
I

Label: Labels:
See Categoryitis
(1)

Labels:
See Verb:
I Seem to Be a Verb, 26 Apr' 77
221
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Labor: American Labor:
"American labor fought a great and worthy battle to win the
working man's share of the synergetic productivity of industry.
Labor's battle proved doubly worthwhile because it inadvertently
brought about mass consumption. Without mass consumption you
cannot maintain mass production. You cannot have the mass
production of industrialization without an original investment
of vast capital effort of work and that original capital came
first and long ago from serfdom or outright slavery. In order to
bring industrialization to benefit comprehensively emancipated
man, you must have mass purchasing power, which in due course
will underwrite automation, which in turn will eventually
produce so much wealth as to be able to free man's time for
further education and research to increase the wealth long
generated by unimpeded automation. American labor will not yield
that unimpedement until it is clearly demonstrated that all men
will prosper directly by doing so. American labor did bring
about the vast purchasing power in industry, but in so doing it
established all kinds of rules which inadvertently protected the
obsolete inefficiencies of building."
- Citation and context at Radome Sequence (A) (B), 1960

Labor: Labor Unions:
See Architecture, Nov'66
Building Industry, (3)(4)
Dome House Grand Strategy: 1927-1977, (1)-(3)
Generalized Principle, (1)
Mechanics, 1928
New York City, 31 Jul 75
Politicians & Defense Budgets, 20 Sep'76
Houses & Infrastructure, 20 Sep' 76
(2)

Labor:
See Earning A Living
Doing What Needs to be Done
Industrial Hypocrisy
Jobs
Inspectors of Inspectors
Make-work
Uneconomic
Work
(1)

Laboratory:
See Child as Laboratory
Guinea Pig

Ladder:
See Berry Picking, (E)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lag:
"The fact that there is lag means that we are inherently
aberrated and out of phase with the absolute, the center."
-
Citation & context at Center, 21 Jan '755

RBF DEFINITIONS
Laga:
"There is a lag when you actually capture it plus when you
really understand.... Lags have to do with the fact that human
beings have very limited motion spectrums so that they can't
see the hour hand move; they don't see the minute hand; they
only see the second hand. They don't see the flower growing.
They don't see the child growing. And they don't see that the
roots of that tree are going to break the sidewalk up three
years from today.
"If they don't see something in motion that's going to run into
them, they don't get out of the way. And many things are
happening in society where something is coming their way and
their not getting out of the way.
"I saw that we do have this beautiful capability in movie
pictures to accelerate the rate of the frames. We can have slow
motion and really analyze what things are like... or accelerated
motion. And we can take all the speculative or actual data
about world population over 2,000 to 10,000 years, where we run
every minute as 100 years, or every second is a year, and then"
Cite tape transcript, pp. 16-17; RHF to W. Wolf, 28 Apr174
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lags:
(2)
"you can suddenly see the population. We made a movie like that
so you can really see it flowing around and it gets you terribly
excited when you realize-- like a bonfire-- that it's really
coming at you.
" I saw that we can step up and step down; we run backwards and
forwards to tend to familiarize yourself with what we really
have been through, and really feel some of the momentums of
enormous evolutionary events."
-
Cite tape transcript, pp.16-17; RBF to W. Wolf, 28 Apr174

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lag:
"The awareness of life is always a complex of cognition and
recognition lags. Lags are wave frequency aberrations."
(Later context at Vector Equilibrium:
Field of Energy, (C))
- Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 205.05; RBF correction
to galley, 11 Oct 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lag:
"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 context at Eternal Instantaneity (1), 22 Jun 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lag:
"The lag is the whole of life. It is lag and aberration."
Citation and context at Rubber Glove, 23 May 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lag:
"Part of the conceptuality is the lags which bring in the six
degrees of freedom."
Citation & context at Timeless, 1 Apr' 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Laga
"
•
In our temporal life there will always be some
degree of lag or asymmetry .
10
-
For citation and context see Ideal, 1 Apr 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lag:
"Lags are intervals-- nothing."
Cite RBE marginalia
Sumereet
Boston,
Citation & context at Eternal & Temporal, 25 Apr'71

Lag Rates:
See Woof
Omnidifferential Lag Rates
(1)

Lag Rates:
See Abstraction, 24 Feb172
Apprehending, 22 Nov 73
(2)

Lag: Lags: Inventory of:
See Afterimage Lags
Asynchronous Lags
Apprehension Lags
Brain Lag
Differential Lag
Energy Lag
Feedback Lags
Gestation Lag
Industrial Lag
Minimum Lag
Omnidifferential Lag Rates
Realization Lag
Recall Lags
Recognition Lage
Time Lag
Trails & Wakes
(1)

Lag:
See Eternal & Temporal, 25 Apr171*
Eternal Instantaneity (1)*
Frame of Reference, 4 Oct 172
Ideal, 1 Apr' 72*
Life, 23 May 172
Reading (1)
Rubber Glove, 23 May'72*
Time, 23 May 72
Timeless, 1 Apr 72*
Individual Universes, (2)
Center, 21 Jan'75*
Pretending, 8 Apr 175
Conceptual Limits, 22 Jun*77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Laissez-faire Process:
"The laissez-faire process and its one-generation-slower
by-products means the accelerating reoccurrence of political
crises after political crises, all apparently invoked by
evoluting nature to foce us, through dilemma adopted
expediences, to yield compromisingly inch by inch from our
inertia of 'let well enough alone, thus fortuitously
establishing, under each emergency, further increments of
technical advances until we have finally, grudgingly and
ignorantly, acquired a level of technical efficiency
adequate to provide high standard physical living for
total man-- which was always subjectively implicit and
objectively inevitable because of the presence of intellect
in physical Universe.
Cite MEXICO 63, p.16, 10 Oct 163

Laissez-faire:
See War, 1 Nov 72

Lamp Chimney:
See Wind Stress & Houses, (10)

Lamppost:
See You and I and the Lamppost

Lampshades:
See Angular Sinus Takeout, Dec'61

Land Exploitation:
See Real, 20 Apr*72
Squatters, (1)

Landocean:
See Dymaxion Airocean World, (I)

Landscape:
See Epigenetic Landscape

Land Technology:
See Buildings
Sea Technology
Sea Technology Conversion to Land Technolgy

Land Technology:
See Weapons Technology, (2)
(2)

Land:
See Deed:
(Property Deed)
Real Estate
Public Lands

Lane, Col. USMC:
See Social Problems: Tetrahedral Coordination of,
4 May' 57

Language as Industrial Tool:
See Tools: Craft & Industrial
Word as Industrial Tool
(1)

Language as Industrial Tool:
See Industrialization, (A)(B)
(2)

Language:
Cliche
Cussing
See Anglo-American
Babbling
Codes
Communication
Definitions
Koryzbski
Linguistica
Message: Message Contents
Profanity
Slang
Syntax
Universal Language
Up-and-down Language
Verb
Word
World-around Language
Structuralism in Language
People's Language
Radio Ham Language
Wave-frequency Language of Electromagnetics
(1)

Language:
See Countries 12 Aug'70
Daddy, (1)(2)
Eye-beamed Thoughts, (VI) (VII)
Fresh, 3 Oct171
Nation, Oct '70
Synergetics, Oct 71
Seeing vs. Hearing, 22 Jan'75
Self-communicate, 8 Apr '75
Dance, 30 May'75
Series vs, Parallel Circuitry, 11 Dec 75
Primitive, 19 Jul 76
(2)

Largest Case:
See No Largest Case
(1)

Largest Case:
See Universe, 26 Sep 73
(2)
23

Largest Common Denominator:
See Basic Triangle: Basic Disequilibrium 120 LCD Triangle

RBF DEFINITIONS
Large Patterns:
"The early humans sensed and revered the greater pattern events
of Universe as manifesting an ever and everywhere presence of
a knowing, life-giving, supporting, and terminating competence
vastly greater than that of humans. They saw themselves and
all that they could see, including the Sun, Moon, and stars,
as having only minuscule local parts in an organic whole whose
shape and size transcended both the ranges of their vision and
the scope of their imagining."
Citation & context at Naga, (3), 30 May 175

RBF DEFINITIONS
Large Patterns:
"In February 1943 when LIFE brought out the dymaxion map,
they were suspicious that I had perhaps just rediscovered'
an earlier cartographic projection process. They brought in
a Dr. Borgs from the State Department Map Division-- he was
the head of the American geographers-- and he assured them
that my map was just 'pure invention' which is to say that
I just sort of 'fudged it; anyway, he meant the term as a
very derogatory appraisal and he concluded that I must be
totally ignorant of the mathematics of cartography.
'
"(Ironically, his dismissal of my work served me in good stead
as my patent attorney cited him as an authority for the map's
originality when I applied for, and was granted, a patent for
my dymaxion map.)
"LIFE's issue with the map was there first press run to go
over two million and it was completely exhausted immediately.
at the time there were two Australians passing through
New York on some secret mission connected with the war: they
were on the way to see Churchill and Luce wanted them to
take him a copy of my map. when I took the man over to their
hotel I showed them how to
assemble it. I put it together"
Cite RBF videotaping session, Philadelphia, PA., 26 Jan'75
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Large Patterns:
"with Australia in the middle and at the top. They were
astonished because that's where Australia really is and they
said that none of the other maps showed the world the way it
really was. They said that's the way the world really looks,
but I told them to assemble it for Churchill with England
at the center....
223
(2)
"At about that time Henry Luce asked me out to dinner in
Greenwich where he wanted me to show my map and talk about
it to the guests. In the middle of my explanation he said,
that for the first time in his life he had found a man (me) who
was his exact opposite. So I told him that was a compliment.
Luce was certain that all big patterns were introduced by
man. He correctly recognized-- but disassociated himself
from my own view that large patterns are introduced by
nature and only discovered by man.
"Just before the war Henry Luce once told me that the U.K.
was sending its archives to Ottawa for safe-keeping. He told
me this in great confidence because he said I didn't know the
war was coming. I said of course I knew the war was coming;"
Cite RBF videotaping session, Philadelphia, PA., 26 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Large Patterns:
"I just didn't know what was going to trigger it off but that
didn't really matter.
"Another time I had given a lecture in Haverford and I had a
model of the Dymaxion map in nice big picture puzzle pieces.
One of the professors took me home after the talk and asked
me to show the map to his young children. They spontaneously
started putting it together on the rug when the professor
looked over their shoulders and said, 'No, no that's wrong
you've got the world upside-down, dear..... Can you believe
it?"
Cite RBF videotaping session, Philadelphi, PA., 26 Jan'75
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Large Pattern:
"The way I have been able to present order to you is only
by looking at some of the very large patterns.
-
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping session, Philadelphia,
22 Jan'75

Largest Pattern: Large Pattern:
(1)
See Big Complex: Big Picture: Pig Pattern: Big System
Remote Intellectual
Comprehensive: Comprehensivist
Astro-largest

Largest Pattern: Large Patterns:
See Carbondale Office, 10 Aug170
Fuller, R.B: Crisis of 1927, 26 Sep'68
Universe, 1954
Tension, 9 Jul*62
China (C)
Artifacts, 28 Apr'74
Halfway-round-the-Worlding, 26 Jan' 75
Plumbing, (1)(2)
Evolution, 15 May '75
Naga, (3)*
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lasso:
"Even as a tension-controlled lasso can be gyrated and thrown
and wave impulses can be sent out controllably over it, as a
snake whip may receive a wave by the wrist to hit an object
and return the wave as a tension circuit again to the sender,
so does radio and radar tensively induce circuits to pull
radiation phenomena over almost unlimited distances."
Citation & context at Wind Stress & Houses, (10) (11), 1946

Last Resort:
See Adoption of the New Only as Lasst Resort

Last Now:
See Wow

Latent vs. Radiant:
See Matter vs. Radiation
Potential va. Radiant
(1)

Latent vs. Radiant:
See Rate, (pp.62-63) 1938
22:
(2)

Latin America:
See China (B)(C)

Lattice:
See Matrix
Spherical Triangular Lattice
(1)

Lattice:
See Synergetica, 10 Jul'62
Tetrahedral Coordination of Nature, 1965
(2)

Laughter:
See Chemistry Seemed to Laugh
Comedy

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lavoisier: Antoine Lavoisier: (1743-1794)
"Lavoisier was really identifying the reality.
like Democritus, could see the invisible.
Lavoisier,
Priestly didn't
weight the air under the bell jar; he just weighed the
small objects. Fire turned out to be just swift oxidation
separating the air into separate constituents.
All the
products, water, vapor, etc., all weigh more. We hadn't
learned how to weigh nothingness."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 1 Oct. 171.

Lavoisier:
See Quantum Sequence, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Law:
"I think the antientropic ordering principles are both
subconsciously and consciously developed by humans as
conventions of understanding of, for instance, how we can
prosper without getting into trouble. The Law and the
Citizen' relates to this consciousness.
"Laws are conventions, working agreements, often different
from the experimentally discovered principles governing physical
Universe behaviors. There is usually a deal of difference
betweeen yesterday's erroneous assumption and today's
scientific findings."
Cite RBF in panel transcript, AAUW Journal, p.175, May'65

RBF DEFINITIONS
Law:
"We must learn what we each bring to the other, collectively
and singly. Man has had enough experience with his angers
and his disconnects, and his invented national hates and their
subsequently contrived reversals, to know how illogical he
must often be, at any one given moment, because of the going
mode of bias propaganda. He realizes that he has not been
very happy when he has been excessive and destructive. Laws
come entirely out of experience, but only those endure which
are taken with the powerful intent to guarantee our mutually
favorable evolution. Each individual has rights all of
which must be coordinatingly protected and realized without
cost or inconvenience to others."
-
Cite RBF in AAUW Journal, p. 178, May '65

RBF DEFINITIONS
Law: Legal Codes:
"Legal codes... are enforceable only by negative penalties."
Citation and context at Individual Economic Initiative, 1965

Laws of Nature vs. Laws of Man:
See Invisible Operation of Thousands of Radio
Programs, Nov 71
Outlaw Area, 8 Jan'66
Social Sciences: Analogue to Physical Sciences, (A)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Laws:
Scientific Laws:
"Laws require proof.
Synergetic principles and theories
Thus far described
Have been experimentally demonstrated;
Their concurrent mathematical proof
Is the work of Others."
Cite RBF to EJA
Sarasota, Florida
7 February 1971

Law:
(Civil Laws)
(1)
See Antientropic Ordering Principles
Grid: Crisscross Right-angle Grid in Civil & Agrarian
Law
Jury:
Trial By
Outlaw Area
Patent
Responsibility
Laws of Nature vs. Laws of Man

Law: Civil Law:
See Sea: The Sea, 1971
Society: Control of, 1938
Natural, Oct166
Air Space, May 165
Word Trends, May 44
Wealth, 20 Sept 76
30
(2)
123

Law: (Classic Physics):
See Antientropic Ordering Principles
Cosmic Law Family
Generalized Law
Kepler's Third Law
Newton's First Law
Newton's Second Law
Natural Law
Thermodynamics:
Physical Law
Second Law Of
(1)

Law:
(Classic Physics):
See Parity, 1960
Synergetics, 19 Jun 71
(2)

Law: (Miscellaneous):
See Angular Law
Assembly: Law Of
Convex & concave:
Law Of
Contracting Universe:
Law Of
Cosmic Law Family
Decreasing Confusion: Law Of
Diminishing Chaos: Law Of
Evolution: Synergetics Rules Of
Generalizations: Law of Contractively Orderly
Grid: Crisscross Right-angle Grid in Civil & Agraian
Law
Probability Laws
Progressive Order: Law Of
Reproducibleness: Law Of
Rule: Regulation
Sphericity: Laws Of
Structural Law
Wave Mechanics:
Physical Law
Law Of
(1

Law: (Miscellaneous):
See Topolov: Synergetics & Eulerean, 28 Oct '73
Structural Sequence, (A)
(2)

Law: (Synergetica Laws):
See Angular Topology: Principle of
Design Law
Design Covariables:
Principle Or
Functions: Principle Of
Conservation of Finite Universe: Principle Or
Conservation of Intellect
Order Underlying Randomness: Principle of
Prime Number Inherncy & Constant Relative Abundance
Of Structural Systems: Principle of
Regenerative Design: Law Of
Conservation of Symmetry
Scenario Principle
Synergetic Advantage: Principle of
Universal Integrity: Principle of
Unity: Principle of
Whole Systems: Principle of
Irreversibility: Principle of

Lawyer-capitalism:
See Technlogy:
Enchantment vs. Disenchantment, (4)
Pirates: Great Pirates, 22 Jun '77

RBP DEFINITIONS
Layer:
"Every layer of a finite system has both an interior, concave,
associability potential and an exterior, convex, associability
potential. Hence the outer layer of a vector-equilibrium-
patterned atom system always has an additional full number
Tunemployed associability' count.'
"
Citation and context at Super-Atomics Sequence (3), 5 Nov'73

layer: Layering:
See Boundary Layer
Concentricity Layering
Embracement
Shell Growth Rate
Surface
Layer
3
(1)

See Hole in the Victrola Disc; 24 Jan'75
Layer: Layering:
(2)
23

LCD Triangle:
See Basic Triangle:
Basic Triangle:
120
Basic Disequilibrium/LCD Triangle
Basic Equilibrium 48 LCD Triangle

RBF FINITIONS
Leader:
"Part of the scheme of specialization is that
there has to be a head man."
A
Cite RBF Lecture
Town Hall. New York
12 l'arch 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Leaders Can Yield to the Computer:
"Mankind will demand that political forces yield to the
understanding that either we all make good together or none
of us stays. Nobody will have to yield to another man's
policies he'll be yielding to a computer, so he won't
lose face. All sides can win."
Cite RBF quoted by Tina Jeffrey in the Newport News Daily
Press, 1 Apr 73°

RBF DEFINITIONS
Leaders Can Yield to the Computer:
"A new, physically uncompromised, metaphysical initiative of
unbiased integrity could unify the world. It could and
probably will be provided by the utterly impersonal problem
solutions of the computers. Only to their superhuman range
of calculative possibilities can and may all political,
scientific, and religious leaders acquiesce."
-
Cite RBF quoted by William Kuhns in POST-INDUSTRIAL PROPHETS,
(Harper-Colophon) p. 243. 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Leaders Can Yield to the Computer:
"No opposed politicians may ever yield to their adversary
without a trial of relative strength. To yield prior to such
a trial of strength is to be either a traitor or a funk.
Trial of ultimate political power, in international Malthusian-
Darwinian terms, always lead to war. For this reason political
leaders avoid arbitration by third parties as subject to
subtle corruptibility. But gradually society in general and
its political leaders are beginning to yield mutually to
computerized solutions of lethally vital disputes where the
computer has been given the problem in the terms of the
question: in which way do most sides profit the most?"
Cite SENATE HEARINGS, p.6, 4 Mar'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Leaders Can Yield to the Computer:
"You may very appropriately want to ask me how we are going to
resolve the ever-acceleratingly dangerous impasse of world-
opposed politicians and ideological dogmas. I answer, it will
be resolved by the computer. Man has ever-increasing compe-
tence in
the computer; witness his unconcerned landings as
airtransport passengers come in for a landing in the combined
invisibility of fog and night. While no politician or political
system can ever afford to yeild undertandably and enthusiastic-
ally to their adversaries and oppressors, all politicians can
and will yield enthusiastically to
the computer's safe flight-controlling capabilities
in bringing all of humanity in for a happy landing.
"So, planners, architects, and engineers take the initiative.
Go to work, and above all co-operate and don't hold back on one
another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success
in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived. These
are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and
trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They
are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual
integrity governing Universe."
cite OPERATING MANUAL FOR SPACESHIP EARTH, pp.132-133, 1969

RBP DEFINITIONS
Leaders Can Yield to the Computer:
"Since man's fear conditioned reflexes prevent him from
voluntarily freeing his spherical space ship from its
success paralyzing sovereignties, we must look to the
computers to clarify the ways in which success for all
may be found. No politician can yield to another politianan
but all politicians can-- and eventually will-- yield to
the complex problem solutions of the computers. First of
those steps to be taken through complex computer analysis
will be to stop humanity from trying futilely to compete
with the machines as real wealth producers, and instead
granting each unemployed human being lucrative fellowship
to re-enter the educational processes and, where logical,
to engagement in research and development of the doing
more with less technologies. ft
-
Cite NEWSWEEK, "Architecture, The Present Scene," p. 10
undated

