¶ Human Beings & Complex Universe
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Human Beings & Complex Universe:
"from the sane, from the absolute balance of trying to understand the total interrelatedness. . . Whew! the parents say, 'No I’m just going to give you a spot, a special thing to look at.
Q: “What about the emotional aspects of mental health?”
RBF: "That’s the side where we have humanity. Humanity is in a Universe which is inherently complex. It does have 92 chemical elements, and not just hydrogen. Darwin came along at the time of Dalton. Dalton was a great physicist. We thought he was going to be able to make all of the chemical elements out of hydrogen, so it was logical for Darwin to think about the building block as a single cell which would get more complicated gradually, and by mathematical probability would gradually get us into something as extraordinary as human beings.
“But I know now and see now that Universe is inherently complex, that is, it does have a plurality of principles like optics, and gravity, and so forth. There is some interrelatedness of them,”
