¶ Chess: Game of Universe
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So we begin to think about the game of Universe with all its degrees of freedom of motion, where we find that there are apparently six positive and six negative degrees of freedom in relation to any one event. It isn’t a game where either or all works. It is a very complicated kind of chess game where from any point any one of the men can be moved 12 different ways.
“Suppose we start with Universe as a closed system of complementary patterns that is regenerative, that is adequate to itself, that has at any one moment for any one of its subpatterns 12 degrees of freedom. There is an enormous complexity of choice. We will start playing the game and it is the most complicated game of chess that has ever been played. We start to play the game with Universe. But there must be an integrity from now on. You made that move-- and from there you can only make so many moves. The number of moves that can be made are really billionsfold or quadrillionfold the sum total of the complexity of the moves that can be made in Universe.”
¶ Citations
- Oregon Lecture #5, pp.172-173, 9 Jul’62 12 Degrees of Freedom, \href