Leaders Can Yield to the Computer:
See Politics, 11 Aug'70
Politics: Accesory After the Fact, 12 Aug170
Politicians, 31 Jul 69; Mar'70
World Game, Har'70; (I)-(III)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Leaders: Take Away The Leaders:
"Keep all the world's poli al systems in force and all the
world's politicians and political workers at work, and at the
same time take all the machinery of industrialization, all
the tracks, pipes, and wires and dump them in the oceans away
from all the countries of the Earth, and in six months two
billion people, half of humanity, will die of starvation.
"Lacking the industrial tooling, no political system could
alter that result.
"But, taking the contrary, leaving all of the machinery, wires,
pipes, and tracks in place, and all the humans who now operate
them, at their daily tasks, but take away all of the world's
politicians of any and all ideologies and send them and their
party workers on a trip around the Sun by a slow speed rocket
ship, and all those who are now eating will go on eating, and
with all the sovereign nations' barriers unmanned the foods
will begin to cross borders and the resources will be integrated
and soon all of humanity will be eating and prospering."
Cite RB in interview by George J. Barmann, "Plain Dealer,"
Cleveland, 4 Jul172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Leaders:
Take Away the Leaders:
"Take away the energy-distributing networks and the
industrial machinery from America, Russia, and all the world's
industrialized countries, and within six months more than
two billion swiftly and painfully deteriorating people will
starve to death. Take away all the world's politicians, all
the ideologies and their professional protagonists from those
same countries, and send them off on a rocket trip around the
Sun and leave all the countries their present energy networks,
industrial machinery, routine production and distribution
personnel, and no more humans will starve nor be afflicted
in health than at present.
-
Cite CITIZEN OF THE 21st CENTURY LOOKS BACK, U. or O, Chap. 1,
1 Apr'67

RBF DEFINITIONS
Leaders:
Take Away the Leaders:
"At the present moment, we could take all the machinery from
all the countries around the world, all the railroad tracks, all
the wires, etc., everything we call industrialization-- and we
could dump this all in the ocean. Within six months two
billion people would die of starvation, having endured great
pain. On the other hand, supposing that we take away instead
every politician, all the ideologies, all the books on politics--
and send them into orbit around the Sun. Everybody would keep
on eating as before, down will go all the political barriers
and we would begin to find ways in which we could send the goods
that were in great surplus in one place to another.
may even begin to eat a little better-- in a hurry.
could not be said before."
So people
This
Cite THE YEAR 2000, reprinted in AD, Feb'67

RBF DEFINITIONS
Leaders:
Take Away The Leaders:
"To start with here is an educational bombshell: Take from
all of today's industrial nations all their industrial
machinery and all their energy-distributing networks and
leave them all their ideologies, all their political leaders,
and all their political organizations, and I can tell you
that within six months two billion people will die, having
gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
"However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their
energy-distribution networks and leave them also the people
who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery
and distributing its products, and we take away from all the
industrial countries all their ideologies and all their
politicians and political machine workers, people would keep
right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than
before.
"The fact is that now-- for the first time in the history of
man for the last ten years, all the political theories and
all the concepts of political functions-- in any other than
secondary roles as housekeeping organizations-- are completely
obsolete. All of them were developed on the you-or-me basis.
This whole realization that mankind can and may be comprehen-
sively successful is startling." Cite WORLD GAME (2), 1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Leaders: Take Away the Leaders:
"Take the technological tools of industrialization away from
U.S.A, Russia, France, China, England, West Germany, Japan,
and Italy, and leave them all their respective ideologies,
and within six months two billion world humans will die of
starvation. Contrariwise, take away from thos eight sovereign
states all their political ideologies and political leaders,
and leave them their industrial tools and human operators and
their habitual daily production and distribution system
network tasks, and no more will starve, than are starving now.
New gap-filling pro tem leaders would spring up everywhere,
overnight, with emergency-gained authority who would make
things work as well and probably better."
-
Cite GEOSOCIAL REVOLUTION (4), pp.180-181, 1965

Leaders: Leadership:
See Anticipatory Divide & Conquer
Divide & Conquer Sequence
King's Sign
Invisible Masters
Pirates: Great Pirates
Politicians
President of the U.S.
Realm
Rule
Whitehead's Dilemma
No Leaders
(1)

Leaders: Leadership:
(2)
123
See Biosphere, (2)
Child Sequence, (1)
Communications
8 Feb 71
Economist, Feb 73
Problem: Statement Of, 1954
Specialization, 12 Mar 71; 5 May 72
Money, 4 Feb 68
Depression: Great Depression of 1930's, (2)
Womb Population, (4)

Leaf: Leaves:
See Maple Leaf
Petal
Blades of Grass
(1)

Leaf: Leaves:
See Energy, 6 May' 48
223
(2)

Leaf:
See Octahedron as Photosynthesis Model, 11 Dec 75

Leak:
See Minimum Leak
Tetrahedron: Leak in the Corners
Twist Vertex of Exit
(1)

Leak:
See Energy, 19 Dec 173
(2)

Lear, Bill:
See Fuller, R.B: Meeting with Fernandez-Moran, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Learning:
"All learning has to be within self and has to be related
to what you already know."
Cite RBF to Don Fusaro & EJA; 3200 Idaho; Wash. de; 18 Jul 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Learning:
"Don't try to make me consistent: I'm learning all the
time. "
- the A to bith, 9200 Idan
-
Citation at Consistener, 22 Feb'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Learning:
(1)
"It's really a very great world task to get life the informa-
tion it needs in order to develop humanity's highest potentials;
how to get the information it needs in the simplest, almost
unself-consciously effective manner. Life with the informa-
tion will do its own learning. It's not something you can
give with a needle. But people have to learn. So how do
you provide life with the information it needs to fulfill
successfully humanity's function in Universe? I would not
like to get up a system and say, "I have a system, and try
to sell the system to people, but really to see everything
we know we can do to help life get the information it needs.
"You don't necessarily have to go through all the grades of
school that we usually do before you can start creating wealth.
These things are fairly evident. Once human beings really
begin to find out how powerful information really can be, they
are suddenly able to master spherical trigonometry and make
beautiful geodesic structures, and they are eager to make
them.
If you get the right information to people when
people want something. You can't get it to them if they don't
want it. I never talk to people unless they ask me to talk
to them."
-
.
.
Cite RBF address at Minnesota Experimental City Learning Center,

RBF DEFINITIONS
Learning:
•
(2)
"I think that anything we want to do to help people has got
to be something they ask for when they want it. The appetites
of humanity for information are very closely linked up with
other chromosomie initiatives.
Children ask extraordi-
narily beautiful questions. They're famous for it. There's
no family that doesn't have experience with a child really
asking startlingly good questions, that the family can't
And the fact that the family can't answer it, this
is the time that they really want to know. The kids are
asking about the Sun and the Stars, and they want to understand
the atoms and the grown-ups can't tell them. The point is
that they want to be able to learn for themselves: what they
need to know; where to find it. And if you can answer them,
they'll develop very rapidly. I don't think humanity
understands this self-teaching process.
answer.
I wouldn't start with
"Every child is a laboratory."
getting rid of schools. I would start with how to accommodate
what needs to be accommodated. I am convinced that life, as
born, has many more faculties than has ever been recognised
and will grow very, very rapidly if given the chance,'
-Cite RBF address to XC, Dubuque, Iowa, 15 Dec. '71
ff

Learning vs. Consistency:
See Consistency, 22 Feb172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Learning: You Can't Learn Less:
"Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more.
He cannot learn less.
-
Cite RBF quoted by Cam Smith in RBF TO CHILDREN OF EARTH, Dec'72

Learning: You Can't Learn Less:
See Universe, 15 Dec171
Information, 4 Jan'70

Learning:
See Education
Study
Unlearning
Learning: You Can't Learn Less
Learning vs. Consistency
Crudity is Part of the Learning
Trial & Error
Knowing vs. Reasoning
(1)

Learn: Learning:
See Experiment, 1970
Consistency, 22 Feb*72*
Belief, 6 Jul 75
Mistake, 9 Nov 75
Words & Coping, ? Nov' 75
Human Tolerance Limits, (B) (D)
(2)

Least Asymmetry:
See Raft: Basic Raft

RBF DEFINITIONS
Least Effort:
"There are only three possible cases of fundamental
omni-symmetrical, omni-triangulated, least effort
structural systems in nature: the tetrahedron with three
triangles at each vertex, the octahedron with four triangles
at each vertex, and the icosahedron with five triangles at
each vertex."
Cite SYNERGETICS ILLUSTRATIONS # 7
1967

Least Effort Interpatterning:
See Frame of Reference: Six Schemata, 28 Oct 73

Least Effort:
See Least Resistance
Minimum Effort
bost Comfortable
Omnitriangulated
(1)

See Prime Structural Systems, 11 Jul'62; 1967
Ruddering Sequence, (3)
Structural Quanta, 3 Oct'72
Triangle, 1960
Pattern, 3 Oct172
Least Effort:
(2)
21

RBF DEFINITIONS
Least Resistance:
"...Everything invariably moves in the direction of least
resistance.
"The history of man's creative effort is the story of his
struggle to control 'direction' by the elimination of known
resistances.
"To the degree that the direction of least resistance is
controled by vacuumizing the advance and de-vacuumizing the
wake, the course of society can be progressively better charted
and eventually determinable with a high degree of certainty."
-
Citation and context at lotion, 1938

RBF DE
Least Resistance:
See Least Effort
Preferred Directions of Least Resistance
Most Comfortable
(1)

Least Resistance:
See Motion, 10 Nov'73
Precession Jan '66
Universe,
10 Jul 62
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lecturing:
"Every lecture brings a fresh inventorying of experience.
Psychologically, I'd prefer to clam up."
-
Cite RBF to Harold Cphen, Washington DC, 27 Apr '71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lecturing:
"Speakers who appear frequently before large audiences of
human beings over a period of years have learned that the
eyes of the audience 'talk back' so instantaneously to
them that they know just what their audiences are thinking
and they can converse with their audiences, even though the
speaker seems to be the only one making audible words. The
feedback by eye is so swift as to give him instantaneous
spontaneous reaction and appropriate thought formulation."
- Cite RBF Intro. to Gene Youngblood's EXPANDED CINEMA, P.29.
Oct'70

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lecturing:
"My daughter's a dancer. She's really been a dancet from when
she was tiny. She's a professor of dance anthropology at UCLA.
And when she was about 12 she said, "Daddy, you've been brought
up in this New England way that teaches you that it's very ill-
mannered for men to show any emotion, and to make their words
with the least possible display of
motion. And as a
dancer I know that you're repressing everything important in
you, and if you just dare to let yourself move, you're going to
find that your thoughts are coming very much more clearly.'
(1)
"And she was really so cogent that I was knocked over by this
little child; and I decided that she was right and I would try
to do it. It was quite a reverse in all the training I'd had--
the Naval Academy and everything else. But today I'm absolutely
unaware of my motions and sometimes when I see a film of my
lectures, I'm amazed to see that I'm all over the stage like a
ballerina. Absolutely unaware of it.
"That first happened to me when I was speaking to the San Quentin
prisoners. I was thinking so hard that I closed my eyes and I
must have had my eyes closed for half an hour. And when I
opened them I was just teetering at the edge of the stage.
-
Cite RBF tap to Barry Farrall, Bear Island, 11 Aug '70
That's"

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lecturing:
"happened quite a few times when I'm thinking very intensely.
If I'm aware of myself, it's no good. Every time you give a
lecture it's like an airplane loaded with fuel. You need
that runway. And when you take off is when you become
unconscious of yourself."
"My wife is just fantastically faithful. She must have been to
500 or more lectures. She thinks the half-hour ones are the
best."
Cite transcript of RBF tape to Barry Farrell, Tape #2, Side B,
p.5; Bear Island, 11 Aug' 70
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lecturing:
"I don't ask anybody to believe anything, ever. So it takes
a long
time to cover all the points of departure. I really
must
tie everything together and take as long as it takes.
I can do it in about 55 hours: (times 7,000 words makes
385,000 words)."
-
Cite transcript of RBF tape to Barry Farrell, Tape #2, Side A,
p.4; Bear Island, 11 Aug'70

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lecturing:
"You may think I am taking up a lot of your time," he
tells audiences during the third hour of a four or five
hour lecture, "but I don't think that man has much time."
-
Cite RBF quoted in Queen, May '70

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lecturing:
"I've learned many years ago that it is quite possible
to think out loud and I find that it is quite an extraordinary
habit about how live meetngs are. People will be at
meetings at which I am present and will take a piece of
paper out of their pockets and dtart to read me a speech,
and I'll say,
"Let me have the paper, I can read it myself."
What I think really counts is the fact that we don't have
the slightest idea what happens in our lives. This is
something very mysterious and I'd rather look in everybody
else's eyes-- I'm not interested just in hearing myself,
and unloading some ideas. I'm interested in the many meetings
in my life, in how we mutually may be ableto find out why
we're here, and what we ought to be doing about it, if
possible."
-
à Cite THIS IS YOUR GRAND STRATEGY, 4 Feb 168, p. 1.

Lecturing:
See Eye-beamed Thought
Feedback by Eye
Fuller, R.B: Lecture Invitations
Question Period
Slides: Graphics vs. Words
Slides: Use of Slides in Lecturing
Speech
Thinking Out Loud
(1)

Lecturing:
See Bibliography, 2 Jul 62
Communicating, (1) (2)
Puzzle of Washington Crossing the Delaware, (1)(2)
Rope, May 72
Mental Mouthfuls, y Jul'62
Intuition as Remote Cosmic Transmission, 29 Jan'75.
World-around Communication Transcends Politics, (2)
Communication, 21 Jun 77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Left Hand: Right Hand:
"Now what we call thinkable is always
What we call space is just exactly as real, but it
There is no such thing as right
is inside-out.
and left!"
-
Cate
Citation at
outside-out
oh, Carbondale Rome,
1 May '71
Parity

RBP DEFINITIONS
Left & Right:
"Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to
make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, then
left again and repeat. Between the over-controlled steering
mistakes they inadvertently attain the--between the two--
desired direction of advance. This is why physics has found
no straight lines--they have found a physical Universe con-
sisting only of waves.
Cite RBF Ltr. to Bro. Joa. Chuala, p.3; 7 Nov' 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Left & Right:
"I think your words 'right' and 'left' should be replaced
by the nonequal and opposite words 'positive' and 'negative'.
The present dilemma of science in respect to 'parity' of
right and left image amuses me because I had rejected right
and left concepts in energetic-synergetic geometry. Right
and left implied a two-dimensional reality, of infinite
thinness. I had long ago discovered that systems had inherent
convexity and concavity and required irreversible turbining of
their omnigeared Universe event relationships. Inasmuch as all
systems could be turned inside-out, having inherent insideness
and outsideness, I discovered that mirror reversal of the
rubber glove from one hand to the other could be accomplished
without reversal of the finger-wrist axis...
"
Citation and context at Tetrahedral Dynamics (2)(3), 4 May'57

Left & Right:
See Non-mirror Image
Science: Left Hand & Right Hand Science
Zigzag: Right-left: Halfway Averaging
Walking
Steering: Steerability
Enantiomorph
Handedness
Mirror Image
(1)

Left & Right:
See Democracy, 13 Nov 69
Parity, Jun'66; 1967; 1 May171*
Tetrahedral Dynamics (2) (3)*
Triangle, 1967; 20 Jun'66
Crystallography, 17 Aug'70
Invisible Quantum as Tetrahelix Gap Closer,
23 May'75
Mistake, y Nov175
Feedback, 7 Nov 75
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (3)
(2)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Legs:
"Man was born with legs, not roots."
Cite RBF as quoted in ROLLING STONE, 10 June 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Legs:
"Man was designed with legs-- not roots."
Cite I SEEM TO BE A VERB Bantam, 1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Legs:
"Man is born with legs, not roots."
- Cite Edw. C. Higbee Introduction 26 Aug. '66, quoting RBF.

Legs: Man Born with Legs Not Roots:
See Deployment:
Locomotion:
Mobility
Man's Increasing Deployment Pattern
Radius of Man's Locomotion
(1)

Legs: Man Born with Legs not Roots:
See Locomotion: Radius of Man's Locomotion, (1)
Human Unsettlement, (4)
(2)

Log: Legs:
See Edge
Female Leg
Grasshopper's Legs
(1)

Leg: Lega:
See Planet Earth,
12 Feb 72
(2)

Legend:
Legends:
See Christian Legend & Philosophy
Myth
Legend
Parable
(1)

Legend: Legends:
See Fuller, R.B: The Thinking Me, a8 Dec* 76
(2)

TEXT CITATIONS
Leibnits:
982.81

70
Laibnitz: Gottfried Wilhelm von: (1646-1716):
See Blind Man's Bluff, 1 Oct '71

Lending:
See Half Octahedron: Lending Model

Lending & Borrowing:
See Vector Equilibrium: Lending & Borrowing Model

RBF DEFINITIONS
Length:
Longevity:
"Time and heat and longevity and weight are inherent in
every dimension.
"
Citation & context at Dimension, 21 Dec171
CILE ABP TO LJ, 3200 Idaho, Washington DG, 21 Dec, 171,

RBF DEFINITIONS
Length:
IS A DURATION OF EXPERIEULE AID
"What we call length is always measured in time."
DIMENSION
- SEC
527.
-
Cite RBF Lecture
Town Hall, New York
12 Farch 1971
* RBF MARGINALIS, STUERCETICS, DRAFT-4/71

HBF DEFINITIONS
Length:
"The overall longitudinal length of wavilinear
vectorial lines is determined by the number of waves
contained."
-
-
Cite SYNERGETICS: Corollaries, Sec.
by HBF 11 Oct. 171.,
Haverford, Penna..
Citation at Wavilinear, 11 Oct'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Length:
"Length is distance. Distance is measured in time.
Time increments are calculated in respect to a variety of
cyclic regularities manifest in our environmental experiences."
Citation at Time, Jun'66

Length-to-girth Ratio:
See Cigar Shape
Push-pull
Slnderness Ratio
Tension
(1)

Length-to-girth Ratio:
See Chemical Bonds (1)
Gravity, 7 Feb 71; 2 Mar 68; 15 Oct'64
Ruddering Sequence, (5)
(2)
123

Length:
See Vector: One-second Vector Length
Height, Length & Width
Longevity
Equilength
(1)

Length:
See Dimension, 21 Dec'71*
Equiangularity, 25 Sep 72
Size, (1)
Time, Jun'66*
Wavilinear, 11 Oct 171*
Standard, Jul 71
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519),:
"This star tetrahedron name was given to it by Leonardo
da Vinci."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft "Antitetrahedron, 8 Oct. 171.
P. 7.

HBF DEFINITIONS
Leonardo da Vinci:
"Leonardo da Vinci was apprised of the natural principle of
mechanically functioning structures, but he had neither the
precise materials to be highly use-effective teleologically
nor the possibility of evolving them out of anything at
hand to correspond with their efficiency as observed in
nature."
Cite NINE CHAINS, p. 176, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Leonardo Type:
"Central to the intuiting of those who in history have proved
themselves to be creative scientist-artists of the Leonardo
type has been the spontaneous teleologic translation of past
experiences into their objective designing. They all manifest
in their work and record in their letters and diaries a prime
intuitive regard for their potential and kinetic energy-
coordinative experiences and for the full family of motion
freedoms.
"Attaining and maintaining intellectually informed creative
competence involves the antithesis of specialization.
-
Cite HYPER, World Mag., 10 Apr173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Leonardo Type:
"Now all this time the Leonardo, or artist, type was making
one thing at a time for his patrons. When I was young the
Victorian era was absolutely rampant and downtown there were
beautiful cabinetmakers making beautiful cabinets for the
rich middle class or the nobles. In other words, the artist
made the end product with his own hands. They were good at
developing more and more artists, digging art into almost
everybody. It was being very greatly cultivated. Now in the
new era the artist-Leonardo said: 'There are not enough
artists to make end product for everybody by hand.' So what
has to go on from now on is the artist-scientist-Leonardo
type who makes designs for tools and the tools make the end
product. And the tools require a lot of power; and we now
have the relaying of power. We have the waterwheel. We
can generate electricity, and so forth. Then all of our
machniery you will find is all leverage... Various forms of
levers. For the gears are just a series of levers-- all
tied up to an enormous entity much more than the muscle of
man.
So that really is the beginning of what we might call
the mass production era."
Cite Univ. of Alaska Addres, p.7 20 Apr '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
The Leonardo Type:
"There have been men in our history who have become well-
known to us by virtue of their tool-inventing and tool-
using capabilities; and their conceptualizing of tasks
they could do-- takks they have done on behalf of their
fellow men. I will simply call this kind of man the
Leonardo-type. He was a very comprehensive toolmaker,
tool-conceiver, tool-user, and a large problem addresser
and solver."
"In the middle of the 20th century Henry Ford may be
identified as the great Leonardo-type, even though he
would be absolutely astonished. He thought of his workas
utterly prosaic, but he might then be thought of as having
Lenardo-type conceptualization. And the idea was that
from this point on the artist makes tools and the tools
make the end-product, and this is mass production."
Cite COMMITMENT TO HUMANITY, p. 32. May'70

RBF DEFINITIONS
Leonardo Type:
"Leonardo types seem to have avoided attemtping to reform
the metaphysical environment. They are documented only for
their employment of the 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
potentials."
Citation and context at Bridge, 13 Nov'69

TEXT CITATIONS
Leonardo Type:
Planetary Planning, pp.69-70; 74-75; 81-82; 86-87; 91, 13 Nov '69
RBF Address to International University of Art, Venice, 1971
Univ. of Alaska Address, pp. 4-5, 20 Apr 172
Earth, Inc. (RBF Reader, ed. Meller), p.232, 1947
637.01
638.01
in toto
1210 (p.738

Leonardo Type:
See Artist-scientist
Ford, Henry
(1)

Leonardo Type:
See Bridge, 13 Nov 69
Intuition of the Child (3)
(2)

