K
Kahn, Louis:
See Octet Truss in Yale Art Gallery
RBF DEFINITIONS
Kaleidoscope:
"It is an astronomical kaleidoscope-- the little fellow
is shaking-- and from within."
- Context and citation at Epigenetic Landscape, May'49
Kaleidoscope:
See Universe as a Kaleidoscope
(1)
Kaleidoscope:
See Epigenetic Landscape, May149
Game of Universe, 9 Feb'73
Keasurement, (1)
Scenario Universe, Dec'69
(2)
Kelvin: Lord Kelvin's Solid:
See Bubbles
Tetrakaidecahedron
(Wm. Thomson: 1824-1907)
KBF DEFINITIONS
Kenner: Hugh Kenner:
"I love Hugh Kenner because I feel absolutely at home
with him and his wife and kids. . The way they're
•
They're really some great men running
all brought up.
zoos, just a few of them, but so sensitive.
17
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Washington DC, 23 Jan 172
Kenner, Hugh:
See Fuller, R.B: The Thinking Me, 18 Dec' 76
Kepler's Third Law:
See Synergetic Hierarchy, 13 Nov 69
Volumetric Hierarchy, (1)
RBF DEFINITIONS
Kepler Alone with the Stars:
"And" Einstein "said: 'What a faith must have inspired
Kepler to spend all the nights of his life alone with the
stars. Most of the men of the church did not understand
that kind of faith, but I think Einstein had it very deeply.
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 anti-thought and that, to me, is anti-
Universe. Man has to discover the full significance and
only the mind can do that."
Cite Barry Farrell PLAYBOY Interview,
Oct171
RBF DEFINITIONS
"
Kepler Alone with the Stars:
The great scientists such as Kepler, who had been
called heretics, were indeed the most profoundly religious
men when appraised in a cosmic, nonanthropomorphic sense.
Einstein said, 'What an extraordinary faith in the orderliness
of Universe must have inspired Kepler to spend the nights of
his lifetime alone with the stars.
Citation and context at Einstein:
Cosmic Religious Sense,
Kepler Alone with the Stars:
See Einstein: Cosmic Religious Sense
(1)
Kepler Alone with the Stars:
See Technology:
Enchantment vs. Disenchantment, (2)
(2)
TEXT CITATIONS
Kepler: Johannes:
(1571-1630)
Intuition, p.24, May 172 + p.25, +p.30
Synergetics draft at Sec. 1009.80 et. seq.,
953.50
1009.81
1009.94
1210 (p.738)
8 Mar 73
8201.22
Kepler:
See Blind Man's Buff, 1 Oct 71
Gravity, (b)
Sweepout, May'72
Mites Make All Regular Polyhedra, 27 May'72
RBF DEFINITIONS
Key Keyhole Sequence:
"We deal in a Universe in which unity is plural and at
minimum two. We find that this is what we really mean by
fundamental complementarity-- what the physicists are trying
to get society to realize. I've seen a newspaper man ask
scientists, 'Is this the building block of the Universe?
Is this the key?' We find that the Universe cannot be
explained by a single key; that there has to be a keyhole
as well as a key. It is typical of our oversimplification
just to think of the keys. We find that our geometries
and our whole education just looks on one side of the line.
"So we find that complementarity is even more complex; that
there had to be not only the keyhole, but that the keyhole
had to be in something. The keyhole that was in something
had to be related to the rest of the Universe. So then
we had a rubber glove which was stripped off of this hand,
which we called the left hand, fairly ignorantly, and now
it fits the other hand. So where has the other one gone?
Then I strip it off here and there goes the other hand."
Cite RBF to World Game, Jun-Jul'69
(1)
RBF DEFINITIONS
Key Keyhole Sequence:
"Quite clearly, both were there all the time, but only one
of them could we detect. So there is not only the glove,
which could have a keyhole, and we could put the key in
that, but it would have to be in something of the rest of
the Universe as well as the system we can see by. There's
always a conceptual system, and there's the rest of the
Universe which is nonconceptual because it's a scenario
Universe and not a single frame Universe."
