little individual could
be concerned with-- in contrast to the Mayor of New York for"
-
Cite RBF to Michael Ben-Eli, interviewed in AD, Dec'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Boltsmann Sequence:
(4)
"instance, who is forced to preoccupation with this year's
budget and is not allowed by circumstances to think about
events and problems in an inclusive way to really sole the
problems, whatever their minimum time of solution may be in
cosmic reality. And I find mayors, governors, prime ministers,
and dictators all preoccupied in the utterly inadequate myopia
of yesterday. Most of our society is thus myopically pre-
occupied.
"When in 1927 I began to consider what the little individual
could do on behalf of his fellow man that governments and
corporations could not do, it became evident that the
individual was the only one that could deliberately find the
time to think in a cosmically adequate manner. Each human has
nature's own
his lifetime to invest. If he commits it to operations in
cosmic integrities he will find himself participating in
formulations and will realize the
potentials of her various freedoms and choices, to be employed
to the advantage of all human beings to come, in order that
humans may fulfill their cosmic functioning on board of our
planet. That important function is to use our minds here
locally on board our planet, and to heed only all the principles"
Cite RBF in Michael Ben-Eli interview, AD, Dec172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Boltzmann Sequence:
"we discover only in total cosmic context, as does the
Universe- else, countering the Universe, we be dismayingly
frustrated.
(5)
"All stars radiate energy in a random manner. Randomness
begets increasing disorder which is self-expansive.
Boltz-
mann's law and the principles of nonreflective complementarity
both require a cosmic countering of the expansive disorder
by an increasing orderliness of local cosmic concentrations
of energy.
We find energy being received on our planet and
being beautifully refracted by the atmosphere in orderly
frequencies of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet.
Next, the Sun-exported radiation is refracted by the water
and impounded as orderly heat, and the vegetation impounds
the Sun radiation by exquisitely orderly photosynthesis and
produces beautiful orderly molecular structures, thus convert-
ing very random, cloud-interrupted radiation into orderly
molecular growths as little seeds, transforming into trees,
lambs, and a myriad of other highly regular organic species.
"I call this proliferating orderliness 'syntropy' in contra-
distinction to 'entropy' the giving off of energy in multi-"
-
- Cite HBF in Michael Ben-Eli Interview, AD, Dec'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Boltzmann Sequence: (6)
"plying disorder). All the biological species are syntropic
in uniquely discrete ways. The worm does its task and the
butterfly its-- all as beautiful intercontributory functions.
The vegetation gives of gases which keep the mammals going and
the mammals in turn give off other gases vital to the vegeta-
tion. All the terrestrial entropy-syntropy displays a
fantastic design reciprocity. And amongst all of that terres-
trial functioning there is nothing so capable of discovering
and producing order as the human mind."
[See Man as Local Problem Solver (1)(2)]
Cite RBF in Michael Ben-Eli interview, AD, Dec 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Boltzmann System:
"This Boltzmann's import-export-import-export; entropy-syntropy-
entropy-syntropy, cosmically complementary, human-heartlike,
eternally, pulsative, evolutionary regeneration system, also
locally manifests itself in the terrestrial biosphere as the
ever alternatively, omni-interpulsing, barometric highs and
lows of the weather.' 1
-
Cite RBF marginalis on SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 441.05,
4 Nov'73

Boltzmann Sequence: Boltzmann System :
See Importings & Exportings
Tidal
(1)

Boltzmann Sequence: Boltzman System:
(2)
See Cosmic Discontuity & Local Continuity, 15 Jan'74
Ecology Sequence, (A)
Life & Death, (1)(2)
Octahedron as Conservation & Annihilation Model,
23 May 75
Octahedron as Photosynthesis Model, (C)
Quantum Mechanics:
Minimum Geometrical Fourness, (2)

Bomb:
See Atomic Bomb
Educational Bombshell

HBF DEFINITIONS
Bonding Hierarchies:
"The behavioral hierarchy of bondings is integrated
four-dimensionally with the synergies of mass-interattractions
and precession."
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 931,51, 19 Dec 73

TEXT CITATIONS
Bonda: Bonding:
400.53-400.54
1054.30-1054.32
51007.16
422.03
Fig. 1054.40
51044.09
430.02
1054.50-1054.58
s1052.32
602.03
1060.01-1060.03
s1053.801-
1053.813
620.09
1061.11-1061.12
646.00: 646.01-646.04
905.31-905.49
931.00: 931.10-933.07
1012.15
1024.20
1054.20

Bonds:
Bonding:
See Chemical Bonds
Congruence
Degrees of Freedom & Bonding
Gravity & Bonding
Interbonding:
Omnicongruence
Interbondability:
Omniphase-bond-integration
Inter-triple-bonded
Self-congruence Packing
Unbonding-rebonding
Valence:
Valent

Bone:
See Cartilage v8. Bone

Bonus:
See Two: Bonus Two

RBF DEFINITIONS
Book:
"If baby Tim were never again to be curious regarding the
object designated by the sound book beyond tearing its nice-
to-tear pages and dropping them from the hammock to the grass
in primary, untutored, flutter-flutter-plop experiments in
tensile strength, gravity, sound, and air-resistance effects,
he
would never know that the audible word-symbol book desig
nates but an indirect means or an instrument to a certain vital
objective, namely, the communication of ideas by its author to
other minds in a referential form more permanent than if they
were to be just orally expressed; a method of broadcast beyond
the power of human speech. It would be almost preposterous
(though provocative of deep consideration) for irs. Murphy to
suggest to her child that Newton's 'Uptics' and 'Bringing Up
Father' are one and the same article, just book."
Cite NINE CHALS TO THE MOUN, p.11, 1938

TEXT CITATION
Book M Tool:
COSMIC FISHING, p.26

RBF DEFINITIONS
Book:
See Bibliography
Publishing
Writing
(1)

Book:
See Design, 1938
Energy Event, 1960
Questions: Answering Questions, Sep' 73
Synergetics, 12 May' 77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Boole: George Boole:
(1815-1864)
"Boole gave scientists a powerful tool for attacking
problems when the obvious approaches refused to yield
informative results. Boole employed reductio ad absurdum.
He exhausted all the impossibles and thereby isolated a
'very probable' answer. Charles Fort, failing to gain the
publisher's-- and thereby society's-- consideration of
his positive theories left the world with a Boolean-like
confrontation of illogical events. Charles Fort as a man
pf true vision purposefully inverted the equations. By
getting the publishers to publish the absurd he proved
his point that the publishers published only the absurd."
Cite RBF "Charles Fort Introduction." 1970

Boole, George:
See Boolean Algebra
Reductio ad Absurdum

RBF DEFINITIONS
boolean Algebra:
"Boolean Algebra is reductio ad absurdum."
Cite RBF to EJA
Beverly Hotel, New York
14 March 1971

HBF DEFINITIONS
Boolean Algebra:
"There is something called Boolean Algebra in which you
set about to do absurd things-- very uneconomical-- and
you take all the experiences and separate out all the most
uneconomical and you might inadvertently find something
economical
Cite OREGON Lecture #2
p. 70, 2 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Boomerang:
"The boomerang is only a tracer device to demonstrate...
refractions in all directions."
Citation & context at Wind Stress & Houses, (10), 1946

Borrowing:
See Fourth Dimension:
Lending & Borrowing
Borrowing from Tomorrow's Clock
(1)

Borrow: Borrowable: Borrowing:
See Shunting, 5 Nov'73
Electron, 22 Jun 72
(2)

Bottle as Domain:
See Domains of Volumes, 20 Dec'71; 7 Nov* 73

Bottle:
See Uncorked Bottle

Bottom: Pulling the Bottom Up: Not Pulling the Top Down:
(1)
See Design Revolution: Pulling the Bottom Up Sequence

Botton: Pulling the Bottom Up: Not Pulling the Top Down:
See Musical Chairs, 23 Aug170
Revolution, Aug 64
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bounce:
...Looking at the ripples, we see that they are locally
initiated... energy event inputs. This is why tensegrity and
pneumatic balls bounce. Contracting as they contact, their
equally
violent expansion impels them away from the--
relative to them-- inert body of contact."
Citation and context at Tensegrity Sphere, 19 Dec 73

RF DEFINITIONS
Bounce:
"As a rubber ball draws on its skin as it resists
punching in and gains reaction and spring back,
causing bounce."
Cite I&I, DOMAS, p. 169.

Bounce-impel:
See Gravity (g)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bounce Patterns of Energy:
"Energy tends by geodesical economy and angular law to be
bounce-confined by the tetrahedron."
"The various bounce patterns prior to exit induce time-different-
iated lags in the rate of energy release from one tetrahedron
into the other terahedron."
"Therefore, all triangles and tetrahedra "leak" energy, but when
doing so between two similar corresponding vertexes-interconnected
tetrahedra, the leaks from one become the filling of the other."
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 921.11 19 Dec 73
+921.14+.15

Bounce Patterns of Energy:
See Holding Patterns of Energy
Tetrahedron: Leak in the Corners
Vertexial Connections
(1)

Bounce Patterns of Energy:
See Energy, 19 Dec'73
Event, 8 Mar 73
Geodesic Line, 20 Dec'73
Great Circle, 8 Mar 73
Harmonics, (2)(3)
Octahedron: Eighth octahedra, (3) (4)
1223
(2)

Bounce:
See Tennis Ball Hits the Big Earth
(1)

Bounce:
Sea Sphere, Apr 49
Cloud Chamber, Nov'71
(2)
221

RBF DEFINITIONS
Boundary Condition:
"...Dynamically defined Earth triangulation is not a static
grid because the lines do not go through the same point at
the same time; lines-- which are always action trajectories--
never do. All we have is patterning integrity of critical
proximities. There is always a nonviolated intervening
boundary condition. This is all that nature ever has.'
Citation and context at Three-way Great Circling: Three-way
Grid, 26 Sep 73

Boundary Layer:
See Domain, 11 Feb'73
Three-way Great-circling:
Three-way Grid, 17 Feb'72

Boundary:
See Self-bounding
Uniform Boundary Scale
Measure Boundary
Nucleus vs. Boundaries
(1)

Bound: Boundary:
See Circle, May170
Mensuration, Aug 73
(2)

Bourgeoisie:
See Marx, Karl, 7 Aug' 70

Bowl:
See Vessel

Bowstring:
See Future: Man Backs into His Future, 2 Mar'68
Histrocial Event Cognition, 2 Mar'68

RBP DEFINITIONS
Bow Tig:
"You cannot have foldability without the bow tie because
there is a minimum six-- inherently."
->
Cite RBF on telephone to EJA from Philadelphia, 25 Nov '73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bow Tie:
"As we play our 'bow tie' strategy in synergetics, we
open our dividers and weld them open so that we only have
one module to deal with. That module does not represent
vacant space. It is a vector of discrete length: the
the velocity of
product of its mass times
its force.
"Automatically, the bow tie is a plane, but they did not
so recognize it."
Cite RBF SYNERGETICS draft Modelability pp. 14/15, Sept. 1971.
(Deleted by RBF as not to be introduced at that place.)