Less:
See Learning:
You Can't Learn Less
More With Less
More & More About Less & Less

Lethal Ignorance:
See Resource Inadequacy, May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Letters of the Alphabet:
All patterns, for instance, numbers or
phonetic letters, consist of physical ingredients
and physical ingredient recalls. The physical ingredients
consist inherently of event-paired quanta and the latter's
six-vectored, positive and negative, actions, reactions
and resultants
Cite NASA Speech,
JUA 166
Citation at Pattern, Jun'66
Number, Jun'66

Letters of the Alphabet:
See Phoenician, 28 Jan '75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lever:
"The lever is a tetrahedron."
[See acompanying sketch.]
- Cite RBF to EJA, Pepper Tree Inn, Santa Barbara
10 Feb 73

THE
A-
LOAD
}
LEVER 25
TETRAHEDRIN
EFFOR?.
FULCRUM

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lever:
"The principle of leverage is a scientific generalization.
It makes no difference of what material either the fulcrum
or the lever consists-- wood, steel. or reinforced concrete.
Nor do the special case sises of the lever and fulcrum, nor
of the load pried at one end, or the work applied at the
lever's other end, in any way alter either the principle or
the mathematical regularity of the ratios of physical work
advantage which are provided at progressive fulcrum-to-load
increments of distance outward from the fulcrum in the
opposite direction along the lever's arm at which the operating
effort is applied."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft Chronicle, pp. 4-5, from NehrusSpeech
as rewritten by RBF 3 Jun '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Layer:
"The lever works whether it is wood, steel, aluminum, fiber
glass, or even reinforced concrete. Reinforced concrete can
make
a lever. The principle of the lever; that is, balancing
the arms from the fulcrum over to the load and then on to the
lifting arm on the opposite side of the fulcrum to go out one
increment of distance between load and fulcrum and you have
an even advantage: to go out with ten such lengths, you can
lift ten times as much weight, and so it goes. If the
distance is one foot from the load to the fulcrum, and you go
out on the lever arm ten feet, and you weigh 200 pounds, you
will be able to lift ten times 200 pounds, or exactly one
ton on the other end of the lever.
"So little you could lift one ton. I should say 'little 200-
pound you could lift one ton. That would be ten times your
own weight; that is my main point. And the main point about
the lever is that it doesn't have to be wood. It can be any
kind of material and it can work anywhere in the Universe.
Whereas your experience with the lever is always one special-
case lever a wooden one, or a steel one-- and any that you"
(1)
Cite RBF Preface to Henry Malcolm's "Generation of Narcissus,"
5
Feb 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lever:
"can design will always have to be special case. There is the
general mathematical principle.
Cite RBF Preface to Henry Malcolm's "Generation of Narcissus,
5 Feb 71
(11)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lever:
"The generalized principle of leverage
Holds true in all cases
Be the lever
Wood, steel, aluminum,
Or reinforced concrete."
->
Cite GENERALIZED PRINCIPLES, p.1, 28 Jan'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Laver:
(I)
"You might think about the total of all our mechanics as
being something done in terms of levers. Men were learning
how to develop higher advantage gainable out of the use of
the hands with a lever and then learning how to capture free
energy patterns, bring them into focus, and bring them on to
the ends of the lever, For instance, a waterwheel is really
a series of levers, first one lever and then another lever--
get out on the end of the lever where you can do the most
work, move from the center of the hub, the radius of the
waterwheel being the length of the lever. You present a
series of levers and you learn then to take the great energy
pattern of nature: atomizing the waters and making them into
clouds and then coming down as rain and landing on the top of
hills and coming down the hills as rivers. We learn to take the
energy pattern of the water rushing to the lowest level; and
they exploited gravity then by canalizing that water into
reservoirs and then being able to let it out of the reservoirs
at the time they wanted to do the work. So they had it
coming out specifically, landing on the blade of the
waterwheel."
"Man suddenly developed a way in which he organized the energy"
Cite Oregon Lecture 31, pp.3-4, 1 Jul 62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lever:
"patterns of nature with the principles of leverage so that
he could stand off and the work could go on in a preferred
manner. This is really the essence of everything we are going
to talk about in mechanics and industrialization."
-Cite Oregon Lecture #1, pp.3-4, 1 Jul'62
(II)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Leverage augmentation:
"The original chaotic disposition of the 92 chemical
elements is gradually being converted by the industrial
principle to orderly separation and systematic distribution
over the face of the earth in structural or mechanical
arrangements of active or potential leverage-augmentation."
-
Site COMPREHEN
Citation at Industrial Principle, 1 Jun'49
SIGNER

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lever Complexes:
"Environment controlling artifacts consist essentially
of structures & machine.
Mechanical advantaging environment controls
consist of lever complexes.
Gear trains and turbines are lever complexes. "
Citation & context at Environment Controls (1) (2), 31 May174

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lever:
Fallon Tree as a Lever:
"If we find any exception
We no longer have a scientific generalization.
Scientific generalizations are extraordinarily meaningful,
As for instance was the discovery
Of the principle of leverage,
Which probably came about as follows:
Occasionally humans who have penetrated
Wilderness forests
Encounter trees fallen slantwise
Across their line-of-sight path
In their chosen direction of travel.
"It is obviously quiker
To climb over the fallen tree
Than to try to walk around it.
They find it logical
To walk along the top of the fallen tree
when it leads in the direction of preferred travel
Or toward the next opening in the forest.
As they walk along the horizontal trunk
They feel the tree to be progressively sinking."
Cite HHAIN & MIND, pp. 136-137 May 172
(A)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lever:
Fallen Tree as a Lever:
"As they move farther it tips earthward
At a faster rate.
They retreat--
Back along the tree trunk.
Experimenting, they find the tree
On which they are walking
Is lying across another tree.
And then they observe
That the end of the tree behind them,
Opposite to the direction
In which they were walking,
Is itself superimposed
By a third and very mighty tree.
"Looking the situation over they find
That as they walk outward-- journeyward--
Along the first tree
That its slow but accelerating descent
Coincides with the other end's
Lifting the trunk of the massive tree.
Never having heard of a lever
Or fulcrum,
Cite BRAIN & MIND, p.137 May 172
(B)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lever: Fallen Tree as a Lever:
"They say, 'That big tree which is being lifted
Is much too big for me to lift.'
They go over to the massive tree
And attempt to lift it directly
With their arm, back and leg muscles.
It doesn't budge.
"Shaking their heads in surprise,
They once more try walking along
On the first tree.
Again the massive tree rises easily.
And Neanderthal man probably thought
As it rose
That he had founs a magic tree-lifting tree.
And he probably dragged it home
Where the tribe worshipped it
Until suddenly his wife said,
'Any tree will do that lifting.'
And sure enough,
Not only would any tree do
But so too would any steel bar,
Or glass reinforced plastic bar,
-
. Cite BRAIN & MIND, PI.137-138 May 172
(C)
40

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lever:
Fallen Tree as a Lever:
"Or any small-toothed gear,
Or a large-toothed gear.
"this man discovered
A true scientific generalization
Which always holds true
Under any circumstances.
The lever works equally well
Anywhere in Universe.
It can be made of many materials,
It can be of any size.
Its behavior follows incisively predictable
Mathematical laws."
Cite BRAIN & AD, p.138 May 172
(D)

MBF DEFINITIONS
Lever: Fallen Tree as a Lever:
"For instance, we have the principle of the lever. The
lever is nothing by itself. de have a bar, a fulcrum, and
a load and then the application of effort on the other end
of the lever arm with a minimum of the levering function,
Using the distance from the fulcrum to the load as a basic
increment, we discover that going one unit on the lever
arm outwardly produces an even balance. Going two units
outwardly makes it possible to left twice that amount. in
this way little man has been able to lift large tonnages with
nis little tiny weight, where only maybe a 200-pound man
can lift a ton with his lever. I'm sure the first lever
discovered by man was a fallen tree, where one fallen tree
would lie across another fallen tree. When by accident he
stepped on the tree that was lying, across the other one--
he saw that his standing on the other end made the big tree
lift. He discovered the lever. The lever can be of wood;
it can be of steel; it could be of aluminum; or it could be
of reinforced concrete. It could be many, many substances
and we discover that the human mind is able to discover a
principle and the mathematics of it. It learns that
subjectively. But then it can also employ the principle
.
(1)
Cite RBF at SIMS Seminar, U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July'71, p.7.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lever: Fallen Tree as a Lever:
It
"objectively. But in employing the _ principle
objectively, man cannot design a generalized lever.
must be a specific lever, a special case lever, again
either wood or steel, six feet long or ten feet long,
whatever it might be. So the human mind has the ability
to recognize generalized principles which, in order to be
principles, must be eternal. We have then the human mind
demonstrating a contact with the great eternity and able
then to modify within our present life various physical
ways."
-
Cite RBF at Students International Meditation Seminar,
U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July 171, pp. 7-8
(2)

04
RBF DEFINITIONS
Lever: Fallen Tree as a Leyer:
In
(a)
"Out of industrialization came the ability to do very large
things in very big ways. But I'd like to get down to something
rather more fundamental. What man
then has to discover is
generalized principles. In literature, the word 'generaliza-
tion
' means trying to cover too much territory too thinly.
science the word refers to the discovery of a principle that
holds true in every case; if you find even a single exception,
then it
is no longer a generalized principle in science.
"Consider, in ancient times, a man like any of us going through
the woods from
time to time, woods where men have not gone very
often. Trees
, fallen in great storms, are strewn across one
another, and
he tries to reach his destination as directly as
he can by climbing
over them. As he climbs over one of the
trees, it begins
to sink with him slowly and he moves back for
a moment and
then comes up again to the same place. As he walks
on the tree and
it sinks lower and lower, he wonders what's
going on. He looks at the tree and sees that it's lying across
another one, the
other end of which is under a very big tree--
and as he moves
out farther that enormous tree is being lifted,
and he
says
:
'Inever lifted a tree like that.' He goes over
and tries to lift it with his muscle and finds that he can't"
-
Cite RBF in Franklin Lecture, Auburn, Ala,, 1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lever: Fallen Tree as a Leveri
(b)
"budge it. But standing back on the fallen tree, sure enough
he can lift it. Now I suspect this man must have gone to his
family with talk of a magic tree, a very special tree that
would be brought home and kept around for a number of genera-
tions. But then one day someone must have found that any
tree would do. Now, as a generalization, that is the beginning
of the lever.
"With that lever, man was able to move things he couldn't move
with his own muscle. He began to move large rocks around and
develop monumental defenses. Then the great pirates began to
use levers in big ways. They set their slaves to rowing ships,
which now could go windward with the rowing ship (something the
wind alone would not let them do). They then began to have
very much bigger ships, and they had to find a way to anchor
them. The anchor, which of course had to be recovered when not
in use, was made of metal and was very heavy. So they developed
those same levers into a capstan around a shaft that the slaveam
pushed around horisontally-- and up came the anchor. Later,
man found that he could turn the shaft around vertically and
from this came water wheels. Man had time and again felt the
potential force of falling water (under water falls and so forth)."
Cite RBF in Franklin Lecture, Auburn, Ala., 1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Layer:
Fallen Tree as a Lever:
(c)
"Now men mounted a wheel on a shaft and bearings, and they put
pulleys and then belts up into buildings to do all kinds of
work. This was the beginning of man's discovering generalized
principles and using them to channel energies from the atmos-
phere. In this case, the Sun is elevating water out of the
sea into the sky until it returns down the hills to be
channeled to the ends of levers to do man's work. From this
point on, the big task of man was to use his mind to find ways
of doing work very much greater than his muscles could possibly
do, by mastering and channeling energies of the Universe onto
the ends of levers."
Cite RBF in Franklin Address, Auburn, Ala., 1970

Lever: Fallen Tree as a Lever:
See Wheel, 9 Feb*64

TEXT CITATIONS
Lever:
Saturn Films Transcript, World Game, Jun-Jul'69, pp. 91-93
608.02-608.03
614.04
614.07
615.02
640.50
700.02
705.03
1051.10
1051.50-1051.55
8533.08
8533.12

Lever:
See Gusset
Gravity: Circumferential Leverage
Coherence vs. Lever
(1)

Lever: Leverage:
See Buckle, 10 Nov 173
Coherence, 11 Feb 73
Continuous Man (4)
Energy, Jun'66
Industrial Principle, 1 Jun'49
Mass Production:
Mind (2)
Inadvertence Of, May'72
Precession (b); (II)
Radiation, 1865
Waterfall, Feb'73
Conservation of Energy, 18 Mar'65
Technology, 21 Jan'75
Necklace, (A)(B)
Triangle, Nov' 71
Equilateral, Nov' 71
Surface Strength of Structures, Mar' 72
Creation, 29 Mar' 77
(2)

Library:
See Brain as Library
(1)

Library:
See Brain, Jun'66
City, (B)
Communications Hierarchy, (3)
Relationship Analysis, (1)
(2)

Librium:
See Omnilibrium

License:
See No License to Be Of Service:

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lie: Telling A Lie:
" The point is that the experiences are multiplied. It
includes the people who move the furniture of the information
around and put it in conditions it had never been before--
called telling a lie, or prevaricating. But they will have
to be dealing with that furniture of experience.
->
Citation and context at Universe, 16 Jun 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lies:
"There are people who lie to you but the furniture of their
lies are realities. They say they put the chair in the
corner over there but they didn't. There is a chair and there
is a corner so manipulation of the data doesn't bother you
in the terms of these experiences."
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #2, p. 58.2 Jul 162

Lies:
See Lying
Truth & Nontruth

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
"The chemical atoms are all physical; whereas the phenomenon
life is utterly metaphysical. Life is the fourth, now-you-
see-it-now-you-don't, quantum. The metaphysical mind employs
these organically regenerative, subjectively interacting,
sensing, storing, and intuiting devices, as well as all the
organism's unique, objectively articulate faculties to harvest
critically relevant information."
Citation & context at Man:: Interstellar Transmission of Man,
(B), 9 Jun 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
"Since 'life' and its comprehending mind are only metaphysical,
weightless, sizeless, and immortal, there are no physical
environmental conditions within which" humans "cannot cognit-
ively prosper.
"...Those who speak of the 'chemistry of life' are unwittingly
self-misinforming. Life is not chemistry. Life is not
physical.
Life is indestructible, immortal, eternal. Life
is only weightlessly and omniinveisbly present."
Citation & context at Human Mind & Physical Evolution,
(6), 5 Jun 75
(7)'

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
"Life
so far as we know it-- is a physical experience
and it is not only physical, it is structured.
Cite RBF in "Panorama' " WTTG-TV broadcast, dash. DC, 7 Apr175

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
"Life is a synergetic phenomenon that is between, and not
of, the metaphysical."
Citation & context at Metaphysical & Physical, 22 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
"The awareness we speak of as life is inherently immortal
and equi-eternal."
->
Citation and context at Pure Principle, 10 Feb'73

RBP DEFINITIONS
Life:
"The lag is the whole of life. It is lag and aberration."
Cite RBF to Brendan O'regan, enroute Cleveland, 23 May '72
Context at Rubber Glove, 23 May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
"Life may well be a dream,
A comedy and tragedy
Of errors of conceptioning
Inherent in the dualistic
Imaginary assumption
Of a self differentiated
From all the complex otherness
Of reasonably conceivable Universe
For it must be remembered
That no human has ever seen directly
Outside himself."
Citation and context at Sensorial Identification of Reality
(1)+(2), May 172"

REF DEFI.1TIONS
Life:
"Since whatever life may be,
It has no weight,
As has been discovered
By weighing individuals
At the moment of their dying."
Cite BRAIN & MIND, p.170 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
"But as long as self-consciousness continues
The inherent inexactitude of
Eathian mind's self-and-environment apprehending--
Yclept life-- will continue
Only as a dependent function
Infinitely subordinate
To cosmic totality.
"But life will-- ever and anon--
Experience inspirational glimpsing
Of the orderly cosmic vectors
All of which point convergingly to absolute--
Ergo incomprehensible to temporality--
Truth."
Cite EVOLUTIONARY 1972-1975 ABOARD SPACE VEHICLE EARTH,
Jan 172, pp. 8-9.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
"Life is metabolic regeneration."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Washington DC, 21 Dec. 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
"A cone is simply a tetrahedron being rotated.
Omnidirectional growth-- which means all life--
can only be accommodated by tetrahedron."
Bear Island, 25 August 19
Citation at Tetrahedron, 25 Aug'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
"Life, and the Universe that goes with it, begins
with two spheres: you and me.
•
and you are
always prior to me."
-
CITE RBF marginalis on Synergetics draft Sec. 223.31- 19 Jun '71.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
•
The regeneration of the Universe probably depends
on these local monitors of very high capability
to solve very complex problems. Certainly our lives
manifest just problems, problems, problems.
could be more descriptive of life than problems.
But we have a beautiful sorting capability."
Nothing
Denver, 2 done 1971.
Citation at Problem, 2 Jun'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
"Life is the Now event with its reaction Past and
resultant Future."
Cite RBF Marginalis, SYNERGETICS Draft (Conceptuality, Life),
1 June 1971
LIFE - 53101)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
"Universe is omnisymmetrical.
But it is locally
asymmetrical. This is what makes life so interesting."
"You can only see the asymmetrical.
total."
You can't see the
to Ell and BOYR
Citation & context at Asymmetry, 31 May'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
"Life is high pulsative asymmetry."
- Cite RBF tape transcript Blackstone Hotel, Chicago,
31 May 1971, p. 51.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
"Only life's temporary vehicles
Can be destroyed.
"Life is inherently immortal."
-
Cite Dreyfuss Preface, "Decease of Meaning,"
28 April 1971, p. 4

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
"Organisms are machines,
Life is not the organism-machine.
The organic residues progressively disassociate
And reassociate chemically.
Only the physical reassociations
Are organic machines
Which are inherently temporary
Evolutionary formulations.
"Life, love and its mind
Are eternal-- metaphysical-- weightless--
And forever reinvestible
In temporal reformulations,
As limited degree assignments,
Suitable to mind's solution
Of complex, local evolutionary problems
Implicit in th eternally regenerative
Scenario Universe."
Al
Cite Dreyfus Preface, "Decease of Meaning"
28 April 1971. P. 3

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
"Life is the eternal present in the temporal. Each
individual life is a special case articulation of the
infinite variety of 'scenarios' to be realized within
the multi-degrees of freedom and vast range of frequencies
of actions that are accommodated by the generalized laws
governing Universe. With death the individual loses
nothing, but gains the insight and knowledge of all
others as well."
LIFE
53% of
Cite SYNERGETICS Draft - "Conceptuality: Life"
Marginalia, Somerset Club, Boston
-
- RBF
25 April 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
"What we call life is a complex of multidimensional
oscillations and palpitations between various degrees
of positive and negative asymmetries, whose multi-variant
lags in conceptioning bring about what seems to be
temporal substance. The complex woof of a plurality
of lag rates-- produces pure weightless metaphysical
images-produces the awareness we speak of as life.
-
Cite SYNERGETICS Draft - "Conceptuality: Life" - RBF
Marginalia, Somerset Club, Boston, 25 April 1971
LIFE SEC. 531 00

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
"Life is visible and invisible but immortal."
-
Cite RBF holgraph, Somerset Club, Boston, 22 April 1971.