(2)
. Cite RBF to World Game at NY Studio School, 12 Jun-31 Jul'69,
Saturn Film transcript, # 327, pp.2-3.
Key: Keyhole:
See Monological
No Building Blocks
(1)
223
(2)
Key: Kevhole:
See Charting Alternating Experiences of Nan & Nature,
(2)(3)
Cosmic Accounting, 20 Dec173
Hierarchy of Patterns, 1954
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (2)
Monological, 7 Nov³ 73
No Building Blocks, May' 72
Kids:
See Young World
Killingry:
See Livingry
Weaponry
Weapons Technology
(1)
Killingry:
See World Game, 29 Jun'72
(2)
Kilowatt Hours:
See Economic Accounting
Planck's Constant, (System, Sep'72
Kindergarten:
See Model of Toothpicks & Semi-dried Peas
Montessori
Kindergarten Level of Comprehension:
See Future of Synergetics, 19 Apr'66
Octantation, 14 May'73
Powering, (2)
Synergetics, Feb'71; Jun'66; 1960; 20 Jun'66
Conceptual Mathematics, (1)(2)
Kinetics of Gases:
See Balloon, (B)
Domains of Actions, 21 Dec 71
Repulsion, 9 Jul'62
Kinetic Omnigramming:
See Atomic Computer Complex, (5)
Kinetic Tapestry:
See Dynamic Frame of Reference, (2)
Kinetic: Kinetics:
See Asymmetric Kinetics
Dynamic vs. Kinetic
(1)
Kinetic: Kinetics:
See Atomic Computer Complex, (1) (2)
Buildings as Machines, (1)
Knowledge, y Apr'40
Motion, 1938
Mites & Quarks as Basic Notes, (1) (3)
(2)
King's Capability:
See Sixty Degreeness, 18 Jun 71
RBF DEFINITIONS
King's Sign:
"The king's sign, or Hexagon, or Double Axe, was displayed
in the king's apartments of the palace of Knossos, Crete.
It represented 60-degree geometry as employed by the
navigators; it was kept secret."
-
Cite RBF to SIMS Seminar, U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July 1971.
King's Sign:
See Distaff
(1)
King's Sign:
See Sixty Degreeness, 18 Jun'71
Three-way Weaving vs. Two-way Crisscross,
(2)(3)
(2)
King's Sign:
See Sixty Degreeness, 18 Jun 71
Three-way Weaving vs. Two-way Crisscross, (2) (3)
Walls vs, Airspace Technology,
(1)
(2)
King:
See Realm
(1)
King:
See Design Revolution: Pulling the Bottom Up, (3)-(5)
Divide & Conquer Sequence, (3)
Ecology Sequence, (H)
Real, 20 Apr'72
(2)
Kipling, Rudyard: (1865-1936
See Easts-East Theme
(1)
Kipling, Rudyard:
See Critic, 29 Sept 76
(2)
RBF DEFINITIONS
Kissing:
"Every time we start kissing we start turning ourselves
inside out."
Cite RBF talk at Am. Mus. of Natural History, NYC, 1 May' 77;
EJA transcript, p. 9
RBF DEFINITIONS
Kiss:
Locked Kiss:
... Finally we reach the condition where the space between
the struts is the same dimension as the girth diameter of
the struts. At this point we can let them kiss touch. We may
then lock them tensionally together in their kiss, but not
when we do so we must remember that they were not pushing one
another when they 'kissed' and we locked them in that
equilibrious 'most comfortable' position of contact coincidence.
Tensegrity spheres are not fastened in shear, even though their
locked kiss gives a superficially 'solid' continuity appear-
ance which is only subvisibly discontinuous at the atomic
level."
CA
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 715.01, 19 Oct 172
RBF DEFINITIONS
Kissing Point: K:
"... The 25 great circles of the vector equilibrium all...
pass through all the 'K' (kissing) points of intertangency of
all uniform-radius closest packed spheres of all isotropic
vector matrixes..."
Citation and context at Atomic Computer Complex: (8), 13 May 73
Kissing:
See Posterioral Osculations
Locked Kiss
(1)
Kiss:
See Gravity (g)
(2)
RBF DEFINITIONS
Kite:
"A kite is just a very flat tetrahedron, a two-member
tensegrity: the simplest tensegrity.