HEF DEFINITIONS
Bow Ties:
"The sum of the areas of the four great circle discs
elegantly equals the surface area of the sphere they define.
The area of one circle is r. The area of the surface of
a sphere is 4 r. The four folded great circle planes
all go through the exact center of the sphere and contain
no volume at all. The sphere contains the most volume with
the least surface enclosure of any form. Here we witness the
same surface with no volume at all
which qualifies the vector equilibrium as the
most economic nuclear 'nothingness' whose coordinate
conceptuality rationally accommodates all radiational and
gravitational interperturbational transformation accounting."
- Cite SYNERGETICS draft Sec. 455.02, 6 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
SYSTEM
Bow Ties:
"Now we come to a very interesting discovery and that is that
we can take a disc of paperat 360 degrees and we can do the
trigonometry of the 31 great circles and the 25 great circles,
the way they interfere with one another, and we will find that
they are all omnitriangulated and we find what the spherical
arcs are between them. Remeber that spherical arc always
subtends a central angle. We know what the central angles
are and so therefore we can lay this out and we find that it
is possible to take whole triangles and fold them in such a
way that they form sort of bow knot things-- they are
folded and make kind of conic things. The cones come
together and fasten edge-to-edge with no duplication.
they form the same great circles. This is an important
phenomenon because it is a basic characteristic of wave
phenomena
that really acts like a propeller blade.
And
We
That is, all waves always come back upon themselves.
have then a perfect wave control by dealing in 360 degrees--
and it comes back on itself, yet we have precessional
interferences with itself where it makes itself into little
local bow ties-- actually folded up like a great circle."
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #7., p. 268. 11 Jul'62
SEC 453.03.06)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bow Ties: Foldability of Great Circles:
"This may be pure accident but I could say something to
you now categorically that is really very fascinating,
that is, I found that you could fold and make all the 25
and 31 great circles. There are no other circles though
that I know how to fold and make any other kind of great
circle patterns on spheres. They and they alone seem to
be foldable into these conditions. This seems to be a very
strange kind of control because if they did they all relate,
they are the ways of the grand central station and all the
shortest, most economical railroad tracks between all the
points in Universe-- flying either concave or convex."
Le
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p. 271. 11 Jul 62
SYSTEM SECS
453.03-061

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bow Ties:
Genesis of Bow Tie:
"First move: a quasi-sphere as the vectorial radius of
construction. Second move: to establish the center. Third
move: a surface circle. The radius is uniform and the
lesser circle is uniform. The dividers are welded at a
fixed angle. . From the triangle to the tetrahedron, the
dividers go to direct opposites to make two tetrahedra with
a common vertex at the center. Two tetrahedra have six
internal faces = Hexagon Genesis of the Bow Tie = Genesis
of modelability - vector equilibrium. Only the dividers are
used. You start with two events any distance apart: Only
one module with no subdivisions. Ergo, timeless, Ergo,
eternal. Ergo, no frequency. Playing the game in a timeless
manner. You have to have division of the line to have
frequency, ergo to have time."
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel N.Y., 12 Sep (71.

Bow Ties: Great Circles Foldable into Bow Ties:
See Foldability of Great Circles
Symmetry: Seven Axes Of
Holding Patterns

Bow Tie Models:
See Ball at the Center Model
Discontinuous Wave Pattern of Indigs
Tetrahedral Octave Phase Model
X Conficuration with One Ball at the Center
Wave Quanta & Indig Bow Ties
Indig Bow Tie Model

Bow Tie Symbol:
See Equal Sign
Equation Symbol
Parallel: Quasi-parallel Lines
Teleology:
Bow Tie Symbol
Indig Bow Tie Model

Bow Tieg:
See Genesis of Modelability
Teleologic Quanta Series
-
Vector Equilibrium
(1)

Bow Ties:
See Modelability, 12 Sep' 71
Wave, 11 Jul 62
Zero Volume Tetrahedron, 10 Dec' 75
(2)

Bow Waven:
See Ship's Bow Waves

Boyle, Robert: (1627-1691)
English Shamist and Physicist:

TEXT CITATIONS
Boyle, Robert:
Intuition, p. 18, May 172

TEXT CITATIONS
Brahe: Tycho:
Intuition, p.23, May 173
+ p.25

Brahe, Tycho: (1546-1601)
See Blind Man's Bluff, 1 Oct 71

Brahmin:
See Penance: Penitent, 22 Apr*71

Braiding:
See Tapestry
Weaving
Variable Strands Braiding

RB DEFINITIONS
Brain:
"Many creatures have brains. Brains always and only
coordinatingly apprehend, store, and recall, only the
special-case input information provided by humans' seases:
smelling, tasting, touching, hearing, seeing, and possibly
an ultra-high-frequency electromagnetic wave tune-in-ability.
Brains of all the brain-equipped creatures always and only
apprehend, memory-bank, and reconsider the special case
information sense-harvested from their succession of special
case experiences."
Citation & context at Human Mind & Physical Evolution, (4)(5),
Jun 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain:
"Brain would like to have everything begin and end.... All
inputs to
the brain are finite."
Citation & context at Generalization & Special Case, 20 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain:
"...The conceptual geometry picturing and memory storing of
each individual's evolutionary accumulation of special-case
experience happenings, which human inventories are accumulatingly
stored isotropic-vector-matrix-wise in the brain and are
conceptually retrievable by brain..."
Citation and context at Field: IVM Fields of Thought or
Physical Articulation, 30 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain:
"The phenomenon lag is simply due to the limited mechanism
of the brain; we have to wait for the after-image to realize."
-
Citation and conetxt at Eternal Instantaneity (1), 22 Jun 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain:
"The human brain is a physical mechanism for storing,
retrieving and re-storing again, each special case experience.
The experience is often a packaged concept. Such packages
consist of complexedly interrelated and not as-yet differentially
analyzed phenomena which, as initially unit cognitions, are
potentially re-experienciable. A 'rose' for instance, grows,
has thorns, blossoms, and fragrance, but often is stored in
the brain only under the single word-- 'rose.'
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft, Chronicle, p. 3, from Nehru Speech,
as rewritten by RBF 3 Jun 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain:
"Brain always and only
Isolates, tunes in, documents,
Stores and retrieves
Special case concepts."
-
Cite INTUITION, pp.21-22, May '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain:
"Brains apprehend and register
Store and retrieve
The sensorial information
Regarding each special-case experience. .
"Once discovered by mind
The concepts of the generalized principles
Become additional special-case experiences,
And are stored in the brain bank
And are retrievable thereafter by the brain.
But brains and their externalized
Detachedly operating descendants--
The electronic computers--
Can only search out and program
The already experienced concepts.
Cite INTUITION, p.15, May '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain:
"Whether our experience episodes
Are voluntary or involuntary,
Passive or active,
Subjective or objective,
Our brains always and only
Isolate, tune-in,
Modulate and document,
Store, retrieve and compare informedly,
Or speculatively formulate,
In special-case increments of unique concepts."
-
Cite INTUITION, pp. 14-15, May 172

KBF DEFINITIONS
Brain:
"Brain is always and only dealing with special case
experiences. it's always putting down a way of memorizing
and retrieving for you the special case experiences."
-
Cite RBF at Students international Meditation Seminar,
U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July 171, p. 11

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain:
"Our human brains consist of quadrillions of atoms, all
operating in superb coordination-- in none of which
activity have we any conscious participation."
CHITECTURE AS DITRA INVISIBLE
- Citation & context at Automation, Dec'by

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain:
"The concept of life
Is unique to the mind.
Brain apprehends
Only the physical.
Brain does not differentiate life and death."
-
Cite GENERALIZED PRINCIPLES, p.7, 28 Jan'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain:
"Brain which stores the memories and all the special
case experiences does 'find relationships' any more than a
library in itself can find or does find the interrelation-
ships of the data which it houses."
(Adapted: 'relation-
ship' made plural.)
* Citation & context at Relationship Analysis (1), Jun'66
UNIVERSE-2ND ED. 325.07

TEXT CITATIONS
Brain's Alarm Clocks and Chromosome Ticker Tape Instructions:
Music of the New Life, U or 0, pp. 24-32
Prevailing Conditions in the Arts, U or 0, PP. 107-108
[These citations are to UTOPIA OR OBLIVION]

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain's Automatica vs. Mind's Intellections:
..The mind's intellections-- in contradistinction to the
brain's automatics-- apparently are humanity' last and highest
order of survival recourse.
"t
-
Cite BRAIN & MIND, p.80, second verse, May 172

Brain Bank:
See Awareness Processing Facility
Memory Bank
Brain's TV Studio
Memory Album of Patternings
(1)

