¶ Heartbeat Magnitude Sequence (1)
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Heartbeat Magnitude Sequence:
“We need a way for humans to coordinate their senses and thought in terms of their personal life experience, for instance, with their respective allotments of life time. Each one is born to some average total lifetime expectancy, as calculated from census statistics by the life insurance company mathematicians. Some Russians live 150 years, but the average in the Western world is now about 70 years, having doubled in the last three-quarters of a century. Let us think, then, about the minutes and seconds you and I really have at our elective disposal out of every 24 hours. We all have to sleep-- about one-third of our time. A lot of our time is dedicated to just going from here to there. We don’t have very much available to us for elective investment. The one kind of time measurement directly and sensorially available to all of us is our heart beating. We have a built-in clock. Just close your eyes lying in bed and feel your own pulse or heartbeat. Healthy hearts beat between 60 and 100 times each minute; you’re quite normal if you’re pulsing 60 to the minute, or once each second of Earth revolution time. So a one-second-of-time heartbeat is a natural time increment that you can really feel.”
¶ Citations
- HEARTBEATS AND ILLIONS, World. Mag., 13 Mar’73