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 28 Jan'75
Kite:
See Syte, 20 Dec 73
Kitten:
See Average Kan, (1)
Kleptomaniac: Intellectual Kleptomaniac:
See Idea Stealing
Williams, Robert
Knapsack:
See Autonomous 'Living Technology Packet
RBF DEFINITIONS
Knight's Move in Chese:
"The XYZ coordinate analysis... arbitrarily shuns most
economical directness and time realizations-- by virtue of
which calculus is able only awkwardly to define positions
rectilinearly, moving only as the chessman's knight."
-
Citation and context at Rectilinear Frame, 24 Sep'73
RBF DEFINITIONS
Knight's Move in Chess:
"The knight's move in chess is precessional."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, NW, 7 Oct '71
Knitting Needles:
See Interference, Nov 71;
Vectorial Model of Interference,
Apr' 71
RBF DEFINITIONS
Knot:
"Pulling on the two ends of the knotted rope causes the knot
to
contract. This is a form of interference wave where the
wave comes back on itself, and as a consequence of any tension
in it, the
knot gets tighter. This is one of the ways in
which the energy-mass patterns
begin to tighten up.
It is
self-tightening. This is the essence of 'matter' as a con-
sequence of two circles of 720 degrees tending to annihilate
ar lose one's self.
Tetrahedron creates an insideness. Knot
attempts to annihilate it. The knot is a tetrahedron or a
complex of tetrahedra. Yin-Yang is a picture of a minimum
tetrahedron knot interference tying.
"t
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 506.14, RBF galley rewrite,
7 Nov'73
RBF DEFINITIONS
Knot:
"A knot in a spliced rope consisting successively of manila,
cotton, wool, or nylon may be progressively slipped along
the spliced-together rope with all the latter's material
changes of thickness, color, and texture along its length.
We agree that the 'knot' is not really any of these locally
traversed substances. They were just so many colors and
tactile experiences whose pattern displacement reported
something moving through as a locally recurring pattern
configuration. The knot is not the rope; it is a weightless,
mathematical
, geometric, metaphysically conceptual, pattern
integrity tied momentarily into the rope by the khot-conceiv-
ing, weightless mind of the human conceiver-- knot-former. "
-
Cite SYNERGETICS TEXT AT Sec. 506.01, 7 Nov 73
RBF DEFINITIONS
Knot:
"I'll bet a monkey can't tie a knot. . if they could,
they'd capture other animals and tie the whole jungle
up in knots. What would the behaviorists say? Mind
saw the knot, monkey did not. The monkeys held hands.
But they didn't discover that the handshake is two
circles running through one another."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Somerset Club, Boston, 22 April 1971
CONCEPTUALITY KNOT - SEC. 506.10
HBF DEFINITIONS
Knot:
"You cannot have a knot with less than two circles (two
finite unities). As the mind tells the brain to control
the muscles in an event-scenario, one hand grasping the
rope end describes the first circle. When the first circle
is complete, the second hand holds the completed circle
as the first hand continues to lead the rope end through
the center of the first circle in a different orbital plane
than that of the first circle because if they were both in
the same plane they would generate a coil or a spiral.
The perimeter of the second circle should go through the
center of the first. One has to capture the other in an
interference.'
"
- Cite RBF to EJA, Somerset Club, Boston, 22 April 1971
CONCEPTUALITY - KNOT- SEC. 506.11)
RBF DEFINITIONS
Knot:
"The rope with the knot in it is a trajectory of where
your hands have been. The hand-led rope end and its
pulled-through rope section form a visibly sustained
trajectory of the conceptual patterning employed by
mind in negotiating its visual realization by the brain-
coordinated sensing of self or others. Like the contrails
of jet planes, or smoke trails of sky-writing airplanes,
or the extruded plastic threads of spiders, the roped
knot represents a long-lasting memorandum of the abstract
weightless mind's weightless conceptioning in pure
principle."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Somerset Club, Boston, 22 April 1971
CONCEPTUALITY KNOT SEC 506.12
RBF DEFINITIONS
Knot:
"Each circle has 360°; the two circles have an inter-
ference of 720°; just as the triangles of a tetrahedron
complement as 720°. The hands describe the circles
nonsimultaneously; the result is a progression. *he knot
is the same 7200 angular value as the tetrahedron.