Brain Bank: Brain's Neuron Bank:
See Furniture of Remembered Experiences, May' 71
Universe: All the Known, 13 May'73
Unknowable, 8 Mar 73
Unknown: A Priori Unknown, 13 May '73
Life, 25 Mart 71
(2)

Brain Control:
See Intuition: Hot Line Of, Jan'72

Brain Electrical Exploration of:
See Education: Evolutionary Touchdowns, May'65
Planetary Democracy, (5) (6)

Brain as Product of a Billion-plus Years of Evolution:
See Computer, (1)
Feedback Comprehensivity: Computers vs. Humans,
13 Aug'64

Brain May Be Lacking Certain Gears:
See Diet, 11 Feb 73

Brain laga:
See Intuition, 27 May 72; 22 Jun' 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain as Library:
"Exclusively energetic brain, which stores the sensorial
input data of all the special-case experiences, cannot find
the synergetic interrelationships existing only between and
never in any of the special-case systems considered only
separately, any more than a library building in itself can
find the unique interrelationships existing between the
separate data that it houses."
Cite SYNERGETICS 2nd. Ed. draft Sec. 325.08, 15 Nov'74

Brain as Library:
See Brain, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain and Mind:
" ...Human inventories are accumulatingly stored isotropic-vector-
matrix-wise in the brain and are conceptually retrievable by
brain and are both subconsciously and consciously
reconsidered reflexively or by reflex-shunning mind."
Citation and context at Field: IVM Fields of Thought or
Physical Articulation, 30 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain and Mind:
"God gave humans a faculty
Beyond that of their and other creatures'
Magnificent physical brains--
And that unique faculty
Is the metaphysically operative mind.
"Mind alone can and does
Discover heretofore unknown
Integral pattern concepts
And generalized principles,
Apparently holding true
Throughout whole fields of experience.
.
And once discovered by mind
The concepts of the generalized
principles
become additional special-case experiences,
And are stored in the brain bank
And are retrievable thereafter by the brain.
But brains and their externalized
Detachedly operating descendents--
The electronic computers--
Can only search out and program
The already experienced concepts,
And mind alone can recognize and capture
-
Cite INTUITIUM, p.15, May 172
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain and Mind:
"The unknown and unexpectedly existent,
Ergo, unsearchable, unwatched-for--
Generalized principles.
If you do not know
The behaviors exist,
You cannot be
On watch for them.
"Weightless, perceptive, prescient mind
Alone enabled humanity
Also to conceive of new, orginal
And objective ways to employ
The (only subjectively acquaired) concepts
Of generalized principles,
Such for instance as leverage,
Which empowered men
To conceive of practical ways
To both elevate and move
Objects manyfold their own weights,
Or that of their direct muscles'
Lifting, pushing and pulling abilities."
Cite INTUITION, pp.15-16, May 172
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain and Mind:
"Or mind enables
A co-operative succession of humans
Both to discover and objectively employ
A complex family
of generalized principles
Brought from
The weightless, timeless,
Metaphysical integrity and fidelity
Of absolutely orderly
Eternal Universe;
Brought into
Time and energy synchronized consciousness
Of the physical evolution scenario;
Brought by
A plurality of individually
And remotely operating--
But interregeneratively--
Inspiring and educating
Exquisitely prescient minds."
-
Bite INTUITION, p. 17, May 172
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain and Mind:
"Brain is physical-- weighable; thought is metaphysical
weightless. Fany creatures have brains. Man alone has
mind. Parrots cannot do algebra; only mind can abstract.
Brains are physical devices for storing and retrieving
special case experience data. Mind alone can discover and
employ the generalized scientific priniples holding true
in every special case experience."
Cite RBF Introduction to Gene Youngblood's EXPANDED
CINEMA, Pp. 20-21.
Oct170

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain & Mind:
"Sensoriality is a corporeal external phenomena [sic]
reportingly relayed inwardly to the brain and therein
imaginatively scanned by the mind which conceptualized inde-
pendently in generalized formulations such as the conception
of a nuclear grouping around a nucleus, quite independently
of size. Size and intensity are sensorial comparing
functions of the special case experiences by brain and not
by mind. Mind is concerned only with principles that hold
true independently of size yet govern the relative size
relationships.'
-
Cite NEHRU SPEECH, p. 12, 13 Nov 169

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain and Mind:
"The difference between mind and brain is that brain deals
only with memorized, subjective, special-case experiences
and objective experiments, while mind extracts and employs
the Genralized principles and integrates and interrelates
their effective employment. Brain deals exclusively with
the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical."
RBF quote from "Buckminster Fuller Reader," Ed. Meller,
from Review in Times Literary Supplement, 19 Mar 70

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain and Mind:
"The concept of life
Is unique to the mind.
Brain apprehends
Only the physical.
Brain does not differentiate life and death."
-
Cite GENERALIZED PRINCIPLES, p.7, 28 Jan'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain and Mind:
"The brain differentiates; the mind integrates."
CITE UNESCO TIFLI6 1968, P.
0

RbF DEFINITIONS
Brain and Mind:
"The difference between mind and brain
is the ability to generalize."
Cite MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Spring 1966, Vol.1., No.3., p. 46

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain and Mind:
"Brain" performs a "data Agorage" function;
"Mind" performs a "pattern seeking function,"
(Adapted.)
Cite DEFINITIONS FOR SYNERGETICS BY PETER PEARCE
'
May '67

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain and Mind:
"Man's brain and mind are to concentrate
on the function of integration,
and leave the functions of differentiation
to the machine."
Cite MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Spring 1966, Vol 1., No. 3., p. 45

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain and Mind:
"The difference between mind and brain is that
brain deals only with memorized, subjective, special-
case experiences and objective experiments, while mind
extracts and employs the generalized principles and
interrelates their effective employment."
Cite OPERATING MANUAL, p.94, 1960

Brain & Mind: Distinction Between:
See Dog Has Brains But Not Mind
Skinner, B.F.
Generalization & Special Case
Conceptual vs. Quantitative
Concept va. Information
Apprehending & Comprehending
Apprehension + Comprehension = Awareness
(1)

Brain & Mind: Distinction Between:
See Communications Hierarchy, (4)
Dead Animal, 28 Jan'69
Design, May 67
Eternal, 22 Jun' 75
Eternal Designing Capability, (1) (2)
Field: IVM Fields. of Thought, 30 Nov* 72*
Generalization Sequence, (f)-(4)
Human Tolerance Limits, (4),
Intellect: Equation of, (i)
Intellection, Kay' 72
Knowledge, May 72
Life & Death, 28 Jan'69
Man as a Function of Universe, (C) (D)
Metaphysical & Physical, 1967
Piano Top, 1969
Picture, 1938
Side Effects, 10 Dec 73
Size, 13 Novi 69*
Special-case Experience, 6 Nov' 73
Relationship Analysis, (1)(2)
(2A)

Brain & Mind: Distinction Between:
See Tension, (3) (4)
Universe: All the Known, 15 Jan' 74
Creation, 29_lar' 77
Life is Not Physical, (1)
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (1) (2)
111, 20 Apr178; (1) (2)
(2B)

Brain-to-mind. -
Physical-to-metaphysical:
See Process Relationships, 28 Jan'69

brain-reflexing:
See Intuition, 22 Jun 72

Brain-sorting:
See Thinking, 9 Sep 75; 10 Sep175

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain's TV Studio:
"We may insist that we see each other out in the field.
all vision actually operates inside the brain in organic,
neuron-transistored, TV sets."
-
But
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 801.21, 22 Nov' 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain's TV Studio:
"
(1)
...I am convinced of the weightlessness of all metaphysics,
which weigh tessness in turn implies immortality. Because the
human's tactile sense has been operative months before birth
as the only communication means between the pregnant mother
and the live child she is bearing, the tactile sense becomes
the comparative base for all the post-natally and successively
acquired sensibilities. After birth, first the olfactoral
sense comes into play, as the child breathes in its own oxygen
and sucks in its own nutriment. Considerably later the
sound tuning is added to the apprehending-comprehending
teleologic conversion of information from subjective awareness
to objective use in the ever developing capability to adjust
and cope with environmental events. Lausly, the optical
tuning and scanning capability comes into play in the human
imaginations TV Studio.' Because primitive sensing is tactile,
man measures his distances horizontally in feet, vertically
in hands. Because light's speed of 700 million miles per
hour is too fast for man to sense tactilely, he has misinter-
preted the visual received information as being instantaneous
thus he mistakenly thinks he 'sees' objects and events occurring
outside his physical organism, whereas radiation has bounced
off and relayed the information through the human's optical"
-
Cite Ltr. to Jose Arguelles, 6 Jun'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain's TV Studio:
(2)
"system through to the brain's TV studio where the informa-
tion is scanned on one TV set to be tactically compared
with the documentary recall playbacks in another TV set--
almost instantly, followed by the imagination's authoring
of a proposed action scenario involving safe and advantageous
teleologic employment of previous experience or information
to cope with the evolving challenges.
"As a consequence of humans' mistaken assumption of instant-
aneity, man not only thinks he sees objects outside himself,
but also identifies the external objects by their tactile
surfaces. Thus men tend to 'think' of one another in the
form of their tactile modeling. Men do not think of one
another, as do dogs, in the forms of their smellable stature,
or in the terms of their hearable dimension. Nonetheless,
when we hear the word 'atom' we are hearing Democritus, for
it was he who evolved the sound word 'atom' to identify his
unique metaphysical conclusions in regard to the nature of the
physical world. Democritus is as large and as persistent in
time dimension as may the word 'atom' persist in man's
communicable thought. Because concept 'atom' provides our
cognition of metaphysically immortal Democritus, the more we"
Cite RBF Ltr. to Jose Arguelles, 6 Jun169

