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