LIFE
-
RBP DEFINITIONS
Life:
Our
"Life is the difference between temporality and eternity.
individual life is a special case, Death reverts to the whole.
It may not seem satisfactory, but the individuals survive in
awareness because they are potential to the whole-- like an
average of plus (+) and minus (-) weights.
OSCILLATION
"So what we call life is osculation between various degrees of
asymmetry, or lags in conceptioning, which brings about what
seems to be the temporal. The plurality of lags is the
apparent explanation of the awareness we speak of as life--
life itself. Lag is the same as interval. Instantaneity would
eliminate otherness, time, self-and-other awareness. Instant-
aneity and eternal are both timeless: they are the same."
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotely, NYC, 13 Mar' 71
SECS - 531.02 +531.03)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
"My life' is the progressive harvestings of the information
unpredictably accruing in the attempt to be both adequate and
accurate. The harvest is stored in the brain bank. Life
consists of alternate observing and articulating interspersed
with variable-recall rates of retrieved observations and
variable rates of their reconsideration to the degrees of
'understandability.""
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 513.06, 25 Mar'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
"Life consists of observing and articulating."
- Gite RBF SYNERGETICS draft Kar 171
Citation and context at
Observing vs. Articulating, Mar' 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
"The concept of life
Is unique to the mind.
Brain apprehends
Only the physical.
Brain does not differentiate life and death."
Citation at Brain & Mind, 28 Jan'69
-
Bit CERALIZED PRINCI

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
11
Whatever life may be it has not been isolated
and thereby identified as residual in the biolggical cell.
No life per se has been isolated
"Whatever else life may be we know it is weightless.
At the moment of death no weight is lost. All the
chemicals, including the chemist's life ingredients are
present but life has vanished. The physical is inherently
entropic gives off energy in ever more disorderly ways.
The metaphysical is anti-entropic, methodically marshalls
energy. Life is anti-entropic. It is spontaneously
inquisitive. It sorts out and
stand."
endeavors to under-
"The inanimate alone is not only omni-present but
is alone experimentally demonstrable."
Cite NEHRU, Pp. 38-39, 13 Nov'69

RHP DEFINITIONS
Life:
"Life is physical and antientropic."
Citation and context at Animate and inanimate, 4 Mar 69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
"Life is orderly energetic regeneration in Universe.
Humanity experiences spontaneous contentment, satisfaction,
hope, and aesthetic pleasure in the presence of an
abundant reproduction of the essentials."
Cite GENERALIZED LAWS OF DESIGN, p.3, 22 Apr 68

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
"The biological corpus
Is not strictly 'animate' at any point.
.
Within the order of evolution as usually drawn
Life occurred as a series
of fortuitous probabilities in the primeval sea.
It could have been sent or 'radiated there.
*
Not as primal cell, but as
A fully articulated high order being
The life integrities are apparently
Inherently immortal."
-
Citation at Pattern Integrity (1)-(4), Oct'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
"Humans about to die in hospitals have been carefully
weighed as life departed. No weight was lost.
Whatever life is, it is imponderable."
-
p.
Citation and context at Death: Weighing of People As They Die
10 Oct '63

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
"... Life is a series of compounding degrees of complexity--
of possible into probable interactions, separations, and
substitutional relaying."
Citation and context at Intellect, 16 Aug'50

KBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
"Life in retrospect, however, may be informatively discovered
to have been comprised of a progressive series of interruptions
and penetrations of the successively latest a priori environ-
ment continuities-- by unfamilar frequencies or biodynamic
groups of frequencies, always occurring as unfamiliar to the
ignorantly accepted trend to mono-tony.' "
Citation & context at Periodic Experience, (2), Kay'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life:
"Consciously or unconsciously life is systematically pulsive.
The heart pulses without conscious authority.
It ceases
without recourse to man's assumed objective authority.
It propagates."
p
Citation & context at Charting Alternating Experiences of
Man & Nature (1), May'49
CAL THINK IM

Lifeboat:
See Geoscope, 29 Jan 75

Life Cells:
See Biological Cella
Protoplasm
Tissue Cells of Animal Flesh
(1)

Life Colla:
See Genius, 1938
Human Beings, 1972
Talent, (1)
Touch, 29 Dec158
Animate & Inanimate, 11 Dec175
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
1st Para
2nd Para
Life & Death:
"We don't have two Universes-- this world and the next
world. Death is only the as-yet unexperienced, superlow
frequencies. Both death and life are complementary functions
of our electromagnetic experience.
"Life's reality is constituted by the unique frequency
identifications of the chemical elements and their atomic
components, as well as the humanly-tune-in-able 'color'
frequencies of the comprehensive electromagnetic spectrum's
concentrically interpositioned occurrences-- usually
published as a chart of positions along any one radius of
the comprehensive, concentric system. Death's reality is
constituted by all the intervals between and beyond-- inward-
ly-and-outwardly--of the comprehensive electromagnetic
frequencies."
Incorporated in SYNERGETICS 2 at Sec. 262.10
Incorporated in SYNERGETICS 2 at Sec. 531.10
Cite RBF rewrite (holograph) of 25 Jan 76 citation; Wash.
DC., 26 Jan'76

RbF DEFINITIONS
Life & Death:
We don't have two Universes. Death is only the as yet
unexperienced... very long-wave, superlow frequencies.
Both death and life are part of our science, part of our
electromagnetic experience."
-Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash., DC; 25 Jan' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life & Death:
"Life is an inventory of in-and-out tunings.
Birth is
the first tuning-in; death may not be the last."
-
Citation & context at Tuning-in & Tuning-out, 17 May '77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life & Death:
(1)
"Within economics we may be able to demonstrate the existence
of a metabolic process generalization which is akin to, if
not indeed implicitly inherent in
Einstein's, and others' concept of a cosmically regenerative
a composite of Boltzmann's
,
omnintercomplementation of a diversity of energetic export-
import centers that nonsimultaneously ebb and flow to accomo-
date entropically and syntropically, omnidiversally, omniregen-
erative
intertransformings. How can economics demonstrate &
generalization from the utterly uninhibited viewpoint of the
individual human?
"It is said that atones do not have hunger. But stones are
hygroscopic and do successively import and export both water
and energy as heat or radiation. New stones progressively
aggregate and disintegrate. We may say stones have both
syntropically importing "appetites" and self-scavenging
or self-purging entropic export proclivities.
"When a person dies all the chemistry remains and we see that
the human organism's same aggregate quantity of the same
chemistries persists from the 'live' to the 'dead' state, which"
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Secs. 1005.611-.612, 20 May '75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life & Death:
(2)
"aggregate of chemistries has no metaphysical interpreter to
communicate to self or others the aggregate of chemical rates
of interacting associative or disassociative proclivities,
the integrated effects of which humans speak of as 'hunger,'
or as the need to go to the toilet.' The the associative
intake 'hunger' is unspoken metaphysically after death, the
disassociative discard proclivities speak for themselves as
these chemical proclivity discard behaviors continue and reach
self-balancing rates of progressive disassociation. What
happens physically at death is that the importing ceases while
the exporting persists, which produces unbalanced-- ex-
clusively exporting-- system. f
a locally
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 1005.612, 20 May'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life & Death:
"Love is plural and pro-life,
Hate is singular and pro-death."
- Untied Holograph in HDF briefence, vetober
Citation at Love & Hate, Oct 171
1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life & Death:
"here syntropy is gaining over antropy life prevails
Where entropy is gaining over syntropy death prevails."
-
-
Sive BRTIN & MIND, Drull Te
0.84 May 192
Citation at Feedback, May'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life & Death:
"The concept of life
Is unique to the mind.
Brain Apprehends
Only the physical.
Brain does not differentiate life and death."
Citation at Physical, 28 Jan'69

Life & Death:
(1)
See Animate & Inanimate
Quick & the Dead
Threshold of Life
Morphology: Living Morphology vs. Corporeal Morphology
Birth-death
Birth-death Interplay
Complementarity of Growth & Aging
Chicken with Head Cut Off

Life & Death:
See Human Beings,
1972
Feedback, Pay171*
Love & Hate, Oct 71*
Livingry, 13 Dec 73
Physical, 28 Jan'69*
Rafts: Early World Drifting on Rafts (1)
Tuning-in & Tuning-out, 17 May 77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life Alters Environment & Environment Alters Life:
"Life continually alters the environment and the altered
environment in turn alters the potentials and realities of
life. The environment is basically a complex of nonsimultan-
eously occurring but omniintegrating
or interstimulating, and therefore interregenerating,
mutations of man's integral, internal metabolic regeneration
organism, on the one hand; on the other is his externich we
invention-realized, metabolic regeneration organism,
think of and speak of as industrialization."
- Citation & context at Newton Vs. Einstein (2), 16 Aug170

Life Alters Environment & Environment Alters Life:
(1)
See Epigenetics
Epigenetic Landscape
Heisenberg-Eliot-Pound Sequence
Systems Alter Other Systems

Life Alters Environment & Environment Alters Life:
See Environment, 29 Mar' 77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life Experience:
"This independence of
local formulation
corresponds exactly with life experiences in Universe."
Citation and context at Powering: Fourth and Fifth Dimensions,
18 Nov 72

Life: Inventory of Characteristics of Life:
See Life, 16 Aug '50

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life's Original Event:
"Life's original event
And the game of life's
Urder of play
Are involuntarily initiated,
And inherently subject to modification
By the a priori mystery,
Within which consciousness first formulates
And from which enveloping and permeating mystery
Consciousness never completely separates,
But which it often ignores
Then forgets altogether
Or deliberately disdains."
Cite INTUITION, pp.11-12, May 172

Life's Original Event:
See Birth
Conception
Cosmogony
Primitive Regeneration
Primordial
(1)

Life's Original Event:
Conservation of Energy, 1968
See Closed System:
Pattern Integrity, (3)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life is a Sumtotal of Mistakes:
The
"Man-- born naked, helpless, and ignorant-- but with innate
drives to insure procreating and refueling... He just makes
mistakes all the time, learning only by making mistakes.
billions of humans who have lived must have made septillions
of mistakes. Since these mistakes must have given humans such
an inferiority complex, nature had to offset this tendency by
a chromosomically-induced pride, ego, and self-deceiving
capability.
"When people are surprised by some new development, they tend
to say, 'I knew it all the time!' in a self-congratulatory way.
So parents have brought up their children with the idea that
they should make no mistakes, they should be frozen into their
customs. It is this Emperor's-clothes-like tradition which
universally assumes that only fools make mistakes; it is this
kind of tradition that requires such a revolutionary break-
through.
(1)
"Mistakes have a servomechanism function in life. Clearly when
you acknowledge mistakes you do recover from them. It is like
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC., rewrite of 10 Sep'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life is a Sumtotal of Mistakes:
"walking: left foot, right foot; or steering starboard or
port... in between the succession of alternative shifts we
inadvertently describe a directional course. As we gain
practice we make more delicate alternating corrections at a
higher and higher frequency as in a mechanical servomechanism,
which devices greatly reduce the magnitude of error eliminate
the process of +, -, +,
works:
"Life is a sumtotal of mistakes, a balancing of mistakes. This
is cybernetics, steering gyro controls. This is how Universe
this is why physicists have found only waves and
no straight lines resulting from all the frequencies of the
omniresonant physical Universe."
(2)
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC, rewrite of 10 Sep 75

Life is a Sumtotal of Mistakes:
See Genius: Children are Born Geniuses, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life is Not Physical:
Q.
"Spirit and soul: do you have definitions for those?"
RBF: "I don't have any definitions for either. What I
have said is that I am sure that life is not the organism
which it employs. Our organisms consist physically entirely
of atoms--and atoms are completely inanimate.
Whatever you
(1)
and I are is metaphysical, has understanding, and has nothing
to do with the physical. The relationship is between but
not of, there is something between us but not of--I speak
about mind as operating there, but mind discovers the relation-
ships existing between.
"Brains are always and only coordinating the input of the
senses. This one smells this way, this one sounds that way--
so they are always dealing in special case compositions of
experience and they can recall the special case compositions.
Mind is not the special cases, but it finds these relations-
ships--a good thing--between the special cases. This is as
close as I can really come to explaining the phenomena of
life and mind. It employs this organism to get its informa
tion.
"
Cite transcript p.12, RBF taped interview with Dr. Michael
Bruwer, Ritz Carlton Hotel, Chicago; 20 Feb'77

103
RBF DEFINITIONS
Life is Not Physical:
Q.
(2)
"Do you equate spirit and soul with mind then?"
RBF: "I don't ever use the word spirit or soul.
I can see
that they were probably what people were intuitively identify-
ing as best they could. In other words, they had the spirit
leaving the body as though it was weightless.
And I say
whatever life is, I would use the word life rather than
spirit... because I don't use words of which I don't have
some kind of knowledge. I think man was making a mistake all
this time saying that life was physical whereas it was always
metaphysical. The chemistries are right there. I find
biochemists saying very imparoperly that this is the chemistry
of life. The chemistry of life is still there when there
is no life left."
Cite transcript p. 13 RBF taped interview with Dr. Michael
Bruwer, Ritz Carlton Hotel, Chicago; 20 Feb'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life is Not Physical:
"My reality is: life is not the organism which employs it."
-
Citation & context at Interrelatedness vs. Names, (1);
20 Feb 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life is Not Physical:
"The scientists seemed to have given up the idea of sig-
nificance; they seemed to have lost their gift for philosoph-
ical thinking. So the focus on physical things was kept
kicking along by the church, trying to treat the physical
as life, which it isn't. The Catholic Church is built on
the notion that life is physical--the bits of hair of the
Savior, the communion with the physical wine, the bread is
my flesh, this is my body. In the mass or holy communion
the wine is the blood: drink this: piece of bread: the
purely physical contacts of life. If life were physical we
really could make synthetic men, laboratory animals, and
artificial intelligence; we never will."
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 531.05; 12 Dec 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life Is Not Physical:
"A foetus is just physical life, a bundle of reflexes like
a chicken running around with its head cut off.
"Consciousness and identity begin not with conception but
with birth. Awareness, that's the thing!... that's what
begins with birth."
"Whether the Catholic Church survives or fails depends on
whether it can make this philosophic recognition.
Cite RBF to EJA, Aspen, Colorado, 13 Jul$74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life Is Not Physical:
"I am 78-- and at my age I find that I have now taken in more
than 1000 tons of water, food, and air, the chemistry of which
is temporarily employed for different lengths of time as hair,
skin, flesh, bone, blood, etc., then progressively discarded.
I weighed in at seven pounds and I went on to 70, then 170,
and even 207 pounds. Then I lost 70 pounds, and I said, 'Who
was that 70 pounds?-- because here I am.' The 70 pounds I got
rid of was ten times the flesh-and-bone inventory at which I
had weighed in, in 1895.
"I am certain that I am. not the avoirdupois of the most recent
meals I have eaten, some of which will become my hair, only to
be cut off twice a month. This lost 70 pounds of organic
chemistry obviously wasn't 'me,' nor are any of the remaining
presently associated atoms 'me.' We have been making a great
error in identifying 'me' and 'you' as these truly transient
and, ergo, sensorially detectable chemistries."
Cite THINKING OUT LOUD (3): PHYSICAL TEMPORALITY AND ETERNAL
PRINCIPLES, World Mag., 11 Sep173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life Is Not Physical:
"Philosophical Realization That Physical Is Not Life:
The philosophical realization that the physical is not
life will lead to the ultimate conquest of mind over
muscle. This generates the historical transition of
experience to a predominant mind-over-matter reality.
"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. Kings sought to ratuonalize the inheritability of
sovereignty by identifying life with the physical. This
also generated middle class mausoleums and hereditary
privileges.
"Emancipation of individuality requires elimination of the
It is the realization of the inherently
slave mentality.
inviolable integrity of the individual."
Cite WORLD-AROUND PROBLERS THAT HAVE TO BE SOLVED BY BLOODLESS
DESIGN SCIENCE REVOLUTION, NY Times, 29 Jun' 72

Life Is Not Physical:
See Animate & Inanimate
Pattern Integrity
Telephone
Twenty Questions
You & I as Pattern Integrities
No Chemistry of Life
Metabolic Flow
Man
Organism
Life
(1)

Life Is Not Physical:
See Metaphysical, 14 Feb'72
Mortal, 4 Mar'69
Tactile Sequence, (4)
World Game, (5)
Death, 1 Fab'75
Organism, 12 Feb'72; 3 Jun'72
Life, 9 Jun 75; 5 Jun 75
Interrelatedness vs. Names, (1)*
Fuller, R.B: On Christopher Morley, 22 Jun'77
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (10)-(14)
(2)

Life Preserver:
See Piano Top

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life-Supporting Capability:
"Humanity's productive and distributive
Life-supporting capability-- wealth--
Had been irreversibly amplified."
Citation and context at Copper (2), May '72

Life Support Inadequacy:
See Scarcity: Economy Of
Survival Recourse
(1)

Life Support Inadequacy:
See Synergetics, 6 Nov 72
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life-Support System:
... The invisibly bounteous life-support system
Hidden in the superficial landscape,
And consisting only
Of instrumentally gleanable information,
Abstract and weightless generalized principles,
Unique electromagnetic frequencies
And exclusively mathematical realizabilities..."
Cite INTUITION, p.64 May '72
41

Life Support:
See Inadequacy
Scarcity
Human Tolerance Limits
(1)

Life Support: Life-support System:
See Biosphere Inventory, 15 Nov'74
Agrarian Metabolics, 29 Jun 72
Spaceship Earth, (b)-(d)
World Game:
Grand Strategy, 2 Jun 74
De sovereignization Sequence, (2)
Wealth, 20 Sept 76
Building Industry, (1)
Invented Jobs, 20 Sep' 76
United Nations, 29 Mar' 77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life as Synchronization of Time & Consciousness:
"Not until the second experience did
Did time and consciousness
Combine as human life."
- Citation & Context at Consciousness, May172

406
Life as Synchronization of Time & Consciousness:
See Consciousness as Synchronization of Time & Energy

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lifetime:
Personal Lifetime Experience for Elective Investment:
"I must always be sure
I am increasing your elective freedoma.
Your life can be capitalized
as the number of hours you will probably live.
How many of those hours are really free?
You will find that a great many are preoccupied
In the chemical process you and I;
There are a great many involvements in this process and
relatively few of them that we can actually direct.
So I must as a design scientist--
increase the proportion of your total life
that is at your disposal.
I must reduce the restraints.
I must reduce the number of negative restraints
set upon you by circumstances
and increase the number of your favorable electives."
-
(b)(c)
Citation & context at Trespassing: Not Trespassing, 31 May'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lifetime:
Each
Personal Lifetime Experience for Elective Investment:
"We need a way for humans to cordinate their senses and
thought in terms of their personal life experience, for
instance with their respectife allotments of life time.
one is born with some lifetime expectancy as calaulated by the
life insurance company mathematics... Let us think about the
minutes and seconds you and Ireally have at our elective
disposal every 24 hours. We all have to sleep-- about one-
third of our time. A lot of or time is dedicated to just
going from here to there..."
-
Citation and context at Hearbaragnitude Sequence (1) 13 Mar
173

Lifetime: Personal Lifetime Experience for Elective Investment: (1)
See Electable: Elective
Reinvestable Time & Survival Needs
Fellowships: Life Fellowships in R & D
Unemployment as Freedom to Think
Hour: Human Life-hours

Lifetime: Personal Lifetime Experience for Elective Investment:
See Individual Economic Initiative, Dec'72
Spending, 25 Mar 71
Trespassing: Not Trespassing, (A)
(2)

Life-in-time:
See Sixty Degreeness, 16 Dec 173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Life-Time-Space Phenomena:
"All temporal (temporary) equilibrium life-time-space
phenomena are sequential, complementary, and orderly
transformations of space-nothingness into time-somethingness,
and vice versa."
Citation and context at Time-Somethingness, 22 Feb 73

Life's Temporary Vehicles:
See Human Instrument Vehicle
Humans as Machines
Body as Mechanism
(1)

Life's Temporary Vehicles:
(2)
See Life, 28 Apr'71
Death, 28 Apri71

Lifeways:
See Inventions as Lifeways of Human Behaviors

Life:
See Animate
Animate & Inanimate
Awareness
Biologicals vs. Nonbiologicals
Cell: Life Cell
Chess: A Priori Intellect Invents a Game Called
"Life"
Continuity of Conscious Life
Continuous Man
DNA
Drama: Earthian Drama "Life"
Economic Accounting System: Human Life-hour
Production
Fellowships: Life Fellowships
Fourth Quantum
Game of Life
Growth
Human Beings
Human Beings & Hard Machinery
Impossible: Only the Impossible Happens
Livingry
(1A)

Life:
See Mathematical Explanation of Life
Metabolic Regeneration
Minimum Awareness
Morphology: Living Morphology vs. Corporeal
Morphology
New Life
Organic: Organism
Old Life
Organic Model: Biological World as Model for
Society
Organism Life
Physical Life
Quick & the Dead
Regenerative:
Regenerativity
Sensorial Identification of Reality
Temporality
Tetrahedron as Primitively Central to Life
Threshold of Life
Tissue
Twenty Questions
Viral Steerability
Young World
No Chemsitry of Life
(1B)

Life:
(2A)
See Animate & Inanimate, 4 Mar'69*
Architecture, Jan'34
Asymmetry, 31 May'71*
Awareness 10 Feb 73; 28 Apr 77
Charting Alternating' Experiences of Man & Nature (1) *
Consciousness, 20 Dec 71
Brain & Mind, 28 Jan169*
Death: Weighing of People as They Die, 10 Oct163*
Experience, 20 Dec 71
Imperfect, 22 Nov 73
Intellect, 16 Aug' 50*
Impossible: Only the Impossible Happens, 14 Dec 73
Learning (1) (2)
Linear & Curvilinear, Jun'66
Observing vs. Articulating, Mar'71*
Potential, Aug 72
Pattern Integrity (1)-(4)*
Problem, 2 Jun '71*
Pure Principle, 10 Feb 73*
Rubber Glove, 23 May172*

Life:
See Tetrahedron, 25 Aug'71*
Syntropy & Entropy, Feb 71
Information, 12 Feb 72
Four, 27 Dec173
Dream, 1968
Spending, 25 Mar 71
Netaphysical & Physical) 2
Periodic Experience,
Birth, 15 May'75
22 Jan 75*
Self & Otherness: Four Minimal Aspects, 9 Jun'75
Error, 30 May$75
Human Mind & Physical Evolution, 5 Jun 75
Vector Equilibrium, Oct'75
Environmental Inventory, 28 Apr' 77
Environment, (A) (B)
(2B)

Life:
(3)
See Life & Death
Life Experience
Life's Original Event
Life is Not Physical
Life Preserver
Life Support Capability
Life Support Inadequacy
Life Support System
Lifetime: Personal Lifetime Experience for
Elective Investment
Life-in-Time
Life-Time-Space Phenomena
Life's Temporary Vehicles
Lifeways
Life as Synchronization of Time & Consciousness
Life Alters Environment & Environment Alters Life
Life: Inventory of Characteristics of Life
Life is a Sumtotal of Mistakes