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain's TV Studio:
(3)
"think of it the more astonishing it is thatwe identify man
only as the clothes-bedecked chemistry complex through which
metaphysical subconsciousness communicates to consciousness
of self or others. The error of our spontaneous behavior
and cognition is equivalent to our identifying those with
whom we communicate via the telephone as being the telephone
itself."
Cite RBF Ltr. to Jode Arguelles, 6 Jun'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brain's TV Studio:
"Generalized systematic conceptuality's omnidirectional
relationships are only angularly configured and are indepen-
dent of size or
dimension. No man has ever 'seen'
outside himself. His brain is a multifrequency (four
sensory ranges) scanning TV integrator continually operating
in coordination with a multitude of memory, kinescope-taped,
TV scannners. The whole array of new and memory TV's is
frequently monitored by an angular and frequency modulated
pattern commonality scoring and score-predicting conceptual
coordination capability. The TV coordinating conceptual
capability includes a score-guessing and score-guess testing
faculty, as well as a strategic-tests-contriving-
pattern considerator, all of which conceptual patterning
proclivities are self-started and regenerated by synergetical
intellection."
-
Cite ONIDIRECTIONAL HALO, pp.135-136, 1960

Brain's TV Studio:
See Sight: No Man Has Ever Seen Outside of Himself
(1)

Brain's TV Studio:
See Television, 5 Jul'62
(2)

Brain:
See Intelligence Machines
No Mechanical Mind
Memory Bank
Mind
Pattern Processing Machines
Telephotograph to the Brain
(1)

Brain:
(2)
12:
See Automation, Dec 169*
Beautiful, Aug'64
Computer, Jun 69
Eternal Instantaneity, (1)*
Field: IVM Field of thought, 30 Nov'72*
Generalized Principle, (2)
Intensity, 13 Nov169
Reading, 29 May 72
Relationship Analysis, (1)*
Sleep, 11 Feb'73
Thinking, (A); 1960
Identity, 24 Jan'75
Spherical Triangle, 23 Jan '75
Model vs. Form, 8 Apr '75
Womb Population, (1) (2)
Human Mind & Physical Evolution, (4)(5)*
Limit Speed, 11 Sep'75
In, Out & Around, Nov'71
Convergent vs. Parallel Perception, 13 Nov 75
Frequency Islands of Perception, 13 Nov' 75
Recall Set, 28 Apr'77

Brain:
(3)
See Brain's Alarm Clocks and Chromosome Ticker-tape
Instructions
Brain's Automatics vs. Mind's Intellections
Brain Bank:
Brain Control
Brain's Neuron Bank
Brain: Electrical Exploration of Brain Functioning
Brain as Product of Billion Years of Evolution
Brain May Be Lacking Certain Gears
Brain Lags
Brain & Mind
Brain to Mind = Physical to Metaphysical
Brain Reflexing
Brain's TV Studio
Brain as Library
Brain-sorting

Breadth:
See No Breadth
(1)

Breadth:
See Time-sise, 30 Oct 72
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Break:
" There eventually comes a limit of the orderly rearrange-
ability of the atomic and molecular structuring beyond which it
will no longer flex and at which point it breaks, i.e.,
disconnects because exceeding its critical-proximity interattrac-
tion limits."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 1024.19, rewrite of 27 Dec'73

Break:
See Buckle
Disconnect
Discontinuity
Skybreak
Opening
Bubble Bursting
(1)

Break:
See Angle, 7 Nov' 75
(2)

HBF DEFINITIONS.
Breakwater:
"My breakwater works precessionally.
The energy has to go
somewhere and it goes at 90 degrees. It will be turned into
a power machine."
Cite Tape #3, p. 11; RBF to W. Wolf, Phila., PA, 15 Jun'74

Breast: Breasts:
See Mother: Infant Nursing at Mother's Breasts

Breath of a Hawk:
See Energy, 1960

Breath: Breathing:
See Automation, Dec'69.
Photosynthesis, (2)

Breed: Breeding:
See Crossbreeding
Genetics: Genetic Code
Inbreeding
Darwin: Evolution May Be Going the Other Way

HBF DEFINITIONS
Brick:
They had come to a concept of a solid Earth, a
solid brick, and brick on brick as a priori.
Cite Oregon Lecture #8, p. 279. 12 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bridge:
"To each of us environment means: everything that is not me.
Environment is
subdivisible into two parts, physical and
metaphysical.
The metaphysical environment consists of
human thoughts, generalized principles, and customs.
The
Leonardo
types seem to have avoided attempting to reform
the
metaphysical environment. They are documented only for
their
employment of tho metaphysically generalized
principles to reorganize the physical constituents of the
scenery, apparently assuming intuitively that a more man-
favoring rearrangement of the environment would be conducive
to humanity's spontaneous self-realization of its higher
potentiale.
Human travelers coming to a riverfand finding a
bridge across it
spontaneously use the bridge instead of
hazarding themselves
in the torrents."
Cite LEONARDO TYPE, p.32, 13 Nov 169

TEXT CITATIONS
Bridge:
645.01
046.03

Bridge:
See Cosmic Bridge
Education: Knowing Where the Bridges Are
Suspension Bridge
(1)

Bridge:
See Artifacta, (1); 15 Jun 74
Technology,
(2)

Bridgman: P.W:
See General System Theory
Operations Research
Operational Science
(1)
1

Bridgman,
Percival W:
See Environmental Inventory, 28 Apr'77
Operational, 2 Jul'62; 12 Jul 62
Synergetic Hierarchy, (2)
Universe, (1)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bright: Brightness:
"That's what we mean when we say that people are 'bright,'
that they have minimum lags... minimum lags in comprehending.
Bright people really see things in quite a different way
than that of the long-lag people of Wall Street and Chase
Manhattan."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash., DC., 8 Apr 75

TEXT CITATIONS
British Isles as Unsinkable Ships:
"Approaching the Benign Environment," p.41. 1970

British Isles as Unsinkable Ships:
See Millay, Edna St. Vincent, (2)
Navy Sequence, (3) (4)
Navy: Theory Of, 22 Dec '74
Sea Power, 23 Jan'75

British:
See Anglo-American
(1)

British:
See Culture, 27 Jan '77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Broadcast:
"An isotropic vector matrix can be only omnisymmetrically,
radiantly, and 'broadcastingly' generated, that is, propagated
and radiantly regenerated, from only one vector equilibrium
origin, although it may be tuned in, or frequency-received,
at any point in Universe and thus regenerate local congruence
with any of its radiantly broadcast vector structurings."
* Cite RBF correction to SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 426.01,
Nov 2, 173

HBP DEFINITIONS
Broadcast:
"When we broadcast energies
They are very greatly dissipated.
Radiant energies can be concentrated, however,
By reflective beaming and lensing,
As was candlelight in a lighthouse.
Reflectors and lenses concentrated them.
Reflectively beamed seaward,
They were sometimes
Visible for ten miles."
- Cite BRAIN & MIND, p.161 May 172

Broadcastingly Generated:
See Isotropic Vector Matrix, 30 Nov'72

Broadcasting:
See Industry as Broadcasting System of Truth to
Individualism
Radio Programs: Invisible Operation of Thousands
Of Radio Programs
Television:
Tunability
TV
Incasting vs. Broadcasting
(1)

See Valvability, 30 Nov 172
Precession & Degrees of Freedom, (1)
Now House, (4)
Broadcasting:
(2)
123

Broadway Billboard:
See Billboard Model

Bronzed Training Pants:
See Obnoxico, 1971

NOF DEFINITIONS
Brouwer's Theorem:
"Another very powerful mathematician was Brouwer. His theorem
demonstrates that if a number of points on a plane are
stirred around, it will be found after all the stirring that
one of the points did not move relative to all the others.
One point is always the center of the total movement of all
the points. But the mathematicians oversimplified the planar
concept. In synergetica
the plane has to be the surface of
a system that not only has insideness and outsideness but also
has an obverse and re-exterior. Therefore, in view of
Brouwer, there must also always be another point on the
opposite side of the system stirring that also does not move.
"Every fluidly bestirred system has two opposed polar points
that do not move. These two polar points identify the
system's neutral axis."
->>
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 1007.28, 1 Jan '75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brouwer's Theorem:
"Brouwer's theorem shows that when x number of points are
stirred randomly on a plane, it can be proved mathematically--
when the stirring is stopped-- that one of the points was
always at the center of the total stirring, and was therefore
never disturbed in respect to all the others. It is also demon-
strable that any plane surface suitable for stirring things
upon, must be part of a system that has an obverse surface
polarly opposite to that used for the stirring; and the two
produce poles in any bestirred complex system.
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 703.12, 10 Nov 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Brouwer's Theorem:
"Brouwer's mathematical theorem states that if any number of
points on a plane are stirred around an x amount, on cessation
of the stirring, one of the points may be shown to have been
the center point of the stirring-- and never to have moved
in relation to the others. In order to be 'stirred,' these
points must have multidimensionality and the cluster of stirred
points must have obverse and reverse sides. Therefore, the
obverse-reverse sides must each have visible points that were
the centers of the stirring and, short though the distance
between the obverse-reverse surface neutral center Ptral
the short line between the obverse-reverse visible
points' obverse-reverse poles constitutes a neutral axis of
the system of points and isolates two points for axial
functioning in every point system swarm. Pauli's exclusion
principle verifies that each of the stirred points in Brouwer's
theorem and the point which did not move have their inherently
separate counterpart points which discloses both the neutral
axis formed by the two points that do not move and the obverse
and reverse sets of moving points. Thus we discover that
even a point's angular topological difference between its
definiteness and its finiteness is 720°."
Cite ONIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p.148, 1960

Brouwer's Theorem:
See Neutral Axis
(1)

Brouwer, L.E.J: Brouwer's Theorem:
See Axis of Spin, (2)
Coincidental Articulation Sequence, (1)-(4)
Synergetic Hierarchy, (2)
Topology: Synergetic and Eulerean, (3)
(2)