"Pulling on the two ends of the knotted rope causes the
knot to contract. This is the essence of 'matter! as a
consequence of two circles of 720° tending to annihilate or
lose one's self. Tetrahedron creates an insideness.
Knot attempts to annihilate it."
-
Cite almost illegible RBF Marginalia on SYNEGETICS Draft,
Somerset Club, Boston, 22 April 1971
CONCEPTUALITY - KNOT SEC 506.13 + 506.14
RBF DEFINITIONS
Knot:
"
The metabolic flow that passes through a man and
is not the man: some hundred tons of solids, liquids
and gases serving to render a single man corporeal during
the 70 years he persists, a pattern integrity, a knot
through which pass the swift strands of simultaneous
ecological cycles, recycling transformations of solar
energy. At any given moment the knotted materials weigh
perhaps 160 pounds."
-
Cite RBF lecturing at University of California, Sanaa
Barbara, December 1967; quoted by Hugh Kenner in
"The Rope in the Knot," Kentucky Review, Autumn 1968.
CONCEPTUALITY - KNOT
SEC. 506.20
RBF DEFINITIONS
Knot:
"As a knot in a series of spliced rope of manila, cotton,
nylon, etc. may be progressively slipped through all the
material changes of thickness and texture along the length
yet remain an identifiable pattern configuration, so man
is an abstract pattern integrity which is sustained through
all the physical changes and processing."
Cite THE YEAR 2000, San Jose State College
CONCEPTUALITY - KNOT SEC. 50601 +506.20
Mar'66
RBF DEFINITIONS
Knob:
"No longer do I want to talk about the chemical elements.
as things but as pattern integrities. Each one of them
is a unique pattern integrity. . . in a sense a form of knots
so we get where there are chemical compounds and the knots
tend to be interlinkable and they will catch on one another.
This one is holding together all right, but this ball of
twine and this ball of twine, suddenly one weaves into the
other every so often and associates
•
-
Cite OREGON Lecture #5- p. 165. 9 Jul*62
RBF DEFINITIONS:
Knot:
The
We are
"What we call rope turns out to be wave phenomena.
fibers themselves turn out to be wave phenomena.
beginning to discover there is not too much difference
between this tactile superficiality of apprehension and
the real frequency phenomena which we can't see in the
intervals between the waves. We are beginning to have some
faith in these principles.
•
•
"I am going to take the rope and curl out several of these
things and I am going to splice a piece of manila rope into
a piece of cotton rope and then I'm going to splice in a
piece of nylon rope. We now have cotton, nylon and manila
and I'm going to bring the eneds of the rope around and splice
them together. But before doing that I am going to put a
slip knot in it. This is another form of interference wave
where the wave comes back on itself and a sa consequence of
any tension in it the knot gets tighter. This is one of the
ways which the energy masses of the Einstein kind of patterns
begin to tighten up. It is self-tightening. I can take this
knot and slide it along the rope and suddenly it goes off
the manila and on tothe cotten, and then it slides off there
and on to the nylon. There is a regenerative pattern of
CONCEPTUALITY KNOT sec 506.02 + 506.14
3
(1)
Cite Oregon Lecture #, 4, p.102.
5 Jul 62
RBF DEFINITIONS
Knot:
"integrity that is reported to us by virtue of a set of
interferences.... The actual fact is that the water wave and
the manila wave are nontunable frequencies."
Cite Oregon Lecture #4, p.102, 5 Jul'62
(2)
RBF DEFINITIONS
Knot:
"We moved the slip knot along on the rope; now it
was nylon; now its was manila; and now it was cotton--
and we agreed that it really wasn't any of these.
They
were just so many colors and tactile experiences which
reported something to us as a pattern. They were a
pattern integrity. Each of the chemical elements are
pattern integrities in the form of local self-
interferences."