Lift:
See Airplane Flight as Lift
(1)

Lift:
See Flight, 1971
Planck's Constant, (B) (C)
(2)
123

RBF DEFINITIONS
Light:
"Light comes from the hydrogen cycle: the hydrogen-
helium interplay."
-
© Citation and context at Black Hole, 28 Oct 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Light:
"Within the electromagnetic spectrum visible light is
exquisitely minute."
-
Citation at
Invisible Architecture (1), Aug'64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Light:
"Light (as typical wave frequency group) obstruction is
greatest where structural components converge (grid photostats
show this as stars at convergent points)."
-
Citation & context at Radome Sequence (1), 29 Dec'58

Light Cells:
See Dymaxion House, 2y Jan'75

Light Side vs. Serious Side of any Question:
See Coincidental Articulation Sequence,
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Light on Scratched Metal:
"When a bright light shines on a complex of surface scratches
on metal, we find the reflection of that bright light upon the
scratched metal producing a complex of concentric scratch-chorded
circles. In a multiplicity of omnidirectional actions in the
close proximity of the viewable depth of the surfaces, struct-
urally stable triangles are everywhere resultant to the similar-
ly random events. That triangles are everywhere is implicit
in the fact that wherever we move or view the concentric
circles, they occurs, and that there is always one triangle at
the center of the circle. We would add the word approximately
everywhere to make the everywhereness coincide with the
modular-frequency characteristics of any set of random multi-
plicity. Because the triangles are structurally stable, each
one imposes its structural rigidity upon its neighboring and
otherwise unstable random events. With energy operative in the
system, the dominant strength of the triangles will inherently
average to equilateralness.
-
Cite SYNERGLTICS text at Sec. 614.06; 9 Nov 73

Light on Scratched Metal:
See Scratched Surface

RBF DEFINITIONS
Light: Speed of Light:
"The 186,000-miles-per-second speed of light is so fast that
it was only just recently measured, and it doesn't really
have much meaning to us. You don't have a sense of 700 million
miles per hour. If you did get to 'see' that way, you would
be spontaneously conscious of seeing the Sun eight minutes
after the horizon had obscured it; ergo, consciously seeing an
arc around the Earth's curvature. We are not seeing that way
as yet."
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 801.14, 22 Nov'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Light: Speed of Light:
in a
"Einstein was much purer than Planck in just taking the speed
of light, which was a constant figure. It was demonstrated in
a vacuum tube, linearly. Therefore, light-- as all candle
power does-- goes in all directions, not just
line. Therefore we know that the surface always grows as the
second power of the linear. So the speed of light is c-- use
small for any radiation, the speed of any radiation omnidi-
rectionally.... because a wave of light is going in all
directions. Therefore it is g to the second power.
Cite RBF to BO'R, tape transcript, Carbondale Dome, p.42, 1 May'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Light:
Speed of Light:
"Light's relative swiftness
instantaneous."
-
. •
is far from
Cite NASA Speech, p. 99
Jun166

RBF DEFINITIONS
Light: Speed of Light:
"Before the speed of light was measured, sight seemed
. . . Neither light nor any
. . . to be instantaneous.
other phenomenon is instantaneous."
Cite NASA Speech, p. 52
Jun '66

Light: Speed Of:
See Nonsimultaneous
Radiation: Speed Of

Light: Speed of
See Resultant, 22 Jul 71; 20 Jan 75
Limit Speed, 11 Sep 75
(2)

Light Years. Intellect Seconds:
See Intellect Seconds, 1960

Light:
See Nonsimultaneity
Photon
Radiation
Omnidimensional Light Matrix
Refraction
Visible Light vs. Electricity
Searchlight
(1)

Light:
100
See Black Hole, 28 Oct 172*
Corpuscular, 9 Jul'62
Cosmic Structuring, (1) (2)
Invisible Architecture, (1)
Picture, 1938
Radome Sequence, (1)*
Reflection Sequence: Apple, (1)(2)
Resultant, 22 Jul 71
Spherical Sweepout,
Vector, Mar'71'
(1)(2)
Scratched Surface, 27 Jan '75
Wind Stress & Houses, (9)
Celestial Radiation Accumulators, 28 Apr' 77
(2)
123

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lightning & Atoms:
"Maybe we ought to try and capture lightning in electrostatic
generators undergound-- build up charges of lightning and then
release it later. We might really reverse our atomics: in stead
of learning how to release energy we could learn how to
actually make the atoms.
Cite RBF to W. Wolf and B. Brooks, DSI Project, pp.10-11,
28 Apr 74

Lightning & Atoms:
See Reverse Atomics, 10 Sep174

Lightning:
See Energy Event, Mar'71
Terahelix, (2)

Lily:
See Natural, 20 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Limit:
"Physics has not assumed conceptual modelability.
When
you deal with limits you don't need anyone to mark your
paper. You can find your own limits when you go from the
whole to the particular."
Citation & conext at Thinking, (III), 23 Jun'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Limit:
"Relationship constants are always predicated on limits.
Only limits are invariable. (This is the very essence of
the calculus.) Variation is between limits."
C
Citation at Constants, 26 Sep'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Limit:
"...Metaphysical experiences have no endurance limits. "
Citation and context at Metaphysical Experience, 13 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Limit:
"The nuclear group with 92 spheres in its outer, or third,
layer is the limit of unique, closest packed symmetrical
assemblages of unit wavelength and frequency. These are
nuclear symmetry systems. "P
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 414.02, 29 May172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Limit:
"There is a limit in nature of how large a number will
accommodate all the possible permutations of Universe.
. . . It could be that if we used all the primes which occur
between one and 17, we would have all the possible number
accommodations necessary for all the permutations in
nature. Furthermore, they would all come out in whole
numbers."
Cite SYNERGETICS, "Numerology," p. 15. Oct. 171.

KBF DEFINITIONS
Limit:
"...If it is not so far to the moon, then it is not so far
to the limits-- whatever, whenever, or wherever they may be.
"Limits are what we have feared. So much has been done to make
us conscious of our infinite physical smallness that the time
has come to dare to include the complete Universe in our
rationalizing."
-
Citation and context at Nine Chains to the loon, 1938

Limited Associabilities:
See Temporary, 13 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Limit Case:
"The power of the word as an industrial tool is very great....
Incidentally, what I'm doing with you now is showing the way
I began to conduct myself when I said I'm going to do my own
thinking. I would try to find the limit cases, where there is
a real break. Thresholds. I'd have to
mation to give me some kind of guidance set that kind of infor-
-
Cite RBF to Harvard Law School Forum, 10 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Limit Case:
"Because it is the Limit Case it is prime."
Citation and context at Prime Otherness, 23 Sep 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Limit Case: Closest-packed Symmetry as Limit Case:
"The closest-packed-sphere interspace had been inscrutable
a priori to the limit phase of omni-intertangencies; which
limit phase is, was, and always will be, omnipotential of
experiental verification of orderly integrity of omni-
intercomplementarity of the space-time, special-case, local
conceptualizing and the momentarily unconsidered seeming
nothingness of all otherness.
"
Citation and context at Omni-intertangency, 17 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Limit Case:
Closest-packed Symmetry as Limit Case:
"The closest-packed symmetry of unindaius spheres is the
mathematical limit case which inadvertently 'captures' all
the previously unidentifiable otherness of Universe whose
inscrutability we call "space". The closest-packed symmetry
of uniradius spheres permits the symmetrically discrete
differentiation into the individually isolated domains as
sensorially comprehendible concave octahedra and concave
vector equilibria, which exactly and complementingly intersperse
eternally the convex 'individualizable phase'
of comprehendibility as closest-packed spheres and their exact,
individually proportioned, concave-in-betweeness domains as
both closest packed around a nuclear uniradius sphere or as
closest packed around a nucleus-free prime volume domain."
- Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1006.12, 17 Feb'73

Limit Case Vector Chord System:
See ex-pent Sphere, 15 Sep' 76
Tensegrity Masts, 27 Dec'76

Limit Case:
See Complementarity
Limit Transformation Case
Prime Otherness
Minimum Limit Case
No Maximum Limits
(11

Limit Case:
See Jitterbug, 25 Feb'69
Operational Procedure, 22 Nov'73
Radiation: Speed Of, 22 Jun 72
Simplest Knot, 1 Jan 75
Tetrahedron, 24 Sep'73
Mark Your Paper, 20 Jan'75
Design Science, 23 Jan'75
Nuclear Domain & Elementality, (1)
(2)

Limited Conceptuality:
See Scenario Universe
(1)

Limited Conceptuality:
See Spherical Field, Aug 73
(2)

Limit Condition:
See Terminal Condition
(1)

(2)
223
See Black Hole. 28 Oct 72
DNA-RNA: Twenty Sphere Models, 2 Oct' 72
Radiation, (p.126) 1959
Vector Equilibrium: Lending & Borrowing Model,
20 Dec 73
Limit Condition:

Limit Factors:
See Gneral Systems Theory, 1967; 8 Nov'73

Limits to Growth:
See Club of Rome: Limits to Growth
Exponential Model vs. Limits to Growth

RBF DEFINITIONS
Limit-Limitless:
"
The propagative pulsations are unopposed by the inherent
but eternal, limitless, unoccupied outwardness of absolute
metaphysical integrity. The unlimited metaphysical conceptual
equilibrium integrity permits the limited special-case
realizations. The limited cannot accommodate the unlimited.
The unlimited metaphysical can and does accommodate the
limited and principles-dependent physical; but the physical
which is always experienciable and special-case, cannot
accommodate the metaphysical independence and unlimited
capability."
Citation and context at Zerophase (1)(2), 4 Nov'73

Limit-limitless:
See Eternal Universe & Physical Universe
Metaphysical & Physical
Unlimited vs. Limited
Zerophase
(1)

Limit-limitless:
See Einstein, 16 Nov 72
Metaphysical & Physical, 4 Nov'73
Tensegrity, 28 Jan175
General Systems Theory, (1)
(2)
21

Limit Number:
See Isotropic Vector Matrix, 16 Nov 72

Limit Phase:
T
See Limit Case: Closest Packed Symmetry, 17 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Limit Point:
"Let us consider a tetrahedron which also always has an
externality and an internality. At its internal center is
its terminal turn-around and come outward again condition.
This is exactly why in physics there is a limit point at
which you turn yourself inside-out. You get the the
outside and you turn yourself inside-out and come the other
way. This is why radiation does not go off into a higher
velocity. Radiation gets to a maximum and then turns itself
inwardly again-- it becomes gravity. Then gravity comes to
its maximim concentration and turns itself around and goes
outwardly-- becomes radiation."
Cite SYNEREGTICS draft, Sec. 441.04 9 Jun'72

Limit Point:
See Gravity Comes to Maximum Concentration and Becomes
Radiation
Cosmic Limit
Cosmic Limit Point
Point: Inbound Point
Point:
Outbound Point

Limit of Powering:
See Isotropic Vector Matrix, 16 Nov'72
Time-size, 20 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Limit Reach:
"All radiation has a terminal speed, ergo an inherent limit
reach...
Citation & context at Unit Radius, 17 Jan '74

Limit Minimum Simplex:
See Hydrogen, 13 Mar'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Limit Speed:
"The sense coordinating brain of each and all humans, like
sound or light, has a limit speed of apprehending."
Citation & context at Time & Cognition, 11 Sep*75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Limit Structural Transformative Tendencies:
"Great circle arcs represent limit structural transformative
tendencies of outward surface tensing as occasioned by
internal pressures and great circle segment chords
represent the optimum limit structural behavior of the
axes of compression-resisting columns which oppose
external pressure by surface spreading."
()
-
Cite PENNA. TRIANGLE, p. 11, Nov 152, as confrimed and
rewritten by RHF at Kennedy Airport, NY, 1 Apr 172.
50

RBF DEFINITIONS
Limit Structural Transformative Tendencies:
"Great circle arcs represent limit structural transformative
tendency of outward surface tensing by internal pressures and
great circle segment chords represent the limit structural
behavior of the axes of compression-resisting columns opposing
external pressure by surface spreading."
-
Cite PENNA TRIANGLE, p.11,
Nov152

Limit: Limited:
See Aberration Limit
Absolute
Allspace-filling Limits
Asymmetric Limits
Beginningness
Chemical Limit
Concentric Hierarchy Limits
Cosmic Limit
Degenerative Negative Limits
Delimit
Diametric Limit Functions
Domain Limits
Electrol mit
Extremes
Four-dimensional Limit
Frequency Limit
Human Tolerance Limits
Initial Limit
Internal & External Limits
Conceptual Limits
(1 A-I)

Limit:
Limited:
See Limit-limitless
Maximum Limit Case
Measure Limit
Micro Limit Integrities
Minimum
Min-max Limits
Min-max Zone System Limita
(1 L-R)
Nuclear Geometric Limit of Rational Differentiation
Nuclear Limit
Nonlimit
Octave Limit of Variation
Optimum Limit
Outward Limit of Nuclear Phenomena
Prime
Push-pull Limits
Rotational Aberrating Limit
Resolvability Limits

Limit:
Limitless:
See Symmetric Limits
System Limit
Three-dimensional Limit
Time-limited
Time-size Limits
Trigonometric Limit
Triacontrahedron as Limit Regular Polyhedron
Thermal Limits
Turn-around Limit
Ultimate
Unlimited vs. Limited
Zero Limit
Zone Limits
(1 S-Z)

Limits of Thinking:
See Resolution, 5 Jul'62

Limit Transformation Case:
See Congruence of Vectors, 18 Feb'73

Kimit: Limited:
(2A)
See Anticipatory, 3 Nov'64
Break, 27 Dec '73
Charting Alternating Experiences of Man & Nature (3)
Constanta, 26 Sep'73*
Hers & Theres, 4 Jun'72
Humans, 8 Mar 73
Integration & Differentiation, 10 Dec164
Integrity, 24 Jan 72
Metaphysical Experience, 13 Mar 73*
Nine Chains to the Moon, 1938
Octantation, 14 May'73
Omni-intertangency, 17 Feb173*
Point: Outbound Point (1) (2)
Prime Otherness, 23 Sep'73*
Resolution, 5 Jul'62
Pattern, 1954
Thinkability, 27 Jan '72
Time-size, 20 Dec'73
Zerophase (1) (2)*
Tunability: Intra & Ultra, 1954

Limit: Limited:
See Mensuration, Aug'73
Quantum echanics: Grand Strategy, 10 Apr 175
Thinking, (III)*
Population of Cities, 10 Sep!75
Unity: Complex & Simplex, 16 Oct 72
Conceptual Limits, 22 Jun 177
(2B)

Limit: Limited:
See Limited Associabilities
Limit Case
Limited Conceptuality
Limit Condition
Limit Factors
Limite to Growth
Limitless
Limit-limitless
Limit Number
Limit Phase
Limit Point
Limit of Powering
Limit Reach
Limit Minimum Simplex
Limit Structural Transformation Tendencies
Limit Transformation Case
Limits of Thinking
Limit Speed
Limit Case Vector Chord System
(3)

TEXT CITATIONS
Limitless: Nonlimit:
200.04
217.04
537.02
644.01-644.02
645.01-645.12
646.03
647.20
750.11-750.23
764.02
780.32
784.40
801.13

Limitless:
See Infinite
Limit-limitless
Nonlimit
Unlimited
Endless
Universally Extensive
(1)

Limitless:
See Generalized Principle (1)
Regularity, 2 Nov'72
Twenty Questions (4)
Tension, 15 Oct164
Intellect, 21 Jun 77
(2)

KBF DEFINITIONS
Lincoln: RBF on Abraham Lincoln:
"Abraham Lincoln's concept of 'right triumphing over
might' was realized when Einstein as metaphysical
intellect wrote the equation of physical Universe
Mc² and thus comprehended it."
E-
Cite OPERATING MANUAL FOR SPACESHIP EARTH, P. 36, 1969

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lincoln: RBF on Abraham Lincoln:
"Lincoln's industrially catalyzed awareness that 'right'
had come to ascendancy over 'might is of the essence
despite all ignorantly detoured chaos of transition.
"
Cita atatume 1956. Caption 125, in MATS DINATION-WORLD
Citation & context at Dymaxion Airocean World (II), Jun'56

TEXT CITATION
Lincoln: Abraham:
Univ. of Alaska Address, pp. 14 + 19, 20 Apr '72

Lincoln, Abraham:
See Right over Might
(1)

Lincoln, Abraham:
See Civil War, (1) (2)
(2)

TEXT CITATION
Lindbergh:
Mexico 163, p.6, 10 Oct 163

Lindbergh:
See Daddy, 2 Jun'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line:
"Lines (edges) are the most economic omnivertexial
interrelationships of the system considered."
-
Cite RBF marginalis in SYNERGETICS 2 draft Sec. 987.022
(not surviving in text), 14 Nov 78

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line:
"A line is a relationship between any two microsystems."
Citation & context at Microsystems, 22 Mar 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line:
"A line is a relationship between two somethingnesses,"
Citation & context at Somethingness & Nothingness, 9 Jun'75

RBP DEFINITIONS
Line:
"Because I am experiential I must say that a line is a
consequence of energy: an event, a tracery upon what
system?"
Citation & context at Polyhedron, 1 Jan 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Ling:
"A line is a tetrahedron of macro altitude and micro base....
Lines are real, conceptual, experienceable visually and
mentally..."
Citation & context at Point, 20 Dec'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line:
"Line is a leading, the description of man's continual
discovery of the angularly observable directional sequences
of events. Lines are trajectories or traceries of event
happenings in respect to the environmental events of the
event happening."
-
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 502.41(d),
6 Nov 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line:
There
"There are no straight lines, physical or metaphysical.
are only geodesic, i.e., most economical interrelationships
(vectors)."
-
Cite RBF galley correction at Sec. 240.25 of SYNEREGTICS,
28 Oct 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line:
"A line is a directional experience.
A line is specific like In, while Out is anydirectional.
Lines are always curvilinearly realized because of
universal resonance, spinning, and orbiting.
A point is not a relationship.
A line is the simplest relationship.
Lines are relativity. A line is the first order of
relativity: the basic sixness of minimum system and
cosmically constant sixness of relationship identifies
lines as the relativity in the formula N²
N² - N."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, 5 Nov 72; reconfirmed by RBF 7 Nov 72
Incorporated in SYNERGETICS draft at Secs. 521.22 + 23, 13 Nov72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line:
"All 'lines,' trajectories, are the most economical
vectorial interrelationships of nonsimultaneous
event foci."
COLE ABURETIC COFALLartes,
-
Citation at Interrelationships, 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line:
"Lines are definitions of experiences-- of given traceries,
or of erosively deposited tracks, or of gaseous fallout
along a trajectory-- and the symbols for number extractions,
such as X and Y, are always and only experientially con-
ceived devices."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 508.03, Nov 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line:
"The overall logitudinal length of wavilinear vectorial
lines is determined by the number of waves contained."
Citation at Wavilinear, 11 Oct 71
Cite SINERGETICS Corollaries, Sec 240, by RBF 11 Dost 171,
Haverford, Parma,

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line:
"The word 'line' was nondefinable: infinite. It is the
axis of intertangency of unity as plural and minimum two.
Awareness begins with two. This is where epistemelegy
comes in. The line becomes the axis of spin. Even two
balls can exhibit both axial and circumferential degrees
of freedom."
VECTORS
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, New York, 19 June 1971.
SEC 521.21 +537.221

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line:
"The domains of lines are two tetrahedra, not one
octahedron."
Este RRE FA ETI
Exiffield, Conn.,
-
- Citation at Domains of Lines, 18 Jun'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line:
•
Lines (subvisibly spiraling and quantitatively
pulsative) . . ."
-
Cite RBF Marginalia to SYNERGETICS Draft (Conceptuality,
Critical Proximity), Chicago, 1 June 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line:
Invisibly modulated, spiraled vectorial lines
RBF Marginalis on SYNERGETICS Draft (Conceptuality, Interference)
31 May 1971, Chicago.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line:
"Speaking operationally, lines are products of the energy
interactions of two or more separate systems. The local
environment is a system. A line is always formed by
an alteration of the local environment by another system.
'Lines' are the pattern of consequence of one system
altering another system, either by adding to it, or by
taking away from it. The event leaves some kind of
tracery, either additively, as with a vapor trail or a
chalk mark, or reductively, as with a chiseled groove or
a pin scratch, or as a crack opened between two parts of
a formerly unit body."
Cite SYNERGETICS Draft
-
"Conceptuality: Interference."
RBF Marginalia, Boston, 25 April 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line:
"Line is a leading, the description of man's continual
discovery of the directional sequences of events."
Cite RBF to EJA, Somerset Club, Boston, 22 April 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line:
"All the time phenomena of physicists are linear."
Citation & context at Time, 8 Mar 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line:
"Linear does not mean straight. Lines are energy event
traceries, mappings.. . trajectories. Physics has found
no straight lines: only waves consisting of frequencies
of directional inflections in respect to duration of
experience."
WAVILI NERITY: FIXES
SEC 520.01
Cite RBF SYNERGETICS, Mar 171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line:
"Lines are finitely developed events.
And their durations
Are always relative
To some cyclic experience in time."
Citation and context at Radiation: Speed Of (D), 28 Jan'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line :
"Lines are vector trajectories."
Cite DEFINITIONS FOR SYNERGETICS BY PETER PEARCE. 1967
VECTORS SEC. 521.26)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Line:
"
As Einstein pointed out, when the speed of light was
finally ascertained and measured, there could no longer exist
anything that was instantaneous. The mathematician's
concept of a straight line was instantaneous: in that way he
did not have to say that his straight line was generated.
It takes energy and action to get from here to there. Then
what is a line? Lines are directional energy events: they
are vectors.
"
Cite RBF, Univ. of Rhode Island, 26 Aug. 166.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line:
It
"The pure mathematicians straight line must be
instantly infinite in two directions. All its parts must
be absolutàày uniform and simultaneously sub-existent.
must avoid being progressively generated as an experi-
mentally produced action-trajectory of one system modifying
another. Microscopic inspections of any action-trajectory's
impressed, graven or deposited trail must disclose gross
irregularities. Progressively closer inspections of experi-
mentally attempted demonstrations by the mathematicians of
their allegedly 'straight' lines increasingly disclose
volumetric aberrations and angular digressions from
straightness. They are axiomatically selfcontradictory."
DELIBERATELY NON-STRAIGHt Line SEC 522,011
Cite NASA Speech, p. 44
Jun '66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line:
"All mathematicians, both Euclidian and non-Euclidian,
assume erroneously that you can run a plurality of lines
through the same point at the same time. I find experi-
mentally that the lines are always the products of energy
actions. A line is always an alteration of the local
environment. 'Lines' are the consequent pattern of one
system altering another system, either by adding to it or
taking away from it. The event leaves some kind of
tracery either additively-- as a vapor trail-- or
reductively, as with a groove or scratch.
"We can say that because lines are directional energy
events, they are vectors."
Cite NASA Speech, p. 48, Jun'66
DELIBERATELY NON-STRAIGHT Line SEC 522