TEXT CITATIONS
Brownian Movement:
Intuition, p.48 May '72
530.07
3935.14

Brownian Movement:
See Nonsimultaneous undated
Relativity, 1968

Brush and Chisel Artist:
See Joyce, James, 1965

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bubbles:
"A bubble is only a spherical bubble by itself. The minute
you get two bubbles together they develop a plane between
them."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 536.44; RBF galley rewrite,
7 Nov 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bubbles:
(1)
"Here is a structure that is a three-frequency of modular
subdivision, they are six-frequency octahedra. We truncate
its corners and we get six little squares and we get eight
hexagons, and that is called the tetrakaidecahedron, a
fourteen-faceted figure, and it is called Lord Kelvin's
'solid.' Lord Kelvin discovered that this was an all-space
filler. There are three (regular) all-space fillers in
geometry: the cube, the rhombic dodecahedron, and the
tetrakaidecahedron. The volume of the tetrakaidecahedron
is 96. It again is a nice even number, but it is a very
complex frequency phenomenon. There are various coincidences
of our geometry, our mathematical accounting, with that of
the viruses and the algae and the radiolaria-- but then we
get into all the living phenomena and all the living
phenomena are characterized by life cells. And all life
cells are little chambers. Life cells and bubbles have
the same fundamental characteristic with one another. If
you take a glass jar and put a little glycerin in with
some soap and get them all homogenized
Cite Oregon Lecture #6, p. 224. 10 Jul162

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bubbles:
(2)
11
Living phenomena are characterized by life
cells and all life cells are little chambers. Life cells
and bubbles have the same fundamental characteristic. A
glass jar with a little glycerin in with some soap well
homogenized makes bubbles which hold their shape very
nicely. The top layer of bubbles when there is air above
them are round but where the bubbles are adjacent to one
another and there is no free space or air around them, they
will have flat membranes between the individual bubbles.
The top layer tends to round like bubbles do but in between
them their facets are stretched tensional membranes. A
characteristic of all the bubbles and all the life cells.
is that while they are quite asymmetrical chambers, some
facets are big and some are small and some are hexagons and
strange polygons, they are all fourteen faceted. The fourteen
faces correspond to the tetrakAidecahedron or to the
vector equilibrium. The vector equilibrium has six square
faces and eight triangular faces, so 8 + 6 = 14. A tetrakAIDECA
hedron has four vertexes, four faces, and sic edges, and
4 + 4 + 6 = 14. . . . they correspond to the fourteen faceta
->
Cite Oregon Lecture #6, pp. 224-225, 10 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bubbles:
(3)
"of all the bubbles and life cells; the reason is that they
are a different kind of frequency tetrahedra which are
truncatable... We then suddenly begin to see the coordination
of our tetrahedroning of very high frequency modular subdivision
to all the life cells and all the bubbles."
Cite Oregon Lecture #6, pp. 224-225, 10 Jul'62

HBF DEFINITIONS
Bubbles:
Some are
"Little exquisite bubble domes, too small for man-
occupancy, are made by nature at possibly the highest
mass production velocity anywhere manifest to man.
of split-second longevity. Some are of great longevity.
Nature combines these minuscule domical structures in
myriad varieties of complex structural arrangements
occurring as both organic and inorganic compounds and as
cellular agglomerates, Most of these complex domical
structuring accomplishments by nature are realized at
modular frequency magnitudes infra to man's sensorial
tunability and apprehension.'
Cite I&I, DOMES, D. 146.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bubble Bursting:
"Bubble bursting is not a mechanical breakage at all.
As we know, liquids are bivalent, hinge-connected.
the liquid bubble surface is stretched as one single
layer of the octet truss, which single truss layer
accommodates two layers of closest packed spheres in
which the atoms appear in critical proximity.
"When the critical proximity of the atoms is severed,
and the atoms separate into single spheres, we have the
single-bonded, corner-tethered condition of gases with
holes in between the atoms, ergo there is still gas, but
there is no longer any membrane. In this condition the
gas molecules equal what they call particles, separate
energy packages too diffuse to form a structural membrane.
Separate gas particles are thus mixed up and nontunable
with other systems. Each particle behaves like the
isolated tetrahedron that connects any two points in
Universe across what they call space and what we call
nontunable.'
19
Cite RF to EJA from Pacific Palisades, CA; 20 Jan'78

Bubble Gum:
See Invisible Pneumatics, 27 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bubbles in the Wake of a Ship:
"I remember looking at the ship's wake which was all white.
The wake is white because of different refractions of light,
and that whiteness was refracted by bubbles. I said, "How
many bubbles am I looking at?" I made some quick estimates.
I tried to count the bubbles in a spoonful. I found I was
getting into the multi-billions, into astronomical numbers.
"So then I said, 'Each one of these little bubbles is a sphere,
and
I
have been taught that in order to design a sphere I have
to employ pi.' I had learned by mathematical logic that pi
is a
transcendental irrational and can't be resolved. I said,
To how many places does nature carry out pi as she manufactures
each bubble
before deciding that because she cannot
get a final answer she must make an arbitrary or artificial
cut off and thus attempt to sneak out a fake or imperfect
bubble.' I said, 'I don't think nature is using pi.' Nature is
too elegant to put up with such hidden tricks.
Cite RBF marginalia in old Chap. 2, "Synergy," 1.12, 18 Mar'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bubbles in the Wake of a Ship Sequence:
(1)
"If the XYZ-90 degree coordinate system were not the one
employed by nature, then the awkward roughness of the XYZ's
irrational constants would be understandable. This was made
evident to me while I was in the Navy. Looking back at the
wake of my ship one day in 1917 I became interested in its
beautiful white path. I said to myself, 'That path is white
because of the different refractions of light by the bubbles
of water-- H2O (not Hoi 0). The bubbles are beautiful little
spheres. I wonder how many bubbles I am looking at stretching
miles astern?'
"I began to make calculations of how many bubbles there were
per cubic foot of water. I began to find that in claculating
the ship's white wake I was dealing in quintillions to the
fourth power or some such fantastically absurd number of
bubbles. And nature was making these bubbles in sublimely
swift ease!
"Any time one looks carefully at a bubble one is impressed
with the beauty of its structure, its beautiful sphericity
glinting with the colors of the spectrum. It is ephemeral--"
-
Cite Conceptuality of Fundamental Structures (Kepes), p.71,1965

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bubbles in the Wake of a Ship Sequence:
"elegantly conceived, beautifully manufactured, and readily
broken.
"Inasmuch as the kind of mathematics I had learned of in
school required the use of the XYZ coordinate system and the
necessity of employing pi in calculating the spheres, I
wondered 'to how many decimal places does nature carry out pi
before she decides that the
computation can't be
concluded?' Next I wondered, 'to how many arbitrary decimal
places does nature carry out the transcendental irrational
before she decides to say it's a bad job and call it off?"
If nature uses pi she has to do what we call fudging of her
design which means improvising, compromisingly. I thought
sympathetically of nature's having to make all those myriad
frustrated decisions each time she makes a bubble. I didn't
see how she managed to formulate the wake of every ship while
managing the rest of the Universe if she had to make all
those decisions. So I said to myself, 'I don't think nature
uses pi. I think she has some other mathematical way of
coordinating her undertakings.*
"It seemed preposterous to go on trying to force nature to"
-
(2)
Cite Conceptuality of Fundamental Structures (Kepes) p.71, 1965

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bubbles in the wake of a Ship Sequence: (3)
"explain herself through our awkward XYZ coordinate system.
Recital of this 1917 event will have given you a close-up on
what I am convinced must be the mental reorientation necessary
to comprehension of the principles governing structures."
[Closest Packing of Spheres Sequence, 1965]
Cite Conceptuality of Fundamental Structure (Kepes), p.71, 1965

Bubbles in the Wake of a Ship:
See Nature Has No Separate Departments
(1)

Bubbles in the Wake of a Ship:
(2)
See Terahedron, 5 Jul'62

Bubbles Per Second in the Waters of Niagara Fall:
See Nature Has No Separate Departments, 1965

Bubbles:
See Fourteen
Monometric Bubble
Skybreak Bubble
Tetrakaidecahedron
(1)

Bubbles:
See Domain of a Point, 7 Nov* 73
Domain & Quantum, (1)
Fourteen Axes of Truncated Tetrahedron, (2)
Hex-pent Sphere: Transformation into Geodesic
Spiral Tube, (1) (2)
Privacy, 22 Apr161
Trigonometric Limit: First 14 Primes, 14 Jan' 74
Vector Equilibrium, 3 Jan' 75
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid, (b)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Buckle:
"As a compression member tends to buckle, the buckling point
becomes a leverage fulcrum and the remainder of the compression
member above acts as a lover arm, so that it becomes increasingly
effective in accelerating the failure by crushing its first
buckled-in side.' "
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 700.02,
10 Nov' 73

Buckle:
See Break

Bud:
See Redundancy: Reduction Of, 22 Apr'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Buddha: Christ: Mohamed:
"The most difficult problem we have today is that we've
gone from 90 percent illiterate to 90 percent literate.
"Humanity historically has thought of life as just a trial--
a question of how to survive, not how to live today. Go
back to the pharaohs, even their lives were so bad that they
thought it was a test--so they built pyramids for afterlife.
"Then there was the rich middle class--the Greeks and Romans.
They built mausoleums. Suddenly along came Buddha...and
600 years later, Christ... Mohamed followed... and he said
we can take care of everyone with our mosques and temples.
There was so much technology by this time they thought, 'we
can get everybody through the natural life and we can take
care of the kings and nobles too.'
"We push buttons. We turn the wheel of the car to get it
around the corner, but we don't know how it works.
The
problem is how to get everybody on Spaceship Earth to
understand technology. We are still playing the game of the
pharaoh...getting through life without stopping to try and
understand it. We don't need a pharaoh to use a lever.
Cite RBF to Karen Winner, Copley News Service, 9 Apr' 77
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Buddha Christ: Mohamed:
:
"Children know how to take the lid off naturally.
We
(2)
should learn from children--from their comprehensive perspective
of the Universe.
"
Cite HBF interview with Karen Winner, Copley News Service
as clipped from Baton Raouge, LA "Advocate"; 9 Arr' 77

