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Intellect: Equation of Intellect:
"But of all the biologicals, human beings are the only ones with mind function differentiated from brain. If we took all the different rope experiences this audience has had, I would say each one of you must have experienced at least one hundred kinds of rope, so that the total rope experiences is perhaps ten thousand kinds, and we’ve gotten that down to only one piece of rope. Then we took all the myriad kinds of experience with concaves and convexes and with protons and neutrons; we got that down into the theory of functions, and then we embraced that even further, getting just the word ‘relativity.’ And finally we got this word ‘Universe.’ What we have here is a pyramid of all the special cases working up to generalizations, and generalizations to one word. That’s as orderly as you can get.
“We were looking for a phase of Universe where things are contracting and increasingly orderly. Nothing could be more orderly than those generalizations. We find, then, the meta-physical balancing the physical-- metaphysical apprehending and ordering the physical. We find Einstein’s mind taking the measure of the physical, writing those beautiful, economical equations such as E = Mc², saying that the physical Universe”