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line:
"Pure mathematics' axiomatic concepts of
straight lines are completely invalid."
VECTORS SEC. 521.201
Cite NASA Speech, p.42, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line:
"A line has two vertices with angles around each of
its vertexial ends equal to 0°.
"
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 146, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line:
"A line is a tetrahedron of negligible
base dimension and significant altitude.
"There are no straight lines.
"All lines are the most economical vectorial inter-
relationships of non-simultaneous local
event foci."
"Potentially straight line relationships require
instantaneity or actions in no-time, therefore
straight lines are inoperative..
"All lines are complexedly curved.
•
"The vectorial lines of relationship are always
most eceonomical, ergo geodesic.
"All geodesic lines weave four dimensionally amongst
one another, forever, without ever touching one
another.
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line:
(2)
"Potential lines are straight; all realised relationships are
geodesic and curved.
"All lines ultimately return into close proximity of themselvess.
"No lines may occupy the same point at the same time.
"Whereas none of the geodesic lines of Universe touch one another,
the lines approach one another, passing successively through
regions of most critical proximity, and diverge from one another,
passing successively through regions of most innocuous remoteness."
Cite Ltr. to Collier's, pp. 113-115, Oct 59

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line:
"A line is a tetrahedron of zerophase base."
- Cite PENNSYLVANIA TRIANGLE, p. 10, Nov 152

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lines:
"Lines are inherently curved and must eventually meet or rejoin
their ends."
Cite Two (2), 10 Jan'50

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line:
"A sphere is unit, but a line is not because the terminals
of a line must represent arbitrary cut-offs. All lines,
except when abstractly considered as 'direction,' are some-
what curved, and all curved lines must eventually intersect--
no matter how remotely. Not even a graphed spiral is forever
possible because the errors in a graphed line constantly
dislocate the line and insist upon an ultimate intersecting
contact."
Citation & context at Curved Space, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Linear:
"Linear measurements represent the radial going-away
accelerations or resultants of earlier or more remote
events as well as of secondary restraints."
-
Citation and context at Radial-Circumferential Modularity,
Sec. 826.04, Sept 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Linear:
"All the time phenomena of physicists are linear."
"All actions are spirals because they cannot go through
themselves.
WAVILINEARITY - SEC 52001
-
Cite RBF to EJA
Beverly Hotel, New York
l'arch 7, 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Linear:
Radiation can be focused;
explosions can be linear."
Cite
Sarasota, Flordid.
7 Feb 1991
Citation & context at Radiation-Gravitation, 7 Feb171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Linear Acceleration:
"In our XYZ coordinate system we take so many linear
increments on X and Y and Z and we can see where it is.
We do everything on linears. All of the calculations are
done linearly. We don't use angular even though we
recognize that there is an angular acceleration, all the
measurements are done linearly."
Cite Oregon Lecture #4, p. 147. 6 Jul'62

Linear Acceleration:
See Acceleration: Angular & Linear
No Linear Acceleration

RBP DEFINITIONS
Line Between Two Sphere Centers:
"Part of the problem is that people think of the 180-degree-
straight-line diameter rather than of the two radii
that
constitute the diameter-- the two radii of the two separate
but tangent spheres, end-joined at the intertangency point
between the two spheres. Both aspects are equally deceptive."
-35
Cite RBF holograph rewrite of EJA draft; Phila. PA, 22 Jun'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line Between Two Sphere Centers:
the
"Spheres in closest packing are high-tide aspects of
vertexes. It is easy to be misled into thinking that there
are no lines involved when you see two spheres in tangency,
because the lines are hidden inside the spheres and between
the points of tangency. And if you do realise that there is
a force line between the two spheres' centers, you could
assume that there is only one line between the two. This is
where you see that unity is two, because the line breaks
itself into radii of the two spheres.
詩
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 537.21; galley rewrite, 7 Nov' 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line Between Two Sphere Centers:
"You have to have division of the line to have frequency, ergo
to have time."
Citation & context at Timeless, 12 Sep' 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line Between Two Sphere Centers:
"The word 'line' is nondefinable: infinity. It
is
the axis of intertangency of unity as plural and minimum two...
The line becomes the axis of spin. Even two balls can exhibit
both axial and circumferential degrees of freedom."
-
Citation at Axis of Spin, 19 Jun171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line Between Two Sphere Centers:
"It is very easy to be greatly misled when you see two spheres
in tangency. There is only one line between the two. This is
where you see that unity is two because the line breaks itself
into radii of the two spheres."
Citation & context at Tangency, 31 May 171

Line Between Two Sphere Centers:
See Axis of Intertangency
Internuclear Vector Modulus
Prime Vector
Radial Line as Tetra Edge
Vector: Half Vectors
(1)

Line Between Two Sphere Centers:
See Axis of Spin, 19 Jun'71*
Bow Ties: Genesis Of 12 Sep 71
Cube: Diagonal Of, 20 Dec'73
Isotropic Vector Matrix, 28 Feb'71
Pauling, Linus, 7 Oct 71
Tangency, 31 May'71*
Timeless 12 Sep'71*
Vector, 10 Nov 73
(2)
22

RBF DEFINITIONS
Linear & Curvilinear:
"All experiences are omni-directionally oriented. That
is life!
"Special case experiences may appear (only locally)
to be linear-- for all experimental observations of at
first seemingly straight lines of experience (subjective)
or of experiment (objective) when projected are always
discovered to be short increments of large omni-directionally
peregrinating curvilinear wave actions of discontinuous
events: stars-- in milky-way like 'linear' arrays."
PATTERN-SEC.515.12
-
Cite NASA Speech, p. 100, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Linear & Curvilinear:
"Lines are inherently curved and must eventually meet or
rejoin their ends."
Cite Two (20, 10 Jan150

Linear & Curvilinear:
See Chords & Arcs
Local Radius
Tetrahedron:
Visible or Invisible Chordal Arcs
(1)

Linear & Curvilinear:
See Two (2)*
(2)

Linearity of Hunting Men:
See Air Space, May'65

Line:
If it Exists:
See Triangle, Jun'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Line: Imaginary Straight Line:
"In speaking of his 'purely imaginary straight line'
the mathematician uses four words all of which were
invented by man to accommodate his need to communicate
his experiences to self or others:
"purely comes form the relativity of man's experiences
in relation to impurities or 'undesirable presences.
Cite RBF to EJA Somerset Club, Boston, 22 April 1971

Line:
TEXT CITATIONS
Imaginary Straight Line:
See SIMS, U. Mass, Amherst, 22 July 171, Talk 12,
P. 29 et
Synergetics: Sec. 522.36
seq.

Line: Imaginary Straight Line:
See Deliberately Nonstraight Line
(1)

Line: Imaginary Straight Line:
See Systematic Realization, 20 Dec 74
Generalization & Special Case, Nov 71
(2)

RBP DEFINITIONS
Line of Interrelationship:
"In minimum Awareness two points plus one area of nothing-
ness have one inherent line of most economical interrela-
tionship between the two points, which two points plus one
area equal the number of lines: in this case 'one' plus
Euler's abstractly accommodative two. (The line of inter-
relationship is another aspect of the prime vector.)"
Citation & context at Minimum Awareness Model, (1), 9 Jun'75
as rewritten for SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 505.82,
29 Jun 75

Line of Interrelationship:
See Axis of Conceptual Observation
(1)

Line of Interrelationship:
See Self & Otherness: Four Minimal Aspects, 9 Jun 75
Thirty Minimum Topological Characteristics, (1)
Somethingness & Nothingness, 9 Jun 75
(2)

Line & Nonline:
"In is a line; and out is nonline.'
"
Citation & context at In & Out, 7 Nov'72

Linear va. Omnidirectional:
See Eternal & Temporal, 20 Feb'77
Human Beings at the Center, (1) (2)

Linear va. Omniambracing:
See Synergetic Hierarchy, 5 May 174
Eternal & Temporal, 16 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Linear vs. Orbital:
...Linear... constitutes release from co-orbiting (or
critical proximity orbiting) into the generalized orbiting of
all Universe.'
-
Citation & context at Orbit, 14 Feb 73

Linear vs. Orbital:
See Radial vs. Orbital
One Way vs. Round Trip
Local Radius vs. Wide Arce
Orbital Feedback Circuitry vs. Critical Path
(1)

Linear vs. Orbital:
See Frequency, 11 Mar'69
Generators, 19 Feb 72
Orbital Feedbacks, 10 Sep' 74
Rectilinear Frame, 24 Sep'73
Specialization, 26 Aug'66
Umbilical Cord, 5 Jun 73
Orbit Circuit, 10 Sep'74
Scrap Sorting & Mongering (2)(3)
Decentralize vs. Centralize, 1 Apr'49
Thinking, 10 Sep'75
(2)

TEXT CITATIONS
(1)
Two Lines Cannot Go Through Same Point At Same Time:
Music of the New Life, U. or 0, pp. 66-67, 10 Dec164
Mexico'63, p.23, 10 Oct163
AAUW Journal, p.176, May 165
NASA Speech, pp.48-52, Jun'66
Ledgemenot Lab, pp. 12-13, 15 Oct 64
Oregon Lecture #3, p.87, 5 Jul162
Oregon Lecture #4, p.115, 6 Jul'62

Lines Cannot Go Though the Same Point at the Same Time:
See Interference
Tangential Avoidance
Vectorial Near-miss
Vertexial connections
Twist Vertex of Exit

Lines Cannot Go Through the Same Point at the Same Time:
See Vectors & Tensors, 19 Oct 72
Nonsimultaneous, May! 71
Critical Proximity, May' 71
Domains of Convergences, 7 Nov' 73
Triangle, (a)
Zero Volume Tetrahedron, 10 Dec'75
(2)
123

RBF DEFINITIONS
Linear Pointal Frequency:
"Arithmetical one dimensionality is identified geometrically
with linear (trajectory) pointal frequency."
"
Cite COLLIER's as written in SYNERGETICS "Corollaries
Sec. 240.42 and "Hodelabiliyt, Powering," Sec. 771.1
1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Linear Programming:
"I go for my honey' is linear, specialized, disintegrative.
Ideologies, sovereign states, corporations, bureacracies,
bureacrats-- all are
linearly programmed, biased,
and competitive."
Citation and context at Ecology Sequence (F), 5 Jun173

Linear Becomes the Second-power Rate of Growth:
See T Module, 31 Jul'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Linear and Spherical Analysis:
"And all the categories of creatures act individually as
special case and may be linearly analyzed, but retrospectively
it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all inter-
affecting one another synergetically as a spherical inter-
precessionally regenerative tensegrity spherical integrity.
Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous
tensionally continuous integrity.
[53]
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1005.5, 16 Feb'73

Linear Symmetry:
See Tetrakaidecahedron, 19 Feb'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Linear Tetrahedron:
"A linear tetrahedron has six relationships.
Four
unique frequencies (sizes) of entities, or particles,
comprise the tetrahedron."
SEE ILLUSTRATION
-
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 139 1960

Lines - Trajectories:
See Trajectory, 22 Apr 71

Line: Linear:
See Bias on One Side of the Line
Circuit
Constant Relative Abundance
Control Line of Nature
Cube: Diagonal of Cube as Wave Propagation Model
Deliberately Nonstraight Line
Domains of Lines
Embracing & Linear
Field Lines
Force Lines
Geodesic Lines
Interference
Line Between Two Sphere Centers
Loyalty
Nonradial Line
Radial Line
Straight-line, 180-degree Thinking
Straight-nothingness
Trail Making & Trail Remembering
Trajectory
(1A)

Ling: Linear:
See Vector
Wavilinear
Vertexes, Faces & Lines
Nonintersecting Lines
Acceleration: Angular & Linear
Interconnection of Any Two Lines
One-dimensional
Outline
Inline
(1B)

Line: Linear:
See Acceleration, 15 Feb 73,
Boundary Condition, 26 Sep' 73
Circuit, 25 Jan 72'
Constant Relative Abundance, 29 Nov '72
Degrees of Freedom, 13 Dec 73
Domain, 11 Feb 73
Domains of Lines, 18 Jun'71*
DNA-RNA, 16 Feb 73
Explosion, 7 Feb 71
Fear, 23 Feb'73
Geometry of Reality, May'49
Individual: Theory of the Individual, May'65
Interference, Feb 72
Interrelationships, 1971*
Meaningless, Oct166
Metaphysical & Physical, 1971
Metaphor, 16 Feb 73
Powering: Sixth Dimension, 29 Nov 72
Probability (1)
Radiation: Speed Of, (C) (D)*
(2A)

Line: Linear:
See Ring, 10 Jan'50
Specialization (1)
Temporal, 16 Feb'73
Truth, 16 Feb 73
Umbilical Cord, 4 May'73
Wave, 8 May172'
Wavilinear, 11 Oct'71*
Time 8 Mar' 71*
Two (2)*
Point, 20 Dec'73*
"Out" as the Containing & the Contained, 5 May' 74
Polyhedron, 1 Jan*75*
Center, 21 Jan 75
Plane, 19 Feb 72
Systems & Nonsystems, 26 May* 72
Thirty Minimum Topological Characteristics, (2)
Somethingness & Nothingness, 9 Jun*75*
Minimum Limit Case, 12 May175
Curved Space, 1938*
One-dimensional Polarity, 11 Sep'75
No Opposites, 12 Nov' 75
(2B)

Line: Linear:
See Microsystems, 22 Mar' 76*
Crystallization, 29 Apr 77
Four-dimensional Reality, 30 Apr' 77
Causality, Jan '77
Will, (1)
(20)
SU

Line: Linear:
(3)
See Linear Acceleration
Line Between Two Sphere Centers
Linear & Curvilinear
Linearity of Hunting Men
Line: Imaginary Straight Line
Line & Nonline
Linear vs. Omni embracing
Linear vs. Orbital
Lines Cannot Go Through the Same Point at the Same Time
Linear Pointal Frequency
Linear Programming
Linear & Spherical Analysis
Linear Symmetry
Linear Tetrahedron
Lines - Trajectories
Line of Interrelationship
Line: If it Exists
Linear vs. Omnidirectional
Linear Becomes the Second-power Rate of Growth

Linguistics:
See Codes
Koryzybski
Message: Message Contents

Link: Linkage:
See Attraction Link-up
Chain Linkage
Chain Stronger than its Weakest Link
Interlink
Tetrahelix Gap Closer
(1)

16
Link: Linkage:
See Carbon, 8 Jun 72
Local Entity, 1960
Invisible Quantum as Tetrahelix Gap Closer,
23 May 75
(2)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Liquid:
"Double bonding provides a hinge between the tetrahedra
which are still flexible and forces being applied telegraph
throughout the whole system. Liquids have this extraordinary
quality of distributing forces. Yet liquids are
noncompressible: you find that if you put tetrahedra
edge-to-edge that you cannot compress them any more,
The coherence of the liquid's viscosity is twice that
of the gases inherently."
Cite Tape transcript HBF to EJA and BO'R, Chicago, 31 May 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Liquid:
"The double bonded tetrahedron system is like an
engineering hinge joint: it can rotate about an axis.
It characterizes the behavior of liquid."
(See Illustration #21.)
->
Cite SYNERGETICS ILLUSTRATIONS, Caption #21
1967

Liquid
Nonform:
See Ice, 29 Apr' 77

Liquid vs. Solid:
See Scrap Sorting & Mongering (4)
Plumbing, (1)
Package, 31 Jan'75
Load Distribution, 17 Oct '77

Liquid Solid:
See Water, 12 Nov' 75

Liquid: Liquids:
See Chemical Bonds
Fluidity
Human Beings & Hard Machinery
Hydraulics
Load Distribution
Plasmics
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid
Liquid vs. Solid
Water
Bivalance
(1)

Liquid: Liquids: Liquidity:
See Incandescence, 5 Jun'73
Scrap Sorting & Mongering (3)(4)
Thermal, 6 Mar 73
Gibbs: Phase Rule, 26 Sep 73
Chemical Bonds:
Double Bond, 19 Dec 73
Olfactoral, 22 Feb'77
Ice, 29 Apr' 77*
Bubble Bursting, 20 Jan'78
(2)

List: Lists:
See Inventories
Paired Concepts
Trends

RBF DEFINITIONS
Listening:
"I'm not an influencer.
If a man asks me something,
he's listening. If I ask him to listen to me, he's
not listening."
-
RBF quoted by Lee Dembart, New York Post, 26 April 1971

Listen: Listening:
See Fuller, R.B: Crisis of 1927, (2)

Lite:
See Syte, 20 Dec' 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Literacy:
"Literacy is absolutely Number One priority. You have to know
what your problem is. Russia was able to go from under 10
percent literacy up to I think y2 percent in a little over a
decade. That came from a deep understanding that literacy was
absolutely essential.
"Historically, men weren't literate. It's an absolutely extra-
ordinary thing to have a world where people are literate and
where people can read and communicate and information gets
passed around the way it does today. It's a very new matter.
But I don't expect miracles. As you become literate, more and
more literat, you realize that we do start with a mind and that
in the end it's going to be mind over matter. Man has been
operating with matter over mind right up to now.
"The guy who was strongest and toughest could get hold of a
gold mine and say: Listen, you, you understand, that's mine.
Pure right makes maight. We're just breaking out from that.
Everybody had just accepted the idea of property. But there's
nothing from God in those deeds. Nothing from Universe. It's
simply from the strong man. So there's nothing in there about
logic or how to make the world work. It's simply an illiterate
man who's very hungry and tough and big and how does he act."
Cite RBF to B. Farrell, Tape #7, Side A, p. 4; 18 Aug' 70

Literacy:
See Design Science, Feb'72
Transnationalism vs. Colonialism, (4)
World-around Communication Transcends Politics, (2)
Everybody's Business,
(1)
Human Unsettlement, (5) (6)
Buddha: Christ: Mohamed, (1)

Literary: Literary Man:
See Generalizations:
Mathematical vs. Literary
Science: Gap Between Science & the Humanities
Snow, C.P
(1)

Literary: Literary Man:
See Algebra, 28 Oct'64
Conceptuality, 1965
Joyce, James, 1965
Modelability, (1)(2)
Aiken, Conrad, 14 Feb'72
(2)

Literate & Illiterate:
See Continuous Man (1)

Little Individual: Little Man:
See Big Man vs. Little Man
Individual Economic Initiative
(1)

Little Individual: Little Man:
See Celestial Position Integrity, 24 Apr'71
God, 10 Feb173
Gravity, 16 Feb 73
Kaleidoscope, May'49
Lever, (1)
Inertia, 20 Dec171; 6 Nov 73
Limit, 1938
Nature, 13 Feb 72
Nature's Subvisioble Urder, (2)
Perception, 24 Apr 67
Poverty, May 72
Relationship Analysis, (1)
Resultant, 22 Jul 71
Spherical Sweepout,
(1) (2)
Industrialization, 1946
Tragedy, Feb 72
Trim Tab, 8 Jan'66
Trim Tab Sequence, (1)
(2A)

Little Individual: Little Man:
See Design Science: Education For, 1 Feb'75
Orbital Escape from Critical Proximity, (2)(4)
Everybody's Business, (1)
Doing What Needs to be Done, (A)
(2B)

Little:
See Big & Little

Live Meetings:
See Thinking Out Loud, 1968

Live Shows:
See Stars as Live Shows Billions of Years Ago

Live-it-yourself:
See Invisible Architecture, (E)

Living Machine:
See Dwelling Machine
(1)