MBF DEFINITIONS
Buddha: Christ:
Mohamed:
"Buddha, Christ, and Mohamed, respectively, lived only 78,
60, and 42 billion heartbeats ago."
-
Citation and context at Heartbeat Hagnitude Sequence (2), 13 Mar '8
Cite RBF marginalis at HEARTBEATS AND ILLIONS, World, 13 Mar 73
correction made with EJA at Beverly Hotel, 15 Jul'73

Buddha: Christ: Mohamed:
See Pyramid Technology, Dec171
Religion, (1)

Hudgets:
See Politicians & Defense Budgets

Buggy Industry Could Never Invent Automobile:
See Doing What Needs to Be Done, (2)
Energy Environment-harvesting Machines, 27 Jan'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Building:
"In windmills the total frontal area is what counts. Just
as that is what counts in designing buildings. We have a
penetrating body in a penetrating medium. The bigger it is
the more low pressure it builds up......
"
Citation & context at Windmill, 28 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Building:
"A building can be thought of as a clock, a feedback circuitry
where the pushes and pulls are locally regenerative.
The
critical spiral path of progressive accomplishment leading
to humans reaching the Moon and returning safely to Earth
involves not a linear montha-and-years progression but an
around-the-Sun-by-Earth orbiting and an around-the-Earth-by-
Moon orbiting progression, wherein we progressively establish
one feedback circuitry system overlapping another, and another,
and so on as the year goes round. With each year the chain
of omniinterrelated local circuitry feedback closures integrate
synergetically to produce a spiral complex of Sun-Earth-Moon
orbiting events which finally reaches out to the Moon and
back; all of which is a complex dynamic structural operation
ever expanding humanity's local Universe involvement.
-
Cite RBF holograph, second rewrite, 3200 Idaho, 10 Sep' 74
HALE CONCEPT- Sec. 535.20

RBF DEFINITIONS
Building:
"A building can be thought of as a clock, a feedback circuitry
where the pushes and pulls are locally regenerative. The critical
spiral paths of progressive accomplishments leading to humans'
reaching the Moon and safely returning to Earth involves not a
linear progression, but an around-the-Sun-by-Earth orbit
progression when we progressively establish one feedback circuitry
system and then another and another, as the year goes round and
with each year the chain of omniinterrelated local circuitry
closures produces a spiral of Earth-orbiting events which finally
reaches out to the Moon."
Cite RBF Holograph, first rewrite, 3200 Idaho, 10 Sep'&4

RBF DEFINITIONS
Building:
"A building can be thought of as a clock: you get it going
until it reaches up to the Moon. . . a critical, spiral path
of subcycle coordinated feedbacks: gears, levers.'
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash., DC, 10 Sep174

RBF DEFINITIONS
Building:
"A building is a circuit, a feedback system. When we go out to
the Moon we have to plan to get back again. Man may think that
he is being linear, but he is actually just increasing the radius
of larger and larger solar orbits. Each year is a circuit. Each
circuit is a year. Years are not linear.
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash., DC, 10 Sep' 74

Building Blocks:
See No Building Blocks

RBF DEFINITIONS
Building Business:
"I don't want to dwell on the negatives. I feel that the
answer to the question of how urban sprawl happened is that
there is no social organization. Though there are a great
many studies and planners, planners have no authority and
they find the plans for communities continually overridden by
people with ingenious ways for making money. And we've seen
orchard after orchard belonging to a farmer go out of farming
because the real estate man came along and showed that he
could make some money out of it. And so he gets an option on
it and all kinds of federal help with which he can manipulate
to get in the sewers, and so forth... not making a very large
amount of money. It's entirely a matter of individual ingen-
uity and how to make money: that's why we have urban sprawl.
(1)
I've
"I would like to talk a little on the positive side here.
been thinking about and concerned with this problem since back
in the early 20s--fully half a century--and I've been... In the
building arts we have very great lags in the rate of realization
of inventions. In the electronic arts there is only a two-year
lag between invention and industrial use. There's a five-year
lag in aeronautics. A ten-year lag in automobile building.
A 5-year lag in railroading. A 25-year lag in large buildings
And a 50-year lag in individual homes."
-
Cite RBF to "Town Meeting of the Air," Wash, DC; 10 Sep' 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Building Business:
(2)
"We had world War I. It became a world war because it involved
not just the agricultural advantages of the different countries,
but suddenly the realization that taking metals and tins from
the Malay Straits and throwing it thinly onto steel sheets to
make tin cans which would hermetically seal food, and food that
used to rot and never reach mouths, could suddenly feed people
around the world. An entirely new world resource was the
metals that came into use. That's why it was called World
War I, rather then the local farming identities of individual
nations.
"We have then in World War I the development of enormous
production capability. After the war the production capability,
the buildings, did not go away. And it was invested in two
main ways.
Producing automobiles, which the banks did not
But
like because they did not like that kind of mortgage.
later they went into farm machinery and sold the farm machinery
to the farmer on time payments; and the banks did like that
because theytook in not only chattel mortgages on the machinery
In the bad year, 1926,
but mortgages on the farms as well.
the farmers could not pay their instalments on the machinery
and gradually all the farms were taken in on foreclosed mort-
gages. This would be the whole basis of the great 129 crash."
-
Cite HBF to "Town Meeting of the Air," Wash., DC: 10 Sep' 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Building Business:
"When the United States New Deal came in and they found that
the banks really did not have any money but they had a lot
of mortgages... and we the people had to rehabilitate our
economy, we then tried first to rehabilitate those mortgages.
So we started--even with negative interest loans--to get people
to put on a new roof, or to put a bathroom in the house, which
they didn't have before, Any way, to improve the value of
those equities which the goverment was then underwriting.
"And the United States undertook to underwrite the inequities
of the building arts when the priority was for weapons-- that's
the whole building industry. Now the building industry in
contradistinction to weaponry industry--there has to be a
priority and every priority has its antipriority. Priority has
always been for the weaponry industry on the assumption that
there is not enough to go around for all and that would lead
to war. The antipriority was always on the home front. And
in contradistinction to the kind of structures we build to
go into the skies--like a Boeing 747, fantastic kinds of
structures, what goes into the building of homes has really
been what was left over, what was not wanted 6or other kinds"
Cite RBF to "Town Meeting of the Air," Wash., DC: 10 Sep* 75
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Building Business:
"purposes. So the bigger and heavier and higher the walls
up to the time of the Maginot line, the more secure people
felt.
"So this has been--I'll simply say to you--the building indus-
try, what's called the building industry is approximately
5,000 years behind the aeronautical.
"You go to the Island of Crete, which I've done many times,
and you find the old palace with the water running and the
plumbing system. It's exactly the same system you have today.
No improvement in 3400 years. No scientist has ever been
engaged to look at the plumbing, to so what to do with all
the beautiful valuable chemistry, the valuable energy that
we're letting go back into pollution.
"Now that I have over 100,000 geodesic dome structures around
the world, most of them delivered by air, I can tell you, I
can give you 30 buildings for one against the best alternate
engineering strategies known for that clear spanning. So that
I know that we are being very wasteful in our buildings and we
didn't have to meet the present engineering codes, but if we"
Cite RBF to "Town Meeting of the Air," Wash., DC; 10 Sep' 75
(4)

REF DEFINITIONS
Building Business:
"use the aeronautical kinds of engineering we could give you
300-to-1 clear span engineering capability. I know that
humanity is going to stay on our planet. We are going very
shortly to have to come to comprehensive disarmament. When
we come to disarmament, the aeronautical and airspace tech-
nology and their productivity will be really released to be
devoted to human problems. That became clear in the aircarft
designing industry dealing with the top scientists as much as
10 years ago--we found it would be possible to build a whole
city skyscraper horizontally in an aircraft plant under
controled conditions and not out under the rain and the wind
and all that nonsense-- it could be managed to be delivered
horizontally by air, and then upended. It would be perfectly
possible to deliver a whole city in a day. And that's what
we're going to do... not repair the old mountains and caves."
"Our building business is 5,000 years behind. At the time of
the New Deal the national debt was only $32 billion, but we
have run it up to 800 billion with $400 billion in interest;
with the federal mortgages underwriting obsolete housing on
which we can't even meet the debt service."
-
Cite RBF to "Town Meeting of the Air," Wash., DC; 10 Sep' 75
(5)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Building Business:
"The building business... is the most ignorant and most
prodigious of men's fumbling activities."
-
Cite RBF in "The Listener," transcript by John Donat, 26 Sep'68

RBF DEFINITIONS
Building Industry:
(1)
"At the time of the 1929 crash and following depression
and at the beginning of the New Deal in 1933, the United
States government took over the underwriting of the obsolete
building industry. Cutting loose from the historical
earned-savings purchasing capability, and instituting
purchasing-capability based on future earnings of the people,
The U.S. Government instituted 20-, 30- and 40-year mort-
gages that need, in effect, never be reduced so long as the
periodically renogotiated obligations' interest was being
paid.
"If the buildings were as efficient as airspace technology
could render them, they would have paid for themselves in
five years or better--as does all good machinery. What the
government financed was continuation and multiplication of
inefficiency, as manifest today--1976--in the fact that out
of every 100 units of energy consumed in the U.S. only
five units of effective life-supporting physical work is
realized; that is, our 'system' has an overall techno-
economic efficiency of only five percent.
"People can have incomes only through employment. Seventy
percent of all the jobs in the U.S.A. are invented and"
-
Cite ACCOM. ODATING HUMAN UNSETTLEMENT, p.17; 20 Sep' 76