Cite OREGON LECTURES, p. 164, #5, 9 Jul'62
RBF DEFINITIONS
Knot: (i.e. Nautical miles per hour):
"The knot was adopted by navigators as a velocity unit which
integrates time-space incrementation values."
Cite SYNERGETICS drigt at Sec. 223.81
RBF DEFINITIONS
Knot: Square Knot:
"It is structural redundancy when a square knot is tied and
an amateur says, 'I'm going to make that stronger by tying
more square knots on top of it.' The secondary knots are
completely ineffective because the first square knot will not
yield. There is a tendency of the second square knot to
'work open' and thus deteriorate the first knot. Structural
redundancies tend to deteriorate the effectiveness of the
primary members."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 723.03, 20 Oct172
TEXT CITATIONS
Knot:
Year 2000, San Jose State
Oregon Lectures #2, p. 55
-
-
Mar'66
P. 102
#5, p. 164
How Little I Know, pp. 17-18
2 Jul 62
5 Jul 62
9 Jul'62
Oct166
Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science
(Salk Ltr.) pp. 102-104
-
1-56
RBF To Children of Earth (Cam Smith (Dec172)
418.04-418.05
647.04
781.01
505.21
723.03
930.26
8506.40-506.43
8529.40
506: 506.01-506.30
1056.20 (31)
8935.17
529.04
81007.24
Knot: Knotting:
See Energetic Functions
Metabolic Flow
Metaphysical Disconnect
Minimum Knot
Pattern Integrity: Atomic Knots
Hope
Self-knotting
Simplest Knot
Tie
Local Knot
Coil
Yin-Yang
(1)
Knot: Knotting:
See kan as Pattern Integrity, Feb'67
Matter vs. Radiation, 7 Nov 73
Nuclear & Nebular Zonal Waves, 1955
Particle, (2)
Pattern Integrity, (A); 9 Jul'62
Syntropy, 13 May 73
(2)
Knowing vs. Reasoning:
See Fuller, R.B:
Moratorium on
Speech, (1)
RBF DEFINITIONS
Know-how:
"We can refine all the tool and energy capability of
single and commonwealth into two main constituents:
the physical and metaphysical-- the physical consisting
of specific energy quantities and the metaphysical
consisting of specific know-how capabilities."
with NASA Speec?
Junton
-
Citation & context at Commonwealth, Jun'66
RBF DEFINITIONS
Know-how Accounting vs. Physical Accounting:
"The great silence is the thorough intuitive awareness that
world pattern will replace local pattern and that know-how
accounting will supersede physical accounting."
"
ww
Citation & context at World Pattern vs. Local Pattern,
29 Jan 75
Know-how Accounting vs. Physical Accounting:
See Cosmic vs. Terrestrial Accounting
(1)
Know-how Accounting vs. Physical Accounting:
See Disarmament, (1) (2)
Old Man River Project, 20 Sep' 76
(2)
Know-how: Cumulative Know-how of Humanity:
See Technology (1)
News & Evolution, (3) (4)
RBF DEFINITIONS
Know-how & Know-what:
"The support of life on our planet consists of two kinds:
metaphysical and physical. Both cosmic and terrestrial
energetic regeneration, organic and inorganic, are physical;
while the know-what of pure science and the know-how of applied
science are both metaphysical. The know-what of science's
experimental evidence informs technology's know-how to employ
efficiently the substantive resources and synergetic metaphy-
sical patterns progressively found to be operative in Universe.
These are essential to the maintenance of life on board our
planet as well as in mounting local-Universe exploring
excursions from our mother-spaceship Earth."
