¶ Divide and Conquer Sequence (1)
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RBF Definitions
"By getting out from under the world of specialisation, which I feel was very clearly imposed on man due to the fact that every child manifests spontaneous interest in totality, and wants to be comprehensive… despite our scientific information in biology that all the biological species that have become extinct have become extinct as a consequence of overspecialization. Because specialization, biologically, means you can inbreed; but you inbreed at the cost of general adaptability. And with the general adaptability loss you can get along for a while, but it happens that the energy investment of nature on a wave quantum basis, that we have large waves with very large amounts of energy investments, but at low frequency, and very small amounts of energy, but at high frequency. So the big energy events, such as an earthquake, for instance, do not take place with a frequency of waves or ripples in the water… or mosquitoes. So in developing special capability you may get on very nicely for a period, but then suddenly along comes one of the big ones, with the result that, having lost the general adaptability: out goes the species!
“I’d say then that man, having quite clearly been designed to be a comprehensivist, to coordinate, and to understand,”
¶ Citations
- RBF at DSI Press Conference, NYC, p.4, 28 Jun’72