HBF DEFINITIONS
Building Industry:
"produce no life support whatever. The last quarter
century's vast transformation of cities all around the
world to skyscraper clusters has produced space within
which no life support is produced and only to accommodate
job-making and money-making. We have all around the world
the typewriters sleeping with the good plumbing, and the
people sleeping in the slums--fancy and otherwise. All the
money-making drives toward omni-automation and complete
unemployment. Politics keeps inventing the jobs by law.
"Forty-three years of post-1933 housing finance has shown
that when the price of the median house goes above three
times the median annual family income (wage) the median
family cannot demonstrate creditable capability to purchase
their homes. A general condition of such inability has now
been reached.
"Since the median family's life expectancy is 70 years and
since the age of the median family's earners is 35 years,
they have only 35 years of life ahead but only 25 years
before mandatory retirement, ergo, have no more life-expec-
tancy years, ergo no more future earning years to hypothe-
cate for home 'buying' on the installment plan which"
(2)
Cite ACCOMODATING HULAN UNSETTLEMENT, pp.18-19; 20 Sep'76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Building Industry:
"theoretically leads toward ultimate--but rarely realised--
' owning.' To keep on underwriting the inefficiencies of
miniature castle building of the Building & Real Estate
enterprise system, their governments would now have to give
the housing to the median class and 'forget about the lower
half of humanity as unhousable.'
(3)
"When corporate managements unilaterally raise prices to main
more profits for their particular stockholders (who will throw
out the management if it does not do so) the now well-organ-
ized labor unions hit for equivalent wage increases (lest the
labor leaders themselves lose their jobs).
"To own your own private home's physical prototype house
prototype was the private castle of yesteryear's land barons,
which it was economically feasible to build only because the
building workers were paid little or nothing more than
their daily grub, sleeping in servants' quarters or in huts
on the master's land, receiving nothing to save toward
buying their own homes.
ww
Cite ACCOMODATING HUMAN UNSETTLEMENT, p.18; 20 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Building Industry:
(4)
"Organized labor successfully established 'fair building
wages, that is, enough to provide mass-purchasing-cpability
without which mass production could not have been undertaken
and without which management could not hold its jobs.
"Because of the rocketing costs of TV time and other public
relations organizations, politicians have become electable
only by the money power either of unions or of business
management; and since World War II's close, it has been left
to the politicians to keep the mass-production economy
going and growing--a task which politicians of all sides
found could be best accomplished through 50-100 billion-a-
year 'defense' budgets, and having their military (or their
satellite governments' military) establishments continually
buy ever-advancing power, range, and accuracy of their
armaments hitting power in anticipation of the always
politically logical assumption of the 'next' vastly more
sophisticated war.
"John Paul Jones continually engaged battleship of the US
revolutionary times cost less than $100,000. A modern
aircraft carrier costs some 30,000 times that amount, i.e,"
-
Cite ACCOICIODATING HUMAN UNSETTLEMENT, p.18; 20 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Building Industry:
(5)
"$3 billion; and it becomes obsolete before being used for
anything except a lethal 'thr at' in the world's political-
balance-of-power poker game known for the moment as 'Detente.
"The multiterraced waterfalls of wages to be paid and profits
to be made in all the subcontracting ramifications of the
original US government's 'defense' commitments now of $100
billion a year, then induce progressive resettlement of wage-
earners in various new localities which are exploited by
real-estatera who enormously inflate previous farm-land
values by staking out lots and running water and sewer lines,
a few paved streets and sidewalks, maintenance of which become
the legal responsibility of the owners and their local gover-
nments and are funded by tax assessments, the anticipation
of which is used to repay moneys borrowed by the local
governments through issuance of bonds whose ultimate payment
is guaranteed by the up-to-now-seemingly-certain resale
value of the physical properties themselves and their costly
'infrastructure' of streets, sewers, water, gas, and elec-
tricity lines, transportation systems, and government
buildings, etc.
Cite ACCOMODATING HUIAN UNSETTLEMENT, pp.18-19; 20 Sep* 76

RLF DEFINITIONS
Building Industry:
"So-called private individual homes are only superficially
individual, for the hydraulic wash-away of the Earth
surrounding their foundations discloses the private houses
to be only fancy terminal boxes mounted on the ends of
pipes with the whole community functionally a unit mechan-
ical organism.
(6)
"Not only has the progressive unsettlement of humanity com-
pletely upset all the historical expectancy, but as with the
individual median family's inability ever again to but its
homes, so, too, have we exhausted the possibility of any way
in which the future possibility of its people and its busi-
nesses to pay for any further government's underwriting of
the obsolete building, industry. When I became 21 years of
age we had no US national debt whatever. We now have a debt
of almost $700 billion dollars demanding an annual interest
of $40 billion dollars.
"Starting with Nixon we had the first annual negative federal
budget, admitting in advance that at the end of the year, the
government would be in greater debt by $25, 50, or 70
billion dollars. These negative budgets have since persisted."
4
Cite ACCOMODATING HUMANE UNSETTLEMENT, p.19; 20 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Building Industry:
(7)
"The government can no longer pay the debt service to the
banks on the monies they have borrowed to underwrite the
utterly obsolete building industry. The banks themselves had
loaded themselves up with an additional half-trillion
dollars of second mortgages in order to pyramid the money-
making advantage extended to them by the fundamental
federal underwriting.
are
"Like icebergs whose greater part is underwater, all the
water, sewage, and electric services of cities and suburbs
are underground while the markets, stores, streets. and
parking areas essential to those who dwell there, as well
as the police, firemen, hospitals, and their management,
vital and integral parts of the ability to live in such a
manner. The banks have realized that these individual
properties aggregated to more per capita than the value of
the individual homes, ergo the banks have invested' heavily
in municipal loans and long-term bonds, all of which cities
themselves have become obsolete and necessitous of ever
longer time to pay off their obligations. These formidable
facts take us back to the beginning of our report on Vancouver."
- Cite ACCOMMODATING HUMAN UNSETLLEMENT, p.19; 20 Sep'76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Building Industry:
(8)
Despite that they were going to have to move out of town
and then out of state within only five years and would have
preferred to be allowed to rent acceptably built and furnished
homes in acceptable localities, these humans necessitous of
getting to and holding their jobs while providing their families
with favorable living, learning, playing, and growing condi-
tions, have been forced to buy the acceptable homes by the
speculative builders, who for the last half-century have been
escalating land costs which priced the houses at figures that
would require a minimum of 30- and 40-years to pay off' all
of which required continual refinancing in which only the
obtaining if guaranteed deed business within the USA runs
into seven-billiond-dollars-a-year expense.
"Humanity in the nonsocialistic world is now being propagan-
dized, coerced, and often forced to purchase all the immobile
home properties, which gave rise to condominium or coopera-
tive offices, apartment houses, and owned single-family
Jwellings. The great industrial corporations have, however,
found such immobility to be untenable. Having now become
transnational, they are concerned only with investments in
service industries which rent--rather than sell-telephones,"
-
Cite ACCUMULATING HULAN UNSETTLEMENT, p.20; 20 Sept 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Building Industry:
(9)
10
computers, Herts cars,
armaments.
world hotelling, Etc., and sell only
"Eventual and probably iminent world-around disarmament will
release the vast weapons industries to production of air-
deliverable dwelling machines. This disarmament will occur as
the major world enterprise corporations who have become
supranational find that they do not need armaments to protect
their know-how selling and the latter's service industries;
and the Russian leaders, long exasperated by the USA-paced
armanents race, and now attaining military supremecy over the
US, and realizing that further delay in world disarmament
could easily permit the integration and acceleration of an
Arab armaments-buying program that might well challenge
Russia's supremacy, ergo, Russia will hasten to impose
disarmament in order also to fulfill their long-overdue
promise to their people to turn the industrial advantage to
the improvement of their citizens' living standards and in
direct support of communism's long-pronounced claims of inher-
ent overall superiority as a social economic system."
-
Cite ACCOMODATING HUMAN UNSETTLMINT, pp.20-21; 20 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Building Industry:
(10)
"With general world disarmament and the release to life-
promoting account of the fabulous production capacity of the
world's industrial complexes will come the one-day air-
delivery of whole cities similar to the Old Man River Project
wherein the operating energy efficiencies will be significantly
multiplied and the social conditions provided by the omni-
visible central community and the completely private, deployed
dwelling areas, or the air-delivery of single family dwelling
machines to the remotest of sites, or of whole clusters of
single-family dwelling machines to near or far sites.
"Before 1985 we will have abandoned the concept of having to
earn a living. We will have given life-long, scholarships to
everyone. We will have converted all the big city buildings
to apartments and will have eliminated 70 percent of local
commuting while vastly increasing long-distance travel.
"In Vancouver in June 1976, the young world, in its own
right, in contradistinction to the strategic more-with-lessing
of the weaponry industry--or of a few individuals like my-
self-opened the chapter of human society itself becoming
committed realistically to doing more with less. Long before
the end of the 20th century we will find all of humanity"
Cite ACCOMMODATING HUMAN UNSETTLEMENT, p.21; 20 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
building Industry:
us.
(11)
"doing so much more with so much less that it will be enjoying
a higher, legitimately richer and ethically decent standard
of living than has ever been experienced by any humans before
With economic, physical, and environmental success for
all will come completely new economic accounting. We now have
the metals comprehensively recirculating and the know-how to
accomplish all these tasks within the limits of already-mined
metals.
We
"Since all political systems are predicated upon the miscon-
ception of fundamental inadequacy of human life support on
our planet, their premise will have been proven invalid.
know how to live entirely within the scope of our daily
star-emanating radiation and gravity energies income, ergo,
within a 10-year world program we can provide all humanity
with an equal amount of energy annually to that enjoyed
exclusively by North Americans in 1972, while concurrently
phasing out all use of fossil fuels. Nor need we longer have
recourse to burning up our Spaceship Earth's capital inventory
of atoms."
"Because the either-you-or-me-but-not-enough-for-both"
-
Cite ACCOMODATING HUMAN UNSETTLEMENT, pp. 21-22; 20 Sep' 76