Living Machine:
See Rose, 1938
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Living Rooms:
"Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time."
Cite Opereitinginant for Spaceship Earth, 1969
Citation and context at Empty, May 70

Living Room:
See Empty, May'70*

Living:
See Earning a Living
Life
Right To Live
Standard of Living

RBP DEFINITIONS
Livingry:
"Livingry implements life; weaponry implements death."
Cite RBF address to Yale Political Union, New Haven, 9 Dec '73,
as expanded by RBF, 13 Dec173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Livingry:
"Livingry implements life."
-
Cite RBF address to Yale Political Union, New Haven, y Dec'73

REF DEFINITIONS
Livingry:
"Despite political stratagems the prime wealth
capability is . . escaping from its negative preoccupation
in weaponry and killingry in general to positive
preoccupation in livingry for all humanity."
- Cite THE AGE OF THE DOME, Jul'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Livingry Science:
"Space research's imminent solution of closed
sanitary human metabolic circuitry-- livingry science!"
-Bite PREVIEWS, I&I, P. 213, 1 Apr 49

Livingry:
See Killingry
Weaponry
Weapons Technology
Dwelling Service Industry
(1)

Livingry:
See Artist-scientist, May'60
Buildings as Machines, (2)
Dwelling Service Industry. (1)(6)
Industrialization:
Curve Of,
Service Industry, 29 Aug'64
Wright Brothers, 10 Oct 163
Mobile Homes, 20 Sep' 76
Dome House Grand Strategy:
1927-1977, (1) (2)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Load Distribution:
"The prime difference between humanity's thus-far-developed
technology and that of nature's biological designing is that
nature solves her compression problems by load-distributing
hydraulics while humans solve compression problems only by
non-load-distributing 'solid' crystalline substances.
Cite REF's "Introduction to Einar Thorsteinn's Book,"
Para 030, p.8; 17 Oct'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Load Distribution:
"The crystallines are very poor at compression load distribu-
tion, in fact, they are approximately 'nil,' unlike the liquids
and gases which distribute all compressional loads universally,
In trees and human beings the crystallines are used only for
tensional continuity at which they excel, having threefold the
integral atomic coherence capability of the gases and two fold
the coherence of the liquida.. This is just the opposite from
Humans have
the way we humans have been building our buildings.
been using only omnicrystalline structuring in their fixed land
buildings.'
Cite RBF address to Yale Political Union, New Haven, 9 Dec '73;
as rewrittten, 3200 Idabo, Wash DC, 13 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Load Distribution:
"The crystallines are very poor at load distribution, unlike
the liquids and gases. In trees and human beings the crystallines
are used only for tensional continuity. This is just the
opposite from the way we build our buildings."
Cite RBF address to Yale Political Union, New Haven, 9 Dec '73

Load Distribution:
See Hydraulics
Geometry of Vectors
Isotropic Vector Matrix
Pneumatic-hydraulic
Tensegrity
Trees
Liquid vs Solid
(1)

See Geometry of Vectors, 15 Jun '74
Safety Factor, 25 Sept 72
Human Beings & Hard Machinery, 20 Apr '72
Load Distribution:
(2)
123

Lobster:
See Marine Life Analogy of Humans, 20 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local:
"The complementarity of the octahedron with the vector
equilibrium permits us to get down to the local and not be
afraid of missing the rest of Universe, because we know
the fundamental complementation of macro tetra and micro
tetra."
Citation and context at
Trigonometric Limit, 22 Jun '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local:
"A system is a local phenomenon in the Universe.'
"
Citation and context at System, 26 Kay172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local:
"There is no geometry of space-- only of local aggregates
of principles, of special cases."
-
Cite RBF to Brendan Otregan Enroute Cleveland, 23 May 72
Citation at Rubber Glove, 23 May172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local:
"Because of the tidal fluctuations of syntropy-entropy
Local environments are forever altering themselves."
Cite BRAIN AND MIND, p. 81, galley Feb 172
- Citation at Syntropy & Entropy, May 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local:
.
"All 'lines, trajectories, are the most economical
vectorial interrelationships of nonsimultaneous local
event foci."
Cite SINREBOETICS Corollaries, Sec. 240. 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local:
"...Reality is the whole... playing the game of reality
within actual physical experience. Not local and arbitrary."
Citation and context at Cosmetry, 1 Oct 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local:
"You'll never see anything but the asymmetrical because
we are so local. Our seeability is inherently local."
Cite tape transcript RBF to EJA and BOIR, Chicago, 31 May, 171.
Citation and context at Seeability, 31 May '71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local:
"The word locally means locally in time and space.
By space we mean size-- a function of time."
- Cite RBF to EJA Somerset Club, Boston, 22 April 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local:
*Infinity is local
And occurs within definite systems,
As for instance
Following a great circle
Around a sphere..."
-8
Citation & context at Infinity (1), Oct'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local:
"Local is continually subdivisible.
"
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #4,
P.
158. 6 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local:
"Local systems are de-finite."
Cite Synergetics Corollaries, Collier's. Oct'59

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local:
"Synergetics' six positive and six negative dimensional
reference frames are reinitiated and regenerated in
respect to specific local developments and interrelationships
of Universe."
Citation and context at Powering: Six Dimensions, Oct' 59-Jan'72
Site COLLIER'S as written D. SYNERGETICS "Corollariek,"
and!
210 + 770.04, Oct+59

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local:
"Common to all the .
strategies of scientific endeavor
has been the fact that their success was local because it
was won by excluding other considerations of universal
behavior. The results were that awkward complications always
arose when the special local advantages were completely
interassociated.' h
Citation and context at System: Synergetic Principle of
the Whole System (1), July'59

Local Alterability:
See Tetrahedron:
Coordinate Symmetry

RBP DEFINITIONS
Local Asymmetry:
"Symmetrical means having no local asymmetries.
Omni-
symmetrical permits local asymmetries. Universe is
omnisymmetrical. A three-bladed propeller is dynamically
symmetrical (three pear-shaped blades at 120° to each other
inscribed in an equilateral triangle). The propeller blade
is locally asymmetrical."
Cite RBF to EJA, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, 31 May 1971.

Local Bias:
See Conformity, 10 Oct 63
Reverse Optimism, 10 Oct'63

Local Change:
See No Local Change

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local vs. Comprehensive:
"Relationships are local to pattern.
comprehensive to relationships."
-
Citation at Pattern, 20 Dec'71
Patterns are

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local vs. Comprehensive:
"I guess as a consequence of trends that I observe that we
will always have a limited function, that we are meant to be
a local function and not the comprehensive function. This is
the nearest thing we've come to what we probably mean by the
word 'god' it's a great comprehensive integrity, the
all-knowing integrity of the Universe.
"I discuss this in The Game of Life, Chapter 43 of NINE CHAINS
TO THE MOON. (I took it out just before it got published because
I was afraid it would be much too esoteric for people in the
1930's; I thought it might hurt the credibility of the rest of
the book at that time.) In it I have god deciding to test his
own infallibility, the real integrity of the Universe, himself;
and we have a totality of the time which is for the moment
expressed as a sphere, which looks like a circle; and we have
then a dropout, an ego dropout, that's a tiny little section
of arc of the enormous circle, so short that it looks like a
straight line; and it thinks it's straight and breaks out and
starts falling away.
"So at first there's a great big circle with this tiny little
line dropping away from it; and as it gets further and further"
-
Cite tape transcript, pp. 15-16; HBF to B. Brocks, 30 Apr'74
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local vs. Comprehensive:
"away, it becomes more and more concerned with itself; and the
big circle gets smaller and smaller, and finally gets to be
a little dot above a little eye-- 1-- and then it gets to be
a big eye-- I-- and throws away the dot altogether. And from
then on its really in trouble.
621
(2)
"The god then takes all the cards and all the rules and the laws
and everything and tears them all up in little bits and tries to
throw them to smithereens-- and you've got to put the Universe
together again and find out whether the integrity is really
there.
"So we start in in World Game in trying to put it all together
again. And this more or less matches the kind of evidence we
have as a trial balance of Universe: How much of a mess can you
really introduce and still come out of it? And the kind of
mess that's going on right now on our planet is typical: So
how do you pull out of this mess?
"The god would periodically, then, reject himself so that we
might become part of the great all-knowingness again instead of
being separated out as ego.'
Cite Tape transcript, p.16; RBF to B. Brooks, 30 Apr'74

Local ys. Comprehensive:
See Embracing vs. Linear
Local Radius vs. Wide Arc
(1)

(2)
123
See Pattern, 20 Dec'71*
Einstein: General Theory & Special Theory, 4 Mar'73
Tensegrity, 14 Oct 72
News & Evolution, (1) (2)
Local vs. Comprehensive:

RBF DEFINITIONS
Locally Conceptual:
"What man has previously spoken of as 'infinite,' we
must now speak of as 'finite' but 'nonconceptual,' and
what he has spoken of as 'finite,' we must now speak of
as 'definite,' i.e., 'locally conceptual.'”
Cite Ltr. to Dr. Robt. W. Horne, 14 Feb '66, p. 5

Local Conceptuality:
See Conceptual Set
Definite
Koment:
Momentary
(1)

Local Conceptuality:
See Conceptuality, 22 Oct'72; Jun'66
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local Conservation = Cosmic Regeneration:
EFFECTIVENESS
"The excess of gravity over radiation equals the excess of
cosmic integrative forces over cosmic disintegrative forces,
which is then syntropy over entropy, which conserved energy
is invested in the constant transformative transpositioning
of eternal regeneration of Universe."
15
Cite SYNERGETICS draft, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 541.17, 9 May'75

Local Conservation:
See Pattern Conservation
Local Conservation Cosmic Regeneration
(1)

Local Conservation:
See Pattern, 3 Oct'72
Regenerative, 15 Mar 71; 3 Oct 72
Dymaxion Artifacts, (1)
(2)

Local Continuity:
See Cosmic Discontinuity & Local Continuity

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local Definability:
"Nonsimultaneous Universe is finite but conceptually
undefinable; local systems are definable. We discover that
Universe is finite and a local system is definite; every
definite local system has inherent, always and only co-occur-
ring twoness of polar axis spinnability and twoness of
concave-convex complementary disparity of energy interaction
behavior (concave concentrates radiation; convex diffuses
radiation), plus two invisible tetrahedra (or two unities),
altogether adding together as equal finitely fourfold
symmetry Universe. The difference between Universe and any
local system
is always two invisible tetrahedra. Every
local system may be subdivided into whole tetrahedra."
Cite SYNERGETICS TEXT AT Sec. 535.02, Nov'71

Locally Dependent:
See Gestation, 4 Mar 73

Local Dichotomy:
See Compression, Dec'71

Local Dying:
See Entropy, Jan'72

Local Energy:
See Vector, 22 Jun'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local Entity:
"The locally definable entity is not complete for it does
not exist by itself. All experiments show that local entities
are inherently both entropic and antientropic; 1.e., all
local systems are always intimately linked with the rest of
Universe by measurable import and export pattern transactions.
Citation & contextat Definable, (p.135) 1960
"

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local Environment:
"The local environment is a system. A line is always
(?) formed by alteration of the local environment by
another system. 'Lines' are the pattern of consequence
of one system altering another system, either by adding to
it, or by taking away from it. The event leaves some
kind of tracery."
11
Cive SYNEECETICS trate "Conceptuality: Interference"
RHF marginalia, Boston, 25 April 1971
Citation & context at Line, 25 Apr 71

Local Environment:
See Big System, 5 Jun'73
Syntropy & Entropy, (A)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local Events:
"All local events of universe may be calculatively
anticipated by inaugurating calculation with a local
vector equilibrium frame and identifying the disturbance
initiating point, direction, and energy of introduced
action."
Citation at Vector Equilibrium Frame, Oct159
-GILE C
p. 114, Oct 59

Local Event:
See Local Change
Newton's First Law of Motion
(1)

Local Events:
See Frame of Reference: Six Schemata, 28 Oct 73
How Little I Know, 1968
In & Out, 4 May'57
Newton's First Law of Motion:
4 May'57
Synergetics, 1959
RBF Restatement Of,
Synergetics Calculation, 1971; 30 Oct172
Tetrahedral Dynamics, (2)
Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry, Nov 71
Transformation Event, 21 Oct 165
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom, Dec'61
Environmental Inventory, 28 Apr'77
(2)

Local Evolutionary Transformation Event:
See Design Science, 13 Mar' 73

Local Facet Aspect:
See Plane, 19 Feb'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local Fixity:
"
...
Four dimensionality allows local fixities without in
any way locking or blocking the rest of the system's
omnimotioning of intertransforming."
Citation and context at Powering:
Dimensions, 966.07, 18 Nov 72
Fourth and Fifth

Local Focus:
See Awareness, 10 Feb 73
Prime Number Inherency & CRA: Principle of, 1959
Unsettling vs. Settlements, 20 Sep' 76
Environmental Inventory, 28 Apr'77

Local Holding Patterns:
See Holding Patterns of Energy
(1)

Local Holding Pattern:
See Atomic Computer Complex, (8)
Tetrahedral Dynamics, (2)
(2)

Local Identifications:
See No Local Identifications

RBF DEFINITIONS
Locality:
Mechanically and chemically, a steerable rocket embraces a
complex of internal and external events. Both airplanes and
steerable rockets are complexes of internal and external energy
event transactions and omni-interacting resultant motions in
Universe transcendental to Earth motions, where the observer-
articulator is extraterrestrially positioned. Since the
Earth is moving as a dependent motion-complex in respect to
the Sun's and other planets' motions; and since the Sun is
engaged in a plurality of internal and external motions in
respect to the galactic system; and since the galactic system
is a complex of motions in respect to other galaxies and
supergalaxies, and so on; and since the whole set of motion
events are nonsimultaneous and of uniquely variant durations;
and since the intereffects of the evants vary vastly in
respect to aeons of time, it is obvious that any thinkably
meaningful conceptual coordination of event interrelationships
by the meager lifetime limits of humans is inherently limited
to a relatively local set within Universe and within a time
sense, and the relationships may only be measured in respect
to the angle and frequency magnitude characteristics of
any one subsystem of the totality."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft At Sec. 512, May'71

Locality: Localities:
See Fourth Dimension, 29 Nov* 72
Nonpolar Points, 29 Nov'72

Local Infinity:
See Engineering, 15 Feb'66
Local, Oct 66

Local Information Gatherer:
See Human Beings & Complex Universe (7)

Local Information-sensing Devices:
See Eternal Instantaneity, (1)

Local Intercity:
See Atom, 15 Oct' 64

Local Interference:
See Critical Proximity
Precession
Tensegrity:
Vertexial Connections
(1)

Local Interference:
See Motion, 27 May'72
(2)

30
Local Irreversibility:
See Intellect: Equation Of, 22 Apr171

Local Knot:
See Intuition, 1 Feb'75

Local Logic:
See Reductio ad Absurdim, Nov'71

Local Loss:
See Annihilation, 6 Nov 73

Local Monitor:
See Man as Local Problem Solver
Man as Local Universe Technology
Man as a Function of Universe
(1)

Local Monitor:
See Metabilical Cord (2)
Mind, 31 May'74
Monitor, Feb 73
Problem, 2 Jun'71
Principle (1)
Sweepout: Spherical Sweepout (2)
Teleology, 15 Jun 74
Self-discipline, 28 Far' 77
Womb of Permitted Ignorance, (1)
(2)
123

Local Orbit: Local Orbiting:
See Local Radius
Orbiting Magnitudes
(1)

Local Orbit: Local Orbiting:
See Critical Proximity, Jun'71
Halo Concept, Jun 71
221
(2)

Local Order:
See Design Science, 13 Mar 73

Local Pattern:
See World Pattern vs. Local Pattern
(1)

See Order, 1971
Metaphysical Wave Patterns, 6 Nov' 73
General Systems Theory, (2)
Local Pattern:
(2)
123

Local Patterning Aspects:
See Avogadro:
Generalized System, 1959
Synergetic Integral, 1960

Local Pattern Conservation:
See Local Conservation

Local Periodicity:
See Gravity, 11 Feb'76

Local Inventory of Physical Resources:
See Things, 19 Feb172

Localized Thickening of Points:
See Pattern Generalization, (1)

20
Local Problem Solver:
See Antientropy
Man as a Function of Universe
Han as Local Problem Solver
(1)

Local Problem Solver:
See Christ, 7 Oct' 71
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local Radius] & Wide Arc:
"Critical proximity crimping-in is realized by local wave
coil spring contractions of the little system's diameter by
the big system, but local radius is always a wavilinear
short section arc of a greater system passing through it in
pure generalized eternal principle."
[56]
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1009.57, 14 Feb 73

Local Radius vs. Wide Area:
See Orbiting Magnitudes
Local vs. Comprehensive
Orbital Feedback Circuitry vs. Wide Arca
Radial va. Orbital
(1)

Local Radius vs. Wide Arc:
See Universal Integrity: Principle Of, 24 Mar 71
Orbital Escape from Critical Proximity, (3)
Gravity, 12 May '75
Spiralinearity, Nov'71
(2)

Local Radius:
See Chords & Arca
Big System & Little System
Linear & Curvilinear

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local Reality:
"Discontinuous man... dying without comprehension of aught but
the local limitations and inadequacies of his infinitely
surrounded and apparently exclusive local reality."
Citation & context at Artifacts, 1963

Local Regeneration:
See Building, 10 Sep'74

Local Resource:
See Independance of Local Resource

Local Set:
See Conditioning, 14 Feb'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local Squareness:
"I said we like monology and the one reason you seem to like
cubes is that you can fill a lot of space with them, so these
are the propensities of men. He got into quite a little
trouble in a sense with his cube and square because he
couldn't square the Earth. I drive across the country quite
frequently, and I just drove across coming here, and you come
into any one town and there is squareness locally, but the
surveyors don't meet up with with the square in the other
town because it is a sphere and not a cube that we are on, so
you are always having these lot lines that come to an end of
the line at the road turns at a right angle and goes here
and accommodates and comes into the web of the next town. We
really pay very little attention to this kind of inadequacy of
our working assumptions.
"
Citation at Monological, 9 Jul'62

Local Squareness:
See Two-way Rectilinear Grid
Grid: Crisscross Right-angle Grid

Local Stiffeners:
See Tensegrity: Interstabilization of Local Stiffeners
Cartilage vs. Bone

Local Structure:
See Design Covariables:
Earth, 1965
Principle Of, 1959

Local Syntropy:
See Helpless: Humans Born Helpless, 13 Dec173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local Systema:
"All local systems are conceptual."
Citation and context at Science Opened the Wrong Door, 30 Dec'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local Systems:
"The phenomenon of entropy, in which all local systems
lose
energy, means that every local system in
giving off its energy gave it off to the environment and
therefore ordered the environment. All local systems
are continually generating change and have periodicity.
Local systems all mh have patterns that do not correspond
with other systems, and they are unique. While each is
regular and orderly as it gives off its energies, these
do not necessarily mesh, and they seem to be disorderly
with regard to the rest of the system."
-O
Cite COMMITMENT TO HUMANITY, p. 29, May-June170

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local System:
"Each local system has its own orbiting and its own
frequencies, and so forth. . .
H
Citation and context at Relative Asymmetry Sequence (1), Jun'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local System:
"So I find that you and I and the lamppost and its lamp are
basic subdivisions of Universe. You and and complex it are
either all of the Universe that is inside, all of the Universe
that is outside, orall the remaining Universe, which comprises
a given recognizable system or set. The residual constellation
to be reconsidered constitutes a local conceptual system."
"
CONCEPTUAL
- Cite NASA Speech, p.41, Jun'66
Sex
SEC 509.20

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local Systems:
"The locally definable entity is not complete, for
it does not exist by itself. All experiments show that
local entities are inherently both entropic and antien-
tropic, that is, all local systems are always
intimately linked with the rest of universe by measurable
import and export pattern transactions. Definable entities
are uniquely functioning components of Universe."
-
Citation at Definable, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local Systems:
"Universe is finite.
Local systems are de-finite.'
Cite COLLIER's p, 113
Oct' 59

Local Systems:
See Big Systems & Little Systems
De-finite
(1)

Local Systems:
(2)
13
See Definable, 1960*
Conceptuality, Jun'66
Ecology Sequence (A)
Jun'66
Energy,
Entropy, 19 Mar'65
Invisible Hole, 16 Jun '72
Package, 23 Sep 73
Relative Asymmetry Sequence (1)*
Science Opened the Wrong Door, 30 Dec 173*
Positive & Negative: Four Kinds, 10 Nov'74
Finite & De-finite, Nov' 71

Local Truth:
See Frost, Robert, 25 May '72

Local Twist:
See Vertexial Connections
(1)

Local Twist:
See Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom, 10 Jul'62
Me Ball, 21 Jan'75
(2)

Local Universe:
See Building, 10 Sep 74
Eternal Designing Capability, 2 Jun'71
Milky Way, May 172
Fertilization, 27 Dec'74
Self-discipline, 28 Mar' 77

Local Variables:
See Radiation-gravitation, 11 Feb'76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Local Vector Equilibrium:
"Where all the local vectors' frequency modulations are
approximately equal, we have a potentially local vector equili-
brium, but the operative vector frequency complexity has the
inherent qualities of accommodating both proximity and
and remoteness in respect to any locally initiated actions,
ergo a complex of relative frequencies and velocities of
realization lags are accommodated."
Cite galley correction to SYNERGETICS at Sec. 425.01, 2 Nov*73