on
Cite SYNERGETICS 2nd. Ed. draft at Sec. 325.01, 11 Nov 74
Know-how:
See Wealth as Know-how
Wealth: Equation of Wealth
Intellect: Equation Or
Transnational Capitalism & Export of Know-how
(1)
Know-how:
(2)
See Aesthetics, 10 Oct 63
Commonwealth, Jun'66*
Cosmic Accounting, 2 Jun'74
Economic Accounting System (B) (D)
Economic Accounting System: Human Life-hour
Production, May'72
Metaphysical & Physical, 2 Jun' 74
Savings, 13 Mar 73
Ship (2)
Technology, 1947
Words, 15 Jun 74
Transnationalism vs. Colonialism, (4)-(6)
Intellect: Equation Of, (c)
Club of Rome:
Limits to Growth, (B)
Mobile Rentability vs. Immobile Purchasing, 20 Sep'76
Disarmament, (1)
Building Industry, (11)
Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment, (4)
Know-what:
See Know-how & Know-what
RBF DEFINITIONS
Knowledge:
"All the knowledge in the Universe may have been known to
various people at other times.' 11
-
Citation & context at Information Signal, 29 Jan'75
RBF DEFINITIONS
Knowledge:
"Knowledge organises itself geometrically, i.e., with models."
Citation and context at Epistemology, 16 Dec 173
RBF DEFINITIONS
Knowledge:
"Awareness is terminable, but knowledge is eternal. Compre-
hending and knowing are eternal."
Citation and context at Communicating (2), 11 Sep173
RBF DEFINITIONS
Knowledge:
"Knowledge is orbital."
Citation and context at Urbiting, 5 Jun'73
RBF DEFINITIONS
Knowledge:
"Knowledge is of the brain
Wisdom is of the mind
And there is herewith implicit
An a priori Wisdom of wisdoms."
Citation at Wisdom of Wisdoms, May'72
INTO
RBF DEFINITIONS
Knowledge:
"
the only potential survival means
of homo sapiens:
through the harmonic integration of knowledge
whose kinetic is uni-versal."
CILE NO FORK SECONDHAND GOD p. 4. (Anchor), 9 Apri40
Citation at Survival, 9 Apr 40
Knowledge Backward in Time:
See History, 29 Aug164
Knowledge as Reflexes:
See Invisible Reality, May'72
Fuller, R.B: Moratorium on
Speech, (1)
Knowns Harvested From All the Unknowns:
See A Priori Mystery, 8 Mar 73
Geometry, 14 Nov 73
Unknowable, 8 Mar 73
Knowledge: Know: Knowing:
See Apprehension
A priori
Comprehension
Epistemology
Geometry of Thinking
How Little I Know
Omniscience; Omniknowing
Universe: All the Known
Unknowable
Unknown: A priori Unknown
Wisdom
More & More About Less & Less
(1)
Knowledge: Know: Knowing:
21
(2)
See Communicating (2)*
Comprehension, Feb 72
Eye-beamed Thoughts (VII)
Nature, 8 Mar 73
Orbiting, 5 Jun '73*
Wisdom of Wisdoms, May 72*
Survival, 9 Apr 40
Information Signal, 29 Jan*75*
Comprehensive Realizer, May 49
Words & Coping, 7 Nov' 75
Learning, 18 Jul 76
Optimism: I Am Not an Optimist, 26 Apr 77
Fuller, R.B: Moratorium on Soeech, (1)*
Knowledge: Know: Knowing:
See Knowing vs. Reasoning
Know-how
Know-how Accounting vs. Physical Accounting
Know-how:
Cumulative Know-how of Humanity
Know-how & Know-what
Know-what
Knowledge
Knowledge Backward in Time
Knowledge as Reflexes
Knowledge Harvested from All the Unknowns
(3)
Koestler, Arthur:
See Brain, 1972
RBF QUOTATION
Korzybski: Alfed Korzybski:
"A language for its maximum serviceability, must, at
least have the structure of the events it attempts to
describe; and so science must first discover the structure
of events, for only then can we shape our languages and
give them the necessary structure. Any adance in our
knowledge of
nature is strictly connected with new
languages of similar structure which reflect the structure
of the world."
Holograph in unidentified hand, undated. In RBF "En-Syn
Attributed to Korzybski, "Science and
Geometry" file.
Sanity," p.507.
Korzybski, Alfred:
See Is
Packaged Concept
Rose
Verbs:
Word
No 'Where's, No "What's, Only "When's
Kumasi Dome:
See Spherical Barrel: Kumasi Dome
(1)
Kumasi Dome:
See Ghana Dome: Self-chilling Machine, (1)
(2)