REF DEFINITIONS
Building Industry:
(12)
"raison d'etre of world politics will be obsolete, the wars
with which humanity has heretofore allowed it to be resolved
which political community was fittest to survive, will be
obsolete."
(For conclusion see Cosmic Accounting, 20 Sep'76)
* Cite ACCOMMODATING HUMAN UNSETT LEIENT, pp. 22; 20 Sep' 76

Building Business: Building Industry:
See Dwelling Service Industry
Housing
Airspace Technology Environment Controls
Real Estate Development
Unhousable Half of Humanity
(1)

Building Business: Building Industry:
See Air Delivered City, 30 Mar' 70
Housing, 1 Feb'75
Secondhand, 1946
Humane City, (1) (2)
(2)
Transnational Capitalism & Export of Know-how, (1)-(3)
Human Unsettlement, (2) (3)
Energy Environment-harvesting Machines, 27 Jan'77
Psychiatry, (4)

Building Business:
For full sequence of RBF statements as a panelist
on the "National Town Meeting of the Air" on the
topic of The Humane City: Urban Hope? see the
following citations, in sequence:
Human City, (1)-(3)
Building Business, (1)-(5)
Paolo Soleri, 10 Sept 75
North-soth Mobility of World Man, (1)(2)
Success, 10 Sep' 75
Everybody's Business, (1)-(3)
(4)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Buildings as bachines:
"While buildings expand and contract physically between
summer's heat and winter's cold, and even between night and
day temperatures, those size changings are invisible to the
human eye.
While buildings are stressed importantly by
great wind loads and snow loads-- great skyscrapers sway
as much as a foot, but relatively slowly-- the deflective
motions are invisible to man. Invisible also are the motions
of the hands of the clock, or of atomic components of
matter, though the latter hither-and-yon radiationally
and locally, as matter, at 700 million mph, speeds. So also
invisible to man are the vast high speed motions of the
Jhen man
stars and the relatively slow growth of trees.
cannot see the motion, he rarely thinks realistically about
it. He is not prone to be usefully critical of the
invisible, yet real, kinetics of design function suitability,
nor of relative performance efficiency. lor are humans
inclined to put their experience to inventive advantage for
others until they have had a long series of personal incon-
veniences and accidents to prompt them into comprehending
the involved critical events which they cannot see.
-
Cite LUNARDU TYPE, 13 Nov'69, p.79
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Buildings as Machines:
"Humans tend to identify as machines only those complex
devices which they can see move. Unable to see their
buildings' seasonally slow energy transformations
functioning as machines, which indeed they are, humans
fail to design their buildings with the same degree of
scientific integrity with which, for instance, they conduct
the 10 million discrete, but mostly invisible, tasks that
have to be completed from the outset of countdown to the
successful blast-off of a rocketed, humanly manned,
extraterrestrially traveling capsule. As a consequence of
man's inability to see the energy transformation motions
involved, the structural design of his land buildings and
his livingry mechanics, such as plumbing equipment, lag
three thousand years behind the evolution in airspace
technology standards. Humanity's housing structures and
livingry in general are, to a high degreee, only superstit-
iously-evolved economic prowess symbols, inefficiently
repetitious of all yesterday's make-do mistakes.'
123
(2)
- Cite LEONARDO TYPE, p.80, 13 Nov'69

Buildings as Machines:
See Machines vs. Structures

KEF DEFINITIONS
Buildings: Multiple Occupancy:
"We see all these enormous numbers of office buildings being
built because we have laws in all the cities that you can't
live and work and sleep in the same place; so we see all the
plumbing sleeping with all the typewriters and all the people
sleeping in the slums. The minute we get over this nonse --
all those buildings just being built to make money rather than
to serve humanity-- then you won't really have to have a job
any more. We can really convert all those buildings with all
their plumbing into family houses, or apartment hotels, or
whatever you want, while you are in the city coming together
to do what you and I are doing, to have a metaphysical
exchange. You can deploy into the country for physical
development and then converge for the metaphysical.
all those buildings that are empty out there all night would'
be full of people and being used and you really wouldn't need
all those jobs."
Suddenly
-
Tape transcript, p.18: RBF to B. Brooks, 200 Locust, Phila, Pa.,
30 Apr' 74

Buildings: Multiple Occupancy:
See Office Buildings:
Conversion to Apartments
(1)

Buildings: Multiple Occupancy:
See Air Space, May'65
Empty, May 70'
Building Industry, (2)
(2)

Building as a Tool:
See Symbolism in Buildings, 1 Feb'75

Buildings:
See Displacement of Ships & Buildings
Land Technology
Office Buildings
Permanent Symbolic Communications Devices
Quadrangular Buildings
Real Estate Development
Weight of Buildings
Pneumatic Structures
Pneumatic-hydraulic Structures
Symbolism in Buildings
House: Housing
Miniature Castle Building
(1)

Buildings:
See Dome: Rationale For (IV)
Labor: American Labor, 1960
Load Distribution, 9 Bec'73; 13 Dec173
Real, 20 Apr' 72
More With Less: Sea Technology (5)
Safety Factor, 25 Sep' 72
Orbital Feedbacks, 10 Sep' 74
Scrap Sorting & Mongering (1) (2)
Inertia, 20 Apr172
Windmill, 28 Jan'75*
Everybody's Business, (1)
(2)

Bullet: Tracer Bullets:
See Tracer Bullet Sequence

Bullet: Synchronization of Bullets through Airplane Propeller
Blades:
See Frequency Modulation, Jun'66
Synchronisation, Apri71

Bumblebee:
See Bee
Bee:
Honey-seeking Bee

Bumbling:
See Avian Bumbling

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bunch:
"...Nor are five loose, irregular and dissimilar somethings
recognizable in one glance as a number: it is a bunch."
Citation and context at Hand, 5 Mar' 73

Bunch:
See Cluster: Clustering

kaF DEFINITIONS
Bundle of Experiences:
"Each of the sumtotal variety of biological forms represents
in simple principle the complex bundling of unique internal
experience continuities, and the latter's individual accumu-
lations of external periodic experience, within the greater
bundle of persistently unique environmental sequences-- of
variable geographic frequency bundle limitations. Humans
have abstract tree rings' of experience.
1#
-
Citation & context at Periodic Experience, (10), May'49

Bundle of Experiences:
See Cyclic Bundling of Experiences
(1)

Bundle of Experiences:
See Harmonic Intervals, May'49
Comprehensive Realizer, May'49
Personality, May'49
(2)
22

Bundle of Principles:
See Word, May 49
Energy & Intellect, May'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bureacracy:
"Bureacracies don't think man is designed to be a success.
Cite Tina Jeffrey in Newport News Daily Press,
quoting RBF at Williamsburg, 1 Apr 73
"

RBF DEFINITIONS
Bureaucracy:
"All ideologically founded enterprises or political parties
require dogmatic compliance to the founders' thoughts. Only
local ingenuity within the game-rule limits are to be
tolerated. The individual has enormous advantage over any
great private or public bureaucracy because the individual
can simply start to think."
Cite Museum Keynote Address Denver, p. 2, 2 Jun'71

Bureacracy: Bureacrata:
See Individual Economic Initiative, 2 Jun*71
Linear Programming, 5 Jun' 73
Thinking, 10 Dec'73; 2 Jun'71
No Energy Crisis, (A)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Burial of the Dead:
"We can put the touchable things in the ground, but we can't
put the thinking and thinkable you in the ground."
- Citation and context at Thinkable You, (2), 22 Nov'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Burial Of The Dead:
"Misassuming that both the animate and the inanimate are
physical humanity misidentified 'civilization' with the
burial of its dead. That is where man broke away from all
the animals. Animals recognize that the carcass is not life."
Citation and context at Life Is Not Physical, 29 Jun 172

Burial of the Dead:
See Pyramid Technology
(1)

Burial of the Dead:
See Nature Permits It Sequence,
(1)
(2)

Burning Log:
See Fireplace Log

KLF DEFINITIONS
Business:
The economic games that men play for survival in
ignorant, short-sighted and local ways."
Cite Museums Keynote Address Denver, p. 4. 2 Jun'71

Business:
Business:
You Mind Your Business: I'll Mind Everbody's
See Divide & Conquer Sequence
Pirates: Great Pirates

Business: Businessmen:
See Capitalism
Corporation
Real Estate Development
Status Quo .
Whitehead's Dilemma
Everybody's Business
Enterprise
(1)

Business: Businessmen:
See Doing What Needs to Be Done, (1)
Politicians & Defense Budgets, 20 Sep' 76
(2)

Butler Grain Bin:
See Bernouilli Principle, 31 Jan 75
Ghana Dome : Self-chilling Machine, (2)

Butterfly:
See Afterimage, 1970
Scenario, 24 Apr '67

RBF DEFINITIONS
Buy or Die:
"The army says buy or die."
Cite RBF at Corcoran Gallery address, Wash. DC, 23 Feb'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Buy or Dies
"Finally it comes to an impasse and there is going to be
a war. So the politicians say to the military: 'All right,
we're going to have a war. What are you going to need?i
"The military says: 'Well, our side has leveled off here, but
our spies tell us that the other side is going to start at this
higher level of technology. They are going to be able to fire
five or ten thousand yards, whatever it is, with great
accuracy.
"Naturally the politicians want to know: 'What's it going to
cost to beat them?' and when they hear the answer: 'We don't
have that kind of money. We can't afford it.'
"The military says: 'Buy or die.'
"Can you produce?'
"Yes, we can produce.'
'Well, no telling how we'll ever pay for it, but go ahead and
produce it."
-Cite RBF in Franklin Lecture, Auburn, Ala., 1970

By-product Heat of 98.6°:
See Temperature of the Human Body

By-product of Weapons Industry:
See Domestic Technology
Low Priority Arts