Local Vector Equilibrium:
See Exchange Agent of Universe
Grand Central Station of Universe
(1)

Local Vector Equilibrium:
See Vector Equilibrium, Oct159
(2)

Local:
See Convex & Concave Localness
Cosmic Discontinuity & Local Continuity
Cosmic & Local
Experiences as Local Instances
Icosahedron as Local Shunting Circuit
Independence of Any Local Resource Limitation
Local vs. Comprehensive
Locus
Man as Local Universe Technology
Nonlocal
Omnilocal
Rearrange Locally
Proximity & Remoteness
Symmetrical Local Subsidence
World Pattern vs. Local Pattern
Sun as Local Gas Station
Nothingness Local
No Local Change
(1)

Local:
See Black Hole (2)
Change, 12 Jul162
Compression, Spring'71
Cosmic, 3 Oct 72
Cosmetry 1 Oct 71*
Energy, May 48
Gestalt, 1960
Infinity (1)*
Particle (1)
Pattern, 20 Dec171*
Seeability, 31 May171*
Ship (1)
Start, 29 Dec '58
Structure, 29 Dec 58; 19 Jun'71
Syntropy & Entropy, 5 May174; May'72*
Rubber Glove, 23 May 72*
System, 26 May '72*
Powering: Six Dimensions, Oct' 59*
System: Whole System; Principle Of (1)*
Tension, 4 Oct 172
(2A)

Local:
See Trigonometric Limit, 22 Jun' 72*
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom, 6 Mar 73
Rest of Universe, 3 Feb'73
Universe, 4 May'57
Velocity, 9 Jul162
XYZ Coordinate System (A)
Synergetic Integral, 1960
Vision vs. Speech, 21 Sep'74
Spherical Triangle, 23 Jan '75
Tunability, 22 Oct 72'
Acceleration & Deceleration, 20 May'75
Symmetry & Asymmetry, Dec'71
Scenario vs. Absolute Symmetry, 11 Dec 75
Real Estate, 20 Sep' 76
Human Unsettlement, (3)
Enough to Go Around, (2)
(2B)

Local:
See Local Alterability
Local Asymmetry
Local Bias
Local Change
Local Conceptuality
Local Conservation
Local Continuity
Locally Dependent
Local Dichotomy
Local Energy Content
Local Environment
Local Events
Local Evolutionary Transformation Events
Local Facet Aspect
Local Fixity
Local Focus
Local Holding Patterns
Local vs. Comprehensive
Local Entity
(3A)

Local:
See Local Identifications
Locality
Locally Infinite
Local Information-sensing Devices
Local Interaction
Local Interference
Local Integrity
Local Inventory of Physical Resources
Local Irreversibility
Local Monitor
Local Order
Local Pattern
Local Patterning Aspects
Local Pattern Conservation
Local Problem Solver
Local Radius
Local Reality
Local Roots
Local Resource
Local Set
Local Regeneration
(3B)

Local:
See Local Squareness
Local Structure
Local Syntropy
Local Systems
Local Truth
Local Twist
Local Universe
Local Vector Equilibrium
Local Knot
Local Stiffeners
Local Loss
Local Orbit
Local Logic
Local Definability
Local Periodicity
Local Variables
Local Information Gatherer
(30)

Locked Kiss:
See Tensegrity: Vertexial Connections: Locked Kiss

Locking & Blocking:
See Gear Train: Locking & Blocking
Number: Even & Odd Numbers
(1)

(2)
121
See Powering: Fourth & Fifth Dimeanions, 18 Nov' 72
Radiation, Jun'66
Necklace, (1)
Locking & Blocking:

Lock: Locking:
See Flight: Fixed Formation Flight
Interlocking
Gear-locked

RBF DEFINITIONS
Locomotion:
Radius of Nan's Locomotion:
"Before 1985...we will have eliminated 70 percent of
local commuting while vastly increasing long-distance
travel."
-
Citation & context at Office Buildings: Conversion to
Apartments, 20 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Locomotion:
Radius of Man's Locomotion:
"As man has become knowledgeful, he has translated the
principles discovered in Universe into abetting his quickness
and mobility. The physical effect of this translation has been
demonstrated in important degree only within this past half
century. Born with legs and not with roots, man is in principle
mobile. Prior to World War I man's locomotion was primarily
accomplished by his legs. He rode in vehicles only about 300
miles per year. Oft-repeated Army surveys show that man has
always
walked an average of 1300 miles per year, and probably
always will.
"In 1919, it was evidenced that the species 'man' had changed.
Man had become an invention which moved about primarily by
mechanical means. In the United States he to and fro-ed, in
1919 about 1600 miles mechanically. He continued walking 1300
miles per year, but instead of sitting in rocking chairs, he
was sitting in moving automobiles. Thus he totalled 2900 miles
in 1919. At the beginning of World War II, the average man was
moving mechanically 6000 miles per annum; however, he continued
walking an additional 1300 miles per annum, for a total of 7300
miles per year.
The U.S. behavior curve in this respect is a
pilot or tendril' curve of the 'world curve' to accomplishment"
Cite PREVIEW OF BUILDING, I&I, P.200, 1 Apr 49
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Locomotion:
Radius of Kan's Locomotion:
The
"of equivalent mechanical acceleration per capita.
world-man curve is now visibly rising toward ultimate
coincidence with U.S. man's curve."
(2)
123
Cite PREVIRW OF BUILFING, I&I, p.200, 1 Apr'49

TEXT CITATIONS
Locomotion:
Radius of Man's Locomotion:
MEXICO 63, p. 1, 10 Oct 163

Locomotion: Radius of Man's Locomotion:
See Deployment: Man's Increasing Deployment Pattern
Human Sense Ranging & Information Gathering
Sweepout
Travel
Mobility
North-south Mobility of World Man
Travel in a Human Lifetime
World Pattern vs. Local Pattern
(1)

Locomotion: Radius of Man's Locomotion:
(2)
See Automation of Metabolic & Regenerative Processes, May 65
Walking, 2y Jan 75
Orbital Escape from Critical Proximity, (4)
Human Unsettlement, (5)
Office Buildings:
20 Sep' 76
Conversion to Apartments,

Locomotive:
See Doppler Effect, 2 Mar'68

RBF DEFINITIONS
Locus Fix:
"... Without insideness or outsideness there is only a locus
fix.... A locus fix constitutes conceptual genesis that may
be realized in time."
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 519.02,
6 Nov' 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Locus Fix:
"For every event-fixed locus in Universe, there are six
uniquely and exclusively operative vectors."
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 519.30,
6 Nov'73

Locus Fix:
See Conceptual Genesis
Event Embryo
Point
(1)

See Thirty Minimum Topological Characteristics, (2)
Locus Fix:
121
(2)

Locus of Inflection:
See Point, 6 Nov'73

Locus of Vanishment:
See Annihilation
Hedra
(1)

Locus of Vanishment:
See Point, 20 Feb'73
(2)
21

Locus: Loci:
See Isotropic Vector Matrix, y Mar'73
Omnitopology, 19 Dec'73
Point, 17 Feb 73; 20 Feb'73
Time-angle-size Aspects, 30 Apr' 77

Loeb, Arthur L:
See Entropy,
Modules:
Science:
(1)(2)
1960
A & B Quanta Modules, Sep'67
Gap Between Scienee and the Humanities,

Lor:
See Fireplace Log
Rolls
Lever: Fallen Tree as a Lever

Logic:
See Bio-logic
Boolean Algebra
Geometry of Thinking
Metaphysical Synergy
Philosophy
Reductio ad Absurdum
Thinking
Conceptioning
Local Lagic
(1)

Logic:
Hierarchy of Patterns, 1954
See Industrial Lag, 22 Jul 71
Industrial Man, Oct 63
Logistics, 10 Dec'63
Scarcity, May 70
Comprehensibility of Systems, 26 May' 72
Communications Hierarchy, (4)
(2)

REF DEFINITIONS
Logistics:
"Logos' is the logic of logistics. It is communication;
design. Logistics: how many words does it have in it?
must find out how many words are in other words.) It is
2
tetrahedral: N
N²
- N."
2
Cite RBF to Yale students at Berkely College breakfast,
10 Dec '73
We

Logistica:
See Nature's Logistics
Flyable Logistics
Rocketable Logistica
Electromagnetically Transmittable Logistics
(1)

Logistics: Logistical Strategy:
See Prestressed Concrete Sequence, (3)
Social Problems: Tetrahedral Coordination of,
4 May'57
Airspace Technology, 20 Sep' 76
(2)

Logos-communication:
See Dia-logue, 14 Feb'72

Logos:
See Logistics, 10 Dec 73

Loneliness: L-one-liness:
See Concrete Poetry, 28 May172

Longevity:
See Length, 21 Dec171
Four-dimensional Reality, 30 Apr'77
Fourth Dimension:
22 Jun'77
VE as Fourth-dimeanion Model,

Longing:
See Fear & Longing

Look:
Looking:
See World Looks at Itself
53

Loose Set:
See Lot, 5 Mar' 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lordia Prayer:
"I came out of a world where the Lord's Prayer was being
very generally used. I simply said I thought it has come to us
through so many translations from so many languages, and we
don't even know who... it probably was a composite of thousands
of mens' thinking. It no longer possibly meant what those
who did the thinking meant to say.
"For instance, I said that I don't think it's logical for...
to ask God to make a bargain; that you're going to forgive
somebody over here--and therefore God's got to forgive you.
I said, I don't think you have to ask God anything. We
certainly don't have to have any proselytizers for God.
God is God. God doesn't need any advocates. God is God, and
there is really nothing that little human beings can tell God
that God doesn't already know.
"So I came to a completely different kind of feeling... I felt
that the Lord's Prayer was a catalyst to make me think."
Cite RBF taping by Dr. Michael Bruwer%; Chicago, IL; 16 Feb 78

Lord's Prayer:
See Amen, 9 Sep 74
Artist, 24 Jan'72
Heaven, 23 May 72

539
RBF DEFINITIONS
SEC. 411.20
411.21
Loss: Discovery Through Loss:
"Retrospective awareness of losses can bring overpreoccupation
with self which blinds self to recognition of the synergetic
gains potentially accruing to the 'separation' or 'cancellation'
events which, by virtue of the second-power law, have brought
group advantage gains in which the individual has attained
fourth-power continuance potential often way offsetting indivi-
dual freedom losses, particularly in view of the group's
discovery that, as a group, it can enjoy all the original
freedoms individually lost, but never realized by the individual
to exist; ergo unemployable consciously by the individual who
was more a 'victim' or burdened carrier of the unknown freedoms
than an enjoyer of them.
"Only as spontaneous group structuring loomingly occurs, do the
discovered cosmic freedoms become consciously employable as they
are employable effectively only for all and not for self. When
however, this exclusively retrospective discovering of potentially
advantageous freedoms is made by the grouped-in individual, and
he selfishly persists in trying to employ the freedoms exclu-
sively for self, or only for an exclusive subdivision of the
group, then his attempts become inherently unfulfillable and
scheduled for ultimate disa
failure."
Cite RBF rewrite of 7 Nov '72 entry; 3200 Idaho, 14 Dec'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Loss:
Discovery Through Loss:
"It is a basic principle that you only discover what you
had by virtue of losing it. Due to our subconscious organic
coordination, you don't know what you're losing until
you
lose it. Naught can be so advantageous as
thoughtfully
considered loss and resolve to employ the principles thereby
discovered for others. You don't know how much you
have to
give until you start trying to give. The more you try to
give effectively to advantage others, the more you will possess
to give, and vice versa.
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 411.20; RBF galley rewrite
of 2 Nov 73

RBP DEFINITIONS
Loss: Discovery Through Loss:
"Retrospective awareness of losses can bring preoccupation
with self to blinding self to recognition of the synergetic
gains which, by virtue of the second-power law, has brought
group advantage gains in which the individual has attained
fourth-power continuance potantial."
->
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 7 Nov'72
SEC. 411.22)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Loss:
Discovery Through Loss:
"The only-retrospectively-discoverable degree of freedom
occasioned by its loss is a completely synergetic disclosure
where no feature of the self part predicted the successive
behaviors of the whole and the individual part freedoms
were only mutually disclosed by their subsequently realized
loss."
Cite HBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, incorporated in SYNERGETICS
draft at Sec. 411.39 9 Nov 172
[38]

Loss: Such Loss in the Beginning:
See Sea: The Sea,
1972

Loss:
See Local Loss
Lost Energies
Quanta Loss

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lost Energies:
"Just as the chemists found when they separated atoms out,
or molecules out, of compounds, that the separate parts
never explained the associated behaviors; there seemed to
be 'lost' energies. The lost energies were the lost synergetic
interstabilizations."
(Synergetics: 108.03)
-
Citation & context at Synergy, Nov' 71

Lost Energies:
See Death: Weighing of People as they Die,
21 Jun 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lot:
" ...An unbounded loose set of 10 irregular and dissimilar
somethings was not recognizable by numbers in one glance:
it was a lot."
Citation and context at Hand, 5 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Love:
"Love is the integral of gravity and radiation."
Cite RBF to EJA; 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC; 23 Oct'77

RHF DEFINITIONS
Love:
"Love is an aspect of self and otherness, an aspect of the
whole: synergy.
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Michael Deneny & Arthur Morey at Belmont
Stakes restaurant breakfast, NYC, 3 Apr 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Love:
"There is no question but that there is a love that goes on
between humans that is quite different from the physical,
baby-making love."
Cite RBF in Penn. Bell studios videotaping, Philadelphia, PA.,
1 Feb'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Love:
"That' what it's all about. Truth.... Youth... Love..
A monkey wrench can't make love to another monkey wrench."
Cite RBF windup of address "Humans in Universe," to
Dag Hammerskjold College, Columbia MD, 17 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Love:
"People want to be either symmetric or asymmetric. They
love bias but they don't like isosceles, the fence-straddler.
Real love is isosceles: inclusive but not exclusive. What
people seem to mean by love is that they want the other to
join them: scalene. The real love includes the other; it
is omni-inclusive, semisymmetric, isosceles.'
- Citation and context at Semisymmetric, 15 Oct'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Love:
"Love
Is omni-inclusive,
Progressively exquisite,
Understanding and tender
And compassionately attuned
To other than self."
Cite LOVE, p. 175 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Love:
"it's not that we love
one more than the other.
Love is not quantitative.
You do or you don't."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, DC, 21 Feb 172 (After visit
of machael ben-bl1)

RBF DLFINITIONS
Love:
"So the fact that truth is spontaneous is equally mysterious
as the fact of mass attraction and gravity cohering our
Universe; as is the phenomenon love. We experience so much
of it we tend to take it very much for granted."
--Cite RBF at SINS, U. Hass, Amherst, 22 July 171, Talk 12, p. 16.
Citation and context at Spontaneous Truth of Childhood, 22 Jul 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Love:
"I share your sadness and shock over the vacuum
surrounding you in respect to that non-negotiable
phenomena love and friendship."
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Gene Fowler, 30 Nov. *60.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Love & Hate:
"Love is plural and pro-life;
Hate is singular and pro-death."
Cite undated holograph in RBF briefcase, Oct 171

Love:
See Fall in Love
Cosmic Synergy
Kissing
Rocks Don't Love
Survival Sequence:
Truth & Love
Youth, Truth, & Love
Sex
Love
(1)

Love:
See Conceptual Totality, May '72
Fuller, R.B: Modus Operandi, Feb 72
Fuller, R.B: What I am Trying To Do, Feb'73
Gravity, 16 Feb 73
Semisymmetric, 15 Oct 72*
Precession: Analogy of Precession & Social Behavior,
May 72
Spontaneous Truth of Childhood, 22 Jul'71*
Mind vs. Energy, 19 May '75
Individuality & Degrees of Freedom, (2)
Belief, 6 Jul175
Abstractions, 1964
Human Beings, 22 Jun 77
(2)

Low Frequency:
See Frequency: High & Low

Low Order Prime Numbers:
See Rational Whole Numbers
Prime Numbers: First Four Primes
(1)

Low Order Prime Numbers:
Limit, Oct 71
Synergetics, 29 Nov 72; 10 Jul162
Frequency, Jun'66
Powering: Fifth & Eighth Powering, 11 Dec'75;
25 Jan 76
(2)

Low Order Prime Numbers: Hierarchy Of:
See Synergetics, 29 Nov'72

Low Pressure vs. Positives:
See Trim Tab Sequence, (2)

Low Priority Arts:
See Building

Low Tide:
See Tidal

Low:
See Higher & Lower
Highs & Lows

RBF DEFINITIONS
Loyalty:
"Deception and lying all became part of protecting others,
like forts. Loyalty rationalizes lying. But when you
no longer have
acarcity lying becomes obsolete."
Citation at Lying, 3 Oct*73

RBF JEFINITIONS
Loyalty:
"Loyalty permits lying."
Said in the context of a discussion of the
futility of politics and local political
loyalties.
Atre Lecture "The function of lan in lintver."
Tom Hal Key
Citation at Lying, 26 Feb'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Loyalty:
"The Greeks concept of the geometrical, bound-area of
their triangle-- or their circle-- lay demonstrable on
only one bound-area side of the line. As a consequence
of such fundamental schooling world society became
historically biased about everything. Continually facing
survival strategy choices society assumed that it must
always choose between two or more political or religious
'sides.' Thus developed the seeming nobility of loyalties.
Society has been educated to look for logic and reliability
only on one side of a line hoping the side chosen, on one
hand or the other of indeterminately largelines, may be
on the inside of the line. This logic is at the head of
our reflexively conditioned biases.
Cite SYNERGETICS, "Operational Mathematics, One Spherical
Triangle Considered as Four." 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Loyalty:
"Loyalty, which is powerfully one-sided, has come to be
rated as a noble attribute. Loyalty can take outright
lies in its stride. It thinks nothing of defending a
fallacy.
.
Citation and context at Up and Down Sequence (3), 13 Nov '69

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

Loyalty:
See Rationalization Sequence, (3)
Up & Down Sequence, (3)**
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lubricants:
"Men think superficially only of lubricants and mechanically
fitting tolerances whereas-- focused at the proper magnitude
of conceptuality-- what goes on in the affairs of lubricants
and bearings discloses discrete geometrical relationships
where no event ever makes absolute contact with another.
There are simply orbital interferences, where the mass
attractions will always be just a little more powerful than
the fundamental disintegrative tendencies."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1009.31, 10 Feb'73

Lubricants:
See Colloidal Chemistry
Hydraulics

Luce, Henry:
See Inexorability, 11 Aug' 70
Large Patterns, (1)-(3)

Lucid: Lucidity:
Lucidly Relevant Set
See Relevant:
Zone of Lucidity

Lullaby into Lupacy:
See Fear, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lumber:
"For example, a man takes part of a tree and shapes it into
an axe handle with which he chops down trees in order to
concentrate lumber from those trees so densely as to shed
him from the rain."
Citation and context at Tools, 5 May167

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lumber:
"Lumber is lugubrious."
Cite RBF holograph on N.Y. State Institute of Housing
Meeting, Hotel Pennsylvania, NY, 3 Jun '48

Lumber:
See Trees
Wood

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lunatic:
"Lunatic means 'touching the Moon. In
Cite RBF remarks at Design Science Institute press conference
N.Y., 28 Jun'72

Lunch: Let's Have Lunch:
See Idea Stealing, May'70

Lunch:
You Don't Know What You're Doing with Your Lunch:
(1)
See Automation of Metabolic & Regenerative Processes
Man: Automated Metabolism of Man
•

Lunch: You Don't Know What Youre Doing with Your Lunch:
See Automation, Jun'69
Epistemology, 8 Jan166
(2)

RBF DEFINITION
Lying:
"When there was not enough to go around lying had been
legitimized as a tool for survival."
-
Cite RBF videotapinf, Penn Bell Studios, Phila. PA, 22 Jan'75

RBP DEFINITIONS
Lying:
"Lying is intolerable."
Citation and context at War, 13 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lyingi
"Lying is a suicidal phenomenon in a Universe that operates
only on truth."
Cite RBF address to Yale Political Union, New Haven, 9 Dec '73;
as rewritten by RBF at 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 13 Dec'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lying:
in Universe
"Lying is a suicidal phenomenon in U
on truth."
Universe that operates
- Cite RBF address to Yale Political Union, New Haven, 9 Dec173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Lying:
"Deception and lying all became part of protecting others,
like forts. Loyalty rationalizes lying.
But when you
no longer have scarcity lying becomes obsolete."
Cite RBF in Johns Hopkins Lecture, 3 Oct173

HBF DEFINITIONS
Lying:
"Loyalty permits lying."
Said in the context of a discussion of the
futality of politics and local political
loyalties.
Cite Lecture "The Function of Man in Universe"
Town Hall, New York, 26 Feb 1971.

Lying:
See Bias on One Side of the Line
Loyalty
Watergate
Truth &ergeti
Polygraph
(1)

Lying:
See Child Sequence, (2) (3)
Fear, 1938
Possession, 10 Jun174
War, 13 Dec 173*
(2)