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Heisenberg-Eliot-Pound Sequence:
"As usual poets anticipated
The scientists’ discoveries
Before Heisenberg’s ‘indeterminism,’
T.S. Eliot said,
‘The act of considering history alters history.’
Ezra Pound anticipated them both
For he remarked much earlier
That ‘the act of thinking alters thought.’
And all of this
Evolution regenerating altering
Is found to be implicit in entropy,
The name given to the
Experimentally disclosed fact
That energy system is always giving off energy.
Thus evolution must forever
Alter the total inventory
Of humanity’s nonsimultaneous
And only partially overlapping
Experience
For clearly experience always alters
Previous experience
And the process is both irreversible
And nonidentically repetitive."
28 Jan’69
-Cite GENERALIZED PRINCIPLES. d.a.
